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This is a 3" x 4.25" postcard album I found in an old desk I acquired.
I have no idea the age of the item, but I found it very interesting, especially the facts included about the canal. *Since an image depicts Madden Dam during construction, it may be pre-1935 (when that dam was completed).
There are 16 images depicting different locks, ships, Spillway, dam, that accordion from the interior of the card. All full color, titled at the top in Spanish and in English at the bottom.
Titles on the images:
Panama Pacific Liner in Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal
The Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal
New Grace Line Boast Passing through Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal
Gatun Locks by Moonlight, Panama Canal
Madden Dam in the Course of Construction, Panama Canal Zone*
Vessel in the Canal near Paraiso, between Gaillard Cut
and Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal
U.S.S. "New Mexico" Passing through the Locks at Gatun, Panama Cana
Gatun Spillway, Showing 4 Sluice Gates Discharging, Panama Canal
A New United Fruit Vessel in Gatun Locks, Panama Canal
Electric Mule Towing Ocean Liner through Gatun Locks, Panama Canal
S.S. "Franconia" in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal
Statue of Columbus, U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the Background, Panama Can
U.S. Destroyers in Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal
S.S. President Adams "Dollar Line" in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal
U.S. Submarine Chasers Passing Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal
U.S. Submarine Chasers being Locked at Gatun, Panama Canal
Cover image Title:
Panama Pacific S.S. Pennsylvania in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal
Back image Title:
General View of Miraflores Locks Looking Towards the Lake
The outer card has a linen finish, and the interior accordion is of magazine card stock. Both are numbered D:548, but there are no dates or artist names present.
There is an address printed on the front, bottom left:
Sucesion De 1. L. Maduro, Jr., 34-46 Cathedral Square, Panama
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my back rounds while squatting
for some reason my back rounds while squatting. I wasn't aware of this all this time, a friend just pointed it out recently. I have NO control over this whatsoever. I've tried without weights and it still happens.
I also have a weak lower back and can indeed feel pain after a workout involving squats, I'm assuming because of this problem. Can anyone advise what to do?
I'm still new here and can't enter a link but if you goto youtube and search for Dan Squats 2011 I'm the first hit (red shirt and very low weights)
Would appreciate any advice!
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "rounds." But I'll make a few observations:
1. You may want to try putting your feet further apart. Watch some videos of powerlifters.
2. Some of us (me included) do not have great body leverages for the squat. I can't squat without a LOT of lower back involvement. This means its good to squat first, then use leg press for your next exercise. That way you keep training your legs after your back is exhausted.
3. Squats are a GREAT exercises, but there's nothing wrong with using other exercises like leg press, front squat, split squat, to supplement your training.
4. Sumo deadlift is another exercise that you may want to consider.
thanks fellas.
arent front squats much harder to do properly tho? its taken me a long enough time to get the regular squats in decent form. plus i feel a lot of ... soreness.. on the shoulder / arm area after doing them. maybe im just not holding the bar properly.
Yeah Front Squats will take some time to get used to and feel quite awkward at first.
Why would you WANT to keep doing regular squats if they put your back in a compromised position?
well i figured that was something that could be fixed. no?
Generally I beleive it's a hamstring flexibility issue... at least that's what it was for me. Your hamstrings reach their flexibility limit and then they start pulling on your glutes and thus your hips have to "round under" or "butt wink" as it's called.
Try hamstring flexibility movements on your off days. Also try very light weight squats while focusing on only going as deep as you can before your lower back round. Focus on staying tight in the low back and use this to stretch the hamstrings (or whatever muscles are holding you back).
Hope this helps,
makes sense ill give it a go. thx!
I'm not sure if i understood your question, but i guess you are having trouble keeping a good back position while squating.
Like said here before, maybe you have your feet too close.
Always keep your head pointing up, don't look forward or down, this will help you to keep stability on your back.
If you still having trouble keeping a good position, try using a small plank of wood, and keep it under your heels, this will help too, but don't get accustomed.
If you have a week lower back, i would recommend that you start doing dead lifts, this is very important to give you a solid mass.
Note: everything I'm about to say is with respect to a "low bar" squat, as advocated by Rippetoe in Starting Strength, because I am a beginner and that's how I am learning to do it.
As I've been teaching myself to squat with little weight (less than 200 pounds), I have learned that one little problem in form leads to a ton of other little problems that together can create a large problem, which for the squat will more than likely hurt your knees than your lower back. The "butt wink" is a product of lack of flexibility usually, and from what I've read, what it does is it takes the load off your hamstrings at the incorrect time during the movement and puts it on your quads, which causes your knees to move forward (VERY BAD). This is because when you break that back angle, the load has nowhere to go but to the quads, and what the hamstrings will not carry will be put on the quads at that particular point in the squat.
