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BP, Halliburton Share Blame for Flawed Well Structure
Cement contractor Halliburton made critical mistakes in formulating and testing cement used in BP's Macondo well, but BP shared responsibility for the success of the job, according to expert testimony given today in the civil trial over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Cement expert Glen Benge was on the stand for the second day, detailing nine distinct problems with the cement well construction that ultimately contributed to the blowout that killed 11 workers and spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But under cross examination from BP attorney Matt Regan, Benge was pressed to pin the blame on Halliburton, which supplied a foamed cement that failed to set properly.
Benge conceded that it was the responsibility of the cement contractor to effectively communicate with the well owner about the status of the project, but that both entities "have to work together to achieve a successful cement job."
"You can't do it in isolation," he said.
But the two companies didn't communicate well, Benge testified. Halliburton didn't show BP cement test results that suggested problems with the formula, and BP didn't inform Halliburton that it planned to use only six drill pipe centralizers instead of the 21 recommended by Halliburton. As a result of these and other mistakes, Benge said the Deepwater Horizon crew conducted a negative pressure test on the well before the cement had time to harden.
Benge's testimony was supplemented only briefly by the next witness, cement expert David Calvert. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier asked why he needed to hear from two consecutive experts on the same topic, and after several minutes of largely repetitive testimony, Barbier insisted that the attorneys wrap it up.
Blowout Preventer Not Maintained
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Rory Davis, a forensic engineer who inspected the blowout preventer after it was recovered from the Macondo well, was the last witness to testify in the second week of the trial. Davis said that the blowout preventer could have averted the disaster if it had been properly maintained, but it had a dead battery and a reverse-wired solenoid.
Rig owner Transocean was informed that the batteries in the blowout preventer needed to be replaced each year, but Davis testified that the dead battery was more than two years old at the time of the accident. He said that there are compatible batteries that have remote voltage monitoring capabilities, but Transocean chose not to use them.
Davis said that if the "battery had been sufficiently charged, it should have cut the pipe and sealed the well."
BP Objects to Settlement Amounts
Damages in BP's civil trial won't be determined before next year, but the company's settlement debts continue to mount. BP struck a settlement deal with a group of plaintiffs in December, and though the deal had no liability cap, BP said it expected to pay about $7.7 billion in claims. It increased that estimate to $8.5 billion last month and complained to Judge Barbier that the independent arbitrator processing the claims was calculating damages in a way that was too favorable to claimants.
But Barbier approved the arbitrator's approach in a ruling earlier this week, prompting BP to state in its annual report that it will subsequently have "significantly higher" financial obligations under the settlement. BP now says it cannot estimate what the settlement will cost them, and promises to appeal the ruling.
Speaking at the IHS CERAWEEK conference in Houston this week, BP CEO Bob Dudley briefly mentioned the disaster and ongoing trial during a speech that focused largely on the company's plans to increase oil production from shale and deepwater reserves.
"We are vigorously defending the company, but we are determined to make our case in the courtroom and not in the press," Dudley said. "We believe the law and the facts are on our side."
"We alone stepped up from the outset, acknowledging our role, waiving the liability cap and committing ourselves to help restore the environment and economy of the Gulf Coast region."
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Rachel Zoe and her husband with their oldest child.
Alicia Silverstone hits a red carpet for the first time in a while.
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Tia Mowry and her daughter at a farmer's market. Charlize has not tried to ban them yet.
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I am preparing right now for my weekly long ride tomorrow. I am going to shoot for nine hours, spending a lot of time on trails. It will give me more opportunity to play with my tire pressure in the cold, which I remembered today is not exactly easy. The uneven nature of trail riding also mimics Iditarod conditions much better than an intense road ride can ... but don't expect big mileage tomorrow. Temperatures should be in the teens to low-20s, and if I'm lucky, at least partly sunny with scattered snow showers. I am going to try to do it sans-Camelbak because I am still having big issues with leaking, even after I replaced the nozzle. Wish me luck!


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On Friday, January 21, the Sorrentino Recreational Center/P.A.L began the first annual 2005 "In The House" Basketball Tournament.
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Jonathan Ross is to return as host of the British Comedy Awards, ITV confirmed today, after pulling out last year following the Sachsgate row.
Ross was replaced by Angus Deayton last year, but ITV have now officially confirmed reports that Wossy is making a comeback.
Ross said: "I'm delighted - it's the most prestigious awards show in the world. "Obama may have a Nobel Prize. But he's not even in the running for Best Entertainment personality. It's that prestigious."
The ceremony is celebrating its 20th year and it will be broadcast on ITV1 and ITV2 in December.
A storm was caused last year after Ross and Russell Brand made lewd prank calls to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs, for Brand's BBC radio show.
Earlier this month, the watchdog Ofcom imposed fines totalling £80,000 over a scandal that led to Ant and Dec being wrongly given a prize at the British Comedy Awards.
The regulator imposed the penalty on Channel TV - which was supposed to ensure the programme met broadcasting rules when it aired on ITV1 - for what it called "extremely serious" breaches.
The incidents which led to the fines included Ant and Dec being given the People's Choice Award in 2005, despite being beaten in the voting by Catherine Tate.
Ofcom said the Geordie duo may have been chosen simply to ensure Robbie Williams would agree to appear on the show.
ITV's director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said of Ross's return: "The British Comedy Awards has become one of television's most talked-about annual events, and hosting it has to be one of television's toughest gigs.
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Mentorship program helps students in Scarborough
By RON FANFAIR
Ask Grade Eight student Amos Benson what he aspires to be and he will unhesitatingly and confidently tell you he wants to be a doctor.
The St. Edmund Campion Catholic School student now understands that the sky is the limit and he can do anything he wants after participating in the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus Imani Mentorship Program for young students from Scarborough's east priority communities.
Those who benefit from Caribana must pay for it
By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Editor
When the news broke just before Caribana that the Festival Management Committee (FMC) was short of funding as a result of government cutbacks, we learned that the staff had to take a 30 per cent cut in salaries. Someone who had been close to the workings of the old Caribbean Cultural Committee (CCC), the people who used to run Caribana before the City of Toronto took it away from them, asked almost in shock: "They getting paid?"
