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We are getting nothing from Hibbert. If he starts playing basketball and we get Granger back, this team really does have a chance against the best.
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We are getting nothing from Hibbert. If he starts playing basketball and we get Granger back, this team really does have a chance against the best.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
why the hell did Phoenix not foul when there were like 26 seconds left and only down 6
If games are won and lost on a calculator and piece of paper, then why do we bother to play them?
Not really nothing. Offensively yeah most games we get under 10 ppg. But defensively he is providing a hell of a lot. Every time he leaves the court we lose a lot of defense.
We have the NBA right where we want them: Unassuming, playing sneakily well, and awaiting the return of arguably our best player. We will be a dangerous team come playoff time.
Ha. This isn't church or grade school. It's an Internet forum. My comment served to point out the irony of the Pacers' 17-12 record this year compared to last year.
And it was only 'unprovoked' in this thread because the Pacers won.
Plus, Roy had 14 rebounds and four assists tonight. Definitely isn't nothing.
Had our opponents so far played more "average" schedules, their records would most likely be better and our SOS itself would be closer to the average. Just something to chew on.
Fun stat: Lance Stephenson has SIX turnovers in all of December. He has a 17:3 assist to turnover ratio in December. That's great progress for Lance.
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Didn't see the game.. Caught the last few mins on 1070 (which comes in HORRIBLY like all the time). I was a little worried about a lacksidaisical effort (which I can't say there was or wasn't) but a win is always a win all the time.
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so by that formula we are 8-3. Which is really good we dominate at home and almost 500 on the road which is pretty good. Miami for example is 14-2 at home and 6-5 on the road that is really freaking good 6-2.
for example the Bucks are just 7-6 they don't dominate on their home floor.
The Pacers should definitely have a much better record than they do now... I mean they flat out stunk it to start the season. But it doesn't matter, they finally got it together, so if they're able to maintain this winning percentage, the Pacers will be in a good spot when Granger comes back.
Should have pummeled the Suns. They are not good, but 2nd half was extremely poor. Really liked Lance's game. Everyone else kind of meh, but a win is a win. Yes please to LS as second string PG & DJ banished ASAP.
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I am pretty sure he meant offensively. It's common thing now whenever we say "Roy sucked tonight", we mean on the offensive end. He got blocked by JO's corpse last night.
Defensively he has been nothing short of a beast but unfortunately on the other end, most of the time, he stinks. Here is hoping he will consistently find his touch soon. And no i don't mean by saying that, he will start scoring 25 ppg.
Roy's shot 49% over the last 7.
I understand Roy cleaned the glass last night, but there are only two NBA teams worse than Phoenix on the boards. Against an average team, his boards go down to 8. He is key to our defense in every game though, so I agree we are getting something out of him. But he is our all-star max player folks. He's got to bring more than defense.
If Roy is able to do that...couple that with Paul's growth spurt, Lance's emergence and the return of Granger and I think we have a significantly better team than last year.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
How about Sebastian Telfair? Heck of a player who is ballsy and doesn't back down. He played like an "in the moment" player last night. He's on a 1.5 million dollar expiring deal. I personally believe he is a solid backup and an upgrade over the 2 we got. With Dragic hurt I'm sure they won't be quick to part ways with him. But would anybody else like to see Telfair in a Pacers uni? Atleast for the majority of the regular season. I see Lance as the backup PG when Danny comes back if we can't fix it sooner than later.
Also, the less I have to look at Young on offense and DJ on the floor all together the better. Glad Young didn't play, but I didn't realize how bad a defender DJ is till last night. I've never seen anyone give up on defending a pick and roll like him in my life. Several times he refused to fight through it and played the switch, matching up with Gortat. Just pathetic.
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Yes, his defense is absolutely pathetic. I never thought I'd say this, but he's easily a worse defender than Troy Murphy. Couple that with the fact DJ is ineffective as a PG and ineffective at scoring...you really have to wonder how the guy is in the league. I suppose he can dribble.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
My thoughts after attending last night's game.
Roy is beyond awful. He is horrible with his back to the basket. Hit only the backboard on a swinging left hand hook (his left hand isn't injured) Got snuffed by Jermaine then fell down, then got 3 sec. call.
Should not have been in the game the last 6 min although I think Frank wanted him to protect the basket
Lance was awesome!! Should have had a double-double but DROPPED his 10th rebound. AHH! I was so upset because he deserved it!!
Hill was terrific. I am worried about his thigh injury tonight. I bet it feels a lot worse today.
Mahinmi played very well too! Roy better be careful.
Paul George needs to watch film on Kobe, Michael, Larry, Magic, etc. You're our best player dude. You can't stand around in crunch time. Didn't work hard enough to get open. I know we were running iso's for West. OK, then crash the damn boards or something.
***Something Brian Shaw hopefully addresses**** HEAD HANGING!!! As a former player, he needs to talk to Lance and Green about this. The other team sees this right away. Lance hung his head like a 7th grader when he missed those FT's. Yes, it was disappointing but he had played too well to get down on himself.
The other time, Gerald wanted the ball on the rt. wing. Point gd just couldn't get it to him. Gerald put his head down and walked to the corner. Suns stole the ball and he didn't even know it because he had his head down like a upset child. Inexcusable. The guy isn't very bright.
At any rate, we'll see how good we really are over the next couple weeks.
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Matt Leathers' family knew him to be athletic, artistic, quiet and extremely determined.
