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On a recent Monday, the septuagenarian rock guitarist Wanda Jackson had just returned home from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, to which she was inducted in 2009. The occasion was the opening of "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power," the institution's massive and sweeping new exhibition dedicated to female architects of American rock 'n' roll.
At the opening concert, Jackson was a headlining performer, along with Darlene Love, Mavis Staples and Cyndi Lauper, the latter of whom she met there for the first time.
"When she was coming out, I was still in the ministry and performing gospel music," said Jackson, who performs at Tipitina's Sunday night. "I heard about her, but I didn't really know. But the show she put on for us was fabulous, and I couldn't help but be flattered when Cyndi shook my hand and said, 'Thank you for all you've done for women in this business.' "
The "Women Who Rock" exhibit, which occupies two floors of the museum, spotlights more than 70 artists, from trailblazing influences in early blues and country to the Riot Grrl movement and beyond. Several of those performed at the opening, and more attended.
"It was just beautiful to see all the women they had inducted," Jackson said. "All us gals had a lot in common. Darlene, Mavis, Cyndi and me – we had a very good camaraderie there."
When Jackson began playing guitar and singing rock 'n' roll as a teenager in the mid-1950s, such a ladies' night was unthinkable. Jackson started out playing guitar and singing country music while still a high school student in Oklahoma. Early in her career, she met Elvis Presley; she dated him briefly, but more importantly, he was a friend and music-business compatriot who encouraged her to branch out into a new style of music that was working rather well for him.
"They didn't even have a name for it then," she said. "It was just Elvis' kind of music, or Jerry Lee's kind of music." Once Jackson ventured into rock 'n' roll, her signature sound emerged: upbeat and swinging rockabilly guitar supercharged with her unmistakable voice, a little hint of a growl and a big promise of fun. Songs such as "Fujiyama Mama" and "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad" proved she played just as hard as the boys.
Jackson's life as a rocker on the road sounds as tame as it could be — her mother sewed her stage clothes ("I always looked feminine," Jackson said. "I didn't want to look rough and tough"), and her father managed the business side of things until her husband took over in 1960.
"I was playing two weeks in Las Vegas, and we were apart," she said. "We said, this isn't going to work. I offered to quit and be a housewife — I didn't want to, but I offered. But he said no, my parents and I had worked too hard to quit. It didn't take him but a couple of years and he knew the business inside out."
As the country struggled to accept rock 'n' roll, Jackson's career hit a brief plateau in the late '50s. Elvis was enough of a threatening anomaly — would people accept this wild new style from a woman?
"We didn't think it was rebellious. We thought it was happy teenage music," she said. "But they sure weren't gonna accept a teenage girl standing toe-to-toe with the guys singing this kind of material."
Then, in 1960, Capitol Records re-released her "Let's Have a Party" as a single. The electric, joy-infused rocker made it onto the charts and established her as a formidable voice. In the 50 years since, she hasn't slowed down, whether performing gospel in the '70s, working the European festival circuit in the '80s or touring with alt-country guitarist Rosie Flores in the '90s.
Earlier this year, Jackson released "The Party Ain't Over," a well-received, Jack White-produced collection of innovative classic and contemporary covers (she takes on Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" as well as Jimmie Rodgers' "Blue Yodel No. 6"). It hit No. 17 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart.
Jackson performs Sunday night at Tipitina's with opening act Holly Golightly, a cult figure in her own right. The British-born, Georgia-based guitar slinger got her start playing garage-rock in cult impresario Billy Childish's rough-edged girl group Thee Headcoatees in the '90s. She also has worked extensively with Jack White. Her latest album, "No Help Coming," came out early this year.
Both women deliver countrified rock 'n' roll and blues — Golightly with a smart, witty, often spooky edge, and Jackson with veteran skill and still-smoldering fire. Two generations apart, both women inarguably rock.
"You know, when you're a teenager, you don't put a lot of thought into being 70 years old," she said. "At the time, I was doing what I loved and had married the guy of my dreams. I was in hog heaven. And to still be going and still enjoying it, to have your career at a peak it's never been at before, in your 70s, it's an exciting ride."
Wanda Jackson with Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs
What: Rockabilly pioneer paired with underground country-blues-garage legend.
When: Sunday, May 22, 8 p.m.
Where: Tipitina's, 501 Napoleon Ave., 504.895.8477.
Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 at the door.
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The purpose of a "Freedom of Religion" constitutional amendment that appears almost certain to be presented to the voters in the fall of next year is impossible to divine.
All we know for sure is that its purpose is not what its sponsors claim. This should come as no surprise, since the Christian right is known to favor what might most politely be termed the oblique approach when pushing legislation.
Last year, for instance, the Louisiana Family Forum and kindred spirits managed to look positively angelic when vowing that they were not trying to promote any religious doctrine. Next thing you knew, Genesis was on the science syllabus.
Now the Forum is back in support of a constitutional amendment written in response to the religious persecution that has roiled the Republic in recent years.
Wait a minute. I hadn't heard about that. Have National Guardsmen been sent in to ransack synagogues, or have local councils passed ordinances to run Catholics out of town?
The Forum et al have been unable to cite any examples of tyranny. Still, voters will hardly think twice about approving an amendment headed "Freedom of Religion." That concept is as American as apple pie. Well, more American, in fact, since religious freedom gets pride of place in the First Amendment, while the Constitution takes no position on diet.
The Establishment Clause and the clause that follows it are parroted by the state Constitution and have generally been regarded as adequate to safeguard the liberties of the devout. But a bill calling for even greater latitude has sailed through the House and a Senate committee.
The rationale for it goes thus. The First Amendment was indeed an adequate safeguard when it was grafted onto the state Constitution, but the U.S. Supreme Court later set about eroding religious liberties. The final straw came in 1990, when the court ruled that the First Amendment could not prevent Oregon from denying unemployment benefits to two Indians fired because they smoked peyote as part of a religious rite.
Congress responded with an act that says government cannot "substantially burden" the "exercise of religion" unless it can demonstrate that it is employing the "least restrictive means" available of furthering a "compelling interest."
All we want to do, proponents of amending the state Constitution have testified at committee hearings, is to ensure that Louisiana law provides the protections spelled out in the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which Congress passed in 1993 to rein in a meddlesome Supreme Court.
There is a distinct odor of false witness about that claim, for this amendment is more about privileges than rights.
This amendment would forbid any "person acting under color of law" to "burden the free exercise of religion" without demonstrating a compelling government interest. Whereas the federal statute applies to substantial burdens, this amendment would prohibit any burden whatsoever.
"The free exercise of religion, " according to the proposed amendment, "shall include the right of every person to freely express his sincerely held religious belief and to engage in or refrain from activity based on a sincerely held religious belief."
That would seem to make an assertion of faith a valid excuse for evading legal or professional obligations, although some of opponents of the proposed amendment did become somewhat hysterical in warning of its potential effects. There would, for instance, be no point in a pederast's claiming he was following a religious dictate, since the government's compelling interest would be clear enough.
Still, it is not hard to imagine that this amendment would provide a pretext for, say, discrimination in employment or housing. Holy drug taking cannot be ruled out either.
Certainly, the amendment could spur plenty of litigation. A Law Institute review might help to reduce that possibility, but proponents have resisted calls to ask for one and pushed the bill through as quickly as possible.
Although the real purpose of the proposed amendment may be a matter of conjecture, we may be sure of one thing. When the Louisiana Legislature proposes to improve the First Amendment, we are headed for a mess.
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James Gill is a staff writer. He can be reached at 504.826.3318 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Got the sneezes, itchy eyes and cough? Welcome to Spring's allergy season, which one area allergist says could be "the worst," because of the Pioneer Valley's "long cold winter and plenty of moisture."
"This could be the worst season we have seen in a long time. With a long cold winter and plenty of moisture, the trees were primed, ready and now are releasing a great deal of pollen," said Dr. Jonathan Bayuk, medical director of allergy services for Hampden County Physician Associates.
Bayuk was asked to name the top spring-summer allergens, and the best way to cope, besides having a tissue box at the ready.
Top 5 allergens in Pioneer Valley:
1. Tree pollen, several species, including birch, oak and alder
2. Grass pollen, Timothy is prominent
3. Ragweed, starts around Aug. 15. This is, Bayuk said, classic "'hayfever,' because ragweed grows in cultivated areas and we have lots of that in the Valley."
4. English plaintain, summer weed
5. Mold, many types
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1. Avoidance of exposure, something Bayuk admits is "very hard if you like the outdoors."
2. Rinse off, and change clothes when coming inside.
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About 150 parishioners from the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, many of them teenagers, boarded buses at 5 a.m. yesterday for the trip to Washington, D.C.
