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The Josh Smith Sweepstakes
If the mercurial Hawks forward is dealt, where will he go?
By Zach Lowe onJ osh Smith told Grantland just a few short weeks ago that he was as happy as he had ever been in the NBA. The Hawks were winning more than even optimists expected behind a surprisingly stingy defense, a dynamic front line led by Smith and Al Horford, some creative coaching, and chemistry Smith and others described as the very best they'd experienced. Most of the players, including Smith, are on expiring contracts, but the "get mine" selfishness that can infect that kind of situation hadn't surfaced.
The Hawks have since gone into a tailspin, with nine losses in their last 12 games. The offense has cratered, unable to produce enough free throws or shots at the rim. Smith has been part of that, enduring the worst overall shooting season of his career. He's still jacking the long jumpers that don't go in nearly enough, missing almost half his foul shots, and rebounding at a lower rate than in either of the past two seasons. Internally, things reached a low point with an incident at practice last Tuesday that resulted in a one-game suspension for Smith and an emergency meeting in which Smith's agent, per Ken Berger of CBS Sports, expressed serious concerns about the state of the Hawks, but stopped short of demanding a trade.
That hasn't stopped the chatter in league circles about what Atlanta might do with Smith as we approach the February 21 trade deadline. But there are mitigating factors against a Smith trade before the deadline, even after Friday's season-ending injury to Lou Williams — a key cog in most productive Atlanta lineups, and the team's only reliable generator of free throws. Williams's injury would seem to transform the Hawks into sellers, since it's hard to envision this group making a deep playoff run. But unless Andrew Bynum returns soon, the Hawks should still make the playoffs, and several Smith-related nuggets make a massive sell-off tricky:
• Smith's expiring contract. Teams are wary of trading real assets for a player who can walk after a few dozen games, even if by acquiring that player, such a team would gain his Larry Bird rights — the ability to offer that player a five-year deal with 7.5 percent annual raises, as opposed to the four-year/4.5 percent deals the other 29 teams could offer. The difference matters, though perhaps not as much as the league would like fans to believe. If Smith takes the cheaper deal with another team and then signs a rich subsequent contract, the difference in the two deals over five seasons would amount to something in the $4 million–to–$5 million range, depending on Smith's precise salary. That matters, and any player taking the four-year option risks having his skills erode before nailing down that fifth year that almost equalizes the contract paths. But it's not the same as the $20 million–plus gap the league routinely cites when it trumps incumbent-team advantage in free agency.
Smith is not eligible for an extend-and-trade scenario, and the new collective bargaining agreement makes those deals so unfavorable for players as to take them off the table anyway.
• His talent and friendship with Dwight Howard. It has been fashionable to suggest the Hawks could have something like $30 million in cap room this summer, but that isn't exactly true, and Smith is a big reason why. Like all outgoing free agents, he'll still count against Atlanta's cap number via an artificial charge linked to his most recent salary; that charge amounts to something like $16.5 million in Smith's case. Jeff Teague, a restricted free agent, will also carry such a charge, known as a cap hold. Even discounting all of Atlanta's other free agents, the Hawks will have something like $45.5 million on the books when free agency begins, once you factor in their first-round pick and small charges for empty roster spots. Assuming the cap jumps to about $60 million, that barely leaves enough room for a post–rookie deal max contract, let alone the mammoth $20 million salary for which Howard will be eligible next season.
In other words: Smith's cap hold could stand in the way of Atlanta being as big a player as it'd like to be. So dump him, right? Perhaps. But Smith and Howard, an Atlanta-area native, are famously tight, and the Hawks have amassed a pile of local players — Williams, Anthony Morrow — rival executives see as a clear attempt to lure Howard. That plan goes awry without Smith, even if it also requires the Hawks to trim salary somehow. By the same token, Atlanta has worked hard to carve out potential cap room, and they might not be willing to flip Smith for any player carrying a big salary beyond this season.
• A quirk in Smith's contract status/ego. This is Smith's ninth season. Players who hit free agency after their 10th season become eligible for the highest possible max contract, one that can soak up 35 percent of the salary cap — up from 30 percent for players at Smith's current experience level. Depending on Smith's sense of his market value, there might be some incentive for him to sign a one-year deal, and then hit free agency again right away. The difference could be quite large. A straight five-year max deal with Atlanta signed this summer would pay Smith about $98 million. A one-year/four-year max in the above scenario would pay about $105 million.
If you think Smith getting the max would be ridiculous, you're not alone; league executives view Smith as a very risky player unworthy of this kind of deal, especially since the Smith veteran max is much higher than the Roy Hibbert/Brook Lopez post–rookie deal max. But Smith could still stand to gain in this one-year/four-year structure even if you scale down salaries across the board to more reasonable levels — provided he can find a team willing to move even a little into that 30 percent–plus territory. Can he do that? Does he think he can do that? Would he bust it for all of 2012-13 on that one-year deal to make it happen, ditching the jumpers, minimizing the on-court pouting, actually boxing out for all his rebound chances, etc.?
The market has probably soured on Smith enough to take this super-max dream off the table. But it takes only one fool, and Smith and his agent might be confident in their ability to find that fool among more than a dozen teams flush with cap space this summer — and perhaps even more in July 2014.
With all those caveats out of the way, here's a quick-and-dirty look at some Smith trade candidates.
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Houston Rockets
The easiest call on the board. Neither Patrick Patterson nor the slumping Marcus Morris have been able to seize the starting power forward spot, and Houston has about $7 million in cap space with which to work. That means Houston can absorb Smith's $13.2 million salary while sending out only about $6 million, making a deal much easier. Houston could build any number of deals around a couple of young guys (Terrence Jones, Donatas Motiejunas), a future first-round pick, and whatever Carlos Delfino/Cole Aldrich/Toney Douglas–size filler would be necessary. The Hawks would surely ask for Chandler Parsons, but Houston would not give up a legit NBA starter on an ultra-cheap contract for a soon-to-be free agent.
