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SE: K-State Through The Decades | Part Two
Earlier this fall, K-State Athletics established a new way to engage former student-athletes from around the state, region, nation and world with the launch of the Varsity K Club. Since the first K-State football team took the field in 1896, over 10,000 men and women have represented 20 sports programs by wearing a K-State uniform. The Varsity K Club provides an exclusive opportunity for former student-athletes to reconnect with former teammates and stay up to date with recent K-State Athletics news and events.
Leading up to the Varsity K Club's inaugural All-Sport Reunion Weekend taking place Nov. 20-22, K-State Sports Extra will give its readers a quick look back at K-State Athletics' past 119 years.
Through this three-part, weekly series, K-State Sports Extra will hit on key events, spotlight former student-athletes and recognize defining moments in K-State throughout the years. To read Part 1, highlighting 1986-1950, please click here.
A look through the years | 1960-1989
1960-69 - In 1963, K-State golfer Jim Colbert burst onto the scene, finishing as the NCAA Championship runner-up in 1964. Also during the spring of 1964, K-State basketball made its fourth trip to the Final Four, as Tex Winter's squad upset No. 5 Wichita State in Wichita with All-American Willie Murrell leading the way. In track and field, Ken Swenson was a four-time All-American during his late 1960s career, winning four NCAA Championships and later competing in the Olympics.
1970-79 – The legendary Jack Hartman was hired in 1970 as the head men's basketball coach and was quick to bring success to the program, leading the Wildcats to three Big 8 regular-season and tournament championships, while also capturing two Elite Eights, three Sweet 16s and leading teams to nine postseason appearances. The team's success was highlighted by Lon Kruger, a two-time Big 8 Player of the Year honoree, Mike Evans, the Wildcats' second-leading scorer of all-time and a fellow two-time Big 8 Player of the Year honoree, and Chuckie Williams, who was a two-time All-American.
Women's basketball began in 1968 as an official intercollegiate sport, but it wasn't until 1971 that Judy Akers' squad began its legendary run of success with the program's first postseason appearance in the AIAW Region Tournament. From that point on, Akers' teams averaged 22 wins per season and posted a then-school record 28 wins in 1975-76, claiming the first of four consecutive regular-season Big 8 championships. With the implementation of Title IX in 1972, many female sports achieved intercollegiate status, including volleyball, which began its first season in 1974. In track and field, Teri Anderson became the first woman to earn All-America status in that sport for K-State, winning four Big 8 titles over her career.
1980-89 – Men's basketball success from the 1970s continued into the 80s. Two-time First Team All-American Rolando Blackman started his career in 1979, but he hit arguably the greatest shot in K-State history as a senior in 1981. With time running out, Blackman's jumper helped the Wildcats upset No. 2 Oregon State in the NCAA Tournament en route to an eventual Elite Eight appearance. A few years later, Lon Kruger returned to K-State to take over as head coach, leading the Wildcats to four-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including another Elite Eight appearance in 1988, led by All-American Mitch Richmond. That same season, the Wildcats unveiled a new home for K-State basketball with the addition of Bramlage Coliseum.
The Wildcat women's basketball team also enjoyed success during this time, as head coach Lynn Hickey led K-State to five-consecutive postseason appearances, including an Elite Eight in 1982. Led by All-Americans Priscilla Gary and Tami Romstad, and later by three-time All-Big 8 pick Carlisa Thomas, the Wildcats won five Big 8 Championships during the 1980s and averaged 21 wins per season. In track and field, four-time All-American Deb Phil set a total of five Big 8 indoor and outdoor records during her career, and she still owns the school record in the indoor mile and the outdoor 3,000 meters. In baseball, the arrival of Mike Clark in the latter part of the 1980s sparked a revival of the program, highlighted by the career of Craig Wilson, who was a two-time All-American and the program's first Consensus All-American as a senior.
Finally, no singular event changed the course of K-State Athletics as much as the hiring of Bill Snyder as head football coach in 1989, a move that would forever alter the success of K-State Athletics.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Clarence Scott, Football 1968-1970
In 1971, NFL Draft Day was nothing like it is today.
There were no cameras, no red carpets and no fancy dinners. There was no ESPN, no Twitter – there was nothing flashy about it.
"The top guys didn't go into New York and they didn't have a TV show about the guys waiting in those days. We didn't have that," explained Clarence Scott, K-State defensive back from 1968-1970. "We stayed in our dormitories. All the teams had your number and information. You stayed in your dorm and they'd give you a call and let you know what team chose you."
In 1971, after helping lead the Wildcats to a 6-5 season in 1970 – their best record in 16 years – Scott was selected in the first round as the No. 14 overall pick by the Cleveland Browns.
"So, I stayed in the athletic dorm and got a call from Art Modell, the former owner of the Cleveland Browns," added Scott. "I got a call saying I was Cleveland's No. 1 draft choice and that I was the first defensive back taken in the draft. So that was really good.
"And, oh, let me give you this part: not only was I a No. 1 draft choice, but my favorite team growing up was always the Cleveland Browns because of Jim Brown," continued Scott. "He was my favorite player."
The road to the NFL Draft wasn't an easy one. It took Scott a lot of hard work, but it was all worth it in the end.
