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Feb 26, 2013|
Celtics CEO and co-owner Wyc Grousbeck joins Mut and Lou in studio to discuss the current state of the team. Wyc chats about how close they were to making a big move at the trade deadline, what the plans are for the future, and if the team will retire both Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce's numbers. Also, he takes some time to field questions from fans calling in to the show.
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It's what prospects Celtics CEO joining us in studio it's gone they glad to be here thank you for coming and again we love the chance to commit in a pure basketball questions especially night after. Doc Rivers called UT's best win of the year you agree with -- after last night's win win. I was so a -- I was like grinding my teeth we went to overtime we had a chance to win Paul didn't really get a good look at that last second. It did hit the rim twice and bounced out but but -- he took over you KG to go over and over time is beautiful to watch. -- semi spending in China -- deal I'm sure year old scouting right I mean. All these guys solar D. J. White Terrence Williams I'll know about China's I think there's literally a million guys were seventy tolerated just doing the math there's millions of voters so we ought to be over the more. Last night we -- -- -- Paul and Kevin Garnett combined for eleven of thirteen overtime points. There's a lot of talk about those guys at the trading deadline and I'm curious how close to get to those guys not being. On the court last night in moving those two players at the trading deadline a week ago. I'd say this for the last two or three days before the deadline. Their names came up more than anybody -- they were they were the topic of conversation of calls coming into us as people thought. May be we -- gonna keep it together this spring maybe it was time to start the rebuild. More aggressively. Mean look at the young kids we've got we've got Bradley we've got -- coming back Rondell coming back in the coming off surgery but we think they're going to be. Are right -- load up a little bit younger Courtney Lee's younger guy. Obviously Jeff Green so there's a -- they're built so do you start at a couple more pieces to it. As pollen and KG you know reached -- their career and that's gonna happen at some point it didn't happen this week. I'm used to call coming in calls going out. Well any talks all the time I was actually. I was short I was getting a lot of calls and Gary -- get a lot of calls from Danny but. That the the assumption going in was that these guys have played well enough and that's it it's -- it's a team that's building. And that we have a chance to do something -- be a nasty opponent plants with the assumption going in any February as long as -- around is going to be. Make the team better this year you know don't blow it up in the middle -- a playoff position. I'm having said that there's always the future look for a been here ten years I understand you don't wanna you know you don't live from game to game meet with community currency got a look at the futures. So not Danny Ainge as receiving calls on players like KG and Paul Pierce and what they mean this organization. How does it go -- to you guys -- pushed back is their do you just give him full autonomy as far as doing a deal. What are you guys to -- so you know what we want these guys to be here remembers of the Celtics. -- training a starting player hall of fame player. A guy -- meaning to the organization there's obviously conversation between the controlling owner and ownership and and -- to make sure everybody's on the same page at Waco since Waco as around the league. You said that your philosophy is your playoff team they try to build around quick if the team was in. A different position and you were in the ninth spotter tenth spot a couple of games out -- have changed do you think the your process the teams thought process if you work right now technically a playoff team in the Easter conference what you what is on the train them. Well it did it out of his at least leave the possibility open I mean if we were five and fifty or whatever. -- you'd be pretty likely do almost anything to make that better but I like with this team's been plan. We need some help but we needs more guys we got some younger guys in Jordan Crawford's one of you know we'll see if it really hurt to lose marbles that are to lose Rondo or -- who -- it really hurt. Icing on the cake was losing Barbosa who is really playing well a lot of energy defense intensity some links. Some offense. So. You know we tried to add specifically those skills we -- at a couple big guys a big earth guys energy guys will -- See what happens. The fans really enjoy the way his teams are playing lately and Angela talk -- Paul and KG you deserve to retirees Celtic now. I think there'd jerseys will be in -- rafters I think they'll always be Celtics. But I adults I don't think there's a need for that it's not best for the opposition moving four out of the deal a done deal Paul Pierce -- reason. What we heard Brooks and a first round pick and -- what do triggered KGB it. It would have brought in assets to kind of move forward and and and build that next team. Well tell you we we think we've got a chance. This here to do something. Important which is. You know show these. Younger players what it means to be -- Celtics team fighting hard in the playoffs and Holland island saint look at the lakers on the other side -- they've been playing worse than than we have and -- salute you get a simply a -- as -- -- against everybody. That's -- we don't have Kobe and our team but with KG and Paul and then Bradley behind Jeff Green behind him. You know I'm I'm excited about this team I'm not saying that we're gonna win and I'm saying I've we have one thing I know what it feels like been the finals another time. This team is tough I would wanna play us in the playoffs. -- CEO -- respect joining us here in studio so eat you hold onto those two guys Paul's got a year left on his deal. Your expectation that Paul Pierce were -- a Celtic. What. It's. I hope so I mean we're gonna retires number whatever happens. But Paul is a is an all time great. He's. Just watch them last night look like he's 25 again and at key moments I loved it and I just respect so much what would those guys are bringing. Out on Utah on a back to back. You know look they're well paid and everything and people can take shots that they aren't but people can say. Big the other plan for two hours what's the big archived at Lou you know be in a probe. You know we -- it's a grind and that was a crime last night in overtime and everything else that -- pulled up the tent and they did. So I'm I'm really I love watching them in the data polls on the data KG he's gone. The day that -- on the -- Iran has gone I'm gonna miss him forever those guys are Phnom. Entity and he showed that last year at the -- -- and Ron Moore who indices started and and the way they played through their professionals and it Danny through this process is is taken some because this words he's had in the past right the whole conversation read our back they would let this team get old. You know would have got rid of Kevin Robert and bird when I had the chance and yet. He won a lot people look at as an opportunity to kind of back up his words and it's sort of passed if they retires Celtic with that. Does Danny -- that -- given what it's at the past. Well let me let me tell you and we saw this last year we had a trade blow up. You know five minutes before the deadline it's the other guys most of mountain most the other teams in this league are not as confident as we are and make interest. So we are aggressive in exploring things we think things through. -- nothing -- is right by we are more likely to make a trade and stick to it than anybody else I can think of in league most rest of them are free to do anything. And they'll say that do it in and they well so it takes to depicts two teams trade and it. Very very sort of in practice that's accuse us of not looking for things or listening to phone calls because we do that problem -- anybody else. As a fall to the trade thing is sounds like it you you make it's it's difficult to make a trade sometimes how much of that Wiki is. The way the salary cap set up in the fact that you know you have to traders salary for salary you've got to include contract things in the else public infamous sports talk radio stamp point. In baseball ago yet trade him for a prospect in the MBA. We sit here at the trade machine to figure out is his salary match up with that guy's salary does that make it difficult. Well it does and it's supposed to what we're trying to do in the league and we did this in partnership with the players is to make more the team's competitive that's is that -- we all decided together particularly in this last collective bargaining. We're gonna try to even out the tell a little bit. So guys can't just loaded up and pay ninety your hundred million dollars for that we in the opening eighties. -- with tax you know high eighties. Several years and you just can't do more or is very very hard you can't just trade a bunch of salary. And dump it -- it all ends up in new Yorker away anymore in the old days or without a cap you can do that it doesn't happen in this league. So. That's the deliberate. Attempt to have the smaller market teams be able to hang onto their guys and have a level playing field -- of the best guys for the money more like NFL. As opposed to baseball which is. But the rich guys -- what -- -- gets better team and Rajon Rondo you've been moving here and an awful lot of our -- like now. No that it feel free to ask that all you want. Just think of just think these last couple games will run to would have meant. -- -- intensity with his defense. With his creative offense and passing and we got. We got room. It was. A lot of Sharon ball a lot of guys you know fast breaks and key you know Terry -- cannot get that miracle basket you know the -- -- a lot of great things that happened but Rondo would have helped. And no determination and our work -- regular season games where effect probably the post season so we did last year from the superstars come out right right and he you know he was outstanding last year in the post season without that. And it's -- soldier who soul who's playing so great before he got -- that's where a lot of people look at you know what is the ceiling now for the state. Well I mean that the beauty is we don't know last night it was a nice when we had a couple of really ugly and tough losses before we started off losing. I mean you know than the nuggets spurs only 22 and three don't while we lost to them and and the next night at lakers just buried Jersey palace. Who was a great guy by the way you know ordered gave his tribute and then they beat us that there's there's two tough losses to start. We have ups and downs in this team it's very interesting to watch I wish we were a better team -- -- we were but I -- which see what what happens this spring. Get a chance to read the of the Rondo -- it's portals and yet this week we Jenkins now. Big connect for -- we found out that any. -- just comes across that it's under by the way has a sneaky sense that you're. You will see that yet he probably is connect for him but. But you may be -- it comes across as high as eight different breed and his -- is competitiveness. Jason Terry told about and cork in his do you see that -- a behind the scenes these different then. The other guys and a team for personal. Obviously a point -- that's that is one of the reasons that he's great I mean he is totally different and KG is totally different in his own way and these guys are from Mars and Pluto or wherever. They are not that the typical breed of cat Rondo. You'll never be another -- I mean he's just he's just one of the kind. And there and we love it. One example calls -- -- calls let's do it 6177797937. The phone number eighteen tee decks on 37. 937 -- prospects Celtics CEO joining since studio he takes your calls. -- radio telling you the guy. Another magic bullet in the -- -- -- get -- for Turkey gets a good luck recently airlifted out half and the Boston Celtics have done it. -- -- -- It is Superman cape. They have stun the Utah Jazz in overtime and they have salvaged the final game of the western trip. The final score Boston won Dan you'd -- 107. Another landmark overtime win. For the Celtics. Also positive. Almost rather than most you know we just charged famously took offense move over -- You know usually in overtime long -- -- you can just kind of give me mentally you learn where to go home but this thing just so tremendous fighting dug in in order to do. You're the voice John -- here on WEEI than Paul Pierce Celtics win last night to go to a three on the trip. One game of the next seven days jets really catch their breath for. A push the in the regular season -- Ludwick prospects help ex CEO joining us this studio now you. Before we take these phone calls our mind you with this was your idea. Okay when they tell you Carolina or tell you how much Ron knows not nest and all these other stop this was your call you take these goals. I love taken calls that's fantastic and brought tickets to make sure we get. Calls it an artist so we've got to be -- -- bewitched is the second -- -- courtside. Sitting down with me there will be earned their right next to -- year on -- -- there's going to be -- Secure your -- any trouble breaks out. And you're -- you can -- to -- from down there I can tell you experience is perfect it's great great seats and I think they are the Wednesday. April 3 against the pistons. As -- is the game we have so and that's for the -- it doesn't mean it's the most. Siddiqui is sucking up call it's the best call the call that that we all the site is is a great call which doesn't need to be all positive. Right down to monitor -- I want to get the number up you guys been stacked up since we told you about this 11 o'clock -- in Wakefield. Leads us off Derek your column with -- -- I would I don't. Question. I I -- and every bit as Jordan and if you shall we seeded team. You can still on -- now that. Roster. He's -- and ours is going to be completely across the obvious. Well I'm looking at I would say -- -- -- -- had Rondo green sellinger Bradley just for starters may be I mean who knows if fab develops capitalist development probably overlook and a couple of young ones but that's a good core as far as I'm concerned for five years out we are making decisions right now for five years out. But we're looking a year or two out and at least in originally back in 0405. We were looking fighters that we knew we didn't have the horses we didn't have the championship team and that's when we and Danny put the plan together. Get the young kids get a new coach who would play the young kids. I -- GNU general manager in new coach. And go young for three or four years and build up assets and a facets so we can make a big trade four and we in fact target Kevin Garnett we back when Danny did and it all came true in no way. 070 wait. And thank god it did but that was a five year plan we're not on a fighter plan right now but I got some pieces in mind. Might be helping us how hard it is it's gonna get go back to that point you know -- a lottery type Cain I don't think so I think we got more young talent now that we did then when we came and you know we had some -- guys it's Walter. And Eric and you know Paul and -- and did we have the core you know vin baker just com. We just lost Rodney Rogers did we have the core that was gonna get better the next year and better than a year after we weren't sure can thanks. Joseph is in Providence Joseph Europe with the Celtics CEO -- you. On our border where it is like that's -- show that I would like this is poisoned well -- Florida let's go. I'm coming. It's amnesty would be any cake. In the nobody yet has guys that. He would hide debt -- a -- that would have pretty. And you took total he. You know -- front look in the last twenty the so. The big thing to me it was reported on the tactics of the trade deadline. He went and got a contributor from Mercury he got a contributor for a guy -- hurt and not the player with fees and addict and -- to really wouldn't get very many minutes. Crawford good decent NBA players the guys going to contribute. All what -- probably. And I don't eat well and not any credible for the trade deadline people came out and oh I don't know any going to be able to do anything at all. Because you know there are the peace movement diplomat and an excellent credit wired do. Like it I agree. It you know Danny knows I've got his back it's a very good working relationship and and it goes all the way back the first day he came in here. But it takes two teams like I was saying it takes almost you know almost nobody made a big deal at February nobody. Wants to move JD erratic. And listen. A guy can play we like and you know I can't comment about another player but we like guys named JJ including now. -- think -- good player. Anyway -- it was a very cautious February. Believe was not anxious to make big moves there's going to be a ton of moves in June and July I believe this year it's all pent up demand there's a lot of people that need to start rebuilding -- -- -- -- -- very very active this year. I'm -- and Bridgewater -- -- up what would -- spec. They -- -- that particular time where. I have a question I'm Jeff Green you know it. It seems like you organization had this vision Project Green in treating -- an amendment giving -- a contract that's in and I have a different perspective well. We saw the laid out brighter than Unix and it -- the other bipolar Jeff Green were come one I did not fire -- an extra eighty let the vehicle and doesn't really need it yeah effort. I want an opening behind the scene the organization at a given to have to turn out boxes you know inspire and maturity can go on because it seemed like we need him in the future. Well I saw a doc last night just -- good call good question I I -- -- doc last night just on the telecast. Sink come on Jeff you know I look at the shot clock you gotta pay attention has been shot after shot up and I mean he was guarded but he needs to feel more. Aware I don't think that's an effort thing I think that was just he just you know lost track of that and in a key moment but. The most important thing that we're doing it is -- every day in practice but even more importantly KG and Paul and Jason Terry. And Rondo in practice LeBron -- there. You know. You're gonna come in here via Celtic course can be pretty obvious from the beginning it's artwork in if there and it was anybody on this roster wasn't you know. -- -- fitting by now they would have been gone. Last week at the trading deadline I'm not -- Jason Collins in any way or Barbosa who -- -- not fitting they were both great guys and we will we miss him but the point is. Jeff green is trying