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THE nation's strive for development may continue to be an illusion as long as we are not ready to learn from our past mistakes, errors and shortcomings that could give room for a brighter future.
Whenever we hear of committees or probe panels being set up to investigate incidents, what readily come to mind are two things – politics at play or nothing would come out of it.
Before the return to democratic rule, Nigerians used to take the failures of implementation of probe panel reports as part of the outcome of military dictatorship but events have shown that this is not so.
This worrisome trend is neither limited to the Executive arm of government nor the Jonathan administration – and if care is not taken – it may continue to be a burden the nation will live with.
The latest of such disdain for public reports is the alleged moves to discredit the submission by the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, headed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
The administrative task force was established to streamline and improve the revenue collection machinery of government in the oil and gas industry and to verify all petroleum upstream and downstream revenues, including taxes and royalties due and payable to the Federal Government, take all necessary steps to collect all debts due and enforce payment terms by all industry operators, among others.
This time around, the drama began at the presentation of the report at the State House, Abuja, when Steve Oronsaye, deputy chairman of the task force and Ben Otti, another member of the 17-member committee tried, in a futile bid, to discredit the report. They claimed that they were not privy to the final draft being tendered.
The committee produced the 146-page document, based on the request by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, covering 10 years – 2002 to 2012.
According to the report, Nigeria had lost out on tens of billions of dollars in oil and gas income over the last decade from shady deals struck between multinational oil companies and government officials.
The report alleged that foreign oil traders often bought crude without any formal contracts, and that the state oil firm had short-changed the nation's treasury by selling gas and crude oil to itself below market rates without any transparency.
The task force also found anomalies ranging from about $183 million in signature bonuses for oil bloc licenses not accounted for and $3.02 billion as unpaid royalties, theft of up to 250,000 barrels of crude per day, and fraud by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in converting its dollar earnings to naira.
Presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe, had said the paragraph "is an obvious DISCLAIMER (emphasis mine) issued by the committee on the entire report, makes it impossible under our laws to indict or punish anyone except, and until, the Federal Government fully verifies and reconciles the facts as recommended by the committee in its submission to the government".
Okupe also criticized part of the report which says: "Due to the time frame of the assignment, some of the data used could not be independently verified and the task force recommends that the government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations".
He blamed Ribadu for the politicization of the report and claimed that it was a calculated attempt to overheat the polity and incite Nigerians against President Goodluck Jonathan.
Over the years, findings of many panels and committees have not been made useful to the nation, resulting into wastage of material resources and man-hours.
A very few examples suffice: Following the violence that trailed the 2011 general elections in the country, over 900 persons were said to have lost their lives. President Jonathan inaugurated a 22-man panel of enquiry headed by Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, to look at the incident and make recommendations on how to forestall a recurrence.
On October 10, 2011, the investigation panel submitted its report and advised that "the first and probably the most important major cause (of violence) is the failure on the part of the previous successive regimes, since the military handover of power in 1999, to implement the recommendations of various committees, commissions and panels that had taken place in our nation.
The panel equally called for the implementation of the Babalakin Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Bauchi State Civil Disturbances, Justice Snakey Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Wase and Langtang Disturbances and Justice Uwais Electoral Reform Committee, Karibi Whyte Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Kafanchan Disturbances, Professor Tamuno Panel of Inquiry on National Security, Niki Tobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Plateau State Disturbances and Justice Disu Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Plateau State Disturbances.
Several Judicial Commissions of Inquiry had been set up by both the Federal and the Plateau State governments to investigate the Jos crises but unfortunately, many of these reports had not been made public or the culprits made accountable.
The long denial of the public's right to know the content of these reports by successive governments had provided fertile grounds for speculations, distrust, and disregard for constituted authorities which significantly contributed towards escalating the crises that has led to wanton destruction of lives and property.
Similarly, the reports and white papers of these Commissions of Inquiry have remained unpublished and inaccessible, even though the public's right to information is guaranteed by the Freedom of Information Act, Section 39(1) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution as well as Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
Another of such hibernated report is the Steven Oronsaye Committee on the Restructuring of Government Agencies and Parastatals.
Mr. ADEWALE KUPOLUYI, wrote from Federal University of Agric., Abeokuta, Ogun State.


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Primate Diaries has an excellent writeup on the very important news that came out overnight regarding the "Danish Text" draft climate agreement, leaked to the UK's Guardian. This climate agreement, if implemented, would significantly change the way climate management happens on this planet over the next several years, putting the bulk of the power in the hands of the World Bank and abrogating Kyoto. Check out this description and analysis of the problem.
The Danish Text – Kyoto = World Bank Runs Climate
Thanks Greg. I loved what Oxfam recently said about the leaked draft in an interview with CNN:
Like ants in a room full of elephants poor countries are at risk of being squeezed out of the climate talks in Copenhagen.
Though wouldn't "trampled" be a better metaphor?
#2 Greg Laden December 9, 2009
"Like toothpaste on the floor in a room full of elephants…."
#3 Equisetum December 9, 2009
Could someone please explain to me why I am not at all surprised by this?
Sigh . . .
#4 MadScientist December 9, 2009
Well, first of all, the Kyoto Protocol has been 100% useless and the tree planting and carbon credit trading it promotes is worse than worthless. Remember the talks are meant to be about real reductions in CO2 emissions, not simply "per capita reductions" as in the Kyoto agreement or, worse still, fuzzy feel-good gab. Now representatives from some poor nations don't like the Kyoto agreement being completely scrapped because some oligarchs make money off the rest of the world for doing nothing. The developed nations are doing the dumping, so they need to do the cleaning up. Once they've got their act together then they can think of what might be done to help less developed nations clean up. I can't comment on the "leaked text" itself since I have never seen it and people are prone to write the most ridiculous things, but the Kyoto agreement was not a good thing; it allowed everyone to increase emissions while doing jack shit, so all that hype about being "the only binding agreement" is bullshit – there's nothing binding that's of any value. A new agreement is essential, but the Kyoto agreement should be buried and forgotten.