And that's the big issue here: Houston should have enough cap space to sign Smith outright in free agency this summer, especially if they make the playoffs and thus have to send their first-round pick to Atlanta (via the Nets). If the Rockets think they can do that despite lacking home-field/Bird rights advantage, why give up anything for Smith now? And that's not even factoring in the spacing issues that a bricky Jeremy Lin–Omer Asik–Smith trio would create around James Harden and Parsons. Smith would be a fun fit in Houston's fast-paced attack, though, and he's a plus defender for a team that needs another one up front.
Dallas Mavericks
The Bank of Cuban is open, and Smith has mentioned Dallas as a place he'd like to play. The problem: Dallas can pare down its payroll to about $42 million this summer, meaning they can open up room to sign Smith in free agency. That figure does not include cap holds for Darren Collison or O.J. Mayo, likely to decline his cheap player option, but it does include charges for their first-round pick (estimated here at no. 14) and empty roster spots. It also does not include Bernard James's non-guaranteed deal.
That precise figure is important. Even if the cap jumps to $60 million or $61 million, the Mavs as of now would not quite have enough room to fit Howard's maximum-eligible first-year salary (about $20.5 million). And if the Mavs want to bring back just one of Mayo/Collison at fair value, they might have trouble just fitting Smith.
It's unclear if they want Smith, anyway. Cuban has told me the Mavs like finding value in guys with checkered reputations, but Rick Carlisle has been unusually cranky this season, and Smith, despite his defensive prowess, isn't the Tyson Chandler–style rim-protecting center Dallas really needs next to Dirk Nowitzki. The Mavs do have some interesting pieces to offer, especially on the perimeter, and they'll explore more possibilities if they fall out of the playoff race.
Phoenix Suns
The Suns, with about $6.2 million in cap room and lacking much in the way of defense or star power, could chase Smith on their own or work as a third-team facilitator for another club that wants Smith but must send out salary the Hawks won't touch. Phoenix also has an incentive to dump Michael Beasley, a poisonous player. Marcin Gortat stands as another trade chip who is simultaneously productive and a bit ornery in Phoenix. They also have a bundle of extra first-round picks via the Steve Nash deal, and another from Minnesota.
If the Hawks believe Smith is a goner and/or Howard isn't taking less money to come there, could Phoenix convince them with a package like: Gortat or Beasley plus a first-round pick, and expiring salary filler? That seems like a bad deal for Atlanta, but remember Smith's cap hold will vaporize a lot of potential cap room, and that salaries for both Gortat and Beasley are about $10 million lower than that cap hold.
But Phoenix brings the same problem as Houston: They could have enough cap room to offer Smith a max, or close to it, this summer, depending on how many first-round picks they end up with and where those picks fall. (They could have as many as three.) Why not sign Smith in July, using the good weather and top training staff as carrots?
It's also easy to construct a lot of semi-fanciful three- and four-team trades, using the cap room in Phoenix and Cleveland, that end with Smith or Gortat on an intriguing but capped-out contender such as Boston. But those deals require one of these cap room teams to do something reckless, like take on the long-term deals attached to at least one of Jason Terry, Courtney Lee, and Jeff Green. Good luck with that.
Denver Nuggets
My favorite Cinderella destination for Smith, even if actually signing him to a long-term deal could leave these wheeling-and-dealing Nuggies capped out through 2015-16. The Nuggets have a three-man big rotation, and George Karl has trust issues with at least two of them — Kenneth Faried and JaVale McGee — due to defensive positioning issues. The third, Kosta Koufos, is the least dynamic among them, though he brings a certain defensive stability against the pick-and-roll. This doesn't matter as much as it might otherwise, since Karl is happy to roll with Danilo Gallinari (and now Wilson Chandler) at power forward in smaller lineups. But it matters against some brutish teams, especially when Karl tries to get away with Faried at center.
Denver is 25-18 despite an early-season schedule so hard it bordered on unfair. They have the eighth-best point differential, per 100 possessions, in the league. They are staring at a pile of home games going forward. A top-four seed is in reach for them with their current roster; can you imagine how dangerous they'd be if they added a competent two-way big man who can run?
The Nuggets have three other things going for them:
• Their front office is creative, and they consider everything; you can bet they've already run a lot of Smith scenarios.1
• They have two players in Chandler and Andre Iguodala whom they could trade for Smith and plausibly ask, "How much have we really lost?" Iguodala would obviously be a painful loss; he's by far Denver's best perimeter defender, and his ability to work as a secondary ball handler is huge in a system that stresses the fast break and multiple pick-and-rolls in the half-court. He is growing on Denver's coaches. But Denver has a ton of ball handlers already, and an Iggy-Smith exchange would be cap neutral for the Nuggets — not a team with an unlimited budget — in the near future. Chandler and Gallinari are very similar players; Denver doesn't really need both, though it's useful to have both around. The Hawks could save money in one sense with a Chandler/picks/cap-filler exchange, factoring in Smith's cap hold.
• Denver might not even care about keeping Smith for the long haul. Denver hates surrendering assets for nothing, so they could re-sign Smith with the intention of dealing him later (see: Nene). But if they can nab Smith for a player who is both non-essential and costly long-term, that alone might be worth the risk of losing Smith in free agency — if Denver believes Smith could make them a legit contender.
All the cost complications outlined above work against this. So does the fact that Denver has had a lot of roster turnover over the past two calendar years; they didn't really view themselves as contenders before the season started, and they were happy to watch the current roster grow. Why change course now?
Some Teams Just for Fun
Los Angeles Clippers
As the boss man might say, this is the team that has the Godfather offer in hand: Eric Bledsoe, Chauncey Billups, and Caron Butler. Let me shout this from the rooftops: This is almost certainly not going to happen, especially since the Clippers couldn't realistically have Smith, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, and Chris Paul all on the roster beyond this season. But it does make some fun theoretical sense. Here's why:
• The Clippers do not want to trade Bledsoe unless the deal clearly helps their title chances this season, and this is especially true now that Chris Paul is dealing with a knee bruise. Smith might be the kind of player that qualifies. The Clippers' bench has, of course, been phenomenal, and the Lamar Odom–Ronny Turiaf big-man combination has been a part of that. Odom has emerged as a potential crunch-time "center" alongside Griffin, since he can space the floor as a passer and actually hit free throws — unlike Jordan.