as hard as he can now he's every single game you see him going -- who control and went down you see him more aggressive. Earlier in the year I saw him get the ball and immediately just look in the past he never looked aggressively to basket the first. Thirty games. And now every game he's looking more aggressively back basket he's getting more comfortable that's process your phone calls the Celtics CEO across record studio nick is in western echo that. -- on my question is you know going forward with KG pierce being the true leaders on the court. In the issued. He terrorized Elise and the media when Rondo attitude. Who can step in and beat that team leader once so that the economy. If Rondo without much. Of a bad attitude is it worth getting -- and signing Chris Pauline getting. Now another. Big men inside I mean we need decade leadership with -- and that team. Really doesn't -- function. Well let's see. The press reports are one thing what actually happens inside the team is often different just because we don't invite the press into the practices we don't know Mike Bynum on the team plane -- into the locker -- so there's a lot more that goes on behind the scenes. AG's got more attitude to run that has. But their but their -- and applied. They're. Great friends they get along until they feed off of each other. I think GG I think if you asked him he would say Rondo you know seems like a little brother to him the very very close so they're on the same page those guys. And there's nobody wants to win an eighteenth banner more than Rhonda does -- disunity that it's. I I think there's room for everybody we'd like KG to play his contract out we'd like all the stay. Rhonda got another couple years and gonna keep Roland is that Paul Pierce number and rafters of the -- number five. I can't amend for all these guys are still playing. I think people who were heavily involved in winning banner seventeen ought to be up there in fact they ought to hang 44 -- for change. Adams and Auburn he joins the I get emotional about this -- a lot of the weight thanks for the call from -- that was my hometown by the way that's the mark in favor of that oh mark that down Joey what born and not not really -- Lester but what are what are. OK who's up. -- asked out of an Auburn today. Yeah okay. I'll let you respect your -- -- -- still -- -- the question right that it has been set for the team what to win championships which I appreciate. Under the current -- there were being serious about it -- to create an injury. That -- great chance to win a championship this year and looking at next year it's probably not getting any better due -- an idea of change. Right so I would anxious to see the -- takes up to acquire assets. Expedite turning over that next championship brought that you know I've grown frustrated the last two trading deadline out stagnant that he does it. And I know you would be an injured and and it really got the old I don't know the other GM era one. What are you know I don't know it keeps you from getting frustrated and I'm. I know what the offers were. You wouldn't have taken -- I'm not I mean that's not that was a little too like just cut driver and it was so obvious. All the stuff is difficult I'm willing to admit that we make mistakes I make mistakes. In looking at things it's not perfect that's sort of the fun of it is that you don't know whether trades can work or not. But we did not receive good enough offers to make any moves last week. And the deals just weren't there there were some things that were interest thing. And other teams pulled out and fell through almost like a Ford team complicated trade with altered to guys moving around and we were. They -- about it and then got the call that you know to the other teams that we -- and talking to. They were just also involved and they were really our contact. They both pulled out so be it just happens that way we didn't have the deals -- Usage would you like to be active do you think did that teams are as I Philippines more desperate the deadline because they see that they have the team right now they have health and wanna make clothes. Do you think there's a better. Deals out there in June July in the offseason and turn it down because basically everybody started from scratch now any playoff team right now isn't gonna do. Mean I think you can take the clippers as an example just I'm just reading in the press when I'm reading is the clippers were an interest in doing various deals with -- other teams not us. Because they do want to break up playoff chemistry. You know I know for example the warriors coming into town Friday the owners a good friend of mine used to be limited partner my group I just saw him -- California last week personally. You know he didn't wanna make. He was anxious these next to make the playoffs they haven't made they -- once in nineteen years he's in new owner electric player your total blow up his team. For some future thing doesn't make sense into the guys that are just not taken phone call because of where they are everybody's taking phone calls and. I've put on the spot -- all these questions I got one more work you stick around one more segment these beat the one talked a little it's a bad play and we thought we'd hear why don't speak a little over to CN. The time you guys you guys -- lineup wanna continue the conversation with prospects Celtics the Jonas of the joints here in studio continue. With some your questions and called good FaceBook questions as well. Which continues don't want. -- this is -- overtime and quit working overtime with a stake in your phone calls out -- it was Shawn Green and by the way that voice if if people aren't listening to -- guide to the telecast of the broadcast the relations between crazy. And guiding Max carries -- and -- despite. Randy does a great job overtime with a quick your phone calls and again we -- picking out the best caller they're gonna get second row. Frank from Gloucester seats in the game on April 30 that the before 8 o'clock this record is no official word years ago it Doc Rivers been -- head coach of the Olympic team. But you got like. Kevin Garnett and I want league definitely green retired green that's good for your team right people look escalated it means a lot to be a Celtic it's great. All the great players in the league heard about the Doc Rivers if if they complete Foreman won't win another but playing for the got to get the seat up front how's that for recruiting tool. It's phenomenal and if they hear it all game long right they see him they hear him work in the wraps and coached the team and they can compare him to their. Their coach on their sidelines and and I would think doc comes out ahead and most of those comparisons he's a great coach we're lucky to have him if you. He decides to go -- the Olympics you know good for him to be to be great for us and great for him. And his team's LeBron changed -- he's a freeze a couple of hours I don't have -- -- -- no Carter works the Red Sox already were a problem. So -- -- -- LeBron who. Mike is in Framingham with a question for -- -- get all your phone calls in here Michael had. I -- I appreciate you taking my call I've been dying to ask sports team Lotus are probably more than 25 years. What I don't recall the year that your group bought the Celtics. 02 they -- two or three. What. What's motivating factor behind up buying a sports franchise. And and where our tour it would just asked. Is there all is the reward financial every year words to reward. Just being one definitely proud of you don't want -- the -- And orders be the franchise's value when it's applied to sell. Well I think is a good question it's really none of the above I would say the first and foremost thing I was on a team in college okay -- to be rowing team -- But we won a national championship by the way have only -- that 400000 times I apologize but it sort of goes to the whole thing. I love being on a team and competing thinking back to Little League and high school sports and college sports. And I love being part of a team and competing this is my born and raised hometown Boston. It's the Celtics. And being part of it in naming a banner seventeen -- yes that's what it means we're gonna go win a banner or die trying. It's being part of a team and being part of that you know eventually championship. It's just know that there's money involved you gotta put money and maybe get money out at the end or along the way. But honestly it's a bunch of guys from Boston who are fans who put Eric who were lucky guys who put extra money that they happen to have very lucky. Together and but this team and together we run it's we've got a team of ownership we've got a team with the players and the coaches. And the fans and then we you know you win a game it's -- the most indescribable -- great feeling. In the world and our ten years and I'm watching this overtime game last night. At home and the feel and just watching us win that game which is ten years into the thing was just so sweet. So it really comes -- competition and pride and there's other things there's that the community. Yes it's got more valuable over time yes this and that but it really is fundamentally. Kick in somebody's butt. When you watch that game last as minority still Yelp the TV and he yelled when plays happen plays go your way you get. Animated watch and again in the world like this release more muttering I. There was grumbling and muttering yeah -- Bobby is a marvel had Bobby your outlook prospect. They I wake