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Tom Wolfe was right, "You can't go home again." Here's what happens when you try.
Did you ever watch Sid and Marty Krofft shows on Saturday morning as a kid? The programs they show on "Boomerang" now? Remember "Land of the Lost?" . . . cue music and singing Marshall Will and Holly . . . on a routine expedition . . . met the greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeatest earthquake ever knoooooooooooown . . .
It's a live action show where the dad, son and daughter (Marshall, Will and Holly) end up in a prehistoric world where they live in a cave, get chased around by Grumpy the T-Rex, Alice the Allosaur and the "Sleestaks" - those primitive lizard-man troglodytes (see picture). The whole story is about "When and how will they find a way to get back home?"
Anyway, that's what it was like on my recent journey to the hinterlands of upstate New York; time travel to the golf age of dinosaurs - loud, primitive, and full of wild animals and longing for home. The name of the . . . GOLF COURSE . . . is withheld to protect the innocent.
First, meet Alice the angry Allosaur. She's the woman behind the snack bar counter. It's 8 a.m. and she's frying a pan of meatballs. Meatballs . . . at 8:00 a.m. But I digress . . .
The line behind me is three or four ornery people long, and she's just watching the sizzle like an aged version of Jay and Silent Bob . . . or is that Beavis and Butthead? After several "Ahems," "Hi theres," and "I can't believe she hasn't even looked at us" comments made audibly" - and a good five minutes, she turns around and says . . . AND I QUOTE . . . "You'll just have to wait a sec . . . nobody interrupts me for my balls!"
And we were expecting this woman to serve us food.
Anyway, she finally takes my order for toast, juice, Pepsi and a side order of bacon. Then the slow dance begins . . . go in the back, get the bacon, open the package, get the plate, get a utensil, turn on the grill, find another pan ("YOU'RE TAKING ME AWAY FROM MY BALLS YOU KNOW!"), slide the bacon in the pan . . . one . . . slice . . . at . . . a . . . time . . . cook . . . bacon.
"Say, while the bacon's cooking can I please get that soda? Or the juice whichever's easier?" I ask. "And burn your bacon?! I'd never hear the end of it!"
After the bacon's cooked, that's when she went to work on the toast . . . open the bread, get out one . . . two . . . slices . . . put . . . in . . . the . . . toaster. Then a new dance started - while my bacon was getting cold - she's poking and prodding the toaster as if it's not working. Well six or seven MORE minutes go by as she's trying to figure the toaster out and we're no closer to toast or bacon or my drinks, let alone the three people behind me who haven't even placed their orders yet and are growing more and more red in the face by the minute.
I watch her extract from the toaster two uncooked slices of bread . . . finally when she turned up the dial, they began to cook. "Oh come on!" mutters one exasperated patron behind me in line.
As she hands me my soda, I asked for a lid (behind the counter, unreachable to patrons). "Boy you just want everything today!" I took perverse delight in pointing out that I also needed a straw now that my drink was to go . . . fast . . . AS IN TO THE TEE BOX, NOW BECAUSE YOU TOOK HALF AN HOUR FOR TOAST AND BACON!
She roared like a wounded Allosaur. And I take NONE of that guff. Neither do the people behind me, who could have knitted an afghan by the time she got us through the line.
Then there was Grumpy the Tyrannosaur, a foul, uncouth, ill-mannered, ill-bred little cave troll who bellowed loudly in the restaurant the following pearls of wisdom: "BOBBY JONES IS A BIG PHONY! HE SUCKED! I MEAN WALTER HAGEN BEAT HIM 10 AND 8 IN SOME EXHIBITION. 10 AND 8. TIGER WOODS WOULD NEVER LOSE LIKE THAT. WHERE THEY GOIN' [grammatical mistake in original speech] MAKING US WORSHIP BOBBY JONES?"
I couldn't keep my mouth shut and just said. "He did give us Augusta National, you know . . . " He replied: "JONES DIDN'T BUILD AUGUSTA, MONEY BUILT AUGUSTA!"
By now, I'm furious and horrified by this guy, which brings me to his henchmen, cronies, whatevers, the Sleestaks. Sniveling, fawning, barely human, these sub-chumps (or is that uber-chumps?) are eating this up with a mix of guffaws, snorts, sniggers and adoration. Between the five of them I think I heard one word of actual English.
Then I get stuck behind a FIVESOME of these donkeys, including Grumpy, for 13 holes. They yelled, took five years to putt out every 2-footer for 14 cents, spilled beer on the fourth green, left smelly burning cigars everywhere, railed against whatever and scurried like rodents when I hit into them . . . oops . . . Damn those blind approaches.
Oh well. Yes the wrath of the Golf Gods is terrible to behold, but those of us mortals can stand up for the game's integrity too.
Calgon, take me away!
Since launching his first golf writing website in 2004, http://www.jayflemma.thegolfspace.com, Jay Flemma's comparative analysis of golf designs and knowledge of golf course architecture and golf travel have garnered wide industry respect. In researching his book on America's great public golf courses (and whether they're worth the money), Jay, an associate editor of Cybergolf, has played over 220 nationally ranked public golf courses in 37 different states. Jay has played about 1,649,000 yards of golf - or roughly 938 miles. His pieces on travel and architecture appear in Golf Observer (www.golfobserver.com), Cybergolf and other print magazines. When not researching golf courses for design, value and excitement, Jay is an entertainment, copyright, Internet and trademark lawyer and an Entertainment and Internet Law professor in Manhattan. His clients have been nominated for Grammy and Emmy awards, won a Sundance Film Festival Best Director award, performed on stage and screen, and designed pop art for museums and collectors. Jay lives in Forest Hills, N.Y., and is fiercely loyal to his alma maters, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Trinity College in Connecticut.
