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Florida State-Auburn put the BCS to rest for good
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- There will be a funeral amid the celebration after the BCS championship game on Monday night.
No. 1 Florida State or No. 2 Auburn will be the last team to hoist the $30,000 Waterford crystal football that goes to college football's champion and has become emblematic of the Bowl Championship Series. Then the BCS will be buried in the Rose Bowl after 16 years of revolutionizing the sport -- and frustrating so many of its fans and participants.
"We wouldn't have a playoff if we didn't have the BCS," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said Saturday during media day for the championship game.
In the end, the BCS turned out to be not a destination for college football's postseason but part of its evolution.
Even one of its harshest critics concedes it did some good.
"It's better than what we had, but it should have lasted four years, not 16," said Yahoo! Sports writer Dan Wetzel, who wrote the book "Death to the BCS."
The idea for the BCS came from former Southeastern Conference commissioner Roy Kramer. The story goes that he jotted it down on a napkin. The goal was to take a bowl system that rarely matched the top two teams after the season and give it a structure that would produce 1 vs. 2 every season.
Before the BCS, there were 11 bowl games in college football history that matched the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in the Associated Press college football poll.
The BCS produced three such matchups in the first six seasons, and there was even a split championship in 2003, when Southern California finished No. 1 in the AP poll but didn't reach the BCS title game. LSU won that. Clearly that wasn't what the conference commissioners who ran the system had in mind. So they tinkered, often.
The LSU/USC controversy was followed a season later when the BCS' simple, fatal flaw was exposed. What happens when there are three worthy teams for a game built for two? Undefeated Auburn was the odd team out among perfect USC and Oklahoma. At that point many fans were in revolt and the BCS became an easy target for its detractors.
"It became cool to criticize it -- which is unfortunate," Hancock said.
Mike Slive, of the Southeastern Conference, motivated by what happened to Auburn, proposed a "plus-one" in 2008, which would have changed the BCS to a four-team playoff. It was shot down, but it was the beginning of the end.
Wetzel's book came out in 2010 and it challenged everything about the BCS from how it picked the teams to where the money went.
"Very few people understood the whole system," he said.
More and more the questioning of the BCS was coming from people who were ostensibly a part of the system.
"That's when I knew the thing was doomed," Wetzel said.
With momentum building for change, the last crack that made the BCS crumble came after the 2012 season, when the national championship game matched two SEC teams: Alabama vs. LSU in New Orleans.
The commissioners met a day after the game and started constructing a four-team playoff.
And now that the BCS is about to be laid to rest, as with any funeral, the last word should be something nice about the departed.
"Although it was heavily criticized and misunderstood," said Hancock, "the BCS did everything it was intended to do and then some."

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When thinking of Nazareth, baseball is not the first sport that comes to mind.
However today the Swifts want to show the area that basketball is not the only sport in Nazareth. The Swifts face Windthorst (26-2) in Games 1 and 2 in the best-of-three Class 1A regional finals beginning at 10 a.m. today at Hoskins Field in Wichita Falls. Game 3, if necessary, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Plainview.
Nazareth's driving force in its run toward the state tournament has been pitching. The Swifts can trot out two righthanders who give opponents two completely different looks.
Junior Eric Schilling provides the fire and senior Blake Birkenfeld brings the junk. The two have combined to help the Swifts to an 18-2 record and one step away from a second trip to Austin this spring.
"Nobody thinks of us as a baseball school," Birkenfeld said. "It's been a good run. We all played basketball and went to the state tournament. Now we want to go on in baseball too."
Birkenfeld relies on his curveball. He has a 5-2 record and a 3.20 ERA. His relative slow-breaking pitches contrast strongly with Schilling's 80-plus mph fastball. Schilling has a 7-0 record and a 0.25 ERA. He has given up just one earned run all season.
"We hear that people hate facing us because we're two totally different pitchers," Schilling said. "I throw a lot of fastballs and Blake throws a lot of curveballs. It's really tough, especially in a doubleheader, for batters to adjust to what we're doing."
Senior catcher Daryl Pohlmeier has the best seat in the house when the Swifts play. Pohlmeier calls all the pitches for the Swifts and knows his pitchers better than anybody. Schilling said he has not shaken off Pohlmeier's calls in two years.
"I try to keep the batters off balance," Pohlmeier said. "With Eric, I try to call a lot of fastballs and spot him in different places. Eric throws hard and his fastball cuts, especially in the early innings when he's pretty fresh. Eric can be overpowering with his fastball and he gets a lot of strikeouts.
"Blake's best pitch is the curveball, so I call a lot of those and maybe bring in a fastball to mess up their timing. With Blake, we try to get some ground balls and let the defense work. We basically try to keep the batters' timing off. We want them to either top it or pop it."
The Swifts were at their best when Nazareth made short work of highly regarded Follett in the area round games last Thursday and Saturday. Then Nazareth turned around and swept defending regional finalist Miles in a doubleheader on Monday in the regional semifinal round.
Nazareth won four games in five days, including three games last Saturday and Monday. Birkenfeld started games on Saturday and Monday and recorded wins in both.
"I know on Monday that Miles was all geared up for Eric's fastball and then in the second game we brought in Blake and all that junk. I think Blake threw 75 percent curveballs, and they were so anxious at the plate that they never got their timing down," Nazareth coach Ralph Albracht said. "They knew they had to wait on that curve, but they were so used to swinging early for Eric's fastball that they'd swing early on the curve. When they finally settled down, the only thing they could do was pop it in the air and on the ground."
Birkenfeld missed 13 weeks of play after breaking his collarbone in the football playoffs. He returned in time for the Swifts basketball playoff run. Pohlmeier says that since Birkenfeld's injury, he has gained some speed on his fastball.
"We knew we were going to be good this year; we had everybody back except one person," Birkenfeld said. "We really wanted to get past the area round. That's where we lost last year, so we wanted to do better than we did last year. Now we want to go back to state like we did in basketball."
Nazareth has already brought home two gold balls from Austin this spring when the boys and girls basketball teams swept the Class 1A Division II state titles. The Swifts came home from Austin just in time to start district baseball play and have not stopped.
"Going to state has really helped us in the pressure situations," Pohlmeier said. "We know what to do and we know not to panic. We know how to really bear down and concentrate in tight situations. We've worked through that in basketball and in football too, so it helps us in baseball."
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Mavs-Lakers All-Access Donuts
DONUT 1: Foreward ...