"If he put his mind to something, he was going to accomplish it," said his sister Katie Leathers.
Leathers, a Navy SEAL commando, was on a training exercise Feb. 19 in waters off Kaena Point in Oahu, Hawaii when he went missing, according to Navy officials. The Woodland native - he graduated from Woodland High School in 1997 - was never found. He was 33.
Leathers leaves behind a large and loving family including his father Tim Leathers, stepmother Linda, five siblings - Tim Jr., Tammy, Lori, Chris and Katie - and his partner Amanda and three children.
The waters around Kaena Point are treacherous, Tim Sr. said, and "it's not really that surprising that he remains unfound."
But an epic search was undertaken: "They used every available asset that was out there. From the U.S. Coast Guard ... Air Force, Marines, fire department, of course all the SEALs. They searched for him day and night."
"They covered over 24,000 square miles," he said. "And somehow he eluded them."
Tim Sr. noted that his son was lost at sea during final operations for yet another deployment. "He was the lead petty officer of his platoon. This would have been I think his seventh platoon. He'd been a SEAL for nine years."
"Most of the losses in the SEAL organizations occur during training, rather than when they're deployed," he added. "It's very difficult, tough training. He was just doing his job."
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Several years ago, Tim Sr. took young Matt to Hawaii, where he first learned how to scuba dive.
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"He considered the ocean his mother," Tim Sr. said. "He would rather be in the water than on land."
Now 69, Tim Sr. is the only other Leathers family member with a military background. During the Vietnam War he served overseas as an aide-de-camp to a one-star general in the Army.
But Matt took military service to an extreme level, joining SEAL Delivery Vehicle One at Pearl Harbor in 2004 and finding himself in the center of some of the most important conflicts of the 21st century.
"He did some time in Iraq. He did some time in Afghanistan," his father said. "He was in many, many countries, of which we don't really know about. He was a highly decorated warrior."
He added, "Many times, the work he did he got nothing for it, because it could never be told. But he wasn't into the awards. He was only into serving his country in the best possible way that he could."
Matt Leathers was well decorated, however - his many awards include a Bronze Star and several Good Conduct Medals - and he was well known among his peers. In fact, he is an unnamed presence in the now-famous book "Lone Survivor," about a mission in Afghanistan gone awry. The book's author, former SEAL Marcus Luttrell, was close to Matt and attended his funeral service in Hawaii, Tim Leathers said.
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"He was a kid at heart. He was just really great with children," she said.
Tim Leathers also recalled Matt as a "fantastic father," and added, "Matt was like a magnet when it came to children."
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Members of Matt's family repeatedly noted how proud they are of his accomplishments. That inspiration seems to be helping them with their grief over his sudden death less than three weeks ago.
"I'm a better person for knowing him," Katie said. "We're all better people for knowing him."
"The Leathers family is doing as well as can be expected," Tim Leathers said. "We loved our son. He was one of the most amazing SEALs ever to go through the program, as explained by many of his fellow warriors. There are millions of stories about him that can never be told."
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The kids are alright.
We've seen it throughout the year with young players starting all over the field for FCD and on Saturday in San Jose, another youngster was given his starting debut as Tesho Akindele became the seventh player aged 22 or younger to start a game for FCD this season.
"It was just excitement," Akindele said after the game. "Maybe a little bit of nerves, but luckily I've played in games before so most of the nerves were gone. It was mostly just excitement. It was a great field, great atmosphere and I was happy to be out there."
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Drafted sixth overall in the 2014 draft from the Colorado School of Mines, Akindele has impressed in reserve games for FC Dallas and made two cameo appearances at the end of a couple MLS games recently, but Saturday was his starting debut. After finding out the morning of Saturday's game that he would be given the nod, Akindele said that coach Pareja told him to "go out there and do what I do."
"He did well. It was a great game for Tesho in his first game as a starter," Pareja said after the match. "He came in and showed personality and I think he adapted to the game and the [level] which is difficult to play at. Tesho did good and he's coming along. I'm happy for his performance."
It took Tesho some time to find his feet in Saturday's match, but the Colorado native who scored an impressive 76 goals during his time at CSoM certainly became more comfortable as the match went on. Akindele was extremely active down the right side of the pitch, especially in the second half, where Tesho completed two key passes and nearly scored on a couple chances.
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As for the result, a 2-1 loss which was FCD's fourth in a row, Akindele says that no one is putting their heads down and it's far too early to be panicking.
"You can't fault any person for how they played. It was just unlucky for us overall, the ball wasn't bouncing our way," said Akindele. "It's a long season, so overall it's such a small part of the season you can't get all bummed out over such a little part of the season."


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Opening Song: Called to Serve (PCS #174)
In the bible we read the story of a woman named Hannah. Hannah had wanted a baby for a long time. One day while she was in the temple she prayed, "O Lord, if you will give me a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life." The Lord answered Hannah's prayer and she had a baby boy. She named the baby Samuel.
When the little boy was old enough to help in the temple, Hannah and Elkanah, his father, took him to the temple to live with Eli, the priest. They took him there to fulfill Hannah's promise to have her son serve the Lord.
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One night after Samuel had gone to bed, Samuel heard someone calling his name, "Samuel." Samuel thought it must be Eli calling to him. He went into Eli's room and answered, "Here am I". But Eli said he had not called and sent him back to bed.
