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The Portland Trailblazers have essentially fired everybody over last twelve months. Their General Manager was pink-slipped last May, their Coach was axed in March, and they even cut the last player they picked number one overall this season too. All this in addition to Brandon Roy being forced to retire, Raymond Felton playing horribly, and Marcus Camby being dealt along with Gerald Wallace.
So what I'm saying is, the Blazers are in all-out rebuild mode right now. Besides that, however, they are also looking for a new guy to orchestrate said rebuild too. According to conflicting reports, that person could be Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak. Or maybe it isn't.
According to first an ESPN report from Marc Stein and Chris Broussard, that answer might be yes:
The Portland Trail Blazers have strong interest in interviewing Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak for their GM vacancy, according to sources familiar with Portland's thinking.
Kupchak is one of the Blazers' top targets in their quest to land an executive with experience running a franchise's basketball operations, sources told ESPN.com.
It remains to be seen, however, whether the Lakers would be willing to grant Portland permission to speak to Kupchak, who has spent more than 25 years in L.A.'s front office.
Although according to an AP report that answer could also to lean towards no too:
Portland Trail Blazers President Larry Miller says the team has not reached out to the Los Angeles Lakers for permission to talk to general manager Mitch Kupchak.
Miller would not comment specifically on an ESPN report Thursday that the Blazers are interested in interviewing Kupchak about the general manager's job in Portland. The team does not want to name potential candidates.
But he did say that that the Blazers had not taken the step of asking the Lakers for permission to talk with Kupchak, who has been the head of basketball operations for the Lakers for 12 years.
What is very possible is that Kupchak could want out of LA. While he used to have full reign under owner Jerry Buss, apparently Jerry's son Jim is more the meddling type who likes to have his opinion mean more than that of Kupchak's. I guess he hired Mike Brown over Rick Adleman, supposedly, as an example.
If Portland was able to make this move though, it would be huge for them. Kupchak's solid at what he does, and the Blazers are a disaster right now. Things could only improve for them if Larry Miller was able to bring Mitch on board.
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Winston Wong, the eldest son and estate administrator of deceased Taiwan petrochemicals tycoon Wang Yung-ching, sued two Hong Kong companies, claiming they misappropriated $4 billion in assets.
Hong Kong's High Court on May 2 named Wong as administrator of his father's estate. Wong filed a lawsuit today against Jao Chien Fang and Chang Pen-yuan, formerly his father's financial advisers, as well as Hua Yang Investment (H.K.) Ltd. and Winson International Investments Ltd. He accused the defendants of acting dishonestly to misappropriate his father's assets, and is seeking their return plus interest.
"This is an important and humbling moment as I stand in my father's shoes as administrator and continue the efforts to identify and recover everything that should have been declared in his estate," Wong said in a statement today.
Today's suit adds to litigation that Wong has filed in the U.S., Taiwan, Bermuda and Hong Kong over Wang's holdings since his death in 2008 at the age of 91. The $4 billion held in Hong Kong includes power plants in China and real estate, with Wong estimating the total value of his late father's assets at about $18 billion.
Simon Clarke, a lawyer who represented Hua Yang Investment and Winson International, didn't immediately respond to a phone request for comment.
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Wong helped found Taiwan-listed Nanya Technology Corp. (2408), a unit of Formosa, and was its chairman until 1995.
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Two new polls came out late last night that show Scott Brown rolling into Tuesday's special election with momentum and possibly an insurmountable lead — depending on which poll one prefers. The new PPP poll shows Brown with a five-point lead and a majority of the vote, 51-46, which this late may mean that majority will have cemented in the three-person race. A larger majority (58%) believe that Brown made a case for his campaign, while only 41% believe the same about Coakley:
Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 51-46 in our final Massachusetts Senate poll, an advantage that is within the margin of error for the poll.
Over the last week Brown has continued his dominance with independents and increased his ability to win over Obama voters as Coakley's favorability numbers have declined into negative territory. At the same time Democratic leaning voters have started to take more interest in the election, a trend that if it continues in the final 36 hours of the campaign could put her over the finish line.
The PPP news isn't all good:
-Brown is up 64-32 with independents and is winning 20% of the vote from people who supported Barack Obama in 2008 while Coakley is getting just 4% of the McCain vote.
-Brown's voters continue to be much more enthusiastic than Coakley's. 80% of his say they're 'very excited' about voting Tuesday while only 60% of hers express that sentiment. But the likely electorate now reports having voted for Barack Obama by 19 points, up from 16 a week ago, and a much smaller drop from his 26 point victory in the state than was seen in Virginia.
On the plus side, the likely voters in the PPP poll still oppose ObamaCare 48/40, which is one of the main issues driving opposition to Coakley.
However, the sample of the PPP poll looks suspect. Like the ARG poll, it likely overstates Democratic turnout, with a +22 partisan advantage (D-R-I sample 39-17-44). It does show only a 56-37 split for voters in the 2008 presidential election, but that includes four percent who "don't remember" which candidate got their vote. This turnout model is unlikely to match the actual turnout in this special election, especially since Democrats only outnumber Republicans by a +17 on party registration.
The new Pajamas Media poll, also conducted with IVR response by Cross Target, looks more realistic. It uses a turnout model of +14.6% for Democrats, which seems a lot more realistic than a +22, and gets the same lead that the Merriman Group found for InsideMedford:
A poll taken Sunday afternoon while President Obama was in Massachusetts campaigning for Democrat Martha Coakley against Republican Scott Brown for the open Senate seat in that state showed Brown leading his Democratic opponent by 9.6% (51.9% to 42.3% with 5.7% undecided).