During Scott's time at K-State, he helped the Wildcats earn their first-ever win over a top-10 team as Kansas State defeated No. 8 Colorado, 21-20, on Oct. 3, 1970. That same year, his senior season, he helped K-State lead the Big 8 Conference in total defense, while the Wildcats ranked as high as No. 13 in the nation.
A team leader, Scott was one of K-State's four captains his senior season and earned First Team All-America honors – becoming K-State's first All-American in 17 years – in addition to being a First Team All-Big Eight honoree. As an All-American, he had the opportunity to play in numerous postseason All-Star games and even took a trip to Hollywood to appear on the Bob Hope Show with fellow All-Americans from throughout the nation.
"I played in all the postseason All-Star Games – the Senior Bowl in Mobile, the East-West All-Star game in Miami," said Scott. "Then there was the College All-Star Game, the top college players would play the team that had won the NFL Championship. It was played the end of the summer before the pro teams would go to training camp to prepare for the season."
After his collegiate career, Scott spent 13 years playing in the NFL with the Browns, was a three-time All-Star and played in the 1973 Pro Bowl. In 1973 – one of Scott's most exciting seasons – he recorded five interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown. His 34 career interceptions are tied for 84th all-time in the NFL.
He credits his success with not only the Browns, but also his life, to the lessons learned as a K-State Wildcat.
"K-State was a great opportunity for me to continue my education coming out of high school," said Scott. "It was a great opportunity for me to go on and earn a degree for myself, which I did in social science. Although it was a long ways away as well as a different environment than Atlanta, it was a good, clean, wholesome place to be for me out of high school with good people, good athletics, a good football program, and Coach Gipson was a good coach.
"I was around some of the top coaches in the country and I learned from them. When it was time for me to move on to the next level, I think just the exposure and the contact that I had with great college coaches and the program that helped me. It helped my confidence. I was ready when the NFL called."
Scott was recently inducted into the K-State Football Ring of Honor and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He said he attends K-State football watch parties any opportunity he gets.
"It is wonderful, absolutely wonderful," he said with a laugh when asked about spending time with fellow K-Staters at the watch parties. "It's the next best thing to being in Manhattan. The next best thing to being in Manhattan is walking in a restaurant or bar here in Atlanta and seeing the purple all over the place. Seeing the logos everywhere, it's great, it's really, really great."
Stay tuned next for next week's K-State Sports Extra story looking at the Wildcats' success from 1990-2015. For more information on the Varsity K Club and to learn how you can get involved, please click here. For information on the upcoming Inaugural Varsity K Club Weekend, please contact Matt Giller at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Crude Liberty Fetishists Movement
Oddly, you would have thought that Conor Gearty would have been asked to speak. Gearty is easily the most credible writer that I've found on the subject of civil liberties and he has a very good recent book to plug. For him, the whole question is inseparable from that of Representative Democracy - he sees the right to vote (and the right to vote within the context of Representative Democracy) as the core civil liberty. It is a liberty that is not especially valued by many (perhaps most?) of the speakers and partners of that conference.
Looking at that list of speakers, in almost every case, they have been flaky on that particular subject at some point. I would plot most of these people on the wrong side of the 'direct democracy / representative democracy' axis (or - following that link, dangerously high on the idealist/cynic scale).
Here's Gearty a while ago in The Guardian. I was going to selectively cut-and-paste a few choice sentences from it, but really, everyone who is thinking of going to that conference should read the whole thing - and hang around a bookshop long enough to get the gist of Conor's excellent book.
This fetishisation of individual liberties - one that works, at least in part,in opposition to Representative Democracy - needs to be opposed a good deal more that it is being at the moment.
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- Anthony Barnett said...
That was fast! But hasty perhaps. The Convention is still under construction, as it currently says and not a finished beast yet. We did invite Conor Gearty but he is speaking at the Critical Lawyers Conference which got going well before
Does your allegation that voting "is a liberty that is not especially valued by many (perhaps most?) of the speakers and partners" have a shed of evidence? I doubt it! The need for political participation and individual liberty stands alongside the right to vote not as an alternative. Who suggests the opposite?
In my own case, as I am a strong supporter of enhancing direct democracy along with representative, as has been recently argued with eloquence by Paul Ginsborg. See the essay on Democracy I wrote with Isabel Hilton (link below) that emphasised the need for solidarity with those struggling to achieve the fundamental rights of democracy - to vote, to speech - around the world.
You recommend Conor's Guardian article, which calls for a careful use of language. He says this:
"The reduction of the civil libertarian-minded, intellectual wing of the Labour party to an eccentric rump, to be mocked rather than admired, is one of the most damaging pieces of work that the successive administrations of Tony Blair have done in this area. That effort at marginalisation would not have been as successful as it was had there not been a broader uncertainty on the left about how to react to religious extremism and political violence in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. It is as though the party lost its civil libertarian nerve some time during the early and middle Blair years and has since found it very hard to recover its sense of principle."
We are trying to do something about this, from outside the Labour Party it is true. But without such resistance those inside it won't rediscover their tradition or their nerve.
Here's the link:
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- 3:18 pm
- Paulie said...