This is how I'd go about fixing it:
If you shove your knees out, you will be able to maintain better form deeper in to the squat. When someone says "shove" in this context, in reality all you are doing is keeping your knees parallel with the leg, which is important because if you do not, the tension will shift from your hamstrings to your quads, and thus to the knees, which will cause your knees to drift forward (away from you), which is how you get hurt squatting.
Also, your stance might not be wide enough. Your heels should be about shoulder width apart and your toes pointed out at approx. a 30 degree angle. Those are general guidelines; you can deviate from them minimally to account for your personal comfort and flexibility.
Another thing that no one has mentioned: if you feel a SORENESS, or a STIFFNESS in your back, that is one thing, but with that in mind if what you feel you would consider PAIN and not one of the aforementioned things, then you may have already injured yourself and you need to re-evaluate what you're doing.
I'll elaborate for a second so you understand the difference I'm trying to point out. Since I have started doing squats and deadlifts, I sometimes develop a sore back after athletic activity or lifting weights. It's because I actually HAVE lower back muscles that can become sore, not because I hurt my back. If what I was feeling was pain, then I'd need to see a doctor.
The squat and deadlift are the two best exercises in the gym, but you need to understand them in extreme detail in order to do them by yourself, without the attention of someone who knows what they're doing. I strongly recommend you buy the book Starting Strength and read through it two-three times, until you understand everything in it. It's one of those things where you not only need to understand what you're doing, but why you're doing it, or you will eventually hurt yourself, and become turned off to these mandatory lifts.
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The Jatakas verses are part of the Sutta Pitaka (The Khuddaka Nikaya) of the Pali Canon ...... Jatakas were touched on in a discussion elsewhere, and Jim Anderson (Pali Scholar) supplied the following information there:
"The Jataka (jaataka.m) is part of the Tipitaka and occupies two volumes in print. It consists of verses uttered by the Buddha and would have been recited at the great rehearsals. The Jataka commentary (jaataka.t.thakathaa) which contains the stories that go with the verses take up 10 volumes in a Thai edition. It is traditionally ascribed to Buddhaghosa (as translator & editor). All the verses in the Jataka are also included in the Jataka commentary.
.... some people are under the impression that the Jataka stories are part of the Tipitaka but upon closer examination one will find that the stories in fact belong to the commentary. The Jataka proper is only made up of verses like in the Dhammapada."
When I read this I was relieved - having first felt rather horrified by the Vesantara Jataka. I even read the whole thing p. 246 to p.305 (59 pages!) in "The Jaataka or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births" translated by E.W. Cowell and W.H.D. Rouse (Prof Cowell was formerly Prof. of Sanskrit in the Univ. of Cambridge) - in the hope that my initial repugnance might be attenuated by something else in the tale. Not so. The Tale in full is, if anything, more appalling than the excerpt one can read.
I am thankful I live in an age when the whole crew would have wound up before the Children's Court and received the consequences they deserved for child abuse and failing to provide protection to defenceless minors. That other beings could be regarded by the Buddha-to-be as objects to be used and disposed of in order to gain his own spiritual advancement is unbelievable.
I see nothing in this story that could even qualify it to be regarded as a Morality Tale. I think quoting such stories as if they are authoritative teachings is unwise.
Thankfully Jim Anderson did the research to show the Tales are NOT part of the Tipitaka. One is told that the disappearance of the Vesantara Jataka is one of the predicted signs of the Disappearance of the Sasana. I am sure there are those who will be concerned by this.
It was also such a relief to me to read Maurice Walshe's remarks (trans. of the Digha Nikaya) in this excerpt from "Giving from the Heart": "In point of fact, one of the true benefits to the giver is precisely that the act of spontaneous giving is a very fine way of helping to overcome attachment. And that is the intended point of the Vesantara story. We Westerners think of the unfortunate wife and family the Bodhisatta "sacrificed" (though of course there was happy ending and they came back to him, in the story!), but the intention is to regard them as objects of attachment, to be given up as such.
As a matter of fact, despite the popularity of this particular story, modern scholars consider that it was not originally a Buddhist tale at all, and was somewhat unskillfully adapted to provide a "Buddhist" moral."
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alan wrote:It's bundoc. A Tagolog word. I lived in the Philippines for awhile. It means the jungle, the woods, the mountain realms, depending on how it is used. As for Jhana, it is highly unlikely you have been there.
Well, that's my take on it. Learning to have the mindfulness right there, in front (which, really, is in your conscious awareness) is what the suttas are about [in my opinion, don't forget that my opinion is just and only that, opinion]. You start with following the breathing and when the "nimitta" appears, when you notice you have settled, when mind and body, breath and discursive thinking have become calm and tranquil, then it is easier to shift, to let your awareness shift to that obvious place "in front". Settled there, it matures, ripens, lets go, recognizes impermanence, dukkha and the impossibility of a separately existing "self".