The poll, conducted via telephone for Pajamas Media by CrossTarget, was of 574 Likely Massachusetts Voters and has a margin of error of +/-4.09%. CrossTarget used the exact method – Interactive Voice Technology (IVR) – it used in a similar poll for PJM on Friday. The previous poll showed Brown ahead by approximately 15%.
A poll released earlier Sunday from the Merrimam River Group shows Brown up by an identical 9.6%.
The big takeaway on this is the favorability ratings of both candidates. Brown gets a 60/32, while Coakley sank to a 40/54 negative rating. And that comes from a sample with a partisan advantage of almost 15 points for the Democrats, which explains why Democrats aren't fired up and ready to go for Tuesday.
The PJM poll on its face suggests that the race tightened, with Brown dropping from 15 up to the 9.6 point lead from last night. I'd guess that the difference comes from a better polling sample. Even if the race really "tightened" to a 9.6-point lead, I think Brown will take it.
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Truth does hurt as well as admitting hard core conservatives are no more principled than hard core liberals at times when it comes to elections. Bradky on January 18, 2010 at 9:00 AM
This is to say that hard core conservatives are more principled than hard core liberals.
I would add that they are more principled than moderates too, since their principles guide their decision making while moderates are all over the map due to their sloppy thinking, as evidence by your posts.
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Three consecutive former Massachusetts House speakers have been indicted and three state senators have resigned in disgrace in the past two years for various infractions.
Which party runs that state?
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Unfortunately, at the event today we only saw HSPA+ phones and nothing carrying an LTE label on it, but hey, the party isn't over yet. We're sure the carrier will be surprising us with a lot of LTE stuff during the course of the year, so you can count on us to always keep you posted!
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Bachelor Ben Flajnik's best friend Constantine Tzortzis doesn't like cunning Courtney Robertson at all. While watching the Feb. 6 episode where Courtney takes her top off yet again, Constantine tweeted an interesting message saying that promiscuous ladies are insecure and not that smart. Was he talking about Courtney?
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At least 70 people were killed and 56 wounded yesterday when a minibus packed with explosives blew up at a marketplace in the city of Baquba in a day that saw the worst violence in Iraq since the US handover a month ago.
Near the ancient city of Babylon, south of Baghdad, seven Iraqi policemen, backed by US and Ukrainian troops, died in a gunbattle in which 35 insurgents were killed, Poland's defence ministry said
And in Baghdad, a mortar or rocket struck a busy street killing one person and wounding five, witnesses said.
The powerful suicide bomb in Baquba left a sea of destruction, obliterating market stalls and destroying several buildings. It raised fears of more attacks just days before a big political conference to discuss Iraq's future.
Reuters Television pictures showed at least a dozen bodies scattered across a street, some of them still on fire.
A severely wounded man, his clothes burnt and torn and his body covered in blood, sat among smouldering ruins with several dead, some of whom looked like children, lying near him.
A Health Ministry official said 70 people were killed and 56 wounded in the blast shortly after 10am (1600 AEST) in the often violent town 65km north of Baghdad. She said the toll was expected to rise.
Twenty-one people travelling in a minibus alongside the one that detonated were killed, an Interior Ministry source said.
Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera said many of the dead and wounded were men queuing at a police recruiting centre near the police station. The police station itself, protected by thick blast walls, was not damaged.
The violence comes three days before Iraq is due to convene a national conference in which about 1000 delegates will meet in Baghdad to elect a 100-member National Council to oversee the interim government.
The event is being billed as a crucial next step in Iraq's transition to democracy - ahead of elections planned for January - and its success is expected to be seen as a measure of the new government's ability.
In London on Tuesday, laywers alleged that British troops committed "war crimes" in postwar Iraq, unlawfully killing civilians and beating and torturing prisoners in their custody.
Soldiers played cruel "games" with prisoners - forcing them to recite lists of English or Dutch footballers and beating them if they failed, and demanding they "dance like Michael Jackson," said Phil Shiner, a British lawyer leading six test cases in the High Court in London this week.
In allegations echoing claims of prisoner abuse by US soldiers in Iraq, Mr Shiner said another "game" favoured by British troops involved a group of soldiers surrounding a prisoner and taking turns to see how hard they could kick-box him.
Mr Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, said he was acting for 37 cases of alleged unlawful killing, torture or mistreatment by British troops in postwar Iraq.
The test cases, which opened in the High Court yesterday, involve Iraqi civilians who were shot dead while going about their lives after the official end of the war in May 2003.
A spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defence said it would "robustly" defend the case.
The first American soldier charged with murder in Iraq appeared before a US military court in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Germany, yesterday as it opened investigative hearings that could lead to his court martial.
Captain Rogelio Maynulet was charged on June 12 with murder and dereliction of duty in the suspected killing of an "unidentified paramilitary member" on May 21 south of Baghdad.
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As someone who bought the authenticator the second it became available, I must say it took no time to get adjusted to and only delays access to the game by 10 seconds tops.Mine is the actual authenticator, not the iPhone app, which I understand can increase the times, but I have never used it, so I can't say with any veracity if it has any impact on accessing the game.I will say that it is the best $7 I have spent since starting in WoW. I almost never have to worry about getting hacked. It's nice to feel that level of security.
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As an iPhone authenticator user, I can say that it never adds more than a few seconds to login times. Just gotta be careful to remove and re-add whenever there's an update.
I LOVE mine. The extra 10 seconds to login is 100% worth it.
Yeah, getting authenticators to the 9million+ players already playing would be kind of an issue. Promoting them with the pet was good, seeing as lots of insane pet collectors would easily pay 7 bucks (or free, if they have an iPhone or iPod Touch) to get the pet.And yeah, it does pretty much make your account 100% hack-free, because I don't see how anyone could hack into your account, unless they managed to steal your authenticator AND find out your password AND your account name.