OK OK - I didn't see the full list of speakers (has it grown or did I just miss it?). You are right to accuse me of haste here. BUT, that said, while you're here Anthony, I wouldn't mind picking a comradely argument with you if that's OK?
And that may have been a provocative aside, but it wasn't idle either. I don't think that representative democracy is divisible. You can't introduce 'direct' elements without debasing it.
From your list of speakers, there are a fair few advocates of direct democracy there and the only person I've ever seen going out of their way to robustly defend *representative* democracy is David Marquand. If you look around this blog, you'll see that I keep a little black book of people who are routinely ambivalent on the subject - and presence on it almost seems to have been the selection criteria that informed your choice of speakers.
I recall that article of yours that you've linked to here by the way - I read it a while back and I doubt if anyone who ever had to stand for election would have written it. It demanded a supreme act of will from elected governments in order to avoid measures that are actually popular (no matter how much you and I may not like them). You wrote it as though the kind of deliberative space that you were advocating exists already - and I don't think that you'll hatch such a space in the liberal chattering-class dominated space that you have at that conference.
And - the bigger point - your idea that the way to increase public confidence in democracy is "to encourage new forms of direct participation" is something of a new one on me.
Every form of direct democracy that I've ever come across leads to incoherent governance and an enormous amount of power being handed to demagogues, pressure groups, newspaper proprietors, along with anyone else that has coercive propaganda tools at their disposal.
These were issues that yourself and Isobel brushed aside as implementation details. There isn't a way of making representative democracy more direct without hugely discrediting itself. You *can* make it more indirectly deliberative - but that requires action from agents other than governmental ones - and your OpenDemocracy project aside, few other people seem interested.
A significant number of writers on your speaker-list have routinely gone right over the top on the question of civil liberties. David Davies' ridiculous gesture is a case in point. The headline on my newspaper the day before he 'made his stand' turned out to be accurate: 'This bill will be defeated by the Lords'. It was. Parliament worked.
Simon Jenkins is a Fortuynist whose arguments against representative democracy stray beyond sensible discourse and tip into dishonesty. This interchangeable use of the words 'referendum' and 'democracy' stand out particularly well.
Conor Gearty's article was dead right - and when he wrote it, he was taking aim at the Henry Porters of this world. I could go through the list if you like, but that's enough to be going on with.
I'd like to see a fraction of the energy that gets poured into over-reactions on civil liberties issues to be spent discussing how a decentralised representative democracy can be bulwarked and enhanced. How can the rivals of representative democracy be disarmed? How can the power of pressure groups (commercial or otherwise), the mainstream media and bureaucracies be reduced? How can the various social developments that have led to an increasing tendency towards centralisation be reversed?
How do you deal with the problem that Conor raised - that it is problematic not being popularly *seen* to use all of the tools that the state has to deal with overblown threats?
On a more pragmatic note, I can assure you that a social democratic party isn't going to respond well to a fundamentally reactionary-liberal overture (Conor's analysis - not mine) - and that's what your event looks like. However, something that were to refocus up what the real anti-political threats to liberty in the UK are - pro-deregulation pressure groups, media owners and the kind of people that they hire, and so on, it could be a goer. Send everyone a copy of Bobbio's book on 'Liberalism and Democracy' before they come.
A good rule of thumb: Imagine you are an MP. Which speakers won't make you want to just put your head in your hands?
Bye Yasmin! Bye Henry! Bye Simon! Bye Helena....
- 6:28 pm
- MatGB said...
Hmm, first I knew anything about this. Given that LC is listed as a supporting org, um, mebbe it got overlooked?
Anyway, looking at the full list of supporters there're a lot more orgs I can definitely get behind, the way you write it up Paulie makes it look like it could be a CEP front (and my distaste for that idea is bigger than the direct democracy fetishists).
Anyway, I'm confused by this 'reactionary liberal' thing and the apparant distaste for individual liberty: given that my favourite author and supporter of representative govt is Mill, who's also my favoured proponent of individual freedom, are you rejecting him when you call us (because I do think it's a serious issue) 'reactionary'?
I assert, and have always asserted, that without genuine freedom, including civil liberties, privacy, right of assembly, etc then we are nothing. We can't have any form of socialist or democratic society if we're not free.
There is a massive issue at the moment with the way representative democracy is no longer representative, especially in this country. A lot of people see this, and look to replace rather than fix, they don't want to analyse how the problem came about, but instead throw out the baby along with the filthy water.
I've been cautious about some of the political reform movements, such as Unlcok Democracy, because of their plebiscite fetish, but on other issues I have to fall on the side of the likes of DD, even if his OTT grandstanding did turn out to be pointless.
I've not actually heard of Gearty before—I shall go do some reading I think. And definitely want to find out more on the whole convention—Anthony, will you be posting at LC on it?
- 7:42 pm
- Paulie said...
Hi Mat - long time? Don't be such a stranger now ;-)
I've been accused in the past for not explaining my position properly and then ranting at people for not agreeing with me, and this exchange (all done hurriedly today - one of those days) probably falls into that one.