#5 Jeremy December 9, 2009
Here is a much better analysis of the "leaked" (not actually leaked), "Danish" (not officially endorsed by anybody with authority in Denmark document.
The analysis Greg's posted is pretty terrible. For example this part, which I think might be from the Guardian article;
"It would further force developing nations to curb their emissions at 2.67 tons of carbon emissions per capita, while poorer countries would be limited to 1.44 tons."
These figures cannot be found in the "leaked" document anywhere, nor can anything be found that would allow people to calculate these figures.
This incident is just a media beat up and dishonest reporting.
I addressed Jeremy at The Primate Diaries, but will do so here as well.
Those particular numbers come from the analysis done by developing countries that were shown to the Guardian. They have been supported by David Hone, Climate Change Advisor to Shell who wrote on his blog:
Assuming that emissions from deforestation are in developing countries and that international marine and aviation fuel use starts off largely allocated to developed countries but shifts increasingly to developing countries over 60 years, then my quick analysis shows a similar outcome – by 2050 developed country energy emissions are still nearly double per capita compared to developing countries, even though the developed countries have reduced emissions by 80%. The end result is that developing countries get a 16% increase in energy emissions by 2050 compared to 1990, but must reduce by about 45% compared to 2007 levels – and this can only happen if big reductions are made in areas such as deforestation. Hence the problem of "fairness"!
#7 Jeremy December 10, 2009
So EMJ, based on that analysis I take it you accept that the "leaked" text doesn't actually "force" those specific emission limits per person at all and the specific numbers cited are actually just estimates based on a number of assumptions.
The reporting is clearly worded to make it appear as if the text specifically creates an unfair disparity between developed and developing countries and that this is some kind of conspiracy by developed countries to screw over developing countries. This is obvious sensationalising of what is actually basically a non-news story and just some hyperbole and posturing for position that occurs at every international climate change conference.
Lets at least wait to express our outrage until an actual proposal is put forward.
#8 Greg Laden December 10, 2009
I think you two guys should bet ten dollars on this.
… no wait, that is probably a bad idea.
#9 MadScientist December 10, 2009
I agree with Jeremy; lots of posturing, and I'd add a lot mock outrage at the evil developed nations. I really don't give a damn what they whine about – the only important thing is will they agree on something useful. We don't need another Kyoto and another 20 years doing nothing. If the developing nations simply stall hoping for undeserved handouts, the developed nations will have to take more or less unilateral action. China and India as developing nations need to do something, so negotiating with them is essential. Pretty much all the other developing nations put together can be ignored and left to let their emissions grow for the next 10-20 years, with positive incentives being worked out later as appropriate.
I'm betting nothing useful comes out of the Copenhagen meetings though – just like last year. It seems to me that real progress is being made by individual states within larger federations and this is happening quite independently of the global whinefest. So, for example (purely hypothetical), if California, Washington, Colorado, and Arizona were to start enforcing CO2 reduction at the state level, other states and perhaps the federal government will eventually do the same. Any pro-CO2 reduction groups should work more at the state level rather than the federal level (where special interests buy the desired outcome). At the global level, as we can see from what's happening (or not happening) at Copenhagen is simply a mess.
#10 Greg Laden December 10, 2009
I personally have a hard time with the "developing" vs "developed" characterization. It places all but a handful of nations in one category which includes more variation than there has ever been in the history of nation states in very important variables; it assumes, in the midsts of a discussion about the future interrelationship between technology and society, that "developed" nation is the end product form of an inevitable process. If that's true, then don't bother with the climate change talks because it won't help. And, it assumes a dynamic (the "ing" in "developing") in a great many nations that is not happening, and in fact, quite the opposite is happening.
#11 YTA December 10, 2009
Ultimately, this may be a strategy to get a treaty in place given the likelihood that developed countries are more likely to torpedo a real effort. I would like to know more about the source.
#12 MadScientist December 10, 2009
I have objections to the "developing" vs "developed" as well, as if the "developed" no longer change and as if the "developing" are changing in any meaningful way. Looking at south-east Asia, society is not progressing very well despite the technological imports; they've got other problems. Looking at nations like PNG I can't help but wonder how the industrialized world would suit them. How do you support, say, a hospital when the people are scattered over such rough terrain? There are industries – such as the palm and coconut oil industries – but they seem to be there to take advantage of cheap labor and the absence of laws protecting the workers. The population may simply be too small and scattered to support modern industry, which would leave them as net importers with not much of value to export. So the question is, what can be done so that the folks of PNG can live happily – trade is always good if we can trade anything with them, but I can't imagine PNG becoming a heavily industrialized modernized nation – not that it's impossible, just not possible without propping up from the outside. Not to mention, why should we force any 'development' on them?
#13 Jeremy December 10, 2009
Good point Greg re: "developed vs developing." I'm unsure what terms are better to use though. "Industrialised" and something perhaps?
Re: Mad Scientist, I am a little more optimistic at the moment. Gordon Brown's comment that Europe should aim for 30% reductions from 1990 levels by 2020 regardless of what the rest of the world does was very positive and I'm hoping that it suggests we'll see a strong target from Europe, even if it's less than that. That will put a lot of pressure on the US to raise their reductions from the current proposal of returning to 1990 levels. I've also heard a lot of talk that the "developed" nations are prepared to dramatically increase the proposed $10 billion fund. Even if it doesn't get to $400 billion, if it's something along the lines of $100 billion I think the "developing" nations block, especially the "faction" that doesn't include China, India etc. will support it.


