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Biomarkers in Predicting Treatment Response in Samples From Patients With Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Previously Treated With Adjuvant Chemotherapy
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|Stage IA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Stage IB Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Stage IIA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Stage IIB Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Stage IIIA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
|Other: medical chart review Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|The Identification, Validation and Implemention of Prognostic and/or Predictive Biomarkers for Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
- Validation of the 15-gene prognostic and predictive mRNA signature by quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA) assay and NanoString assay [ Time Frame: Post-RNA extraction from tissue ]
- Prognostic and predictive value of known potential oncogenic mutations and gene copy variations of novel genomic aberrations on disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) [ Time Frame: Post-RNA extraction from tissue ]Survival curves will be estimated using Kaplan-Meier methods and compared with the log-rank test. The hypothesis of constant risk ratio over time in the Cox proportional hazards (PH) model will be tested by introducing a time-dependent interaction with the marker or using Schoenfeld's residuals.
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|Study Start Date:
|May 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2100 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Ancillary-Correlative (laboratory biomarkre analysis)
Archived RNA and DNA samples are analyzed for gene expression, mutations, and variations by RT-qPCR, MassARRAY, molecular inversion probe assay, and microarray assays. Results are then compared with patients' clinical outcomes.
Other: medical chart review
Correlative studies
Other Name: chart reviewOther: laboratory biomarker analysis
Correlative studies
Detailed Description:
I. Validation of the 15-gene prognostic and predictive messenger (m) ribonucleic acid (RNA) signature on Lung Adjuvant Cisplatin Evaluation (LACE)-Bio formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue (FFPE) tumor samples.
II. Exploratory evaluation of the prognostic and predictive values of known potential oncogenic mutations using LACE-Bio FFPE tumor samples.
III. Exploratory evaluation of the prognostic and predictive values of gene copy variations using LACE-Bio FFPE tumor samples.
IV. Exploratory identification and evaluation of prognostic and predictive value of novel genomic aberrations discovered by Next Generation Sequencing on LACE-Bio tumor samples.
Archived RNA and DNA samples are analyzed for gene expression, mutations, and variations by reverse transcriptase (RT)-polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), mass spectrometry (MassARRAY), molecular inversion probe assay, and microarray assays. Results are then compared with patients' clinical outcomes.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Samples from patients treated in 4 adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) pivotal trials:
- International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trail (IALT)
- Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB)-9633
- Adjuvant Navelbine International Trialist Association (ANITA)
- Not specified
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01595074
|Canada, Ontario
|National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group
|Not yet recruiting
|Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
|Contact: Lesley K. Seymour 613-533-6430 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Lesley K. Seymour
|Principal Investigator:
|Lesley Seymour
|Canadian Cancer Trials Group
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|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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|NCT01595074 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|May 8, 2012
|Last Updated:
|September 19, 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
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PHILADELPHIA -- Blue Jays manager John Gibbons will return to Rogers Centre on Tuesday and resume the position he held from 2004-08. Gibbons had multiple public run-ins with players in his first stint with Toronto, which begs the question whether he's made changes to his approach with this new-look Blue Jays team.
"The one thing I've always tried to do is be fair with them all," Gibbons said. "The thing is, with these jobs, things change, and you have to do what's best for the team. Especially in a year like this, where we're not just trying to develop guys, we know what this year is about."
It's not a stretch to say the Blue Jays enter this year with higher expectations than any season since their last playoff appearance in 1993, when they beat the Phillies -- their opponent this weekend in a two-game On Deck Series at Citizens Bank Park -- for the World Series title. With several additions, including National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey, Josh Johnson and Jose Reyes, the Blue Jays enter the year as one of the favorites to represent the American League in the World Series. That's a something Gibbons didn't experience the last time around.
"I never intentionally [ruffled feathers]," said Gibbons, who went 305-305 in his first stint as Blue Jays skipper. "I don't think I've changed that much. Not consciously have I done anything differently."
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When you find that you need to make adjustments to your form (say, plane preservation, pinch point, delaying your pull, etc.) what do you do to actually incorporate those changes?
I know, in my head, what I need to be doing to achieve snap, because I've done it before. I've felt pivot, felt the pull of the disc against my fingertips, felt the "double whip" effect. I'm at a point where I can feel that I'm not executing things properly, and after every throw I basically know what went wrong (ultimately, that there was little snap/pivot). When I do try to clean things up (slow down, take smaller steps), I find myself consistently reverting to the same body motions/positions, as if they are programmed, or I just shank the throw really badly with no power at all.
Most good days seem like accidents. The times that I've had great snap, everything feels just as automatic as my "regular" throws, and then two days later I can't execute it the same anymore.
General info: I throw Eagles and Valkyries out to 400' with relative ease. I don't throw any wider rims than a "9."


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Here's a technique I use on almost every song I record. This step gives me a helping hand in making transitions in the arrangement work. It also can add drama at the end of an important verse. I have a few names for this tactic including the Kickverb, Kickboom and the awesome Thunderverb!
Take the kick drum you are using throughout the track and isolate one hit. Make a new audio track and place the single kick drum on it. Don't forget to render your kick first if you had some effects on it like compression or EQ. Once on its own channel insert a reverb. I usually go for Alitverb convolution reverb or the Korg MDE-X multi-effect which comes with the Korg Legacy collection. Both those reverbs have colors to them. Next, I render a single kick going through a wash of reverb. Do several bounces with different kinds of reverbs. You end up with Kickverb1, Kickverb2 and so forth. If your song calls for it insert a distortion plug-in after the reverb. This gives you a dirty decaying sound. My favorite distortion plug-ins are Izotope's Trash and Ohm Force's Ohmicide. Another thing to try is pitching your rendered kickverb down.
I usually create my Kickverbs after the general arrangement is finished. Then, I place them strategically throughout the timeline. Two places they fit include at the beggining of the chorus and in the verse after you say something shocking or important. You can also start and finish the song with them.
Some other things that maybe obvious that you can do is reverse the Kickverb. Place that "Reverse Kickverb" before the chorus comes in to build up tension. Of course you don't have to stick to the Kickverb at all because real thunder and explosion samples will also work.
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Someone mentioned Wally, now THAT makes a lot of sense too with regards to a GM mentioning giving up an all-star. He would be nice offensively, but our defense .
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Someone mentioned Wally, now THAT makes a lot of sense too with regards to a GM mentioning giving up an all-star. He would be nice offensively, but our defense .
