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"I played a lot of bad ball," Luck said, as his 27 incompletions and three interceptions would indicate. "I'm thankful for the great defense keeping us in there. I'm thankful to be on a team that just keeps playing."
This is Luck's team, now 8-4 and within clear sight of a playoff berth. While it's true everyone keeps playing, NFL teams ride so often on the example of their quarterback.
The win Sunday was the worst and best of Luck.
"Show me a guy who has the most resilience in the NFL, and I'll introduce you to my quarterback Andrew Luck," Colts tight end Dwayne Allen said. "He's a guy, he throws three picks. Most guys would be down. He owns up on the sideline. He's like, 'My fault. I'll take care of it.'
"To lead us down on that final drive, that final play. Unbelievable."
Actually, it feels familiar. For those of us who watched and marveled at former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and his late-game heroics over the years, we know the impossible can become probable. But for a rookie to do it, on a day where he seemed to have no groove in Motown, it makes even the cynical believe something inexplicable and wonderful is happening for these Colts.
Some of the resilience can be credited to the inspiration of coach Chuck Pagano, whose battle with leukemia prompted the "ChuckStrong" theme and an attitude to rise above circumstances.
Some of it can be credited to interim coach Bruce Arians, who never seems to think the game's out of hand, even when Luck's last interception was punctuated by Lions cornerback Don Carey flattening Arians on the sideline.
Some of it is Luck, and his mindset as much as his skills.
"I think we have a bunch of guys in the locker room maybe who don't know any better," Luck said. "We just keep playing."
Luck's final drive, the one that pushed the Colts to 7-1 in games decided by one score, should end up as a block in his foundation as a future elite quarterback. (Actually, should I take "future" out? No, let's not get too far ahead.)
With the Colts on their own 25-yard line with 1:07 left and no timeouts, Luck took off and ran for nine yards. Arians didn't like this decision. It wasn't particularly clock savvy. Luck then had to spike the ball and lose a down to stop the clock.
But then Luck hit Reggie Wayne for 26 yards and the drive was on. Another spike to stop the clock. A scramble for a first down. Two plays later, a strong sideline pass to Allen. The Colts had a first down at the Lions' 14-yard line and 18 seconds left.
Luck went over the middle to the back of the end zone, right into Wayne's hands. Somehow, Carey got his hands into Wayne and the ball slipped away. Two more incompletions brought the Colts to their final play.
The Lions went into heavy deep coverage, determined not to let the Colts catch a ball in the end zone. Luck felt pressure, scrambled, looked like he'd run the ball then dumped it to Donnie Avery. Avery found the hole for the most improbable win yet.
"Until that clock says 0:00, you never know what will happen," Colts safety Antoine Bethea said.
Arians had told Luck to shake off his three interceptions and some bad decisions. He reminded Luck that his mistakes hadn't lost the game, they'd merely helped put the Colts in a tough situation.
In a stretch of punt after punt, off-target pass after off-target pass, Luck seemed so out of rhythm it was easy to wonder if he'd lost his confidence.
I won't wonder that again. His final two drives included a running first down and a perfect touchdown strike to LaVon Brazill as the Lions were grabbing at Luck's feet from behind.
"Kid made some plays," Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said. "Good player."
Give some credit to the Colts defense, as it clamped down late and got a stop on the Lions' final possession. The Colts couldn't slow Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson (13 catches, 171 yards), but they held the Lions to field goals at times when a touchdown might have been a knockout blow.
The Colts wouldn't have won, however, if Luck had dwelled on his bad plays instead of flushing them and forging ahead.
That's the core of the lesson Pagano's plight has taught. You take the hit and keep fighting.
"It's real tough being a rookie and he has a lot on his shoulders and his back," Bethea said. "He's handled this pressure really well and continues to make plays out there."
Luck finished 24 of 54 for 391 yards and four touchdowns. Arians emphasized the only statistic the Colts cared about was "No.8" – their eighth win.
That might explain Luck's resilience as much as anything. He's about winning. Until the clock expires, anything can happen. As we're learning this season, anything often does with Luck.

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Thatdirtykid wrote:i know this is a dying topic, but my opinion has recently changed.
I have about 450' of power, so crushes and similar are not overstable enough for major headwinds.
I used to swear by a Champ Firebird. It would turn some, but would hold its own better than anything I would throw.
I had thrown z predators before, but had no luck. Last week I lost my firebird and had a match planned out for today (its been windy lately) so i really needed something that would hold in a head wind, with predictability. Well about 3 days ago i got to a store that has a pretty limited selection in discs, but they had them.
long story short i got a Z predator.
overall the predator was...
more predictable
further flying
got a bit less lift
and over all it just felt better, and gave me confidence in the wind.
the only downside ive found is its not as great for trick shots such as thumbers and flex shots.
by the way i agree with blake that the dx viper is of the best mid/fairway overstable headwind discs.
Its funny how much you learn in short times, and a look back at something like this makes me feel stupid (and im sure its going to happen again, and again and again...)
However I do still love predators (still missing mine...) I have been using a dx firebird lately and its been holding up into the wind great. (I think pro firebird is still my favorite firebird...) I will be getting another pred soon.
The reason I would even get turn in my champ firebirds into a headwind was my stubborn form. I was throwing everything flat, and trying to have a disc for all situations, not to mention I was throwing for distance with a wrist roll... My distance is about the same still. But Im throwing everything (except annys and some mid type throws) with at least a touch of hyzer. Which has been more accurate, less work and more predictable, especially into the wind.
Now unless the winds are really bad I reach for a Z avenger (which is a bit beat for Z plastic) and it is my longest wind disc, and is plenty predictable, much more than a wraith or others, wraiths still try to get too much turn into the wind even out of a big hyzer.
If I dont need over 385' or so, and theres room The knife hyzer with a firebird (or any very overstable disc) Is my choice.
And in that range but no room for a knife. My new fave headwind disc is my z cyclone, surprisingly overstable and very controlable.
Three molds (although the avenger and predator are very similar) for any headwind, I would say Im doing alright.
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Honeywell Gains On Upbeat Q2, Raised Guidance
Honeywell (HON) was up 0.5% in morning trading, following its largely better-than-expected second-quarter earnings report.
The industrial giant reported earnings of $1.02 billion, or $1.28 a share, up from $902 million, or $1.14, a year earlier.
Revenue grew 2.7% to $9.69 billion.
Analysts were expecting the company to earn $1.21 a share on revenue of $9.7 billion.
In addition, Honeywell raised the low end of its full-year earnings guidance by a nickel: It now expects to earn between $4.85 to $4.95 a share. It also lifted the bottom of its revenue forecast by $100 million to between $38.9 billion and $39.3 billion.
The good news is welcome for Honeywell, as preliminary investigations by authorities in the U.K. are pointing to the company's transmitters as the cause of a fire aboard a Boeing (BA) 787 Dreamliner. The British Air Accidents Investigation Branch is calling for all Dreamliner transmitters to be disabled.
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A domestic dispute that began in Fairfield Tuesday ended when officers on the lookout for the suspect's vehicle spotted him and took him into custody in Vacaville.
Alexander Kalafatis, 43, of Fairfield, was stopped by Vacaville police officers near a Davis Street gas station around 2:43 p.m., said Fairfield police Sgt. Troy Oviatt.