The Dallas Mavericks entered Sunday in a high-tension battle for the ninth seed, and the promised land hiding just on the other side of it, with the Los Angeles Lakers. Amid a season of opportunities wasted, gifts discarded and a deepening pool of moments that could each clamor for recognition as the single instant where playoff hopes were extinguished in earnest; Sunday's contest with the Lakers will find its voice strong and clear.
DONUT 2: Fighting the norm ...
Whether it was the continued battle of the uncharacteristic fighting to become the norm, as Dirk Nowitzki missed a "clutch" free throw (final five minutes of a five-point-or-less game) with the Mavs down two and only 1:04 to play, the increasingly familiar inability to get the ball to the team's best player down the stretch -- prior to that 1:04 mark, Mike James had more fourth-quarter shot attempts (4) than Dirk (3) – or emotional letdowns at the most inopportune moments, such as a pair of technical fouls in the final 5:48 of a one-possession back-and-forth game; Dallas could not capitalize when their chances came, losing 103-99.
With only 27 games to play, this loss could prove to be the final corner turned, the last hill crested, before the destination stood out clearly ahead … a place of regret and frustration, another fragment of an inch of beard to carry forward.
Or, perhaps something magical will happen and it will become the moment everything flipped.
The latter has become almost haunting through a consistent insistence of denial … but stranger things have happened.
Haven't they?
Have they?
Relatives have been summoned to say their goodbyes, but hope, tied and bound by tubes and cords and beeps and a vast yawning silence, still houses the faintest of pulses.
DONUT 3: A Battle of Superstars ...
If you're looking for a silver lining around your ripped-out Mavs' heart, it was the continued reemergence of Dirk Nowitzki as the Big German was "Super-Uber" (do you get the reference?) once more.
Dirk finished with his first double-double of the season: 30 points (a season high), 13 rebounds (also a season high), hitting 11-of-19 shots, including 4-of-4 behind the arc, and added a season-high three steals … though it may be the single missed free throw with 1:04 remaining that will linger in his mind.
It was the best he has looked this season … unfortunately, it coincided with a game in the discussion for the best Kobe Bryant has looked this season as well.
Kobe finished with 38 points, 13-of-21 field goals, 12 rebounds, seven assists, and a late missed free throw of his own … though his came with 4.5 seconds to play and his team up four, the outcome all but certain.
Both players entered the fourth quarter with 24 points … when Kobe became the undeniable focus of his team's offensive attack, taking five of the team's 12 shots – or 41.7 percent of the Lakers total shot attempts -- and scoring 14 points.
Meanwhile, prior to the final minute, Dirk was largely overlooked in favor of Mike James and Vince Carter as the focal points of the offense. Prior to that final 1:04 of the game, where Dirk had two attempts, both Carter and James had more fourth-quarter field-goal attempts than Dirk. For the quarter as a whole, Dirk took five of the Mavs' 22 shots – or 22.7 percent of the team's attempts – and scored six points.
One team leaned on their 34-year-old star in the game's deciding quarter, the other, too often, did not.
DONUT 4: The debate and the statement …
If you find you watch the Mavs with one eye on the game and the other on Twitter, you were likely witness to more than a few comments aimed in the direction of Mike James, and Rick Carlisle's decision to stick with him for 9:56 of the fourth quarter, compared to 2:04 for Darren Collison.
Since the return from the All-Star break, the last three games, Roddy Beaubois has not played a meaningful minute as Carlisle has turned solely to Mike James for the backup point guard minutes.
For these three games, James is averaging 7.7 points, 3.3 assists, 0 turnovers, while shooting 45.5 percent from the floor and 37.5 percent behind the arc in 19 minutes per game.
Not that those numbers are particularly impressive (though it's nice to see that "0" in the turnover column), but they are better than one would imagine from the eye test.
The debate of who deserves the backup point guard minutes between Roddy and James may live on, but the statement made by Carlisle's recent choice is clear: he has found Roddy lacking.
Against the Lakers, however, the debate wasn't between Roddy and James … but between Collison and James.
Collison did not have one of his better games (7 points, 3-of-11 field goals, 4 assists, 3 steals, 1 turnover), and he simply didn't look good for stretches. But, given his recent stretch of strong play, it seems reasonable that he should be granted opportunities over James to close games.
You could point to his inability to consistently get the ball to Dirk, but it's hard to find that James, never known for his passing, has faired any better in this area.
It isn't that James played particularly poorly (4 points, 2-of-4 field goals, 3 assists in the fourth quarter), other than his proclivity for an itchy trigger finger for quick shots, but that Collison has to be considered the better option at this point … live or die by it, Collison is the best point guard on this roster.
And yet ... We're going to study this and ask around at Mavs HQ. There is something missing from DC's game (in Rick's view) and we're going to find out what that something is.
DONUT 5: No Mayo...
OJ Mayo probably wouldn't mind if the Mavs didn't have to see the Lakers again this season … or Memphis, San Antonio or Oklahoma City, for that matter (see Mavsellaneous below).
Mayo finished with eight points, 2-of-9 field goals, three rebounds, two assists, two steals and three turnovers.
Needless to say, finding a win becomes exponentially more difficult when Mayo totals more turnovers than made field goals.
In three games against the Lakers this season, Mayo is now averaging 11 points, 29.7 field-goal percentage, 25.0 3-point percentage, and 2.3 turnovers.
The Mavs are 1-2 in those games.
This season, in games where Mayo has converted at or under 40 percent of his field-goal attempts, the Mavs are 5-18.
DONUT 6: Dirk/Kobe Admiration Society ...
Disrespect Dirk? Mamba doesn't. Hate Kobe? The UberMan doesn't. Here's Our First Impression story on the game notes Dirk and Kobe's mutual admiration with quotes and more ... Starting with these:
Kobe on Dirk: ''He's one of my all-time favorites. He's a throwback type of player. He doesn't mind the physicality. He made some incredible plays down the stretch.''
Dirk on Kobe: ''He's been the best player in my decade. I've been in the NBA a long time and he's the one player I love to watch. It was a big game on the national TV stage. It was a fun one. We just came up a little bit short.''
DONUT 7: Kaman's return. ...
Chris Kaman returned to the court after missing the last 10 games due to issues resulting from a concussion he received in practice. Kaman played 8:17 and did a fair job on Dwight Howard in those minutes. He finished with four points, four rebounds and one turnover.
DONUT 8: Want more Mavs? ...