But Odom, even rejuvenated as a rebounder and defender, is an extraordinarily limited player. He still can't shoot at all; he's hit 38 percent overall, and he's an embarrassing 6-of-48 from 3-point range. He's also taken an Andris Biedrins–esque 16 free throws all season. Basically: Odom's only function on offense is to "space the floor" with his passing and hope opponents don't realize it's 2013, and not 2010, and that he can't shoot.
Turiaf is a nice energy guy, but he's limited and losing minutes to Grant Hill already. Jordan is a solid player and an impactful defender most nights, but he has cooled after a hot start on offense, and the lack of free throw shooting in the Griffin-Jordan pairing makes it dicey in close games.
Billups is clearly expendable in pure basketball terms, though likely not in reality; Paul lobbied hard for his return, and he's an extra coach beyond Vinny Del Negro and Del Negro's hair. Butler's 3-point shooting is valuable, and the Clippers have been going big on the wing lately — a move I like — by pairing two of the Butler–Matt Barnes–Hill trio next to a point guard and two bigs. But Hill is back and Barnes has been better than Butler in just about every aspect of the game.
Again: This move isn't happening, especially since the Clips will be reluctant to deal their prime trade asset (Bledsoe) for 25 games of any player. But it's an interesting win-this-year-at-all-costs move.
Brooklyn Nets
There's no reason for Atlanta to flip one big expiring contract for another attached to a far inferior player in Kris Humphries, especially since Brooklyn isn't exactly flush with prime sweeteners. MarShon Brooks is a back-of-the-rotation guy even under the friendlier P.J. Carlesimo regime, and the Nets don't have any more extra first-round picks to peddle.
New York Knicks
Smith for Amar'e Stoudemire? Just kidding. Amar'e is as close to untradable as it gets.
Los Angeles Lakers
Here's your obligatory Lakers mention, and your obligatory reminder they have no assets anyone wants right now, barring a massive Pau Gasol resurrection and a third team willing to help them.
San Antonio Spurs
The Spurs are plus-8.7 points per 100 possessions overall and a whopping plus-14.6 in 348 total minutes when Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter, their new frontcourt starters, are on the floor together, meaning San Antonio may have figured out its "second big man" issue — even though Matt Bonner and DeJuan Blair have basically fallen out of Gregg Popovich's rotation. Boris Diaw is playing efficiently off the bench, though with a bit of his annoying shot phobia, and the Spurs can shift Kawhi Leonard or Stephen Jackson to power forward in the right matchups against Oklahoma City and others.
In short: There's little need to shake things up by sending out Jackson's expiring deal, a first-round pick, and a young asset (Nando de Colo?) for Smith, despite the comedic possibilities of a Smith-Pop pairing. Leonard is almost untouchable, and certainly so when it comes to a volatile player such as Smith.
Indiana Pacers
Indiana's salary structure is such that Danny Granger would have to be included, unless the Pacers could somehow construct a three- or four-team monstrosity involving a ton of mid-salaried role players moving all over the place. Such trades almost never happen. Granger's salary is actually smaller than Smith's cap hold, and though the Pacers need him, they probably need a third reliable big man more. Paul George has slid nicely to small forward, Lance Stephenson has emerged as a decent 2-guard with a handle, and the Pacers still struggle whenever Tyler Hansbrough and/or Ian Mahinmi enters the game.
Roy Hibbert is shooting 41 percent, logging just 28 minutes a night, and has found himself on the bench in crunch time more than once. In other words: It'd be easy to find 30-plus minutes for Smith, especially since he can play small forward for short stints in huge lineups.
Smith could also replace David West in Indiana's long-term plans. West will be an unrestricted free agent this summer, and he's 32 and playing on a rebuilt knee. But West has an old man game already, and he's Indiana's best all-around player and the undisputed locker-room leader of that team. Smith doesn't have nearly that kind of gravitas; when I spoke to George last week, he lobbied harder for West as an All-Star than for himself. Smith will also make more money in his next contract than West, and the Hawks, for their part, may be reluctant to take on the $14 million Granger is guaranteed next season.
In other words: Another intriguing deal that makes far more theoretical sense than real-life sense. It's hard, in fact, to find any Smith deal that makes sense for Atlanta or any potential suitor. The smart money probably says he'll stay in Atlanta. Though, if Houston grows restless, that could change.


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Apple has officially issued a statement regarding complaints of a "purple flare" appearing in videos and pictures taken with an iPhone 5 camera.
News first circulated last week about the "purple flare" or "purple halo" and AppleCare support did provide an initial solution to the problem.
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According to Gizmodo, the AppleCare Support stated the flare was "normal behavior" and suggested iPhone 5 owners to "angle the camera away from the bright light when taking pictures."
Apple's official statement provided with "symptoms" of the image effects.
"A purplish or other colored flare, haze, or spot is imaged from out-of-scene bright light sources during still image or video capture."
Video of the "purple flare," courtesy of Twitter user Weaksauce 12.
Apple's resolution, "Most small cameras, including those in every generation of iPhone, may exhibit some form of flare at the edge of the frame when capturing an image with out-of-scene light sources. This can happen when a light source is positioned at an angle (usually just outside the field of view) so that it causes a reflection off the surfaces inside the camera module and onto the camera sensor. Moving the camera slightly to change the position at which the bright light is entering the lens, or shielding the lens with your hand, should minimize or eliminate the effect."
AnandTech provided an outline to see if your iPhone 5 features the purple flare:
1. Aim your iPhone 5 camera at a bright light source,
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3. See if the purple flare happens.
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Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug insists "the fire is burning" in Michael Schumacher despite another difficult season for him.
Both the seven-time champion and the team have struggled for competitiveness this year, with the German car not proving quick enough to fight for podiums. Schumacher has scored just 32 points in 11 races, but has made it clear he has no plans to leave the sport before next year.