Samuel went back to bed, but after he laid down her heard a voice again calling his name..."Samuel," and once more Samuel answered, "Here am I". The boy ran to Eli, who answered, "I called not, my son," and sent him back as before.
The third time this happened, Eli realized that the Lord had been calling Samuel. He told the boy to go back to bed and, if the voice called again, to say, "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth".
When the Lord called, "Samuel, Samuel" again, the boy answered as Eli had told him. Then the Lord talked to Samuel and Samuel listened to His words. As Samuel grew up, he learned well the duties and responsibilities of being called by the Lord. Because Samuel listened and obeyed, the Lord was with Samuel as he grew, and all the people knew he was a prophet.
Many times the Lord calls us and asks us to serve him. Sometimes it is through a mission call and sometimes it is through accepting a calling at church and doing our best. Sometimes the work we do for the Lord is easy and other times we may find it difficult. But if we always hear and answer when the Lord calls we will be blessed.
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STANFORD -- Three horses were killed after they wandered onto Interstate 280 Saturday morning, causing two cars to crash and blocking northbound traffic for about an hour.
Two people were transported to hospitals as a precaution after their air bags deployed and they complained of neck and back pain, according to Woodside Fire Battalion Chief Kevin Butler.
The first crash was reported about 4:50 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the highway, just north of Alpine Road. A white Toyota Prius struck the horses, killing two instantly.
As first responders were taking control of the scene, a second vehicle collided with one of the horses' bodies, spinning off the roadway and ending up in a nearby pasture, Butler said. Officials called a veterinarian to euthanize the third horse, but it died before the vet arrived.
Officials were still trying to locate the horses' owners. A horse boarding facility, Webb Ranch, lies adjacent to the accident scene, but an employee answering the phone Saturday morning declined to comment.
A fourth horse was reported loose, but was found alive just after 6:30 a.m. just off the freeway, Butler said.
Disabled vehicles and the horses' bodies blocked traffic on the highway until just before 7 a.m. Authorities called in a frontloader from Caltrans to help remove the horses' bodies.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — One of the oldest traditions in stock-car racing used to be the winning driver getting a kiss in victory lane from a NASCAR trophy girl.
That tradition has died out over the years, but it still made for a topic of discussion for Daytona 500 polesitter Danica Patrick.
Patrick, who made headlines by becoming the first woman to win a pole for a Sprint Cup race, was asked on "The Dan Patrick Show" Tuesday if she would kiss Miss Sprint Cup in victory lane if she won the Daytona 500, because there isn't a "Mr. Sprint Cup."
"There is only one mister I will be kissing, and I don't think they're going to be wearing a Sprint Cup suit," she said.
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Patrick, of course, was referring to her new boyfriend, Roush Fenway Racing driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
"A kiss from Miss Sprint Cup?" I don't think that's good. I think that would lead people astray," Patrick told Dan Patrick.
"I think people would be confused by that. Hugs all around."
Speaking of kisses, Patrick on another show — ESPN's "Pardon The Interruption" — talked about having to stand next to model Bar Refaeli and character actor Jesse Heiman during their infamous kiss that Go Daddy aired as part of its Super Bowl commercial.
"It was pin-drop silent and all you could hear was … the making out tongue," said Patrick, making some of the kissing sounds. "It was uncomfortable.
"I had to stand there kind of stern and professional and polite and smiley."
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Patrick admitted on that show that she is getting a little more into the NASCAR lifestyle.
She talked about buying a cowhide rug for her NASCAR team hauler. The Illinois natives has started embracing a little bit of Southern culture thanks to NASCAR and the influence of her cowboy-hat-wearing boyfriend, who is from Mississippi.
"I listen to the country music now," Patrick said. "It's kind of the NASCAR way. I like it. It's fun at times."
There also was some serious racing talk as Patrick made the rounds after winning the pole for the Daytona 500. Dan Patrick asked Danica Patrick about whether she would wreck Stenhouse to win a race.
"I couldn't directly viciously take someone out for the win," Danica Patrick said. "I just think it's low. I think it takes away form the win.
"Now would I move someone over, would I try and get him loose or get him up the track? Yeah, I think I would do that. But just turning him into the wall or spinning him out, it takes away from the win, I think."


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Support groups offer the chance for people to talk about their experiences with others living with cancer, which can help reduce stress. Group members can share feelings and experiences that may seem too strange or too difficult to share with family and friends. And the group dynamics often create a sense of belonging that helps each person feel more understood and less alone.
In addition to sharing their feelings and experiences, support group members may discuss practical information, such as what to expect during treatment, how to manage pain and other side effects of treatment, and how to communicate with health care providers and family members. Exchanging information and advice may provide a sense of control and reduce feelings of helplessness.
Many studies have shown that support groups help people with cancer feel less depressed and anxious and more hopeful. Although support groups are not the right fit for everyone, and some people may benefit from other sources of support, people who choose to participate in support groups often find that the experience enables them to manage their emotions better.
Types of support groups
Groups offer support through counseling, providing information and education, or a combination of both. In some cases, group members facilitate discussion; these may be called peer-led or self-help groups. In other groups, a trained counselor, social worker, or psychologist leads, facilitating the conversation among the members. Meanwhile, informational support groups—led by a professional facilitator—provide cancer-related information and education. These groups often invite speakers, such as doctors, who provide expert advice.
