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The militiamen at the roadblock wore green bandanas and carried AK-47s.
They were pro-Gaddafi men and as we drew up to the outskirts of Tripoli they were not pleased to see us. "Where are you from?" one snarled. I showed my passport.
"Britain? You want to bomb us!" He spat at my feet and told us to leave.
It was not easy being a journalist in Tripoli this week and certainly not a British one.
Two from the BBC's Arabic Service were tortured and subjected to mock executions after they were carted off by militiamen.
Three days running our correspondent Bill Neely and his crew tried to get into the town of Zawiyah where Gaddafi's elite troops were bombing and shelling his own people and three days running they were stopped, threatened and turned back.
On the fourth day he managed to get in. He saw a town destroyed and empty of its people. Had they fled or were they dead? He saw troops and street cleaners removing the evidence of the carnage that had taken place.
As he made his way to the hospital he was stopped by an army commander and stripped of cameras and tapes.
The Gaddafi regime is doing its best to conceal what is happening here but evidence of atrocities is mounting.
Libya is no longer a people's uprising. It is a civil war. And it is a civil war that Colonel Gaddafi is winning.
In Egypt and in Tunisia the presidents realised the game was up and walked off into the sunset. President Mubarak of Egypt was powerless once it became clear that his army would not shoot and kill protesters.
In Libya, the main army units are blindly loyal. They are more than willing to kill their own people and Gaddafi and his sons will do anything to remain in power.
From what I saw in Tripoli the regime has crushed all dissent with sheer brutality.
Those who were speaking out against Gaddafi have either been arrested or are now too scared to talk. Everyone else professes their love for the dictator who has ruled them for 40 years.
I was taken by my government "escort" to a school in central Tripoli. Pictures of Colonel Gaddafi were everywhere. We were filming a science class and I began interviewing one of the pupils.
Suddenly the minder intervened and spoke in Arabic to the boy, who then started shouting support for Gaddafi.
Within seconds the whole class and several teachers joined in. And soon children were thronging the corridors, chanting and holding aloft portraits of their leader.
The minder was clearly pleased. But what do he and the teachers and the children really think? There is a cult of personality here, reinforced by fear.
I am fearful too. Fearful that things are about to get even nastier. Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif has warned of an all-out onslaught on the rebels in the east.
While Western diplomats fiddle, Libya will burn.
With no prospect of a no-fly zone, an air assault on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi could cause carnage.
I interviewed Foreign Secretary, William Hague from Tripoli and he said military intervention would need widespread backing.
The Americans don't seem that interested so it probably won't happen.
An American intelligence official said last week that he believed that Col Gaddafi would prevail in Libya. This weekend my guess is that he is right.
Other threatened dictators will be taking encouragement. Brutality works.


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Russian laws to be adopted for functioning of Islamic financing institutes
Russian legislative system will not be an obstacle for Islamic financing institutes of Russia, the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov stated in Dubai, RIA Novosti reports.
"Our bank laws partially don't correspond to work with Islamic financing, but we have analyzed this issue and it appears the problem can be solved," Minnikhanov stated at the opening ceremony of Annual Investment Meeting 2011 in Dubai.
According to him, Islamic banks are necessary for Russia.
Islamic financing is a system of dealing with bank affairs according to the religious principles of Islam.
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People Management, 29 October 2010
A business school is opening its MBA course to the masses by making its lectures and course materials freely available on Facebook.
The London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) will put all lectures, discussion groups and other learning materials on the social networking site. Learners follow the course free of charge and only pay if they decide to go forward for formal accreditation in an exam.
This democratic approach to learning means that thousands of people worldwide could view the lectures, which include speakers from top organisations as Deloitte, Accenture and the Royal Navy, without formally pursuing the course.
管理作为一项活动无处不在,它几乎覆盖了人类所有的活 动。但是迄今为止,我们尚未看到统一的管理者专业协会 的出现。许多人现在开始相信,为了坚持和推广标准,这 一切必须进行改变。圣地亚哥· 伊尼格斯(Santiago Iniguez) 就此展开了讨论。(translation)
Download PDF Issue_2_2010_Santiago Iniguez_(Chinese)
Global Focus in Chinese will be online tomorrow and hard copies will be available in a couple of weeks.
Press Pack: The Browne Report, October 12th, 2010
Download PDF David Bach (IE professor) - March 2009
How an international network of bureaucrats shapes financial markets and why it matters for the future of business : David Bach.
Business school articles and blog posts.
Arts Education Articles and blog posts.
Download PDF Ambition, AMBA's magazine, Oct Dec2010
Do we need management guilds? Dean Santiago Iniguez' contribution in Ambition, AMBA's magazine.
(Ambition is the quarterly newsletter from the Association of MBAs that keeps our members – international alumni and students from our accredited schools – informed about their activities and MBA-relevant updates and articles. See how you could reach this audience by advertising in the next Ambition.)
The tantalizing idea of professionalizing management
Historically, management has never attained the status of a formal profession, in the sense of setting up a guild or association by managers. In large part, the reason why there are no managers' guilds is due to the flexibility and presence of management throughout such a wide range of activities. Would it really make much sense for the head of a hospital's surgery department, the partner-director of a law firm, the founder of a high-tech start-up company, and the CEO of a consumer products manufacturer to create their own guild or any other type of association? They are all managers, and it may be that some of them have MBAs, but their shared professional interests would not extend much beyond ideas on how best to manage a budget or to motivate their workforce. In all likelihood, they are going to be more interested in learning all there is to know about their respective professions— medicine, architecture, law—and applying these techniques, tools, and ideas on management within the framework of these professions...
View the interactive graphic of the most popular cities in the world for executive MBAs based on data from FT-ranked programmes.
Business schools face EMBA challenge
Article of SmartMoney of WSJ, October 22, 2010.
Amazon, 320 pages, Crown Business; (February 20, 2007)
One of BusinessWeek Magazine's top ten business books of 2007. Voted one of the five best strategy books of 2007 by Strategy and Business magazine.
"One of the most important, realistic and useful books on strategy ever written. With consummate clarity and withering logic, Raynor confronts and resolves the paradox that while strategy requires commitment, much about the future is simply unknowable. It is an absolutely brilliant, lucidly written piece of scholarship."
--Clayton M. Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of the bestselling The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution
Drawing on leading-edge scholarship and extensive original research, Raynor's revolutionary principle of Requisite Uncertainty yields a clutch of critical, counter-intuitive findings. Among them:
-- The Board should not evaluate the CEO based on the company's performance, but instead on the firm's strategic risk profile
-- The CEO should not drive results, but manage uncertainty
-- Business unit leaders should not focus on execution, but on making strategic choices
-- Line managers should not worry about strategic risk, but devote themselves to delivering on commitments
Success in business increasingly depends on chance encounters, article of The Economist, July 2010, refers to the book below:
Click here for Working beyond Borders Insights, October 12, 2010, (70 pages)
The insights provided by more than 700 Chief Human Resource Officers around the world show how workforce investment is shifting. Companies are beginning to focus more on growth, expanding into new markets and offering new products and services. But to make the most of potential growth opportunities in today's dynamic global marketplace, organizations need to find ways to address the "borders" that are currently impeding their workforces.