Haug admitted Schumacher's qualifying form has not been great this year, but says his race performances show how hungry he still is.
"I think you could admit that in qualifying there is something missing, but his race performance this year, and I'm not speaking against Nico, but over the last five races the race pace was comparable, sometimes Michael is a bit quicker," Haug said. "If you look at the overtaking statistics, Michael is leading – nobody has overtaken more than him. This is quite something, you could say. It'd be difficult for Vettel, starting at the front all the time.
"I think you saw some very calculated braking moves from him in Canada and he is relaxed, and sometimes too ambitious here and there. But he is very ambitious, not too ambitious, but he is ambitious and the fire is burning. Look in his eyes and you will see that."
The Mercedes boss also believes there is no real desire for Schumacher or Nico Rosberg to leave the team despite the failure to produce a winning race.
"Not at all," Haug said when asked if Mercedes was finding it hard to keep Schumacher and Rosberg. "We have a great relationship inside the team, the guys visit our factory and we know each other and tell each other no BS."
He conceded no one in the team expected to have such a tough season.
"If we had told you at our [launch] presentation, 'Well, wait and see, it's gonna end the year with fourth place,' you would have said, 'Come on, this is sandbagging or whatever. This cannot be true.' So, of course, we expected more, but can you be depressed afterward? Of course you can, but we're aware of telling ourselves fairy tales, so we're working even harder, we have to have a disciplined approach to it, we have to take the right decisions, we need to understand the car...
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Osho,This morning some journalists asked, "Why do you call yourself a religion?"
Ours is the only religion, first religion in the history of the world. All other religions were only experiments that failed. So not only say to them that we are a religion, say to them that we are the only religion. Christianity has failed, failed its master, Christ. Buddhism has failed. Hinduism has failed. Up to now, perhaps man was not mature enough to become religious, so only individuals have been religious. This is the only commune in the whole history of man which is religious.
So, tell those guys this is the only religion. All others are just premature experiments which have failed. And we are not going to fail. For the simple reason because we don't have any belief that can be proved untrue. We don't have any dogma that can be criticized. We don't live on fictions like Christians believing in God and the Trinity which they cannot prove. Hindus, Mohammedans, Jainas, Buddhists, they all live on fictions which have no logical roots, which are not scientific, but superstitious, utterly superstitious.
We have no superstition. Hence, nobody can criticize it. Nobody can destroy it. So, I say to you that this is the first religion, and perhaps the last religion. There may not be any need for any other religion. We may fulfill all the needs of a religious man.


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The Penguin: Google's Latest Curve Ball
It seems like just when everyone got used to the new Google algorithms with Panda, they came out with the Penguin update. People woke up one morning to find that their websites did not rank in the top five pages of search results when they had been on the front page the day before. Webmasters and SEO companies were scrambling to figure out how to get things back to normal and it seemed like nothing they did made any changes. Google's explanation was to give it time; that things needed to realign before they would improve. So, what was the deal?
Quality Content
Many websites were getting high placement on search results even though the content was not very impressive. A lot of "content farms" were writing articles that were either obvious paraphrasing from other, more reputable sites, or full of unimportant information. Google wants fresh, accurate information that will inform people of something. They do not want a bunch of sentences stuffed with keywords. Make sure everything you have on your site has been proofread for spelling, grammar and fact errors.
Web Spam
There was a bunch of companies created that would write articles that had backlinks to other websites that had nothing to do with each other. Google Penguin took a good, hard look at how it graded the number and type of backlinks to a site. If your site was being reached by means of these link schemes, you probably took a big hit. Practices such as trading links back and forth between non-related sites, or buying and selling a bunch of links are against Google's guidelines. Having people click through to your site to only click back or leave the site quickly will penalize you. It is better to have a few solid backlinks than hundreds of links from sites that have nothing to do with yours. Spam includes having articles that say the same thing repeatedly. Anytime you update your website, make sure the information you are putting out is new. Even if you performed a study and all the results were information you experienced on your own, repeating the same information every time you add to your site could penalize you.
Penguin is about Optimization
Search Engine Optimization is real and very important when it comes to how many people will see your website on the results when they perform a search. Consumers want to be able to count on the first page of results to give them the information they need. Google is looking at the whole site, not just one article, not just one page, but everything all together. You need to look at the whole picture if you want to be on that first page of results. Make sure the links to your page originate on good sites and that all your information is verifiable with proper resources.
Penguin is not a bad thing and it was not a mistake. In the long run, if you have a good website, you will benefit greatly. All the riff-raff will be gone, or at least moved way down on the results. Consumers, clients and anyone else trying to find the information you are sharing will come to you more easily and learn to trust your site more readily than when it seemed everything was some type of scam.
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On Tuesday, the NFL released the schedule for the 2012 season for all teams. Looking at the schedule you will realize that the New York Jets will face their hardest opponents in the first half of the season including their AFC division rivals as well. Not only will the Jets face the Bills, Dolphins, and pats; They will also have to see the likes of the 49ers, Texans, and Steelers. There is no doubt the Jets will have their hands filled with these opponents. With that being said, the Jets will definitely need to come out the gates swinging, especially against their division opponents. Let's breakdown each week to address the concerns, predictions, and keys to winning this season that the Jets must address. Please keep in mind this is based on current team rosters and future injuries that can affect the outcome and predictions.
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Buffalo Bills (home): This game is going to be more important than people realize. Not only does winning the first game of the season set the tone for the rest of the season, it also shows how the team's chemistry will flow. The Bills just signed Mario Williams. This could be the beginning of the end for the Jets if we do not address our offensive line problems. Williams will make it a long day for Sanchez if his O-line protected him like they did last year. I am curious to see how the Jets will face this issue in the draft. The Jets must face another issue in that of Stevie Johnson. Sure the last time we faced Johnson we were lucky enough that he dropped some critical passes that could've cost us the game, but I believe we won't be that lucky twice. I must be honest, Revis had problems covering Johson all game. Johnson had Revis and the safeties beat a few times. With that being said, we have to pray that Laron Landry can be healthy enough to make it past training camp so that he can assist with Johnson come week one. The Jets also gotta pray that Ryan Fitzpatrick does not start off hot like he did last year.
