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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
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- laughingwolf said...
hi steve, thx so much for this 'show n tell', excellent example of how to snare the reader then keep the interest flowing... pictures from words, indeed
bernita, your first guest blogger is a superb choice, thank you...
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- June 08, 2010 9:48 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
Good stuff. I know some of my friends who read a lot do check out websites to get visuals on authors. It matters to some folks at least.
I also know of one older author who hired a young attractive woman to pretend to be her for public signings and events.
- June 08, 2010 10:30 AM
- Bernita said...
Nice illustration of his process, isn't it, LW!
I think I use a variation, though not as regulated.
Charles, I especially liked this photo of Steve, because a reader can easily imagine him writing a thriller/mystery.
And that, I'm afraid, I consider dishonest.
Even though I understand she must felt her own appearance might discourage readers from buying her book, one wonders if there was a certain Mary Sue transference going on on her part.
- June 08, 2010 11:11 AM
- sex scenes at starbucks said...
I'm listening to my son play his new song "Crazy Train" on the drums. He's been working on just the fills for a few weeks (it's a fast song with complicated fills for an 11 yr old). This is the first time he's played with the music. He's playing about 2/3 of the notes and will fill in as his endurance grows.
Ah, he's playing it again without my asking. I bet he fills in more notes this round...
- June 08, 2010 1:07 PM
- Bernita said...
I suppose there is a similarity, Betsy.
- June 08, 2010 3:59 PM
- Alissa said...
I do tend to look at author photos. There can be negative drawbacks. I can't remember the book, but about a year or so ago I read one and the author photo showed a young man in a hooded sweatshirt who looked like he had just rolled out of bed. It made me think less of his book.
Steve's post is great, and I agree completely about over-description. I've read books that take two paragraphs to describe what a character is wearing, and I feel like I am reading an issue of Vogue.
- June 08, 2010 7:12 PM
- Barbara Martin said...
Interesting how you pull the reader in, Steve, and keep them there until the end with memories.
I, too, scribble in the beginning, but usually in paragraphs. Rarely are there brief phrases.
Bernita, an author's photo speaks a thousand words.
- June 08, 2010 8:31 PM
- Bernita said...
Too bad about that particular author, Alissa, though in general I prefer the casual photograph to the studio portrait kind.
Barbara, I follow Steve's idea, but my style is disorganized bits and pieces of scribbled words and fragments on the nearest available paper.
- June 08, 2010 8:37 PM
I see parallels between Steve's writing style and yours. He's a perfect guest blogger for you!
- June 09, 2010 8:04 AM
- Bernita said...
A flattering comparison, Jason. Thank you.
- June 09, 2010 9:00 AM
- Lauren said...
I enjoy seeing pictures of the authors in books, but I wouldn't go out of my way to find their pictures if they were not on the flap.
I scribble but more the action than the scene mostly because I like the action better :) I like Steven's scribble, sketch, draw analogy. What a great way to look at it!
- June 10, 2010 3:25 PM
"It was a dark and stormy night"...yes,less is more and I hope never to stop learning.
Orietta L'abbate
- June 29, 2010 9:45 PM
- Bernita said...
Somehow I missed your post earlier, Lauren, I'm sorry.
Yes, interesting if available but I don't go looking for one either.
Makes sense, the action is the anchor of any scene.
Orietta, I agree.
- June 30, 2010 2:18 AM


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Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said the amphibious landing ships were in place for the possible evacuation of Russian citizens from Syria.
"Our actions are in strict compliance with international law and the UN Charter," added Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Anotov, defending the action as "a legitimate, natural and predictable reaction to the situation developing."
The maneuver involves two ships from the Black Sea Fleet, the frigate Smetlivyi and landing ship Filchenkov, an electronic surveillance vessel, a high-ranking source at the Defense Ministry said. Earlier this summer, Russian news agencies reported the navy was moving an anti-submarine ship and missile cruiser into waters near Syria.
Russia's move comes amid continued tensions between the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin, who have expressed continued skepticism that Bashar al-Assad is solely responsible for the chemical weapons attacks in Syria, and the United States, which has unequivocally concluded the weapons were used by the Assad regime against rebelling civilians. While on his overseas trip, President Barack Obama has embarked on a campaign to drum up international support for military action against the Assad regime, and has meet with stiff resistance from the Kremlin.
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What's Up in Pizza: Pizza Perfume, Maxwell's Transformation, and More!
I associate the Demeter perfume brand with highschool—for some reason it always ended up in Christmas stockings, and was a popular Secret Santa gift-of-choice. Luckily, this lets me slot their new scent into a nostalgic box, surrounded by other strange and unusual options like Stringbean and Angel Food, so it doesn't seem quite as weird as it might otherwise. The fresh fragrance? Pizza, of course.
Demeter's own website recognizes that it's a bit of a stretch as a wearable scent, but they wanted to attempt the perfect balance of "tomato sauce, creamy mozzarella, and a touch of oregano" for the adventurous spirit. Insanely, it has a pretty good rating so far—almost 5 stars—although most people agree that while it smells delicious, it's not especially practical. I can't say I see myself wearing this...but I'm definitely curious to smell it for myself!
The Jersey Journal has reported that Hoboken rock club Maxwell's is no more—or rather, no longer a music venue. The new owners of the iconic space will keep the old name, but have plans to transform the space into a family restaurant, specializing in "thin-crust, artisanal pizza". Evan Dean and Pete Carr, new owners, say the change reflects the shifting nature of the neighborhood. "You can't help but notice all the baby strollers on Washington Street these days. Those young families need a comfortable place to have dinner." They claim to want to keep some of the original spirit, and are open to the idea of live music performances, but it remains to be seen if the old clientele will be lured back or not—and how the pizza plays out.
For any of our Midwestern readers (at least, if you happen to like Hungry Howie's), be sure to tune into the Super Bowl this Sunday, and pay extra attention to the ads. The chain is running two ads detailing how to enter the "Howie's for Life" contest, where one lucky person gets—you guessed it—pizza for life. The official site for the contest is currently little more than a placeholder, but will go live this Sunday, February 2nd, at 7:30 PM with more details. Good luck to anyone who enters!
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As the news of overheating lithium-ion batteries continues to surface, the industry is working to develop fuel and energy cells made of different materials. And a group of US and UK researchers has made a breakthrough in the development of batteries that use bacteria as their reactive material.
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state and the UK's University of East Anglia have found that it's possible to produce an electrical current by touching proteins on the surface of bacteria to a mineral surface, thus paving the way for the creation of microbial fuel cells.
The scientists said in a press release that they created a synthetic version of the marine bacteria shewanella oneidensis using proteins that are thought to move electrons.
They inserted these proteins into the lipid layers of vesicles, which are small capsules of lipid membranes such as the ones that make up a bacterial membrane. Then they tested how well electrons travelled between an electron donor on the inside and an iron-bearing mineral on the outside.
Tom Clark, the lead researcher on the project from UEA's School of Biological Sciences, said in the release:
We knew that bacteria can transfer electricity into metals and minerals, and that the interaction depends on special proteins on the surface of the bacteria. But it was not been clear whether these proteins do this directly or indirectly though an unknown mediator in the environment.
The researchers found that it's possible to place bacteria directly on the surface of a metal or mineral and transfer electricity through their cell membranes, therefore tethering bacteria directly to electrodes.
"This is the first time that we have been able to actually look at how the components of a bacterial cell membrane are able to interact with different substances, and understand how differences in metal and mineral interactions can occur on the surface of a cell," Clark said.
Though there is still a ways to go before batteries can be developed using this method, "these bacteria show great potential as microbial fuel cells, where electricity can be generated from the breakdown of domestic or agricultural waste products," he said.
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February 8, 2013
The "All-Star Jam" at Loyola University New Orleans Feb. 28 will bring together some of New Orleans' most innovative jazz artists in celebration of the historic jam session tradition.
The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Satchmo's in the Danna Student Center and will feature guitarist Steve Masakowski, drummer Johnny Vidacovich, bassist Roland Guerin, pianist Mike Esneault and saxophonist Tony Dagradi.
Popularized in the New York jazz scene of the 1940s and early 1950s, jam sessions serve as prolific meeting places for both established and novice musicians in which soloists try to keep up with the house band and outdo each other in improvisational skill.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for Loyola faculty and staff, and free for Loyola students. Tickets are available online at www.montage.loyno.edu or by calling 504-865-2074, and will also be available at the door 30 minutes prior to the performance. Free parking is available in the West Road Garage, which is accessible from St. Charles Avenue.
Regarded as one of the top jazz artists from New Orleans, Masakowski has released numerous CDs, including two on the prestigious Blue Note Records label. He is a member and composer of the award-winning, cutting-edge jazz quartet Astral Project.
