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SANFORD, Florida — A black political group offered a $10,000 reward Saturday for the killer of an African-American teenager, amid a nationwide uproar which has prompted a rethink of America's race issues.
The New Black Panther Party displayed a wanted poster on its website with a picture of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin, 17, last month.
"WANTED!!! For the murder of Trayvon Martin... ALIVE, not dead or harmed," the poster read.
Several dozen supporters of the group known by its acronym NBPP -- unrelated to the revolutionary Black Panther Party active in the 1960s-1980s -- meanwhile protested for the third time this week at the police headquarters in Sanford, Florida.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," leader Mikhail Muhammad told the Orlando Sentinel. "We don't hate anyone, we hate injustice."
Activists had called for the mobilization of 5,000 black men to capture Zimmerman. And Muhammad said the NBPP was receiving donations from black entertainers and athletes, with a goal to collect $1 million by next week.
Thousands of demonstrators have marched in at least 10 US cities to express their outrage over the attack, with some of the anger directed at local authorities handling the murder investigation.
They have not arrested or charged Zimmerman because he claimed self-defense, which allowed him to benefit from Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law that lets state residents use lethal force when they are at risk of being killed or seriously injured by an assailant. Zimmerman had a permit to carry a gun.
In Washington, at least 1,000 protesters -- many in black hoodies, some with bags of Skittles candy like the one Martin bought before he was shot -- gathered at Freedom Plaza in the heart of the US capital to demand justice.
"This is bigger than you think it is," said comedian Dick Gregory, an icon of the Civil Rights movement, who suspected that the full story of Martin's death has yet to come to light.
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"We must change a society that thinks the black man is a problem," said Rashawn Davis of the Georgetown University chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Police at the scene estimated the crowd at 1,000, while organizers put the figure at around 3,000, a day after a vigil for Martin in the capital's low-income Anacostia district.
Sanford police told AFP they were ignoring the NBPP's call to capture Zimmerman, a white Hispanic.
Despite the racially charged nature of the case, Zimmerman's lawyer insisted his client was not racist.
"I asked him, 'Are you a racist? Do you have anything against black people?' and he said 'No,'" Zimmerman's legal adviser Craig Sonner told CNN on Friday. "I don't see anything that indicates to me that he's a racist."
Sonner said Zimmerman and his wife acted as mentors to two teenage African Americans, even after funding was cut for the program.
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The book's exciting and humorous moments occur more in Buckley's excerpts from his shipmates' journals than in his own pompous and pedantic prose. Buckley never misses an opportunity to display the extent of his erudition, never says "stripteaser," for example, when he can say "ecdysiast," thereby showing simultaneously the range of his vocabulary and his knowledge of H.L. Mencken, who coined the term.
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RACING THROUGH PARADISE is profusely illustrated with photographs by Christopher Little, who, as the chief photographer on the voyage, did his job deftly and imaginatively. Indeed, the book's illustrations give one a better sense of the journey than does Buckley's writing. This third of Buckley's travel books is not his best, although it has its moments...
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Date of Defense 2005-11-01 Availability unrestricted Abstract Modeling traffic crashes is a complex undertaking. Previous research studies have used a variety of techniques to analyze crashes. Conventionally, traffic crashes have been modeled using regression models. Recently, intelligent systems have been applied in highway safety modeling. Such methods include artificial neural networks, decision trees, nearest-neighbor rule, Bayesian methods, and clustering algorithms. One method that has not been well used in analyzing highway safety data is Bayesian Belief Network technique. This research investigated the use of Bayesian Belief Networks technique in highway safety modeling.
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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was incorporated in the model for displaying model results. A stand alone GIS application was developed using MapObjects software package. Programming was done in Visual Basic environment. The final output of the model was the map of the roadway network showing predictions of crash category for each roadway section.
Two different datasets were used in modeling – state roadways with a maximum number of lanes of 6 (subset 1) and exclusively six lane highways classified as high crash locations (subset 2). The performance of the proposed model was evaluated using the prediction accuracy. The prediction accuracy is hereby defined as the percentage of the roadway sections whose crash occurrence was correctly predicted. The results obtained in this study yielded the prediction accuracy of 68.08% and 78%, for subset 1 and 2, respectively.
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The Financial Services Authority has expressed its concern about the rise in phishing scams to a Lords Parliamentary sub-committee, claiming that such incidences are on the rise.
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Of course this statistic merely reflects a rise in 'reported' incidents, which does necessarily paint a precise picture of what's going on.
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Despite the number of e-commerce websites on offer, the UK's internet users seem to be playing it safe and doing the majority of their shopping at the more established ones.
According to Royal Mail research, despite the fact that there are more than 26,000 retail websites, 72% of online shoppers are buying from less than ten online retailers each year, with the average customer using just eight different e-commerce websites.
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StumbleUpon yesterday announced the launch of a new video service that will offer viewers a selection of videos from YouTube, Google Video and MySpace, based on their personal preferences.
StumbleUpon has until now been known for a browsing application which helps Web users discover sites based on the ratings of users with similar tastes. It is now applying the same idea to video. And it's pretty cool.
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Glam, an online fashion and lifestyle publisher, has announced that it has raised $18.5 million in venture funding, which it plans to use for mergers and acquisitions.
Glam Media, which claims to have had 8 million unique users in November, has also announced a deal with Hearst magazines to add content from Marie Claire to Glam's sites.
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Gartner yesterday released its ten key predictions for business and IT in 2007 and beyond. These included forecasts that PC prices will halve by 2010, and that Vista will be the last major Windows release.
Another prediction caught the eye though - that the blogging phenomenon will peak next year and level out thereafter.
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The New York Times announced on Monday that it will allow its stories to be commented upon, yet it stops short of embracing user-generated content by allowing comments only through third party sites (Digg, Facebook and Newsvine).
