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Home List of Titles Abell 1201: the anatomy of a cold front cluster from combined optical and x-ray data
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- Title
- Abell 1201: the anatomy of a cold front cluster from combined optical and x-ray data
- Author(s)
- Owers, Matthew S.; Nulsen, Paul E. J.; Couch, Warrick J.; Markevitch, Maxim L.; Poole, Gregory B.
- Abstract
- We present a combined X-ray and optical analysis of the cold front cluster Abell 1201 using archival Chandra data and multi-object spectroscopy taken with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian and 6.5 m Multiple Mirror Telescopes. This paper represents the first in a series presenting a study of a sample of cold front clusters selected from the Chandra archives with the aim of relating cold fronts to merger activity, understanding the dynamics of mergers and their effect on the cluster constituents. The Chandra X-ray imagery of Abell 1201 reveals two conspicuous surface brightness discontinuities that are shown to be cold fronts, and a remnant core structure. Temperature maps reveal a complex multiphase temperature structure with regions of hot gas interspersed with fingers of cold gas. Our optical analysis is based on a sample of 321 confirmed members, whose mean redshift is z = 0.1673 ± 0.0002 and velocity dispersion is 778 ± 36 km s–1. We search for dynamical substructure and find clear evidence for multiple localized velocity substructures coincident with overdensities in the galaxy surface density. Most notably, we find the structure coincident with the remnant X-ray core. Despite the clear evidence for dynamical activity, we find the peculiar velocity distribution does not deviate significantly from Gaussian. We apply two-body dynamical analyses in order to assess which of the substructures are bound, and thus dynamically important in terms of the cluster merger history. We propose that the cold fronts in Abell 1201 are a consequence of its merger with a smaller subunit, which has induced gas motions that gave rise to "sloshing" cold fronts. Abell 1201 illustrates the value of combining multiwavelength data and multiple substructure detection techniques when attempting to ascertain the dynamical state of a cluster.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 692, no. 1 (Feb 2009), pp. 702-722
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Abell 1201; Chandra observation; Cluster galaxies; Core; Dynamics; Fiber-fed; Galaxy Redshift Survey; Individual galaxies; Multiwavelength analysis; Perseus cluster; Rich clusters; Spectrograph; Velocity dispersions; XMM-Newton observations; X-rays
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow institutions to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However, you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4650.
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Randy, son of Robert and Robin Schmidt of Sinton, developed a strong imagination as a child, according to his mother.
"Randy always read; he would devour every piece of literature he could get his hands on," Robin said.
Randy graduated from Sinton High School and went on to continue his education at Texas A&M University-College Station, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and history in 2011. The Schmidt family has slowly progressed at developing an 'Aggie Family Tradition' by having Randy's father, two older brothers, Wesley and Andrew, and himself graduate from the university. His little sister, Lily, currently attends A&M, as well.
It was at college that Randy met his wife of four years, Brett. Though Brett is younger than Randy, she herself is very intelligent, as she earned her master's degree in drama in 2010, faster that her word enthusiast husband. The couple live near Dallas, where Randy teaches English at Frost High School, and Brett teaches theater at James L. Collins Catholic School in Corsicana. Aside from enjoying their careers in education, Randy and Brett are happily awaiting the arrival of their first child, James Michael, who is expected to make his debut in November.
Life doesn't stop there for Randy, who just released his first publication "The Lands Beyond the Moon" on Aug. 11.
"I was writing every single day, so it was a challenge for me," Randy said. "Being a teacher has allowed me to have summers off to collate my thoughts and have time to myself."
Though the bulk of the book only took 23 days to write, revising and obtaining a finished product took a little over nine months, but with the support of his wife and family, Randy was able to accomplish becoming a published author.
"My wife is very supportive about my writing," Randy said. "She is my first and best critic. She read every draft and helped me revise it. She is my first reader and my most valued reader."
"The Lands Beyond the Moon" is the story about a boy named Fritz, who goes on an adventure in search of finding himself and finds God in the process. Randy's inspiration for the book was born from his childhood imagination that always wrapped him up in searching for adventure and unknown things, searching beyond the horizon.
"It's all about adventure," Randy said. "I've always had this hunger or appetite for traveling, and then I realized I also had this desire that couldn't be satisfied, until I found God."
The appetite Randy refers to is something, he believes, everyone has and tries to fill with many other things, but it all comes down to finding a spiritual connection with God. Randy, who is 25, was searching for some form of happiness and found it when he developed this relationship with God.
Raised a Baptist, Randy and his wife remained religious (she was raised Methodist), converting to Catholicism. His religious and imaginative background, which is thought to have driven him to become the author he is today, goes back to times when Randy's mother recalls him and his buddy, Matthew Blankenship, drawing out stories on offering envelopes during sermons. "Randy has a big imagination," Robin said. "He always said he would write a book, and now he's done it. We're just really proud of him."
Also having an appetite for traveling, Randy has taken two trips to Europe, which, he says, has been everything he expected. His first trip to Europe was as a junior in high school with former Coach Gene Kasprzyk, which added fuel to the fire in his desire for traveling. Randy and Brett were able to revisit Europe in June for two weeks and plan on making traveling a new family goal after little James is born.
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#208727 - 01/04/13 07:45 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: zmjezhd]
Registered: 06/05/10
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Before moderator Maverick moderates this subject closed I'd like to add what Plato said, to wit...
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
#208728 - 01/04/13 11:11 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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Oh, yes, jenny--I meant to ask earlier: what is a clade, please?
#208731 - 01/05/13 03:14 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: Jackie]
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Sure thing, Jackie.
A "clade" is a useful way to refer to any ancestral lifeform and all of it's descendents.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
n. A group of organisms, such as a species, whose members share homologous features derived from a common ancestor.