We've got the best and deepest coverage of the Mavs available anywhere ... take our free seven-day trial and then get your Mavs gold for pennies! ... Go Mavs and Go Premium!
By the way, we take that same focus that we provide on the Mavs here on DB.com and apply it to the Mavs and the Cowboys on 105.3 The Fan. Listen live here for some Fish on Football and for breaking Mavs stuff, too ... throughout today and every day ... and we'll take you inside the teams in every possible way!
DONUT 9: Mavsellaneous ...
*Vince Carter continued his strong play, finishing with 15 points, 6-of-13 shooting, three assists, two steals and two turnovers.
*Five Mavs finished with a positive plus/minus: Chris Kaman (+8), Brandan Wright (+6), Dirk Nowitzki (+5), Jae Crowder (+4) and Vince Carter (+1) … Mayo was a Dallas worst -17.
*Dallas was once more up six minutes into the game, leading 13-12.
*The Mavs starting guards finished with 15 points, 5-of-20 field goals (25 percent), six assists, and four turnovers.
The Lakers starting guards finished with 58 points, 20-of-33 field goals (60.6 percent), 11 assists, and eight turnovers.
DONUT 10: Thanks to our sponsors! ...
A tip of the cap of appreciation to Frisco Party Station and Red Rock Bar & Grill! They help make DB.com what it is ... thanks, guys!
DONUT 11: The kid ...
Jae Crowder played 18:36 and managed to do something many in the NBA have not mastered: he stayed on the ground as Kobe went through countless pump fakes and defended Bryant well.
Unfortunately, it didn't matter much, as Kobe made the shots anyway, but that doesn't change the fact that Crowder did play strong defense.
DONUT 12: The Final Word ...
You are by now familiar with the Mavs owner's quotes and pokes at the Lakers. From amnesty to beyond. In DB.com's one-on-one with Mark Cuban over the weekend, there is more of the same. Read it all here.
Regardless of the context of the "Amnesty Kobe'' comment, which was clearly presented as an example of the decisions some teams could hypothetically be faced with under the constrictions of the new CBA, and regardless of whether it was an intentional poke meant to rile up the Lakers and their fans, Mark Cuban's comments stand as an easy to clutch (sell) narrative … and brought some entertaining quote fodder Sunday.
"They should have listened to Cuban," Dirk said, "and amnestied (Kobe) this morning."
Then, as was the case on the court, Kobe had the final say on his Twitter account, posting: "Amnesty THAT"
Beneath this storyline was the game, another in a string of disappointing results this season, another step in the opposite direction of the playoffs, another reminder of just how easy it is for things to go wrong.
"That was a big two-game swing [Los Angeles entered the day one game ahead of Dallas] against us with the loss,'' Elton Brand said. "We needed this one with so much at stake.
We'll sit at our playoff hope's bedside, tell it everything is fine through a thin smile, and hold its hand. We'll share a knowing glance with our fellow Mavs' fans, and bury the voice in our head that whispers a truth we'll try to keep denying. And, we'll shake our heads at another one that just seemed to get away.


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Video: Minn. cops save man from fiery wreck
Video footage from the officers' squad car dashboard camera shows the car engulfed in flames. Seconds later, the two officers are seen hustling toward it
By Sarah Horner
Pioneer Press
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Two Maplewood police officers will be honored for saving the victim of a fiery car crash Friday evening.
Video footage from the officers' squad car dashboard camera shows the car engulfed in flames. Seconds later, the two officers are seen hustling toward it.
Hearing cries for help, the officers later said they saw two arms raised through the driver's side window.
Each taking hold of an arm, the officers pulled a 20-year-old man from the flames consuming the car.
For their efforts, officers Clint Abel and Jason Marino will be honored at an upcoming Maplewood City Council meeting with the department's Life Saving Award.
The two responded to a report of a car crash at 11:50 p.m. Friday at the southwest corner of Larpenteur and White Bear avenues in St. Paul.
After pulling the victim from the car, the officers used their gloved hands to pat out the man's burning pants.
The first part of the rescue was captured on the squad car video.
The semi-conscious victim, Ronnie L. Christmas, was taken to Regions Hospital, where he was being treated for extensive burns to the lower half of his body.
"We are extremely proud of the actions taken by Officers Abel and Marino," Police Chief Paul Schnell said in a Monday statement. "Had these officers not selflessly and heroically responded, the occupant ... would have certainly died."
A citizen will also be honored at the council meeting for rendering aid to Christmas.
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Skip to comments.We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint [PowerPoint makes us stupid, Gen. James N. Mattis...]
Posted on 04/27/2010 7:51:04 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint By ELISABETH BUMILLER
WASHINGTON Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.
When we understand that slide, well have won the war, General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.
The slide has since bounced around the Internet as an example of a military tool that has spun out of control. Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
PowerPoint makes us stupid, Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
Its dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control, General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"Powerpoint is Evil" by Edward Tufte
If anyone understands the visual display of information, it's Tufte.
PowerPoint is an effective tool if used properly.
The problem is, most don't.
I use programs that turn Powerpoints to DVD's. People love them!
We used to call it "Death by PowerPoint" in the Navy and that was 5 years ago. I imagine it's gotten horrible.
Have you ever seen Tufte brief? I haven't but I've heard that he uses OTHER tools the same as one might use PowerPoint. So I'd remind folks... that guns don't kill, people do.
This is precisely the same thought process which leads to the false conclusion that guns are evil.
PowerPoint is a tool. Before PP, it was an overhead projector, or a chalkboard, or a big pad of paper on an easel. None of those tools "make us stupid."
Place the blame where it belongs. The creator of bad PowerPoint presentations may deserve criticism, derision or maybe just better training and instruction on making good presentations.
Neither Microsoft nor that particular installation of PowerPoint created the hated "spaghetti bowl" slide. It was a person. And people are responsible for their actions. Their tools are not.
It's a bit disturbing to me that some of our top commanders are ready to blame the tool for a poor result rather than its user.
You win wars by making the other poor dumb son-of-a-bitch do PowerPoint slides for his country.
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True dat. I fell in love with Keynote years ago. Thankfully I can export my slick slides to Powerpoint and tell everyone I made them in Powerpoint while they scratch their heads and hang their jaws in awe. ;)
PowerPoint is a lot like PBS and talk radio.
2 minutes of information stretched into an hour show.
I HATE Powerpoint, but I am forced to teach it AUGH!!!!!!
Most Flag Officers know when the briefer is covering for lack of knowledge.
PP is an excellent tool to help the briefer remember to brief the bulleted points. It's an aid for the briefer, that's all.