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I'm very happy to report that Autism Speaks is starting to seriously consider mitochondrial dysfunction and its relationship to autism. While the Hannah Poling case initially got everyone jumping up and down about the connection between vaccines and autism, once again, the more important thing that should have come from that case is that Hannah Poling had a diagnosis of mitochondrial dysfunction. The fever that Hannah experienced as a result of the vaccinations, rather than the vaccinations themselves, may really be the "catalyst" that caused her autistic regression .. chew on that…
On the Autism Speaks blog, a recent article was posted that I feel would be very beneficial to the mito community and the autism community to read. It looks at the relationship between fever and mitochondrial disease as a cause for autism and autistic regression. Clearly, this is a link that needs further study and serious research.
Now, even if your child does not have autism, ANY research into mitochondrial dysfunction and disease is a WIN for the mito community! It can only help us with awareness and helping to understand this complex disease and how to treat and ultimately cure it! I applaud the autism community and Autism Speaks for their groundbreaking look at mito as a possible cause for at least some forms of autism.
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New York, NY — The New York City District Council of Carpenters' Delegate Body ratified a new five-year collective bargaining agreement Thursday that provides a 16.6% wage and benefit increase over the life of the contract.
"Passing this agreement helps stabilize the unionized construction industry after a long and arduous process," said Michael Bilello, Executive Secretary Treasurer of the New York City District Council of Carpenters. "This contract will increase pay and benefits as well as grow the type of jobs New Yorkers need."
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CHICAGO — It's a scene that's played out in this part of this metropolis too many times: A young man lies dead in a casket while his friends and family walk past, mourning a young life ended too soon.
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Demarius Reed was different. This man, this leader, this light was not supposed to be extinguished like this.
Many of the people who walked past Reed, clad in a white suit and underneath a white veil in his casket, had been to wakes before. But, the sadness in the Salem House of Hope on East 114th Street hung heavy in the vast church.
"It just further lets me know he was loved and he touched people in a way that's just amazing," said Tanesha Reed, Demarius' mother. 'I've never seen so many grown men cry."
Demarius was found dead a week ago in the University Green Apartments in the 700 block of West Clark Road in Ypsilanti. He was shot multiple times, items were taken from his pockets and he was left for dead until his roommate found him about 7:15 a.m. Oct. 18. The case remains open.
The death of this young man, just 20 years old, hit people here like one of the semi trucks motoring on Interstate 94 not far outside the church's walls.
Old men and young women alike doubled over in their chairs, sobbing into their hands. His current and former teammates — strong football players from Eastern Michigan University, Purdue University, the University of Iowa — were reduced to tears, some hanging their heads in grief.
"It's just sad," said Eric Dickson, a former Simeon Career Academy teammate who knew Demarius from the time he was eight years old. "It's really hard. It's really hard."
"He was off the charts," Dickson said. "This person was not normal."
Demarius' effect on this community is easy to see. Trelane Grayson, cheer coordinator for the Harvey Colts, a youth football organization that counts Demarius' younger brothers as members, said the organization has sold 600 ribbons to remember Demarius, with all profits going to his family.
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Multiple instructors from Eastern Michigan University came to the visitation Friday evening to pay their respects and echoed those same sentiments.
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"He was not what you would think of as a stereotypical football player," she said.
Undeniably, Demarius was a leader. That was one of the words said the most during the memories shared by friends and family Friday night.
Spearman is set to play in his first collegiate football game Saturday, when Iowa takes on Northwesten in Iowa City, Iowa. But, the night before the game, he was here in this church on the South Side, back home, trying to formulate the words to remember his friend.
"He really pushed me to play football hard," Spearman said before turning toward the casket where his friend lied. He looked at Demarius for a moment. "Rest in peace, because this is real hard for all of us."
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On both sides of Demarius stood photos of him in the green and white of his EMU football uniform. In one, his smile lit the room. In the other, he pulled in a catch with a leap high above the turf.
The Reed family has few moments to themselves these days. Tanesha was in Ypsilanti Thursday for a vigil and was back in Chicago Friday. Carl Reed, Demarius' father, greeted everyone who approached him at the visitation. Demarius' brothers and sisters had an endless group of people around them during most of Friday's service.
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Demarius was Tanesha and Carl's first-born son. He was the first one to go to college, establishing the precedent for the rest of the Reed children. He will always be a leader.
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Apple's iPhone big in the States, Android dominating everywhere else
0. phoneArena 21 Dec 2012, 08:47 posted on
The latest statistical data for November is out and it shows a curious disparity in the smartphone market - while Apple dominates the U.S. market and grew its sales there…
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1. shamu11 (Posts: 19; Member since: 22 Oct 2011)
It's because most Americans are too ignorant to understand the power Android offers...
30. dan86 (Posts: 298; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
Let the rotten apples be in the farm I love Jellybean.
32. hutty24 (Posts: 84; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
i love the solution for copy&paste in android that fast multitasking button thats not so fast anymore in 4.2
34. hutty24 (Posts: 84; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
apple rules here because its first here then there.androids there then here, all you sg3/note losers no about this,even the nexuses go there then here.so this hole story is about first come first served.
62. bluescreen (Posts: 154; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
wow trying to figure out what you meant to say just gave me a whopping headace....is there a translator in the house!!!
44. Cynipap999 (banned) (Posts: 138; Member since: 15 Nov 2012)
No, it's because there are too many stupid Americans; ignorance has nothing to do with it!!
54. MeoCao (unregistered)
I read reports Apple are reducing iPhone 5 parts orders as sales are disappointing.
There are iPhone discounts only after a few weeks after launch which were unheard of until now which also indicate poor sales.
Perhaps most people who want iPhone 5 already bought it? So the spike in iPhone market share in US is only temporary!
49. Just_a_boy (Posts: 183; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
You are the real ignorant, everybody has the right to choose, iOS is a good system the lack of innovations don't not make it worse thing in the Earth, just make it boring, and the majority of smartphone buyers want a phone that just works with no complications that what iOS delivers, simplicity. The fandroids are even more annoying, and brainwashed than Macf**s!
2. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Not surprising. Many American's think because something is expensive its popular. (and then they come to websites like this who think the iphone is the next jesus)
19. viper1983 (Posts: 36; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
Plenty of phones out there that cost the same or more.
20. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
not many. Most are cheaper. The note 2 is more expensive the gs3 is the same price. Out of ontract price the iphone wins by far.
26. viper1983 (Posts: 36; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
Great. So the GS3 is popular because it is expensive?
36. hutty24 (Posts: 84; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
lol not really seeing that people in other countries sell their body parts for apple products.and people come to websites like this to get the big picture and not read one way never used any other thing but android view on things that just make you ignorant and mad at apple and websites
3. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3757; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Lol, Victor...the Thumbnail is ridiculously funny!!
Maybe it'll start growing into American hearts next year :)
No worries!!
4. MartyK (Posts: 816; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
I think these numbers/statistical data is misleading, there is no way in heck Apple will have such a commanding lead over Android in the USA market; especially since Iphone is almost twice as much and is only on 3 major carriers (and no regional carriers).
I call BS!.
31. theoak (Posts: 324; Member since: 16 Nov 2011)
Ah, its called getting a phone on contract. On contract, the iPhone is just as cheap as any other phone, if not cheaper than most of the newer Android phones.
As far as not available on regional carriers go ... try again ... quite a few regional carriers have picked up the iPhone.
5. sithvenger (banned) (Posts: 371; Member since: 25 Aug 2012)
Maybe some jus like the phonei
7. HouTexan (Posts: 439; Member since: 08 Jan 2012)
Some, yes. But the majority (in my opinion) get it because of the hype/brand. It's just how America works.
-- Notice, I said, "In my opinion."
10. sithvenger (banned) (Posts: 371; Member since: 25 Aug 2012)
I have one and a galaxy note 2. The iphone is no slouch
6. Windsponge (Posts: 92; Member since: 01 Nov 2009)
I think it is just because the iPhone is best phone out there. The rest of the world hates anything American. American company not American made. I do own Android also so you cry babies can say what ever you want. Have a great holiday all.
14. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Best for showing off and for posing, " Wow look"....™®®
15. ogy_dogy (Posts: 453; Member since: 29 Jun 2012)
You are right about one thing here, most of the world does hate america, and the iphone is the gleaming example of americanism, shiny, expensive and doesnt do much....
23. viper1983 (Posts: 36; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
love online message boards where people can post the dumbest things.
43. tedkord (Posts: 11659; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
For instance...
21. viper1983 (Posts: 36; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
Well, technically the OS on android is American owned, so that might not be the case.
8. SIGPRO (Posts: 1435; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
Most North Americans are stupid, they even don't know were North America is on the world map.
And i don't mean Native Americans, but the so called North Americans from Europe!
18. viper1983 (Posts: 36; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
any numbers to back that claim up? or was that just a terrible attempt at a joke?
22. SIGPRO (Posts: 1435; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
Come on, everybody knows that, they are just not that smart. and i don't mean all americans. most americans politicians for example are real dumb!
25. viper1983 (Posts: 36; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
And who are we comparing Americans to?
27. SIGPRO (Posts: 1435; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
1 example, on tv you cant say f***k or see boobs, but you will see people get shot and die....those kind of stuff makes them stupid. They have stupid rules and laws.
And real Americans are the native ones, all other americans are import.
28. Commentator (Posts: 3685; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Well, Native Americans are actually imports from Eurasia. In turn, human beings are imports from lower species of the animal kingdom, who are imports from even lower species of life. The real Americans are the descendents of the first bacteria to form in America (or what constituted America all those billions of years ago). Or I guess that's a fairly strict definition.
The commonly accepted definition of what it means to be a "real American" is someone who was born or naturalized into America. So, even though I have 0% Native American blood, I'm a real American. And, just as I have 25% Norweigian, 25% Swedish, 12.5% German, 12.5% Irish, 12.5% Scottish, and 12.5% Luxembourg blood (or something along those lines) I'm certainly not a citizen of all or even any of those places.
Also, it's technically illegal to shoot an kill people in the US, so don't imply that it isn't.
40. jaoowolabi (Posts: 201; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
so youre calling Euros dumb because a majority of Americans are from Euro decent.
60. maxout (Posts: 32; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
SIGPRO i think you should have said.. that compare the other nations Americans are not techsavvy.. lol more politically correct. this is true it's easy to sell a dumb down devices to consumers in US than in Asia or Europe....
9. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
iphone is a great mobile, it is not the best mobile but it is great and it is simple and that is why people buy it. Ofcourse for me it unusable, the OS is quite difficult in comparison to Android, but many people like it. Those people who buy an iphone know that it is a closed OS, you can not change much but the people do not care. They just want a mobile that simply works. Those people who say that iphone is a really sucky mobile have issues because it is great, not best but great.
12. zig8100 (Posts: 228; Member since: 13 Dec 2012)
This is only for the 12 week period not the whole year. This can be misleading. Making people think that this is for the whole year. With the ip5 launch its going to have a nice size chunk of the pie for that 3 month period. That's it. I will like to add people that use Iphones use the phone forn text , social networks , music and internet. That's it. So they happy with it.
When you want to do more then that. Email , calender , switch batteries on the go , expand memory , etc etc. People use Android. I love Android I always try to show apple fans why Android is better but some of them think that Apple is just coo. Lol. Oh well.
16. ogy_dogy (Posts: 453; Member since: 29 Jun 2012)
All i think of when i see these charts is how a while back nintendo and sony ps ruled the console world, now look at the situation, there is a huge X on top of them all. Microsoft has a way of being disliked and ruling markets. lets just see what happens....
29. tedkord (Posts: 11659; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Reading this, it looks like this is just sales for that quarter, though they don't make it clear. Either way, impressive achievement. Kudos to Apple.
