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For the longest time I was envious on iPhone users for one sole reason: Instagram. I do have to admit to this is one small guilty pleasure: Hi, my name is Andreia and I enjoy making "hipster" photos…
The good news is that my "suffering" and iPhone "jealousy" has ended since I found instacam. Yes, it's another photo editing app, but it's one that you can use to modify your camera shots and be able to post them on Facebook (yes, Facebook addict as well...) in a matter of a few minutes.
The app lets you browse through Instagram, login in with your Instagram account (if you already have one in place from the iPhone version or Android version, because this feature is still not supported since it's a third party application) and share on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and other social media, directly from inside the app.
Not being able to get an account yet doesn't really bother me since I don't think I would be uploading pictures on the Instagram platform in the first place. As for the photo editing, you start out by choosing the picture you want to edit and cropping it by using their own built-in tool. After that you can choose one of 9 preset filters with different picture borders. Don't fright, if none of those are appealing to you, you can customize your own. The customized one allows you to choose between 25 filters that you can also stack one upon each other and get cool new ones. Don't forget to also choose the picture border you like best during the process, give the new filter a name and have it to use for all your future photo editing.
The app also lets you have a quick workaround to this "long" customization process: click the "standart" button and choose quickly one of the 25 filters and 12 photo frames and finish by having your photo saved on your phone or shared on the social networks you sign-in to with the app.
I love using this app because it's so straight forward, it shows you the beauty of the simplicity in interaction and how to get quick and beautiful results that highlight the "artist in you".
Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do. Try it out! You can download it from here. Let me know what you think! 😉
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Dean Starr Receives French Medal of Honor
In the fall of 2013, Peter Starr, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques—a knight in the Order of Academic Palms—for his work in promoting French language and culture in the United States.
"I am honored and humbled that the French government has chosen to recognize my work with such a distinguished award," says Starr. "As both a scholar and as a dean, I can testify that France understands the power of cultural diplomacy in a way that few other nations do."
Before joining the College as dean in July 2009, Starr was a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. A renowned scholar of French literature and literary theory, he is the author of three books: Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory after May '68 (Stanford, 1995); Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath (Fordham, 2006); and We the Paranoid (2008), a web-based, multimedia project. Starr received a BA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
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February 21, 2013
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Arizona's Extreme Strikeout Makeover
When you talk about changing a roster for the grittier, as Kevin Towers has rather openly during a bizarre offseason at the helm of the Diamondbacks, you're going to get accused of using "grit" as a code word. Normally, it's racial. The fact that the Diamondbacks' push for grit coincided with the trading of their two prominent black players didn't help their look.
But what if it was a different kind of code word? What if it did coincide with something quantifiable on the baseball field in how they made over their team?
It appears that as the Diamondbacks were adding grit this offseason, what they were mostly adding was contact. Or more accurately, what they were taking away wasn't any racial checkbox but the "three true outcomes" of plate appearances, thus getting further from the Kirk Gibson career they've been trying to model.
To review, the Diamondbacks had one of the busiest offseasons in baseball. They had multi-year free agent acquisitions like Cody Ross and Brandon McCarthy. They had swaps of established players, sending out Chris Young for Cliff Pennington and a Justin Upton package for a Martin Prado package. They had a swap of young guys, jettisoning Trevor Bauer for Didi Gregorius. As a footnote, they had a straight buy on the previously designated for assignment Tony Campana, paying with a couple of distant prospects.
Through it all, they have become a much more contact-oriented team, and that might be what some of the grit narrative implies. There are no hustle plays when you strike out or when you walk or when you hit a home run. Those intangibles are usually associated with actions like getting runners over, taking the extra base, and other things you can't do on the true outcomes.
The 2010 Diamondbacks, a team Towers took over in September, struck out in 24.7 percent of their plate appearances, the highest rate in history. Both he and outgoing GM Jerry Dipoto vowed to lower that rate, and after shedding Mark Reynolds, Adam LaRoche, Chris Snyder and Kelly Johnson over that winter or during the following season, the Diamondbacks did make contact more often.