But now I prefer to meditate and use the words only so far as directing my meditation effort
I am not likely to post much outside of this mediation forum.
When I read about this 'around the mouth' stuff in Bodhi's translation (in the notes) I kinda laughed.
Ben wrote:When I read about this 'around the mouth' stuff in Bodhi's translation (in the notes) I kinda laughed.
Please keep in mind that Venerable Bodhi is very highly regarded as a translator and teacher. I'm sure his notes explains why he translated the particular instruction the way he did. Also, making the area around the mouth/nostrils as the platform for developing the awareness of respiration is a long-established technique. It might be different but not necessarily inferior!
"There was the case where Sariputta — quite secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful qualities — entered & remained in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. Whatever qualities there are in the first jhana — directed thought, evaluation, rapture, pleasure, singleness of mind, contact, feeling, perception, intention, consciousness,2 desire, decision, persistence, mindfulness, equanimity, & attention — he ferreted them out one after another. Known to him they arose, known to him they remained, known to him they subsided. He discerned, 'So this is how these qualities, not having been, come into play. Having been, they vanish.' He remained unattracted & unrepelled with regard to those qualities, independent, detached, released, dissociated, with an awareness rid of barriers. He discerned that 'There is a further escape,' and pursuing it there really was for him.
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Access with the Pacers
by Candace Buckner
The Indiana Pacers are playing as the best team in the NBA. That, you already know. But there are moments happening beyond the velvet rope, if you will, that fans don't normally get to see.
This particular blog will change that. They've given me an all-access press pass and I'm going to use it.
You read the quotes in the game stories but rarely understand how they were delivered and the context behind them. So, periodically, I will write a behind-the-scenes blog intended to color in all the edges of this 16-1 season.
There will be some statistics and commentary added every now and then, but I will mostly concentrate on the human element. Enjoy and please free feel to leave feedback.
The Pacers had a plane to catch and the locker room was clearing out after their 105-100 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. I always enjoy working the room at this time. The camera's flood lights are turned off and most of the tape recorders and microphones are long gone, so in response, the players shut down their sound bites. They just talk. Naturally and freely. It was at this time on Sunday afternoon when I spoke with George Hill about the difficulty in beating the Portland Trail Blazers at home, and his teammates decided to add their two cents as well, and just talk.
"I've won there before but it's just hard. That's probably one of the toughest places to win in the NBA," Hill said.
So, I wanted to get Hill's opinion on why exactly it's so hard.
"I don't even know," he said. "The whole city. They sell out every game no matter if they win or (lose)."
David West, pulling on his adidas sweatshirt, turned from the locker on the right.
"You'll see," West told me. "You'll see it."
Hill continued.
"Even when they weren't great they still would win at home. Like, it's just - they have great home-court advantage. They sell out every game and this year "
At this point, Paul George, to the left, overheard the conversation and cut in.
"That's going to make it worst," George said. "They're playing good, too."
" they're already playing well," Hill said, picking up where George left off. "It'll make it 10 times harder. So we've got our hands full."
Whenever someone speaks in hyperbole, there's a new name for that: it's called 'pulling a Vogel.'
Does anybody ever in the history of mankind like to share compliments morethan Indiana Pacers head coach Frank Vogel? I doubt it. (See, I just pulled a Vogel). Now he's taking it to a new level. No longer does Vogel praise players, defenses, places, things, etc. as being the best in the league. Oh, no. Vogel has stepped his game up now it's the "best in the world."
Vogel on facing the Clippers, who average the second most points in the NBA: "We know what they could do. They're one of the best offensive machines in the world."
Vogel on the Pacers' NBA-leading unit: "We trust our defense. We're the best defense in the world." (Vogel actually dropped that line twice).
Vogel on Thanksgiving dinner: ""This is the greatest spread in the history of spreads. This is going to be a smashmouth dinner. I have nothing negative to say because I am physically incapable of expressing a negative thought in public. You guys want to see me spin a basketball on a toothbrush?"
Okay, that last one was the very brilliant joke from Bob Kravitz's recent column (Ughh! I just pulled another Vogel.) Last Friday, Vogel had read the story and per usual, with good humor responded to it: "Tell Bob Kravitz, best Thanksgiving sports column ever!"
Alright, another story, but this one from pregame.
NBA locker rooms open up before the tipoff for media availability which means us reporters get to stand around and look awkward as guys sit at their stalls listening to their Beats headphones and pretending to be occupied in really important matters. (Most of the time they're just on their cell phones. Chris Copeland, for instance, plays dominoes on his iPad.)
