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State Rep. Jim Marshall said he sees no conflict of interest in allowing Duquesne Light to pay for refreshments at an open house for his new district office next month.
"It's snacks, maybe coffee, not some kind of catered event," said Marshall, a Big Beaver Borough Republican and member of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.
Such gifts are not banned in Pennsylvania.
"There's no prohibition of this. There's a reporting requirement if the cost exceeds $650," said Rob Caruso, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission.
Marshall does not think the cost will be that high.
"I'll be surprised if it costs $65. It could just be a large box of cookies," he said.
Duquesne Light spokesman Joseph Vallarian would not disclose the cost.
"This is not unusual for the company. Duquesne Light supports elected officials within our service territory with contributions for a variety of community events, be they senior fairs or open houses," Vallarian said.
If reporting the gift is required, Marshall will have until May 2015 to do so.
"That's way too long afterwards, and it's after the election. That's a big problem with the law," said Barry Kauffman, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, an advocacy group that supports banning gifts and improving disclosure laws.
"This is a person they really want to be on their side. There is a good lobbying reason for them to want to get close to Rep. Marshall because of the committee he's on," Kauffman said.
In recent years, lobbyists and businesses have paid for some Pennsylvania lawmakers to take trips to Ireland, Poland, Taiwan and Turkey. Others accepted tickets to Steelers, Penn State, Pitt and 76ers games, according to disclosure statements filed with the Ethics Commission this year.
More states are moving toward gift bans, according to Kauffman.
"In Wisconsin and Kentucky, this donation would have been illegal," he said.
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The National YoungArts Foundation in Partnership with The Related Group Announces the Inauguration of the YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts
The National YoungArts Foundation, with the generous support of The Related Group, announces the inauguration of the YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts, the first of several residency programs in the visual, literary, design and performing arts the organization is developing as it expands its support of the next generation of artists in the United States and strengthens its place as a creative-catalyst for Miami's growing cultural landscape. The YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts will be extended to at least three outstanding visual artists a year, offering them the opportunity to become immersed in the Miami community while developing their work. The program will welcome the accomplished painter Suzanne McClelland as the inaugural artist in residence starting in June 2014.
"The YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts furthers our commitment to supporting and developing artistic talent by offering additional opportunities to our alumni, as well as other artists and master teachers from across the nation, while also bringing new art, culture and ideas to the Miami community," stated Paul T. Lehr, YoungArts' President & CEO. "With the generous support of Jorge Prez and The Related Group, YoungArts is proud to fill a need for residency support of visual artists in Miami, and I could not think of a better artist to launch this program than the remarkable Suzanne McClelland."
YoungArts selected McClelland after consulting with an esteemed group of advisors including Klaus Biesenbach (Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art), Franklin Sirmans (Head of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Thom Collins (Director, Perez Art Museum Miami), Agnes Gund (President Emerita, The Museum of Modern Art) and Irving Sandler (Art Writer and Critic).
The YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts provides emerging and mid-career artists with time, space and resources; helps them forge key relationships; and gives them the chance to work in Miami and engage with its community. Artists participating in the program will receive an honorarium of up to $10,000; a stipend to cover travel, projects and other related expenses; 3 to 12 weeks of housing provided by The Related Group with studio workspace on the YoungArts campus; and the opportunity to work with some of the international art community's most noteworthy master artists, collectors, gallerists and curators. While in residence, the artists will create an original work that will be exhibited at the end of their residency or with the work of other resident artists at a future date. During the residency, each artist will also offer at least three public engagement sessions.
"It is an honor to be the first recipient of the YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts and I think this is an important new program for visual artists in this country" stated McClelland. "I am also particularly excited to learn from and work with the wide variety of Miami communities during the remarkable period of cultural growth it is experiencing. South Florida has a powerful existing cultural landscape and has always been home to newcomers."
During her residency, McClelland plans to explore the richly diverse communities of South Florida. Similar to a city like New York, where various languages are spoken alongside the constant influx of tourists and transient residents, McClelland will examine the ways in which public spaces may encourage or discourage physical encounters with one another. McClelland will also examine the impact that underutilized and abandoned urban landscapes have on relationships between the people of a city. She will observe and translate what she hears and sees in her new surroundings through multimedia using surveillance cameras, sound extractions, photographs and paint.
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Is 800cc's for my Bbl Enough for my Frame? I Would Like a Medium Thick Butt. (photo)
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Is 800 cc'c enough Fat for a Brazilian Butt Lift?
There is really no way for anyone to answer this question but you. No one knows what you want your body to look like except you. However, I'm sure it is difficult for you to imagine what 800cc's of fat would look like in your buttocks. The way I explain the situation to my patients is like this..... You have a limited amount of fat to work with to transfer to your buttocks. In some patients, their buttocks skin is so tight that there is a limited amount of fat that their buttocks can hold. In either case, I will transfer as much fat to their buttocks as possible. From that point on, it is up to the patient to be sure as much of that fat survives as possible. Of course I tell my patients what I think is the best way to do this. So, adding 800cc's of fat to your buttocks will make a very nice enhancement of your buttocks, not to mention an enhancement of the areas that the fat is removed from. It is definitely worth it. Just be sure you find a Plastic Surgeon who knows how to do this procedure well, giving you healthy, live fat cells. If the surgeon doesn't have a good technique and the cells that are transferred are all dead, then it doesn't matter what you do afterwards because the cells are all going to go away regardless of what you do. Be sure the surgeon you choose has experience with this procedure and can show you patient of theirs with long term (several years after surgery), beautiful results.
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You have a lot of fat in the abdomen, love handles and back. I would put all that prified fat in your butt.. This way you get the body contouring and curges and butt enhancement if done right.
I think so...
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Based on the photos you submitted, I would say yes. Of course, a physical exam in person and a discussion about your specific goals would help.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by StevenOtero, Dec 31, 2012.
And Boy Wonder has to not throw INT's!
Or maybe the defense won't give up 250 yards on the ground?
Oh good god. Let me try to spin a positive out of that. That means they will go out and address the oline like they never had before this offseason so they will give Romo time to throw the ball and give the backs lanes to run the ball.
Yeah, that ought to be... interesting.
We shall see about that. Here's an honest question. Would you rather have a coach who wants to coach or a coach who wants to be one of the greats and constantly studies them and talks to them? He's clearly aiming to be one of the greats.
I wouldn't put it past Jerry to over ride JG and bring in an offensive coordinator and I also don't get why some believe that it emasculates Garrett in some way. Parcells or Jimmy didn't mind.
I know it's an emotional day and everybody's mad as hell but there is no doubt the team has a different mentality now but the X's and O's have to get better.
I guess Im the only one who thought his press conf was pretty good. Strong and determined and keep on building it. Saw nothing mentioned of he would not give up play calling duties. Next yr will be yr 3...lets see how it all works out.
We are not that far off from being a pretty strong team. Give the OL Warmack and FA and we can make a run next yr if we dont suffer any more devastating injuries.
We need OL, safety, DL and another RB. Receivers we are set imo and Danny Coale will be avail to us as well.
I walked away with that as well. I thought he handled himself well.
Against every fiber in my being I checked in on ESPN and the NFL Network throughout the day and so my utter shock it wasn't a bash fest. Jaws, Merril Hodge and Brian Billick all said essentially the same thing. They agreed that we were pretty close and heading in the right direction. Safety and offensive line would be the priorities in the off season and we'd be right in the mix.
If Jerry is truely committed to Jason he should end all speculation and extend his coach for another five years. Improvements are surely needed, but if the owner believes the coach has the team pointed the correct direction, not doing so, will eventually lead to the team's undoing.
I'd rather have a coach that earned his position by going from the bottom and worked his way to the top. While doing this he "studies" under great coaches by working with them on a daily basis.
While taking 10 to 12 years or so working his way up by being assistant position coach all the way to coordinator he learns situational football and clock management so he wouldn't have to learn it on the job.
A couple of conversations with Jimmy and Coach K doesn't replace the experience of working under them for years.
I dunno. I heard if you read a book about them it's just as good as being them, only younger.
That is true, but Garrett played for Coach Jimmy Johnson.