I outlined the 'reactionary liberal' notion here a while ago:
.. again, in a slightly provocative way. As you know, the problem when you advocate something middle-of-the-road as I do, the only way to get noticed is to poke a few eyes on the way...
- 8:05 pm
- Guy Aitch said...
Hi Mat and Paulie,
I'm working on the Convention with Anthony, Henry and a small team. Thanks for taking an interest. Just wanted to say a few things without getting too into the political discussion that's developing.
The first thing to note, as Anthony says, is that the event is still under construction. Tickets for the Convention in London aren't even on sale yet, though they will be soon. There are also meetings planned across the country which No2ID and others are helping to organise.
Mat, we certainly will be blogging about this on LC and elsewhere and encouraging others to do the same (I linked to this exchange from the CML site) but this is only the "soft" launch. You will hopefully hear much more about the Convention the closer we get to 28 February.
I do think it's unfair to caricature the event as "liberty fetishists", "reactonary liberals" or anything else. If you look at the list of partner organisations and speakers, you'll see we've tried to get people from across the political spectrum. The aim is to open up a debate between people who care about the issues, not force a party line. Paulie, if you think there is no issue to be discussed that's fine but don't try and tar everyone who thinks there is with the same brush.
Anyway, any feedback on the site and the Convention itself is welcome - as I say it is still under development.
- 11:29 pm
- Anthony Barnett said...
Hi Paulie, well it's very late. What can I say to your "rule of thumb"?
"A good rule of thumb: Imagine you are an MP. Which speakers won't make you want to just put your head in your hands?"
Oh dear. First, always try and look at things from the pov of the powerless, the voter not the voted in who seeks higher office. The last way to view our society is from the perspective of an MP. Especially in a country where they are elected on a winner takes all, first-past-the-post basis.
That said, the MPs I know and admire are holding their heads in their hands at the way the system works, they are in despair. Tories as well as Labour. This is why so many of them are lost to alcohol.
My main objection is to your policeman's approach. Tap tap, hello, hello! Who do we have here then? The vitality of the Convention and its panels will be in the mix. Look who is talking to whom. Might you be surprised by their conversation? Isn't there something new in the universe of the database state - undiscussed by MPs by the way.
Except David Davis outside the House of Commons. Paulie, you and Mat are completely wrong about what he did, maybe even suckers for the mass media and the political class. I've written about this (see OurKingdom on the left hand col, under Modern Liberty, there is a piece on 42 Days and another on DD). Let's put it this way. Before and during the 42 days debate it was accepted on both sides of the commons and the media that around 65 per cent of the public supported it. After DD's walkout and his campaign the polls showed well less than 40 per cent did, as they learnt it meant jailing the innocent. DD shifted the entire perception of public opinion and his stand will be looked back on as remarkably successful.
On Conor, two things. First, whoops. it seems that he's not been invited because of the Manchester event - but he will be now in case he can make both. Second, you are right that he was attacking Henry Porter's individualism (this was before Brown backed 42 days) and warning him not to be too harsh on the "new team". This criticism didn't apply to me as I worked and wrote in OK to support the Green Paper. But while CG did not like my constitutional approach either he has the great quality of being a scourge of the wickedness of British power.
None of which addressed the issue of the need for more direct and participatory democracy alongside representative democracy (see my and Peter Carty's The Athenian Option). Oh well, to bed!
PS: Mat - I have had to persuade Sunny not to post about the Convention as it's premature. Apologies.
- 12:34 am
I recall that article of yours that you've linked to here by the way - I read it a while back and I doubt if anyone who ever had to stand for election would have written it
And? So what? It is not my responsibility as a voter to consider things from the point of view of the government. I have my agenda. They have theirs. I don't give a flying fuck why the government wants to force ID Cards on this country. It is enough that the policy is bonkers and the government is incapable of defending it without recourse to anti-immigration propaganda.
It demanded a supreme act of will from elected governments in order to avoid measures that are actually popular (no matter how much you and I may not like them)
This is utter BS. The government has had no problems in implementing policies that were rabidly unpopular - from the Iraq war to tutition fees.
I don't think that you'll hatch such a space in the liberal chattering-class dominated space that you have at that conference
Ah the reflexive sneer of the 'liberal totalitarian' who knows what's best with us and is content touse whatever coercion he thinks is right to administer it.
- 7:13 am
- Ian_QT said...
@MatGB: "There is a massive issue at the moment with the way representative democracy is no longer representative, especially in this country."
Exactly. But I don't see Paulie as wanting it to become more representative of the general public, rather more representative of his particular left-wing worldview. (i.e. I want to be represented, but I don't want conservatives to be represented).
If I'm wrong tell me how.
- 1:28 pm
- Paulie said...
A bit busy today - will try and reply to Anthony Stephen and Guy later.
Ian, I can answer you quickly enough. You're as wrong as you usually are. I have no idea how you draw this conclusion, and here's your answer:
- 1:33 pm
- Paulie said...
I do think that there is a big issue to be discussed - the decline of representative democracy and the resulting populist politics that leads to totemic illiberalism. But there seems to me to be a direct correlation between the propensity of commentators to comment on this and their ambivalence about representative government - and I can't see any commentators on your panel of speakers who are likely to make what is - for me - the crucial point.