They played their guitars and drums and sang as they waited for Benedict to parade by in the popemobile, and they were still singing as they walked away from Pennsylvania Avenue after he passed.
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As the Trail Blazers prepare this week for their third consecutive playoff appearance, Portland seems poised to make a push for postseason success thanks to the midseason addition of Gerald Wallace. Getting out of the first round in the Western Conference for the first time since 1999 is a big deal because the team this summer must reassess a roster loaded with oft-injured players and veterans with uncertain futures. But while the Blazers appear to have their best shot at advancing to the second round in the Nate McMillan era, it's also looking like kind of a clusterfuck. Below, we assess the team's most likely opponents (as of WW's Tuesday afternoon press deadline).
Record against Portland: 1-3
Key Blazers: LaMarcus Aldridge and Andre Miller have both had big games in wins over the veteran Spurs. It's that one-two punch that would help the Blazers upset San Antonio.
The story: During the Kevin Pritchard era, the Blazers tried to emulate the Spurs' international scouting and focus on team chemistry. Beating San Antonio would be total student-becomes-the-teacher material.
Record against Portland: 2-2
Key Blazers: At times this season, Aldridge has made perennial All-Star Dirk Nowitzki look like a punk. But it would take strong guard play—including Brandon Roy, who was dreamy against the Mavs in March—to match Jason Terry and J.J. Barea.
The story: This is widely viewed as Portland's best-case scenario, but we can't stop thinking of the tumultuous seven-game series from 2003, the last time these two teams met in the first round. Dallas won, remember?
Record against Portland: 3-1
Key Blazers: In the Blazers' sole victory against the Lakers last week, Wallace bullied Lamar Odom and Ron Artest. The Blazers would need him to be huge in the playoffs.
The story: Despite the Lakers' limping to the finish line, the smart money is on vastly improved play by Los Angeles in the postseason. Still, a Blazer upset would mean bragging rights as "Laker killers" for years to come. I say bring 'em on.
Record against Portland: 3-1
Key Blazers: Wallace, who scored 40 on OKC in March, and Nic Batum, who's had some success stopping star Kevin Durant, who could've been a Blazer if not for the Greg Oden pick.
The story: While Portland and OKC usually play competitive games—the Blazers lost three games to the Thunder this season by a combined 12 points—this is a very young, improving team that nearly upset the Lakers last year. Besides, Blazer fans certainly don't need reminders of Durant's success.


text: Posted July 13, 2011 Hey Vapor Talkers, Let's talk about the sticky stuff shall we. So, over the course of the last few years we've had to warn various members who join the forum, to suppress the discussion of illegal drugs. As no surprise the subject brought up most often is whether or not you can vape marijuana with your e cigarette. More specifically the question is asked, how can THC be extracted for use in an e cigarette. We absolutely forbid this type of discussion and when it's mentioned the response is usually that - we're suppressing free speech, we're an example of how this country is going down hill or my favorite "Nazi's". Current and future members, believe me, we're far from Nazi's. Let me break everything down so everyone has a better understanding of why this rule is in place. Why do you suppress discussion of drugs, specifically marijuana, mary jane, Buddha, weed, that stick icky etc Various entities in the government have been looking for anything they can, to discredit this industry for quite some time. Members and vapers have fought long and hard to keep e cigarettes legal. While some of you may be new to the vaping game, it's been a long a grueling road to keep e cigarettes legal. Suppliers have lost THOUSANDS of dollars in shipments seized coming into the county. There is no refund, there is no insurance. When the FDA snags your product, that's it. It's gone. Suppliers have spent thousands of dollars fighting the Food and Drug Administration to ensure electronic cigarettes are not banned. Just last year we where very close to loosing our right to vape. I'm sure we can all agree that if people start using ecigs in conjunction with THC (which is already being done under the radar by the way) The FDA or Mainstream media will happily spin this faster than you can pick up those THC drops. If we don't have the publics support we don't have an industry. At the moment it's all about image. It's important that until e cigarettes are accepted, legal and regulated that this matter is kept off limits. It's nothing personal, but we're here to protect e cigarettes and vaping first and foremost before anything else. So, you're against people using marijuana No, not at all. In fact I could care less. The more the government stays out of the Peoples business, the better. I have no doubt we have many members here on the forum that smoke a little something to ease the stress of daily life. Honestly, it's no different than having a drink at the end of the day. Though, pot smokers tend to be much more laid back than drinkers. After all, when was the last time you got in a fight with someone that was high? But it's legal in my state... While it may be legal in your state (California for example) that is only at a state level. You need to understand that our servers are not located in California. Either way it's irrelevant, if not solely for the fact that our hosting company forbids any type of drug talk. Legal or not. We could ultimately loose our dedicated servers over a someone curious about THC in e cigarettes. Frankly, I like my hosting company and don't plan to move the server. There are plenty of forums online that can more than likely help you figure out a way to do whatever it is you plan to do. I really want to know how to smoke weed out of my e cigarette There are PLENTY of other forums that discuss this type of activity. THIS forum, isn't the place for it. Again we're here to protect e cigarettes and vaping first and foremost before anything else. ok fine, but can it be done? Yes. THC e liquid is available at a few dispensaries around the country for medicinal purposes. No we don't have a list, no we won't help you find some. I have my right to free speech and you have no right to stop me I agree! The 1st amendment is incredibly important. However, you are on a privately run forum. That's it folks. I'm not here to be the bad guy. I'm simply protecting myself, my company and the future of vaping. I I appreciate everyones understanding, I love my members and this community. I hope this gives you a better understand about where I'm coming from. Happy vaping! guitardoc64, Juxtanuminous, Omega Recon and 35 others like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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SAFE KIDS day is a fun event for families with children ages 3-12, giving them an opportunity to learn about safety while participating in many recreational activities, including bicycling.
The day includes bicycle inspections conducted by the Economy Bike Shop and the Lawrenceville Police Department. The bike safety inspections will include tires, frames, handlebars, chain guards, and reflectors, and parents will receive a check-list for each bike indicating if anything needs to be repaired.
Participating kids will also be given a free bike helmet, which will be fitted by one of the St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center's therapists.
After completing the inspection and helmet fitting, the kids are invited to ride the bicycle safety course, which is also organized by the police department. The course allows the kids to illustrate that they are aware of traffic signals, hand signals, parked cars, and how to avoid unexpected obstacles. Volunteers will be present at each station of the obstacle course to guide and teach the riders.
In addition to the Bike Rodeo, games and other activities geared towards water safety will be presented by the Hamilton YMCA, Hopewell YMCA, Princeton YMCA, and the Greater Trenton Area YMCA.
St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center will give away a limited number of Personal Flotation Devices for children up to 90 pounds.
The Lawrenceville Fire Department will provide an engine that the children can ride, and will display a small house designed to teach about fire hazards.
There will be photos opps and games provided by the three minor league sports teams in Mercer County, the Trenton Devils hockey team, the Trenton Thunder baseball team and the new Trenton Steel indoor football team. Each be represented on site with their mascots in tow.
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Often, when a Portland starter is close with someone on the opposing bench, he'll go over before tipoff for a handshake or hug. But Smith stayed near the key area, looked over and caught the eye of Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks. The two awkwardly waved at each other.
Smith wasn't just making his first pro start against a coach he sort of knew. Brooks is practically family.
"I've known him all of his life," Brooks said.
The association came through the relationship Brooks built with Smith's late father, Derek Smith. When Brooks was an undrafted rookie with the 76ers in 1988, he joined a team that included Derek Smith, who was in his seventh NBA season and had a young son named Nolan. Derek Smith and Brooks became close friends.
"He was still in diapers," Brooks said of Nolan. "He was a feisty little guy."
Nolan Smith even served as a ring-bearer at Brooks' wedding, although he says doesn't remember the ceremony.
"I've seen pictures of it," Smith said. "He's been a family friend for a long time. He's my godfather, and I've talked to him, communicated with him, from the time I can remember."
After Derek Smith died in 1996 after having massive heart attack – he was 34 – Brooks kept tabs on Nolan as his own career progressed.
"I followed him through high school, I followed him through Duke, I followed him every day here," Brooks said. "I'm glad he's getting the opportunity, playing pretty good."
Smith had a rough first start Tuesday, shooting 1 for 9 from the field, finishing with three points and struggling to contain one of Brooks' stars, explosive point guard Russell Westbrook, who had 32 points and eight assists.
Smith said the demanding schedule has made it hard to keep in touch with Brooks, but there have been times when the two were able to briefly chat.
