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Without any formal bargaining sessions having taken place in the nearly two weeks since the NHL officially locked out its players on Sept. 15, the league formally announced the cancellation of all remaining preseason games.
No hockey will be played until Oct. 11 at the earliest.
Previously, the league canceled all preseason games up until the beginning of October. On Thursday, all remaining games were axed, including:
Mon. Oct. 1 vs. New Jersey
Tues. Oct. 2 at Toronto
Fri. Oct. 5 at New Jersey
Sat. Oct. 6 at Chicago
The Flyers are still tentatively scheduled to open their season on Oct. 11 in a nationally televised game against the Bruins. That game seems to have a snowball's chance in hell of happening at this point.
The league is expected to formally begin canceling regular season games next week.
The Phantoms - including young NHLers Brayden Schenn, Sean Couturier, Zac Rinaldo, Erik Gustafsson, Brandon Manning and Harry Zolnierczyk - open training camp on Saturday at the Voorhees, N.J., Skate Zone under new head coach Terry Murray. They will be in town for a little more than a week before shipping up to Glens Falls, N.Y., to open training camp.
The NHL and NHL Players' Association are scheduled to begin three days of bargaining talks on Friday in New York, though they are not slated to include negotiating on the only topic that has stalled talks so far: How to split the league's growing $3.3 billion revenue between players and owners. Instead, the two sides will speak about non-core issues like player health and safety, concussion issues, etc.
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Snapshots: Cameroon investigated ... Robben gets off ... It's official, Messi is back
The question remains: Were the Indomitable Lions taking this game seriously?
That's what I wrote after watching Cameroon get blown out 4-0 by Croatia two weeks ago in Manaus — a match that also featured a suspicious sending off before halftime.
Now, German publication Der Spiegel is claiming convicted match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal correctly predicted the African side would lose 4-0 prior to the match, adding that Perumal also predicted Cameroon would have a player red-carded.
The allegations claim seven of Cameroon's player were involved in something nefarious at the tournament.
Cameroon's Alex Song was sent off minutes before halftime in their Group A game for striking Croatia's Mario Mandzukic in the back away from the play.
Croatia then added three goals against a very soft Cameroonian defence after halftime to complete the blowout.
"We do not provide any comments as to whether an investigation is underway so as to not compromise investigations," a FIFA spokesperson said at a media briefing Tuesday morning.
"There's nothing more we can say. This is standard procedure."
Adding to the chaos that night in Manaus was the fact two Cameroonian players had to be separated after defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto headbutted teammate Benjamin Moukandjo seconds from the end.
Cameroon announced Tuesday morning that it's already out in front of the German magazine's claims.
"Recent allegations of fraud around Cameroon 2014 FIFA World Cup three preliminary games, especially Cameroon vs. Croatia, as well of the 'existence of seven bad apples (in our national team)' do not reflect the values and principles promoted by our administration, in line with FIFA Code of Conduct and the ethics of our nation," the Cameroonian federation posted to its website.
"We wish to inform the general public that, though not yet contacted by FIFA in regards to this affair, our administration has already instructed its Ethics Committee to further investigate these accusations."
Cameroon went on to lose its final group match 4-1 to hosts Brazil.
The Indomitable Lions were also at the forefront of pre-tournament controversy when they refused to board a plane to the tournament due to a dispute with their federation over bonus payments.
Beyond that, CAF, Africa's governing body of soccer, and its teams have faced massive amounts of scrutiny in recent weeks.
In the days before the tournament, Nigeria was investigated for match-fixing allegations in a game against Scotland that saw a Nigerian 'keeper appear to throw the ball into his own net.
Before a game against Portugal last week, two players from the Ghanaian federation were sent home for reportedly getting into a dust-up with team officials. That report arrived after the president of Ghana reportedly dispatched a plane full of $3 million in cash to appease his country's players, a report that wasn't verified in the end.
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Dutch striker Arjen Robben is sorry for diving during Sunday's second-round match against Mexico, a knockout game the Netherlands won 2-1 on a late penalty.
But Robben, a villain to many around the globe, isn't sorry for the late penalty that won the match. He's said he's sorry for a first-half attempt to coax the referee into a penalty.
In saying that, the Dutch striker said Monday that the questionable penalty he was awarded late in the game was a stone-cold pen.
Unsurprisingly, the Mexican federation thought Portuguese referee Pedro Proenca got it all wrong despite replays showing Rafa Marquez appearing to step on Robben's foot.
But in admitting to embellishment in the match, FIFA answered questions Tuesday about the possibility of Robben being suspended.
"Simulation is not something we want to see on the field of play but the referees are trained to identify these simulations and punish them by showing yellow cards," FIFA spokesperson Delia Fischer said at a media briefing in Rio de Janeiro. "The disciplinary committee will look into serious infringements. We appeal to the spirit of fair play which is the over-arching message we have."
In saying that, FIFA couldn't have suspended Robben if it wanted to. Not after allowing Brazilian striker Fred to get away with the blatant embellishment that won his country a game-changing penalty against Croatia on opening day.
Lionel Messi has finally answered critics.
He has been the difference in every match so far for Argentina at this tournament, scoring four goals and playing provider in extra time in a win against Switzerland Tuesday.
It was the last thing left on the three-time Ballon d'Or winner's resume: Lead Argentina at a FIFA World Cup.
And while Messi undoubtedly has a better supporting cast, Cristiano Ronaldo's early exit at this tournament was disappointing.
Claims Ronaldo was injured don't hold much weight considering he played all three Group G games and told media multiple times he was healthy.
It will sound absurd to some, but Ronaldo might have hurt Portugal in the end. Simply put: he doesn't track back — something German bench boss Joachim Low stated following a 4-0 thrashing of Portugal early in the tournament.
As Messi has shown in 2014, he provides more, which is why he's the best player in the world.

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Hillary Clinton says things that are so indefensible that they would be called "shocking" or "outrageous" were they to come from the mouth of a less skilled politician, which includes every politician in the United States of America save one. She happens to be married to that one. (Talent is not the same as skill, as she learned in the 2008 presidential primaries.)
During a Sunday interview on CBS News, Clinton was asked about the prospects of a woman being nominated for President in 2016. "Whoever runs has to recognize that the American political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal, in the world," she said.