So, it's a pretty laid back atmosphere. In Los Angeles, no one looked more relaxed than Luis Scola. He didn't stay in the visitor's locker room, but rather popped a squat on a cart in the hallway and held court with three Spanish-speaking reporters.
The diversity of the NBA shines through in the major media markets so it was no surprise to see the international gathering for Scola.
"I guess the fact that we speak the same language maybe opens (him) up a little bit," ESPN Deportes reporter Gonzalo Aguirregomezcorta said. "I speak to him every time he comes So I think that's always (helpful)."
I wanted to listen in but my Spanish is regulated to "que pasa" and "¿dónde está el baño?" Even so, body language breaks all barriers and I could see how comfortable Scola was while communicating with those who shared a common bond.
To be honest, my dealings with Scola have been pretty limited this season. The Pacers' locker room is filled with professionals who are easy to work with but if there was one guy I haven't quite cracked yet, it would be Señor Scola.
So after their lengthy conversation, I wanted to learn from the reporters who have broken through to Scola. Fellow Argentinian Rodrigo Azurmendi and the Spaniard Aguirregomezcorta were kind enough to share their insights on how Scola expresses himself to them.
"I talked to him exactly a year ago when they came with Phoenix and they lost to the Clippers, badly. And I talked to him after the game and his face was like, 'Shoot me! Get me out of here.'" Azurmendi recalled.
Azurmendi said Scola remained a pro and answered the questions in spite of the loss. On Sunday, however, with the good times rolling, Azurmendi noticed a lighter and brighter Scola.
"That's what I told him first. 'Hey, a year ago you were like you didn't want to be there and now you find yourself on winning team so he was talking about how happy he is," Azurmendi said.
"I would say that he don't like (B.S.)," Aguirregomezcorta added. "Now we have a really good conversation about basketball and it was cool before the game. His feelings were not touched. So it was really cool, but he don't like (B.S.). If someone asks something that's not a suitable question, he will be very 'yes' or 'no.'"
Duly noted. Must come correct with Scola, because the veteran is a student of the game and certainly knows his stuff. Besides talk about Scola's happiness, the reporters said the conversation turned to statistics the Pacers' stats, opponents' stats, whatever. Scola could quote them all.
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CLEVELAND -- Alex Rios does not need to have the statistics recited to know the quiet concern people had about him coming into this season.
Over the last four years, the White Sox right fielder has alternated bad seasons with good. And after Rios produced the best effort of his career in 2012, the question is whether he found something in his swing and his game to carry into a successful 2013, or would the odd-year struggles of 2009 and 2011 be repeated?
It was a question for those outside the organization, but not for Rios and the White Sox.
"I don't really listen to those things," Rios said. "It's something, it's irrelevant to me. I don't think ballplayers have tendencies, so I don't really listen to it or look at it in any way. It doesn't matter if you had a good year or bad year.
"Every year is different. You can do so many other things that are different compared to other years."
Thanks to his first-inning single off the left field wall in Friday's 1-0 loss to the Indians, Rios has now hit in all 10 games this season and has a 16-game hitting streak dating back to Sept. 26. He was hitting .410 with a 1.260 OPS and had picked up three outfield assists in right field during the first three games of this 10-game, three-city road stretch, supplemented by two great running catches during Friday's tough setback.
But it has been Rios' ability to handle struggles that have helped him in part to find more consistent success.
"I've become a better ballplayer and a better person too," Rios said. "When I was younger, I would take my at-bats to my defense and at home too. I would be thinking about it at home. Now, you get to know yourself better and you know how to ease things up a little bit more.
"You just want to focus on simple things when you are at the plate. You just want to obviously see the ball and hit it and leave behind all the mechanics and all the stuff that are related to hitting, so that's what I'm trying to do. Simplifying things and go out there with a good plan and a good approach."
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All that factors in and makes the Nets and Knicks seem like a bigger draw than the pacers back in July.
So "stars" who lose in round 1, are a better option than an ECF team with the youngest superstar in the league. The NBA, where broken hips happen.
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Fence sitters are going to be drawn in with bad basketball and stupid drama?
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I can't wait for the TV ratings for tomorrow's snoozefest, and see just how popular these teams really are.
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Which would be acceptable if the Knicks had something like 5 ABC games to our 3.
But a 6 to 0 ratio? Completely indefensible, IMHO.
The league is DESPERATE for their to be a big time team in New York; so desperate that they give them 6 ABC games to our 0 when we waxed them in the playoffs and then took the Heat to 7 games. This league is completely inept at marketing team quality. It operates as if their are only 5 teams in the league. The Knicks' recognizable "star" is someone who has only been to the Conference Finals once in his 10 year career. A great scorer, yes, but his teams always come up short in the playoffs. The Knicks have never had a "star" in the mold of a Jordan/Lebron/Shaq/Kobe/Bird/Magic. Their "stars" are always second tier.