Based on the key capability gaps revealed in this study, we believe organizations should focus on three critical workforce imperatives: cultivating creative leaders, mobilizing for speed and flexibility and capitalizing on collective intelligence.
Vancouver Sun, 19 October. 2010.
Q&A-type feature on Frieda Granot, a trailblazing scholar at University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business.
...On the same track, how do women increase the likelihood that they will be considered for senior corporate jobs?
Let me preempt my answer by saying that I don't think that growing the number and proportion of women in leadership roles is just a women's issue. It is the recognition by the organizations employing them the important role they can play in contributing to the well being of the organization and to the global economy.
Research by the Catalyst Corporation shows that Fortune 500 companies with the highest proportion of women in senior management significantly outperform those with the lowest proportion - both in return on equity and in total shareholder return.
New York-based consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has released a series of reports since 2007 making the case that gender diversity at the top is a corporate performance driver.
Goldman Sachs studies show gross-domestic-product growth accelerates when women hold positions of power. The company recommends investing in countries where the gender gap is closing and where the "laws and social norms that have discriminated against women are shifting." To address the global gender gap, Goldman has created the 10,000 Women Initiative - a $100 million, five-year program to provide an advanced business education for women.
And in 2006, The Economist magazine proclaimed, "Forget China, India and the Internet: Economic growth is driven by women."
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18 October, 2010, MBA Universe. (also in McKinsey Quarterly)
Dr Sheppard added that his B-school is totally committed to the new MBA model. "At Fuqua we are committed to making this change. In my tenure, we will accomplish this mission."
The 3rd International Business School Shanghai Conference, is being hosted by the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – that is taking place at the Antai College campus in Shanghai, China from 17 - 19 October 2010.
The conference theme is "Reshaping Business Schools after the Crisis". Key topics include "Reorganizing the governance, structure, and missions of business schools", "Realigning the business school program portfolio and curriculum" and "Redefining networks of collaboration and competition among business schools".
At the conference, business leaders and representatives from over 75 business schools from around the world are studying the future direction of international business education, and analyzing how business education can contribute in more better ways to world economic development...
Article of Chief Executive.net
Who needs another ranking? Business does. Now more than ever before, it's time to reset the performance metrics for the CEOs of our public companies
An MBA helps. Yes, really.
As business-school professors you'd probably expect us to say that an MBA boosts CEO performance. But in the wake of the financial crisis, when MBA programs were accused of fostering greed-enhancing, value-destroying behavior (and worse), we approached this part of our analysis with some trepidation.
Information about qualifications isn't readily available in some countries so we had to limit ourselves to the subset of CEOs based in Germany, Britain, France and the U.S.: 1,109 of them to be exact. Of these, 32 percent had an MBA. But members of this minority ranked, on average, a full 40 places higher than their colleagues in the non-MBA majority. Indeed four of the top 10 (John Chambers, John Martin, Meg Whitman and Hugh Grant) have an MBA certificate hanging on their wall. So it's official: MBA CEOs, on average, add rather than destroy value.
Consider your runway before taking off. Or landing.
According to conventional wisdom, it's hard for a CEO to excel if he or she inherits a struggling company. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as the old saying goes...
BloombergBusinessWeek, October 11, 2010.
The Climate Corps program's Victoria Mills explains how MBA students are helping companies curtail energy use—and save a bundle
Click here for the "On Point" page, NPR, Wednesday, October 13, 2010.
Left to right: Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School; Sally Blount of Kellog at Northwestern@sallyblount; Rich Lyons of Haas at UC-Berkeley.
Sally Blount, dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Rich Lyons, dean of Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School.
American business schools – "B-schools" – got a checkered reputation in the last decade. Enron and Worldcom scandals had people asking what kind of ethics they were teaching. The crash of '08 left people asking what kind of business they were teaching.
Now, a new generation of leaders is moving into top slots at the country's top B-schools. We hear from the heads of Harvard Business School, Northwestern's Kellogg School and Berkeley's Haas School, on the US economy now – and their role...
Palmisano, Dell, Otellini, Brown, Tucci etc.
As some of the nation's largest employers, Technology CEO Council companies generate $250 billion in annual revenues and employ over 700,000 workers...
Press release Washington, October 6, 2010: The U.S. federal government can save over $1 trillion by 2020, while improving the services it provides to citizens and laying a foundation for future job growth and innovation...
www.fool.com (Wikipedia) @themotleyfool
(Motley Fool Money Radio Show, October 8, 2010
On this week's Motley Fool Money, we share some of our favorite recent interviews. Michael Lewis talks about The Big Short. Alice Schroeder talks Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Matt Ridley makes the case for rational optimism. And Dave Barry talks about the business of humor writing.)
Selected for the Best Paper Proceedings for the Academy of Management Annual meeting in 2010. Download-page of Working Paper of HBS. (Ioannis Ioannou, London Business School, George Serafeim, Harvard Business School)
...In 2007 for example, mutual funds that invested in socially conscious firms had assets under management of more than $2.5 and $2 trillion dollars in the US and Europe respectively...(numbers from: "national and international organizations that track socially conscious funds, such as Eurosif, Social Investment Forum, Responsible Investment Association Australasia, Social Responsible Organization, and SRI funds in Asia.") ...Finally, the emergence of a substantial number of firms that rate and rank companies on multiple CSR dimensions such as KLD and ASSET4 (Thompson Reuters) among others (see Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) & FTSE4 good index)
"The profits of goodness" (article by author about the paper)
Web Exclusive: Is there a link between a company's social responsibility and its profitability? Research from Ioannis Ioannou, Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, sheds new light on one of the biggest business issues of our times.
.. Managers should particularly focus on communicating the value of CSR strategies to the investment community. Highlighting short term costs but also long-term benefits could mitigate difficulties that investors may face in understanding the value generated through such activities and might expedite the adjustment of their valuation models to these new CSR-augmented business models. In other words, managers should be aware that not only what is communicated matters but also to whom it is communicated to...
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy (and War is a matter of expedients.)-- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Jack Welch (2001) on
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur. That's why strategy has to be dynamic and anticipatory.
Bob Nelson, my longtime financial analyst and GE's resident history buff, exposed me to this thinking when he passed on an article about the Prussian general Helmut von Moltke. Von Moltke's beliefs brought us to a series of questions that were much more useful to me over the years than all the data crunching in strategic plans.
''Von Moltke believed strategy was not a lengthy action plan,'' Welch explains, ''but rather the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.'
Related articles:
'A World Changed Utterly', Inside Higher Ed, September 14, 2010
'The State of Global Higher Ed', Inside Higher Ed, October 5, 2010.
Press Release - NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 5, 2010—HSF, recognizing the nation's need for more college graduates in spite of the current recession, is launching "Generation 1st Degree," an initiative focused on closing the "degree gap" that exists between Hispanic students and their peers. The strategy seeks to help at least one person in each household earn a college degree, and then leverage that credential in order to assist others in the family seek the same achievement.
Announcing the initiative at its first Education Summit, HSF plans to focus its efforts on the Hispanic American students and families it serves and hopes to be a catalyst for a national conversation about higher education and the economy. In 35 years, HSF has awarded close to $300 million in scholarships to more than 50,000 students in need. Two-thirds of these students were the first in their families to go to college.
