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At the tryout, wannabes like Morey were squared off against Northwestern players – real players, the ones with scholarships and jerseys. Morey was tasked with guarding T.J. Rayford, who, as Morey remembers it, "was one of the bench-warmers – like the 12th man on the team." Morey's memory serves. As a freshman the previous season, Rayford had logged about eight minutes per outing and scored just 38 points in 25 games. In that sense, it was as favorable of a draw as Morey could have hoped for. The problem was that Morey's elbows and guile couldn't get him above the rim, where Rayford spent much of the afternoon."He came down and had reverse dunks on me on the first two possessions," Morey remembers. "I saw very quickly that it wasn't going to work."
Thing is, though, it did work. While Morey's hoops career never panned at Northwestern, he nonetheless landed in the NBA. Not as one of the league's 400 some-odd players, but as part of an even more select group: one of the league's 30 general managers.The traditional résumé of an NBA general manager is littered with trophies and highlight reel exploits. At the very least, the average GM could have probably handled T.J. Rayford – just look at the list. Larry Bird was a three-time NBA champion and three-time MVP; Joe Dumars was a two-time NBA champ and six-time All-Star; Pat Riley won one NBA title as a player and six more as a coach; Steve Kerr owns five championship rings; Daryl Morey once attended Northwestern's open tryouts.
So when Morey cracked the circle of NBA general managers as a 33-year-old who hadn't played competitive basketball since high school, he was the NBA's equivalent to a walk-on: an NU grad with a computer science degree and zero minutes of non-intramural basketball experience.Luckily for Morey, he never again had to face T.J. Rayford. He just had to carve out his own path to the NBA, a path that had never been taken before.
After he got the axe from Northwestern's hoops team, Morey settled into a pretty conventional life for a college freshman – at least a college freshman who's a self-described dork with an infatuation with computers. To earn a few extra bucks, he worked as a research assistant during his first quarter, a gig that was even more painful than the basketball tryout. Morey did his best to appease the professor for whom he was working, although the prof wasn't making it easy. Along with a generally bristly and flippant attitude toward Morey, the professor liked to assign massive research projects but not necessarily look at them. "I'd kill myself for him because it's my first quarter, and then he wouldn't even read the thing." The word Morey used to describe the professor isn't printable.
Morey introducing Steve Francis in 2007.
One day, to divert his attention from his mind-numbing R.A. job, Morey took refuge in a Baseball Abstract by Bill James. Morey had been reading James' Abstracts since grade school, and it offered a reprieve from the drudgery of being a research assistant. It's instructive that Morey was relaxing to a 1,000-page treatise chock full of statistics and formulas designed to better understand baseball, written by a guy who has been dubbed the "Sultan of Stats." In essence, Morey was escaping the monotony of number-crunching with number-crunching.
"The last chapter said, 'Hey, Bill James is starting this thing Stats Inc. in Skokie, Illinois.' And I thought, 'Where's Skokie? Maybe it's close to Evanston.'" That Skokie turned out to be about three miles away was a blessing for Morey: it gave him both an excuse to quit being an R.A. and helped him avoid jail time. "If I hadn't quit that," Morey says, "there may have been a dead professor on campus."Morey applied for, and got, a job with Stats Inc. The company was established in 1981 and sold sports-based statistical analyses to sports teams or anyone else who may be interested. It was founded upon the premise that the phenomena in sports were susceptible to statistical analysis, a philosophy that was perfect for someone like Morey who had the brains to understand sports intellectually but not the brawn to play sports competitively. Morey says he "was the low man on the totem pole" at Stats Inc., but he nonetheless helped start the company's basketball analysis division. (Previously, Stats Inc. was mainly focused on baseball.) Morey didn't know it at the time, but he had begun plodding down his bizarre road toward being an NBA general manager.
"He aimed quite high in terms of both looking at what the consumers said they wanted and what the team ended up producing," Clifton says. "It went beyond the expectations of the course – we were really just learning about software techniques. You could do that with a relatively straight-forward project. You didn't need to go much beyond." While Clifton paints him as an ideal student, Morey is quick to say that not all professors thought so highly of him: "The rest of them didn't know me because I didn't go to class much. Most professors didn't like me much."Clifton left Northwestern in 1995 for a not-for-profit organization called MITRE, which does consulting work for the federal government in a variety of fields – technology, communications, engineering, national defense. The next year, Clifton needed to hire someone to help with strategic planning for projects with which MITRE was working; he sought out Morey for the job. Morey had graduated that spring and already been accepted to M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, where he deferred his enrollment for a year. Clifton figured, however, that one year with Morey was better than none.
"I knew Daryl would be a good match with what we were looking for," Clifton says. "He was very ambitious. He was going to get things done. He set high goals. He was definitely planning to get someplace. You get a lot of students in a computer science program who can do a lot on their own, but when it comes to doing things in larger projects or scaling things up, they start to flounder."It was interesting – it wasn't the normal thing you'd expect a recent graduate to be doing," Clifton adds. "But his plans and this path were not those of the typical recent graduate. He was really being looked at more as someone who's heading off to business school rather than someone who was your typical researcher."
Indeed, with Stats Inc. in his past and an M.B.A. in his future, Morey wasn't your typical researcher. Nor, it was becoming clear, was Morey your typical NBA general manager.
After he graduated from M.I.T., Morey was hired by Parthenon, a consulting firm in Boston. In 2001, he worked with a group that was trying to buy the Boston Red Sox – a group that was doing, basically, what he wanted to do: buy a professional sports team. The bid to buy the Red Sox failed, but a related group, which went on to buy the Boston Celtics, was impressed with Morey during the Red Sox bid. They invited Morey to join them with the Celtics.Sporting the fittingly vague title of "Senior Vice President of Operations and Information," Morey had a smorgasbord of duties with the Celtics. According to the team's Web site, Morey worked "on arena operations, risk management, basketball analytics, and ticket sales strategy, pricing and technology infrastructure." Basically, Morey had his hands in everything from figuring out how much to charge at the gate to scouting players to finding and hiring people who, like him, had a progressive take on basketball and the statistics that helped decode the game.
Morey was prepping himself for being an NBA GM in a way that had never been done before: computer science degree, consultant for MITRE, M.B.A. from M.I.T., consultant for Parthenon, then a job with the Celtics that, while in the NBA, was nonetheless out of the limelight, relegated to a nary-seen office lit by a computer screen. Morey was poring over spreadsheets and crunching numbers, cutting his teeth not on the hardwood but on a computer.Indeed, Morey was being groomed to be an NBA GM, it's just that nobody knew it. Because at this point, in 2006, the credentials to run an NBA team almost invariably required an NBA title here, an All-Star selection there. Luckily for Morey, there was someone willing to rethink the status quo.
Leslie Alexander is a former stock trader with an economics degree from NYU. He is also an animal rights activist, the founder of a Long Island vineyard and, as of July 30, 1993, the owner of the Houston Rockets. After Alexander bought the Rockets, the team quickly won a pair of NBA titles in 1994 and 1995, the only two championships in franchise history. Alexander also owned the Houston Comets of the WNBA from 1997-2007, a span during which they won four titles. (The Comets folded a year after Alexander sold them.) As Morey puts it: "He's been successful pretty much with everything he's done. Everything he touches turns to gold."
Les Alexander watching his Rockets last season.
For a while, though, Alexander's Rockets were losing their shine. From 2003 to 2006, they went to the playoffs only twice, and didn't escape the first round either year. Their combined record over that four-year stretch was 173-155 – respectable, certainly, but not good enough to bring home any titles. So Alexander decided that the Rockets needed a change – a big one. And it turned out the direction he wanted to take was tailor-made for a number-crunching computer geek with a penchant for basketball stats."Statistics used properly, I think, reduces the margin of error," Alexander says, "and allows you to look beyond what you see on tape and what you see in person. We all have prejudices, and statistics allow you to come back to what is real….
"I was looking for a really smart guy who could give me a non- – what's the right word here – a non-emotional, but very substantive review of things. I wanted to take this really analytical approach so that the person on top would be helping me making a decision that was as finite as it could be and with all possible scenarios in it."
"His main thing," Morey says of Alexander, "right or wrong, was that a lot of teams are hiring people to advise the Danny Ainges of the world." Ainge is the general manager of the Boston Celtics – a former NBA All-Star and two-time champion. "But he felt unless you have that analytical person at the top, those opinions would get trampled or disregarded. He felt there was a way to get an edge by emphasizing that type of analysis."The type of analysis that Alexander wanted to employ, though, was rife with the type of mathematics that most people – especially most former NBA basketball players – might look at as some sort of bizarre, foreign language. But Alexander was always looking for an edge, and he was convinced that the ever-growing bounty of information about basketball was that edge. The problem was finding someone who could speak that language.