Vidacovich combines elements of New Orleans' traditional rhythms with free techniques and mainstream sensibilities. His command of dynamics, distinctive melodic accents and effervescent swing has brought him international recognition as the quintessential modern New Orleans drummer.
Guerin emerged in the forefront of the international jazz arena for providing unique and melodic bass lines and dazzling audiences worldwide with his slap-bass technique. In addition to leading six recordings of his own, he has appeared on more than 80 albums worldwide.
An Emmy Award-winning composer, Esneault has performed or recorded with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Frank Morgan, Brian Blade and many others. He has established a prolific career working in television, motion pictures, radio, live concerts and recordings.
Dagradi, also well-known for his work with Astral Project, is an internationally recognized performer, composer, author and educator. A New Orleans resident for more than three decades, Dagradi often performs on tenor and soprano sax with many of the Crescent City's most talented musicians.
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by Tom Utescher
Rowing fans supporting Chestnut Hill Academy, Springside School, and Penn Charter were all able to cheer on finalists from their schools at last weekend's Stotesbury Cup Regatta, not a mean feat considering that "Stotes" is the largest high school regatta in the world and attracts some 5000 athletes to the Kelly Drive racecourse on the Schuylkill.
Springside sent its senior double and senior quad through to the final round on Saturday afternoon, and the quad's inspiring performance resulted in a gold medal for the Lions (see separate story). CHA also had two entries still alive in the last round, its lightweight and senior doubles. The two-year old Penn Charter program could also boast of a Stotesbury finalist this year; the girls' junior double made it through the qualifying and semifinals to join the Saturday afternoon dance.
Germantown Friends' Andrew Bair, a sophomore racing against many older competitors in the senior single category, qualified 17th in an initial field of 35 boats, then finished sixth in a semifinal where only the top two rowers could continue on.
In the qualifying stage on Friday, the boats in each category were started one-by-one down the course and then ranked according to time. In the less populous categories, the quickest 12 went on to one of two semifinal races, then the top three finishers in each of those contests made the finals. In the events with the largest number of competitors, the fastest 18 boats were seeded into three semifinals, and in those races only the top two made the cut for the medal round.
You could have closed your eyes and not gone near a window and forecast the weather for Friday. It was the usual opening day at Stotesbury; overcast, a bit cool, with occasional rain. Conditions improved markedly on Saturday.
Several boats from each school made their exit during the qualifying round. CHA's Drew Ansel ended his run in the senior single, and the Blue Devils' junior quad (Seth Bakes (stroke), Mark Anspach, Alec Horter, Jordan Wang) was 14th in qualifying, two places short of a trip to the semifinals.
Penn Charter's girls' junior quad (Sami Kapnek (stroke), Tara Malone, Tess Reinhold, Katie O'Malley) was also two spots away from continuing on, qualifying 14th, and the boys' junior quad for the Quakers (Grant Shaffer (stroke), Clay Bryan, Jack Delaney, Sam Jolinger) didn't survive the cut, either.
Springside qualified all of its entries, most of them in categories where they had to be among the top 12 crews. The senior quad (Verity Walsh (stroke), Taylor Apostolico, Jen Sager, Anna Valciukas) qualified fourth, the senior double (Victoria Iannarone, Becca Chasar) fifth,, the junior quad (Anna Rose Bedrosian (stroke), Amanda Price, Victoria Byron, Marguerite Zabriskie) ninth, and the lightweight double (Paige Gembala, Tilden Bissell) 10th.
The junior double (Emily Eisler, Katie Blake) was 11th, and the Lions' lone sweep rowing boat, a lightweight four (Mia Gold (cox), Mozelle Rosenthal (stroke), Chelsea Richardson, Rose Donahue, Allie Schreffler) started out among 27 entries and were 14th out of the 18 crews that made the semifinals.
The Springside boats encountered stiffer resistance in the semifinals, where the light four, the junior quad, and the lightweight double each placed fifth and saw their weekend of racing come to an end. The Lions came in sixth in their junior double semifinal, but another duo, the senior double, came in third in a semifinal race won by eventual gold medalist Shaker High School, from upstate New York.
The Lions' senior quad was second in its semifinal and went on to win gold. In the senior double, the finalists were strung out more than half-a-minute apart at the end, with Iannarone and Chasar coming in fifth.
Meanwhile, CHA's freshman quad (Peter Anthony (stroke), Jamie MacEachern, Will Elliott, James Meadows), senior double (Laddy St. George, Zach Baron), and lightweight double (Drew Adubato, Carl Delacato) each ranked sixth in their qualifying races. They moved on to the semifinals, as did the senior quad (John Olson (stroke), Mike Calistri, Terence Jones, Walt Palmer), which qualified ninth.
Two members of the freshman quad, Anthony and Meadows, had a very successful spring in a freshman double, but there was no category for them to compete in at Stotesbury. Their foursome finished up by placing fourth in the semifinals, one spot shy of an appearance in the final race, and the Blue Devil senior quad suffered precisely the same fate.
The other two Chestnut Hill qualifiers moved on into the finals with third-place showings in the semis. In the senior double, no one could touch the Canadian combo from Denis Morris, which seized the gold medal with almost eight seconds to spare. The Devils' St. George and Baron were in the slow-moving lane six, and that was the number of their finish, as well. In the lightweight double, CHA's "Team Badocato" placed fifth in the final race.
Three Penn Charter tandems survived the qualifiers at Stotes; the girls' junior double (Heidi Zisselman, Maria Georgiou) and senior double (Alix Azizi, Jenna Maurer), and the boys' junior double (Spencer Grant, Kevin Kelly). Also going through to the semifinals was the girls' freshman quad (Hannah Kramer (stroke), Liza Gendler, Isa Djerassi, Celina McCall).
Grant and Kelly qualified eighth in a large field and went on to a semifinal race where only the top two crews would advance. Here they were third, just 0.39 seconds behind Roman Catholic, which moved on.
Two of the girls' boats ended their weekend in the same round, with the senior double landing in fifth place, and the freshman quad in sixth.
Charter's Georgiou and Zisselman, both sophomores, qualified fourth in the junior double and went through to the finals with a third-place outing in the semifinal round. On Saturday afternoon they came within one place of capturing the first Stotesbury medal for PC's modern-day rowing program, finishing fourth with a time of 5:38.85.


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BOSTON, Mass. – On the first day of the 2013 Beacons Invitational, volleyball suffered a pair of losses as they were defeated by another regionally ranked opponent in Endicott College and first-time opponent Haverford College (Pa.) Saturday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Gym.
In the opener UMB was defeated by the Gulls of Endicott by the final of 3-1 (23-25, 26-24, 20-25, 18-25) before falling to the Fords who traveled to Boston all the way from Pennsylvania in a marathon of a match (25-17, 16-25, 26-28, 30-28, 10-15).
Despite the pair of losses the Beacons did have a moment to celebrate as senior hitter Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) set the all-time program record for digs by a four-year UMass Boston player. With her combined 31 digs in the two matches, Porter now stands at 1,204 career digs, breaking the original program mark set by Shannon Thompson '13 last season. Also walking away with a record performance was freshman Elizabeth Glavan (Edina, Minn.) as she set the program mark for most digs in a five game match with 39, which she recorded against Haverford. The Beacons as a whole tied the program mark for most digs in a five game match as a team with 100, which they also reached in their match with the Fords.
In the first match a trio of Beacons finished with 10 or more kills led by Porter's team-high 15. Senior Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) notched a career-best 45 assists in the loss, and scored two of the Beacons face aces. Defensively, Glavan posted 23 digs, while Porter finished with the Beacon's only double-double coming up with 16 digs. Combined UMB recorded 10 block assists in the loss, with Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) responsible for three of those.
As a squad the Beacons hit .237 against their non-conference rivals, but it was the Gulls who led the match as they recorded a hitting percentage of .312. After Endicott managed to sneak by with a 25-23 win in game one, the Beacons battled back in game two to take a 26-24 victory. Unfortunately the third game was controlled mostly by Endicott which earned them a 25-20 decision. The fourth game, UMB tried to rally late but could not overcome a huge deficit falling to the Gulls 25-18.
In the second match of the day, which went over two hours the Beacons faced first-time opponent and top contender in the Centennial Conference in Haverford College. It was a wild match from start to finish that could have truly gone either way.
After a dominant win in the first game with UMB earning a 25-17 win, the Fords managed to pick-up back-to-back victories in the form of a 25-16 decision in the second game and a 28-26 decision in the third. With their backs up against the wall, the Beacons dug deep in the fourth and edged out the Fords to take a 30-28 decision forcing the decisive fifth game.
Looking as if their comeback in the fourth would carry them into the fifth, the Beacons struggled early and with a pair of big runs by the Ford, saw their chance at a day one split slip through their fingers.
