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Rays Spring Training Day 6: Evan Longoria
CUST IN CAMP?The Rays signed OF/DH Jack Cust to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training?the 34-year-old has spent parts of 10 seasons in the majors with Arizona (2001), Colorado (2002), Baltimore (2003-04), San Diego (2006), Oakland (2007-10) and Seattle (2011)?the left-handed hitter is a career .242/.374/.439 hitter with 105 HR and 323 RBI in 670 games played?he spent the 2012 season in Triple-A with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees) and Las Vegas (Blue Jays), batting a combined .243/.400/.442 (94-for-387) with 20 HR, 72 RBI, 97 BB.
DAY SIX?All 66 players have reported to camp and participated in today?s first full-squad workout?four players arrived to camp today: DH Luke Scott, SS Yunel Escobar, SS Hak-Ju Lee and OF/DH Jack Cust.
Manager Joe Maddon
On whether there is a team slogan after the full-squad morning meeting: ?A soft slogan ? It?s not about being perfect, it?s about being present?and if they can understand that, it really matters, because you?re going to make mistakes. When you make a mistake, to not make other mistakes based on that one where you?re constantly thinking about it, rehashing it, obsessively thinking about it, that?s where bad things happen. If you?re able to file it?because you?re going to do it, you?re going to screw up?if you?re able to file that rather quickly and move on to the next moment, we have a better chance of winning that night.?
On Wil Myers: ?Listen, I?ve been around the hype machine a lot for a lot of good young players, and for me it?s about making it simple and real for him here and not applying any extra thoughts or pressures. I want him to be himself, I want him to play hard, and from what I understand and I?m certain I?m going to see is that his natural abilities play here. For me as a manager, one of the most important things I need to do is stay out of the way, don?t get into his head too deeply, and let him develop into a Ray.?
Third baseman Evan Longoria
On not being perfect and staying in the present: ?That?s kind of been my motto for the majority of my career. You can?t really change the past anyway. Every time I?ve talked to the media or anybody my message is always (that) it doesn?t really matter what?s happened already, you?ve got to keep looking forward. It?s more pertinent to us as a ball club, if that makes sense.?
On relating to Wil Myers: ?It seems like it was yesterday that I was probably answering some of the same questions that he?s answering now. Really the one true test is how he is as an individual, how he?s going to handle these things and ? he has a great work ethic, from what I see. He?s in the cage as early as everybody else. ? I?m sure he?s going to have a lot of people pulling him in a lot of different directions, but as long as he handles everything in stride he?s going to be a great player.?
Outfielder Desmond Jennings
On whether he prefers left field or center field: ?I?m going to play wherever I?m told to play. I love center field; I love playing the game. I?d rather play center field, but if not, as long as I?m playing I?m happy. ? I played center field throughout the minor leagues, so it?s a comfortable position for me.?
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After a successful first year at the Heminger Center at Tiffin University, the annual Seneca County Home Expo again is to take place there Friday through Sunday.
Brian Bilger, director of the Home Expo, called the facility "excellent," and said the center is a great location that has allowed the show to expand and add vendors.
Bilger said many visitors came to the show last year in part to see Heminger Center and "got to see a great show."
He said the goal of the Seneca County Home Expo is to "provide a good, quality show" that showcases builders, contractors, real estate agents and bankers from Tiffin, Fremont, Findlay, Galion and Toledo.
The Home Expo allows vendors to display their products and services and present visitors with options for projects, he said. Many vendors choose to show off the "newest, hottest products," he said.
Each year, Bilger said, the Home Expo hosts about 2,000 visitors, and this year he expects the show "to be a little bit bigger." Major sponsors of this year's event include Sutton Bank, Old Fort Bank and Zeis Cos., he said.
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Participating vendors
North Central Electric Cooperative
Bath Fitter
Flag City Water Systems
Northwestern Masonry Services
MJ Brown Co.
Tiffin Deluxe Services Inc.
Old Fort Banking Co.
Gary's Equipment
Kuhn's Precision Seamless Gutter
Creative Concrete Works
Bath Crest
Retrofoam of Toledo
Seneca Networking Professionals
Galaxie Construction
Burns Electric
Huston Insurance and Financial Services
Everdry Waterproofing
Daniel Enterprises Inc./Thomas Daniel Construction
Eco Insulators
Gordon Lumber Co.
Grant Decker
Charlie's Small Engine Repair
Chris Schiefer Insurance and Financial Services
Real Living Generations Realty
Sentinel Building Trades
Croghan Colonial Bank
Cherokee Construction Inc.
Clouse Construction Corp.
Clouse Service Team of Professionals
Kings Glass Service
Lowe's Home Improvement
Hempy Water of Tiffin
Bilger's Lawn & Landscape
Zablocki Construction
Anthony Douglas
Community Hospice Care
Tiffin Ohio RC Modelers Association
Ralph's Joy of Living
The Tiffin Area Car Dealers Association is to have a selection of cars, trucks and SUVs on display during the expo, he said, and, as an added attraction, the Tiffin Ohio RC Modelers Association will have displays and demonstrations of model airplanes.
Bounce houses for kids again will be set up during the show, he said.
Admission to the expo is free, Bilger said, and $1 tickets can be purchased for the chance to win a big-screen TV, an iPad or a GPS unit.
The Home Expo is open 5-9 p.m. Friday, noon-8 p.m. Saturday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday.


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You will learn about local ocean safety principles and practices; historical, cultural, and customary practices of Hawaii's ocean users; and rules regarding protected species and thrill craft operation in Hawaii. Effective January 2005 all recreational thrill craft (personal watercraft) operators must complete this certification class on the safe use and operation of a thrill craft. Instructor: Sam Pae, Jr. Course fee: $109 Course code: N05PD181 Date: 5/5 Day: Sat 1 mtg.
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Posted Jan 17 2011 11:35AM
He could, apparently, handle a cue stick.
"I hate to hold up your pool game," he once told a group of shocked patrons in an Albany, Ga., pool hall, according to the definitive biography, Parting the Waters. "I used to be a pool shark myself."
And then, Martin Luther King, Jr., showed off a few trick shots.
Sports, of course, were a minor part of King's life. His days were spent in the pursuit of the seemingly impossible -- the destruction of an organized, monetized and armed system of economic and political oppression and suppression four centuries in the making. His ultimate triumph in breaking that system's will, for which he and thousands in the civil rights movement gave their lives, is among the premier accomplishments in our nation's history, leading to the establishment of King's birthday as a national holiday.