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So, apparently, Bird explored some trade options. That's what keeps getting overlooked. Artest's initial "I want to be traded" salvo came in response to a rumor that Indiana and Sacramento had discussed an Artest-for-Peja Stojakovic trade.
I said this last week and I was roundly booed.
Man my blood is starting to boil. If we trade Foster with Ron I will be so pissed.
Great point -- everyone so far is focusing on people who were All-Stars IN the West... So why not look at who has been an all-star and is now in the West.Originally Posted by unstandable
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Ray Allen
Elton Brand
Kobe Bryant
Sam Cassell
Baron Davis
Tim Duncan
Michael Finley
Kevin Garnett
Manu Ginobili
Juwan Howard
Eddie Jones
Andrei Kirilenko
Rashard Lewis
Shawn Marion
Tracy McGrady
Brad Miller
Yao Ming
Dikembe Mutumbo
Steve Nash
Dirk Nowitzki
Theo Ratliff
Jerry Stackhouse
Peja Stojakovic
Amare Stoudemire
Wally Szczerbiak
Nick Van Exel
Now lets cut down players that we know won't be traded, and eliminate all of the Spurs and probably the Jazz (I just don't see Artest in SLC??)
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Juwan Howard
Eddie Jones
Rashard Lewis
Kenyon Martin
Brad Miller
Theo Ratliff
Jerry Stackhouse
Peja Stojakovic
Wally Szczerbiak
So those are former All Stars who might be in play with our mysterious "Western GM."
(I took off T-Mac, you might disagree with me and think he should still be on the list... I also really think that Theo Ratliff could be taken off, Portland is not a contender, and Ron doesn't make them one.)
We have to look at this statement.
"In fact, this GM was considering offering an All-Star for Artest 'because it isn't very often that a player of this caliber comes on the market and could come with a Croshere or a Jeff Foster."'
Ron and Foster could be traded for both Martin and Lewis. Subbing Cro for Foster and neither trade works.
I love the buy-in here that Artest, at 19.4 points per game for the season (17.25 per game in his last 4, playing time in last 4 of 36:08.75 per game) was being "phased out" of the offense - especially since the "last 4" average is down due to a couple of spectacularly horrible free throw shooting nights.
What a bunch of mowroons.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
I watched Kenyon play in Charlotte the other night. I DO NOT WANT HIM ON THE PACERS. He was a real D**K to everyone, the crowd and the Bobcats players, including acting like an assbag to some of his own teammates.
He was flexing and showing off the whole night while not really accomplishing crap.
By the way, when I went to the game, I got a good look at the nuggets and bobcats players.
I wouldn't mind getting Rush from Charlotte. Miller from Denver had a pretty good game. Melo was unstoppable that night, although I know thats not even an option. Peanut Butter played ok, but he had a hard time with his shot, and couldn't make a simple shot from right under the basket the whole night. I think he sat out most of the fourth quarter because Denver was just owning him all night long when he tried to defend. The other thing I noticed is he runs really funny. Very flat footed. Almost liked he shuffles his feet down the floor. Reminded me a little of Rik Smits.
The New arena is a lot like Conseco with improvements in seating and the suites. I was in one of the suites and I have to say it was deluxe. Very nice, LOTS of room. Excellent food, service and view. The inside of the arena looks very much like conseco, with the exception of how they did their club level seating. Its like sitting at a bar. They have probably 50% of the club level set up like that. It was very nice. And probably 30% of the club level seating also had their own plasma screen TV's that had up to date stats on the screen and replays(basically the overhead scoreboard).
"I'll always be a part of Donnie Walsh."
-Ron Artest, Denver Post, 12.28.05
Rashard Lewis is better than Artest in every aspect of the game outside of defense. Better scorer, better shooter, better passer, better handler, better rebounder. If we could actually get him for Artest, I'd be overjoyed.
how bout Brad Miller? Is he untouchable in Sacto. They are playing fairly lousy right now. If they were getting Foster to provide center play along with Artest. Foster, Artest and Austin for Miller and Bozo Wells works. Maybe, Peja and Ron would be a fit together.
Al Harrington would be a better choice than Martin. I don't know who I would choose if I had to choose between Harrington and Lewis. I think Al is better on the boards and a better defender. He also knows this system. Lewis is clearly a better scorer.
Wally aint bad at all. He's having a nice comeback to his all-star form this season. I like Eddie Griffin too al though he has a nutty history too.
I would prefer Lewis, but wouldn't cry if we got Al instead.Originally Posted by Will Galen
I guess skippy doesn't realize we were a defensive team last year without Artest. And we own the Heat. THey are our *****'s. They lose when we tell them too.
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Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
I just can't fathom it happening, but I'd be overjoyed too!Originally Posted by Naptown Seth
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
The more I think about Rashard Lewis, the more giddy I get. Getting him for Ron would be amazing.
Well, this West GM said that he was wanting Foster or Croshere in exhange, which to me, means he'd be giving up a PF or Center, and Foster/Croshere would essentially be a band-aid to cover it up. I'd hate to say Yao, because he's such an icon, and does more for attendance than his numbers would dictate. But the fact of the matter is, right now he's a mediocre center on a struggling team, and to get Artest and Foster for him would be pretty enticing, especially considering Artest and Foster are just the kind of scrappy defenders that Van Gundy loves. Throw into it that we can't be the only ones who've realized that Foster is the anti-Duncan, and I really could see Yao or B. Miller coming here for those two. Why B. Miller, you ask? Because Sacramento is changing. They've still got scorers, but they don't have the pieces to run that flowing euro offense anymore. They could still be a good fast break team though, and Foster is much more suited to that than Brad.
It's all speculation, but that's what I've gathered from the tidbits thrown out there.
Yao's never gonna leave... he's there TEAM, there ICON, never ever ever...
I'm Favoring Lewis with all this talk and Dallas, I'm 99 percent sure there making a massive run for artest, just sceptical if DW would pull a trade with them..
Here is the big Dilema, you can get better value if you trade him to a winning team, but trading him to a winning team can also cost you a championship...
Atlanta, Raptors, Sonics & wildcards Mavs & G State
thats the only teams I see a deal cranking with..
Ya Think Ya Used Enough Dynamite there Butch...
I'm not worried about the sonics or the Mavs, we need to make it
past the first round let alone look all the way ahead to a championship.
I wouldn't want Martin. When he first came to the Nuggets, he punched Nene during practice, and the 2 were separated. He's tough, but the injuries scare me. Leonard still has enough left to start at the 2 for us this year. If we were to trade with the Nuggets, I'd rather have Nene. Is it too late to sign him to an extension before being traded?
