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Thousands of protesters are packing out central Madrid, angry at the economic woes engulfing Spain. Demonstrators from all across the country have been marching for weeks, to demand quick action to deal with the country's debt and mass unemployment. RT's Irina Galushko is in Madrid to hear what the protesters now known as the 'indignants' have to say RT on Twitter: twitter.com RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com


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November 8th and 13th...
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Blamo Toys announces that it is throwing its first custom toy show next month: "Welcome to Blamoville." The event will be held November 8th and 13th at Million Fishes Gallery in Blamo's home town of San Francisco. The show will then travel down to LA and be displayed at Blamo's booth at this year's DCON in Pasadena on the 21st of November.
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Although the swearing in of the first trans trial judge is cause for celebration, there is still a long, hard fight ahead
WREN A. WYNN | Special Contributor
We have recently seen America's first transgender trial judge sworn in. So why am I not celebrating more?
Are you kidding? I read the news to my husband and son, and we all cheered and breathed a sigh of great relief and deep gratitude. This momentous ceremony brought us all one step closer to lawful and societal equality and a much safer pursuit of that very happiness our Constitution grants to us all.
But this is where I — as an American, a woman and the wife of an amazing transgender man — must restrain my celebration. The full celebration will commence the day society's labels fade away.
Humans always try to define things we do not understand. Our lack of understanding leads to fear. Labels are incessantly cast onto anything we need defined for us.
For instance, say you have two tin cans, both sealed. One is labeled "beans;" the other has no label. Which would you choose?
Unless you have an aversion to legumes, you would probably choose the labeled one. I would — I mean, what if the other can has beets?
We should be electing transgender officials. We should be electing lesbian and gay officials, female officials, African-American officials, Hispanic officials, Jewish and Muslim officials — and so on. Because, quite simply, every one of the members of our global society are human beings.
We are all born inherently equal and all hold the same worthiness as our neighbor. Our labels do not designate our worth or, believe it or not, our contents. Existence is where our worth lies. You are here. I am here. We are amazing.
The full celebration will commence when all marginalized people refuse to be yoked to such a lexicon: marginalized, victimized, worthless, wrong, immoral, dangerous. These are only a very few of the terms used by the media, the Biblical Christian right and those in seats of actual "power" when referring to "them."
When you are marginalized, the first thing that is stripped from you is your name. It is far easier to be cruel and hateful when you are aggressively pursuing the nameless.
How many of us have found ourselves in such a place — no name, no support, no safety? I was hit in the face in seventh grade by an extraordinarily hefty repeat eighth grader because my being gay offended her. Her name was Amie. I bet you a million dollars she doesn't remember my name.
We cannot continue to allow our names to be replaced with a vocabulary of invisibility and hate. My name is Wren.
The full celebration will commence when those seated in positions of power and authority stop being so damn afraid that they will be dethroned and overrun. If you are a just and compassionate leader, this is not a concern. So it is no wonder that so many higher-ups are constantly having to towel off their flop-sweat as they stand at their microphones and bullhorns leaking their heartlessness and fear into the world.
This decidedly ridiculous behavior, though, should come as no real surprise. Look at what the leaders worship. All religions at all moments in history, both patriarchal and matriarchal (though to a lesser extent), worship very wrathful and immature gods and goddesses. How many times has a deity cruelly destroyed all of life because another god was getting more attention or because the people weren't pliant enough or, sometimes, just for the hell of it?
I am all for America. This is proven by the fact that I haven't run off to Canada or Europe … yet. I truly do believe, very dearly, that America is the home of the brave. Every day I encounter transgender people (my husband included) who are changing the world and saving lives by simply being who they are.
We hear and see and know lesbian, gay and bisexual people who are not willing to let another person die because bullying gay kids and adults is seen as not so big an issue. We have seen the African-American community rise up saying, "We are not second-class citizens." Everyday the cycle of racism slows.
In recent months, we have witnessed the courageous stance of the Muslim community in New York as they prepare a way for a mosque, even as the Koran is being threatened in Florida. With every passing moment we see and hear men and women standing up for women's and human rights and equal passage and opportunity in the world.
What amazing and brave people we all are when we stand up for one another!
So God, Goddess, Allah, Abba, Brahman, Waheguru, Yahweh, Jesus, The Light, Almighty, Bahá, Jehova, El Cantare, Oya — all of them — bless America, Mother Earth and all of her beautiful creations. We live in truly amazing times. May we be awake and willing, enthusiastic, even, to stand with one another in our various fires.
This is not a case of "If you're not with us, you're against us." This is about celebrating life and Victoria Kolakowski, America's first sworn-in transgender trial judge. You go girl!
Wren Wynn is a local writer and artist and the author of Chrysalis, a collection of poetry and artworks. She is also a commissioned artist and her paintings have been chosen to hang in the Visual Arts Center of Dallas galleries. Wynn is currently working on a collection of personal essays and a second poetry collection. Go online to Open.Salon.com/blog/wrenaw to read a sample of her work.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition Jan. 21, 2011.


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As Royal Courtain watched his first Boston Marathon on Monday, one thought kept going through his mind: This couldn't be more perfect.
Courtain, a longtime Chico resident and former sportscaster, has been around sports most of his life but this event was special. His wife, Cindy, was trying to complete her first Boston Marathon in memory of her father, a former Boston Marathon finisher who had died five years previously.
Royal Courtain was struck by the festive atmosphere. "It's so hard to fathom until you witness it," he said. "This is the coolest event. They're very proud of this race. All 26 miles, the streets are lined with people clapping." Perfect.
Even the weather cooperated. Last year, the sweltering heat approaching the 90s forced many runners to drop out. This year, temperatures ranged from the high 40s to low 50s, with no wind and no rain. Perfect.
"The one thing that was going through my mind was, it couldn't have been better," he said.
Royal wanted to get video of Cindy running the downtown streets near the finish. He found an uncrowded place to film Cindy about a mile from the end. Then he tried to circle back and beat her to the finish line so he could get more footage of her crossing. But he got stuck in the crowds, a couple of blocks from the finish as Cindy vanished.
Then the bombs went off.
Royal wasn't sure if his wife had made it past the bombs to the finish line. The grandstands emptied, and people started running toward him — to safety. Royal ran against the tide, trying to get to the finish, running with the first responders to the scene of the blast, but when they stopped at the bloody scene, Royal kept going, past the limbs, the screaming victims, the shoes that were lying everywhere, blown off the feet of victims.
He couldn't find his wife.
He texted his daughter, who was in Portland, Ore. She had been sending race updates, following her mother's progress online, telling Royal where she was. Now Royal wanted to know if she could check the finishing times. He needed to know if Cindy made it before the bombs went off.
"My first thought was getting to Cindy," he said. "My thoughts were not good thoughts at that point. I was thinking the worst."
His daughter texted that she had crossed the finish line — about 40 seconds before the first blast. She was herded quickly out of the finish area, in a place to get water. She was 100 yards clear of the explosion É but it took Royal about 30 minutes to find his wife of 27 years and know she was OK.
There was chaos on the streets, and those looking for loved ones were on their own. Many people were walking around in a daze, Royal said. After he and Cindy reconnected, they saw an older man, a runner, sitting on the ground wrapped in a blanket. They asked if he was OK. He had finished the run but couldn't find his wife.