#208732 - 01/05/13 03:15 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: zmjezhd]
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I like your definition. Language is indeed a vehicle. But we have cult-language and fashion words and word art. I would not single language out from the other things you mentioned. All through history words have been cherished and worshipped for their own sake.( poetry, illuminated manuscripts and such)
#208736 - 01/05/13 12:07 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: BranShea]
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Branshe, I agree.
Rather than just a vehicle, the culture is the language. Desparate cultures will almost invariably evolve a language that identifies the in-group and best serves their particular needs.
Hey, maybe Maverick wasn't asking "What is Culture?" but just wanted a sampling of our mores and regionalisms.
#208739 - 01/05/13 12:54 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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the culture is the language
I suppose I was distinguishing between what Saussure calls language (langue) and speech (parole). The language itself is not culture, at least to me. Individual texts (or groups of them, i.e., literature) can be culture, but the abstract entity as a whole that is language is outside of culture. Don't know though; might be off the path._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#208752 - 01/06/13 08:17 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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Topic is 'Cultural values'. Question was: 'What does the word culture mean to you?.'
Cultural values are what a group or/and an individual values in social moral behaviour and in all cultural heritage and actual forms in kind.
The word culture just contains too much for a personal answer (imo. Maverick is silent; dear Maverick, I hereby would like to hear yóur answer to your question. ( if can be )
#208753 - 01/06/13 08:24 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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heh, no moderator me - nor power nor will to curtail any discussion. I'm just a monkey clever enough to find that lobbing a stone in the waterhole creates some pretty patterns and sometimes gets the other monkeys' interest...
Thanks for some thoughtful responses. I particularly found useful the associations you drew through analogous terns, nuncle. But all have been interesting.
My thoughts were stirred in this direction by a talking-heads radio show on the BBC recently. Melvyn Bragg has assembled some leading brains around a table and discusses the sequential evolution of this term including its sociological connotations, initially in a British cultural context but swiftly branching into less insular waters. I think the programmes may be available as a download - I shall go look in case anyone wants to sample their thoughtful expositions.
Yes, I think you can download each programme as an mp3 here
or are we supposed to say "you can gif it here"?!
Edited by maverick (01/06/13 08:28 AM)
#208756 - 01/06/13 11:26 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: maverick]
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and yet, you dasn't answer your own question?!
#208761 - 01/06/13 05:05 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: tsuwm]
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Originally Posted By: tsuwmand yet, you dasn't answer your own question?!
heh, for you magister, ok....
I think there seemed a fair consensus of responses around the basic idea that culture is an expression of group thought and endeavour all the actions of the tribe that are learned, assimilated, handed down (whatever the demographic boundary of the group we happen to be thinking about, as Jackie implies).
Im not totally convinced by the clade concept, not so much because it doesnt give a good description of the outcomes in many cases but more because it seems to look through the wrong end of the lens: it implies a coherent reaching for some ulterior objective, yet clade membership could know nothing of such boundaries. If I am not clear there, what I mean is it is like the misinterpretation of Darwinian logic that suggests creatures somehow evolve towards some higher state, whereas what actually happens is variation, culled by exposure.
I note that Fongs apparently facetious remark typically wears his learning lightly: yes, the way the bugs in the milk affect their environment and create certain visible outputs does tell us quite a bit about cultural normative influences, I think.
I like nuncles suggested nuance that its implicitly bound up with caring for something this points me to the key point for my interest in culture, that it cannot be value neutral. Whilst we might tend to broad agreement that culture is a bit like the observable output of other life forms, it seems important to me that we are a reflective animal; that we dont merely leave a blind cultural path like some sort of snail trail, but also have an important capacity to consider, choose, rationalise, communicate, and behave in socially co-operative ways that are vital components of the culture we create around us and leave to the generations that come after us.
To give another analogy, when a woman creates a piece of pottery for certain practical purposes we can see the product as a cultural artefact; but with how much richer meaning does that piece of pottery become endowed when it has accumulated several generations of iteration and elaboration, subjected each time to comparison, praise, study, copy, and so on? It seems to me that these processes over time lead to a higher form of cultural production, a more deeply meaningful reflection of what it is to be human and thus (whether its a pot, a fabric, a picture, a piece of wrought metal, a song or a fragment of poetry) we come to produce aspects of culture that we recognise as art rather than merely value-neutral articles of craft. Sure, all are aspects of culture: but not all, I think, are equal.
Who imparts or arbitrates the value scale is a whole nother thang
Thats my not formally reasoned nor highly polished take on it so far anyway, and I will be interested to hear anything else all-yall come up with, including if you like the broadcasts.
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In the year 2000, a spiritual elder of the Ojibwe tribe in northern Wisconsin warned of massive water pollution and shortages of clean water in the years to come.
"What are you going to do about it?" he asked Josephine Mandamin, an Ojibwe grandmother.
Mandamin could not get the question out of her head.
In Ojibwe spiritual teachings, women are responsible for water. Their special relationship to water spirits is related to their ability to carry and generate life.
So, in April 2003 Mandamin decided to organize a water walk. She and other Ojibwe and non-indigenous women and men helped carry a pail and ceremonial eagle staff on a 1,000-mile journey along the shores of Lake Superior that took thirty-six days.
Every spring since then, Mandamin has organized and participated in water walks around each of the other Great Lakes and along the St. Lawrence and Mississippi rivers. In the summer of 2011, one year after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, four groups of water walkers set out from the Atlantic Ocean, Hudson Bay, the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico and converged at the mouth of the Bad River on Lake Superior, the origin of the first water walk.
But as the water walkers from the four directions arrived, a political battle that could spell doom for the area and its watershed was heating up 300 miles to the south in the state capitol building in Madison.