Just like the first match UMB multiple players finish with 10+ digs, this time it was freshman Julia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) leading the offense for UMB with her 15 kills. Behind her it was Morrison and Amber Clemons (Simi Valley, Calif.) with 11 each and then Patsy Boland (Chicago, Ill.) with 10. Bri Sousa (Swansea, Mass.) hit a team-lead .357 in the match but it was once again her play at the net that stood out as she finished with a pair of solo blocks to go along with three block assists.
Pollock was solid all match tallying a new career-best in less than 24 hours, this time putting up a total 56 assists. Also setting a new career-best was Glavan as the Minnesota native tallied 39 digs in the five-set battle. Porter notched 15 digs, while Christine DuPuis (Minden, Nev.) and Pollock finished with 11 each.
Volleyball returns to action tomorrow when they face Babson College at 2 p.m. followed by a 6 p.m. match with Colby-Sawyer College.


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January 18, 2019, 7:01 pmChris Paul - G - Houston Rockets
Mark Berman of Fox 26 in Houston reported that Chris Paul (Grade-2 hamstring strain) is back at practice and may return to game action in around a week.
It also might be a bit longer, but it looks as if Paul is on the way to returning, and it looks like it'll be soon. Paul has had a rough season, missing 18 games so far this season due to injury or suspension and hopefully he'll be able to stay healthy for his owners down the stretch.
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June 20, 2019, 2:41 pmGlenn Robinson III - G/F - Detroit Pistons
James Edwards III of The Athletic is reporting the Pistons are "unlikely" to exercise their team option on Glenn Robinson III.
Robinson would be a $4.27 million cap hit next season. Blake Griffin isn't getting any younger, so the Pistons are hoping to clear room to be active in the trade market.
Source: James Edwards III on Twitter
June 20, 2019, 12:51 pmTJ Warren - F - Phoenix Suns
SportsNet New York's Ian Begley is reporting the Mavs are among teams interested in acquiring the Suns' T.J. Warren via trade.
Begley also reports the Suns are open to moving both Warren and Josh Jackson. Both Warren and Jackson have been recently included in trade rumors over the past few weeks, so there is some traction to the reports from several outlets. With many young assets and teams kicking the tires, it won't be surprising if the Suns re-tool a little bit.
Source: Ian Begley on Twitter
June 20, 2019, 12:26 pmJahlil Okafor - C - New Orleans Pelicans
ESPN's Malika Andrews is reporting the Pelicans will exercise Jahlil Okafor's team option for the 2019-2020 season.
Okafor is due just $1.7 million next season, so this was an easy call. According to Andrews, the Pels staff is impressed by Okafor's work ethic and progress on defense. David Griffin could be in the middle of rebuilding something special in New Orleans. With so many assets, they are just getting started.
Source: Malika Andrews on Twitter
June 20, 2019, 12:16 pmAron Baynes - F/C - Boston Celtics
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting the Celtics are actively shopping Aron Baynes.
Baynes recently exercised his $5.9 million player option for the 2019-2020 season, but the Celtics would like to open up more cap space. As the Celtics are rumored to lose Kyrie Irving and Al Horford to free agency, they need more money to play with when June 30th rolls around to kick off free agency. Baynes is a solid center off the bench and relatively cheap, so expect a move in the coming days.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
June 20, 2019, 12:09 pmStephen Curry - Team - Golden State Warriors
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting the Warriors are sending $1.3 million in cash and a 2024 second-rounder to the Hawks in exchange for the No. 41 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.
With a team as cap-strapped (especially if KD stays) as the Warriors, second-rounders become very important. Whoever the Warriors draft could potentially become a rotational player. As we saw in the NBA Finals, the Warriors could use some depth and this player could see significant minutes depending on the circumstances. The Warriors have been very good with late selections, so it will be interesting to see what player they chase with the pick.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
June 20, 2019, 12:01 amAaron Holiday - G - Indiana Pacers
Aaron Holiday is in demand when the Pacers are discussing trades with other teams prior to Thursday's draft.
Holiday is one of the five players under contract for the Pacers that averaged over 10 minutes per game last season, so he is definitely one of the primary assets on their roster. We could see Holiday on another team come Thursday night or sometime during this offseason as the Pacers could look to make a home run move.
Source: IndyStar
June 19, 2019, 11:07 pmJon Leuer - F - Detroit Pistons
The Pistons have agreed to give the Bucks Jon Leuer for Tony Snell and the 30th pick in the 2019 NBA Draft on Wednesday night.
The Pistons now own two picks in the first round, but they take on Tony Snell's contract for this season and next season. The Pistons are stuck in the middle of the Eastern Conference right now, so they are trying to acquire picks hoping that they can find a gem that will lift their franchise.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
June 19, 2019, 11:02 pmTony Snell - G - Milwaukee Bucks
The Bucks have agreed to trade Tony Snell to the Pistons for Jon Leuer on Wednesday night.
The Pistons will also receive the 30th pick in the first round of Thursday's draft. The Bucks made it clear that they were trying to trade Snell and Ersan Ilyasova, so they have accomplished half of their goal. The Bucks save $4 million in salary this season and no longer have Snell's $12 million on the books for the 2020-21 season.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
June 19, 2019, 10:14 pmR.J Barrett - G - College
The New Orleans Pelicans are looking to assemble a package to get themselves the 2nd overall pick in the draft so that they can draft R.J Barrett before the Knicks can according to Peter Vecsey of the New York Post.
This potential deal would hinge on convincing the Grizzlies to pass up on Ja Morant, a seemingly unlikely move seeing how they just traded Mike Conley with no PG coming back in return. With all the assets in their arsenal it's certainly feasible that the Pelicans could find a way to make this work, but as of now it seems like a steep mountain to overcome.
Source: Peter Vecsey on Twitter
June 19, 2019, 8:05 pmRomeo Langford - G - College
Romeo Langford said that his right thumb surgery recovery is 'going good' and that he expects to be ready to go for Summer League.
The injury was never thought of being anything serious so this is right about where his recovery should be expected. Following a rough shooting season, the 19 year old guard has seen his draft value fluctuate a good amount since the beginning of the year, going from a sure-fire top 10 pick to floating around as a mid-first rounder. Still, he possesses solid two-way potential and could see some early playing time depending on the situation he lands in.
Source: Scott Agness on Twitter


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On September 10, 2013, Rounder will release the Steep Canyon Rangers' Tell The Ones I Love, the follow-up to 2012's Grammy-winning Nobody Knows You.
This album was somewhat of a departure for the band: when the time came to record, they headed north to Levon Helm's famed studio in Woodstock, NY, with Grammy-winning producer Larry Campbell.
Their association with Campbell came about after the band played Levon's Midnight Ramble last year. They impressed Helm enough that he invited them to come back and record at the barn. Unfortunately, that didn't happen before his untimely passing, but they still felt his joyful, creative spark and subtle influence while working in his studio.
The band wanted Tell The Ones I Love to reflect the spirit of their concerts—an original, freewheeling, high-energy approach to bluegrass that rests mainly on the songwriting of Graham Sharp and Charles Humphrey. They recorded the album almost entirely live, using few overdubs.
While the Steep Canyon Rangers were certainly open to recording songs by other composers, or to dip into traditional material, Campbell ultimately had them record all original tunes, based both on the strength of the songs and the band's arrangements.
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One way that the band stretched bluegrass boundaries was with their use of drums and percussion on Tell The Ones I Love. "We didn't want something that was just a bluegrass track with drums laid on it like an afterthought," said Sharp. "We wanted something that was really integrated." They enlisted Jeff Sipe ( Leftover Salmon, Susan Tedeschi, Aquarium Rescue Unit), whom Sharp described as "one of the best drummers around."
Tell The Ones I Love showcases the Steep Canyon Rangers' myriad talents— nimble instrumental agility, tight harmony vocals, and inventive songwriting. The 12-song set ranges from full-band workouts like the title track to the haunting, vocally tight "Hunger." On "Las Vegas," the band displays jazzy touches while Mike Guggino's instrumental "Graveyard Fields" is a bluegrass tour de force.
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By Sarah Edwards, CNN
(CNN) - The maker of a Google app thinks it's fun to make yourself look Asian by changing the shape of your eyes and wearing a Fu Manchu mustache and rice paddy hat.
Another app - "Make Me Indian" - makes you a Native American with brown skin, war paint and a feather headband.
"This is just a fun app (that) lets you indulge you and your friends," says the description of the "Make Me Asian" app created by user KimberyDeiss and available on Google Play.
"You can for a few seconds to make (yourself) a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other Asians," the description says.
Not amusing or cute, say Asian-American organizations that launched a petition to get Google to remove both apps.