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Pittsburgh Steelers (away): No one wants this rematch to happen more than myself. Last time these two teams met, it was the AFC Championship game two years ago. Unfortunately I was there to witness this game. Nothing would bring me more pleasure than for the Jets to win in Heinz field so that they can shut up some of the most obnoxious fans in the NFL. This game the Jets will have to come find a way to score early on the heavy defensive Steelers. This game also will lay a big responsibility on the secondary (assuming Mike Wallace gets his contract). Mike Wallace is probably the quickest receiver in the whole NFL. This means we are going to rely on our safeties to back up our corners in covering Wallace. Even with Revis, Wallace will burn our secondary if we our safeties cannot help out our corners.
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Miami Dolphins (away): I know you can never say "oh that's an easy win" whenever the Jets play the Dolphins, but I feel this SHOULD be an easy win for the Jets. A big reason why is because Brandon Marshall is no longer with the team. I highly doubt the Jets will have problems shutting down both Devon Besse and Legedu Naanee. I don't see Matt Moore Or David Garrard exploiting our secondary with these receivers. The Dolphins only real threat is Reggie Bush which doesn't really say much about their attack. With the exit of Yeremiah Bell, I don't foresee Sanchez having problems hitting his receivers down field.
Week 4 –
San Francisco 49ers (home): Ok this is a game where Tony Sporano and Timmy Tebow will have to work their magic. San Francisco's defense last year was lights out. The Jets are gonna have to pull some trickery in order to score on the niners. Who better than to pull some trickery than Timmy Tebow himself. I feel confident that the Jets defense will hold up in this game. Even with the signing of Randy Moss and last year's career year of Alex Smith, I think the Jets will be able to contain their offense. I know everyone probably remembers the last time Revis covered Randy Moss that Moss had scored on Revis and then Revis happened to go down with a leg injury, but I don't think this will be the case this time around. Keep in mind Moss is two years older since last time they meant, and Moss did not play at all last year. His age will come into factor as he will probably lost a step or two which should make this all the easier for Revis.
Week 5 –
Houston Texans (home): This is the Jets first MNF game of the year. This matchup should bring in a lot of ratings being that it should be a good one. The Jets have to bring their A game on both sides of the ball. Houston is talented on both offense and defense. The Jets defense will not only have to focus their defense on star receiver Andre Johnson, they will also have to worry about Houston's running game in star running back Arian Foster. The last time these two teams met, the Jets pulled out a last minute comeback win. Besides playing the Pats, this will be the Jets toughest opponent this upcoming season.
Week 6 –
Indianapolis Colts (home): I consider this a much needed breather game for the Jets. The only sure thing about the Colts that the Jets need to worry about this coming year is the threat of Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney. These two will have a field day with our offensive line if our issues are not addressed. Besides these two monsters on defense, I don't foresee our air attack having much problems as the Colt's secondary is still in need of much help. I don't see our defense having much problems shutting down Indy's rush and passing attack unless Andrew Luck lives up to the hype behind his name in the NFL.
Week 7 –
New England Patriots (away): We're going to need to steal a page out of the Pat's playbook here and score early and as often as possible. I know Wes Welker has yet to sign the tender to his franchise tag, but I don't forsee him not playing as a Pat this season. With that being said, adding Brandon Lloyd to the already dangerous trio of Brady, Welker, and Gronkowski will be any secondary's worst nightmare. Let's also pray that we do not see the New England defense of this last year's playoffs.
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Join Matt Valler as he opens up Matthew's Gospel to reveal a Jesus who is nothing short of revolutionary. In part 2 Matt shows how Jesus broke apart the divisions that shaped his world.
When I think about how I live different, I think Jesus. This is where Rhythms all starts for me. I want a radical alternative – one that doesn't fit the boxes of my culture, or even my church. As I've spent my life studying the life of Jesus I've discovered that following in his way means everything must change. I hope you enjoy this film series. At the end of the day, we're all just pilgrims following in his path.


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Alexander Tucker has become a fixture of the UK's underground scene over the last few years, an always-welcome addition to numerous shows, especially in the capitol. Perhaps seeming most at home in small intimate basement venues and art spaces, Tucker's eccentric take on the lo-fi troubadour has always had the ability to utterly fill the space in which he has played. It was always clear that he is a formidable musical force. The man himself is a wonderfully English character – warm, self-effacing and extremely witty, with something of the slacker's take on many of the more humdrum realities of the day-to-day world. With a deep interest in the comic book as art form, both as a consumer and creator (see his work in Sturgeon White Moss), and his creation of cover art for bands such as Wolfmangler, Tucker is certainly something of a renaissance man, and clearly no intellectual slouch. With ever more accomplished recordings and amazing live performances, this skilled musician (and illustrator) looks set to take his music to the rest of the world with his recent release Dortwych (Thrill Jockey, 2011).
Tucker's 2005 self-titled debut release on the ultra influential U-Sound Archives label, the house imprint of seminal weirdo band Jackie-O Motherfucker, established Tucker's sonic palette of acoustic fingerpicking and lo-fi electronics and started his more public musical journey. He went on to develop his sound further with three records on ATP Recordings: Old Fog (2005), Brow (2006), and Portal (2008). Dortwych is the natural growth of all of his past work; fuller, more rounded and with a complete vision realized, all elements of his craft working in symphony. Tucker brought in a stellar cast of guest musicians to add new depth and colors to some of the tracks, including free-improv drummer Paul May, avant-bluesman Duke Garwood of Fire Records, singer-songwriter Jess Bryant and Daniel O'Sullivan of Æthenor, Miracle, Ulver, and Grumbling Fur. As usual, Tucker has created all of the imagery and artwork himself.
I met up with Alex before his 'SUP photo shoot and spent the time looking through his new sketchbook, which was graced by new illustrations completed during his epic bus transit to the wilds of Clapton, eating the custard tarts he'd brought along and talking about his creative process.