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The suspect in a Lake Hattie death has now been charged with possession of pornography.
Fredrick William Bachman, 27, formerly of Laporte, now faces seven counts of possession of pornographic works, each punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and/or a $5,000 fine upon conviction.
Bachman also faces charges of Second Degree Murder in the May death of retreat owner James Schwartzbauer, 57, whose body was found in the rubble of his burned out home on Lake Hattie May 31.
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Sony's Share Price Rises After Xbox One Announcement
Xbox One has just been announced by Microsoft but it seems most of the world wasn't that impressed.
After a conference that focused largely on the entertainment capabilities of the console – and only a handful of games were named – many gamers, ourselves included, were left feeling a little cold.
As a result Sony's share price is rising – quite sharply – hovering around an increase of 9% at the time of writing.
Microsoft's, however, has dropped, though only by a fraction of a per cent.
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The Simulation Analysis of Optimal Policy Including Introduction of Biomass Plant Technology for Decreasing Water Pollutions in Jiaxing City, China
In the study, we proposed the environmental policies to decrease water pollutants that generate from household, non-point and production in Jiaxing city of China. We especially introduced biomass plant technology for pig farming industry in order to improve the water environment. We constructed environmental model and social economic model by computer simulation that evaluated the efficiency of biomass plant technology from both water environmental preservation and social economic development. The research established the significance and feasibility of introducing biomass plant technology that allows simultaneous pursuit of environmental improvement and regional development. The comprehensive evaluation and optimal policies are expected to form the basis of decision-making in Jiaxing city.
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Hornady Interlock for elk?
I hunt elk in the Idaho panhandle where the timber is thick and the ranges short. Last fall I killed a medium sized cow with my new Mossberg .270 with a Nosler 140 grain Accubond and was very satisfied with the bullet performance. It took the top off the heart and broke the off-side leg.
This fall I would like to use my scoped Mosin-Nagant 7.62 X 54R and an accurate (1 3/8" 100 yard group) handload I worked up which uses a 150 grain, .312 diameter Hornady Interlock at 2800 FPS. Since the bore slugs at .312, bullet selection is fairly limited. Does anyone have experience with this bullet on elk? The cow season was eliminated this year, so it would be used on a bull if I get an opportunity.
I really want to take an animal with the Mosin. Is this bullet up to the task or should I save it for deer and use the .270 for my elk hunt?
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Man arrested for threatening AEP worker with gun
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An American Electric Power (AEP) employee was working on a power meter at a Brownsville home when an upset homeowner came outside with a pistol in his hand.
The AEP worker was assigned to perform a meter check at the house on the 9000 block of Laguna Seca.
He had been working a total of five minutes when the homeowner walked up to him with the gun.
He explained that he was working for AEP and asked the man why he had a gun in his hand.
The homeowner replied to the AEP employee in Spanish that he did not knock on his door first, and he had no permission to enter his property.
He also said he can shoot anyone with the gun if he wants to.
The worker, feeling threatened, feared for his safety. He left the area leaving his tools and work unfinished.
A Cameron County Sheriff deputy went out to the home the same day to speak to the homeowner.
The man identified himself as Benito Ramirez and told the deputy he was upset because his television flickered when the AEP worker was checking the power meter.
The deputy asked where the man TMs gun was and he told him in the chicken coop outside his home.
He found the pistol loaded and chambered with ammunition hidden inside a cubical.
The 41-year-old was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Ramirez was taken to Cameron County Jail and his bond is set at $50,000.


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Aviall Services has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Rolls-Royce for parts, modules and tooling for the RR300 turboshaft used on the Robinson R66. Deliveries of the R66 have already passed the 150 mark; the helicopter manufacturer expects deliveries to peak at several hundred per year, with annual flight hours reaching nearly 900,000 by 2020.
The global agreement, which runs to June 2022, creates a new product line for Aviall. "The RR300 adds 252 unique part numbers to our inventory," a spokesman for Aviall told AIN. Aviall will distribute RR300 new parts and modules, exchange material, exchange modules, RR300 kits, tooling and electronic publications with responsibility for sales, marketing, forecasting, stocking, inventory, warranty processing and order fulfillment.
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Indulge your voyeuristic tendencies at Then and Now: Houston Heights Association's 2013 Spring Home & Garden Tour. Six notable Heights-area homes are open for public display and scrutiny, inside and out. ''All of the houses are special,'' diplomatically insists HHA tour representative Janet Buchheit, but she admits that one particular house stands out. Karen and Robert Derr's home at 2310 Rutland was built in 1969 and operated as the Courtesy Washateria, Buchheit explains. The one-story cinderblock home maintains its trendy original metal frame ceiling, concrete floors, and commercial windows and doors, and features an open living/dining/kitchen area. Quirking up the concept even further, a ''WashDERRteria'' exterior mural depicts the couple as stick figures, riding on the Fat Boy atomic bomb — à la DocDERR Strangelove.
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Bella's Nokia Cell Phone and MacBook in the Twilight Movie Are Interesting Choices
Should Book Technology Be Updated For the Movie Version?
In my Twilight gadget rundown from the other day, I noticed in the comments some mentions about Bella's tech being upgraded to reflect the year. Instead of 2004's old desktop and dial-up connection, she had a 2008-era black MacBook and fast Internet.