Got one already!
I've had one for a long time. Best money I could have spent for peace of mind.
Blizzard will definitely need a plan in place to make sure authenticators are in everyone's hands before they become mandatory, pretty much like what they did with the conversion to battle.net accounts.We'll likely see an expansion of mobile authenticators - hint to Blizzard: there are more phones and mobile devices than ipod and iphone that support apps. And if it's free for those two, it should be free for the rest...just sayin'Already the general forums are starting to get antsy about these rumors and it'll probably reach critical mass over the weekend. People just don't like being told what to do. The reality is that people in our community created this problem by paying for powerleveling and buying gold.
I just ordered one of these myself a few days ago, just waiting for it to ship. If they want to do this for every account, packaged in Cata box would be the way to go.
For $7 it's piece of mind; but if you aren't an idiot, you don't really need it.I was just thinking, what if publishers start putting out these kinds of devices for all kinds of games? You could end up with bucket full of these after so many years...
Speaking as someone who just suffered their guild leader getting hacked and the ensuing carnage it caused, I am now extremely pro-authenticator! The time spent logging in is a tiny bit longer for huge piece of mind.I highly recommend the phone/software versions.
I was really surprised they didn't include authenticators in the box with every copy of Wrath. To be honest they've been way too accommodating to those who do not want to use them, and then subsequently get hacked. I think the announcement of care packages instead of item restoration will make more people think twice about whether to get one or not. Having seen some well-progressed people in my guild lose their gear on multiple occasions, I too am looking forward to a hack-proof WoW.
The "two accounts" issue isn't really a problem unless you just don't want to merge them to the same Battle.net account. If you merge them to the same Battle.net account they would have the same password and use the same authenticator.
Mail it free and I will take it otherwise how do I pay for it?
This is stupid. I know how to secure myself without using an authenticator and I damn well don't want to use one every time I wanna log in.


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Hartford — Amazon will invest $50 million over two years to create a "customer fulfillment center" and 300 jobs in Connecticut, said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday. Amazon has also agreed to collect a sales tax for Connecticut now that it will have a physical presence in the state.
Amazon estimated it would collect $15 million in sales taxes annually once it starts collecting on Nov. 1, Malloy said.
"It's clear that it (Connecticut) is not a terrible state to do business in," Malloy said. "As I said, this is the third very large-scale customer fulfillment center to be announced in a relatively short period of time here in the state of Connecticut."
Amazon, which is looking for a location for the center, will start collecting sales tax just in time for the online holiday shopping season. The company will also push for federal legislation as it ends up collecting a sales tax for more states, which raises the price of online items.
Editor's note: This sentence corrects an earlier version. Malloy said he has already applied the projected revenue to his budget proposal, which he will roll out on Wednesday. In response to questions about whether there would be state assistance Malloy said there are no strings attached. If Amazon were to plan significant expansions, "we would have discussions," he said.
A professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, Richard D. Pomp, said, "It's a big deal for the dishonest taxpayers in Connecticut because we have always owed the sales tax on goods purchased from Amazon."
Under current law, out-of-state retailers are not required to collect a sales tax for Connecticut. It is up to consumers to report their out-of-state purchases when they file their taxes.
This move by Amazon takes the responsibility of paying the sales or use tax away from the consumer, Malloy said.
"I think there are probably fewer people that are worried about the sales tax," Pomp said. "People today shop for the convenience."
The new business model for Amazon has to do with buying something today and getting it tomorrow, he said. Having more customer fulfillment centers or warehouses allows Amazon to compete against supermarkets and local stores, Pomp said.
Pomp also said he thought Amazon would become a champion for a federal law on sales tax collection now that it will be collecting sales tax while other online retailers without a physical presence are not.
The sales tax law passed in 2011 required out-of-state online retailers who sell more than $2,000 worth of goods a year through affiliate companies located in Connecticut to collect a sales tax. Affiliate companies, for example, would be companies that direct web users to Amazon's website and receive a commission once a web user purchases something from Amazon.
When the law passed Amazon and other companies broke ties with affiliates in order to not collect the tax.
Now that they have agreed to collect a sales tax, "they are willing to do business with affiliates in the state of Connecticut again," Malloy said.
In an email, the vice president of global public policy for Amazon, Paul Misener, said the company "look(s) forward to working with Gov. Malloy toward passage of the legislation now being considered by Congress that would finally resolve the sales tax issue, level the playing field for all retailers, protect states' rights and allow states to collect the revenue owed."
The problem is that it is not politically attractive to enforce sales tax collection at the federal level, Pomp said. Politicians will appear to be taking away people's rights to buy items online sales tax-free, even though online purchases were never meant to be sales tax-free, he said. Congress would take a lot of heat to pass federal legislations and then the revenues from the sales tax would go to states, Pomp said.
Nationally about $11.3 billion in use tax revenues are lost from electronic business-to-business and business-to-customer transactions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In Connecticut about $63 million is lost.
Amazon has agreed to collect sales tax on items shipped to Arizona, California, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, according to its website. Amazon recently agreed to collect a sales tax on items shipped to Massachusetts, Malloy said.
Malloy said he expects brick and mortar retailers to push again for out-of-state retailers to collect a sales tax.
"I think pressure that traditional retailers are under is rising and it's starting to be seen as an issue of fairness," he said.
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I go traveling about 4 times a year.
I don't eat the Continental breakfasts offered for free at the places I stay, because I serve people every day and I want to be served when I go out.
To that end I have to comment on all the convenience foods places use.