And, both of those coaches are winners. Now, all Jerry and Garrett need to do is get some more great players and replace the ones that are not.
I'm curious, what coaching tree did Garrett come from.
i want to know what tree he fell from.
He played under Jimmy for 1 year, as a player not a coach.
More great players huh, well if we more great players then we could hire Campo as head coach again.
That's funny right there.
Have a Happy New Year.
What I'm saying is that anyone could coach a team full of great players.


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06.23.10posted by Robert Newman
oh before I forget and before I slink back into silence for a while, I do wish to point out that I absolutely respect John Dixon, the art director at The Village Voice and though my comment pertains exclusively to the end-run around integrity that the editors chose to make, I think the cover, as Bob Newman pointed out, is in fact, memorable, graphic, strongly designed and yes, admittedly (for this FLAT AB enthusiast) fun to look at. --a
Given how the guys have responded, it seems kind of irrelevant now, but I'm with Andrea: they should have told the guys. And the Outside-Armstrong debacle was not cool on behalf of Outside. It's the kind of stuff that makes it harder and harder to do anything creative with cover subjects because it calls into question the credibility of magazine editors (visual and otherwise).
For the Voice, they got lucky, because apparently, the guys are down with the joke (all the more reason to be straight-forward with your subjects--pun only a little intended). Gotta hand it to them, I think they're being super classy about the whole thing, and really dig that they're willing to admit that they don't care who's cover they grace, they just like being fame whores...Bravo for the honesty!
The whole Outside thing stinks a bit, though what bothers me more about that cover is that it's just lame to begin with. There's no good reason one couldn't just write snappy cover lines to do what they chose to do in Photoshop. Making it look like he's wearing a sassy shirt didn't do anything for credibility of the profile reporting, and it's just cheap. I'm not totally sure I think it was mean, but definitely fell well within the Lance criticism of "lame bulls**t".
I stand fully corrected on the minus IQ points dig then. They're obviously highly evolved narcissists, not dumb ones by any stretch. They know they're being used for myriad purposes and they're fine with it cuz they know their time with it is going to be brief. And honestly, upon reflection, I think that's great they're so cool with the attention they receive from all their fans. They should be. I was assuming they were duped.
Related note: doesn't the guy on the right's expression resemble a live version of a Mark Ulriksen drawing?
The Voice has a collection of quotes from the Jersey Shore guys on their response to the cover: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/06/jersey_shore_re.php.
The Situation says: "As for the Village Voice SitUAtioN - it's not for me to judge somebody's sexual preference and in my opinion the SitUaTIoN looks good as hell and that is my main concern. It just so happens that The SitUaTiON has mass appeal and happily reaches a very broad audience - This is not my first cover and definitely not my last - SitUATIon NATION"
And this report on Vinny, another cover guy: "I don't give a s--t, man," Vinny just told me about being on the newspaper's annual gay-themed issue. "I've done so many photoshoots and they're pretty much all the same."I go in there, do my thing, take my shirt off, get my hair and my make-up done and they dress me," he continued. "I take the pictures and wherever they end up, they end up."
I know MTV and it's in their judgment to make sure they don't end up anywhere too crazy, but the Village Voice?" Vinny said. "That's awesome."
"As long as I look good," Vinny said, "that's all I care about." Way back in December, The Situation told me that he doesn't mind his same-sex loving fans. "I'll be honest, I like the attention," he said, "I'm flattered if there are guys with different preferences that have crushes on me." Besides, being a "Queer" coverboy does have its perks. Vinny bragged, "I got a free pink hoodie out of it!"
There seems to be this mini trend towards reckless lowbrow editorializing shock-draw that both this magazine's issue here, and Outside recently (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010... has engaged in. I'm not sure how it sits with me, personally as a reader of both pubs. It instantly registered as a cheap shot in both cases. At Outside, they have a sitting with Lance Armstrong, then only later Photoshop in a statement on his T-shirt that he neither endorses nor would've signed off on, and now here, intentionally provoking controversy using 3 decidedly hetero Jersey 15-minute famers (implication, too stupid and unaware to be in on the joke ha ha) to front a special gay-themed issue seems...mean. In both cases. And maybe i'm too close to the front lines to be amused, I don't know. Perhaps the risk the VV editors decided was right to take was they wanted to shamelessly draw the widest audience: the lunkhead hetero-zeigtgeist-following reader AND high-brow gay reader who may delight in the bait and switch, but again... mean. C'mon, did anyone read the recent interview with Mike "the situation" Sorrentino in NY Mag's recent SUMMER ISSUE? (http://nymag.com/guides/sum...Guy comes across like he's actually minus IQ points. Play fair!
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Yeah this is a crazier idea then Dr. Eggman, Wily would end up using his Capsule to fight which would hover off the ground. Dr. Wily has appeared as the main enemy in the regular Megaman series, and plays a large background part in the Megaman X series. He is a mad doctor who has a nack of reprogramming robots and building things.
Fighting Style
As mentioned he'd have to hover just off the ground in his capsule, a skull shaped pod. It would have weapons, jets for jumping, and close range weapons as well as far reaching moves. It would be a really heavy ball but tough to crack.
Final Smash
Summoning robot masters of course. Or the Guts Tank from Megaman 2. Or a robot dragon.
Wily's Castle. Easy. Sorry this is rushed I'm running late.


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Skyzoo's upcoming album, A Dream Deferred will be released on October 2nd via The Faculty/Duck Down Music. With productions from the Brooklyn MC's go-to beatsmith !llmind, 9th Wonder, and other standout producers such as Jahlil Beats, Black Milk, DJ Khalil, Best Kept Secret and more, the album's looking to quench the thirst of boom-bap fans across the board. In addition to the knocking beat selection, expect features from the likes of Talib Kweli, Freeway, Jill Scott, Raheem Devaughn, and more. The album cover was illustrated by Chilean artist Fabian Ciraolo, who visually depicted the emotions of wandering through a dream. Check out the track listing below:
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Brand is starting.
At this point though does it really even matter? The smart money says he won't "finish" even if he's starting, and I'd be willing to take a swift kick in the junk if he plays more than 25 minutes.
Here's a quote Kate Fagan put up on Twitter about Jordan:
Jordan labeled the Brand starting situation a "sensitive subject" and said the coaching staff "wants him to feel good about himself."
So is he saying he really doesn't want to start Brand, but Brand is just too sensitive to accept coming off the bench? Not really liking how this whole situation is being handled. First, Jordan drops the bomb that he's thinking about removing Brand from the starting lineup, then he comes out and says Brand can't play 40 minutes anymore, now he keeps the starting lineup status quo, but takes a stab at Brand anyway in making the announcement. I just don't get it at all. Why was this played out in the press?
Maybe E.S. gave our coach a suggestion? Whatever the reason it is good news, now any other changes? I wouldn!t be surprised if Thad or L.Will. come off the bench because our coach has to be concerned about who takes up Marreeses production.
F it, I'll say it. Let Jrue start for a game or two and move Lou to the sixth man role, and let Lou carry the scoring load for the second unit.
EJ never dropped the bomb regarding removing Brand from the starting lineup. Kate and the media manufactured that when the curtain went up for them to view practice and they saw Brand with the second team jersey on. The media probed EJ and all he said was 'ummm...i don't know..we'll see on Wed.' so Kate and the blogosphere read into it and ran with it.
As for the EJ coming out with Brand can't play 40 minutes anymore (not yet), he has been peppered with questions relentlessly about Brand not playing in the 4th quarter and he willfully answered them. Many here have wondered why he wasn't playing him and the guy answered it for all.
Maybe the lineup will change eventually, but the manufactured drama by the media was much ado about nothing except something to toy around with during the off days.
Every time Eddie Jordan opens his mouth I wonder if he's a basketball coach of a high school guidance counselor (if they really knew anything woudl they BE high school guidance counselors)
Dear Eddie Jordan
If Brand was a 'sensitive girly man' - he might have complained about not being played in the fourth quarter when it actually matters.
Now, bench Sam Dalembert if you want to see a whiny girl who won't feel good about himself unless he's starting.
