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ISBE DELL e-Broadcast Newsletter 2014.252-Critical Reminders and Resources for Educators
A news commentator of the past may have asked, "Have you ever wondered" about the etymology of the word "vortex"?
Latin in origin and a variant of vertex, http://www.etymonline.com tells us that a vortex is an "eddy of water, wind or flame". Amid a whirlwind of activity, our newsletter will focus on assessment, comprehensive planning reminders, and professional development elements.
The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium is seeking ACCESS test administrators to participate in a brief survey on the 2014 ACCESS for ELLs® test. For more information see the "2014 ACCESS for ELL Administration Survey" link at http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/access.htm.
Comprehensive Planning Reminders
FY15 Enrollment Summary and Ceiling Calculator Due January 31, 2014
The Enrollment Summary and Ceiling Calculator, Part I of the FY15 application for TBE/TPI/Title III funding, is due on January 31, 2014. You may create and submit an FY15 Enrollment Summary and Ceiling Calculator on IWAS. When submitting Part I, you must confirm that your district has uploaded complete and accurate English language learner (ELL) student data on the SIS.
After March 3, 2014, EL student data will be extracted from the Student Information System (SIS) to generate your district's FY15 funding allotments for TBE/TPI and the Title III LIPLEPS and Immigrant Education Program. SIS data will be used to populate attendance center summaries and generate funding allocations in Part II of the FY15 application. Once this information is populated, it cannot be changed, so it is important to review your SIS data carefully.
The TBE/TPI and Title III Application (Part II) will be available on IWAS on May 1, 2014. It must be submitted to ISBE by June 30, 2014. For more information on the application process, please view the Division of English Language Learning webinar at: http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/grant-resources.htm.
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We are excited to share two new ELL webinars that are available on our website. An "Introduction to English Learners" and "Second Language Acquisition" serve as introductions for ELL and general education teachers, administrators, and program directors who do not have prior experiences with ELs or as a refresher for more experienced teachers, administrators, or program directors. To view and share these webinars, see the "ELL 101 Series" under the Webinars and Presentations link at: http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/prof-dev.htm.

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You see a missile coming at you, fired by an opponent off on another platform. Its translucent smoke trail is more of a give-away than the rocket flame, which is mostly obscured by the missile as it hurls itself directly towards you. Dart to the right, off the ledge, while you rail-gun your opponent; his body comes apart into pieces, each bouncing around leaving bloody stains where they hit.
While not everyone may agree with the content of Quake3 Arena, or any of a multitude of other violent games available, it's hard not to be impressed with the technical sophistication of the images produced. Many, including Q3A, rely on the OpenGL Application Programming Interface (API) to do the actual rendering. OpenGL is a good choice for developers who want to produce real-time 3D images because it's cross platform and mature. OpenGL (or a clone) API is available on most modern desktops, with some taking advantage of 3D hardware acceleration provided by the video card.
Figure 1. Images from Quake3 Arena rely on the OpenGL API for their rendering.
OpenGL was developed by SGI (split off from IrixGL when the company was still known as Silicon Graphics), and the OpenGL name is a registered trademark owned by the company. For many years, the only real access to OpenGL was by way of high-end Unix workstations, which were used for engineering, scientific, and visualization work. SGI's IRIX-based machines were generally considered to be the best, as they usually came with leading-edge, highly optimized 3D acceleration hardware. They also came with extremely high price tags.
For anyone who wanted to provide the OpenGL API itself (as opposed to just using the API as a client program), SGI licensed the use of the name, a set of conformance tests, and a Sample Implementation (SI) in software for $100,000, with binary redistribution rights available for an additional $5 per copy royalty. Having this license and passing the tests gave someone the right to claim to be truly OpenGL compliant.
Fast-forward a few years and bring mass-market consumer economics to bear, and 3D acceleration hardware which used to cost $50,000 is now available for $250. Oh, and it's faster. It seems people just can't get enough of shooting at each other, and those who have machines that can render high-resolution displays at high frame rates have a better chance of taking out their opponents.
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In order to still be considered open, and to help get their API used, SGI has always allowed the copying of the OpenGL header files in order to produce compatible "clones." Examples include all the various "MiniGL" versions available for different 3D hardware cards under Windows. These are often written solely with games in mind and may not work well with, for example, a CAD program.