West Virginia coal billionaire Chris Cline had just incorporated the Gogebic Taconite (GTac) company and announced plans to build one of the largest iron mines in the world.
The twenty-two-mile long, 1,000-foot deep open pit would obliterate the Penokee Hills that form the headwaters of the Bad River watershed, leaving in their place a wasteland of 910 million tons of sulfuric acid-producing waste rock, depleted aquifers, poisoned rivers and streams, and a film of asbestos-laden dust for miles around. Cline, who made his fortune blasting off mountaintops in West Virginia for coal, now aims to bring the natural, social, and economic devastation wrought by this kind of mining to one of the most ecologically sensitive and important places in the Great Lakes region.
The Penokee Hills rise 1,800 feet above sea level and form part of the St. Lawrence continental divide that separates the Great Lakes basin from the Mississippi River basin. Called Wisconsin's "best-kept secret" by Backpacker magazine, the Penokees are teeming with natural wonders. Class II trout streams, stupendous waterfalls and rock formations, and an astonishing density of spring wildflowers attract visitors from all over the world. They are also home to an abundance of wildlife, including endangered species such as the pine marten and the wood turtle, and threatened bird species, such as the Le Conte's sparrow.
Since GTac's plans were announced, people from all walks of life have come together to defend the water, land, and air against the runaway forces of destructive resource extraction. It is part of a global struggle between those who see the planet and all living things on it as potential sources from which to extract financial wealth versus those who see the planet and all living things as sacred. It's a struggle between those whose approach to life is based on command, control, and conquest versus those who practice cooperation, co-creation, and consensus.
The sloughs around the mouth of the Bad River hold special meaning for the Ojibwe people. The location was foretold in their Seven Fires prophecy, which predicted European colonization. The prophecy also guided the ancestors of the tens of thousands of Ojibwe people who now reside around Lake Superior to settle at "the place where food grows on water."
That place turned out to be on the southwestern shore of Lake Superior, where large stands of wild rice grow. The wild rice beds in the Kakagon and Bad River sloughs are among the largest in the world and hold deep spiritual significance.
The Ojibwe people's rights are laid out in treaties with the U.S. government dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. Those treaties ceded land ownership in what is now northern Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota, and northern Michigan in exchange for the promise that members and descendants of the Ojibwe bands who signed the treaties could still hunt, fish, and gather on those lands to meet their spiritual, medicinal, and subsistence needs in perpetuity.
Treaty rights have not always been respected, but in recent decades federal district and appellate courts, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court, have reaffirmed them in cases related to tribal fishing activities. The 1983 Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa Indians vs. Lester P. Voigt, et al. case, known as the Voigt Decision, upheld the treaty rights of signatories to the 1837 and 1842 treaties, and underscored the tribes' right to co-manage the natural resources within ceded territory with other governments that have legal jurisdiction in the region.
Since GTac's proposed open pit mine would be located within ceded territory, the State of Wisconsin has an obligation to consult with the tribes regarding any decision the state or any of its agencies makes that would have an effect on natural resources in the area.
But this is Scott Walker's Wisconsin, where rightwing extremists control the legislature, the state supreme court has a conservative majority that is in the pocket of the Walker administration, and the Department of Natural Resources -- once the envy of the nation for the quality and depth of research and programs it produced -- is now run by a real estate developer who says the role of the agency is to grant permits rather than to enforce regulations.
In 2011, someone leaked a draft of a proposed mining deregulation bill sponsored by GTac, causing a public uproar. Tribal members and their attorneys objected that they had not been consulted. In an attempt to weigh in on the bill, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa released a statement containing ten principles that should be included in any new law. When the bill was introduced in December, none of the principles had been included.
At the first public hearing held on the bill that gutted environmental protections and removed the ability of citizens to contest mine permitting decisions, Bad River tribal chairman Mike Wiggins Jr. tried to shift the discussion away from the mechanistic logic of short-term jobs, markets, and corporate profits. He asked Bad River member Jerome Powless to sing as part of the tribe's testimony.
After the song ended, Wiggins said, "That is a gesture of hope. It's a bit of a prayer for you to consider other matters aside from the notion of just creating jobs, because when you really get into this bill, it's about water, it's about the land, air, people."
Later in the hearing, Red Cliff tribal vice chairman Marvin DeFoe explained what the song meant: "What he sang in that song was the voice of the birds. Because the birds can't speak, so it's our responsibility as stewards of this land to speak on behalf of the birds. To always be mindful of those who cannot speak. And that's why I am here, representing the fish also that need a voice, and the trees also that need a voice."
DeFoe elaborated on the concerns of his tribe, and he contrasted its worldview with that of the mining companies. He said this issue wasn't just about Wisconsin, but that it was global, and he cited climate change and other environmental hazards jeopardizing the entire world.
"I am in support of humanity," he said. "People in my community would rather have clean water than a job. That's how my community feels."
Right after DeFoe spoke, a lobbyist from Caterpillar testified in favor of the bill. It was as if he were from a different planet, where the increase in carbon emissions from mining and other heavy industrial activities have no effect on the atmosphere, and clean water resources are infinite.
"We're bullish on mining," said lobbyist Tom Walters. "Global mining is growing, with the rapid growth in population, with the emerging economies and demand for natural resources at an all time high, we're in this because we think it's going to grow. Wisconsin has vast natural resources, and there is a great demand for those resources globally."
The mining bill, as written by GTac lobbyists, eventually passed in the Republican-dominated legislature, and Walker dutifully signed it.
But the issue is far from settled, and the Ojibwe may well prevail in the end.
Tribal and independent scientists conducting research on the rocks, plants, and animals around the proposed mine site have found hazardous materials, including asbestos, in the area, which may leave the company open to an environmental lawsuit. And the Ojibwe themselves are on firm legal ground to challenge the mine.