The apps use dated and racist stereotypes of Asians and Native Americans, said the online campaign 18 Million Rising, named after the number of Asian-Americans in the United States.
"These racist and offensive portrayals of Asians and Native Americans perpetuate damaging racial stereotypes and should not be distributed on the Google play store," said the campaign, which has an online petition to remove the apps.
Google, however, said the apps are not in violation of the company's policies that protect against hate speech.
"We don't comment on individual apps," Google said in a statement. "We remove apps from Google Play that violate our policies."
KimberyDeiss makes other photo-altering apps including "Make Me Old" and "Make Me Fat." There's also "Make Me Russian" and "Make Me Irish," which play off stereotypes.
But the furor in the Asian-American community, sparked a few weeks ago, is growing. Blogs, including Angry Asian Man, have reinforced the call to remove the apps.
Washington pastor Peter Chin decided to mount an even larger protest on the website Change.org.
Chin said he understood Google's motto is "Don't be evil." That makes it hard to fathom why the company would support these apps, he said.
This is the first time Chin has protested in this way. He was prompted to act, he said, because Google refused to do so.
"Google normalizes everything from Google maps, Gmail," he said. "If you want to search for something on the Internet, you even say to 'Google it.'"
Chin feared Google's power would make people think the apps were OK.
"I wanted to make sure this app isn't given a pass of approval," he said.
Chin said he wants Google users to know that the stereotypes in the apps have been used to marginalize and discriminate against people.
"It's not cool," he said.
CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report.
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...you must reside in an extremely low life area of the country, maybe asia would be better for you
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I am an first generation Asian American who was not born in this country. I will admit that I would feel these apps would be very offensive in my younger days. But I just laugh at something like this now.
However, I laugh even harder at ABCs (American Born Chinese, or insert Korean or other nationality) who take this so seriously. They should learn their own language more proficiently and stop trying to foster Pan-Asianism (a concept that is deemed "American" in most Asian nations)
The more "Angry Asian Men" perpetuate this kind of outrage, the more they appear like outraged African American groups
Let's make an app of a 300lb. Southern white woman with big hair, a Marlboro sticking out of the side of her face, wearing a snuggie sweat suit with HOT MOMMA spelled over the backside, flip-flops over bobby socks and parking her Dodge Ram in the fire lane at Walmart so that she can waddle to an electric handicap buggy to buy more smokes and 'nanner puddin', how's that for a stereotype???
I wouldn't be offended if there was a Make me Jewish App which shows someone with a big nose, curly sideburns and eating a knish, why the hell you getting offended with this stupid app?
Waa, Waa, next thing you know an app showing places where there is a large asian population living will come out to tell people to drive cautiously due to bad driving will come out and will you be there to whine again?
Speaking of which, two app ideas that are gold...
That app wouldn't work in my case, perhaps you could send me your picture or make your picture the default in the app.
If you ban this app, then you should also ban rice paddy hats and fu man moustaches, because it is possible a white person might put on one of those hats or grow a moustache. Maybe put a ban on whites to only act a certain way and only do what is approved by the government.
That app is built into every modern smartphone and most standard cell phones for that matter
Personally, when it comes to humor, I think there should be no holds barred. And anyway, racial and ethnic humor is not automatically "racist" and intolerant.
1890S-1938 GERMANY and Austria made cartoons of Jews. After that along with a lot of propaganda and scapegoating (like we do to blacks) they justified the final solution. Just think–it all started with humor..isn't that interesting?
so the solution then is to ban humor so everyone can be the same. Let's all only be super serious and never allow any kind of humor that the Queen Bee does not approve of.
They also made derogatory, false and offensive remarks about Polish people. People are ignorant around the world. The type of people who laugh at others show how low their intellect really is. I used to be offended by buffoons like this, but now I look at it as a blessing in disguise. If you happen to be in their presence, you will know exactly who to avoid and ignore.
The developer should go all out and make apps for handicaps, deformities, downs syndrome blacks, Hispanics, and while we are at it parkinsons and maybe Alzheimer. let's not stop there, make a rape victim app or a rapist app and maybe a pedophile app–why not? We all need to lighten up right? SOME people are such jerks and so clueless–not only will I not get this app–but I won't get the others that make fun of other people/ethnicities or races either–because it is not funny if the people you target are not laughing–I can find better ways to humor myself. and it IS racist.
if you had an idea of what liberalsm denotates(beside what you think it is) you would realize thee is no such thing, its all squamplsdeshnttook and what you have are representatives who represent you and the ones(all of them) who represent those who will reelect them so they will have a job they can do without any repercusions
Then whites are always wondering why other races don't like them....give you one good guess...
I noticed that a lot of the comments posted here so far say things like "I'm not offended, why should anyone else be?", "If they made so-and-so app, I would just laugh", "They need to get over it", and then they create all sorts of hypothetical situations. Point being, it's all about "I think this", "I think that" "Me, me, me, MY opinion", "Why can't everyone else think the same way that I do?"
As one person stated earlier, it's called empathy. Think about those other than yourselves, or other than whoever you associate with. Realize that many people have been through hurt and often have a good reason for being offended. And I'm not talking about people who 'cry over every single little thing' like some of you claim.
So what if they deal with situations differently than you do and can't simply leave it in the past? It doesn't make them wrong. If they learn from the racial blows they had to deal with and continue living a normal life, then they're strong. It also takes someone else just as strong to be sensitive towards that person.
amen...American culture is so narcissistic that people only think that their own opinion and experience matter. And if you are Asian and don't think that this is a problem, I would strongly suggest you read up on your history of how Asians came to America and really think about how you feel as a minority in America...I think that Asian-Americans who say "I"m Asian but I don't care as long as it's funny" really need to do some introspection...why are you apologizing for someone else's sins? Don't "kowtow" to what the majority thinks is "funny"...it is AT YOUR AND YOUR ANCESTORS EXPENSE.
If the U.S. didn't have such a rich history of mainstream-condoned discrimination, racism, exclusion, hate crime and cultural ignorance, then stuff like this would probably be considered a gag by the objects of it, but as things stand there is a need to be a little PC, because in this country, when folks start making derogatory jokes about people like you, it's a good idea to carry a Saturday Night Special and a spare clip before you go out at night...
I had enough of these asians. They have been here since 1975 and still working the system, free of taxes, food stamps, and alot of other freebies. Take care of our own FIRST. This is America, this is our country...I dont appreciate them coming here and cooking and eating dogs and cats and laughing about it. I dont want to hear " it's their custom" That is not American custom, go back to your country if you want to continue practicing those type of customs. I am sick of their rudeness and nastiness.They dont tip in service industries, yet most of them work in tipping industries such as restaurants and nail shops. Yet they frequent American service industries and leave no tip. I wish they would all go back to wherever the hell they came from. And for all of our men serving in the armed forces...these women are nothing but gold diggers. They always try to latch onto a soldier for the benefits, get a clue and leave thes females alonr
LoL eating cats and dogs? Asians are the most intelligent group of people that this country has got and they account for 50 percent of the PHD's earned each year. Without them this nation would be a stupider place then it already is. What a shallow minded way of looking at things asians where here way before 1975 going back to the time of the gold rush. They have established themselves as a productive member of society even more so than whites,blacks and Hispanics.
wow! what planet do you live on? asians (chinese, koreans, etc) are among the poorest groups of immigrants in america today!
"...get a clue and leave thes females alonr.."- Don't think so, Cath. If I were looking for a wife and the only woman not like you on the face of the earth were living in a monastery on the face of a 500 foot bluff in the Himalayas, I would pack warm clothes, a bunch of traveler's cheques and buy a plane ticket to Tibet. Do you realize how undesireable your poorly redacted hateful statements make you out to be???
Why are you making these generalizations about Asians when there are just as many rude and nasty people of different cultures? Honey, you better get your head on straight. Don't be jealous that my people are just rising to the top by the second and are willing to work their butts off.
People have to know why Asian-Americans are very sensitive about this APP. There is very tormenting history behind the picture.
When Asian-Americans, especially Chinese as coolies came to this country in the mid 19th century with the look similar to the above one, were not even appreciated what they contributed to this country on Union-Pacific Railroads and other gigantic projects, even worse in late 19th century the Congress enactived Chinese Exclusive Act.
I don't think the present generation (especially whites) are sensitive to those facts–after all, it all happened long ago and they were not alive so they do not feel they need to apologize for anything. So what if Asians were mistreated or exploited or discriminated against? They expect you to get over it and no...Chinese cannot be compensated for building rail roads or anything else–no matter how their labor was used to build this country and prosper whites–their gain is your loss–now move along now and let it go (snark)
So where's the "make me Muslim" app. I can't wait to see the fireworks.
lol, it'e easy to make such an app, just put a picture of a child being touched up by a white hand attached to the photo.