Groups may also be designed for specific audiences. Some groups are open to all individuals with cancer, and others are open only to people with one type of cancer, such as breast cancer or prostate cancer. Furthermore, some groups specialize in offering support to people of a certain age group or to those who have a specific stage of cancer. Other support groups target caregivers, such as family members and friends, who may need encouragement and help learning to cope with a loved one's cancer diagnosis.
In recent years, Internet support groups have become popular, as well. These groups may be a good option for people who live in remote areas, people who don't have easy access to transportation, or people who don't feel comfortable sharing their experiences face-to-face. In addition, an Internet support group may allow people with rare types of cancer to communicate with others who have the same type of cancer.
Internet support groups allow people to communicate in a variety of ways:
- Newsgroups and electronic mailing lists send messages written by group members to the entire group.
- Discussion groups, message boards, or bulletin boards allow people to post a message, and others can reply to it.
- Chat rooms group members communicate with each other in real time by typing messages back and forth.
How to choose a type of support group
To decide which type of support group may fit you best, consider your needs and personality.
- Do you need emotional support, information and education, or a combination of both?
- Do you prefer sharing your experiences face-to-face with a group, or are you more comfortable sharing in an anonymous environment, such as an Internet support group?
If you are not interested in joining a support group or find that support groups are not helpful for you, consider these other sources of support:
- Talk with a friend.
- Get individual counseling or psychotherapy.
- Ask a doctor or nurse specific questions.
- Participate in activities that you enjoy and that allow you to connect with friends or family.
How to find a support group
- Check with your doctor, nurse, or the hospital or medical center where you are receiving treatment. Many hospitals and cancer treatment centers sponsor support groups for their patients. A social worker or a member of the discharge-planning department at the hospital may also help you find a community support group.
- Search a list of groups classified by specific disease types.
- Search a list of organizations that offer support and services for people with any type of cancer.
- Use the public library to search for information on support groups and cancer organizations, and consider asking the librarian for help.
- Check the health section of the local newspaper for support group listings.
- Ask other patients for suggestions.
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Oklahoma City Thunder: Paul George vs. Kevin Durant becoming a marquee matchup
By Darnell Mayberry
Paul George didn't become a starter until the final two months of his rookie season.
Three years later, the Indiana Pacers forward is a superstar.
He's a special player, said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. The term superstar gets thrown around NBA circles quite frequently, but he's a superstar. He's a superstar in this league. There's only a handful of them and he's one of them.
George's transformation has turned Sunday's showdown with Thunder forward Kevin Durant into a marquee matchup.
The two are the reigning players of the month for November in their respective conferences, top five scorers and early candidates in the MVP race. After winning the NBA's Most Improved Player award last season, George has established himself, in just his fourth season, as one of the game's best players.
At the conclusion of the Thunder's practice Saturday afternoon, there was some chatter about George now being the league's third-best player, presumably behind LeBron James and Durant.
He can do it all, Durant said. I think he's up there with one of the top players in the league because he's elevated his game to new heights.
In a road game at Portland this past Monday, George posted a career-high 43 points. He made seven 3-pointers, five of which came in the final three minutes and had the league buzzing more about George's continued emergence than the Blazers' four-point win. The day before that, George torched the Clippers, in Los Angeles, for 27 points, six rebounds and five assists.
I watched him from afar and he's having a phenomenal season this year, just leading those guys, Durant said. You can tell he's playing super confident basketball right now.
If George doesn't quite live up to the hype in his lone appearance in Oklahoma City, it might have something to do with playing on the second night of a back-to-back following Saturday's game at San Antonio and the Pacers closing out a five-game trip.
And oh yeah, Durant.
Durant has owned George in their individual matchup, winning three of their four head-to-head meetings while averaging 31.5 points to George's 10.3. Durant has made 53 percent of his field goals in those games compared to George's 31.1 percent clip. George did not play in one of the two Thunder-Pacers games in 2010-11, and the teams met just once in 2011-12 due to the lockout.
One thing I do love about the KD-Paul George matchup is that each time they guard each other, said Thunder center Kendrick Perkins. When we play Miami, LeBron (James) and KD don't guard each other most of the time. You got Shane Battier guarding KD or something like that.
That's largely a credit to George, who has forced his way into any conversation about the game's best players behind his defensive effort. He finished eighth in Defensive Player of the Year voting last year, garnering eight first-place votes, and enhanced his reputation by valiantly standing toe to toe with James in the Eastern Conference Finals a year ago.
This year, George has helped to again make the Pacers a defensive juggernaut. Before Saturday's games, the Pacers led the league in defensive efficiency (points allowed per 100 possessions) at 90.2. They were allowing a league-best 87.5 points per game.
What he does, he brings his competitive spirit every night on both ends of the floor, Brooks said of George. That's what makes him a great player. You have a lot of respect for guys who bring it and are two-way players, and he's definitely a superstar in this league.
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You could tell by its mixed reviews that many critics didn't know they just took a class in cartoon physics after watching director Genndy Tartakovsky's debut feature Hotel Transylvania. But the viewing public caught on right away — audiences were so captivated by its gut-busting gags and anti-realism animation that they helped it become the highest-grossing September opening in film history.
Those happy families didn't seem to care that the film — in which a frazzled Dracula hosts a mad monster party for his daughter Mavis, who's itching to leave the coffin — didn't seem to actually care that Hotel Transylvania was acting like a cartoon. Tartakovsky's debut feature doesn't delimit itself with unnecessary pretense to reality: It's strictly about pure characters unleashing rapid-fire jokes, with some metafictional bows to animation envelope-pushers from back in the day like Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Which is to say, it's not like anything in the feature animation marketplace today.