Still, the D-Backs of 2012 leaned toward being a three-true-outcomes team, for better or worse or, as it turned out in their 81-81 campaign, exactly the same amount of better and worse. Diamondbacks hitters were seventh or higher in all three true outcomes as rates (they were top five in each in raw numbers). Overall, they were the fifth-most true-outcome-prone team, and for the sake of future comparisons, the fourth-most of any team that's sticking it out in the National League another year.
Most of the variation on the boards is in strikeouts, so we'll look there first at what the Diamondbacks gave up and what they have added. Keep in mind that while the National League average strikeout rate last year was 20.2 percent of plate appearances, it was just 19.2 percent for non-pitchers.
This all looks great, with the exceptional nature of Ross among the incoming players making the signing a little more baffling, but there are costs too.
The PECOTA forecast for the 2013 Diamondbacks has them taking large steps back not only in strikeouts but also in walks and home runs as they become a team that will have to rely on stringing hits together more.
Since PECOTA's team forecasts are sums of the position players, these are just ranks—raw numbers would be off because of the enormous number of pitcher strikeouts, but ranks should stay fairly consistent. The Diamondbacks are expected to be lower in the NL rankings in all three of the true outcome rates than in 2012, dropping to 10th in the 15-team NL in the overall TTOs.
**Excluding Astros
The story is the same on the pitching staff, as the Diamondbacks bit in free agency on a low-walk contact guy in Brandon McCarthy and traded Trevor Bauer. As with the Upton and Young trades, there have been plenty of other motivations ascribed to the move, but all of them trend in the same direction. In my hasty ranking of the Diamondbacks' grittiest players, I left out pitchers because of course they're not gritty but gamers. A non-strikeout guy on the mound survives often with guile, even.
Whereas McCarthy struck out 5.9 batters and walked a mere 1.9 per nine innings last year and 6.1 and 2.6 respectively in his career, Towers is selling somewhat low on Bauer, a guy with career rates in the minors of 11.5 K/9 and 4.2 BB/9.
Promoting balls in play in Chase Field can work either way; while is has proven to be a good home run hitter's park, it's not small and can lead to a lot of hits as well. Not since 1999—the team's second year of existence and second year in the ballpark—have the Diamondbacks had a higher BABIP on the road than at home, and that was the only time it's ever happened.
What's really strange, though, is the notion that Towers keeps bringing up about making the team in Gibson's image. Gibson wasn't this kind of player at all. He was a home run hitter, a walker and a strikeout-er (striker out?).
Here's Gibson compared to the average major leaguer of his day (1979-95)
So Gibson's career was nothing like the direction of the 2013 Diamondbacks, who will be playing a very different style of baseball this year even if we can't quite call it gritty for sure. Or even if we can call it gritty and just have to settle for having no idea what that word means on the field.
Research credits to Rob McQuown and Baseball-Reference.com
Zachary Levine is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @zacharylevine
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Not sure why you're putting this all on Gibson, who's seemed as irritated by all the strikeouts as Towers clearly is. This is going to be an interesting experiment. I don't think it'll work because Towers seriously lowered the teams talent level along the way, but it's still interesting. I can't believe he did it without consulting Gibson.
Feb 21, 2013 08:04 AM
Interesting take. Giants showed last year that getting high contract guys who put balls in play and pressure on the defense can lead to good things. If this works then the NL West just got that much more jam-packed.
Feb 21, 2013 09:12 AM
I think the real question surrounding all these moves is do the changes improve their run scoring and run differential? If not, it's a step backwards.
Feb 21, 2013 10:22 AM
This means that Joe Medwick is the grittiest player of all time.
Feb 21, 2013 11:12 AM
So if Josh Booty is in camp with them is he gritty because he used to be a 3rd baseman or a gamer because he's now pitching? Or is there another adjective used just for quarterbacks that applies?
Feb 22, 2013 00:07 AM
With Darin Erstad, it seemed to be enough just to mention that he used to play football (implies manliness or something), but maybe he can still be a "grinder" even on the mound.
Feb 23, 2013 01:46 AM
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2) The bench will not look like that for the whole season. Ian, Green, DJ and Young need some time to mesh together. It's almost an entirely new bench. You cannot expect results from day 1, imo.