The NBA has celebrated King's birthday for years with a full schedule of games as a way of honoring the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Many games are played during the day so that more children can attend, often as a reward for quality work and consistent attendance in schools. The league partners with the Grizzlies in the team's annual MLK Day seminar at FedEx Forum that precedes the team's game in Memphis, where the National Civil Rights Museum was erected at the site of the old Lorraine Motel, where King was slain in 1968. (I was honored to host the seminar the last three years.)
On this 25th anniversary of the establishment of the King Holiday, you wonder what he would think today. How would he react to a country that now has an African-American president -- and thousands of African-American men and women languishing in prison, seemingly cut off from the promise of America that King worked so hard to expand? What would he say about an environment that can produce a billionaire from Mississippi named Oprah, yet have a third of black children still living in poverty? Are black folks doing better (countless numbers of elected officials in state and federal government; self-made giants in entertainment ranging from Tyler Perry to Jay-Z) or worse (a seemingly permanent underclass that can't get out of poverty and stays consistently behind in education)?
And what of sports?
What to think about an industry that has created an iconic figure like Michael Jordan, who crossed over, both on and off the court, into a position of authority and power that no African-American athlete before ever reached? What of the man King knew as Cassius Clay -- Muhammad Ali, born a Christian, converted Muslim, who began speaking of division and separation from whites but whose views evolved toward true Islamic teachings, and who went from being reviled in most circles to the world's most famous and beloved athlete?
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation, King said to open the March on Washington in 1963.
Almost five decades later, there is no utopian industry that has fully embraced King's dream of a society which judges not by the color of skin but by the content of character. But the NBA has made significant strides over the decades. Of all the pro sports leagues, it is further along in incorporating women and people of color in signficant positions, consistently receiving the highest grades from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in its Sports Racial and Gender Report Card.
But much work remains.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentus decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice...
Once the game's best player, and one of the best ever, Jordan now is an owner, running the Charlotte Bobcats. He is far from a perfect owner -- he drafted Adam Morrison instead of Brandon Roy or Rudy Gay, and he listened to Larry Brown, who insisted on taking D.J. Augustin instead of Brook Lopez, as everyone else in the Charlotte Draft room wanted in 2008. His first coaching hire, Sam Vincent, was a disaster. But the Bobcats made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history on his watch, and show signs of turning things around this season under interim coach Paul Silas.
And Jordan bought the Bobcats from another African-American man, Robert Johnson, a billionaire in his own right. A rich black man buying a sports team from a richer black man, and hiring a black man to coach a team comprised mainly of rich black men. What would King think of that?
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free...still languishing in the corners and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition...
Joe Dumars was a Hall of Fame player, winning two titles with the Pistons. He won another as an executive in 2004, building a championship team around players no one else wanted. He's seen the Pistons falter just like the city for which they're named, and he's trying to resurrect them in the same manner as the city is trying to rise. He has hired and fired several head coaches. He gets criticism for some of his choices, but not for his intellect or work ethic.
Otis Smith runs the Magic in his image -- no-nonsense, all business. He doesn't much care about what the outside world thinks about his decisions. He wanted to hire Billy Donovan to run his team after Donovan won consecutive national championshiips at Florida, but when Donovan got cold feet, Smith moved on, quickly, hiring Stan Van Gundy. He tells Van Gundy when he's messing up, and he tells his players when they have to do better. And when they don't, as evidenced by his 24-hour overhaul of the Magic in December, Smith moves on -- ruthlessly. He may get heat for his decisions, but not for his commitment or his exercise of his authority.
What would King think of them? And of the men who hired them? And who have not seen fit, yet, to fire them? Though, ultimately, they will?
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now...Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice...
Doc Rivers was a solid if unspectacular player. He worked in television before becoming a coach in Orlando. Working miracles with a rotating roster of castoffs in his first season, he went 41-41 in 1999-2000 and was named Coach of the Year. Less than four years later, he went 1-10 out of the gate and was fired. But a year later he was recycled -- hired again by the league's signature franchise, the Celtics. He went to the playoffs his first year, then went 57-107 the next two seasons, as Boston stockpiled young talent at the expense of winning. No one would have been surprised if Rivers didn't survive the youth movement; most coaches don't.
But Danny Ainge stuck with Rivers, and allowed him to reap the rewards of coaching a team that added Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen with incumbents Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins. Rivers didn't play favorites, didn't mince words, didn't hesitate to chew his players out or pat them on the back. He came up with the "Ubuntu" concept -- Ubuntu deriving from the South African phrase "I am what I am because of all that we are."
Nine months later, Garnett was screaming at Michelle Tafoya, "Anything is possible! Anything is possible!," after the Celtics routed the Lakers in six games for the 2008 NBA championship.
Ten of the league's 30 teams -- one-third -- currently have African-American head coaches. Over the years, that number has been a little higher some years, a little lower in others. Only Utah's Jerry Sloan is older than the 67-year-old Silas. And on the other end of the scale is Monty Williams, 39, an African-American hired by New Orleans last summer. He is the youngest coach in the NBA. The next-youngest is Miami's Erik Spoelstra, 40, the first NBA head coach of Filipino decent.
Alvin Gentry was head coach in Detroit. Got fired. He was hired by the Clippers. Got fired. He is now head coach in Phoenix, having led the Suns to an improbable Western Conference finals berth last season. He will no doubt be fired by the Suns. Coaches are hired to be fired. But now, African-American coaches are not only fired; they get re-hired -- by good teams, by bad teams. Often they are hired by black executives, but just as often, they're hired by white ones. And no one blinks an eye either way. What would Dr. King think of that?
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds...
You cannot think of the town of Eagle, Colo., without thinking certain thoughts. But Kobe Bryant, the man who was at the center of that criminal investigation, the subject of near-universal scorn and derision, has not only gone through the legal process without going to prison and losing his life or livelihood, he has, again, become a superstar, beloved by millions, able to resume his career and once again become a champion. He has commercial deals and an MVP award, and is generally thought of as one of the 10 to 20 best players of all time. If he had been accused of what he was accused of the day of King's speech, he may well have spent the rest of his life in prison -- if he was lucky -- instead of getting to play basketball again. His guilt or innocence is not the issue here. The fact that he had the means to hire an effective defense counsel and was able to have his day in court, and win, is.
What would Dr. King think of that?
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence...
The brawl at Auburn Hills may have been the NBA's lowest moment in the last 50 years. It was, frankly, a racial nightmare -- physically imposing black men wandering into the stands to fight with paying white customers. The damage to the building and to the brawlers was repaired, but the damage to the league's brand was deep and long-lasting. It may still be there.
How many advertisers, how many potential ticket buyers, were permanently appalled by what they'd seen? How much of what has followed -- dress codes for players, increased fines for missing team functions and appearances, edicts on "respect for the game" and the like -- have stemmed from that one, bad night?