HSF's vision is for the U.S. Latino degree attainment rate to increase from 19 percent to 60 percent by 2025. HSF estimates that will result in a significant increase in Latino lifetime earnings—from the current $24 trillion to $47 trillion (in current dollars) by 2025 if the goal is met.
www.becker-posner-blog.com (University of Chicago)
Becker on Wikipedia and Posner on Wikipedia
Education and Innovation in Developing Countries—Posner, 5th September 2010.
...Developing countries face a chicken and egg problem in education policy. Until there is a highly educated stratum in a nation's population, there will not be an adequate pool from which to draw teachers of technical subjects. But without such teachers the nation will be unable to create such a stratum—internally. Presumably the way for a developing country to proceed, therefore, is to send its brightest young people abroad for advanced education...
Higher Education and Technological Advances as Countries Develop-Becker, 5th September 2010.
...For several years, along with others, I have been studying the worldwide boom in higher education in both developing and developed nations...Developing countries imperil their continued economic advance if they fail to provide much greater opportunities for their young men and women to achieve a university education...To accomplish this last great stage of economic development, both public policy and private households and businesses must begin to emphasize higher education, and other ways to greatly improve the advanced human capital of working men and women.
Press release October 1, 2010.
Senior executives from leading global companies will convene on October 18 and 19 to exchange ideas on advancing sustainable business practices at the third annual Executive Environmental Sustainability Forum at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Tuck faculty members and senior executives from 20 companies representing a wide array of industries will participate in panels and discussions to share ideas and innovative theories, practices, and processes to tackle environmental challenges...
October 5th, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle.
...The plan is to have corporations, nonprofit groups and others offer matching incentives to encourage children and their families to save...
Invitation to submit your proposal (Deadline 1 Dec. 2010):
"Shaping Tomorrow's Leaders - the GRLI and Net Impact Challenge" is a team-based competition where students and young managers are given the chance to present their views on the following question:
"How can next generation leaders contribute to the development of globally responsible leadership?"
We are looking for innovative ideas on how to take personal and shared responsibility to a new level through business leadership and action.
The invitation is open to students and young managers (18-35) in institutes of higher education and companies across the world. The winning team will attend free-of-charge and present their project at the 10th GRLI General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 March 2011.
Sponsorship for this competition has been secured from GRLI partner schools Anglia Ruskin University Ashcroft International Business School, Babson College, ESSEC Business School, Maastricht University and Rouen Business School.
Click here to go to the page with guidelines and registration form for this competition on the GRLI website. Deadline for submissions is 1st December 2010.
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. Spanning six continents, our membership makes up one of the most influential networks of professionals and students in existence today. Net Impact members are current and emerging leaders in CSR, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, international development, and environmental sustainability who are actively improving the world.
www.europe-innova.eu, www.improve-innovation.eu (Grow through Innovation Management)
The Global Compact Office encourages and welcomes the development of Case Stories. If you would like to share your organization's experience in implementing the UN Global Compact principles, please submit your Case Story on the UN Global Compact website or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Post of Kenan-Flagler blog "On Leadership", October 5th, 2010.
Hiring great people is one of the most important things you do as a leader/manager. It is impossible to spend too much time on this. I am personally interested in this issue because, in a service organization like a business school, the quality of people the organization attracts contributes in a very significant way to overall organizational performance.
Despite the importance of this task, the hiring process can get short-changed by...
Present in over 107 countries and territories and with over 50,000 members, AIESEC is the world's largest student-run organisation. Focused on providing a platform for youth leadership development, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to be global citizens, to change the world, and to get experience and skills that matter today.
October 4, 2010 — Charles Dallara, Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance, Inc. (IIF) (IIF wikipedia entry), called for urgent action by a core group of the world's major economies to broker agreements on critical macroeconomic and exchange rate issues. He said, "Sustaining growth and restoring confidence will require not only astute domestic policymaking, but an unprecedented level of multilateral coordination. It will also require action that transcends purely domestic short-term concerns."
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Blue&Cream: Alexander Wang's Leather Fringe Sweatshirt
(Original: $920 / Sale: $460) Way out of my price league, but this novelty piece from Alexander Wang's Spring 2009 collection is pretty brilliant! Made of 100% soft lambskin leather. Dry clean only. Great to wear for evenings out and fun parties. I'd pair it with colorful dresses/attire. I don't think it's really meant to be worn like your average sweatshirt! You can't wear black with it, at least not too much black or else you'll run the risk of looking goth/punk/biker. The fringe detail on the sleeves is magnificent, but I'm not really a fan of the fringe detail on the back of the "sweatshirt". x.


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The Presidents of the United States have played a key role in the functioning and development of our country. 1. George Washington (1732-1799). President from 1789-1797.
 A.The First President of the United States.
 B. Decided that all Presidents should live where they work.
 C. Helped select the site and design of the city that would become the Capital of the U.S.
 Image: Wikimedia 2. John Adams (1735-1826). President from 1797-1801.
 A. Established the Naval Department.
 B. First to live in the new Capital.
 Image: Wikimedia 3. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). President from 1801-1809.
 A. Doubled the size of the United States by purchasing the territory of Louisiana.
 Image: Wikimedia 4. James Madison (1751-1836). President from 1809-1817.
 A. Asked Congress to declare war on Britain.
 Image: Wikimedia 5. James Monroe (1758-1831). President from 1817-1825.
 A. Declared that the United States would behave unfavorably toward European countries that tried to interfere with North and South American affairs-"The Monroe Doctrine."
 Image: Wikimedia 6. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848). President from 1825-1829.
 A. Was the first candidate to become president with a majority of the electoral college, but a minority of the popular vote.
 B. Wanted to use taxes on roads, canals and scientific exploration which wasn't popular.
 Image: Wikimedia 7. Andrew Jackson (1767-1848). President from 1829-1837.
 A. Fought with Congress over any legislation that appeared to favor the rich.
 Image: Wikimedia 8. Martin Van Buren (1782-1862). President from 1837-1841.
 A. Was responsible for forcing 15,000 Cherokee from their Georgia homeland to what is now Oklahoma. The resulting journey was to be known as "The Trail of Tears."
 Image: Wikimedia 9. William Henry Harrison (1773-1841). President from March 1841 to April 1841.
 A. After delivering the longest ever inaugural address on a very cold and windy March day, Harrison developed pneumonia and died exactly a month after his inauguration.
 Image: Wikimedia 10. John Tyler (1790-1862). President from 1841-1845.
 A. With the death of William Harrison, John Tyler became the first vice president to assume the office of President.
 B. The first President to be married in office.
 Image: Wikimedia 11. James K. Polk (1795-1849). President from 1845-1849.
 A. Reduced the Tariff.
 B. Created an independent Treasury.
 C. Settle the long-standing dispute with Britain over the northern Oregon boundary.
 D. Mexican War of 1846.
 Image: Wikimedia 12. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). President from 1849-1850.
 A. Was opposed to having the territories become slave states.
 Image: Wikimedia 13. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874). President from 1850-1853.