3) Roy will not suck for the whole season. He has been in such slumps again only to emerge again as the Roy we all know and love (and sometimes even better).
4) I agree that teams like the Knicks and the Nets got better. But teams like the Hawks and the Bulls got slightly worse (granted, the Bulls mainly due to Rose's injury). Orlando got a lot worse and Philly is a wild card. If we played as good as we played last year we would have no problem to secure the Central. Of course, we're playing a lot worse than last year. Still, I have faith that we can turn this around and secure a 4th to 6th seed.
1) Brook Lopez being out was a valid problem for the Nets. Shelden Williams is simply not a starter. Johan Petro is one of the worst big men that France ever produced. Their front court rotation (except Humphries) was brutal.
2) Deron getting hurt was a problem as well, of course. The Nets sucked last year for those simple and valid reasons. It makes absolute sense that they are good now.
3) Amare being out does not seem to be such a big problem for the Knicks now, does it? It never was. Amare is still not a good fit with Melo. They will never be a good fit.
4) Woodson is a lot better than D' Antoni for the Knicks. Their last season surge was not a fluke. This Knicks team is not bad at all. But with Danny we can still beat them. Just like we did last year.
Both the Knicks and the Nets are legit this season. But I have no reason to believe that they are any better than we were last year.
Looking back on our games, I count up to four games we probably win with Danny, even with our warts. That would have us at 9-3, 3rd in the east. Gives me some perspective.
It's not that we don't have a lot of issues, it's that we're talented enough when healthy to win ugly versus bad and mediocre teams. Which would keep us afloat while we tighten things up. Instead, we've stepped over the threshold and lost those games, hence the crappy record.
In other words, this start is nauseating, but it's not that the team is dying. It's just got a stomach flu.
You are right that having players back completely changes games, but that isn't something the Pacers can control and not really an accurate comparison. They can control how well they play on offense, and so far only two teams have outscored last years Pacers average in regulation.
So because the Pacers don't have a superstar, they should do what exactly? Hope one falls in their laps? Trade any or all the current players and bottom out and hope to draft one? If its so easy how do they do it?
The starters push the eventual NBA champs to six games, the team makes significant changes to the bench, and now 11 games in and 1 major injury later and all of a sudden they're not good enough. The run is over. They have no superstar so they should blow things up. A lot of you guys are as bad at talking basketball as the Pacers are playing right now.
So the Pacers lucked out last season because many teams lost one of if not their best player? So does this mean that many teams THIS year are lucking out because the Pacers are without their best player? Does it not work this way?
I've been one of the ones that have advocated in flipping an asset or two in order to make our roster compliment eachother a little more. I'm a bit on the pessimistic side that Danny will come back in February, AND will be the Danny of old. No he never relied on athleticism or quickness, BUT knee injuries are brutal to come back from--and can often times be a chronic issue. We won't know until he comes back, but by the time he comes back, it will have been too late for us to realize what we need, and the opportunity to flip an asset or two for another scorer will have been lost.
With us having an elite defense thus far, we will have a chance in most games. And yes, most of our players are shooting at career low levels--so there is a chance for us to turn things around with our current group. I guess I'd just feel a lot more comfortable if we had at least one player who can put the ball in the basket. Not even at an elite, or even a stater level. Just someone who can consistently knock down open shots.
Well to put another perspective, let's look at the Miami team on the first few games with their new players (James, Bosh, etc.). They were touted as champions in the offseason yet they "sucked" (they were still a little above 0.500) in their first 20+ games, including their bad loss to the "mediocre" Pacers. Yet after that they managed to recover and even became the #2 seed, eventually reaching the finals.
Now, I'm not saying that the current team will become like that, or that we're as strong as Miami that time. I'm just showing that early struggles are still recoverable, and they just need to pull themselves together. Hibbert is still struggling, but I believe he'll eventually recover his "all-star" self. George is struggling offensively, but he's still doing well on defense most of the time. I'm sure his shooting woes are more psychological. West and Hill cannot carry the game by themselves all the time, but they're doing what they can while their 2 struggling buddies are trying to figure things out. Lance is still adjusting too from EOB (end-of-the-bench) to starter role, so they'll make plays for him as he grows on the court. The new bench are struggling because they play together most of the time and there's not much chemistry yet, but I'm sure they'll solve their problems when they start playing more together.