Fifty years ago, the notion of a black man other than a boxer getting in a fight with a white person -- any white person -- and being able to continue with his career would have been laughable. But Jermaine O'Neal wasn't blackballed from the NBA. David Harrison wasn't blackballed. Ben Wallace wasn't blackballed. Ron Artest wasn't blackballed. Artest received a 73-game suspension in 2004, but he was allowed to play again. Six years later, Artest was the best player on the floor in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, against Rivers' Celtics. Artest helped the Lakers win their 15th championship, then announced he'd auction off his championship ring to raise awareness of mental health issues with children. He was almost universally praised for his selflessness.
What would Dr. King think of that?
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny...
There would have been no Bill Russell had Red Auerbach not been secure enough to treat his star player like an equal, a partner, insted of an employee. Auerbach knew what Russell did well and didn't try to change him; figured out what kind of man he was and didn't try to break him; learned what kind of leader he was and didn't try to challenge him; determined how much of a winner he was and didn't try to hog all the credit. Understand: Red had an ego bigger than most. He didn't mind taking his share of the accolades. But he never denied Russell his.
The perception of the NBA as "too black" in the 1970s was, mostly, obliterated in the following two decades. Part of the credit for that goes to winning, engaging players like Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas and Jordan, who made their hyper-competitive natures, winning demeanors and transcendent games into enviable, marketable traits.
But part of the credit goes to the commissioner, David Stern, who faced the racial issues bedeviling his game head on when he took the top job in 1984. The NBA has made a science out of marketing and promoting its star players during Stern's run, expanding the international reach of its talent through television and other media. Some have been critical of the league's approach, saying it makes individuals more important than the teams. But the end result is that the NBA's African-American stars are more well known to more people around the world than any black stars in baseball or football.
My friend Bill Rhoden wrote a book a few years ago with the somewhat provactive title $40 Million Slaves. The argument Bill made was no matter how much players make in the NBA or other pro sports, they still are at the whim of owners that can trade or cut them at a moment's notice. Until they are owners, Bill argued, they are never truly free.
The average salary for an NBA player this season is $5.765 million.
The Golden State Warriors, the last team on the auction block, sold late last year for a reported $450 million.
I wonder if Dr. King would agree with Bill.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
LeBron James made the summer of 2010 all about him. That is said with a mixture of disgust and admiration. For once, it was the athlete that held all the cards, that made half of a league turn its rosters upside down and inside out just to have a chance to sign him. Then he made them all come to him and make their sales pitch, just as if he were Tom Cruise or David Letterman listening to companies that wanted to do business. It was a power play the likes of which the NBA has rarely seen.
He made Dan Gilbert furious. Not because James is black and Gilbert is white, I submit, but because James cost Gilbert a lot of green, and Gilbert knew it.
"I don't have to be who you want me to be," Muhammad Ali said in 1964, the year he became heavyweight champion of the world and Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize.
A generation later, LeBron James makes no secret of his desire to be the first billionaire athlete. He does not really care what you think of him. He made himself into a villain, but he transformed the NBA, brought two friends with him to South Beach, and defies you to stop him while he takes calls from his friends Warren Buffett and Jay-Z. He hires his friends to do his business for him and makes it work for him. Because at the end of the day, he's got all the money and all the commercials and all the power. No rings yet. He's working on it.
Today, I wonder what Dr. King, on what would have been his 82nd birthday, would make of LeBron James. I wonder if he would think things are demonstratively better for black people because there is a segment of black society that is doing very, very well, even as another continues with the same economic and social issues that vexed the country a half-century ago. It is a testament of the progress that has been made that such a debate has real resonance.
Happy Birthday, Dr. King. And Happy Anniversary.
At this point, gallows humor is the only thing that keeps them from crying.
"We ask him, 'What are you gonna look like in a Nets uniform?,' " J.R. Smith said last week. "How cold it's going to be out there. What (city) he's gonna end up in? He could be playing for some team in Alaska."
They also laugh in part because it's a good mask for the anger. They don't bring it up with Carmelo Anthony, because they have gone a long way with him and they respect his decision. But they think they could win a championship with Anthony leading the way, in Denver. They are less than two years removed from the Western Conference finals, and they think they could get there again, now that they're healthy.
"We don't talk to him more, or less," Chauncey Billups said. "It's the same way with 'Melo all year. We don't give it any extra energy."
But, could you still win with him?
"I think so," Billups said, pointing out that last week marked the first time the Nuggets had all of their players on the court.
But they will never find out, unless there is a reversal of the tides that are pushing, inexorably, toward Anthony's departure. Sunday brought the disclosure from a trusted source that the Nets now have permission from the Nuggets to talk directly with Anthony about both the potential trade and the contract extension. But, of course, this is the trade that never actually happens, so an equally trusted source insisted later Sunday evening that no such permission has been granted.
But the inevitability of Anthony's departure can't come soon enough. It will hurt and it will set the Nuggets back years, but it has to be done. The alternative -- getting nothing for their franchise player -- is ... well, look at Quicken Loans Arena these days.
"It's starting to drain the team, the coaches," Smith said. "Everybody's just focused on who's going where and what's going to happen, who we're going to get, instead of just focusing on playing basketball. It's not really something for us to worry about. It's more for the front office. It's very difficult (to ignore), because you never know in your lifetime when you're going to play with one of your good friends, a Hall of Famer -- in the future, hopefully. You never really know when you're going to get that chance again."
George Karl points out that his team has had to deal with the drip-drip of daily 'Melo updates since mid-August, and has played without Kenyon Martin and Chris Andersen -- who's out again, for a week or so -- most of the season. He actually thinks the Nuggets are a couple of games better record-wise than they probably should be. But this is one time when the word "distraction" really applies.
"It's like teaching school," Karl said. "You could teach a classroom, and a good classroom probably takes in 50 percent. I think my team, in the moments you have to be there, has been there. But I can't deny that there have probably been moments where you would like a little bit more camraderie and a little more concentration. But that happens if it snows outside. We've had more happening than just snowing outside."
The man at the center of it all cannot make a Shermanesque statement about his intentions -- that he definitely wants to leave or stay. "You want me to get booed again?," he asked me on the Pepsi Center floor when I asked him about it after the Nuggets' rout of the Heat Thursday.
But everyone knows what 'Melo wants, and he doesn't want it in the Mile High. And that will mean leaving the place where he's been since June of 2003.
"I've spent more years here than I spent in Baltimore, if you want to get technical with it," Anthony said. "I moved to Baltimore when I was nine. I left and went to Oak Hill (Academy) when I was 16. So Denver, this is my home.
"The things that I was able to do, and to bring to this city, especially in '03, after them guys, that team only won 17 games, and for me to come in -- I'm not saying I did it by myself -- but to almost turn that whole situation around, and make the playoffs, and ever since then, we've been in the postseason."