If you're arguing that teams like the Knicks draw fans, then why not give the Pacers an ABC game or two against them or the Heat? It's almost as if the NBA is deliberately punishing the Pacers for taking out the Knicks and ruining their blatantly obvious hopes of a Heat-Knicks ECF's. They wanted to trump up the Garden atmosphere and the fact that it would have been the first ECF's at MSG in 13 years. They wanted to hype up the 2003 draft class angle: Melo vs three other members of the 03 draft class (Lebron, Wade, Bosh). They wanted to relive all of the old Heat-Knicks hatred and show a bunch of clips of Van Gundy hanging on Alonzo Mourning. The media couldn't wait to jet back and forth between New York and Miami for the Conference Finals. It was all set up so perfectly. Then BAM, the Pacers massacred the Knicks and killed the dream. No ABC games for the Pacers is punishment for ruining the dream. I want to type that in green, but I'm not being entirely sarcastic........
When a team that goes to Game 7 of the ECF's doesn't get an ABC game, the league has catastrophic marketing issues.
LaMarcus Aldridge always goes off against the Pacers when they play in Portland. He's probably the only player in the NBA that David West and Roy Hibbert's toughness has no effect on - and that's on both ends of the floor. He hits that 18-20 foot jumper better than any PF since Karl Malone and he has near perfect shooting form. I still can't believe that the Bulls drafted him and traded him for the rights to Tyrus Thomas. :smack:
Damian Lillard is the real deal. He's the 3rd best PG in the NBA behind CP3 and Westbrook, IMO. He kept beating George Hill over and over again off the dribble and around those screens. He does that to almost everyone so this is not a real big knock against GHill. Hill was very guardable on the other end of the floor and he missed all of his floaters.
Yeah, Lance played with no aggressiveness on offense and got manhandled by Wes Matthews at times on the defensive end. David West ran out of gas in the fourth quarter and CJ Watson probably should've stayed in the game a little longer to guard Lillard. With all that said, this is my favorite loss of the past 2 years though (if that's even possible) because I really like Portland and because of the way PG went into Super Sonic mode. Hand-in-the-face or not, he was knocking down 3s like Reggie Miller in MSG. If he had knocked down that 3 in the corner after the steal he would've had an opportunity to beat Reggie's 8 pts, in 8.9 seconds record. Deja Vu was kicking in as I watched that play develop.
It was a very exciting game. Too bad we lost but I can live with it. On to Utah.
While I am loath to defend the NBA or Uncle Buck for that matter I feel the need to interject this.
The quality of the game is not the primary concern for the people who actually matter in this debate and believe it or not it's not the NBA nor is it even ABC.
Where will more beer be sold? Where will more Chrysler's be sold? Where will more EA Sports games be sold? In other words while certainly the fans, the NBA and the network all are important the deciding factor of any TV event is sponsorship. While I would love to tell you that people would gather together and watch the Pacers vs. the Heat (which I think they certainly would) the ugly truth be told it would not draw the ratings or demographics that the Bulls vs. Knicks will have.
Look I'm not saying it's right but it just is. The advertisers put their money into buying spots that will reach the buying market. I can assure you that while there certainly is a lot of beer sold in Indiana our entire state probably does not buy as much beer in a month as what N.Y. does in a week (hell maybe a day I don't know).
Why is basketball this way and not football? Several reasons for certain but at the end of the day you would also be right to blame the way the NBA does market it's game and has always been that way. I wish it were different but sadly it's not.
BTW, this is in no way a defense of the marketing strategy. I am just throwing out a factor that often times seems to be overlooked. I also agree that zero ABC games is a joke. I mean for God's sake we are facing the Heat on Tuesday and we are going to be the NBAtv fan night game, by all rights that should be a TNT game.
Well, there's this, anyway:
Pacers TV ratings on @FSIndiana were up 113% in Nov. over last year and the highest opening month since 2005. Ratings ranked 4th in NBA.— Scott Agness (@ScottAgness) December 4, 2013
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Have to take some issue with this. The play its self....the PNR is pretty much unguardable. I just hate when people say point guard ABC are the best in the league when that said Point Guard use the PNR on 80% on their possessions. Honestly its silly. I've never seen players like Lillard, Rose, Parker, or CP3. Completely destroy GHill in a one on one situation.
I often wonder why the Pacers do not run more PNR. They seem to settle in to Curls and Ball screens when not in the Post game.
All i'm saying is that there is a certain style of offense that make Point Guards look like mini-gods.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Probably because Hibbert/West are ineffective as rollers. We do the PNP with West/Scola.