"During the season, it's hard to -- he's focused on the Thunder, I'm focused here," Smith said. "Every now and then, when I get the chance to talk to him, he'll tell me just keep working hard, stay focused."
• Westbrook is sensational as the Thunder play like a championship contender and subdue the Blazers, The Oregonian's Joe Freeman reports.
• Tuesday's loss dropped the Blazers to 3-4 under interim coach Kaleb Canales, matching the record through seven games of the franchise's first interim coach, Stu Inman, who succeeded the fired Rolland Todd in 1971-72. Inman, though, went 3-16 the rest of the way.
The Blazers' only other interim coach was Kevin Pritchard, who took over for the final 27 games in 2004-05. Through seven games, Pritchard was 1-6. Canales was a video intern in his first year with the Blazers that season.
The coach who was fired and replaced by Pritchard was Maurice Cheeks, who was in the Rose Garden on Tuesday as one of Brooks' assistant coaches.
• The Blazers have two major openings, and they have started to steps to fill one, general manager. The O's Jason Quick writes that a possible candidate could be Steve Kerr, who held the same position with Phoenix.
• Jamal Crawford continued to struggle to make shots, shooting 1 for 7 from the field. In his last five games, Crawford is 9 for 49.
• The Thunder improved their Western Conference-best record to 38-12, three games ahead of No. 2 San Antonio and 7½ games ahead of the third-place Lakers.
The Thunder, though, aren't satisfied.
"We have a lot of growing to do," said forward Kevin Durant, who scored 25 points. "We have a lot of getting better to do. We just have to keep pushing."
The Thunder took the season series from Portland 3-1. It was the first time in the four seasons since they moved to Oklahoma City that the Blazers failed to beat the Thunder at least once at the Rose Garden. If you got back to the franchise's Seattle roots, the Blazers last failed to beat the Sonics/Thunder at least once in Portland in 1997-98.
• The view from Oklahoma City is that Portland is now a "trap game" -- that is, a team with a subpar record that you have to be careful not to take for granted, the Oklahoman's John Rohde reports. The Thunder, who beat Miami before coming to Portland and will play the Lakers on TNT Thursday, avoided the trap.
• One fallout from the Blazers' trades of Marcus Camby -- their leading rebounder before being dealt to Houston -- and Gerald Wallace has been them being beaten on the boards.
OKC outrebounded Portland 43-30, marking the sixth time in seven games since the trade-deadline deals that the Blazers have been outrebounded. The only team the Blazers outrebounded was Milwaukee, and they lost that game.


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Cumberland Valley School District will host a community meeting about the threat of the H1N1 (swine) flu virus at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 in the Performing Arts Center at Cumberland Valley High School. It is open to the public.
The meeting will provide an overview of the H1N1 virus, steps schools and the community are taking to ensure the health and safety of children and actions parents can take at home to help reduce the spread of the virus.
In a message to parents, Cumberland Valley School District said school officials are noticing more students absent because of the flu or going to school nurses with flu-like symptoms. The district said has been in contact with state and local health officials regarding the increase in students with the flu or flu-like symptoms.
As recommended by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the district is asking parents to keep children home from school if they exhibit flu-like symptoms (fever, muscle aches, fatigue and coughing; they may also include vomiting and diarrhea) and for 24 hours after those symptoms end.


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An Iowa mother who did not have custody of her two children could face felony charges after taking off with them Tuesday night.Video Transcript
AN IOWA MOTHER COULD FACE áFELONY CHARGES THIS MORNING. DEPUTIES IN MONONA COUNTY SAY CARI ANN EICH ABDUCTED HER CHILDREN, WHICH PROMPTED AN áAMBER ALERT TUESDAY NIGHT. TWO HOURS LATER, SHE WAS IN CUSTODY IN DODGE COUNTY áNEBRASKA. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S RYAN LUBY HAS THE ARREST VIDEO YOU WILL SEE ONLY ON SEVEN. GOOD MORNING. WE ARE AT THE MONONA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE...HERE IN ONAWA IOWA. THIS IS WHERE THE SEARCH BEGAN. BUT AS YOU SAID, IT ENDED ACROSS THE RIVER, IN NEBRASKA, IN DODGE COUNTY NEAR FREMONT! THIS IS CARI ANN EICH, AND HER BLUE CHEVY SILVERADO, STOPPED ON THE SIDE OF HIGHWAY 77 JUST NORTH OF FREMONT. ONE OF OUR CREWS -- THAT'S BEEN IN FREMONT ALL DAY COVERING A SEPARATE STORY - - WAS LESS THAN A MILE AWAY. FOLKS WITH THE IOWA DIVISION OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION SAY IT DID áNOT APPEAR THAT EICH WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF METHAMPHETAMINE, OR ANY OTHER DRUG FROM WHAT THEY COULD TELL. EICH'S áMOTHER -- THE GRANDMOTHER OF THE TWO KIDS -- 4 YEARS OLD AND ONE MONTH OLD -- SAID CARI WAS SCHEDULED TO GO TO REBHAB THIS AFTERNOON AT TWO O-CLOCK IN SIOUX CITY. AROUND 12:45, AS THEY WERE LOADING THEIR CARS -- WITH A CASE WORKER THERE AND ALL -- THEY SAY CARI ANN TOOK OFF, WITH HER KIDS, IN HER PICKUP TRUCK, BEFORE ANYONE HAD TIME TO REACT. BUT THANKFULLY, TWO HOURS AFTER THE AMBER ALERT WENT OUT, A RADIO LISTENER CALLED 911.(mitch mortvedt, ioowa dci: "i will say that we as law enforcement did not have any tips called in to us prior to getting the call that they had been located.") CARI ANN COULD FACE FELONY CHARGES FOR VIOLATING A CUSTODIAL ORDER. HER PARENTS -- THE CHILDRENS GRANDPARENTS -- NOW HAVE CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN. WITH MORE COMPLETE COVERAGE IN MONONA COUNTY, I'M RL, KNW7.
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Anyway, although I'm new to the twitter community, I'm going to jump in feet first and try to tweet regularly from today's Trail Blazers media day. The organization is hosting the first of two media events and today's guests will include the coaching and management staffs. The fun should start in about an hour around 2 p.m., so check it out.
You can follow me today — and from this point forward — at http://twitter.com/BlazerFreeman
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Mount Marty Invite, October 18 at Yankton, SD
The team returned to the scene of their triumphant double win of a year ago.
The Women's course was lengthened to 6k this year but the Lady Defenders were up to the challenge of
a longer race and the pouring rain and again came home with the 1st place trophy.
Three of our Women were in the top seven: Tanya Holtrop, Kate Reinsma and Leah Kooiker. Leah seems to improve with every race.
The Men lost out to the home team but took second among the eight colleges present.
Senior Jeff Taylor led all Dordt runners and joined Tim Eisenga as a top-seven award winner.
Taylor has turned in many sterling performances in his four years on the team but oddly enough
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Mark Miedema proved his previous performance was no fluke as he again ran a great race.
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Walk down a devastated street in Midland Beach or Tottenville after Hurricane Sandy, and it is easy to wonder: How does a community rebound from such a blow?
If Staten Island is to look to New Orleans and the surrounding towns in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the answer might be an uncomfortable one: It depends.
Some there rebuilt without thought for new flood standards. Others were ripped off by fly-by-night contractors. Many who fled New Orleans after the storm just never returned, leaving behind tiny ghost towns.
But there are also stunning examples of success: Colorful and creative communities constructed by volunteers, homes raised to save levels in attractive ways, and small businesses that adapted to a changing city after the storm.
More than seven years after Hurricane Katrina, the Lakeview area of New Orleans that took on a deluge of water looks almost completely normal, as if the neighborhood had all along been planned to ride out high waters that never came. But drive a few miles to the Lower Ninth Ward and Katrina's fingerprints are everywhere — entire residential streets reduced to overgrown lots pockmarked with forgotten rubble.
It's now 132 days since Hurricane Sandy hit Staten Island, and while not as deadly or widespread as Katrina, the borough is facing challenges similar to those in New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005. What happened in the months and years since Katrina — the reasons why neighborhoods like Lakeview flourished while the Lower Ninth founders to this day — could offer clues about what's to come, what to do, and what to avoid, as Staten Island faces a new future.
One way in which Katrina and Sandy were similar is that both storms hit neighborhoods across the socioeconomic strata — from trendy Lakeview in New Orleans to the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood of most African American families whose modest homes had been purchased by grandparents after World War II. On Staten Island, Sandy swept away the dreams of homeowners in tiny beachfront bungalows owned for generations in New Dorp and Midland Beach, and wrecked multi-story homes dotting the coastline in Great Kills and Tottenville.
