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Durant played just 31 minutes and hit 10-of-12 from the field. He had scored at least 30 points in each of his previous 12 games, including a career-best 54 against Golden State on Jan. 17.
The Thunder built a 63-35 halftime lead en route to their 10th straight victory. They have 38 victories for the season, most in the NBA, and were coming off a 17-point win in Miami on Wednesday.
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Elroy Boogie, a member of popular Houston DJ collective the Kracker Nuttz who had been battling cancer for the past few months, passed away August 18, according to a statement on Kracker Nuttz co-founder DJ BabyJae's Facebook page.
"I am truly at a loss for words," BabyJae said. "A genuine soul taken too soon. We are all lucky to have had you in our lives. I will sincerely miss you my friend, my brother. Until we see each other again."
Elroy, whose given name was Roy Samano, was only 27 years old. The following profile originally appeared in February as part of our Rocks Off 100 series.
Elroy Boogie, of the Almighty Kracker Nuttz, is also a principal of popular Boondocks night Top Notch and NanaChill, the party/collective he runs with Dayta. The Philippines native says he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996 and Houston a year later, and as a DJ, has been "killing the game since 2007."
Why Do You Stay in Houston?
"Friends and family," he says. "I've put in a lot of work in this city we call The 'H.' I love this place."
Describe Your DJ Style
"I'm gonna make you dance, I'm gonna make you move, I'm gonna make you sing," Elroy gushes. And (wait for it...) "I'm gonna make you boogie!"
Good War Story
"The first time I did the H-Town Sneaker Summit, I wasn't actually even booked for that gig," Elroy opens his story. "But I had my setup in the car. DJ Cipher [OG Krackernuttz] was the DJ in the main room for the event, and it was seven hours long.
"I knew for sure he wasn't going to DJ all seven hours, so I started setting up and nobody said anything. Cipher went on and just basically murdered his set," he continues. "But then, after DJ-ing for at least three hours, he looked at me and gave me the go-ahead. Now I'm the H-Town Sneaker Summit official DJ and have been for four years now."
Music Scene Pet Peeve
"I hate it when new artists or DJs don't put in work," he says. "They expect to get all the gigs but don't pay the dues."
Rappers and death-metal musicians we have known, sorta.
Here's a thing that could happen: Maybe you are in a restaurant ordering dinner when suddenly there's a flurry of activity among the waitstaff and a buzz among the patrons. You just came in for a bowl of pho...and so did Jay Z. (Guess who's getting his meal first.)
In all our oohing and aahing over music celebrities, we sometimes forget they are also human and occasionally may wish to step out for dinner or a drink or to shop or to attend church or to do some other thing that is part of real life.
When this happens, everyone breaks out a cameraphone because that is a thing now, having a phone that's not connected to a wall by a wire but that also fits in your pocket and takes photographs, too.
Recently I got to wondering how often this happens to people I know. So I reached out to my small circle of friends on Facebook and Twitter to ask about their chance encounters with famous musicians.
My survey was highly unscientific, but it yielded both a very obvious and unexpected result. It would seem that hip-hop artists are the most approachable and willing to hang out with us regular folks.
This indeed turned out to be the case, at least among my friends and family. Pretty much everyone who responded had a story about some rapper they kicked it with — except for an awesome story my friend Jacob shared about a Swedish death-metal band.
"I hung out and smoked cigarettes with the guys from Twiztid when they played the Engine Room back in 2005," he recalls.
I found this a bit weird. Jacob has very diverse music tastes, but I never pegged him as someone who would be at a Twiztid show, much less chain-smoking Camels with the band.
"We talked horror movies, I got autographs and then had to head home," he says.
Geoff is another friend, also with a broad musical palate. He has met some legends like Black Flag founding member Chuck Dukowski and MDC's Dave Dictor, both of whom were fantastic, down-to-earth people, Geoff says. And so were the A$AP Mob members he met last year.
"I met two of the guys from that group that A$AP Rocky started at the last Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin," he says. "I was watching Kreayshawn to kill some time, and Ty Beats and another member of A$AP asked if I had more of what I was smoking, 'cause it smelled good."
Sometimes meeting famous music folks is good for the bottom line. Last fall, a bunch of us met at Flying Saucer downtown to conduct our fantasy football draft. One of our friends, Rolando, is a photographer and artist. He designed a popular T-shirt for Houston Texans fans, and we all had to sit around drinking $8 beers while we waited for him to deliver one of those shirts to Bun B on draft night.
We didn't mind. Aside from meeting one of the all-time greats, he was making paper, and we all respect that.
"The year before, he tweeted he had to have that shirt, and once he did that, I had a line of folks waiting for the shirt, but we never got to meet up," Rolando says. "Then I ran into him at Boondocks, we talked for a bit and he told me on the next batch he would come to me and get one.
"Once I had a new batch ready, I text-messaged him, and he came down and got one and tweeted it out," he continues, "and I had a line of folks again.
"He even tweeted out the hats I made, and the DJ from Paris, France, Brodinski, ordered one," Rolando says. "He had to have it because Bun B tweeted it out. The guy paid more in shipping than the actual hat to get it."
When you think of rappers out in public, you're less inclined to think of them meeting you on a street corner to buy a T-shirt than maybe seeing them in the club or someplace swanky. That was the case when my nephew, James, and his lovely wife, Brooke, met Coolio. Their simple Las Vegas hotel elevator ride turned into a "gangsta's paradise" when the rapper and his entourage of groupies entered.
Both Brooke and James report that Coolio was an absolute gentleman and very personable.
An August 2003 Jay Z/50 Cent concert left quite an impression on the author, then 15 years old.
When I went to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion last month, escorting two women to see Kid Rock, nostalgia had begun to set in. I work as a chauffeur and have driven plenty of people to concerts over the years; taking kids to see Ke$ha felt like I was committing a sin. On the way to One Direction, the preteen girls in the car fawned over Harry Styles and begged me, "Do you have any hip-hop?"
Preteen girls are the worst at that.
But my first-ever visit to CWMP occurred ten years ago this month. You see, long before Jay Z married Beyoncé, he had to be wed to 50 Cent for about three months. Not in the literal sense, but the two were then co-headlining their own tour, were both bedfellows with Reebok, and they had a mini-Cold War going on stemming from 50's inclusion of Jay on 1999's "How to Rob" and Jay's retort, "I'm about a dollar, what the fuck is 50 Cent?" at Summer Jam later that year. It made for one interesting night.
Not to be left out, it was also the night I lost my concert virginity. And this was 2003, so names like Sean Paul and Fabolous mattered. Elaborate New York-themed backdrops for 50 Cent to assert that he was the king of the city mattered. Busta Rhymes doing his best to outshine everybody positioned ahead of him mattered.
Online, very little exists that constitutes press for the concert, the biggest rap show ever held at the Pavilion at the time. A May 2003 article from the Houston Chronicle gave a small hint of Jay Z's then-nascent relationship with Beyoncé. Everybody who was there, including the 15-year-old me who had became a Jay Z fan for good after 2001's The Blueprint, remembers a mostly flawless live show, including a Beyoncé appearance on "'03 Bonnie & Clyde."
Even then they played like the cutest sort-of couple in existence. Despite Hov's being the headliner, the crowd had to pull itself together after the three-man onslaught that was G-Unit. To date, it's the only time I can think of that Jay seemed overshadowed, outpositioned and outmuscled by somebody, and that guy was 50 Cent.
The second half of my freshman year of high school, all signs pointed toward 50 Cent being a thing. Like, wifebeaters and muscles literally became a thing in high school. Dudes wanted to wear their do rags and let the tail get tucked in and try to punch people. You know how lame it is now to ask a chick "21 Questions"? In 2003, that got you all the women.
Couldn't tell a dude nothing if he asked a girl, "Would you cheat on a test for me?" in that part-New York, part-down South accent 50 had mastered after he got shot.
Let that sink in for a minute: He got better after being shot.