In the playoffs last year, Hibbert looked like Tyson Chandler running the pick n roll. Remember when they had to scrape Ivan Johnson off of the floor in the Atlanta series, Yikes!!!
Maybe they are saving it for the playoffs again.
I know I am a little late to the party here, but I wanted to add a few thoughts. Living in the Northwest I don't get a whole lot of chance to watch the pacers live (especially with no team in Seattle). It was because of this that it was a particular honor being able to go the game on Monday in Portland. Watching this game live it was pretty exciting to see PG, Lance, Roy and the boys play live for the first time. Peck pretty much nailed everything I would say in regards to how the game went. that said I wanted to add a few notes.
First the obvious: Paul George is AMAZING!!!!! Some of those shots at the end of the 4th quarter with Wesley Matthews hands in his face were incredible to see go in. As a kid I remember watching Reggie play live every time the Pacers would come to Utah. Those last second shots would send chills up my spine. I got those same chills on Monday.
Lance was well... bad lance on Monday. Watching the game you could tell that he was frustrated when he was in the game. I have seen good Lance and bad Lance on TV plenty of times, and was hoping to see good Lance in the game on Monday. I was disappointed to see him take himself out of that game. If Lance even plays at 50% of what he is capable of I think that loss is a win.
Watching Hibbert and LaMarcus Aldridge go at one another was something else. Peck mentioned the ( I think deliberate from what I saw) knees that Aldridge applied in the first half. what hasn't been mentioned was the elbow Roy took in the fourth quarter. From what I could see LMA played dirty in that game (and got away with it). Scola also played really well in the first half, and I thought he should of played more minutes in the second half.
Lastly the Referees wouldn't let the teams play. It seemed that they thought that they had to take control of game by calling bad calls on both teams (but more on the Pacers as Portland got more opportunities at the charity stripe than the Pacers).
All in all it was a great game. Portland is a great team that played a great game. That said I don't think I have ever felt better after losing; PG showed me that we have a true superstar in the wings. One of our best players since Reggie Miller. I look forward to seeing what we can do against the Spurs.
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013...o-nba-liga-mx/Thursday's Knicks/Nets NBA regular season game drew 1.5 million viewers on TNT, down 45% from Knicks/Heat last year (2.7M), and the network's second-smallest audience of the season. The Heat/Bulls nightcap drew 2.1 million, up 76% from Mavericks/Suns last year (1.2M). Going back further, ESPN drew 1.9 million for the November 27 Heat/Cavaliers game. (The Futon Critic [1], [2])
The crazy thing is that it actually pretty close to last years ratings.
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Get sam out of the flippin game! absolute garbage.
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Get sam out of the flippin game! absolute garbage.
Get Sam Young out of there
Disastrous 1st quarter for Sam
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Sam Young, unfreaking unbelievable.
DJ Augustine go get the ball, don't let him dribble it up!
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Why does Frank keep throwing random people in after not playing?! It's the playoffs. You can't just toss random people out there...
I hope we never play Sam Young again.
Maybe Pendy can try and guard Melo?
edit: Sam Young's entire purpose for being on the roster is as a defensive specialist..specifically for Lebron and Melo. That's why he's out there.
Ugh, Sam.
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sam young ffs gtfo!
U wanted Sam young? You got Sam young
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Get Sam Young the F out of the game.
Where my Gerald Green haters / Sam Young supporters at? Dude cost us about 10 points right there.
Great job Sam Young!
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
I've said it all year long. Sam Young shouldn't play. He's not even that good of a defender to excuse his **** poor offense and terrible decision making. I'd take Gerald Green ten times out of ten.
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"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
Can we please get Sam Young out and never let him see the floor for the remainder of the playoffs? he completely killed us
**** Young. Two minutes of Young and a 9 point run. Crap. Should have had a 3-4 point lead after Q1.
3 turnovers and a stupid foul in 2 minutes. Good job there Sam!
Sam "Auto-Destruction" Young.
Oh boy, Sam Young.
Go to hell, Sam Young.
In case anyone hasn't "said" it, Get Sam Young out, PLEASE
I fell bad for Sam Young right now. Couldn't possibly have done worse if he tried
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
3 turnovers and one foul in 2:22, we would have been better with Pendergraph.


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The Standing Committee of the European Convention on Spectator Violence and Misbehaviour at Sports Events and in particular at Football Matches,
Under the terms of Article 9.1.c of the Convention;
Having seen Articles 1 and 3.4.c of the Convention;
Concerned by occasions when the free availability of tickets has contributed to outbreaks of spectator violence;
Aware of the need to institute a closer control of the distribution and sale of tickets for football matches where spectator violence is to be feared;
Wishing to build common guidelines on the basis of the experiences gained by contracting parties and signatory states;
Recommends that the Parties to the Convention consider the formulation and implementation of appropriate measures to give effect to the principles set out in the attached guidelines for ticket sales;
Instructs the Secretary General to transmit this recommendation to the other member states or states party to the European Cultural Convention for information.