I -- wanna thank you I think that the scene is so much on the lots. Granite coming -- a great win that night but they really do make each other batter in the true fashion itself. He didn't particularly. Important for me because I'm sharing it with an eight year old son who now is getting into it. And in 96 year old grandmother -- part of the story about Russell include the America -- so hopefully this is a dream come true on I do have one question is. What is an artists are the biggest surprise for you going to promote and to an owner in that out. That's good question I I think -- had a grandmother for a if she exists from dog to saint. I hit a the you know you don't I don't ever want to meet an owner who isn't a fan and they're probably are some out there pro sports somewhere but. I think you do need to maintain being a fan if you're an owner and he can't get caught in the bottom line or whatever else I think I think he's got to start by being a fan and maintain that. If you find yourself through that if you're getting burned out or something that's time to step back and think about what you're doing. So there isn't much of a transition. The fact is though it's easier probably to be a fan and just sort of essentially yell at the TV that actually have the decisions come to you and have to decide what to do. It's a lot harder to decide yes or no on these various things I think because I've had trouble with -- it's been stressful it's been a long ten years. When it works out it's great when you're losing streaks which we've had our share of losing streaks seventeen games. Etc. You know losing games is really tough and when you feel responsible for a you know it can really -- out. It's got to be a final like we get the volume -- fans calling in the world fans of the game and that's what we -- start mentioning guys like Paul Pierce being trading Kevin Garnett. Your fan you're an owner you're emotionally tied to some of these players 'cause of what you've been through with them but at the same point make him business decisions what's best for the team. It got to separate the two. Right and that's got to be -- It's really hard. You gotta get for your what's the most important thing when we come back to you know Celtic pride that that kind of sums it up for us he comes. Comes out that you know community what kind of guys you have on the team are they gonna share the ball. What kind of coach do you have I mean -- embodies it Danny embodies that he won a championship two championships in the eighties now he's 11. As a general manager this is Celtic pride and so makes it easy you know what what you would you be proud to do. Now would be proud to ride this thing down where and everybody's you know fifty years old. And Horry a play basketball anymore we've got to make some changes eventually obviously so pride doesn't mean just keep in the open you know the old team together forever it means. Do in the -- things you know trading Al Jefferson was -- people voted against that we do it anyway we -- wasn't a public vote. You know we traded Alfred KG and and it worked we love Al but but it works so they're tough they're hard decisions along the way. You gotta make at least 55% of them right -- your head in the game. As an owner when you read a report yesterday and today that Tom Brady and takes his contract extension wiccan on the back candidate based on its face takes about half. Of what the going rate would have been for quarterback what which your responses and owner you see that story. But that was phenomenal and awesome and embodies Tom Brady a good Michigan guy went to use them as well I might add. I'm I'm proud. To be a Boston fan and patriots fan and to note crafts and you know Tom Brady and -- Have that all work out the guys -- now. You can restructure in India but it but I KG taken what 101199 game no trade still. Good deal for the team I know that the KG coming back was huge for us last summer it enables us to do other things in and try to load the team up because he's really as the earlier caller said -- that KG. It's pretty tough to match -- being competitive you regret giving him a trick us. No I mean -- I love KG sand he wants to. Bleed green and tell the you know that they he's done I loved it as my favorite comment on the whole last week. Bob stone talking about Zhao Rhonda today Bob go that would with the prospect. I I'm watching the Celtics play this year before Rondo got hurt it looked. And that's it was Warren -- war with the five guys out on the war. And he's been hurt. It looks more like five guys in here. And do you think we'll run them come back to being encouraged. To keep that up. Yeah I think that's -- good question very good question I think that he's probably watching these games and saying look at the aggressive pushing the floor Tommy -- in style. Play that always starts to happen in late February anyway this season is a long season and it's pretty typical walk the ball up in November and run the ball up in March. Just be honest by its I think it would be great to have Rondo. Pushed the ball more I am not in charge of basketball in terms of drawn up plays I you know doc and any optically dot. Is in charge of basketball and I'm not. But for as of the end from a fan or CO perspective I can tell you -- I'd like does he Rondo. Playing this way if that's the way it works out -- on next season that'll be great for the team. I think the city would enjoy it is Boston analysts at all with for an all star game so listen up FaceBook says there's up and an MBA all star game here. Since 1964. Will that happen next couple years. I mean then there aren't Super Bowls being played out in Foxborough either I mean we're not a destination in February. The destination. You know we. NBA typically looks or warm weather destinations and a whole bunch of people. Ago and really put on a show I'd like Kevin -- game here is pretty expensive to do it doesn't benefit the home team at all really it's -- cost us we have to pay. Ericsson MP wine AZ I'd probably rather put their money into our salary and payroll. But it's. You know -- I'm certainly not opposed to having an all star game here but it's. -- not necessarily a destination. Brad and -- him as a question about Rondo and connect four might be our last caller for public on the spot pick. A -- these tickets Brad go had. And -- guys appreciate -- appreciate Colin elected -- -- be the most important question he had offseason with. Everybody debating on whether that topic or better with the -- on with -- on had a and Woodley breaking news on Yahoo! Sports and ESPN. And the real question would be have you played Rondo -- the and the game of connect four and is he really that good. I've I've actually not played connect four in my what well maybe I don't got played connect four so I'm gonna pass on that one but I'm sure he would. He would crush me connect for my only chance against Rondo and -- would be. -- you know single skulls. You know get the boats out on the Charles River I'm pretty sure -- be flipped upside down and I'd be finished and so other than that you know he's he went. You have a favor caller we do we pick -- out we added Jeff Green call and I feel like we had a call Bob who just called local minutes ago you seemed to like give a favorite if someone -- some of the game here. I'll tell you what we will give. 22 of the Jeff Green collar and we'll give two to Bob. I've got two for the April 5 game as well. 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While this Beer Keyboard isn't the most practical peripheral in the world, it's possibly the most inebriating. Powered by Raspberry Pi, this QWERTY keyboard for the over-21 crowd is tricked out with 44 beer cans from a Prague-based brewery. The company Robofun Create built the system, which requires you to tap the letters on the tops of beer cans to produce letters on a plasma screen above it (not shown).

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Hello...meet my 2012 GC
I've been waiting to post pictures until I got the lift, wheels, and tires on. After seeing the wrangler duratracs on some of the other members rides I knew it was the perfect tire. Went with the procomp 7036 wheels and the RR 2.5" spacer lift. Pepboys was actually willing to install the lift for me as it didn't involve any modifying of parts. Just charged me for the labor of changing the stock struts as that's pretty much all it is except for bolting on the spacers.
Came out just the way I wanted. Followed this concept http://www.activityvehicle.com/2011/...rand-cherokee/
Ran into some rubbing that I wasn't expecting based on what I researched here but was able to take care of it taking a grinder to the inner fender as referenced in this thread http://www.jeepgarage.org/showthread...ighlight=quest
I know the rubbing was do to my 18x9 0 offset wheels.
Painted the grille and rear piece black and pulled off all the badges and the side trim for more of a clean look.
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All tastes are different and that is great!
You must be going off-road with this tire setup.
Personally I wouldn't like to deal with the tire noise nor what the tire width does to the vehicle when driving off-road or even on dirty roads.
The side view with everything removed looks too blunt to me but then I'm a guy who prefers stock with no modifications at all :)
I prefer black and a bit of Chrome.
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i definitely like the look. in a year or so i will likely lift mine.