How do you start a song? It seems as if you draw stuff first, quite literally sketch out an idea and then it grows into an entity of its own.
The songs usually begin from improvising around an open tuning. I'll sometimes have a song hanging around for ages until I actually record it, so yeah, the ideas ferment over a period of time as I work out what works best. It's true the songs begin to grow into unexpected forms and go in directions I had not perceived.
Like when you are working on an illustration almost?
Yes. When I began making solo recordings I was surprised at how much it was like painting. The process of layering sound and making decisions of how to get the balance right seems to be present in both. I think improvisation is a form of sketching and drawing, and from this way of working new ideas can emerge because your ego is not getting in the way as much. You're not thinking what's right or wrong, good or bad. Instead you're in the moment trying to figure out where you can take that sound or image next.
Your artwork has lots of shading and fine pen work, lots of layering. In much the same way, I think you build up layer upon layer of sound. Do you think any of your music is ever finished or is there always room for more shading and more layers?
I usually have a pool of ideas that I'm drawing from so each piece is a continuation of themes I'm interested in at that time. I quite often work over a single track for months on end, not continually, but I will finish the music up to a certain point and then add more sounds or vocals at a later date. I like the pieces to ferment a bit, to give them time to grow some skin.
Do you revisit older tracks and rework them?
I never rework old tracks as most pieces come to their natural conclusion and I usually begin something new that contains elements from the last.
You're quite free with your creativity, did you ever learn to play anything when growing up or is all your musical ability self-taught?
I did have a few classical guitar lessons but I hated them (laughs)! After about four lessons I sold my classical guitar and got an electric and a cheap practice amp. The first thing I did with that was put the guitar on top of the amp and turned everything up to 10 and just enjoyed the screaming feedback. This felt really natural to me and I understood that the sound I was making was immediate and exciting and channelling something that could not be taught, you know? As soon as I got a delay pedal that was it, there was no going back.
Is that how you got into looping and the low level technology involved with that?
Well, before I got a loop pedal I would buy these TDK endless loop cassettes and make recordings of feedback, shortwave radio transmissions and vocal sounds. I loved the whole idea of repetition, of making a simple idea into something epic, you know? The vocals I used to do in hardcore and post rock bands would have these repeated phrases that would come around and around, and then there was definitely an influence from contemporary classical music's use of repetition, and also bands like Swans where Gira would use this mantric howling. My use of loop pedals was not so much of a desire to use the technology but a need to have a ghost 'other' to play with. I'd got fed up of playing in bands and dealing with other people and wanted to try playing solo but I still wanted the illusion of a band or ensemble.
To create as much depth as possible.
Yeah, and I also loved what happens to sounds and tones when they are laid and looped against each other. I love the phase patterns, which you can achieve through this process. My side project Imbogodom with Daniel Beban is a return to the source of tape loops and electronic music. A digital looper can become very formulaic, whereas tape loops and tape effects open up a whole realm of possibilities through their unpredictability.
How long does it take you to flesh out a musical idea? Do songs appear fully realized in your head or do you build them up from nothing? Can you describe the genesis of one of the songs on the new album?
Sure. "His Arm Has Grown Long", for example, was born out of looping the cello. So having a set rhythm and riff down, then another part, which can come in and out, creates the illusion of a change without having to stop the looper. Then finally I add vocal parts to these two modes. In the studio I never use loopers unless I'm using them to build more abstract sound pieces. All the tracks with instruments I actually play the repetition from beginning to end, this gives the right resonance to the natural tones created between the layered instrumentation.
Labor intensive! I think its interesting how lots of lo-fi indie stuff went very free form and used a lot of wordless vocals for a few years, but people – yourself included – have now been moving more and more towards more traditional ideas of song structure, harmony, and lyricism.
Was that a conscious thing for you?
For me personally, I didn't really know how to write a song in a traditional way. Each record I was making was a process of experimentation and discovery. I had also been singing in bands where the vocals were quite structured so in my solo guise I had the chance to use the voice as another instrument. Making sounds rather than playing music is probably the thing I'm most adept at, because it's the thing I've been doing for the longest. The thing I love the most about Bardo Pond's album Bufo Alvarius (Drunken Fish, 1995) is where the song writing is coming from the sound-making rather than the traditional route. I have always liked the idea of a song
being able to take any form, from being totally unravelled to the point of abstraction, to the total opposite of dense prog psychedelia.
Do you think the accessibility of music now has had an effect on how people make music? How everyone has almost limitless free access to almost all the music ever made in the world now due to illegal sharing, et cetera?
I don't know. It's hard to say. One thing I like about the current situation, though, is how vinyl has had a massive comeback especially in the experimental and underground world. People realize what an amazing concrete archival form this is. For me also, being a visual artist, seeing my work shrunk down to a CD size is always a bit of a let down, but seeing it LP size has the visual impact akin to a painting.
Totally. The format is so much more tactile and has a much bigger sensory impact. While we're talking about tangible items, if you could keep just one album, one book and one instrument, what would they be?
Hmmm. Okay, give me a minute… Album: Cardiacs' On Land and In The Sea (Alphabet Business Concern/Torso, 1989). The book would be the entire Alan Moore Swamp Thing series. Not really a book, I know but… (laughs). The instrument would be a classical guitar.
Earlier we were discussing work, the paying kind. So, lastly, does regular, paid employment hinder the creative individual? Discuss!
(Laughing) Work always gets in the way of creativity! But there's not too much of it to really get in the way for me at the moment. A balance of the two is always nice, like we said earlier, but I know what I prefer.


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Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones and Pamela Ferdinand are journalists, and co-authors of "Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood." And, much like Jennifer Lopez' character in "The Back-up Plan," all three attempted to embark on parenthood with donor sperm, only to fall in love along the way. They join us to share their intertwining stories.
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The battle of the blogs versus "old media" heated up this weekend with an article in the Sunday New York Times lashing out at tech bloggers for rumor mongering and getting cheap traffic from unverified stories.