Details were scarce regarding the initial incident, which began around 1:17 p.m. in the 500 block of Jefferson Street, because of the police department's stance on domestic violence cases, Oviatt said.
Scanner traffic initially reported that Kalafatis had allegedly kidnapped his wife, but Oviatt said he could not confirm the claim.
Fairfield police issued a "be on the lookout" bulletin for Kalafatis and the silver Chevy Avalanche he was seen driving.
Oviatt credited the work by witnesses in helping authorities locate Kalafatis and rescue his unidentified victim, who was with him inside the vehicle at the time of the stop.
"It's another example of very helpful people working with police to end a very dangerous situation," he said. "Almost all successful cases are the result of people working with police to end crime in their community. This was definitely one of those situations."
Kalafatis was transported to Fairfield and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of kidnapping, Oviatt said. The victim was not hurt during the incident.
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Pioneering gay Dallas activist William Waybourn and his partner, Craig Spalding, have opened a new bed and breakfast in Flint Hill, Va., Waybourn reports in an email. Waybourn and Spalding, of course, were among the original owners of Crossroads Market, which served as Dallas' gay community center after it opened in 1980. The couple moved to Washington, D.C., in the 1990s after Waybourn founded the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. From Waybourn:
Earlier this year, Craig and I bought and started renovation on a 106-year old school house located on five acres in the Village of Flint Hill, VA, about 85 miles west of DC. The renovation was wall-to-wall, but now the work on the Flint Hill Public House & Country Inn is complete and it will open for regular business Tuesday, January 17th, serving lunch and dinner every day, along with brunch on weekends.
The new kitchen and chef Marvin Swaner are all fired up and the beds in the four spacious suites upstairs are ready for occupancy. The boss, John Gruber, has spent the past week training the new staff and acclimating them to their duties. I am pleased that we were able to put more than three dozen individuals to work to help make experiences at our new place fun and exciting.
I'll have some new pictures of the completed work designed by architect and designer Ernesto Santalla posted soon, but if you come out west to hike, shoot the rapids, sample at the wineries, visit Sperryville or Little Washington, then stop by for a personal tour and see it for yourself. Just tell them at the front desk that I sent you.
In the interim, you can see some old photos on Facebook.
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Syngenta announced it has collaborated with Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies, LLC, to successfully produce commercial-scale quantities of cellulosic ethanol – the first of its kind in Iowa – at the Quad County Corn Processors (QCCP) ethanol plant in Galva, Iowa. QCCP expects to produce one million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2014 and two million gallons in 2015.
This breakthrough was made possible through the integration of Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology at QCCP, a 35 million gallon per year capacity ethanol production facility. The introduction of Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology will enable QCCP to increase ethanol yield per bushel by six percent, produce an additional two million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year and realize a number of other important benefits.
"Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology will help us to increase the protein content of dried distillers grains (DDGs) by 40 percent, improve corn oil extraction by 200 percent and realize more ethanol out of the same kernel of corn," said Delayne Johnson, chief executive officer of QCCP. "The commercialization of this technology represents a major advance in the production of cellulosic ethanol. For example, Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology could produce one billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol by converting the corn kernel cellulose from corn currently being processed in existing dry grind ethanol plants. And, once hemicellulosic yeast is FDA-approved, Adding Cellulosic Ethanol will be capable of producing an additional one billion gallons – all from corn already being processed."
Johnson said tests have also shown that Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology, in conjunction with Enogen trait technology, will deliver significant benefits to ethanol plants beyond what can be achieved through either technology alone.
"The combination of Adding Cellulosic Ethanol and Enogen corn is expected to generate significant synergies when used together in dry grind ethanol plants," Johnson added. "It will produce advanced and cellulosic ethanol while decreasing natural gas usage, increasing ethanol throughput and reducing an ethanol plant's carbon footprint. These advantages, combined with higher protein DDGs and increased corn oil production, make the technology package appealing for ethanol plants looking to improve their bottom line."
Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quad County Corn Processors. Earlier this year, Syngenta announced an agreement with Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies to license Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology to ethanol production facilities.
"Ethanol is helping America reduce its dependence on foreign oil, lowering prices at the pump, improving the environment with lower emissions, and growing the economy with jobs that can't be outsourced," said Jack Bernens, head of marketing and stakeholder relations for Enogen Trait Technology at Syngenta. "The combination of Adding Cellulosic Ethanol technology and Enogen could represent the next leap forward for ethanol production."


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Nibbida wrote:Individual wrote:...Yes... and agnosticism seems to fall under one of the 52 wrong views, the one about the refusal to take a clear position.
Do you mean that that enlightened individuals become omniscient? There are enlightened Zen masters have reported having no experiences of past lives.
Again, I'm not saying that I don't believe in rebirth across lifetimes or that I'm agnostic. I haven't said anything either way, because it's not relevant.
Having a list of 52 wrong views sounds a little dogmatic to me.
Nibbida wrote:I didn't say whether or not I was agnostic about rebirth across lifetimes, only that there are enlightened individuals who are.
Nibbida wrote:Having a list of 52 wrong views sounds a little dogmatic to me.
Nibbida wrote:Are there many different kinds of enlightenment,
or are non-Theravadin's not enlightened?
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NoNo vs Laser Hair Removal
Can you compare and contrast the NoNo hair removal system vs laser hair removal for African-Americans? Please tell me the pros and cons for each, since I really am looking for a solution to remove my embarrassing hair problem. Thanks
NoNo is a commercial home-use hair removal device that works via heat - the so-called Thermicon technology, whereas laser hair removal systems operate based on light. Most of the commercially available laser systems utilize melanin (the normal skin pigment and hair pigment) as the molecule that receives the laser energy. The problem sometimes if the skin is rich in melanin is that the laser has a harder time distinguishing the follicular melanin in the hair, which is its main target, versus the normal melanin in the skin. Therefore the safety margin becomes narrow, and the risks increase e.g. post laser pigmentary changes. Having said that though, there are some laser systems that have been successful in treating African American skin, such as long-pulsed ND;YAG lasers. One must remember though that multiple treatments are necessary, which adds to the cost significantly. The convenience of a home unit such as NoNo is quite attractive and the cost is not as much as laser hair removal treatments. However, due to the fact that it's relatively new, long-term effects have not yet been analyzed and reported in the scientific literature.
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Director, Skin Study Center
School of Medicine
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ARCH 301 - Appreciation of Architecture
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Architecture is one of the most visible symbols of human civilization. Successful architecture involves the archtect's use of spaces, forms and surfaces in such a way that a building meets the needs of both people and environment. This course introduces the student to themes in architecture with the hope that he or she may become more aware of the built enviroments in which we all spend large portions of our daily lives. The course is organized around five major themes:
- Introduction: What architecture is and the forces that shapes it.
- History of architecture: Egyptian to Renaissance.
- Ecological aspects of architecture: vernacular and energy-efficient building.
- Behavioral aspects of architecture: making environments work for people
- Modern architecture and teh future of Architecture
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As an offering in K-State's general education curriculum, this course seeks to make students more aware of the built environment through a broad examination of historical, cultural, ecological, and aesthetic dimensions of architecture. Specifically, the course has the following general-education aims:
- To stimulate an awareness of architectural traditions and styles so students might understand the built environment in a more informed and perceptive way;
- To highlight the significance of the built environment in human life and to demonstrate how architecture both shapes and is shaped by culture and society;
- To develop students' visual and aesthetic sensibilities through looking at architecture;
- To facilitate a deeper interest in architecture and, thereby, to provide a sphere of understanding that will enrich students' lives in the future.