They learned he was from Redding, a man named Gene Alba. They tried to help, but left the area not knowing if Alba found his wife. (They later learned that he did. She was safe.)
I asked Royal, with his background in sports, how loathsome it is that terror could strike at such a joyous, celebratory, participatory event.
"There are so many people involved," he said. "They have a huge volunteer staff. They have a huge medical staff. There was not a lack of security detail there. É I don't know. How do you stop something like that?
"When you think about it, every event out there is a target."
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Let's face it, since the beginning of time men have felt the need to do whatever it takes to be the master, el jefe, or "big dog" of the tribe-whether said tribe is a mere 10 strong or as large as 10,000. But becoming royalty doesn't come easy, it's usually the biggest, strongest, or fastest that rules the roost. You know these guys. They're the "first stringers." The ones who never get picked last no matter what game is about to be played. In fact, they're the ones doing the picking. So what do us guys who aren't the biggest, strongest, or fastest do to make up for our testosterone-challenged shortcomings?
That's easy, we buy muscle cars-preferably Camaros. Then we do whatever it takes to make them go faster and faster (usually until they blow up) or we go completely broke in said pursuit, or in many cases, both.
Being that I'm a man of, let's just say, slightly-less-than-tall stature (go ahead with the short jokes, they don't bother me anymore...much), I fall directly into the need-to-go-faster clan. Now, I'm not insinuating only short people own Camaros. Nope, that's about as far from the truth as the stereotype that all Camaro owners have mullets (that may be a little closer to the truth, actually). Anyway, for some reason it seems that most of the people I know who feel the constant need for speed are just a little "off" in some sort of indescribable way-yours truly included. And there's nothing wrong with it, but the strange thing is that these are the people with whom I get along with the best.
So, as I continue hanging out with the I-need-to-go-faster crowd, I've suddenly found that the car in which I promised myself I would keep fairly mild has gone straight down the road to let's-go-faster-ville.
When we brought Black Betty ('01 Z28) into our stable as a project car, the main goal was to make it a great handling car that we could have fun with and take out to the occasional autocross and road course. Done deal. Then we got the idea that it would be cool to take it to the dragstrip and have a good time there as well. Unfortunately, the excitement peaked at about the halfway mark on the "fun meter." We quickly found out that a lot more horsepower is needed to have a good time in the straight-line world. So we chucked the LS1 in favor of an LS3. OK, it was more fun but still not "super fun." So this leads us to where we are today: plumbing in a Zex perimeter plate nitrous system with the idea of hitting it with a 100-150 shot (page 36).
Remember, we started with the idea of keeping this fourth-gen totally streetable, but now we find ourselves at a point where bigger is better and faster is, well ... faster.
It wasn't too long ago I boasted about how I used to pick up my kids from school in this car, but now it's at the point where a rollcage is necessary to keep my buns safe on the dragstrip and a road course. That right there cancels out putting anyone in the back seats. Since that's the case, we might as well get rid of the back seats and take advantage of the weight savings.
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The design originated with one of my paintings. Every time I painted a heart I noticed that it was always open. I realized that to me an open heart reflected all our life experiences. Behind every open heart is a story, so there are millions of reasons to give one. But the message is always the same, If your heart is open, love will always find its way in.®" - Jane Seymour


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Today we learned that the economy grew for the 12th straight quarter, exports and business investment continue to grow, and the auto industry is growing stronger. But President Obama knows that we need more decisive action to create jobs and help the economy grow faster.
Last September, President Obama put forward a detailed legislative plan—the American Jobs Act—to do just that. The jobs plan would keep teachers, firefighters, and police officers on the job, put construction workers back to work, and cut taxes for small businesses that hire and invest and businesses that bring jobs home. But Republicans in Congress have blocked this plan. As a result there are now 1 million Americans who are unnecessarily out of work.
Governor Romney also opposes this jobs plan, saying it was like "throwing a cup of gasoline on embers." But independent economists disagree—and they say that Mitt Romney's plan would slow our recovery and cost us jobs. Romney himself acknowledges that spending cuts will damage the recovery. As economist Jeff Liebman has written, based on Romney's own statements, his plan would cost over 1 million jobs next year.
Romney's plan for the economy—including tax cuts weighted towards the wealthy and rolling back Wall Street reform—would do nothing to create jobs today, and instead would return us to the failed policies that dug this ditch in the first place.


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The government may have temporary shut down as lawmakers continue to debate but Mother Nature didn't get the memo. South Dakota ranchers continue to dig out and count their losses following the worst blizzard in the state's history.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 cattle were killed in a blizzard in western South Dakota earlier this month, according to state veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven.
The storm spawned a tornado outbreak in nearby states, sparing cities but wreaking havoc on rural communities. The Sioux Jersey Dairy in Salix, Iowa, was one of those hardest hit by one of the tornados.
However, Mother Nature's fury was a grim reminder that nature isn't on furlough and the government's inability to negotiate leaves those cleaning up after these October storms in need of assistance and information.
In a blog for the American Farm Bureau, North Dakota farmer Val Wagner praises the workers and organizations that have stepped in to help while Congress continues its "tantrum."
"#DearCongress: Mother Nature is not on furlough. Farmers and ranchers are not on furlough. Emergency workers are not on furlough. It's time to do what you were elected to do…grow up and represent our country, lead us to a better future, not down a path of destruction," Wagner urges.
She adds: "We cannot go back and change the actions of the past, but we certainly can make sure that our future is a different story. A government shutdown will not have an impact on Mother Nature. But it can unite us in a drive to finally do what we should have been doing all along…be involved."


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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) was reappointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Wednesday.
"Strong, viable intelligence is the most effective way to keep America safe. I look forward to continuing my work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to strengthen our Intel community and make sure they have the resources they need to keep Americans safe," the congressman said.
Thompson, who represents a portion of Lake County, was first selected to serve on the committee in 2007.
The committee has jurisdiction over the intelligence community and intelligence-related activities by the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and other agencies within the departments of defense, state, justice and treasury.


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I don't mean YOUR body, specifically (you should know more about your body than anyone else, except maybe your doctor).
I'm referring to the human body in general. Humans have far more in common as a species than differences, so maybe this is all about you, me and us — specifically.
You know what goose bumps are — when your skin's crawling and your flesh gets all bumpy like the skin of a, well, plucked goose, and the hair on your arms and your neck bristles.
You have no control over the sensation and it occurs as a natural reaction when you are cold or experience a sudden strong emotion like fear or shock or excitement.
The technical name for goose bumps is cutis anserina. Since "cutis" is Latin for skin and "anserina" derives from "anser" (Latin for goose), the formal name for goose bumps really is "skin of the goose."
Why wouldn't they have called it "chicken bumps" since a plucked chicken's skin looks much the same as a plucked goose? Well, the goose effect is more pronounced but the main reason is that geese were the most common domestic fowl when the phrase was coined.
The involuntary mechanical action that causes goose bumps is called the pilomotor reflex.
Our bodies are almost entirely covered by hair (more about that later) even if the hairs are so minute you don't really know they're there. And attached to every single one of those hair follicles are tiny muscles just waiting to get an emergency alert from the automatic nervous system to tense up and jerk all those hairs, large and small, erect.