If everyone ignored Skip Bayless, would he cease to exist? I doubt it, but it'd be fun to give it a try.
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
Kenyon had a verbal exchange with a camera man during tonights game....Originally Posted by Pacerized
I'll go on the record saying Rashard Lewis would be my pick over just about anybody we've seen mentioned. That would be great.
He's durable, he can score, he can play decent D, he's 6'10", and he's a good team guy. Like I said, I'd go for that in a heartbeat over anybody else we've seen. Vince? Kenyon? D. George? No thank you.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Brazilian company and it's American partner will build and test 20 Super Tucano turboprop light support turboprop planes at Jacksonville International Airport, bringing at least 50 high-skilled jobs to Jacksonville.
The $427 million contract was awarded Wednesday by the U.S. Air Force to Embraer Defense and Security and the Sierra Nevada Corporation after a rebidding process that picked the A-29 Super Tucano as the best choice to provide air combat capability for Afghanistan and other missions.
"A great team came together to make a solid case for building this plane in northeast Florida, resulting in a 'win-win' for the First Coast economy and our national defense," said Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Jacksonville. "More importantly, this contract underscores the deep confidence by our military that Jacksonville continues to be a military aviation center of excellence."
More than 100 U.S. companies in more than 20 states provide parts or services for the Super Tucano. In all, the new contract will support more than 1,400 American jobs, reflecting both the large U.S. supplier base and new jobs that will be created by Sierra Nevada and Embraer.
"Amid all the concern over federal budget cuts, this is some good news for Jacksonville," said U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida.
With the support of the state of Florida and the Jacksonville Airport Authority, the facility at Jacksonville International Airport is already undergoing modifications necessary to accommodate the aircraft assembly line, ensuring that production can begin on-schedule.
The initial 20 aircraft will be built, tested and delivered by Feb. 26, 2019. First delivery expected by April 2015, and two per month are expected to be completed at the Jacksonville facility.
The contract can be expanded to $950 million if additional aircraft are ordered.
The A-29 Super Tucano is described as a versatile and powerful turboprop aircraft capable of carrying out a wide range of missions, including close air support and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The 170 of the aircraft are already being used by nine air forces around the world for more than eight years.
With more than 180,000 flight hours logged, the A-29 has flown 28,000 combat hours with no combat losses.
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By Jason Nupp
From: Denver, CO
Nov 27, 2001
|Hiked into base of Dreamweaver on 11/26. Approach was long and hard due to unconsolidated snow much of the way and increasing from Chasm Lake to the final approach. Expect lots of postholing in 7-10" of snow with a 1-2" crust with loose snow underneath which facets when you stomp. Avalanche conditions were moderate with the Loft being leeward facing. On the other hand, Columbine Falls ice looks fat!
By Mark Ferguson
Apr 15, 2002
|Anyone have info on conditions for Dark Star or Alexander's Chimney?
By Anonymous Coward
May 6, 2002
|Climbed Kiener's on 5/5. Route is in good shape... still winter conditions. Snow was fairly well consolidated in Lamb's Slide and across Broadway. Snow is still unconsolidated in shaded areas and where there are wind deposits - a small spindrift avalanche swept the Notch Couloir after we crossed. The upper slopes above the first two pitches of Kiener's were also in good condition. Snow is still not in the best shape to accept pickets or other snow anchors. Protected the route using a set of nuts and smaller cams.
By Anonymous Coward
Jan 19, 2003
|Conditions are such that those approaching the eastern side on Longs may skin from the RS to treeline, and if owning a pair of rock skis and some nerves, ski from treeline back to the RS. Could save a hour or so.
By James Balasalle
Jun 9, 2003
The rock band at the top of the Loft is no longer climbable without a rope. I tried going up to the far right and couldn't make it with crampons and a mountaineering axe. Ice tools would have been very helpful... It's pretty mixed right now.
I made it about 15' up the rock band before turning back, and downclimbing was harder than going up....
By ac
Jun 10, 2003
|In response to the Loft report below. The Loft down climb just to the (climbers) left when looking up was easily climbable sans rope. We did Darkstar and came down this. Darkstar was great- not much ice but firm snow and fun rock climbing
By Kevin Craig
Sep 15, 2003
|From a visit on 9/14...Loft Ice - coming in nicely, but not ready yet. Peacock Pool - a few smears getting startedSmear of Fear - appears to be forming up nicely
By Malcolm Daly
From: Boulder, CO
Oct 6, 2003
|The Smear of Fear and Alexander's are getting traffic. Lower part of the Smear is dry (That's a good thing.) and very climbable. Alexander's is fat and easy. This from various reports during the week of 9/28 to 10/4.Malcolm
By Anonymous Coward
Oct 23, 2003
|Actually climbed some decent ice up in the Loft on Sunday the 19th. About 100 ft of 3ish ice in great condition to a cool right leaning mixed finish hooking frozen moss. It was weird to be climbing ice in the Park in such dry conditions. Took good screws and rock pro. Don't know how long it will last but it was worth the 3+ hour approach. (I think?)
By Matt Ledges
Nov 4, 2003
As a sidebar to Tim's posting, we spoke with a ranger when we got back to our car that evening and he told us that the day before, one of the wranglers was walking a few of his horses back from the hut on the narrow trail that skirts Mt Lady Wash, near Columbine Falls, when some "statue-sized" pieces of ice came down without warning, hitting him in the head and knocking several animals off the trail. A couple hours later he made it back to the ranger station and began acting "inappropriate" and then couldn't remember what had happened. Then ranger drove him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a concussion, and apparently required steroids to reduce the swelling around his brain. Apparently he's OK now and so are the horses. Ranger is thinking about submitting this to Accidents in NA Mount. He also said that this guy wasn't a climber, thought it was too dangerous...
Ranger also said that Hidden Falls was coming in real nice for this time of the year. Thought it would take a couple more weeks though.
By FACE MAN
Nov 21, 2004
|Very spicy indeed, like imported crushed red pepper you might put on your pizza from Blackjacks.
By Thomas Jensen
Aug 21, 2005
Did Notch Couloir today (8/21/05) and highly recommend it to anyone looking to get the ice jones back in their system! Good solid water ice in the upper couloir. Lamb Slide hard snow, Broadway totally clear and upper gully FAT 60 ish degree easy ice. Scramble up and right (5.2 ish rock) to the Notch. I descended by way of the Loft.