Nor did GTac help its cause when it hired machine-gun-toting guards from Arizona to prowl around the woods surrounding their sample drill sites. Scary-looking paramilitary troops in masks, full battle gear, and brandishing automatic weapons came to deter scientists and the public from visiting the site. But that plan backfired. And GTac got a black eye when it emerged that the company that dispatched the guards, Bulletproof Securities, broke the law by not getting a permit to operate in Wisconsin. When it finally got around to filing for a permit, it made some dubious assertions, misrepresenting the consultations it had with county officials.
A new community of mine opponents has come together to defend the Penokee Hills. This community understands that what people in northern Wisconsin need more than a handful of jobs in exchange for massive air and water pollution is a program for sustainable livelihoods that is based on the judicious and respectful use of natural resources.
Activists are already developing such a program. The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is sponsoring a Harvest Education Learning Project (HELP) located in the foothills of the Penokees. The encampment was established last spring and provides the base for tribal members and their guests to survey and research the flora and fauna of the area, and for tribal members to teach traditional skills and crafts to others. This spring, the tribe hopes to tap hundreds of sugar maple trees and teach people how to produce maple syrup. More than 5,000 people from around the world have visited HELP in its first nine months.
The resurrection of traditional ways of living is a goal of Bad River chairman Wiggins, as well. "Our vision transcends the most glorious economic dreams of Bill Williams [CEO of GTac] and his mining cronies and their fifteen or twenty year free-for-all profit," Wiggins said in a recent radio interview. The tribe's vision, he said, spans "hundreds of years of fishing, of putting our hands in the water, and sending our kids to play on the riverbanks."
That vision harkens back to the Seven Fires prophecy, which speaks of a time when a new people will emerge to rediscover and reinvigorate old Ojibwe teachings, ceremonies, and cultural practices.
Josephine Mandamin's water walks and HELP are part of this rediscovery. According to the prophecy, humanity will have to choose between exploiting the Earth, which will result in certain social and ecological catastrophe, or taking the more natural path, whose guideposts are: Use what you need, give what you can, respect all life.
Rebecca Kemble is a writer and political reporter for The Progressive. She is also the president of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the president of CICOPA North America. She is a member of Union Cab Cooperative and is a founding member, writer, and editor in the Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative.
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Maybe I should only be shocked that I wasn't shocked a long time ago.
By Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his "New Collected Poems" (Counterpoint).


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Hey folks,
I have a question for an expert.
If i go into Zen media Explorer,
Then Manage playlists I see the window where i can add tracks that are loaded on the Zen player and create a playlist from these.
I can scroll through the tracks in alphabetical order, however, I have since added tracks to the zen since my last reformat and transfer of tracks.
These 20 or so tracks are not appearing in alphabetical order when viewing in the create playlist window. They appear at the bottom - after the tracks starting with "Z" and also these additional tracks are out of alphabetical order- within themselves- as well.
They *are* all in order when viewing the tracks in the "Browse media" area from the main menu.
My software update says I am using the latest version. (V 5.70.15)
Any suggestions for rectifying this or am I looking at formatting and reloading everytime if I want these in order?
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That's the way it's supposed to work.
Looking at music in Browse Media it lists the mp3's in alphabetic order - just like a file list.
In the Manage Playlists window it lists the files in the order that you want them to be played. If you add files to a play list it adds them at the end. You then have to use the move up/down buttons or drag and drop in the playlist to order them.
What you can do is:
Say the offending playlist is ZZ
Option 1
In Manage Playlists open the playlist ZZ and delete all the songs from the playlist except one.
In Browse Media select the album or songs that you want in order right click and select Add to Playlist then select playlist ZZ and OK
Back in manage playlists delete the one song from the first step.
Option 2
In Browse Media select the album or songs that you want in order right click and select Add to Playlist and accept the suggested name say XX
either use the new XX playlist as is or from Browse media select My playlists and delete the old ZZ.zpl playlist and rename the new XX.zpl playlist to ZZ.zpl
Other options are variations of the theme
I'm not on here much so don't expect a quick reply
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- USDA offers women and Hispanic farmers discrimination claims option
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- During 2011, the USDA is holding meetings and distributing information throughout California to explain a discrimination claims resolution option to ensure that all potential claimants are informed.
- The claims process provides up to $50,000 for each woman or Hispanic farmer who can show that USDA denied them a loan or loan servicing for discriminatory reasons for certain time periods between 1981 and 2000.
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During 2011, the USDA is holding meetings and distributing information throughout California to explain a discrimination claims resolution option to ensure that all potential claimants are informed. If you are a female or Hispanic farmer or rancher and you believe that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) improperly denied farm loan benefits to you for certain time periods between 1981 and 2000 because you are Hispanic or a woman, you may be eligible for compensation.
You might be eligible if:
- you sought a farm loan or farm-loan servicing from USDA during that period; and
- the loan was denied, provided late, approved for a lesser amount than requested, approved with restrictive conditions, or USDA failed to provide an appropriate loan service; and
- you believe these actions occurred because you are female or Hispanic.
"Over the next weeks and months we will be reaching out to leaders of Hispanic organizations and women's organizations and asking for their help to spread the word to those who may be eligible," said David Schaad, acting state executive director of the Farm Service Agency. "Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers can come forward and participate in the claims process by registering to receive a claims package," said Schaad. Call the Farmer and Rancher Call Center at 1-888-508-4429 to have a package mailed or register online at www.farmerclaims.gov.
In 2011, a Claims Administrator will begin mailing claims packages to those who have requested one through the Call Center or Website. The claims package will contain detailed information about the eligibility and claims process. Once the claims period is announced, there will be 180-day timeframe to submit a claim to the Claims Administrator. The claims process offers a streamlined alternative to litigation and provides at least $1.33 billion in compensation, plus up to $160 million in farm debt relief, to eligible Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers.