It's actually the same process a porcupine goes through when it is alarmed and arrays its needles against an enemy.
Now the reaction may be a necessary survival technique for porcupines, but it does human beings no earthly good.
It seems to be just a carry-over from when we were much hairier mammals. The erect hair would trap more warm air near the skin (thus cold as a stimuli) and also make a puffed-up hairy animal look larger (that's where the fear and surprise triggers come in).
We usually get goose bumps most strongly on the forearms, but the effect can happen anywhere on the body, including the head, legs and nipples (on both men and women).
As I mentioned before, human beings are literally covered with hair from head to toe.
The only parts of our body that don't have hair follicles are our lips, the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet. Even places you don't think have hair do have hair — it is so just so fine you can barely see it with the human eye.
So how many individual hairs do you think you have on your body?
Well, obviously there is quite a range from person to person, but we do have round numbers.
First, though, let us just consider the hairs on our heads. As a rough average, a normal adult has about 100,000 hairs on his or her scalp. That figure can range from 140,000 down to 90,000 — or less if you're balding.
To a large degree, the colour of your hair determines how many strands of hair you have. Red hair is the thickest and has fewest number of strands (90,000-98,000), followed by black, brown and blonde — with blonde being the scrawniest but having the greatest number (120,000-140,000).
Women's hair is only about half the diameter of men's hair, by the way.
I guess there are grad students somewhere counting hundreds of thousands of hairs on thousands of test subjects to come up with scientifically acceptable stats like these. All I can think is, thank gawd it's not me (either counting or being counted.)
So now that we know how many hairs are on the head, we should be able to extrapolate the total for the whole body.
I would have said 400,000-500,000. But I would have been wrong. Vastly, terribly wrong.
The scientists who keep track of these things tell us there are between 5 MILLION and 8 MILLION hairs on any given body. I get goose bumps all over my body just thinking about it.
Well, from hair it seems like a short jump to armpits (to me anyway).
Most people have two of 'em and the basic model comes equipped with hair — lots of hair — and sweat glands — lots of sweat glands.
The same scientists who count body hair also tell us the average adult human body has about two million sweat glands in the skin. I don't know the exact number, but a lot of them are concentrated in the armpit.
As a result, the dark, hot, hairy armpit is a veritable garden of Eden for bacteria. Our friends the scientists have found up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch mulching around in an armpit, compared to about 13,000 on your forearm or someplace else that is drier, less hairy and more exposed to air and sunlight.
(Just to really freak you out, your tongue is coated with far more bacteria than your armpit.)
The armpit also has a formal Latin medical name — axilla — although I don't know why "armpit" isn't good enough for most purposes.
It does help, I guess, when you're giving names to related things. Armpit sex, for example.
Yes, Virginia, there is a certain proportion of the population that becomes wildly aroused by the sight of and contact with armpits. So like every other human sexual proclivity, this one has been given a name — axillism (I thought that meant being a fan of Guns'n'Roses — but then maybe it does too).
But just to throw a wrench into the works, "axilla" is nowhere to be found when those freakin' scientists give a formal name to the state of having smelly armpits — that's "tragomaschalia."
It does have its advantages when you're talking to an odourously challenged co-worker or family member: "My, you're quite the tragomaschalian today, aren't you?" (The pronunciation is trago-mas-kal-ian.)
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Now why on earth did plumbers get this bum rap?
What about electricians or doctors or Starbucks baristas? Don't any of them ever squat? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it "gardeners bum" or plain ol' "squatters bum"?
Anyway, I just thought you'd like to know the formal name for butt crack. It's sometimes called the "natal cleft" but I prefer its more common technical name —"intergluteal cleft."
Now that's a body part name you can sink your teeth into — intergluteal cleft.
I think it's actually possible to say it without laughing like a nine-year-old, too.
Try it out loud: INTERGLUTEAL CLEFT.
Each bum cheek, by the way, is a "gluteus maximus" (which I think you already knew), thus the inter-gluteal cleft.
You'll be glad to know there is also a formal word for the state of having enormous buttocks — macropygia — and the state of having beautifully shaped buttocks — callipygia.
And yes, dammit, a macropygian butt can very definitely also be callipygian.
(The extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks has even another name — steatopygia.)
By the way, the slang word "keister" comes from the German "kiste" which means container or crate. In 19th-Century American criminal slang, "keister" referred to a burglar's tool bag. So if a burglar was sitting on his keister, he wasn't using the tools of his trade and earning his loot.
I think I've gone about as far as I can go with this one.
You know the pupil of one of David Bowie's eyes is much larger (usually) than the other. It happened when teenager Bowie (well, his name was David Jones then) got punched in the left eye during a fight over a girl with pal George Underwood.
It wasn't a hard punch, but it did a lot of damage and doctors feared at first that Bowie would lose the eye. He didn't, but the left eye was left permanently dilated.
The condition is called mydriasis, the "morbid dilation of the pupil of the eye."
The iris in both of Bowie's eyes is the same colour (sort of blueish, although the lousy colour balance on so many photos might lead you to think otherwise) but the left eye seems much darker because the pupil is wide open all the time. He doesn't see very well out of it, either, with lack of depth and colour perception.
Speaking of eyes and colour, here's something completely off topic from David Bowie: There is a condition in which people "see" specific colours when they hear words, letters and numbers.
People with this condition actually have their own colour-co-ordinated alphabets — and no two people "see" exactly the same colour for each letter.
It's a much more common condition than you would think.Our friends the scientists estimate that one in every 2,000 people has it to some degree. And about 90% of them are women.
An example of this, I'm told, is that when someone sees the word "chair" they might see it in blue. If the word "chair" was printed in red or another colour, the person would feel the word was wrong.
Similar conditions exist in which people see colours when they hear music. Likewise, other people smell sounds, see smells and hear colours.
The overall name for the experience is synaesthesia, which refers to the cross-over of sensation as a stimulus activates two of an individual's senses instead of one. As many as one in a thousand people are believed to have synaesthesia in some form.
And for a final shift of gears, everyone knows that all babies are born with blue eyes that usually change colour quite quickly. I don't know if there's some strange completing of the circle, but the colour blue becomes the most difficult to see as one ages.
I imagine most people "know" that right-handers supposedly live longer than lefties — eight or nine years is usually the cited difference — but it's just not true.
The most complete study of the issue was published in 1993 in the American Journal of Public Health and found no statistical variance in the death rates of left- and- right-handed people.
But did you know that your right shoe supposedly wears out faster than your left shoe? That applies to righties and lefties equally, I'm told, although I think my left shoes wear out first. I think the real difference-maker is which of your legs is longer.
And the right lung takes in more air than the left — unless (and this explains it) you're one of those people with your heart on the right side, in which case the lung thing is reversed.
Now here's one I have not been able to prove or disprove. I really rather doubt its veracity, but it has a certain poignancy so I'm going to pass it on: When you're crying with happiness, the first tear comes out of the right eye's tear duct; when you're crying from pain or sadness, the first tear comes from the left.
(This probably plays off Egyptian mythology in which the left eye represents Horus and the moon while the right eye represents Re and the sun. I personally prefer the happy-sad dichotomy.)