Track and Field record holder Leroy "Pops" has died
By RON FANFAIR
Former Jamaican track and field record holder and coach Leroy "Pops" Keane has died.
He succumbed to cardiac arrest in a Toronto hospital last Saturday, just a week after his 73rd birthday.
Keane held the Jamaican record - 52 seconds - in the 400-yard hurdles and was the West Indies hurdles and pentathlon champion before retiring to take up an assignment as track and field coach at Calabar which he attended in the mid-1950s.
'Time running out' worried Haitians say
By RON FANFAIR
In the best of times, Lakay Caribbean restaurant in Scarborough is a meeting place for Haitian nationals and their friends in the Greater Toronto Area to socialize and share stories about their youthful days growing up in the world's oldest Black republic.
Ever since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti nine days ago, the restaurant has turned into a makeshift drop-off centre for cash donations that are being sent to the Canadian Red Cross and a gathering place for Haitians to pray and network in an attempt to find out if missing relatives are dead or alive.
Head wraps show to help cancer patients
By RON FANFAIR
It started off as a normal business transaction. The Princess Margaret Hospital last November approached local hat makers, Big It Up International, owned by Jamaican-born Dameon Royes, with a request for headwear for its cancer patients.
While filling the order, the company's vice-president Paulene Harvey indicated that their product line also include fashionable head wraps produced by Anthony Davis of Peculiar I Designs and expertly fitted by Naza Hasebenebi of For the People Clothing and Head Wraps.
Former Jamaican soldiers urged to help others
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Have some former Jamaican soldiers forgotten how to follow the orders of their superiors?
Jamaica's top military officer, Stewart Saunders, has again urged ex-soldiers in Canada to reach out and facilitate the integration of retiring and migrating defense personnel who choose to make this country their adopted homeland.
The Major General was the keynote speaker at the Jamaica Ex-Soldiers Association's (JESA) 17th annual awards banquet last Saturday night. He made a similar challenge eight years ago at the organization's major fundraiser.
City monitoring Swine Flu outbreak
Tuesday, April 28, 2009: City of Toronto staffers are working with municipal and provincial partners, and are closely monitoring the emerging information on swine flu in other parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico and other countries, according to a statement released today.
"We are monitoring this evolving situation closely and are ready to respond in the event that anyone in Toronto is affected by this illness," says Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David McKeown. "At this point, there are no cases of swine flu reported in Toronto."


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Sounds perfectly reasonable to me...everyone knows it's much more efficent to shoot looters than to drown them.
On the serious side though, y'all stay safe up there...hear?
This is a discussion on Ticked off my wife the morning ..... within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; We are hunkering down and getting the yard and house ready for Irene's arrival on Sunday morning and she asked me if we needed to ...
We are hunkering down and getting the yard and house ready for Irene's arrival on Sunday morning and she asked me if we needed to buy 4 gallons of water at the grocery store.... I told her we didn't need water .... we have plently of ammo ..... she was not amused....
S&W / Taurus / Ruger / Beretta / Remington and Benelli .... and if all else fails I have my ... My .50 flintlock
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me...everyone knows it's much more efficent to shoot looters than to drown them.
On the serious side though, y'all stay safe up there...hear?
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"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it".
Thomas Jefferson
See, if she was Catholic she could sprinkle them over a bowl and reuse the water baptizing the next one. Baptists gotta fill the tub and put em under. Who wants to reuse that? Zeke wants to baptize them with fire - lot's of it. Gosh what a nice family.
Until I moved to Texas I never worried about Hurricanes,but down here I'm only about 70 miles inland from the gulf of Mexico,The good thing is if it looks like were gonna get hit I can bug out early before the roads get congested
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
If the power goes out for a few weeks ammo won't be a problem.
You'll be sweating bullets.
Better hope you have enough water on hand to make sure you sweat the right caliber.
Water-Boarding,America's great pass-time!
Based on experience. Unless you have a generator capable of running your fridge if power is out long, get plenty of ice. It's gonna get hot and you will appreciate the ice over lots of other things you think you need.
I'm with your wife ... up to a point.
# 1 .... secure all weapons from being damaged under any circumstance.
# 2 .... get 3 x's more water than you think you'll need, water is a # 1 requirement.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --- Will Rogers ---
Chief Justice John Roberts : "I don't see how you can read Heller and not take away from it the notion that the Second Amendment...was extremely important to the framers in their view of what liberty meant."
Why buy water now? Your plumbing still works right, get a couple 30 gal plastic trash cans set on back porch for drinking, fill the bathtub for flushing.
Rain barrels are good for the flushing water. We've got some of the rest stashed around too. Good luck to ya. Looks like my dad's getting pounded on the NC coast now.
I prefer to live dangerously free than safely caged!
"Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun. And you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome son." Josh Thompson "Way Out Here"
I ran my refrigerator and freezer off of a small generator. I have two wells on my property. The one that my home usually draws water from is a deep well with a 220 volt submersible pump. That isn't very practical for using a portable generator. However, the other well is a 30"(diameter) shallow well with a 1/2 HP jet pump which still works just fine. A couple of years ago, after being without power for a few days, I ran piping from the old well to my house and set it up so that I could isolate the deep well and valve the old well into the house. So, whenever I needed more water during the Irene aftermath, I just hauled my generator out to the old pump house and plugged in the jet pump. Of course showering with water directly from a well is, to say the least, an invigorating experience. I never knew that you could get ice water directly from the ground. Even when I didn't have the generator, I could still get water from the old well using a bucket and a rope.


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posted at 8:45 am on October 13, 2010 by J.E. Dyer
The enthusiastic Virginia Phillips, US District Court judge in Riverside, California, yesterday enjoined the Department of Defense to cease enforcing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) forthwith. The US Justice Department had appealed her September ruling that the law is unconstitutional, but Phillips issued her injunction pending higher court action.
It's not clear that, as a federal district judge, she even has the authority to do this. The whole case, which was brought originally by the Log Cabin Republicans, has reeked of bad-law exceptionalism. What standing the LCR had to bring the suit in the first place is a very good question. The idea that it is a party injured by DADT is not one that would necessarily hold up in cases brought under other aspects of law. Phillips is out on a limb with the ruling against a law passed by Congress; in no case should a lower-level district judge issue the final decision on the constitutionality of a federal law. Americans have every right to expect that the weight of long precedent will preempt this decision's practical effect until it has gone through the appeals process.