Bradford Doolittle is a linguist, of sorts, when it comes to basketball stats. He is a writer for Basketball Prospectus, a stats-driven basketball Web site which also publishes an annual NBA guide with detailed analysis of each team. Doolittle has done extensive research on NBA general managers – which ones are successful and which ones fail – and knowing how to crunch some numbers has never hurt.
Morey and Alexander. Courtesy Houston Rockets.
"I think it's a lot easier for a math guy to acquire the scouting side if they're willing to watch all the games and put in the time," Doolittle says. "But the math side – it's hard for a former NBA player to go back and be able to learn statistical analysis. And in many cases, they don't even have a good enough grasp of it to rely on the stats people who are telling them things…."Coaches and execs have always used stats in the NBA, but they haven't used them like they use them now. The methods are more sophisticated and the mathematical background is so sophisticated. To even work with this data and interpret what you're getting from the analysis – that's really beyond what the conventional NBA executive has in their arsenal."
Simply having an Einsteinian grasp of mathematics, however, wouldn't be enough. As much as Alexander wanted to take advantage of statistics, that was only one part of the game. You can know exactly what you want from your players, but in a league with a salary cap and free agency and contracts in the tens of millions, Alexander also wanted someone who could navigate the nuanced business aspects of the NBA."Well," Alexander says, "I really wanted, in a way, a more business-like approach that was dedicated to the most efficient manner of running a team, taking into account every aspect of our decision-making process before we made a decision."
Alexander knew Morey's background when he met with him for the GM job. He knew that Morey had a grasp on the statistics: you don't get a computer science degree from Northwestern, while crunching numbers for Stats Inc. on the side, without knowing your way around a spreadsheet. But Morey also had a unique background in business, what with an M.B.A. and having worked as the Senior Vice President of Something-or-Other for the Celtics, where he couldn't have helped but learn some basketball as well. Add it all up, and the guy who couldn't hold down Northwestern's 12th man was suddenly a prized recruit."Leslie had been interviewing people for about a year, maybe even a little more than a year, and had interviewed 10 to 12 people and hated all of them, or at least that's what Leslie has told me," Morey says. "It just so happened that he was looking for someone with my background. He was someone looking ahead and I was fortunate enough to get an interview."
Alexander hired Morey on the spot.The deal was that Morey would spend a season as the team's assistant general manager. Then, after the 2006-07 season, he would lose the "assistant" from his title and succeed incumbent GM Carroll Dawson.
And with that, a computer dork was welcomed to one of the most exclusive sports clubs in the world.
"To hear that he would end up in an upper-management position was not at all surprising," Clifton, now a professor at Purdue, says. "To hear that it would be in that particular domain, which is really so far away in many ways from what he did in his studies, was kind of a surprise. When I heard that, it's like, 'Well, that's a strange path for someone who went through a business program at Sloan School and has a computer science degree from Northwestern.' It just seems a very unusual place to end up."The basketball world thought so too. The Houston Chronicle's story announcing Alexander's decision began, "In an astounding change of direction and style that stunned the Rockets and the NBA, owner Leslie Alexander has chosen Boston Celtics statistical analyst Daryl Morey to be his next general manager." The article went on to juxtapose Morey with Dawson:
Dawson, 65, has been with the Rockets for 26 years, the past 10 as general manager. A former Baylor coach, he was an assistant under Del Harris, Bill Fitch, Don Chaney and Rudy Tomjanovich.Morey's position with the Celtics is his first in sports. He teaches a course at MIT, where he received his masters in business administration in "Analytical Sports Management."
Dawson, left, oversaw a pair of Houston titles with Rudy Tomjanovich.
In other words, Dawson's tenure with the Rockets spanned three different decades and two different centuries, plus he had been an assistant coach for a quartet that, between them, owned 68 years of head coaching experience, a handful of NBA Coach of the Year awards and an encyclopedic basketball pedigree. To wit, Chaney, who was a head coach for 22 years, is the only player to have played with Hall of Famers Larry Bird and Bill Russell. Fitch, a two-time NBA coach of the year, entered the 2009-10 season as the sixth-winningest coach in NBA history. And as for Tomjanovich, all he did was coach Houston to the franchise's only two titles and earn five All-Star selections as a player. These were the people Dawson was running with for a quarter of a century.And Morey? Well, his three-year stint with the Celtics was the only time he'd been around the NBA. But he does teach a course at M.I.T., which is where is got his Master's in business. The article spared any mention of T.J. Rayford.
"There was a lot of skepticism," Doolittle remembers. "I talked to a couple of NBA execs, and they didn't say anything critical about Daryl, but they were skeptical about the quantitative approach. And there was one GM a couple years ago who I asked, 'Here's this guy with this unusual background, how do you think it'll work out?' He was just very skeptical – skeptical that a numbers guy was going to make much headway over a traditional basketball executive."The headline on HoopsWorld.com read: "Daryl Morey? Are You Serious?" And during a conversation with Morey on his "B.S. Report" podcast, ESPN.com personality Bill Simmons recalled the decision to hire Morey thus: "When you got hired everyone was like, 'What the hell are the Rockets doing? Why have they hired this 33-year-old M.I.T. guy?' On the message boards it caused almost a riot – 'They just hired some nerd! This is ridiculous!'"
Ridiculous or not, Morey got the job. He then proceeded to impress people around the league. Eventually.
After his year-long apprenticeship under Dawson ended in May of 2007, one of the first things Morey did was fire coach Jeff Van Gundy, who had taken the Rockets to the playoffs in three of the past four seasons. The Rockets claimed that Van Gundy had given the team his blessing to interview other candidates; Van Gundy maintains that he was adamant all along about his desire to stay in Houston. Critics claimed that Morey was "overmatched," and Alexander was dubbed "Clueless Les" for having turned the team over to someone who, at his last job, was analyzing how much tickets should cost. Former Sacramento Kings coach Rick Adelman – whose contract was not renewed by Sacramento after the 2006 season – was brought in to replace Van Gundy, and Morey's tenure as the Rockets' GM was off to an eventful start.If people thought Morey flubbed the Van Gundy situation, they were probably none too impressed with Morey's first NBA Draft. With the 26th pick of the 2007 Draft, Morey selected 6-foot point guard Aaron Brooks from Oregon, who many considered too small and lacking a true position. In a pre-draft analysis, DraftExpress.com surmised that "Brooks isn't going to be a starting point guard for an NBA team someday. [He] could warrant a roster spot on an NBA team looking for a pace pusher for the end of the bench…"
Morey startled some by taking Brooks in the first round.
This pace-pusher was Morey's first pick as a general manager. Throw in the fact that the Rockets already had a trio of point guards on their roster, and Morey was raising eyebrows – and suspicions that he was indeed overmatched. Morey rounded out his first summer on the job by signing Steve Francis, who played – what else? – point guard.
In his first few months on the job, Morey had dispatched the head coach and loaded the roster with point guards. The squawking intensified heading into the 2007-08 season.The critics were muzzled when the Rockets reeled off a 22-game winning streak, the second-longest in NBA history, during Morey's first season as GM. The team even survived a serious injury to All-Star Yao Ming, which limited him 55 games, and made it to the playoffs.
The season was vindication for Morey, and vindication for statistical analysis, which is at the heart of everything that Morey and the Rockets do. Morey's reputation as one of the world's most forward-thinking basketball minds wasn't achieved simply by differentiating between offensive and defensive rebounds, or by looking more closely at assist-to-turnover ratio. This is, after all, a guy who used to chill out by reading four-pound books about baseball stats.Indeed, there are all sorts of obscure things in a basketball game that Morey and his troop of statisticians track and calculate and analyze. In a 2009 article for the New York Times Magazine, author Michael Lewis – who wrote Moneyball, the definitive book on the statistical revolution gripping the sports world – analyzed basketball statistics in general, and the Houston Rockets in particular. Lewis wrote,
There are other things Morey has noticed too, but declines to discuss as there is right now in pro basketball real value to new information, and the Rockets feel they have some....The Rockets devote a lot of energy to untangling subtle interactions among the team's elements. To get at this they need something that basketball hasn't historically supplied: meaningful statistics. For most of its history basketball has measured not so much what is important as what is easy to measure — points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots — and these measurements have warped perceptions of the game. ("Someone created the box score," Morey says, "and he should be shot.")