Have fun
By Eli Helmuth
From: Ciales, PR
Apr 2, 2006
|For what it's worth: ratings being a relative and somewhat meaningless concept, but having done them both (the routes that is): I'd give the link-up of either of those two routes, grade IV WI4, 5.7(M2) (Alexander's) then 50 degree snow and easy rock above (when in ideal shape and on route). That said, I've seen more than a few climbers "bonk" due to the altitude, approach, etc...which could make it feel like WI7 5.12 80 degree snow!? HIGH SATISFACTION rating hopefully.
By Trevor Nydam
Apr 27, 2006
|I would like to thank the NPS, all the volunteers, and the Colorado Mountain School for your search and rescue efforts this season, especially March 11. The next time you get together for some sort gathering I want to buy the beverages. Thanks, I/we do appreciate it. T. Nydam
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May 19, 2006
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Dec 20, 2006
|Anyone have any info on a route near Chasm Lake called "Dragon's Breath"? Gillett says it's Grade III, M5.
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From: Ciales, PR
Mar 8, 2007
Alexander's is likely thin, sublimated ice at the cruxes and some moderate but exposed rock climbing on the last pitch, overall grade in current conditions probably WI5, M5 (5.8). The thin and fragile ice might be the crux- exciting enough with a belayer.
Snow on upper Kiener's could still be a bit sensitive after last week's storms and will be steep (60 degrees) in spots while traversing Broadway, but after Alex this would be mellow. Hopefully the snow up high is bonding ok- could be less bonded slabs up to a couple of ft. thick on the surface. Rock anchors and some pro would be nice to stay attached to the face should part of a slope release- or pack a parachute as the Diamond is a steep ride.
Things should be consolidating considerably in the next week, but the ice is not very good up high currently except on All Mixed Up, Martha, West Gully, and a few other regulars. Otherwise, south faces are dry and the snow up high on north and east faces is still cold and dry (unstable).
By Jim Davidson
From: Fort Collins, Colorado
Jun 1, 2008
Did you ski Notch Couloir on 5/30/08?
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki returned to the lineup Sunday with extra support in his right shoe, after not starting Saturday because of a middle toe injury he suffered Friday night.
Tulowitzki left Friday's game after feeling the pain while running out his ninth-inning single. After passing medical tests Saturday, he didn't believe he could run well enough to start but did have a pinch-hit appearance in the ninth inning.
"After we got the X-ray and the MRI and it came back all right, I felt I was going to be in a good spot today," Tulowitzki said before Sunday's series finale vs. the Giants. "It was a little bit of a scare for me just because of my history. Sometimes when it happens, you think the worst."
Rockies head athletic trainer Keith Dugger, who made sure Tulowitzki still felt good after taking batting practice and ground balls, said a shank, or metal insert, was placed in Tulowitzki's shoe so he doesn't rise as high on his toes.
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1. 1. Our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. Yep, George W. AP1 of 16
2. 2. Romney on immigration: The answer is self-deportation, which is people decide they can do better by going home. (AP)2 of 16
3. 3. Representative Todd Akin: Legitimate rapes rarely result in pregnancy. Huh? (Photo: AP)3 of 16
4. 4. Bachmann: I don't know where they're going to get all this money because we're running out of rich people in this country.4 of 16
5. 5. Rick Santorum on education: President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob! WHAT??? (AP)5 of 16
6. 6. George Dubya: "Do you have blacks, too?" he asked Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso in November of 2001. (AP)6 of 16
7. 7. Newt Gingrich in reference to the Occupy Wall Street protesters: 'Go get a job after you take a bath' (AP)7 of 16
8. 8. "If a US President ever lied to the American people he should resign." - Bill Clinton running for US Representative in 1974.8 of 16
9. 9. Arnold Schwarzenegger: I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. (AP)9 of 16
10. 10. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." George Bush in 2001 in Tennessee. (AP)10 of 16
11. 11. Michelle Bachmann: Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch. (AP)11 of 16
12. 12. "All of 'em, any of'em that have been in front of me over all these years. Palin unable to name a paper or mag she's read.12 of 16
13. 13. Dubya: Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country. (AP)13 of 16
14. 14. When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale. - Bill Clinton14 of 16
15. 15. Mitt & Ann Romney, the family vacation: Our dog loved riding on top of the car in a crate for 12 hours (AP)15 of 16
16. 16. You Betcha! Sarah Palin: You can actually see Russia, from land, here in Alaska. (AP)16 of 16
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Hello. My mom was diagnosed with CC about 6 months ago. We tried 2 chemotherapy treatments but neither worked so she wants to stop the treatments because they only make her feel worse. In the past 2 months her condition seems to have become worse so fast. She now only sleeps and doesn't have energy to do anything except go to the bathroom.
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Columbus finally has its own branch of the Modern Quilt Guild! We've met twice and meet again this Thursday at 7pm. If you're near Central Ohio and love modern quilts/sewing... come check it out! We also held a little Sew-In this past Saturday and that's how all the above blocks came to be finished so quickly! Its amazing what one can accomplish in 3 hours of uninterrupted sewing time!
My family finally noticed I'm addicted to fabric so for Christmas I received this gorgeous FQ set of the "Sanctuary" collection by Patty Young. I am SO saving this stack for a quilt... if you have any suggestions on a pattern that uses fat quarters, do share! I'm awful at deciding on a quilt design!
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While Malmesbury bore the brunt of the severe flooding other communities also suffered.
Adrian Bishop, vice chairman of Castle Combe Parish Council, said the flooding was the worst he had seen it in the village for 40 years.
The River By Brook burst its banks and flooded some properties while other homes below street level were flooded from underneath.
About a dozen homes in The Street, Water Lane and Colham Mill were flooded with water about a foot high. Most of them were empty holiday cottages or owned by absent landlords. One couple affected stayed at the Castle Inn Hotel in the village on Sunday night.
Fire crews from Calne and Corsham were first called to the village at 1.40am on Sunday and pumped out properties throughout the day.
Tom Burns, watch manager at Calne Fire Station who was there all day, said: "We moved as much furniture as we could to the first floor of properties in Water Lane. A lot of the houses had antiques and furniture which had sentimental value to the owners.
"We did visual checks on the properties we were unable to get into to make sure there was nothing unsafe in there, by which time the water had started to drop anyway."
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Coun Bishop did not think there was an easy solution as the level of rainfall and flooding had been unprecedented.
He said: "When the power of water is here there's not much you can do. It's one of those freak occurrences when you get this type of weather condition. I don't think there can be much that can be done."