Phillips is also exceeding her authority in issuing a global injunction to the military. Effectively, a district court judge can't enforce an injunction on the whole Department of Defense. Precedent and tradition aside, there is no means of doing so. The district court judge in Riverside can't order a US Marshall to somehow enforce this ruling in Crystal City. It's a form of judicial shenanigans to issue an injunction under these conditions.
Phillips is taking judicial activism to its irresponsible extreme, and she needs to be slapped down by the check of the executive branch's authority. The Obama Justice Department appealed her ruling last month precisely because it doesn't want to be ordered around by the judiciary, even in cases on which it agrees with a particular judge in substance. What it does next will be even more important. Frankly, this is a rare case in which Obama should say he does not recognize the judge's authority to do what she has done, and he will not enforce her inappropriate injunction.
He should take the responsibility for this himself. In this case, Congress would and should back him up. A Congressional review of Ms. Phillips' judicial record is in order. Meanwhile, the Justice Department should appeal her September ruling with all the promptness it can muster, rather than letting this situation stew unadjusted any longer than necessary. It has tremendous meaning for the import of law that a federal judge has done this, and what the executive branch does about it next is equally significant. No law that we count on is safe, if the Obama Justice Department just lets this one go.
We can hope that the self-interest of Obama's executive inner circle will induce it to do the right thing. Judge Phillips herself has provoked what must be recognized as a confrontation. If she is allowed, by passive default, to reach outside the scope of her authority in this manner, the phrase "due process of law" will no longer have any meaning. If DADT is deemed an issue of constitutionality – well, we have a due process of law for that, and it's called the appeals process. The executive branch is the one we have to rely on in this case to ensure that the process is observed. And if DADT is perfectly constitutional, and therefore a matter of legislation by Congress, well, due process of law will establish that, and Congress is the place for partisans to focus their lobbying efforts.
In a way, it's good that Phillips' partisan reach has so egregiously exceeded her due-process grasp. If she hadn't issued this inappropriate injunction, the end-run around our "government of laws and not of men" would not have been quite so obvious. Team Obama could have simply left the appeals process to languish at a snail's pace, hoping to avoid decisions and undesired political consequences for as long as possible. But Phillips has forced the confrontation on the executive branch. That may well turn out to have been a tactical error.
We should hope it was, however we feel about DADT. Government by feelings and emotion is the worst sort of tyranny. Government falling apart because one branch is a loose cannon and another is passive and feckless is an equally horrible prospect. This is a shot across the bow, and it cannot stand. If the Obama executive doesn't repudiate it quickly, and on the proper basis, the cost of reversing this precedent will only go up.
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How many divisions does Judge Phillips have?
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Where…and on who's "agenda"?
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Adoption services: Catholic Charities in Massachusetts refused to place children with same-sex couples as required by Massachusetts law. After a legislative struggle — during which the Senate president said he could not support a bill "condoning discrimination" — Catholic Charities pulled out of the adoption business in 2006.
Housing: In New York City, Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a school under Orthodox Jewish auspices, banned same-sex couples from its married dormitory. New York does not recognize same-sex marriage, but in 2001, the state's highest court ruled Yeshiva violated New York City's ban on sexual orientation discrimination. Yeshiva now allows all couples in the dorm.
Parochial schools: California Lutheran High School, a Protestant school in Wildomar, holds that homosexuality is a sin. After the school suspended two girls who were allegedly in a lesbian relationship, the girls' parents sued, saying the school was violating the state's civil rights act protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination. The case is before a state judge.
Medical services: A Christian gynecologist at North Coast Women's Care Medical Group in Vista, Calif., refused to give his patient in vitro fertilization treatment because she is in a lesbian relationship, and he claimed that doing so would violate his religious beliefs. (The doctor referred the patient to his partner, who agreed to do the treatment.) The woman sued under the state's civil rights act. The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in May 2008, and legal experts believe that the woman's right to medical treatment will trump the doctor's religious beliefs. One justice suggested that the doctors take up a different line of business.
Psychological services: A mental health counselor at North Mississippi Health Services refused therapy for a woman who wanted help in improving her lesbian relationship. The counselor said doing so would violate her religious beliefs. The counselor was fired. In March 2001, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with the employer, ruling that the employee's religious beliefs could not be accommodated without causing undue hardship to the company.
Civil servants: A clerk in Vermont refused to perform a civil union ceremony after the state legalized them. In 2001, in a decision that side-stepped the religious liberties issue, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that he did not need to perform the ceremony because there were other civil servants who would. However, the court did indicate that religious beliefs do not allow employees to discriminate against same-sex couples.
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Wedding services: A same sex couple in Albuquerque asked a photographer, Elaine Huguenin, to shoot their commitment ceremony. The photographer declined, saying her Christian beliefs prevented her from sanctioning same-sex unions. The couple sued, and the New Mexico Human Rights Commission found the photographer guilty of discrimination. It ordered her to pay the lesbian couple's legal fees ($6,600). The photographer is appealing.
Youth groups: The city of Berkeley, Calif., requested that the Sea Scouts (affiliated with the Boy Scouts) formally agree to not discriminate against gay men in exchange for free use of berths in the city's marina. The Sea Scouts sued, claiming this violated their beliefs and First Amendment right to the freedom to associate with other like-minded people. In 2006, the California Supreme Court ruled against the youth group. In San Diego, the Boy Scouts lost access to the city-owned aquatic center for the same reason. While these cases do not directly involve same-sex unions, they presage future conflicts about whether religiously oriented or parachurch organizations may prohibit, for example, gay couples from teaching at summer camp. In June 2008, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals asked the California Supreme Court to review the Boy Scouts' leases. Meanwhile, the mayor's office in Philadelphia revoked the Boy Scouts' $1-a-year lease for a city building.
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Tauranga City councillor Murray Guy was stranded in the United Kingdom and in need of urgent financial assistance, according to an email sent to friends, contacts and his wife yesterday.
Mr Guy's Xtra email account was hacked resulting in everything, including his contacts, being deleted with no way of retrieval.