When you have nothing to say.....say it with Power Point!
Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki had to endure too many inept PPT presentations so he came up with his 10-20-30 rule: 10 slides in 20 minutes using 30 point fonts.
Link to his blog post: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html#axzz0mJYpUUpX
How many people speak meaningless words, or write them? Shall we ridicule speech or writing for their foolishness?
The problem, as always, is people.
I agree with him. Instead of being an effective tool; people are using it to create illusions and dumb from school children to us down.
Commander s LOVE slides. In the day we used basic overhead projectors and commanders couldn't get enough slides. They use PowerPoint today and the abuses of superficial information has grown.
I view Power Point as the notes I would take (and hope you would take) if I were viewing that presentation.... nothing more
That way you audience in engaged with you and not busy taking notes...
And that also why you give them a printed copy before you start, so that can make their own additional notes on the slides
I view Power Point as the notes I would take (and hope you would take) if I were viewing that presentation.... nothing more
That way you audience in engaged with you and not busy taking notes...
And that also why you give them a printed copy before you start, so that can make their own additional notes on the slides
Or even simpler...Power Point is what you would put on the chalk board or white board
Specifically mentioned in the Columbia report is a PowerPoint slide used by the Engineers briefing the foam strike. Due to the amount of information and the poor presentation it minimized the potential danger. Also, in the report, NASA provided what were supoosed to be "engineering reports" in a PP format to the investigating board, absent any data and actual scientific method. Used correctly I guess it can be effective, I just need someone to tell me what "correctly" is. (IMHO)
Interesting for a general to say, Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable. Bring in the heavy artillery?
I have to agree. The skills of presentation, particularly in the text area, have really deteriorated over the years.
I don't hate Powerpoint but I do use it sparingly.
I second that. Tufte does a traveling one-day seminar that I attended a few years back, and he packed the hall.
He did a brisk business selling his wares to his nerd groupies, such as myself. He autographed my copy of Minard's graphic of Napoleon's losses during the Russian campaign of 1812.
Same goes for word, excel, and a lot of others. Too many people use these programs to compose documents that at first glance look sharp, but contain little real information. This is because most people get distracted by the formatting and neglect the writing. In most cases more information could be conveyed if people used just a text editor with a fixed width font and ascii graphics.
OK, that was funny.
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are you short's going to get a clue.This is only my opinion mind you!!!
Just kick back and enjoy ! These short's want us long's to sell and keep bringing the price down..Not going to happen. Yes, I have taken a BIT of a hit...hardley on my radar at this point...
Anytime $56 - watch in level 2 how fund managers are loading... green today?
I bought just a tad at $55.85.I just can't help myself..GLTA...
How you longs are doing ? lol
This will rock tomorrow to $60... watch out
CEO on Cramer tonight
52 week low.. this will shoot up like FSLR did y'day.. short covering tomorrow!!
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Asturias was the first stop. Nicknamed the "Natural Paradise" and were are blown with its magnificent landscapes and natural resources that both potentiate tourism.
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WALLINGFORD — Vermont State Police said they are looking for a man who used threats to rob a convenience store on Main Street on Friday afternoon.
Two clerks at the store told police that a man entered the Cumberland Farms store at 5:30 p.m. and waited in line at the counter to demand money from the register.
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Nice post.
I just read an article where minny wants to trade down. They like Mayo for his star power but Mayo has declined all workouts with them.
They have their eyes set on gallinari soooooooooooooooooooo here's the speculation.
Lee and #6 for #3
With the Draft officially about a week away, what are your FINAL thoughts for what we have to do involving the pick?
Personally I think we should first try to get a top 3 pick. I think it's possible. It just depends on who we have to give up. But of course taking back huge contracts might stop that from happening. With the 3rd pick, we'd of course take Mayo and that could be the start of something good in the long run.
We could also just stay at 6th and see who's the best available, but that must be after we've exhausted all possibilities already in getting a top 3 pick.
I wouldn't mind trading down if it will involve taking expiring contracts or a young player with the caliber of Josh Smith or someone similar.
Lastly I'd just like to say that I'm not that all excited about this 2010 run at Lebron James. I mean ya we could save expiring contracts for 2010 and all the marquee players that will be available then, but I just don't know why we're counting too much on that. For one thing I'm not a fan of one superstar running the show. I'd rather we had several young guys this coming season and stick with them for maybe 2 years then acquire proven veterans (not necessarily All Stars) to complement them once we're back in our winning ways.
Start fresh under new management! We don't need any more unproven veterans! Go for youth!
Nice post.
I just read an article where minny wants to trade down. They like Mayo for his star power but Mayo has declined all workouts with them.
They have their eyes set on gallinari soooooooooooooooooooo here's the speculation.
Lee and #6 for #3
Where there is hope, there can be faith
Where there is faith, miracles can occur
i would love to trade up and take Mayo but if we can't he could still be there if minny doesn't take him if he's off the board and we're at 6 then Westbrook is the way we should go then we could trade for a later first rounder and take a big
but first option is going for #3 so we could assure ourselves we take Mayo
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
Just think if we don't go on that damn three game win steak late last season we would've had the same record as Minny and even if we lost the tie breaker to them we would have a shot at Bayless.
Anyways do you think Minny takes Eddy Curry in such a proposal? Eddy and the Number 6 for Number 3 and Antione Walker (team option after next season).
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
Ya know i would love to move up to 3 to have the option to take Mayo but with the contract situation of Curry and Randolph i don't see that being a possibility. I would be happy to sit and 6 and see who falls to us, there are some great players in this draft. Would love to move Curry though...
This draft is really deep and we have to remember that we're going to get a good player regardless.
Minnesota loves Galinari and Love...that gives us a chance to trade up and get Mayo.
I also want Augustin if we could somehow get him, but i'll be happy with.
If we do get Mayo, we have to trade Crawford, Curry and Randolph right away. This is the most losingest trio in NBA history. They're garbage and they will give Mayo cancer. Mayo should be surrounded by a better locker room.
Trade those guys for anything that is an expiring contract, cheaper contract, or a draft pick. Thats the direction we have to go.
Westbrook won't be a starter right away in the NBA; he's Keyon Dooling.
Gordon is one dimensional.
Lopez will be good, nothing great.