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Nora is a great eater. She'll eat pretty much anything and has been self feeding since about 7 months old (she's 11 months, now). We have really no problems with eating, but she's been doing some odd things at mealtimes lately.
She wants to eat without using her hands . It's sort of funny . I'll put some cheerios on the table or whatever for her and she'll knock them onto the floor, get down on her knees and bend over and pick them off the carpet with her lips. Also, if I try to hand her something to eat- like a piece of cheese, for example- she'll hold her hand right next to mine, line it up very carefully and knock it out of my hand with her fingers. Then she'll get on the floor and eat it. We put cheerios in a bowl attached to her exersaucer, too, and she'll lean over and eat right out of the bowl like a dog. She knows how to use her hands to pick them up and has for ages, but suddenly she won't do it.
Like I said, it's not really a problem, just confusing behavior and I was wondering if anyone else has a child who prefers to eat like a doggy?
We don't even have a dog, I don't know where she got this.


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[Source: RC44 Class] Lake Traunsee, Austria threw everything at the RC44 fleet today for the first day of fleet racing at the RC44 Austria Cup. The day started with a glassy lake that delayed proceeding. A light westerly breeze emerged and the 12 competing boats were sent afloat, only for the breeze to shut off just as the fleet arrived. After a drift in the sun the skies suddenly darkened and 25 knots of breeze filled the lake with white horses.
Just after 14:00 the first race got underway in a perfect 13-15 knots. Everyone seemed to want to head into the shoreline, it was Katusha (RUS) who won the pin-end of the line and seemed to get the longest lift ever before having to call for water on CEEREF and the fleet packed above. Only Aleph (FRA) and Peninsula Petroleum (GBR) had headed right into the lake, and at the first top mark it was Steve Howe steering Katusha with Brad Butterworth calling the shots who rounding just ahead of the Slovenian Team CEEREF.
Katusha hugged the coast line again down the first run to maintain their lead at the leeward gate, but there was more wind in the middle of the lake and out nowhere came the Dutch No Way Back, who finished third in Lake Traunsee last year, and the new Italian team AFX Capital who rounded third and fourth respectively.
Katusha headed back inshore, but it was No Way Back and Synergy who seemed to get the best from the lake, both gaining places on each leg to finish first and second in race one.
Race two swiftly followed, Katusha were on a charge once again picking a nice lane in the middle of the pack. They rounded the windward mark ahead again and maintained their lead until the last gybe into the leeward gate when their spinnaker spectacularly exploded.
It was Vladimir Prosikhin's turn to take charge; the team from Russia rounded the leeward gate and looked in control before the wind did a 180 shift on the final beat. AFX Capital had to hoist their kite to make the mark, but it was the home team, AEZ, who made it round the top mark first and continued to beat to the finish line. The Austrian team finished just ahead of Torbjorn Tornqvist and the Swedish Artemis Racing with Igor Lah's CEEREF taking third.
As the thunder and lightning struck and the rain poured, the fleet headed ashore. The home team were sitting at the top of the leaderboard, one-point ahead of the Slovenian Team CEEREF.
For AEZ's owner and helmsman Rene Mangold it was an excellent end to a very tricky day. "The second race was tough; the wind kept changing on the last leg. You always have to watch the clouds here to try and predict what's going to happen. We saw it coming on the last upwind under the big black clouds. The two boats ahead hoisted their kites and we saw that the breeze coming was good for us rather than them. The feeling on-board when we rounded the mark in front of everyone was very good, I was very nervous it was a lot of pressure to stay ahead. I hope we can continue."
What the lake will throw at the fleet tomorrow is anyone's guess but the last word has to go to race officer Peter Reggio who's analysis of the day was "For years I felt this lake was trying to kill me but today it was just trying to make me look really stupid."
Racing continues Friday at 11.30 (CET) through to Sunday 3rd June.
Quotes from the day
Markus Wieser (GER) tactician, AEZ RC44 Team (AUT): For the guys on the boat it's a big deal to do well here, we came out and sailed well, we were lucky in the second race with the big wind shift, but we were in the top of the fleet the whole race, we just had to play the wind shifts to get a good results. We had a lot of luck today too but we sailed well, much better than yesterday.
There was a big thunderstorm come through at lunchtime and the breeze went up to nearly thirty knots so we had a delay until it passed and went down to under twenty knots and Peter was able to start the racing. We had a really nice first race between 13-15 knots and in the second race it dropped down to 10 – 14 knots until the rain came through were the breeze turned 180° and after that the wind was a messy 5 knots and tailing off.
Michele Ivaldi (ITA) tactician, Team CEEREF (SLO): It was a very tricky day, on the edge of being unpredictable especially in the last race when the wind basically shut down and filled in from the other side. We just had to race head down and work hard with what we had to get the most out of the boat. All the guys onboard did a fantastic job they kept the boat going fast all around the track and we were spot on in all of the manoeuvres, with a bit of luck today was our day.
Brad Butterworth (NZL) tactician, Katusha: Today was the same for everybody, its vey random and there's a lot of luck involved with sailing here. It makes it difficult but i think we sailed very well today, Steve is helming the boat and so he's been a pleasure to sail with, he steers the boat incredibly well and got two brilliant starts to lead around both top marks and then were a little bit unfortunate, we broke a shoot in the second race as we were going for the lead at the bottom mark, most of the fleet went around us there and we got a penalty which just compounded on it, then the beat turned in to a run and the run turned in to a beat so we got everything.