If I order hash browns with my eggs I am not expecting deep fried breakfast potatoes.
I understand the issues with pooled eggs, but don't care for the mouth feel of an omelette made with liquid eggs.
Things like bacon, hard boiled eggs, salad in bags with inert gases,are many times purchased.
I'll bet in many cases it's because the kitchen has no talent and the ease of an "idiot proof" product allows for consistency.
And.......the things that really annoys me is that the public accepts this stuff and likes it.
Now I have no problem with convenience when it used correctly.
Even with the directions the cooks will still screw it up.
What a sad state it is.......


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Louis Farrakhan Preached 'Jesus Was A Black Man' At Alabama A&E University
Louis Farrakhan Preached 'Jesus Was A Black Man' At Alabama University
We are pretty used to Minister Louis Farrakhan preaching on the 'black issue' and the 'black struggle'. We are sure everyone that knows his name, know what he is about. So why are some so upset about his so called anti-semantic comments- namely Glenn Beck?
Now, we don't support Farrakhan on many things but one has to know that what he states is always controversial and in some ways, can be true. There are some who can't stand what he teaches but let's take this as an opportunity for discussion.
Many wanted the controversial speaker to cancel his speaking engagement but the show went on and now we can see just what was said. Here's some of what was said at Alabama A&E University on Tuesday:
- On the topic of religion and race Farrakhan got personal, "If He made us black – with kinky hair, broad nose, thick lips – if I don't like me, how could I like the God who created me?"
Now, this we agree with. African Americans must like who they are and if we don't, there may be some dislike in who created us. It really goes deep into why many have said blacks hate one another.
- Farrakhan referenced the Jewish Seder holiday and specifically the Jewish tradition of the Prophet Elijah's arrival to each doorway on Passover night: "If Elijah was at the door and he was black, you would call 911 and say there's a n****r at the door, claiming he's Elijah! Send the police!"
- Why would Jewish people be so shocked? "Because you are not trained to accept wisdom from a black person, no matter how wise that black person is" the minister explained, "Jesus was a black man."
We only agree that others may not want to deal with the fact that Jesus was black or of very dark pigmentation. The bible described Him that way so, that's not our words ( Daniel 10:6 ). We also know that it does not matter if He was or was not because He loves us all and there is only one Lord we shall serve.
There was much more that was stated and true enough, it is very controversial. So develop you own opinion on this one.


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Our long Labor Day weekend getaway to Indianapolis was filled with tons of adventures. We visited the world's largest (and possibly best) children's museum, watched an awesome dolphin show at the Indianapolis Zoo, ate amazing food, sampled loads of local beer, was amazed at the western art collection in the Eiteljorg Museum, and simply did more activities than should be squeezed into a four-day weekend.
But my favorite part of our time in Indy? It might have been a surrey ride along the Indianapolis Central Canal at White River State Park with Wheel Fun Rentals.
I can't even begin to express how much fun we had over four days exploring Indianapolis. We were able to mix lots of family friendly activities with a few that the adults would enjoy too. From sports to shopping and food, we covered the gamut of fun in Indianapolis. But one of the more enjoyable parts of the trip came late Sunday afternoon when we rented a surrey for a one-hour pedal through the state park and next to the Canal.
I've never been on a surrey. If you're like me, I actually didn't even know what one was until we decided to take one for a ride. The ones available at Wheel Fun Rentals come in different shapes and sizes. We went with a two-person surrey with just enough room in the middle for Colby to sit and control one of the two steering wheels.
There was also a basket seat in front he could've sat in, but he wanted none of that. This 6-year-old boy, who just the week prior to our trip told his classmates in the first grade that he'd be driving to school by the fifth grade, wanted to drive.
So off we went, peddling over the White River and along a beautiful and quiet walkway along the backside of the Indianapolis Zoo that provides solid views of the river below and skyline on the other side.
And with this being Labor Day weekend, what is apparently the weekend for weddings in Indianapolis, we peddled past a beautiful bride preparing to walk down the "aisle," in this instance the bridge across the White River.
Many other surrey riders chose the walkway next to the Canal for their ride and we soon found our way there.
The Canal runs along the backside of the NCAA Hall of Champions, Indiana Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, and several hotels and offices. There were other surrey riders, loads of families out for a walk and even a few paddleboat riders on the Canal.
It really was an unexpected and fun journey. And priced at $20 for an hour-long ride ($30 for a Double Surrey), I think it's a great way for a couple or family to get a little exercise in while enjoying the beauty of the White River State Park and the Historic Central Canal.
A special thanks to Visit Indy for hosting us on this visit to Indianapolis. As always, opinions expressed here are my own and were not swayed in any way by the awesome time we had.


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Stamper (6-5, 305) is a four-year starting letterman who served as a team co-captain in 2006. Stamper earned preseason All-SEC honors in 2006 before the injury. His return is expected to bolster an already deep, veteran offensive line which features the likes of returning seniors Merritt Kirchoffer (6-5, 310), Josh Eames (6-5, 305), Hamilton Holliday (6-3 295), Chris Williams (6-7, 315).
Stamper's medical condition was initially attributed to a hamstring problem but later it was determined his pain was caused by back problems.
In December the SEC denied Vanderbilt's request for a Stamper medical red shirt waiver because a conference cannot approve anything beyond the guidelines set by the NCAA. However, Vanderbilt appealed to the NCAA and the SEC provided a recommendation letter stating the reasons that the waiver should be approved.
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*Pitt won its third straight game, improved to 21-2 overall and 8-2 in Big East play. Pitt hosts West Virginia on Monday at 7 p.m. ET. The contest will be broadcast live nationally on ESPN Big Monday with Sean McDonough, Bill Raftery and Jay Bilas making the call.