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In 10 northeast Indiana counties (Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley), the seasonally adjusted rate increased from 8.2 to 8.3 percent, according to the Community Research Institute at IPFW.
John Stafford, director of the Community Research Institute, said that in northeast Indiana, more people left the labor force and fewer people were employed. Together, the effect was a higher unemployment rate in the region.
"Across the northeast Indiana region, we experienced a decline in the labor force, a decrease of 851 residents no longer either employed or actively seeking employment; a 2,534 decrease in the number of individuals (employed); and an increase in the number of residents unemployed (1,674)," Stafford wrote in an analysis of the numbers.


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J. Upton leaves game with bruised left triceps
ATLANTA -- Justin Upton exited Tuesday night's game against the Phillies with a bruised left triceps muscle. The Braves said his status is day to day.
Upton was hit above his left elbow with a Kyle Kendrick fastball during the first inning. He remained in the game for the next four innings and grounded out in the fourth. But when the sixth inning began, he was replaced by Ryan Doumit in left field.
Upton entered Tuesday having hit .286 with 26 homers and an .875 OPS.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After you've won accolades from the automotive press and enthusiasts, cleaned house at LeMans, and kept the assembly plant humming, what do you do if you're Chevrolet and it's time to trot out the '07 Vette? The answer is simple, really. You upgrade some of the hardware, add a few new goodies, and enhance the remainder of the package. In short, the best just gets better.
For 2006, the standard Corvette received an optional six-speed automatic with paddle shifters, and the Z06 returned after a one-year absence. This year's package may not have anything as spectacular as 100 more horsepower or a new transmission, but '07 Corvettes do receive improvements, some significant and some that will likely be relegated to next year's Corvette Trivia Game.
Let's start with the basics. For 2007, there are no changes to the model or engine lineups. The coupe and convertible are still powered by the 400hp LS2, with a choice of six-speed manual and six-speed automatic transmissions. The Z06 powerplant remains the LS7, good for 505 hp with the six-speed manual only. The slippery (0.286 cd) body is unchanged and can still cut through the air at a maximum velocity of 186 mph. And if you're going to go that fast, you might as well be comfortable. With that in mind, we'll review what's new this season.
The bulk of the enhancements for 2007 appear in the cockpit. Most apparent are the optional two-tone perforated leather seats offered with the 2LT and 3LT equipment packages. Available on both coupe and convertible models, and in a choice of Red, Cashmere, or Titanium, the seats are finished off with crossed-flags embroidery and contrasting stitching. The package also includes contrasting colors on the console, door panels, and lower instrument panel.
Buying the optional Bose audio system will deliver steering-wheel mounted audio controls, and you'll probably rejoice at the '07 model's larger glove-compartment space. Z06 buyers may now enjoy the safety and security of OnStar when they specify the 2LZ package. The same 6.5-inch color touch screen is shared with the standard Corvette and the Z06. And if you're looking for a convertible, you'll be interested to know that the power soft top is now included as standard equipment in the 3LT package.
Underneath, the C6 architecture carries over unchanged. What is new for 2007 is the availability of the heavy-duty, cross-drilled rotors-previously offered only as part of the Z51 package-with the Magnetic Selective Ride Control option. The latter suspension features magnetorheological dampers able to "read" road surfaces and adjust the damping rates to those surfaces almost instantly for optimal ride control.
Other significant changes include the introduction of a new color, Atomic Orange Tintcoat Metallic, which replaces last year's popular Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic. Also new for '07 is an extensive menu of GM-approved customization accessories, including an underhood blanket, racing-stripe and body-side-molding packages, stainless mesh inserts for the front grille and side coves, premium floor mats, and a protective cover for the rear fascia.
The Corvette has long been one of the few bright spots in GM's moribund passenger-car lineup. Though subtle, this year's enhancements promise to have the car shining more brightly than ever.
New Ray Set To Sting?
Rumors continue to fly about a $100,000 "Super Corvette" under consideration by GM. While such a model would represent the next logical step in the evolution of the brand, the General's ongoing fiscal woes and a rumored personnel shake-up at the highest levels of management mean the project is far from a sure thing.
The most recent scuttlebutt has the car being called the "Sting Ray," rather than "SS" or "Blue Devil," as previously suggested. If given the green light, the new Ray could hit dealer showrooms in very limited numbers before the 2007 model year is over. Packing a supercharged 427ci V-8-dubbed the LS9-and extensive carbon fiber, the car would produce a minimum of 600 hp and weigh just 2,900 pounds.
The LS9 would place the blower compressor down low in the lifter valley, with the blower drive snout just ahead of the front-mounted throttle body. Air would flow upward to an air-to-water intercooler and then back into the intake ports, an arrangement somewhat akin to the one used on Cadillac's supercharged Northstar engines.
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The Coolest Toys of NYC Toy Fair 2014
This Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy rom-com features a giant EMERAC computer that threatens to take jobs from the all-female research department of a New York media company. But while the device is poised to "save, in this department alone, 6240 man-hours a year," the punch-card chomping computer is buggy, doesn't understand the context of the queries it's fed, and lacks, overall, the human element. Hepburn eventually tames the futuristic-looking machine, which also makes electronic noises in the mode of the Forbidden Planet score.
Desk Set, which tapped into a machines-stealing-our-jobs paranoia that's still prevalent nearly 60 years later, was written by the parents of Nora Ephron, who would later make the first successful movie with an email theme (You've Got Mail). Despite its unflattering portrayal of machinery, IBM actually gets special thanks in the credits for consulting.
Pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard scored a sci-fi classic by staging a quasi-futuristic pulp narrative in an alienated but authentic Paris. Tough guy Lemmy Caution travels to scientifically advanced totalitarian planet, Alphaville, to liberate the region from its reigning computer, which is called Alpha 60 and played convincingly by a high-intensity lightbulb behind a ventilation fan. How does Lemmy defeat the sinister ubercalculator? By reading poetry to it, because emotion does not compute. Clearly, computers were not ready to fall in love with us yet.
Fun fact: Godard's early title for his film was Tarzan vs. IBM.
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Two years into a job he once dismissed as meaningless, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom brings his wonky road show to San Diego tonight, discussing a new book he's written about reinventing government in the digital age.
Writing a book is something politicians sometimes do when they're out of work, to keep the public from forgetting about them. In this case, Newsom already has a job and he said "Citizenville" isn't about his profile or his ego.
"Believe me, if I was doing this to excite and enliven I would have written a different book," he said.
He certainly has the material for one.
At age 45, Newsom has already been both a rising star and a fallen one, and now he's somewhere in-between, biding his time for what everyone assumes will be another run for higher office. His good looks and ambition almost require it.
His is a life story that threatens whiplash. Raised by a divorced mother who worked three jobs, he was ushered, through his judge-father's connections, into the Bay Area's corridors of Democratic power and wealth. In high school, he starred on the baseball diamond, and struggled with dyslexia in the classroom.
When he was mayor of San Francisco, he flouted state law and ordered licenses to be issued for gay marriage. "It's going to happen, whether you like it or not," he boasted, and then that sound bite helped gay-marriage opponents get Prop. 8 passed.