Randolph doesn't fight for rebounds as he should; that scares me.
i think they should trade randolph and number 6 for the number 1 or 2 pick i dont think thats a bad trade either was
I think we should trade Curry, Steph and richardson 2 chi town for the#1 pick and Joakhim Noah. Then trade Randolph and Crawford (or the #6 pick) (preferrably Crawford) 2 Miami 4 the #2 pick Then we get D-Rose Michael Beastley and Mayo. We are set 4 the future and Chandler also gets his time 2 shine. We then have a defencive hustling running team for years 2 come.
Our starting Lineup:
PG-D Rose
SG-O.J Mayo
SF-W Chandler
PF-M Beastley
C-Joakhim Noah
This would be the best team D'antoni could ever have 4 his system
LMAO your freaking dreaming buddy never gunna happen ever...
anyway mayo is nice but i really think we should focus on a point guard... i like staying at number 6 not trading up
if mayo falls to us great if not westbrook is the way to go
he will be better than keyon dooling like mentioned before
he is more athletic stronger and mentioned as the best perimeter defender in the draft
point gurads rule the NBA these days so i htink we should rebuild around a pg and westbrook could develope into a star one day and change the mindset of this team
i then think that instead of trading up we should trade for a second pick later on
players like alexander will be available at 8 randolph from somewhere between 10 and 12
possibly lopez, jordan, mcgee, speights,
this would give us a pg to build around and a promising player in alexander or randolph or a talented big man in lopez jordan mcgee or speights
Forget about trading up. If you had a top pick (1-3) would you trade it for Zach Randolph or Jamal Crawford? Didn't think so. What we get is what we get. Hopefully we can draft the point guard or a shot blocker.


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In the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003, conspiracy theories - many suggesting Jewish or Israeli involvement in the shuttle's demise, or invoking other forms of bigotry - surfaced on the Internet in chat rooms, bulletin boards and Web sites, some of which are frequented by anti-Semites, Israel bashers and Holocaust deniers.
Some of the theories focused on Israeli crew member Col. Ilan Ramon, implying that his ethnicity and the fact that he participated, as an Israeli Air Force pilot, in the 1981 bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor, were evidence of Jewish or Israeli complicity in the disaster.
One theory put forth the idea that wreckage from the Columbia fell on Palestine, Texas, as "Divine intervention; leaders of Palestinian terror groups called the shuttle accident "punishment from Allah." Those who minimize or deny the Holocaust noted that Ramon was the son of Holocaust survivors and argued that his role in the mission was to "spy" for Israel. Other theories focused on the role Col. Ramon had performed while on the mission.
Coming at a time of great tragedy for both the American and Israeli people, the conspiracy theories about the space shuttle show how the Internet continues to be used to spread misinformation and bigotry, and how some are quick to use a national tragedy for their own purposes.
The Anti-Defamation League has compiled numerous examples of the conspiracy theories about the demise of Columbia. The theories demonstrate that, even in times of tragedy and sadness, those who weave conspiracies involving Jews and Israel are hard at work.
The Conspiracies Begin to Coalesce
Less than an hour after the shuttle accident, on a far-right conspiracy site, a poster asked:
So......is it even remotely possible that either the US or the Israeli government is responsible for blowing up the shuttle this morning? No matter what happened, it's a tragedy, but it's interesting to note that it was the one time we happened to have an Israeli astronaut aboard. -
from a right-wing conspiracy email list,
A report circulated by conspiracist Alex Jones claimed the shuttle disaster was a "textbook psychological warfare operation," a "mass distraction/mass unifier" that was part of a plan the US government had laid out in the 1960s known as the "Northwoods" plan. This document included the assertion that the Joint Chiefs had proposed blaming Cuba if any problems arose with the 1962 launch of John Glenn.
Jones noted that he had proclaimed three weeks prior, "that there was a very good chance that the globalists would do something horrible concerning the latest Colombia mission." He went on to say,
"Understand, the psychological warfare technicians do not even need to publicly blame Iraq for the Columbia disaster. It will serve as a distraction in the global press during the final weeks of war preparation in the gulf. It will serve the dual purpose of unifying the country behind President Bush as he grandstands."
The other reasons why the disaster had to have been planned, according to Jones, was that,
"This is the first Israeli in space -- the fact that he died on board is given twice as much attention than the other six are getting combined. This is being used as a type of tribal bonding mechanism for the coming war for empire in the Middle East. "Our champion warriors died with your champion warriors..." -
Jones's Web site,
One online posting in a conspiracy-oriented site noted,
"There is some chortling occuring [sic] in the anti-semitic [sic] community. I have seen the following comment: "As 'satan [sic] was cast down to the earth', so shall his kids be here & NEVER allowed to return to the Heavens!" We-ell, I don't know. I suppose that in the spirit of objective scientific experimentation, we ought to launch another Jew into space as soon as possible to, hopefully, dispell [sic] such a notion. Whether we should limit the proposed shuttle crew exclusively to Jews, (to limit possible collateral damage) is subject to one's biases/apprehensions." -
from a right-wing conspiracy email list,
Holocaust Deniers Hold Out On the Disaster
The fact that Ilan Ramon's parents had survived the Holocaust, and that he took items related to the Holocaust drew the attention of Holocaust deniers.
Michael A. Hoffman II, a Holocaust denier, wrote on February 1 asking if the shuttle disaster was "The Hand of God?", -
The Hoffman Wire,
The next day Hoffman wrote:
And thus a legend is born, Ilan Ramon, patron saint of astronauts and that lofty class of congenital sufferers, the Children of Holocaust Survivors. To this pious category must be added another in the taxonomy of victimhood, the Survivors of Dead Zionist Astronauts. Prior to Ramon there was Resnick, one of seven astronauts killed in the January 28, 1986 Challenger shuttle explosion.
[�]Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. Symbolism and happenstance are His as well, and of a far higher and more sublime type than anything the Cryptocracy can ape. A few people will glimpse the awful truth at the core of the explosion, while the majority will sink deeper into the inhibiting awe and petrifying idolatry that characterizes American subservience toward all things Israeli, Zionist and Judaic. But God is not mocked. Dare we say it? In this case, He would appear to be the mocker. -
The Hoffman Wire, 2/2
Ingrid Rimland, wife of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel and owner/operator of Zundel's Holocaust denial site, wrote in her frequent email newsletter the day of the disaster, "Meanwhile, the 'synchronicity' is interesting:
The debris of the space shuttle Columbia, with Israeli astronaut Col. Ramon on board, has rained down in the vicinity of Palestine, Texas. Ramon was a hero in Israel, and reported to have carried with him Holocaust literature into outer space (as the 'son and grandson of Holocaust survivors'). But a few weeks ago, a German citizen buzzed downtown Frankfurt, Germany, with a small plane, to draw attention to Jewish-American astronaut Judith Resnick, who had died in the January 1986 Challenger disaster. As I write, the CNN reports are tending to focus on the person of Israeli astronaut, Col. Ramon, when it comes to the matter of profiling members of the crew. Indeed, the female reporter reporting from Israel apologized at one point for having said the word 'spy' when she intended to say 'space'." -
Z-Gram, a Holocaust denial email list,
World Reactions
Although the majority of countries and religious leaders worldwide expressed their shock and horror at the disaster, anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli sermons about the shuttle disaster were preached in Iraq and by radical Islamist leaders across the world. The anti-American and anti-Israeli diatribes were also printed in newspaper columns in the Middle East.