Seriously - he's not a coach he's a freaking tee ball supervisor making sure everyone FEELS GOOD
And we're off. Sam called for a violation on the tip, great start :)
G. Wallace is too strong for Thad. Too strong for Carney too, that's going to be a tough matchup, he's killed us in the past.
That's one three, as the buzzer sounds, with a hand in his face, by Iguodala.
Brand has a block, 2 steals and an offensive rebound so far.
Brand just sucks
2 Threes already
Two threes, Thad from the corner.
I think we've jacked 4 threes already, looks like that's going to be the key tonight. Well, unless Sammy decides to run the offense through himself at the high post.
Backdoor play to Lou. Perfect pass from AI9.
Sweet AI to Lou on the oop... That's what I'm looking for from the PO.
Brand seems a bit pissed to me.
EB is physically dominating Diaw..
There it is
29th ranked offense in the league, shooting 72.7% against the Sixers so far. Excellent.
Brand's second dunk, so far.
Solid foul by Carney there, not sure who Lou was throwing that pass to.
Filed under bad: Willie, first guard off the bench.
Filed under good: 3rd steal and 3rd dunk by Brand, in the first quarter.
brand is dominating. beastin.
Great set to free Carney on the back pick. Three 3's
Three threes, Carney from the top.
+8 w/ EB at the 5. Who woulda thunk it.
Let this be a lesson- We play good defense, we'll play better. The last five minutes of defense was very good. The first seven, not so much.
Yup, also helps when Brand is dominating. 3 offensive boards, 3 steals, 1 block, 1 dime, 8 points, 3 dunks.
This is the first Sixers game I've been able to watch since I've been traveling for a while. Watched most of the games for the past few years. My impressions so far:
- Iggy looks to continue his improvement of the past few years. Creating, rebounding, knowing his limits on his offense. He's finally arrived as one of the best players in the league, it seems.
- Elton Brand is looking good, especially on the defensive end so far. What is Eddie Jordan's beef with him?
- Lou Williams is AWFUL. I can't believe he has the keys as the starting PG. This team will never succeed with him playing significantly more than twenty minutes a game. Just a terrible decision maker. He reacts to increased responsibility by trying to do even more flashy, stupid plays. He is a one-man offensive wrecking crew in that as soon as he touches the ball you can count on any concept of team offense going out the window.
- What happened to the defensive intensity we used to see from this team? Lou is a sieve, but everyone looks lazy out there. Has the team just given up already?
- It's good to see Carney out there instead of Willie...
Lou actually had a solid offensive first quarter. 3/4 from the floor for 6 points, 4 assists, 1 turnover.
His D is pitiful, but that's nothing new.
Ah, the Ivey/Green backcourt to start the second quarter. Those guys just get after it.
4 offensive rebounds for Brand now, 10 points.
I believe Iguodala is at the four now:
Smith, AI9, Carney, Ivey, Willie
Man, that's an ugly lineup.
Who said Brand couldn't dunk from standing anymore? He did it already 2 times this game :-).
Great game so far from him. With no plays he has 10points, 4 boards, 3steals (I counted 4) and 1 block.
so what was the key to the turnaround so far this game? Carney coming in for Dalembert and playing Brand at the 5? Or Willie Green coming in for Lou Williams and actually putting a live body against opposing point guards defensively?
Carney on both ends, and Brand dominating. Willie has yet to show me anything in this game.
Four threes, Carney on good ball movement to the weak side.
Carney again- 4 threes.
I can't take Royal Ivey. This is a joke.
Smith doing work on the blocks. Brand back in. Wow.
This is probably the team worst-suited to play against the "Help, help, help, and help some more" defense.
Willie lost Augustin twice, two made threes.
Other than Ivey playing instead of Holiday, I've got nothing bad to say about the rotations so far. Surprise.
I wouldn't take too much out of the defense in this game given the Bobcats' ineptitude offensively (although if they can't guard the Bobcats who can the Sixers defend??) the offense is probably the more key thing to watch in this game.
Yeah, I'm surprised they're scoring this well on Charlotte.
hitting the threes early helps tremendously.
brand dominating helps a lot too.
Horrible decision by Lou.
Brand had crazy position down low and he passed it to Willie for a deep 2, thank god he made it
He just had Brand for a dunk or Willie for a corner three on that last drive. Guess what he picked, and guess what happened.
Willie apparently has a green light. Horrible offensive possession.
Another block for Brand.
does thad care about d? at all?
Elton, Carney, and AI playing lights out for the most part and only up 4. A little concerning...
Heh, three shots on that foul.
Pushing the lead a little bit here after Ivey and Green went to the bench.
No Kapono, no Jrue in the first half.
Up 52-43 at the break.
Five threes. Lou from the corner, off Iguodala penetration.
Silly turnover for Iguodala there. He knows it too.
4 blocks, 6 offensive rebounds for Brand.
And to think, the guy hadn't really played in two years and all the uproar on here by most after just ten games. In that aspect, EB and EJ seem to hanging together.
Beautiful drive and dish by Lou, better finish by AI9 w/ the two-handed slam.
Extended run for Charlotte, timeout Sixers with 4:27 left in the third. Wonder if Jordan sits Brand the rest of the way.
He's got 15 points, 8 boards, 2 assists, 3 steals and 4 blocks so far.
I'd like to point out that the sixers still suck on the defennsive glass tonight, are being out shot by the bobcats and for some reason the bobcats got to the line twice as much as the sixers.
I see no reason to expect them to win
The moment chandler left the game Eddie should have pulled Sam -
EB bailing out Thad who has been useless. 1-8 with 2 boards, just great.
Nice work, Kapono. Way to make your presence felt right away.
AI9 at the four again, but he's bringing the ball up the floor. Odd lineup and usage.
That was either a block or a steal by Brand, not sure which.
Six threes, Iguodala in someone's eye.
I'm confused, elton brand has 32:30 through 3 quarters - he's on a 40 minutes pace - but as i understand it he can't play 40 minutes?
Come on, that quote was the reporter's fault for asking the question. Try to keep up.
It may have been the reporter's fault, but you can thank EJ that EB is able to play this many quality minutes tonight b/c of managing his minutes at the start of the year. So, as a coach, would you have ran him in the ground from the jump when you saw he couldn't give the production needed especially in crunch time?
Are you related to Eddie Jordan? Seriously. So you extend EB's minutes (only because Speights was injured), and he produces in those extra minutes, so you automatically assume he wouldn't have produced like this had his minutes been extended before. That's logical.
So if/when Jrue finally gets regular minutes, he produces, it'll be because Eddie consistently DNPCD'd him.
When a mistake is exposed, you turn it into somehow a positive for Jordan.
I can relate to a coach's thought process and not be blinded by personal likes or dislikes after only ten games into a coach's tenure with a new team.
And I disagree that EB's minutes were extended only because Speights was injured. How do you explain Sam and J Smith only getting 11 min and 6 min respectively? Wouldn't their minutes have increased too because of the Speights injury? Maybe their minutes will increase in other games but the coach gave Carney more run because of LB playing more wing guys at a time. The coach said they were doing some soul-searching with the rotations and looking for more production from certain players.
EB also wasn't getting run in other games because of the perimeter oriented 4's along with his early season acclimation after two years and two injuries.
And Jrue's nurturement and maturation process apppears fine to me. And when Jrue gets minutes it will be because he earned them, not because a segment of the fan base slobbers over the young kid. And yes, it will in fact have something to do with the head coach and staff not playing him before he is ready.
But really, it seems everytime the players give inexcusable effort, or shoot bricks most of the night, or don't communicate or execute properly, or miss free throws, you somehow turn it into a negative for Jordan.
well he's on the bench with 36 minutes - so maybe he can't play 40
It's winning time! Let's put Willie Green in!!!!
I'm pretty sure that Ed Pickney has no clue what the f*&^ he's talking about sometimes. I can tell he's trying so hard to think of what he is saying before he says it.
Every time Thad handles the ball with anyone close to near him it feels like watching Sam throw an outlet, or a train wreck
5 blocks for Brand.
That block was unbelievable. WTF! Wow. He was really high on that one. And it looked just as fast as the 20/10 Brand ;-). He gets 19 points without getting a play run for him. Get the damn ball in his hands and let him get this game home for us.