In New Orleans, wealthier neighborhoods like Lakeview have bounced back. The Lower Ninth hasn't.
"One of the things that we see with recovery is people with means recover more quickly," said Greg Rigamer, founder and director of GCR, Inc., which has studied the storm's impact and recovery effort. "When you have an event like this it amplifies trends that are in the community."
Areas on the margins before the storm will accelerate in that direction, as people without resources to rebuild walk away from their homes, leaving properties abandoned or demolished. But areas that were up-and-coming or desirable before the storm tend to bounce back faster, since people have made recent investments there that they'll want to protect, and others who don't live in the community will see their own opportunity to invest cheaply.
Rigamer used the example of businesses in neighborhoods that were struggling before the storm.
"They don't have insurance, they get hit hard, they were on a decline before the storm — the storm puts them under," Rigamer said, wiping out their inventory, their space, and their market area.
"You take companies that are prospering, that are strong economically, they have an incentive to recover as quickly as possible, because their viable, they're making money," Rigamer said. "There's a huge amount of money that's spent in recovery, and those business can take part."
Neighborhoods can be the same way.
In Lakeview, like in just about every neighborhood in New Orleans, the streets are still riddled with potholes, but most are lined with pretty home after pretty home, almost all of them new and elevated to flood standards. Save for the palm trees and the southern accents, the closely clustered, large homes wouldn't be out of place on a residential street in a well-to-do Staten Island neighborhood, save for their height off the ground.
Some homes are practically estates, raised three feet but surrounded by pretty porches and decorative brick to cover the gap between home and ground. Others are much higher and more modern, with breakaway walls camouflaging empty space used to park cars. The lawns are manicured. A Starbucks in the neighborhood's main drag was crowded, pumping out lattes as customers walked past a simple reminder — and a line painted around the building, about eight feet off the ground, marked simply: "Katrina."
But the reminders of the storm in the neighborhood aren't all as artistic as the waterline outside a coffee chain.
Even in Lakeview, where it can be easy to forget what the storm did, there is a reminder on nearly every block. An empty lot in a community that was once so packed full of housing there were none. A homeowner who returned but didn't bother to elevate his home. Or worse, a squat, dilapidated slab-on-grade house that has sat mostly untouched since the storm, left behind. Those houses are rarer, but they still bear boards on the windows and search and rescue spray paint marks outside the door.
But back on the main road, Harrison Avenue, things are bustling — and those businesses helped the community bounce back.
"They re-established investment on Harrison Avenue," Rigamer explained. "People had to have services to come back. You just can't rebuild without your primary, community services."
People won't want to return somewhere without banks, or doctors, or schools.
"Plus, people are reluctant to make an investment unless other people are investing," Rigamer explained.
He pointed out a bank branch on the road. It reopened almost immediately, he said, using temporary trailer offices with generators before power was even restored to the area.
"This was all flooded, 10 feet of water," Rigamer said of a strip of businesses along the road. "It came back, and really supported the redevelopment of this neighborhood."
But not so far away, there's the other side of the idea that a storm like Katrina amplifies a trend.
And the same is already being seen in the low-income areas of the East Shore hit by Sandy.
The Lower Ninth Ward can feel like a ghost town compared to Lakeview. Entire square blocks of what were once homes are gone, replaced with overgrown grass and brush. Storm sewers big enough to swallow a person who isn't watching her step sit open, unmarked. A burned-out car adorned one street.
Before the storm, many of the empty lots housed New Orleans "shotgun" or "shotgun double" houses — so-called because of their straight-line layout that would allow for shooting a bullet from the front door right out the back. Some of the shotgun homes that weren't completely destroyed have been fixed up as best they could be, propped on cinder blocks, and they're not much different from the renovated bungalows or one-story ranches in Midland Beach or South Beach.
The neighborhood was working-class, filled with generational homeowners who have simply been unable, or unwilling, to return to a neighborhood so slow in approaching any sense of normal.
Surrounded by empty lots is a pretty, new-construction home owned by the Fields family. Outside, Oralee Fields, 72, swept her front walkway while her son, A.C. Fields Jr., cut the grass. It is the only home on their entire block.
"I was here before Katrina," Mrs. Fields said. She looked at the vacant land nearby. "They didn't come back, but I came back after Katrina, and built my house back."
Her home is stately compared to some of those in the Upper and Lower Ninth Wards. Like the other handful of new homes in her neighborhood, it stands out amid the overgrown brush and rubble. Asked why she came back to the neighborhood, Mrs. Fields' answer was simple.
"I liked it. I been here a long time," she explained. "I said, 'Well, let me go back home.'"
She had lived elsewhere while waiting to return — in a home she didn't care for — so she was thrilled when she moved into the brand-new, elevated home that replaced the one Katrina destroyed.
"I was so glad when I got back," she said. "I didn't know what to do."
She didn't seem to mind the eerie quiet of a once-crowded neighborhood that had simply disappeared. But she had some complaints.
"They're so slow about cutting the grass," she said.
So A.C. Fields cuts it himself. He was mowing his neighbor's lot on a recent sunny afternoon.
"He's in Baton Rouge somewhere," he said of the neighbor.
If Fields wants to live next to a tidy lot, he has to keep it that way himself.
He offers a simple summation of what it's like to live in the Lower Ninth Ward now: "Peace and quiet."
Most of the other streets nearby are dotted with a home here and there. Not very far away are the fancy, environmentally-friendly, out-of-character for the neighborhood modern homes erected by the Make It Right Foundation. But the Fields are the only ones on their little square of green, surrounded by unused roads.
"You gotta live somewhere," Fields said. "It's like they just forgot about this block."
Mrs. Fields' granddaughter played on a motorized pink scooter in front of the house. Without knowing the history or seeing the skyline in the distance, it could almost look like a scene in front of a rural home in the middle of nowhere.
There's even a small farm down the road, where Rob Huffman, 29, tilled the earth. Huffman, thin and white, with piercings in his lips and ears, doesn't look like most of his neighbors in the Lower Ninth, but he's lived there for three and a half years, working at Our School at Blair Grocery.
"It's kind of nice," he said. "It's quiet. It's a lot nicer than other parts of the city that are all parades."
But he noted its quiet came from it being "kind of the most neglected part" of the city. Unlike Lakeview, investment hasn't returned to the Lower Ninth.
Since the school, which helps youth grow their community by literally growing food in it, opened four and a half years ago, just seven people have moved back into the area, Huffman said. He was tilling the earth on the property of someone who hadn't been able to come back yet.
"None of these families have the ability, the means, to rebuild it," Huffman said.
Often, he'll talk to people who still feel they live in the neighborhood, even if they've gone since the storm.
"That's my family home, right there," they'd tell Huffman.
But they'd be pointing at an empty lot, he said.


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Google's new mobile platform offers NFC, a technology that could be used for mobile payments.
Yes, it's the holidays. But no, I'm not talking about an edible house.
Google last week released new version of its Android mobile operating system called Gingerbread. The system, which is being used in a new Nexus S smartphone from handset maker Samsung Electronics Co., includes Near Field Communication, or NFC—a technology that enables phones (or other items, such as credit cards) to interact with objects— such as posters and payment terminals— from just a few feet away, via radio signals.
Google didn't stress the potential for NFC-based mobile payments in its Gingerbread announcement. Instead, it focused on consumers using NFC to interact with items like stickers, movie posters and t-shirts.
But I think there might be something payments-related here.
Anyone familiar with NFC is also likely familiar with its over-hyped, under-utilized history in the U.S. electronic payment space. NFC is mildly popular in Japan and Europe as a way to make payments with a mobile device, but that activity never gained much ground with consumers in the States.
However, a big name like Google powering a mobile operating system equipped with NFC could move the needle forward in the U.S.
Particularly when one considers Isis.
Isis, launched last month, uses smartphone and NFC technology to enable shoppers to pay with their phones. And it boasts big-name backers, including A&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless. The three carriers on board collectively provide wireless services to more than 200 million consumers who will have access to the Isis service. And Barclaycard US, part of Barclays PLC of the United Kingdom, is expected to be the first issuer on the network. Beyond the inaugural deals, Isis is available to all merchants, banks and mobile carriers, and the company expects to introduce its service in key geographic markets over the next 18 months.
So now we've got Google, A&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless involved with NFC—all major mobile names. What's more, Google says the new Nexus S smartphone will be sold beginning Dec. 16 unlocked and carrier-independent through Best Buy stores in the U.S.—potentially opening up the NFC technology in Gingerbread to many more players.