Anthony has always been explicit about his interest in Direct Democracy - and if you get the chance, you'll see that it's the single issue that I write about more than anything else here - I disagree profoundly on this subject. Simon Jenkins is routinely dishonest in the way he argues a similar case, and I completely agree with Conor Gearty's view about Henry Porter (and others) grandstanding on this subject.
Anthony, maybe I didn't make that point properly. I'm not saying that we should look at things from the pov of MPs. I'm saying that most people who ever has to deal with the competing demands that result in seemingly illiberal legislation will find the kind of simplistic grandstanding of those commentators just exasperating. Again, this is Conor Gearty's point.
I am less in favour of *anyone* having more influence over policy than anyone else than any Direct Democrat. Only a properly enacted form of representative democracy guarantees this (and I hope you won't be able to argue that this blog is complacent about that particular subject - I doubt if another blogger in the UK spends as long thinking out loud about how representative government can be improved and made more meaningful). I think that you are misconstruing my line here as one that is defensive towards New Labour. It isn't. I'm not - and I agree with Conor Gearty's criticisms of the way that power is exercised.
I don't buy your argument that the speakers at your event (as they are constituted at the moment anyway) do represent a broad church. It seems like a roll-call of idealist/cynics to me - and as such, I think it not only won't address the problem in hand, it will make it harder for it to be addressed by anyone else. The good thing about idealist/cynics is that at least they are generally incoherent. You may be aiming to change all of that?
On David Davies of Magnercarter and Aynshuntliberties, he did not really make the impact that you say he did. You wait. Next time someone gets caught with a bomb (or god forbid, one goes off) the demand for some totemic legislation will reappear as strong as ever. I've written a couple of posts a while ago here about how the reflexive need to over-react can be countered by a change in our political culture
Finally, I think that the Athenian Option is an interesting idea - a parallel Athenian assembly of some kind would make a very interesting experiment. I'm here any time you want to argue about direct democracy. You may find this interview I did with another blogger on the subject worth a glance?
Stephen, I think I've answered all of your points (apart from the stupid one where you say that I'm a 'totalitarian'). That last point underlines Conor Gearty's argument (again) about how the discussions around civil liberties need to stop being so shrill and idealistic / cynical. It does your argument a great deal more harm than it does good, but I expect you feel awful smug going around thinking how you live in a police state and every day you get to sock it to the man.
Oh, one other thing: The Iraq War and Tuition Fees were not wildly unpopular. They had a large noisy opposition, but that's not the same thing.
- 9:33 pm
Stephen, I think I've answered all of your points (apart from the stupid one where you say that I'm a 'totalitarian')
I wasn't seriously calling you a totalitarian; I was satirising your characterisation of my views are 'reactionary liberal'. I find it just as insulting to be identified with a right wing libertarian viewpoint as you find it to be called a totalitarian.
It does your argument a great deal more harm than it does good, but I expect you feel awful smug going around thinking how you live in a police state and every day you get to sock it to the man
As I have patiently pointed out to you on more than one occasion, I don't think we are living in a 'police state' and I have expressed in detail the practical objections to the database state in any society that purports to be a liberal open democracy. However I notice you rarely respond when we get onto specifics. I suppose it suits you to dismiss objections to Labourite authoritarianism as paranoid or 'idealistic'.
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- Paulie said...
"However I notice you rarely respond when we get onto specifics."
I don't think this is the case Stephen.
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It's been the feeling here that judging Doc Rivers the last two years has been a fool's errand. The Celtics simply weren't good enough to make a fair ruling on anyone.
But after the acquisitions of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, well, Celtics Nation is hereby invited to get out its robe and gavel. Doc Rivers will now be rightfully on trial. He is a man very confident in his abilities. Some would call him cocky. When he looks you in the eye more than once and says, ``Every time I've had a decent team, we've won,'' he appears more than willing to put himself on the line.
Others already have him there.
And whereas Rivers had the shield of a young and injured roster last season to keep him from the arrows that matter - those of his ownership - he is very much in the spotlight now.
It's fair to say we know what we're going to get from Paul Pierce, Garnett and Allen in terms of effort and skill level - and all three stated yesterday that they're willing to bend whichever way necessary to make the chemistry work. Now it is incumbent upon Rivers and his staff to devise plans that put them in positions to succeed. It shouldn't be tremendously difficult because their talents are complementary, but installing the right offensive sets and proper defensive schemes will be key.
Court is in session as soon as the Celts take the court, but the truth is Rivers has to already be working on what he'll do.
``You do, but it's the happiest game plan you have to change,'' he said. ``Some things we will absolutely have to change, offensively and defensively, but all the change that we have to make are really good. Some of the things we've run in the past are actually better now.''
Things like the high-low set, with Pierce inside taking passes from the top of the lane. Kendrick Perkins proved himself a good passer last season, but with Garnett outside, you have to think there'll be more respect for his shot from the defense and, thus, more room for Pierce to operate in the paint.
There should be more room for Rivers to operate, too, although that can be a double-edged sword. He can win more now, but he to. He has this year and, after signing a one-year extension, another left on his deal - and the buyout for the latter is more than you've heard. But time is clearly of the essence with a nucleus of 30-somethings. If the Celtics lack cohesion a fair distance into the season, the club will likely not hesitate to change the staff. There is too much money invested in the three All-Stars to worry about coaching dough.