It is the first time the newspaper's online site has added a news-sharing tool, which will allow users to discuss its stories on social news sites, though in truth users can do this anyway...
Nevertheless, the paper has embedded links to all three sites onto many of its online stories.
by Graham Charlton 14 December 2006 12:15pm 1 comment
Calacanis-flavoured rumours doing the rounds in the blogosphere suggest that some of Digg's top posters have been paid, or offered payment, by PR firms.
He may have resigned from his position at Netscape, but Jason Calacanis is still keeping an eye on events surrounding Digg. He reports in his blog that a number of Digg's top 50 users are on the payroll of a leading (unnamed, of course) PR firm.
by Graham Charlton 14 December 2006 11:44am 0 comments
The Venice Project, the internet TV project from Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has gone into public beta testing.
The Venice Project will stream TV to its users' PCs, thereby avoiding the long download times of other internet TV services like Channel 4's recently launched on Demand service.
by Graham Charlton 13 December 2006 12:52pm 0 comments
Andy Beal at MarketingPilgrim has an interesting article, in which he reports claims from Google that their click fraud rate is less then 2%.
Andy has been talking to Google's business product manager for trust and safety, Shuman Ghosemajumder, about click fraud detection. He was shown a PowerPoint presentation which was normally for Google employees' eyes only.
by Graham Charlton 13 December 2006 12:34pm 0 comments
It seems that, when they came to designing an IE7 promo page, Google couldn't be bothered to start from scratch, and produced a page that looks remarkably similar to Yahoo's.
Both Yahoo and Google have produced personalized versions of the new Internet Explorer 7 browser – Matthew Ingram has the screenshots.
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A traveling exhibit on how Japan's architectural community responded to the Great East Japan Earthquake is at Northeastern, the sole U.S. stop on a global tour.
From a devastating earthquake, a blueprint for recovery
Matthias Ruth, a Northeastern professor of public policy and engineering, and an international team of scholars studied how the response to a 2009 earthquake in Italy can guide future city-planning efforts.
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Financial problems can arise in many forms, from the plunging economy to the aftermath of natural disasters. We asked Randy Colvin, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern, to discuss the psychological impacts of a looming double-dip recession paired with the devastation caused by natural disasters such as Hurricane Irene — as well as ways people can improve their emotional health in the face of such stress.
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As a result of Wednesday's raid at Desperados Cabaret, the owner, James "Jim" Panos, is charged with Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises. U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley wouldn't say why Panos is charged, but Panos is accused of violating a federal law that prohibits an owner from manufacturing, storing, distributing or using a controlled substance on the premises. The federal investigation is ongoing.


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LUDINGTON -- A Michigan father, who is police believe may have something to do with the disappearance of his 4-month-old daughter, might not face as harsh of charges as originally issued.
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Phillips' daughter, Katherine Shelbie-Elizabeth Phillips, went missing on June 29th. Police issued an amber alert, and believed she was in extreme danger. Their investigation later led them to believe that her father may have had something to do with it.
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LUDHIANA: Sukhchain Singh, senior maize breeder in Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), has been appointed as incharge, new crops. He will initiate research work on drought tolerant crops that have low water requirement like agave, guar and hemp. PAU is going to submit a project worth Rs 1.29 crore to the department of biotechnology.
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Sep 8th 2011 9:03AM (Joystiq)@Unit076
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No, thank god.
Buy Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC, get OnLive version free
Aug 23rd 2011 8:48PM (Joystiq)Um.. what's the point exactly? You get a free copy of the game when you.. buy a copy of the game?
PlayStation Vita has more RAM than PS3 (hey, cross-game chat!)
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Aug 3rd 2011 10:19PM (Joystiq)They can use "likeness", but since they're in college, they're still students and not subject to what they're seeking from this lawsuit. There's a reason their names aren't used or allowed in the game itself.
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Jul 25th 2011 9:18PM (Joystiq)I'd like to try to see them catch up with trends, what with them taking 5-7 years to make a single game anymore. SquareEnix needs to stop buying all these people and sit their asses down and finish a quality game for once. The last SE game I was proud to even enjoy was FF9.
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You underestimate how much money Activision has.
Also, Respawn Studios may acquire the rights if in fact rights were to shift.
You underestimate how much money Activision has.
Also, Respawn Studios may acquire the rights if in fact rights were to shift.
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Haze suffered from being a shitty game, not because Korn made a song for it.
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WASHINGTON (January 3, 1997) -- On January 8 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the most fundamental question it has confronted in over two decades -- whether the Constitution confers on seriously ill persons a "right" to receive suicide assistance from physicians. Catholics and many other citizens will pray that the Court has the wisdom to reject this latest attempt to enlist the Constitution to promote a culture of death.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference, together with State Catholic Conferences, and Protestant and Muslim groups, filed amicus curiae briefs in the two cases, one from New York and one from Washington State. The briefs asked the high court to overturn lower court rulings that struck down state laws against assisted suicide.
Gail Quinn, Executive Director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), said it is gratifying "to know that concerned people with disabilities have organized their own demonstration in front of the Supreme Court on the day of oral argument." Led by the disability rights group Not Dead Yet, Ms. Quinn said "they will speak to the fact that people coping with illness and disability need acceptance, respect and support -- not the misguided pity of euthanasia."
The President of the NCCB, Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, said in a statement issued last November that "the assisted suicide agenda appears as a victory not for freedom but for discrimination. At its heart lie demeaning attitudes and prejudices about the value of life with an illness or disability. All who believe in the dignity of human beings should reject such attitudes."
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Pawnbrokers take in items in good faith. They can't and should not assume that an item is stolen, nor should they assume that the clint is a theif. Rememeber that most pawnshop customers are honest, hardworking people.