Who cares............... I'm sure the app goes the other way as well (Asian to American).
We recently went to Sedona, Arizona, a really nice small town. There were some people speaking a language I did not understand. I asked where they were from. They said they were a tour group from France! I did not recognize their French, nor did they look like they were from France. But, what does a Frenchman look like? Or an Italian? See the problem with labeling people from different countries?
The government using terms like white, black, red, yellow, asian, indian, african american,on official forms is racist. Noticing facial features, skin color, is all racist. Any time someone notices physical features this is racism.
This is funny, It really is silly and all I can say to the offended is please consider all the things wrong in the world and decide weather or not this is comic relief or a malicious ap to degrade Asians
... and the Asian Anime' Cartoons' interpretation of what Caucasians look like (with they're OVER-sized eyes, small mouth and perked-up noses), even as far back as the original Speed Racer cartoons in the sixties, can not be mis-understood in the same way? Sheesh.
actually, that's what Asians think they look like. When there's specific caucasian character in anime, it's usually noticeably different from the rest, smaller eyes, different bone structure in the face and nose. Unless it's really cheap anime with lazy artists
Another Asian here who isn't offended. In fact I find it hilarious! I mean, it's just a corny joke, and I'm a sucker for corny jokes 🙂 With that said, I can also see how some, especially older people, find it offensive. They had to deal with very real racism which was pervasive in all levels of society in their days, so it's understandable that things like this bring back bad memories. For younger folks like us, though, true racism among our generation is only seen in the dregs of society (and admittedly, also many of our beloved parents, please forgive them!) and light hearted racism can actually be quite funny!
Bottom line, due to our different experiences, it's useless to debate whether something subjective like this is racist. Instead of doing that, let's simply celebrate the fact that our society has progressed fast enough that racial stereotypes went from being symbols of vicious racism for one generation to being subjects of banter for the next!
What's not to like? Just add the ability to turn yourself into a southern baptist by donning a wife-beater shirt, slapping a Pabst in one hand and holding a textbook in the other with "Science" crossed out and "The Bible" scrawled over it.
Please, "18 million and rising" sounds like a threat more than a concerned group of citizens. Why does it matter if people play with race a little in this day and age. Having fun about our differences is the only way the stigma of beig different dies off. Why don't asians (theres over 2 billion) create an app for asians to white or asians to black. Have fun with it instead of dictating the definition of racism and discrimination over the supposedly free social media...
What about me, the middle aged white guy. Doesn't anybody want to look like me?
Sadly, in this country especially, people have been and continue to be mocked, ridiculed and bullied because of their color, and personal characteristics. If you've never been a victim of such intimidation it may be hard for you to comprehend the pain it causes. But for many people the pain runs deep. No, not everyone seeks to mock or cause pain in this way, but products such as the App under discussion provide easy access for those who do.
I am sick of reading all these over sensitive stories on the news, who cares! Get lives! Don't buy the app, and it will go out of buissness, and the owner/created wont be able to afford to keep it in the App Store. This isn't news!
I am asian-american, please lighten up and don't be so anal about something funny.
My kids were born in the 60s. They're half asian as their father is Chinese. They were harassed in school because of it. I don't find this funny at all.
Are they still being harassed? They're 50 now. I'm sure they've grown a thick skin by now.
TheBob–do you think people have stopped making fun of others because of their skin color, or features? See all those black guys going after white women? They are not doing it just because they like white women (many sneak back to black girlfriends also) they do it to have babies with them so that their kids will not have to be treated like they were, Not saying all of them do it for that reason–but a lot of them do–and the fact that white women WILL sleep with them and accept them no matter how they look gives many the impetus to do this–many black men think of themselves as ugly and making a bi racial baby gives them the chance of changing the treatment for their offspring and the options .
I'm Asian American (Korean-American) and I am not offended... People are so easily offended
I have a mutual respect for all races and ethnicities and don't find this sort of thing worthy of censorship. If you find the KKK repulsive, don't visit their website, similarly, don't download this application if you think this sort of humor offends your delicate sensibilities.
You (in the singular) cannot have mutual respect. It is just respect. Mutual involves two parties showing respect for each other/ Just being picky, and I don't mean this in a snotty way, but if people see things corrected, maybe their grammar will improve. It doesn't mean I think you are stupid or uneducated, and I mean no disrespect.
Hey Google, how about an app called "Make Me Black" or "Make Me Hispanic"? Diversify guys!
Google doesn't make these apps. Come back when you understand how this whole app thing works. Do not comment until then.
Google, however, "said the apps are not in violation of the company's policies that protect against hate speech". So why are there no "Make me black"?
Do you have a good explanation why they have not made "Make me Caucasian" app ? No doubt they have the ability to make it and some people would buy. Maybe some white people actually would be offended ?
I would get the app....but asians think they are white? True?
I'm an Asian living in Tennessee...I am recommending this app to EVERYONE I know because I think it's funny. I am HONORED that Google has created an App to make someone look just like me...yes, I do have a rice paddy hat, but no mustache 🙂
I would LOVE to see an App to make me look "White"...seriously folks....this is just for fun....if this App gets taken down, then I guess all the other other Apps that have anything regarding race will be removed also. Ridiculous!
Good for you. I am glad to know that not everyone thinks everything is racist. I am so sick of the racist card being played about everything. Some things are just for fun and my motto is if I can't laugh at myself who can I laugh at.
Does that mean Americans should be offended over FatBooth photos?
Hmm. If it was in Europe and labeled as "Make me American", perhaps.
Great point Terra....I have not seen Weight Watchers or The Biggest Loser demanding the fat app be taken down.
Fat is not race directed–any one can get fat- and anyone can lose weight and stop being fat-BIG difference.
Go back to the rock you live under.
Imagine what would happen if there was a "Make Me Muslim" app.
It would blow up?
Umm.....best comment I've read in A WHILE!! And that's really the only reason I read CNN anymore...the awesome comments to the ridiculous "news" articles. 🙂 You win today!
not only would it blow up, they would kill people
I am so tired of this constant argument of "You wouldn't make that joke towards Muslims." As if to say, that the fear of retilation should dictate what is legal/illegal, right/wrong, in good/bad taste, etc. Incidently, if the joke is funnier by making the punchline about Muslims, then do it. Also, most good humor is about things the audience can relate to, so if you aren't Muslim, it is hard to make a joke that you will get involving them.
You think this app designer is Asian? why do americans take their humor from making fun of other races anyway? what is that all about?
Americans get their humor out of making fun of other groups because of many reasons. Primarily, many have not traveled, don't speak foreign languages and only hang around with other Americans. They're so limited, especially mentally, and narcissistic, that they can't fathom how their derogatory comments can hurt others. I believe it's why so many people abroad have such a horrible perception of Americans. And sadly, even though I was born in the US, I have to agree.
I know plenty of minorities that can take a joke with elements of ethnicity mixed in. My friends and I have always held the opinion that someone is only a true racist if they believe that a race is inferior to another, and act accordingly, like refusing to shop at a certain store because it employs Latinos, blacks, or Asians, for example.
The problem is the organizations that like to tell people – minorities, in this case – what to think – that when someone makes a joke about a racial stereotype, that the people making the joke actually think that way or mean to offend. It's really a shame.
I happen to be Asian but was born here and, consequently, have a local sense of humour. I am not offended whatsoever. If we can't laugh at ourselves, make jokes (even racial ones, if they are funny) then, frankly, we become losers. The guy who is complaining certainly does not speak on behalf of the Asian community.
i tend to agree. I thought the screenshot of the app was actually pretty funny. still, there is a line between some edgy humor and outright prejudice, but I don't think this app is it.
Hmmm..I agree the app in itself is not prejudice BUT apps like this can help to create or foster prejudice. Just like caricatures of blacks and Jews were able to foster prejudice about those groups.
I agree. This is not an offensive app. What I do find offensive is people who are hyper-reactive against anything that even touches on their own racial background. It's okay to have fun with the Irish, Asians, Germans, Scots, African-americans, Australians and every other group on the planet if it is done without malice. Stereotypes exist for a reason: Because they are representative of a particular group of people. When I was a young boy I would ask my mom if we were American Indian and she replied "No, but I do like to tell my friends that I've got English, Irish, German, Welsh and a fifth of Scotch in me!" Now that is funny. Learn to laugh at yourself and you will enjoy life much, much more.
18 million people would have to disagree with you.
what if you're already Asian? does it make you caucasian?
Caucasian people are derived from Middle Eastern people (the original people from the Caucasus Mountains) and Middle Eastern and Indian people who are also Caucasian –are believed to be derived from the Asian people==so now... try that joke again....
just make a patch, and let it work for other ethnicity too(white, black, hispanic etc). problem solved
people put too much emphasis on racism and stereotypes lol .
just in case, I am a minority married to a beautiful asian woman, and we think its hilarious.