*Pitt improved to 5-2 in road games and 4-2 in Big East road games on the year. Under Jamie Dixon, Pitt is 27-15 all-time in Big East regular season road games.
*The 23-point win tied for Pitt's largest over a Big East opponent on the season. Pitt also registered a 23-point victory vs. St. John's on Jan. 11, 2009.
*With its win over Robert Morris, Pitt has now won 20 or more games in each of the last eight straight seasons. Pitt needs just two more victories to win 10-plus Big East regular season games. Pitt is the only Big East school to win over 20 overall games and 10-plus Big East games in each of the last seven seasons.
*Three Pitt players finished the game with double-doubles. DeJuan Blair finished with 32 points and 14 rebounds, Levance Fields dished out 16 assists and scored 13 points and Sam Young totaled 10 points and 10 rebounds.
*DeJuan Blair scored a career-high 32 points and pulled down 14 rebounds for his 15th double-double of the season. It was the first time Blair scored over 30 points in a game as he surpassed his previous career-high of 27 points vs. Indiana, Pa. on Nov. 22, 2008. Blair became the second player to score over 30 points this year (Sam Young scored 33 points vs. Belmont. The double-double marked Blair's 29th of his career. He has now reached double figure scoring in 43 career games and double figure rebounding in 34 career contests. He also set career-highs for field goals made (14) and field goal attempts (23).
*Levance Fields tied a school record with a career-high 16 assists today. Bob Shrewsbury also had 16 assists vs. South Carolina on February 14, 1976. Fields' double-double marked the fourth of his career. Fields reached double figure assists for the fifth time in his career. His previous career high for assists was 14 on two different occasions. In the last three games, Fields has 36 assists and only three turnovers. Fields improved to 73-14 all-time as a starter. He reached double figure scoring for the 16th time on the year and 62nd time in his career.
*With his 10 points and 10 rebounds, Sam Young registered his first double-double of the season. The performance marked his seventh career double-double. He also reached double figure rebounding for the first time on the season. Young has reached double figure scoring for the 65th time in his last 70 games played.
*With his 13 points, Brad Wanamaker reached double figure scoring for the third time in the last four games. Wanamaker also hit a career-high three 3-pointers.
*Pitt finished the game with 17 offensive rebounds. On the year Pitt has pulled down 10 or more offensive rebounds in 21 of 23 games this year. It has grabbed 10 or more offensive boards in each of the last 18 consecutive games.
*Pitt defeated DePaul for the fourth consecutive game. Pitt improved to 4-1 all-time vs. the Blue Demons and 4-0 vs. DePaul since the school joined the Big East Conference in 2005-06. Pitt is now 18-8 overall against schools that joined the Big East Conference in 2005-06: Cincinnati 4-1, DePaul 4-0, Louisville 4-3, Marquette 3-4, South Florida 3-0. The 23-point win over DePaul marked Pitt's largest win over the Blue Demons in series history.
*Pitt limited DePaul to 69 points on the evening. On the year, Pitt has now limited 20 of its 23 opponents to 70 points or less. Since Jamie Dixon became head coach, Pitt has held 158 of its 195 opponents under 70 points.
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Jose Blanco Jr. "Mito" was received into the arms of his Lord and Savior Tuesday August 26, 2014. He had recently celebrated his 92nd birthday. Jose, the son of Jose and Encarnacion Blanco, was a "conch" born and raised in Key West where he met and married his wife Geraldine "Jerry" and where they raised their two sons, Daniel and Terry. Jose served his country in the U.S. Army as well as working civil service through the Navy. He enjoyed baseball, bird watching, dancing, working in the yard, fishing and eating sweets, especially fresh baked "Blanco Tribe" cookies. In the latter years of his life, he also enjoyed many first time experiences, among them visiting Walt Disney World, which he said everyone should visit at least once.
Preceding him in death is his wife, his parents, his sisters Vitalia and Elia, along with other loved family and friends. Those remaining are his two sons and their wives, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews and friends.
Mito now lives eternally in Paradise with the Lord and that is the precious Good News and those who follow Mito's example of asking Jesus to forgive their sins and be their Lord and Savior will see Mito again.
"Absent from the body, present with the Lord."
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Handcuffs and body searches awaited Pauline Hanson today as she began life behind bars.
Hanson was expected to spend the first night of her three-year jail sentence in the Brisbane watchhouse before she was processed in the prison system.
She will start serving her sentence at the Brisbane Women's Prison at Wacol.
Hanson will swap the smart outfits she's worn to court over the past month for a blue-grey tracksuit prison uniform.
She will be strip-searched and have a medical check-up before being assigned to a cell.
Assessments over the next fortnight will determine whether Hanson is put in protective custody or in the mainstream prison area.
Hanson will be entitled to keep few personal possessions.
Visitations will be restricted to just a few each week.
Hanson could end up like jailed former Queensland chief magistrate Di Fingleton and be transferred at a later date to a low security facility elsewhere in Brisbane.
The perils of Pauline
Such were the perils for Pauline Hanson.
The co-founder of One Nation was a champion of the battlers to some and a hysterical reactionary to many.
John Howard's prime ministership will always have its links with Hansonism.
Had a Liberal Party nervous about giving Labor any targets in the 1996 federal election campaign not disendorsed Hanson as a candidate over her views about Aboriginal welfare and immigration she might have stayed in obscurity.
Instead she made the most of the limelight and won the Labor held Queensland seat of Oxley as an independent with a massive 23 per cent swing.
Just over a year later she formed One Nation with the help of the two Davids - her co-convicted in the fraud trial David Ettridge and current NSW upper house MP David Oldfield.