"We started out by thinking that animation can do anything — singing flowers, walking chairs, all that stuff," Tartakovsky told Wired by phone, breathing sighs of relief that Hotel Transylvania's box-office performance might widen his feature film horizons. "But then we moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen."
The budding success of Hotel Transylvania should help with that, especially since the film spent years in development hell before Tartakovsky arrived following five other directors to save the day. The Dexter's Laboratory creator's next animated film, a 21st-century reboot of Fleischer Studios' salty but surreal Popeye the Sailor, could help a resurgence of the old-school as well.
Not only that, but the director promises that what he has planned for E.C. Segar's maritime savant could make Hotel Transylvania's cartoon physics tutorial look like homeroom.
"When it was first presented to me, it felt like the cheap exploitation of a known property," Tartakovsky said. "But as I started to think about it, it felt more like a great opportunity to do physical animated humor, to take what we did in Hotel Transylvania, multiply it by 10, and design really physical sequences that aren't reliant on dialog. Then I got excited."
Wired spoke with Tartakovsky about Hotel Transylvania's middle-finger to animated realism, how to bring the surreal Popeye and cerebral Samurai Jack to the multiplexes, and whatever happened to his mecha lovechild Sym-Bionic Titan.
The Hotel Transylvania Challenge
Wired: So it seems like you had a good weekend.
Tartakovsky: [Laughs] We did! We had a very good weekend. I went to see [Hotel Transylvania] Friday with a normal audience and I noticed that most of the kids sat in their seats and watched it. [Laughs] And I credit that to the visuals. They're stimulating and fun, and captured the audience like a good cartoon should.
Wired: It set a September record, which seemed to push back against some of what seemed to be unnecessarily lame reviews.
Tartakovsky: Not that we made a perfect film, but the way I look at it is that some of the reviews were definitely harsher than they could have been. I think that it's perception. The problem with animated films is that there's only one kind that you are allowed to make: the Pixar-Disney type, which we don't have. So during all this press, I've been trying to change that perception. This is a different film: It's broad comedy, it's silly and fun. It's not trying to be a drama with comedy, it's trying to be a comedy with comedy! [Laughs] And that's a big difference. You know, I loved Toy Story. It's a great movie, but it has some pretty serious drama.
Wired: It seems like Toy Story has actually made things worse, because it's enabled animated films to think and act like regular films rather than push the limits of cartoon physics on the big screen.
Tartakovsky: I think it's partially because of CG, although it was happening before that. Even before CG came along, we were heading toward realism. If you look back at Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Pocahontas, animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived. And that's a shame, because I feel like it's fun to watch animated films that are completely different from realism, with completely different worlds that you can embrace. And that's where I was really trying to push Hotel Transylvania, into a crazy, silly world that still has some rules, but whose animation pushes it further over the top.
Wired: Plus, these are supernatural characters. Pursuing realism doesn't make any sense, not that it hasn't stopped other animators.
Tartakovsky: Yeah, it was one of the big things I was worried about. I didn't want Hotel Transylvania to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that. And once it started performing well….
Wired: Cartoon redemption!
Tartakovsky: Watching it with an audience, you can tell it works. It gets a lot of laughs. And I've sat through a bunch of children's films and heard nothing, from kids or adults. But we've had steady laughter throughout our screenings of the film. Number one, I think its animation takes people by surprise, and that allows both adults and children to almost bond at the same level.
Wired: Yeah, I think a lot of critics viewed it through the realism prism, but they should know better that it fits right in with the animation traditions of others who have pushed the envelope.
Tartakovsky: It's hard, because I don't think we did anything really new, just newer for feature animation. Like the first big sequence at the hotel where all the different monsters and characters arrive? We got so many dual reactions to that sequence. Critics saying that it was too hectic and they couldn't stand watching it, or that they had so much fun watching it that they wanted to watch it again.
Wired: Well, if it makes you feel better, I wasn't worried about the film performing well. Knowing what you've been able to do in animation before, I had a feeling you'd give something cool to the viewers that's currently missing.
Tartakovsky: You should've called me Thursday night. [Laughs]
Wired: Were you freaking out?
Tartakovsky: It's funny, because sometimes your career is on a pattern. For my first 15 years, I had a great one: Come up with a show, make it, it's successful. But then I left and started my own studio Orphanage, and we couldn't sell a movie. And then we finally got Sym-Bionic Titan off the ground, a show that I had to really work hard on, and fight so much for. Then Cartoon Network canceled it. So there I was, in another situation where I had to work and fight just as hard, and, oh look, here comes opening weekend! Oh no, what if the pattern continues? What if it bombs? Because I believe in patterns. Things go your way, and then they don't, and you have to fight through it until they go your way again. I was worried that I was still stuck in my negative pattern.
The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Sym-Bionic Titan
Wired: It's safe to say you're out of it now. But let's go back to the massively underrated Titan. What the hell happened?
Tartakovsky: Cartoon Network bought into the show for one reason, and when they got it, their mind changed on what they wanted the show to be. I sold it as an action show combined with a John Hughes comedy. Teenage issues and characters with amazing action, and that's what they bought. But as we started making it, they were making Ben 10 and Generator Rex, and they wanted it to be that. And there was no way I was going to make that type of show. So they didn't really push or support the show, we didn't get a toy license, and that was it. It didn't get numbers because they didn't promote it the right way, and we didn't get the audience that we really needed.