Minorities who marry outside their race and the people who marry them tend to have a different take on racism. some are more empathetic, while others practice a sort of self hatred and the reason they are marrying outside their own race is because they are rejecting it–so what you are and how you feel about this app says more only about YOU but does not mean every other Asian or minority has to agree or feel the same as YOU about anything.
The creator did it for the shock value. The fact we're talking about it proves that it worked.
"Asian" does not mean people from Asia in many contexts. For example "I am an Asian girl" in a personal ad does not mean she is from Turkey or Saudi Arabia.
They should really publish "Make me Caucasian" app for people of color. With as much "stereotypes" as they could. I would not be offended and I think it would protect their point that it is just for fun. Also the opposite is true, if they refuse to make "Make me Caucasian" app, accusing them of racism is not completely unfounded.
all these comments are so funny and made me realize how people are ignorant. we can just laugh about this app, not because it's really funny but because it's damn stupid. after seeing the picture above, i don't get it what is Asian look. the developer herself seems not have any idea where is Asia and what makes Asians. stupid. and come on people. i have to ask you. so you've never seen people making a fun of Asians with a finger gesture for making a slanted eyes. but as an Asian and as a well trevelled person, i've experienced a lot. in Europe and the U.S, it's no funny at all. and if something is insulting a certain group of people, only those people who objectified can tell it's insulting or not. you don't have any right to say about that. if we felt insulting. that's insulting and you guys made us feeling like that. shame on you.
and the one who mentioned about the plastic surgery in Asia....why don't you read and try to understand more about this world.
The app was created by someone who felt that it would be funny to make something ridiculous. It's not meant to be serious. Anyone offended by it, including you, needs to lighten up in a serious way; from the sounds of things here, however, most Asians aren't really offended by it. Do you really think anyone believes that Asians actually look like that? I've never met anyone with a Fu Manchu, I've never handled a paddy hat. and I've only ever known one person with a bowl cut. I laughed at such pictures when I was younger, and still laugh at them because they don't even resemble an Asian. They resemble what I might jokingly say an Asian looked like back when I was in second grade, but I still knew better, even then. One of my friends growing up was Asian, and he didn't look anything like that.
Also, to be well-traveled just means you've been to a lot of places. It doesn't mean you're necessarily more knowledgeable about them. And you don't seem to have that much of an ability to take a joke. And it's not cool to make uneducated claims about another person's intellect when you've never met them. You might insult them.
GET OVER IT! There is NOTHING offensive about this at all.
They sell products in Asia to help you look more white. Seriously, they sell products with the purpose of whitting your skin.
I'm offended when people with curly hair wear straight hair wigs. NOT!
What about Asians dying their hair blond and making their eyes bigger than they actually are? Or undergoing cosmetic surgery to have higher noses and wearing colored contact lenses? Is that offensive? Lighten up people!
That would been cool! They can make it work like "Flick Fishing"
This Asian thinks that people offended by this need to lighten up and grow a sense of humor.
People are just too easily offended these days. This app is NOT offensive, it is just playing dress-up! Every time a person wants to act out a part in a play, they usually dress in some stereotypical fashion. So what? Is anyone offended by that? Come on! The world has much bigger issues to worry about than this.
It's called CNN...duh
Look at the number of installs at the app store. It increased 100 fold in the last 30 days. All these people accomplished was draw attention to it.
Lighten up people, i'm Russian and "Make me Russian" app by same author gives you a bushy beard, dark circles under eyes, and an alcoholic bulbous red nose, it made me laugh when i saw it. It sounds really boring going through life being offended by every little thing.
How is it racist if I want to look like you......
Because you don't *want* to look like another race, you're dressing up to look like some ridiculous caricature of another race to make fun of *them*. There's a long history of that happening with blacks, Asians, Native Americans and Jews.
Too funny!
"Make Me Asian" app is not meant for Asians.................and I thought they were smart.
See, now we're having fun.
How's about if they had a "Make Me Jewish" app and you go to use those stereotypical features to make your face ... a big nose, curly hair and all the other stereotypes? How'd that go over?
I suspect there would be some busybody Jewish group that would go out of their way to write an angry letter. The public probably wouldn't care though, its amazing how quickly some people scramble to do whats popular In this case getting indignant.
I'm a Jew and i was just going to post the same thing. I think it would be funny as poo. Like people do it anyway. We all poke fun at each other life is too short to make things like this an issue.
While that is true most people who poke fun at others from another race are friends with that kind of person. This is just ignorant. Its one thing for you and your friends to joke around at your homes because after the laughter you can sit and have a real conversation. This app just allows you to take whatever stereotype is in there and blast it out as if this is a fact. This will only create more and more young people who will have little to no respect for others attributes or customs.
This has to be the most backwards and outdated comment system I have ever seen. Its 2013 how about trashing this system and using a modern one
This app isn't racist. A lot of these comments are though. It's a sad day for America.
Meanwhile as reported on many other sites over the years Asians are undergoing plastic surgery to give themselves more Caucasian appearances..... and I never heard a peep of protests from Caucasians.
Do you read/edit your comments after you post them? Perhaps you should. Your comparison is so off-base it's embarrassing. Asian people get surgery to look like us "Caucasians" because they emulate us, to look more attractive because of Western culture. It's not for mocking or deriving some sort of amusement from.
Did you ever wear costume on Halloween and have fun?
Actually they're not trying to look like white people. To do that they'd have to be able to alter their bone structure. What they're trying to do is be prettier Asians. You have no idea the importance Asians put on looks. I heard about one rich man in China who married a beautiful woman and they had a child. When she was about 7 she was ugly. As he himself was very handsome, he asked his wife, what gives? She says, oh, I had plastic surgery. He divorced her and married a beautiful woman who had NEVER had surgery. Obsessed with beauty!
Sorry, but slanted eyes is not racist. It is a characteristic. Those who think it is racist are insecure about who they are. Now, if they were letting people put slanted eyes on their pictures and the name of the app were something like "Make yourself look stupid", then sure, that is racist. But to use a characteristic to form a picture of someone from a certain ethnic background is just being logical. If I were to pay someone to paint a Korean man in a boat on a small river, and he drew the guy to look like Jesse Jackson...I'd want my money back. Would I then be considered racist for wanting my money back for not getting what I asked for?
Glad to see the trolls are out in full force today!
Thanks for noticing.
this author hates white people because the part of her that's best, white, is going to forever eclipse all her other jealous parts
There is only one race, the human race. What makes us different is culture.
Read up on The Human Genome Project.
Nice to basically assume an entire race thinks one way because of this. It's okay, us other "non-Asians" at least have to capacity to not be so narrow-minded. You need to go outside more and educate yourself instead of posting and looking like a fool.
I've always wondered why some African Americans in the media and news will spin any situation that happens to another race and make it about them, downplaying the current issue and saying the offended race shouldn't be because African Americans have it worse.
They do have it worse... they're black.
To the Writer of the article:
Native American and Indian are not the same; thought that would be obvious if you hold a job as a writer for CNN...
That's the name of the app...
Really? Offensive? So the next time my kid wants to dress up like a ninja for Halloween I should not do it because we arent Asian? I think people need to get a grip!
Any joke or stereotype about any human must stop. In fact, let's all stop laughing altogether. People with inferiority complexes might think we are laughing at them and buy a Bushmaster and go on a killing spree. From now on, only knock knock jokes are allowed, which must first be reviewed by the PC police, and a response no greater than a slight upturn of the mouth will be appropriate. Anyone caught playing Bingo other than old white folk will be imprisoned, anyone dressing up as a real person for Halloween will be sued, and if adults dress in clothes deemed to immature for their age they will be whipped for mocking our country's future. You have been warned.
There's a saying, "Know what a man will laugh at, and you will know the character of that man." Why people want to laugh at and make fun of other human beings in a mean spirited way is beyond me. I don't see humor in making someone feel bad. You can say it's the person on the receiving end's fault for not having a thick skin, or being too 'sensitive', but when I see, hear or experience people making fun of other groups, I don't think poorly of the group members, I think the buffoon making the supposed 'joke' is just very, very ignorant. It takes brains to make jokes that don't offend. Any idiot can quickly make a 'joke' out of mocking or making fun of a group.
Also... curious what will happen if she made a Make Me Black app? I say make it.
I'm Asian American and found this disturbing moreso because they got the Fu Manchu wrong. Looks more like a Mexican Pedro mustache!
Please get this right so I can make fun of myself:)
your post holds a lot of truth to it. as racist as it may sound or whatnot, what usually goes is whatever the current ruling party or majority say is acceptable.