One Nation with the two Davids working behind the scenes catapulted the party into a political force.
They tapped into a deep disenchantment with the mainstream major political parties.
Twice divorced mother of four Hanson particularly appealed to middle aged males.
Many found her attractive while her down to earth views and aversion to political correctness also was considered refreshing.
Memorable quotes from Pauline Hanson
|Sept 1996 "I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. Of course, I will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country." Hanson's maiden speech to Parliament.
|Nov 13, 1996 "I'm not a redneck, I'm not a racist, and I won't be called one. I'm a realist, a realist in what direction I want to see this country go." Hanson on the television program Beauty and the Beast.
|Nov 25, 1997 "Fellow Australians, if you are seeing me now, it means I have been murdered. For the sake of our children and our children's children, you must fight on. Do not let my passing distract you for one moment. We must go forward together as Australians. Our country is at stake." Hanson's opening statement on her video message, should she have been assassinated.
|Oct 13, 1998 "Please explain?" Pauline Hanson responding to a question from 60 Minutes journalist Tracey Curro on whether she was xenophobic.
|Oct 31, 2001 "If I'm gone there will be someone else and someone else and someone else until we actually get democracy back in this country, to get the people we elect to parliament representing us and not overseas interests, multinationals and other organisations, the do-gooders, the bleeding hearts and the civil libertarians that are not interested in Australia." Hanson at the One Nation party federal election campaign launch.
|Nov 11, 2001 "It's not the end of One Nation. I think if I was off the political scene you guys might find it terribly boring between the other two parties." Hanson after One Nation failed to win a lower house seat and she failed to get elected to the Senate.
|Jan 14, 2002 "I need to clear my name in this court case." Hanson after resigning from politics, described the legal action against her as a "political witch-hunt".
|May 31, 2002 "I am innocent and I will fight and, before a jury, I hope that they will see the injustices." One Nation's Pauline Hanson, committed for trial on electoral fraud charges along with party co-founder David Ettridge.
|Aug 20, 2003 "Rubbish, I'm not guilty ... it's a joke," she says after being convicted on all charges.
Opponents and the media lampooned her lack of intellectual clout and an exchange during a 60 Minutes interview when she said "Please explain" when asked whether she was xenophobic became part of the national lexicon.
Despite Hanson being widely disparaged, One Nation won 11 out of 78 seats with 23 per cent of the vote at the 1998 Queensland elections and political pundits wondered how far the juggernaut could go.
Expectations of huge success at the federal election a few months later fell flat with One Nation winning just a solitary Senate seat despite achieving around a million first preference votes in the House of Representatives.
Preference deals between the major parties cost Hanson a seat in parliament when she contested the outer Brisbane electorate of Blair.
The 1998 federal poll, where the Howard government was re-elected despite advocating a goods and services tax (GST), marked the beginning of the slide for Hanson and One Nation.
A little over a year after it was formed, One Nation was imploding with disgruntled former candidate Terry Sharples starting Supreme Court action to have the party deregistered because it inflated membership numbers by including people who were merely supporters.
Its representation in the Queensland parliament also disintegrated and by the end of 1999 all MPs had either joined a breakaway party or become independents.
Hanson also was to fall out with key advisers, including the two Davids, with Oldfield quitting One Nation after being elected to the NSW Legislative Council.
Despite numerous setbacks, One Nation retained popularity in regional areas and was costly to the conservative cause when Labor enjoyed victories in the Queensland and Western Australia state elections in 2001.
In July that year Hanson and Ettridge were charged with fraudulently registering One Nation in 1997.
The court case hung over her as she contested a Queensland Senate seat at the 2001 federal election.
Again Hanson failed to get elected and she saw One Nation's vote halved from that achieved three years earlier.
Like Labor's Kim Beazley, Hanson was a victim of the Tampa crisis and Mr Howard's move to stop asylum seekers landing on Australian shores cost her support, as it did the ALP.
"It has been widely recognised by all, including the media, that John Howard sailed home on One Nation's policies," she said at the time.
Early last year Hanson resigned as One Nation president but it didn't stop her trying to emulate Oldfield by trying to win a NSW upper house seat at this year's state election.
She failed narrowly with the Shooters' Party winning the final seat.
For a few months back in the late 1990s people had even speculated that Hanson could have become prime minister of an Australian nation looking inward, much to the concern of its Asian neighbours.
But Hanson has said she never held such lofty ambitions.
"My whole and total reason for entering politics was to make a better Australia for Australians," she once said.
Her political career has been a rocky one and today's court case outcome has finally killed it off.
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This isn't a lecture for all those whose musical tastes I might disagree with.
Truth be told, I turned off the function that automatically posts your Spotify choices on Facebook because I knew there would come a night like a couple of Thursdays back, when I listened to a sequence involving John Mayer, Prince, 2Pac, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry, Dire Straits and The Eagles in less time than it took to cook half a chicken stirfry.
Of course, I then manually entered this list of artists into a Facebook status update, which possibly speaks as much to an oversharing complex as it does to the pricelessness of the information.
Anyway, I was listening to Spotify again earlier this week (Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, if you must know), when I scrolled aimlessly down the app on my phone and promptly came across...
To start with, I couldn't believe such a playlist existed (technically, it doesn't - it's an album. But what the hey...)
And I then I started thinking about all the other kinds of weird compilations that might be out there on Spotify on account of users like me, who'd reeled off the equivalent of a Mayer-Prince-Pac-Avril-Katy-Straits-Eagles combo and wanted to let everyone share in it.
Here's a selection of what I found.