Of all Americans, a former secretary of state ought to know how preposterous that statement is. In Mexico, candidates are regularly targeted for assassination. In Iraq, hit squads go after candidates and their families. In October, bombers killed five people at an election rally in India. In Pakistan last year, two secular candidates for low-level offices were murdered by the Taliban.
The week before last, Clinton claimed she and Bill left the White House "dead broke," referring to the time just before they bought a $3 million mansion.
One might be tempted to ask: "What difference, at this point, does it make?" That depends on whether she draws a credible 2016 primary challenger bold enough to call out her casual lying. She got one in 2008, and look what a difference that made.


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I played with GI Joe over He-Man most for two reasons:
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2) when the murder was done, it was time for the lovin' and GI Joe has more points of articulation which allows for greater flexibility. IIRC Stormshadow could really grip Scarlett, whereas whenever He-Man climbed atop She-ra, muscles always got in the way
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Jury selection today in trial of man charged in Manchester officer shooting
By DALE VINCENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
Manchester police Officer Daniel Doherty, left, and Miles Webster, right.
MANCHESTER - Jury selection began Monday morning in Hillsborough County Superior Court North in the attempted murder trial of Myles Webster.
Webster, 23, is accused of firing 15 shots at Manchester Police Officer Daniel Doherty, five of those bullets striking Doherty in the legs and lower body March 21 at Rimmon and Wayne streets.
Webster is also being tried on charges of reckless conduct and robbery in connection with the incident that began with an undercover officer's call for assistance.
Doherty, 27, will be among the prosecution witnesses. At a motions hearing last month, Doherty said he was "100 percent sure" that Webster is the person who shot him.
Jury selection is expected to be completed Monday, and a view of sites relevant to the case will then be conducted.
After challenges today, the 16 jurors and alternates seated include nine women and seven men.
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MANCHESTER - Jury selection will begin this morning in Hillsborough County Superior Court North in the trial of Myles Webster, accused of shooting Manchester Police Officer Daniel Doherty.
Webster, 23, is accused of attempted capital murder in the March 21 shooting that left Doherty hospitalized for more than three weeks at Catholic Medical Center with leg and lower torso wounds.
Police said Doherty was pursuing Webster on foot when Webster turned and emptied a .357-caliber Magnum handgun at the four-year officer. Five bullets hit Doherty, who pulled his own weapon as he fell and returned fire. None of Doherty's bullets struck his shooter.
Nine months later, Doherty is still undergoing intensive physical therapy. Webster, who was arrested the same day, has been in custody since the shooting.
Webster is also being tried on two felonies - reckless conduct for allegedly firing a handgun out a car window near the Granite Street Bridge before the foot chase, and for allegedly firing shots into an occupied building at 345 Rimmon St.
A robbery charge alleges he held a gun on a woman and demanded her car keys, saying, "I need to get out of here."
Police swarmed the area after the shooting at Rimmon and Wayne streets, searching for the man who fired at Doherty from a distance of three to five feet.
Doherty said Friday that he will be in the courtroom from the beginning of the trial. Witnesses are sequestered until they testify, but because Doherty is a victim as well as a witness, he has the right to be in the courtroom throughout the trial.
Although he has regained weight and appears healthy, Doherty is not yet fully recovered.
"It's reality," he said.
He still has leg and stomach problems, but said he has been assured by his doctors that he will be 100 percent eventually.
For now, he said, "Whenever I walk, I'm in pain." That doesn't matter, he said. "I show myself that I can do it."
He looks forward to being physically fit again.
"I'm a hockey player," said Doherty, who was scheduled to play in the Battle of the Badges - firefighters vs. police - ice hockey game last March to benefit the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth. He was still hospitalized when the game was played, but Doherty said: "They say I will be back on the ice."
Doherty, 25, admits to being a little impatient about his recovery.
He said his primary physical therapist is demanding, and he knows it will take hard work to get back to normal.
"I've kind of made up my own scale," he said.
Although it will be some time before he can return to full duty as a police officer, he said: "I enjoy life in general."
He appreciates all the support he has received from the community.
"So many new friends," he said.
At pretrial motion hearings, Webster's attorneys have questioned Doherty's identification of Webster as the shooter, as well as other witness identifications, claiming they were contaminated by photos of Webster that appeared in the news media before witnesses could provide descriptions to police and view multiple photo arrays.
Like the attorneys for convicted cop-killer Michael Addison, the defense attorneys sought a change of venue, seeking to have the trial held anywhere but Manchester. The defense also argued there is a special relationship between the community and the police, whose headquarters are diagonally across the street from the courthouse.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.


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Recent demonstrations of high performance carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) highlight their potential for a future nanotube-based electronics. Besides being just a nanometer in diameter, carbon nanotubes offer intrinsic advantages if compared with silicon that are responsible for their outstanding properties. Their one-dimensional character is advantageous for a low scattering probability and consequently a high on-current in a transistor device. Electrons and holes behave similarly in CNs, enabling a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) like technology with n-type and p-type transistors. Since chemical bonds in case of carbon nanotubes are completely satisfied, problems with dangling bonds, as at any silicon surface, do not exist. This implies that carbon nanotubes can be more easily combined with various gate dielectrics, e.g. high-k dielectrics for an improved gate control. And last, the fact that metallic as well as semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be fabricated may lead to an all nanotube-based electronics with metallic tubes acting as interconnects and semiconducting tubes being used as active device regions.
All of the above aspects of nanotubes have been experimentally verified. Investigating the physics of scaled CNFETs however revealed also a number of other - rather unexpected - properties of nanotube-based devices. The most important and far-reaching observation recently made is that CNFETs are indeed Schottky barrier devices. This has important implications for their scaling behavior as well as their performance limits. In my presentation I will focus in particular on this aspect of carbon nanotube transistors and discuss a number of our most recent experimental data and simulations.
J. Appenzeller received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 1991 and 1995. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated quantum transport phenomena in low dimensional systems based on III/V heterostructures. He worked for one year as a Research Scientist in the Research Center in Juelich, Germany before he became an Assistant Professor with the Technical University of Aachen in 1996. During his professorship he explored mesoscopic electron transport in different materials including carbon nanotubes and superconductor/semiconductor-hybride devices. From 1998 to 1999, he was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as a Visiting Scientists, exploring the ultimate scaling limits of silicon MOSFET devices. Since 2001, he has been with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY, as a Research Staff Member mainly involved in the investigation of the potential of carbon nanotubes for a future nanoelectronics.