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Do you work in an office? I'm sorry you made that poor choice in life. Of course, if you work anywhere except on a rocket copter full of bosomy dinosaurs (which is where I do my writing, unless I'm on the toilet), then I pity your poor life choice. But that's not relevant right now. (P.S. I'm on the toilet.) What is relevant is that in any office, you need office prankage to make the crazy stay back 50 paces. Because oh man, when the crazy comes, you need to watch out. One time I worked at a non-profit in accounting, and it was kind of like having a person who doesn't much care for me balance in a callous fashion on my scrotum for eight hours a day, every single day. You can't deal with that. But on the other hand, you need to be careful with your office prankage, lest any of this shit happen and piss on your proverbial corn flakes.
6 Mail a Male
Everyone loves getting mail, because email sucks so hard. Don't you just hate opening your inbox and seeing that half of your emails are from stupid sites you subscribe to that never have anything important to say and the other half are from your dad, who's still in that Albanian brothel stealing Wi-Fi from a cafe down the street with a smartphone he's had hidden in his ass, begging for you to call the authorities?
Real mail brings with it a sense of accomplishment. A tree died to make that, and that ain't bad. Plus, who knows, maybe you won a million dollars and the ghost of Ed McMahon will bring it to your house and when he's there you can ask him what he thinks of the Paranormal Activity movies and he'll be all, "They suck balls, is what they do. Hey-yo!"
That said, a fellow in China, appreciating how awesome mail is, especially since it's kind of like a surprise in each and every envelope and package, decided to mail himself to his girlfriend at work for an awesome prank. The plan was probably that he would jump out just after she got back from lunch and sex her right on her desk in a way that would ensure that the Q key on the keyboard never worked properly again.
Instead, what happened was, after a buddy taped him up and a courier picked him up for a 30-minute trip to her workplace, the courier mixed up the boxes and our friend was stuck in his box for about three hours with very little air. By the time he showed up and was supposed to pop out all surprising-like, he'd already passed out.
At this point, you may have two critiques that I can address for you. The first: Why not make a breathing hole? Apparently this was some sturdy-ass cardboard, and as such, immune to the feeble pickings of an oxygen-deprived nitwit held within. That's why every time I get boxed up, I make sure I have a small etching tool and a vial of my own saliva to break down the bonds in the cardboard. Someone's going to be breathing pretty in the back of a warehouse, and that someone is this fella.
The second concern you may have: Why not call for help? Why not, indeed. The answer, from the man himself, was that he didn't want to spoil the surprise. Instead, he just cut off the oxygen supply to his own brain and probably doesn't remember math anymore. Surprise!
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Back in 2010, Britain was preparing for a visit from the Pope. In Britain, things like this are overseen by what they call the Foreign Office. It's like a really helpful secretary, but for a whole country, and she never dresses in anything that shows off the goods because she's just metaphorical. Anyway, those Brits are a saucy bunch, so when they heard that the Pope was coming, a memo circulated around the Foreign Office listing ways the Pope could spend his time when he was visiting. A bit of a joke list, you might say. A bit of a list that wasn't meant to leave the office. But then it left the office. Shite. (That's how they swear over there. Crazy shits.)
Among the list's highlights were suggestions that the Pope open an abortion clinic or that they release a line of Pope Benedict condoms. To British newspapers, this sort of thing is horrible, even though everyone probably laughed and the same suggestions would appear in an article I would write had I thought of it first. "The 5 Most Hilarious Things the Pope Should Do on His Next Road Trip." In it, I'd specifically bait an easily baitable group of readers, maybe by outrageously mocking creationists, or Republicans, or someone else in an obvious troll fashion and wait to see if anyone notices. Not that I've done that before. It's just something I feel like trying sometime. Point is, who could get it up for a condom that had the Pope's face on it?
The linked article details the "crime" in about two paragraphs, then has a properly British bug up its ass for the remaining 12 or so, when in reality we all know that everyone would have thought this was funny if it had never gone public. But once it does, we must all pretend that papal abortions are tasteless. Such is the danger of the office prank.


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A barn fire near Janesville in southern Wisconsin has killed more than 50 goats.
The Rock County Sheriff's Office said the fire started about 9:14 p.m. Saturday at 4802 W. U.S. Highway 14 in Janesville Township.
Sheriff's officials said about 55 of the 70 goats in the barn were killed, and that damages could exceed $170,000.
The barn was fully engulfed within minutes of when firefighters arrived in the scene.
No people were injured, but other buildings at the farm sustained heat damage. Traffic on U.S. Highway 14 had to be rerouted for five hours while crews from four fire departments fought the blaze.
The cause is under investigation.
The American Red Cross said it responded to assist two families who were displaced from their homes on the property due to the barn fire. The American Red Cross said it helped the families with lodging Saturday night. One household had two adults and the other had two adults and an infant.


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Donation totals for Grand Valley's 2013 United Way campaign were the second highest in a decade. Results for the campaign were announced at the President's Thank You Breakfast December 3.
The campaign report showed a donation total of $165,459, a slight drop from the total in 2012. Both the response rate for completed United Way forms and the donation rate were also slightly down, to 75 and 49.9 percent respectively.
President Haas made his 'world-famous' pancakes and thanked the campaign committee and captains for their hard work. United Way co-chairs Sue Sloop and Steve Lipnicki thanked captains for encouraging their coworkers to return the forms to help support the United Way in Kent, Ottawa, and other West Michigan counties.


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I'm not sure if I need one or not.
My baby is 4 mo. and she has been getting only bm - either nursing or what she takes from a bottle while I'm at work.
the problem is that I can only pump once during the day and because of that (and because of a case of mastitis) my supply is a bit low.
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Law professor attends, participates in international conference
Michael W. Lewis, professor of law at Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law, attended and participated in a conference titled "The Boundaries of Battlefield: A Critical Look at the Legal Paradigms and Rules of Countering Terrorism" at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) - The Hague in The Netherlands from Jan. 10-11.