Let's just relax and back off the legde for the meantime. The losses really hurt especially that we have played low-tier teams for the most part, but there are still a lot of games to play and anything can happen, not only on the Pacers but also on the 29 teams. Just look at last year's Boston, Chicago and Orlando at the start and at the end.
In the end, it's still basketball. The NBA can be as much of a superstar-driven league as it wants. In the end the best team wins.
Miami wouldn't win last year if their role players didn't hit their open shots. It was LeBron and Wade that lead them to the championship but even them couldn't do it alone. They needed that contribution by the rest of their team because basketball is a team game.
maybe the trailblazers still want hibbert, we'll take batum off their hands and lilliard
2) Denver is not the same team either. They gave up some depth in Arron Afflalo and Al Harrington in order to trade for Andre Iguodala. Is it going to work? Who knows? It's still early to tell. They are not the same team as last year either.
So, as you can see out of the teams you mentioned it's only the Pacers that have maintained the same core as last year. The only problem is that our best player is injured. Which means that we're not the same team until he comes back.
Conclusion: The whole "young teams do pretty well on lock out seasons" narrative is just that. A narrative. It's not an actual fact.
However, you have every right to believe that it's true
Wanna know the difference?
I'll focus on two important but often underestimated elements of the game. Free throws and turnovers. Let's compare last season to this season, shall we?
Percent of Points from FTs (last season): 20.7% (1st)
Percent of Points from FTs (this season): 19.0% (12nd)
Free Throw % (last season): 78.1% (5th)
Free Throw % (this season): 73.2% (24th)
FTMs (Free Throws made) per Game (last season): 20.1 (2nd)
FTMs per Game (this season): 16.8 (16th)
FTAs per Game (last season): 25.7 (3rd)
FTAs per Game (this season): 23.0 (17th)
FTA per FGA (last season): 0.316 (3rd)
FTA per FGA (this season): 0.286 (15th)
FTM per 100 Possessions (last season): 21.171 (2nd)
FTM per 100 Possessions (this season): 17.672 (18th)
FTA per Offensive Play (last season): 23.9% (2nd)
FTA per Offensive Play (this season): 21.3% (16th)
Turnovers per Game (last season): 14.2 (tied at 11th)
Turnovers per Game (this season): 16.9 (29th)
Turnovers per Possession (last season): 15.0% (tied at 12th)
Turnovers per Possession (this season): 17.8% (30th)
Turnovers per Offensive Play (last season): 13.2% (tied at 9th)
Turnovers per Offensive Play (this season): 15.7% (28th)
You can find all those stats here -> http://www.teamrankings.com/nba/team-stats/
Our offense last season wasn't pretty but it was effective. We were an elite team when it came to free throws and we were above average in taking care of the ball.
This season? We are a middle of the road team when it comes in free throws and one of the worst in taking care of the ball. Couple that with Danny's absence and Roy's below par play and one can easily explain why we look that bad.
Conclusion: You can have an effective offense even if it looks ugly as far as FG% and APG go, if you simply take care of the ball, go to the line often and hit your FTs. That's what we did last season. I have no reason to believe that we won't be able to do this again this season. It's vital for our success to improve in those areas and reach last year's standards.
I agree but as I generally tend to be an optimistic person I felt the need to point it out in order for the logic to be as impartial as possible.
There's plenty of time to turn this around and stop underachieving. If we do that, we can grab a quite good seed.
I tend to agree about the record & to be honest with you I feel Danny would have taken the Bucks game because as we all know Danny Gragner is Monta Ellis idol, lord and master. That part is for you know who which will be replying shortly.
However what concerns me is while it is painfully apperant Danny Granger is far better as a talent than even I thought what happens if he does not recover from this or if he is only 1/4 or even 1/2 the player he was? You know who will also be responding about this as well but there is some merit to this concern. This isn't inflamation or even an injury, this is a degeneration so I'm not sure what the recovery will be like.
But worst case scenario I think that it's painfully apperant that the team as structured would not be anything more than a midling first round and out team in the future.