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TUSCALOOSA | How they were told was very nearly as shocking as what they were told.
"When Heather was about a year and a half old," remembers former University of Alabama head basketball coach Dave Hobbs, "we noticed she wasn't doing the things she should have been doing at that age, things like crawling. So my wife, Skeet, took her in to the doctor to see what the situation was, and the doctor, in the old, 'Oh, by the way' kind of tone, says, 'You know she has cerebral palsy.' We didn't have any clue."
They were told their first child's future was bleak. She'd be fated to special schools. She'd never crawl. She'd never talk. She'd never walk.
"Skeet wasn't having any of that," Hobbs said. "We, and more importantly Heather, were determined to prove them wrong."
Heather Hobbs Woodard learned to talk. She mastered mainstream classes, graduating in the top 10 percent from Tuscaloosa County High in 1989, then went on to graduate, within three years, cum laude, from the University of West Alabama in 1992 with a degree in English and a double minor in history and journalism.
In 1995 she earned a master's degree from the University of Alabama. She became a college professor.
And along the way, after a lifetime of walking aided by crutches, she moved an entire congregation to tears of joy when she walked down the aisle, her parents flanking each side to support her, to marry the man of her dreams, Trey Woodard.
Her latest success comes in the form of a just-released children's book, "Oscar's Dreamzz, The Story of Santa's First Elf." It's a novel story line about how Santa Claus came to hire his first elf after he realizes his clumsy crew of polar bear and walrus toy makers can't get all the toys made in time for Christmas.
Oscar's tale lay within the imagination of Woodard's friend, Pam Wampol.
With a nod to what she learned from her dad of the importance of teamwork, Woodard combined her writing skills with Wampol's ideas to bring the tale to life.
"It's like having a left side of the brain and a right side of the brain. One can't work without the other," Wampol said. "I've always been a storyteller, but I didn't know how to write them down. Heather has a background in writing, so it makes for a perfect blend."
The book, written for ages 2-6, has taken a journey of six years, from a random lunch where they first kicked around the idea of writing a book together, to finished product. They shopped it around, but because it's considered seasonal, publishers shied away. They decided to self-publish through Friesen Press, who recommended the illustrator, Denis Proulx. To add to the book's appeal, the two designed Oscar plush dolls in two sizes as well as a kid-friendly ornament. The books come in soft and, soon, hardcover, and will be on sale through retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The toys and books can be ordered online through their website, www.pamandheather.com.
"Oscar's Dreamzz" has a Facebook page, and soon Oscar will be sending messages out on Twitter.
"We named him Oscar because we both love Oscar Madison from 'The Odd Couple' and because, in a way, Pam and I are the odd couple in that, on paper, we are so different," said Woodard. "The book is about how Santa, who needs toys, sees Oscar's toy catalog. Oscar loves being a toymaker, but he's not having much success. His dream is to meet Santa. Santa shows up in Oscar's store and invites him make toys at the North Pole. The moral is, if you want to achieve your dreams, you can't give up. It's how I've lived my life. Pam and I are a perfect example. It took us six years, but we kept at it, and we achieved our dream with this book."
Writing for children proved to be a new challenge for Woodard. It required turning prose to rhyme. They enlisted the help of a rhyme coach. As a result, when Santa appears in Oscar's flailing toy store, Oscar can't believe his eyes.
"You're him," Oscar whispered. "You're really St. Nick. And you're in my store. Oh my! Pinch me quick."
That Woodard became an author is no surprise to her dad.
"Early, early on she was a big reader because, with her situation physically, she wasn't able to be out playing with the other kids. Her mom read to her a lot, and Heather gained a great appreciation for reading. So it doesn't surprise me that she's taken it to the next step to writing a book," said Hobbs who is now an NBA scout for the Utah Jazz and lives in Birmingham.
"My mom says I used to laugh out loud sometimes when I read, and she would just stand outside my door to listen to me laugh," said Woodard who now lives in Birmingham and teaches at UAB, Faulkner and Jefferson State. "When I got in trouble as a kid, they didn't take things like TV away from me. They took my books away. That's how much I loved reading. My books were my best friends because I kind of had a double whammy, being smart and having a physical disability. It was hard. Really hard. My books and my writing were my refuge. In a way it saved me."


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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The first night of Carnival performances at the Marques de Sapucaí Sambódromo was tainted by mistakes and delays from the performing Access Group samba schools. The biggest hiccup was some of the performers from Vila de Santa Tereza danced down the venue without their costumes because they did not arrive in time for the big night.
Performers of Unidos do Jacarezinho struggled to get to the venue on time because of traffic, and many arrived just in time to perform. They also had sound issues that left their parade lacking.
Unidos do Viradouro also had sound problems and Estácio de Sá had to run to finish their parade because a float was stuck in the middle of the Sambódromo – unfortunately, their performance was over the allocated time, which they will be penalized for by the judges.
Despite all the hiccups, Unidos do Viradouro managed to get their message across. They were paying homage to sixty years of Salgueiro (another samba school in the Special Group), and their Samba-Enredo (Theme Song) was about the luxury of Brazilian music: "Not better, or worse, it's never out of my mind. Inspiration for my samba, I am different too."
The sound issues meant the whole school had to sing without any help from a recording for three straight minutes, which inspired the public and the president of the Liga das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (League of Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro) Déo Pessoa, who declared Unidos do Viradouro will not be penalized for the mistake.
"The judges are told to evaluate the schools with care, in case there are problems like this. I am sure the technical issue will not damage the school, actually it did the opposite, they excited the public," he said to TV Globo.
In an original and good humored parade, Rocinha's samba enredo was all about Brazilian music, with a theme entitled "A mix of flavors and races: a Brazilian feijoada". The song mentioned x-bacon, sundae, fast food and podrão, that were also depicted by floats and costumes throughout the performance.
The commissáo de frente was based on the idea that street barbecues are made of cat meat (churrasquinho de gato), as people dressed as cats were chased by a barbecue grill down the avenue.