Just recently, SGI has revised the access terms to their SI to be much more "open." Available for free download, the new license now allows hardware vendors who based their drivers on the SI to release their code in source form, if they so choose. This is great news for users and developers on Linux, and continues SGI's commitment to contributing technologies to the open source community. It's important to note, however, that SGI still owns, controls, and limits the use of the term OpenGL.
One clone implementation of particular interest to Linux/Free Unix users is the Mesa 3-D graphics library, written by Brian Paul and others at www.mesa3d.org. Mesa is a GPLed, OpenGL-like implementation which until recently was as close to "real" OpenGL as you can get (with source code) without paying money. And while SGI's SI does provide "complete feature coverage," including new imaging features defined in OpenGL 1.2, Mesa actually turns out to be a bit faster in some situations. SGI is quite supportive of Mesa, and has recently given Brian a copy of the conformance tests to use. Mesa is still not allowed to claim to be OpenGL, however.
OpenGL is an API to assist in delivering 3D drawing services in real-time environments. It's an immediate mode design, in that each frame is drawn explicitly by the client application, and each mode change will affect all subsequent drawing calls. This is instead of a retained mode design (like SGI's IRIX Performer), where the client application first describes the scene and then changes the camera and objects as needed.
The OpenGL API itself is controlled by an independent board, known as the Architecture Review Board (ARB), with each member having a single vote. The ARB governs changes and extensions to the API, new releases, and the conformance tests. This ensures that SGI can't solely control where the standard goes. News and development information is available at the OpenGL.org site.
It's interesting to note that through its extension functions, new abilities are added to OpenGL in a very open-source manner. Any implementer can add a new extension, so long as it includes a prefix which identifies it as unique to the implementer. If the extension is submitted to the ARB and approved for adoption, it then becomes part of the official standard.
The classic teapot object to help developers with lighting and texture design
The API is carefully designed to allow large portions of the work to be carried out with the assistance of 3D hardware. A full implementation (like OpenGL or Mesa, but unlike many of the MiniGLs) will fall back from hardware acceleration to a software version for any features requested that aren't available from the hardware. This is referred to as falling back from the fast path to a slow path and can dramatically lower the frame rate delivered.
Rendering, or drawing, complex and realistic scenes full-screen at 50 frames per second is not possible even with today's fastest general-purpose processors, so specialized hardware assistance is needed for most applications. Small demonstration programs can still be run solely with software rendering, for example, as can applications where high frame rates aren't needed. But once hardware acceleration is used, no one is ever willing to go back.
To the application program author, OpenGL provides approximately 250 calls, or entry points, that are used to set up the rendering environment, create lights, and set background colors, drawing and blending modes, etc. Calls are also provided for drawing points, lines, polygons (convex and planar only, please), and bitmaps. These can be painted with textures and "lit" in different ways.
OpenGL provides several different types of buffers that the programmer can use to render the scene. For example, the frame or color buffer is where the actual drawing that is seen by the user takes place. There may be several frame buffers available, including front and back versions of both left and right buffers. Each OpenGL implementation can offer all of these, plus additional auxiliary buffers, or may only provide a subset. At the minimum, at least one frame buffer must be available.
Other buffer types include a depth or Z buffer, which is used to eliminate hidden surfaces, and a stencil buffer, used to control where drawing takes place. Lastly, an accumulation buffer can be used to blend scenes together for motion blur and anti-aliasing effects. Not all buffers are supported in hardware on all devices though, and using an unsupported buffer will slow the refresh rate down considerably.
There are also several support libraries available for use with OpenGL, two of the most important being the OpenGL Utility (GLU) library and the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT). The former provides functions that help in creating texture mipmaps (explained below), accessing extended functions of OpenGL, as well as several that assist in building different object types including complex, curved NURBs and quadratic surfaces.
The latter library, GLUT, was written by Mark Kilgard, and is a windowing-system-independent toolkit designed to let a program run anywhere, regardless of the platform. In addition to window creation, handling, and event-processing functions, the library also provides several object creation functions. Included are wire and solid versions of a sphere, cube, torus, and cone, plus icosa-, octa-, tetra- and dodeca-hedrons. And, just for fun, a teapot is available at the request of a single function call.