There's no doubt that NFC has managed to land several well-connected mobile pals. And that's definitely causing a bleep on the radar. The question is, is it enough to get consumers, credit- and debit card-issuing banks and merchants to start to sign on for NFC mobile payments? If not, the signal will likely fade once again.
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When the NBA's Eastern Conference finals begin tonight at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, the Orlando Magic will be hoping recent history remains firmly on its side.
If it does, the league's best team quite likely will be looking over its shoulders at what transpired in Orlando, Fla., about six weeks ago when the Magic ran the Cavaliers ragged in a 116-87 victory that gave the Magic a 2-1 edge in the season series.
"We got our behinds kicked in transition in that one," Cleveland Coach Mike Brown said this week as his team continued to prepare for its first game in nine days since dispatching the Atlanta Hawks in four games of the Eastern Conference semifinals. "That's something, even with Atlanta, we tried to make a conscious effort to not get hurt in transition.
"Hopefully, we'll do a better job with our transition defense this time around. And their pick-and-roll game is tough for us to handle. It's tough for anybody to handle. Defensively, they do a nice job, especially with Dwight (Howard) hanging around the (lane). We're going to have to make sure we attack them and try to get to the free-throw line some."
The Cavaliers have not lost in the postseason this year, eliminating each opponent in four games, first the Detroit Pistons, then Atlanta -- with each victory by a double-digit margin.
The Magic earned its spot in the conference finals with a seven-game series win over the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics, winning Game 7 on Sunday night in Boston after ousting the Philadelphia 76ers in six games in the first round.
This series features league MVP LeBron James of the Cavaliers against Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard, along with their supporting casts.
James said he doesn't believe the Magic can carry over much from the two regular-season beatings administered in Orlando, certainly not in Cleveland, where this season the Cavaliers lost just one regular-season game.
"We've got to get better from that, but the regular season doesn't matter," James said of that last loss against the Magic. "You take things from that game, but you lose by one or you lose by 40, it's the same loss. It counts as one loss.
"We've just got to come out and play hard. They're going to make a lot of shots from the perimeter, but you can't let that get you down. You've got to go out there and execute. They've got great players; they've got guys who surround Dwight and can really shoot the ball and really play basketball. We've got to just follow our game plan and get ready for a good matchup."
Orlando Coach Stan Van Gundy said what has happened so far in the postseason trumps what happened previously, as does Cleveland's recent playoff success, although neither franchise has won an NBA title.
"Cleveland has been to the NBA Finals," said Van Gundy, referring to the Cavaliers' 2007 loss to San Antonio in four games. "They're on a tremendous run right now, sweeping two series. I think both teams will be confident going in. I don't know how much the experience level will help or hurt or anything else.
"I don't know if (not having won a championship) is an equalizer or not. I think the Game 7 experience the Celtics had was a little bit of an advantage. But the bottom line is when you get out there, it's a basketball game -- a big basketball game, but it's a basketball game."
Van Gundy will make one key change heading into the conference finals, re-inserting rookie guard Courtney Lee into the starting lineup against the Cavaliers, replacing J.J. Redick, who had subbed for Lee when he was out with a fractured sinus.
Lee returned against the Celtics after having surgery. He was injured in Game 5 against the 76ers.
"At the risk of giving away a huge secret, because of matchups, we're going back to Courtney," Van Gundy told The Orlando Sentinel. "For Delonte West, a guy who puts the ball on the floor more and attacks with the dribble, I think Courtney is the better matchup, so we're going to go that way."
Regardless of the personal matchups, from a team perspective, not many envisioned Cavaliers-Magic, which led to the question for Van Gundy whether he felt vindicated winning Game 7 and knocking out the Celtics.
"As far as vindication, you get vindication in the coaching business until Wednesday night," Van Gundy said. "And if our team's not great Wednesday night, I'm back to being an idiot."
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At the time, the founders of Saratoga Cheese Corp. hoped to start construction in 2009 but the global recession sabotaged that plan. Last year, Lawrence Rosenbaum, chairman and founder of the company, disclosed his company lacked the $10 million to move the project forward and postponed construction to 2010.
No shovels have struck the ground at the site proposed for the 21-acre building in Aurelius Business Park, off routes 5 & 20. But company officials said they remain committed to building the 64,000-square-foot plant — possibly as soon as midyear.
"This isn't a question of if it will be built, but when it will be built," Bill Teator, a member of the corporation's board of directors, said in a recent interview.
That would be good news for Cayuga County and the central Finger Lakes. The multiphase project would create about 150 construction jobs, and the plant would employ some 75 full-time workers at full operating strength. In addition, Saratoga Cheese intends to buy about 240 million pounds of milk a year from a pool of 10 to 15 regional farmers to make certified kosher and halal cheeses for big-city markets in the Northeast and Canada.
The company still lacks about $9 million in investment money to start construction, but Rosenbaum and Teator both said they're confident of landing that money. A team of company leaders are working full time on the project and have taken several important steps to keep moving it forward, they said.
Most recently, Saratoga Cheese agreed to buy the building site from the Cayuga County Industrial Development Agency and made a nonrefundable 10 percent down payment on the $270,000 purchase price, they said.
Company architects and engineers are conducting preliminary site work and expect to finish that analysis this month. Also, the city of Auburn recently extended its Empire Development Zone to the site so that Saratoga can qualify for tax refunds and credits. The project has also received $600,000 in state and federal grant money.
That kind of continued progress has county IDA Executive Director Steve Lynch believing the plant will be built.
"I'm optimistic it's going to happen ... . We've all taken steps toward making this project a success," said Lynch, who doubles as the county's planning and economic development director.
Saratoga Cheese also plans to build a rabbinical training school at the IDA site. Rabbis will be assigned to each of the farms that produce milk for the cheeses to make sure the milking process and milk meet kosher standards.
Ontario County dairy farmer Dale Hemminger is working with Rosenbaum to select the 10 to 15 farms needed to furnish the milk. He's excited about the prospects.
"It means we're going to get more money for our milk," Hemminger said.
Rosenbaum said he has no regrets in announcing in the fall of 2008 that construction of the plant would start the following year. There was no way to predict then how deep the recession would cut or whether it would hurt attracting investors to the project, he added.
"This is the worst financial time since the Great Depression ... but that doesn't mean it won't happen. We haven't wasted the time. We're out to make something happen in Cayuga County," Rosenbaum said.
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Thousands attended Saturday's 73nd annual CNY Scottish Games and Celtic Festival at Long Branch Park to watch traditional Scottish sports, nosh on haggis and hear bagpipe bands from across New York State.
On this day celebrating Scottish heritage, we asked festival attendees to identify these 10 Scottish faces on the fly: Ewan McGregor, Sean Connery, Tilda Swinton, Alan Cumming, Merida from "Brave," Groundskeeper Willie from "The Simpsons," Montgomery "Scotty" Scott from "Star Trek" (a Scott, not a Scot), Nessie the Loch Ness monster, Rose Leslie and William Wallace, Mel Gibson's character on "Braveheart."
No one recognized Alan Cumming or Rose Leslie. Every single person knew the Loch Ness monster.
Frank Ward of Truxton, N.Y., a descendant of the real Sir William Wallace, actually once visited Scotland to search (unsuccessfully) for Nessie on Loch Ness.
"She was hiding," joked Ward.
Check out the video above and see if you can name all 10 Scots.


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This has to be the best Clippers offseason ever!
Clippers went out & got the following:
Our new GM/Coach. Doc Rivers. A+
resigning CP3 & Matt Barnes. A+
3 team trade to get Jared Dudley & JJ Reddick. A+
Our 25th pick: Reggie Bullock. A+
signed Darren Collison. A+
resigned Ryan Hollins. B
pick up option on Willie Green. A
signed Byron Mullens. B
What's your grades?
Coach: A+
Resigning: A
Trade: A- (Thought we could get more from bledsoe's value)
Draft: A+ - Great Pick in Reggie
Free Agency: B+ Although I feel as if our focus should've been more on our front court depth, whomever we picked up were steals so far
3 team trade to get Jared Dudley & JJ Reddick. A- (maybe could have gotten more but I think we got 2 starters that will fit perfectly in Docs system).
signed Darren Collison. A+ (no question a steal)
resigned Ryan Hollins. B+
pick up option on Willie Green. A (great team player, bargain)
If we get Mullens: A-
I don't get it, who else do you guys think we should have got for Bledsoe? I think JJ Redick and Jared Dudley is EXACTLY who we should've pursued. We didn't need people that overstep their boundaries as role players.
like Doc Rivers a lot for our HC, and will be watching Mike Malone in Sactown....
grateful that we got both Paul and Barnes back, and hoping we get good value for CP3 and that he doesn't fall into any Gilbert Arenas territory....
jury's out for me w/Redick and Dudley. not so familiar w/their games, and suspicious that they offer less than playoff caliber ball ?? also would have preferred trading Bledsoe to either Boston or Dallas for their pick and drafting Tim Hardaway Jr. to play opposite CP3....