"It's a bit like arriving at your house and finding the door's been kicked in and you're too scared to go in," he said.
Some of his emails were backed up but the majority, many from constituents, were lost.
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The message asked recipients to reply to a fake email address for Mr Guy, before receiving further instructions.
"They're only interested in one response and that's a reply from which they can extract money," Mr Guy said.
Mr Guy came out of the council chambers yesterday to find voice messages from concerned recipients on his cellphone but had not heard of anyone being duped by the scam.
He said staff at Xtra felt the attack was random, unpreventable and computer generated.
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"It had been one of the best experiences of my conservation-oriented career...If there ever was a definition for 'Sharing without Borders' in the conservation world, this was it." - Dr. Nicolas Pilcher, Executive Director, Marine Research Foundation
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Sea turtles face a variety of threats at various stages of their lives as they journey through life, such as incidental catches in fishing nets, egg harvests, habitat loss and poaching. One of the indirect threats to turtle populations is through mechanized fisheries, which kill turtles as they are incidentally caught as bycatch. Recent estimates in Sabah alone project mortalities of upwards of 1000 to 3000 animals per year (Pilcher et al. 2007).
To help address this threat, Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape partner Marine Research Foundation (MRF) has been working to promote the use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TED) in Malaysian fisheries, in cooperation with the Sabah Department of Fisheries.
In April 2009, a TED study tour brought a group of representatives from Malaysia's trawl fishing community and fisheries department to Pascagoula, Louisiana, USA. The visit allowed the Malaysian participants to learn more about TEDs, participate directly in trawling trials using TEDs, and interact with experienced fishers who use TEDs as a matter of course. The following are excerpts from MRF Executive Director Nicolas Pilcher's account of the very rewarding and enlightening trip.
Day 1:
Day one of the workshop started early, with a six A.M. pickup from the hotel to get down to the lab and a day's boating, trialing TEDs with different openings on one boat, so the guys could compare performance there and then.
What a day! We had TEDs, shrimp, more shrimp, large fish, lots of laughs, loads of crazy moments, more shrimp, and more learning in a day than I could have ever provided in a year. The guys were all hands-on, helping bring nets in and sort the catch - much to the admiration of the local boat crew - they thought the team was great! We cooked up the shrimp we caught in a typical southern spicy soup boil and ate it there and then on the boat. We had a comment early in the day about the grids preventing large fish from entering the net, and there was me saying "fear not, they go in, you just have to have faith" and then not ten minutes later we pull in the net and there's the largest red fish the guys had seen in years. Proof positive the TEDs work - we caught no turtles, and caught loads of shrimp and even large fish and rays. Whatever concerns existed earlier in the day evaporated in the warm Mississippi sunshine. Good weather, loads of fun, photos and video to keep us going for years, and the welcoming warmth of the NMFS Pascagoula crew. We couldn't have asked for a better start to the trip.
Day 2:
Following on from a very successful first day, the Malaysian TEDs Expedition continued to amaze. We had a great morning visiting a local packing and processing plant over in one of the most shrimp-oriented bayous in Alabama, and from there managed to tour some of the local boats, from one million dollar fishing vessels that stay out for thirty days or longer and process their catch on board, to smaller one-week trip boats, to overnight and day trippers. The variation in sizes and configurations was amazing, but what was even more impressive was seeing TEDs hanging from each and every net on every boat. No fail. Not a missing one anywhere. I think that was quite a revelation. Whereas in Sabah we are still experimenting with them, in the US they are standard equipment on each boat.
I must say that this way of sharing expertise - as in us coming to the US rather than the US coming to visit us - has to be the best way to do things. While I admit there are significant costs involved, there are significant advantages to the learning setting that outweigh any logistical or financial issues: Driving along the shores seeing boat after boat equipped with several TEDs just made the story stick. When the NMFS outreach team came to Sabah a few years ago with one or two TEDs, facing hundreds of boats without them, the message just didn't sink in. Seeing hundreds of boats with TEDs however made it all so much more real. The Sabah team got to talk with fishers who use them every day, who are not afraid of them, and who actually would use them even if they were not required. Now there's a message to take home.
Day 3:
Day three, and things just keep getting better. We had a full and thorough in-house lecture and video and presentation and discussion and practical session with several of the Pascagoula staff, all experts in gear technology and/or fisheries biology and/or fishing. We covered regulations, history of TEDs, of their implementation, and of the difficulties faced by the US when implementing TEDs domestically. We also looked at videos which showed the effectiveness of TEDs in eliminating debris, from tyres to coconuts to hard plastics. We watched how the NMFS dive team had filmed divers pushing large turtle-shaped frames through TED openings to ensure they would be large enough when used at sea by fishers. We covered regulations, and discussed paths to getting regulations drafted and pushed through the legal system.
e got to see how TEDs were effective at eliminating large sharks and rays, and even a turtle or two. The presentations covered not only the technical side of things, but also the practical side of things: what fishermen had developed on their own, and how many of their suggestions were adopted by the government as law.
The takehome message was simple though: unless the fishers / industry themselves are involved, the process will fail. Nice to hear that while we had actual industry reps with us on the trip!
Day 4:
We passed through the midpoint of this trip in grand style, and the finale has been nothing short of spectacular. The Sabah TEDs Expedition just continued to build on past successes, and undeniably will go down as a turning point in the TEDs quest back home. Day 4 was all hands on, and the team rose to the challenge in impressive form. The setting was a quiet closed-door net shed, where the Sabah team and Nick Hopkins, a gear specialist from NMFS took a flat piece of netting and a metal grid and turned them into a functional TED. This involved stitching netting panels together, hanging the grid at the appropriate angle, sewing it in, checking it, and then checking it twice, just to find out who had been good and who couldn't splice, before laying the flaps over the escape opening and sewing them in place. Now this is no mean feat: For a group of guys who aren't net menders, this took some doing. Not only was there the concept to follow, but also learning all the sewing tricks of the trade.