3D programming is quite math intensive, relying on passing objects through 4x4 floating point transform matrices in order to figure out how a bunch of rotated, transformed, scaled objects map to a rotated, transformed, scaled projection. While those strong in math are welcome to manipulate the various matrices directly, those to whom math is rather intimidating can still produce impressive results using OpenGL and nothing but the simplest trigonometry.
Several years ago some high-IQ types realized that if you could wrap two-dimensional images around three-dimensional objects, you could make them look much more realistic. Rather than trying to represent all the detail of a scene with individual geometry, it also turns out to be much faster to texture map fine details onto a surface than add many more triangles.
Texture maps are so important that many consumer-level 3D-accelerated cards now include two independent texture rendering units in silicon. This means two different texture maps can be applied to an object in one pass. So, for example, one texture might be the usual surface texture of a brick wall, and the other texture might be a light-map from a nearby lightbulb.
Texture mapping is extremely computationally intensive, and it becomes even more so as additional filtering is turned on. The filtering is desired in order to make the textures look reasonable when they're displayed at sharp angles or at a partial magnification. The use of mipmaps can also aid in making textures look better when they are viewed from far away. Mipmaps don't take more CPU time (except at creation), but they do require more memory.
Figure 3. Texture mapping is computationally intensive.
Textures can be applied to an object in a variety of ways for different effects and can include an alpha or transparency channel. Depending on the mode chosen, a texture can be applied as a decal to an object, it can simply replace the object's color, or it can be blended or modulated with the object's existing color. Using textures with an alpha channel, it's possible to "punch holes" in an object or make the edge of an object appear irregular.
Texture mapping is an art form, with the need for creative tricks with patterns and an artist's hand to create the textures themselves. Any graphics program can be used to create RGB (color) textures, and advanced programs like Photoshop and the Gimp can be used to create RGBA (color with alpha channel) textures. Textures can also be created dynamically by way of the creative use of code.
It's important to note that most OpenGL applications are limited in the size of the textures that are allowed, some as small as 256 pixels square. Textures' sizes must also be a power-of-2, although the width and height need not be the same. For example, a texture sized 128 by 4 pixels is valid, while one 60 by 30 is not.
As mentioned above, both the OpenGL SI from SGI and the GPLed Mesa are available for Linux. Mesa is often included with Linux distributions, at least in the form of client libraries. Versions intended for developers, with the required header files, aren't always included, however, and might need to be downloaded and installed. A quick search on FreshMeat.net for OpenGL will also find many available miniGLs targeted at game developers.
Later versions of MesaGL are also able to leverage on installed 3dfx Voodoo2/3, Matrox G200/400, ATI Rage Pro, or Intel i810 video cards to provide hardware acceleration, to some degree or another. However, because of technical limitations in XFree86 3.x, accelerated 3D-in-a-window is almost impossible to do, and Mesa can only provide acceleration for full-screen mode.
Thanks to SGI's contribution to the open source community of GLX, a special high-speed, direct-to-hardware-within-X rendering infrastructure they developed for their own IRIX environment, the full-screen-only problem under XFree86 has been solved. First SGI, then RedHat, then several other video card vendors paid Precision Insight to port GLX and Mesa to work with XFree86 4.0 and a variety of accelerated 3D cards in a fully integrated solution called the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). The DRI allows windows to be rendering using available hardware and can even handle accelerating more than one window at a time.
Although it will take a few months for XFree86 4.0 to become available as an off-the-CD install option for common Linux distributions, when it does there will be cheering from a great many 3D video card owners. For those who can't wait, the complete DRI codebase (including XFree 86 4.0) is available from CVS on sourceforge.net. Details are available at (URL:dri.sourceforge.net/), but be warned: This is not for end-users yet.
For those who need 3D acceleration-in-a-window today, and don't want to deal with ".0" code, a few commercial solutions do exist. For example, Xi Graphics offers their 3D Accelerated-X product, with several drivers available for specific cards. For most people, though, simply waiting until XFree86 4.0 becomes available will be the easiest and cheapest route.
Figure 4. With OpenGL you can throw together some code which results in clients' and friends' mouths dropping open.