Nonetheless, the Rockets didn't miss a beat. After Alston was dealt, Brooks, then in his second season, was thrust into the starting role. With Brooks at the helm, Houston finished the regular season with a 53-29 record – winning 25 of its final 33 games – and went on to win its first playoffs series since 1997. In the second round, the Rockets took the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers to seven games. In Game 4 of that series, with L.A. leading 2-1, Brooks netted 34 points en route to a Houston win. Brooks led the Rockets in scoring in each of the final five games of the series.For his encore in 2009-10, Brooks started every game, was the only NBA player to hit at least 200 three-pointers and ranked No. 19 in the league in points per game. Alston, meanwhile, was shipped from Orlando to New Jersey. Shooting 34 percent and scoring nine points per game, the Nets bought him out and released him. Alston then signed with the Miami Heat, but they suspended him for the season in March after a bizarre sequence in which Alston skipped games and practices and wasn't communicating with the team. On the year, he made more money than Brooks.
Which brings up another facet of Morey's managerial acumen: economics. Alexander, after all, said that he hired Morey in no small part because he was convinced Morey could execute a "business-like" approach, dedicated to efficiency. And efficiency in pro basketball has everything to do with understanding which players have real value but won't break the bank. "In a sport with a salary cap like the NBA," Doolittle says, "you need to be able to not just manage players, but to understand where production comes from and maximize the resources on your team."
Per dollar, the return on Scola is huge.
Morey also freed up nearly $6 million in the summer of 2009 when he applied for – and was granted – an "injury exception" for Yao Ming. The obscure NBA rule grants teams extra money should it be deemed likely that a player, in this case Yao, will miss an upcoming season. Morey's implementation of the injury exemption allowed the Rockets to spend more money to sign free-agent forward Trevor Ariza. Morey turned Yao's broken foot into $6 million and a starting forward.
Money, of course, is but one resource. GMs must also consider the other expenditures required to compile their rosters, namely players and draft picks. Morey has flourished there as well. The Houston Chronicle was right – the Alston-to-Orlando trade ended up being a stunner, but not the way that was implied. Instead, what's stunning is that Alston may never step foot on an NBA court again, while Brooks looks like he could be a future All-Star. And then there's Scola. The main bargaining chip to acquire Scola from San Antonio was Vassilis Spanoulis. Spanoulis logged a career total of 31 NBA games, all of them in 2006-07. He now plays in Europe.Morey was up to his same tricks last February, orchestrating a mid-season trade involving three teams. Morey sent the aging, injured and expensive Tracy McGrady to New York, and a pair of forwards to the Sacramento Kings. In return, the Rockets landed shooting guard Kevin Martin, defensive stopper Jared Jeffries, high-flying rookie Jordan Hill and conditional rights to New York's 2011 and 2012 first-round draft picks.
"(Morey) really took advantage of Kings GM Geoff Petrie in that deal," Doolittle says. (Petrie, by the way, was a two-time NBA All-Star and the 1971 Rookie of the Year.) "Petrie is very astute, but I don't think he fully appreciated what he had in Kevin Martin. When he's healthy, he's probably the most efficient scorer in the NBA in terms of being able to generate points off of the fewest number amount of shots." Proof: Martin once scored 50 points on 11 field goals – the lowest number of field goals for any 50-point scorer in NBA history. He is also the only NBA player to ever average eight free throws and shoot 40 percent from three-point range in a season. And he did it twice."The Kings didn't think he'd fit with [Rookie of the Year guard] Tyreke Evans, who's going to be an All-Star-caliber player," Doolittle continues. "But I don't think they gave it chance to see how it'd work, and I think they made sort of a rash decision and the Rockets took advantage of that. It was a terrific move by Daryl to get that done."
As good as these moves look on paper, the jury is still out on Morey. Geeks across the nation are surely heartened that one of their own has risen to an NBA GM post, but neither Morey nor Alexander will be content with anything less than a championship. Nobody in Houston is hanging their hat on 2010's 42-40 finish, even if the team overachieved in light of the fact that Yao Ming was lost for the season before it even began."We haven't won anything yet," Morey says. "We always beat what the expectations are – whatever Vegas thinks we'll do, we've beaten expectations consistently. We won a playoff series last season (in 2009) as the road team. But in my own goals, until we break through we really haven't accomplished that much."
Says Alexander: "I think he's done a great a job. But until he's won a championship, he hasn't completed the task."
"That's another moment of serendipity…" Morey says, referring to Leslie Alexander's search for a new GM. Alexander, after all, had been looking for the right guy for months on end. What if Alexander found that guy before Morey got an interview? What if Alexander had different criteria for who the right guy would be?
What ifs line the path that Daryl Morey took from Ohio to Northwestern to MITRE to M.I.T. and so on. But now, there is only one What if that really matters: What if a basketball-obsessed computer dork were handed the keys to an NBA franchise? The answer is being written.
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The first (and only, so far) season of The Fades finished last night on UKTV, marking the end of one of the best supernatural drama shows to emerge from Britain in the past few years - a super-stylish six episodes that proved a fresh twist on the good-vs-evil formula, while boasting remarkable visual effects and a solid performance from lead Iain de Caestecker.
But though it was good, The Fades wasn't my favourite supernatural drama show ever; for whatever reason, Britain has done a great job blending science-fiction and fantasy (the Davies/Moffat era Doctor Who, Torchwood and Primeval are great recent examples) and Misfits is a great jaunt into superhero territory, but the Brits just haven't had the same success with supernatural-themed drama shows.
The result is that, as I put together a list of my favourite supernatural-themed shows of all time, it turned out my list was overwhelmingly American. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that, despite Britain's general dominance in the quality television stakes, supernatural drama is one genre of television in which America easily outperforms Britain.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying this is my list - seven of my favourite supernatural drama shows of all time. I'd love you to share your favourites in the comments section below, and share your thoughts on The Fades (if you saw it). In no particular order ...
Dead Like Me (2003-2004, plus a movie in 2009)
I'm a big fan of quirk when it comes to these kinds of shows, and Dead Like Me had quirk to spare: Ellen Muth plays George, a troubled teen girl killed by a toilet seat falling from space station MIR, who, upon death, finds that she is now a grim repear, charged with collecting the souls of people who die in a series of zany accidents. It was fun, it was unique, and it was all over far too quickly.
Carnivale (2003-2005)
Set in mid-1930s America and produced by HBO, Carnivale followed two separate people: Ben (Nick Stahl), a young man who joins a travelling circus, and Brother Justin (Clancy Brown), a preacher looking to establish his own church. An old-school religious battle of good and evil, Carnivale is probably the most gorgeous show on this list, with an old-timey style that was like nothing else on TV at the time.
Being Human UK (2009-present)
It seems the punchline to some joke ("So, a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf are sharing this flat in Bristol ...") but it's actually a hilarious take on the supernatural genre, kind of like Misfits for the horror crowd. Alas, if you're looking it up, don't settle for the second-rate American adaptation.
Lost (2004-2010)
Arguably my favourite television show of all time. I was unsure about including it on this list since it isn't really supernatural in the traditional sense. But when you think about it, Lost ticks most of the boxes to fit the supernatural genre: ghosts, monsters, mystery, elements of horror, the presence of all-powerful deities, the forces of good doing battle against evil ... just don't ask me about that finale. I'm still not ready to talk about it.
Supernatural (2005-present)
The brothers Winchester could crack this list purely for longevity - Supernatural is in its seventh season on TV2 and seems likely to stretch out to 10 seasons total, a remarkable feat for a show in such a niche genre - but its also one of the cleverest shows on the list, too, seamlessly working in new characters, monsters and an endless supply of pop culture references.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
The world's first real taste of Joss Whedon, Buffy has cracked all-time lists by the likes of TV Guide, Empire and Time, and for good reason: it is impeccably written, features relatable characters, and probably did more for gender equality on television than any other show in existence. It also influenced nearly every supernatural show created since, including all the other entries on this list (except maybe Carnivale). Bravo, Mr Whedon!
Pushing Daisies (2007-2009)
One of the few supernatural shows to achieve Emmy Awards success, Daisies followed Ned (Lee Pace), a pie-maker who can resurrect the dead with a single touch, who uses his powers to help private detective Emerson (Chi McBride) solve murders. Part supernatural-fantasy, part crime-procedural, all entertainment.
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Sapphire and Steel. No question. David McCallum and Joanna Lumley are operatives in time. The stories range from ghostlu railway station, to 1930s murder mystery to a futuristic house haunted by animal slaughter. Perfection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel
Is Fringe considered supernatural??? I vote for that....
You have Supernatural, which is surely a budget version of X-files, but you dont have X-files? Also thought you would have had Fringe.
A great list. Buffy and Dead Like Me are two of my favourite shows.