Pawnbrokers take id, and full detailed descriptions, they transcribe the serial numbers on the goods, AND THE PAWNBROKER PROVIDES LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH A COPY OF EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION! Pawnbrokers are the good guys.
The pawnbroker IS the reason this man's watch was located and recovered. Had the theif sold it by ny other methods, the watch would be gone forever.
Good on the pawnbroker!
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Not every job in America is supposed to pay enough to support a family. Some jobs are for teenagers and under-educated adults. These jobs aren't even supposed to pay well... It's a fast food joint for crying out loud!
What do you expect?... the McDonalds counter- help is supposed to make enough money to buy a home, a car and be the breadwinner for a family?? That's laughable.
Get real!
Or get ready for a $20 big mac!
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phatdawg, there was an error in your calculation. If the impact fees are $16,000 per sf, then a 20,000 sf building would incur an impact fee of $320,000
(16,000 x 20 = 320,000)
But still, thats ALOT.
My girlfriend and her friends (all HOT 20 something's) have been going there regularly for a year and NO DRUGGING INCIDENTS YET!
Or is it because they drink responsibly? Hmmm...
The martini's and mixed drinks at BLUE are served FULL and they give you the SHAKER, good for another drink-and-a-half.
The "glasses of wine" are VERY LARGE. I would say each glass of wine there is 2 or 2 1/2 times larger than your typical restaurant serving.
So, no doubt folks are getting plenty drunk on 10oz of alcohol.
Not drugged... just drunk!
BBG would be blasted if they do, and blasted if they don't.
Had they chosen the refund recipients by any particular formula (no matter the formula) then they'd be skewered for unfairness.
So, they drew names. Then they drew names again for the next recipient. I'm sure they intend to do the same process each time new members join. They'll draw a name to refund a deposit to an exiting member, until all the refunds have been repaid.
And now... folks skewer them for THAT.
Let's just admit that BBG is gonna be flamed no matter what they do.
I support the US military. I support the Tea Party's (and any other's) right to assemble peacefully. I am a Tea Party supporter too.
I also understand and support the reasoning behind the rules of not wearing military uniform to such events.
It isn't appropriate for a member of our miltary to use his military uniform as an expression of his individual views.
But it certainly is not the high crime some have made it out to be, either.
Exactly, the recent press doesn't seem to have hurt business there at all. They still have an overflow crowd / line forming just to get in.
Is it possible that some of these people were drugged? Yes. But it seems much more plausible that these folks were just drunk.
What these people call "one drink" is actually 3... When you order a martini there, you are served one full martini glass AND a shaker that will refill the glass twice more!
These people are just getting drunk.
Move along, nothing to see here, move along....
Blue Martini serves a $15 martini because it's actually 2.5 - 3 drinks. They serve the full martini glass plus the shaker (which is another 1.5 martini's). These folks arent getting drugged, they are getting drunk!
We are talking about 10-12 oz of vodka here folks. These ladies are just getting drunk.
No mystery here... drink 10 shots of vodka and YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER THINGS. The Collier County Sheriffs know this.
Slow it down, Ladies ;)
Oh great... now I MUST go there! With MY RADIO!
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Jeez. "What's" with "all" the "quotation" "marks"? Gimme a "break"!
I thought MY life was good, David Kmet; until I read your letter. Now- I have something to strive for... your life is so wonderful that you you have the time and patience to be annoyed by good customer service? Wow.
Clark Adams- Thank you for the pictures, they do help put things in perspective. I still believe we should examine offshore drilling. But it should further offshore and thus "invisible" from the beach.
Good day to ALL!
Re-Route the sidewalk away from the tree, dummies!
It's the trees that bring people to walk on the sidewalk. It's so dumb to favor a park sidewalk over the trees.Hello...
Why do you think people go to the park???
in response to fortl: guess it is time to be a pool company. Extra 100k to invest sounds good.Where do I start so I can be an knowledgeable pool cleaner with excess money to "invest".
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guess it is time to be a pool company. Extra 100k to invest sounds good.Where do I start so I can be an knowledgeable pool cleaner with excess money to "invest".
fortl:Step One: Get customer who needs their pool serviced, then clean it. Repeat. Step Two: Add more customers who need their pools serviced, then clean it. Repeat.Step Two: Buy another truck and hire another man. Keep adding customers and hiring more men. Repeat. Step Three: Hire a bookeeper and salesperson.
That's how you end up with $100,000's to invest.
The Best Ribs and BBQ in Naples can be found @ The Brown Bag, located on Golden Gate Parkway, across from the fire-station @ Coronado. WOW, that place is a classic..... soot covered walls, and wood smoke everywhere.
It's the real deal!!
Snook become lethargic in colder temps which is why SNOOK SEASON IS CLOSED IN THE WINTER. If not, every hillbilly could just grab em' out of the water with their bare hands!
They get slow and lethargic, but they do not necessilarily die. Some fish will (old,weak or sick) die, but MOST of the snook population makes it fine through this, so long as folks dont steal them out and kill em'.
They do not need to move to breath, nor do most fish. Their gills operate just fine at rest.
Even fish laying on their side, or on the bottom are not going to die for certain.
Laws are laws, besides if the Fish & Wildlife relaxed.... then couldn't we all just go net or catch a bunch of undersized, out of season fish and say "oh- he was on the bottom and dying"... yeah RIGHT.
Pay up, dirtbag poacher!
Congratulations to the Contractor and his subcontractors for a job well done!
Growing up in Dallas, and later working in Houston, I am familiar with heavy freeway traffic, and over the years there, I saw some of the most ridiculous ill planned processes imaginable (multi-lane highways reduced to 1 lane during construction during Houston RUSH HOUR!)...