OpenGL's ability to port to Windows is probably what prompted Microsoft to develop Direct3D, a competing API that many Windows game developers are using. Direct3D is now up to version 7, and it's beginning to look promising. The problem is, of course, that it's limited to a single platform.
OpenGL continues to be the only choice for most high-end, real-time applications, particularly in the simulation, scientific, and technical fields. Many 3D environment systems are also built on top of OpenGL to do the actual rendering. For example, SGI's IRIX Performer and id Software's Quake SDK both use OpenGL, but abstract the developer from much of the low-level detail.
Of course, the low-level details are exactly what some developers are after, and getting down and dirty may be the only way to achieve some desired effect or another. Knowing the right tool for a particular problem is of course a large part of a programmer's skill-set.
Having a working knowledge of OpenGL can be a very empowering ability. You can quickly throw together a bit of code which results in clients', friends', and coworkers' mouths dropping open. It can also help to understand what an application that uses OpenGL is actually doing to produce its images.
And, last but not least, programming 3D applications is simply fun! With ever more powerful hardware coming into the hands of more and more users, and SGI actively encouraging OpenGL's deployment on Linux, the possibilities are only going to become more exciting over time.
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We are driving to pick up our son from camp. He's been there three weeks, the longest stretch he's been away from us since his birth. In this age of e-mails and BlackBerrys and cell phones, the rule at Camp Alonim at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley is no e-mails, BlackBerrys or cell phones. He's sent us a few postcards home, clearly written by an 11-year-old who has put away childish things, like parents.
"Dear Family: We prayed and prayed and had havdalah end of story. Love, Adi. P.S. I love you. P.P.S. Tomorrow's our overnight and we're creating our own fire and no letters on Sunday."
We follow a dusty procession of cars making its way toward the bunks -- the one time of year these SUVs will touch actual dirt. Our son and his friends pour out -- and they are different. Taller. Browner. A bit of manly bunk-stench still clinging to their clothes. We ask them how it was and they laugh among themselves and break into secret jokes and chants and hints of midnight sneak-outs, leaving the details to our imaginations. For a decade their lives have been lived out solely on our turf. Now we are strangers on theirs.
On this warm August morning, the endless agonizing over Jewish continuity and how best to ensure a Jewish future seems especially vapid. You want to know what works? Camp.
A fraction of American Jewish children attend Jewish summer camps, despite a small but growing body of evidence that no other institution is as effective in passing Jewish values and community to the next generation.
"The 24/7 experience can't be replicated," said Jerry Silverman, the executive director of the Foundation for Jewish Camping (www.jewishcamping.org). "It's living communally outdoors, integrating Jewish learning with fun." A former executive with Levi Strauss and Stride Rite, Silverman's change-of-life moment came when he picked one of his own children up from her first stay at Camp Ramah New England and found she had been transformed by the immeasurably positive experience. Jewish camping, he said, "evolved into a family passion."
Silverman joined up with the foundation, which was founded in 1998 by Wexner Fellows Robert and Elisa Bildner to be a national advocate for the Jewish camp movement. There are 120 nonprofit Jewish camps in the United States and Canada, serving between 55,000-60,000 children. That's just 8 percent of the total Jewish population. The Foundation's goal is to double the number in five years.
The obstacles are as close as your checkbook. Sleepaway camps range from $475-650 per week, with the average close to $600. An Avi Chai Foundation study found that while 67 percent of Jewish professionals are summer camp alumni, the high tab puts off many families.
Those that aren't deterred often confront a lack of camps themselves. There is no camp on the West Coast serving the Modern Orthodox. The high price of land and start-up costs in the millions mean few new camps come on line with any frequency. Film producer Doug Mankoff, the Foundation's only Los Angeles-area board member, put it this way: "There are three fundamental ways to strengthen Jewish identity among young people: day schools, Israel and camping. But nobody seems to be doing much about the last one."
But the Foundation hopes to chip away at these problems, and money and effort are starting to flow in the right direction. In Western Massachusetts, the Grinspoon Foundation gives every Jewish child a $1,000 scholarship to attend the first year at camp. The Avi Chai Foundation is funding improved Judaic and leadership training for counselors and Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation is funding specialized courses in the dramatic arts for camp leaders. And here in Southern California, home of sticker shock by the square foot, organizers in San Diego have just broken ground on a new, pluralistic camp in the San Bernardino Mountains -- with a lake.