Divorce Music:
Really there's not a lot I can say here - the first song is Ode To Sorrow. The musicianship of the Lumiere String Quartet is perfectly fine but I fail to see how this compilation is really going to help anyone going through a marriage breakup. Some of the tracks practically need a "stay away from the sedatives while listening to this" warning and the string version of Every Breath You Take is really kinda creepy in context. High point: a version of Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. It's actually quite cool.
Songs To Play At Your Funeral:
I've no idea who Spotify user 1140517568 is but I take my hat off to him/her. Sure, they've got the standard bereavement stuff you'd expect to find in here: that Greenday "time of your life" song, the obligatory Jeff Buckley stablemates Hallelujah and Last Goodbye, Johnny Cash's Hurt and the Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want. But he/she is also doing their best to revive a, ahem, largely lifeless genre. There's a new favourite for cremations (Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire), Ray Charles' Hit The Road Jack, Baby Don't Forget My Number by Milli Vanilli, The Cranberries' Zombie, Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees and my absolute favourite, U Can't Touch This. Not sure about you guys but I definitely want to be at the funeral choreographed so that "Stop, Hammer Time" rings out just as the casket disappears from view.
Music So Sexy, It'll Get You Pregnant:
Given the vast, vast majority of male-female amorous interactions are undertaken with the specific objective of no-one becoming pregnant, I do wonder who the target market is. Still, you have to admire a playlist that comes, for want of a better phrase, exactly as advertised. And that's what Spotify user Liz Sellier delivers here. Really, I think the track names speak for themselves: Use Me, Do You, Sure Thing, Doin' It, In Those Jeans, Body 2 Body, Best I Ever Had, How Many Drinks, Hold On We're Going Home, I Know What You Want and a clear contender for the best song title of all time in Neighbours Know My Name. Honourable mention to Aadit Patel's Sombeody Gonna Get Pregnant (featuring Toot It And Boot It) and Antti Tuokko's I Might Be Pregnant (loads of techno, unclear what it's got to do with being up the duff).
Music For Dogs:
Confession time. When my Dalmatian Scooby was seven weeks old and I was just a scared rookie owner who gave him vinegared chips for his first meal and made him sick, I also tried a musical trick to get him to settle better when I wasn't home. I hung the speakers of my stereo out the patio door and set The Story So Far: The Very Best Of Rod Stewart on shuffle and repeat. The end result was that Scoob remained as neurotic as ever, just with the added bonus of cowering under the bed every time he heard the first couple of strains of Sailing. But at least I know now where I went wrong. There's loads of music for soothing dogs on Spotify, most of it classical stuff. Music For Dogs by Dog Music, seems especially popular and I'd be tempted to give it a go on Scoob (now 12) if he only weren't so rapidly going deaf. At this point, it would be remiss of me not to also mention the playlist Benefit for Epileptic Dogs by Dustin Wood. I've zero idea what that the title means but a better collection of 80s stuff you won't find, including Murray Head's epic One Night in Bangkok.
22 Hours of Bob Dylan Covers:
Couple of questions here. What happened that curator Ian410 couldn't stretch this out to a full day? And is this the only Spotify playlist that grew out of a musical experiment the Yanks were conducting on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay? I jest, of course. I'm no fanatic but I don't a bit of Dylan. Obviously I haven't gone through the whole 22 hours (although I bet some Dylan nut out there has...probably in one sitting) and there are some choices that will be debated (James Blunt? Jason Mraz?). But mostly it seems very listenable. Worth a run: The Format's take on Simple Twist of Fate.
I'm Summoning Aliens:
And to think Fox Mulder wasted all that time with sob stories about his missing sister and behind-the-scenes battles with that smoking man. Really, he could just have been following the lead of Spotify user Pansyfrnk and hitting the extraterrestrials up with 17 straight Blink 182 songs, leading into a bit of My Chemical Romance. I don't have the scientific background to assess whether or not this type of music attracts aliens. But after we jettisoned a Michael Jackson track into space in the 1980s, it almost certainly won't be the weirdest thing the spacefolk have stumbled upon. And given the eclecticness of this mix - The Strokes, Ramones and Pixies all eventually get a run - I'm inclined to give it the thumbs up.
A list of absolute absolutes in life: death, taxes, the fact no person enjoys ironing and that no man anywhere has ever professed to be any good at it. We probably can't do much about the latter but Spotify user Ellie Jepson seems pretty determined to fix the third item on that list, with her imaginatively titled playlist. To be honest, I can't imagine who wouldn't press shirts a little faster and more enthusiastically to the sounds of Eye Of The Tiger, Summer Of 69 or Welcome To The Jungle, although the selection of Queen's I Want To Break Free seems kind of iron-ic. Honourable mention: the at least half-dozen playlists that consist entirely of the sound of a vacuum cleaner in operation. Really, I'm as mystified as you are.
Arnold Schwarznegger's Total Body Workout:
I'm shameless ripping this one out of other "best of Spotify lists" but it's too good to pass up. All I can say is imagine Arnie issuing verbal instructions for a series of doorknob pull-ups, layered over the top of Tommy Tutone's Jenny 867-5309. My words can't really do the concept any justice so I suggest you just give it a whirl yourself.
Jingle Smells Stinky Tunes
Fart noises to the tune of Jingle Bells. There is also a version of Yankee Doodle Dandy and Beethoven's 5th Movement. Moving right along then...
Orgasm Sounds
OMG. And that's me saying that, not the French lass on track three. Probably no need to expand any further, other than to say I'm worried my housemate might have heard me listening to this for research.