But Rivers believes in himself.
``I feel like I have a shot,'' he said. ``We feel like we have a shot, and that's all you want. You want an opportunity. You want a chance to show up at the arena and feel that no matter what they put out on the floor that you have a chance to beat that - and without tricking the game up or anything else.''
Rivers was always the team guy outwardly, but he is aware that they keep win-loss records for coaches, too. And he knew his wasn't getting any prettier with 49 losses in 2005-06 and 58 fun-filled defeats last year.
``I don't know if it was worth going through what I went through the last two (years),'' he said with a laugh. ``But it absolutely is now when you think about what's happened. But I think the bottom line is every player and every coach wants an opportunity to win - at least the ones that I want to coach and play with.''
Rivers has some real ones to coach now, which should relieve some of the pressure. Until the first two-game losing streak.
I Guess We'll Find Out Whether Doc can Coach
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- FLCeltsFan said...
I'm starting to put Doc in the same category as the Zen Mistress. Give him a talented roster complete with superstar and he can coach. Build a roster? Develop players? Not so much.
- Lex said...
Agree. Doc might be crazier than the zen mistress, too.
The clippers roster is the best one he's ever coached???
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The Israelis are calling up thousands of reservists and saying their forces will be in Lebanon for weeks more. It is impossible to see how these additional men or this additional time will improve this situation for the Israelis, or for the Americans - the only two countries who have seemed to believe that the running sore of Hizbullah can be cauterised by a short, sharp shock.
Moreover, they appear to have believed that, under cover of anticipated military success in Lebanon, Israel could put a stop to what it regards as the Palestinian threat in Gaza. True, the Israelis have killed many Palestinians in Gaza; but there is no sign whatever that this problem has been solved, either.
Taking into account that previous Israeli incursions into Lebanon were total failures, with no objectives attained and many Israeli servicemen killed, and taking into account, too, that the Americans suffered 241 servicemen killed in Beirut at the hands of Hizbullah, it is difficult to understand how even ultimate buffoons like Ehud Olmert and George Bush could have expected anything else.
Furthermore, in the whole history of the state of Israel, this is the first time that that country, in all its wars, has been subject to almost unanimous condemnation, worldwide. Not only has Olmert failed abjectly to protect his country. He has turned it into an international pariah.
Now it is reported that Condoleezza Rice, Bush's obedient but ineffectual catspaw, has called off her latest, planned trip to Beirut on the basis that there is no sign of what she regards as the necessary condition for a cease-fire - the protection of Israel. The rest of us, watching heart-rending scenes of death and devastation in Lebanon, want an urgent cease-fire to protect Lebanese civilians. The United States secretary of state sees Israel as the vulnerable party, which is ironic taking into account that the Israelis and the Americans insanely saw this operation as one which would end Israeli vulnerability once and for all.
It is ironic, too, that United Nations headquarters in Beirut has been subject to attack by Lebanese, when Koffi Annan, however impotent, does understand the nature of the situation and wants to cure it - not surprisingly, since his own personnel has been subject to murderous Israeli assault.
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Whatever one's opinion of Hamas, it was elected in precisely the kind of valid democratic contest the Americans say they want throughout the Middle East - provided, of course, that the result is to the liking of the White House. That wise Israeli statesman Abba Eban once said to me: "If you want to end a war, whom else do you negotiate with except your enemy?"
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A man has been jailed for three-and-half years after he illegally moved and hid the body of a Royal Navy veteran so a cannabis factory could be set up in his home.
Paul Jackson, 40, moved the body of his neighbour Nicholas Clark after he died from natural causes and concealed it under debris in a yard behind a former gym in Gloucester Road, Patchway, South Gloucestershire.
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The remains of the 63-year-old, who served in the Navy as a helicopter engineer between 1967 and 1981, were found wrapped in tarpaulin when the yard was being cleared in April 2015.
The yard was behind a disused gym and flat being rented by Jackson's co-defendant Anthony Whillier, 30, who had been using the property to grow cannabis.
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Mr Clark's body was identified by a steel pin attached to his hip and when police attended his home in Charlton Leaze they found a cannabis factory inside.
Forensic inquiries linked the defendants to the cannabis factory inside Mr Clark's home and uncovered financial transactions showing Jackson had been taking money from the victim's bank account after his death.
Jackson, of Charlton Leaze, Patchway, admitted at Bristol Crown Court charges of preventing a lawful burial, theft and allowing the production of cannabis.
His friend, of Royal Victoria Park, Bristol, was sentenced to a two-year suspended jail term after admitting cannabis production. He was also ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work.
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Detective Chief Inspector Mike Williams, who led the investigation, said: "Nick Clark deserved respect for loyally serving his country but after he died from natural causes, his so-called friend and neighbour Paul Jackson treated his body like a piece of rubbish.
"Nick's remains weren't found until the yard behind the gym was cleared by the landlord after it'd been recovered from his tenant Whillier.