He's known the glamour of running his own winery and hosting his own TV show, and the scandal of having an affair with a top aide's wife.
And now he has a job that pays $124,000 a year, with little to do beyond sitting on the governing boards of California's two public university systems and the State Lands Commission.
"It's a limited portfolio," he said, one that leaves him plenty of time for other things, like attending the Academy Awards Sunday night (his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was executive producer of the best-documentary nominee "The Invisible War").
And writing a book.
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"Citizenville," authored with Lisa Dickey, takes its name from the online game "FarmVille," in which players run their own farms, visit those of their neighbors, and compete to see who can raise the most crops.
"Instead of taking care of a fictional farm," Newsom asks in the book, "why can't we create a game in which you take care of your actual neighborhood or your town?"
He argues for a massive culture change in government, making it more transparent, innovative and responsive by opening up vast amounts of data so tech-savvy citizens can use it to improve people's lives.
The book has examples of that already happening. A web-designer in Oakland mined the city's police reports to create an interactive site that lets people figure out where crimes have occurred. In Philadelphia, there's an app that takes people on a walking tour of public art. In Boston, there's a map of fire hydrants — handy when they get covered in snow.
"Citizenville is more than just a game; it's a new way of thinking about the relationship between people and their government," Newsom writes. "It's a world in which the old one-way, top-down, bureaucratic, pre-Internet hierarchy is replaced by a truly democratic, bottom-up, social civic engagement."
As someone who grew up with Silicon Valley in his backyard, a lot of this comes naturally to Newsom. When he was mayor, they used the Cloud to improve homeless assistance. He has 1.2 million followers on Twitter. Not all of his digital forays were hits, though. When he put an extended version of one State of the City speech on the Internet, a critic wagged: "YouTube = MeBored.")
He also knows there are huge hurdles, especially when it comes to transparency. Government leaders are notoriously reluctant to open the people's business to the people. He admits he struggled with that himself as mayor, fudging full disclosure about his appointment calendar, for example, to shield campaign donors and others squeamish about being in the public eye.
"This default to secrecy is not building trust with the public," he said in a recent phone interview. "Some of us might get elected despite that, but we're not as effective as we could be. More transparency and more openness equals more trust. My argument to elected officials is that it should be on your terms because if it's not on your terms, it's going to be on someone else's, and that doesn't end well."
The other thing he tells them is that change is coming, ready or not.
"What information is sitting there in the library in San Diego?" he said. "What information is in building inspection, in the health department? And how could that information be mashed up by the private sector to make a difference in all of our lives?"
The book tour that brings Newsom to the Revelle Forum at UC San Diego has seen him cross the partisan divide. He's been interviewed by Colbert, and also by Hannity.
That's partly because even though he was mentored by Willie Brown, and even though he's related by marriage to Nancy Pelosi, he considers himself a political hybrid, fiscally conservative and socially liberal. A government wonk, but also a business owner.
He doesn't view the issues he's talking about now as left vs. right. In the book, he praises initiatives by Reps. Eric Cantor and Darrell Issa, both Republicans. In interviews, he applauds former President Ronald Reagan for opening up government satellite and meteorological data, which led to GPS in cars and weather apps on smartphones.
Newsom watchers see the book as part of an effort to broaden his appeal, to make him known beyond the Bay Area for something other than gay marriage. He said he understands the cynicism.
"Every politician should immediately be questioned about why he or she is writing a book," he said. "For ambitious reasons is typically the case. But in this case, it's just a policy wonk book."
He also said, "You've got two weeks to sell a book, and then no one cares." He was exaggerating — his book came out Feb. 7 and his tour ends a month later in Seattle — but "Citizenville" is probably no more a launchpad for his future than being lieutenant governor is.
So what is that future?
"There's a reason I jumped into the governor's race for a few months (in 2009), and there's a reason one could presuppose I may consider that in the future," he said. "That's as transparent as I can be. I have an executive bent. I like doing."
Right now, doing means talking about turning government into a wide-open, app-loving, citizen-engaging machine.
"The public gets this on an intuitive basis," he said, "and certainly the net generation, these digital natives under 30 years old, they can't believe it's taken so long to recognize that things have to change. And change quickly."
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If you or your parents are anything like me or mine, you grew up having watched Disney's 1953 animated feature Peter Pan. And you and your parents, like me and mine, wanted nothing more than to join Peter and the Lost Boys in Never Land, surrounded by adventure and never growing up. I know I did...
The 14th animated feature film by the Walt Disney Company and based on the play J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, this classic has no doubt aged better than all of us as it featuring some of the most timeless characters ever captured on screen. Disney's Peter Pan has inspired children over the last half century to remember while we may all age, we're not forced to grow up. Having inspired at least one direct sequel and numerous spin-offs, there's simply nothing like Peter Pan today. Now, this Disney film, at 60 years old, holds up better than most films half its age and Disney's released a new three-disc set featuring a newly restored video and audio that'll impress even the harshest of critics.
The film's story is well known: Peter Pan and Tinker Bell travel to Edwardian London where they find Wendy Darling telling her younger brothers John and Michael a story about the fantasy character. Magically whisked away to Never Land, the trio soon find themselves surrounded by the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Tiger Lily, mermaids and a whole slough of fun, trouble, and adventure.
Filled with brilliant character development, solid storytelling, engaging dialogue and impressive voice acting - including Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Paul Collins and Tommy Luske - Peter Pan is truly a work of masterful cinema. Thankfully, Disney has brought the film to life gorgeously on this three-disc collection featuring impressive video, audio and a load of bonus material.
The 1080p video brings to life a restored and revitalized video featuring every trick the Disney restoration team could use to breath new life into the film stock, Peter Pan has never looked this good. The colors are clear and crisp, the animation flows smoothly and, while maybe not as impressive by today's standards, consider the film's age, it's nothing short of outstanding. Likewise Disney's DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround track is nothing short of dynamic as it fills the sound stage and delivers an impressive use of all individual channels. And let's not forget the engaging and impressive score which fills the speakers and puts you right there in Never Land alongside Peter, Wendy and the entire cast.
As for bonus material, here the three-disc set shines. Besides the film on hi-def blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy, there is also a variety of both new and old special features. The film features a short intro by Diane Disney-Miller, who discusses her father's desire to adapt the original play and the film's artwork; Roy Disney then provides an in-depth audio commentary (avaialble on the previously release DVD as well). While somewhat unengaging at times, the information is no less insightful or important - especially for those who're fans of Disney's early work. The 40+ minute feature "Growing Up with Nine Old Men" tells the story of the nine original animators who worked at Disney. Peter Pan was the last film featuring all nine working together and here viewers get insight into their lives from those who knew them - their children.
15 minutes of deleted songs and scenes are also included as are over an hour of previously released bonus material, including five behind-the-scene featurettes and mini-documentaries; including "You Can Fly: The Making of Peter Pan," "In Walt's Words: Why I Made Peter Pan," "Tinker Bell: A Fairy's Tale," "The Peter Pan that Almost Was" and "The Peter Pan Story." Additional bonus material also previously available includes "Disney Song Selection," "Deleted Song: The Pirate Song," "Never Land: The Lost Song," "Music Video: Never Land, performed by Paige O'Hara" and "Music Video: The Second Star to the Right, performed by T-Squad." For those who're fans of the film's music, there are a great addition to the set and an appreciated addition.