Before performing, the Carnavalesco (Carnival Director) Luiz Carlo Bruno told TV Globo: "This will be the Rocinha parade, very fun. We will play and the environment will be very light, but also with the seriousness of depicting our theme."
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Square bowls – or perhaps more accurately, found-edge bowls – are one of my favorite variations on the general theme of natural-edge pieces. I started making these (oh-so-many years ago) not long after I started turning. The random shapes of the wood chunks I was putting on the lathe were often far more interesting to me than a simple round bowl.
Among other things, the design opens up many possibilities for showing off unusual pieces of wood, especially crotches and pieces with a strong contrast between the heartwood and sapwood. This kind of bowl can serve almost as a Rosetta Stone for someone unfamiliar with trees and wood. The pattern and orientation of the grain in a plain, round bowl may seem to have nothing to do with the piece of tree from which it came. But a found-edge bowl makes its origins clear.
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When Gregory Mankiw, the head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, remarked on February 9 that outsourcing "is probably a plus for the economy in the long run," he added heat to a debate that has been growing in ferocity as American job losses have mounted and as trade policy has developed into a key issue in the Democratic presidential primaries. In an effort to help develop a progressive position on outsourcing–one that reflects a concern about the well-being of American workers and those in the countries to which many US jobs have fled–we have solicited three views on the subject. We invite readers to respond. –The Editors
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"Don't worry; they'll get better jobs in the service sector." This used to be the mantra of free-trade supporters when confronted with the shift of auto or apparel jobs to Mexico or China. That line doesn't work anymore, since service jobs, including high-skill computer programming, financial analysis and X-ray reading, are going overseas as well.
Global outsourcing of service jobs is one of the most disturbing manifestations of the US government's corporate-friendly approach to globalization and requires a fundamental reorientation of policy that will aid workers at home and abroad.
Democrats have rightly seized on the issue. They are touting an array of anti-outsourcing proposals, mostly focusing on national measures, such as elimination of taxpayer subsidies. For example, John Kerry advocates banning foreign outsourcing of state and federal government contract work and would also eliminate tax breaks for firms that outsource, while giving tax credits to those that do not. Other US policies that encourage overseas investment could also be targeted. For example:
§ The relatively weak requirements for US firms, compared with European counterparts, to pay severance or negotiate with unions over plans to move jobs overseas.
§ Overseas Private Investment Corporation insurance for corporations investing abroad.
§ Treaties that protect US investors against host-government actions–including public interest laws–that diminish profits.
Changes in these and other areas could help chip away at the incentive to outsource. However, such domestic remedies do not address the main driving force: the extreme gap in wage levels. For example, the average wage gap between the United States and India, the top outsourcing destination in the developing world, is more than 12:1 for telephone operators and about 9:1 for medical transcribers, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study. The next biggest developing-country draw for service work is China (which has rock-bottom wages but lacks India's English-speaking advantage), followed by Mexico, where the wage ratio with the United States is about 8:1.
Overall, global pay gaps result in cost savings for outsourcers of at least 45-55 percent (after accounting for higher infrastructure and other costs), according to the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company. If this is true, figures in the Berkeley study suggest, companies could save around $300 billion a year if they outsourced all of the estimated 14 million US service jobs considered vulnerable to being shipped overseas. Given these vast potential savings, it will be difficult to reduce outsourcing incentives substantially–unless the pay gaps are narrowed.


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I know I wouldn't give him that kind of contract.RoyalDude wrote:The deal was an excellent one? Don't know how you can call the Roy rental an excellent deal, but hey that is just me.tantalum wrote:The deal was an excellent one. Sure we'd like to say that based on his lack of contribution that it wasn't good but I don't think anyone can really complain about it.
Roy certainly didn't earn himself that multi-year $5 mil deal he was looking for IMO. that said he'll likely get it from someone. i actually wouldn't be adverse to the canucks re-signing him if they have a coaching staff that wants to play that offense first game.
AV misused him I think. Tossed him around the lineup with multiple wingers. Put him on the wing. At center etc. Never had a chance to get comfortable.
So again, we are blaming the coaching staff on his poor play?
Why would it be smart signing Roy. You have a very similar player in Schroeder, who just needs a little more experience but is real close, same size but a helluva lot cheaper and Schroeder is definitely has the better wheels.
Let someone else waste $5 million on him. I don't get how Roy himself thinks he's worth that? 1 goal in 32 playoff games? 5 goals in the regular season this year?
and yeah Schroeder deserves a shot but don't we want size and attitude for a third centre?


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As for this reveal... meh.first figure = greatnext two figures = more #41 repaints 11 more to go...
There had better be something other than yet more Phase II Clones included for me to consider ordering this pack. After the Death Star Briefing, I had rather high hopes for this set. However, now, I am dubious. What do the clones have to do with any of it anyway? The Mandos and the Republican Military weren't exactely buddy-buddy.
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Race 1 for World Superbike at Monza proved to be an interesting affair this Sunday, as the race was ultimately cancelled for safety reasons. Starting normally under dry conditions, riders took to the track on slicks, only to have the race red-flagged two laps after its start.
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The West Yorkshire town of Otley has been praised in Parliament as a "national centre for cycling", according to the Wharfedale and Aireborough Observer.
On Tuesday, Greg Mulholland, the Lib Dem MP whose constituency includes the market town, tabled a Parliamentary motion in favour of Otley's promotion of cycling.,
Otley has successful annual town centre races, a cycling festival and sportive, and is the home town of Olympic silver medalist Lizzie Armitstead. Not a bad record at all for a town of just 14,000.
Mulholland said: "I am delighted that Otley has demonstrated such interest, talent and enthusiasm in cycling such that it has established itself as a national centre for the sport.
"Annual events such as the town centre races and cycling festival have further boosted Otley's profile as a centre for cycling, as have the exploits of Lizzie Armitstead at the amazing London 2012 Olympics.
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Image: Otley cycle races by tj.blackwell via Flickr
After an unpromising start, having to be bribed by her parents to learn to ride without stabilisers, Sarah became rather keener on cycling in her university years, and was eventually persuaded to upgrade to proper road cycling by the prospect of a shiny red Italian bike, which she promptly destroyed by trapping a pair of knickers in the rear derailleur. Sarah writes about about cycling every weekend on road.cc.