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I will be offroading with it as I go to Pismo Beach quite frequently and the local off road park. I should have some video's soon as I'm planning on hitting the offroad park in about 2 weeks. The tires ride smooth with a light hum.
Looks great! How's the ride?
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@ bit50 looks great man! Good to see some lifted wk2's ! I dig the rim and tire setup!
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you should've taken pics on a dirt hill instead of the mall parking lot:lol:;)
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Agree with the slab sides needing some strong horizontals (chrome pieces) but think grille is a bit much. OTOH do not think flat black on deep cherry will work but on the gripping hand think $700 for the body colored grille is a bit much. Any aftermarket provider of an unpainted grille out there ?
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As i said over on jeepforum, looks nice, love the wheels and tires.
Dont worry what others think, long as you like it, no need to explain your choices.
Would be interesting to see how it goes offroad, and on road in normal driving.
I reckon some rock rails would make it look even better
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I think it looks SICK! Congrats!
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So, yeah, yesterday … big day for me. As is my custom, I spent most of the week complaining about how un-ready I was to run a marathon. In the hours leading up to the race, I was convinced that I was going to do poorly in the Detroit International Marathon. I'm not sure what happened … maybe someone put the voodoo on me, maybe I was caught up in the beauty of running the streets of a city I love so much but I managed to beat my previous personal best marathon time by 40 minutes! I felt really good for much of the race and was pacing about an hour faster than my previous best time but I knew that I would have to slow down a bit near the end so I didn't want to get ahead of myself. I just kept looking forward toward the finish line and was completely overwhelmed by emotion when I crossed the line. It was a great, great day for me :D
The race starts in Detroit but then heads into Canada over the Ambassador Bridge … we run a few miles along the riverfront in Windsor, Ontario before we run back to the US underneath the Detroit River thru the tunnel connecting the countries. The rest of the race takes place entirely in Detroit and I have to say … I started getting teary eyed as I ran thru the streets of Detroit. There are parts of Detroit that are so beautiful, I dare you not to weep at the beauty. We runners were met on the streets with high fives, cheers, free beer (yes really, a lot of beer, actually), smiles and friendly love. The weather was perfect, the atmosphere in the city was so electric (Midtown, Indian Village, Belle Isle, the River Walk — all AMAZING!) … I think a little bit of all of these things in sum helped me run my fastest marathon yet. I had hoped that I'd get a sub 5 hour marathon under my belt before I retire but I didn't think I'd be able to get near 4:30 so quickly (my official time was 4:33). Now my new goal is to get a sub 4 hour marathon under my belt so I can qualify for the Boston Marathon. Maybe my retirement will have to be delayed a bit.
Thru it all my BFFs Sarah and Mark … no, wait, they are more than BFFs … thru it all, my dear family Sarah and Mark were encouraging me thru my complaints and worries. They woke up at 5AM to brave the cold temps not only to drive me to the race but to be by my side at the race start and finish. They, too, are a huge part of my success yesterday:
When I crossed the finish line, I started crying … like, a lot. Emma saw me weep when I finished my first marathon in Hawaii last December but my fast time in the city I love was just too much. I got to hug Mark and Sarah and bawl into their necks. That's family stuff, y'all. To keep from having my legs tighten up completely, we decided to not rest and just keep moving … so we made our way to a Cider Mill, the perfect way to end a great trip home to Michigan:
The flight home last night was painful, I can assure you but I'm feeling much, much better today. I want to thank all of you guys out there for YOUR support as well. On Facebook, on Instagram and here on the blog, you have constantly enriched my life in such a way that I can never express properly. I carry you guys in my heart, always. We have a bit of a family around here too. To see all the love you have heaped on Shannon and her family, it just makes me so proud to "know" you guys. Thank you.
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College Reverses "Christmas" Tree Ban
A North Carolina community college that came under fire after they told students they could not use the word "Christmas" to promote a Christmas tree sale — has reversed its decision.
"It's a misunderstanding based on a legitimate mistake we made," said Atticus Simpson, vice president of student development at Western Piedmont Community College.
In other words, the college goofed up when they changed the BEST Society's Christmas tree sale to a Holiday tree sale.
"We thought we were violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by promoting the sale of Christmas trees — which we thought would be promoting one religion over another," Simpson told Fox News.
The student group contacted Alliance Defending Freedom — a legal advocacy group that handles many First Amendment issues. The ADF promptly sent the college a letter urging them to either reconsider their decision or face possible legal action.
"We're pleased the college did the right thing," attorney Matt Sharp told Fox News. "It really is ridiculous they tried to make this club use the word holiday instead of Christmas."
Sharp said the college has already changed the wording on their website and taking other steps to remedy the situation.
"We realized we made a mistake," Simpson said. "We changed it back from holiday to Christmas."
"For once, it's nice to see a university stepping up and doing the right thing," attorney Sharp said.
The BEST Society was selling the trees to raise money for Angel Tree, an organization that provides Christmas presents to underprivileged children.
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It's been three years since Lalit Modi, founder of T-20 league left India for London, for threat to his life and alleged irregularities in the league, and now his 17-year-old niece Jayati Modi, who has just made her Bollywood debut, has come to her paternal uncle's defence.
"He created something fabulous (in IPL) and for some strange reason, it was taken away from him. The whole world knows that the IPL is his creation and we are really proud of it and him," says the student of Vasant Valley School, who is currently riding high on the response to her role in Karan Johar's Gippi, that hit the screens last Friday.
Despite coming from an influential family, the youngster makes it clear that she hasn't pulled any strings for her film debut."My family influence hasn't played any role in my school or this movie. It took me two rounds of audition and 10 days later, I got a call," says the actor, who is now headed to the US to pursue a four-year course in Liberal Arts (film) but won't mind skipping a semester if she gets a good role.
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The change of command at the top is never an easy undertaking. However, we see opportunity in Sprint's decision to bring in a new CEO, especially when considering enterprise services. With the consolidation of providers to near-oligopoly status in the US, we think a new CEO at Sprint's helm could help re-energize the languishing domestic enterprises services marketplace – if (and it may be a big if) he or she elects to re-commit Sprint to enterprise services.
- First and foremost, this would require a significantly deeper commitment to enterprise landline services, something that Sprint has been falling farther and farther behind via-a-vis its competitors.
- Secondly, the use of WiMax as an alterative to traditional T1 connections for smaller enterprise sites has potentially huge potential to improve the customer experience—both for end-to-end service performance, and at lower prices. Virtually every enterprise client we work with says they are interested in 'cutting the (ILEC) cord' for their smaller sites.
- And more and more enterprises are also looking at mobile services as critical business enablers. Among the largest US enterprise telecom service providers, Sprint has been the strongest vocal advocate of mobility, but it has not been the strongest on total delivery of these types of services to the enterprise. For instance, clients tell us repeatedly that Sprint's 3G activation experience needs improvement. So, it's time to re-commit here too.
- Regarding its support for multinational enterprise customers, the provider's strategy also needs reinvigoration – mainly around managed mobility (including mobile voice and data roaming). Given all the items on Sprint's enterprise plate, its current partnership-oriented approach to supporting international customers is good enough.
The more that Sprint embraces a renewed focus on building up a stronger, broader, and deeper suite of enterprise landline and mobile services and an improved customer experience throughout the entirety of the contract lifecycle, the more enterprise clients should look at Sprint. It's been said that actions speak louder than words. A new CEO's actions will tell us all volumes about Sprint's future viability as an enterprise telecoms supplier.