Wired: Too bad. I carried the torch hard for that deserving show, and Cartoon Network called me when it was canceled and basically kept telling me how much they loved you. And all I could say is, "If you love him, then support him." I didn't know what to tell them.
Tartakovsky: That's weird they'd say that, because I've always said that it's not the cartoon you're buying. You're buying the person.
Wired: Exactly.
Tartakovsky: Shows are a dime a dozen. I mean, all shows are good at the outset, but it's really about who makes them and how they're made. The old guard at Cartoon Network used to understand that, but the new guard didn't. But the one positive thing that I just heard is that they're going to start showing Sym-Bionic Titan on Adult Swim.
Wired: Like most of your work, Sym-Bionic Titan is unclassifiable, which probably makes marketing departments mad.
Tartakovsky: No, it's true. It's not the norm. You can't just put it in a box. You have to treat it special, and it should be like that for everything.
Wired: You said at the Hotel Transylvania premiere that you were thinking about picking it up again.
Tartakovsky: Well, we've got 10 more scripts that we wrote for it, which are amazing. When the series was canceled, we were just getting to the meat of the story. The reveal of Lance's father, and other incredible stuff. Alanna falling in love in a '70s musical episode. Way more action. We were excited, so I would love to do it again. If it does well on Adult Swim, maybe there will be an opportunity to bring it back. I don't know how in the hell I can execute it if I'm doing work at Sony, but it really would be a good problem to have. I'll definitely find a way.
Bringing Back Popeye for Post-Millennials
Wired: I'm not privy to your contractual details, so….
Tartakovsky: We agreed to develop two more films. So we're going to see how that goes.
Wired: And it sounds like a Popeye reboot is one of them.
Tartakovsky: Right.
Wired: Radical. And ironic: The last time we saw Popeye in theaters, it was a situation similar to Hotel Transylvania, except that Robert Altman made not a cartoon but a bewildering live-action film that acted like a cartoon, to mixed critical reaction.
Tartakovsky: I liked it. I was younger when I saw it, but it totally resonated with me, especially since I was a big fan of Robin Williams. It was just this weird live-action version that was super artistic. That's what was really cool about it. It was a live-action cartoon. It was definitely weird, but I enjoyed that.
Wired: My hope is that Hotel Transylvania creates more Bob Clampett and Tex Avery geeks, and your Popeye reboot creates the same for Fleischer Studios.
Tartakovsky: That's basically the whole reason for me doing it. When it was first presented to me, it felt like the cheap exploitation of a known property. But as I started to think about it, it felt more like a great opportunity to do physical animated humor. To take what we did in Hotel Transylvania and multiply it by 10, and really push it and design very physical sequences that aren't reliant on dialog. Then I got excited and pitched that to Sony, and they were excited about it. They sensed the fun of the film that we just made, and they could sense it in Popeye, whose material lends itself even more to it.
Wired: Every time Popeye eats spinach, he can turn into a rocket fist flying through the air or something.
Tartakovsky: Yeah, but even something as simple as the way a character can walk. Olive Oyl is one of my top three favorite animated characters, so I can imagine transporting her into CGI's three-dimensional space. She'd still move in that same rubbery way, but with real clothes on. Visuals like that can become the Popeye film's signature, and make it super fun to look at.
Meet the New School, Needs More Old School
Wired: It's important for fans, and animators working today, to know that everything came imaginatively alive in toons from that early period. Trees, houses, everything.
Tartakovsky: That's exactly true. We started out thinking that animation can do anything — singing flowers, walking chairs, all that stuff — but moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen.
It's funny, I worked with a lot of feature animators on Hotel Transylvania who were used to doing visual effects for films like Men In Black and Spider-Man, who I had to tell, "No, make it crazier and more cartoony, forget about the physics." It took a while for some of the animators to adjust to that. My favorite story is the one about the simple shot of Hotel Transylvania where Jonathan walks into the pool with a creature on his back for a chicken fight. The first pass of that was so realistic. I mean, it was good and well-animated. But there was no energy and nothing funny about it. It was just a guy, any guy, walking down stairs. So I pitched out a different walk that's more cartoony, although it's just up and down, and the animator just couldn't get it. So finally I broke it down and animated it, and when we all watched it, everybody laughed. Because now it has a little energy, not enough for a guffaw, but enough for a chuckle and smile, and that's what the movie has a lot of.
Wired: But add all of those laughs up, and you've got cartoon comedy. The velocity of Adam Sandler's Dracula increases the more he loses his mind.
Tartakovsky: Dracula is the main reason I took the movie. Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success. I was like, "Here's my Bugs Bunny, or Daffy Duck. What if I can make him a manic star of a Bugs Bunny movie, starring Dracula?" I figured it would be really fun if I could pull that off. He can be a character who's barely holding on as everything goes wrong, while he's trying to do the right thing and protect his daughter. That was really exciting to me, because it's pure character. [Laughs] And I know some of the reviews said that the story was too thin, but it is thin: If we were doing plot points, we'd have half the gags.
Wired: And half the laughs, and probably half the box-office too. You gave Dracula impressive range, which gave Sandler much to do. I've also read some reviews that said you rehabilitated his sagging brand, which is Hollywood-speak but still carries some truth considering how bad his recent films have been. Has he called to thank you yet?