The two-day conference was hosted by the T.M.C. Asser Institute in cooperation with the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and the Municipality of The Hague.
The conference's name was taken from the title of Lewis' 2012 article, which first appeared in the Texas International Law Journal. Accompanying Lewis were ONU law students currently enrolled in the Law of War seminar he is teaching as part of ONU Law's interactive January term.
The conference's object was to "discuss the details of various approaches states take against non-state actors with the goal of countering terrorism." Specifically, the conference addressed "issues related to the uses of force and how these may affect and define the geographic and temporal scope and limitations of the laws of armed conflict in relation to counterterrorism."
In addition to attending, Lewis participated on two panels during the conference: "Wherever War? Geographic Limitations of Armed Conflict" and "Law Enforcement Approach in Counterterrorism."
Conference attendees included Gilles de Kerchove, the counterterrorism coordinator of the European Union; Jelena Pejic, the legal adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross; William Banks, director of the Institute of National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University; Dieter Fleck, president of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War; Liesbeth Lijnzaad, the legal adviser to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, the Stockton professor of law at the U.S. Naval War College.
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- Senate farm bill amendment votes phase reached
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With a vote on the Senate farm bill expected sometime this week, lawmakers will continue with votes on a series of wide-ranging amendments on Wednesday. Earlier this week, in a deal between parties to move the legislation, the list of amendments to receive votes was trimmed from some 300 to 73.
Among amendments already voted on:
- An amendment passed that would repeal the USDA catfish inspection program. Mandated in the 2008 farm bill, the inspection program was yet to be implemented. (For more, see here)
- An amendment to reduce crop insurance sales costs to restore some $4.5 billion in cuts to nutrition program spending was defeated.
- An amendment that would have placed more strict eligibility standards for nutrition program recipients was defeated.
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- An amendment to place a $250,000 adjusted gross income eligibility marker for farmers was defeated.
- An amendment that places a $75,000 cap on marketing loan pay limits passed the Senate.
- An amendment to end mandatory crop checkoff funds was defeated. This amendment was offered by South Carolina Sen. Jim Demint, who courted controversy last fall with his views on a checkoff favored by Christmas tree farmers (more here).
- An amendment to support rural development passed the Senate. The amendment would ensure funding of USDA Rural Development programs such as updating wastewater and sewer infrastructure systems, provide farmers with access to capital, and provide technical assistance to beginning farmers and ranchers.
Among amendments yet to be voted on:
- A ban on EPA flyovers/aerial surveillance of farmland under the Clean Water Act.
- An amendment to eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program.
With such a draft farm bill and amendment votes what message is being sent from the Senate to the House prior to a farm bill conference?
During a Wednesday morning press conference, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said one of the "great things" about deficit reduction efforts and the "super committee" process last fall, was a coming together of Senate and House agriculture leadership. "We agreed to come up with $23 billion in deficit reduction under our jurisdiction. Unfortunately, we were the only (ones) who did that. If everyone had done that within their areas of jurisdiction, we'd have had a big deficit reduction proposal. That didn't happen.
"But one of the positives out of that is (the House and Senate agriculture leaders) really developed a great working relationship. I've been keeping (House leaders) apprised of what we're doing. I have great confidence in them and, once we move this out of the Senate, I believe they'll be successful in reporting a bill out of (the House Agriculture Committee)."
The broad parameters agreed to last fall "are maintained" in the Senate farm bill, said Stabenow. While not enamored with the Senate bill, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, House Agriculture Committee ranking member, has said any problems – presumably including those that still remain for rice and peanuts -- can be fixed during conference.
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God this is a disaster
Honestly this teams better off without either of them. Every bit of drama and hardship we've had over the last few years has all involved them and it has lead to nothing except losses.
There are articles of this from Howard Beck, Chris Broussard, RealGM, and reports from Stephen A, but I like this article by Frank Isola who broke the news best. [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
The locker room has turned against Mike D'Antoni and some sources in the organization believe he is trying to use Carmelo as a scapegoat.
Isola talks about the time D'Antoni denied the report that Melo told him to out Lin in even though Lin and Carmelo both confirmed the report among other examples of Mike not protecting Carmelo.
He brought up a story about how the entire team was trashing Mike D'Antoni and Carmelo refused to join in and was silent the whole time.
Mike D'Antoni needs to be fired. He's a coward who can't coach or utilize the talent of his star players and he's a piece of **** for using Carmelo as a scapegoat. All of you who blame Carmelo need to know this. Carmelo has done nothing but defend D'Antoni and try his best to fit into this whacky retarded system, and all D'Antoni has done is play behind the scenes games and thrown Carmelo to the wolves in press conferences. Please defend Carmelo. Mile D'Antoni MUST be fired.
God this is a disaster
Honestly this teams better off without either of them. Every bit of drama and hardship we've had over the last few years has all involved them and it has lead to nothing except losses.
This is exactly what i've been saying this whole time. But people wanna act like Melo just went from the best scorer in the league to a scrub over the course of a few months. There's very few coaches in the league that could have this roster and not have them at least in the playoffs. There's really no need to trade anybody, just fire D'antoni and give P Jax as much money as he wants and we will win a championship
What really has me annoyed and confused is they're trying to trade Melo now. It makes no sense you gave up half your team for him and it's a shortened season with a lameduck coach.
It's like eddy curry and zach all over again and they wanna keep the physicallt questionable center who plays no defense again. Melo has never had a six game losing streak in his career before coming to the Knicks. You send him to any team out there and they become better and the Knicks become bogged down with even more players for D'antoni to mismatch on the court.
They aren't trying to trade Melo.