Dr. Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Rantisi, a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, posted to the Hamas Web site: "... The explosion of the shuttle Columbia is, it is reasonable to assume, part of the divine punishment of America and, together with it, Zionism - because of their massacres of Muslims, the destruction of their lives, the humiliation of their honor, and their desire to globalize corruption..." -
Hamas Web site, 2/2 (translation by MEMRI)
In an article titled "Ramon Can Go to Hell," Hamed Salamin, a columnist for the UAE daily Al-Bayan, wrote:
An atmosphere of sadness and shock overcame the Israelis two days ago when NASA announced [Ramon's] death� This is enough to arouse joy in every heart that beats Arabism and Islam. [�] Perhaps the sight of the Columbia shuttle's crashing in the town of Palestine, Texas reminds the Israeli people of the daily tragedy of the Palestinians - of the sorrow, the blood, and the massacres that the army of the [Zionist] entity carries out on the occupied lands. But it would not appear that the vast majority of Israelis have feelings for others� The
disaster is a loss to all, even though emotions are conflicting. Sincerest condolences to the American people and to the families of the six American astronauts, and Ramon should go to hell. There is no sorrow for him whatsoever. -
Abu Hamza Al-Masri, an Islamic fundamentalist leader living in London, told the London Arabic-language daily
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat:
It is a punishment from Allah - this is how Muslims see the incident. The target of this event was the trinity of evil, as the shuttle carried Americans, an Israeli, and a Hindu, the trinity of evil against Islam. This is a message to the American people that Bush's term is nothing but a string of curses cast upon them, and that it will lead to the exhaustion of their resources and the elimination of the false American dream... This is a divine message to the Israelis, saying that they are not welcome in space. - Al-Sharq
Al-Awsat (London), 2/4 (translation by MEMRI)
Other Reactions on the Disaster
Anti-homosexual activist Fred Phelps produced a flier that claimed, "The 7 Are In Hell," where he stated, "God's Arm hurled Columbia in fragments to the ground, and hurled the 7 fools into the everlasting fires of Hell - in wrath and vengeance, laughing, mocking and deriding this nation of fags." -
Phelp's Web site
, 2/2
Richard Barrett, of the Nationalist movement, blamed diversity as the cause of the crash. He stated,
Diversity = Death.
Once again, the same fate has befallen the latest "diverse" mission into space as befell the
in 1986.
, whose seven-member crew contained only three American men, blew up upon re-entry from a sixteen-day mission. All on-board, dubbed "Diversonauts" by columnist Mark Siporen, were killed. The seven-member crew of
had included only three American men, as well, together with one Negro, one Jewish woman, one American woman and a Chinaman. Aboard
were a Jewish man, an Indian woman, an American woman and a Negro. "What an insult to Christopher Columbus, who established civilization in the New World," said Wendell Gardner," to have named such a motley crew, including even an Indian, after him."
[�] The demise of
, however, prompted NASA to retrench to banning all but Neil-Armstrong types from space-flight. The plan held and success returned to space-exploration, until "affirmative-action" began to creep back in, culminating in the latest explosion. "Diversity," actually, had returned not only to the cockpit, but to the ground crew, as more and more Negroes and aliens, some even from foreign countries, were forced back into the space program. -
Barrett's Web site,
Speculation about Ramon's Activities
Only a few days after the disaster, the experiments Ramon had conducted while in orbit were focused upon by conspiracists.
The belief that this mission was part of a plan to develop technologies that could spy on Iraq's secret programs to develop weapons of mass destruction was put forth by Yoichi Clark Shimatsu, who is noted as a Hong Kong-based journalist and former general editor of The Japan Times Weekly in Tokyo. He wrote an article that was reposted in numerous online forums detailing his suspicions that Ramon's camera was designed to give information on Iraqi weapons programs and was powered by nuclear material. He wrote,
The computer-controlled cameras were pointed earthward to detect desert dust and "pollution aerosols . . . to provide scientific information about atmospheric aerosols and the influence of global changes on the climate." The data was directly transmitted to Tel Aviv University and, according to investigative journalist Gordon Thomas, on to the Israeli Biological Institute, the hub of Israel's nerve-gas and bioweapons programs. [�]
To eliminate the risk of a power shutdown to the other experiments and the spaceship itself, a multi-spectral telescope requires an independent source of power, and the obvious solution is nuclear power. [�]
How then can the Bush and Sharon administrations win public support for space-based weapons? A cynical solution is to make martyrs of an Israeli-American space shuttle crew. Show them to be victims of outmoded technology and, more important, obsolete thinking in NASA and in Congress about keeping space free of nuclear power and potential war-making technologies. Is it conceivable that an American president would deliberately sabotage the Columbia? If his agenda is to affect a shift of NASA from a hybrid civilian-military space agency to an arm of the Pentagon's ballistic missile defense program, then no sacrifice could be too great - especially if Ilan Ramon's telescope had failed to detect any smoking guns over Iraq. As for the Israeli leader, it must be recalled that the Likud movement is built on the cult of martyrdom - from ancient Masada and the Warsaw ghetto to the Irgun fighters killed in fratricidal violence by Haganah militiamen at the birth of Israel, from Yonathan Netanyahu's demise in Entebbe to - now - the death of Colonel Ilan Ramon, nonchalant bomber of Iraq's nuclear plant repackaged as a hero of science.