Tartakovsky: I mean, Adam's actually very happy with how it's played, but that's the extent of it. But you know I don't really think about that. That's not my job. We tried to make the best movie we could make, and I'm happy with the way Adam performed. He's a really funny person; it's not like I actually had to push him. He did what he did, but I think the animation elevated it. I like to think we enhanced his performance to a more manic level. Because that's the thing, this movie could've have been made where the animation didn't push him, and it could've worked. The reviews that killed me are the ones complaining about cameras going all over the place.
Wired: It's a cartoon. They do that.
Tartakovsky: But I'll guarantee you that we have half the camera moves of any other animated movie. It's so controlled; half the time, the characters are just standing and talking. We're not even doing the shaky live cam; it's locked off. Again, it's just perception. Critics maybe watch the opening sequence in the lobby and the table chase sequence, and that's enough to make them feel that it's manic. [Laughs]
Wired: Speaking of manic, let's talk about what happens next besides Popeye. Are toon geeks' dreams of a Samurai Jack animated film coming true?
Tartakovsky: Well, I'm developing Popeye and an original animated family film of mine, which is about all I can say right now. But we have been having lots of discussions about Samurai Jack, and they're all about its market. Is it just the fans who will see it? How can we get more of a general audience to see it? It is cult? Can it break out of the cult so that more people see it?
Wired: Is the concern that it's too quiet or cerebral? Are you willing to compromise the series?
Tartakovsky: No, if I'm going to do it, we're going to do it like the show. Just on a feature level, where everything can be tighter and more nuanced. Plus, I'm a better storyteller now, I've learned more. You know, I've seen Samurai Jack on the big screen at my work, and seeing even a television episode on the big screen is a totally different experience. Everything resonates so much more; you can feel it so much more. It would be amazing as a film. I feel that Samurai Jack was pretty bold and cinematic, so you can imagine how it would look blown up three stories high.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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July 30–August 2, 2017 — Olympia, WA
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August 22–24, 2017 — Olympia, WA
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Tenth Annual Institute for Innovative Design and Practice
April 21- 22, 2017
Kellogg West Conference Center & Hotel @ Cal Poly Pomona, CA
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2017 Curriculum Planning Retreat
April 27-28, 2017
Rainbow Lodge, North Bend, WA
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October 18-20, 2017
West Hartford, CT
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2017 National Learning Communities Conference
Making Connections: Fostering Integrative Learning through Learning Communities
November 9-11, 2017
Chicago, IL
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Game Time Start: 7:00 PM EST
Where: The Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN
Officials: B. Kennedy, J. Tiven, Z. Zarba
Media Notes: Indiana Notes, Philadelphia Notes
Local TV: FSI
Local Radio: WIBC 93.1 FM
NBA Feeds:
- NBA Audio League Pass (available free to NBA All-Access members)
- NBA League Pass Broadband (subscription req'd)
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Season Records: (W-L)
41-22 (Home: 22-8) 32-30 (Away: 13-16)
Upcoming Games: Apr 23 Apr 25 PLAYOFFS PLAYOFFS PLAYOFFS vs vs 7:00 pm 7:00 pm TBD pm TBD pm TBD pm
Projected Starting Lineup: C PF SF SG PG HIBBERT WEST GRANGER GEORGE HILL Projected Starting Lineup: C PF SF SG PG VUCEVIC BRAND IGUODALA MEEKS HOLIDAY
Darren Collison, sore groin, out
Minimally Relevant Video:
Semi-Relevant Video:
Eight Points, Nine Seconds PreviewReview: Jonathan Auping: Danny Granger vs. Andre Iguodala
The Pacers locked up home-court advantage in the first round, and the
playoffs are on everybodys mind. But we have plenty of time to talk about
the upcoming postseason (and we will give you plenty of analysis). For
the moment, were going to take a little break from the playoff chatter and
do a little old-fashion player to player comparison between Danny Granger
and Andre Iguodala.
The small forward is perhaps the most interesting position in the league
right now. Considered the three spot, it fits right in the middle of the
lineup and any given small forward might have a skill set that fits the
description of a shooting guard or a power forward or both. In the
current NBA landscape there are Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony and Kevin
Durant, and then everybody else. But Danny Granger and Andre Iguodala,
only separated by one draft class, have quietly emerged over the past few
years as two of the most effective and dangerous small forwards in the NBA.
The two young veterans seem to be atop that second tier of their position;
not MVP candidates, but certainly all-star caliber players. They would rank
ahead, in my opinion, of generational peers like Rudy Gay or Luol Deng as
well as aging players like Shawn Marion and, perhaps even Paul Pierce. But
the question is, which one of these two players is better?
Sure, they play the same position. Sure, there is only a two-inch height
difference. Sure, their 2012 salaries are within about one million dollars
of each other and there is only about a nine-month age difference. But the
truth is they are very different players. Iguodalas game revolves around his
versatility; he is a freak athlete who can rebound, attack the rim, play
defense and pass. Granger, on the other hand, is primarily a scorer whose
shooting ability is his most dangerous threat.