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42 U.S. Code § 290bb–25b - Programs to reduce underage drinking
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(a) Definitions
For purposes of this section:
(1) The term "alcohol beverage industry" means the brewers, vintners, distillers, importers, distributors, and retail or online outlets that sell or serve beer, wine, and distilled spirits.
(2) The term "school-based prevention" means programs, which are institutionalized, and run by staff members or school-designated persons or organizations in any grade of school, kindergarten through 12th grade.
(b) Sense of Congress
It is the sense of the Congress that:
(1) A multi-faceted effort is needed to more successfully address the problem of underage drinking in the United States. A coordinated approach to prevention, intervention, treatment, enforcement, and research is key to making progress. This chapter recognizes the need for a focused national effort, and addresses particulars of the Federal portion of that effort, as well as Federal support for State activities.
(2) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall continue to conduct research and collect data on the short and long-range impact of alcohol use and abuse upon adolescent brain development and other organ systems.
(3) States and communities, including colleges and universities, are encouraged to adopt comprehensive prevention approaches, including—
(4) Public health groups, consumer groups, and the alcohol beverage industry should continue and expand evidence-based efforts to prevent and reduce underage drinking.
(5) The entertainment industries have a powerful impact on youth, and they should use rating systems and marketing codes to reduce the likelihood that underage audiences will be exposed to movies, recordings, or television programs with unsuitable alcohol content.
(6) The National Collegiate Athletic Association, its member colleges and universities, and athletic conferences should affirm a commitment to a policy of discouraging alcohol use among underage students and other young fans.
(7) Alcohol is a unique product and should be regulated differently than other products by the States and Federal Government. States have primary authority to regulate alcohol distribution and sale, and the Federal Government should support and supplement these State efforts. States also have a responsibility to fight youth access to alcohol and reduce underage drinking. Continued State regulation and licensing of the manufacture, importation, sale, distribution, transportation and storage of alcoholic beverages are clearly in the public interest and are critical to promoting responsible consumption, preventing illegal access to alcohol by persons under 21 years of age from commercial and non-commercial sources, maintaining industry integrity and an orderly marketplace, and furthering effective State tax collection.
(c) Interagency coordinating committee; annual report on State underage drinking prevention and enforcement activities
(1) Interagency coordinating committee on the prevention of underage drinking
(A) In general
The Secretary, in collaboration with the Federal officials specified in subparagraph (B), shall formally establish and enhance the efforts of the interagency coordinating committee, that began operating in 2004, focusing on underage drinking (referred to in this subsection as the "Committee").
(B) Other agencies
The officials referred to in paragraph (1) are the Secretary of Education, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Surgeon General, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and such other Federal officials as the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines to be appropriate.
(D) Duties
The Committee shall guide policy and program development across the Federal Government with respect to underage drinking, provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as transferring regulatory or program authority from an Agency to the Coordinating Committee.
(E) Consultations
The Committee shall actively seek the input of and shall consult with all appropriate and interested parties, including States, public health research and interest groups, foundations, and alcohol beverage industry trade associations and companies.
(F) Annual report
(i) In general The Secretary, on behalf of the Committee, shall annually submit to the Congress a report that summarizes—
(III) data that the Secretary shall collect with respect to the information specified in clause (ii); and
(ii) Certain information The report under clause (i) shall include information on the following:
(I) Patterns and consequences of underage drinking as reported in research and surveys such as, but not limited to Monitoring the Future, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the Fatality Analysis Reporting System.
(II) Measures of the availability of alcohol from commercial and non-commercial sources to underage populations.
(III) Measures of the exposure of underage populations to messages regarding alcohol in advertising and the entertainment media as reported by the Federal Trade Commission.
(IV) Surveillance data, including information on the onset and prevalence of underage drinking, consumption patterns and the means of underage access. The Secretary shall develop a plan to improve the collection, measurement and consistency of reporting Federal underage alcohol data.
(2) Annual report on state underage drinking prevention and enforcement activities
(A) In general
The Secretary shall, with input and collaboration from other appropriate Federal agencies, States, Indian tribes, territories, and public health, consumer, and alcohol beverage industry groups, annually issue a report on each State's performance in enacting, enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to prevent or reduce underage drinking.
(B) State performance measures
(i) In general The Secretary shall develop, in consultation with the Committee, a set of measures to be used in preparing the report on best practices.
(ii) Categories In developing these measures, the Secretary shall consider categories including, but not limited to:
(I) Whether or not the State has comprehensive anti-underage drinking laws such as for the illegal sale, purchase, attempt to purchase, consumption, or possession of alcohol; illegal use of fraudulent ID; illegal furnishing or obtaining of alcohol for an individual under 21 years; the degree of strictness of the penalties for such offenses; and the prevalence of the enforcement of each of these infractions.
(II) Whether or not the State has comprehensive liability statutes pertaining to underage access to alcohol such as dram shop, social host, and house party laws, and the prevalence of enforcement of each of these laws.
(III) Whether or not the State encourages and conducts comprehensive enforcement efforts to prevent underage access to alcohol at retail outlets, such as random compliance checks and shoulder tap programs, and the number of compliance checks within alcohol retail outlets measured against the number of total alcohol retail outlets in each State, and the result of such checks.
(IV) Whether or not the State encourages training on the proper selling and serving of alcohol for all sellers and servers of alcohol as a condition of employment.
(V) Whether or not the State has policies and regulations with regard to direct sales to consumers and home delivery of alcoholic beverages.
(VI) Whether or not the State has programs or laws to deter adults from purchasing alcohol for minors; and the number of adults targeted by these programs.
(VII) Whether or not the State has programs targeted to youths, parents, and caregivers to deter underage drinking; and the number of individuals served by these programs.
(VIII) Whether or not the State has enacted graduated drivers licenses and the extent of those provisions.