I didn't have a date to the concert, so I went with a childhood friend and his homeboy, who looked like he put out blunts with the ends of his shaggy black hair. I think he's in jail now; who knows?
In other words, no girl was getting my "21 Questions" approach that night. But it was clearly a learning experience, one that a decade later almost seems like a distant world — one where 50 Cent was clearly the most intimidating presence in music.
And a hero to every short man who loved wearing brassiere-like wifebeaters in public.
A reader is in love with her best friend. What would Willie do?
Dear Willie D:
I'm a 30-year-old woman who is crazy in love with a guy who has been my best friend since I was a freshman in college. But I don't know how to communicate my desires to him. He is wonderful to talk to. Anytime I'm having a rough day, I can always call him, and even if he's busy, he'll make himself available to accommodate me. I'm not dating anyone at the time, but he is; I just don't know how serious it is because he is clandestine in regards to his dating life.
I have seen two girls he's dated, and they are absolutely gorgeous. Although I don't think I'm gorgeous, I have been told quite often that I'm pretty so I feel as though I have a decent chance with him. I really like him; no, I'm in love with him. But I fear that if I reveal my true feelings, even if they're reciprocated, it will eventually destroy our friendship. What should I do?
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I thought Scientologist had some silent birthing thing they do but now Katie has apparently asked Victoria Beckham to be her birthing partner. I bet Tom is totally into being her partner as well since I can see him sitting next to the bed jumping up and down yelling "breathe breathe breathe," but I just loved this story so I had to post it. Here's more:
A source told Britain's Grazia magazine: 'Victoria and Katie have struck a real rapport ever since they were introduced by Tom and both of them are thrilled by the friendship. Victoria has become something of a mother hen to Katie, so when she was asked if she would be with her during the birth, she said yes straight away.'
Because the pair live in different countries - mum-of-three Victoria lives in Spain, while Katie lives in the US - they are spending time on the phone preparing for the birth.
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Hi-ya crafty friends! It's another beautiful week at the Play Date Cafe. Our color story this week is soft and creamy...
I inked up one of my favorite backgrounds from Market Street - Grace. I sometimes struggle with getting a nice impression from really large stamps, but my A-Muse inks are perfect. I used Eucalyptus and was thrilled with the even coverage.
My doily focal point uses lots of frilly bits. Pop in tomorrow to see how I re-worked this card for a different look after one of my sweet wee ones got a hold of it. ;)
We hope you'll play along with us this week in the Cafe. We have a great prize up for grabs from Melanie Muenchinger, one of the talented designers behind Gina K. stamps.
We also have a fabulous new designer: Alicia Thelin. Her work is gorgeous and full of fresh ideas. We are SO happy to welcome her to the Cafe. Pop over and tell her hello and then get crafty with us - can't wait to see what you create!
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April 22, 2010
New Playstation Home Items Revealed for Final Fantasy XIII
Square Enix, Inc. revealed a new selection of FINAL FANTASY XIII items for PlayStation Home today.
Players can now personalize their avatar with Lightning, Snow, Sazh and Vanille costume sets, as well as add some flair to their personal space with various items, such as an airship figure and Lightning's gunblade figure.
For more information on the items available, visit www.playstation.com.
PlayStation Home is the 3D, online, social gaming service from PlayStation Network. It's the place to meet friends, play games online, watch videos, attend exclusive events and chat with other fans. As long as the user has a PlayStation Network account and access to PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home can be downloaded for free.


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Our furnace is approaching 25 years old and we have no cooling capabilities, so my wife Michele and I are looking into buying some new equipment before the temperature climbs this summer. I am especially interested in installing a mini-split heat pump, which would allow us to get rid of the ductwork and furnace in our unconditioned attic. But the initial expense may be a hindrance.
We knew that the Energy Upgrade California (EUC) incentives for retrofitting our home would not be around forever, so I contacted the EUC folks and picked an HVAC contractor, Stewart Heating and Air. I had met Bill Stewart, an icon of the HVAC and energy efficiency world of the Bay Area, at an EUC intro meeting at our local library three years ago. Bill's company was getting customers $4,000 back for $8,000 of work through the rebates offered through the EUC program. Scott Mellburg of BayREN is our EUC advisor and is standing by to help us through the process and meet with us and our contractor any time we think it will be helpful.
Basically there are two ways to get the rebates. First, you can choose from a set of measures from a list that includes air sealing, adding insulation, and other retrofits. The measures you choose determine the amount of the rebate. Second, you can drop your energy use, according to modeling, by 10% for a $1,000 rebate, up to 45% for a $4,500 rebate (Advanced Home Uprgade). The cost of the audit, $300, will be reimbursed as long as work is completed through the Advanced Home Upgrade program. Michele and I are leaning towards the advanced option, even though we had air sealing done and insulation added to our attic several years ago, and it may be difficult to reach that 45% energy savings.
This morning Rich Cunningham from Energuy (see photo), a third party auditor, came to do the energy audit. He performed the usual blower door and duct leakage measurements, took some electric plates off the outside walls to confirm that the walls have no insulation, did a number of safety checks including measuring CO levels, and looked at the crawlspace, among other things. Instead of depressurizing the house, Rich pressurized it to do the leakage testing.
Michele and I were working last night to clean out our fireplace, and I was pumping caulk into the space between the walls and the floor near the fireplace. Last time we had a blower door test done, the house was depressurized and we had some black soot spewing into our living room. No problem this time, with the pressure aimed out of the house and not into it. Rich explained that for some customers, feeling the air rushing into the depressurized home is a direct learning experience. The last time we had work done on the house, we could feel the air rushing in through the unsealed can lights all over the house. But we were sold on air sealing already and didn't need the dramatic demonstration for a second time. In fact, our house may now be a little cleaner than it was last night after being pressurized.
Rich also pressurized the whole house, not just the ducts, to 25 Pa before doing the duct leakage testing. This is called "testing leaks to the outside". In a week we will sit down with someone from Stewart Heating and Air to discuss the results of our audit, possible measures to install, and possible rebate amounts. Rich will come back after to do the test-out.
Here are the numbers so far (stay tuned for more):
Table 1. Air Leakage Tests (CMF @ 50PA)
Sept 2007 test in air leakage
Sept 2007 test-out air leakage
April 2014 test-in air leakage
April 2014 test-out air leakage
Table 2. Duct Leakage Tests (%)
Sept 2007 test-in duct leakage
Sept 2007 test-out duct leakage
April 2014 test-in duct leakage
April 2014 test-out duct leakage
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I've been a fan (ha ha ha) of ventilation cooling since 1991. I was helping build a superinsulated house in the Sacramento CA suburbs, and living in a superinsulated retrofit (the contractors house). I would get woken up every morning when he turned the whole house fan on (a fan mounted in the ceiling, blowing air into the attic, and out the vents hopefully ;-) ). Fans integrated into the furnace make a lot more sense, and are hopefully more quiet, plus you don't have to open the windows, and it can be controlled by a thermostat.
Ventilation Cooling works great in climates that cool down at night. But sometimes it does not cool down at night, and that's when AC is needed.
Pressurize the house to +25 Pa. Use smoke on the registers to identify leakage to outdoors then use a powered flow hood such as the Flow Finder to measure the loss rate. If the ducts are inside the house, close the bedroom door, use smoke then powered flow hood. Most houses will lose about 20% even when ducts are completely inside the house with bedroom doors closed. This is super fast and effective way of determining duct losses.
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George, thanks again for you comments. I'll have to look the next time I am in the attic to see who made the damper system. I'm not sure the damper was every working properly while Michele and I have lived in the home. The return damper has never been connected to the juice to operate it. I'm curious how much it would cool the house at night if the damper system were up and working.
So, the cooling ventilation damper should be normally closed (motorized zone damper), and only open when cooling is called for (outdoor temp lower than indoor). Some systems allow for a partial open position for IAQ ventilation (only when the fan is on, hopefully cycled on/off with a control).
It is possible it's stuck in an open position. The damper should not blow open when pressurizing the house or the ducts (it would open when the house is depressurized if it was not a motorized zone damper).