Much laughter amidst much banter and tomfoolery later, the TED hung proud from the NMFS rafters and a great sense of satisfaction flowed through the group. In my opinion this day sealed the deal: one thing is seeing a TED in a net, another is taking the raw materials and making it so. Without the physical hands-on training, in the quiet, focused setting we had devised, I doubt each of the team could have said at the end that they really knew what it took. While these may not be the guys who sew grids into nets back home, they are certainly going to be the guys who can spot the difference between right and wrong, and even step in and show our guys at home how it's done. In terms of confidence alone this was a trip maker.
Day 5:
We were back to the NMFS Pascagoula yard early in the morning for a second and last day of sea trials, and even a little poker to while away the tow times. Deck and captain supremos Drew and Dave took us back out on the RV Caretta to test good and bad TEDs. What was great about this day was the guys could actually tell the difference between the net / TED configurations and then see differences in catch. What a contrast over doing things back home: Here we could see the results of two tows at once, as the Caretta pulled twin trawls through the Mississippi Sound. First up, we had a perfectly normal TED configuration compared with one set at an incorrect angle. It took no genius to see that the poor hanging angle resulted in at least a 30% drop in catch. Once again the Sabah crew jumped in to help sort the catch, and then helped lead the way in cooking up a storm for lunch. Malaysian cuisine met southern Mississippi boil-ups! Explosive is an understatement. Second tow we dragged two good TEDs but one with an extension, one without. Again it was clear to all of us the extension resulted in a good 20% increase in catch. For me what was really wonderful was hearing the comments and conversation amongst the gang, which over the past few days has evolved from whether or not to use a TED to how to best fish with the TEDs we will use. A subtle change, but an incredibly meaningful one. Coming back from the day's sea trials brought out a mixture of emotions, as we knew this rounded out the trip.
It has been one of the best experiences of my conservation-oriented career, and our hosts have been nothing short of exemplary. Caring, responsive, attentive, friendly and more welcoming than one could ever imagine. I can't think of a better way to get the message across than with a trip to meet the Pascagoula NMFS folk. I for one will be forever grateful, and I know the Sabah crew feel likewise. They have shared some wonderful moments with the fishing and gear specialists, and take home loads of lessons and advice. My thanks go to especially John Mitchell and Nick Hopkins for all of the time they put into arranging this and carrying it through. We are all in their debt. We also would like to thank Butch, Lionell, Lee, Dave, Drew, Dominy, and Louise for helping out and being such wonderful hosts, and to all those other Pascagoula folk who helped out behind the scenes. If there was ever a definition for "Sharing without Borders" in the conservation world, this trip was it.
The Marine Research Foundation is a non-profit research foundation based in Kota Kinabal. To know more about the TED project, visit MRF's site here.


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- 1. What is Land Law? -- 2. Property Rights in Law -- 3. Land Law and Registration Today -- 4. Creating and Acquiring Interests in Land: Words and Intentions -- 5. Joint Ownership of Land -- 6. Mortgages -- 7. Leases, Licences, and Commonholds -- 8. Appurtenant Rights -- 9. Whatever Happened to the Relativity of Title?
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- Giving a clear, concise introduction to land law, this book looks at the way in which the law regulates our relationship with the land on which we walk, work, and live. Land law is about the connections between people and land, and also the relationships between people, jostling for space and allocating resources. As people change, so do the ways they use and think about land: land law today looks very different from how it did fifty years ago, and in another generation's time it will have changed again. Elizabeth Cooke introduces the building blocks of land law, namely property rights in land, and explains how they have evolved by a mixture of design and accident. The book examines ownership rights, non-ownership rights, both legal and equitable, and provides analysis of how these different rights can apply to a single piece of land, and how they are managed and enforced. Throughout the book the role of registration is central, and the implications of the Land Registration Act 2002 for English land law are fully explored. The second edition has been updated to incorporate important developments in the law relating to the family home, and in the interaction of land law with the law of human rights. It also benefits from the author's own contribution to the Law Commission's report on easements, covenants, and profits a prendre. Written in an accessible style, this book is an essential read for all those coming to the subject for the first time.
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According to the band's website, the group is composed of some of America's top brass musicians dedicated to bringing the experience of great music to a wide range of audiences. The group is dedicated to the notion that music is a gift to be enjoyed by everyone. The group is especially dedicated to reaching out to the world's youth and inspiring them to reach for their dreams. A veritable "dream team" of virtuoso brass players, members of the group have appeared on the world's most prominent stages and performed with such groups as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Symphony, the São Paolo State Symphony Orchestra, the Imani Winds, Canadian Brass, Empire Brass and Boston Brass. The group burst onto the music scene with a debut performance in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center in Verizon Hall, a residency for the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, and a special feature on the National Public Radio show, "All Things Considered."
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- As the dispute over oil continues, both Sudan and South Sudan have talked up the possibility of war. In a television broadcast, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said the two countries were closer to war than peace. Earlier in the week, Sudan accused the South of "hostility", and said it would hold the South responsible for any attacks on northern oil infrastructure. Meanwhile, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir talked of the need for a comprehensive agreement, which settled issues such as Abyei, if future conflict is to be avoided. South Sudan has rejected an African Union proposal which would see the South pay $6.5 billion to Sudan in oil transit fees. South Sudan shut down all oil production just over a week ago, a decision the UN says will increase South Sudan's dependence on food aid.
- The US has accused Sudan of targeting civilians in airstrikes in South Kordofan. In a recent attack, a US-funded bible school was destroyed.
- The World Food Program says up to 500,000 refugees could flee Sudan for South Sudan if aid agencies are not allowed into border regions affected by conflict and food shortages.
- The UN says it is investigating reports of 80 people massacred by uniformed armed men in Warrap state, South Sudan. 37 people were killed during a firefight at a meeting held to resolve cattle disputes in Unity state.