They cheered Carmelo Anthony in Denver more than they booed last week, but there was in the city a sense of melancholy. A foreboding sense that times were about to change -- and not for the better -- in a city that has cold, cold weather this time of year. The city had something wonderful and warm and theirs to embrace and cherish, but it is getting prepared to bundle up even tighter now against the brutal winds, and the snow, and the darkness. Winter is here again.
(Last week's rankings in brackets; this week's record in parentheses)
1) San Antonio [3] (4-0): Fifteen straight at home, healthy, rolling and they haven't even picked up momentum from the Rodeo Trip yet.
2) Chicago [4] (3-1): Bulls 11-5 without Joakim Noah at center and with 407-year-old Kurt Thomas in the pivot.
3) Utah [8] (2-0): Back on track with two home wins this week, but start five-game road trip today in Washington.
4) Oklahoma City [11] (2-0): Thunder has won six of eight going into tonight's playoff rematch with Lakers, but OKC still not the defensive team it was last season (103.6 points allowed during that stretch).
5) L.A. Lakers [7] (3-1): Schedule gets much tougher the rest of the month, beginning tonight with Oklahoma City, and with games against Denver (admittedly, the Nuggets may not be that tough in a few days), Dallas, Utah and Boston coming up.
6) Boston [5] (2-1): With Jermaine O'Neal now looking at surgery that could be season-ending, and Kendrick Perkins rehabbing his knee, having 'Sheed back on the court for the stretch drive is much more plausible.
7) Orlando [2] (1-2): Arenas shooting just 36 percent (49-of-136) since arriving in the Land of the Mouse, and has only shot better than 50 percent from the floor once in those 14 games.
8) Miami [1] (0-3): Play only twice in the next 10 days, giving LBJ's ankle plenty of time to heal.
9) Atlanta [6] (1-1): Hawks' home win streak ends abruptly at 10 with poor effort Saturday against Houston.
10) New Orleans [12] (3-0): Hornets' D continues to be a strength; Bugs have allowed just 91.4 ppg this month on 42.5 percent shooting, and allowed only one opponent out of eight to shoot better than 50 percent.
11) Denver [14] (3-1): Won three at home this week by an average of 30. A nice sendoff for 'Melo, or a reminder of what the Nuggets are still capable of being?
12) New York [10] (1-2): This is what I've heard about Mike D'Antoni as far as Carmelo Anthony is concerned: if the Knicks could somehow make a deal for 'Melo, D'Antoni wouldn't be upset. If they don't, he won't be upset, either.
13) Dallas [9] (0-3): Dirk returns Saturday after missing nine games, gets thrown out in loss to Grizzlies; Cubes Tweets fans asking them to hang in there.
14) Memphis [15] (2-1): What will Grizz do with Z-Bo next summer? Seriously, what is he worth on the open market, and isn't he worth more to Memphis than anyone else?
15) Portland [13] (1-2): Brandon Roy will officially have double knee surgery in Vancouver today. That is much worse than being on double secret probation. Much worse.
N.Y. Jets (1-0): You walk the walk after you talk the (major) talk, you break through cross-sport barriers and get some recognition from the Tip. No coach has laid down more smack than Rex Ryan did this week; no one had their coach's back more than his defense, which banged Tom Brady around Sunday and took charge in Foxboro. Now let's go get a (bleepin') snack!
Cleveland (0-3): Cavs played three games last week. They lost by 55, 22 and 28 points. Goodness, what a train wreck of a season. At some point, Dan Gilbert has to explain to his season-ticket holders exactly what they're paying for.
Does Miami need Mike Miller to win a championship?
"Yeah," Dwayne Wade said Thursday. "We need everybody. We're front-loaded, of course, with our top three guys. But for us to really be a good team, we're going to have to have a collection of guys. We can do a lot, but we of course can't do it all. We understand that we need these guys to really have the confidence to know that when they're on the court, be a threat. Shoot the ball, and do what you've got to do."
The Heat cooled off a little this week; after winning 22 of 23 games, they lost three straight with LeBron James hobbled with a sprained ankle. James' absence finally gave Miller a chance for some extended minutes since his return from a torn ligament in his right thumb that cost him the first seven weeks of the regular season.
During the streak, the lack of playing time for Miller was not much of an issue. But Miami is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Miller. To get him the reps he needs to get rid of the rust and to get used to his new teammates will require much more than the 10 minutes per that he's been getting. But to play him longer minutes would likely affect the continuity Erik Spoelstra has gotten from his current rotation.
"When they're rolling and playing as well as they are, you don't want to be the guy who comes in and finally gets his minutes, and shoots every ball," Miller said after Miami's loss in Denver. "Guys don't want to play with that kind of guy."
Miller says his thumb is about 90 percent, maybe less, but that if he's on the court, there are no excuses. Whether he'll get meaningful time is another issue. He played 33 mostly garbage minutes against Denver, by far the most he's played since his return. But when James comes back, those minutes are likely to dry up.
"That's been the most difficult thing," Miller said. "Up until (Thursday), I've been getting two, three minutes a game. It's just tough to do anything in two, three minutes, and it's tough to get any rhythm ... it's going to take time."
This wasn't what Miller or the Heat expected when he signed a five-year, $27.5 million deal last summer. He wasn't one of the main SuperFriends (maybe he's Aquaman?), but the plan was for Miller to make defenses pay whenever they tried to throw out zones or double-team either James or Wade. It never got off the ground, though; Wade missed all but three minutes of the preseason with a hamstring pull, and Miller tore his thumb during a practice just before the start of the regular season.
But the Heat jelled without Miller on the court.
"I think everybody expected him to play big minutes, and then he got hurt," Chris Bosh said. "We still got on a roll as far as the rotation's concerned, and winning our games and everything. But it's a long season. There's going to come a time when he's going to have to get out there and get back into it. It's no telling what will happen. But Mike is a pro. He's been around the block a few times."
With practice time at a minimum, Miller will have to get his reps in the film room. On the court, he says he can do other things besides shoot to help the team -- get on the glass, move the ball. But Miami can't wait for him.
"We won 21 out of 22 games," Wade said. "It's hard just to throw him back in there. Mike was a big part of us, but he's not the only person who ever went through that. Guys come back and it takes them a while to get back into it, especially when you've got a team playing as well as we was playing. But now, you know what? He might get his opportunity."
When James returns, Spoelstra could play them together, with James playing a point forward-type four and Miller at small forward. Playing Miller with Wade and James may accelerate the continuity everyone agrees the SuperFriends need to get with Miller before the playoffs. Of all the opponents Miami has had this season, and may face in the playoffs, time may be the one it cannot overwhelm.