I think the reason that the US does better than the Brits (although I loved Torchwood) is the format of their seasons. Whereas it can be a handicap for sitcoms, 22 episodes meaning recycled jokes and stories that drag on too long, for a supernatural drama the long season gives the creator time to build a longer storyline while having time to create strong one off episodes. Think Buffy's Hush or 'Once More with Feeling'. A 12 episode season like in the UK leaves less time for these entertaining diversions.
Charmed! very girly and so forth but a great watch! True Blood? hmmm hot vamps...
I very much enjoyed The Fades. I believe it competed for funding for a second season against Being Human and lost out, which is a real shame as I thought it was the better show.
Other supernatural classics: The original Randall and Hopkirk; can I include Fringe and True Blood? My pop corn offering is Warehouse 13.
" Alas, if you're looking it up, don't settle for the second-rate American adaptation."
Think we're going to have to agree to disagree there (again!) I'd say the American 'Being Human' is that rarity - an Yank-i-fication of a British show that isn't a total embarrassment. More 'Shameless' than 'Skins', as it were.
Buffy, the spinoff (and woefully underrated) Angel, and Dead Like Me were all brilliant shows that I loved dearly. I have a huge soft spot for Supernatural, more for the comedy than anything, which is normally due to Ben Edlund's scripts who was a whedonverse writer. I know way more about this that is healthy.
I thought Being Human UK's first couple of seasons were great tv, but then it kind of jumped the shark - I may have to reconsider that after by chance coming across a later episode that had Mark Gattis in it, so maybe it found it's way again. I don't hate the US take on it, but it is a pale version. They knock so many of the edges off that it ends up overly manufactured and bland.
It's Charmed for me as well.....FANTASTIC show :)
I must be a supernatural fan, as I watched all of those shows, except for Supernatural (ironic?). Buffy is hands-down one of the best shows ever. And Angel, the spin-off, was a terrific show that I don't think gets enough credit due to the Buffy shadow.
But I love Dr Who (am re-watching the season 1 reboot with Christopher Eccleston right now), Torchwood, and The Fades. Own first three seasons of Being Human (and I've heard the American version is pretty good).
I enjoyed the first season of True Blood, but it started to forsake character for kooky plot twists after that, so I gave it up.
And a guilty pleasure? Can't beat The Vampire Diaries.
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PADI Discover Tec Diving
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With full tec gear you'll do a weight check, practice neutral buoyancy skills, learn how to deal with a free-flowing regulator and manifold leak, and practice sharing air with the tec long hose. You'll get your first hands-on practice with a deco tank, practice gas switch and gas shut-down, deploy a lift bag, and work out your SAC (surface air consumption used to calculate your air usage). We'll provide all the tec gear and you'll be amazed how different it feels to basic lightweight scuba gear.
PADI Discover Tec takes around 8 hours at our dive centre here in Sanur (South Bali) and costs IDR 2,600,000. This price includes hotel transfers and all the technical diving equipment you'll need.
To join this technical diving experience you'll need;
To be 18 years old
To be an Open Water Diver (or higher)
To have at least 10 logged dives
And the great thing is that if you decide that you want to take the next step (Tec 40) we'll credit half of your PADI Discover Tec fee towards your PADI Tec 40 course and you'll only need two days for the Tec 40 instead of the usual three.
Fill in the form below if you're ready to try tec diving here in Bali.
- 14-year accident-free record
- Diving in small groups
- All guides PADI Divemaster
- Medical oxygen every trip
- Clean air & clean tanks
- Well-maintained equipment
- New:In-water GPS radio
Included in your course
- Hotel transfers (Sanur, Seminyak, Kuta, Nusa Dua)
- Double tanks
- Experienced PADI Tec Instructor
- Tec equipment hire
- Lunch & soft drinks
- Pool training dive
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Welcome to the world of "bottomfeeders".
The general rule of thumb is, shoot 500 Rounds of 'ball ammo to break in your pistol with cleaning every 100 - 200 Rounds. Then, with a clean fresh gun, run 200 Rounds of your chosen "carry ammo" through the gun. If that happens without a malfunction, clean it, load it and go.
If you get a malfunction, for any reason during the "carry ammo" test, fix the problem, be it you, the gun or the ammo, and start again at Round 1/200. This gives you 700 Rounds through your new gun, at a minimum. That's good for training.
I'm "breaking in" a Browning Hi Power right now for my daily off duty carry gun. I will finish "breaking it in" at a Shooting School. That way, I get training with my new gun, and have fun putting rounds downrange.
Most new guns feed most ammo currently being manufactured, not like the 60's, 70's and 80's. You can however find some ammo that some guns don't like. That's why I like to run so many rounds through a gun before I trust it. With a Revolver I just put 100 - 200 Rounds of my carry ammo through it before I trust it.


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Michael of PigPog has owned a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC for a couple of weeks and has summarized his experience so far in an excellent article where he details all facets of his Tablet usage. Read the entire article for a good overview of Tablet PC usage, here's a quote that sums it up nicely:
Let's start with a good old executive summary. I love it. It's a great little laptop, and the extra flexibility you get from the tablet features make a real difference.
I use it as a laptop more than as a slate, but fortunately, it works very nicely as both. The only real downside I've found so far is that it is a bit on the heavy side for using as a slate. If you really want to be comfortable sitting reading in bed with a slate-form tablet, you might be better off with the tiny HP models where the keyboard can be completely removed.


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In the discussion of climate change in the media, experts often talk about the latest and greatest solution. We hear about nuclear power, hybrid vehicles, wind power and hydrogen, all with claims that these technologies will end our oil dependency while keeping the economy strong. Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy, said anyone who has taken her classes knows that she believes solving global energy challenges will not come through one magic technology, but rather through a diversity of policies and innovations. "I believe that there are no technological silver bullets. No single technology is going to save us or help us to achieve all of our objectives. Similarly, there are no policy silver bullets—no single policy can achieve all our goals," she said.
Gallagher is the Director of Fletcher's Center for International Environment & Resource Policy and of the Center's Energy, Climate and Innovation (ECI) program. The goal of ECI is to advance policy-relevant knowledge about energy-related challenges and opportunities. ECI's outlook is global, but fitting with Gallagher's interests, the main concentration is on energy and climate policy within, and between, the United States and China.
Gallagher's research mainly investigates the role of policy in processes of innovation, in particular the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient technologies. Her most recent book The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China (The MIT Press 2014) uses case studies from China's solar photovoltaic, gas turbine, advanced battery, and coal gasification industries to examine both barriers and incentives in clean energy technology transfer. Her findings demonstrate that the barriers are not as daunting as many assume, IP infringement is not as widespread as business leaders fear, and while financing does present an obstacle, the biggest single barrier is a lack of policy incentives.
In Acting in Time on Energy Policy (Brookings Institution Press 2009), she explains the repeated failures in U.S. policy to "act in time" to avert energy-related problems. She and her contributing authors examined U.S. policy for climate change, electricity regulation, carbon capture and storage, innovation, and transportation, drawing lessons for future policy in this realm. In her first book, China Shifts Gears (The MIT Press, 2006), she focused on how Chinese automotive firms acquired advanced technology, and the extent to which technology that was transferred to China was cleaner and more efficient. She authored a seminal review article on energy-technology innovation with John P. Holdren and Ambuj Sagar, published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Known for her expertise on energy and environmental policy in China, she is increasingly focusing on the relationship between the United States and China, the two largest energy consumers and greenhouse-gas emitters in the world. She is an expert advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy and Office of Science and Technology Policy in The White House on China and regularly publishes discussion papers, such as Prospects for Reducing Carbon Intensity in China- an assessment of the technical and political prospects for meeting the carbon intensity targets in the Five-Year Plan (2011 – 2015), scholarly articles such as Why and How Governments Support Renewable Energy (Daedalus, Winter 2013) and What makes US Consumers Tick (Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2012), and in collaboration with colleagues at Harvard's Belfer Center, an annual update of the U.S. government investments in energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment (ERD3) through the Department of Energy
Gallagher says since coming to Fletcher she been surprised by just how many students are interested in energy and climate policy: "I have been overwhelmed by student interest, but also delighted. It's very exciting."
Beyond Fletcher, Gallagher is a Senior Research Associate with Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the Technology Innovation Policy research group, where she is also a member of the Board of Directors. She also is a lead author of the Global Energy Assessment, which is being funded by several governments and UN agencies to assess scholarly literature that pertains to energy security, energy access, and environmental issues.