Fire crews were called to three cottages in Ashton Road, Minety, in between Minety and Ashton Keynes over the weekend and last Wednesday and Thursday to pump away water caused by a nearby watercourse flooding.
The efforts of fire fighters meant Alex Dupree and neighbour Pauline Mars-den's cottages were not flooded.
Mrs Marsden said: "Fire crews were here for five hours in the early hours of Sunday morning. I had a domestic pump going in my front garden but it was not sufficient to pump all the water away.
"The fire brigade had four pumps going. The water was about a foot high and was up to the sandbags we had put round the property. It was just touching those.
"We had flooding in 2007 but this is the worst as it has been ongoing. The fire brigade have been out to us four times in the last three weeks."
Other areas affected included Lacock and West Kington, where crews pumped out a house and at Mauds Heath causeway. In Langley Burrell, fire fighters rescued two people from a car stuck in flood water and a person from another car on Sunday afternoon.


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Goal #1 for today's blog installment? Keep it to fewer than 100,000 words. It seems somehow wrong to ramble overly long about trimming the fat out of what many feel is a bloated system, so I'll dive right in.
Skill overload
There are tons of skills in the Palladium system. Hundreds of them occupy scores of pages in core rulebooks, and with each revision or new edition, the familiar typeset and formatting of the skills section dominates a higher and higher percentage of the page count. Skills range from very broad, like Basic Electronics or General Repair to very specific in their application, like Underwater Demolitions or Rope Works. There is substantial overlap in many of the skills, such as the Gambling, Gambling: Dirty Tricks, and Card Sharp skills and some skills include other skills entirely; I've never fully understood why taking Armorer gives you Basic Mechanics for free instead of requiring it as a prerequisite, for example. And, does anybody really know the extent to which Read Sensory Equipment is supposed to be required? Some skills are cross-listed between categories, while sometimes two categories each contain a skill with the same name, but the description is different. Also, why are there three or four (I've lost count) different skills for shooting a bow and arrow? The list goes on and on.
The reason why
You could argue that we have this complicated, extensive, and often confusing skill system is the result of the type of creative creep seen in other aspects of the game. New authors come along and want to add their piece to the setting and tweak some skills to fit their unique take on the game (particularly in Rifts). New skills are also a way to justify new occupations and their O.C.C.s, which spring up routinely in each new supplement. Skills are also periodically ported wholesale from other games in an attempt to keep the system truly Megaversal.
I think that all of those reasons are secondary to a primary mechanical reason, and it all comes back to how skills are treated in the game. In Palladium's products, each skill represents a small slice of competency, without which the character has virtually no chance of success. If a situation arises where there is no skill to fill that void, then the game comes to a screeching halt.
Let's take your average Rifts adventuring party, with its assortment of aliens and wizards and robots and escaped genetically-enhanced dogs. This party has captured an enemy and need to take him along with them to claim their reward from the local powers. The group leader orders him tied up, but... how is that done? If this group is built with the early books, there is no Rope Works skill. The GM frantically searches for an appropriate skill and lands on Escape Artist, which none of the player characters have. Does that mean that, unless you are a skilled Escape Artist, you can't effectively tie someone up? That doesn't make sense. But, perhaps the skill is automatic. That doesn't really make sense either, though, because surely the person being bound has some chance of worming his way free.
We have discovered a gap in the skill set provided by Palladium. How do you fill it? With the Rope Works skill. The problem is, you can never create enough skills to account for every situation and there will always be gaps. Meanwhile, the more skills you add, the more unwieldy the system becomes, and the more duplication you have.
A universal skill mechanic
If this were Open D6 or D&D, it's a simple matter. If you discover a gap that the skills don't really cover during the course of the game, the GM makes a judgement call and picks an attribute and makes the roll just as if it were a skill on the books.
There is always an outcry for Palladium to link its skills to its attributes for just this sort of situation, and I don't disagree. The truth is, however, is that Palladium's attributes are not set up to be used for skill checks. What is fairly unique about Palladium, however, is that its skills are categorized by the general area of expertise, meaning Communications or Electrical or Mechanical or Rogue or any of the others. The easy mechanic for performing general skill checks, in my opinion, is to assign a base skill percentage to each skill category. It would go something like this:
Any basic skill can be attempted by an appropriately educated character at (just spit-balling here) a proficiency of 20%+5% per level of experience, plus any given O.C.C. Related category bonuses (and I.Q. bonus, or other attribute bonus as ruled by the GM). Therefore if a generic Wrench-Man O.C.C. receives in his O.C.C. Related skills a bonus of +20% to all Mechanical skills, at first level the Wrench-Man O.C.C. has a base Mechanical chance of 40% to perform mechanical/repair/maintenance type skills that aren't explicitly covered by his set skills. By 5th level this is up to 60% and by 10th level is up to 85% to do things like figure out where to sabotage the chain to make that drawbridge stay up, or to read a schematic of an unknown device and try to determine its purpose. Since his professional education doesn't involve stealth and thieving, he doesn't get this sort of automatic skill proficiency to perform Rogue- or Espionage-type skills, only his skills that receive an O.C.C. Related bonus across the whole (or at least most of) the category.
Trim the fat
It's not perfect, but I think something like that is a start. Once you establish a method for doing these sorts of basic skill checks, you can go about hacking down the skill list. Remove the overlapping descriptors of repetitive skills like Demolitions, Demolitions, and Demolitions Disposal and just lump them all together as Demolitions. No need for several different Radio, Navigation, or Sleight of Hand skills. If a player with the Gambling skill wants to try to deal from the bottom of the deck, don't require a separate skill, but just apply a skill penalty and move along. Remove highly-specific, but rarely-used skills altogether and let them be covered by the general category skills.
Another skill tier benefit
One more fix, synergizing somewhat with our discussion from yesterday, deals with normalizing all skills to be either Basic, Advanced, or Elite. If a player comes to you, the Game Master, and really wants to be proficient in a specific, concentrated area that isn't covered in your reduced skill list, creating that skill is now a piece of cake. You just need to determine if it's Basic, Advanced, or Elite, and the percentages are all there for you, ready to go. There's no need for it to be included in the total skill list for everyone, but can be whipped up just for that specific character.
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Once again I've rattled on, but hopefully it's worth it. Using the given framework, I think this is another example of how a few small mods can cover a lot of holes without requiring a total rewrite. Maybe this weekend I'll write up a new skill list based on our discussions here. What skills do you think should be cut or grouped together? What should the starting percentage and advancement be for a blanket skill as briefly demonstrated, above?