The Laissez Faire Electronic Times,
Vol 2, No 7, February 17
Conspiracy theorist and sensationalizing author Gordon Thomas, noted in Shimatsu's article as a source, published a piece with the headline, "Israel's Shuttle Astronaut Was On a Secret Mission on Columbia." He wrote,
Astronaut Ilon Ramon was conducting secret experiments on the Columbia to discover new ways to beat Saddam's threat to use biological and chemical weapons against Israel. For most of his 16 days on board the Columbia, he had been using cameras linked directly to the Israeli Space Agency to study desert dust and wind-drifts emanating from the deserts of Iraq. The information was fed to the Institute for Biological Research - the ultra-secret establishment that is at the cutting edge of Israel's multi-layered defence system. The Institute's scientists constantly study how contaminants can drift into Israel from Iraq.
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Prof. Albrecht Peiper of the University Children's Clinic of the Charité, Berlin, has been named director of the Children's Hospital of Barmen.Dr. Herman Zischinsky has been named director of the Infectious Pavilion of the Wilhelminen Hospital in Vienna to replace Dr. Pospischill, deceased.Dr. Oscar M. Schloss has resumed private practice on his resignation as professor of pediatrics at the Cornell University Medical School and as pediatrician-in-chief of the New York Hospital. He is to remain with the medical school as professor of clinical pediatrics and with the hospital as attending pediatrician. He also will continue his research work at the hospital. Dr. Samuel Z. Levine, now associate professor and attending pediatrician, has been appointed acting pediatrician-in-chief and acting professor of pediatrics.
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The actor was spotted in costume on the Atlanta, Georgia, set of his first film since the deadly 2014 traffic accident that left him hospitalized in critical condition.
The comedy Fist Fight will feature Morgan, 46, as a high school staff member alongside Charlie Day as an English teacher who accidentally crosses a colleague played by Ice Cube. The rapper's menacing character subsequently challenges Day's mild-mannered Andy to a schoolyard brawl.
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It's been 25 years since Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd appeared in Back to the Future Part III, the final film in the trilogy, but now fans get to look forward to the actors returning to the roles of Marty McFly and Doc Brown.
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You might feel more loyal to your family members today which could make it easier for you to give them your complete support. Being there for the people with whom you share ties in the deepest way can not only show the level of your commitment to them but it can also serve to strengthen the bonds of love that connect you. Perhaps as you listen to the problems, issues, wants or needs of your loved ones today you can imagine your heart opening up to the unconditional love that flows both through you and them, allowing this form of love to stream freely through your body, enveloping your entire being. Picturing yourself full of this love might make it easier to encourage those closest to you absolutely – without any desire for recognition or praise – and you may notice that you are much more able to remain fully present to them as well.
The help that we give others is much more powerful and pure when it comes without attachments to any other needs. There are many times when we care for other people, particularly our loved ones, and think that we are giving freely, but actually hope for something in return. Tapping into the wellspring of unconditional love that exists in the universe and channeling it to the people in our lives, however, lets our support come truly from the heart. By calling forth universal love into your heart, you will be able to nurture others fully today.
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The Colors from Summer Keep me Happy
The colors from summer keep me happy in Portland's gray winter. I know we are not quite to winter rains yet, but I'm admiring my fresh, bright color schemes from my 2014 card designs. What makes you happy?
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30 September 2014
Keeping My Gaze High
It's been a rough year but I'm keeping my gaze high
Trusting you when I don't know why
I'm keeping my gaze high
On you when my feet are sinking along with my heart
I'm keeping you my focus; you're my start
I'm keeping my gaze high
When I'm losing my grip and my body sighs
I'm keeping my gaze high
When I lose my breath and can't keeping going
I'm keeping my gaze high
When the world stops and there is no breathing
I'm keeping my gaze high
When dark days surround me like a hollow cave
I'm keeping my gaze high
Your love falls on me and brings me home
I'm keeping my gaze high
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29 May 2014
DIY Curbside Dresser
One day on the way home from our co-op preschool, I found this cute dresser (see post below) with a free sign on it. I did a quick U-turn and shoved it in my car. Thankfully, I was only a block away to my destination. I saw so much potential in this piece and was super stoked to find free furniture. I knew all it needed was some fresh paint and new knobs. So, here's what I came up with. I'm so happy with it! It turned out better than I imagined it. One man's treasure is truly another one's treasure.
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11 May 2014
Wow. These first two weeks of May have been so righteous. My sister came to visit with her youngest, Gracie. I needed a family visit. I needed to just be with her. That's exactly what we did. It was extraordinarily sunny, so we soaked up the sun and each other's words. She connected with Teddy. I connected with Gracie. It blessed me beyond belief just to have her company.
Steve and I are trying to be more intentional about family time on the weekends. It's so easy to fall into a mode of being productive that we are usually dividing and conquering. We are trying to let go of that American need to produce and to embrace a more focused way of living...a calmer way. We've been making it a point to have a family outing each weekend, whether that's a hike in the gorge or neighborhood fair or a bike ride. We need to be present as a whole.
Found this cool side table / dresser on the side of the road. Portlander blessings! Seriously, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I'm going to fix it up and post it here.
Also, Steve put together the most amazing flowers in the world for me. He really blessed me this Mother's Day. Now, I'm feeling a little guilty...like his Father's day better be goooooood or else. He he. But seriously, he really cherished me today and totally served me. Love him.
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10 April 2014
Weekly Snapshots
Just a few snapshots from our week. I've been so bad about posting, but thought it might be nice to document our weeks in photos. We've been sick a lot this year. The blog is definitely on the back burner. :(
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05 February 2014
New Designs in My Etsy Shop
I'm excited to tell you that I recently added a few new card designs to my Etsy shop as well as two new prints. I'm in love with pastels paired with Kraft envelopes lately, and hope you enjoy my new cuties. It's my hope that my customers will use these cards to uplift and encourage those around them. I love snail mail, and it really brightens my day when I receive a handwritten note from a friend. Seriously, it MAKES MY DAY! Hope you make someone's day soon!! And, if you want to do that with my designs, I won't stop you. ;)
There's one I'm really loving for Valentine's Day that is not pictured above. Go check it out!
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28 January 2014
Weekend Wrap Up
We started our weekend off right with a hike in the Gorge. Latrouell Falls is so beautiful, and it's literally a 30 minute drive from our house. When we arrived, a park ranger gave Steve a pin and a temporary tattoo for Teddy. I thought he handed him a year round camping pass the way Steve reacted!
Being in nature totally makes me put all of life into perspective. It reminds me how small I am, how grand the earth is and how magnificent the Intelligent Designer is as well.
Teddy and Steve love playing together, and it's amazing to see how much that boy loves his papa. Steve will wrap him up in a blanket and fly him around the house. He will get down on the ground, and let Teddy climb and crawl all over him. These guys are two peas in a pod.