33. mas11 (Posts: 1034; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
Many Americans don't use smartphones as tools, they use them as a fashion accessory.
35. djoscar4u (Posts: 59; Member since: 10 Sep 2012)
37. mas11 (Posts: 1034; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
Yeah that's why the $300 RAZR Maxx outsold the $200 iPhone 4S on Verizon for a month or so.
38. Omarc07 (Posts: 425; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
Well in Latin America is different I know cuz I live between Mexico and Puerto rico 6 months in Mexico,6 months in PR and android wins in Mexico and PR . They sell both but for some reason people prefer android.
50. Just_a_boy (Posts: 183; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
because is cheaper!
51. Omarc07 (Posts: 425; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
Nop in Mexico iPhone 5 costs 11,000 pesos equivalent to bout 830 US dollars some android phones cost up to 14,000 pesos which is bout 1,000 US dollars I know cuz I would see the prices at the TELCEL store . Like the razr maxx which is LTE capable is 13,850 pesos while the iPhone 5 is 11,000 and is not LTE capable in Mexico it only works on telcels 3G , while phones like the razr maxx, galaxy s3 ,xperia ion all run on telcels brand new LTE network but are more expensive an from what i read in consumer reports Mexico when I was in Mexico city two weeks ago most people prefer android phones even there more expensive cuz they can personalize more there phones and are the only LTE phones in Mexico while the iPhone 5 dnt get LTE in Mexico sure it does in.the US but not in Mexico and people prefer fast speeds that's what the survey said that's why they more people chose android ,, blackberry wasn't even in that survey haha .
56. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
You also realize some Android phones dont start out cheaper. They get cheaper as time goes by. Phones that are pre ordered? Sales within the first weeks, month?
Cheaper doesnt come into play until later.
42. GoBears (Posts: 449; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
It's simply because a lot of Americans have more money than brains. That my friends, is never going to change. People who REALLY value their money spend it much more wisely.
45. willard12 (Posts: 1678; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
This stat is only showing a 12 week period ending November 25th, you know, when iPhone 5 sales are high. I think people can relax.
47. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Ah....you beat me to it. This is only for a specific period. Overall Android still has the lead in market share.
For Android fans, its no big deal
For Apple fans, congrats for an increase in a 12 week period from last year.
46. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
How can it be big when GS III out ranks the iPhone 4? Now it needs to out rank the iPhone 5
48. TheMan (Posts: 490; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
Okay the first comment set off a firestorm of US vs The World comments. Zzzzz
I rather focus on something else. The skyscraper in the above photo *was* the north tower of the World Trade Center. I was there that day. I can confirm it's no longer standing.
Be use a different file photo next time.
52. JC557 (Posts: 1516; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
It's still a great photo showing the Brooklyn Bridge and a former icon in the NYC skyline.
53. JC557 (Posts: 1516; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
People like the iPhone because it's trendy and a bit simpler to use but more restricting. People are used to syncing their iPods for several years now so it becomes familiar for most people using the iPhone.
That said, this is mostly due to iTunes and how people here think of it differently than those overseas as there's a difference in how media files are treated. Android isn't even that far behind in the US anyway.
55. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
57. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
android has been losing market share in the US for the last 18 months and no amount of wishful thinking or excuses from fanboys can change this. 2013 will see Microsoft, RIM, and Apple encroach even further
58. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
You might be right. What comes up must come down. RIM, MS, Apple know this from recent experience.
As long as Android is still around, I wouldnt care if it got passed by the iPhone or WP. BUT....Android losing market share....its still a big gap between them and Apple.
59. maxout (Posts: 32; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
dummy proof products for dummys..
61. stevedojobss (Posts: 1; Member since: 23 Dec 2012)
The American is to loyal to their own product. Previously before Apple, they only know Blackberry and Motorolla than other product.


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That's how former child actor Mara Wilson recalled the late Robin Williams in a post on her personal blog, in which she said she regrets not having kept in better contact with him.
Mrs. Doubtfire fans will likely remember Wilson for playing Williams's youngest daughter in the classic 1993 comedy, when she was just 6 years old. Now 27, Wilson has retired from film acting and has made a name for herself online for her level-headed view on her younger days.
The blog post also details the last time Wilson and Williams saw each other, while she was a freshman at NYU and he was filming August Rush in Washington Square Park.
"He turned around, not sure what to make of the girl in the glasses and NYU hoodie calling him like she knew him. 'It's me!' I said. 'It's Mara.' 'Oh, Mara!' He told me how grown-up I looked and asked how I liked NYU. It was small talk, but something about the way Robin looked at me made it feel like he truly cared. This was someone for whom everything mattered."
Wilson writes she worries that people will romanticize the late actor's suffering, explaining that people shouldn't assume that "to be an artist means you have to suffer, or at least wallow in old miseries." She writes, "It will only hurt them and the people who care about them."
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In closing, Wilson reflects on how Williams's death has given her a renewed outlook on life, and her relationships with the people she holds dear.
"In the past few days I have said 'thanks' and 'I love you' to so many people," she writes. "I'm fortunate to know people who care and have been so good to me, and it's heartening to know there are so many people who will miss Robin, too."
The Williams family is asking well-wishers to send contributions to charities close to the actor's heart in lieu of flowers. Suggested organizations include St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Challenged Athletes, USO, the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.


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Bernard Stiegler is the Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris and the founder of Ars Industrialis. He is a student of Jacques Derrida's, and perhaps most well known for his three-volume project, Technics and Time, which brings together a wide variety of thinkers (including Derrida, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon and Paul Valery) in a global theory of what he calls "techno-bio-politics" (a conscious attempt to expand Michel Foucault's concept of the bio-political to include the technological). He is also one of the stars of David Barison and Daniel Ross' The Ister, a film investigating Martin Heidegger's thoughts on Holderlin. Most recently, he had an entire issue of the philosophy journal, Transformations, devoted to his work.