(IX) The amount that the State invests, per youth capita, on the prevention of underage drinking, further broken down by the amount spent on—
(aa) compliance check programs in retail outlets, including providing technology to prevent and detect the use of false identification by minors to make alcohol purchases;
(bb) checkpoints and saturation patrols that include the goal of reducing and deterring underage drinking;
(cc) community-based, school-based, and higher-education-based programs to prevent underage drinking;
(dd) underage drinking prevention programs that target youth within the juvenile justice and child welfare systems; and
(d) National media campaign to prevent underage drinking
(1) Scope of the campaign
The Secretary shall continue to fund and oversee the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of the national adult-oriented media public service campaign if the Secretary determines that such campaign is effective in achieving the media campaign's measurable objectives.
(2) Report
The Secretary shall provide a report to the Congress annually detailing the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of the campaign referred to in paragraph (1), and to detail in the report the effectiveness of the campaign in reducing underage drinking, the need for and likely effectiveness of an expanded adult-oriented media campaign, and the feasibility and the likely effectiveness of a national youth-focused media campaign to combat underage drinking.
(3) Consultation requirement
In carrying out the media campaign, the Secretary shall direct the entity carrying out the national adult-oriented media public service campaign to consult with interested parties including both the alcohol beverage industry and public health and consumer groups. The progress of this consultative process is to be covered in the report under paragraph (2).
(e) Interventions
(1) Community-based coalition enhancement grants to prevent underage drinking
(A) Authorization of program
The Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in consultation with the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, shall award, if the Administrator determines that the Department of Health and Human Services is not currently conducting activities that duplicate activities of the type described in this subsection, "enhancement grants" to eligible entities to design, test, evaluate and disseminate effective strategies to maximize the effectiveness of community-wide approaches to preventing and reducing underage drinking. This subsection is subject to the availability of appropriations.
(B) Purposes
The purposes of this paragraph are to—
(ii) strengthen collaboration among communities, the Federal Government, and State, local, and tribal governments;
(iii) enhance intergovernmental cooperation and coordination on the issue of alcohol use among youth;
(iv) serve as a catalyst for increased citizen participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and organizations of a community that first demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing alcohol use among youth;
(v) disseminate to communities timely information regarding state-of-the-art practices and initiatives that have proven to be effective in preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth; and
(C) Application
An eligible entity desiring an enhancement grant under this paragraph shall submit an application to the Administrator at such time, and in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Administrator may require. Each application shall include—
(i) a complete description of the entity's current underage alcohol use prevention initiatives and how the grant will appropriately enhance the focus on underage drinking issues; or
(D) Uses of funds
Each eligible entity that receives a grant under this paragraph shall use the grant funds to carry out the activities described in such entity's application submitted pursuant to subparagraph (C). Grants under this paragraph shall not exceed $50,000 per year and may not exceed four years.
(E) Supplement not supplant
Grant funds provided under this paragraph shall be used to supplement, not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for carrying out the activities described in this paragraph.
(F) Evaluation
Grants under this paragraph shall be subject to the same evaluation requirements and procedures as the evaluation requirements and procedures imposed on recipients of drug free community grants.
(G) Definitions
(H) Administrative expenses
Not more than 6 percent of a grant under this paragraph may be expended for administrative expenses.
(2) Grants directed at preventing and reducing alcohol abuse at institutions of higher education
(A) Authorization of program
The Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities to enable the entities to prevent and reduce the rate of underage alcohol consumption including binge drinking among students at institutions of higher education.
(B) Applications
An eligible entity that desires to receive a grant under this paragraph shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may require. Each application shall include—
(i) a description of how the eligible entity will work to enhance an existing, or where none exists to build a, statewide coalition;
(iii) a description of how the eligible entity intends to ensure that the statewide coalition is actually implementing the purpose of this section and moving toward indicators described in subparagraph (D);
(iv) a list of the members of the statewide coalition or interested parties involved in the work of the eligible entity;
(v) a description of how the eligible entity intends to work with State agencies on substance abuse prevention and education;
(vi) the anticipated impact of funds provided under this paragraph in preventing and reducing the rates of underage alcohol use;
(vii) outreach strategies, including ways in which the eligible entity proposes to—
(C) Uses of funds
Each eligible entity that receives a grant under this paragraph shall use the grant funds to carry out the activities described in such entity's application submitted pursuant to subparagraph (B).
(D) Accountability
On the date on which the Secretary first publishes a notice in the Federal Register soliciting applications for grants under this paragraph, the Secretary shall include in the notice achievement indicators for the program authorized under this paragraph. The achievement indicators shall be designed—
(i) to measure the impact that the statewide coalitions assisted under this paragraph are having on the institutions of higher education and the surrounding communities, including changes in the number of incidents of any kind in which students have abused alcohol or consumed alcohol while under the age of 21 (including violations, physical assaults, sexual assaults, reports of intimidation, disruptions of school functions, disruptions of student studies, mental health referrals, illnesses, or deaths);
(ii) to measure the quality and accessibility of the programs or information offered by the eligible entity; and
(E) Supplement not supplant
Grant funds provided under this paragraph shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for carrying out the activities described in this paragraph.
(F) Definitions
For purposes of this paragraph:
(i) Eligible entity The term "eligible entity" means a State, institution of higher education, or nonprofit entity.
(ii) Institution of higher education The term "institution of higher education" has the meaning given the term in section 1001 (a) of title 20.
(iv) State The term "State" means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(v) Statewide coalition The term "statewide coalition" means a coalition that—
(I) includes, but is not limited to—
(vi) Surrounding community The term "surrounding community" means the community—
(G) Administrative expenses
Not more than 5 percent of a grant under this paragraph may be expended for administrative expenses.
(f) Additional research
(1) Additional research on underage drinking
(A) In general
The Secretary shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, collect data, and conduct or support research that is not duplicative of research currently being conducted or supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, on underage drinking, with respect to the following:
(i) Comprehensive community-based programs or strategies and statewide systems to prevent and reduce underage drinking, across the underage years from early childhood to age 21, including programs funded and implemented by government entities, public health interest groups and foundations, and alcohol beverage companies and trade associations.
(ii) Annually obtain and report more precise information than is currently collected on the scope of the underage drinking problem and patterns of underage alcohol consumption, including improved knowledge about the problem and progress in preventing, reducing and treating underage drinking; as well as information on the rate of exposure of youth to advertising and other media messages encouraging and discouraging alcohol consumption.