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Cathedral ceiling ventilation
Dear friends,
I have a cathedral ceiling over a half of my house, and an attic over another half. The roof used to be ventilated through two roof vents on the opposite sides of the house. A year ago I decided to finish the attic, so now it is completely separated from the space over the cathedral ceiling. Thus I have only one roof vent functioning. Recently, I noticed that the cathedral ceiling got some damages, soft spots, nails sticking from the sheetrock etc. I suspect that dampness is accumulated over the cathedral ceiling because the ventilation is not enough. Now, my question is what to do. Should I open soffit vents? If yes, is it possible at all to do it with a cathedral ceiling? Should I also make a ridge vent? Or soffit vents would be enough? Or anything else?
I would appreciate advices.
Dmitriy Reznik
You will need a continous air space between the insulation and the roof deck. It must be open at the ridge and soffets. There can be no blocking to block the passage of air. Sounds like you have condensation.
Thank you Jim,
Here are two more questions.
When I cut openings in my soffit, I found that at the edges of the house there is no insulation, and between them there is enough insulation, but no vent channel to let the air through. Can anything be done in such a situation? Can any insulation be added where it is absent, and can vent channels be installed without taking the cathedral ceiling apart?
Dmitriy Reznik
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Footed Tumblers Engraved Etched Glass Vintage Optic Rib 1910s to 1930s
Four very vintage late 1910s to early 1930s engraved glass footed water or juice tumblers, with optic rib. They measure five and seven eighths inches high and a hair over three and one quarter inches across the rim. They hold 7 ounces. One has a tiny nick as shown, and another has a fleabite so tiny that I could not successfully photograph it. Both can be simply smoothed with a wet fine emery board, they do not need to be ground. Priced for the two perfect ones.
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School Psychologist (Bilingual Spanish) - Long Island
|August 1, 2016
|Long Island, New York
(Nassau & Suffolk County)
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Achieve Beyond provides pediatric therapy and educational services to children, students and families throughout the United States including the entire New York (NY) metropolitan area, the greater Los Angeles, California (CA) area, Virginia (VA) / Maryland (MD) / DC area, the greater Dallas, Texas (TX) area and. We offer coordination in initial evaluations, as well as follow-up sessions and provide services in the predominant language of the patients in both home and community settings
Positions available throughout the Long Island, New York.
Job Functions:
- Administer Psychological Evaluations in home and/or school based settings
- Gather necessary information to conduct social histories
- Write comprehensive evaluation reports and social histories and submit them in a timely manner
- Write Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) goal and/or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) goal
- Determine need for additional assessment per observation and child need
- Evaluations take place in school, community and/or home based settings
- Evaluations are conducted in the primary language of the child
- NYS Certified Bilingual School Psychologist
- Fluency in Spanish Language
- Superior time management skills with ability to complete evaluations and written reports within very tight time frames
- Excellent communication skills, particularly with families from a wide-range of socio economic background
- Compensation depends on experience and will be discussed at the interview
"Achieve Beyond makes the best efforts to solicit active participation by Certified Minority or Women owned Business Enterprises (Certified M/WBEs) for the purpose of granting subcontracts. We are always interested in receiving resumes from Certified M/WBEs."
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Gagan.singh needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 327 designs submitted by 101 freelance designers.
West Side Labs
We provide software development for Advertising and publishing industries. We provide online banners and ipad solutions.
Looking for a clean professional look. something simple yet elegant.
Target audience is 20 - 50, international internet business. Modern and hip, yet simple and elegant. We would like a Word mark but would also consider a pictoral mark in the logo (must have all words "west side labs" in the logo).


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Summer is a wonderful time to craft with your kids. It's great for "boredom", boosts their brains with creativity and then it's just plain fun, right?! Plaid Crafts has many wonderful products that are PERFECT for s kids summer crafting project.
Plaid Crafts sent me these awesome supplies to craft with.
Our local Christian radio station is hosting an event this summer called the Make 1 Take 1 event. You make a craft and take it to the station and they in return are taking the crafts to local Ronald McDonald houses to bless the children there. With that in mind Alice and I decided to make some inspiration subway art. I have many pieces of inspirational subway art around our house, so she is very accustomed to the idea.
Now remember, some of the great paint they sent me is glow in the dark, and they sent me the GloAway Gel, too! So, our inspirational subway art will ALSO GLOW IN THE DARK. I imagined a sweet little girl who maybe needed some words of encouragement. Then I imagined if she was up at night, maybe couldn't sleep and she would see those words glowing and hopefully that would bring her comfort.
I used a piece of cardboard that came in this frame. I painted it with the Neon Yellow paint. I then cut and taped together the stencils to create the words.
I used the glow in the dark paint for some of the words.
Then I let Alice get to painting.
The paint bled thru just a little bit here and there. It was easy to clean off right away with a dry paint brush.
In between stencils I had her pick colors and set up the paint tray. I used a few stencils I already add and a couple stamps as well.
After it all dried over night I touched up here and there. I added an extra coat of the glow in the dark paint to make sure the words would glow nicely.
Once our piece was dry, we added a layer of the FABULOUS Mod Podge Extreme Glitter! Seriously, this stuff is awesome!!
You can see just how much glitter it leaves behind in the bottom left corner! Now, this being a work of art by Alice, I had to have her sign it! She used a metallic paint pen and also drew one of her famous hearts next to the word hope.
And here is our finished Glow In The Dark Inspirational Subway Art!
What do y'all think? Didn't Alice do GREAT!?!
I set up my small mantel in what I thought a sweet little girl might set up so that y'all and Alice could see what it would look like in action!
I tried and tried and tried again to get an image of the piece glowing in the dark. I am SO SAD that I can't show y'all! It's awesome. The words believe, hope, faith and God all glow in the dark and you can clearly see them glowing for quite some time. I hope whomever receives this piece will be blessed by it, especially at night.
I want to thank Blueprint Social and Plaid Crafts for giving us the opportunity to create something wonderful and have a lot of fun this summer!!
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A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Roberto Miramontes Roman who was acquitted in state court of aggravated murder on a charge of intentionally killing a Millard County Sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop made as part of a drug investigation.
The 11-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court accuses Roman, 41, of various crimes leading up to and related to the shooting of Josie Greathouse Fox in January 2010.
Those charges include one count of killing a law enforcement officer while fleeing apprehension on a felony drug violation, one count of using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence (killing Fox), three counts of distribution of methamphetamine, three counts of possession of a firearm while drug trafficking, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts related to immigration violations.
"We are very mindful that the men and women in law enforcement put themselves at risk every day to protect our lives," said David Barlow, U.S. Attorney for Utah, during a press conference Thursday. "Too many die each year in the line of duty. Unfortunately, Utah is not immune from those tragedies."
Barlow said the federal charges are not "double jeopardy," nor is it a do-over of the case, but rather, the indictment was an indication that federal interests were not resolved in state court proceedings against Roman.
"The state government and federal government are always free to pursue their own prosecutions," he said.
Roman allegedly initially confessed to killing Fox after she pulled over his vehicle around 1 a.m. on Jan. 5, 2010. He later recanted and, during a state court trial in August 2012, Roman claimed another man the deputy's brother shot Fox with an AK-47. Deputies had been tailing the two for several hours as part of a drug investigation.
A 4th District Court jury acquitted Roman of the aggravated murder charge for allegedly killing Fox, but found him guilty of two lesser third-degree felonies tampering with evidence and possession of a firearm by a restricted person. He was sentenced in October 2012 to two consecutive zero-to-five-year prison terms.
At a parole hearing in February, a hearing officer for the Utah Board of Pardons asked Roman whether he felt he got away with murder and said the subsequent suicide of Fox's brother Ryan Greathouse prior to trial "gave you a bit of an out at the trial." The board subsequently said Roman will serve out his entire 10-year sentence and be released in 2022.
Millard County Sheriff Robert Dekker, who attended the Thursday press conference, said his office is assisting federal prosecutors. He declined to second guess the state jury's decision.
"The [state] jury did the best they could," Dekker said. "We were surely disappointed. I don't think I've ever been so deflated in a professional sense."
Dekker said the federal charges have given his office hope that justice will be served for Fox's death.
"I want peace for her family," Dekker said. "For her immediate family, for the sheriff's office family, and for the community."
Barlow said prosecutors will be able to draw on the state investigation and trial evidence as well as additional work by federal investigators in building a case against Roman.
In federal court, Roman faces a potential life sentence on several of counts if convicted, including the allegation he intentionally killed Fox as she acted in an official capacity. Several of the firearms charges also carry potential penalties of life in prison.
The drug distribution counts each carry a potential maximum penalty of 20 years, but federal prosecutors said they will seek to increase that to 30 years. The immigration violation counts each carry a potential penalty of 20 years in prison; Roman is a citizen of Mexico and was deported from the U.S. in September 2005.