Now of course when Danny returns riding the white horse and takes us to the second round from the 7th or 8th position & everyone has to finally bow to him (this is also for the benefit of you know who) we can pretend like this has just been a bad dream.
I don't know what'll happen when Danny comes back, but if we win like 70% of our games with him it's going to be awesome to see him get worshipped all around the internet. He's taken unneeded hate for years.
It does mean that. You're right in all those statements. Which is a BIG deal when Danny expires after next year. Danny's never going to be 26 year old Danny again. Old school and non-dependent on athleticism as his game may be it really doesn't matter, a "non-explosive" arsenal isn't the same as not being able to run. He makes it in the league to 35 he's going to be an off the bench spot shooter those last couple years in my opinion. That's what he'll be best suited for anyway.
We re-sign/extend Danny expecting him to be a core piece during that contract then it's a major mistake. For better or worse I hope we let Danny, who I like immensely, pursue greener pastures after this contract just because I don't think he'll be able to make the money worthwhile. It's one thing to gripe about a 26 year old 7'2 guy making a ton of money but at least he's (knock on wood) healthy as an ox and plays consistently outstanding rim defense and can give you a solid 15ppg a night, we'll see. Dumping a bunch of money into a 3rd contract for Danny would just be a bad investment in my opinion, and I love the guy. Unless it's really franchise friendly I'm fine with letting him walk.
Yeah, I think he meant chronic, not degenerative.
It's degeneration as it pertains to being able to keep up with he rigors of professional sports. This problem wont go away--within his pro career. Now later on in life, Danny will be able to walk just fine and lead a normal life. But as far as being able to jump, cut, etc--his knee issues will constantly be an issue. The 3 month timetable is so the swelling and pain can subside. Once he comes back, he'll be able to ice his knee in order to deal with the pain for the rest of the season. But moving forward, his knee will most likely always be a problem of some sort.
I've always thought Danny's career could evolve to what Rashard Lewis ended up being on ORL and now on MIA. A (excuse my language) stretch 4 who can play with a post player and simply knock down long 3's. If we could re-sign him for 6-8 Mil a yr with the idea that he'll be our 3rd-4th option offensively--I'd be willing to re-sign him. It just means we need to sign, trade for, or draft someone that can be good 1st and 2nd options as well.
Danny to me has been lucky to play this long, many teams passed on him in draft night because they never thought he was going to be able to play this long, I don't expect Danny to be Danny ever again but I hope I'm wrong.
And with that said the Pacers should start to make plans with life after Danny Granger, failing to do so is going to put this team in a whole for years to come.
I always compared Danny to Rashard Lewis and people here gave me s*** for it, glad to know that somebody also think the same thing.
I've spent a ton of time on message boards, you're the single most negative "fan" I've ever seen, bay far


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I would prefer to do this local since I would like to check it out first, etc. and I'd also consider trading lessons towards it. If you've asked me about lessons recently you probably know that I pretty much quit doing lessons for the past 2 years but this is something I would be willing to include regular lesson work if it'll help me get an Ipad.


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Inland residents had differing views on Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that some companies with religious objections can avoid meeting requirements to offer certain contraceptive coverage under President Barack Obama's health care reform.
This is the first time the Supreme Court declared businesses can hold religious views under federal law.
The 5-4 decision means the Obama administration must find a different means of providing free contraception to women who are covered under the health insurance plans of objecting companies.
Speaking at the Mountain Square shopping center in Upland, some shoppers said they agreed with the ruling.
Mimi Gransden of Claremont said there are differences between major corporations and smaller, family-run companies.
Smaller companies reflect the values of their owners and those of the employees, she said.
"When people work for large corporations, they are usually attracted to them by the (employee) packages" or opportunities to move up within an organization, Gransden said.
When someone goes to work for a small business "they bought into the concept of the business," she said adding the values and philosophy of the company and the employee are in alignment.
In such instances, "who I work for is a part of how I represent myself," she said.
Jerry Curran of Temecula who has a business in Chino said he is completely in support of the ruling.
People "have the right to go buy contraceptives if they want," he said. "But why should other people pay for those contraceptives?"