Mankoff said such camps offer something unique, "learning about Judaism in a cool way."
I thought of my son's postcard -- how prayer and Havdalah fused with the thrill of an actual campfire.
"It's that heartfelt excitement about Judaism kids can feel with their peers," Mankoff said.
It was that excitement I read on my son's face and heard in his stories.
That morning we picked Adi up, he and his friends decided to take us on a hike around Brandeis. We ended up climbing a hill claimed by the junior counselors-in-trainings. "This is the J-CIT hill, that one is the CITs," said one of them, pointing across the landscape like Gen. Tommy Franks on reconnaissance.
They had their own language, had formed their own tribe with its own stories. We scrambled past a garden where the kids learned about the (old) kibbutz life, and up a steep path that a month earlier we couldn't have begged these boys to climb.
On the way down we heard an ear-jolting thrum. Two feet in front of us, a large rattlesnake shot across our trail and slipped under a toyon bush. Its body was thick as a man's wrist, but all I noticed were its pointy eyes facing us down, and its furious rattle.
These boys, raised in the wilds of Rancho Park, Carthay Circle, Hancock Park Adjacent and West Los Angeles, slipped sideways around the snake and continued their march down the hill. The we-came-this-close-to-a-rattlesnake story joined the other stories and jokes and experiences they would pass down about Alonim 2004, as their little tribe happily merges into the larger one, the one to which we all belong.
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While I visited my mother for her birthday on July 16 and 17, she received a phone call from a male stating he was her favorite grandson. My sister answered the phone, and, as soon as I heard her end of the conversation, I told her to hang up, that it was a scam. I read about it in the AARP bulletin.
The next day, the man called. I looked at the caller ID, saw it was a cell phone, and I answered it. This time, when he said, "Hi, this is your favorite grandson", I strung him along, asking a lot of questions. He gave me a long story about his trip to Niagara Falls and how he got arrested and needed bail money. I told him that I knew this was a scam and that I had called the police and to never call this number again. He hung up immediately.
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Lawmakers must behave
I recently engaged in the legislative process at the Vermont Statehouse following a bill during last session that was ultimately passed into law.
The experience was frustrating at times, but also empowering and enlightening. Based on that experience, I wanted to share a few points that might encourage a change in the way many legislators interact with the citizens they represent.
The most important request I would make of our representatives and senators is that when listening to testimony, or voting on a bill, please pay attention. It is hard to overstate how frustrating it is to watch a hearing involving an important and difficult policy issue when the legislators who make decisions about the issue are doing one or more of the following things (all of which I and others have witnessed on more than one occasion): passing notes, making jokes or small talk with the legislator next to them, filling out time cards, texting, surfing the Web and sending emails.
Am I old-fashioned, or is it hard to pay attention to the necessary issues that determine our laws while engaging in these other activities? As a parent, I would be embarrassed if my child behaved that way in her elementary school class. We should be able to expect better behavior from our legislators.
I am aware that our legislators are paid minimally for their countless hours of work and do appreciate this choice to serve.
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just conformation of what we knew was coming... Payton got bailed out..
The Hawks waived PG Gary Payton.
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By Marc Stein, ESPN.com
Suns stars Shawn Marion and Steve Nash have told ESPN.com that they're personally lobbying free agent Gary Payton to sign with Phoenix after he clears waivers Thursday, but league sources indicate that Payton is leaning toward a return to the Boston Celtics.
Gary Payton
NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik, meanwhile, told ESPN.com on Wednesday that the league does not plan to sanction the Celtics if Payton does re-sign with Boston. The Celtics have been accused of prearranging Payton's return by trading him to Atlanta for Antoine Walker and promising to re-sign the veteran guard after the Hawks released him. General manager Danny Ainge has denied those claims.
Granik did say the practice of teams trading a player and then re-signing him after he clears waivers will definitely be "something we take a look at" in the process of ongoing negotiations with the players' union on a new labor deal. Granik also acknowledged that "there is something that doesn't feel quite right" when, for example, Dallas can include Alan Henderson in last Thursday's trade for Keith Van Horn and then reacquire Henderson after Milwaukee releases him. Thus, that deal suddenly became Calvin Booth for Van Horn.