Anyway, iROX and all involved did a great job. The way they did things made sense and gave consideration to the users of the road (us).
I was rarely inconvienenced during your project.
Job well done.
GO SPEND THAT MONEY, Florida's economy needs it!
Congrats again.
in response to biomanogt: Got my State Farm home ins. bill 2 motnhs ago for $4200.00 ( it's due in March 2010). Needless to say I will be shopping around for a new company! In 35 years NEVER had a claim! These companies could care LESS about you and me. God forbid you do make a claim and you have to fight tooth and nail to get what you have been paying for all these years. Maybe I should just take my chances and not carry any insurance!
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Got my State Farm home ins. bill 2 motnhs ago for $4200.00 ( it's due in March 2010). Needless to say I will be shopping around for a new company! In 35 years NEVER had a claim! These companies could care LESS about you and me. God forbid you do make a claim and you have to fight tooth and nail to get what you have been paying for all these years. Maybe I should just take my chances and not carry any insurance!
biomanogt: Deciding to self insure is a very risky decision. But in some rare instances, it works out.
Generally, only the poor should "go naked". If you have means and assets, then you need to be covered.
The fact that you haven't had a claim in 35 years tells me YOU ARE DUE. Better touch wood!
I dislike deceptive practices in claim handling by Insurance Companies, but: Your homeowners policy covers you for a multitide of things like liability of other's injury, pipe breaks, roof leaks, sewage, mold, fire.
A small fire easily costs $50,000. Small pipe breaks quicky cause $20,000 in damages.
Did you know that your kitchen alone probably costs $40,000 to replace? A small dishwasher leak can wreck your cabinets very quickly. The self-insured rarely come out ahead.
Remember, only the self-insured folks who havent had a loss YET will claim they are ahead.
The one's who decided to self-insure, then suffered a significant loss are less likely to discuss their foolishness at the Country Club.
Folks dont discuss their mistakes, which can lead us to believe that failure is rare.
It isnt. I meet people every day who decided "a few" years ago to self-insure, as they stare at $20-60k in damages.
They regret the foolish decision.
And how much risk do you have if someone falls on your stairs? This exposure is only limited by the amount of money you have!
Remember when they were going after Mr. Nolen for having his NAME on his classic cars (Mr. Truly Nolen)?
After the City of Naples gastapo madde much ado over nothing, Mr. Nolen won and his cars remain!
Oh, and Robertofnaples, 1) Thanks for your service to our County 2) Get yer dog back! Condo Nazi's don't have nearly the power they think they do so go ahead and burst their bubbles.
They are glorified hall monitors!
Merry CHRISTMAS!
Congratulations to both parties, for reaching an agreement that works for both. Who should care whether is sold for "too much" or "too little"??
The sellers and the buyers are both satisfied!
I commend both sides for staying at the table and hammering out an agreement that works for them.
Camera fans: enjoy this while it lasts. These cameras will all soon be disabled!
Will this property allow ATV riders? The author is unaware, and so am I.
Building that airstrip (originally )impacted the environment. Given that the impact has already occurred, and given that we currently have taxpayers who need a place ride their ATV's; then this property is perfect for ATV/ORV designation.
Remember that the ATV community "lost" riding area recently(out in the partially developed "blocks" in far SE Golden Gate Estates)through an agreement made between Collier County and SWF Water Management. This riding area that they lost was perfect for the ATV community, because again- the environmental damage occurred on that piece of land back in the 60's when the watershed was changed, canals dug, and streets installed.
They lost their place to ride, as it was part of an everglades restoration project. Everglades restoration is good, but not providing those riders with an alternative place to ride was bad. In my opinion, the most damaging environmental actions occur when ATV's are not given a place to ride.
Back to the airstrip...the environmental alteration to this area occured when the land was originally cleared and built. Therefore allowing ATV's to operate here would not have further detrimental effects, and may in fact actually help the particular piece of land recover.
Some ATV riders are stewards of the land, and others aren't. Regardless, the community is best served by providing an outlet for ATV riders to enjoy their hobby/sport. And this piece of land works well for that purpose.
Hiring an attorney is not a sign of guilt, but it is a sign of good judgement.
Mrs. Cathy Rose Hunt:
If you visited and stepped in poop on our beach, you'd probably write a letter about your terrible experience, and threaten not to retire here.
I know, your dog is wonderfully behaved. Everyone's is (just ask em').
I do have a question though... exactly where do put your dogs poop when you are at the beach?
Do you carry it around on your long walk...then place it back on your boat?
Doubt it.
It sounds to me that these boat slips (and their sizes), are "granted" with the land/lot that this man purchased. Consolidating these into one area results in LESS environmental impact than having multiple smaller docks.
So, clearly this isn't an environmental issue.
And if the plan meets DEP standards for safety, ie: encroachments into the waterway, then this really isn't a safety issue either.
It seems to be much ado about nothing... Why do so many people want theirs to be the last dock built?
I'm certain that most of these folks belonging to the opposing group enjoy their dock regularly, so why shouldn't this man be allowed to enjoy his.
If the issue is about the "amount" of slips, remember- he owns a proportional amount of land.
I am glad to see that an interest is being taken in these types of Narcotic Prescriptions. The loose distribution and almost inevitable addiction that follows the irresponsible prescribing of these types of narcotics has wrecked so many lives. These narcotics are so powerful, so mind-numbing that they truly "create" junkies.
I have been in a position to see and interact with hundreds of people with various chemical addictions. The chemically dependent often fall into 2 very separate groups.
First: There are those who are practically predetermined to abuse alcohol or drugs. This type of addict is not "created" by a Doctor or a narcotic. Whether it be alcohol or drugs, these are the folks who are just "psychologically hardwired" to overuse or abuse alcohol or drugs.