Mark C. Taylor is the Chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. A leading figure in debates about post-modernism, Taylor has written on topics ranging from philosophy, religion, literature, art and architecture to education, media, science, technology and economics. His most recent books include Field Notes from Elsewhere and After God. Beyond his scholarly work, Taylor contributes to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other periodicals.
Brian Larkin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College. His research examines the way media technologies shape secular and Muslim modernities in northern Nigeria. He is especially interested in the material culture of technologies and how these shape and are shaped by local religious and social beliefs. He also examines the imaginative worlds made available to Hausa youth by the circulation of transnational media flows, from Indian films to Islamic media, and the connections they create within and between non-Western countries. Third, his work analyzes the way media technologies have become central to the rise of new Islamic movements in the north of Nigeria.
Lydia Liu: W. T. Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture, critical translation theory, postcolonial empire studies, as well as semiotics and media studies. Professor Liu received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (1990) and has taught at UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan before joining Columbia University in 2006. Her work has focused on literary modernity in translation, the movement of words, ideas, and artifacts across cultures, sovereign thinking in the nineteenth century, and the evolution of writing, textuality, and technology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between literature and science in general and the interaction between modernism and technology in particular. She has published a number of books in English and Chinese. Her new book The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010.
Peter Awn received his Ph.D. in Islamic religion and comparative religion from Harvard University in 1978. Previously he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Classical Languages, and an M.Div. in Christian Theology. He is presently Professor of Islamic Religion and Comparative Religion. He has been visiting professor at Princeton University and has lectured widely to academic and business professionals on the role Islamic religion plays in the current political and social development of the Muslim world. Professor Awn was the first recipient of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award for distinguished teaching andresearch. His book, "Satan's Tragedy and Redemption: Iblîs in Sufi Psychology", a study of the devil in Islamic mysticism (Sufism), was the recipient of a book award from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Joshua Dubler's research and teaching focus on American religion and theory of religion. Along with Andrea Sun-Mee Jones, he is the author of Bang! Thud: World Spirit from a Texas School Book Depository. Bang! Thud turns to the figure of the assassin to provide an account of agency in history, one it executes in dialogue with Hegel, Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin and Saba Mahmood among others. Joshua is currently working on developing his dissertation into a book. The manuscript, entitled Seven Weeks of Penitentiary Life, is an ethnographic study of the chapel at Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institutional at Graterford.
Obery Hendricks has been called one of the most provocative and innovative commentators on the intersection of religion, politics and social policy in America today. A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Dr. Hendricks' media appearances include C-SPAN, PBS, National Public Radio, al-Jazeera Television, NHK Japan Television, Air-America, Radio One, Fox News, the Bloomberg Network, among others. He is a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, a member of the National Religious Leaders Advisory Committee of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for American Progress (a Washington, DC think-tank) and a featured writer for Godspolitics.com and Faithfuldemocrats.com. He is also an editorial advisor to the award-winning Tikkun magazine, a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, and a principal commentator in the The Oxford Annotated Bible. "Essential reading for Americans" is what The Washington Post called Dr. Hendricks' most recent book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted. Social critic Michael Eric Dyson describes it as "an instant classic" that "immediately thrusts Dr. Hendricks into the front ranks of American religious thinkers." The Politics of Jesus was the featured subject of the C-SPAN program "Class, Politics and Christianity." The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation calls Hendricks' postmodern "guerrilla" approach to biblical discourse "the boldest post-colonial writing ever seen in Western biblical studies." A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American theological seminary in the United States, Dr. Hendricks is currently Professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. He holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University.
Wayne Proudfoot (B.S., Yale, 1961; B.D., Harvard Divinity, 1965; Th.M., Harvard Divinity, 1966; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972) is a Professor, specializing in the philosophy of religion. His research interests include contemporary philosophy of religion, the ideas of religious experience and mysticism, classical and contemporary pragmatism, and modern Protestant thought. He teaches courses on eighteenth and nineteenth century European religious thought, theories and methods for the study of religion, philosophy of religion, and pragmatism and religion. His publications include "God and the Self" and "Religious Experience". His current research is on pragmatism and American religious thought. He has published articles on Charles Peirce and William James and is working on a book on that topic.
Jonathan Schorsch: My interests are varied and on occasion even intersect. My first book, Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004), presents a cultural history of early modern Black-Jewish relations. The book was honored with the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research. My forthcoming book, tentatively titled The Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian World (Brill, 2008), delves further into the nexus of religion and "race" in the formation of early modern identity and intergroup relations. In between these books I published "Jewish Ghosts in Germany," Jewish Social Studies 9,3 (Spring/Summer 2003), Disappearing Origins: Sephardic Autobiography Today, Prooftexts 27,1 (2007) and Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva: An Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish Merchant Abroad in the Seventeenthth Century, Proceedings, Conference on Dutch Jewry, Jerusalem, November 2004, ed. Yosef Kaplan (forthcoming, 2007). My more general-interest writing includes pieces on politics, socially responsible investing, environmental issues, Judaism and ecology, and contemporary Jewish music and culture. Pieces have appeared in publications such as Eretz Acheret, European Judaism, Sh'ma, Tikkun, The Jerusalem Post and Zeek. In an earlier life I had time and energy to be an avid capoeirista. I live in Riverdale, the Bronx, a block from where I grew up, with my wife, Gail, and our five children, who keep me honest (or try).
Josef Sorett is an interdisciplinary historian of religion in America, with a particular focus on black communities and cultures in the United States. His research and teaching interests include American religious history, African American religions, hip hop and popular culture, religion in/and the arts, and the role of religion in public life. Josef earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies from Harvard University, and he holds a B.S. from Oral Roberts University and an M.Div. from Boston University. In support of his research, Josef has received fellowships from the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion, The Fund for Theological Education, Harvard's Charles Warren Center for American History and Princeton University's Center for African American Studies. He has published essays and reviews in Culture and Religion, Callaloo, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and PNEUMA: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is currently at work on a book project that explores the significance of religion and spirituality in debates regarding racial aesthetics.