"But in a salary-cap world, sometimes you end up with trades that make sense in accounting terms and don't necessarily make a lot of sense in the sporting world," Granik said.
"If Payton re-signs with Boston, I'm not sure what great harm has been done. It's not anything anyone in the league is that worked up about. It's hard to see where any great principles have been violated."
The only thing that would change that stance is if, say, the Celtics or the Mavericks were found to be paying an under-the-table bonus to Payton or Henderson as part of these trades.
"And I don't think anyone believes that that's taking place," Granik said.
To bring Walker back to Boston, Ainge sent Payton, Tom Gugliotta and Michael Stewart to the Hawks, along with a future first-round pick. The draft choice was Atlanta's motivation to participate, after which the Hawks happily bought out the remainder of Payton's contract and waived him in time to make the former All-Star eligible for the playoffs.
The only sure way to prevent Payton from choosing his next employer is claiming him off waivers. A claiming team, though, must have the salary-cap space to absorb Payton's $5.4 million salary and none of Payton's current suitors do.
Payton, according to sources, has narrowed his choices to the Celtics and Suns. Going to Phoenix would put him in close proximity to his family's main residence in Las Vegas and, more importantly, put the 36-year-old in contention for the championship ring he's still searching for. Adding Payton to the recently acquired Jim Jackson and Walter McCarty would ease the Suns' depth concerns. And with Payton, Phoenix could curtail Nash's minutes leading up to the playoffs as Nash recovers from recent hamstring trouble.
Indications are, however, that Payton wants to play significant minutes and preferably start, both of which are more likely with the Celtics. It's also likely that Payton feels he has a better chance of landing a new contract from Boston when he hits free agency again July 1, which could give him incentive to rejoin the Celtics as soon as possible.
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just conformation of what we knew was coming... Payton got bailed out..
In that article it says that the Suns are interetsed in him. Like they need anymore scorers.
"One Team, One New York"
it will provide them not only with offense, but with depth off the bench, which they desperately need, but also a defensive presence, and a great passer who can help the suns run their fast break offense. This would be a great addition for them.
[quote="Peach_NYK_21"] but also a defensive presence,/quote]
He is not the "glove" he was back in the 90's but maybe he has something left.
"One Team, One New York"
hes a better defensive presense, that Leonardo Barbosa, their backup point guard at the moment, but yes he has lost a step or two,.
yea alot of people have been waived in the past few days....
Chris Crawford, Kenny Anderson and Gary Payton of Atlanta
Zendon Hamilton of Houston
Jamison Brewer of San Antonio
Glenn Robinson and Dale Davis of New Orleans
Wesley Person of Miami
Jahidi White of Charlotte
Alan Henderson of Milwaukee
Elden Campbell of New Jersey
Kedrick Brown of Philadelphia
On a side note Dale Davis is expected to sign with Indiana. Kenny Anderson has signed with the Clippers. Alan Henderson resigned with Dallas and Gary Payton is expected to sign back with Boston...
The point im getting to is if the league officials find anything interesting in the trading, waiving and the resigning from the team traded from in the Alan Henderson and more importantly Gary Payton scenario Boston could be in trouble here. Much like the Joe Smith and Minnesota situation not too long ago....so aslong as there careful with this he should be back in Boston but who knows he wants a ring bad hell go with Pheonix. but Barbosa has stepped it up lately and i have a hard time thinking Gary will accept a backup role behind Nash.
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i think if Payton really wants that ring bad, which i think he does, i dont think playing backup, especially to Nash would be a problem. Plus Phoenix would finally have an answer to winning without Nash.. They would win 100% of their games not 95%.
I guess it is, even though Nash and Marion have publicly pulled for Payton to come to Pheonix to play behind Nash...Payton has agreed verbally to rejoin the Celtics later this week. Rumored reason...starting position.
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he really said he wants to go back to Boston? Thats not smart on his behalf, if hes looking for a ring.. I guess he wants to play basketball, not for a ring, maybe he wasnt so selfish as I previously thought.
more than just said it, verbally agreed to Danny Ainge. Now it doesnt seem like a binding situation BUT if my 10th-12th grade law classes paid off haha (the ones i went to i mean) a verbal agreement is as good as a signed one or there near close too. So hes practically signed to a contract to go back to Bean Town.