Second (and more tragically, IMHO): There are those who (never having had a problems with addiction or alcohol/drug abuse) become Drug Addicts only after being prescribed these Narcotics by their Doctors. These are people who often have had fulfilling, successful lives in which alcohol and drugs never played a significant part. These are people who were not psychologically impaired, nor do they have "addictive personalities". They did not intend to use, or misuse drugs- however once they are prescribed and using Heroine, Methadone etc... they DO become addicts (not surprisingly).
I believe the solution is this: Any Doctor who desires to prescribe these strong Narcotics must also participate in Drug Addiction therapy. They should be an expert in ALL of the effects of these Narcotics.
If the Doctors had a better understanding of what these drugs true effects are- if they can see the addicts that these drugs can create out of otherwise "non addicts", then I am certain that the Doctors would use a much different approach to prescribing these Narcotics.
Doctors who understand addiction create less addicts.
Peter Apostle,My mother has use of both arms, legs and has no broken bones, nor does she use prosthetics. To the observer (you) she is the "picture" of health.
However, she has a serious heart condition and is in need of a transplant because her heart does not function well enough to supply her body with the oxygen she needs.
Handicapped parking spaces are there for those who need them, not simply the folks who "LOOK" like they do.
Q. What does someone with one lung, or diabetes, or restrictive cardiomyopathy look like?
A. Just like you and me.
Peter, I sincerely hope that you are ALWAYS healthy and able to make long walks with stairs. But please realize that there are others who have very serious medical ailments without requiring a wheelchair or a cast.
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These 2 special people were enjoying their 32 year anniversary together this weekend.
Rest in Peace Timmy. I love you and will miss you.You touched my life, and you lived the promises. I'll miss your hugs and kind words of encouragement.
My prayers are with Mirian as she recovers from this event, and the loss of her husband.
A special man, father, friend and husband has been taken home today.
My prayers are with Mirian in this time of loss.
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X-Men: First Class started off as the prequel nobody asked for, but now is being heralded as the best in the series. After seeing the movie at midnight, did I agree with all the good word of mouth?
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crashed into theaters and was very much a landmark for comic book movies. Not only did it make money, but it was also very well received by critics and audiences alike and was very much Marvel's first big screen franchise. Sometime later after a lackluster third movie and a weak Wolverine spin-off movie, word reached the net that a prequel film was in development.
From the beginning, fans were against this movie, attacking it for being yet another way for Fox to cash in on the franchise. Despite getting an extremely talented director and cast, fans still weren't won over, even after an impressive teaser trailer was released.
From the beginning, I carried a torch for this movie. Article after article was published on this website condemning
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and I wrote a few myself stating that we need to start approaching comic book movies with an open mind and wait until we see the movie before we actually make a judgement.
Now it's taking all of my self restraint not to say I told you so.
X-Men: First Class
very much is the surprise of the summer. Not only is it a good X-Men movie, but a good comic book movie in general. Director Matthew Vaughn managed to breath new life into the X-Men franchise while also making a movie drastically different than the previous entries in the series. Yes, it's not very faithful to the comics, and yes there are inconsistencies with the previous X-films, but it all helps to make
X-Men: First Class
further stand on it's own instead of letting it get bogged down by the convoluted comic book and movie continuity of the X-Men.
The film follows Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr in their younger days. Charles lives in New York and uses his mutant gift to pick up chicks at bars, while Erik is on a revenge mission across Europe looking for the Nazis who killed his parents, including the doctor who experimented on him, Sebastian Shaw. Of course Erik and Charles' paths cross and soon find themselves recruiting a team to stop Shaw from starting World War III.
One of the things that works best for this movie is the relationships between all the characters. The brother/sister relationship between Xavier and Raven (soon to be Mystique) is one of the best emotional hooks of the film, but the real chemistry is between Xavier and Magneto. I think it was James McAvoy (I could be wrong) who compared Xavier and Magneto to civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, and I couldn't think of a better comparison. Charles and Eric are very much two sides of the same coin and the journey that brings them together and eventually tears them apart is what keeps you watching in this film.
Of course, great performances are what makes the character relationships great to watch. James McAvoy remains respectful to Patrick Stewart's performance as Xavier while also bringing his own spin on the character. McAvoy brings the charm and nobility to Xavier and you can tell he's having great fun playing the role. But the real star making turn in this movie is Michael Fassbender as Magneto, bringing tragedy, anger, and a Bond-like bad boy charm to his role. I've been a fan of Fassbender since his scene stealing turn in
Inglorious Basterds
and after this performance I'm sure he'll become a household name, and he really is the one who walks away with the movie.
It wouldn't be an X-Men movie without a massive supporting cast, and they all get their due. There's a massive roster of mutants and they all get their time to shine, especially towards the end. Not all of them are developed as I would like, with Hank McCoy and Mystique probably being the most developed of the young X-team, but all members of the team get cool moments with their powers.
As for the villains, Kevin Bacon plays a great villain as Sebastian Shaw, getting close to going over the top but always managing to pull himself back down. January Jones is perfectly cast as Emma Frost, and in many scenes looks like she stepped straight from the comics. Sadly, the other two bad guys, the cool looking Azazel and the nameless-tornado-creating guy (someone help me out here? I'm rusty on my X-Men) don't get much development or dialogue, though they contribute heavily in most action scenes.
Many have compared this movie to
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and I have to agree. The whole movie is pretty much dedicated to the creation of the X-Men and by the end, the seeds are planted what is to come in the later movies. Matthew Vaughn has stated that he already knows the story for a second
First Class
movie and I personally would love to see it seeing how this movie still leaves plenty to explore.