 A. Became president after Zachary Taylor's death.
 B. Signed the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act.
 C. Federal aid for railroad construction.
 Photo: Wikimedia 14. Franklin Pierce (1804- 1869). President from 1853-1857.
 A. Supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which brought the country close to civil war.
 B. Gadsden Purchase secured the border between the United States and Mexico.
 Photo: Wikimedia 15. James Buchanan (1791-1868). President from 1857-1861.
 A. Entered the White House at a time when the struggle over slavery was spinning out of control.
 Photo: Wikimedia 16. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). President from 1861-1865.
 A. His election as president triggered the secession of the southern states.
 B. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
 C. Gave the Gettysburg Address, on the site of the most horrific battle of the war.
 Image: Wikimedia 17. Andrew Johnson (1808-1875). President from 1865-1869.
 A. Became president after Lincoln's assassination.
 B. Was the first president to be impeached. He missed be convicted by one vote.
 Photo: Wikimedia 18. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885). President from 1869-1877.
 A. Special Resumption Act, which made it legal to redeem "greenbacks" issued during the Civil Ar for gold or silver coins.
 Image: Wikimedia 19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893). President from 1877-1881.
 A. Ended Reconstruction.
 B. Vetoed Congress's first ban on Chinese immigration.
 C. Attacked the corrupt patronage system.
 Image: Wikimedia 20. James A. Garfield (1831-1881). President from March 1881 to September 1881.
 A. Was assassinated only four months into his term.
 B. Second president to be killed in office.
 Photo: Wikimedia 21. Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886). President from 1881-1885.
 A. Became president after Garfield's assassination.
 B. Signed the Pendleton Act which established the Civil Service Commission.
 Photo: Wikimedia 22. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). President from 1885-1889(Term 1). A. The first Democratic president since the Civil War. B. Married 21 year old Francis Folsom, twenty-eight years his junior.
 Photo: Wikimedia 23. Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901). President from 1889-1893.
 A. Six states were admitted to the Union.
 B. Approved the Dependent Pension Act.
 C. Set aside large appropriations for rivers and harbors.
 Photo: Wikimedia 24. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). President from 1983-1897 (Term 2).
 A. Was the only president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms.
 Photo: Wikimedia 25. William McKinley (1843-1901). President from 1897-1901.
 A. Passed the Dingley Tariff Act.
 B. U.S. Declared war on Spain.
 C. Was assassinated in his second term as President. Photo: Wikimedia 26. Theodore Roosevelt (1859-1919). President from 1901-1909.
 A. Was the youngest person to become president.
 B. Protected American workers from the power of the wealthy business interests.
 C. Elected to second term.
 Photo: Wikimedia 27. William H. Taft (1857-1930). President from 1909-1913.
 A. Continued prosecution of unfair business practices under the Sherman Antitrust Act.<br /. B. First president to buy automobiles.
 C. Created the tradition of throwing out the first ball on opening day of baseball season.
 Photo: Wikimedia 28. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). President from 1913-1921.
 A. Established economic reforms.
 B. Presided over two Constitutional amendments: the 18th and 19th.
 C. President during WWI and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on post war peace.
 Photo: Wikimedia 29. Warren G. Harding (1865-1923). President from 1921-1923.
 A. Ceded much of of his power to Congress.
 B. Term filled with scandal.
 Photo: Wikimedia 30. Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). President from 1923-1929.
 A. Took office after Harding's death.
 B. Believed in a "hands off" government.
 Photo: Wikimedia 31. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). President from 1929-1933.
 A. President during the depression.
 B. Felt that it was not the government's place to directly assist the individuals and families who were adversely affected by the depression.
 Photo: Wikimedia 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945). President from 1933-1945.
 A. The only president elected to four terms.
 B. Was President during WWII.
 C. Rallied the country by creating a wartime industrial machine that helped win the war for the Allies and revive the economy.
 Photo: Wikimedia 33. Harry S. Truman (1884-1972). President from 1945-1953.
 A. President during the final year of the war.
 B. Decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan. The war ended soon after.
 C. Sent troops to face North Korea.
 Photo: Wikimedia 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969). President from 1953-1961.
 A. President while Joseph McCarthy hunted for communists.
 B. Sent federal troops to escort African American students to school.
 C. Approved space program.
Photo: Wikimedia 35. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). President from 1961-1963.
 A. Faced off with the Soviet Union.
 B. Supported the Civil Rights movement.
 C. Urged the space program to land a man on the moon. D. Was assassinated in 1963.
 Photo: Wikimedia 36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973). President from 1963-1969.
 A. Became president when Kennedy was assassinated.
 B. Passed legislation-Civil Rights Act, Health Insurance for the Elderly.
 C. Vietnam War.
 Photo: Wikimedia 37. Richard Nixon (1913-1994). President from 1969-1974.
 A.Visited China.
 B. Warmed relations with the U.S.S.R.
 C. Left office due to the Watergate scandal.
 Photo: Wikimedia 38. Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006). President from 1974-1977.
 A. Became president after Nixon left office.
 B. Only unelected vice president to become president.
 Photo: Wikimedia 39. Jimmy Carter (born 1924). President from 1977-1981.
 A. Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.
 Photo: Wikimedia 40. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004). President from 1981-1989.
 A. Tax reforms.
 B. Eased relations with the Soviet Union.
 C. Economic turnaround.
 Photo: Wikimedia 41. George Bush (born 1924). President from 1989-1993.
 A. Was president during the end of the cold war.
 B. Forced Iraq out of Kuwait in 1990.
 Photo: Wikimedia 42. William J. Clinton (born 1946). President from 1993-2001.
 A. The lowest unemployment rate in modern history.
 B. Overhauled the economic system.
 C. Was impeached but not convicted in 1998.
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unsuccessful. Finally, he turned and ran as fast as he could.
The hunter ran and ran and ran, until he ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff. His hopes were dim. Seeing no way out of his predicament, and with the bear closing in rather quickly, the hunter got down on his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, "Dear God! Please give this bear some 'religion'!" The skies darkened and there was lightning in the air. Just a few feet short of the hunter, the bear came to abrupt stop, and glanced around, somewhat confused.
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Who says a little engineering mixed in with your journalism is a bad thing? At least one MSNBC host and Washington Post reporter said it's a journalist's job to focus on "real issues" in the hotly debated issue of health care reform.
This was the topic of discussion in a panel featuring John Rother, executive vice president of Policy and Strategy for AARP, Ceci Connolly of The Washington Post, Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity and host Dr. Nancy Snyderman during MSNBC's "Dr. Nancy" Aug. 10.
Rother argued there has been far too much hyperbole on the issue, which he insisted was meant to mislead the public.
"I think really there are efforts to mislead the public," Rother said. "I think that we would have a much better and more useful debate if we focused on the real issues involved in health reform. And there are many real issues that deserve to be debated, but not ones about government takeover or euthanasia. Those are simply not true."
Snyderman asked Connolly if it was their duty journalists to raise the bar on the discussion and avoid the topics that would be relevant in a single-payer, socialized health care system.