"That's concerning for sure," Miller said. "Obviously, it's tough for everybody. It's tough for the coaching staff, it's tough for the players, it's tough for me. Because I want to play, like everybody else wants to play, but I understand the situation, too. I'm not dumb. I realize I was hurt. I realize they're playing great. I've just got to find a way, and hopefully it'll work out itself."
Looks like it's back to the Lipizzaner Stallions, Elvis impersonators and half-naked showgirls. From Daniel Cooper:
I was reading your column earlier and your comment about a potential lockout made me realize something: will there be Summer League this year? Because I was thinking about travelling to Las Vegas to check it out and spend some time in the U.S., but I'm not sure if there'll be any basketball to watch. Do you have any idea whether there will be a Summer League?
Alas, Daniel, Vegas would likely be added to the list of casualties of a lockout, after growing over the last six years into the premier summer league, drawing 24 of the NBA's 32 teams last season, drawing strong crowds both to Cox Pavillion and the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV and getting television play from NBA TV (as does the Orlando Pro League). But the rookies and young vets everyone comes to see would obviously be prohibited from playing. And reports that there would definitely be some combination of NBA D-League and international players on the court in July are premature at best. Everything is on hold until the labor situation is clearer.
"We're exploring different possibilities in the event there is a lockout to still keep a footprint in Vegas, and keep the momentum we built up over a number of years," said agent Warren LeGarie, the driving force behind the Vegas League's growth over the past few years. "We'll start to look about making a permanent decision after All-Star."
Among the possibilities being discussed would be inviting a handful of foreign national teams with NBA players to Vegas, to try and have a stripped-down tournament. But such talks are only in the preliminary stages, and time is running short, for those teams have to finalize their summer schedules soon.
I'm a sucker for Girl Scouts selling cookies and 7-footers with a sob story. From Cary Rodda:
Just wanted to drop you a line to say thank you for the first balanced media piece I've seen on DeMarcus Cousins. The popular storyline on him coming out of the Draft was that he was a problem child, but except for the two incidents you mentioned, he's been no more than a typical young kid who cares a lot about how he and the team do on the court, and who shows it.
To be honest, Cary, it helped me that DeMarcus was playing better when I came to Sacramento to talk to him. He's still not all the way there, but at least he seems to own up to his mistakes.
It just had to be said. From Luke Sorensen:
In this week's "Morning Tip," you commented on the tragic shooting of Rep. Giffords. I know you will get commentary (some surely angry) from both sides on this issue, but I would simply like to thank you. Common sense and common decency are too rare in political discourse. You, however, reminded your readers that this is not a political issue but an ethical and moral one. Again, thank you for the quality of your work and the (unselfish and potentially problematic) stand you took as a journalist. If you get angry communication from those who disagree, I hope you'll remember what your compassion meant to myself and others.
There are certain subjects, like race and politics, where we just talk at each other, Luke, instead of with each other. We're all so defensive and certain our position is right we fail to see the humanity in others who have differing views. I just hope we all can take something out of this tragedy; namely, that we all have to turn down the volume in our discourse, no matter what we're discussing. I'm not blaming anyone for what happened; the young man is clearly mentally disturbed. But we need to stop with the dog whistles that do nothing to help such clearly disturbed people. Thanks for the note.
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(weekly averages in parenthesis)
1) Derrick Rose (26.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 6.3 apg, .431 FG, .950 FT): Just watch and enjoy.
2) Kobe Bryant (26.5 ppg, 6 rpg, 5.3 apg, .537 FG, .857 FT): Laid down the smackum-yakum on the Warriors Wednesday.
3) Dwight Howard (28 ppg, 15.7 rpg, 1.7 bpg, .604 FG, .722 FT): Picked up his 12th technical of the season against New Orleans on Wednesday.
4) LeBron James (27 ppg, 8 rpg, 6 apg, .458 FG, .400 FT): Left ankle sprain against the Clippers limited James to one game this week. Team is hopeful he can return Tuesday at home against Atlanta.
5) Amar'e Stoudemire (23.3 ppg, 8 rpg, 3.3 bpg, .357 FG, .824 FT): STAT slows down a little this week, struggling from the floor.
1,757,216 -- Votes for Kobe Bryant, the overall leader in fan voting through the fourth and final round of announced voting before the starters for the Feb. 20 game are named later this month on TNT.
$5,000,000 -- Amount of a lawsuit filed on Thursday by Mark Cuban against the upstart United Football League, claiming the league had failed to repay him a loan for that amount he gave the UFL last year.
$5,875,000 -- Amount of an injured player exception the Rockets received last week for Yao Ming, who will miss the rest of the season after undergoing ankle surgery. The exception is technically for the mid-level amount of $5.765 million, but Houston can trade for a player making up to $5.875 million.
1) The good news is, in a week, hopefully, we can move on from wildly speculating about whether Carmelo's going to the Nets and start speculating wildly about where Chris Paul's going to wind up!
2) We'll take seven more in May just like Miami-Chicago on Saturday, please. Only with Noah and LeBron on the court, too.
3) Turned on the TV late Friday night to do something I have done maybe four times in my adult life -- watch the Clippers. Not watch a game where the Clippers were playing someone else, like the Lakers or Spurs. The Clippers. Win or lose, and even at 11 games below .500, they're the buzz of the league right now, and even more so after upending the Lake Show on Sunday.
4)Monta Ellis needs to be in the All-Star Game. I leave it to the Western Conference coaches to figure out how.
5) This is a pretty amazing thing Andrew Bogut is doing to raise awareness and funds for the flood-ravaged Queensland area in his native Australia.
6) Saw The Social Network on a plane. It was very good. Not sure it was Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes good, but it was pretty good.
7) The woman is happy that the Packers are in the NFC title game. I'm just happy that Aaron Rodgers is showing he was worth all the fuss, after a rocky first couple of years trying to replace Favre. (Whatever happened to that guy?)
1) Has anybody heard from the Chuckster since last Monday? I'm worried.
2) Isn't there someone, somewhere who will take pity on Antawn Jamison and trade for him? Any place other than the place he's currently at will do.
3) Philosophical question: If the Washington Wizards played the Washington Generals at the Generals, someone would have to eventually win, right?
4) Jason Kidd passed Dale Ellis last week on the all-time list for made 3-pointers. That just doesn't seem right, somehow.
5) Great read from SHC on Sam Dalembert's exhausting year flying back and forth to and from his native Haiti since the devastating earthquake. But it's nonetheless depressing that so much remains to be done to rebuild that country.
6) Condolences to Joe Dumars, who lost his brother Mark earlier this month after losing his older brother Daniel last year.
Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!