Bullock, like a lot of players on this board/forum, not named DJ, get alotta love for their D, that I often think is undeserving.... not sold on Bullock as a defender quite yet, and.... would have preferred Tony Mitchell in the draft as a defensive force for the front line....
signing Collison was a coup as losing Bledsoe could have been pivotal given Paul's health and injury history....
not much of a Hollins fan, other than he went to UCLA, and would have much preferred Ronny, albeit I get it, that Hollins played for Doc in Boston....
am a big Willie Green fan, and think he is an incredible third string two....
and not so familiar w/his game, and from what I do know, really like the Mullens signing, and think he is gonna be a good foil for DJ as an offensive changeup, and like that he can play some four....
Redick made it to the finals w/ the Magic.
LABreakers how can a rookies defense be overrated based on preseason? He was our best defender and scorer bar none on the SL roster, not much to talk about. Nobody calls him an elite defender or anything... just a solid, high IQ one which seems to be true.
Voted a high B. Nothing too earth-shattering, but consistently great pick-ups and trades.
A- so far. The jury is still out. If we can get some quality bigs it could turn into an A or A+ even or go to a B+.
Coach Rivers: A
Chris Paul re-signed: A
JJ Redick - Jared Dudley trade: A-
Matt Barnes re-signed: A-
Darren Collison signed: A
Ryan Hollins re-signed: C+
Byron Mullens signed: B+
Willie Green option pick-up: B+
There came a point where I actually mentioned somewhere on this forum that the FO is making one ridiculously smart decision after another.
First, I thought we totally missed the boat not expressing interest in George Karl. Dude was the best coach available at the time, Hollins the 2nd best. I didn't realize we were going to steal away a coach who, technically, wasn't available! lol
1. Doc Rivers: A+ (One of the 2 or 3 best coaches in the NBA)
Also: Hiring Alvin Gentry as lead assistant coach may have been a stroke of genius...A + on that too!
2. Re-sign Chris Paul: A (Why give it an A+ when it was pretty likely he was going to stay?)
3. Sign JJ Redick and Jerod Dudley: A+ (A lot of decent options out there. We didn't just need 3 point shooting, we needed a certain type of shooter. And these guys, especially Redick, run tirelessly without the ball, use screens, have quick and consistent jumpers as well as pass well. Great basketball IQ too. We lost the highly talented Bledsoe, but we got 2 pieces of a puzzle that were missing)
4. Drafted Reggie Bullock: A+ (Easily the best option for us out there. Can play the 2 and 3. Consistent outside shooting, much like Redick. Rebounds and defends. Showed some serious poise in the Summer League games. Can't believe such a great player was still available at #25. Makes me almost think about letting go of Crawford to give this young man some playing time)
5. Signed Darren Collison: A+ (What do you do when you lose your talented back up PG? You apparently steal away PG who's good enough to start on many other teams. Collison is just the kinda player I can trust to lead this team in stretches, should CP3 have some minor injury)
6. Re-sign Matt Barnes: A (Dudley's a great addition, yet we still needed to shore up our defense on the wing, and Barnes is that guy. We need his toughness)
7. Re-sign Ryan Hollins: B (I'm a fan of Ryan's so I'm glad to have him back. He's played under Doc before. The signing of Byron Mullens makes Hollins' return a little less impactful, but it's good to have his attitude on the bench)
8. Signing Byron Mullens: A (I love the idea of acquiring a young 7-footer who stretches the floor. The temptation would be to get bruisers down low, but this guy offers something we don't have much of...a big man with a jumper. There were others who qualified. Like KG, who was denied or Al Jefferson, who's too damn expensive. Mullens is much younger and more raw than those guys, but he could turn out to be a real matchup problem for opponents)
We could use another PF on the team. Perhaps a tough veteran who Blake can look up to. Somebody who rebounds and defends.
I must admit, I saw the off season going a totally different way. I figured we'd hire a capable coach (maybe a Van Gundy). I thought changing the starting Center position should take top priority, then SF. I was even willing to settle for Willie Green at starting SG if it meant a new C and SF. Never did I dream we'd Get lucky in the draft. Get upgrades in both SG and SF with Redick and Dudley! And steal away a more than worthy backup PG! Getting Mullens is just icing so far!
Voted Low B /High C.
Doc/CP3/Collison: A
Matt Barnes: C
Bledsoe-Reddick/Dudley trade : B-
Hollins/Mullens: B-/C
Darfting Bullocks: B
I'm not satisfied with the front court. I think that'll be our weakness. Blake needs a breakout/MVP season. We're in trouble if we're counting on DJ. Hope Mullens turns out to be a steal. Hope we can still land KMart
Coaching: A+ Getting rid of Del Negro and brining in Rivers AND Gentry is more than anybody could have asked for
Re-signings/options: A CP3 resigning is a blessing. Barnes, Green and Hollins were all beyond solid for us last year. Good to have them back.
Trades: C Losing Bledsoe hurts bad. Don't feel like we got equal value for him and Bulter.
Free Agent signings: B+ Collison is the best backup pg you could ask for. Mullens is nice but I'd be happier if we also snagged Jamison or Camby
I'll give it a B+. Still managed to only sign 2 big men thus far and no word on the horizon about anything else. We are going to get murdered out there rocking out Hollins and Mullens as our 2 only backups to Blake and DJ.
Everything has been perfect except keeping DJ, felt like KG at Center woulda been perfect. F U Stern! But everything else was an A+
Not mentioned so far, but I also give credit for what the FO didn't do. As much as I might admire Chancey for his character or veteran smarts and his leadership, letting him go is going to clear up a lot in the rotations this coming year. Letting someone actually take the SG position and own it rather than feeling like a temporary squatter could do wonders. At least I hope so. I'll give an A- to the offseason so far, at risk of dropping to B+ if we can't find another big man.
Coaching- [A-] (Doc Rivers one of the best coach in the NBA right now but lets not forget we also gave away a 1st round pick, so I can't put A+)
[A] Gentry( He will definitely compliment Doc Rivers)
Trades-[A+] JJ Redick and Jared Dudley for Bledsoe and Butler (We got players who will fit in our system, I will take the way players fit our system more than talents any day right now.)
Resign- [B] Chris Paul (We didn't really have to convince him. It was a no brainer for him, so a B should be fine.)
- [A] Matt Barnes, Ryan Hollins, Willie Green (We need these guys but its not like they're were irreplaceable. Plus we didn't get Barnes for a bargain anymore, not saying he doesn't deserve his contract, cause he really does. And thank you again Barnes for taking less money, but were they really gonna give him the whole MLE?)
Option- [A-] Keep Deandre Jordan (I guess I'm just gonna trust Doc Rivers plus BG gets to keep his Bestfriend.)
[A+] Not keeping Billups (CP didn't back him up lol)
Free Agent signing- [A+] Collison (Steal, couldn't have gotten any better for the price. Plus losing Bledsoe doesn't hurt as much)
- (A) Mullens (high upside, got him for a vet minimum. Good signing)
Draft- [A+] Reggie Bullock (I'm very satisfied with him, steal for a 25th pick. If he really pans out, then we got our SF/SG in the next couple of years and you can never have enough shooters. His solid defense is just a bonus)
Very happy with our offseason although I'm still concerned with our defense. If you look at our players individually , none of em are "really good defenders" and please don't say Chris Paul. I just hope having a defensive minded coach in Doc Rivers is enough. And we still need to get another big man that can bang.
Somewhere around a B+ and A-
I still have to wait to see who we bring in as back up bigs. The right move can move my grade to an A+ but the wrong move can bring it down to a B and depending on who it could go as low as a C+ but i doubt it. I'm not to positive or negative about mullens it all depends on who else they bring in.
I think things ended up working better. KG would have been amazing defensively. He would have prevented anything from getting into that basket. However, as we all know KG at best had like 2 years in him, and at 11-12 mill a year (cant remember what his salary was) and at his age there were some serious signs of concern.
In contrast, the moves we made got us younger at the 2, 3, and even gave us better shooters. Would getting Reddick and Dudley still happen if KG was on the books? Probably not, Boston would have asked for both DJ and Bledsoe. Even if they got only one of these guys then there goes a trading chip that made Reddick and Dudley possible.
We got the better roster now, and even with KG it didn't solve the biggest problems we had: aging roster and lack of shooting at the 2 and 3. Thanks Stern
Solid A.