For those who like to interact with the film while it's playing, the film features "Disney Intermission," which allows children (or the young at heart) to pause the film at any time and undergo "Pirate Training" while an optional sing-along track, "Peter Pan Sing-Along," provides lyrics to the film's songs while they play. DisneyView Side Bars also provide background filler for the black bars to either side of the film on your HD widescreen TV. The artwork of Disney background painter Cristy Maltese (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin) fills in the unused space and provides a slight distraction.
Other bonus features include approximately 15 minutes of "Sneak Peeks" for current and future Disney animated films, including The Little Mermaid 3D (late 2013), Mulan, Mulan II, Peter Pan in Return to Never Land, Wreck-It Ralph, The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and more.
Overall, if you grew up watching Peter Pan, you need to own this newly released three-disc version. It's not only a brilliant movie with a well-told story, memorable characters and awesome action, it's a tale with an important moral. If you're a parent, your children will love it; if you're an adult, you'll love remembering it. Do yourself a favor and take another trip to Never Land with Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy, John and Michael and never, ever grow up...
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More details are emerging on a fatal accident that occurred around 1:11 a.m., Sunday, but California Highway Patrol investigators are still trying to determine what actually happened.
What is known is that the accident involved a West Sacramento Police Department vehicle that was traveling southbound on Interstate-5 just south of the Yolo Bypass as well as several other private vehicles.
The 33-year-old police officer, however, was not hurt seriously, although the officer was taken to the UC Davis Medical Center as a precautionary measure.
Killed in the accident was 60-year-old driver of a 1998 Mercury. However, his name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Based on what the CHP is able to report - some of which is still being verified - it appears the driver of the Mercury lost control of his vehicle and hit the bridge railing on the right hand side while traveling south on I-5, just south of the Yolo Bypass, then crossed both lanes and hit the bridge railing on the left hand side, becoming disabled on the left shoulder in the fast lane of traffic.
As the driver was getting out of his car, the police officer from West Sacramento, passed the vehicle and pulled over to the right hand shoulder and stopped, notifying dispatchers of the accident.
It was at this time, apparently, that a 48-year-man driving a Chevy in the fast lane of traffic, hit the disabled Mercury, traveled across traffic lanes, and also struck the parked police car as well.
The force of the impact spun the Mercury around which hit the 60-year-old man who was still out of his car, and also traveled forward and hit the police car.
There were four people in the Chevy, including the driver, and all were taken to UC Davis Medical Center with major and moderate injuries. There was also a fourth vehicle involved, a Toyota, driven by a 20-year-old, but it is unclear how it was involved in the collision, although the driver was also taken to UC Davis Medical Center with moderate injuries.
An investigation is continuing.
Woodland firefighters were dispatched to the scene as were ambulances from Sacramento and Sutter counties, perhaps as many as five in all. At least one victim was airlifted from the scene.
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Grower-shippers of Chilean fruit expect severe September freezes to diminish the South American country's exports by about 50 million boxes in 2013-14.
What no one knows yet is by how much specific commodities will be limited and how North American supplies will be affected.
"Volumes may be down by 30% or more for the fresh markets, depending on the commodities, growers and regions their farms are located," said Craig Uchizono, vice president of the Southern Hemisphere for Los Angeles-based The Giumarra Cos.
"The full extent of the damage to the trees will become clearer during harvest," he said.
Uchizono said Nov. 4 he expects a five- to 10-day delay to the start of season.
He also said, in addition to the freezes, drought is compromising some crops in the northern region of Chile.
Doug Grant, vice president and chief information officer for The Oppenheimer Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, estimated his company's growers lost 30% of their volume to the freezes.
"The impact varies greatly by item," Grant said. "While some valleys were spared completely, others had frost in the higher elevations and others lower."
Grant said damages also varied by stage of blossom, variety and region. He said Oppenheimer growers lost an estimated 60% of their kiwifruit and up to 15% of their grapes. Stone fruit losses ranged from 30% to 70%.
Most of the country's citrus crop already had been harvested and was unaffected, he said.
Evan Myers, director of imports for The Oppenheimer Group, said cherry volumes could be reduced up to 30%.
Chile is still expected to produce a net increase in that commodity because of expanding acreage.
Setbacks, but solid volumes
"Despite these setbacks, Oppenheimer plans to market solid volumes next season with increased acreage from new and existing Oppenheimer growers," Grant said.
Despite decreased overall volume, grower-shippers are optimistic U.S. buyers won't have less Chilean fruit to choose from.
Mario Flores, director of blueberry product management for Naples, Fla.-based Naturipe Farms LLC, said the U.S. market is a priority for Chilean blueberry shippers because the U.S. "can consume the vast majority of Chilean blueberry production at profitable price levels."
Although early blueberry varieties were diminished by adverse weather, Flores said volume should ramp up by late November.
He said quality has been excellent.
Vice president of sales and marketing Paul Newstead said grapes, stone fruit, kiwifruit and cherries were the items hardest hit for Nathel International.
The cherry and kiwifruit losses were "catastrophic," for the Pittsgrove, N.J., company, he said.
Newstead said there was no assessment yet on Chile's pear and apple crops, which come later in growing cycle. He noted, however, that early varieties of those commodities were in bloom when the freezes hit.
Newstead said the knee-jerk reaction might be to assume that U.S. markets will receive less fruit this season, but he said the opposite could be true.
"We could get more fruit than normal if Chile can't ship it elsewhere," he said.
"Last year, Chilean grapes had some condition issues. We thought we would get less fruit, but we ended up getting more than expected because it couldn't be sent to some other parts of the world," he said.
Opportunities for Peru
Nathel imports grapes from Chile and Peru, and Newstead said if Chile does have supply issues, it may create an opportunity for Peruvian shippers.
"You don't want to see anything bad happen to Chile," he said. "It's important to us, but conditions indicate that Peru is going to be important to retailers and wholesalers.
"As people transition from California to imports, it's going to make more sense this year. Every year, quality is getting better with varieties they are planting and the job they are doing."
Newstead said Peruvian grapes already have been harvested, but importers are waiting for California's crop to wind down before bringing them into the U.S..
Bil Goldfield, communications manager for Dole Fresh Fruit, Westlake Village, Calif., said the company didn't expect "a major effect in our overall volumes" of Chilean grapes.
He said quality and condition should have more of an effect on price than volume.
"The fruit being sent to the U.S. needs to be good in order to get good results," he said. "It is obvious to anyone in this industry what happens when fruit arrives with quality issues. Customers in the U.S. do not want to handle poor quality and condition, and growers know this. I expect the arrival of Chilean fruit to be good for this reason."
Grant, however, said prices should be favorable for Chilean fruit due to reduced volumes and increased demand from other markets, especially Asia.
Grant said market demand for Chilean grapes will depend initially on how long supplies from California last.
He also said Nov. 1 that California crimsons weren't coloring up yet due to high temperatures earlier in the growing season, and that could affect how that crop fares at retail.
"We've seen record sales volumes during September and October," he said of California grapes. "There is a lot of fruit in storage, but that product should move well over the next few weeks."
The USDA reported Nov. 13 that 19-pound containers of bagged, large and extra-large crimson seedless grapes from California were $18.55. Large and extra-large red globes were $16.55-18.55, and extra-large autumn kings were $22.55.