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AFP: Sudan closer to war than peace with south: Bashir 04 Feb: Sudan is closer to war than peace with the breakaway state of South Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said on national television on Friday, with a dispute over oil and other issues stoking tensions. Read more
AFP: South Sudan warns of war without 'comprehensive' deal 02 Feb: The president of South Sudan warned on Thursday of renewed conflict with former foes in north Sudan if bitter oil negotiations do not include a deal on other key issues, including the contested Abyei region. Read more
Reuters: Sudan says South Sudan "hostile" in oil row 01 Feb: Sudan, stepping up its rhetoric, accused South Sudan of "hostility" in their row over oil transit fees and said it would hold Juba responsible for any attack on northern oil facilities, a state-linked news website said on Wednesday. Read more
Reuters: South Sudan rejects African Union oil plan - Financial Times 01 Feb: South Sudan's chief negotiator has rejected African Union-backed proposals that could see it pay up to $6.5 billion to Sudan in the latest attempt to break a deadlock between the two over oil export transit fees, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Read more
Reuters: Sudan frees South Sudan's oil tankers; dispute continues 30 Jan: Sudan released tankers loaded with South Sudanese oil that had been held at Port Sudan in a row over export transit fees, days after Khartoum seized crude from its new neighbour and offered it at a steeply discounted price. Read more
Reuters: Sudan asked Petrodar to load South Sudan oil - South Sudan 31 Jan: Sudan asked Chinese-Malaysian oil venture Petrodar to load 600,000 barrels of South Sudanese crude for export but the firm refused, a Southern official said on Tuesday, a development likely to further inflame a row over transit fees. Read more
CNN: US accuses Sudan of bombing civilians 04 Feb: The United States accused Sudan of targeting civilians in recent airstrikes, including one that destroyed a Bible school in South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly-created independent country of South Sudan. Read more
Reuters: Sudan rebels "seeking way" to hand over abducted Chinese 04 Feb: Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight. Read more
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In my early days as a dog caretaker, whenever I heard about someone feeding their dog raw dog food I assumed they were some hippy extremist with too much free time. I pictured them portioning out raw meat, bones and whatever else. There, I said it - I was a judgmental dog person. But, in the past few years, after doing more research and trial and error with dog foods, and after experiencing my own dog's weight issues, cancer, and arthritis, I've changed my stance. Feeding a quality diet can add years to your dog's life and it's not just for pet parents with too much time on their hands. Just the opposite, in fact!
I've been working with Primal Pet Foods, testing two of their raw diets for Lyger and Kayden. (Primal provided about 5 weeks of food but did not pay us for this review.) Primal foods are made of organic, human-grade ingredients that are harvested in a healthful and humane way, including grass fed, free-range animals, most of whom were raised right in the U.S. The processing and packaging is also done in the U.S., meeting human-grade standards. They seem to have covered every food-safety and health concern a person could ask for - things I had never even considered (like the use of unrefined minerals). I also like to see things like coconut oil and salmon oil in the ingredients lists, which Primal displays quite proudly throughout their website. I could go on and on about the quality of Primal ingredients and their processing, but they've summed it up pretty well here.
Our representative suggested we try the duck complete diet as duck is considered to be a cooling protein and thus less inflammatory for dogs with arthritis. The first few days we tried the Freeze-Dried Duck Formula. Freeze-dried is what it sounds like. It reminds me of fish food, but in giant cubes. You could feed it to the dog as is, but I added some water and broke the cubes up.
Feeding freeze-dried is as easy as feeding plain kibble. No need for special storage and no freezing so there's no problem with stocking up. That's lucky because stocking up is something you'll need to consider as my dogs ate about 20 cubes/day (a feeding calculator is available) and went through a bag every day and a half. However, I loved how little mess there was. No juicy gravy mess and no kibble left behind.
Next, we transitioned to the frozen raw patties, individually portioned slices of ground meat and other ingredients. My large boys got one and a half patties per meal so a bag lasted about 2 days. While a bag lasts longer, there is the freezing to consider. If you don't have a second freezer, you'll probably find yourself picking up dog food on a bi-weekly basis.
Now, let me jump back into my judgmental pet parent mindset for a moment. Judgy, paranoid pet parent brain is thinking, "OMG! raw meat contains salmonella!" Well, it might. But so can processed dog food… and bagged salad… and peanut butter… and any other food. Do you need to be careful when handling raw food? Yes, of course. Do you need to wash your hands, bowls and utensils when feeding a dog processed foods? Yep. So, either way you look at it, it means:
No biggie! (For a more analytical look at salmonella risks, complete with pie charts, I'd suggest this post from Dr. V. at Pawcurious.)
If you'd have asked the dogs which they preferred, I'm sure they'd have said the patties, because feeding time was a real melee with juicy, raw meat involved. The bowls were licked clean in seconds. That is unprecedented here.
Since you can't ask my dogs, I'll tell you that I preferred freeze-dried. I loved feeding a quality food that didn't tie up space in my freezer, didn't require defrosting, and didn't include oozing, raw meat liquids. Yes, I'm admittedly squeamish about handling raw meat, even for my own family, but the freeze-dried food looked more like dried veggies than dried meat. Really, that's what it came down to. And since my dogs liked the freeze-dried cubes better than their regular kibble, it's a great blend of practicality and healthfulness. Judgmental pet parent logic defeated!
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With how we built up our roster with mediocre talent in free agency, our draft must hit on impact players at the top. With this, I truly believe we PASS on Evans and Lewan. Both of these guys would be fighting for playing time, and more than likely wouldn't be starting out of the gate. That being said, I think our top three guys are 1) Ebron 2) Donald 3) Mosley.
1) Ebron- new o-coordinator utilizes the TE, and can even mix in some double tight sets with robinson...who simply isn't reliable at this point. His potential is Vernon Davis, an outstanding difference maker on offense, and his floor would be along the lines of Dustin Keller. *Keep in mind, I believe our division is filled with a lack of talent at the safety position*, something Ebron would be attacking. He opens up the offense, he helps in-line with blocking, and allows Eli another option for a bounce back year. Ultimately he's an every down impact player. And when people bring up the tight end class being deep, it is, but situationally deep. The other guys aren't the complete package Ebron is. Jace Amaro and the gifted, but character risk Oregon tight end are intriguing though.
2) Donald- he will disrupt the pocket, he will be penetrate the backfield relentlessly on the run. A perfect compliment to the run stuffing Hankins, Donald would fight for playing time with Jenkins, but ultimately his athleticism gets him on the field more often. Improves our d-line dramatically.
3) Mosley- I'm not sure where he fits with Beason locking down the middle, but if he was able to play outside for 1-2 years while Beason is still effective, his football instincts and playmaking ability would be something our linebacker spot hasn't had in quite a while. He would be a perfect transition to Beason and carrying over the leadership of our defense. I question whether the Giants value this position, or any linebacker position for that matter, considering their in-flux of free agent stop gaps over the years.