But easily, one of the best things about this movie is that it brings back that subtext that the last two X-films lost. One thing about X-Men is that it has one of the best subtexts in any comics: one of prejudice and wanting to be accepted. Bryan Singer wisely updated the X-Men with the first two movies, drawing comparisons between the hatred of mutants and homophobia, and both
X-Men: The Last Stand
X:Men Origins: Wolverine
lost this message in favor of a more action heavy approach. Thankfully, Matthew Vaughn brings back the fear and hatred of the mutants, especially by setting the movie in the 1960s, a turbulent time for civil rights.
So, overall
X-Men: Fist Class
is very much a movie that overcame fan expectations. It's a great example of how talent both in front and behind the camera can really breath new life into a thought dead franchise. If there's a lesson to be learned from this, it's that fans need to learn to approach comic book movies with an open mind. It's fitting that X-Men is very a story of a group of people struggling for acceptance in a hostile and suspicious world, because that's very much like the fight this movie had in order to win over the usually hostile and critical fan boy audience.
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Sorry man Scott Summers is my favorite X-Man and even though I do care about other X-Men to me him and his story eclipses all others. So until they give him the respect he deserves, bring him back from the dead and tell his story I will not be watching any of these. Hell a friend told me when X-Men 3 came out that they killed Cyclops so I waited 2 and a half years before I finally caught it on FX and was cleaning the house during it and missed most of it. lol
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What made this movie great is that it focuses far more on issues than on neat super powers and special effects. The parallels between mutants and gays were remarkable "you were a mutant, and you never told me?" "You didn't ask, so I didn't tell." Check out my full review: http://bit.ly/lEIXh0
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Is their an after credits scene. Seeing it tomorrow and I want to make sure I dont miss it if their is one
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Best movie Fox has made in years. I loved every minute of it maybe even more than Thor.
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XMEN First Class = Epic Fail
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@Sasquatch123 If you're gonna troll then do it intelligently. Is a movie that has received nothing but positive reviews and on track for a opening weekend of over $50 million really a fail? Then what's your idea of a success?
@DC1Marvel Sadly no after credit sequence, but everyone was expecting one. Half of the theater stuck around waiting for something after the credits and were really disappointed when nothing happened.
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I have to say I really didn't like this movie. I was excited after all the good word of mouth that finally we'd get an X-Men movie we'd always wanted. Instead what we got were Fox's version of how Eric and Charles formed a black op's team for the CIA to stop the Cuban missile crisis. Nothing remotely like ANY of this ever happened in the comics. Yet people are calling it a good comic book movie. Other than Erik and Charles the rest of the characters were either butchered or not given a personality at all. I wanted an X-Men movie, about the Xavier Institute of Higher Learning hence...class. I wanted to feel like the characters on screen were somehow related to the characters that I love from the comics. Unfortunately that isn't what we got. Fox just let us down again and you all are eating it up. I guess we never will get a good X-Men movie.
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@ Dmon I agree the X-Men just isn't the same with out Cyclops, love him or hate him. He's the leader of the team. His being ignored or turned into a wuss in the movies is one of their biggest flaws. Can't believe they killed him in X3...biggest joke ever.
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@yipcha i believe that i am in good company to say that if you want the story from the comics, an i mean story, basic plot, don't watch any CBMs beside Watchmen as it is probably the only one that follows the story in the comics, what you said about first class could be said about iron man, thor, incredible hulk, dark knight, superman 78'
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@ gamecreatorjj I wasn't needing an exact story from the comics its more I felt that the setting and scenario though interesting, left out the essence of what make the X-Men what they are. Iron Man, Thor, Incredible Hulk, the Dark Knight, and Superman all captured the essence of the character and settings though they were not direct adaptations of specific comics. I understand some changes need to be made to source material especially trying to adapt 50 years of comics to a sample size that the average consumer can appreciate. However I think that first class failed at doing this as the movie didn't represent the team of mutants that I have grown to love over the years. To me the movie characters seemed like strangers.
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wow some of you dont know a good movie when you see it! The movie was so good!!!
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Ha, plot was weak? Thor was one big plot devise to set the Avengers up. Nothing that happened in Thor was even important. What, Destroyer may lay waste to a deserted town, who the [frick] cares? Loki gets to rule Asgard for 3 days while Odin is asleep, what a joke. That was a weak movie that had only special effects going for it.
Yipcha, **Spoiler** At the end of the movie Xavier opens his school. This movie just wasn't about that, but the next one likely will and there are some great characters that are nicely set up for the sequel.
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@yipcha, were we watching the same movie, it was impossible for it not to catch the essence pf x men, it was set in the year x men came out, it dealt with segregation and fitting in, as the main themes, the main themes of x men, okay you want to see the original 5, thats okay, but you cant say the film was a bad film or even a bad x men fil just becuase it didnt have the original five, thats like saying Dark Knight didnt have the essence of batman because it didnt have the batman family
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Yeah, The Dark Knight didn't capture the essence of Batman because it pretended that Robin didn't even exist...
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i've seen it today & it was better then i expected but its not the five star film,three star max.
charles,erik & beast are the best performances of the movie,its got some good brutal scenes.
personally if its a prequel,it doesn't link in well with the other films contiunity very well.
if its a reboot,should of gone with the originals much better cast of characters.
i couldn't careless for the likes of darwin,angel salvatore,havok,banshee & riptide.
should of saved havok & banshee for the sequel.
emma frost is made from diamond with january jones performance you'd think she was made of wood.
should of set in the 60s with the originals against magneto,don't follow the comic word for word pannel for pannel but use it as the basic layout.
if you wanted to tell the story of charles & erik should of made x-men origins magneto.
maybe fox's best cbm so far,but if you look at their track record the bar wasn't raised very high.