Her lack of a regular cell phone in the book wasn't a glaring error in 2004, but in 2008, the filmmakers would have been remiss in not giving her a phone when every teen has one. And I loved the choice of the blackbook, but it did alter her characterization a little by making her seem more tech-savvy than book Bella.
As a fan of both the book and the movie, the updating of the gadgets didn't bother me, because the book was published in 2004, but not specifically set then, so if the movie is taking place in present day, then 2008 technology is expected.
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Mild winter could lead to up-tick in bites
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The next time you take a walk through the woods, keep in mind that conditions are right this summer for some tiny pests that could cause you big health problems.
"We had a real mild winter, which was relatively wet and so having those conditions meant that the insects were able to get started earlier and the ticks, too," said Clemson University Extension Agent Ben Powell.
Powell said there's no sign the tick population will be worse than normal this summer, but the early start to the season means they could be more active.
The most common tick in the Southeast is the Lone Star or deer tick, which can transmit Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
"It can give you flu-like symptoms, but one of the hallmarks is what we call a petechial rash, where you get red spots and those red spots can be on your hands, on your palms and on your feet, scattered throughout your body," said Loris Hospital emergency room physician Dr. James Wright.
Dr. Wright said Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever can be deadly if left untreated, but is easily curable if detected early.
The best-known illness transmitted by ticks is Lyme disease, but Dr. Wright said that's most common in the Northeast and Midwest, and rare in South Carolina.
If you're going to be walking through bushes or tall grass, Dr. Wright suggests you wear a long-sleeved shirt and long pants tucked into your socks, and use an insect repellant that contains the chemical DEET.
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SWATHES of trees have been chopped down at a prescious Hadleigh wood, leaving locals in tears.
Coppicing is being carried out at Hadleigh Great Wood by Southend Council, who own it, in an effort to manage the Site of Special Scentific Interest.
However, Norman Ladzrie, a Castle Point councillor, claims five to ten acres of trees have been cut down as a result of aggressive coppicing.
He tabled a motion at a special Castle Point council meeting on Wednesday, February 20 calling for talks with colleagues in Southend about what was being done to the wood.
Mr Ladzrie said: "I walk these woods every day with my dogs and meet many people over there. I have seen people in tears at what is happening and they constantly ask 'what can we do about this?'
"The reason for this motion is quite simply so this council, which is the planning authority, get in conversation with Southend Council, Natural England and Essex Wildlife Trust to discuss this matter and come to some arrangement where coppicing is sympathetic with the woodland."
He claimed tractors, brush cutters and chainsaws were being used to complete the works in "one fell swoop" rather than in stages.
However, Paul Jenkinson, Southend Council's park's technical officer, said the wood was re-coppiced on a 20 to 25 year cycle to encourage new woodland wildlife.
Mr Jenkinson said: "The stumps created by the coppicing will produce new shoots and re-grow. These stumps themselves can live for hundreds of years.
"Coppicing is highly beneficial to woodland wildlife. It enables flora and fauna to colonise new areas of the woodland by allowing light to reach the woodland floor."
John Hall, CEO of the Essex Wildlife Trust, added: "Coppicing does look drastic when the trees and shrubs are actually cut at this time of year.
"The coppice quickly re-grows and this is partly what maintains the interest of these woodlands. Coppicing does need to be carefully planned and there is an approved plan at Hadleigh Great Wood.
"It does, in our experience, help to reduce the impact if coppicing is moved around the woodland compartments so that the coppiced areas are not adjacent and do not look so large."


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Although given who the coach is in BK, that is probably a point in Evans' favor.
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Although given who the coach is in BK, that is probably a point in Evans' favor.
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If we cannot find a veteran maybe draft a back up for the future.
how about we keep the team we have! We are barely going to have the money to sign Lance next year and Danny will have to be lost for nothing as it is!
I prefer to think of it as trading Danny for a grown-up Lance. No matter who we'd gotten in exchange for Danny in the last year or so, the salaries would have had to match and we'd have to shed them somehow to keep Lance.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Hell look at baseball, look what the Rangers traded for a 2 month rental of Matt Garza. The future is now for the Pacers, if we wanted value for Granger the time to trade him was 3 years ago not now.
A huge IF, and I'm sorry but basketball and baseball are two different things in baseball you don't need knees to go up there and swing the bat, I mean even fata** Big Papi at the age of 40 can get up there and still kick a** that is not that case for basketball.
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Worrying about 'assets' and getting future value back from expiring contracts is the kind of thing the us JrGM's do. Or teams that are rebuilding. Teams that are contenders have a much shorter term view about things. Pacers will not be trading Danny for prospects or draft picks. Pacers will be rolling Danny out there for 30 mpg of game production. They are worried about winning this year, not 5 yrs from now. If they could trade Danny for a guy like Pau Gasol, they might. [Trading wing depth for bid depth.] But unless the guy they get back makes a difference right now, I don't see any trade being done.
P4E never made any mention of baseball and basketball as the same thing. He is making a point that teams in contention make moves for temporary opportunity. Its simply an analogy.
Just personal
the biggest shame is we have 14M that is not benefitting this team yet. For a small market franchise with a window of opportunity at a Banner, its a real shame. A healthy Granger last year when he came back may have been enough for us to win it all.
Its unfortunate but this is sports and injuries happen. Just look at DRose.
I don't think anyone knows what will happen when Danny returns,,, not even Danny himself.