"I'm gonna bring in Ceci for a second," Snyderman said. "Ceci, we've been talking a lot over the weekend about death panels and rationing and euthanasia. We have, you know as journalists, you and I, seems to me there's a bar that's pretty darn low right now, that is incumbent upon us to raise."
According to Connolly, that is how the Post is trying to cover the issue - by examining the "issues" that are more important in their view.
"Uh yes, and I hope that we are able to," Connolly said. "We're certainly trying here with our coverage. We wrote over the weekend at some length about what exactly are the proposals that would affect Medicare beneficiaries in this legislation so far and what you see are a mixture, but there are certainly some things that should be pretty attractive to senior citizens - some big discounts on their prescription drugs, for instance, some changes about waving any kind of co-payments on preventive services, a pay raise for primary care doctors, which should improve access to those doctors."
However the Aug. 7 Washington Post wasn't exactly raising the bar. In that edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Steven Pearlstein called "Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers" that oppose government-mandated health care reform "political terrorists," not exactly keeping within Connolly's mantra of elevating the discussion.
Connolly explained to Snyderman that there were some places where the government could direct how health care resources would be allocated - as in general practitioners versus hospitals or specialists. But that sort of threat to the health care marketplace was a "question mark."
"Now, there are also some changes that could mean squeezing down on payments to hospitals and some specialists," Connolly said. "We can't predict exactly what that will mean. The people that wrote the legislation say there's enough fat in the system that we can squeeze that down a bit. That's more of a question mark, but sort of this death panel conversation really is sort of a sideshow I think from a very serious debate that we ought to be having right now."


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Exluding nonprofits from Thursday night market an unwise move
February 23, 2013
The Union article (February 20, 2013) regarding the Grass Valley Thursday Night Market barely mentions the future planned exclusion of booths for nonprofit organizations. I do (or did) the scheduling of volunteers of the Nevada County Democrats booth at the market.
We registered voters, conversed with our neighbors and invited everyone to our "First Tuesday" educational forums. Our presence, along with other nonprofit groups and organizations, provides a necessary opportunity for local residents and visitors alike to appreciate the diversity of our wonderful area.
When I received an email from Nevada County Democrats Chair, Jim Firth, alerting me that we were no longer welcome at the market, I didn't understand. We support local food producers, local artisans, local eateries and local non-profits. We would hate to see the Grass Valley Market become less of a "community gathering."
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I've been meaning to post about this for a while. Our team has been working on developing a new theme and I feel like this feature is a must have. All we want is something that is simple but yet powerful. I am amazed at how many different authors (or so it appears) have re-invented the wheel and made their own. Honestly, I am a bit jealous!
That is one thing I wish more of the authors here on themeforest were able to do is work together on something open source like this. I probably don't have much room to talk since I'm not an expert coder and am not capable of dedicating the time and expertise to such a product, but clearly other authors are using their own time and knowledge to do it themselves. It would be nice to see a standard options panel and layout builder for all authors to use and build upon so that we can keep themeforest at the front of the pack with wordpress development and technology. Just my 2 cents…
With all that being said, aside from Visual Composer and Aqua Page builder, are there any other options freely available to use? Also, ss there a way to package and automatically install one of these two plugins with a theme so that they can still be updated and act as a plugin, but they don't have to be separately installed by the end user? It seems like customers have enough struggle installing themes, so I try to keep it simple and go for the fewest amount of steps.
Thanks in advance.
Definitely a +1 for Nashville.
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Inconsistent spacing, poor typography, just feels kinda unfinished y'know? -Scott
Sounds like you've been through the rejection process a time or two, too
Hey Guys,I'm working on a new, personal blog/portfolio WP theme, Leap: http://ireed.net/leap
Last week, I submitted it for approval and was rejected with the following feedback:
This is a really nice start and I really dig the casual concept.
The main issue here is that the design is just too simple to be sold in the WP category. We do accept simpler designs but only for the very occasional mobile designs as well as v cards.
As is, as I mentioned, the design is too basic and lacks details to be sold as a premium theme.
The main issues are with the inner pages, the blog and portfolio specially. Focus on using a more unique layout to try and differentiate the design. As with details, there are very little visual cues in the design, designed to add originality to the design. To see this in action, use a solid background and you'll see the sparseness.
I also asked the rest of the team and here is what they said:
"Feels incomplete—like in the middle of development"
"Nice concept but feels.. empty."
I'm struggling to determine how to improve the layout/design – I'm "too close" to the project at this point to see things objectively. This is where I really need your help – based on the feedback given, how do you feel Leap can be improved?Again, here is the link: http://ireed.net/leap/
Thanks for the help, Reid
Such an amazing achievement, congrats Kriesi! You definitely deserve this.
The sad thing is the general public may see tools like this and then assume that all websites are built this way. Drag and drop, cookie cutter, easy. :/ However, it really takes several hours and thousands of lines of coding to come up with a truly awesomely crafted website.
Might as well join the club hahttps://plus.google.com/114531119156147187402/
Loving the new marketplace! I think this one is going to do very well.
I love it. Looks more serious/professional in my opinion. Going to take a little bit of getting used to, but this is exactly what themeforest (and the other sites) needed! Great job.
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Goal: People perceived Tulipan as a brand with an excellent communication but not as a safe condom. We had to demonstrate that the condoms were safe and of maximum quality.
Solution: We made the first interactive condoms postcard and placed it in the most famous pubs and discos of Buenos Aires so that people could test Tulipan's quality and safety.
Results: We ended a long time installed prejudice, changing people's perception and consequently raising the frequency of usage and the sales of Tulipan condoms.
Print advertisment created by Y&R, Argentina for Tulipan, within the category: Health.
Remove the condom to know the difference between using it or not.
General Creative Director: Martin Mercado
Creative Directors: Martin Goldberg, Diego Tuya, Dario Rial
Art Director: Gonzalo Fernandez
Copywriter: Juan Ignacio Galardi
Retoucher: Hugo Horita
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Made me think of this immediately; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWkZ_StRjU0
I get the message, but you missed my point. Does sex destroy rooms? Train bang? Not sure who was getting screwed here might have been the room. Considering how bad it looks, it can seem like domestic violence took place. And the kid was in the middle of this whole thing.
Don't like the colors makes this depressing rather than exciting and funny.
Instead of sitting down he should be tearing off wallpaper.
And the purpose of this ad has nothing to do with image.
Werd man kids and condoms getting old, how about we focus on divorce rates and stds
because therefore it is
Your thinking about it too much :)
The idea and execution in my opinion is good, made me chuckle.
Clear message, no doubts about it.Direct to essense of the product.
I think it's clever and funny! I suppose people with kids may have doubts, but for singles who wouldn't like a surprise, it's a damn good postcard!
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In order to inject culture, one must first observe, collect and acknowledge the culture that is already in place. "What does it mean to have a home?" is the question posed to us by this Voices Breaking Boundaries production that digs deep into the history of Freedman's Town and its current residents, who are dealing with an elimination of history through gentrification. For comparison, the filmmakers also look at the Baloch and Sheedi community of Karachi, Pakistan, whose roots are also in Africa. Music and visual artists also provided their talents during the community events that were held on and near several streets within the neighborhood west of downtown between West Gray and West Dallas. Near the end of the film, director Sehba Sarwar says: "It's clear that neither community is gone, histories are not lost and struggles are not over."