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Hi Tilt,
I am not looking for praise and gain. Do you really think I am interested in those things?
I am not trying to down play things but if someone knows a sotapanna, big-whoop. Of course it really isn't a big whoop, but I look at it this way: If I were a putthujana and I knew a sotapanna, I would simply ask them for advice on any questions of dhamma that I had, I would pay them a gentle respect and, If they would accept it (which I do not because of the day and age) I would make an offering to them. Other than that, I would just leave them alone. So in the end it's not really a big whoop. All it would mean for me would be that I would have someone of Right View that I could ask a question of here and there. I would still just have to live my own life. It would not rock my world. My intention is not to rock any ones world either. If I wanted praise and fame I could do other things for it. I have many talents. Stating you are a sotapanna, without the Buddha around to verify it, will attract as much skepticism as it does praise if not more so. It is not the most economical way to go about getting praise and fame, if you know what I mean. Besides I live in America in a materialist, skeptical society. It is not like Buddhists will even go our of there way to pay respect to me. I bet you that not one person in my life ever bows to me or any thing like because I am a sotapanna. If I wanted people to bow to me I would go be a monk again where Thai women would wait for us monks, in the early morning alms round, sometimes waiting on their knees with their hands in the "wai" position at 5:00 in the morning and give us food, and where people would jump to give you something, know you, pay for your ride in a taxi and so on. I guarantee you that if what I really wanted was admiration, respect, praise and gain, that I would get much, much more of it simply being a monk again rather than stating that I am a sotapanna. That is not the reason to be a monk, but if what I wanted was respect from the Buddhist community I would have to do is be a good monk, It is simply not my intention. It is simply not my intention. My intention was just to share my experience with other people, that's all.


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When I was in college, no one in my peer group knew anything about Crohn's or colitis. Of course, when you are away from home for the first time, you don't have the comfort of your at-home support system immediately available to you. This is even worse if you go to school out of state, or halfway across the country. Fortunately, CCFA has launched a Crohn's and Colitis Student Forum (CCSF) program, which brings students with IBD together into a group with a student and faculty advisor. This program provides students away from home an on-campus support system and an outlet to raise IBD awareness.
These groups were the brainchild of the CCFA in conjunction with the National Youth Leadership Council, a group of 20 young adults from all around the country focused on fundraising and advocacy geared toward their peers. If you want more information about how you can apply for the Leadership Council, go to http://www.ccfa.org/about/youthcouncil. To find a Student Forum group at your college, or get information on how to start one up, contact your local chapter of CCFA and ask for the education support manager.
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The New York Knicks are the oldest team in the NBA. Of their 15-person team, eight players are over 30—the oldest, Kurt Thomas, is 40—and six are 28 or 29. Only Iman Shumpert, last year's rookie, is 22.
Born in Chicago, Shumpert learned how to play basketball from watching his older brothers. He finally beat them when he was in the seventh or eighth grade, a momentous occasion for a younger sibling. "Nothing they could do after that," he chuckles. Lauded for his skilled defense, Shumpert guards the opposing teams' star players—LeBron James, Kobe Bryant—the athletes even basketball neophytes have heard of.
Shumpert takes his position as the Knicks' youngest member seriously. Since injuring his ACL in April of last year, he has attended every Knicks game, sitting on the sidelines with his '90s-style flat-top hair and stylish, playful suits. Shumpert is not the only injured player—superstar Amar'e Stoudemire is also out—but he is the only one you'll see anxiously sitting on the team bench three times a week. A fledgling rapper, Shumpert even penned the team's first-ever rap, the Knicks "Clique," blasted at every game. If you visit his website, you'll see he's self-described as "a '90s baby," who misses "high shorts with long compressions, arm bands on the off arm, Johnny Bravo and Dragon Ball Z... albums that tell stories" and "genuine hate in sports." This week, he's releasing his mixtape debut, Th3 #Post90s, under the name 2wo 1ne.
The Knicks are having their best season in years, and Shumpert's itching to get back. Maybe with Iman on board they'll finally be able to beat Houston, Jeremy Lin's new team and the only one that's defeated the Knicks at home this season. Whether you're more interested in his sporting ability, style, or rap songs, Shumpert's definitely a face to watch for 2013.
EMMA BROWN: What made you pick the number 21 for your Knicks jersey?
IMAN SHUMPERT: Actually, my mother's birthday is of the 21st of August, and in seventh grade I wore 21 just solely because it was my mother's birthday and I couldn't get number 1. Then I wore 32 in high school, 1 in college. 32 I wore because it was like Mr. Triple-Double—I've always got a little theme that goes with my number. And in college, 1, just because I was the point guard. I got here and Stat [Amar'e Stoudemire] had number 1, I wasn't gonna take it from Stat. [laughs] So I just went back to 21.
BROWN: You've talked about how basketball was a lot more aggressive in the '90s than it is today, was it like that in the '80s as well?
SHUMPERT: It was pretty intense in the '80s, but '90s style was a little more fit towards me, I think, and a little more influential.
BROWN: When did things change?
SHUMPERT: Just recently within the last 10 years, they've been slowly [implementing rules]—a lot to do with the fighting. I understand it; they don't want the league to be looked at as violent, or anything that makes us look like outcasts. But personally, I kind of liked it when it was more aggressive and it wasn't as bad when you got into that. Guys are real passionate, when you're locked into a game you're not thinking about getting fined however much money if you get in a fight. We'll get in a fight, we'll leave it on the court, we'll be friends right after—that's how I'm used to playing.
BROWN: Is it easy to be friends with people on other teams?
SHUMPERT: No. I don't really like to be. We could be friends after the game, in the summertime. But when we're playing, I pretty much hate everybody. I [do] hang out with my teammates all the time.
BROWN: It must be difficult to hang out inconspicuously...
SHUMPERT: Oh, yeah. [laughs] We're not gonna blend in anywhere. Everywhere we go, we stick out. We try not to be in places where we'll get heckled.
BROWN: I wanted to talk about your new mixtape, Th3 #Post90s. I really like the "Things Done Changed" Biggie sample on "Progress."
SHUMPERT: I just thought it was a really good sample to use—that one line—because that's key for somebody like me. Growing up with three brothers, all you ever wanted was to be in the NBA, things happen at home, you're in need of a lot of stuff that you can't get access to. And then finally you can, but you don't have to change as a person. Things done changed, but you can remain the same person. That's the biggest thing about the song.