"Nick's family have been devastated by the way his body was treated after he died and it's hard to comprehend how anybody could treat a human being in this callous way.
"We aren't able to say exactly when Nick died, but we do know he was last seen at hospital in February after undergoing an operation. Because he wasn't reported as missing, it's very likely his remains would have remained undetected if the yard hadn't been cleared.
"In interview, Jackson admitted moving the body and taking money from Nick's account after his death.
"This is a tragic set of circumstances and my thoughts are very much with Nick's family who've been left to come to terms with his death and the resulting grim and selfish actions of Jackson."
Mr Clark's family released a statement following the sentencing.
"It's devastating to know that Nick's body was treated with such crudeness," they said.
"The lack of respect shown by the perpetrators, by setting up a cannabis factory in his personal home while depriving his family of his personnel and financial effects, is beyond comprehension.
"While Nick may have died in natural circumstances, the actions of the perpetrators to move his body from the home he loved and leave it in the backyard of a disused shop, showed a complete lack of respect for any human being, let alone someone classed as a friend.
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Up until around 2011, it was hard to believe that someone could replace Nokia from the top of the phone industry…
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1. kaikuheadhunterz (Posts: 1157; Member since: 18 Jul 2013)
The camera on the Nokia N95 is already satisfying for me
13. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
I think the iPhone has the best camera.
15. akki20892 (Posts: 3902; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
iPhone have good camera but can't compare with Nokia. Fair enough.
24. Skoms (Posts: 118; Member since: 03 Feb 2014)
Nokia has finally understood that there are Android phones that apply.
Normandy released within a month.
Now Nokia to sell phones again instead of that, give them away
26. Skoms (Posts: 118; Member since: 03 Feb 2014)
Release an Android phone with a good camera. and suddenly Nokia would be able to fend for themselves. Now if people want android why not manufacture an Android phone? You will be selling phones and Nokia will survive. There must reserve a natural choice.
Elop has to be the worst manager of all time who did not listen to the customers.
18. ArtSim98 (Posts: 3535; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
Of course you think that because you think Apple everything is the best.
23. Skoms (Posts: 118; Member since: 03 Feb 2014)
Iphone a very good Camera.
34. garlic456 (Posts: 251; Member since: 24 Dec 2012)
iPhone camera
Quality: Enough for selfies
Speed: High
Nokia camera
Quality: Enough for photographers
Speed: Slow
This is the difference.
20. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3576; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
I think the Motorola Razr V3 has the best camera.
14. akki20892 (Posts: 3902; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
Dude please Nokia 7650 already satisfied me.
2. ArtSim98 (Posts: 3535; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
Well, there sure is some noticable improvement.
3. power_x (Posts: 264; Member since: 28 Aug 2013)
photo #24 is just out of this world
4. Smokin (Posts: 120; Member since: 10 Oct 2013)
*sobs* I had like almost all of these (except 808 and 1020 lol)
5. clirim (Posts: 34; Member since: 06 Feb 2014)
there is still a huge space for more improvement on the camera phones.
7. alterecho (Posts: 1099; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
Correction: On non-Nokia cameraphones.
31. clirim (Posts: 34; Member since: 06 Feb 2014)
but still and for nokia camaeraphones...
32. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3814; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
You start to think like that as a company & everyone will catch up. That's a horrible attitude. Never take your foot off the pedal, never stop innovating. That's how you rise to the top & stay there.
21. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3576; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
Yep! Most definitely..
35. RandomUsername (Posts: 808; Member since: 29 Oct 2013)
I find it kind of hard to imagine much better image quality than the 1020 :)
6. alterecho (Posts: 1099; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
"Up until around 2011, it was hard to believe that someone could replace Nokia from the top of the phone industry, and do it in just a couple of years"
A traitor named Elop. It was only possible from inside. Else Nokia would have been unshakable by any competition/outside factors.
"Then, the 'Burning Platform' memo and Windows Phone happened"
No. Elop happened.
9. dratomic (Posts: 483; Member since: 09 Oct 2013)
you do realise that before elop everthing was going downward. elop just catalized the process. if elop was solely responsible for it then board members could reject the acquisition which they didnt cause they were in on this.
10. DFranch (Posts: 254; Member since: 20 Apr 2012)
The burning platform memo was a terrible idea. The memo came out in like January, and they didn't have their 1st Windows phone device ready for almost a year. Even longer to get multiple handsets out the door. They should have started development of WP devices and once they had a portfolio of devices, then announce the end of Symbian. Instead they announced the end of their smartphone platform and didn't have a replacement ready for a year. I'm a nokia WP fan, but that was just bad business.
16. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2072; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Can you'll please drop hating on Elop now? He's gone back to MS, Nokia has been sold to MS. Its over now. Everything has to change. Nokia ruled the mobile world for a decade, but now its Samsung. Instead of hating on Elop, we can look forward to MS' acquisition of Nokia and hope for better products. No company can stay at the top for long. Before it was Nokia, today it is Samsung. Let's forget about Elop and whatever happened in the past and look towards the future of Nokia with MS & WP. :)
19. alterecho (Posts: 1099; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
"the future of Nokia with MS & WP"
22. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3576; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
Lol.. I guess if I put myself in your shoes I can feel your pain....