That is if he's gonna get on the court.
Brand to the bench. Hold your breath.
Come on Thad. WTF are you doing? Just watches a guy left wide open for a corner three.
Coach's fault.
Aaaand Willie fouls a guy on a 22-foot jumper.
Elton Brand in the 4th!!!!
That was Elton's fault. He has to get that board
Against a team this bad offensively, pretty much all you have to do is clean the glass and it's an easy win.
By the way, just from a quick look at the box score, I'm guessing the Bobcats are anywhere from 5-10 points above their season average in offensive rating.
Eddie Jordan's defensive scheme, it's fan-tastic.
Another one Elton. MY GOD
But he's a 40 minute player, remember? Notice how he didn't produce in crunch time like the head coach said? But EB should have been wearing him out at the start of the season and giving him more minutes than he did?
And I was wrong to assume that EB wouldn't have produced had his minutes been extended in previous games? Sure....
Sometimes you have to trust what the coach says, but not everytime when it comes to public comments. In this instance, yes.
Huge block there. Need both of these freebies by Lou.
Iguodala got bailed out there. Need em both, come on.
Fuck me.
AI is the worst clutch FT shooter I have ever seen. I can't remember when he's made 2 in a big spot.
AI is the worst free throwing 2/3 I remember playing for the Sixers for a long, long time.
I meant free throw-shooting.
Alright, now you need a stop here. What's your best defensive lineup? I'll give you a hint. Lou Williams is not at the point, and Thad Young is not at the four.
They both are there
Not surprised in the least. They'll be out there now as well.
NO THREES. Come on make it a tough two!!!!
Thank God
Aaaaaaand, Elton Brand seals it with his 4th steal of the game. In (wait for it) his 42nd minute of action on the night.
There's going to be some major brace-licking going on in the post game.
Maybe this was bracelickers master plan all along. To get Brand pissed off enough to make a difference?
Elton- "Got a chance to play in the 4th Quarter..."
Off topic, Randy Foye gets 2 minutes tonight for WAS. His defense is atrocious but wouldn't he be upgrade over Lou? I know Jrue is the future, but wouldn't he be a more suitable player for the PO? Watched him at NOVA and he could really run the team. Sadly, he was stuck in MINN and now behind Agent 0.
Thoughts? A possibility?
*And when I say Foye is suitable for the PO, I mean in comparison to Lou, not Jrue.
When Elton plays defense like that it makes me wonder if Marreese or Jason could play the 5 next to him when Sam leaves, what an effort!!!
When he can defend like that, even if he doesn't score he has a good net effect to the team.
However in this game he was at his best offensively. Games like this where the other team is stifling defensively and forces us to score in the halfcourt - these are the games in which we need Brand the most.
God I hope there's more where that came from.
His hops impressed me, he was getting up and getting up quickly.Carney had 8 boards also.
Great game by Brand.
But this type of game defines the Sixers. Pure Gimmick madness between the P.O. and small ball. But just enough to beat a bottom 8 team.
This is whey the Sixers will end up with the 9-11th pick.
If they look at this game as a great sign and a model for going forward, I completely agree.
EB finally felt confident going off one leg on the break. Hopefully no more of that walk/jump stop/gather BS. That's a great sign
Hopefully we can look back to this game as when Brand finally started coming back to normal.


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By Ingrid Lunden
Sign of a maturing marketing flattening out, a lack of compelling devices, or a contraction in the economy? Gartner today released figures that note that worldwide sales of mobile phones were actually down by two percent this quarter, to reach a total of 419.1 million units - the first time the market has declined since the second quarter of 2009, the analysts say.
Gartner's explanation is a slowdown in demand from Asia-Pacific, because of a lack of compelling new devices getting launched in the period: users are simply holding out until something better comes along. Nevertheless, of the vendors that are doing well, Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) is riding at the top of the list, with 20.7 percent of all mobile sales globally, and among smartphones, it is the only Android vendor to have more than 10 percent market share - with Android now accounting for 56 percent of all smartphone sales in the quarter.
This will be the quarter that people remember as the one when Samsung swapped places with Nokia (NYSE:NOK), with others like Strategy Analytics also showing a similar shift. In Gartner's calculations of mobile sales, Nokia has now slipped down to second position with 19.8 percent of all mobile sales to Samsung's 20.7 percent, equivalent to 86.6 million units.
Nokia, Gartner notes, had been in the number-one position since 1998 - but from the looks of its earnings for the last few quarters, it doesn't appear that Nokia will be regaining the lead any time soon.
(Don't rule it out yet, though. Nokia just yesterday launched two more low-cost, souped up feature phones that play to the developing markets where it has continued to do alright, despite its market share losses in more advanced countries.)
Among the other trends that Gartner noted, it pointed out that white-box vendors - the long tail of device makers that fill in the "others" category seemed to have been hit the hardest.
It notes that while companies like Nokia may have been selling in less at the retail level, white-box vendors have a supply issue in that they overproduced and now have a build-up of inventory. That will mean very cheap devices will be hitting stores in the next couple of quarters as they try to shift their stock for the next generation of devices. (This by the way was a similar problem Nokia had in Q2 2011, when Gartner suspected this might have made Nokia appear to have a bigger share of sales than it actually had.)
Overall, Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) were the only two vendors in the top 1o mobile rankings to have gained market share: the rest all declined, as you can see from the list below.
In smartphones the power of the two is even more pronounced. Samsung and Apple now represent 49.3 percent of all smartphones sold - a sure sign of the consolidation being that a year ago the pair only accounted for 29.3 percent. Nokia's smartphone share is down to 9.2 percent, Gartner says.
Samsung also managed to wrest the leading smartphone maker crown from Apple this quarter: it sold 38 million units to Apple's 33 million.
Among Android makers, Samsung is also proving once again that it is the brand to beat: it accounted for 40 percent of all Android smartphone sales. (In that respect, Google's Motorola buy seems less and less like a device play, or that it can realistically be one.)
But even with Apple in second, its actual growth was hugely impressive, at 96.2 percent over the year. China, Gartner notes, is now Apple's second-largest market after the U.S. It looks like those sales were 8 million in total: 5 million from Apple's official sales channges, and another 3 million from "transshipments" from Hong Kong.
More worryingly, RIM (RIMM) sold only 9.9 million units in the quarter and its global mobile share declined down to a mere 2.4 percent (in smartphone-only, that share is 6.9 percent, roughly half of what it was a year ago). BlackBerry 10, its new OS, will hopefully be the knight in shining armor that RIM desperately needs. Also, while Windows Phone actually grew in real terms, with 2.7 million sales in the quarter compared to 2.6 million a year ago, it's not at all keeping pace with overall growth, and its share is now down to 1.9 percent from 2.6 percent a year ago.
Overall, smartphone sales accounted for just over one-quarter of all mobile sales: they stood at 144.4 million units, out of total mobile sales of 428 million units. That represented growth in smartphone sales of 44.7 percent, Gartner says.
Samsung's Galaxy S III, the follow up to its best-selling Galaxy S II, was launched only last month and is now gradually getting rolled out worldwide - although it has seen mixed reviews and so it remains to be seen whether it will prove to be a similar blockbuster for the Korean company. In the meantime, we all continue to guess when Apple might release its next iPhone - with many suspecting it will not be until the later half of this year.


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With this book, I wanted the entire personal injury claim process to be laid out in an easy-to-comprehend manner, and I wanted to provide factual answers to common questions and concerns
(PRWEB) September 26, 2012
F. Robert Allison, a Massachusetts personal injury attorney who provides legal services to those with personal injury claims and motor vehicle accident claims, has recently authored and launched a new book, 7 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Personal Injury Claim: A Guide to Massachusetts Personal Injury Claims.
"My goal with this book was to provide those who have been injured due to someone else's negligence with a helpful understanding of the personal injury claim process, and to present some of common mistakes people make that prevents them from obtaining the compensation they are entitled to," said Robert Allison, Attorney at Law. "If you are thinking of pursuing a personal injury claim, and are seeking a Massachusetts attorney, I wrote this reference to outline the specific types of personal injury claims,
including car accidents, slip and fall claims and dog bite claims."