Grant said volume for Brazilian grapes is down significantly from past seasons, and growers in Chile are being offered high program prices on items such as grapes and stone fruit by retailers who want to be assured of volume.
"We think Chile grape volume will hit a good early market," he said. "While we hope for stable prices through the next few months, I think we'll see a lot of price volatility through January."


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Yahoo! invaded the San Diego Comic-Con experience with a new MOVIELAND set up just a few blocks away from the convention center. Passers by were drawn to this literal hole in the wall by the bright purple and neon colors. There, the Yahoo! Team would shuttle fans inside for some very cool movie moments from films yet to be released.
There were three stops inside, all requiring your cooperation as you stepped inside the films.
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Stop #3: Meet the characters from the stop-motion animated comedy thriller, PARANORMAN.
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Tim Schaeffer, head of Doublefine, decided to get funding for a new point and click adventure on Kickstarter. Because he's well known and been involved in games like Day of the Tentacle, Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, and others, they've already reached over a million dollars. The goal was 400,000, which they made in 2 days. With a \\$15.00 donation, one can download the game when it's finished, so it's sort of like a pre-order. I've seen articles on it around the web, like Ars Technica.
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As of right now, they've passed \\$1.2M.
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I'm surprised they pulled that off. By their numbers, an average of \\$36 was contributed by each supporter. Probabilistically, I'm sure some gave \\$10 or \\$20, which leaves others giving well over \\$50 to compensate. Kudos to them for raising such funding, although their team photo has quite a lot of bodies. Dividing up a mill between them is stretching funds thin.
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I'm sure some gave \\$10 or \\$20, which leaves others giving well over \\$50 to compensate.
They have some stats on Sol's link: Someone gave 10,000 for a lunch with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schaeffer. I think they're nice guys and did some awesome games, but ...
I think it proves that adventure games aren't quite dead yet. There just isn't enough profit to satisfy publishers.
Everyone is testing new business models with digital distribution, the internet, etc. It should lead to some better choices for small to medium productions. I don't even know how Kickstarter, works, actually. Is it simply a donation, or a loan?
It's a donation, but the payments only go through if the project reaches its funding goal. If it doesn't reach the goal, none of the donors pay anything. In this case they've already trebled their goal and are still going.
I think it proves that adventure games aren't quite dead yet.
Young gamers like to shoot things, old gamers like to think through things There was an interesting article I read on gamasutra about how adventure style games like the Myth genre is a dying breed in North America. There's a cult following, but it's nowhere near the numbers it used to be back in the 90s. However, what was interesting about the article was that it claimed Europeans and Asians crave adventure games, particularly Japan. Apparently interactive novels are quite common over there.
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Join us for a chance to see the incredible primates and wildlife of the Ugandan rainforest. We spend two days in Kibale Forest, the best place in Africa to spot chimpanzees. From our comfortable eco-lodge we explore the forest with a population of over 1000 chimps and 13 varieties of other primates including Red-Tailed monkey, Colobus monkey and many others. We take a day walk in the majestic Rwenzori Mountains also known as 'Mountains of the Moon' and visit local villages around the area. We join a cruise in the Kazinga channel, a real highlight and a chance to observe hippo, crocodile, buffalo and herds of elephants at close range before taking game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park where we hope to spot the famous tree climbing lions. We then travel deep into the rainforest near Bwindi, where we experience the ultimate wildlife encounter: we get up close and personal with the endangered mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. We also take a swim or a canoe ride in Lake Bunyonyi, surrounded by verdant rolling hills and a walking safari in Lake Mburo.
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- Queen Elizabeth National Park - Game viewing in Uganda's finest reserve.
- Kibale National Park - The best destination for chimp tracking.
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- Ugandan People - Some of the friendliest and most hospitable of Africans.
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5Game drive Queen Elizabeth National Park; Kazinga Channel river cruise.
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manasikara wrote:When the Buddha sent out that first group of arahant disciples, he was still physically present on earth. The dhamma-vinaya had just been thoroughly expounded by him, and it would have (still) been consistently grasped amongst different (arahant) individuals. Plus it was a time in India where social and spiritual conditions were ripe for that sort of thing.
But if we just decide to send ourselves out preaching, 1). we are not arahants, and thus are not free of defilements unlike the arahants the Buddha first sent out with that exhortation, who were; 2). 2500 years or so on, the dhamma-vinaya is now understood in many different ways, there is no longer the consistency that there was back then; 3). nowdays social and spiritual conditions are not the same as back then. If you just sit in a park somewhere and invite people to come and listen, people will either think you are a charlatan, or the police or council officers will eventually move you on. And if you go from door to door, well which one of us has not been irritated by that, when it was done to us by Christian missionaries?
Different time, different place. Let's not become like Christians who 'push' their religion onto others. Rather let us be of as much assistance as possible, making as much effort as possible to make the dhamma available for people, to explain it properly if asked about it (so, let's study the suttas thoroughly), and to assist and support those that can do these things (such as the bhikkhu / bhikkhuni sangha for eg).
That's my take on it, anyway.
I don't think we can wait till we become arahants before we venture to make the Dhamma available, but I doubt that is your point. In any case, it is premature to debate what the conditions out there are and the effective techniques of propagating the Dhamma. I think at the present time, the intention itself is very much lacking. If the intention is strong, I'm sure we could be innovative enough to think of effective methods. For example, just consider how many monks or lay Buddhists have taken upon themselves to venture into India to teach the millions of Dalit converts? Other religions actively push their delusional beliefs. Here we have millions asking for the Dhamma but few among us feel they have a responsibility to provide it.


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Anthony Davis is a great start, you can build around him, he's looks really good now and you don't even feel like he's scratched the surface. They never run anything for him and he's putting up excellent numbers. Ryan Anderson is killing it, but really that doesn't even seem like an anomaly, since its basically what he did last year, rebounds well, shoots the 3 with crazy quick release, but he's not the detriment on defense or really in any other part of the game. What I'm saying is he isn't the one trick pony who just can shoot the 3. He's not Steve Novak or Kyle Korver or Matt Bonner or Jason Kapono type, imo. He's a nice overall player who is only 24.
@basketballtalk: Report: Lakers shoot down trade talks for Gasol from Raptors, Timberwolves http://t.co/Q5NhQeRa #PBT #NBA
Yep the two teams I have been saying for a while that make the most sense for LA, Gasol to Toronto for Andrea+Calderon or Gasol to Minny for Dwill,Varea and filler, LA have Anderson first on their list but that's not going to happen.
Andre Drummond is 16th among rookies in minutes played, and he's still leading all rookies in rebounds and 3rd in blocks.
Might be time to end the maxiell charade and just start him.
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It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
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Holy crap, vnzla was right!
I still don't get how this makes sense for either team. Isn't Gasol better than Bargs, but Bargs is still that same type of soft player, isnt' Calderon a bad version of Nash. How does getting an aging Pau with iffy wheels fit the Toronto plan. If you move Gasol shouldn't you get a better type of fit with the existing team, not a worse version of him. And yes I know Bargs has range, but still. I mean, maybe just go at Dwight and see how quick you can get him in foul trouble, cuz none of these guys can guard a chair.
I don't think is hard to figure out what LA needs and what D'Antoni likes, there are not that many players that can fill that position on that system with Howard as the center, there are only like 5 guys in the whole NBA, Andrea, Anderson, Dwill, Dirk and Love.