Lets say that stupid article about MS ditching WP, and going with Android, impossibly came true... I would be so disgusted, saddened, and pissed off that I would probably feel the same way you do about MS taking over the Lumia, and Asha, brands... For that I sympathize with you...
27. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2072; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Always think good about other platforms whether you like them or hate them. Competition is good for everyone and in the end its us the consumers that are benefitial. And WP's future looks good with WP8.1 coming up and Microsoft having more control over the hardware. Whether you believe it or not, that fact won't change. :)
8. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3576; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
I'm still looking forward to more great Lumia devices from the literal Nokia/WP phone team for years to come....
And, with others seriously focusing on camera technology Lumia has it's work cut out for it... This is just the beginning!
11. T.F.O.A (Posts: 36; Member since: 14 Dec 2013)
For me, NOKIA still #1
25. Skoms (Posts: 118; Member since: 03 Feb 2014)
For me is Oldsmobile no 1.
12. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
even though optimization is a drawback for android... nokia really needed android to stay on top. along with meego.. or merge meego design in android.... but then elop..
used the excuse we might fail coz other company (samsung) is already dominating on android and dont want to be the with the 20% android shares (htc sony).
well elop, you are a P U S S Y


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June 6th, 2012
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Surpasses all expectations, actually look forward to my upcoming appointments.
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September 20th, 2011
Like it already
I called today and got an appointment for TOMORROW, YA THATS RIGHT TOMORROW!!!! I am impressed already. This Dr was recommended by another Dr whom I work and I did not even have to drop any names!!!!! Next day appt for a Derm. I am in heaven!!!!!
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June 27th, 2011
just what you hope for
Dr. Singer is kind, attentive, gentle, and extremely careful in assessing skin problems. She never seems rushed and you leave feeling like a doctor REALLY saw you!
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June 15th, 2011
Totally Great!
I've been seeing Dr. Singer for a little over two years now for acne. She is patient and conservative, while offering aggressive options if you are interested. Although their practice does have a cosmetic side, I am not interested and she respects that. She spends plenty of time with me at each appointment and is an excellent diagnostician. She has noticed two conditions incidentally while I was seeing her for acne that could have been life-threatening, and followed up with me on both to ensure I was receiving appropriate treatment. Office staff is friendly and I never have trouble getting an appointment.
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March 3rd, 2011
really exceptional experience
I can't say enough positives about Dr. Singer and her care of my high school daughter. She took a lot of time with us, made my daughter feel at ease, and most importantly solved a problem that had been going on for several years without improvement. I felt very reassured by her knowledge about different approaches and her desire to involve us in the decision. Follow-up was also great.
5.0 of 5
March 1st, 2010
Dr. Singer is very caring, and engages herself when she is with you. I see her yearly, she gives me a very thorough exam. She is not trying to rush out the moment she comes in.
5.0 of 5
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Broiled Grapefruit With Honey, Vanilla & Cardamom
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Recipe by Lainey39
I love grapefruit and this makes a yummy breakfast for me. This is from Fine Cooking.
Top Review by Cinnamon Turtle
Delicious. I love grapefruit and cardamom, so I had to give this a try. I've tried both honey and sugar. I like it a little better with sugar, but I'm not a huge fan of honey. Thanks for the healthy breakfast, snack, dessert idea.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 large grapefruits
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 pinch ground cardamom
Directions See How It's Made
- Position an oven rack about 4 inches below the broiler and heat the broiler on high.
- With a serrated knife, cut the grapefruit in even halves.
- Using a small paring knife or a grapefruit knife, cut each section away from the surrounding membrane.
- Set the grapefruit halves in a shallow broiler-safe pan (such as an enameled baking dish or a heavy-duty rimmed baking sheet).
- If necessary, trim a thin slice off their bottoms so they sit level.
- In small bowl, stir together the honey and the vanilla extract.
- Drizzle the honey mixture over the grapefruit halves.
- Dust each with a bit of cardamom.
- Broil until bubbling and lightly browned in spots, 4-6 minutes.
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The stories behind this year's Enterprise Architecture Awards illustrate the benefits of an outside-in approach to concocting architectural initiatives -- and collaborating with the right business stakeholders to make new business possibilities real. To varying degrees, EA practices at Allstate Insurance, Australia Post, Dell, Dubai Customs House, Molina Healthcare, and State Farm Insurance Companies went to school on customer and/or partner needs, rather than simply optimizing existing business processes within the enterprise.
Australia Post's EA practice, for example, helped move its technology organization away from a focus on back-office systems to developing Web and mobile offerings that opened new revenue sources. The EA practice at State Farm Insurance Companies went even further, zeroing in on the details of the user experience and using lessons learned to help change company culture.
You'll find these stories and more in our 2014 Enterprise Architecture Awards feature story by Alex Cullen, enterprise architecture research director at Forrester Research. A panel of six experienced EA practitioners served as our judges: Vijay Bhuvanagiri of Mastercard, Igor Gershfang of Walgreens, Jason Graf of Yum Brands, Eric Meredith of PNC Financial, David Parrott of Thomson Reuters, and Gary Vonderhaar of Mastercard.
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