Federal prosecutors expect Roman to be scheduled for an arraignment within a few weeks.


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It comes as no surprise that a Forbes.com story headlined "Don't marry career women"--a warning to men that choosing a bride with a career is likelier to result in an unhappy marriage--has enraged many a blogger.
"What a disgusting, pathetic thing to publish!" was one of the milder responses. In fact, we'd give you the link, but the story has been mysteriously removed from the Forbes site.
Authored by Michael Noer, the story cites scientific studies finding that women professionals are "more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it." The accompanying photo gallery lists nine reasons to steer clear of career women, including, our personal favorite, "your house will be dirtier."
Some felt the story, with its engaging intro ("Guys: A word of advice...") was going for shock value. Others considered it such a throwback, they wondered if it was even a joke (and made their own jokes). Others still took little offense, but said they didn't need scientists to tell them career women are more likely to divorce.
Blog community response:
"...it's the most antiquated, sexist piece of crap I've read in a very long time, especially in a mainstream publication like Forbes...Does having a marriage between equals make marriage more complicated? Certainly, because more than one person's dreams and ideas have to be considered when making decisions and plans. This can create tensions and hardships that wouldn't otherwise be there if one person is the 'king and the other is merely one of their subjects. Is that inherently a bad thing? Absolutely not. People in a marriage can be equals who are mutually supportive of one another--regardless of who wants to work in a boardroom or at home--and that is a good thing."
"And the 'best alternate title award' goes to: 'Why Michael Noer Never Got Laid Again, Except By That One Girl Who Works at The Piggly-Wiggly and Cain't Read so Good.'
"I didn't need a study to conclude that Rich women divorce more!!That was known to most husbands at the receiving end !! However this particular study confirms the fears and adds a stamp of credibility...well...let's say, 'fears have been confirmed...This isn't US or UK. Rich women all over the world are more likely to divorce. So is the case in India!"
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It's time again for the monthly link round-up of the best articles and resources for Pagan families from around the web.About families and ancestor work, from Witches and Pagans: "Yes, I know the topic of ancestor work can be a controversial one in the pagan community, because so many of us have deceased family members we wouldn't call on if it was the last option open to us." About birth & death in Paganism, from The Wild Hunt: "Moore has been working for 15 years to make midwifery mo … [Read more...]
The 4 best reads from March
A Pagan Thanksgiving
For my family, the autumnal equinox has always been our 'Pagan Thanksgiving'. A few months later, we have actual Thanksgiving with both my husband's and my extended family, but this is a more intimate, immediate-family oriented gathering. Just as the big get-togethers have their traditions and expectations, our little family has its own customs.On the equinox, everyone helps to make the feast, often with veggies harvested from the garden. Little ones are given simple tasks like mashing th … [Read more...]
Top 10 Posts of 2013
This is an entirely unsystematic, unscientific, personally biased list of my top 10 favorite Pagan Families posts from 2013. It's obviously not all the good posts, or even all the great posts. It's not necessarily the most read or shared or commented on posts either. But I tried to include posts from all our regular (and irregular) contributors, and to represent the range of topics we now cover. From pregnancy to postpartum, from sex education to adoption, from spiritual practice with toddlers … [Read more...]
Annual Spirit Babies Ceremony + Pantheacon
I've received word that this year's Spirit Babies ceremony will take place on Sunday 12/15 in Berkeley, California, from 12-2pm. It's an interfaith service for those who've been touched by abortion, miscarriage, or stillbirth. The organizers say on their Facebook page: Up till now, there has been little like this in the US. Women experiencing these losses have mostly been alone and isolated. There is a stigma around pregnancy loss, no matter what the cause, and little opportunity to share s … [Read more...]
Blessing the Wait to Become an Adoptive Parent
By Cindy McPherson. This post is reprinted with permission from her blog Pearls.Last week was the week before my 44th birthday. I had hoped to become a mom this year. A year ago James and I signed on with the Independent Adoption Center, and it's nine months since we leaped through the hoops required for us to go into circulation and begin waiting to bring a baby into our family through open adoption. Last week also a baby was born to a Berkeley couple that contacted us in November when they … [Read more...]
Burying My Eggs: A Ritual to Accept Infertility
By Cindy McPhersonA good friend of mine terminated a problematic pregnancy, and she wrote about it online in a courageous and beautiful way. Now she is taking a priestess program, which I have been part of for many years, and after seeing one of her mentors recently, she told me, "I'm planning a ritual for the child I lost.""I want to hear about it!" I said, "And remind me, when we meet, to tell you about the ritual I did to bury my unborn (and un-conceived) babies."My journey with in … [Read more...]
Group Ritual to Acknowledge Miscarriage
This ritual is designed as a ceremony of healing and empowerment following miscarriage. It is based on a ritual that I had following my own miscarriages in 2010.Anyone who has experienced miscarriage and who would like to acknowledge the impact on her life is welcome. So too are those who would like to act as witnesses and keepers of sacred space for those who grieve. The simple altar is laid outdoors on the ground near an already dug hole (for planting a tree). It contains a small bowl, a … [Read more...]


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Junior Season (2013-14)
Played in 10 games ... averaged 1.7 points and 1.0 rebounds per game ... saved perhaps his best performance of the season for the Blazers' Conference USA tournament game against Charlotte, hitting two 3-pointers in just eight minutes of action ... scored a season-high eight points against Georgia Southern (12/15/13) ... recorded a season-high three rebounds on two occasions (vs. Columbus State and Chattanooga) ... totaled three steals on the year ... hit five 3-point baskets ... recorded double-digit minutes against Columbus State, Georgia Southern, Chattanooga and Alabama A&M.
Junior College (2011-13)
A standout shooting guard at Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kan. ... garnered NJCAA First Team All-American honors and was named First-Team All-Region 6 ... led his team in scoring in 2012-13, averaging 20 points per game ... shot 47 percent from the field last season ... averaged 4.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.4 steals per contest in addition to his 20 points per game average ... poured in a season-high 37 points against McPherson College (12/3/12) ... recorded 20 or more points on 14 occasions ... team finished 29-6 overall last season under legendary head coach Francis Flax.
Played at East Ascension High School in Gonzales, La. ... hometown is Port Arthur, Texas ... parents are Rodney and Vernessa Rideau ... has two siblings, Rodney Rideau Jr. (27) and Courtney Delmore (26) ... major is communication management.
Coach Haase on Thaddeus
"Thad is an explosive scorer and tremendous athlete. His length and athleticism will fill a need on next year's team. His maturity and desire to win will have a positive impact in our program. He's been well coached by Coach (Francis) Flax at Brown Mackie and we know he's coming in prepared."


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Brigitte Bardot Wants Russian Passport, Too
Former French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot on Friday threatened to follow Gerard Depardieu in asking for a Russian passport, in protest not at tax hikes, but at the treatment of two circus elephants.
The animals, named Baby and Nepal and owned by a touring circus, are thought to be carrying tuberculosis and were ordered to be put down by a court in Lyon, southern France, on Friday as a precautionary measure.
Bardot's threat comes a day after fellow actor Depardieu caused a storm in France by becoming a Russian citizen in protest at high tax rates proposed by the Socialist government, which he accuses of penalising success.
"If those in power are cowardly and impudent enough to kill the elephants… then I have decided I will ask for Russian nationality to get out of this country which has become nothing more than an animal cemetery," Bardot said in a statement.
Owners Cirque Pinder also said on Friday they would appeal to save the elephants, which first tested positive for tuberculosis in 2010 but have since been kept in a zoo in Lyon away from the general public.


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20 Mar
Cib Transaction Processing Specialist Operations Analyst Mumbai - Mumbai - Jpmorgan Chase
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Corporate & Investment Bank - J.P. Morgan is a premier corporate and investment bank with a full suite of global financial services and capabilities. The world's most important corporations, governments, financial institutions, pensions, sovereign wealth organizations, states and municipalities entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We offer strategic advice, lend money, raise capital, help manage risk, extend liquidity, buy and sell securities and provide many other banking services in markets around the world.
J.P. Morgan Middle Office Services (MOS) is a business line within the CIB and
provides a complete suite of investment operations outsourcing services for institutional asset managers. Our services encompass all asset management activities post-trade execution, allowing asset managers to focus on their core competencies of managing assets and client relationships.
Job Description
The Transaction Processing hub provides full operational support to our clients' transaction processing needs by ensuring all aspects of the trade lifecycle are managed end to end efficiently, within market timeframes and accurately in a controlled environment to minimise risk.