The article, entitled "Get the Tech Scuttlebutt! (It Might Even Be True)," focuses particularly on TechCrunch and Gawker/Gizmodo, two highly trafficked tech blog sites that are notorious for publishing rumors. To the Times, this is akin to "yellow journalism," but to the accused bloggers, it's a new method of online journalism where you publish what you know (or what you've heard) and update it later with facts and corrections.
The Times story references two particular rumors: a post on TechCrunch saying Apple was in talks to buy Twitter; and a post on Silicon Alley Insider claiming that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. Neither story turned out to be completely true.
But in separate blog posts, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine.com set out to defend this supposed new age of online journalism, describing it as an invitation to readers to watch the reporting process as it unfolds.
"We don't believe that readers need to be presented with a sausage all the time," writes Arrington. "Sometimes it's both entertaining and informative to see that sausage being made, too."
In other words, give readers the parts of the story as they fall together. Start with the rumor you heard in the bar and update it thereafter until you get to some kind of truth... maybe.
Jarvis calls this "journalism as beta" and compares the new age of online journalism to Google's process of releasing everything before it's ready.
"Every time Google releases a beta, it is saying that the product is incomplete and imperfect. That is inevitably a call to collaborate," he writes. "Newspaper people see their articles as finished products of their work. Bloggers see their posts as part of the process of learning."
(Not to mention that nothing drives traffic like a sensational headline...)
To be sure, an article from the Times about rumors is a little hard to swallow, as the paper is known for citing phantom sources in most of its breaking news stories. Further, the article comes off as a bit of a desperate attempt to regain ground in the era of "new media."
Nevertheless, there's something very distressing about the idea of "journalism as beta," as it means that the onus is no longer on the writer to get his/her facts straight before reporting them. While news consumers should never take anything at face value -- whether it comes from the Web, TV, newspaper, or village crier -- the always-on world of online news reporting means a story can be told 100 times in a 100 different ways and is less likely to be packed with facts and sources. "Beta" basically means "not ready," and rather than apologizing for it, bloggers like Jarvis and Arrington defend it as the way forward.
In a recent poll on Internet Evolution about the impending death of print, the majority of our readers said they wouldn't mind losing print if we could "maintain journalistic integrity online."
Whether that will happen is still to be determined and depends on one's definition of "journalistic integrity." But one thing is for sure: In the world of online journalism, "beta" journalism, "process journalism," or whatever you want to call it, you'll need to slaughter the pig yourself and stuff your own sausage.
— Nicole Ferraro, Site Editor, Internet Evolution
Well those questioning the relevance of 'beta' journalism, should be in arms for this as the WH has now officially make way for so call 'beta' journalism brand in its pool of reporters.
With the mainstream media getting a little bit nevry in recent times about Obamanomics, the President has called only his trusted bandwagon of bloggers to help me pass the healthcare reform and the bloggers due fully obliged with the exception of IE's site editor:
Hey Nicole,
Okay, I'm still very vague on what 'Beta' Journalism is. HOWEVER I just took a crash course in principles of journalism 101 by watching a great movie "Nothing But The Truth" which is pretty much about a journalist's conflict/struggle in protecting the source.
So with that in mind, if 'Beta' Journalism is anything like what I think it is, maybe it can be used as a cesspool for the buzz of leads, and pretty much nothing more. Let's just hope that integrity is maintained within!
No WONDER journalists were so irate at that journalist from the UK for confusing the on the record/off the record issue during the election.
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i stopped doing that on my blog while ago but you can see my blog , i've been receiving lot of visitors and reader from around the globe : http://googlemag.blogspot.com .
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if this set of rules were applied to every blog site the probable outcome would be one of two choices. First, blogging and journalism would be synonymous and accepted as equals. Or, more likely, there wouldn't be any bloggs.
A blog does not rise to the level of journalism simply because more people preferred it. You state in your reply that the difference is that a blog can say pretty much whatever it wants to, whenever it wants to. But the actual news article must adhere to rules of journalistic integrity. That's the essence of the whole thing! The crux of the biscuit so to speak.
A blog is a blog no matter who wrote it, or where it's posted. The facts don't have to be straight; the information does not have to be correct, sources, if there are any, do not have to be identified; and no one is expected to rely on it being genuine. In the instance that you mention, blog.NewYorkTimes.com, doesn't change anything. If that blog was expected to have the same clout or gravitas as their regular news, one or the other would not exist. For example, a reference from the NewYorkTimes.com carries more credence than a similar reference from blog.NewYorkTimes.com. The former is reliable and dependable for accuracy and constitutes a genuine reference. The latter implies unchecked facts and thereby is not reliable and applies no genuine credence as a reference source.
as a reference to support my position the Los Angeles Times website has a blog page but it warns up front that you are not reading real news anymore and have entered the world of opinion, with a link that states:
I think online readers would better prefer blogs than news sites because they update their post as fast as news sites do , that's why you found all news sites publishes a blog a part on their server as you can see on NYTIMES http://blog.nytimes.com those link is just for publishing fast update different with the news desk which will verify information before posted at their interface .
Dear David,
Your idea of a "digital standard" sounds wonderful on paper ...aayyy, ah, err..., screen. But the idea of the standard implies agreement. Imagining for a moment that you could get the world to agree on a standard then you must find some way of enforcing it.
When CHDIR makes reference to old media, enforcement was easy in those days. Everybody knew where to find the reporter, his editor, and the editor's publisher by looking them up in the phone book. And the possibility of enforcement kept, and still keeps the (old media) journalistic world in check.
But with the advent of the new media (Note: I did not say "journalism") somehow the American ideals of freedom of speech and the right to privacy has been implied through the Internet as a whole, and consequently it is not as easy as flipping through the Yellow Pages to identify and locate the entity in question.
While I applaud your enthusiasm and self enforced journalistic integrity; I must retort that your idea is implausible. You can't imply a rule without the possibility of enforcement. All carrot and no stick is just as ineffective as, all stick and no carrot. Even though the website you are looking at may have a good reputation, if the writer makes statements without some sort of link to a fact backing him/her, the information falls to a level below standards acceptable for posting on the Op/Ed page of the least reputable (old media) newspaper. I'm sorry to say, but I have to follow the old adage my mother used to tell me: "Believe only some of what you hear, only half of what you see, and none of what you read."