I agree. Until I saw your post, I had inadvertently ignored the astuteness of the decisions of the Clippers front office (FO). I now understand why, at the Clippers' press conference, Chris Paul arranged for Gary Sacks and Doc Rivers to be on stage at the same time with him and the newly-acquired players; the FO certainly has made very good decisions within their budget boundaries. As you observed, the only questionable decision by the FO is seemingly not engaging with George Karl about the head coach position, while they scheduled 1st and 2nd interviews with recycled coaches like Byron Scott and Nate McMillan. The subsequent unexpected availability of Doc Rivers and his interest in Clippers head coach position was very fortuitous and happily Donald Sterling was willing to maintain Rivers's position as highest-paid NBA coach.
Well no one has hired Karl yet so maybe he isn't as interested in coaching as people thought? Probably wants to take a break. Heck wouldn't be surprised if he retired.
Personally, I think Karl only really had interest in our job. I think that might of been the case for a few coaches that were on the market. I think he saw a lot of potential in having a running team that can still turn around and play defense, kind of like his seattle teams. I think that is something that even Doc sees some of too, and brought in Gentry to help bring in an option to move tempo as needed.
What sets us apart from other teams that have ran in the past is the potential of DJ and Blake, I don't remember two other bigs that can both run up and down the court at their speeds. Obviously Blake and DJ need to learn their rotations and assignments, but the potential if they do can be through the roof. If you run a team like BK they can keep up with our bigs and if they are playing close to lock down D on the other end it could be a nightmare for older or just slower teams. It also is a problem for teams like Miami who have a smaller line up, because true big men seems to have been there weakness in the past. We have two that can run with them. They might not beat LeBron and Wade in a foot race, but you won't be that far ahead on a typical rebound.
I think the overall grade has to be an A-. The biggest concern was coaching, and we upgraded by uprooting one of the best coaches from Boston. The second area of weakness was a lack of shooting from the small forward and shooting guard positions, and we solved that by adding Reddick and Dudley. We even added a second unit guard to offset the loss of Bledsoe, so we brought in Darren Collison, who is a more natural point guard than Bledsoe was. We added an offensive center in Mullens, so that gives Doc Rivers another weapon to insert for different matchups. We resigned Matt Barnes, Chris Paul, and Ryan Hollins. All in all the only area we did not address was getting a better starting center, but its very understandable since no one wants to pick up an over paid center that only puts up 8PPG. If we would have unloaded DJ and got a better center then our grade goes from an A- to A+.
For me its a clear A up to now. Though not being high at all on keeping DJ I judge them on the moves they have done (and not on what they havent). The team assembled now makes up for keeping DJ (if keeping DJ was wise we will see soon within 6 or 12 months but hes got competition now with BJ) and as of now I have to give Doc the credit of a doubt on this one. For sure depending on who will still join us ( I do favour Blair or IVan and Daye at the moment) the grade can improve or get worse but up to now they could not have done much better.
Off-season goals:
Re-sign Paul
New, better coach that can coach defense
Better defensive team / players
Better shooting all-around
Better shooting / floor spacing from the big man positions
1) Paul re-signed: A
2) Got Rivers: A
3) Drafted Bullock, signed Redick and Dudley who are better than last years wing defenders, brought back Barnes, but lost Bledsoe and Odom is still in the air. Currently no big man defensive additions, which makes us have to wait and see the development of current bigs: B / a bit incomplete
4) Added Redick, Dudley, Collison who's a better shooter than Bledsoe off the bench, Bullock, added Mullens who's a better shooter than any big from last season. Big man shooting is still overall weak: B+
5) Added Mullens who's shooting numbers are an improvement from an Odom (except 16-23), but who's projection for the season is unclear, and so far has been a weak shooter overall. No other additions in terms of big man shooters, so internal improvement will be key: C+
Overall: B+/A-
Doc Rivers. A+
Not so much because he is a great coach (after all he's only had success with one team), but because he is respected and helped us keep CP3!
CP3 & Matt Barnes. A+
This was the only real goal we should have had from the start and we did everything to facilitate that without any Howard-like fuss! Barnes was a must for the bench.
Jared Dudley & JJ Reddick. A
The only player I would have preferred is Afflalo, but we got our wing and a younger, improving SF.
Reggie Bullock. B
I am a bit hesitant as to what we'll do with him since we already have a ton of shooting. It might have been better to get a serviceable back-up PF here as Reggie won't see much playing time.
Darren Collison. A+
The biggest steal and best move. We got a starting-caliber PG as a back-up.
Ryan Hollins. C
Has the spirit, but to me there were better options that early in the off-season!
Willie Green. F
We moved from having no real wing players to having way too many wing players. Again, should have concentrated on a serviceable back-up PF!
Byron Mullens. A
The guy is very underrated and can play, no matter what some people, who have seen him play 2-3 times at best say. He can very well develop into the biggest steal and should be the first big off the bench.
How is Willie Green an F? He is a great 2nd and 3rd stringer. One of our guards will definitely get injured at some point so he is good insurance.
I understand that you are worried about not having good backup bigs but if we amnesty Wayns and Davies we have 3 spots left on our roster. Plenty of space we only need 2 more guys.
Our new GM/Coach. Doc Rivers. A
Great Hire. It's on the players now. We have a proven winner and leader. Sad we had to give up a first round pick, but hey, it's time to win now. We're going "all in" and I like that.
resigning CP3 & Matt Barnes. A
CP3 was a must to open up a title window for the next few years. It's a steep price to pay, but if he continues to produce at the level he has been, it'll be well worth it. If his performance starts to slip at all though in the next few years, he could be considered overpaid fast. Barnes has been a great role player for us and it's nice having him back. Slightly concerned with his age but the price of keeping him wasn't bad.
3 team trade to get Jared Dudley & JJ Reddick. B+
Liked this trade a lot. Got two knock down shooters on the wings. I don't think Bledsoe's value was as high as many other posters thought, so I think we came out ahead. However, I do feel like this makes us undersized at both wing positions as well as at point guard. I was hoping we could get a little bit bigger at those positions. I definitely think size and athleticism is a little lacking on the wings. All of a sudden, a team like the Thunder with Westbrook and Durant scare me.
Our 25th pick: Reggie Bullock. B
Good prospect. However, I don't think he'll have much impact this year. Didn't really follow the draft or know who was available, but I would have taken a flyer on a bruiser big man instead. For a value pick though, definitely can't complain. It seems like this kid has some upside and I hope he can get some regular season PT this year.
signed Darren Collison. A
Loved it. Proven, decent starting-caliber PG to lead our 2nd unit. Also thrived the last time playing under CP3. Feel much more comfortable about resting CP3 if he has any nagging injuries this year.
resigned Ryan Hollins. C-
Not a fan. To me he's the epitome of activity without productivity. Doesn't rebound well, doesn't seem to be in the right place on defense most of the time, and like all of our bigs, doesn't box out well. Extremely foul prone. I would have given a lower grade but I do like the fact that he brings some toughness and hits his free throws at a decent clip. Still don't feel comfortable with any of our center closing games.
pick up option on Willie Green. B-
Will be interesting to see how much PT Willie gets this year. It's nice having him back, but...Redick, Crawford, Willie, Bullock. Not many minutes to go around at the 2. I see him having minimal impact this year. If Crawford is moved during the season, he'll be nice insurance.
signed Byron Mullens. B+
I might be grading him a bit high but there's mot much available out there at Center. I like him a lot more than Hollins. We still need a bruiser big badly. Johnson or that guy that Dallas waived would be ideal. Odom isn't too bad either but I still can't figure out why we got rid of Reggie Evans.
Overall Offseason A-
I know people are really excited about this year, but I'm only cautiously optimistic. I still think we're going to struggle a bit defensively against quality opponents. I still think we're missing some size/toughness as well as playmaking ability on the wings. Did we improve? Yes, but since we were backdoor swept out of the first round last year, that doesn't mean much. Imo, we are not in a class above the Spurs, OKC, Memphis, etc. We're in the hunt but to win the Finals, or even the West, we will have to play close to perfection. Overall, really excited about the season. Fun time to be a Clippers fan.
haha teams like the thunder didn't scare you before? what's new ??
Picking up the Willie Green option should not be graded a F by anyone. Dude is a pro
And how much time you think he will get behind JJ and Crawford? Waste of money!
CBSSports just put up their team-by-team off season grades. Pretty funny, we're the only A+ and Lakers are the only F.
Here it is cut and paste style...Just the two L.A. teams.
Key moves: Re-signed Chris Paul (five years, $107 million), sign-and-traded for J.J. Redick (four years, $28 million) and Jared Dudley
Who are these guys? This isn't the Clippers is it? Making smart choices and improving an already good team. What's going on here?