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Lana del Rey: your new national anthem.
What better way to celebrate the nation's birthday than taking a day off. Or, as Homer Simpson would agree, "Celebrate your country's independence by blowing up a small part of it" (we mean fireworks, duh). You've probably earned a day off, so have a beer or five, eat some barbecue, and watch some fireworks. You have a long day of partying ahead of you, necessitating a good playlist. There are some decent 4th of July/American pride songs out there, but here are the five that irk us the most -- and chances are you'll hear a few of them if you go out to celebrate today.Lana Del Rey -- National Anthem
While it's cool to see Lana impersonate Marilyn Monroe and Jackie O, watching A$AP Rocky get his brains blown out a la JFK may ruffle some feathers. Plus, if "Video Games" becomes our new national anthem, we're a little terrified.
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Václav Havel 1936-
Playwright, essayist, and poet Václav Havel is a major figure in Czech culture, and he is considered his country's foremost dramatist. His plays are powerful condemnations of the bureaucratization and mechanization of modern society and their effects on the individual. His keen satires depict the prevalence of cliché and official doublespeak in a totalitarian society and the chaos brought about by the disintegration of meaning. Many of Havel's works are considered absurdist black comedies because they employ grotesque and ludicrous elements that give expression to humanity's fundamental uneasiness in an inane universe. This focus on the absurd nature of existence in the modern world gives his works a universality that goes beyond his exploration of the uniquely Czech experience.
Havel was born into a wealthy family in Prague. Once his primary education was completed, he was denied access to higher education because of the Communist government's policy of discrimination against the bourgeoisie. Havel worked in a chemical factory and attended night classes in order to finish secondary school. Havel credits this period of his life with giving him the opportunity to "see the world 'from below,' that is, as it really is." It is from this vantage point, Havel believes, that one clearly views the absurd and comic dimensions of the world. In 1959 Havel accepted his first theater job, becoming a stage-hand at Prague's Divadlo ABC (ABC Theater); the following year he moved to the highly respected avant-garde Divadlo na zábradlí (Theater of the Balustrade), eventually becoming its literary adviser. Having begun writing articles and essays in the mid-1950s, Havel wrote his first play, Zahradní slavnost (The Garden Party) in 1963, and it was produced by the Balustrade. Vyrozumění (The Memorandum) premiered in 1965, and Ztížená možnost soustředení (The Increased Difficulty of Concentration) debuted in 1968. These plays were highly acclaimed internationally. The Memorandum premiered in America in 1968, and Havel won the prestigious Obie Award. The same year he was honored with the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Throughout the early 1960s Czechoslovakia had been experiencing a gradual relaxation of government controls on culture, but this abruptly ended in 1968 when troops from the Soviet Union invaded the country in order to enforce closer compliance with Soviet policies. Although Havel's works were subsequently banned and Havel himself prohibited from working in the theater, he refused to abandon his country, and he continued to write plays and political works. His resistance to the Communist regime—which included co-founding the human rights organization Charter 77—resulted in his arrest several times in the 1970s. His plays written during this period circulated privately and premiered abroad. In 1979 Havel was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his involvement in an organization that sought to defend individuals unjustly prosecuted by the state. In 1982 the 36th International Theatre Festival at Avignon, France, included a six-hour "Night for Václav Havel," and featured Samuel Beckett's "Catastrophe" and Arthur Miller's "I think about you a great deal," plays dedicated to Havel and written in protest of his imprisonment. Havel continued to write and to have his plays produced outside of Czechoslovakia, and he was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1986. With the collapse of the Communist state in 1989, Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia. When that country divided into the Czech and Slovak republics in 1993, Havel was elected president of the Czech Republic, a position he still holds.
The main theme in Havel's work is the relationship between the individual and the government. Associated with the absurdist playwrights Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Samuel Beckett, Havel explores the power of language and its ability to alienate and overwhelm the individual. These are the central issues in The Garden Party, The Memorandum, and The Increased Difficulty of Concentration. Three one-act plays, written after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, are semi-autobiographical. Known as the "Vaněk Plays," they all feature a dissident playwright named Ferdinand Vaněk. In "Audience," Vaněk, unable to work as a playwright, is forced to take a job at a brewery. His supervisor there offers him an easier job in exchange for composing the weekly reports to the authorities that the supervisor must file on Vaněk himself. In "Vernisáž" ("Private View") Vaněk visits former friends, an affluent couple who flaunt the material possessions they have gained by renouncing their previous opposition to the government. They attempt to convince Vaněk to recant his dissent as well. "Protest" features Staněk, a successful script-writer whose daughter's boyfriend has been arrested. Staněk encourages Vaněk to write a petition to protest the arrest, but he himself refuses to sign it. Throughout these three plays Vaněk is a nearly silent figure who functions as an external conscience for his interlocutors, prodding them to inadvertently admit their cowardice and hypocrisy. Havel's 1984 work, Largo Desolato, is a semi-autobiographical play about a philosopher driven to abuse alcohol and pills by the pressure both from officials who want him to recant his writings and from friends who themselves are unable to support his efforts but still urge him to continue. Pokousení (Temptation), a 1985 variation on the Faust legend about a scientist who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power, is an allegory in which the state is depicted as the true devil because it corrupts science in the service of political ends. Both Largo Desolato and Temptation develop the theme of humanity's tendency toward totalitarianism, the central issue as well in "Omyl" ("Mistake"), a play written in 1983 in response to Beckett's "Catastrophe."
Many of havel's works have met with acclaim both at home and abroad. Michael Billington, writing of a play production of The Memorandum in London, admired the play's "brutally logical satire on the use of language to enforce conformity" and observed: "The play may have grown out of experience of Czech communism: its application is universal." Similarly, Sarah Hemming, noting that The Memorandum was thirty years old at the time of its London performance, remarked: "As a political parable, the play seems almost prophetic: everything changes, and yet things remain the same." When the three Vaněk plays were staged together in New York under the title A Private View, critics praised the manner in which they effectively convey the ills of society and challenge the audience to reflect on existence in an absurd world. Overall, Havel is recognized as a powerful playwright who, as Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz has written, not only "gives shape to some of the most important issues of our time but also a thinker who from his small place in a small country in the heart of Europe sends forth an eloquent artistic diagnosis of men living in social groups East or West."
Principal Works
Zahradní slavnost [The Garden Party] 1963
Vyrozumění [The Memorandum] 1965
Ztížená možnost soustředení [The Increased Difficulty of Concentration] 1968
Spiklenci [The Conspirators] 1971
Zebrácká opera [adaptor; from the drama The Beggar's Opera by John Gay] 1972
*"Audience" [also known as "Interview"] 1975
*"Vernisáž" ["Private View"; also known as "Unveiling"] 1975
Horský hotel [Mountain Hotel; also known as The Mountain Resort] 1976
†Hry 1970-1976 (play collection) 1977
*"Protest" 1978
"Omyl" ["The Mistake"] 1983
Largo desolato [Largo Desolato] 1984
Pokousení [Temptation] 1985
Slum Clearance 1987
Protokoly [Protocols] (essays, drama, and poetry) 1966
Dopisy Olze [Letters to Olga: June 1979 to September 1982] (correspondence) 1983
O lidskou identitu [In Search of Human Identity] (essays) 1984
Dálkový výslech [Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvíždala] (interview) 1986
Open Letters: Selected Writings (essays, speeches, correspondence) 1991
*These three plays were produced together in New York in 1983 under the title A Private View; they are also known by the collective title "The Vaněk Plays."