Kurt Keys
As I write more and more blogs, I have been wondering about this role myself.
I read TechCrunch and have, on more than one occasion, wondered about their reporting of things that "are unfolding" which turned out to be things that were not even occuring.
A number of the comments left on blogs I have written have been left by employees and even founder/CEOs of startups. I have been critical on a number of occasions and earlier this week when a comment was left by a CEO/founder it got me thinking. In the comment he was appreciative of the review and acknowledged the criticism - but noted that it was "fair."
That really had me thinking. Have all my blogs been fair? Have I stretched a point to make the article more interesting?
These are issues that journalists have struggled with for decades. I think most good writers and good bloggers should be thinking about the issues of fairness and integrity and facts versus rumors.
But the reality of the Internet is that blogging is cheap. Whereas in the print media with it's limited universe - bad performance can be drummed out, that might not happen in the digital universe.
There are good journalists and bad journalists. There are good bloggers and bad bloggers. There are good journalists/bloggers who write a bad column.
Ironically enough, the article I wrote was on Scribnia which is a new service that lets Internet readers to comment on their favorite (and dare I say it, least favorite) Internet based authors. Seems highly relevant to our discussion here.
Jason Mick,
I'd TOTALLY agree with you. Nothing new here, except for maybe old media getting a taste of their own medicine by watching the new media unfold. I'd confess along with some others here that I don't know much about journalism either, however, I do know A LOT about bullsh*t whether it be from a fisherman, a UFO abductee, a door to door salesman, someone in old media or someone in new media. As Nicole alluded to, most people know to NOT trust any information at face value whether it be anecdotal, printed (old media) or electronically posted (new media). Reporters, journalists, bloggers etc., are (can be) all motivated by political, social or economic forces which can transpire gathered information into a particular "viewpoint" (ahem, bias), which COULD then in turn transform information into an "agenda", which then gets flushed (I like that word choice there) out to news consumers via print (old media) and/or posts (new media)...what really IS the difference b/w old & new media (guess it depends on your interpretation of what the word "IS" is)?
A perfect example to me of journalistic integrity and professionalism (HA!), since you mentioned "Scientific American" (some here IntEvol are going to say UGGGggghhhhh not thisssss again; won't he shut the "F" up!?) is the media's very own, dear to their green heart Anthropogenic Global Warming issue (fable) that old, as well as some in the new media continuously pontificates. WHY are these OBJECTIVE (omg), HONEST (oh geez,I feel sick, where's the bathroom), HARD WORKING media nitwits (my tongue is in my cheek) propagating this AGW "ahh…story?" when they have NO, NONE, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NOOL proof that this occurring?!! Hmmm…it must be their integrity (shedding their BIAS) and strict observance to FACTS (more sarcasm…sorry). They aren't even discussing the issue, which consists of a two-sided debate; and the facts, albeit scientific, hard facts, favor the anti-AGW'ers. The media is simply reporting what they believe (the pro AGW side).


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MLB Ow. I'm with Brian Kenny.
Regardless of whether Kenny is correct, his comments evoked a fascinating question, not just about how we should analyze pitching performances—most people would agree that a 1 H, 0 BB complete game is better than a 0 H, 9 BB complete game—but about how we should watch, value, and appreciate the game of baseball.
I suggested to Kenny on Twitter that we should differentiate between valuable traditions and inertial reasoning; that is, is the celebration of no-hitters valuable because of the fact that it has always been celebrated, or is it simply a case of following the conventional norm for the sake of normality, in the same way that we still value pitcher wins?
I think it's some of both. On the one hand, there's nothing particularly special about a no-hitter as compared to, say, a 1-hit 0-walk complete game. If we invented baseball today and had to decide which pitching performances to celebrate, surely said performance would be celebrated more strongly than a 0-hit 9-walk performance.
On the other hand, I believe that there is value in the collective excitement that comes from a no-hitter bid, regardless of the actual "greatness" of a no-hitter. Everyone—the fans, the announcers, the pitcher, the other players—feels like something special is happening (whether or not it's actually special), and to get caught up in that excitement is not only natural and understandable, but should be encouraged!
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1. bobm posted on July 10, 2013 at 08:11 AM #If sabermetricians wanted to have an alternative celebration to no-hitters, I wonder how many 100+ Game Scores there've been over that same time period?
According to BB-Ref there have been 100.
Why pay attention to Machado's recent play? After all, it was only half as valuable as a standard double play.
But doesn't TFE suggest that the walkless analogy would be a game with zero BB and only one baserunner?
That's terrific on 100 different levels. How did you do that?
On the other hand, I believe that there is value in the collective excitement that comes from a no-hitter bid, regardless of the actual "greatness" of a no-hitter. Everyone—the fans, the announcers, the pitcher, the other players—feels like something special is happening (whether or not it's actually special), and to get caught up in that excitement is not only natural and understandable, but should be encouraged!It is the difference between watching a game and burying your head in a spreadsheet. You can't appreciate the building excitement if you weren't there and can't imagine what it would have been like to have been there.
EDIT to that last comment: I followed your advice and got as far as the pitching game finder page. But when I entered Game Score >= 100 as my search criteria, I got this error message instead. Any idea what I did wrong?
You (we) can enjoy them all if you want to. I'm just the guy who discoevered the cocoa bean in South America, and would like to share the newfound joy with my European friends, who are having fun with life but maybe they would have even more if they tasted chocolate. But many of my European friends dismiss this new fodd without tasting it, and tell me to keep it in my mother's basement where I belong.
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Why not instead educate writers and announcers to keep track of consecutive reached-base-in-game streaks?
As I noted, people can enjoy what they want to enjoy. But I think there is also a normative element to what we celebrate, and it would be a good thing if we moved towards celebrating performances for their impressiveness rather than just for tradition's sake. Not that we should abandon tradition, but what we appreciate and celebrate should evolve as the game, and our understanding of it, evolves.
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