The Clippers "traded" for Doc Rivers, which was step one. Then they re-signed Chris Paul, which was step two. And then they added necessary pieces like J.J. Redick and Jared Dudley, which strengthens them overall by quite a lot. Losing Eric Bledsoe stings, but the Clippers managed to improve their bench regardless of it.
Grade: A+
Key moves: Signed Nick Young (one years, $1.1 million), Jordan Farmar (one year, $1.1 million), Chris Kaman (one year, $3.2 million)
Grade: F
fair enough, and.... just projection/conjecture based on his college body of work, and mostly of what I've read about him.... don't think he's an E Bled on the wing.... as stated before, would have taken my chances on Hardaway and/or Tony Mitchell.
Actually, Royce Young (author) gave 2 F's and 2 A+'s--the other F was to the Denver Nuggets and the other A+ was to Houston Rockets.
So basically you are saying that there is no point in having a 10th man-15th man since they don't play either....
agreed. he played amazing toward the end of the season, and many of us here were lobbying for him to stay as the atrter during playoffs due to his closing strech and Billups still being injured
First of all you're totally right, Willie Green is a GREAT insurance policy and a total professional about the way he approaches the game and his role.
Secondly, did amnesty really become that big of a buzz word without anyone understanding it? each team only has 1 amnesty EVER and we used it on gomes. We never get another one and even if we did we wouldn't use it on a guy who's contract is around 1 million dollars. you just cut them or in Wayns situation waive him and move on. Davies contract is partially guaranteed so he will get something from us but we could just say good bye to Wayns and never see him again.
the amnesty thing should be about done right? How many teams possibly could still have players on contracts after this season from the old CBA?? hopefully we can retire this phrase soon
I meant waive not amnesty my bad. Used the wrong word.
Damn, only one amnesty ever? Not being sarcastic but that seems really rigid. Was that right or just hyperbole?
yea just one and the only reason it ever existed was because the owners felt that under the old CBA they gave too many mediocre players huge contracts who then stunk it up and they were stuck under it. SO under the new CBA they put in an amnesty clause saying that each team was allowed to erase one contract from their books (that already existed from the old cab) and have it not go against their cap, although they still had to pay the player the full price of the contract (minus whatever they signed for with their new team).
Haha, they absolutely scared me before, but I think matching up with their superstars is an even bigger problem than it was before. Hopefully better coaching and team defense can overcome those guys if we face them.
And this is the last year it can be used. If you didn't amnesty a guy by last week, you lose your right to use it in the future.
Good! Hopefully everyone will forget about it and stop using the term every time they don't want a player on their team.
Don't our superstars match up exactly the same tho? Our benches may match up differently but if anything our starting lineup is better and theirs is the same...Even their bench is weaker, even if they get mike miller, he is no harden or kevin martin. The thunder have a few really good (potentially) young pieces but that doesn't scare me until they prove anything
the thunder do a great job of replacing pieces they lost in free agency. When harden left they replaced him with martin. Now Martin is gone and Jackson is sliding into that sixth man role. Unless they add another player its safe to say the thunder have remained the same, whereas we have improved in every level.
^Let's hope they sign Gomes and he can do some damage for us from the inside. That would be more useful than when he was with us.
thats hilarious.
Reggie Jackson? He was there last year. He may be the new 6th man but they are definitely still missing a piece from last years team
Might as well chock them up as a lottery team if they make that mistake. How anybody could even waste time working him out if beyond me. Even a bad team let alone the Thunder.


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Session 1 - Chromosphere, Corona, Flares.
Display session, Friday, June 27
Ballroom B, Chair: Charles Kankelborg
Often the derived temperature of an active region reflects the method and the nature of the instrument used in its measurement. Yet establishing the temperature is the first step needed to proceed with most of the interesting physics of active regions -- including heating processes, loop stability, and cooling timescales. Accurately characterizing the thermal distribution of the coronal plasma requires data which can resolve multi-thermal features and which also constrain both low- and high-temperature emission.
To model the temperature distribution of NOAA Active Region 7563, we have combined broad-band filter data from the Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) with simultaneous spectral line data from the Goddard Solar EUV Rocket Telescope and Spectrograph (SERTS) taken during its flight on 17 August 1993.
>From the SERTS data alone, Brosius et al. (1996) produced a double-peaked differential emission measure (DEM) distribution (see their Figure 8), but the higher-temperature ( 4 MK) peak was at the extreme end of the SERTS range of sensitivity, and so was uncertain. But the higher temperature response of SXT can be used to cross-check the reality of this high-temperature feature -- we adjusted the response functions of the three SXT filters available for this observation by replacing the Meyer (1985) elemental abundances normally used in SXT analysis with the coronal abundance set of Feldman (1992), which was used by Brosius et al. (1996). We then folded the SERTS DEM curve through the adjusted SXT responses, and found that the high-temperature DEM peak was NOT consistent with the SXT data. The SERTS and SXT data sets could be reconciled only if the high-temperature peak was eliminated from the DEM curve.
We also discuss how the SXT responses change with the assumed set of elemental abundances. In particular, a change in the normalization of heavy elements with respect to hydrogen does NOT yield a simple scaling factor in the emission measure, and the temperature responses of filter ratios are also affected.
Brosius et al. 1996, ApJ Suppl., 106, 143. Feldman 1992, Phys. Scr., 46, 202. Meyer 1985, ApJ Suppl., 57,173.
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After five consecutive years of winning or sharing the regular season Atlantic 10 title, Chris Mack's squad sputtered to a 20-12 overall record and a 10-6 mark in A-10 play.
For the first time since 2006, the Musketeers found themselves in the unique position of needing to win games in the conference postseason to boost their profile with the selection committee.
"When you know you are in the NCAA tournament sometimes the games don't mean as much to you," Mack said, following an A-10 semifinal win over regular season champ St. Louis. "My former mentor (the late Skip Prosser) used to say 'A hungry cat hunts best.' I think these guys are extremely hungry."Led by seniors Tu Holloway, Kenny Frease and Andre Walker, expectations were high entering the season and Xavier stormed out to a 9-0 start and top ten ranking.
The final win prior to exam break was a 76-53 pasting of cross-town rival Cincinnati which ended in an ugly brawl and multiple suspensions for both teams.
Three consecutive losses followed and the skid became five of six and extended in to the start of the A-10 schedule as Xavier toppled out of the Top 25.
The Musketeers recovered to finish in a third-place tie in the A-10 with St. Bonaventure, but were tagged as a bubble team with some work to do in order to hear their name called on Selection Sunday.
"Our backs were against the wall," Frease said. "We knew we had to win or we were going home. That is when this team thrives."Frease and company reached the A-10 final before losing to an even hungrier St. Bonaventure squad. Xavier was awarded an at-large bid and defeated Notre Dame, out of the Big East, on Friday in Greensboro, N.C.
The Mountain Hawks, whose stunning 75-70 win over Duke earlier that night was the first NCAA tournament win in school history, will have to play giant killer again to get past Xavier.
The Cincinnati school reached the Sweet 16 three straight years from 2008-2010.
"Our team, our program is used to playing in March," Mack said. "I believe it is March."


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Longtime Staten Islander John R. Kubasek, 74, of West Brighton, nationally known in the construction field, died Wednesday at home.
Born in Bayonne, he was raised in Port Richmond. He moved to West Brighton in 1963.
Mr. Kubasek began his career as an editor of The New York Construction News, Manhattan. He also was administrative coordinator of Paul & Jarmel Architects, Manhattan.
In 1963, he established his own general management firm, John R. Kubasek and Associates Inc., based first in Westerleigh and later West Brighton. It handled marketing, public relations and advertising.
His professional credits included numerous articles on construction management and appearances nationally before a variety of construction trade and owners groups.
He was a former co-chairman of Catholics in Construction.
He retired in 2009.
A graduate of Port Richmond High School, Mr. Kubasek held a bachelor of arts degree from New York University.
Mr. Kubasek was a food and wine enthusiast.
In addition, "he loved the movies and, most of all, enjoyed Sunday outings with his family," said loved ones. "He charmed everyone with his exuberant personality and sense of humor."
He was in the U.S. Navy Reserves during the 1950s.
He attended Sacred Heard R.C. Church, West Brighton.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Katherine (Kay); three daughters, Kathryn (Katie) Kubasek, Kim Kubasek Shemitz and Kristina Cerce, and one grandson.
Arrangements are being handled by Harmon Funeral Home, with a mass Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Sacred Heart R.C. Church and burial in St. Peter's Cemetery, all West Brighton.