-- LeBron James (@KingJames), 12:29 a.m., Wednesday. Most interpreted this as a shot at Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, who famously predicted "bad karma" for James when he left Cleveland and went to Miami last summer, but whose Cavaliers have fallen through the floor in the East, culminating in a 55-point loss to the Lakers last week. After receiving criticism for the Tweet, James said he was re-Tweeting the thoughts of someone else, not himself. The dog that ate James' homework is still at large.
This week's Mr. Fifteen is Utah rookie forward Jeremy Evans.
The 23-year-old Evans made the Jazz after being taken in the second round, 55th overall, out of Western Kentucky. He is raw -- he only averaged 10 points a game during his senior season for the Hilltoppers -- but he knows how to play (he shot better than 60 percent from the floor every season at WKU and is the school's all-time leader in blocked shots) and has ridiculous athletic ability; Evans high-jumped 6-feet-11 inches in high school despite having no formal training in the sport, and thinks he could have been Olympic caliber if he had stuck with it.
But to make it in the NBA, Evans will also have to add 30 or so pounds to his rail-thin, 196-pound body. With the Jazz, Evans has appeared in 18 games, averaging 6.4 minutes per game.
Me: Coming from a small town (Crossland, Ark.), is this what you thought it would be?
Jeremy Evans: It's everything I thought it would be, and more. Coming from a small town, you only see so much. I really didn't watch TV, but I just knew that everybody looked at (NBA) players like idols, looked up to them and everything. It's everything I thought.
Me: How many people are in Crossland?
JE: Probably like 6,000, if that. It may have grown a little bit, but not too much.
Me: So at any given home game in Salt Lake, there's more people in the arena than there are in your hometown?
JE: Oh, yeah. Probably at Western Kentucky it was that, too.
Me: When did you start to think the NBA was a realistic possibility for you?
JE: Probably high school. I knew I was taller than every other player that I played against, but not only that, the talent level. And then coming in college, seeing I had a chance to play there. Coaches told me if I keep doing it, I have a shot.
Me: Who was the best guy you played against in high school?
JE: Probably Thaddeus Young (the Sixers forward). I'm sure he doesn't remember it, but I had to guard him the whole time, and he guarded me, and I had like 17 on him. So it was a big deal for us ... I think we almost had a chance to win. It was a last-second shot, and I missed it. But we were pretty close.
Me: What was life like growing up and how important was your mother's presence?
JE: Growing up, it was just me, my brother and my mom. She had a brother who played, and he had a chance. But a lot of things didn't work out with him (he is currently in prison). She would always tell me that if I believed in God and everything, I have a shot. We always went to church and everything, and I always believed her. I was always probably the skinniest one, so a lot of people told me that I probably couldn't make it. But I really didn't listen to that. Just kept pushing. I'm just proud to say that everything worked out, and my mom was right. It's just crazy to think back to where you came from and say you made it.
Me: What are they doing to put weight on you?
JE: I try to eat as much as I can all the time. I talk to the nutritionist, try to get four or five meals in a day. Shakes and everything else that possibly could help. Coach said it's going to come with time and age, 'cause I've been trying ever since I got in college, and before that. It's just the way I'm built. I've tried.
Me: Are you lifting? What are you benching right now?
JE: I'm not sure, because we don't do like a whole lot of weight. We just do reps, try to get stronger and faster and all that. I'm not sure.
Me: Describe the first time coach Sloan screamed at you.
JE: I'm not sure what you call screaming is what I call screaming. I don't think he's screamed at me yet. He's probably told me, like not really directly but towards the team, but I'm sure it was pointed at me. I always try to do what he asks, and every coach. If you do what they ask, you'll be fine. He's not too bad.
Me: How friendly have you gotten with Gordon Hayward (Utah's first-round pick)?
JE: We're pretty close. We're the rookies and we've got to stick together, try to make it through. It's not been hard, because the vets, they're pretty good guys. It's been pretty easy so far. I guess that's the only person you can really go talk to, because the other guys, they always have something going on. They have a wife and kids. So Gordon, he's the only one I really talk to. Both of us have girlfriends, and we're built like the same. Got the same struggles on the court. Just slightly different posititions, but one day, they say I'll probably play the 3/4. I work on guarding him all the time, one-on-one, just me and him. But we talk about a lot.
Me: What has impressed you the most so far about the NBA?
JE: That the players are really smart. And even though the game isn't as fast as I thought it was, like going back and forth, up and down, it's still fast. It's set up different. Guys may execute their moves slowly, and then speed it up. You've got to be ready for anything. They know exactly what they're doing and when they want to do their thing.
Me: How much do you pick up from this team about what it takes to be a title contender?
JE: They're very serious. Just watching them, practice, you go out there, and in the game. After the game, if it's a loss, you see the expressions. They don't take it lightly. Even though you have a game the next day, they're still thinking about what else could possibly help. They're always talking about it.
Me: What do you think your career arc is going to be?
JE: I don't want to say too much, but I think I'm going to be doing pretty good, especially if I continue to work at it, work as hard as I have. I'll probably be a lot stronger and know the game a lot more. Smarter, knowing what moves to execute at the right time.
Me: What was Draft night like?
JE: Oh, man, it was like a dream come true. You always dream about making it to the league. A lot of people, that's not a big possibility. There's few numbers that make it. I was just sitting there. I really didn't know what was going on. I didn't know I was going to get drafted. There's nothing better you could ask for. A lot of guys know they're going to make it ... just to go to the area where I was, and watch the Draft with family and friends, particularly not knowing what's going to happen, the excitement, it's just out of the blue. I was just sitting there, and after they called my name, I took off running. I didn't know what to do ...
Me: You took off running?
JE: Yeah. I ran out the building. I was just excited. I needed some fresh air. It got kind of warm.
Me: What would you be doing if you weren't in the NBA?
JE: Probably trying to find like a career in art. Newspaper cartoonist, murals. There's a lot of things you can get into.
Me: Do you still draw every day?
JE: I've picked it like, maybe, the last week or two. I've started a couple of pictures. Try to do a series, maybe, with the team. A couple of guys that I've got going.
Me: How long does it take to do a portrait?
JE: Well, I like to take my time, but I'm always rushing. Just ready to see what the finished product is going to be like. I think that takes away from a lot that I can do, but I think it's still fun.
Me: What's your favorite piece?
JE: A good piece of Michael Jordan that I did, back at home. I wouldn't let it go.
"Complementary. And aggressive when I need to."
-- Chris Bosh, describing his evolving role with the SuperFriends this season.
"Don't put me in my rocking chair just yet. Hold on, I'll be back! Stay tuned."