When spectator violence is to be feared in association with a match, the organising authorities could consider implementing one, several or all of the following suggestions as appropriate to control the sale of tickets with a view to reducing the possibility of spectator violence.
1. Ensuring that the production of tickets helps the supervision and control of spectators and investigation afterwards of possible sources of trouble. This can be done by:
a. numbering tickets and strictly controlling production and sale to the number agreed at 7 below;
b. colouring tickets so that they correspond to particular sectors of the ground and particular entries;
c. printing a plan of the stadium, with the sectors printed in the appropriate colours, and of its vicinity, onto the back of the ticket as information for visiting spectators and to help segregate groups of rival fans;
d. recording the allocation of each ticket or batch of tickets;
e. envisaging machine readable tickets so that forgeries can be detected and entering spectators more easily controlled;
f. strictly controlling ticket holders at entry points and ensuring they have an appropriate ticket.
2. Envisaging where possible the creation by the organisers or stadium owners of obligations or conditions for the purchase of tickets, which could be applicable also to any subsequent purchase. These conditions would help ensure a better control of the "second-hand" market and could allow organisers or stadium owners to exclude undesirable spectators from future matches. Such obligations or conditions would derive from private law.
3. Football associations, clubs, and other organisers could also envisage creating a licensing system to authorise some persons or agencies to sell tickets with conditions (such as the observance of instructions, or limitations - such as places or times of sale, only to members or subscribers, etc - which the organiser or competent authority might issue from time to time and notify the licensee) that would allow them to withdraw the licence in case of trouble with ticket holders from their allocation.
4. When national football associations act as distributors of tickets for major international events, they should add their own distinguishing mark to their batch of tickets.
5. Restricting the number of tickets which any one individual can purchase.
6. Reducing the number of tickets available to away supporters.
7. Deciding the number of tickets which will be sold for a match (not necessarily the full theoretical capacity of the ground); where advisable, reducing the capacity and the number of tickets sold for each sector by a certain percentage, bearing in mind safety, control and public order factors.
8. Restricting the number of tickets available for purchase in bulk (to be defined bearing in mind the match) by:
i. tour operators or other licensed outlets
ii. supporters' clubs
to correspond with their effective travel capacity, so that unaccounted-for tickets do not circulate;
b. companies and firms buying tickets for commercial entertainment, or sponsors of a club. Companies should be asked to show how they distributed their allocation of tickets, and warned beforehand of any areas where distribution might be undesirable.
9. Not allowing the sale of tickets in a period before a match (12 hours, 24 hours, etc), and certainly not in the period immediately preceding the match (e.g., 4 hours).
10. When particularly large numbers of visiting supporters from several countries are to be anticipated, to introduce a voucher system by which potential spectators apply for the tickets they desire, and after due examination, may later exchange their voucher(s) for the tickets allocated to them.
11. At multi-round events, the organising committee may take over or make arrangements for purchasing unwanted tickets and selling tickets that are wanted, in order to introduce some order into the second hand market and reduce opportunities for the black market.
Guidelines for ticket sales
Explanatory memorandum
1. Experience in the Standing Committee shows that some outbreaks of hooliganism are caused by tickets falling into the hands of "undesirable" spectators. This may be the fault of the organisers (for example, if tickets are sold on the day of a high-risk match), or because of the lack of supervision by third parties, such as tour operators or others, over the distribution of their allocated tickets, so that undesirable spectators obtain their tickets indirectly and without the organisers being able to prevent this. Furthermore, the black market is an ancient and persistent sphere of economic activity which contributes an additional element of unforeseeable chance. There is also a small contribution from forged tickets.
2. The Standing Committee is aware that the laws of contracting parties concerning contract, the rights of the individual purchaser of a ticket, and the relationships between organiser, agent and spectator vary quite considerably. Some measures which are applicable in one country are not possible in another (for instance, the powers of the organiser to forbid entry to a person holding a valid ticket). The plans to introduce membership schemes in some countries may additionally complicate the legal situation.
3. The guidelines draw on the collective experience of the Standing Committee, but it is conscious that they can and will be followed only in so far as it is legally possible in each country. The sharing of experience does not impose an obligation to imitate: but it provides insights into the sources of problems, which may then be tackled in whatever will be the most appropriate fashion.
4. The Standing Committee does not consider that this problem is one which is likely to be solved by (new) legislation: it is in the realm of improved operational supervision and practical management that progress is likely to be made. This raises the question of responsibility, which also varies from country to country: each will assign primary and secondary responsibilities to whichever authority is most appropriate, whether by law or by custom.