Curran said his business is small and does not have enough employees for him to be required to provide insurance for them.
Carlo Padilla of Chino had a different point of view.
Having health insurance is required by law and all contraceptives should be covered under health plans, he said.
A company's employees are going to have different beliefs and those are not always going to be the same as those of an employer.
"Not all employees, I image, are Christians," he said. "By not offering the service, it's pushing their beliefs on employees."
Bishop Gerald Barnes, head of the Diocese of San Bernardino, said Monday's court ruling was positive.
"Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling represents a positive step in the protection of religious freedom and conscience rights for private, family-owned businesses who wish to exercise their First Amendment rights," Barnes said in a statement released by his office.
"The concern that my brother bishops of the United States and I have about the impacts of the (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) mandate in these areas is well-documented and while this case has no direct bearing on our Church's legal challenges to the mandate, we will take today's ruling as a positive sign that religious freedom has been respected."
Representatives of Planned Parenthood were concerned about the ruling.
"We're deeply disappointed and troubled by this ruling that some bosses will be able to interfere with their employees' access to birth control," Kate Jeffrey, vice president of external affairs for Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, said in a statement. "The decision to use birth control should be between a woman and her doctor, not her boss. It is unbelievable that in 2014 there is still a fight going on about whether women should have access to birth control."
"Women can count on Planned Parenthood to have access to basic preventive care no matter where they live, who they work for or how much money they make," she said.
Women in California have the Women's Contraception Equity Act "that makes sure private employers cover birth control," Jeffrey said.
However, there are two exceptions, including private employers that are self-insured and a narrow religious exception, she said.
According to the legislation, a religious employer can request a health care plan without federally approved "contraceptive methods that are contrary to the religious employer's religious tenets."
California has among the strongest protections in the nation, Jeffrey said, but that doesn't mean women in California should not be alert because an employer could be self-insured.
Also, self-insured companies aren't always small organizations. Some companies, much like Hobby Lobby, can have thousands of employees, Jeffrey said.
Planned Parenthood received some calls from women with questions related to the court's ruling, but most of the questions were going to human resources departments, she said.
Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino County, like other Planned Parenthood offices, will "always be available to provide comprehensive health care" to women, Jeffrey said.
Every year, the Orange and San Bernardino County office provides comprehensive health care to more than 160,000 women, she said, offering well women exams, birth control and cancer screenings.
Associated Press contributed to this article.


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I had a same thing 4-5 years ago at london drugs (In Vancouver BC) brought a high end graphic's card got home opened the box and there were wood blocks...took it back to London Drugs and they were wtf are you trying to pull...but lucky they said they will look into it....4 hours later I get a call saying a similar case was reported at another london drugs...went back and got a full refund. so it was not too bad I suppose....But I never shop at London Drugs now! Guess I may have to get retails to open the products now
i wonder if any employees were involved with this scam? an employee can easily swap the ipad2 with clay and reseal it. then a customer buys it and wraps it up as a gift
From now on, how about we all record an un-boxing video of the product we purchase so we can have proof to show to the retail if we get scammed?
Hot shrink bags and sealers can be purchased all over eBay.
It costs a lot of money for the retailers to return used/opened items to the suppliers so any chance they can put the unit back on the shelf as new, they would.
I remeber returning a computer to BJ's a couple of years ago. It was sealed never opened. They actually opened the box in front of me took the computer out AND matched the serial number to the number on the box!!! I thought it was pretty bizarre but now I see why they probably did that.


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All of Mark Dantonio's assistant coaches at Michigan State have two-year contracts—except for Spartans defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi, who now has a three-year deal, MLive.com reported.
The move is a clear indication of Narduzzi's work in East Lansing, where the Spartans ranked fourth in the country in total defense in 2012 and sixth in 2011.
"The assistants all have two-year deals, that happened when Mark (Dantonio) came here, that was an important component for him, so that was delivered,'' Hollis told MLive.com. "That put some stability into our staff, and we put some retention bonuses into some of the assistants contracts, as well.''
The contract, obtained by MLive.com, calls for Narduzzi's base salary to be $512,500, with an annual retention bonus of over $40,000. If he were to leave Michigan State for another assistant's role, Narduzzi must pay the school $250,000, provided Dantonio is still coaching the team.