What system do you have? SmartVent (Butler), Famco, or other?
I had a revelation while attending Bruce Manclark's session of duct leak testing at the Energy Out West Conference earlier this week: The damper for the duct that, if working right, will bring in outside air at night in the summer is not working and I thought, maybe it is stuck in the open position. That would explain the big unexplained increase in the duct leakage test user pressurized conditions.
But I just climbed up there and checked it. It is in the closed position. George, thanks for letting me know about the differences between the pressurized and depressurized house. Perhaps the pressure in the ducts pushed the damper open.
I also noticed that an access door to the blower fan was cracked open and the tape around it broken. I think I did that myself. Can't remember why I was looking at the blower fan. That could account for a lot of leakage from the air handler.
One thing we will do to decrease envelope leakage is invest in a chimney blocking device. That should bring our leakage down.
Blower Door; the 2007 test was a depressurization test, and the 2014 a pressurization test, which is almost always higher. The vast majority of "testers" are taught single point -50Pa depressurization. Pressurization requires a different reference hose set up with most equipment. Pressurization also requires closing off bath & kitchen fans, dryer vents, because the dampers are blown open. Some of the difference might be increased duct leakage, previous air sealing degradation, equipment calibration, wind conditions, equipment accuracy, or possibly work that created more holes.
Duct Test; The duct test results are more perplexing, and not likely explained by bumping the ducts changing the filter. The 2007 test would have been a +25Pa ducts wrt outside test. A friend played around with a standard test and a duct leakage to the outside test and got wildly different results. I'm not a fan of duct leakage to the outside, since most the ducts we are testing are all outside anyway (we have to do it to solve a "software" problem, but that's another story). The only other possibility is a duct has since become disconnected, or the previous duct sealing is failing (boots to sheetrock?).
RE: Duct test On my own home and a rental I have tested more than once over the last many years. I see no major difference. While it is not the exact number it is within a couple of percent. As far off as Jim's home is something does not make sense. The difference between 7 and 22 is not defensible.
I often see a difference in depressurization being the lower number. 400 cfm is allot. I see greater differences with multiple tests with the blower door than I do with the duct tester. Wind can be a big factor. I think testing in both directions helps solve some of the problems.
The blower door I can accept easier than the duct test. But with both being off and not small margins and both weaker numbers it brings to mind many questions. It appears a failure somewhere occurred in either repair or testing. Maybe the failure is indicated with both tests being higher. With that test information I would look first to the ducting and sort it out.
The internet is great for discussions and learning purposes but I think boots on the ground would be necessary for real conclusions. I would be curious of the leakage to outside results.
Interesting post
Thank You Jim
Thanks for all the comments. Yes, it is interesting how the duct leakage grew over the years. Maybe I bumped the ducts when I was changing my furnace filter...
Our energy bills, for gas (heat, water, cooking) and electric (plug load, laundry, lights) average about $40 outside of winter. During the winter, the heating energy use bumps it up to between $100 and $150. Not bad, but there is room to improve. It is just my wife and I and our dog in a 1,200 sf house in a climate where it gets down below freezing maybe one week total in the winter (Walnut Creek, CA). (When my brother visits from Phoenix, if we can talk him into coming over the Christmas holidays, we always have to bump up the heat!)
We are interested in a possible upgrade for three reasons: The rebates through Energy Upgrade CA are pretty generous (thanks PG&E) and won't be there for long. And we want to explore how to keep our house cooler in the summer. It gets over 100 F more and more of the summer, sometimes for a week in a row. Passive cooling measures and shade can't always keep up with the temperature. Third, our furnace and water heater are at or past there projected lifetimes and I would like to switch out when it is not an emergency.
I can't say we are motivated by our energy bills. It's more about comfort in the summer and adding value to the house. Now, if they only gave rebates for putting in a second bathroom!
As a few others have mentioned, it's interesting how much the test out from 2007 is different from the 2014 test in.
Blower Door: 400 cfm50 on the blower door could be within variance on a leaky house, but that's substantial on a pretty tight place like yours. Is that single component foam failing? Or different setups for the BD?
Duct Blaster: This difference is a bit shocking, could it mean that the mastic failed? Or tape? I haven't had the chance to retest a project, so I have no idea how my numbers would hold up.
It brings up really interesting questions of variance in testing and measures failing more quickly than I thought. What is everyone else thinking?
So Jim, any idea as to how your ducts sprung another 15% leakage between 2007 and 2014?
You also know that models are just models, not real houses and may not really represent what you have or will get from a retrofit. Our round robin HERS testing with modeled energy use provided estimates of cooling energy use differences of over 2 to 1 between the 6 HERS raters on three of the four Central Valley Research Houses (CVRH). http://www.proctoreng.com/utilities/wholehouse.html
We look forward to the follow up reports.
Thank you, John Proctor, P.E.
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The Justice Department is now investigating some deals Verizon made with cable companies earlier this month to see if those deals hurt competition in both the cable and wireless industries. Verizon bought a block of the broadcast spectrum from a consortium of cable companies, led by Comcast for $3.6 billion. Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House all stand to profit from the deal as well. Under the agreement, Verizon and the cable companies will market and sell each other's services.
The argument against these deals is that it effectively takes the cable companies out of the wireless market entirely, prevents them from ever getting in, and instead gives even more power to Verizon. With the collapse of the AT&T-T-Mobile deal and AT&T's concurrent failure to expand, this pushes Verizon even further ahead and could make Verizon the nation's de facto wireless phone company.
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Former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory claims he's experiencing some discrimination. McCrory says some employers have been "reluctant" to hire him due to his support last year for anti-transgender House Bill 2 that he signed last year:
The former Republican governor says HB2 "has impacted me to this day, even after I left office. People are reluctant to hire me, because, 'oh my gosh, he's a bigot'—which is the last thing I am."
…McCrory declined to name the companies he's working for. But the former governor said that he's been considered for part-time university teaching positions—he wouldn't say where—but that academic leaders "have shown reluctance because of student protests."
"That's not the way our American system should operate – having people purged due to political thought," he told The N&O.
…In the earlier podcast interview with WORLD, McCrory said the liberal groups opposing HB2 have harmed his reputation. "If you disagree with the politically correct thought police on this new definition of gender, you're a bigot, you're the worst of evil," he said. "It's almost as if I broke a law" [Travis Long, "McCrory, Working as Consultant, Says HB2 Makes Some Employers 'Reluctant to Hire Me'," Raleigh News & Observer, 2017.03.13].
Note that McCrory doesn't actually say that his politics have cost him a job; he apparently has several consulting gigs (getting paid to tell people stuff that they could figure out for themselves—that ain't workin', that's the way you do it…). And I would suggest that the person who signs a bigoted law is far more responsible for damage to his reputation than the observers who point out and protest that signing.
McCrory discriminates against others, then cries about the possibility that others might discriminate against him—McCrory's professed plight harkens to our local Senator Al Novstrup's own angst over the possibility that anyone would view his backward and erroneous views on gender and religion as good reason to seek family entertainment somewhere other than at Novstrup's amusement parks.
Novstrup and McCrory help raise today's moral and political question: can employers justify turning down former public officials for jobs because those former public officials' policies appear not to reflect the employers' organizations' values?


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Red Wings overnight report: Chris Osgood's Hall of Fame candiacy, the flavor of the month
by George Malik on 07/24/11 at 04:52 AM ET
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Updated 2x with more Osgood interviews at 10:45 AM: I guess that if there's one thing you can say for certain about Chris Osgood, he won more often than his competence was questioned, which is pretty good given that people questioned whether he was good enough to do the job from the moment he was called up from Adirondack way back in 1994. Now that he's retired, the questions of the week involve Osgood's lasting legacy and whether 401 wins and 3 Stanley Cups are Hockey Hall of Fame-worthy numbers for a goalie who was very, very good but never really considered among the greats of his generation.