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S*** happens....we're not the only Team that has a large chunk of their Salary sitting in a suit at the end of the bench . I know...it sucks...but we just move on and deal with the cards that we're dealt. Luckily.....as many have said...we've been dealt a "4 of a Kind" this season....so it's all good. We have the luxury of having him properly rehab.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
That is the thing he has no value around the league. I mean I guess a team like the Jazz would trade an expiring like Biderans for Danny(and Bird just hangs up the phone lol). The potential of a playoff run with an 80% Granger is >> than anything we could get back in a trade.
If we could get back a 1st rd pick or a decent expiring player than you would have to think about it.(it still wouldnt be a easy yes answer. I mean a 80% Granger probably helps us more in the playoffs than Emeka Oakfor or Gasol)
But there is no GM in the league who would trade an expiring and a 1st rd pick (or a young prospect on a rookie deal) for a guy in Granger who hasn't been on the court in ages. He can't have any value at this juncture. He has way more value to us than anybody else.
This is way to premature to discuss, but say Granger comes back and plays terrific, and plays a huge role in a deep playoff run. We may be able to S&T him. I know Danny loves LA and the Clippers seem like a good fit, that would be an interesting scenario. It isn't something I count on. Like I have stated the potential of having Granger for the rest of the year is worth way more than he is worth in a trade.
I wonder if there are any backup centers on non-guaranteed contracts that will get cut later this year before their contracts become fully guaranteed.
(had to check the thread title to make sure I wasn't mistakenly posting in yet another Danny Granger thread)
So much is up in the air with Lance... no one wants to say it but what if we cannot afford Lance. We let both Danny and Lance walk... just asking.. cause who knows it can happen.
Point is, we have to somewhat stay aggressive and see what is available. I like Cope,, I just don't think he will get a chance to find rhythm with our second unit,,, esp when DG returns. Cope is a good player and the contract is reasonable.
Mahnimi is serviceable but if there is a legit center with defensive prowess that becomes available our best trade chip is the sharpshooting power forward off the bench.
I like Greg Stiemsma from NO's. 2.7 expiring. When he was with Boston he had like 5 blocks one game off the bench. I know he is injured presently but should return by trade timeline.
With OJ, Solo, Butler and Granger at the Wing rotation...Copeland was expendable the second the Pacers acquired Scola.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Danny's been a good soldier for us. I see us keeping him on and hoping he can be our ace in the hole for a championship run.
After that he can go off (with a shinny new ring) to play for who ever he wants and we can resign Lance. Win/win.
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Yesterday, we received our first Christmas card in the mail (really??? mine aren't even finished!) I like to display our cards of friends and family during the holidays & found some great ideas for this holiday season! This year, I am recreating this card garland (without the clothespins) on our staircase...
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MUMBAI, India
It's the kind of incident that gives tourism officials nightmares: Terrorists hit a city's top tourist spots, leaving more than 170 people dead.
That's what happened in Mumbai in late November. From Chowpatty Beach to a bar popular with Westerners to the main railway terminal to a couple of five-star hotels, terrorists hop-scotched through the prime tourist district armed with AK-47s. The three-day drama, played out before an agonizingly impotent public, left both Indians and foreigners stunned.
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Twenty-four hours after the siege ended, Leopold Cafe, the backpacker bar where 10 people died, was mobbed with customers, including a Mumbai resident who drank a Carlsberg while his 6-year-old son sipped a Coke. "People should know we are not afraid,'' the man, identified only as Mr. Sharif, told reporters for the London Times.
I was in Mumbai in September, two months before the attacks. There had already been terrorist bombings in Ahmedabad and New Delhi earlier in the summer. A billboard on Mumbai's main road showed a man wearing a black balaclava, only his steely eyes visible. "They are on the lookout. Are you?" As if to defend themselves from bombers on bicycles, who had shown a proclivity for leaving explosives in trash cans, municipal workers in Mumbai turned trash bins upside down. A dirty street was apparently a safe one.
Such measures look absurd in light of the tragedy that took place, with heavily armed men arriving by sea in inflatable boats, then carrying out their carefully choreographed plan of murder and mayhem with chilling efficiency.
I tracked their movements on the map as if I were reliving my own visit — my hotel was around the corner from the much pricier Taj Mahal, scene of one of the attacks, and I had wandered by its towering but unarmed doormen and cluster of well-placed beggars. Leopold Cafe, a couple of blocks from my hotel on the Colaba Causeway, had been recommended by a friend, but it was standing-room-only the night I passed by. On a visit to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the city's main railway station, I had noticed a single metal detector at just one of many entrances. Throngs of people poured around the security device — rather than through it — while two police officers sat on a battered school desk, looking like men who recognized long ago the futility of their jobs.
Terrorism is nothing new to Mumbai, with six bombing incidents in the past six years.
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Delineations of all kinds vanish in Mumbai, as people jostle for a few square inches of space. Kids cluster like crows on a concrete underpass, bathed in bus exhaust. Traffic creeps around a fly-specked cow moseying down the middle of the road. On a highway median, a family huddles under a shelter of black plastic and poles. A man with a bandaged jaw slumps on an overturned planter outside a cancer hospital. Two children sleep curled like puppies on the pavement outside the Nautica store on a Sunday afternoon. Suddenly you understand the newspaper story about delivery trucks killing seven to 10 "pavement sleepers" every month.
Retailing takes on a new meaning in Mumbai. There are high-end shops and glass-enclosed malls for the city's elite. Tourists looking for handicrafts wander down Colaba Causeway, where haggling for souvenirs and silver bangles is mandatory. But most of Mumbai's residents shop at stores that are little more than slots along the sidewalk. Think of Wal-Mart shattered into SKU numbers. A store for twine, one for toilets, one for tunics, others for eggs, chickens, cell phones, photocopies. A storefront where the workers are ghostly white from grinding wheat into flour. A doorway that is nothing more than a barber's chair, a mirror and a man with a razor. A chemist that sells both Western and homeopathic remedies, one advertising a special expertise in "VD and Sex problems." A man with a square foot of sidewalk, a charcoal burner and a teapot.