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Dungy isn't sure if Pryor can play quarterback in the NFL. Dungy said he thought Ryan Leaf could play, so you never know.
Dungy said that he texted back and forth with Michael Vick over the summer and everything is good, even though they haven't talked much of late.
Dungy said Ndamukong Suh probably does have to change his style. He said sometimes Suh gets nailed for legal plays. "There are going to be times when you're going to have to change," Dungy said, "or else you're going to put your team in jeopardy."


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You may or may not be familiar with your local live music scene and it's related events. Whether it is a dusty local pub or a dusty, prestigious Camden venue they generally work in the same way for amateur musicians. My experience on the lower rungs of that system is probably as good as anybody's. This is because local, live music seems to be stuck in a perpetual loop. Masses of bands play events in London's live circuit, throughout the country and throughout the world over and over again. The vast majority of bands don't go anywhere and are eventually spat out of the spin cycle to make way for others. Bands end up this way for a number of reasons but it is my personal opinion that the 'live circuit' is archaic and is holding innovation, and therefore good bands, back.
In the UK, bands hope that if they play enough gigs they will be given the right opportunities to turn their pre-career into a full blown music career. The better, more professional bands that also produce exciting events rise to the top, gain fans and eventually gain a record deal.
Well, since music teamed up with the Internet, the idea of aiming for a record deal has pretty much been dispelled as an ineffective myth among bands. With online promotion and recording technology now open to all with a fairly modest amount of cash, it is now possible to go it alone and the influx of web-based knowledge on the subject has dispelled the romantic rock-star myth. All this is very old news now though and behaviour has developed accordingly. However, this change in 'business model' for amateur musicians doesn't seem to have updated throughout the entire system – namely the events that host the bands.
Promoters and their ways
Promoters still seem to be running events with these old rock-star ideals. As somebody that got involved with finding gigs for my previous bands to play, I ran into many promoters asking the band to play shoddy gigs or replace last minute drop-outs. Because their business is rightly very much bums-on-seats driven, they force you to bring x amount of fans although they give you little financial reward. However, instead of money they do dangle the possibility of playing with the bigger bands if you do what they say. Quite demeaning really, as ideally they should be judging such possibilities on your performance not on whether or not you can appease the venue owner. It's music they love right?
This all brings you to a situation where bands do whatever it takes to please the promoters in the hope of gaining 'great gigs', 'great opportunities' and the 'possibility to take your career up to the next level'. Of course, these promises rarely materialise. If they do, the exposure gained isn't really worth that much anyway; it's usually over-hyped in an effort to persuade the band to fill a slot. Among all this, the promoters always put the emphasis on the bands to bring fans, telling you they wont let you play their events anymore if you don't fill your quota. Maybe these promoters aren't sure of what a 'promoter's' role traditionally involves and that good promotion doesn't really equal a Facebook page, a few posters and placement in the swamped gigs section of the local newspaper?
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Maybe things work like this because it's so hard to get people to come out and see bands play. The venues and pubs are under pressure to keep open, the promoters are under pressure to please their venues and the bands are therefore pressured to make sure that people come to see them and buy beer etc.
This is mostly fair enough really as the system is dictating that the people caught within it act in a certain way. What is clear though is that the system is perpetual. Bands come, bands go, occasionally a band makes a bit of money and are able to grow; but the promoters seem to stay where they are, churning out faceless bands at every event. This system does seem to be stacked in their favour but whether that is true or not, the system doesn't work for the cornerstone of the live music scene – the bands.
What can be done?
Maybe promoters should focus on providing good events rather than piggybacking off the friends of the bands they work with? Maybe they should think about how they can make their events more interesting? Maybe prolonged efforts to produce events people want to go to will enable them to provide their own audience? Music isn't always enough to sell something, which is why bands also sell various add-ons in addition to their music. So therefore maybe promoters should think about adding value and intrigue to their events; maybe the 'unknown band in pub' idea isn't a good business model? To be fair though, some promoters do a great job of innovating: one of the most memorable gigs I played involved comedy acts, burlesque and also allowed us to have an improvised jam with our audience. The audience loved it!
If the music industry hadn't spent so much time and money creating gods out of ordinary musicians maybe amateur musicians would be more cynical about promoters dangling fame and fortune in front of them like a glittering carrot? (Notice that even the music industry has to sell image and not solely music – no matter how 'indie' the band is).
So, how can the local live scene break its cycle of mediocrity? Maybe educating young musicians on the realities of business will allow them to add reality to what promoters tell them. Maybe this will force promoters to offer new rewards to young bands and maybe they will have to start providing interesting content rather than relying on bands to bring their friends to buy drinks etc?
What does innovation mean in practical terms though..? As marketing and more mainstream events companies now practice, people should think about every sensory aspect of the event and focus it towards their brand or theme; a gig can be more than a band/act and some booze. Contrary to popular belief, adding creative flair doesn't have to be expensive, just thoughtful. I doubt things will change any time soon but maybe this thinly veiled rant will be food for thought…


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PIECING IT TOGETHER: Four apparent fragments of main-belt comet P/2013 R3 are highlighted in this image from the Gran Telescopio Canarias. Three are clustered near the head of the comet (inset), and a fourth was discovered in the tail (circled).
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The distinction between comets and asteroids is in principle a clear one, encoded right in the words themselves. Both terms come from Greek roots—"comet" descends from a word meaning "long-haired" and "asteroid" means, roughly, "starlike." So there it is: comets are fuzzy, and asteroids are discrete pinpricks of light. The definitions hint at compositional differences as well: comets are icy, which leads them to come apart when they draw near the sun, whereas rocky asteroids are somewhat more robust.