Out of the guys I mentioned only two are available for the right price(Dwill,Andrea), now maybe the Lakers want to go small and make a trade for a Gallinari and have him play at power forward but I don't see it happening.
Rumor has it that Gasol is going nowhere, as he is the reason that LA landed Nash....Nash wants to play with Pau, and signed with LA to do so....If LA moves Pau, then they have an upset Kobe and an upset Nash....That doesn't seem like a good situation to put an already toxic Lakers team in....I still question hiring D'antoni, but hey, not my team, and I really couldn't care if they win ever again....
(NBA-related because Kobe's in it)
Fun fact of the day: the NBA's top two all time points leaders (Abdul-Jabbar and Malone) only led the nba in scoring twice in a combined 39 seasons.
#3 and #4 on the list (Jordan and Chamberlain) combined for 17 scoring titles in only 29 seasons.
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It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
Division Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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Some of Wilt's scoring numbers are almost too absurd to be counted.
i saw that a few days ago from Ric Bucher, but knowing Bucher's LA reporting in the past.... (Bucher was the guy who basically called out Wojnarowski o ESPN radio when Woj reported the Magic-LA-Denver-76ers Howard deal and basically implied that Woj is making stuff up and fishing for clicks)
it's possible and not really unusual (CP3 had a similar request to the Clippers about DeAndre Jordan). But even if true, that was before the Howard trade, so I wonder if there'd be any objections to a good deal that fits the current system and roster better.
I think they don't want to do it because, one, Jim Buss seems set on finding a star in 2014 free agency and Bargnani's deal would prevent it, two, I think they are hoping for a better deal.
That Sota's Pekovic+Williams deal is so much better in terms of assets. I'm surprised if the Wolves really offered that... But of course Pau is a great fit for the Wolves system... Maybe Khan is feeling heat to win now.
If that deal is really available, it's a nobrainer, the Lakers just need to find that 3rd team. Maybe NOLA? Pekovic for Anderson. It would make sense for all involved. The Lakers get Anderson, Williams and fillers.
SourcesKobe Bryant Blasts Teammates For Failure To Criticize Pau Gasol
LOS ANGELESClaiming there was no excuse for tolerating weakness, Lakers guard Kobe Bryant publicly called out his teammates Thursday for their failure to condemn center Pau Gasols lackluster play this season. We all need to step up, get right in his face, and vilify him like we really mean it, said Bryant, who encouraged the entire team to come together and just attack, attack, attack the 7-foot-1 Spaniard. Sometimes I feel like Im the only one denouncing Paus weak style of play every single night. Thats not acceptable. This has to be a team effort. I want our bench guys to get involved. Coach [Mike DAntoni] is with me on this, but even he knows he could be doing more. Bryant also issued a challenge to each and every one of his teammates to draw technical fouls for fighting with Pau Gasol during Fridays game against the Thunder.
Here are the reported pieces from both teams.
http://tracking.si.com/2012/12/06/pa...?sct=nba_t2_a4The Wolves are likely trying to pair Gasol with his fellow countryman Ricky Rubio, who returned to practice this month after undergoing ACL surgery from an injury he sustained against the Lakers last season as a rookie. In order to get Gasol, the Wolves are reportedly prepared to offer Derrick Williams, the No. 2 pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, and center Nikola Pekovic.
The Raptors, meanwhile, would reportedly trade Andrea Bargnani, Jose Calderon, also from Spain, and Lina Kleiza for Gasol.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Nothing in either of those packages makes me deal Gasol if i am Kupchak
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
Raymond Felton: 4 years, $14.8 million (really, 3 years, $10.9 million). What a bargain.
I wish the Pacers had an old school former champ on their team like a Kidd or Sheed. I think Byron Scott used to bring his Laker rings into the Pacers' locker room to motivate the team. When old successful veterans who have won titles talk, the rest of the guys listen. Kidd and Sheed know how a champ conducts itself. They might have a combined age of almost 80, but you can't put a price on their experience.
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$329,000 in lost money for Barkley for his career T's. That's an average night in Vegas for him.
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Felton came back to a place where he played well and was motivated after a terrible season.
Lin has been coming off a knee injury, is under a ton of pressure to be a superstar..while being a non drafted no-where near developed younger player who happened to show a ton of potential.
It wouldn't be too surprising if Felton gets a little comfortable and Lin gets better..
That Kevin Durant/Jim Belushi movie looks pretty awesome, right guys?
I was thinking the same thing


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The nearly $3 million settlement Freedom Industries has reached with its insurance company has hit a potential snag, as former officers of the bankrupt company try to force that insurer, AIG Specialty, to pay their personal legal costs in any civil litigation filed over Freedom's January chemical leak.
Former Freedom officers Dennis Farrell, Charles Herzing and William Tis filed formal objections to the insurance settlement that lawyers for area residents and businesses are hoping will fund a separate proposed settlement that could help perform additional water testing, health impacts studies or other projects to benefit those harmed by the leak.
The three men argue that Freedom's settlement with AIG would wrongly allow the insurance company to avoid paying the costs of a reasonable legal defense, while Freedom and AIG say the leak wasn't covered by the section of Freedom's policy that provides company officers with insurer-funded attorneys.
At the request of Freedom lawyer Mark Freedlander, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ronald Pearson gave the various sides 10 days to work out an arrangement, but said if that doesn't happen he wanted more legal briefs on the matter to help him make a decision.
"We are going to have to get much deeper into insurance law" if the issue can't be resolved by the parties, Pearson said near the end of a hearing that lasted more than three hours on Tuesday.
Pearson is overseeing the liquidation of Freedom following the Jan. 9 leak of MCHM, which contaminated the drinking water supply that serves 300,000 people in Charleston and surrounding counties. The leak has prompted multiple lawsuits against Freedom, some of the company's former officers, and against West Virginia American Water Co.
Late last week, lawyers for Kanawha Valley residents and businesses revealed in court papers that they had reached a deal with Freedom to use the company's remaining $2.9 million for as-yet-undetermined projects to benefit water contamination victims, rather than distributing checks for as little as $10 to each of those affected by the incident.
That settlement, though, is dependent on Pearson approving an earlier deal, made public in late June, in which AIG agreed to pay Freedom the $2.9 million, avoiding a potential legal fight between Freedom and the insurer over coverage for the leak.
Pearson said that the biggest reason to approve the Freedom-AIG settlement is to help move the bankruptcy case forward, following "enormous chaos" at the site and growing cleanup expenses.
"The wind-down has been very expensive," the judge said. "There's not going to be a huge pot in the case left. The real urgency in this case is to bring it to closure."
During Tuesday's hearing, Freedom's chief restructuring officer, Mark Welch, said that a key part of the settlement with AIG will continue to provide Freedom with insurance as the firm completes the ongoing demolition of chemical storage tanks at its Elk River facility and, eventually, remediation of the site.
Welch said tank demolition contractors from Independence Excavating had hoped to complete their work by Friday, but he believes it will continue into next week. Demolition of Tank 396 — the one that leaked on Jan. 9 — could take place later this week, Welch said.
"I'm not rushing it," Welch said. "We're going to do this cautiously. We're trying not to disturb any of the soils."
Pearson scheduled Tuesday's hearing to consider a motion from Freedom lawyers to approve the settlement with AIG, and to give anyone who objected to that deal an opportunity to make their case against it.