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Despite terrorist threats and a grinding reality, there is an undercurrent of hope here that shames Westerners obsessed with their eroding 401(k)s and real estate values. During the annual Ganesh festival in early September, slum dwellers join movie stars in making offerings to the Hindu elephant-headed deity, believing in good luck to come. After waiting 17 hours to enter the biggest Ganesh shrine in Mumbai, one mother pinned her hopes on her son: "I want him to marry a rich woman or get a job in Dubai."
The climax of the Ganapati festival comes with the immersion of the plaster of paris idols in the sea. At dusk, families gather behind flower-garlanded Ganeshes in traffic-stopping processions with drummers or DJs and nonstop chanting, incense mixing with exhaust. The celebration doesn't end until hours later, when everyone — women in saris, toddlers in T-shirts, young boys with red-painted faces — hauls their gods into the inky water. By morning, the beach is littered with broken pieces of the discarded idols — tiny hands in the sand, elephant tusks and soggy marigolds rolling in the surf.
Mumbai is the financial capital of India's recent economic miracle, the money magnet that draws rich and poor. This is where Mukesh Ambani, No. 5 on Forbes' list of the world's richest people, is building his 27-story mansion with three helipads and six floors to house his 168 cars. It's where Bollywood stars live and work and pimp everything from bags of concrete to cell phones. Where skyscrapers named "Harmony" are rising from slums and abandoned textile mills are being turned into offices. Where Union Bank of India taps the sense of possibility and culture of familial responsibility with billboards showing a young woman with her younger sister and the slogan: "Your dreams are not yours alone."
Life, unbowed
Mumbai has monuments and museums, but they are largely overlooked as the masses go about the business of living. Even Victorian Gothic masterpieces like the city's main railway station, where 10 died in the terrorist attacks, look smudged and neglected while millions of commuters stream daily through its innards. Haji Ali, a mosque and tomb built in 1431, looks like a mirage in the sunset on its finger of land poking into the sea, but up close it's crumbling. And Marine Drive, the city's much-touted promenade along the Arabian Sea, is a dead ringer for Tampa's Bayshore Drive. Except for the beggars.
The thrill of Mumbai comes from the people. Under air the color of dirty muslin, the women are swathed in saris of shocking pink, spotlight yellow, plum purple, looking like exotic birds trapped in drab surroundings. In the midst of Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, grinning schoolboys in gleaming white shirts practice their English as young men patiently excavate a foundation, one pan full of rocks and dirt at a time. Abandoned street kids play board games in a dank and narrow shelter under a footbridge to Mumbai's main railway station. A rail-thin man strains to pull a wooden cart loaded with a refrigerator-sized crate through rush hour traffic. In the pouring rain. Another man rides a bike with eight red propane tanks strapped to the back, a circus act escaped from the Big Top. In India, where there is a will, there is a way.
When soldiers finally crushed the terrorists in late November, the owner of the Taj hotel, where 31 people died, pledged to rebuild. "We must show that we cannot be disabled or destroyed, but that such heinous acts will only make us stronger," said Ratan Tata, head of the Tata Group, a multinational conglomerate that sells everything from telecommunications to tea.
Less than one month later, the hotel reopened.
Kris Hundley traveled to India on a World Affairs Journalism Fellowship administered by the International Center for Journalists. The fellowship is sponsored by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. Hundley can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 892-2996.


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1) Go to your group homepage e.g. Southampton & Romsey - you can find all groups on the Local Groups homepage.
2) Click on the Create a Ride or Event link in the sidebar menu.
3) When this loads, select either Ride or Event depending on what you're creating. Choose Ride for regular group rides or socials such as club runs or AGMs or events open to the public with just one ride or activity. Choose Event for rides open to both Cycling UK members and the public and also Tourist Competition events or for events with multiple ride options.
4) On the next page, you will be presented with a form that needs to be completed for your Ride or Event.
The following fields are the minimum that we require you to complete for a Ride:
- Name, for example, "Romsey Round 75 miles"
- Date and time, for example, "02/02/2014" and "09:00"
- Type, for example, a "road ride" or "AGM"
- Location, town and postcode - see below for more detailed information
- Contact name, for example, "Robin Smith"
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By now, I'm sure you've all heard that umpire Jim Joyce robbed Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga of a perfect game with a blown call at first base with two outs in the ninth inning. It immediately became national news and now everyone from Matt Lauer to your grandmother is yammering on about it.
But what they don't know is that this isn't the first time that Jim Joyce has done something heinous. I wish I didn't know either, but Heavy has learned that Jim Joyce is actually an immortal. Yes, that's right, an immortal. Due to a freak genetic condition, he cannot die, and unfortunately this seems to have driven him mad, as he has popped up more than once in the annals of history. In some accounts, he's named as "Reaper" Joyce. In others, he's simply named Death.
Now here, for the first time, we can reveal only a few of the reasons why Jim Joyce is indeed history's greatest monster:
– On August 4, 1944, Joyce, while on vacation in Amsterdam, alerted authorities to the fact that a small Jewish family was living in an attic. When he was asked how he knew they were there, he said "Well, to be Frank . . ." and then started laughing hysterically. Even Hitler was reportedly offended.