The numbers back this up. Every year that both players have been in the
league (Iguodala was drafted a year before Granger), Granger has averaged
more points per game than his counter part. Even in Grangers rookie year
(Iguodalas second season) he put more points on the board than Iguodala
and he averages nearly six more points per game for his career, which is no
small number. In fact, it is the same difference in career points per game
between Kobe Bryant and Michael Redd. While Danny Granger may not be
able to score as proficiently as a Kevin Durant, he can do an adequately job
creating offense on his own and hit bail-out shots late in the shot clock. Hes
a threat to go for 30 points on any given night and the same can not be said
about Andre Iguodala...CONTINUE READING AT 8p9s
Depressed Fan The good news is this game was much more reminiscent of the way the
Sixers played earlier in the season than their recent stretch of hopeless play.
The bad news is that this was reminiscent of their early season play in that
they did everything they could to lose a close game.
The Sixers last two losses (against two very different teams) were examples
of the Sixers producing on the offensive end at a completely unsustainable
level, and not being able to stop their opponents on the defensive end. At
least they're finding new and interesting ways to flush this season down the
Here's your rotation chart. Note the end of the third and the beginning of
the fourth:
If you were the type of person who liked to point fingers and needed to come
up with a reason for this loss beyond the obvious (the team is in the worst
kind of tailspin and desperately wishing for this season to end), you probably
wouldn't need to look much further than the lack of rest. Last night, against
Orlando, Doug Collins used an eight-man rotation. Tonight, against the
physical Indiana Pacers, the Sixers rotations on the perimeter were
uncharacteristically...CONTINUE READING AT DEPRESSED FAN


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The social media site Pinterest is known as a place where people share recipes, crafts or fashion.
But a new set of images have started showing up: mugshots from Southeast Pennsylvania police precincts.
Bonnie Stankunas remembers the "most wanted" posters that used to hang in the Pottstown post office she has visited her entire life.
"It kind of reminded me of the wild, wild West," she recalled.
She had heard of Pinterest but, she says, "I haven't figured out how to use it."
While she's not alone, Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social media sites out there with an emphasis on sharing images.
A crime reporter at the Pottstown Mercury had the idea to use the site to start a gallery of mugshots of people wanted by the police.
As soon as the mugshots appeared, says Pottstown police Capt. Richard Drumheller, the police tip line got more calls right away.
"We've actually seen a 57 percent increase in our warrant services," said Drumheller. (Warrant services is police speak for arrests.) "It's very enjoyable in police work when the public helps you."
This isn't a "most wanted" list. Pottstown is posting pictures of everyone with outstanding warrants for everything from driving under the influence to theft to assault.
Drumheller said some people have even called to say they had seen their own mugshot online, and asked how to turn themselves in.
"It's funny how you act sometimes when people know what your business is," he observed.
When it comes to social media, police departments can overshare like the rest of us.
Tapping the potential of Pinterest
Lauri Stevens, a social media consultant who works with law enforcement, recalled an incident in Texas when a prosecutor upset people by tweeting people who got arrested for DUIs on holidays.
But Stevens says Pinterest has a lot of potential.
"This is a way to get all of those people out there all the time in front of more people," she said, especially women who make up the vast majority of Pinterest users.
It can "exponentially increase the probability that somebody somewhere who knows something is going to see that mugshot," Stevens said.
This tool also served to shine a spotlight on the small police department in Pottstown, about 40 minutes outside Philadelphia in Montgomery County. Police in Philadelphia were impressed.
Philadelphia police Cpl. Frank Domizio explained that Philadelphia already used YouTube to post security camera videos. Those videos produced tips leading to arrests in lots of cases, from a man who killed an officer to a South Philly to a thief who kept taking fake flowers from a porch in the middle of the night.
"We got a tip and we were able to lock somebody up," he said.
The Philadelphia department is using Pinterest in the same way, to help identify suspects, thanks to Domizio, who said it didn't take much prodding to convince him to use Pinterest. His wife was already on it, he says, for "recipes and home interior design things, kids. I have two kids."
She encouraged him to start the police department's site, which he did last month. He has started pressuring her to start repinning some felons.
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"Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives." Unknown Source.
Don't fret. If you didn't get around to dusting away the cobwebs or cleaning the toilet bowl yesterday, you still have time, as the Moon will be in tidy Virgo all day long. I'm actually cleaning my laptop as I write this. I feel compelled to do so out of a huge Virgo sense of guilt. In case you didn't know, the Virgo Moon is the "Queen of Neat." No one can top her when it comes to maintaining impeccable order and cleanliness. She's also about ready to drive all the spontaneous Aries planets crazy and we're already heading up on a Full Moon.
Relationship Venus in Aries is looking for a poet, musician or film maker to date, with her upcoming sextile to creative Neptune. This aspect will be exact on Monday. Of course, with Venus in aggressive, impatient Aries, she's looking to get a jump on things. If you're looking for romance, you may want to, too. Just make sure that your love interest, is not already married or otherwise unavailable. Sometimes with Neptune, we fall for people who are not "all that they purport to be."
"The one charming thing about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." Oscar Wilde
Famous persons born on this day: Russell Banks, Michael Smith, Jane Rule, Eric S. Dostie.
Memorable event in history on this date: March 28, 1922 – The first microfilm device was introduced. In astrology, film is ruled by Neptune, and on that date, Neptune was harmonious (exactly sextile) to Jupiter. Jupiter is an expansive influence, which brings about growth and opportunity, so aligned with Neptune we had the debut of the microfilm device. Pretty cool, huh?
Peace and love, everyone. Enjoy your Sunday!
Written by Patricia Thompson, Astrologer
March 27, 2010
Copyright 2010
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