Some very positive and incredibly negative arguments for and against Osgood's candidacy have rolled in over the past three or four days, and two ever-present Sunday columnists weigh in this morning with varying degrees of subtlety. The Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons suggests that the arguments against Osgood's candidacy aren't personal…
Why is it every time a player retires, a Hall of Fame discussion takes place? Chris Osgood had a fine career in the NHL, but it's not criticism to claim he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. It's just an opinion of where he stands in hockey history: I'll begin considering Osgood for the Hall once Rogie Vachon, Dominik Hasek, Lorne Chabot, Tom Barrasso, Mike Vernon and Mike Richter get in
While the New York Post's Larry Brooks goes off and, well, delivers a rant which has a very political bent—suggesting that there are two specific HHOF omissions who are far, far more deserving than Osgood (and that the HHOF's selection committee's a fatally flawed enterprise as long as its decision-making process remains cloistered and off-the-record)...
So with Brooks being Brooks, Osgood is merely a plot device:
Chris Osgood was a good goaltender who had a very good career playing for a great franchise in Detroit, but this notion that he is a Hall of Famer is about as absurd as it gets. Seriously. Did anyone ever actually watch Osgood, who announced his retirement last week, and think, "Yep, there's one of the best ever at his position?" Then again, given the hidden agendas of the hopelessly compromised 18-person Hall of Fame selection committee that disgraced itself yet again this year by keeping its institutional snubs of Fred Shero and Pat Burns in place, there's no telling the standards for admission.
Osgood was a compiler who completed his 17-year career with 401 victories, 10th all-time. He was in nets for two Stanley Cup championships, pretty much along for the ride in 1998 while being a difference-maker in 2008. He made the second all-star team in 1995-96, his third year in the league before going the rest of his career without an all-star selection and without winning a single individual award.
This isn't meant to denigrate Osgood, who created a niche with the Red Wings. Pretty much any goaltender in the world would sign up for his career. But he retires 30th all-time in goalie point-shares, a couple of laps behind people such as John Vanbiesbrouck (10th), Rogie Vachon (12th), Sean Burke (13th) and Tom Barrasso (18th). And before you ask, no, I can't determine the exact formula used to determine the "point-shares" number, but when Patrick Roy, Martin Brodeur, Terry Sawchuk, Tony Esposito, Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante rank as the top six in the category, I give it a fair amount of credence.
Indeed, I give it a whole lot more credence to it than any decisions rendered by the Hall of Fame selection committee that operates behind closed doors and without a shred of accountability or a collective conscience. No Shero? No Burns? For shame.
If it wasn't so damn important to Osgood, as the Macomb Daily's Chuck Pleiness duly noted in his pro-Osgood column on Saturday night…
"It would mean a lot to me," Osgood said. "I personally think, because I know what I've had to do to get to where I've been at over the years, I feel like I deserve to be in.
"It's never easy to play goalie for any team in the (NHL). It's a tough position, no matter if your team is good or bad," Osgood added. "You still have to make the saves and compete and deal with the pressures. You have to make the plays when they are needed most. During the playoffs I think I've done that," Osgood continued. "That's what is more important to me. Getting into the Hall of Fame means the world to me. If I said it didn't, I'd be kidding myself and lying to you guys. Hopefully one day it happens."
During Osgood's conference call, he said he didn't start thinking about the HOF until after winning the Cup in 2008.
"I'm not sure if I've done enough, but I've given it my best shot," Osgood said. "To me, I hope I get in there. I hope people think I deserve to be in there."
Osgood's candidacy will be a hot topic leading up to the first year he can get on the ballot, 2014, and will probably continue to be bantered about until he either is elected or the date passes when no one really cares.
I wouldn't really care, either. He won three Stanley Cups, he won 400+ games, he won in the playoffs, he won when nobody believed in him, and he very rarely gave up that game-tying or game-losing goal when the stakes were high…
And in addition to the fact that the Wings think that he's important enough to mentor the next generation of Red Wings goalies, teaching them the ropes and coping skills necessary to take on one of the hardest jobs in Detroit sports…
He mended fences with the man who replaced him, the verifiable space cadet (and certain Hall-of-Famer) named Dominik Hasek, and learned from Dom before succeeding him along the Wings' 2008 Cup run. That's downright miraculous.
Or perhaps we could talk about Osgood's Hall-of-Fame-worthiness in one hundred words or less, via the Free Press's Steve Schrader, first via his "Stevies":
The "Bye-bye, Ozzie" award: To Chris Osgood, who announced his retirement the same week we also said good-bye to Borders, the space shuttle and "Entourage." Now the debate is whether Ozzie belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame. The answer is yes, and the reason is simple. Duh, winning.
And then via his News Quiz:
Does Chris Osgood belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?
A) Does Brandon Inge belong in Toledo?
B) Does Mickey Redmond like a little bingo bango?
C) Could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?
D) Yes.
Otherwise, we're stuck with a disparate slate of Wings-related stuff, mostly from the Free Press and starting with George Sipple's conversation with one Mike Commodore, who's a horse-racing fan in a very serious way during his summertime training in California. Here's how he "got hooked":
"I got traded from Carolina to Ottawa and got swept out of the first round," Commodore said. "I went back to Carolina and packed my stuff. I was a free agent and didn't know where to go. A buddy of mine called me and asked me if I wanted to go to the Kentucky Derby. He'd been to a couple horse races when he was younger and decided he might as well hang out with some friends and see what all the fuss was about at Churchill Downs. I had a blast."
Commodore witnessed Big Brown win the race by nearly 5 lengths and talked to some people about investing in a horse.
"A few months later an opportunity came up with the Valkyrie Missile," Commodore said.
His interest in the sport continued to grow, and at one point he was invested in six horses.
"I have three horses [at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club]," Commodore said. "It's totally just for fun. It gives me something to watch."
Shifting focus back to Schrader for a moment, he offers this take on Justin Abdelkader's playful banter about flying over his alma mater's least favorite university...
The "Look, Up in the Sky" award To Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader—a former Michigan State star—who kidded about bombing the Big House when he flew over Ann Arbor with the Blue Angels. And that's why Michigan is glad Spartans just have swords and shields and stuff, and not an air force.
According to the Freep, at least 3,000 sports fans believe that Nicklas Lidstrom, Justin Verlander and Pavel Datsyuk (in descending order) are the three most talented professional athletes in town…
And statistics can be tweaked to prove just about anything, but I can't disagree with the bottom lines from Pro Hockey Talk's James O'Brien's analyses of NHL teams' power play and penalty-killing units for the 2010-2011 season based on "plus-minus" metrics—the Wings' PP was pretty dang good but the team's penalty-killing wasn't.
If you'll indulge me, the rest of this entry has nothing to do with the Wings, but I still find the following tidbits and comments intriguing, starting with a few more toss-offs from Simmons...
If you listen to the rhetoric of the NBA lockout, it sounds word-for-word like the rhetoric when the NHL lost a season to a lockout. And six years later, how's that worked out for most NHL teams? ... One thing nobody says: The much-criticized deal the later disgraced Ted Saskin signed on behalf of the NHL players has worked out swimmingly for most of them
Yeah, but Saskin also all but co-wrote the owner-friendly aspects of the CBA with Bill Daly once Bob Goodenow was removed from day-to-day negotiations…
You have to assume that Evgeny Nabokov is not the sharpest knife in the goaltender drawer. What he should have done was listen to his agents and report to the New York Islanders at trade deadline time and finish the final two months of the season with a team he didn't want to play for. Now, in order to return to the NHL, Nabokov has to play for the Islanders and clear waivers before he can be moved again
From what I understand, now that July 1st has passed, neither Nabokov, Jaromir Jagr or anyone else who played pro games in European leagues after the 2010-2011 season began aren't subject to waivers anymore…
As for Brooks' usual amount of blather...
NHLPA executive director Don Fehr is conducting 14 meetings this summer, seven in North America and seven in Europe, in an aggressive effort to educate and prepare the union for the upcoming labor negotiations.