It's hard to imagine that we're less than three years removed from Robert Ellis's stint playing Whiskey Wednesdays at Mango's and then Fitzgerald's. From that small but loyal fan base — and even earlier in previous band Eyes Like Lions — Ellis has seen his star deservedly rise on the shoulders of his 2011 New West Records debut, Photographs. Along with his 2012 move to Wimberley and eventually Nashville, that year also saw Ellis nominated for an Americana Music Award for Best Emerging Artist alongside eventual winners Alabama Shakes. While all the praise being poured on Ellis is enough to make Houston proud, it's a damn shame you can't find Ellis at Fitz on a weekly basis anymore.
This past summer, the Blaffer Art Museum, nestled on the University of Houston campus, paid the hefty sum of $2.3 million for total reconstruction surgery, and the money was incredibly well spent. The facade evolved into a stunning windowed parallelogram, which both sticks out and enhances the lackluster brick buildings of UH. The interior space is now sprawling and bright, an open and airy dedication to the visual arts. Thin tubes of light cover the ceilings, making for a modern yet classy feel. On the second floor, a balcony overlooks the main gallery, which the museum is now dedicating to emerging artists. If you haven't been since the renovation, do yourself a favor and go.
Poets, novelists and essayists get rock-star receptions at Inprint's two popular reading series, the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series for adults and Cool Brains! for young readers. Authors scheduled for 2013-2014 season readings/onstage interviews and signing sessions include James McBride, George Saunders, Anne Carson and Khaled Hosseini. Past authors have ranged from internationally known Salman Rushdie to Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket. Local writers aren't overlooked, with Houston talent including the city's first poet laureate, Gwendolyn Zepeda, appearing at Inprint readings.
Dedicated in 2006, this ceramic tile mosaic celebrates the rich history of Houston's Fifth Ward by featuring the faces of some truly amazing people who came from the neighborhood — Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland and George Foreman. In a city known for bulldozing the past to make room for strip malls or townhomes, murals like this one — which reflect upon and teach about the area's cultural heritage — are all the more valuable. It's a remarkable piece of art and a reminder of a remarkable legacy.
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Vinci, seeded third, won the last six games of the second set to complete a 7-5, 6-3 victory.
Vinci, making the most of second-seeded Jankovic's five double faults, claimed her seventh career WTA title and her first of 2012.
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good post Brian
maybe you remember I am a huge fan of Miller, so I do hope he stays, for at least another season. But clearly, chances are pretty low.
Without Miller, I think it's gonna be an ugly, ugly season, especially with Lou and Holiday splitting time at starting PG. I came to the conclusion that LW can't (doesn't want to ??) play the point. I know he's young and can prove me wrong - and I do hope so - but this is my feeling after his last season.
And Sixers would be nuts to put all the pressure on a 19 y/o rookie PG to take Miller's spot full time. So the PG is the biggest question mark: we need a good, 'reliable' PG and as for now we don't have any. 82 games of LW + Holiday scare me to death.
The SG spot is the other ?. I think we will try again with the AI9 at the two experiment, because it's fair to give it another try (with another coach, another system, a healthy roster etc...), but again, I don't think he can play the two effectively. Limited stretches, with certain line ups, vs particular teams, yes, long term, full time, no.
Brand is the least concern to me. I think he will bounce back and have a good season. Good, not great. I am confident.
So basically we are at the same position of last season, minus Andre Miller & Evans, plus Holiday & Kapono (and Brand/Jason Smith back). We still lack outside shooting, we need a proven SG, and we don't know who will run the team on the floor. Not exactly an encouraging situation.
Don't want to play the negadelphian here, Stefanski pulled a rabbit out of his arse with the Evans/Kapono trade, so there is still time, and hope. But TODAY there is nothing to be particularly happy for.
I'd say this season will probably hinge on Eddie Jordan, and most importantly, his use of Iguodala. The PG position isn't a huge issue for me if Iguodala is the primary playmaker. I think you have to go into the season w/ Thad and AI on the wings, if one of them can improve his 3pt shooting (Thad's probably a better bet in this department), they should be able to spread the floor a little bit. Kapono will help in that regard as well.
I still think this team's personnel lends itself to being a top defensive team, I'm just hoping they won't sacrifice defense for offense. Use the PO to squeeze more production out of defensive players, rather than sacrificing defense to get the best offensive lineup out there to make the PO work better. That would be my advice, if anyone was asking.
Nice post (nice rebound. heh).
I, for one, was hugely enthused about the Brand signing. I thought the Sixers were about to romp. But all is as you say. Blinded by the potential powerhouse, not being respectful of the very real possibility of a fizzle, nevermind another physical blowup/blowout of some kind.
In hindsight, it was too much money or at least for too long. We'd be in better shape if he wasn't signed and Iggy and Thad still easily young enough to hang tough during a bit of rebuilding phase.
If Brand did have a strong year, we'd have less problems getting top-drawer free agents (such as it was this season). No injury and a mediocre year? We'd probably be in the same position we're in now: treading water. Brand has to come back to near monster levels to justify the contract or it can be considered a GM's overreaching AI-style gamble.
There's nothing to do now but to sit on our hands and wait and see (and pray).
I enjoy your blogs; glad you've gone all-Sixers. This post is good and provocative. Say, what about this for an idea: sign-and-trade Andre Miller and Elton Brand for Ronnie Price and Carlos Boozer, who is looking to move on from Jazz? Would that be feasible/desirable in your opinion?
Would do that in a second- but no way Brand has much value now until he re-establishes himself.
We're certainly in a tough spot. Even with Iguodala and Brand playing at an all-star level (a very real possibility in my mind) the team lacks not only another quality guard, but also depth at almost every position.
Best case scenario: Lou does a good job of spotting up and hitting open jumpers, Dala, Thad, and Brand play at an all-star level, Jrue has a Thad-like rookie year, Speights has a Thad-like sophomore year, and Dalembert averages 8/12/2. Even with all these things going are way, our ceiling is the 4th seed for next year.
My hope lies in the coming years when Boston gets too old, the Cavs get dumped by Lebron, and Orlando's crazy spending catches up with them. Our core will only get better during that time, hopefully racking meaningful playoff minutes.
This is probably a future post, but let's scratch the surface a little bit now. Which team in the Eastern conference can even come close to the Sixers as far as having a core of players under 25?
Off the top of my head without even looking at their roster - the bulls?
Rose, Noah, Tyrus, Deng (Noah and Deng will turn 25 this season), plus their picks this season
Iguodala, Thad, Speights, Lou, Jrue
Close, most people would probably give the edge to the Bulls simply because they have Rose.
Both teams have a lot a few 'potential' guys who haven't starting fully panning out yet - for whatever reason - plus under appreciated guys as well - like noah and Iguodala. Dengs injury history doesn't help but then Louis Williams being (to me) a 6/7 man doesn't help either.
Not sure of the age of the hawks kids but smith, williams (say childress since they control him and he was in the same draft as iguodala but don't know age) and horford?
If all of the young players pan out they could find themselves just one vet superstar away from being a legit contender in 2-3 years.