In recent years, though, astronomers have seen that asteroids can suddenly don the appearance of comets, complete with a fuzzy head and a long tail. Astronomers call them main-belt comets, because they exhibit cometlike traits but orbit within the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. (Comets originate from more distant realms in the outer solar system.)
The explanations put forth for how an asteroid masquerades as a comet usually involve some sort of disruption, such as a smaller object colliding with the asteroid and ejecting a cloud of debris or the partial disintegration of the asteroid as sunlight vaporizes pockets of ice within. A newfound main-belt comet, however, looks quite a bit different than the rest. Astronomers have yet to explain its features, which include not just a tail but a cluster of fragments where a single head should be. "Even in the wild spectrum of main-belt comets, this one is unusual," says astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles. "There are certainly no great theories out there for what we're looking at."
The main-belt comet, designated P/2013 R3, was discovered in September at two observatories: the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona and the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Only a dozen or so main-belt comets have been discovered, so astronomers quickly took to the world's largest telescopes to get a better look at the rare object. Jewitt examined P/2013 R3 with the 10-meter Keck 1 telescope in Hawaii, whereas astrophysicist Javier Licandro of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands and his colleagues used the institution's 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias. Both saw that the object was different than all other main-belt comets discovered so far. "What we observed is that the object is not a single nucleus with a tail," Licandro says. He and his colleagues have identified four distinct pieces: two near the main, bright nucleus and another in the tail. "It is the first time that one of these main-belt comets is discovered that has split in parts," he says.
There may be more fragments waiting to be discovered, which is why Jewitt and his colleagues have secured time on the Hubble Space Telescope to get a clearer view. "We see three or four pieces from the ground, but who knows what we will see with the HST?" Jewitt says.
The Hubble observations may also help explain just what happened in the recent past to turn an undistinguished asteroid into a main-belt comet. Jewitt says that his preliminary data from Keck revealed that P/2013 R3 looked much like a split comet, or a comet that has broken into multiple pieces. The standard explanation for split comets is the sublimation of a comet's ice directly to vapor, which spews out gas and dust to form the fuzzy head and tail of a normal comet but can sometimes blow out a large chunk of a comet's nucleus as well. "The mystery is, though, that this object is not losing that much mass. It's fairly faint," Jewitt adds. "It's a little bit difficult to say why the sublimation would split the nucleus like that."


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The Lakers ARE the better TEAM
Let's get to the fourth quarter of Game 7, already!
These were the sentiments that many around the Mile High City of Denver (myself completely included) felt as the Denver Nuggets walked off the Staples Center court this past Wednesday night. The team, losers of that Game 5, had played admirably in every game of the series (and postseason for that matter) and now faced an elimination game, down 3-2 in the series. Denver's first of its kind since Game 4 of last year's first-round series against the very same Los Angeles Laker side they have faced in this year's Western Conference Final.
Much has changed in the Nuggets locker room since that early-exit of a year ago. The broken record of the "Chauncey effect" bears repeating as rarely has one single individual had such a comprehensively positive effect on a team, in any sport, as Billups has for his hometown cagers. That underacheiving-Nugget team of a year ago was suddenly on the foot-step of the franchise's first-ever NBA Finals appearance.
"It's been a pretty darn good series," pondered Nuggets' Head Coach George Karl about an hour before Game 6's tip.
A series, to this point, that has been highlighted by close, hard-fought, 4th-quarter decided contests, chocked full of masterful on-court performances by Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and when given the ball, Pau Gasol.
With luminous, sunrise-bright light, however, follows eventual darkness and clouds have been omnipresent through out, as well: major officiating debates, hoards of technical fouls and general team-to-team distain. If you like high-end basketball partnered with drama of equivalent value, this has been the NBA's best postseason series this side of Chicago v. Boston.
Tonight, that cloud hanging over Colorado's capital was not in dispute, rather a blowout. For the majority of the 20,053 in attendance, the home team reverted to their undisciplined former selves; firmly trounced on their home court, losing 119-92. The Lakers played a majestic combination of a stifling brand of defense and sublime offense to take advantage of a seemingly lost Nugget team and clinch a spot in the Finals.
Bryant was arguably at his best of this postseason in an almost flawless 35 point, 10 assist, 6 rebound performance while Gasol was at his efficiently brilliant peak, going for 20 points and 12 boards (6 assists?) on 8-12 shooting. As a team, the Lakers were astonishing, hitting 57% from the field, 56% from 3 and were a perfect 24-24 from the free-throw line.
Denver was led by Anthony's 25 and JR Smith's 24, but as a whole, the team struggled to find any consistent offensive flow for most of the night. The game's first half was an equally sloppy, choppy affair which saw neither team assert control until the Lakers took advantage of the Nuggets' poor shooting and surprisingly brittle defensive resistance. Timely long-range Laker shooting and a trademarked-Kobe explosion helped the visitors finished the half on a 21-7 run to grab a commanding 53-40 advantage.
Going almost five minutes without a point in the second, the Nuggets were exclusively powered by the tandem of Anthony and JR Smith, who combined to score each Nugget 2nd quarter point (a combined 13) before Billups hit two free throws with under three minutes to play in the half.
In addition to the patient and utterly effective play of Bryant, the Lakers got great first-half production from Trevor Ariza, who finished the first 24 minutes with 13 on 3-4 shooting from behind the arc.
As things lay right now, the Lakers just might have asserted themselves as the class of American professional basketball. The league and David Stern has just what they wanted from those in the west. Kobe is in, as the Nuggets got a tough, but necessary schooling by a more seasoned and battle-tested Laker team. With the Nuggets' combination of experience and youth in the fold for the foreseeable future, this might not be the last time we see these two squaring off in late May.
As Kobe put it neither before the series nor during, but after it was decided, "This Denver Nuggets team is a problem."