This just in. Slap Shots has learned that Gary Bettman and the Board of Governors have voted in the House of Representatives for Cut, Cap and Balance.
The NHL apparently will test more shallow goal cages at the annual Research and Development camp next month in an attempt to create more offense behind the net and more wrap-around tries, but is that a worthy objective?
Seems that more wrap-around tries and more crowding the net only will increase the amount of contact with goaltenders, an increasing problem. Seriously, when did it become a legal play to knock down the goaltender in an attempt to score a goal and why does the league tolerate it, much less encourage it?
That's kind of the point, and as far as I know, Eric Lindros scored almost half his goals by shoveling the puck into a goalie and then shoving the goalie over the goal line…
And the Boston Globe's Kevin Dupont found that the now-retired Mark Recchi wants to help the NHLPA out as the players hope to avert labor Armageddon (which the owners wouldn't mind as NFL and NBA fans are beginning to assume that lockouts are kind of normal, and we live in a world where unionized workers are expected to "give back" as a rule)...
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A partial review of Mark Recchi's summer to-do list:
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■Return to Kamloops, British Columbia, for vacation and a day touring the town with the Stanley Cup.
■Begin workouts in a couple of weeks or, hey, whenever. No rush, really.
■Get back home to Pittsburgh for another day or two with the Cup (seniority has its privileges).
■Golf, golf, and, OK, a little more golf. Young Cameron Recchi is turning into a pretty good player.
■Look for a starting position in a new career with an NHL club.
Item No. 5 makes official what the 43-year-old Recchi said in the months leading up to the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup last month. It's a wrap, folks. The plucky right winger is leaving the player's life behind and wants to begin work soon in a player personnel role with an NHL team.
"That's what I'd really like to do,'' said Recchi, just prior to heading to Kamloops, where he is part-owner of the Blazers in the Western Hockey League. "You see a lot of guys moving into that player development role now, working with kids, building relationships with the younger guys from the time they are drafted and so on . . . I think I'd really enjoy that.''
Here in the Hub of Hockey, ex-defenseman Don Sweeney has cultivated that role as part of his duties in the Boston front office the last few years. In Pittsburgh, ex-Bruins forwards Tom Fitzgerald and the recently hired Bill Guerin have taken on similar tasks with the Penguins. Agent Rick Curran is now exploring the same kind of opportunities for Recchi, who in June won the Stanley Cup for a third time after entering the league with the Penguins in 1988-89.
So, the final line on Recchi, playoffs included: 638 goals, 1,042 assists, 1,680 points. All that remains is his open-net, blindfolded forehand sweep into the Hall of Fame upon the conclusion of the standard three-year cooling-down period.
"Let me tell you, I enjoyed all of it, right to the end,'' said Recchi, asked if the day-to-day grind and physical wear and tear made finalizing his retirement decision easier. "I never got to that point where I thought, 'Ah, this isn't for me anymore.' Even the summer workouts, I enjoyed all of that, too. But, hey, it's been a great run, and now it's just time - it's the right time to do it. I mean, to win the Stanley Cup, that's what I came back for, and there's only been a few of us . . . you know, guys like Ray [Bourque] and Lanny [McDonald], who got to leave on those terms. So, yeah, I'm good with it.''
But he'll miss it. He will miss the training, the practicing, the playing, and the friendships on the ice and in the dressing room. In Boston, he'll leave behind the alternate captain's 'A' and his dogged presence around the net.
Recchi averaged right around 45 points in his two full seasons with the Bruins. Not prolific, especially for a guy who three times scored more than 100 points a season. But right to the end, Recchi remained one of the league's top practitioners of finding every way possible to be around the cage for scoring opportunities. When he hooks on with a club in a player development role, you can bet tutoring forwards on positioning, leverage, and top-of-the-crease tenacity will be high on his priority list. Few better than Recchi in that nose-for-the-net department.
Meanwhile, the NHL Players Association remains ever in need of a few good men. If called, Recchi says he would listen.
"I want to see [the PA] strong again, and go in the right direction,'' said Recchi, who was among those in the rank and file who were appalled over the scurrilous dismissal of Paul Kelly, the union's executive director who fell victim two years ago to a coup within his office and among many dim-witted players. "If I got a call, sure, I'd entertain it, see if I could help out. It's been interesting what's gone on there the last couple of years . . . heck, the last seven years.''
During Recchi's playing time, he lived through one players' strike (often forgotten in league lore), a pair of lockouts, the implementation of a salary cap, and enough PA leadership tomfoolery, miscues, and misdealings to leave him with the kind of institutional memory that would be invaluable.
For now, Recchi remains optimistic that there will be not be a third lockout when the collective bargaining agreement expires in 14 months.
"Both sides would be crazy to get to that point,'' he said. "I am convinced that there is a solution there; it's just a matter of finding it. I think both sides have to keep in mind that it took a long time to recover from the last lockout. And now, unlike then, they've got a basis of an agreement that they can work from.''
And perhaps Dupont ends this little ditty on the proper note:
Chris Osgood retired from the Red Wings last week, leaving behind a debate as to whether he is Hall of Fame worthy. He finished with 401 victories, 319 with the Winged Wheels. Only nine other goalies reached the 400-win plateau, which is where the pro-Osgood side can stake its strongest HOF claim. I'll go with the Bernie Federko standard. Federko's in there, so on career-for-career comparison, Ozzie gets the nod .
Also: I'm heading on vacation to Grand Marais, MI today, and I'll be in and out from today until August 3rd. I hope to check in at least once a day to report Wings-related news, but the timing thereof will depend on whether the cabin I'm staying at is within range of the facility's wireless internet connection. If not, It'll be off to the "activity room" to putter around and hope that the determination of Kris Draper's fate might be put off for another week.
Update: The Vernon Morning Star's Kevin Mitchell spoke to Osgood and Ken Holland on Friday:
Decked in blue plaid shorts and a blue golf shirt over a white long sleeved shirt, Chris Osgood spent his first Friday of retirement golfing in Ken Holland's 12th annual Derby at Predator Ridge Golf Resort. Ozzie looked relaxed as he whacked his opening drive about 280 yards playing in a foursome which included ex-NHLer and current Red Wing scout Jeff Finley. He wasn't quite as stoked about his second tee shot and laughingly blamed his poor swing on his new-born son, Max.
Osgood, a three-time Stanley Cup champion with Detroit in 1997, 1998 and 2008, announced his retirement this week after 17 seasons. He played in 744 career games with the Red Wings, New York Islanders and St. Louis Blues. The pride of Medicine Hat finished his career fourth all-time among NHL goalies with 15 postseason shutouts, eighth with 74 playoff wins and 10th all-time with 401 regular-season wins.
"It was in the plans for quite a while," said Osgood, waiting between holes. "Two weeks after the season I was mulling over it, wrestling back and forth a little bit. But, in the end I talked to Kenny four or five times, and I think it was the right decision. I'm at peace with it and I feel good about the decision I made."
A father of three, at 38, Osgood will stay with the Wings and work alongside goalie coach Jimmy Bedard while also scouting young net detectives. Osgood, who played alongside Bryan McCabe and Rob Niedermayer with the WHL Medicine Hat Tigers, never had a goalie coach in junior, or for much of his NHL years.
"Kenny was my goalie coach, really, not on the ice, but mentoring me and telling me what I need to do and how to get there. He just gave me the tools I needed to try and make it. I never really had a goalie coach until '96, '97. I was self-taught, good or bad."
And yes, Osgood and Holland touch upon the Hall of Fame debate…
Update #2: Osgood also confirmed to the Plymouth Observer's Tim Smith that he'll remain in Plymouth, MI during his retirement:
Osgood, 38, isn't leaving the Red Wings (he will stay on as a goaltending consultant) or pulling up stakes from his residence in Plymouth — where he received the key to the city in 2008, following Detroit's latest Stanley Cup.
"I wrestled with it for a lot of months," Osgood said during a telephone interview Friday from western Canada. "And after the season, I just thought it was the right decision to make at the time. It was a culmination of health reasons and family reasons. I just felt like everything happened last year, good and bad, for a reason. I felt like it was the perfect time to call it a career."