Ignoring Brand the team could be in a golden position to make a move in 2 years with lots of cheap/traceable young talent and huge expiring contracts as well as a core entering its prime. That is a perfect recipe for trading for that needed final star piece.
I'd like to think that player was Brand, but i doubt it. I think he will be a good but not super player at that point (think David Robinson in his later years.) My biggest concern is that the final years of Brand's contract at 16M/17M/18M will prevent the team from being able to make that final move. On the other hand, that last year he'll be a huge expiring, and the Comcast in the past has been willing to go way over the tax to finish off a contender.
Good analysis here. Two important points, the young core maturing and the bad contracts turning into assets.
e Andre Miller and Elton Brand for Ronnie Price and Carlos Boozer, who is looking to move on from Jazz?
Why would the Jazz do that. Why would they pay Andre Miller a rather large some of money to back up Deron Williams. The Jazz are looking to try and figure out a way to save some money in a trade of boozer so they can not feel the pain when they (reportedly) match on Paul Milsap.
Isn't Price a free agent, why don't the sixers just sign him?
As for last year versus this year...I thought people were overly excited for the Brand signing and I was never a huge Miller fan. I think this year I predicted the sixers to be around 500 and lose in the first round. It seemed like people were doing the overly positive everything is going to go right thing.
My big concern now is that at this point in free agency, I have lost some faith in Stefanski and his ability and plan to build a contending team.
That being said, Andre Miller isn't going to find his 30 million years in my opinion, not in this economy, not with so few teams looking to add big money AND needing a point guard, so I'm not sure it's a fait accompli he's not back in philly. Where else can he go right now? (I don't buy the knicks BS, it doesn't make sense)
Price re-signed by Jazz...
Interesting - missed that one - haven't had a chance to check hoopshype summaries this morning.
I still don't see the Jazz having any interest in a long term deal to brand AND miller while giving away the expiring of boozer. They are looking to shed salary sooner to afford keeping Milsap not the other way around.
I really can't get a feel for what the Jazz want to do. I don't see Brand/Miller going there, Miller doesn't fit any kind of need and Brand's deal is too long.
But, I mean, the only kind of deal that really gives them any financial flexibility would be a deal with OKC or Portland, or a three-way deal with either team, that would save them some cash this season. But trades like Rip Hamilton for Boozer would be the opposite of a frugal move, they'd be taking on a huge contract in exchange for an expiring.
If I was Utah, I'd probably bite the bullet, match the offer for Millsap and then take my time moving Boozer. There are teams out there with trade exceptions (Orlando), there may be a way to dump some salary before the trade deadline, when the lux. tax is calculated, or maybe they have a really good year and it's worth paying the tax for one season, knowing Boozer is walking next Summer.
I just don't think it's a good idea at all for Utah to trade Boozer for a long contract, especially not for Rip.
I agree, and they have time to move boozer, reportedly, the luxury tax isn't assigned at the beginning of the season so they might find a take for boozer during the season that helps them get under the tax, or they just bite the bullet for one season.
interesting, I read yesterday that because of the 'immediacy' of the big up front payment of the milsap contract, Portlands attempt to poison pill maybe, the Jazz will have to take a short term loan out to pay Milsap.
Yeah, I saw that somewhere as well. Apparently the NBA has a line of credit available to all teams for situations like this. The good news for Utah is that if they can stomach that initial financial hit, Millsap's deal is pretty fair after this season. At least, that's what I read.
Yeah, I'm not even sure what Portland was thinking, they didn't grossly over pay and it's not that hard to swallow the 'pill' up front. Almost like last year - the token offer to josh smith all knew would be matched
By the way, anyone see the Anthony Randolph highlights from the summer league? Holy crap!
I would give up Brand for that guy in a heart beat!
I really would have liked to see Brand playing with Miller, Iggy and Young. I think that had the potential to be something really good.
I still feel that the Brand signing was the right move at the time, you couldn't legislate for the fact that he would have a season-ending injury. Josh Smith wouldn't have made us much better and it appears he has serious attitude issues.
Brand will be, if not all-star quality, at least a very solid 18/9 guy. Fingers crossed he stays fit this time around.
If we can get a decent point guard to start I think we could compete with Atlanta for #4 in the East and maybe win a series.
Brand has been eerily quiet since he went down for good in Feb. I have a feeling he's been working his ass off and he's determined to prove he isn't done. The shoulder injury isn't hard to come back from, hopefully two years out from the Achilles injury will be enough for him to regain his lift. If the P.O. can get him some room to move in either post, and some one-on-one situations (which it should), he could be back to his 20/10 days. Honestly, though, I'll be happy if he can just rebound and defend like a beast.
Is Brand historically known as a 'public' player, he always struck me a s pretty quiet guy - like Miller almost
Not sure about how public he is. He really faded into the background after he was hurt though. I mean, he didn't do one interview that I can remember during the playoffs, usually you'll see injured guys in front of the camera talking about how the team is really pulling together in his absence or whatever. Brand stepped completely out of the picture. I'm taking it as a good thing (and crossing my fingers).
Read this on ESPN rumors:
ROSTER MOVES: 76ers shopping in Las Vegas
The 76ers have a bunch of open roster spots and president and general manager Ed Stefanski is in Las Vegas this week looking to fill out the roster.
"I'm watching players and staying in communications with other teams and agents," Stefanski told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "We need to add depth. ... We need a guard, a swingman, and two bigs."
Any thoughts on who the 4 guys they are considering??
Probably nothing too exciting for any of the spots. Maybe they make an offer to CJ Watson (I don't see a ton of minutes available for him in GS now, so they may not match).
Right, I said by the 09-10 season we'd be a contender. And predicted a 6th seed, as I recall, for the 08-09. I no longer think we'll be a contender this year because (a) the point situation will be a mess, (b) Thad hasn't quite developed like I'd hoped, and (c) I don't really see Brand bouncing back.
Define bouncing back for Brand. You don't think he'll return to the level he was, or you don't think he'll be an impact player at all?
I think he'll make an impact on the glass and a positive impact on defense overall. I think his days of being an efficient scorer are very likely over. To the extent that he does score, he'll be siphoning off shots and touches from more efficient players like Thad and Iguodala. And he certainly won't command many double-teams. So I believe we'll be a worse team offensively with him on the court than without, and expect the plus-minus stats to reflect that. (As they did last year; we scored 9 more points per 100 possessions with him off the court.) Ultimately, if we eventually get away from the idea that he's still a good offensive player, he should make the team a little better, though he certainly won't be good enough to offset Miller's departure. But if we force-feed him, he's going to miss a lot of shots in the paint and cancel out what he brings to the team defensively.
I like taking one 30 game sample with a player injured a lot of it and using that for all my decision making.
The other 600... meh. Let's just throw them out the window.
Anyone see Jameer in the finals? What a bum! They should trade him for Will Bynum.
It isn't so much his numbers from last year as the fact that physically he was plainly a shell of himself. Very little lift, and as a result, he struggled against any defender larger than him, which basically covers everybody. Now he's missed another season with another injury. At the least, you'd have to think he'll be pretty rusty for the first quarter of the season. Maybe after that he'll start to get some life back in his legs, but I just think the history of banged-up big men, and the fact that he clearly hadn't recovered last year, makes it look pretty unlikely.