†This volume contains Spiklenci, Zebrácká opera, Horský hotel, "Audience," and "Vernisáž."
Overviews And General Studies
Phyllis Carey (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "Living in Lies: Václav Havel's Drama," in Cross Currents, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 200-11.
[Carey places Havel's drama in three major phases: "the early absurdist comedies; the Vaněk morality plays; and the psychological-prison plays."]
Americans were captivated by the 1989 election of Vaclav Havel, a human rights activist who spent almost four years in prison, as the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. Many who had heard that his ideas had played a vital role in the country's "Velvet Revolution" were introduced to his thinking through interviews, partic ularly the extended...
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The Memorandum
Jeremy Kingston (review date 29 March 1995)
SOURCE: A Review of The Memorandum, in The Times, London, 29 March 1995, p. 28.
[In the following evaluation of a recent British production of The Memorandum, Kingston praises the play but finds its absurdist elements dated.]
Written and produced in 1965 when its author, Vaclav Havel, was a relatively free man; first staged in this country 12 years later, when he had been placed under house arrest, this famous play [The Memorandum] is being revived at a time when he appears to have become incarcerated again, although now as his...
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A Private View ("The VaněK Plays")
John Simon (review date 5 December 1983)
SOURCE: "Farcical Worlds," in New York Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 48, 5 December 1983, pp. 149-50.
[When the three Vaněk plays were staged off-Broadway in 1983, they were given the collective title A Private View. In the following review of that presentation, Simon declares "Protest" the best of the pieces.]
Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright and fighter for human rights, is utterly heroic and admirable in the latter capacity. Twice jailed (once for four and a half years) and reduced to such menial...
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Further Reading
Kriseová, Eda. Václav Havel: The Authorized Biography, translated by Caleb Crain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Written by a friend and colleague of Havel, this book details the author's private and public life, touching briefly on his literary career.
Blair, Erica. "Doing without Utopias: An Interview with Vaclav Havel," translated by A. G. Brain. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4373 (23 January 1987): 81-3.
Critiques both totalitarian and capitalist societies and discusses the role of art in Czechoslovakia.
Havel, Václav. "Second Wind." In...
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A key and attention-grabbing section of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book, Game Change, focuses on the less-than-adequate vetting of Sarah Palin by John McCain's presidential campaign. The campaign's internal report on the Alaskan governor was thrown together in less than 40 hours, according to the book, and the report's author, a Washington lawyer named Ted Frank, included a disclaimer: Given the time constraints, the vetters might have missed something.
What the media missed (and what's not reported in Game Change) was Frank's full role in the McCain-Palin campaign—a role that could have caused a big political headache for Palin had it been known at the time. Frank was part of a team of lawyers scrutinizing potential candidates for vice president. After working on the vetting report, Frank was dispatched to Alaska to help with damage control on "Troopergate"—the quasi-scandalous allegations that as governor, Palin had pressured the state public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper who had allegedly made death threats against Palin's family in the midst of a nasty divorce and custody dispute with her sister.
At the time, Frank decided that it was best that his work for the McCain-Palin campaign remain undisclosed. The reason? He had been an outspoken critic of the 1994 federal jury verdict that required oil conglomerate Exxon to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to some 30,000 Alaska residents after the Valdez ran aground and spilled 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound. That verdict had been extremely popular in Alaska.
For years, Exxon (now ExxonMobil) had challenged the decision in various courts, successfully knocking the award down to $2.5 billion. But despite that victory, it kept fighting the verdict, and by 2008 the case was back in the news as its appeal headed to the Supreme Court. And Frank, a prominent tort reform advocate and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was a staunch defender of Exxon in the media. He argued that Exxon had already suffered enough after paying out more than a billion in criminal fines, several more billions in clean-up costs, and millions more in compensatory damages. In June 2008, Frank told NBC's Anchorage affiliate that,"The question is whether it's fundamentally fair to award billions of dollars in damages simply because it's such a big company."
Shortly afterward, the Supreme Court (for other reasons) reduced the $2.5 billion award to $500 million. That decision deeply upset many Alaskans—including Palin. The governor described the court's verdict as a "huge disappointment," unfair to the fishermen and coastal communities devastated by the spill. She said the case, which had dragged on for 14 years, "breaks our hearts" and was an example of "justice delayed as justice denied." Frank, on the other hand, wrote in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks later that the Supreme Court should have slashed the payout even more.
Later that year, Frank was in Alaska, doing all he could to preserve Palin's vice-presidential candidacy. He says that McCain officials asked if he wanted his role in the campaign to be public and that he decided his recent statements about the Exxon case would be "an off-message distraction given the local politics." As Palin hit the stump, she had to contend with various problems in Alaska, and her approval rating at home—now watched throughout the nation—was slipping. If Alaskans had learned that their governor was being assisted by one of the leading foes of the Exxon Valdez award, it would not have helped her campaign. Some political observers might even wonder why the McCain campaign took the risk of putting Frank on the protect-Palin beat.
Although his cover was blown by Game Change, Frank—unlike many other McCain staffers—isn't talking out of school to trash Palin. He says her own account of the vetting process in Going Rogue—she says McCain's lawyers "knew stuff about me that I had long forgotten"—is accurate. And he also notes, for the record, that Todd Palin is "the handsomest man I've ever met.


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|Chinese painter and taoistYuan Dynasty
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English: Fang Congyi (; about 1302-1393), courtesy name as Wu'ou, sobriquet as Fanghu, Bumang Daoren, Jinmen Yuke and Guigu Shanren, was a famed Chinese painter during the Yuan Dynasty. He was a native of Guixi, Jiangxi Province. (→Fang Congyi)
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Analysis of Arsenic Concentrations and Correlation in Water, Soil and Aurum by Neutron Activation Analysis Technique: A Case Study in Bagerhat, Bangladesh
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- Abdullah, S.M.A., Islam, M.T., Islam, S.Z. et al. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol (2010) 85: 301. doi:10.1007/s00128-010-0075-0
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Arsenic concentrations were measured in water, soil and arum (vegetables) samples using the Neutron Activation Analysis method and a correlation between arsenic concentrations in the samples was investigated. The case study at Bagerhat, Bangladesh revealed that almost all the water samples were contaminated by a hazardous level of arsenic that exceeding the World Health Organization recommended value of 0.05 mg/L for Bangladesh. Arsenic concentration of all the water samples ranged from 0.09 to 0.87 mg/L. The concentrations in soil and aurum samples were found to be in the range of 2.22–35.21 and 0.07–0.73 mg/kg, respectively. A positive correlation between arsenic concentrations in soil and water samples was observed. Aurum sample was found to be contaminated by arsenic to a harmful level if the corresponding water sample was also highly contaminated.


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I was planning on spending the weekend in Acteal reading, writing and catching up on some sleep. I found a ton of resources the other day about Venezuela and a bunch of important people and events in Latin America the other day on the Alo Presidente website and I haven't been doing much reading lately so I thought that it would be a good chance over the weekend when there is little action for the mesa directiva and I had no work pending. But things don't always go as planned, instead I got an invite to visit Bajchen a small community up the hill from Chenalho the muncipal centre.