Chris, wife Jenna and their three young children will still call Plymouth home, too.
"I'll be sticking around there for a long time," Osgood said. "Still living there in the winters and coming back home to Canada (British Columbia) for about a month in the summer. It's a family-oriented community. It reminds me a lot of where I grew up in Canada, kind of the same atmosphere. The people are always nice. It's that laid-back, tight-knit community that I like so much about it."
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have a restful vacation, George!
Posted by cowboycoffee from San Francisco, CA on 07/24/11 at 05:57 AM ET
...and Martin Brodeur hasn't had the same success since Scott Stevens retired. Should we assume that Brodeur's numbers are a sham because of the defences in front of him? Not hardly! Ken Dryden had great players in front of him, so did Patrick Roy and Billy Smith. Ozzie may not have been as flashy as these other goalies, but that's not to say he didn't put up HOF worthy numbers.
Posted by Gumby from the city with more ruins than Rome on 07/23/11 at 10:20 PM ET
This x 19. Whether Osgood gets in or not doesn't matter to me much because I have no say whatsoever and him getting in or not will not change my appreciation of what he gave to the Red Wings.
I do object to many voices stating his stats are due to the team in front of him and give a HUGE pass to Brodeur, who worked behind the prototype trap defense. The Devils are the first team that comes to mind when mentioning what the Dead Puck era was like and yet Brodeur's stats or HOF are not challenged despite being greatly helped by the trap defense in front of him. If you attack Osgood for the team he was on, Brodeur deserves the same.
Enjoy your well-deserved vacation George.
Posted by creasemonkey from sweet home san diego on 07/24/11 at 07:42 AM ET
I do object to many voices stating his stats are due to the team in front of him and give a HUGE pass to Brodeur, who worked behind the prototype trap defense. The Devils are the first team that comes to mind when mentioning what the Dead Puck era was like and yet Brodeur's stats or HOF are not challenged despite being greatly helped by the trap defense in front of him. If you attack Osgood for the team he was on, Brodeur deserves the same.
For an example of someone attacking both, see http://brodeurisafraud.blogspot.com/
I disagree with the premise myself. It's a team sport. No one seriously questions Jari Kurri's HOF credentials (or those of any other skater, for that matter) because of who he played with. It is only goaltenders who get this treatment.
Posted by monkey from Prague on 07/24/11 at 08:35 AM ET
Seriously. Did anyone ever actually watch Osgood, who announced his retirement last week, and think, "Yep, there's one of the best ever at his position?"
I'm curious as to how many NHL HOF-ers this standard could clearly be applied.
Posted by Seaner on 07/24/11 at 09:33 AM ET
Has "Osgood HHOF" replaced "Jagr to Detroit? Pittsburgh? Montreal?" as the new twice-a-day thread for the off season?
I appreciate the news and am not suggesting the articles don't appear, but I will end up skipping them as I did the Jagr stories.
Posted by RWBill on 07/24/11 at 10:33 AM ET
Ya know, I HAVE looked at Osgood and thought he's one of the best ever - not neccessarily for his skill but for his incredible persistence, determination, confidence through challenge after challenge (even the ones he created for himself). No, his natural skillset was not elite. But he was a tough sumbitch, and there were many times that he played way above himself, and some games he WAS the best goaltender in the NHL. His isn't a story of elite skill, it's one of an 'average' goalie who fought his way to elite accomplishment ...
Posted by jmac on 07/24/11 at 10:41 AM ET
Hope it's cool in da UP, George.
Posted by MsRedWinger from the State where Tigers roam in the Spring on 07/24/11 at 01:56 PM ET
Enjoy vacation George!
Posted by bezukov from the kids are alright. on 07/24/11 at 03:06 PM ET
When we look at players in the HOF, after the fact and years gone by, what do we look at? Numbers. Plain and simple. Some are known because they rose above the sport, Gretzky, Howe, Orr, etc. Most we look at the numbers. Osgood's numbers in and of themselves warrant a place in the Hall. Longevity is not a detraction but rather an indication of character.
Posted by calquake from a.k.a. Uniquake, workin' on my manifesto on 07/24/11 at 03:23 PM ET
I'm curious as to how many NHL HOF-ers this standard could clearly be applied.
A handful.
Posted by monkey from Prague on 07/24/11 at 04:54 PM ET
Must have missed Osgood's 4 vezinas (two after Lidstrom's retirement) and Brodeur being exposed to waivers in his prime.
Seriously, if you want Osgood to look good in comparison to someone else, it would make for a better argument if you picked someone who sucks, instead of the Roys and Brodeurs of the world, whom Osgood isn't fit to hold a door for, which is demonstrable statistically.
Posted by steviesteve on 07/24/11 at 05:59 PM ET
Here's some drivel from everybody's favorite tranny, Adam Lambert:
Posted by 42jeff from The greater Howard City, MI metroplex on 07/24/11 at 11:41 PM ET
It's fair to say Osgood would be a first ballot inductee in the Inconsistency Hall of Fame. You never knew which Ozzy you'd get on a nightly basis. Sometimes within a game he'd make an amazing save and then give up a soft slapper from the blueline.
Posted by redxblack from Akron Ohio on 07/25/11 at 03:07 AM ET
"he very rarely gave up that game-tying or game-losing goal when the stakes were high"
euh… SCF, Game 7, 2009… achh…
I really like Osgood and i think he will go in the Hall of Fame based on his carreer wins total, but if i had to choose my own HoF since i follow the Red Wings and i ce hockey (1998), he would not make the cut. I would only put Hasek and Brodeur for a start, and then i can think of at least 5 goalies who were better than Ozzie in the last 15 years…
Posted by yannick on 07/25/11 at 07:42 AM ET
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X-rays of Capps' elbow are negative
X-rays of Capps' elbow are negative
Those were the words on Tuesday from Pirates closer Matt Capps, who appears to have avoided a serious injury to his right elbow. In to try and save Monday's game, Capps was hit in the elbow -- hard enough that the seam marks on the baseball were branded onto his elbow for hours afterward -- on a line drive off the bat of Chicago's Geovany Soto.
Capps came out of the game immediately, though X-rays late on Monday night came back negative, confirming that there is no fracture.
"Good news," manager John Russell said. "Just seems to be a bad bruise."
"My elbow didn't hurt me until I got in [the clubhouse]," Capps explained. "I just had a shooting pain going down my forearm and then my ring finger and my pinkie finger. It hurt and tingled. By the time I got in here, they were completely numb. I couldn't feel them at all. And my elbow was starting to hurt.
"When it first happened, it sounded like a shotgun going off beside me," he added. "I thought my elbow was just blown up."
For now, the Pirates are holding off on putting Capps on the disabled list until the team gets a better feel for how much time the closer is likely to miss. He was scheduled to also meet with Cubs orthopedic surgeon Stephen Gryzlo before Tuesday's game in order to get another opinion.
Russell indicated that with the benefit of having an off-day on Thursday, a decision on whether to put Capps on the DL would likely come when the team returns home on Friday. In the meantime, Capps will be unavailable for these final two games in Chicago, leaving the Pirates with just six available relievers.
"I'm pretty sore right now," Capps said. "There is no way I could play catch today. I don't know if I could play catch tomorrow. Who knows? We've done a good job of icing it and keeping the inflammation down, so hopefully when I come out [on Wednesday], the range of motion will be better and I'll be able to pick up a ball."
The ball struck Capps on the same part of the elbow that was bruised earlier this month. Asked about the cruel coincidence, he shook his head: "It couldn't have been more right on it."
An MRI on the elbow early in May showed a small bruise on the bone in Capps' elbow and some slight fluid buildup. Capps missed six games then while he let his arm heal.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Around the newsroom this week, upcoming graduations were a popular topic as some of the reporters prepared to cover the high school commencements. At our last staff meeting I was taken back when I heard of one local high school's selection of four valedictorians and two salutatorians for its graduating class.