The Trade Capture Team is responsible for the capture of all client trades are captured on a timely and accurate basis, acting as a key point of control and communication for ensuring effective capture for NAV production and the settlement process
The purpose of this role is to provide end-to-end operational support for all aspects of trading including trade matching, core record keeping and market settlement of securities
Key responsibilities:
- To review and monitor trades ensuring any issues are escalated.
- To collate and report on unprocessed trades.
- To liaise with accounting centers to ensure effective trade flow.
- To provide timely information to stakeholders and clients on failing trades and possible impacts to other processes.
- To investigate and resolve queries and issues internally and with 3rd parties in a professional manner.
- To identify errors or issues and to escalate so as to improve automated processing.
- To coach and train others so as to build skills.
- To review work to ensure done to standards of accuracy.
- To help in the continuous improvement of processes.
- To support other teams as required.
Securities Operations
Primary Location
IN-MH-Mumbai-Paradigm Tower / 04079
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Day Job
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Your Tarot Forecast: April 2014
Connect with your inner self with the magic of tarot reading.
Two of wands – Upright
The Two of Wands carries an image of a man holding a small globe in his hands. He is standing on the roof of a castle; the globe represents a vast sea of opportunities awaiting him. He is at a stage where he needs to take some firm decisions and be open to various types of life experiences. The Two of Wands pushes you to move out of your comfort zone, take initiatives and see where life takes you. Set some long-term goals and start moving forward in the right direction. Know that this card suggests you to take wise, well-calculated decisions. You may have achieved quite a lot in your life by now, but it's time to venture into something new and exciting. Well, avoid being overambitious, though. Overseas travel, higher education, research, a major career change – something that breaks your routine in a positive manner – is also indicated.
Move away from your safety net and accept the challenge that life has put forward. If you choose to march on an unexplored path, you will lose the comfort of being in familiar surroundings, but then something bigger and better may be in store for you. If you have already started out a new journey, patiently wait for the rewards to come your way. Know that things take time to develop and it is necessary to build a strong foundation, before you start constructing a huge empire.
Judgment – Upright
The image of a serene, learned person sitting in a high chair, apparently looking at things in all fairness in this card is bound to fill one with peace. The illustrations on this card suggest that you have have accepted the consequences of your actions, and now you are ready to turn a new page in life. The appearance of Judgment card in your tarot readings may also indicate that you have introduced yourself to a number of possibilities that you may have been skeptical of earlier. This may prove to be a decisive month for you. Consider this to be an opportunity to reflect and evaluate your actions. All set to face the truth, you will be confident enough to deal with the challenges. Those of you going through a tough period may now thank your Karma, as the intensity of your problems may reduce as the days go by. Share your thoughts, anguish and future plans with other in order to get an outside perspective on the matter. Besides, those who have been through similar circumstances will be able to guide you in the right direction.
You can't just turn a blind eye to your mistakes. The Judgment card suggests that rather than being guilt ridden, you should engage yourself in constructive activities. Some people may been rude or harsh with you, you may have been back-stabbed, but don't hold grudges and know that you need to begin a new journey. Get rid of negative emotions and start afresh.
Eight of Wands – Reversed
The Eight of Wands in a reading indicates a time to declare oneself. The Card carries an image of 8 blossoming wands, rushing through the air – representing travel and change. When this Card appears reversed, as it does for you this month, this indicates some stagnation, blocking of movement, delays and hurdles. There will be plans, but they may not move as fast as you would wish them to. You may also consider this Card to be a sign telling you to pause for some time and let the things settle down. Be prepared to encounter some unexpected obstacles in your path - be ready with Plan B and even a Plan C. Know that it may all get very frustrating for you. This card also indicates that although you may be moving ahead with desired energy and speed, you need to review the results you have got so far in order to take any sort of corrective measures in time. This month you may come with many ideas. However, if you start implementing one or more ideas before doing proper ground-work, you will only tangle yourself.
Over-ambitiousness may lead you nowhere, hence slow down and take each step carefully. Also, you need to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses. And yes, don't compare yourself with others, when it comes to success and financial accomplishments. The reversed Eight of Wands tells you to handle limited number of projects, and avoid spreading yourself thin.
The Page of Wands – Upright
Page of Wands carries the image of a dapper looking young man holding fort alone in a sort of wilderness, a place where no one else is to be seen. The image naturally conveys great power and potential. The man looks upwards towards the head of the wand he carries in his hand. The Card indicates that you will be imaginative and expressive. You will come up with extraordinary ideas, and shall be inclined to explore the unexplored. On the flip side, some of these ideas may be impractical. Those around you may also doubt the viability of your plans, but you will hold your ideas close to your heart. You may actually not have a plan of action ready, but you will follow your heart without paying any heed to the naysayers. You may strongly desire to prove others wrong about their opinions. And the good thing is, you will be presented with opportunities to prove your point and make you plans a success. You may get some unexpected news, on one or more fronts in life. How you handle this news will decide the kind of impact it will have on you.
Get real! The Page of Wands tells you to take firm decisions and do what you are really passionate about. There is no point living in a self-imposed emotional confinement, so if there is something pulling you back, get rid of that bond. You should engage yourself in activities that will bring a smile on your face. Avoid being overconfident, though.
The Three of Swords – Reversed
The three of Swords is an image of a beautiful heart, suspended in the air and pierced by three swords. When this card appears reversed in your tarot readings, it indicates that you have been through a rather challenging period in life. For some of you, it might have been one of the most turbulent periods. The good news is, the worst is over and a progressive period is about to begin or has already begun. Try to look at the bigger picture and ensure that you don't repeat the same mistakes again. Make it a point to release the pain, for it will make you feel better. Besides, there will certainly be things in your like you feel happy about. So use that positivity to deal with your sorrows. Those of you going through a rough phase on the relationship front should ensure to establish peace and harmony in your love life. Don't be egoistic.
Life often takes one by surprise, and many a times it is not a positive feeling. Don't ask "why me?" as you are not the only one on this planet who goes through tough challenges. Feel the pain, let yourself know how tough the circumstances have been because it will give you the strength to fight back. Don't let the scars damage your spirits.
The Six of Wands – Upright
The appearance of Six of Wands in your tarot readings clearly indicates that you may have earned name and fame for yourself. On this card, there is a man, wearing a victory wreath around his head and riding a white horse, who is not hesitant to show off his accomplishment. You may now receive the receive the fruits of the efforts you have put in so far. There is a strong likelihood that you have recently won an award, public acclaim or acknowledgement for your wonderful performance. With each passing day, you will become more confident of your abilities and future plans. You may now be focused on your personal goals as well as public image. Goes without saying that favourable times are on the cards. But don't, even for a moment, think that the challenges are over. Continue to march on with same amount of energy and make the most of this positive period.
It is okay to talk about your accomplishments, don't be too modest that people take you for granted. You need to be subtle in your approach, though. Don't look down upon people, else people will find you arrogant and egoistic. Stay focused! Let your achievements be your driving force, this is your time to shine and to come out on top!
The Sun – Upright
The Sun Card represents optimism, fulfillment and all the good things that life offers. The child in the Card's imagery symbolizes happiness and the white horse represents strength and purity of spirit. The Sun Card says that you will find success no matter where you go or what you do. Credit goes to the abundant positive energy that you possess, people will be drawn to you, because you make them feel good about themselves. During this time, no matter what, you will see the bright side of everything. Confident and curious, you will welcome life with open arms. You don't have to announce from the rooftop about your happiness and accomplishments, though. Your natural behaviour will speak volumes about it. If you are going through a difficult time at the moment, consider the appearance of this Card as a sign that tells you to hold the fort.
Be simple and straightforward, that's the best way to experience life in its purest form. Do what you love doing and enjoy every moment. Spend time with friends and family, read books and engage yourself in activities that bring you closer to nature. The Sun card says that if you put concrete efforts, you will achieve what you have set out to achieve.
The Ten of Wands – Upright
The Ten of Wands carries a picture of a man carrying a heavy bundle of sticks (Wands). The burden seems quite heavy, he seems to be having a difficult time carrying it but he knows that he should keep moving as the destination is well within reach. The appearance of this card in your readings indicates that the pain and struggle is about to end. These last few steps may be quite challenging hence you need to stay focused and don't become complacent. However, you may be so tired because all the struggle that you may have no energy left to make that final push. You may even curse yourself for taking up something so exerting. Keep moving! Keep moving! Your hard-work will not go in vain. In all likelihood, an ambitious goal is about to be achieved. But be ready to take up more responsibilities and heavier workload. How good you are at handling pressure will determine your fate now.