(B) Certain matters
The Secretary shall carry out activities toward the following objectives with respect to underage drinking:
(i) Obtaining new epidemiological data within the national or targeted surveys that identify alcohol use and attitudes about alcohol use during pre- and early adolescence, including harm caused to self or others as a result of adolescent alcohol use such as violence, date rape, risky sexual behavior, and prenatal alcohol exposure.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 519B, as added Pub. L. 106–310, div. B, title XXXI, § 3109,Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1182; amended Pub. L. 109–422, § 2,Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 2890.)
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The Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997, referred to in subsec. (e)(1)(G), is Pub. L. 105–20, June 27, 1997, 111 Stat. 224, which is classified principally to subchapter II (§ 1521 et seq.) of chapter 20 of Title 21, Food and Drugs. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1997 Amendment note set out under section 1501 of Title 21 and Tables.
2006—Pub. L. 109–422added subsecs. (a) to (f) and struck out former subsecs. (a) to (f), which related, respectively, to the Secretary's authority to make grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts for programs to prevent underage drinking; eligibility requirements; evaluation; geographical distribution; duration of award; and authorization of appropriations.
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By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sandi Jackson, the wife of former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., resigned her seat on the Chicago city council on Friday, citing "very painful family health issues," after criticism over her frequent absences from council meetings.
Jesse Jackson Jr., who has been treated for bipolar disorder and according to media reports is under investigation for possible misuse of campaign funds, resigned his seat last November for what he described as health reasons.
In her letter of resignation, Sandi Jackson said she decided that her constituents and colleagues "deserve a partner who can commit all of their energies to the business of the people."
She has been splitting her time between Washington, D.C., where the family has a residence, and her Chicago home, according to reports. She has faced criticism from some constituents about her absences from council business, according to local media reports.
"As Sandi takes this time to focus on her family, we give her our deepest thanks and support for her service to our city and the residents of her ward," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement.
Emanuel will pick a replacement for Jackson to serve in her place until the February 2015 elections, according to Chicago Board of Elections spokesman Jim Allen.
Jesse Jackson Jr., the 47-year-old son of civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson, had been in Congress since 1995 before resigning last November.
Paul Green, a political science professor at Chicago's Roosevelt University, said the political pressure on Sandi Jackson was likely enormous.
"It's not easy being an alderman, especially when you have the problem with your husband," Green said. "The long knives have been sharpened for her. This had to be a tremendous mental pressure on her and that should relieve her of some of that."
Sandi Jackson was elected to her alderman seat on Chicago's South Side in February 2007.
Jesse Jackson Jr. was treated for at least six weeks last summer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for bipolar disorder, a psychological condition marked by extreme mood swings, and had been on medical leave for about six months before his resignation last November.
He has also been the subject of a House ethics committee probe over an alleged bribe offered by a Jackson supporter in 2008 to then-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
The bribe was said to be intended to entice Blagojevich to appoint Jackson to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. Jackson has admitted to lobbying for the seat, but denied knowing about any money offered to Blagojevich, who has since been convicted on corruption charges and imprisoned.
According to news reports citing unnamed sources, Jesse Jackson Jr. was also being investigated by the FBI over possible misuse of campaign money. A Wall Street Journal report said the investigation had expanded to include Sandi Jackson.
A spokesman for federal prosecutors had no comment on Friday.
The FBI has not confirmed the reports. In his resignation letter last November, Jesse Jackson Jr. acknowledged a probe was under way and said he was cooperating with investigators and accepted responsibility for "my mistakes, for they are my mistakes and mine alone."
Between 2001 and 2012, Sandi Jackson's consulting firm, J. Donatella & Associates, received about $472,000 from her husband's campaign. The biggest payments came in the 2011-12 campaign finance cycle, at $120,000 as of October 31, and the 2009-10 cycle, at $116,000, according to the website OpenSecrets.org, which compiles campaign financial data.
The Federal Election Commission has declared the practice of lawmakers employing relatives as legal for campaign committees. Sandi Jackson's campaign, Friends of Sandi Jackson, received $242,012 from her husband's campaign, according to OpenSecrets.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Matthew Lewis)


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During our conversation, I asked Cynthia if she ever struggled with her daughters' sense of style, especially considering she is a bonafide style icon! She laughed. It's a problem I have with my own 6-year-old daughter, Kaia. We have very different ideas of what looks good. When it comes to clothes, Kaia questions me more than anyone ever has. She constantly asks me if what I pick out really matches. She also likes to tell me that I like "cool" things and she likes "pretty" things. "Pretty" to her usually means sparkles, rainbows and stripes-on-stripes (or pink-on-pink, depending on her mood). I think if given the chance, Kaia would dress like one of the girls from "Toddlers and Tiaras" on pageant day. To say this frustrates me is an understatement. If there's one thing I'm passionate about it's kid fashion! It's what I do!
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Cynthia continued, "Fashion is one of the few ways kids can express themselves. It's how they learn who they are and who they want to be. With so little control over other aspects of their lives, kids turn to fashion as a means of self expression. I hope that I have given my daughters the tools and advice they need to make wise fashion choices, but what they wear is up to them."
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So thank you, Cynthia. You made a difference in my life and in the life of a little girl who today, on her first day of first grade, wore a sequined backpack, magenta tulle skirt and rainbow star knee-highs that she picked out on her own. She thought she looked fab, and you know what, she absolutely did. She looked like Kaia, and to me, there's nothing cooler than that.
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Lakers guard Kobe Bryant has maintained his silence about Mike Brown becoming the team's head coach. So I figured I'd stop by Sparks practice Friday afternoon to visit Kobe's father, Joe, who's serving as the team's assistant coach under Jennifer Gillom, for some possible answers. Below is the transcript on that subject and a few other Lakers-related topics.
What do you think of the Brown hire?
That's a good question. I don't know. It could be Mo, Larry or Curly [of the Three Stooges]. If anybody stepped into L.A., it's going to be difficult. It's going to be difficult. Brown won 60-plus games in the East with Cleveland. I wish him a lot of success. It's going to be important that the people around him give him good advice. Those things are important too.
Do you have a sense of what Kobe thinks about it and why he hasn't commented on it?
We don't talk about basketball. Everybody is waiting for that. Everybody is wondering why Kobe isn't saying nothing. I'm not giving you any inside stuff. Good try. Good try.
How do you think he will handle it?