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Alphabet song
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An alphabet song is any of various songs used to teach children the alphabet. Alphabet songs typically follow the alphabetic principle (though the phonics method offers variants). In languages such as English with morphophonemic variation (e.g. "cake" is /ˈkeɪk/, not [ˈkaːkɛ]), an alphabet song usually chooses a particular pronunciation for each letter in the alphabet and also typically for some words in the song.
The A.B.C. (Verse 1)[edit]
"The A.B.C." /ˌeɪˌbiːˈsiː/ or "A.B.Cs" /ˌeɪˌbiːˈsiːz/ is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as "the alphabet song", especially in the United States.
Tune for Alphabet song
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The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title "The A.B.C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte". The musical arrangement was attributed to Louis Le Maire (sometimes Lemaire), an 18th-century composer. This was "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts", according to the Newberry Library,[1] which also says, "The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman."[2] This tune is the same as the tune for "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep".
Lyrics: (each line represents two measures, or eight beats)
- A, B, C, D, E, F, G... (/eɪ biː siː diː iː ɛf dʒiː,/)
- H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P... (/'eɪtʃ aɪ dʒeɪ keɪ ɛlɛmɛnoʊ piː,/ "l, m, n, o," spoken twice as quickly as rest of rhyme)
- Q, R, S.../ T, U, V... (/kjuː ɑr ɛs, tiː juː viː,/ pause between s and t)
- W... X.../ Y /& Z. (/dʌbəljuː, ɛks, waɪ ænd ziː,/ pause between x y, w and x last for two beats)
- Now, I know my ABCs. (/naʊ aɪ noʊ maɪ eɪ biː siːz,/)
- Next time, won't you sing with me? (/nɛkst taɪm, woʊnt juː sɪŋg wɪð miː/).[3]
Zed for Zee[edit]
In the United States, Z is pronounced zee; in most other English-speaking countries (such as Canada, the UK and Australia) it is pronounced zed. Generally, the absent zee-rhyme is not missed, although some children use a zee pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere. Variants of the song exist to accommodate the zed pronunciation. One variation shortens the second line and lengthens the last, to form a near-rhyme between N and zed:
Alternate Zed Version:
- a-b-c-d
- e-f-g
- h-i-j-k
- l-m-n
- o-p-q-r
- s-t-u
- v-w-x-y-z(ed)
Another alternate Zed version:[citation needed]
- a-b-c, d-e-f
- g-h-i-j-k-l-m
- n-o-p, q-r-s
- t-u-v-w-x-y-z(ed)
Dutch version[edit]
- a-b-c-d-e-f-g
- h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p
- q-r-s-t-u-v-w
- x-y-z
Note that the third line is lengthened and the fourth line is shortened, to compensate for the Dutch pronunciations.
French Canadian version[edit]
A French-language version of the song is also taught in Canada, with generally no alterations to the melody except in the final line that requires adjustment to accommodate the two-syllable pronunciation of the French y.
Phonics songs[edit]
Because the English language has 40 sounds and only 26 letters, children and beginning readers also need to learn the different sounds (phonemes) associated with each letter. Many songs have been written to teach phonemic awareness and they are usually referred to as alphabet songs.
Acrostic songs[edit]
There are also songs that go through the alphabet, making some of the letters stand for something in the process. An example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable (also known as "The Alphabet Love Song"):
A newer example of this is from the musical Matilda. 'School Song' is an acrostic that spells out the alphabet phonetically.[4]
Backwards song (Verse 2)[edit]
The group Wee Sing released an alphabet song with the letters in reverse order.[citation needed] It is called ZYXs.
The Canadian children's TV series The Big Comfy Couch used a version of the song in the episode "Backwards" (Season 4, episode 1.) [5]
Comedian Soupy Sales released a song in 1966 called "Backwards Alphabet" which contained the reverse alphabet in lyrical style.[citation needed] The original version of the song was performed by actress Judi Rolin with The Smothers Brothers in the 1966 teleplay adaptation of Alice Through the Looking Glass.[citation needed]
In the opening scene of the 1992 episode of Martin, Martin sings the song in the dark radio station in season 1's "Dead Men Don't Flush".
See also[edit]
Related English language songs[edit]
- "ABC–DEF–GHI", an alphabet song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street
- "Al'z A-B-Cee'z", an alphabet song by hip hop group 3rd Bass, on their album Derelicts of Dialect (1991)
- "Crazy ABCs", an alphabet rap song that combines pronunciation and phonetics for each letter by Every Child Wins[6]
- "Do-Re-Mi", a show tune from The Sound of Music (1959), used to teach the order of the notes in the Solfege scale
- "Swinging the Alphabet", a phonetically based novelty song popularized by The Three Stooges
- "The Elements" (song) by Tom Lehrer, a mnemonic song of the periodic table
Traditional alphabet songs in other languages[edit]
- "Ahaka mana", Māori
- "Alef-Bet" by Debbie Friedman, a song commonly used in American Hebrew school classrooms to teach the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet
- "Iroha", Japanese
- "Shiva Sutra", Sanskrit
- "Thousand Character Classic", Chinese and Korean
- "Zengő ABC" by Ferenc Móra, Hungarian
- ^ Newberry Library catalog
- ^ The alphabet song is sometimes said to come from another of Bradlee's publications, "The Schoolmaster", but the first line of that song is given as "Come, come my children, I must see", in Yale University's library catalog. It is described as "a favorite glee for three voices, as sung at the Salem glee club."
- ^ "Listen to the song sung". Archived from the original (RealPlayer) on 2007-09-28.
- ^ "Matilda London Cast - School Song Lyrics | MetroLyrics". www.metrolyrics.com. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
- ^ FilmRise (2014-01-31), The Big Comfy Couch - Season 4 Ep 1 - "Backwards", retrieved 2017-01-18
- ^ Every Child Wins


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|Kelly Olynyk doesn't have a fork, shower curtain
|10.04.13 at 3:35 pm ET
Celtics rookie Kelly Olynyk is keeping a diary for Comcast (h/t Celtics Life). In his first entry, we learn the young Canadian who Danny Ainge once called "a 7-foot hippy quarterback" doesn't have a fork or a shower curtain.