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King of the Garden
With a cigar in his hand, Red Auerbach guided the Boston Celtics to 16 NBA Championships.
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Red Auerbach saunters around the perimeter of the parquet floor at a recent Celtic practice. Slightly hunched at the shoulder, he looks as he ever did. Jammed between his index and middle fingers is a Hoyo de Monterrey, poking ahead of him, as if suggesting that the only way is forward. Walking with his friend John Poppell, Red appears ruddy, the forehead broad and freckled, the eyes wide and quick with apprehension. Larry Bird is being interviewed some 50 feet from where Red walks. "I would play with a broken arm for Red," says Bird, now scouting and making appearances for the Celtics. "Because he would do the same thing if he could. When he talked, you listened." When Red arrives, Bird bounces up, leaving the seat to Red. Call it Celtic protocol.
"Are those Converse?" the red-haired legend from Brooklyn asks the red-haired legend from French Lick, Indiana. "Yeah," replies Bird, with typical economy. "Here's the man you want," says Bird. "It's a cigar magazine, Red." Bird flies off to the baseline 10 feet away and starts dropping three-point bombs.
Although he still makes some phone calls from Boston and Washington, D.C., Red Auerbach no longer runs the day-to-day operations of the Boston Celtics. For that purpose he hired Dave Gavitt, senior executive vice president, some four years ago. But this weekend Red is dressed and ready.
That night Brandeis University will give a retirement roast-and-toast dinner for Kevin McHale. (Former Celtic Danny Ainge stole the roast, giving a Lettermanesque "Top Ten List" on why McHale retired. No. 3: "Never learned to speak jive."No. 10: "Realizes how goofy he looked in tank top and shorts.") Tomorrow, McHale's No. 32 will rise heavenward at Boston Garden, where it will rub shoulders with Bob Cousy and Bill Russell, John Havlicek and Bird and a dozen other immortals. There, championship banners and players' numbers hover like haunting sheets, mocking the efforts of opponents below.
Despite a team that languishes below .500 in fourth place--despite the fact that this is Super Bowl Sunday--Celtic glory fills the air. And not having Red there would be like having an old-timers' day and not inviting Mays or Mantle.
Red Auerbach is NBA basketball. He is the beginning and the end of the hardwood, the embodiment of a half century of the league's collective wisdom. When he began coaching professional ball in 1946, the league was on the brink of financial ruin.
Before the 16 world championships, before the victory cigar that announced that the enemy was somewhere between simmering and cooked, before Celtic mystique and the parquet on the causeway, there was Brooklyn.
Arnold Jacob Auerbach was born on September 20, 1917, the son of Marie Thompson and Hyman Auerbach, a Russian immigrant. Red grew up in the hardscrabble Brooklyn neighborhood called Williamsburg, where his father ran a dry cleaners. Red helped out with some of the pressing duties and also earned nickels washing taxi cabs. "I appreciated the fact that my father was a hard-working man," Red says, explaining his father's influence. "Also that he was well liked."
"In my area of Brooklyn there was no football, no baseball," he recalls. "They were too expensive. They didn't have the practice fields. We played basketball and handball and some softball in the street." The great pro teams of the 1920s and '30s were the New York Rens (short for "Renaissance," because the team played at the Renaissance Ballroom in Harlem), the Harlem Globetrotters and the original Celtics. The teams of 10 changed rosters, with players providing their services to the highest bidder. Fifteen dollars a game was a competitive price.
A teenager during the Depression, Red went to Eastern District High School and began courting basketball. As a senior, he made all-Brooklyn, second team. After Seth Low Junior College (part of Columbia University) closed in Brooklyn during his freshman year, he transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. It was there, under coach Bill Reinhart, that he learned the running game that would later become a Celtic trademark. With Reinhart's recommendation, Auerbach landed a position as basketball director at prestigious St. Alban's Prep in suburban Washington, D.C.
He married Dorothy Lewis in the spring of 1941. He also got his master's degree and joined the faculty at Roosevelt High School in Washington D.C., teaching history, health and physical education. An article that he wrote on indoor obstacle courses for the Journal of Health and Physical Education was the beginning of a publishing career that would include five basketball books, translated into a half dozen languages. To make extra money, he refereed basketball games. In 1943 he enlisted in the Navy and, before being discharged from the Norfolk base in 1946, had committed to memory the names of several basketball players, including another Red--the Hall of Fame coach of the New York Knicks, William "Red" Holzman.
While Auerbach was in the service, Walter Brown had helped start the Basketball Association of America. Mike Uline, owner of the Washington Caps, wanted to hire Auerbach as coach. However, as Auerbach was married and soon to start a family, the move was fraught with risk. "I had a permanent job already, but I felt I could always get a job if it didn't work out." He took the job, filling a roster with the names of players he remembered from the Navy.
Red was only 29. "Some of the guys on the team were older than me," he says with a laugh. "I just sold the guy a bill of goods to get the job. A lot of guys had better credentials." He paid no one on the team more than $8,500 and insisted on defense and conditioning from his players. In the 1946-'47 season, his team finished with 49 wins and 11 losses. After three years with Washington, he began coaching Tri-Cities (Moline, Illinois; Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa). But after bickering with owner Ben Kerner about a questionable trade, Auerbach quit the Tri-Cities club. Meanwhile, Walter Brown, now the owner of the Celtics, was in debt and looking for a head coach for one last go-round with Boston.
He selected Red. Under Auerbach, the Celtics of the early 1950s were good, but not good enough. Fortunately, they had Bob Cousy during Red's first year at the helm. The team turned from a 22-46 team in 1949 to 39-30 in 1950. Cousy was good right out of the box, scoring 15.6 points and averaging nearly five assists a game in his rookie year. But they almost didn't get him.
Auerbach had called Cousy a "local yokel," saying he was highly touted because he played at nearby Holy Cross. Auerbach passed on him in the draft,instead selecting six-foot-eleven-inch center Charlie Share. Local fans were irate. Due to outrageous fortune--several teams had folded--owner Brown offered Cousy $9,000 a year. He signed. Had Cousy taken umbrage at Auerbach's "local yokel" remark and not signed, things might have turned out very differently. Celtic luck had its origin right there.
Besides Cousy, the Celtics had a 20-point scorer in Ed Macauley. "We had a good team, but we would get tired in the end and couldn't get the ball," Red recalls. A big man was sorely lacking. They went 39-27 in '52, 46-25 in '53, 42-40 in '54.Says Cousy, "We were good, but hadn't won yet. I remember one day in 1956, Red said, 'I think I'm getting a guy that will change things.' "
To get Bill Russell required a bit of doing, however. Rochester was drafting first, St. Louis second, and the whole world knew about Russell's exploits at the 1956 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and the University of San Francisco, where his team won 55 straight. Rochester was strong up- front and looked to draft Sihugo Green. Owner Walter Brown gave team manager Les Harrison additional incentive to avoid Russell. If he passed by Russell, he would arrange for Rochester to get the touring Ice Capades two weeks later. Recalls Auerbach: "Walter got him the Ice Capades, and Harrison said, 'I give you my word that we'll stay away from Russell.' "
But all this maneuvering would have been fruitless if St. Louis had gone and picked Russell second. Auerbach called former boss Ben Kerner to see if the latter would make another unwise deal. Auerbach offered all-star Macauley. Kerner badly needed stars to keep his franchise afloat. But he wanted more and asked for guard Cliff Hagan, too. Auerbach agreed.