The difference between me and other athletes is that I'm speaking on things that I go through that I know other people go through. I think a lot of times the mistake in music—even rappers that are trying to be big time—if you're broke, rap about being broke, if you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff. My music, you know I'm not lying about anything, and the way you can tell is how in-depth I can get about everything I'm talking about. I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything. I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't, I'm horrible. I practiced at it, still didn't get better—gave it up. I'm good with words though, so I write music, poetry, sometimes I just journal in my phone. [During the off season] some [players] choose to go to Great America, some people go laser tag, some people go paintball, some people go fishing—I rap. I don't go fishing. I think I'm gonna paintball this summer though, but usually I just rap. Especially with a torn ACL, sitting in the bed for six weeks, couldn't really get up and do anything. I call it writer's block when I have nothing to talk about. I could make it sound good, but I hate having nothing to talk about. I need to go through stuff. I need bad stuff to happen to me. I think I'm better that way.
BROWN: PhlyyB appears on quite a few of your songs. How did you meet him?
SHUMPERT: Me, Phlyy, Ari Stylez... it's 12 of us. We were all on the same basketball team in high school, and we were always together on and off the court. I always did music, and Phlyy always did music, but I think people didn't take us seriously because he played football and I played basketball. We both did our own little mixtapes and spread 'em around the high school and people were like, "Oh, they can really rap," and they started liking our music. Me and Phlyy always did it, and Ari Stylez started to do it. And then after we left high school, Phlyy and Ari started doing it full-time. Tearing my ACL, I started doing a whole lot more 'cause I had a lot more time just to sit, think, write.
They keep me grounded. Ever since I made it to the league, yeah, they treat me different as far as they're happy for me, and if we go out to eat they want me to take the bill. But when they get around me it's still the same thing—"You ain't nothin', I used to beat you when we was in eighth grade. And nobody cares. You think 'cause you're in the NBA I won't smack you in the face?" That's how they act, but it keeps me grounded, so I love being around them. They got all the embarrassing stories, they're always cracking them on me every chance they get, anytime they catch me slipping up, they wanna hold onto that moment of me being humiliated. So it's great.
BROWN: Are you ever like, "Hey, stop picking on me"?
SHUMPERT: No, I'm not soft. If you pick on me, I'll pick on you. Well, I'll pick on you if you don't pick on me, so you gotta get yours in.
BROWN: In your "#Anarchy Episode VII" video, you're wearing Melo [Carmelo Anthony]'s jersey—why?
SHUMPERT: As a rookie, when you come in, everybody has their mentor, or their veteran that takes them under their wing. Melo took me under his wing, and he's taught me so much on and off the court. I knew coming into this year, me being hurt and just seeing him work throughout the summer, I knew what type of focus he was in. Me wearing that jersey was just sort of to pay homage to him, 'cause I knew what was coming. We shot that video in the summer, so a lot of people didn't know what was coming this year, as far as his mental focus and how he was in shape and ready for this year. I knew it was gonna be an MVP-style season for him. That was me just paying respects to my veteran. Maybe I won't have to get his bag as much, get his bag off the plane and stuff like that that he makes me do.
BROWN: It must be difficult being the youngest on the team by so much.
SHUMPERT: Oh yeah. Even our rookie, Chris Copeland, I think he's 28. So yeah, I'm the young guy, but I think they still all look up to me. [laughs] I got drafted when I finally turned 21, and they rub it in, they think it's hilarious how young I am. The cool thing is that they respect that I got my own lane, my own thing that I do. I don't really follow anybody. But they just think it's funny because I'm so much younger, so they'll be like, "You see things so much different than we do." But it's cool, 'cause I get to learn from them, and they get to stay in the loop with what's cool with me, so we all good.
BROWN: Why is it important for you to go to every game while you're injured?
SHUMPERT: I wanna sit back and learn from the sidelines. It's harder for me to learn watching on TV because when I'm sitting on the side I can hear the other team's play-calls, I can hear the chatter and hear what's going on during the came. I get to see my teammates' emotions—maybe they miss a couple shots, I get to see their demeanor. I get to see where, when I come back, I can help. Maybe I see something on the court—a guy's cheating, trying to come to double-team Melo. I can tell him. I can't do that from home, you know? So I love to be right there with 'em. Plus, before the game, we all do a bunch of stuff. I DJ in the locker room, I make sure the guys [are] amped. I'm the young guy. I bless the floor before the games. I'm part of the pregame antics. I like to be there and just be with the guys, just so when I come back it's not, like, a totally new person coming back: "He's been here with us the whole time, it's just [that] he had a bad knee." [laughs]
BROWN: Is it frustrating to watch the games?
SHUMPERT: Extremely, extremely. But they've made it a lot easier on me by winning so many games, and winning in a pretty fancy fashion. I think that them doing that only makes me more comfortable with taking my time when coming back. As long as we win, I'm happy.
BROWN: Would you ever want to coach?
SHUMPERT: No, I think I'm way too intense to coach. Maybe I will one day. I would have to have a son that wants me to coach.
BROWN: Do you feel like playing defense is a thankless job?
SHUMPERT: Yeah. I don't like to be glorified for it, but I get it, it's a "lost art" and everything. A lot of people [ask],"Why do you love playing defense?" I don't love playing defense at all, actually. But I hate when people score on me and I want the ball so bad that I'm willing to go hard on the other end to get it back. Some people take the easy route—"If he scores, whatever. We'll get the ball back and score it on that end." I'm the complete opposite. I want to win by 100, so I'm willing to do whatever to get the ball back and score it again. I love to dunk it, too. That's why I like to steal it in an open court. 'Cause I like to dunk while you fall or while you're trailing. I like to yell in your face. I'm into that.
BROWN: Do you have a best game since you've been on the Knicks?
SHUMPERT: I'd say it's either the game at home against Philly or the game at home against the Bulls. 'Cause everybody was so nervous to guard D. Rose [Bulls player Derrick Rose], and I just don't think anybody's invincible. He's not used to people getting up on him, I don't think, and it helped us win. Those are my happiest games, when I fill up the stat sheet.
BROWN: Is it devastating when you lose a game? Or do you just move focus on the next game?
SHUMPERT: No, I'm a sore loser. [laughs] I'm a terrible loser. But it's because I have three brothers that would rub it in. So losing, I just hate it. I can't help it. After you lose—especially in collegiate and now playing professionally—a lot of guys will tell you, "On to the next. Next game. We gotta get the next one. Erase this one from your head." And it's hard for me until we start the next game to get rid of that. I'm working on it, though.