Jared Alcantara is a PhD candidate in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. His main area of concentration is homiletics. His research interests include: African American preaching, Barth studies, the theology of preaching, and sacramental understandings of the sermon. He has experience associate pastoring at churches in Massachusetts and Oregon and hopes to teach homiletics at a seminary or divinity school upon graduation from Princeton.
Seren Gates Amador is a graduate student in New York University's Religious Studies Program. Her research examines popular representations of death and the afterlife, as well as representations of apocalypse, and the ways that religious and secular cultures and meanings interact at these sites.
Christopher Carroll is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. His current interests include cultural sociology and the sociology of religion. He has currently focused his research around religious (and atheist) institutions as they are embedded in local cultures and circumstances. Related to this, he is particularly interested in studying the mutually constitutive relationship between the Catholic Church and its local and global socio-cultural contexts.
Jessamyn Conrad is a PhD candidate in Art History at Columbia University. As an undergraduate at Harvard she studied Islamic Art History and Social Anthropology, then completed an MPhil at Cambridge on a collection of Islamic art in Florence, and is currently writing her dissertation on issues of narration and the depiction of time and space in trecento Siena under Professor David Rosand. She is also a teacher in the Columbia CORE and is currently working on her second non-fiction book.
Anna Corwin is a PhD student in linguistic and psychological anthropology at UCLA. Her research focuses on aging and prayer among elderly Catholic nuns. She has been focusing on the interactional practices of social and spiritual support among elderly nuns in the Midwestern United states. She is interested specifically in how the nuns' spiritual and social practices impact their experiences of aging.
Matthew Croasmun is a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies at Yale University, concentrating in New Testament studies. He received an M.A.R. in Bible from the Yale Divinity School. He has written on contemporary American liturgical theology and Johannine Eucharistic theology. His current research interests center on the mythology lurking behind the Pauline worldview, the contemporary reception of such in various Western and non-Western cultures, and the role that emergentist ontologies of consciousness and the social "real" may play in allowing Western culture once again to engage imaginatively with this "spiritual," "mythological" worldview.
Kati Curts is a graduate student in religious studies at New York University. Her current research is on the reproduction and transmission of memory and affect through material/visual artifacts and activities in the United States, with particular focus on contemporary evangelical Christianity. Her broader interests include the history of religion in the U.S., critical theories and methods in the study of religion, and histories and cultures of collecting.
Tarek Dika studies phenomenology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of religion at the Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center.
Erin Flewelling is pursuing a Masters in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University, with an emphasis in the teaching of writing.
Phillip Fucella is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Fellow at the Center for Urban Ethnography and is associated with the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute's Scholars Program. His dissertation examines the effects of community and institutional contexts on the formation of sentiments among military spouses. He has interviewed over one hundred spouses of regular Army and National Guard aviation soldiers who have deployed overseas since 2001. He has also spent six months living on a remote Army installation.
Lynne Gerber is a Research Fellow at the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include evangelical Christianity and contemporary American culture, Jewish-evangelical relations, and religion and sexuality. She is currently working on a manuscript titled Ruling the Unruly Body: Losing Weight, Becoming Straight and Being Christian in Evangelical America, a study of evangelical weight loss ministries and ex-gay ministries. Lynne holds a Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. She has also worked as a consultant for numerous philanthropic foundations.
Jin-heon Jung is a sociocultural anthropologist, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gttingen, Germany. His interests lie in Christianity/religions, nationalism, refugee, human rights, multiculturalism, global capitalism, and public anthropology.
A fourth year doctoral student at Princeton Theological Seminary, Nicole Kirk continues the work she began at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri-the exploration of "lived" religion. She received her Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School and completed a Doctor of Ministry the same year she began the Ph.D. program at Princeton Theological in American Religious History. When Nicole is not thinking about the intersections of the visual/material culture and religion of late 19th and early 20th century American department stores, she dabbles in early Christian history for fun.
Matthew Kustenbauder is a Ph.D. student in History at Harvard University. He received an M.Div. and an M.A. in African Studies from Yale University. His research focuses on the intersection of religion and politics in modern African history. He has written on African prophetic movements, Alice Lakwena's Holy Spirit Movement and the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, the Legio Maria Church and it's founders in Kenya, and the politics of religious identity among the Sudanese diaspora. Conversant in Swahili and dabbling in Zulu, Matthew has conducted field and archival research in Kenya and in South Africa, where his most recent project examines the legal history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, its internal power struggles, and its interactions with the state.
Jason LaFountain is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His dissertation, entitled "The Puritan Art World," analyzes the discourse of technical action as formulated in the writings of English and American Puritan intellectuals between 1560 and 1730. During 2009-2011, he is the Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Matthew Cole Levine is currently a second-year student in the Master's program of Film Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. He is predominantly concerned with African cinemas and with the conceit of national cinemas in general, as well as in horror film and the American avant-garde. Currently, he is completing his Master's thesis regarding the sociopolitical framework of Louis Feuillade's silent crime serials.
Ross Lipton received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007 from Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts in literature with concentrations in religious studies and continental philosophy. I am currently writing my master's thesis under the tutelage of Professor Stephen Dunning at the University of Pennsylvania on the theological subjectivity of S¿ren Kierkegaard and Martin Buber and its influence on their concepts of interpersonal communication. My academic interests include themes of societal decay in German Modernist literature, literary expressions of sexual deviance in modern World Literature, the history of reductionism in interpersonal communication, and the relationship between the sacred and profane throughout the history of worship in America.
Lerone Martin is a PhD candidate at Emory University in the History of American Religion and Culture. His research interests include: History of 19th and 20th Century American Religion and Culture and African American cultural practices. His forthcoming dissertation, Selling to the Souls of Black Folk: Atlanta, the Phonograph, and the Transformation of American Religion and Culture is a historical analysis of religious commodification in America and its relationship to race, consumer capitalism, and change during the Twentieth Century.