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didnt Cleveland get screwed after Boozer accepted to a verbal contract? and what happened? he went to good ol' Utah... sucky move for Boozer, now with an underachieving east team, when he could have been playing with the next Michael Jordan, in one of the east's premier teams... anyway, I doubt Payton's going to go back on his word, our division just got better.. again.
not sure Boozer actually accepted a verbal contract. I believe he just told team mates and the owners he wanted to come back. A Verbal contract is like the making of a contract, speaking of terms cash etc etc then agreeing without signing yet. I dont believe boozer ever committed that greatly to it, because there was still speculation of him signing that offer sheet.....and Utah is a west team.
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
oops, i dont know why i wrote east.. and thanks for clearing that up, i wasnt quite sure what the Boozer situation was anyway..


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It has been two full decades since the Pittsburgh Pirates have finished a season with a winning record.
The 2013 version of the Buccos appear not only to be a cinch to snap that record but have all of the sudden blossomed into contenders to win it all as they held the best record in all of baseball heading into Tuesday night's action with a 51-30 record.
The Pirates started off slow this season as they dropped five of their first six games but have won 50 games and lost only 25 since.
That equates to a .667 winning percentage over their last 75 games which projected over a full season would add up to 108 wins.
Despite the red hot start, Pirate fans have been somewhat sluggish to rally around their beloved Bucco's as they ranked just 22nd out of 30 major league teams in home attendance, averaging a little over 24,000 fans per game in the beautiful PNC Park.
Perhaps Pirates fans are fearful of a monumental collapse such as the one they experienced last year when the gold and black held a 63-47 record on the eighth of August only to go 16-36 the rest of the way to finish the season at 79-83.
It would be hard to imagine a similar collapse this season as the Pirates appear to be a much more well rounded ball club from top to bottom than they were a season ago.
Despite starting pitchers A.J. Burnett and Wandy Rodriquez spending a sizable amount of the first half on the disabled list, the Buc's have gotten outstanding contributions from a pair of lefties in veteran Fransisco Liriano and young Jeff Locke.
Liriano, who signed with the Pirates as a free agent in the off season after posting a 19-27 record over the past three years with an earned run average of over 5.00, owns a 7-3 record and a 2.23 ERA through the first half.
Locke, who was acquired by the Pirates back in 2009 along with fellow starting pitcher Charlie Morton from the Atlanta Braves for outfielder Nate McClouth, has gone 13 straight starts without allowing more than three runs in a start and owns a 7-1 mark with a 2.06 ERA.
As good as the Pittsburgh starting pitching has been, the bullpen has been even better led by the combination of southpaw Justin Wilson (5-1, 2.18) and right hander Mark Melancon (2-1, 0.89) in the seventh and eighth innings.
The Pirates elected to trade last year's all-star closer Joel Hanrahan to Boston in the off season and hand the ninth inning duties to Jason Grilli and that move by general manager Neil Huntington has proved genius as Grilli has saved 27 of 28 games on the season.
Huntington also went out and signed veteran catcher Russell Martin as a free agent despite his .211 batting average in 2012 and many credit Martin along with Pirate pitching coach Ray Searage with helping the staff achieve an impressive 3.11 team ERA after 81 games.
Pirate pitcher's have not been afraid to pitch inside as they lead all of baseball by plunking 41 hitters.
While Grilli is a definite to be on the National League all-star team and Locke, Liriano, and Melancon all seem deserving of a spot in New York as well, the Pirates offense has been less spectacular but have still manged to get the job done.
Center fielder Andrew McCutchen is hitting .292 with nine home runs and 42 runs batted in to go along with 16 steals while playing gold glove defense, while left fielder Starling Marte (.288, 8HR, 26RBI, 22SB) is developing into an outstanding lead off hitter. Third baseman Pedro Alvarez could make the all-star team as well with 20 homers and 53 RBI's in the first half.Huntington and manager Clint Hurdle would have to be front runners for executive and manager of the year awards respectively if the Pirates can continue their torrid pace. What makes the Pirates run even more impressive is the fact that they are doing it in a division that also includes the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, two teams that would qualify for the playoffs as wild cards if the season ended today.
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