An adventure stretching over eight years … covering literally thousands of miles … hastily eaten hotel breakfasts (sometimes hot and sometimes not) – and memories to last a lifetime.
A recent newsroom conversation about the passing of legendary Giants and A's broadcaster Lon Simmons earlier this month sparked a conversation about baseball on the radio and some of those memorable voices that trademark a baseball game with their ability to speak.
So it is that exciting time of year when baseball is in the air, basketball (March Madness, specifically) is just about in the rearview mirror and, for those with teams still in it, the Stanley Cup playoffs loom just around the corner.
With so many quality police shows, dramas, premium channel series, and sports to watch on TV, one of my guilty pleasures of television watching these days is a couple of reality TV shows where I just get to disengage my thinking brain and get to become more of a sarcastic, judging, critical SOB than I already am.
So I am not sure if acrophobia – the fear of heights – or vertigo – a feeling of sudden onset dizziness – are exactly what I experienced, but both seemed to play a role in my recent overnight trip to San Fran.
A few weeks ago Disneyland appeared to be Ground Zero for a measles outbreak that led to 17 identified cases in the US. Since then, at last count, there are now over 120 confirmed cases of measles in the country, possibly due to "satellite" outbreaks as those persons returned home from "The Happiest Place on Earth."
Due to the Monday President's Day Holiday, The Oakdale City Council will hold its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
Take a deep breath, the Super Bowl is over.
I've always been one who's active on Facebook, generally keeping a window open throughout the day to monitor social media, checking statuses, commenting, and keeping an eye open for a potential news story or two.
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Much has been said and covered by the news media in regard to the recent decisions from a St. Louis County and New York grand juries not to indict police officers in the separate deaths of two subjects by the police officers involved.
Well, I resisted as long as humanly possible.
That loud clacking sound everyone heard Wednesday morning, Nov. 5 after the elections was the sound of area deadbolts latching in homes after the passage of Proposition 47 – the initiative that reduced penalties for drug possession and other "nonviolent" crimes.
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Undergraduates Win George Mitchell Student Awards
Thu, May 14, 2009
Congratulations to Ari Schulman, whose Honors thesis on Walker Percy (directed by Professor Jim Garrison) won a $2,000 dollar prize at the George Mitchell Awards, and to Jesse Cordes Selbin, an LAH/English dual major, whose thesis on Oulipo was directed by Alex Wettlaufer, and also won a $2,000 prize.
Jesse's thesis departs from the premise that France in and around 1968 was a setting in which many began to very deeply explore what Jean-Paul Sartre called "the extension of the field of possibility." In order to ground this notion within the context of her English major and literature-heavy Humanities major, Jesse juxtaposed the theories and texts of a group of writers called Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle) with those of Algerian-French feminist philosopher and novelist Hélène Cixous. Both Cixous and the writers of Oulipo used formal changes to highlight issues of "potential" or possibility in the literature they produced, and while the methods and texts were highly disparate, the camps shared integral concerns about the future of literature.
Ari's thesis explores the depiction of existential despair in the 1961 novel The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. The work depicts a young man living in New Orleans, who is alienated from society but, in true postmodern fashion, is playful and ironic about his alienation. He is no Mersault from The Stranger, for that would be too passe. Ari analyzes the novel's depiction of existentialism through the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, a contemporary moral theorist. He argues that MacIntyre's critique of modernity corresponds very closely to the implicit critique that Percy offers in the novel. Putting the two in conversation, Ari attempts to ascertain the novel's answer to the question it implicitly poses: how might we recover our sense of living in a world that seems to be inherently meaningless?
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When it comes to exercise DVDs the market is flooded with titles, making it very tough to choose one to try out. From generic cardio videos to dance moves, yoga, Pilates, and so many others, picking the right DVD to go along with your exercise routine is a daunting task. There are DVDs with celebrity instructors, ones with fitness personnel, and even some based on popular TV shows such as Biggest Loser. With this in mind we're looking at one of the latest TV releases today, which comes from American Gladiators.
That's right boys and girls, NBC's American Gladiators has their own workout DVD now. It features the guys and gals from the show, but instead of beating the snot out of hapless contenders in the gauntlet, they're beating the snot out of you. The Ultimate Workout DVD contains three exercise programs that offer most of the basics and give you a good workout, but won't exactly get you into shape for competing on the show. The bottom line is if you're new to exercising you'll find some nice routines here, but if you're looking for something a little more involved, you might want to look elsewhere.
American Gladiators: Ultimate Workout doesn't necessarily have a lot of structure to it. You can begin by customizing your own workout routine out of the three available exercises, but there are a few other options if you're looking for some variety.
As far as the customized routines are concerned there are two levels of strength workouts as well as a cardio one. The first strength workout features Titan, Phoenix, and Wolf working quads, back muscles, abs, and biceps. In this round of exercises you'll find lunges, squats, and arm curls. This workout lasts about 20 minutes and Titan keeps the pace going pretty well, but eventually switches places to allow the others to take charge for a bit. As the routine progresses there are some new moves added to increase the challenge a bit and by the time all is said and done you'll undoubtedly feel the burn.
The second strength workout switches things up a bit and brings Crush, Toa, and Jet. This trio of Gladiators works your triceps, chest, hamstrings, glutes, and abs. The structure here is very similar to the first with a reliance on weights and resistance training. Putting both of these strength workouts together is a nice way to get going, and if you keep up with them you'll definitely feel some improvement in overall tone after a while. I don't like the reliance on weights for these exercises, but they definitely add to the challenge. Luckily the cardio segment sheds the weights and gets that heart rate up with some nice routines and moves.
When you're done with the Customized Workout segment of the DVD there is a challenge feature that takes you through a variety of these exercises again. The challenges do implement some more traditional bits such as crunches and the like, and they are shorter, so if you're looking for a quick easy burst of exercise with more structure this may be the way to go. These bits are mostly for beginners, and I found that the customized routines were better, but even so there's plenty to offer.
American Gladiators: Ultimate Workout is actually much better than I thought it would be. It's not an advanced exercise program by any means, and it relies too heavily on weights, but it should appeal to fans of the show who might need to get off the couch every once in a while. The personalities of the Gladiators are kept in check, and though there are some cheesy moments, they actually stay on task most of the time. If you're looking for some beginner workouts to try you could do far worse than Ultimate Workout. Despite its television background, there are some quality exercises here that will really give you some burn.
American Gladiators: Ultimate Workout is presented on DVD with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio. The picture quality is very sharp with some nice resolution and a great amount of detail. Considering this is a workout DVD you don't really need a home theater quality presentation, but what's here is definitely more than suitable.
Likewise, the 2.0 Dolby Digital stereo is clean and suitable for the purposes of this DVD. The dialogue from instructors and background music come through loud and clear, and the option is available to just do the workouts with music once you get familiar with everything. Again, you don't need a 5.1 surround track for a workout DVD, so what's here is definitely more than adequate.
This isn't necessarily a DVD that you need extras for, but considering the American Gladiators motif, it would have been nice if an episode from the show was included or something.
American Gladiators: Ultimate Workout is a good beginner DVD that should appeal to fans of the show. The Gladiators do a good job of keeping the routines going, and staying positive, throughout the DVD. The exercises here will work your body well and you'll definitely feel a burn every time you go through. The ability to customize workouts is also a nice touch, so you can do as much or as little as you want to. If you're looking for a DVD to start working out to consider this one recommended, but if you're looking for something more advanced you may want to look elsewhere.


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by Ryan Hauck | July 16, 2013 5:24 pm
If you order blue crab this summer, don't be surprised if you feel a pinch in your wallet. The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population has dived from 765 million to 300 million within the last year, WKTR reports[1].
As blue crabs become increasingly difficult to get a hold of, the laws of supply and demand are driving prices up. One Virginia market reported an $8 increase in the cost of a dozen male crabs, or "Jimmies," from $18 to $26 this summer.