– In August of 1921, Joyce was again on vacation, this time on Campobello Island in New Brunswick. While there, he happened upon a strapping young man named Franklin Roosevelt. The two apparently exchanged words and then Joyce pulled out a police baton and beat Roosevelt about the legs with it for over a half hour. Roosevelt, embarrassed and shamed by his defeat, urged his family doctor to claim that he had polio. Every few years, whenever it seemed that Roosevelt might recover, Joyce would show up again, baton in hand and whip up on Roosevelt. No one knows why he did it.
– On April 14, 1864, while in Washington D.C. on business, Joyce decided to take in a play at Ford's Theater. Just before the show started, he ran into a despondent young man, later identified as John Wilkes Boothe. Joyce was seen whispering something to Booth, whose spirit rose until he was in a fervor. No one knows what Joyce said, but it must have been a hell of a speech.
– On January 28, 1986, Observers report seeing a man matching Joyce's description hunched in a tree with a rocket launcher shortly before the shuttle Challenger exploded. Investigators later found only a half eaten sandwich and a note saying that he was "in the mood for fireworks".
– On April 3, 33AD, while on a trip to Jerusalem, Joyce attended a public crucifixion. After several hours in the intense heat, most of the crowd had wandered away. The soldiers, growing bored, felt that the prisoners had suffered enough and prepared to cut them down. But Joyce raised a ruckus, claiming that he had paid good money for his seats and he wasn't leaving until someone was properly crucified. In fact, Joyce is described in early editions of the Bible as eating popcorn and heckling the crucified prisoners. Three days later, when Jesus emerged from his tomb, his first words were reportedly "Is that asshole with the popcorn gone?"
No one knows why Jim Joyce has done these awful things throughout history. Some say he is a devil wearing the flesh of a man. Others say he is just an asshole. What we do know is that poor Armando Galarraga is just the latest victim in Jim Joyce's long, psychotic rampage through history.


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Walcott and Bent miss out on England recall
Theo Walcott and Darren Bent have both missed out on a call-up to the England squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine and Belarus.
Fabio Capello named his 24-man squad on Sunday evening and there was no place for Walcott - scorer of a hat-trick against Croatia last year - despite the winger marking his return to action for Arsenal with a goal in a 6-2 rout of Blackburn Rovers.
Sunday's match was his first of the season as a result of fitness problems originating in a summer in which he was called up by both the senior and Under-21 England sides - a situation that angered Arsene Wenger.
Sunderland striker Bent has also been overlooked despite scoring seven goals in eight Premier League games for his new club, while Aston Villa's Ashley Young has also been excluded despite featuring in a number of squads under Capello.
Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster is not included following a shaky run of form at Old Trafford but his absence has been attributed to a fitness problem. Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is also out due to a hand injury.
Gabriel Agbonlahor, David James and Rio Ferdinand have all been recalled for the two fixtures which are relatively meaningless for England given they secured their place at the World Cup finals with a victory over Croatia in their last fixture.
England travel to Ukraine on Saturday and then welcome Belarus to Wembley four days later as they conclude what has been a hugely-successful campaign under Capello.
England squad: Robinson (Blackburn), Green (West Ham), James (Portsmouth); A Cole (Chelsea), Terry (Chelsea), Johnson (Liverpool), Bridge (Manchester City), Lescott (Manchester City), Brown (Manchester United), Ferdinand (Manchester United), Upson (West Ham); Milner (Aston Villa), Lampard (Chelsea), Beckham (Los Angeles Galaxy), Gerrard (Liverpool), Barry (Manchester City), Wright-Phillips (Manchester City), Carrick (Manchester United), Lennon (Tottenham); Agbonlahor (Aston Villa), Heskey (Aston Villa), Crouch (Tottenham), C Cole (West Ham), Rooney (Manchester United).
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Marin County will join a statewide program easing financing that will enable businesses to make energy and water efficiency improvements.
The Board of Supervisors, interested in the program for several years, signed up on Tuesday, recalling that it was a pet project of the late Supervisor Hal Brown.
The program will enable businesses to get financing of $50,000 or more for efficiency improvements including solar roofing, with interest rates depending on the "cost of capital" and repayment assessed over 20 years as part of property tax bills.
The CaliforniaFIRST property-assessed clean energy program does not yet apply to residential improvements because of federal mortgage lending red tape. Novato and San Rafael already have joined the program.
"Should the residential regulatory environment improve, the CaliforniaFIRST program would expand to include residential financing," according to County Administrator Matthew Hymel. "Only property owners who choose to participate in the program will have property assessments imposed on their property."
The program, which is slated to begin next year, has been in the works for several years, and was the source of a rare display of discord on the county board in August 2010 when the late Supervisor Charles McGlashan was called on the carpet by Supervisor Brown and others for boosting a bid by the Marin Energy Authority to host the program. McGlashan shrugged off critics at the time, calling the program the right thing to do regardless of who gets credit.
"When I vote for this today, I'm also going to be voting for Hal Brown," said Supervisor Judy Arnold, who had worked with him on a committee looking into the new program.
"Hal would be, 'We got to keep this in the county, not Marin Energy Authority,'" added Supervisor Katie Rice in a raspy voice mimicking her old boss.
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Today may be marginally cooler today than yesterday in the north valley, but it will still be hot.
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How'd you like this job? Jib skiing 41 ski areas from New England to the Dakotas in about as many days.
That's what X-Games Big Air gold medalist and Slopeside silver medalist Henrik Harlaut, along with fellow competitors Phil Casabon and Paul Bergeron are doing.
This past week, they visited downhill areas across southern Michigan and Ohio before moving onto Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and Minnesota on the Inspired Demo Tour. They'll end their tour visiting two areas in South Dakota. View their appearance calendar here.