-- Allen Iverson, responding via Tweet to rumors that he was planning to retire after his brief stint in Turkey. Iverson returned to the United States last week to have a lesion removed from his leg, but says he plans to return to Turkey when healthy to play for Besiktas.
"We're looking at all our options. Of course you're going to look at your options! We're businessmen. We've been at this for 10 years without any (arena) success."
-- Kings co-owner Joe Maloof, telling the Sacramento Bee Monday that he and brother Gavin are growing weary of waiting for a new building, though they remain hopeful that a new series of arena proposals advocated by Mayor (and former NBA star) Kevin Johnson will come to fruition. Later in the week, the Kings announced a five-year naming rights deal to rename Arco Arena "Power Balance Pavillion," for the performance technology company that manufactures wristbands that, the company claims, improves a person's core balance and flexibility.
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American Idol Judge Randy Jackson Toughens His Act While Keeping the Peace Between Simon and Paula
At 42, Jackson seems to be following his own advice. A prolific if heretofore low-profile record producer (and "definitely not," he says, related to those other musical Jacksons), he soared to TV stardom last season on FOX's runaway hit talent show, teamed with fellow panelists Paula Abdul, who calls Jackson "a lovable teddy bear," and Simon Cowell, the grizzly of the trio, who genuinely likes Jackson and likens him to, of all things, "a therapist. I'm always complaining and moaning to him," says Cowell. "Randy's the one person who'll bring me back down to earth."
Jackson sees himself as "the diplomat. Sometimes I have to mediate," even off-camera, between Abdul and Cowell. "It's like an Osbourne-type family, a little dysfunctional."
Occasionally his own temper flares. Last season, after Cowell bashed one young hopeful particularly hard, Jackson nearly came to blows with the acerbic Brit. "We shook hands about it afterward. But it was fairly intimidating," says Cowell, who now hangs out regularly with Jackson and Idol host Ryan Seacrest at a West Hollywood Italian restaurant. ("We call it the mini-boys club," says Jackson.)
Given such prolonged exposure, is Jackson in danger of becoming Simonized? "He's a bit more discerning this year," says co-executive producer Ken Warwick. "I think his honesty has increased." The truth can be harsh. Jackson told one Idol wannabe that his "Like a Virgin" rendition "was horrific, man," and advised another, who had just shrieked Enrique Iglesias's "Escape," "Don't sing ever, anymore."
He's not only meaner but leaner. After overindulging during Christmas, "I just cut back on portions and play more tennis," says Jackson, who also fits in three cardio workouts a week. "It's not a diet," he insists. Whatever it is, it's working: He's already shed 20 lbs. "If I continue like this," he says, "it could become a way of life."
So far, that role has been filled by music. Growing up in Baton Rouge the youngest of three children of Herman, an Exxon plant foreman who died in 1994, and Julia, 72, a homemaker, he listened to a local R&B band rehearse in his neighborhood. Then 10, "I was so enthralled," he says. "I thought, 'Wow, I wanna be one of those guys.' "
Though a star athlete in high school, Jackson would come home from practice, grab his bass and sneak out to perform at local clubs. He enrolled at Southern University in 1975 and took time off during senior year to play with jazz-fusion drummer Billy Cobham. After graduating in 1979, he worked as a session musician and songwriter on more than 1,100 albums. "He's one of the best musicians I've ever met," says pal Kevin Guarnieri, 32, an L.A. recording engineer. "He can play everything, from jazz to classical to pop."
A decade later Jackson headed to L.A. to produce and write. He worked as senior vice president of artist and repertoire at Columbia Records (where he befriended and began working with Mariah Carey) and later at MCA.
Music also infused his love life. His first marriage, to singer-songwriter Elizabeth Jackson, ended in 1990 (they share joint custody of daughter Taylor, now 13). A year later, while at a music video shoot, Jackson met Erika Riker, a former ballet dancer. They wed in 1995. "I think he's completely adorable," says Erika, 33, now a full-time homemaker.
An agent friend approached Jackson in 2001 about American Idol. Swayed by "really funny" tapes of Pop Idol, the show's UK predecessor, he agreed to give it a go. Jackson is knee-deep in Idol chatter until May, but he finds time to collaborate with Carey (he coproduced, cowrote and performed on her recent Charmbracelet album), manage newer artists like Nikka Costa and Van Hunt and unwind with Erika and the kids. And he's not above a few non-Idolic pursuits, such as his bimonthly trips to the ballet. "I'm this cool, vibey, dope guy," he says. "But I love the Nutcracker!"
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Artist Jackie Milad focuses on communication in her work - and not just any communication, but the types that most of us will desperately try to minify and avoid: awkward and failed exchanges. There is nothing awkward or failed in the way the work is presented, however; there is a sureness-of-hand and a clarity that exists alongside - despite even - the subject matter.
Milad works with both drawing and performance art, though only drawings will be presented in the Lycoming College Gallery. She studied painting in Florence, received her bachelor's degree in fine art from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts, and earned her mater's degree in fine art from Towson University. Currently living in Baltimore City, where she has her studio, Milad works professionally as a curator and contemporary art collection advisor for the University of Maryland in College Park.
"I have been active in both professions for nearly thirteen years, with starting an artist-run gallery, to later co-founding an international performance art festival," she said. The Chela Gallery and Transmodern Festival (the gallery and festival, respectively) are still active today.
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Jackie Milad's "Speak for Me (Ventriloquist)" will be on display in the Lycoming College library gallery from Feb. 21 to March 28. Milad's reception and gallery talk will be from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today. Milad will discuss her work and field any questions from those in attendance.
"This series, along with others in the show, reference a mediated communication, where one speaks for another and where misinterpretation often occurs - a twin speaks for another twin, a ventriloquist speaks for his dummy, a priest speaks for an Oracle at Delphi, and a man speaks for a woman.
"All my work comes from a number of sources: fashion photography, dance, performance art, old yearbooks, photo booth pics, ID photos or just sitting on this bus heading to New York and committing the faces around me to memory. 'The Portrait Series' is meant to be my catalogue of facial expressions in which I could reference later for other works. My process begins there - looking at sources and then I draw out works in a very intuitive manner ... not too much planning involved, except to include themes or motifs. And like a good art school graduate, I incorporate all my 'mistakes' into my final works," Milad said.
Drawings depict the aforementioned twins, ventriloquists, priests - all over sparse backgrounds where the yellow or white of the paper (the space between figures) plays as much of a role as the figures themselves. Erasure is also never quite all the way - Milad's "mistakes" hanging there like something said that can't be taken back. The blacks, whites and golds that surround - and sometimes partially cover - the figures add a depth to the drawings that might not have been there had Milad chosen to use only pen or pencil on paper.