An interesting feature in this app is the sound effect. When you take a picture the camera goes "crick".
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I'm not against this app as much as I am against the double standard we have in the U.S. of A regarding race. How is it that every race is open to mockery except African Americans. I understand the issue of slavery is a burden in our history but let's not use it an excuse for fairness.
i think the point being made here is that no race should be open to mockery, not that its ok except for AA.
The real double standard is why do we need to make a mockery of any race anyway? And why is the one race who always leads the way in stuff like this the one race who has done the most denigrating to all the other races?
Inferiority complex?
they are inferior! really.
Yep... it's obvious Asians are lagging behind everyone else in the world. You sir, are brilliant. Keep posting!
Is there an app to make people smarter ?
uh huh, they played the for children on television and at the theater for years and years, still do, except the dude with your namesake kicked it about 16 years old and it lost its flare somehow not to mention wsting the endeavors of millions of stupid white kids taken in my money moguls
Do they make for Apple? I want it
He who raffs rast, raffs roudest. – Ancient Chinese proverb
it goes like this:he who flaps past is really only passing gas
iIt IS funny to make you look asian. Welcome to America !
I am Asian American. I don't remember ever seeing any Asian with the fu manchu mustache. I don't see how it's offensive. It's like the app that can make you look older. Do you offend old people for using that app?
If other people in other races want to look like Asian, let them do it.
They don't want to look Asian. They want to be able to make fun of Asian people–and they want Asian people to be okay with them doing that. They thank you for bending over and taking it so well– are you also available for parties? I hear they need someone to reenact Bruce Lee and Charlie Chan...
Asian American...is that like African American but only Asian? Word to the wise, White people do not like it when other races list their ethnicity along with being American. you can be just American or you can be Asian–but you cannot list that you are American of Asian descent–that drives them crazy–or at least it does when blacks do it. LOL
I think it is funny...so who really cares!
Though its not anything id care yo waste my time doing its just a silly fun app, .Sometimes we take things way to seriously and we lose focus of the big picture causing real major issues such as discrimination and racism to get bogged down by such minor silly so called offenses.
well, now we can rest easy 'cause its all about ug getting her giglgles
I've been on the Google Campus and most of the workers are Asian... its a joke people, stop "hating" everything. If you are offended then its people like you who offend the world...grow up.
I'm Chinese-American, and this *really* doesn't bother me.
Well-intended, but overreaching attempts at political correctness in every aspect of life, on other hand, disturb me greatly.
But of course it's okay for Asians to flock to their plastic surgeons to make their eyes more round and remove the hooded lids so they look more Western.... Get a grip people!!!
I'm Asian and I frankly don't see what the big deal is. I think the App's actually kinda funny. But Sunflower2, your remarks are most definitely offensive to Asians.
Ummm. Chris I think you missed the point being made, and in so doing proved the point of the oversensitivity of Asians... You're funny..... You played right into that one!!
Ermahgerd! Errvrybody is racist! >.<
I cant tell you how many polish jokes i have to put up with on a daily basis, learn to let it go! Sheesh
Yes, or they should have an app that says make me American–and it makes you into an obese person with a sweatshirt, sneakers, and a big gulp.
Once more, they don't do it too look more western. They do it to look prettier. Do you really think it makes them look more like a white person? Does it alter their skin tone? Does it alter their bone structure? Such nonsense! Also, there's a second reason, as Asians age, well, as we all age, the eyelids droop and in Asians this effect is worse. It can often interfere with their eyesight. So, to be proactive some of them get it taken care of when they are young rather than wait until they are old when it will look more unnatural and when an operation will take more of a toll on their health. God, I get tired of explaining this!!!
What does KKK or a hood have to do with being white?
In your train of thought a black person would have a chain around their neck. That is just dumb.
This app is available for folks who want to download it and use it. If you are offended then do not contribute to it's popularity. Simply pass on it and download something else. It's not rocket science.
BTW I do not think any so called "white" folks were offended by the cartoon Peanuts.
Google isn't going to take down an app because people find it offensive due to racial stereotypes. This is in conflict with their entire policy because of the freedom they allow. If we take this one down then in the future what counts as "offensive"? Then they need to start taking down anything that deals with nudity to foul language because someone can argue that's offensive too. People can do what they want and say what they want under certain guidelines just like people do on YouTube, Facebook and anywhere else on the web. So people are unhappy with an app, big deal. Obviously we should tear down every website with offensive material instead of dealing directly with society, the real problem at hand. Ridiculous.
the app should say, "make me smart" and then change the person's face to an Asian face...i wonder who would be offended by that?
This is not just "offensive". Please keep clear the fact that what one person finds offensive another person may not. This app is downright racist and should be removed!
Well, I had never heard of this, but now that they are making a stink about it, I think I will try it!! Thank you angry Asians for making this a story and letting everyone know about this fantastic app!!
Exactly! That's what it is for, FUN....enjoy you normal person.
How about an "App" that make journalists tell the truth in an unbaised and objective manner without the normal lefthand or right spin.
Everything is within reason until someone gets hurt....
And then it'd be hilarious! :>
Make me Scandinavian. Put a Viking helmet on my head and a blonde 'stache. If they make that app I am going to have a meltdown followed by a fit of rage..
Save the air you breathe and conserve the fingertaps on your comp for something that is actually hurtful. When you live in a world that fears to offend at every corner, there honestly will be an absence of creativity.


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How do you convince a generation of people who have grown up thinking you are evil to change their minds and love you instead?
That's the job of Microsoft's Tim O'Brien, general manager of Platform Strategy. He's out to convince a new generation of application programmers to come to Microsoft's cloud, Azure.
It's been 11 years since Microsoft's Steve Ballmer called Linux a cancer. Since then, the company has taken two steps forward for every one step back in embracing open source generally, and Linux in particular. Many open source programmers don't trust Microsoft and don't like how it treats popular open source projects that compete with it, like Android and Linux.
O'Brien says that Microsoft has changed so much that this mistrust is based on misconception.
"I've seen two dynamics going on," he told Business Insider. "One is a negative perception of the company based on biases from a previous life/experience." The second is "just a lack of awareness of what we are doing in the platform that is interesting to a bunch of developers out there trying to build apps and make money."
He adds: "A lot of developers weren't even around during those days. They weren't out of grade school when a lot of biases were being formed."
But the truth is, the desktop operating system is irrelevant to the cloud, since apps are run in the browser. So, unlike the 1990's, Microsoft is no longer in a position to force those who write applications into becoming its groupies.
So Microsoft has no choice but to abandon some Microsoft-built technologies, like its Adobe Flash competitor, Silverlight, in favor of upcoming standards like HTML 5.
Silverlight is now being positioned as a browser plug-in that "filled a niche in market when standards weren't mature enough to meet the need," he says.
O'Brien wouldn't confirm reports that Microsoft is going to go so far as to support Linux on its cloud, Azure. But he did point out that Microsoft has already adopted a lot of non-Microsoft technologies. These include support in Azure for:
- Java development tools including Eclipse.
- The open source NoSQL database MongoDB.
- The open source search engine Solr/Lucene.
- The open-source analytics project Hadoop.
The real question is will it also cause Microsoft's culture to change more radically?
We are seeing indications that Microsoft is willing to kill other sacred cows, too. For instance, Windows 8 changes a lot of things, including how Windows will run applications built for older versions.
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Objective 1: Evaluate the potential of Danthonia spicata for turf use and establish the level of genetic diversity in the species for drought and low fertility tolerance. Objective 2: Develop Agrostis germplasm with enhanced tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses by improving methods to transfer desirable traits through interspecific hybridizations. Objective 3: Sequence and assemble the genomes of high priority turf species (In collaboration with other ARS turf scientists) to facilitate establishing the genetic basis for improved resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
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Identify, characterize, and develop grass germplasm suitable for turf uses with improved heat tolerance, disease tolerance, drought tolerance, water-use efficiency, and salt tolerance using conventional and molecular methods to improve the germplasm enhancement process. Emphasis will be placed on heat tolerance and disease resistance through the period of this project plan. Identify molecular markers and construct linkage maps of bentgrass (Agrostis spp.) that identify regions that impact heat tolerance. Work will also be conducted through cooperative agreements on low maintenance turfgrass species such as Koeleria macrantha and Danthonia spicata. Identify genetic markers for bentgrass foliar disease resistance to (dollar spot) and use them to select highly resistant Agrostis germplam. Construct comparative maps to align genomes of selected forage and turf plants with cereal food crops and utilize this information to improve grass genetic resources. Collect germplasm from natural grasslands of species having potential as turfgrasses; collaborate with forage, rangeland, and turfgrass scientists to identify, locate and collect germplasm. Study establishment, persistence, and survival under different management strategies, and resistance to pests and diseases. Determine presence of endophytes, and whether endophytes affect resistance to pests, diseases, or environmental stresses. Examine physiology under different stresses and inputs to determine genetic mechanisms of resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Develop molecular markers from segregating populations, to allow introgression of desirable genes into germplasm with other valuable traits. Identify and isolate genes for resistance to pests and pathogens for potential genetic engineering of adapted selections. Create intra-specific, inter-specific, and inter-generic hybrids with superior turfgrass characteristics.