We finished up the weekend with some basketball and park time with Teddy, some yard work while T napped and just some quality family time.
Our Sunday was restful until 10:30 that night when Teddy woke up with croup. It was really scary to hear his seal-like cough, but I was thankful for a friend who is a night owl and a nurse so I quickly reached out to her for advice. Baby boy is on the mend, but is teething and throwing toddler fits in the process. So this week already feels so long, but that's just the reality of motherhood. It's not always just shits and giggles.
How was your weekend?
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Simple Definition of soprano
: relating to the highest female singing voice or the highest voice part in a singing group
: having a high sound range
Origin and Etymology of soprano
Italian, adjective & noun, from sopra above, from Latin supra — more at supra-
First Known Use: 1730
Simple Definition of soprano
: the highest voice part in a singing group
: the highest female singing voice or a person with this voice
Full Definition of sopranoplural
1 : the highest singing voice of women or boys and formerly of castrati; also : a person having this voice
2 : the highest voice part in a 4-part chorus
3 : a member of a family of instruments having the highest range
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She sings in a high soprano.
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a. If helium gas is added to the system without changing the pressure or the temperature, the volume of the container must necessarily be increased. This will decrease the partial pressures of all the reactants and products. A pressure decrease will favor the reaction that increases the number of moles of gas. The position of equilibrium will shift to the left.


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Pay the Meter and You'll Still Get Towed at This Private Miami Beach Lot
Private lot meter is the same as the ones used at city lots.
There's a new twist to the ol' South Beach towing racket. At 17th Street and Lennox Avenue, just north of Lincoln Road, there's a parking lot that looks identical to scores of other nearby city-run lots. To pay, there's an electronic meter, just like all the city meters scattered around.
But here's the catch: The lot is privately owned, and if you pay in a nearby city meter instead of the one machine in the lot, Tremont Towing trucks are ready to pounce.
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The setup has led to scores of complaints and action by the city, which recently forced the owners to post more visible signs. "We had a rash of folks coming in [to complain]," Miami Beach Parking Director Saul Frances says.
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The changes haven't been enough, though, critics say. Take the case of Kris Conesa, a freelance journalist (and, full disclosure, former New Times staffer). Just before 3:30 p.m. on a Saturday during the height of Miami Music Week, Conesa eased his black Mercedes-Benz CLK 350 into the lot. Noticing a line of people waiting to pay at the lot's only meter, Conesa skipped across the street and paid at another machine.
He placed his ticket, which would expire at 5:13 p.m., on the dashboard and headed to Dylan's Candy Bar on Lincoln Road, where he and his girlfriend shared Slush Puppies. When he returned, his ride was gone. Tremont had towed the Benz less than an hour after he parked it and charged him $241 to get it back. Conesa says the lot's two signs are barely visible.
"These charlatans have a machine that looks exactly like the city's meters just across the way," Conesa says. "They could have an attendant there to differentiate the two, but instead choose to perpetrate as a public lot in an effort to confuse motorists and line their pockets."
Lot owners Andrew Mirmelli and Solomon Mayberg did not respond to two messages left on their cell phones seeking comment. But a Tremont manager, who identified himself only as Chris, says it is Conesa's fault for not reading the lot's signs more carefully. "That's what the signs are there for," he adds, "to point people to the right meter."
Banana Republican checked out the lot, and it's easy to overlook the signs. One is a green metal square nailed to a tree trunk. The other is white with busy red type that's obscured when there's a crowd waiting to pay the meter.
Frances had Tremont change the signage just two weeks ago to make the type more legible, and says he's had only two complaints since then. He says he's powerless to do more to help parkers.
"It's a free-enterprise issue," he explains. "They don't have to honor parking tickets purchased from a city-operated meter. We feel badly about it."
Free enterprise or not, Conesa complains the city is helping the tow firm entrap drivers. "They have gone out of their way to fool unwitting drivers to park their cars there," he grouses. "It is an outright scam."
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Constraint algorithm for k-presymplectic hamiltonian systems: application to singular field theories
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Date issued2009-08-01
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The k-symplectic formulation of field theories is specially simple, since only tangent and cotangent bundles are needed in its description. Its defining elements show a close relationship with those in the symplectic formulation of mechanics. It will be shown that this relationship also stands in the presymplectic case. In a natural way, one can mimick the presymplectic constraint algorithm to obtain a constraint algorithm that can be applied to k-presymplectic field theory, and more particularly to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of field theories defined by a singular Lagrangian, as well as to the unified Lagrangian–Hamiltonian formalism (Skinner–Rusk formalism) for k-presymplectic field theory. Two examples of application of the algorithm are also analyzed.
CitationGràcia Sabaté, Xavier; Martín Grillo, Rubén; Román Roy, Narciso. Constraint algorithm for k-presymplectic hamiltonian systems: application to singular field theories. "International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics", 1 Agost 2009, vol. 6, núm. 5, p. 851-872.
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Interest in quality measurement of physician performance is increasing.1 Patients seek ways to identify superior and inferior clinicians,2 and moves by health insurers and other purchasers toward "pay for performance" incentive systems are increasing demand for ways to identify and reward excellent or improving clinicians.3 One way to evaluate physician quality is through physician clinical performance assessment (PCPA), defined as "the quantitative assessment of physician performance based on the rates at which their patients experience certain outcomes of care and/or the rates at which physicians adhere to evidence-based processes of care."1 Physician clinical performance assessment programs have been developed by payers, physician professional organizations, and consumer advocacy groups. At the national level, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Quality Forum have also been active in fostering such initiatives.4
Although the measures for the Tufts Health Plan Physician Group and the MHQP Physician Network Quality Report currently aggregate physicians at the practice level, they are evaluated in the context of this chart as if they were extended to the individual physician. ADA indicates American Diabetes Association; CABG, coronary artery bypass graft; and MHQP, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.
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text: The word sustainability is often used vaguely, and with so many murky definitions, it can be hard knowing what's really intended. Here is what sustainability means to us here at Bee Thinking. It's paramount that in our work of crafting hives that we aren't causing harm to forests while helping bees, and we know our customers feel the same way. We take concrete steps to source wood that is FSC certified and responsibly grown and harvested, and now we are the first hive producer to become FSC certified. Our passion for bees is as immense as is our concern for the environment and nature. That's why we source wood that won't harm our forests. Here are just some of the... Continue Reading →