Initially, the judge said that any personal legal costs for the three former Freedom executives were just like any other financial claim against Freedom: The executives could file a claim and if it was legitimate the court would distribute them some share of whatever money Freedom ends up having left.
But Mike Carey, a lawyer for Farrell, said the leak should have been covered by a different part of Freedom's insurance policy that would have required AIG to provide the executives with defense lawyers in civil cases like one filed in U.S. District Court naming Farrell personally as partly responsible for the leak. That duty to defend, Carey said, is not subject to the company's $3 million insurance policy limit.
"There's no limit — just the reasonableness of the defense," Carey said.
Lawyers for Freedom and for AIG disagreed. They said that the portion of the insurance policy Carey was citing did not cover the leak, and was instead intended to cover legal defense for any lawsuits brought over injuries that occur after any of Freedom's chemical products were shipped to customers.
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A TEENAGER was left terrified after she was taken into bushes and seriously sexually assaulted in Blackburn.
The 14-year-old girl was playing on fields near to St James' C of E Primary School, in Oozebooth Terrace, when she was approached by a man who was wearing a fluorescent yellow jacket.
As the attacker emerged from the undergrowth with the girl he was spotted and ran off towards Carlton Gardens.
Detectives have launched a major inquiry and a dedicated team of officers were last night carrying out door-to-door inquiries in the area.
The youngster is being supported by specially trained officers.
It is understood the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, did not know her attacker.
The incident was reported to police after the girl told a teacher about what had happened to her.
DCI Dean Holden, of the Force Major Investigation Team, said he was particularly keen to here from anybody who may have private CCTV in the area.
He said: "This was a terrifying incident for the young girl involved and she is now being supported by specially trained officers.
"An investigation is now underway and I would appeal to anybody who has any information about to come forward.
"I would be keen to speak with anyone who may have seen a man in the area wearing a fluorescent yellow jacket or acting suspiciously either on Thursday evening or in the days prior to the assault. Even the smallest amount of information could prove to be crucial."
"I would reassure people that we are treating this as an isolated incident and police patrols have been increased in the area."
Coun Hussain Akhtar, who represents the Shear Brow area, called on the community to work together to trace the attacker who struck between 6pm and 9pm .
He said: "This is something we cannot accept. This girl must have been absolutely terrified.
"If we do not stop things like this happening now, maybe something even worse will happen.
"I want the community to work shoulder to shoulder with the police. We want the area to be safe."
Anybody with information should call 101 quoting log number 1260 of June 6 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


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Pusha T Confirms Lil Wayne + Birdman Diss on Ludacris Track
Pusha T won't let sleeping dogs lie. The G.O.O.D. Music artist has confirmed that he did throw some lyrical darts at Lil Wayne and Birdman on Ludacris' song, 'Tell Me What They Mad For,' which recently leaked online.
"It's new and was for Luda's album," Pusha explained to VIBE. The 'New God Flow' rapper said he had to go after the YMCMB camp since he was rhyming over a Swizz Beatz-produced song. "You got to blame Swizz," he says. "See, when Wayne got a Swizz beat with the 'Ghoulish' track; he got busy, well, he tried to."
On the Luda track, Pusha contends that Weezy lost his street credibility after his prison stint. "N—as saying you was better when the drugs was in your system / Now your crack swag gone ever since u came from prison / Got you tweeting all stupid, is you skatin', is you dissin'," raps Pusha.
"I don't like to refer to my records as diss records," he says. "At the end of the day, I make great records even in regards to whether they were aimed at somebody or not my records are great records … Don't cheapen my music by calling them [diss records]."
Pusha also revealed that Ludacris wanted him to change the verse when he realized it could potentially ignite a rap beef, but he refused. "I play by old school rules. I play by the fundamentals and foundation of what hip-hop was based on," he says.
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A double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot trial, performed by Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., showed that 100% of the subjects using MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane), a nutritional supplement that provides biologically active sulfur, showed increased hair growth compared to the group on placebo. Only one subject on placebo showed an increase in hair length. In addition, 30% of the subjects showed improvement in hair brilliance, while none of the subjects on placebo showed such an improvement.
A second double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot trial, conducted simultaneously, showed that 50% of the subjects on MSM showed increased nail length and nail thickness growth compared to the group on placebo. Approximately 10% of those on placebo showed increased nail length growth. None of the subjects on placebo showed an increase in nail thickness.
Based on the results of the two trials, Dr. Lawrence concluded: "oral supplementation with MSM is a valuable addition to hair and nail growth. Hair and nail health was significantly improved in a short term of six weeks. If the trials were continued for eight to sixteen weeks, the results would have been even better for those on MSM."
The hair trial involved a total of 21 patients - 5 women and 16 men. Data was collected by certified cosmetologists under the direction of Dr. Lawrence. The trial parameters included hair length, brilliance, and diameter of the individual hair shafts using industry standard measurement scales.
The nail trial involved a total of 11 subjects -10 women and 1 man. Again, data was collected by certified cosmetologists. Trial parameters included nail length, thickness, luster and general appearance using industry standard measurement scales.
"All subjects supplemented with MSM were duly impressed with the changes in the health and appearance of their hair," said Dr. Lawrence. "The cosmetologists literally could differentiate which participants were on MSM by the appearance of the hair, alone, after six weeks."
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Anwar Rosser was a lying, deceitful child who grew into a sadistic psychopath.
Adopted by a professional couple when he was five, he had set fire to a barn using petrol by the time he was 13.
Aged 16, he smashed a trophy into a schoolboy's face as he lay sleeping – an attack that bore a chilling similarity to the brutal murder of Riley more than 15 years later.
Rosser, usually known as Danny, enlisted in the British Army at 17 and was posted to 5 Regiment Royal Artillery. He did not see active service and was aggressive in drink. He was imprisoned at a military corrective training centre for being absent without leave, and left the Army when he was 21.
He drifted from job to job and had never been in a serious relationship.
By 2005, Rosser (pictured above) was diagnosed with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome. He was violent in drink, shouting at walls and punching them, but quiet and nervous when sober.
He was arrested in 2010, saying he wanted to kill someone with a knife.
While on a ward at Airedale Centre for Mental Health, he threatened to smash empty beer bottles into the faces of other patients.
He then stayed at a Salvation Army Hostel in Bradford, causing problems with his drink-fuelled anger.
In January last year, Rosser was working as a part-time chef in Denholme. It was a knife he stole from the kitchen that he used to kill Riley.
He took it to Riley's home that night and carried three further knives from the house upstairs with him.
After the murder, medical experts concluded Rosser had Anti-social Personality Disorder with Psychopathy.
The Crown's psychiatrist, Dr John Kent, found Rosser presented "an immediate and grave" risk to the public that could involve further acts of sadistic homicide and more child victims.
When he was caught after murdering Riley, Rosser cried when he was handcuffed and whined: "I have ruined my life."
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greggorious wrote:Yes when I don't focus on the breath at all I feel much more comfortable. From the instructions in a book by Ajahn Chah he mentions the breath is the only thing you need to focus on, yet to me this seems more like samatha than Vipassana? I've heard very different instructions as to what Vipassana actually is.
Anyway I try not to force my breath, rather just let it be natural, but the sensation I get on the outbreath is one one of vulnerability to my neck. Maybe I am too tense. Do you reckon I should try and do some muscle relaxation techniques before I sit?
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