The Golfing Experience:
I know what regular readers of my work are probably thinking here: "Whitey's just a guy who finds stupid ways to work golf into everything he writes". And yeah, I'll admit I haven't been this obsessed by something since the late 1980s, when I used to send birthday cards to Perth Wildcats back-up point guard Eric Watterson. That said, my golfing experience consists mainly of a soundtrack of four-letter words, the only printable one of which is "fore". On the other hand, Spotify user Hunter Christian's Golfing Experience features the likes of Angel by Shaggy, I Would Walk 500 Miles, and Electric Feel by MGMT. For mine, professional golf would be much more accessible to most people if they imagined Tiger Woods had Mr Bombastic running through his head every time he stood over a putt or swung his driver in rhythm to Bob Marley's Buffalo Soldier (this might actually help Tiger, too).
Speaking of golf, I play most weekends with a fella named Kiwi Joe. Totally unflappable he is; no matter how bad he might be playing, he just casually saunters around the course, singing to himself. The other week at Rockingham, it was the Beatles' No Reply. Pulled the ball deep into dense scrub only 20 metres from the tee? "This happened once before, when I came to your door...no reply". Two-foot putt does a lap of the hole and springs back out? "They said it wasn't you but I saw you peep through, your window". Took four shots getting out of the bunker? "I tried to telephone. They said you were not home. That's a lie."
And yeah, my story about Kiwi Joe is self-indulgent and almost definitely a complete overshare. But really, that's the spirit streaming, public musical playlists are built on. Plus, I can't for the life of me seem to find a decent version of No Reply on Spotify.
So if anyone has any tips...
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She fired at the lead toral and brought him down. She fired at the next and missed. It wouldn't matter.
There were too many of them.
The toral by the patrol craft dropped the man and turned toward Viella. Saliva from the excitement of the
hunt dripped from his fangs. He dug his claws into the soft sand making ready to spring, to bring death to this
Viella heard a noise behind her. When she looked over her shoulder she saw the stranger standing in the
sand several feet behind her with his head moving from side to side taking in the present situation. He jumped
forward and swept her up in his muscular arms as if she were a small child. He started running along the sandy
bottom toward the patrol craft where the toral stood over the dead man's body.
"Are you crazy? Let me down." If this man kept running the toral would attack, knock them down, and rip
them apart. Their only chance was for her to keep firing her phasor in hopes she could stun the five remaining
toral before they got to her and the stranger, or before the phasor pack ran out of energy.
She shifted her position as much as she could trying to bring her phasor into the firing position, but the
stranger's physique was too broad and tall. She could barely get her hand with the phasor in it over his
"Let me down!" she commanded.
The toral next to the patrol craft stood up and took a hesitant step back with a puzzled look, and then, when
he realized the man wasn't attacking, but escaping, he started the chase. The other four toral weren't far behind.
With hands and elbows, Viella pushed herself up the man's chest and turning in an awkward position looked
over his shoulder. She could see the gleam from the toral's fangs in the moonlight. He was no more than two
lengths behind them and gaining. But the stranger did the impossible—he lengthened his stride and stepped up
his speed. The lead toral was no longer gaining on them. The stranger increased his speed again, and soon he
was outdistancing the toral, leaving them behind as if they were slow moving Gorian turtles. Viella looked to
the walls of the gorge, and saw nothing but a blur. She tried to look forward, but the wind created by his speed
was blinding and brought tears to her eyes.
She closed her eyelids and relaxed. "You're an android," she said with a sudden realization. "No living man
could shake off a stun so quickly. No living man could outrun a toral. No living man could run this fast. No
living man could see where he was going in this darkness"
She could feel the heat coming from his body as his muscles pumped like a machine racing through the
gorge away from the dangerous toral. "If you are a machine, then why is there heat?" Then she remembered
the Galaef's men sinking shafts into the city park. That's it, she thought. The Galaef and his scientists have
created a new android in a secret laboratory, but for some reason the android malfunctioned and escaped.
Viella looked over the stranger's shoulder for the toral, but they were no longer in sight. After another few
minutes the stranger slowed down, came to a stop, and set Viella on the ground.
She was totally convinced of his mechanical endoskeleton and his artificial intelligence. There was no other
explanation for his superhuman abilities and his constant stupor.
She looked up at him and smiled. "I have my own android," she said. She took him by the hand and started
walking along the sandy bottom of the gorge.
It was difficult trudging along the sandy bottom of the gorge, especially with the cold penetrating through the
light jacket and with the earlier tiring, gut wrenching, energy draining events of the night—pumping adrenaline
through the arteries when running from the patrollers—fighting—fighting, running and now pushing through
the sand, on toward their goal, on to the mountain people. Viella was exhausted as she and the stranger finally
came to the base of the mountain. The gorge started at an incline narrowing as it progressed upward until about
a half mile up the mountain it became a long rockslide.
One look and she knew they couldn't go that way, so she climbed out of the gorge, hands and feet on loose
rocks, and made for a group of trees a hundred paces ahead. They had made it across the Toral Plains an hour
and a half before sunrise, but it was still another forty miles until she came to Everette's village, and she knew
she couldn't go on without rest and sleep.
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I just purchased my first home in a great area. The inside has been completely renovated. My only issue is the yard. I want to turn this into a cozy outdoor living area but I am totally lost on ideas. I would greatly appreciate any tips or suggestions anyone may have.
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Ideally I'd like to have a patio area with a firepit and seating on the lower level outside of the entrance to the basement. I also have 3 large trees so there is a lot of shade at the top of the slope which is about a 12x12 area of even ground. I'd love to somehow connect the two areas if that can be done.
I'd put in a patio with a firepit with seating on the lower level outside the entrance to the basement.
In other words it's your property so do what you like within the confines of state and local statutes.
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