With Russell in the pivot, the Celtics had a spider-armed, tireless intimidator. He had run track in college and could outrun everyone on the team. "Russell could change a game without scoring," says Don Nelson, coach of the Golden State Warriors and teammate of Russell in the 1960s. Cousy recalls how Russell would deliberately goaltend a few shots at the outset of the game--just to intimidate the other team. He also recalls that Russell's fury on the court owed in part to the racial slurs he endured. "What made him special was his fantastic reactions," Red remembers. "He was a brilliant guy; you couldn't fool him twice. He had long arms. He was interested in defense. Most big men were interested in scoring. Russell was the opposite; he'd let the other guys shoot the ball."
In his first year, Russell led the team in rebounding, even though he missed the season's first two months. The Celtics won their first world championship that year: 1957.
In 1958, Russell injured his ankle in the finals against St. Louis and the Hawks won in six games. That year was pivotal in NBA basketball. It was the last time that anyone besides the Celtics would win for eight straight years.
TNT analyst and former coach Hubie Brown remembers the Celtic style. "He (Red) had a relentless fast break, pressure defense and Bill Russell in the back that allowed him to play this style. They were also very organized in their play sets. Then, I feel he had the ability to motivate them individually, because it is extremely difficult to maintain excellence, and when you look at eight in a row, it's breathtaking. It comes down to that ability to maintain excellence. He knew how to push the right button on each guy to get him to be subservient to the team."
Through it all, Red typically ate Chinese food in his room between games, conserving his energy for the grueling travel demands that included more trains and cars than planes.
The 1960-61 squad may have been the Celtics' finest under Auerbach. The team won 57 and lost 22 and, amazingly, had six scorers averaging between 15 and 21 points a game. No Celtic landed in the Top Ten in scoring. As Hubie Brown surmises, under Auerbach the Celtics understood the maxim: "There is no 'I' in team."
"In any good coach is the ability to communicate," Auerbach explains. "In other words, a lot of coaches know their X's and O's, but the players must absorb it. Team was important; we didn't care who the starting five was. The sixth-man concept was my idea."
Auerbach could be a taskmaster in practice. Celtic success stories are reminiscent of old Yankee stories. Asked once why the Yankees beat the Red Sox all the time, Tommy "Old Reliable" Henrich said that when you walked through the Red Sox parking lot, you saw one Cadillac after another. "We had to work for ours," said Henrich, alluding to Yankee management's habit of being tough salary negotiators. He explained that by winning the World Series, the Yankees were often able to double their modest salaries. The same desire was present with the Celtics. Sure they had talent, but they also worked harder than other teams. Says league executive and former Celtic forward Tom "Satch" Sanders: "Defense and conditioning were the best parts of those teams."
"In those days you had eight teams, 10 guys, 80 players altogether," says Hubie Brown. "Nobody had a two-year contract. Everybody had a year-to-year game. You will never see that kind of hunger and thirst again. Now you have 28 teams, long-term contracts, mega-dollars, with no control over the players. And you're still not seeing better basketball."
As the Celtics' routinely whipped the opposition, Red would frequently sit back and enjoy the end of the game--always with a cigar. "I smoked all different cigars at that time," he says. "Sometimes fans would give me some. I did TV promotions for King Edwards." Hence, the "victory cigar." "It all boils down to this. I used to hate these college coaches or any coach that was 25 points ahead with three minutes left to go, and they're up there yellin' and coachin' because they're on TV, and they want their picture on, and they get recognition. To me the game was over. The day's work is done. Worry about the next game. This game is over. So I would light a cigar and sit on the bench and just watch it. The game was over, for all intents and purposes. I didn't want to rub anything in or show anybody what a great coach I was when I was 25 points ahead. Why? I gotta win by 30? What the hell difference does it make?
"The commissioner [Maurice Podoloff] said you can't smoke the cigars on the bench. But there were guys smoking cigarettes on the bench. I said, 'What is this, an airplane--you can smoke cigarettes but not cigars?' No way. I wouldn't do it.
"I started with a pipe," he explains. "The pipe was less expensive to start with." The change to a cigar was fortuitous; a "victory pipe" might not have worked.
"In Cincinnati one night, management gave out 5,000 cigars to the fans. They were going to light up when the Royals won the game. You talk about motivation. I had the team so sky-high we never let them get in front. We beat the hell out of them."
A player's perspective on Red's smoking can be found in Dan Shaugnessy's Evergreen. In the book, Bob Cousy says: "It [the cigar] made us all uncomfortable. It was more offensive to us and everyone else on the road. When he did this, it got everyone's attention. And hell, we had enough hostility focused on us as it was. This was another trigger point. The fans were already pissed off because then it looked like they'd lose the game. And they did. This was an irritant. He sat benignly and comfortably on the bench, smoking away, with a guard behind him. Meanwhile, we were out on the floor taking all this abuse. The feeling among the players was: 'Why get their attention anymore? Why piss 'em off?' The fans would get more belligerent and hostile toward us, and we had to bust our tails to keep the lead because once he went for the cigar, the other team's intensity went up 100 percent. I hated that thing. Paul Seymour [a Syracuse Nationals player from 1949 through 1960] told me that his ambition in life was not to win an NBA championship as much as it was to have Auerbach light up prematurely and lose, so that he could go down and stuff that cigar in his face. That's all Seymour wanted to do in sports. It created this kind of reaction from opponents. As players, who needs it?"
"He had his own style," Hubie Brown says. "I think you would have to talk to coaches. They were the people being shown up at that time. That's why I say he had a distinct style. Lombardi had a distinct style; you can't imitate either one."
Tom "Satch" Sanders didn't mind the smoke on the bench. "But the locker room was another story; it was close quarters in there!" Would Red put out his cigar? "Are you kidding?" Sanders snaps.
With smoke and 13 years of Russell, the Celtics copped 11 world championships. But after Russell's retirement in 1969, hard times followed. Word around the league was that Red had won with Russell, but then came the challenge: "Let's see him win without him." Hubie Brown is unimpressed with that view. "He had Russell, and he won. You think about this," he pauses, measuring each word. "Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Don Baylor never won. That's the answer to that. Go up to when Red retired (1966, when he appointed Russell as player-coach)-- Baylor, Bob Pettit, Oscar Robertson, West and Chamberlain were the best all-time at that point. Los Angelesgot three of them and couldn't win."
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I'll probably be getting some St. Benardus (Is that how it is spelled?) soon.
Stuff is really good.
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I'll probably be getting some St. Benardus (Is that how it is spelled?) soon.
Stuff is really good.
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Guessing you mean Yuengling? One of my favorites. Was all over the place back in PA since thats where its brewed. At that price point, not much competes with it.
Unfortunately its not out here in Cali. I miss it greatly.
I had one of these last night at dinner, enjoyed it quite a bit.
That Snow Cap stuff looks tasty. As for Yuengling, they sell it in Ohio, and I live right on the border and can go there and get cases whenever I want or go get it on draft at the bars. The stuff is really good. I don't know why they won't sell it in Indiana yet, and if I'm not mistaken it was not until recently that Ohio got it. Good stuff for a cheap price.