BROWN: When did you come up with the Knicks theme tune?
SHUMPERT: Oh, the Knicks "Clique" song? [to friends] She said the theme tune. [laughs] I was like, Huh? The Knicks "Clique" came about when I was joking around on media day with Cope and some of the veteran guys. [raps] "Yeah, I'm talking bout/Yeah I'm talking Tyson/And that's gold medal." It was just a joke at first: "Ain't nobody messin' with my Knicks, Knicks, Knicks." Then they put it on camera on media day and all the fans were like, "When are you gonna put the whole song out?" And, in my head, I'm thinking, "There is no song. That's actually it." It was just supposed to be a couple of bars, but everybody liked it so much. Of course I caught heat from around the league. Everybody's fans got mad, "You guys are corny, you got a song out" and la-la-la. But they were just mad cause they probably got taped and they don't have their own song, they don't have a guy on their team that could rap. I understand if they're getting mad. It's cool.
BROWN: There's not much crossover between professional sports and music.
SHUMPERT: Yeah, I understand. A lot of people try to hit you with the, "You should be focused on basketball!" But you can't just play basketball 24 hours a day. Some people say "Read a book"—I don't like reading books. I think sometimes reading books is a waste of time. I think you should write a book before you read it. But to each his own.
BROWN: What sort of music do you listen to?
SHUMPERT: All rap. Rap, hip-hop. I'm more geared toward hip-hop than rap, but I like my rap music sometimes just to get hyped. Some songs are just catchy. Like right now, [Trinidad James'] "All Gold Everything"—I love that song. I don't know about his look, he does a lot of weird stuff, but it works for him. It's different.
BROWN: What song do you listen when you want to get hyped?
SHUMPERT: Probably Kendrick Lamar's m.A.A.d City "Backseat Freestyle."
BROWN: Have you ever thought about collaborating with someone like Lamar?
SHUMPERT: If Kendrick Lamar says he wants to collaborate with me, it will happen. But, because I play basketball, it's hard for me to go up to a rapper and be like, "Yo, I want you to hop on a song." That's the equivalent of them coming and being like, "Man, come up to the gym with me," or, "Can I come to the gym with you?" And it's like, "Nah." And I get it. That's their profession. They don't wanna just hop on a song with somebody 'cause they might not think I take it as serious, so I try to stay away from asking people. I'm an athlete, a basketball player—that's what I get paid for. I'm not trying to get paid off rap. I could respect them wanting to stay in their lane, and me staying in mine.
BROWN: Is there anyone you think of as particularly stylish?
SHUMPERT: You know, I probably would've said A$AP Rocky, but then the other day I saw a picture of him wearing a dress, so I have to stray away from that. Certain people do stuff on certain days—Tyson Chandler's on my team, he'll come out and do some other stuff that I don't agree with, but every once in a while, he'll wear something and I'll be like, "I like that." I've seen Nick Young put some cool stuff together. I like Wiz Khalifa's album cover. A lot of people hated it. He's got on the fur with no shirt—that's cool to me. A$AP Rocky, sometimes he wears like the tall tee, with a missing part and a white tee under. I like when people do cool stuff that might be a little off-the-wall to anybody else, but they found a way to make it work for that day. I wouldn't recommend that people wear it every day like that, but if you every once in a while just spice it up, I like that. I dare to be different.
BROWN: Last question: if you could interview anyone, whom would you want to interview?
SHUMPERT: Probably Kanye West. [laughs] Kanye because I've actually watched a lot of Kanye's interviews and just seen him spaz out because people won't let him finish his sentence or maybe they're trying to get a certain piece of information out of him and he's trying to explain something else. [laughs] I just think I can appreciate that, 'cause I know how that feels. I wouldn't choose to act as Kanye does all the time, but I would like to interview him, 'cause I feel like I got some good questions to ask him as opposed to some of the reporters and people that do ask him stuff.
TH3 #POST90s COMES OUT TOMORROW, DECEMBER 21 AT 12:21 AM ON SHUMPERT'S WEBSITE.
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Hi friends,
I'd like to know the original Pali and its direct translation of the Buddhas' teaching:
"The non-doing of any evil (诸恶莫作),
the performance of what's skillful (众善奉行),
I'm wondering if the above English and Chinese translations (which happen to be exactly the same) are accurate, since it doesn't appear to reflect the principle of the Dhamma, which should be (to my understanding):
Cultivate what's the wholesome, abandon what's unwholesome -- which is more a process of the Dhamma practice, instead of just "do all the good" and "don't do any evil".
The quoted translation might have contributed to the Bodhisatta-like attitude and practice?
Thanks and Metta!


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2:29pm Friday 30th May 2014
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POLICE are trying to trace three men in connection with two break-ins at an industrial estate in Cirencester.
Thieves forced open windows to gain access to each of the premises at the Global Business Park in Wilkinson Road, late on Wednesday, May 28.
In one incident, a white Fiat recovery van, log book and keys were stolen from a car breakdown company, along with several hundred pounds worth of tools.
In the second incident, money was taken from a cash box at a mat-making firm in a neighbouring unit.
Three men were seen walking about in the area at 11.35pm on Wednesday night. They were wearing high-visibility vests, baseball caps and hooded tops with the hoods up. Police believe they are responsible for both burglaries.
The stolen van was later identified heading towards Birmingham on the M5 in the early hours of Thursday.
Anyone with information is asked to call 101, quoting incident 143 of 29/5/14.
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Maybe you've heard that Prince William and Kate Middleton were married last Friday? You may be in a cave if you haven't but you might not know that that there are new portrait murals in Australia of the now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, made with bricks. Yes, they are getting the royal treatment alright. The company that created these murals, AustralBricks, is also the same one that did the Oprah mural.
There is a new mural of the lovely couple slated for the lower east side of Manhatten by street artist, Antonio "Chico" Garcia. Not sure if they'll be so enamored by this, but they're now in the public spotlight whether they like it or not. Maybe when they come to America, they'll take a drive-by look?
This photo, by Peter Macdiarmid or Getty Images, cracks me up, btw. The bridesmaid on the left says it all.
Actually, the wedding was beautiful as was the bride — very traditional yet modern by wearing her hair down. She did look very graceful and stately, reminding me of Grace Kelly's elegance yet, you could tell she was nervous during the ceremony. She and her husband seemed relieved and relaxed afterwards, while on the balcony during this long-awaited public kiss.