Wildlife officials are reluctant to blame the crabs' increasing absence on overfishing, instead suggesting that cause might lie in a poor spawning season. Notably, there has been an uptick in the bay's juvenile red drum, a known predator of the crabs' offspring.
But before anyone gets too blue, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission offers a reason to stay optimistic. Even as the population falls as a whole, there's been a huge increase in the number of female adult crabs, meaning that the crabs' mating problem might not last for long.
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A day on Ossabaw Island, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Boat departs from Delegal Marina at The Landings. Cost: $50 per person for Friends of Ossabaw; $65 per person for Future Friends. Reservations are required; space is limited. Call 210-1613 or 233-5104.
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Salt Marsh by Land & Sea, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, meeting at Fort McAllister State Park. Explore the ecosystem that has supported humans on this coast. Fee: $30 per person, includes canoe rental and instruction; $2 parking fee. Reservations required. Call 236-8115.
Bacon Forest Discovery Walk
1 p.m. Sunday, Bacon Forest. Last walk of the season; long pants, sturdy shoes, water and bug repellent are advised. Free and open to the public. Walk departs 1 p.m. from the north side of the Bacon Park parking lot. Call 233-8733 or go to www.savannahtreefoundation.com.
Wilderness Southeast
Spineless Wonders, 10 a.m.-noon June 14, meeting at Savannah/Ogeechee Canal Museum & Nature Center. Insect expert Bobby Moulis will show how spineless creatures play an integral part in the food chain. Reservations required. Cost: $15 per person. Call 236-8115.
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X Factor babe Mel B gives Louis the willies
X-RATED judge Mel B says she is so horny during auditions that she draws pictures of willies to pass the time.
The saucy Spice Girl, says she misses husband Stephen Belafonte, 37, so much during filming she scribbles drawings of his manhood and passes them to fellow judge Louis Walsh, 61,
Mel, 39, said: "I like to pass dirty notes to Louis. I miss my husband so much I like drawing pictures of willies, as you do.
"I do doodle a lot on Louis' notepad especially. I also draw boobs a lot."
Mel is a new addition to this year's judging line-up after receiving £1million to join the show. Boss Simon Cowell hired the gobby singer in the hope her acid tongue would create headlines.
"Mel is like a younger Sharon Osbourne in many ways"Dermot O'Leary
X Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary, 41, says Mel is proving too rude for the family show.
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and is it me or are S&V getting milder these days. Can't seem to find any with a real vinegary sharpness to 'em
Coop posh S&V (probably chardonay vinegar and salt from the tears of a child who dropped his icecream) are properly vinegary. Tesco Finest S&V too. But they're both more vinegar than salt and the don't have the same flavour as the oldschool salt and vinegar chipsticks


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Magic Squares
Activity of the Month
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Each month the Math Forum sponsors a student activity that can be done locally and shared globally. There are:
- discussion suggestions for the teacher or student activity leaders,
- a detailed lesson plan for the classroom,
- ways to share what you do and learn,
- and here's a link to a Java Applet that will allow you to experiment with this puzzle.
What is a magic square?In a magic square, the rows, columns, and diagonals all add up to the same number.
Let's begin with the first three numbers:
Can you fill in the empty cells?
Need help?
Definition:Some mathematicians define a magic square formally as an arrangement of the numbers from 1 to n^2 (n-squared) in an nxn matrix, with each number occurring exactly once, and such that the sum of the entries of any row, any column, or any main diagonal is the same.
Discussion suggestions:
What is the sum of each row, column, diagonal of the magic square? Can a square be made that results in a different sum? [Advanced question: Why or why not?] How did you figure out what numbers to use and where to put them in the square? What number did you place in the middle? Is this the only number that can go in the middle? [Advanced question: Why or why not?] If we start with a puzzle like the one above, is there only one solution? [Advanced question: Why or why not?] [Advanced question: Can you show that the sum of the entries of any row, any column, or any main diagonal must be n(n^2+1)/2?]
Interactive exploration: a Magic Square Java Applet
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For hundreds of years, the wealthy residents of Jerusalem tended to spend the cold days of winter in Jericho. Proof of this can be found in the remnants of Hasmonean palaces at the entrance to Wadi Qelt, which leads to Jericho, and in Hisham's Palace, the well-known site constructed by Khalif Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in the eighth century, in Khirbat Mafjar in the east of the city. Just a half hour's drive away from Jerusalem is a blooming and relatively warm oasis.
In the north of the city is one of Jericho's central attractions: a cable car that brings visitors from Elisha's Spring – Ein as-Sultan – to the top of the Qarantal mountain (Mount of Temptation), out of which a Greek Orthodox monastery is carved. A shopping center is located at the bottom, near a spring, and some pleasant restaurants are at the top, near the monastery. The view from the cable car and the ancient monastery is spectacularly beautiful. After passing above the archaeological digs at Tel Jericho, which is among the oldest cities in the world, you reach the top of the Mount of Temptation, on which, according to Christian tradition, Jesus spent 40 days, during which the devil tried to tempt him.
Tourists pass by and continue on
Some one million tourists visited Jericho last year, the city's governor, engineer Majed al-Fetyani, told Calcalist, but income from tourism is very low. Why? Because most tourists pass by on buses, glance at the city's various sites, occasionally buy something, and then hurry along to nearby tourist sites, like the baptism site in the Jordan, Qumran, the Ein Gedi springs and Masada.
Income from tourism in Jericho was once based on internal Israeli and Palestinian tourism, but since the second Intifada, entrance to Israeli Jews is forbidden and the city has turned into something of a closed-off enclave, surrounded by settlements and territories under Israeli control. Access to the city is difficult. Moreover, the well-known casino that used to attract millions of Israelis was closed with the start of the second Intifada, and since then, the nearby fancy hotel – the only hotel in the city – has been empty for days on end.
Making a living from agriculture and government jobs
Some 34,000 Arabs in Jericho earn a living from the agricultural plots of land scattered in and around the city. A second source of income is government employment. Additionally, with the assistance and funding of the government of Japan, infrastructure work is taking place in the east of the city ahead of the establishment of an industrial zone. It will mostly consist of factories for the processing of agricultural production from Jericho and the Jordan Valley.
Whereas new neighborhoods and residential towers have sprouted up in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus and other towns in the West Bank, Jericho remains much as it has been for decades, and seems to have stagnated: the same small houses, surrounded by fences and groves, pretty villas serving as winter homes for wealthy Palestinians, and a string of cafes and restaurants on the main street. Better days will enable Jericho to go back to being a prosperous resort town. For now, even visiting tourists rush to continue on their way.


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Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S): Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) and its no-contract brand Boost Mobile have recently been rated highest among full-service and non-contract providers in J.D. Power and Associates's Wireless Purchase Experience Study, Volume 1. Sprint share prices Thursday reached US$2.52, with 13% up. There were 100.51 million stock shares traded, which was 2.3 times more than average volume. Do you want to know when company insiders will buy their shares? Want to add and monitor this company on an on-going basis? It can be done for free by registering below.
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Howard County is issuing a complete ban on the use of tanning beds by anyone under the age of 18. And they're not doing it to be fusty old killjoys. At least exclusively.
There is a suspected link between the use of the beds and the development of melanoma. Brittany Leitz, awarded Miss Maryland in 2006, contracted skin cancer by frequently using a tanning bed.
One wonders, then, if the effects are the same for people of all ages, why is the ban only for minors? Because the county is fine with adults being all willy-nilly about contracting cancer?
Also, without tanning beds, where will pallid youngsters turn to bronze themselves? The sun?
Pfft. That thing's just as likely to give you skin cancer. Looks like the only viable safe solution will be spray-on tan products.
That's right. Howard County's keeping our kids safe, but only at the cost of turning them orange. Almost a fate worse than death.


text: I have all 3 freshly strung in my PDGTs and ready to hit the courts for a test drive. The Black Magic is 1.23, Silverstring is 1.25 and Scorpion is 1.22, all strung at the same tension of 57. Any one care to campare any 2 or 3 of those? Thanks.