I was sippin' on some Sam Adams Winter Lager tonight. I know, nothing unheard of, and I know it is everywhere, but it was good.
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After my Sam Adams tonight, I might get back into drinking darker and different beers, besides the usual, Bud Light, Coors Light/Domestics. So much for losing weight.
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2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Yeah Yuengling doesn't ship west really. Only reason they are in the south is cause the opened a brewery down in Tampa (i think its Tampa, I know its in Florida). I really do miss the stuff. Also miss getting a keg of it for $60 and having a good weekend
With the B-ball talk being kind of slow I was poking around the site and found this thread. Big craft beer fan and think Indy has a pretty decent local beer scene. Every time I come through I load up on Sun King Osiris, Flat 12 Pogues Run Porter and a few others. Also try to visit 20 Tap for a burger and some beers if I can squeeze it in.
Have a friend that lives in Lowell, IN and have had a great time hanging out at the Three Floyds tap room. This year we are planning a MI beer tour. Going to hit Bells, Founders and the Hop Cat among a few others.
Here is what is in the fridge now and should also be available to the Indy guys. Great beer if you like a big tropical IPA.
It's really hard to beat the Tripel de Ripple from Brugge. Great flavor, high alcohol content.
Beck's Sapphire - lousy commercials during the Super Bowl. Pretty good beer.
Strangely enough, the bottle says both, "brewed under the German Purity Law of 1516" and "Product of USA."
Go figure.
Lately I've been sticking with authentic brews from the motherland - Radeberger's Pilsner and Warsteiner.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
InBev, the Belgian company that owns Stella Artois, acquired Beck's somewhere along the way.
InBev merged with Anheuser Busch a couple of years ago. In the past year, most Beck's brands sold in the US have been brewed in St. Louis, not imported from Germany.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
A friend of mine is a visiting brewmaster at Sun King (he is starting his own brewery in Cincinnati)
They have an event but it may be full:
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
enjoying a nice Anchor Summer Beer. Gotta love all the amount of breweries in Northern California
Anyone try anything from Triton Brewing Company? They have some at the liquor stores in Plainfield. I've been hooked on "Fieldhouse Wheat".
Their beer tastes sooo good. Figured some Pacer fans might like the design thats what made me want to try it.
this thread needs to come back.
Looking back at drinking Beck's.... what was I thinking. I have fallen down the rabbit hole of craft beer and dont even want to come back out.
Anything from Lagunitas always hits the spot. Loved the High Westified barrel aged stout they had out earlier this year. And how can't you like some Brown Shugga???? Anyone that visits Norther California and enjoys beer needs to check out their brewery, they always have some 1 offs there that are great. And just down the road is Russian River. Just get the flight there. Definitely worth it. really want to get a trip to San Diego soon to check out all the great breweries down there. Ballast Point, Stone, Alesmith, Mission and I know I'm leaving some out.
If you're talking San Diego breweries, you gotta talk Lost Abbey. Which coincidentally enough is the brewery that helped spawn this thread 6 years ago.
I hate that I used connoisseurs in the titles. 21 year old me was a twat.
Glad I'm not the only one who cringes at some of the stuff I posted on this board years ago...
I was in San Jose CA a few months ago, if you're ever there you gotta try out ISO beers downtown. They have lots of offerings from smaller breweries out West that you just don't see much of in the Midwest or the East Coast. Here is their Yelp page: http://www.yelp.com/biz/iso-beers-san-jose. They don't offer any food but there is an awesome sub sandwich place next door, and they don't care if you take in outside food.
My Dad is a big craft brew guy and is obsessed with Gumballhead from Three Floyd's. Last time we were in Indiana he found a six pack at the local liquor store and was surprised they even had it in stock. He bought it the day I left town so I didn't get a chance to try it, does it really live up to the hype? He prefers it over Zombie Dust but he loves that stuff too.
21 year old everyone was a twat! We get older and wiser...
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Yep, definitely on the list.
I'll have to remember ISO beers in SJ. I'm sure something will take me there sooner than later. If you are ever in Oakland, gotta check out Beer Revolution. Have a friend who works over there now, just a great selection, 50 beers on tap. Also in SF, go to Mikkeller Bar. Great selection and they brew some damn good beer themselves.
Gumballhead is awful good and a great summer beer IMO. Awesome use of Amarillo hops and low enough in alcohol that one can knock back a few without regretting it.
I think Three Floyd's is a little overrated in general but their hoppy beers are usually top notch.
Been hitting the local brews hard as of late. Sacramento can definitely hold their own when it comes to beer. Missed the CA Craft Brewers even the other weekend, but it seems like it was a big success so it should be back here next year at least. Track 7 is probably the best here. They are growing pretty quickly. Hopefully they can get some of their stuff out your guys way some day
Also anyone else love barley wines?


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The Egyptian-based EPEG consortium won the $220 million Jordanian gas pipeline tender issued earlier this year, reported Jordan Times. To be implemented on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) basis, the pipeline will transport gas originating in neighboring Egypt through the southern Aqaba port into the central and northern regions of the Hashemite Kingdom.
The consortium includes the Egypt Holding Gas Company, Petrojet, GASCO and Emppi. Expected to boost inter-Arab investment, the natural gas export deal to Jordan is part of a pact signed between the two countries in June 2001 within the framework of a major project to transport Egyptian gas to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The 278-kilometer-long gas pipeline will be extended from the Gulf of Aqaba to reach the Jordanian mainland.
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How much you wanna bet if he visits that web site he visits PD!
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How much you wanna bet if he visits that web site he visits PD!
Now, I expected to get on here and see everyone laughing at AJ slamming the RATS board. Come on guys!!!
Asked afterward if O'Neal's absence contributed to Charlotte's win, Knight bristled.
"What about Primoz? They didn't have Shaq, but we didn't have Primoz," he said.
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Now that is funy
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I hope he reads us too; that'd be neat.
I might even feel bad
I was going to say that when I saw "24 seconds" and AJ in the same thread title, and a reply from Ragnar....
I was really intrigued.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
Even if he said we were all morons?
Hard to disagree about the Indystar, though. That place has gone downhill since the Pistons moved in.
Speaking of which, I've seen quite a few Stones fans signing up on this board, although so far they seem to be lurking.
This space for rent.
They all follow in the footsteps of the great Kstat.
Maybe an official 'Celebrities Post Here' thread?
Ok, maybe not.
We should have someone post on Indystar...a topic among the lines of "AJ - read here instead" and spam the Pacers Digest link
That's so cool that those guys read message boards like these.
I hope he has a better impression of PD.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.


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New Orleans — Two former high-ranking officials at the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office were each charged today with a single felony count of conspiring to commit bribery for their role in an alleged bid-rigging scheme at the Orleans Parish jail complex.
Former purchasing director John Sens and former maintenance chief Col. Gerard Hoffman Jr. were identified in two bills of information filed in federal court Tuesday morning. They have agreed to cooperate with government prosecutors, the documents indicated.
The government charged that between 2007 and 2011, Sens, Hoffman and two unidentified businessmen "engaged in a rigged bidding process in which real bids would be submitted, along with phony bids, to give the appearance of competition."