Take a closer look at the way you have been operating and try to find out why the rewards have not been forthcoming. Did you overestimate your capabilities? Maybe yes. You will now have to spend your energies judiciously so that you can manage things reasonably well. Do some R&D before you agree to take up something important during this month.
The Six of Cups – Upright
The Six of Cups indicates that you may be looking back at the past with a happy, overpowering nostalgia – the six cups filled with white blossoms on this particular card symbolize happy times and joyous reunions. The past will inspire you to be positive and aim to put your best forward. However, don't be so engrossed in thinking about past that you lose your focus from reality. Those of you going through a rough patch should consider the appearance of this card in your readings a sign that is telling you to reflect and analyse the possible causes of your failures. Rest assured, happy times will arrive soon. There is also a need to let the child in you come to the fore. Know that over-thinking often complicates matters unnecessarily. Spend time with younger people to get that extra dose of positivity.
Listen to your inner voice, it may help find the answers you have been looking for. Also, try to reach the heart of the matter if you want to find permanent solutions. Besides, it will help you make some clear choices. Allow yourself the positive changes that are waiting to happen, don't hold back now. Let your past be a teacher; move on with a positive mindset.
The Knight of Pentacles – Upright
The Knight of Pentacles represents work, effort and responsibilities. The Knight of Pentacles sits upon a horse in the midst of a field, carrying a single gold coin. His eyes reflect careful thought and consideration. Ensure that you be a reliable person who has a clear vision about what he is doing – don't just go in a particular direction without a game plan. Appearance of this card in your tarot readings indicates that you will now try to be methodical in your approach. Being a Capricorn, you are usually quite meticulous in your approach. And during April, this particular characteristic shall become more profound. You will make sure that everything is properly planned and the plans are executed down to the last detail. On the flip side, you run the risk of making huge promises. Be realistic.
The Knight of Pentacles tells you to accept responsibilities given to you and be accountable. If you are given a task, commit yourself to it and make sure that the project reaches the finishing line as planned. Don't leave anything midway. This Card also suggests that you may be acting stubborn and inflexible in your approach. And, you might want to rethink on your take on certain important matters.
The Nine of Swords – Upright
The Nine of Swords shows a woman, she appears to be scared, stressed and upset over a matter. It looks like she has just woken up from a nightmare. Nine swords hang on the wall behind her. The appearance of this card in your readings indicates that you are worrying too much about a situation. You may have gotten so involved in the situation or a particular issue that you are literally having sleepless nights. Maybe the situation is not as bad as you are making it to be, rather than worrying about it endlessly, you should take some steps to change it. It is human to feel fear and be anxious, but one should not let those negative emotions affect their productivity. Try to be flexible and open-minded, because it seems that you are being too harsh to yourself.
Uncertainties and challenges are a part of life; don't let them dampen your spirits. The Nine of Swords suggests that you are putting yourself under emotional stress unnecessarily. Be positive, be objective and try to look at the bright side if you want to sort out a particular problem. You need to make conscious efforts to make yourself feel better.
The Wheel of Fortune – Upright
It is a highly symbolic Card. The Wheel of Fortune shows Aquarius in the top left corner, Scorpio in the top right corner, Leo at the bottom right corner and Taurus at the bottom left corner. These four Signs are fixed Signs, but here, their symbols have wings – an intricacy that suggests stability amidst change and movement. Have faith in the Higher Power, and believe that something better is in store for you. Whatever your circumstances may be at the moment, there is a strong possibility that some unknown factors are playing a major role here. Remember that nothing is permanent – neither the highs nor the lows. So, face the challenges with a smile on your face and make sure that you don't become complacent. Don't be a rebel now, because if you try to go against the flow, you may feel lost for directions, which may get even more frustrating.
Life is unpredictable, so the best thing you can do is be proactive and flexible. Know that no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to control each and everything that is happening around you. When you are pushed in another direction, do you best to find something meaningful and worthy of your time and efforts on that unknown path. The Wheel of Fortune card indicates that some major changes are in the offing.
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paint or stain weathered cedar siding
I am getting ready to paint or stain our house. Getting conflicting thoughts on what would be best. The siding is tight knot cedar that has been on the house for 14 years. May have been originally oiled, but in the life of the siding it has been TSP/bleached twice and most recently last summer...so it is weathered. We live in Western Oregon, exposed to weather, surrounded by doug fir trees. I HATE dealing with the mildew stains it gets. I've been sampling several paint and semi-transparent stains. What would be my best bet?:eek: My thought was to stain body of house and paint trim and soffits.
You can check if it is oil by rubbing some spirits on the siding. If dirt plus some of the colorant comes off it is oil. If only dirt comes off it is latex.
How long ago was the house coated anyhow? That can help me get you a scope of work up.
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Brand New Maple Cabinets...Stain?
I am new to woodworking/cabinetry but am doing pretty well. I have built speaker boxes for years and have great tools but actually doing custom cabinets is much different.
My question is I have just re-done my entire kitchen with Maple hardwood fronts and Import Maple Plywood sides/shelves. I want to stain the cabinets dark like the (Minwax Bombay Mohagany Color).
My questions are is what do I need to know and what do I need to do to achieve this?
Any input appreciated!
If the wood is prefinished, or finished, you can't stain them. And veneers are usually too thin to strip and sand down fot staining. Minwax makes a product called Polyshades, poly with stain mixed in. I have never had satisfactory results from it, but you could try it on some scrap pieces. It tends to pool and the pooled areas are darker.
You might want to re-post this in the painting section of this web site for a better response...........................not that just bills response was bad. Just the fact the you will get more responses.
thanks ill try that
I had built my cabinets for a pantry and recently built a bookshelf/storage unit for under stairs. It was made from maple veneer plywood and trimmed in solid oak. I simply brushed on Minwax (Cherry), 1 coat. let dry. then 2-3 coats of Minwax Polyurethane (sanding lightly between coats).. if i wanted it darker, I would have applied a second coat of stain. everyone that has seen these have been very impressed.
I think the suggestion of trying on a piece of scrap/cut-off will show you what you will get.
good luck
Stain contains solid pigments and dense woods like maple don't take it easily or consistently.
I'd really suggest a dye as opposed to a stain. Dye can be put into alcohol and applied...The alcohol evaporates and the liquid-based color is left. You can also use water but I'd go with alcohol. It works awesome, is cheap and easy, and it will look a heck of a lot better than stain. TransTint is the dye I usually use.
Practice on scraps of both maple ply and solid maple as the absorbtion rate will vary.
Well, this will probably curl a few eye brows, and would certainly require some practice and planning in order to maintain consistancy through a complete set of cabinets, but as long as you are experimenting, and want to go dark, with maple I would also try a torch. It can create a very unique look.
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Band Fest set for Sept. 21
Twelve area bands will participate in Band Fest on Saturday, Sept. 21.
The event begins at 6 p.m. at Indiana Area Senior High School's Andy Kuzneski Field. The concession stand will open at 5 p.m. Participating will be high school bands from Blairsville, Burrell, DuBois, Freeport, Indiana Area, Marion Center, Northern Cambria, Penns Manor, Punxsutawney, Purchase Line and United.
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They reduce our take home pay and there's really nothing we can do to completely avoid them — taxes are a burden that virtually all of us face. In efforts to reduce this burden, we may donate to certain charities, defer taxes on a retirement plan, buy a home in an area with lower taxes, or make other purchasing decisions with tax savings in mind.
Allowing for allowances, deductions, and credits, many portions of the tax code are laws you'd expect as they're not only universal, they simply make sense. If a person has children, their expenses will of course be higher as they'll be purchasing for another person throughout the year as well as themselves, so it's reasonable to include deductions and credits for dependents.
On the other hand, some tax laws make very little sense and upon a review, seem incredibly bizarre. Using several IRS publications, along with a few other reports, we located a few laws that seem strange — almost to the point of unrealistic.
1. Criminals and Drug Dealers
According to an IRS publication, "income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity."
Whether or not a criminal decides to report his or her illegal activities is another story, but according to a CNN publication, some actually do. Criminals often report such activity when they've been caught during the year, or they anticipate being caught, the publication explains. Does reporting this income on a return incriminate these drug dealers and thieves? Do they deduct expenses and any losses as they would with a normal business?
While you probably can deduct the cost of your product from your revenue to determine profit, it's unlikely that the IRS will accept business expenses like ski masks for thieves or a posse for drug dealers. Due to the IRS' confidentiality laws, the IRS can't just call the cops and say "hey, we know John Doe is stealing diamonds." Unless a law-enforcement agency has a court order for John Doe's return, then John's return is kept private.