Katie Meier is helping us think about social experimentations in new media and religion. She is generating theories that account for radically hybrid expressions in the twenty-first century, of self, God, technology, and culture. Katie studies concurrently at the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California, and at the University of California, Berkeley.
Monica Mercado is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago with research interests in U.S. women's and gender history. Her dissertation project examines nineteenth-century American Catholic print culture and the role of women readers and writers in sustaining religious publishing movements during an era of intense Protestant-Catholic competition. She has taught courses on American history, feminism, and Catholic studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Monica received her B.A. in History from Barnard College in 2001.
Elliot Mercer has danced professionally with Company C Contemporary Ballet and several other San Francisco-based dance companies, performing principal roles in works by Antony Tudor, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and Paul Taylor, among others. Elliot is a graduate of the Idyllwild Arts Academy and received his BA summa cum laude from the Liberal Education for Arts Professionals (LEAP) program at St. Mary's College of California. He is currently an MA candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, where his research focuses on the intersection of dance performance and environmental culture.
Jacob Olidort is a Ph.D. Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and focuses on Islamic law and early Islamic history. He is interested in the development of Islamic legal theory as well as the dynamics between religious law and secular society. Jacob holds an A.M. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a B.A. in History and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from Brandeis University. From 2007-2008, Jacob studied marriage customs in the United Arab Emirates as a Fulbright Scholar. His research on the UAE Marriage Fund was published by the Middle East Youth Initiative of the Brookings Institution in 2008. Jacob's article on "Political Ritual" will be published in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton University Press).
I, Amr Osman, am a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. My dissertation is on the history and doctrine of a defunct medieval school of Islamic law known as the Zahiri madhhab. My interests are Islamic studies, particularly historiography and Islamic legal history.
Seth Perry is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His dissertation explores the creation of religious authority in early-national America, with focus on bible culture and early Mormon rhetoric. His work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Journal of Religion, and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (forthcoming).
Jesse Rainbow is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
Kip Richardson is a first year doctoral student in the religion department at Harvard University and a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and Georgetown University. His focus is on American religious history with research interests in anticlerical and anti-religious movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, religion and the labor movement, and secularization theory.
I, Aaron Rio, am a third year graduate student specializing in the history of Japanese art at Columbia University. My upcoming dissertation research will focus on representations of ancient Chinese poets in late medieval Japanese ink painting. I am particularly interested in the body of painting produced by a group of rather obscure artists and monk-painters active in eastern Japan, the most famous among them being Kenko Shokei.
Elisabeth "Tina" Rivers is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her general field is 19th and 20th Century Art, with an emphasis on post-war American art and visual culture; her research focuses on the function of hallucination as a technology of perception in modernist, avant-garde, and popular discourses. In addition to an M.A. in Art History from Columbia, Tina holds an M.A. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine, and a B.A. from Harvard College. She may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Marwa Abdel Samei, the co-author, is a Lecturer of Political Science at Cairo University and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. Her dissertation is on "Public Diplomacy in the Age of Satellite Channels."
Will Schmenner is a first-year graduate student in the History of Art department at University of Pennsylvania and is presenting a selection from a larger project on falling in film.
I, John-Patrick Schultz, am from Philadelphia and a graduate philosophy student at Villanova University. My primary research interests are Marx, Heidegger, and issues of domination, resistance, revolution and liberation.
Judith Scott is a candidate for the Master of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary with a focus in Church History. She retired from the New York City Department of Education after many years as a high school teacher and principal in Manhattan and the Bronx. She holds degrees from Barnard College, Teachers College of Columbia University and Bank Street College of Education.
Jessica M. Smith is a doctoral student in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. Currently, her current research project involves re-imagining the angelic as a redemptive epistemology for the transformation of self and community. Other research interests include narrative theory, post-structuralist thought as well as contemporary and historical feminist and womanist theology.
Victoria Smolkin is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation in the Department of History at the University of California-Berkeley. Her dissertation, "'How Gods Are Born, Live, and Die': Soviet Atheism, Rituals, and the Socialist Way of Life (1954-1985)" is a study of Soviet atheist education and socialist rituals that follows two distinct, yet overlapping, life-cycles: that of Soviet citizens, whose lives were ordered and made meaningful by Soviet beliefs and rituals, and that of Marxist-Leninist ideology as it attempted to transform religiosity. This research has been supported by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, the Fulbright-Hays, the American Councils, and the Social Science Research Council.
Yunus Dogan Telliel is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the CUNY-Graduate Center, holding a Bachelor's degree from Sabanci University, Istanbul. He is interested in the intersections among questions of secularism, language, and religious reform. His current work examines conceptions of the practices of relating to religious and scriptural language among Turkish and Kurdish Muslim citizens of secular Turkey.
Drew Thomases is a PhD student in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His research explores contemporary Hindu practices in North India, focusing especially on Brahma worship in the pilgrimage town of Pushkar. He also examines the processes of religious transmission-from the colonial period on-that have produced the understanding of Hinduism as a religion of three gods.
I, Silvia Tita, am a PhD candidate in the department of History of Art, University of Michigan. My research focuses on European Art in the Early Modern period, with special emphasis on Italy and on the problematic of artistic and religious reforms produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Brian Trenor is pursuing an MA student in History at NC State University. He was also an undergraduate at NC State in History as well as Communication. His research interests include 20th century American and European foreign policy, religion, and military history. Currently, he is investigating the role of Pope John Paul II in communist Poland and the American perception of it. He and his wife live in Raleigh.
Justine Walden is a Ph.D. graduate student in the Renaissance Studies and History Departments at Yale University. Her areas of specialty are early modern religion with a focus on Italy; the Italian Renaissance; and the history of printing and the book.