Narduzzi's work has been recognized in the coaching community. He was a candidate for the Cincinnati head coaching job that ultimately went to Tommy Tuberville, and Tennessee and USC reportedly were among the teams trying to lure him away with more money, but still in an assistant's role.
If the Spartans have another stellar defense in 2013, you can bet that Narduzzi will be a hot candidate for any school looking to replace its current coach. His blend of coaching and recruiting skills would serve him well as his own boss.


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In both games which we lost away, we played with Kenny at point, Reggie was of no particular influence on the game and in general we shot poorly against the Kings and Artest was out early in the game against he Kings.
We can safely assume that not only did Portland change its outlook, so did we It will be interesting to watch how much of a difference Tins makes in these games and if he's able to bring Reggie in to the game as he usually does.
Pollie played few minutes in both games and not making any impression, but he started playing better later on in the season, I'm not sure wheteher he will see time, though I would think he can be of use banging under the boards.
Also nowhere near the rotation in earlier games was Bender, in all there is an interesting twist with all the changes on their team to an extend that we forget all the changes on the Pacers
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West Virginia survives furious Maryland comeback, for 37-31 win
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - One of these days, West Virginia will put together two good halves in the same afternoon.
For now, one outstanding half per game is good enough.
Geno Smith threw for a career-high 388 yards, and the 18th-ranked Mountaineers withstood a furious comeback by Maryland to pull out a 37-31 victory Saturday.
One week earlier, West Virginia (3-0) trailed Norfolk State at halftime before pulling away. The Mountaineers addressed that deficiency and used what they learned to build a 27-10 lead at the break against the stunned Terrapins.
The margin swelled to 24 points before Maryland rallied, closing to 34-31 with 10:29 remaining.
"We kind of let off the gas, not intentionally, but I just think we came out fired up," Smith said. "We didn't put together four solid quarters. We did good in the first half. We moved the ball. They responded. They stopped us. We need to come back and show more effort and play harder."
Fortunately for the Mountaineers, Maryland never found a way to shut down Smith. He directed a 14-play, 65-yard drive that produced a field goal with 4:42 left, leaving the Terrapins no choice but to score a touchdown.
Maryland (1-1) moved to the West Virginia 35 before Eain Smith intercepted a Danny O'Brien pass with 1:13 remaining to saddle coach Randy Edsall with his first defeat at Maryland.
"I thought we made too many errors out there," Edsall said, referring to the Terrapins' three turnovers and seven penalties. "...We didn't get it done today because West Virginia is a good team and we made some mistakes."
Both teams used the no-huddle offense with uncanny efficiency. West Virginia finished with 480 yards and Maryland amassed 477.
Smith had 232 yards passing in the first half to help the Mountaineers take a 17-point lead. The junior then threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Stedman Bailey on West Virginia's first possession of the third quarter to make it 34-10.
The Terrapins scored three straight touchdowns to cut the gap to 34-31, thrilling the sellout crowd of 53,627. But Maryland couldn't complete the comeback.
Smith went 36 for 49 with a touchdown, a suitable encore to a 371-yard, four TD performance against Norfolk State. Unlike that game, the Mountaineers' best half was the first.
"They played harder than we did for the majority of the second-half," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said. "They got some momentum, and it's a game of momentum. We had all the momentum in the first-half and they had it for the majority of the second.
It was the first road game for West Virginia under Holgorsen, who successfully stamped his name on a rivalry that began in 1919. The Mountaineers have won the last six.
"I'm just real proud of the way the guys finished the game," he said.
Tavon Austin had 11 catches for 122 yards for West Virginia and Terence Garvin returned his first career interception 37 yards for a score. Austin and Garvin both played high school ball in Baltimore.
Next up for West Virginia: A marquee matchup at home against No. 3 LSU.
Playing two good halves is imperative against the Tigers, who will be well rested after beating Mississippi State on Thursday night.
O'Brien completed 34 of 52 passes for 289 yards and a touchdown, but he threw three interceptions.
"I love Danny O'Brien. Danny played hard," Edsall said. "Danny isn't going to play fine all the time even though everyone, including myself, wants him to."