The fake bids, being higher, made the bids submitted by the corrupt companies appear favorable, the government said.
The bid-rigging was done with the knowledge and apparent blessing of Sens and Hoffman, each of whom was rewarded with cash and other gifts, the government said.
The bills of information did not identify "Businessman A" or "Businessman B," the individuals in charge of the allegedly corrupt companies, but indicated that the former had "various corporations" doing work at the jail; the latter is reported to have done electrical work. The government's filings today said that the contract-steering scandal added up to millions of dollars in billings for the two businessmen over a period of about five years.
Sens was reassigned by Sheriff Marlin Gusman last summer as news of the federal probe broke. He resigned from the jail Friday.
"The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office has cooperated with every request made of us with the authorities in this case. We will continue to cooperate fully," Gusman's spokesman Marc Ehrhardt said Tuesday.
Sens' attorney, Brian Capitelli, said, "We'll be entering a plea and, pursuant to our plea agreement, we'll be cooperating with the federal government."
Gusman brought in Sens in 2005 after he was first elected sheriff. John Sens is the brother of Judge Paul Sens, a close friend of Marlin Gusman, whose wife was given a job by Gusman. Hoffman had been employed at the jail since 1976.
Gusman is expected to appear before the New Orleans City Council's criminal justice committee Wednesday afternoon to update the council on progress being made on construction of a new jail.
The long-anticipated bills of information indicated that Sens and Hoffman have agreed to cooperate with the federal government in a deal that spares them jail time but leaves them on the hook for monetary damages.
The bill of information shows that Sens and Hoffman admitted accepting gifts and cash in exchange for steering contracts in the direction of the favored vendors:
- Businessman B is reported to have rewarded John Sens with five Blue Dog prints by Cajun artist George Rodrigue, purchased for about $4,000. The prints were "in exchange for the official acts Sens was undertaking to steer Businessman B OPSO work," the government alleges.
- Businessman A "paid for the digging, installation, and finishing of a pool at Sens' house in Waveland, Mississippi." That work is estimated to have been worth $25,000.
- Businessman A gave Sens $30,000 in cash from 2008 to 2011.
- Businessman B did free electrical work at Hoffman's house valued at $2,500.
- Businessman B provided Hoffman with a storage container and trailer valued at $5,000.
Under the terms of their deal, Sens and Hoffman are each required to make restitution of at least $67,903.25.
"The government provides notice of its intent to seek a personal money judgment against the defendants in the amount of fraudulently-obtained proceeds" and will seize any available assets to fulfill the restitution requirement, the bills of information stated.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- I still remember the moment I heard that Thorsten Heins had been named CEO of Research In Motion ( RIMM) to replace Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. The one-year anniversary was last Sunday. I remember because it came in the middle of the NFC Championship between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants.I recall thinking: How can this company announce this news in the middle of this football game? It was the perfect symbol of how tone deaf the company had been with their shareholder base. I'd never heard of Thorsten Heins but I assumed he was a puppet for outgoing co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, because a.) he'd worked at RIM since 2007 and b.) I had heard he'd been hand picked by Lazaridis. For about the next six months, each time Heins spoke publicly, it seemed like he put his foot in his mouth. It was incredible to me how poor a communicator he was. In one of his first interviews, he said that RIM was doing just fine and the media and investors immediately jumped down his throat. When RIMM pushed back the BlackBerry 10 launch to January this past summer, anyone who hadn't already written off RIMM did. Heins displayed no sense of urgency. In July, I remember calling him the "worst communicating CEO I'd ever seen." However, what wasn't obvious to me then, but which I began to hear over the end of the summer and then into the Fall, was that Heins was a solid, execution-focused CEO. Most employees actually liked him, even though he announced in the summer that he'd cut one-third of the workforce to conserve cash. But in the past seven months, it's really impossible to point to any mistakes that Heins has made as CEO to this point a week before the critical BB10 launch. The cost cuts. The cash management to date. Previewing BB10 to carriers and critical "opinion leaders." Offering cash awards for developers to port apps over to the new OS. Ensuring almost all of the top 100 apps were there. Delivering a snappy phone. Making the BB10 very interesting for their heartbeat-core enterprise and government customers (with "Balance" between work and personal). Offering existing users and CIOs incentives to move to BB10. Getting carriers onboard to support the new phones. Not selling the company at the lows or doing some partnership with another company that wasn't beneficial for RIMM but to make it look like RIMM had a big brother behind it.
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Mike Trout was not in the starting lineup for the Angels on Monday night after feeling tightness in his right hamstring rounding second base on a third-inning double Sunday against the Astros.
Trout continued to play in the game until coming out in the sixth inning.
"It happened when I made the turn around second yesterday. It just didn't feel right," Trout said. "When I scored on a base hit and slid into home I didn't really feel anything there. But after I got done in the game, after I got done icing it, it was pretty sore."
Trout, who has reached base safely in 40 consecutive games, is planning on playing today.
"Yeah, that's the plan, it's a see-how-it-goes kind of thing," Trout said.
Trout, who is batting .333 with 21 home runs, 78 RBI and 88 runs scored, was hoping to play Monday.
"You always come in with the mentality that you're going to play," Trout said. "But if the trainers don't think it's a good idea to play, I'll trust it. I trust their decision, and we'll see how it is tomorrow."
Trout said he felt "grabbing" in the hamstring on Sunday, but not on Monday, and that there was no MRI done.
"It's not that serious," he said.
Trout is an American League MVP contender for the second straight season and been one of the few bright spots all season for the Angels, who will be cautious with their young star.
"We're going to stay away from him today and err on the side of caution," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "If he's available to pinch hit (Monday), great."
Trout said he'd relish the opportunity to pinch hit or help the team any way he can off the bench.
Trout is third in the American League with 63 extra-base hits and third in runs.
"I'm going to be available for sure, to pinch hit or anything," Trout said. "I'm always ready.
Kendrick progressing
Howie Kendrick, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list Aug. 11 (retroactive Aug. 6) with a hyper-extended left knee, is progressing, but not ready to go yet.
"I know he's been feeling better, but translating it into how he is for what he has to do on the baseball field, he still has some things he needs to work through," Scioscia said.
Kendrick is batting .301 with 11 home runs and 47 RBI for the Angels this season.


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A strong downburst of wind tore through the middle of North Platte late Thursday night, uprooting trees, tearing off branches and blowing things around.
The damage began a few blocks northwest of Buffalo Bill Ave. and A St. and continued across town past Philip and Tabor.
The width of the most severe damage along the path was generally 2-4 blocks.
Meteorologist Kenny Roberg of the National Weather Service said the storm came from the west, with straight winds of 60 miles an hour that increased to up to 100 mph as the storm cut through town.
Roberg said the storm gained strength in northwest Lincoln County. As it went through North Platte strong "wet microbursts" -- downbursts of wind -- caused the worst damage.
As trees went down, branches shorted some primary electrical lines and took out power. Reports of electrical outages began to come in around 10:30 p.m., Cindy Huntsman of the Municipal Light and Water department said.
City crews went to work right away to restore power. Power to main lines was restored by 4:30 a.m.
The worst damage was around the Westfield shopping plaza. A few blocks east, trees were torn apart all around the First Baptist Church at B and McDonald, but the church suffered only minor damage.