"I'm basically starting from scratch out here. I don't really know anyone, don't have anything to my name out here, don't even have a fork!
"I had to go and get everything, and I still need more. Sometimes I'll be in my apartment and go to do something, and I'll be like, 'I don't have a shower curtain! I have to take a bath?' So I get in my car and drive to the practice facility and take a shower."
|Doc Rivers: Clippers 'should be better than' '08 Celtics
|10.03.13 at 4:41 pm ET
Here we go again. Former Celtics coach Doc Rivers thinks his Clippers are better than any team he's coached. Here's what he told ESPN LA (h/t Ball Don't Lie) about Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan & Co.
"They should be better than any team I've ever coached, I really believe that. They're more athletic. They don't have the veteran IQ but they should be in that area. We have a couple individual defenders that can be dominating on defense. We have great speed but we don't have the size in some ways as some of the teams I've coached."
Hmm. I'm sure the Clippers will join the 2008 Celtics and Michael Jordan's 1990s Bulls as the only teams in NBA history to own an efficiency differential greater than 11 (outscoring opponents by 11 points per 100 possessions); they'll start better than 8-0, take at least a 23-2 record into Christmas and finish better than 66-16; and they'll go better than 13-1 at home in the playoffs and beat the Heat by 40 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, eclipsing the largest margin of victory in a title-clinching game — set, of course, by those pesky '08 Celtics. No biggie.
|Irish Coffee: Danny Ainge's tankless Celtics job
|10.03.13 at 2:44 pm ET
The great Ian Thomsen elicited not one, but two of the best quotes on the tanking issue facing the Celtics this season in his latest for Sports Illustrated — both from C's president of basketball operations Danny Ainge.
Here's the first important phrase from Ainge, addressing what many believe is the strongest NBA draft class since the 2003 edition that produced eight All-Stars (including a guy by the name of LeBron James) — headed by potential franchise players Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, Marcus Smart and Julius Randle.
"If Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was out there to change your franchise forever, or Tim Duncan was going to change your franchise for 15 years? That might be a different story. I don't see that player out there."
Interesting. If this isn't some strange attempt at a Red Auerbach-esque bluff, then tanking doesn't concern these C's — not only because of the historically poor Ping Pong luck of the Irish, but because Wiggins isn't LeBron.
Besides, even if Ainge wanted to tank, it's not like he's gathering his coach and players around the locker room and delivering an anti-motivational speech. (Which, by the way, would be great: "Great draft picks are born from great opportunity, and that's what you have here tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One season. If we played 82 games, they might win 41. But not this season. Not this year. This year, we tank them. This year, we lose all of them. And we shut it down because we can! This year, WE are the worst basketball team in the world." And a slow clap, of course.) Anyhow, as for real Ainge quotes, here's that second important one.
|Better Media Day Photo? Scal vs. Sheed
|10.03.13 at 11:55 am ET
(h/t SB Nation & Ball Don't Lie)
|VIDEO: Top 10 2013-14 Boston Celtics Media Day moments
|10.01.13 at 10:40 pm ET
Irish Coffee's annual Top 10 Celtics Media Day moments. A comprehensive look at the day's events, including interviews with Danny Ainge, Brad Stevens, Rajon Rondo, Jeff Green, Jared Sullinger, Kelly Olynyk, Brandon Bass, Kris Humphries, Gerald Wallace, Keith Bogans, Vitor Faverani, Avery Bradley, Jordan Crawford and Courtney Lee. Just about everyone, except MarShon Brooks, who flew under the radar. Along with his afro.
|Vitor Faverani is the best
|09.30.13 at 10:50 pm ET
Vitor Faverani has a mohawk, and he is the best.
With five simple words, the bewildering Brazilian puts Boston on notice: "Not too much questions please." Not only does Faverani understand English, he gets this Celtics media contingent. Not too much questions please, indeed.
Then, responding to a question about why he joined the Celtics, Faverani confounds everybody once again. "We go to the Cuban restaurant, so it's easy," he says. "When I taste the food there, I say, 'I want to stay in Boston.'"
Reporters wonder, "Did he understand the question?" Don't worry. He did. "No," Faverani says, "that's joke."
Celtics director of player personnel Austin Ainge tries to explain.
'Vitor has been playing professionally in Spain for a number of years," says the son of Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge. "He was a draft prospect when he was at the age of the draft, and he's just kind of over the last few years really worked hard and got himself in shape and played better. …
"He did a couple workouts around the draft time in the U.S., and he came here, and we were pretty high on him, and he had his agent here, they were both here, and we said, 'All right, what does it take to get it done? Let's get this done right now.' And we kind of hashed it out real fast before he could get in a bidding war."
But Faverani tells a much better tale, because he is the best.
|Rajon Rondo isn't shedding any tears over Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett
|09.30.13 at 8:52 pm ET
Addressing the Boston press for the first time since the Celtics traded Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett this summer, the rehabbing Rajon Rondo didn't seem all that bothered by their absence at Media Day.
"It wasn't difficult at all," said Rondo. "I didn't feel anything. I actually landed in L.A. the night of the draft, and I got about 45 text messages coming through my phone. I thought I was traded. You never know."
Instead, the Celtics had dealt Pierce and Garnett, the face and the soul of the franchise that drafted him. So, Rondo traded texts with his longtime teammates, even talked to them on the phone, but beyond that?
"It's part of the business," added Rondo. "They're not the first teammates that I've been close to who have been traded away — Perk [Kendrick Perkins], Tony Allen — so it's part of the process."
Rondo has developed quite a poker face during his interactions with the media, so it's no surprise he didn't show any emotion when talking about two players he called brothers for the past six seasons. However, the anticipation in Rondo's voice over the possibility of putting his own stamp on these new C's was palpable.
"This is a fresh start for us, a new coach and an entire new team," he said. "I'm excited about the fresh start. I'm excited every year for each team, but for me to get back on the court I just want to compete. I haven't competed in a while, and I'm a very competitive player and a very competitive person, so I miss being out their on the court with my teammates and helping them win."
And what about Doc Rivers, the coach who molded Rondo into a four-time NBA All-Star point guard?
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