In this book, Allison outlines the basics with respect to understanding what a personal injury claim is, and what needs to be proved in order to be entitled to personal injury damages. The book is presented in outline form, and details the entire process and provides readers with many facts and answers to commonly asked questions for those with a personal injury claim.
"With this book, I wanted the entire personal injury claim process to be laid out in an easy-to-comprehend manner, and I wanted to provide factual answers to common questions and concerns," said Allison. "This is a very transparent book, and I've listed the seven mistakes that I see people make every day that has the potential to ruin your personal injury claim; including mistakes made in motor vehicle accident claims, dog bite claims, and slip and fall claims."
Allison also included sections on Frequently Asked Questions, client rights, case results, and testimonials from prior clients.
Allison's book, 7 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Massachusetts Personal Injury Claim, is currently being sold on Amazon. To view or purchase it, visit http://amzn.to/Q1MHYJ. It is also given as a free reference guide to those seeking a personal injury claim with Robert Allison's practice.
For more information on Allison's practice, visit http://www.frobertallison.com, or call 978-740-9433 for a free personal injury claim consultation.


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90Y Clivatuzumab Tetraxetan
Clivatuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting a mucin antigen expressed in most pancreatic cancers, but not pancreatitis, normal pancreas or most other normal tissues. The yttrium-90-labeled antibody has Orphan Drug status in both the United States and the European Union and fast track status in the U.S. for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Preclinical studies in mice with human pancreatic cancer xenografts given the murine version of 90Y Clivatuzumab tetraxetan demonstrated favorable tumor responses, which could be further improved when given in combination with gemcitabine. A prior Phase I single dose-escalation study of 90Y Clivatuzumab tetraxetan in treatment-relapsed pancreatic cancer patients has also produced encouraging results, with evidence of objective responses.
Our current study is a Phase Ib/II fractionated dose-escalation trial of 90Y Clivatuzumab tetraxetan in combination with gemcitabine for the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed, inoperable, untreated, stage III or stage IV cancer of the pancreas. Final survival data from the first part of the trial, in which patients received 1 of 4 fractionated yttrium-90 doses and fixed low-dose gemcitabine, were reported at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
We expect to complete the Phase Ib/II study before the end of 2011 and provide an update at the 2012 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. We plan to complete the final design of Phase III registration trial protocols, and begin clinical trials for this agent in 2012.
Clinical Study
Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Clivatuzumab tetraxetan is being evaluated as a frontline therapy for patients with advanced, inoperable pancreatic cancer. For more information on this clinical trial, please visit clinicaltrials.gov
Fractionated radioimmunotherapy with 90Y-Clivatuzumab tetraxetan (90Y-hPAM4) plus gemcitabine (Gem) in advanced pancreatic cancer (APC). S. Goldsmith, T. Manzone, M. Holt, A. Serafini, N. Hall, S.A. Gulec, N. Teoh, D.V. Gold, W.A. Wegener and D.M. Goldenberg. J Nucl Med 52 (Supplement 1):357, 2011.
Treatment of advanced pancreatic carcinoma with 90Y-Clivatuzumab tetraxetan: a phase I single-dose escalation trial. S.A. Gulec, S.J. Cohen, K.L. Pennington, L.S. Zuckier, R.J. Hauke, H. Horne, W.A. Wegener, N. Teoh, D.V. Gold, R.M. Sharkey, D.M. Goldenberg. Clin Cancer Res 17:4091-4100, 2011.
Activity of fractionated radioimmunotherapy with Clivatuzumab tetraxetan combined with low-dose gemcitabine (Gem) in advanced pancreatic cancer (APC). A.J. Ocean, M.J. Guarino, K.L. Pennington, A.J. Montero, T. Bekaii-Saab, S.A. Gulec, N. Teoh, D.V. Gold, W.A. Wegener, D.M. Goldenberg. J Clin Oncol 29 (suppl 4; abstr 240), 2011.
Detection of early-stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma. D.V. Gold, M. Goggins, D.E. Modrak, G. Newsome, M. Liu, C. Shi, R.H. Hruban, D.M. Goldenberg. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19: 2786-2794, 2010.
Therapeutic effects of fractionated radioimmunotherapy (RAIT) with Clivatuzumab tetraxetan combined with low-dose gemcitabine (Gem) in advanced pancreatic cancer (APC). A.J. Ocean, M.J. Guarino, K.L. Pennington, B.H. O'Neil, C.S. Rocha Lima, T.S. Bekaii-Saab, S.A. Gulec, D.V. Gold, W.A. Wegener, D.M. Goldenberg. J Clin Oncol 28:15s (suppl; abstr 4115), 2010.
Repeated treatment cycles of fractionated radioimmunotherapy (RAIT) combined with low-dose radiosensitizing gemcitabine (GEM) in advanced pancreatic cancer. K.L. Pennington, M.J. Guarino, A. Sheikh, A.J. Ocean, A.N. Serafini, D.V. Gold, R.M. Sharkey, C. Rocha-Lima, K. Suppiah, C.J. Schneider, S. Garl, H. Horne, W.A. Wegener, D.M. Goldenberg. Amer. Soc. Clin. Oncol. 2010 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Proceedings: 119, Abstract 247, (Board #A148), 2010.
The PAM4 serum enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for detection of early-stage pancreatic carcinoma. D.V. Gold, M. Goggins, G. Newsome, D.E. Modrak, M. Liu, D.M. Goldenberg. Amer. Soc. Clin. Oncol. 2010 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Proceedings: 91, Abstract 135, (Board #A29), 2010.
Multicenter study of radiosensitizing gemcitabine combined with fractionated radioimmunotherapy for repeated treatment cycles in advanced pancreatic cancer. K. Pennington, M.J. Guarino, A.N. Serafini, C. Rocha-Lima, K. Suppiah, C.J. Schneider, D.V. Gold, R.M. Sharkey, W.A. Wegener, D.M. Goldenberg. J Clin Oncol 27:15s (suppl; abstr 4620), 2009.
PAM4-reactive MUC1 is a biomarker for early pancreatic adenocarcinoma. D.V. Gold, Z. Karanjawala, D.E. Modrak, D.M. Goldenberg, R.H. Hruban. Clin Cancer Res 13:7380-7387, 2007.


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The Project 705 (or Alfa-class) was a type of military submarine used in the mirror universe on Earth during that planet's 20th century. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
Although not mentioned by name, the Project 705 submarine (pictured, right) appeared in the opening credits, indicating the craft was manufactured and used in that universe. It was reused footage from the film The Hunt for Red October.


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Military Families are invited to shop our exclusive Presale from 730p-10p on Wednesday, September 24(no kids over 12 months old) or Thursday, September 25 beginnng at 930a (kids of all ages are welcome)
Find everything you need including: children's clothing for newborn-preteen, baby gear, shoes, toys, books, games, videos, winter coats, safety items and much more!
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Dater X: A Lifetime Full Of Relationship Firsts
He looked terribly handsome as he tossed his shaggy dark hair and laughed just a little too hard at my bad joke. While his posture telegraphed confidence — upright yet leaned back, big smile across his face — the laugh told me, "Whoa. This guy is just a little bit nervous."
I felt nervous too — a tiny fluttering in my stomach, my palms just a little clammy. First dates have a way of doing that to you.
Only, this wasn't our first date in the traditional sense. No, this was our first date, err, our first "Preparing for Partnership" session, with the rabbi we want to marry us.
You got to know me years ago on The Frisky as Dater X, the girl who just couldn't get it right in love, hanging intense excitement on each new guy and feeling mildly to horrifically crushed when it didn't work out. Dater X, the girl on the hunt for her green zebra—safari jacket on, binoculars at the ready—but only finding red koalas and yellow crocodiles.
Then I met the Young One. We were standing next to each other watching a band — that much we both agree on. But while I fully remember working up the courage to share with him the pun percolating in my brain, he swears that he said the first words to me.
The beginning of our relationship was whirlwindy wonderful, though certainly not perfect. I had a hard time in Relationship Limbo. I had a minor meltdown when, last minute, he cancelled plans for me to meet his sister even though there turned out to be a perfectly reasonable explanation. But things proceeded well. Very well. Finally, two years ago, I signed off for good, urging my fellow green zebra hunters to ask themselves big questions as they dated and only proceed if the answer to each one was a resounding "yes."