5. The guidelines should therefore be interpreted in accordance with Article 1 of the Convention ("The Parties ... undertake, within the limits of their respective constitutional provisions, to take the necessary steps to give effect to the provisions of this Convention.") and Article 3.4 "... sports organisations and clubs, together with, where appropriate, stadium owners and public authorities, in accordance with responsibilities defined in domestic law, take practical measures at and within stadia to prevent or control [spectator] violence and misbehaviour, including: ... c. to ensure [] segregation by strictly controlling the sale of tickets and to take particular precautions immediately preceding the match; ..."


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Related story: Former Upland City Manager Robb Quincey charged with felonies
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Former Upland City Manager Robb Quincey pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony corruption charges in West Valley Superior Court.
The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office on Oct. 19 charged Quincey with felonies including unlawful misappropriation of public money, gaining personal benefit from an official contract, and giving false testimony under oath.
Quincey's attorney Michael Zweiback said they will fight the charges.
"We look forward to our opportunity in court," Zweiback said.
Deputy District Attorney Reza Sadeghi said he could not comment on the case.
Quincey, who was terminated by the City Council in May 2011 for failing to follow council direction and breaching his employment contract, is accused of committing a public officer crime as well as a conflict of interest in January 2010.
Council members placed Quincey on paid leave in January 2011 following reports that he settled two claims in January 2010 involving Upland police officers for $50,000, which at the time surpassed the amount he was allowed to settle.
Quincey sued the city in November alleging his firing was without cause and sought $7.8 million in damages.
He said he had settled the police claims for $25,000 each, which was within his authority.
An arbitration judge in July found that Quincey violated the city's ethics rules and broke his employment contract by intentionally concealing his settlement of one of the claims.
The clain was filed by an Upland police sergeant who investigated a domestic dispute involving Quincey and a girlfriend in July 2008.
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City councillors discussed their officers' ideas for preventing the problem.
Officers said it was crucial to tackle the causes such as substance abuse, domestic violence and mental illness, rather than simply house people temporarily.
Gillian Knight, housing options manager, said: "The council is required under the terms of the Homelessness Act 2002 to produce a homelessness strategy. The last strategy has now expired and a new five year Preventing Homelessness Strategy has been prepared which, for your consideration, reflects current priorities and best practice trends in Housing Options services.
"There are a range of issues which need to be considered when determining the council's statutory responsibilities under homelessness legislation. However, homelessness is wider than those statutory responsibilities and all local authorities are encouraged to offer support and identify solutions for all homeless people."
Councillors praised the work of agencies who had worked hard over the last few years to help homeless people, citing works done by Trinity and the possible development of a wet shelter.
Cabinet chairman, Cllr Tony Coates, said: "We currently have a programme with regards to people discharged from hospital or prison to ensure they are not discharged to no fixed abode without us being made aware and proper arrangements being made. We also have the No Second Night Programme which works very well which has seen Trinity step forward and take on an extra 10 people. For domestic violence victims we also have a hostel to help them find their way."
The strategy will also look to help people who have been made homeless as a result of losing their job and falling behind on rent arrears.
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An open consultation on the financial mechanisms for meeting the challenges of ICT for development was held in Geneva on 8 and 9 October 2009.
The meeting was opened by the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, and the Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD, Mr. Petko Draganov. During the meeting, speakers from governments, international organizations, civil society and the private sector discussed how to finance ICT infrastructure, ICT applications, relevant content, and capacity-building.
Several speakers highlighted the positive developments witnessed in the area of mobile telephony. At the same time, they noted that the divide is widening in the area of broadband connectivity. This represents a significant development challenge, given that applications such as telehealth, distance learning and exports of ICT-enabled services require sufficient bandwidth to be used effectively.
Participants considered which forms of financing were the most appropriate in different situations. With regard to infrastructure investment, private sector financing has become increasingly prominent, sometimes in the form of public-private partnerships. In the case of capacity-building efforts, by contrast, most efforts are financed through public domestic or foreign sources in the form of official development assistance.
UNCTAD plays an active role in the area of ICT for development. For more than a decade, it has supported developing countries by enhancing their access to ICT statistics, informing governments and other stakeholders on relevant ICT trends and developments, reviewing national policies, and building the capabilities of countries and regions to improve their legal and regulatory frameworks. And on 22 October 2009, the next Information Economy Report will be launched.
In its capacity as secretariat to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, UNCTAD also assumes a role in the follow-up process to the World Summit on the Information Society. From 9 to 11 November 2009, the Intersessional Panel of the Commission will meet in Geneva, focusing partly on the financing mechanisms for ICT for development. The outcome of the deliberations during the open consultations will be shared with the Commission on Science and Technology for Development and discussed at its intersessional panel meeting.
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