Kobe is a professional. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. There's no need to make a comment on any of that stuff now. There might be a lockout.
The rest of Kobe's career obviously centers on how he will try to find a way to play through the mileage and injuries. What's your assessment on how he's been doing that?
You can't put it on age. All players have injuries, even young players have injuries. You learn to deal with pain and you learn how to understand your body. You also understand your game. When you're a student of the game, a lot of players rely on their athleticism. Once you get older and their athleticism is not there, then you don't know how to play. But Kobe knows how to play and understands the ABC's of the game. He understands the scouting report and how players are going to play and he understands his teammates. When you understand the game, it goes back to playing chess. You know how to move the pieces and you know how to move the ball.
You're not going to run as fast. You're not going to jump as high. You have to pick your moments. The great example when he picked his moment was the playoff game when he went down the middle and dunked, the one he had against [New Orleans center Emeka Okafor] in Game 5 of the first-round series. That was checkmate. He's a warrior and understands the game. All players have injuries. It's part of it and how he can manage it. He's been doing a good job with that. Nobody is going to run and jump [like] when they were 18 or 19. It's impossible for people to think that. As long as he's enjoying the game and keeps the two seven-footers [Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum], I still think he has three, four or five more years to play at a high level.
Three to five more years?
The issue is going to be when the media talks, he can't get 30 [points] anymore, but he's averaging 25 [points] and five [assists]. The expectations they'll put on him or say he can't do anymore, that's going to be the biggest challenge, dealing with it. The important thing is as long as he's enjoying the game and enjoying the challenge and still in the race to vie for a championship. That's motivation enough. If you're with a team that has no shot at making the playoffs, then mentally you're going to be down and the energy level isn't going to be up or your'e going to want to be traded. As long as he's enjoying the game and it's a challenge for him, I think he'll continue to play.
So you said one of the keys will entail Kobe having Bynum and Gasol. How does that dynamic need to work to be most effective?
Last year's playoffs against Boston, everybody was talking about Pau and how he needs to be tougher. One day I saw Pau before a game or at practice and I said, "Pau don't listen to all that. Just play tall. All of this stuff about being bruising is not your style and be more physical. That's not your style. Play tall." He looked at me and said, "Thanks." It's simple. That's why I can help a team. Sometimes assistant coaches get to hollering and screaming and sometimes I can say those things that make sense. The common sense things. That's the hard thing about being an assistant coach because you have to be on the same page with the head coach. I'm a little different. When I told Pau to play tall, it was like a bell went off.
So what ailed the Lakers last season?
They didn't have a three-point shooter If you don't make an open shot, the defense will set. That's the problem. If you can get someone who can shoot, then the floor opens up. Then Pau Gasol and Bynum and Kobe can penetrate because they're not double teamed. It's simple.
Every year that Michael Jordan played, he always had a shooter. Steve Kerr, John Paxson, B.J. Armstrong. Name all the shooters Kobe had in his career. When crack reporters are analyzing the game, that's the first thing they should look at. What helped Michael out was he would penetrate, get double teamed and then stick it out to Steve Kerr. Kobe never had that, but he's still been successful.
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Migrating from 1.0.x to 1.5 Stable
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Migrator link is broken the new one is http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/7279/24909/migrator.zip
Step One: A newer version of migrator available. Article says RC6, but 1.0 Stable available http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/7279/24909/migrator.zip
Suggest an addition to the documentation that if a third party plugin does not show up in the list after uploading, check the permissions on /administrator/components/com_migrator/plugins/ (should be 777) at the same time, check the dumps directory for the same permissions.
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Looking into the code of a migrator plugin - especially the basic ones (this is the kind 99% of the novice users would need) - it appears this is very simple to code. I would like to add a little article on how to create a basic migrator plugin.
For this, I'd start from 2 addons used in the component already (for core tables): the poll_data plugin (no transformation of the data - just adaption to the UTF) and the content plugin (the most complicated one in the core set).
A walk-through of these two plug-ins would help a lot of people to create their own plugins...
Here's what I've got already:
Third-party add-ons for the migrator component
If you got to this page, I'll be assuming a few things: for starters you're familiar with the great Migrator component. You'll find more about this component on Pasamio Project's FRS site. You've probably been using it to migrate a site to Joomla 1.5.x … and I might assume that you bumped into some tables that weren't migrated because the add-on was missing... Furthermore, I'll be assuming that you know some elementary PHP, SQL and the basics of the Joomla framework (mostly Joomla 1.0). This hand-out is meant for all of us (I'm inclusing myself in here) who wrote some tiny little component in Joomla 1.0, and now want to make the leap to 1.5 – but already have a load of SQL data they don't want to manually input again (possibly on half a dozen sites). My last assumption is that you're too lazy too do all the manual work... and you'd prefer some simple script doing it for you. In the examples, we'll be assuming default settings too... if you've changed them, you'll know.
Why not?
On almost every forum out there tackling Joomla, you'll find one or another posting complaining about the lack of a migrator add-on for this or another component out there. Probably the most important reason for those add-ons not being there, is because there's no simple step-by-step tutorial out here (on the web). There are a few (more technical) explanations out there, that go into the deeps of the mechanics of the migrator component... but for me they rather scared me away than encourage me to look into it. But that was until today: today I actually opened the code... and looked into the "plugins" folder of the component. Then I ordered them according to file size, and opened the tinyest one of them: Wow man! This is really easy!! The easy approach: it's a "black box" So what this component actually does in all its nitty gritty details? I don't have to know that. All I need to know is: what should I feed it, so it burps out a nice great Joomla 1.5 compatible SQL result?
First example: nothing changes...
I guess for over 99% of the components out there, the SQL tables won't need to change if you migrate the component (not talking about the code here... just the content) I don't think this can get much easier... except maybe if the component itself would automatically migrate all tables without plugin in this manner... We'll have a look at "poll_data.php" – the plugin that migrates the data for the polls. This data can be found in the table jos_poll_data. The code actually starts at line 20 with the definition of a class. Next we're defining some key variables.
Second example: big changes are needed...
Maybe this part would even be out of my league... but once it's in place, I'm sure others will append to it.
--Jurgen. 21:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
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Suggest adding this link Guide for migrating to Joomla 1.5 with Agora Forum