I'm happy to report that the Young One and I are still together. In fact at this point—as controversial as the concept is—I'm ready to just call him The One. After all, I don't notice the age difference nearly as much as I did in the early days.
The traditional story on long-term relationships in our culture goes something like this: it's great at first, but eventually the magic fades, the honeymoon period ends and the comfortable ho-hum sets in. And this I have to take issue with, because the "ball and chain" jokes do not match up with what I see in the couples around me and it's not what I feel in my own relationship. What's been so thrilling about the past two and a half years is that the glorious firsts haven't slowed—they've just gotten more specific. The first time you cook a holiday dinner with his parents and sisters. The first time he takes care of you when you have the flu. The first time you go to your restaurant and sit at the bar instead of at your usual booth. The first time he lets you down — and your reaction isn't, "I am so done with this," because that isn't an option your brain parses anymore.
I love analogies—I know I've used enough of them in this column. So what's the right analogy for my journey in love? In the end, it isn't the matching game I imagined three years ago. It's more profound than the discovery of a match—it's more like the discovery of your sidekick. It's like being on a deserted island, desperately setting up bonfires and spelling out messages in coconuts for passing airplanes—only to realize that, the whole time, there's been another person on the side of the island. And they know how to fish!
Love is staring at one of those optical illusion images they used to sell at the mall and, before your eyes, having life morph from seeming like you-versus-it-all to realizing that you're one half of a pretty awesome team. The Young One recognizes my pitfalls—my penchant for overanalysis, my intensity, my tendency to take things that have nothing to do with me as personal—and embraces them. He urges me on to be kinder, stronger, more creative and better—because he has full faith that I can be. I feel so, so thankful for this incredible human being. And the incredible part of love is that he thinks he's the lucky one.
You know that thing people in happy relationships say—that when you meet the right person, you "just know." That used to drive me nuts, and regularly made me want to take them by the shoulders, shake them and yell, "Will you please be a little more specific." But looking back on those columns I wrote two years ago, it strikes me that I did have some sort of intuition right at the beginning even though I wasn't sure we were in it for life until maybe a year ago. Here are some things I said about the Young One at the start:
- "From the first laugh we shared, there was that instant click and that sense of extreme comfort you feel so rarely with another person."
- "Meeting The Young One is a reminder of what love actually feels like. That being in someone's presence makes you feel giddy, nervous, and completely comfortable all at the same time. That you feel like you're vibrating on a slightly higher plane when you think about them. Like someone has kicked a door open in your mind and you remember what it's like to feel truly adored."
But now to quote someone else—the rabbi the Young One and I met with a few weeks ago as we start to talk about marriage. Among the expected volley of questions about whether we want kids, our goals for the future and how we picture our families being a part of our lives, he said one unexpected thing that kind of blew my mind: "It's not just about finding the right partner, it's about being the right partner."
Here's to that.
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Concoct your own Hollywood ending for how the Kings' season will end: A couple of gritty OT victories in games 6 and 7 of their series against Vancouver, erasing an ugly 3-2 deficit. Pushing into the Western Conference semifinals with some crazy Jonathan Quick goaltending.
A standoff with Sid the Kid in the Stanley Cup finals. And then ...
Jerry Bruckheimer has to sign off on it. Especially if it involves a ginormous CGI pirate-ship battle and 3D glasses.
The man who can produce movie and TV magic in epic ways sends his regrets: He won't be at Staples Center tonight when the Kings try to right their ship against the Canucks. He's in Miami this weekend, supporting a friend who's part of the Miami Heat front office as that franchise tries to keep itself from getting swept by the Boston Celtics in the opening round of the NBA playoffs.
On a resume that includes sports films such as "Glory Road," "Remember the Titans," and "Days of Thunder," Bruckheimer is also juggling dozens of movies in pre- or post-production, including the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean," plus overseeing the "CSI" franchise, "Cold Case" and "Amazing Race" for TV.
Otherwise, the 64-year-old Kings' season-seat holder since the late '80s has his full attention on the ice and the times of Drew Doughty and his royal court.
With the release next month of his latest summer monster - "Prince of Persia," with Jake Gyllenhaal, based on the video game - Bruckheimer, also known as "Mr. Blockbuster," talks about what drives him to the rink in a Q&A:
Question: Your connection to hockey goes back to "Hockeytown," right?
Answer: Yes, I was 9, 10 years old, my dad used to take me to Red Wings games when I was growing up in Detroit. Then I went to college in Arizona (to get a degree in psychology from the University of Arizona), but that wasn't much of a hockey hot bed. I couldn't get my fix, so I'd go to L.A. And then when the Kings got Wayne Gretzky, I met him, and he said, `Why don't you sit with my wife.' So I became friends with Wayne and Janet, got my season seats and I've been loving the team ever since.
I've been good friends with Luc Robitaille, Marty McSorley, Daryl Evans ... all of 'em.
Q: Where are your seats?
A: We're down in the corner, opposite of where the Kings' goalie is for the first period. It's a great vantage point, down and low.
Q: As a visual person, have you thought about different ways the game can be shown on TV?
A: Sure, we've kicked around some ideas to make it more intimate and television friendly. It's something I'd have to sit down with the people at Fox Sports and try to problem solve, but for now, it's just been me and Luc talking. As far as implementing the ideas, well, I have a day job.
Q: Would 3D lend itself to better hockey viewing?
A: I haven't seen it, but it would seem to be another visual experience on a TV as long as you had a big screen. We did 3D with the movie "G-Force," and we talked about doing "Prince of Persia" in 3D, but that was before "Avatar" came out and there was this big explosion of 3D things happening.
Q: Going back to Arizona: The Phoenix Coyotes are without an owner. Gretzky was involved there. Any chance of you buying that franchise?
A: We've discussed it, but the economy now is not the best. When it recovers and things change, who knows. All I know is what I read about. I don't think I'll get involved, but you never know. If it looks attractive, anything's possible.
Q: Like someday finding a hockey-themed movie to get behind?
A: It has to be the right story, something honest, no matter how long it takes.
"Prince of Persia" took us seven years to make. We have a few things we're thinking about. But it has to be true to the sport. We have a passion for hockey and we'd love to do something with that. Plus, something like "Slap Shot" has already been done.
That's a classic.
Q: Do you go around quoting lines from that movie like everyone else?
A: Oh, no. No. I've got too many other things to butter my brain with.
More Q-and-A with Bruckheimer on the blog: www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth


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To build a successful offense in the NFL, teams have to find a quarterback that can pull the trigger and win games in clutch moments. Those quarterbacks need a few things to succeed as well. Quarterbacks need offensive weapons, preferably a running game and, although it's overlooked more times than not, pass protection.
The Kansas City Chiefs didn't forget about the all-important pass protectors going into April's draft, selecting tackle Eric Fisher with the first overall pick. The idea, at least in theory, was to bring in a top pass protector to keep quarterback Alex Smith's blindside safe while he operated the Chiefs' offense.
In practice, the Chiefs have struggled at times to keep Smith on his feet, and Fisher has been more than a small part of those problems.
In the NFL, safe draft picks don't exist. Fisher was viewed as a bit of a gamble compared to Luke Joeckel, who was taken second overall by the Jaguars. Still, Fisher climbed the board to become the consensus top pick, and that's exactly where the Chiefs drafted him.
Now, as often happens with high picks, the Chiefs may be wishing they would have gone a different direction in April. It's still entirely too early to pass judgment on Fisher, who has just begun his NFL career. Still, a first overall pick is expected to make an immediate impact, and Fisher has not performed up to expectations.
Against the Denver Broncos, Fisher was never able to establish himself as a wall between the Broncos' defense and Alex Smith. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why Fisher struggled so much against the Broncos. At times, Fisher was out of position, and in other cases, he was simply overpowered by the Broncos' defensive front. In any case, Fisher didn't appear to be a top pick. Instead, he looked like a completely mediocre offensive tackle in an offense that was struggling to produce points.