I thought his legs looked a lot better when he came back later in the season. Of course he couldn't extend his shooting arm at the time, so the overall effectiveness wasn't there. I'm anticipating a river of anti-Brand comments and posts at the beginning of the season during the knocking off the rust phase. Crossing my fingers that it'll only be a phase at this point.
I think you are clearly overvaluing a small sample size.
I also don't understand how you think Brand is undersized at the 4. I think he would be, likely the 3rd biggest 4 in the East, assuming you call the 4 the smaller of the 4/5 on a given team. I might be missing some team out there, but not much more than that. And when you look to the entire NBA, I don't see Brand not being above the 15 man mark meaning he is not undersized.
As long as there's no sign-and-trade with Miller for a point guard, the veteran backup 1 could be one of these unrestricted free agents:
Anthony Carter
Jason Hart
Bobby Jackson
Jacque Vaughn
I like C.J. Watson, but the Warriors owner said he thinks Watson will compete for the starting job, so sounds like he plans on bringing Watson back.
Jason Williams, anyone? He plans in playing after taking a year off. He's 34 and could sign for the 10-year minimum of $1.3 mill.
As for Brand, the Sixers have to hope his Achilles is fully recovered and allows him to be more athletic than he was in 2008-09. This is a big year for him.
Don't forget they traded a protected 2010 first-rounder to the Wolves for Minnesota to take on the salaries of Rodney Carney and Calvin Booth, allowing enough room to sign Brand.
That protected first rounder is Utah's, correct? The Sixers own their pick and they have a conditional 2nd rounder from Minny as well.
Brian, I am glad they are looking at young guys rather than retreads to fill out their roster, if we add 4 young players and at least one ends up being a part of the rotation in 2 years it would be like having another pick in the draft and our front offices! strength has been in this department.


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Neufeld and her fellow inductees will be honoured at the eighth annual induction dinner in Brandon's Keystone Centre/Canad Inns. The Softball Hall of Fame is located in Portage la Prairie, which hosted the dinner last year. Neufeld will be the 17th individual inducted in the all-around category, which recognizes achievements and contributions in more than one area of athlete, coach and builder.
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Snow on the Grapevine? District 7 is Ready!
When snow flies on I-5, crews at the Lebec and Valencia maintenance stations work around the clock to keep the freeway open.
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For the 18 maintenance workers at the Lebec and Valencia maintenance stations, the weather forecast is serious business. An emerging low-pressure system, a drop in the barometric pressure, freezing temperatures – these are all signs that their work life is about to get more complicated. They're signs that snow could be on the way, blanketing the "Snow Zone" on the Golden State Freeway (I-5) and potentially shutting down the backbone of the state's freeway system. That's exactly what happened this past weekend, when blizzard-like conditions turned the Grapevine into a treacherous drive and forced a freeway closure.
The Snow Zone is typically between Gorman and Frazier Park, a distance of about five miles. But during severe storms, it can stretch from Fort Tejon to Templin Highway – that's 25 miles. Now for the snow math: four lanes in both directions for 25 miles is about 200 lane miles of snow that needs to be plowed.
The Lebec and Valencia crews know snow. They know how to melt it, move it and manage it so traffic can get through the Tejon Pass high up in the Tehachapi Mountains, a vital link connecting Northern and Southern California. And when heavy snowfall, slick ice and fierce winds force a freeway shutdown, they have the tools, skills and perseverance required to reopen it as quickly as possible.
Snow season on I-5 begins in late October and usually ends in March, though snow has fallen as late as June. The season kicks off with the annual "Operation Snowflake" meeting attended by Caltrans staff, county officials, and the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The meeting is an opportunity for all the players to go over snow strategy for the upcoming season.
When snow is in the forecast, the crucial variable for Caltrans crews is elevation. If snow is predicted below 4,500 feet, the Lebec and Valencia crews go on high alert, ready to report for duty and spend 12 hours at a stretch behind the wheel of a plow. Newhall and Lancaster crews assist if needed.
"When it starts snowing, they constantly patrol. If they didn't, the snow accumulates, and then it's just so much harder," said Tom Cowan, maintenance area superintendent, North Region, Area 4. "They're really good. They stay on top of it."
The primary weapon in the battle against snow is the 10-wheel dump truck, outfitted with a plow, sander and sometimes a wing plow, which allows the driver to plow two lanes at once. Graders and loaders may be used if the ice pack is thick. Another crucial tool, new to District 7's snow-fighting arsenal, is Ice Slicer, a super-melty de-icer that's less corrosive and more eco-friendly than salt.
"We've been using Ice Slicer for two years now and getting good results. We mix it with sand and cinders, and it melts right through the ice," said Cowan. And that's exactly what crews need it to do.
"We don't have a snow problem on I-5 – we have an ice problem," said Ed Toledo, acting regional manager, North Region. "The road freezes and motorists are still trying to do 70 miles an hour. Chains aren't required and people don't have snow tires here the way they do back East, so drivers lose traction and we get spin-outs."
Clearing the freeway in a heavy snowfall becomes even more difficult if crews must contend with disabled cars and jackknifed trucks. So when the freeway starts getting slick, CHP, with input from Caltrans, may determine that the Grapevine needs to be closed. I-5 closures occur usually three or four times each year, lasting anywhere from a few hours to a few days. (The closure that began this past Sunday afternoon lasted about 24 hours.) North Region spray crews set up the closure.
"We'll close the freeway northbound in Castaic and southbound in Grapevine. That way, motorists are in a place where they have resources – restaurants, hotels, bathrooms. If they come up the mountain, they get stuck," said Cowan. "It's nice once the road is closed. We can get out there and do our job without worrying about traffic. It's quite a sight to watch three vehicles in a row plowing four lanes, watching the snow shoot off to the side."
The skilled maintenance crews make plowing look easy, like heavy equipment choreography. But make no mistake: this is no easy task. All plow drivers go through extensive training, receiving instruction in plow operation and repair. They learn to watch for raised grates and broken slabs, which can damage plows or cause the truck to spin out. Drivers must also become familiar with the contours of the freeway, which dictate where they'll push the snow. It's knowledge that's second nature to veterans and inscrutable to newbies.
As crews make headway on snow removal after a storm, CHP may run low-speed escorts over the mountain to test the freeway's drivability. They'll lead packs of cars going about 25 miles per hour, keeping motorists traveling at a safe speed for conditions. If all goes well, the freeway will then be opened to traffic. If not, motorists can wait out the snow or follow detour instructions provided on changeable message signs, which typically send them out toward the coast and around the mountains via the Ventura Freeway (US 101).
So far this winter, there's been only one freeway-closing storm – the one that blew through on New Year's weekend. And when (dare we say if?) another snowfall turns I-5 into an ice-slicked gauntlet, the crews in North Region, Area 4, will be ready for it.
"They're a great bunch of guys and they work long, hard hours without stopping. They do what they need to do to be responsible for the area," said Cowan. "And they like plowing. Who doesn't like to play in the snow?"
See the District 7 Snow Team in action below.