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Just need some reassurance..I know in my head this is normal but please share with me success stories after not experiencing any symptoms during the 2WW. Or just share your thoughts.
I'm 6dp3dt. IVF#1 both fresh and and FET ended in chemicals although all embies were grade A. This IVF#2, we did IMSI, then ICSI and transferred 3. Was very bloated after ER and also at the beginning after ET due to the progesterone suppositories, but 6 days to go before beta testing, I just feel fine. More than fine. I know this is all in my head. It's so hard to convince myself things can still turn out fine after our two previous chemical pregnancies with beta hell, and RE explaining that though embies look fine there may still be some chromosomal issues in the sperms that won't let them develop behind the chemical level...
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STAMFORD -- The trial of a man who police said got part of his tongue bitten off during an attempted rape outside a downtown church last year started Wednesday with the 56-year-old alleged victim taking the stand.
The Stamford woman said she was walking between St. John the Evangelist's rectory and church on Atlantic Street and was admiring stained glass windows on the night of June 23, 2011, when Gerard Landon, 47, of Clinton Avenue approached her.
In her testimony, she said Landon asked her what she was doing at the church. When she said she was praying, he responded: "God is beautiful.
"Then he asked me for a hug," said the woman, explaining hugs are often exchanged at the church.
She gave Landon a hug, but he wouldn't let go and began kissing her face and making groaning sounds, she said while being questioned by Senior Assistant State's Attorney Maureen Ornowsky.
He then pushed her down and began groping her breasts and trying to pull off her blouse and unbutton her pants, she said. At one point, she bit one of his cheeks.
The woman said she began screaming for help, but Landon kept kissing her and she bit his tongue when he put it in her mouth.
As she described the attack Landon, who was dressed in a baggy prison outfit, looked on without expression.
Landon has been held on $550,000 bond at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown since his arrest a day after the incident. He is charged with attempted first-degree sexual assault, unlawful restraint and fourth-degree sexual assault.
When she again screamed for help, the woman said Landon put his tongue in her mouth again, but this time she bit down hard and spit out part of Landon's tongue.
Landon then began choking her before walking away, she said. Police found part of his tongue near the spot where the woman said she was attacked.
Landon's case is being tried by Judge Richard Comerford, who is to decide whether he is not guilty by reason of insanity, as asserted by his public defender, Howard Ehring.
Ornowsky also called two police officers to the witness stand, who helped apprehend Landon after he allegedly sexually assaulted two other women and showed up at a chiropractor's office near the Police Department asking for help with his bleeding tongue.
As his only defense witness, Ehring called Dr. Justin Schechter, a Stamford psychiatrist, to testify about Landon's mental state at the time of the attempted rape.
Schechter recently testified in the murder trial of Aaron Ramsey, 23, who was accused in late May of brutally beating his 73-year-old father to death in Wilton. Ramsey was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
During his testimony Wednesday, Schechter said from July 1991 until his arrest, Landon had been treated at the Dubois Center, an out-patient mental clinic, for paranoid delusions and auditory and visual hallucinations.
Landon was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell what is real and to think clearly, Schechter said.
According to his research, and in spending a little over four hours with Landon, Schechter said Landon was not taking prescribed medication, including three anti-psychotic drugs.
A day before the attack, Landon reportedly was at the Dubois Center acting incoherently, mumbling and exhibiting elements of psychosis. The center called for police to help, but Landon left before they arrived, Schechter said.
The psychiatrist said Landon also displayed hyper-sexual behavior that leads him to act inappropriately with women.
At the end of his testimony, Schechter said he believes Landon's schizophrenia made him unable to understand the wrongfulness of his conduct or conform his behavior to the requirements of the law.
With the trial concluding the same day, Ehring said Comerford is expected to issue a verdict during the first week of January.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Golden Eagles handled game one of Friday's double-header, 8-5, but were unable to repeat the performance as the Bobcats held a lead for eight innings to snag the 8-4 win in game two.
The Tennessee Tech baseball team seized their largest lead of game one, 3-0 in the bottom of the third, but worked to keep a fighting Bobcat lineup at bay through nine.
A two-hit inning yielded three runs for the Golden Eagles as Devin Rivers launched his third homer of the season, a three-run shot, to bring in Ben Burgess after his single up the middle and Zach Stephens, who was hit by a pitch.
Ohio wasted no time in responding though, as they notched two runs in the top of the fourth and one in the top of the fifth to knot the game at three all. Dan Ward launched a one-out, two RBI homer to score Trace Voshell after his base hit in the top of the fourth, while Bryan Barnes clocked a solo shot for the 3-3 tie in the top of the fifth.
With starting pitcher Tristan Archer's win now on the line, the Golden Eagles notched two more runs on two hits in the bottom half of the inning. Burgess singled and advanced to third on Stephens' sixth double of the season. With two in scoring position, Casanova Donaldson laid down a sacrifice bunt for an RBI, while Bobcat pitcher Seth Streich's wild pitch gave Tech the 5-3 lead.
Again, over two innings, Ohio tied the game at five on an RBI double by Doug Holmes in the sixth and an RBI groundout by Streich with a runner at third. Tech came back in the bottom half of the seventh and eighth for three more runs to take an 8-5 lead into the final inning.
Voshell and Holmes went 2-for-5 on the game, while Ward went 1-for-3 with two RBIs for the Bobcats.
Two straight base hits to start off the seventh put Stephens and Donaldson on for Guyear, who notched a one-out base hit and advanced to second on an error, scoring Stephens. The Golden Eagles then worked two pitchers, Tyler Backstrom and Jason Moulton, for two more runs in the bottom of the eighth, fueled by hits from Chad Oberacker and Donaldson, to give the Golden Eagles the eventual 8-5 win.
Rivers led the Golden Eagles with a 2-for-4 effort with three RBIs while Donaldson went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in.
Ohio put two men on in the top of the ninth, but junior Cullen Park struck out two and forced a pop-out to the catcher, Burgess, to end the game.
Archer held on to the win for Tech, improving to 2-1 after pitching 6.2 and striking out two, upping the Golden Eagles' record to 4-6. Streich took the loss for Ohio as they fell to 2-7.
The Bobcats evened the series score in game two, holding Tech off for a final score of 5-4 to cap off the double-header.
A strong second inning set the tone for the Bobcats, as the lineup worked Matt Shepherd for four runs on three hits to take a 4-0 lead, which they didn't relinquish for the rest of the game.
Dan Ward notched a one-out, two-shot homer to bring Voshell around after he reached on an error, and Ethan Newton ripped an RBI single to score Painter after his single. The Bobcats notched their fourth run on a wild pitch, which brought O'Neill across the plate.
Tech's Devin Rivers, who went 1-for-3 on the day with two RBIs, answered with a two-shot homer to set the score at 4-2 headed into the top of the third, but Ohio stretched it out to 5-2 with a triple by Tyler Emody to lead off the inning followed by a one-out RBI single by Voshell.
Seven bobcats came together for Ohio's nine hits, led by Ward who went 2-for-4 with three RBI's in game two.
The Golden Eagles threatened again in the bottom of the fifth, notching two more runs on three hits by Evan Frazier, Oberacker and Wulf, who led the Golden Eagles with a 3-for-4 performance on the game and batting in his sole RBI of the day.
Ohio busted the game open in the top of the ninth to take an 8-4 lead, as nearly the entire line-up worked Nick Price, who came in to relieve Shepherd in the eighth, for three runs on two hits. The Bobcats loaded the bases with the first three batters, and a sacrifice fly with one out by Streich and a single by Voshell brought in two runs for Ohio. Ward's RBI single notched the third run of the inning, scoring Emody.
Tech put runners on second and third with two outs as Oberacker singled, Wulf walked, and Stephens reached on a fielder's choice and advanced to second, putting Wulf on third. Marck Paliotto relieved Tyler Stage, and walked Donaldson to load the bases, but got Rivers swinging to end the game with a final score of 8-4.
Shepherd fell to 0-2 with the loss, having worked seven innings and striking out nine, while Matt Robin's 4.1 innings and three Ks earned him the win, lifting him to 2-1.
Sunday marks the series finale between the Golden Eagles, now 4-7, and the Bobcats, 3-7, as they will face off in a 1 p.m. contest to cap off the weekend.