We left at 8am saturday morning for Chenalho where the judge had a meeting booked with the municipal authorities for conflict disputes. Although the market was full as you would expect for a saturday morning the authorities aren't working because of the swine flu outbreak which has led the government to close everything they have the authority to close. The swine flu outbreak has been another reminder of the incompetence and lack of connection between the state and the people who the state belongs to. They had to send the blood samples to Canada and for some reason it took days to confirm the first cases and still a lot of doubt remains over exactly what the disease is and what we are meant to be doing to avoid it. We waited for about two and a half hours for those who aren't working to arrive and tell the judge they aren't working. A new date was set and we went for breakfast.
Living in Acteal where the judge and his wife are living every meal consists of beans, tortilla and coffee apart from festivals. There is often some sort of accompanying plate such as fried rice or local wild vegetables or pasta shells along with chili and salt. In Chenalho you can get anything so I had steak for breakfast while the others had a beef stew unfortunately the only drinks available are from the coke range. I can already start to feel my insulin resistance going up (early stages of diabetes which is to a large extent reversible with the right diet). After that we got a few things from the market and made our way to their village 15 minutes up the hill. Just before we got on the back of the collective ute we were invited for another coke which is a sign of respect and shouldn't be refused. Coke products have replaced alcohol in a lot of religious and business occasions in this region.
When we got to the village it was a 20 minute walk down a trodden path to their house. Along the way I noticed the difference in vegetation compared to the other places I have been. It's amazing the differences create by altitude. In some parts coffee is the essential crop for survival but then 10 minutes later coffee plants won't grow and I'm seeing apple, pear, peach and plum trees. This is what most families live off in Bajchen, they can also grow their staples of corn and beans but it takes 6 months for crop to mature and you only get one a year unlike in some neighboring villages of lower altitude where corn requires only 3-4 months to mature and can be harvested 2 or 3 times per year.
In terms of agriculture many of the people here are living the life I see for myself. Their lack of access to education and health services and the poor quality of water and housing however I don't wish to be a permanent feature of my life or anyone else's. The biggest problem that I see with their agriculture system is their dependence on the market. This leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and price fluctuations.
The primary way that this is occurring the everyday buying and selling. Because of the lack of access of the producer to the consumer the intermediary is making all the money, whether this be at the local level or international. For example when these families produce their peaches, which are generally a sort after fruit, the amount that they produce is not enough to interest large sale vendors. Their neighbors are likely to also be growing the same product and thus don't want to buy or exchange for their goods. This leaves them the option of nearby markets. The closest market is likely to be flooded when these fruits are in season meaning prices will be kept low according to the law of supply and demand. If the vendor wants their product to reach a bigger market where a higher price may be possible they either have to pay a transport fee which will be a large portion of the gains. They rely on private transport because almost nobody has their own vehicle. Or alternatively they can sell their product at wholesale to someone local who has the capital and transport to sell on a larger scale thus bringing the relative transport costs down. Whichever way the producer tries to live off his produce he is likely to receive only a fraction of what it's worth. If they sell a box of peaches to a wholesaler and then go to the market with that same money to buy peaches they will receive about a third of the quantity of peaches they had initially. Two-thirds stays with the transport and retailers.
Coffee is another good example of how the reality of Chiapas (and many other parts of the world). Here in the region of Chenalho there is a coffee cooperative called Maya Vinik (Mayan men). The cooperative was set up to decrease the vulnerability of the local producer to the "coyote" who would consistently do what I described in the peach scenario. His access to transport meant that he could set the price and the producer had few options to get his product to the next place for processing. Maya Vinik produces various grades of coffee primarily for european and asian coffee markets. Their customers encourage producers to use labour intensive means to maintain their plants to avoid use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Maya Vinik generally pays an extra peso or two per kilo than the coyote, this year it was $2.50 AU per kilo instead of $2.40 AU. The product will then be further processed and packaged to be sent to it's final consumer where it will be sold at many times the cost of what the producer receives. Even more still if it is sold by by the cup.
In the afternoon we visited a few other families and then cooked up some rice and lentils on an outside fire. I should mention that the judges wife is from Mexico city and moved to the region almost 2 years ago to get married. They now have a child and form a rare occurrence in this country where everyday poor indigenous migrate to the city to look for a better life. In this case a mixed race woman who was studying in one of the countries most prestigious universities has moved to one of the poorest places in Mexico for love. We ate lentils because she likes a little more variety of food than most locals who are often reluctant to try anything away from the staples or the meat stew saved for special occasions. We cooked outside because of the intensity of smoke in the kitchen which had us all in tears. The judge's mother is 54 but has definitely suffered the effects of four or five ours a day over a fire. We had dinner and went to bed.
In the middle of the night I heard a tapping noise that I dismissed in my slumbering haze as soothing taping on the nappy of the baby. When I woke at about 6:30 I realized that it was the women tapping away making tortillas. They got up at 4 am to start and weren't able to go to church because they still had preparations to make at eleven O'clock. Today they were hosting anyone from church who wanted to come to pray for a the judges nephew to stop having diarrhea. 25 of us in a small room got on our knees and went through a ritual that was a mixture of catholic and mayan practices. I added my best wishes for the youngster despite not being of affiliated with either group.
We ate beans and tortilla then went to pick some peaches. This years crop isn't as good as last. It rained less. We got a box full of those that were nearly ready and headed home for a coffee before bed.
Monday morning and the judges 2 brothers who live at home left at 5:30 amto pick avocados which are abundant at the moment. I got up at 5:15 am and went looking for a good place to use as a bathroom and and see what else I could see. We left at 6:30 am to make the steep up hill journey to the collective pick-up which would bring us back to Acteal. I stood up on the back of vehicle with one foot on the back bumper and one on the tray. This is one of the things that I enjoy most about Mexico. It may be for a good reason that you would get a big fine in many countries for doing what I was doing but I love travelling this way.
When we got back we had breakfast together with the mesa directiva. After breakfast I headed off to use the internet at the coffee cooperative. On the way there was a broken down truck on the narrow winding road. There are hundreds of trucks zooming between concrete and block depots and construction or road construction or stabilization projects (which also prepare the way for the impending military invasion when the time is right to attack the Zapatistas and whoever else stands in the governments way). I had a chat with the driver who spoke about the misery of being a driver and trying to look after his family. He probably earns 5 times what most in the region earn but it's still not enough to provide the basics in Mexico. He went to the city as a youngster hoping to continue his studies but it was too expensive so he started work. He's had 20 years as a truck driver and supports 4 kids on his wage. The truck he was driving is owned by someone who doesn't have to drive it to make money. The truck had a number of wooden parts bearing load which would have been metal at an earlier stage in it's life. He broke off a nut which he was tightening by hand. The spare he put on was bald and it was the only one he was carrying. No other truck drivers stop or slowed to check if he needed help. He asked if I had a use for two or three kilos of weed which he said the people here were having trouble getting to market. I politely refused without asking any of the questions I would have liked to have asked but which would have no doubt increased his determination for a sale. I helped him lever the tire onto the roof and then took a lift about 2km up the road to where I was heading.
He dropped me off and I wished him all the best.
The thing that keeps going around and around in my head is how to get away from this dependence on the market and realize that money must be used sparingly and replaced wherever possible for tangible goods.
Wages aren't rising but expenses are. Staple foods and transport continue to become more expensive at the whim of market forces. These trends must be overcome.


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