The Chiefs knew when they drafted Fisher that he wouldn't the best tackle in the NFL right off the bat. Those types of expectations, while possibly present from members of the media and the Chiefs' fan base, are simply unrealistic. There's a learning curve at every position on the field when making the switch from college football to the NFL. That being said, the Chiefs likely expected to see better protection from their top pick.
So, to get back to our original question, do the Chiefs wish they would have went a different direction in April's draft? At this point, they probably wish they had picked another player. Although Fisher may yet develop into a solid tackle, he hasn't displayed anything resembling top pick talent at his position. At times he's had quick defenders simply run by him, and he's allowed defenders to bull rush through him. Being the top pick in the draft never guarantees success, just ask Alex Smith how difficult it was to establish himself as a consistent quarterback.
Fisher has played well enough to help the Chiefs' offensive line, but he's a long way from being a shutdown offensive tackle. The Chiefs, being tied to him for some time, are now hoping he'll develop into the player they had hoped they were drafting back in April.


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It is, after all, Wimbledon fortnight. Adam Gilchrist tests his tennis skills during Australian team practice at Edgbaston, in Birmingham.
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Although Australia's players have not yet grappled with the substitutions and altered fielding restrictions likely to confront them in next month's one-day internationals against England, they are determined to have a big say in whether the changes are permanently absorbed into the limited-overs game when the trial period elapses next year.
While theories are circulating about the rationale for the rule changes - some see them as a television-driven plan to boost 50-over cricket as the format is criticised as tired and Twenty20 flourishes - Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist was generally supportive of any efforts to improve one-day cricket for spectators. It's just that no one, including players, quite knows yet how they will work.
What is certain is that the tactical responsibilities of Ricky Ponting and Michael Vaughan will increase when it comes to selecting the most suitable 12th man, ideally perhaps an all-rounder who can be subbed on at a crucial stage of the game to address a batting or bowling deficiency, and deciding when to impose two five-over blocks of fielding restrictions, in addition to the 10 overs at the start of the innings.
"I don't think our guys have got a full grasp of it," said Gilchrist. "I think it's going to be really intriguing for the spectators and the players as to how a captain manipulates those five-over blocks. That will be really good.
"It will keep people really interested and it will bring a more traditional tactical nous to the one-day game, where maybe that has slowly faded away or is not as openly evident in one-day cricket to the paying public. Traditional cricket is about out-thinking your opponent and subtle field changes. With these rules, it will have to reintroduce that skilled thinking."
The changes were ratified by the International Cricket Council at the weekend, and were proposed by the cricket playing committee headed by Indian great Sunil Gavaskar as a way of livening up a limited-overs competition that in recent years has produced few close matches and become predictable. The "dead" middle overs, between 15 and 40, have been a particular focus, hence the more flexible fielding restrictions.
A decision on whether the changes would be introduced for the three further one-day matches against England starting next week was to be announced last night (Melbourne time), but was delayed as discussions between the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia continued.
Stuart Robertson, the former ECB marketing guru credited with inventing the hugely popular Twenty20 game, said that although 20-over cricket was never meant to take over from the 50-over game at an international level, he could see why it was seen as a threat.
And while broadcasters such as Sky have embraced Twenty20 and contributed to its appeal with cameras in the dugouts and other innovations, TV would hate to see a game that lasts only three hours threaten traditional one-day cricket, which is such a huge and popular money-spinner, particularly on the subcontinent.
Gilchrist said the players' voice should not be drowned out by other interests when the 10-month trial period for the new rules was over.
"I've got no problem with trying things in this format of the game. People will say it's not cricket to substitute a player in and out but traditionalists will say one-day cricket is not cricket, so it's here and it's a good forum to experiment," he said.
"As long as there is an experimental period and then they go to the players to get opinion on whether it's worked or not. The players don't have to have the final say, but they've got to have a strong voice in the final outcome, along with spectators who they'll canvass and, I'm sure, sponsors and the TV people that cover the games."
While there is a view among purists that the soccer-style substitution rule attacks the sanctity of selection - and that the game would lose a certain tension if, suddenly, a team's No. 11, needing to make 10 in the final over, was replaced with an accomplished batsman - it will be intriguing to see how the 12th man is used.
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Hikaru, Sayaka, Shinobu and Chihiro at the age of 13 at the beginning in the story start their first year in middle school. Hikaru Suzuki a talented basketball player coming from a average family, a very short guy. Shinobu Suzuki handsome young short guy coming from a very wealthy and rich family who's extremily bratty but a genius when it comes to both school subjects and sports. Chihiro Itou childhood friend of Hikaru's, a beautiful girl who's mature and independent and last one is Sayaka Hoshino a shy girl who's acually secretly a hidden genius aspiring actress.
These four beginning to figure out their feelings as the story goes on in their junior high by falling in love one by another while Hikaru and Sayaka are falling in love, Chihiro is in love with Hikaru and the snobbish Shinobu is falling for the feisty Chihiro.
What happens after two years has passed when they all meet again. However things are not the way they used to be. Will they still achieve happiness even if things are different now after two years had passed? What's the stores for Hikaru and Sayaka and the trouble and hurtful feelings between Shinobu and Chihiro?
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Sayaka a shy and unconfident girl who acually hides the the talent of geniusess. After Hikaru witnesess her remarkable performance in the school roof, the two fall in love.
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Hikaru's childhood friend who used to be a basketball player until she hurts her wrist and is unable to play anymore. Chihiro is very beautiful and attractive girl who's very popular with the boys at school. She has deep romantic feelings for Hikaru since they both were kids. Later, she falls in love with Shinobu.
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Like Chihiro he's also very popular but with the girls at school. Shinobu comes from a very wealthy family and is genius when it comes to sports. Even though he claimed he hated Chihiro first he somehow manage to fall in love with her.
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What's the main lesson from the February and March labour market statistics? That individual monthly seasonally adjusted numbers jump around too much to be taken very seriously.
That's why the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes the trend series at the top of the page and the seasonally adjusted bungee numbers below it.
Nevertheless, the seasonally adjusted numbers make much better headlines and give market economists more to talk about. February: surprise jump in jobs. March: surprise slump in jobs. And so on.
Except that the slump reported today is not a surprise. Nobody, not even Wayne Swan or Joe Hockey, believed February's alleged 71,500 surge in employment. Everybody expected some retracement in today's numbers but the commentariat was too timid on the scale, the average guess being the loss of just 7500 jobs.
As it turns out, March's 25,900 drop in seasonally adjusted employed is hardly surprising after the February rocket. Similarly, the drop 5 million hours worked in March sounds a little frightening – but that's after reported jump of 11.3 million hours in February.
Thus picking employment number movements to the nearest 10,000 remains one of the least successful things to attempt with crystal ball, tea leaves or job ad surveys.*
The not-surprising real story is in the darker trend line of the graphs accompanying Glenda Kwek's report, not the volatile seasonally adjusted shadow: Employment continues to rise slowly and so does unemployment, as predicted by the Reserve Bank and Treasury.
The current 5.5 per cent unemployment rate (trend series, of course) is what the official family guessed it would be at by the middle of this year. So, of itself, that rate should not frighten the horses.
It's the expectation of such a rate that has monetary policy loose and staying loose for as long as anyone can usefully imagine. It's why the "rate rise for Christmas" story is unlikely to be true.
The labour market is soft and it's staying soft. The official family continues to bet on low interest rates eventually stimulating consumers and housing builders a bit more to pick up some of the growth slack as the construction phase of the resources boom first plateaus and then eases. A soft labour market prevents inflation taking hold and makes the aforementioned low interest rates possible.
The RBA has been looking, somewhat wistfully, at the indications of lower rates starting to work. Retail sales have improved for January and February and, anecdotally, March seems to have been all right as well. Motor vehicles sales continue at record rates. Building approvals figures have mostly been rising, even though new housing completions have not.
Business conditions, as reported by NAB, are poor but business confidence about the outlook is up. Consumer confidence, well, that's another story that seems overwhelmingly political.
The downturn in capital investment outside the resources industry remains a worry, something that will keep the labour market weak. But a fair reading of the present numbers doesn't point to an employment cliff that might scare consumers into their shell – unless you work really hard at it.