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Don't forget the old adage...
Don't ascribe to Malice that which can be equally attributed to Stupidity.
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Brian Donaldson
Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:23 AM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Unexpected boot on HP3000
An automatic reboot on any HP3000 is impossible. Can never happen.
It requires human intervention every time to do a deliberate ctrl-B, ctrl-A
shutdown, pull the plug (power off) and reconnect (power on)
so that the juice will cause that "automatic reboot" effect etc etc.
I think someone in your environment did it to you and was too scared to say
anything to you about it.
I worked in a place once upon a time when some idiot went into the computer
room, pulled the wrong plug and brought the 3000 to its knees. Once they had
put the plug back in the 3000 started to reboot giving the illusion of an
"automatic" reboot. Still, it needs the stupidity of human intervention to
do that to you.
Of course, maybe it was a virus on your system that caused it.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. There are no such things as viruses on the HP3000:-)
Brian Donaldson.
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:05:32 -0500, Herb Statham
>On March 25th, our HP3000 decided on its own to reboot. We had not
>experienced any power outages, voltage drops (that we could detect) or
>anyone doing a control-b restart. This seemed very strange to me in that
>I had never seen this happen since beginning to work on HP3000's in
>1981. I talked to HP support (not the front line guys but the folks that
>have been around for 20+ years) and got the same reaction - "...never
>heard of this happening on a 3000 box. This wouldn't be the exception
>for a windows based machine."
>Has anyone on the list gone through an "automatic" boot on a HP3000 box
>before? If so, were you able to identify what caused the machine to
>reboot itself? Our HP3000 is a 959-KS400 running MPE6.5 power patch
>level 2.
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One half did make a difference for the West boys Saturday.
Shooting 52 percent from the field in the first half, the West romped to a big first-half lead en route to a 103-71 win against the East during the Golden Spread All-Star Games at Cal Farley Coliseum.
Tournament most valuable player honoree Irshaun Pinckney, one of four West players in double figures, scored a team-high 24 points as the West took a 54-31 advantage at the half and cruised home with the title.
"When we were shooting well in the first half and got the lead up, I think it made them try to work harder to get back," Pinckney said of the East's last-gasp comeback attempt in the second half. "They couldn't find a way to hit their shots early in the game."
Certainly the West's early lead was also helped by the East's shooting woes in the first half.
While the West pounded the ball inside to Pinckney and Clovis teammate Hank Baskett for high-percentage shots, the East struggled from the outside in shooting 30 percent for the half.
The West also finished strong in the first half, going on a 9-0 run in the final minute thanks to East turnovers and breakaway layups.
Even when the two teams took the court again to start the second half, Hereford's Slade Hodges popped a 3-point shot, and Vega's Justin Wolfe added a layup for a 59-31 lead.
By the time Pinckney added one of his three 3-point shots moments later, the West was firmly ahead 66-33.
"They have some great post players," said East guard Gary Alexander, who led his team with 24 points. "They got off to a quick start, and we were lacking a few players at the shooting guard. That made it tough on us."
By no means did the numbers favor the East. The team was already limited to eight players when Bernardo Estrado and Sam Holton could not make Saturday's championship game.
Overall, though, the West dominated almost every facet of its game against the East. As a team, the West made 41 of its 83 field-goal attempts, pulled down 57 rebounds and made countless plays when they were most needed.
Comparatively, the East made only 22 of 72 field-goal attempts, registered 43 rebounds and struggled to make a late charge facing such a daunting task.
"I think they tried to take a lot of outside shots instead of driving the lane and going to the line like they did early in the game," Pinckney said.
Randall guard Keenan Hooker also earned all-tournament honors after scoring 19 points for the West. Baskett also scored 19, with Amarillo High's Matt Sherwood chipping in 16.
Brandon Henderson, Garrett Pool and Randy Duffy all scored at least 10 points for the East.
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The Israel Defence Forces went on high alert this week as Hamas threatened not to renew their ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The six-month truce between Israel and Hamas was due to expire today (Friday). While Israel prefers to extend it, Hamas appears to be split between continuing the pact and ending it. Damascus-based Hamas political leader Khaled Mashal said on Sunday that the ceasefire would not be renewed, while Hamas officials in Gaza said only that the issue was under review.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak, a proponent of extending the ceasefire, dispatched a top aide, Maj-Gen (res) Amos Gilad, to Cairo for talks with the Egyptians about the situation.
Israel, officials said, is unlikely to invade Gaza even if the ceasefire is not extended as long as none of the rockets inflict large numbers of casualties. On Wednesday three people were lightly injured after a Kassam struck Sderot, on a day in which over 20 missiles were fired into Israel from the Strip. Since November 15, some 100 missiles have hit Israel, while the IDF have attacked five rocket squads in Gaza.
"We are not deterred from an operation in Gaza but we are also not rushing into one," Mr Barak said. "Calm will be met by calm but if there is no choice we will act when and where we see fit."
Mr Barak added that a continuation of the ceasefire would also help secure the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit. On Sunday, Hamas held a 200,000-strong rally in Gaza City marking the 21st anniversary of its founding. During the rally, a militant dressed in an IDF uniform took to the stage and impersonated Mr Shalit while begging in Hebrew to go home.
"Hamas will likely in the end decide to extend the ceasefire since it wants the crossings open into Israel and Egypt," a senior IDF officer said. "Hamas is torn between Iran, which wants to end the ceasefire and Egypt, which is asking the terror group to extend it."
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called on the government to respond militarily to each Kassam fired into Israel. "Every [rocket] fired from Gaza requires us to respond in order to protect civilians," Ms Livni said.
Defence officials said that there was concern that Hamas would launch a series of attacks against Israel — possibly trying to kidnap soldiers — to enter the new ceasefire with an advantage.
"Hamas wants new rules for the truce," said Mr Gilad. "Israel will not allow this to happen and will not give in to Hamas demands."