Davin Meggett rushed for 113 yards and a score, but the Terrapins came up short in their effort to build on their 32-24 win over Miami in the opener.
Down 34-10, Maryland failed on a fourth-down try from the West Virginia 7.
The Terps then used a touchdown run by Meggett and two by D.J. Adams to get within a field goal.
Stopping Smith, however, proved too daunting a task.
The Mountaineers got to the Maryland 37 on their first possession before Andrew Buie lost a fumble. The Terrapins then kicked a field goal at the end of a 77-yard drive fueled by a pair of 15-yard penalties.
West Virginia responded by moving 88 yards. After Smith completed six straight passes for 63 yards, Vernard Roberts ran it in from the 9.
Just over a minute later, the Mountaineers made it 14-3 on Garvin's interception return. A field goal and a 10-yard touchdown run by Buie made it 24-3.
Kevin Dorsey made an excellent grab in the end zone of an 18-yard pass from O'Brien to cut the gap to 24-10 at the break.


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2nd Annual THREE-PARK THROWDOWN in Norman, OK
April 3 – 4, 2010
Play all three Norman parks for huge payouts, cash and prizes!
Rules at 8:30 a.m. at Griffin Park
Pre-registration at Popeye's in Norman - (405) 364-2711
Juniors: $35
Novice: $40
Amateur: $50
Advanced: $60
Open: $70
Easter egg hunt at each course for extra prizes!
Unbelievable player's pack!
4-keg afterparty for all players over 21!
Raffle items include an LCD TV, Mini-fridge, several baskets, and more!
Players will be selecting their own plastic for their players packs! There is a pretty big selection of CFR and TFR discs for the players to choose from, plus a seriously sweet stamp courtesy of Josh Crain of Think Ink Tattoos, so it should be pretty cool!
The afterparty is sponsored by Budweiser and Miller, so the beer will be quality! Also, it looks like the afterparty will be catered as well, though with barbecue or some amazing Mexican food, I don't know.
There will be $1000 added cash for the pros, and some pretty sick raffle items for the golfer who has everything already!
And of course all women and juniors get fat payouts no matter where they place!
And this is just the beginning....
This is the first leg of the Sooner Series, which will include the Three-Park Throwdown, the 32nd Annual Norman Pro/Am, and the Oklahoma State Championships. The Series will have a huge payout at the end, more details to come!


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BOYLE HEIGHTS – A man was arrested on suspicion of firing on police officers with a paintball gun in Boyle Heights tonight.
The shooting occurred as officers were on another call, in the 3100 block of Fairmount Street, around 9:35 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. John Porras said.
Neither the officers nor city property were struck by the paintballs, but the officers did fear for their safety, Porras said.
"They felt they were being fired upon," Porras said.
A paintball gun was recovered from a residence, Porras said.


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After 11 years at Cessna, and eight of them in the left seat, Jack Pelton is leaving the Textron-owned, Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer. A Textron spokesman told AIN this morning that the decision for Pelton, 52, to retire was a mutual one between Pelton and Textron CEO Scott Donnelly. The news comes on the heels of Donnelly's pronouncement at a first-quarter teleconference on April 20 that "our underlying performance at Cessna was disappointing." Cessna's first-quarter revenues of $556 million were up by $123 million from the same period a year ago, but the division still managed to sustain a larger operating loss–$38 million versus $24 million last year. Pelton joined Cessna in November 2000 as senior v-p of product engineering; he was named president and CEO in 2003 and chairman in 2005. "Under Jack's leadership, Cessna achieved many significant program and product milestones," said Donnelly, who has assumed Pelton's role at Cessna until a successor is named. The Textron spokesman told AIN that "the conversation between Scott and Jack had been going on for some [unspecified] time, and the challenges Cessna has faced in recent years are not the cause of the retirement." In response to speculation that Bell Helicopter president and CEO John Garrison will be named chairman of an aviation division containing both Bell and Cessna, the Textron spokesman replied, "A search for the new CEO of Cessna is under way, as announced on May 2, and it would be premature to speculate about any candidates who may be considered."
Jack Pelton Leaving Cessna
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