* For all those who got it wrong today, RBA governor Glenn Stevens made the defence case for economic forecasting in a footnote to yesterday's speech:
"In aviation and, I imagine, in sailing, a good weather forecast is invaluable. My observation is that those weather forecasts are actually pretty good. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for forecasts in economics and finance. This doesn't mean we don't set out on the journey – we have no choice – but it means we should do so with due care."
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The following code is deprecated by W3C:
<form target="myframe">
The "target" attribute allows you to execute the form in a new window or in a frame. I'm trying to pass form data inside a frame.
What is the alternative valid HTML/XHTML replacement?
I don't want to risk using deprecated tags.
Frameset pages themselves are deprecated... so if you're going to use frames despite that, you don't have an argument against using the target attribute.
By the way, this is for an AJAX file upload. I'm well aware of rel="external" and the fact I can just use javascript onclick="func()"
However, since I have to use:
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I haven't quite figured out how to pass the file into Javascript/PHP for the AJAX file upload except with form target="myframe" so I'm hoping there's a valid replacement or Javascript workaround here.
In that case, what would you recommend I do for an AJAX file upload?
I'd be practical and ignore the fact that frames are deprecated and use them anyway. And since I'm using iframes for my AJAXy file upload script, I wouldn't have a problem using the target attribute.
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The reason why target is deprecated is because frames are deprecated and frames are the only place where you need to be able to target a link. The rest of the time you should leave it up to your visitors as to what they want to open where.
To use frames you need to use the frameset doctype which also allows target. To use iframes you need to use the transitional doctype which also allows target. The only doctype which doesn't allow target is the strict doctype which also expects you to not be using frames and to have replaced all your iframes with objects.
So there is no conflict provided you use the appropriate doctype for what you are trying to do.
The only doctype which doesn't allow target is the strict doctype which also expects you to not be using frames and to have replaced all your iframes with objects.
So there is no conflict provided you use the appropriate doctype for what you are trying to do.<object> can act as an <iframe> -- you can submit to it with <form target>.
In HTML5, both <iframe> and <form target> are valid. (But not framesets.)
OK that is the one combination where target is not allowed where the tag being targetted is.
(assuming a strict doctype)
We have you surrounded, put down the marquee and blink tags and step away from the animated GIF's! :lol:
I usually like target="_blank" and I kind of hope they make a replacement. :shifty: All though I do know that frames are bad and blah blah, and it was intended for frame-use. I just liked it.
Using target="_blank" is one way of making your page less accessible than it would be if you avoided using it.
I use (and it validates fine asXHTML 1.0 Strict):
<form method='get' action='target_here'>
where target is the file that will process the form, ie what target='a_target_here' would do.
And it interferes with how browser's deal with links by default, I consider it almost as intollerable as browser hijacking (yes I mean no right click scripts, disable selecting and all those other underhanded methods of breaking browser functionality).
In what way(s)?
I just looked up action on the w3c site and it looks like action is required.
Haha, I know. I was just saying.
I definitely do avoid using it, I just like to idea of it: keeping the user on your page. But, I also understand that it's deprecated.
I was referring to felgall and the topic in question, target.
That's not the same thing. The action attribute specifies the URI of the script or application that will receive the submitted data. The deprecated target attribute specified in which frame the result returned from the action script would display. Much like the equally deprecated target attribute for links.
Is the target attribute depricated for all tags, or just form? I notice this forum uses the target attribute for links, such as signatures.
Also, I'm wondering what percentage of web-surfers do not know how to manage clicking on links, to open in a new tab for example a link that would normally replace the current page.
The target attribute is deprecated for all element types, since its purpose was to be used within framesets and framsets are deprecated themselves.


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Last summer, the face of college football nearly had his season taken away after allegedly reaping a fraction of what his university profited from licensed royalties, including his No. 2 jersey.
Johnny Manziel was fresh off a Heisman Trophy season that included leading Texas A&M University to an upset victory against eventual national champion Alabama — the only blemish on the Crimson Tide's season — and a 28-point thumping of Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.
But on the eve of this past season, in which Manziel was set for an encore, the show was paused as his eligibility was tossed into the air.
An autograph dealer allegedly paid Manziel $7,500 for an autograph, a violation of NCAA rules, according to an ESPN report.
From afar, local athletes scoffed at the idea that it was illegal for Manziel to profit from his name while Texas A&M raked in $3,229,811 in licensed royalties that fiscal year.
"They use his name on the back of jerseys and all that kind of stuff in order to make money," said Logan Brock, a former Copperas Cove and Texas Christian University tight end. "And it's him out there doing the work. He's the one out there in the spotlight, and he's the one putting his body out on the line. And the fact that he can't even sign an autograph, sign his own name on a picture, is a little crooked."
To be fair, A&M isn't allowed to sell jerseys with Manziel's or any other players' names on the back. But a nameless version of his No. 2 jersey was available in stores and online.
And Manziel can sign his name — just not for money — and that is what irked athletes like Brock.
"I would say if you're a big enough kind of name where you can profit off your name, then absolutely," Brock said. "You put yourself in that position and if you work hard enough to attain that, then you should be able to have that."
Brock understands the financial perils of being a student athlete, as does fellow Cove graduate Tim Atchison, who echoed Brock's sentiments about Manziel.
Both local athletes needed help making ends meet while in school.
For Brock, it was a job as a doorman at a local bar.
For Atchison, a 2005 Cove graduate who played safety at Baylor, it was the GI Bill that helped his stepdad help him.
Without either, Brock and Atchison, who both went on to play professionally, might have ended up in the same situation many college athletes face — needing money with no time or means to get it.
"If I didn't have (the GI Bill funds) coming in," Atchison said, "I don't know how I could have possibly made it. I would have definitely been scrounging."
Atchison said he understands why the NCAA prohibits players from profiting on their image — especially considering every athlete may not be able to profit the same as someone like Manziel — but he still finds the policy unfair.
"I don't think that they should ever take away someone's season for that," he said.
While the investigation caused rumblings of an uprising against the NCAA and its controversial rules, the story ended with a whimper. Manziel was suspended for half of the Aggies' opener against Rice and the issue was dead.
But for Brock and Atchison, it was just the latest example of the NCAA's hypocrisy.
"I don't think it's fair compared to what the NCAA brings in," Atchison said.


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Servite has a ton of talent returning in the class of 2018 and 2019, especially at the skill positions. One player we're excited to watch develop over the next two season is '19 athlete K.J. Trujillo.
Trujillo can play on either side of the ball but corner is where he projects best at. He's a fluid athlete with good cover skills and a solid tackler. He needs to continue to add size and strength but has plenty of time to do so and has a very solid upside to him.
Trujillo recently headed to the mountain region and took visits to BYU, Dixie State, Southern Utah, UNLV, Utah, Utah State and Weber State and then stayed in-state and checked out San Diego State on Monday.
"I enjoyed all the visits, it was a great trip," Trujillo said. "Utah State offered and I really liked it there. I loved the stadium and the coaches were great with me. The elevation was getting to me a little, it was hard to breathe there but I'm sure that gives them an advantage during the season.
"I loved it at BYU too and they said they're very interested in me. I felt very comfortable there and loved the environment. The whole state if Utah was great and I met some really cool people out there."
Trujillo was at Utah for the Utes spring game.
"I spent a lot of time with the coaches and like how much they emphasized academics," Trujillo said. "They stay on top of the players grade wise and they have to meet with counselors and tutors constantly. I think they said 98% of the players who go to Utah stay there without ever transferring out.
"The facilities are really nice and I liked the weight room, hall of fame and players lounge. Coach Shah is the coach recruiting me and I like him a lot. He's a great coach and a powerful speaker. He graduated from Utah with three different degrees. The fan support was great and I liked the city of Salt Lake as well so it was a great experience. They'll be by to see me in the spring.
"SDSU was nice and I like the area there and location right on the beach. They're also good about staying on top of their players academically and I think I would fit in really well there. I didn't get to meet the head coach or DB coach because a lot of the staff was out recruiting but I still talked to the TE coach and player personal guys so I enjoyed it."
Trujillo said he would like to try and get to San Jose State this Friday and attend UCLA's practice over the weekend. He'll also be at Cal and Nevada's spring games.


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