The west end of the downbursts occurred in the area of 2700 W. Fifth, Huntsman said.
Ed Moore at 2615 Wright was looking out the front window, heard the downburst wind and saw trees fall. The burst tore off the south side of his maple tree right in front of his house, but the tree closer to the house was undamaged.
Near B and Sherman, Derek Thompson said his ears started to hurt and the house shook for 2-4 minutes. A locust tree was torn up, but most of it missed the house. His backyard was strewn with tree limbs.
Part of a roof was torn off a duplex on Anna. Cars, backyard fences and sheds were damaged by wind and falling branches. Fortunately, most of the physical damage was apparently confined to trees, Huntsman said.
A large branch broke off a cottonwood tree at the McKinley Education center and damaged the roof, Maintenance Director Scott Pursley said.
Huntsman said all available city workers were out on the streets cleaning up debris during the night and through the day Friday. Crews took the limbs to the city transfer station near the Lake Maloney inlet.
Anyone can drop storm debris at the transfer station at no charge, she said.
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At least they listen
Not saying that it shouldn't have happened, but at least they took action.
After a flurry of complaints, O2 engineers appear to have shut off the proxy server quirk that leaked to websites the phone numbers of punters browsing the net on 3G connections. The disclosure that affected all users of O2's 3G network on iPhone and Android in the UK was highlighted earlier today. O2 has yet to issue an …
Not saying that it shouldn't have happened, but at least they took action.
No longer happenning on my Giffgaff connection.
the techies at O2 are spending their work time reading El Reg?!
The deluge of press requests from a number of sites including el Reg, plus the fact their @O2 Twitter feed exploded with complaints!
Good to see social networking working as it should :D
Sky News covered it, apparently.
"After the break, we at pot central have proof that the kettle is black."
I wonder if the strange email from firstname.lastname@example.com is related to this change?
Anyone else get an email containing '6565' at around 1pm?
Mine had 666 with instructions to place the phone screen against my forehead and press hard.
press hard? where's the 'hard' key?
Still seeing references to this affecting only 3G, or only iPhones / Androids. It affected ALL traffic going through O2's web proxies, so affected ALL phones equally regardless of generation.
Yep..... I've got an old LG, 2.5G, it also had the number added to the headers.
Since I almost never use that to browse with, and use Opera Mini when I do, it won't have been an issue for me.
Was it a recent error or had they been doing this for years?
First highlighted in something like 2009, when a number of networks were fingered for doing much the same. Goodness knows how long previously to that, but we can safely assume it had didn't start right then.
I've read somewhere else today that every network has the number attached as one of the headers whilst it's floating inside their own network, for billing, diagnostics etc. but is stripped out before being sent outside.
So my guess is somebody ran a test and forgot to put the filter back on.
It would be ridiculous if every website got your phone number
Mark Jones
07744 4385931
Really? I've got no data connection at all on Giff Gaff, christ knows what they've done.
As of today, there's a daily limit to how much data you can use on PAYG. It used to be that even if you went over the bolt-on limits etc, you could use as much as you liked for £1 a day. Now I've just got a message saying I've used today's maximum (don't know what that is).
I suspect they had to change some kit to enable this, and misconfigured it/left the default configuration in place.
If I vaguely remember correctly, that was changed from either 100MB or 200MB (according to their verbal T&Cs on the "Bolt Ons info" IVR section) to something ridiculously low (either 10MB or 50MB) , a few months ago - presumably as a result of people abusing it for streaming media.
(I'll admit that I used to use Mobbler quite heavily over UMTS, whilst commuting to university, after I figured out how to tune its bitrate settings, so that tracks didn't play at twice their proper speed).
I have two devices connected through O2. One is my regular 'phone, and its number is public, easy to find, and known by many. The other is my pocket-puter, whose number I make no attempt to remember, and never give to anyone, but which gets used for almost all my web access on the move (with the exception of railtrack, whose website works much better on the smaller phone).
Observation: the phone whose number is public gets all the spam.
Inference: spammers aren't abusing the information formerly sent to them by O2. I expect they hadn't discovered it.
A few giffgaff (O2 MVNO) newbies report increased levels of SMS spam (accident compensation scams and the like) since porting in. Coincidence, insider selling details, or this flaw? Who knows...
IMO the whole thing is rather overstated, with the risk being theoretical more than practical, but not 100% reassuringly so. I'd imagine ad servers have been above-averagely aggressive in harvesting the information.


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Asa Trinh-Smith
Lecturer in Dance
B.A., - Hanoi Institute of Theatre and Cinema, 1984
M.F.A. - Hanoi Cultural University, 1985
Professional Experience
Instructor of Professional Dance – National Dance Company of Vietnam
Professional dancer in Vietnam, 1975-1987, toured the World performing as a representative of the Vietnamese Government
Instructor of Asian Dance – Vietnamese American Community Center, Washington, DC
Performer, J.F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 2004 & 2005
Performer, Sacramento's Flor Y Canto Festival, 2004
Performer, Vietnamese Ballet on tour in Russia, Kazakhstan, & Thailand
Courses Taught
- Ballet I TTH 4:00-5:15PM
- Ballet II TTH 10:00-11:15AM
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The residency programs and fellowships at Wilson Medical Center, United Health Services Hospitals continue our commitment of over 50 years to teaching tomorrow's physicians. While primary care is the emphasis in our three-year categorical programs, we are widely recognized for our Transitional and Preliminary Year internships, Podiatry Residency, Sports Medicine and Geriatric Fellowships.
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Greater Binghamton has many golf courses and hosts a Professional Golf tour event. There are professional opera, theater and symphony orchestra companies nearby. Major metropolitan areas such as: New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., are only a few hours away:
Philadelphia, PA 190 milesNew York, NY 200 miles Buffalo, NY 205 miles Washington, DC 294 miles Boston, MA 296 miles
At Wilson Medical Center, we are as committed to undergraduate medical education as we are to our residency programs. Medical Students are given support and encouragement from attendings that recognize the importance of hands-on learning.
Please apply through VSAS, the Visiting Student Application Service, www.aamc.org/vsas. You will find our institution listed as United Health Services Hosp. International Students please contact our Student Coordinator, Cindy Cleveland 607-763-6391.
Applicants for residency at Wilson Medical Center must complete an application through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application System). Deadline to apply is December 31.
Applicants for fellowship programs should refer to the fellowship section of our website for information on applying to these programs.
We participate in both the AOA Match and the NRMP Match.
We do not offer observerships or externships.
ERAS: www.aamc.org/students/eras/start.htmNational Matching Service (AOA): www.natmatch.com/aoairp/NRMP: www.nrmp.org
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Curator brothers Carlos and David C. de Baca who are both from San Diego, CA. have been involved in the custom car culture for more than 25 years and they have produced and promoted many local custom automotive shows all over Southern California. Their latest exhibition called Cruisin' Califas took place at the Oceanside Museum of Art. The exhibition displayed lowrider art in many formats such as sculptures, photography, paintings and several other presentations.
The Cruisin' Califas Exhibit also brought together some of the godfathers in the lowrider art scene such as Mike Pickel, Teen Angel, Magu and Howard Gribble.