"I am very tied to drawing - I get a lot out of the immediacy of the process and I simply enjoy it. To be honest painting never gave me the same satisfaction; that perhaps has something to do with my impatience. I was lucky to be in an art school for undergrad where experimentation and media-hopping were encouraged, so it feels natural for me at this point to use what best suits the idea," Milad said.
Culture also plays a role in Milad's work.
"I observe closely the details of everyday life and how people manage their physical space and relationships," she said. "I'm interested in verbal and non-verbal languages, especially when it is culturally specific," she wrote in the first line of her Artist's Statement. "My parents come from two very different cultures-Egypt and Honduras. In the early part of their life together, including my early childhood, they did not share customs, tradition, language, and certainly not culturally-specific gestures....As a child I was the interpreter and mediator for my parents, when their grasp of English was still developing. So you can see I've been thinking about this idea of speaking for others for a very long time."
Jackie Milad's "Speak for Me (Ventriloquist)" will be on display in the Lycoming College library gallery from Feb. 21 to March 28. Milad's reception and gallery talk will be from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today. Milad will discuss her work and field any questions from those in attendance.
Some of Milad's work will be available to buy and refreshments will be available. For more information about Milad and her work, visit www.jackiemilad.com. For more information about Lycoming College's upcoming events visit www.lycoming.edu or call 321-4000.


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Giant stag 'shot dead for antlers'
Published 26/10/2010
Nature lovers are mourning a giant stag feared to have been shot dead for its antlers.
The male red deer, known as the Emperor and reputedly the biggest wild animal in Britain, was reportedly killed by a trophy hunter in Exmoor, Devon.
He was apparently shot legally after the landowner was paid for the shooting rights.
Emperor was 9ft tall to the tips of his antlers and is believed to have weighed some 300lbs.
His demise comes several days after his picture was published in newspapers.
One local deer enthusiast said two shots had been heard close to the main Tiverton to Barnstaple road.
He added that a group of people were out watching stags close to the spot where Emperor was killed earlier this month.
Peter Donnelly, an Exmoor-based deer management expert, said he was angry the animal had been shot during the mating season.
He told The Times: "It could be that he didn't get a chance to rut properly this year, therefore his genes have not been passed on this time round.
"The poor things should be left alone during the rut, not harried from pillar to post. If we care about deer we should maintain a standard and stop all persecution during this important time of the year."
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I've got a very complicated integral, generated by Maple (15), of the form:
I need to do some manipulations on the integrand. So, I perform the following:
f1:=perform operations on f(x)...etc
The trouble arises because sometimes Maple writes Z as shown above, and sometimes it writes it as:
and you can run the program twice in a row and you will get either form, randomly. So, sometimes Z1 will be wrong by a minus sign because you can't predict whether the minus sign is going to be embedded or not.
I've been complaining about this Maple property for years, to deaf ears within MapleSoft who insist it is not an issue, and it has been the subject of long discussions on this site that go nowhere.
So, the question becomes - how do I reliably extract the expression "a" from the expression for "Z" and how do I test whether it has a minus sign embedded within it, or explicitly showing.
This can drive you crazy if you are trying to do a calculation or write a program that always works.
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Facing painful accusations of drunk driving, Dale Lee
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WALTHAM – The silence managed to reach a volume none of the Boston Celtics could have. It lingered there in the team's locker room. Normally Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce or another one of the veterans would have spoken, but words didn't seem appropriate.
This wasn't a peaceful quiet like the kind experienced while fishing at a lake during the early morning. It harbored all the anger of three consecutive ugly defeats, of J.R. Smith's elbow to Jason Terry's face, of the knowledge that a sweep now resides only one mediocre effort away.
"Everybody was real mad (Friday)," said Avery Bradley. "Nobody was saying anything."
The Boston Celtics will play for their lives during Game 4. The game shouldn't serve to shape even a minor part of a legacy, but a loss would be unseemly. If everything had ended last season, the finale would have been a strikeout swinging, the Celtics forcing the Miami Heat to reach for everything they could muster. One of the final scenes would have been the TD Garden crowd chanting "Let's go Celtics" at the end of a Game 6 blowout loss, with nothing but admiration for the team that sometimes lost but never surrendered.
One year later, Boston hasn't been able to break 80 points in a single game, deliver a simple entry pass or mount any sort of sustained challenge. Half of the crowd funneled out of Game 3 with a quarter or so remaining. Chants for the Knicks were heard from the remaining New York fans, the away team taking over Boston's building, those adoring calls seeming longer than a year removed.
Pierce and Garnett have earned never to have their wills questioned. But head coach Doc Rivers said he thought the Celtics' spirit broke during Game 3.
"I've played youth basketball, AAU – I've never scored this (few) amount of points," said Terry.
"We almost feel like we kind of got embarrassed," Bradley added, "and we want to win a game, let people know that we have fight in us, we're not just laying down."
The Celtics have unloaded all the cliches about a 3-0 deficit – they haven't won anything yet, take it one game at a time, continue to look for good shots, we can still win this, we have to treat this game like it's the last of everybody's career, and if we win that we have to do the same thing the next game. Yet no NBA team has ever come back from three games behind to win a series.
"Look at the guys on this team, guys who have been through so much throughout their whole careers," said Jeff Green, obviously looking to buck history. "They've been down. We have guys that are confident in their game and believe that we have a chance."
Boston is frustrated with missing layups and open jumpers. The Celtics are averaging 75 points per game on ungodly 39.5 percent shooting, all made worse by 16.3 turnovers per game, many of them coming during the most routine tasks requested of NBA players. Down so many contributors, Rivers has no choice but to ask too much from everybody on his roster.
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The firms stress that median overall survival can't yet be reliably estimated because of the small number of patients in long-term follow-up. Median overall survival estimates when BRIM3 met its primary co-primary endpoint in January 2011 were 9.2 months for patients receiving vemurafenib and 7.8 months for those receiving chemotherapy. After an additional two months of follow-up, the estimated median overall survival was 10.5 months for patients receiving vemurafenib, and again 7.8 months for chemotherapy-treated patients.
In January the data safety monitoring board for the BRIM3 trial recommended terminating the study due to the positive efficacy data in order to allow enrolled patients in the chemotherapy arm to start receiving vemurafenib. Marketing applications for approval of vemurafenib in the treatment of BRAF v600 mutation-positive melanoma have been submitted to FDA and the European Medicines Agency. While still under regulatory review, the drug is being made available to eligible patients through a global access program.
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Polk County Medical Examiner Gregory Schmunk said Gary Bushman's autopsy was completed Monday. He said additional toxicology tests will take more time to be completed.
Bushman, 46, of Collins, was inside one of two vehicles that collided head-on in the 7700 Block of Northeast 94th Avenue just before 9 p.m. Friday.
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