Whose in charge?
"He said he's not trading anyone," said the source, with direct contact with Dolan. "He said it's up to the coach to figure it out."
Via Frank Isola/New York Daily News
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* Talks about Melo trade are just fantasy talk. No point in discussing this seriously.
Denver was already seated nicely in the playoffs when they had Melo, they just didn't skip a beat because when your offensive system is predicated on scoring points in the paint and getting to the free throw line....you're gonna be able to incorporate multiple skill sets in your offense, and let everyone play their game.
That's why Brewer scores inside, Afflalo can shoot from the perimeter or foray into the paint, Nene stays down load and is always top 5 in FG%, Gallo is still a perimeter shooter who's drives to the rim are more commonplace now. Ty Lawson is always penetrating and doing damage in the paint; Al Harrington plays outside-in, etc.
Melo comes to the Knicks and the "system" is to space the court, not get in the way, and wait your turn.
You establish yourself in the NBA, for close to a decade, with the skill set that you've cultivated since high school and college, have coaches at every level put you in position for success -- from high school, to Syracuse, to Denver, and even Team USA....then get to the Knicks and suddenly you have to fit the system? You have to stand away from the area where you've made a living, to space the court for a Pick-and-roll? This makes sense in what universe?
Seems like we have a bunch of people around here who need to be part of the conversation, but they don't really know the subject matter as well as they think they do.
LAL's offensive system is built around Kobe, Pau, and Bynum. OKC's offensive system is built around KD and Westbrook. Chicago's offensive system is built around Rose and the PG position. Philly's offense is built for it's wing players to have success.
The Knicks offense is built around an ideology and a particular play, regardless of where the strength of the team is.
But that's Melo's fault, right?
Of course MDA is gonna use this to his advantage and try to scapegoat Melo. The media and fans are giving him all the ammunition he needs.
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.
Damn bro your right, Denver got so much better!
Im thinkin Gallo SINGLE HANDEDLY carries them to West Finals and becomes a former top 5 scorer.
You make an account just to talk **** and cause trouble.
This place is so f*cked up nowadays
There is a report the Knicks have offered Melo+Chandler for Howard+Hedo.
They say Dolan agreeing would heat the talk up big time.
Carmelo Anthony has made his name in the NBA by scoring inside primarily.
Mike D'Antoni's offense is predicated on the PG and center doing the majority of the scoring inside, while every one else spaces and shoots when open.
STAT set a few screens, on the wing, for Melo in the Bulls game, for the first time all season. It took 41 games to see a 34 PnR, when those two players make a combined 32 million dollars.
But this is Carmelo's fault...somehow, right?
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.
And regardless, they don't need to hustle and give their best effort, since even if this team fails and they do get traded next offseason, then they keep their money and move to the next team, while blaming it on the "system". They'd be right in a lot of ways, but the team would eventually suffer.
IF there are no roster/coaching changes, then DAntoni needs to man up. Whenever the starts aren't hustling, he should sit their asses down. Let melo earn his max salary while shooting 11 pts a game and becoming the joke of the league. Let amare watch wear his towel like a monk, while Lin and Chandler play perfect PnR (like we've seen them do). He'll soon become that old over-the-top former star that the media is going to rape.
This alone would get more respect as a coach, and then he should sit his own ass down to do some homework on how to coach defense and come out with a plan for every situation he can think of.
I wanna see if Payton Manning goes to a new team and is forced to use their terminology, succumb to the whims of his new offensive coordinator, not get off to a good start, and see if that fan base implodes on itself and call for Manning's head
If Payton Manning's new team realizes that Payton has had success in the NFL for long enough to realize his strengths and weaknesses, and does it's best to appease him and let him run what he's comfortable with.
Which one seems more likely?
I mean....even Miami let LBJ become the primary ball-handler when he came to the Heat. Wade is playing more off the ball with the addition of James.
But yet, we need to make sure we run 1-5 PnRs all game, to the detriment of what Carmelo Anthony does well.
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.
Trade Melo? Are you ****ing serious fire this ****ing piece of **** D antoni!!!!!!!! What a ****ing disgrace its not ****ing Melo why would you trade Melo, the face of your franchise and a ****ing prolific scorer under a right coach not speed ball dick head D antoni man we have to send a petition to the GM of the Knicks saying to fire D antoni asap!!! What a ****ing *******!... My bad im just pissed off that they want to do Melo away dirty and not know how to ****ing use him
Fire Dantoni and bring a new coach that would sort this mess out = great.
Trade Amare to unclog the post and provide more defense and hustle - and melo will become the superstar that we know he is = great.
But to leave it as it is will kill us, and Melo and Amare's frustration will destroy whatever basketball coaching abilities our bullheaded coach has.
Management has to intervene.
But you're right. Something needs to be done. I say just remove MDA now to make the situation less volatile.
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.


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Home List of Titles Three-dimensional horizontal circular spiral photonic crystals with stop gaps below 1 mu m
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- Three-dimensional horizontal circular spiral photonic crystals with stop gaps below 1 mu m
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- Three-dimensional photonic crystals with a circular spiral architecture were fabricated by direct laser writing (DLW) in a photoresist. DLW was performed with a laser beam having the direction of propagation and elongation of the ellipsoidal focal region perpendicular to the spirals' orientation. This allowed the reduction of the turning period of the spirals while avoiding the overlap between their adjacent turns. Consequently, optical transmission and reflection spectra of the fabricated samples revealed multiple photonic stop gaps whose shortest wavelength was 0.88 μm, the lowest observed so far in spiral structures. These results were qualitatively reproduced by finite-difference time-domain simulations. This fabrication scheme can be useful for DLW of structures where photonic stop gaps along particular directions, rather than complete photonic band gaps, are required.
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