One of their stops last week was Timber Ridge, in the hills of southwestern Lower Michigan near Gobles, just northwest of Kalamazoo.
And while the boys just missed a fresh dump of lake-effect powder by only hours, they managed to wow a great freeskier audience with their tricks at Timber Ridge's two parks, collectively called TRParks.
"We got there after a three-hour drive and were stoked when we saw the park. We could see a canon box and a big jump that looked sweet from the bottom," said tour manager Kevin Perron. "We got to the top of the rope tow after getting geared up and set up with tickets and we were hyped and everyone was going wild already.
"We shredded for a little while, then went inside to do some poster signing and take a bunch of photos with the kids! A ton of kids came out and shredded and were really stoked, Harlaut said. "IT was super super awesome, after we had some dinner we were going to go out shred but it started to ice-rain so we decided to call it a day! I am so stoked to be back on the tour! INSPIRED TO DA WORLD," he added.
"Luke Schrab (The Ridge's head groomer) was crushing it with mad tricks including the biggest back flips," Perron added.
Luke is Lucas Schrab, a Wisconsin transplant with a long history of free skiing with his twin brother, Adam. Luke competed in two U.S. Open freestyle championships, finishing fourth and ninth. Adam also competed in the 2000 Winter X-Games Big Air competition, finishing 14th. Both also helped start Freeskier Magazine, and Luke became part of the Timber Ridge family when he married resort General Manager Amy, and helped pump up the resort's two terrain parks before the show started.
Schrab said that up to 200 spectators showed up to watch the trio perform for about two hours in rain, which eventually changed to eight inches of new snow starting that night.
"It was truly a big deal to have these stars of the freestyle world here," Schrab said
"Despite the rain we had a large following of skiers, which was awesome! Everyone was super-stoked to show what they had and were definitely inspired by us being there," Harlaut added.


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What is a Body Lift?
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What is a body lift?
A body lift generally refers to a procedure known as a belt lipectomy a.k.a. circumferential body lift. These procedures are usually tailored for a patient who has experience significant weight loss or have excess skin and fat extended to their back/flanks and buttock areas. These procedures are designed to recontour the entire waist and lower trunk.
They include 3 procedures in one
1. Extended Tummy Tuck
2. Waist lift/lateral thigh lift
3. buttock lift with the possible of buttock augmentation using your own excess tissue.
Hope this helps.
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What is a body lift?
Great job!! I would wait for 6 months of weight stability before you have surgical procedures. Unfortunately there is no effective non-surgical method. However, a body lift can truly change your life. Excess abdominal fat and skin is removed, the abdomen and your core is tightened, your hips are raised and defined and your buttock has new definition and shape. The combination is powerful and the results are immediate. I would do the body lift first, then stage procedures every 4-6 months. Healing time is 2-4 weeks. The most important thing is safety. Please don't compromise on this! See a board certified plastic surgeon
Body Lift
A Body lift is also known as a Lower body lift or a Circumferential Abdominoplasty is a powerful tool that removes the excess of skin and lifts the central ptotic (droopy) parts of the lower abdomen, flanks, and thighs and buttocks. It is a powerful operation that addresses the core issue of massive weight loss and aging. In some ways it is a tummy tuck that is carried to the sides and the back.
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A body lift is a ambiguous term. It is somtiems referred to a circumferential abdominoplasty or torsoplasty as well. It encorporated removing tissue from the lwoer abdomen, lifting the pubic area and then doing the sam on the lower back to lift the buttock region.
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Thanks for your question -
In our San Francisco area practice we perform body lift procedures frequently. A body lift includes an abdominoplasty (resection of skin and fat from the abdomen and tightening of the abdominal wall muscles). But there is additional tissue resected from the flanks and and the back. It typically requires more drains and a longer recovery.
If you've lost significant weight it may be the most effective way to completely transform the way your body looks.
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Body Lift: What is it? Am I a candidate
A body lift is a general term for body contouring procedures that aim to remove excess skin in order to contour the skin onto the underlying body. The traditional tummy tuck only removes skin from the abdomen. A body lift can tighten and remove the skin circumferentially around the waist to create 360 degrees of shape. In patients with significant weight loss, a board certified plastic surgeon can perform this type of contouring over the trunk, thighs, back, breasts, face and neck. This creates a sensual and beautiful result with incisions that are strategically hidden. The result is an aesthetic and beautiful contour and balance for the whole body.
What is a Body Lift?
A body lift is essentially a removal of excess skin circumfrentially around the trunk. This incorporates an abdominoplasty ( tummy tuck), flank ( side) excsions with lifting of the lateral thighs, and a buttock lift. When someone has lost a lot of weight, the excess skin often becomes a big issue for them, and a full body lift can help to address those issues. However, it is a pretty extensive surgery with a long recovery time, so it requires good planning for the post-operative care. The only way to know if you are a candidate would be to see a board certified plastic surgeon in your area and see what they recommend. I hope this helps.
360 body lift circumferential body lift plastic surgery after massive weight loss
A body lift is a now common reconstructive procedure preformed after massive weight loss. The incision follows the belt line and extends from the pubic region to the hips and meets in the back. The beauty of the procedure is that it removes skin and fat from the abdomen, lateral hips, and buttocks all at the same time. The result is a flat abdomen, smooth hips, and a raised and contoured buttock.
I believe you would be an ideal candidate for a body lift. It is very important that your weight has stabilized and that you are not losing much more weight.
The body lift is different from a tummy tuck in that the body lift goes completely around your body. The tummy tuck only addresses your abdomen. The body lift addresses the abdomen, hips, and buttocks. Good luck with your weight loss journey!
Sincerely, J. Timothy Katzen, MD
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