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In the final minutes of practice Monday, the Lakers were playing a pickup game. The rich and gifted athletes were running up and down the gym floor like chaotic children on a playground, gunning and fouling and arguing.
They were playing like a team without a coach or a vision, which was appropriate because, at that moment, they had neither.
Has it really been less than three years? Was it really just June 2010 when they experienced one of the greatest triumphs in franchise history with a Game 7 NBA Finals victory over the Boston Celtics? Have they really fallen this far, this fast?
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Less than three years ago, the Lakers were in the discussion of the greatest franchises in the history of American professional sports. Today, they are a drifting, dysfunctional mess.
Less than three years ago, Jerry Buss was arguably the best sports owner ever. Today, his declining health, combined with his decision to delegate his power to curious son Jimmy, has left the Lakers looking uncertain, unsettled and increasingly unstable.
They allowed the NBA's greatest coach to walk away while scrubbing the organization clean of his memory. Then, when they needed him most, and when he would have returned, they refused to bring him back.
They hired a coach lacking in championship credentials, fired him just five games into his second season, then immediately replaced him with another coach lacking in championship credentials.
They unceremoniously dumped two of their championship veterans and Lakers favorites from a team that hasn't made it past the second round of the playoffs in the last two seasons.
And, oh yeah, they just signed a deal to place most of their games on a television network that millions of their fans cannot watch.
Is it any wonder that Lakers fans have become so upset that even one of their best courtside customers was recently involved in a heckling incident with nice guy Steve Blake? Is it any wonder that interim Coach Bernie Bickerstaff could only laugh when asked Monday about his conversation with new Coach Mike D'Antoni?
"When I talked to him, I told him to hurry up and come on and get this seat," Bickerstaff said. "Because it's hot."
Even though Mitch Kupchak did a great job assembling perhaps the most talented starting lineup in the league, his Buss bosses have done a lousy job with everything else, and everyone around the Lakers is as heated as Bickerstaff's seat. The exception is perhaps the actual Lakers, who are 3-4 and preparing for what could be a difficult transition to a track coach who has never made the NBA Finals, has never coached defense, and has never been willing to slow down to fit his team's old sneakers.
D'Antoni's biggest problem, of course, is that he is not Phil Jackson. This is where this latest bit of Lakers looney tunes begins. The hiring of D'Antoni late Sunday night when former coach Jackson expressly wanted the job is the sort of arrogantly tone-deaf move that has marked the baffling transfer of power from Jerry Buss to Jimmy Buss.
Like other bad decisions in the last three years, this one was made on impulse rather than insight, a gut move instead of a basketball move, a son perhaps trying to impress a father who wants the kid to still know who's boss.
It was a move like last season's stunning exiling of Lamar Odom and Derek Fisher, both of whom were missed by the desultory end of the season. It was a move like the amazing $3-billion TV deal with the Time Warner Cable network, which the Lakers signed apparently without realizing how staunchly DirecTV and the Dish Network would oppose the increased fees to customers. Neither satellite TV giant is carrying the network thus far, so even Lakers employees in their own building can't watch most of the team's games.
It was also a move like last week's firing of Mike Brown without having Jackson already hired. Who does that? Who leaves a city treasure vulnerable and exposed in the middle of a season by canning a coach without having a replacement already signed up? That was Jerry Buss' call, and it was a lousy one.
All of these problems, plus the fans chanting and Kobe Bryant begging, gave Jackson plenty of leverage in this weekend's negotiations, and I'm sure he used it. The question is, did he go too far in perhaps trying to make Jimmy Buss look bad after Buss embarrassed him two years ago by firing everyone close to him? The answer is, who cares?
Hiring Jackson was the only thing that could have made sense of the Brown firing. Jackson is the only coach with the credibility to immediately convince this potential championship team that it can play like a champion.
Short of a larger ownership slice than the 4.5% that Magic Johnson was once allowed to buy, Jackson was worth every bit of the Lakers' time, money and pride. That Jimmy Buss suddenly turned to a quirky offensive mind with a losing playoff record and smoldering New York Knicks wreckage on his resume makes it seem as though Buss was angrily running from Jackson.
Jackson was a bridge while D'Antoni is a ladder, and now the Lakers have less than a full season to climb out of this morass before Dwight Howard becomes a free agent and Bryant moves to within one year of retirement and Steve Nash starts pushing 60 and they risk having to start from scratch again.
"I took philosophy of logic at the University of San Diego, and after I left, I abandoned it," Bickerstaff said Monday. "So now I'm not surprised at anything.''
Sadly, in the wake of this latest bit of Buss madness, neither is anyone else around here.


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With NCAA Football 13 hitting stores this week we here offered the chance to talk to the development team about what people can expect from this iteration of the game. The interview questions were answered by Ben Haumiller, the producer, of the game.
We know the college football season is still a few months off but who looks good to you right now?
There are a lot of people jumping back on the USC bandwagon this year and with that offense it's easy to see why, but until the SEC West is removed from their throne it's hard to not consider LSU or Alabama two of the top teams in the country.
The NCAA has just approved a playoff system for the 2014 season, what are your thoughts on the new system? Is this something that we'll see in the game next year? Have you had any contingencies around this ever happening or not?
I think the playoff system is going to bring a new level of excitement to college football, and as a game developer it's exciting to be able to replicate that new experience in our game. As for the actual implementation of the playoff, that's something we are still discussing internally as to when it will make its debut. There are still a lot of details to be ironed out before we can make any changes to the game. While it's known that there will be a 4-team playoff, details like the selection of those teams and the locations of those games are still being determined. Since the development team is made up of college football fans the topic of a playoff has come up a lot over the years, and there are a lot of guys on the team looking forward to seeing a working playoff in the game.
What steps have been taken to ensure that most of players' complaints have been addressed, such as the "psychic" and "super" linebackers? What's the biggest community issue that you've addressed in this year's game?
Above anything else, Gameplay rules the day, so I think the end of the "psychic" DB's and "super" LB's would be the biggest community issue addressed. Those issues led to more frustration from players than anything else in the game because you would see it in situations where you did everything right, but then out of nowhere the DB would jump a route and pick off the pass, or a LB would swat the ball down without looking back for the ball. Forcing the CPU controlled defenders to look at the ball before they can make a play on it, combined with the new passing trajectories, has given us the best passing game we've ever had.
Draft classes have been a staple of the franchise for several games. Why was the decision made to eliminate them? How long have you been thinking about making the change?
With Madden NFL 13's new Connected Careers Mode they had to build that experience from the ground up. With an extremely tight development schedule there were certain features that were not able to be a part of this year's version of Connected Careers; however, they are looking at reintroducing the feature a part of future iterations of the mode.
What do you think is the greatest improvement in this year's game? What's the biggest change that most people will overlook?
For the greatest improvement my personal favorites are the Studio Updates with Rece Davis. As a college football fan it's hard for me to watch just one game at a time on a Saturday, and we felt that experience was missing in our game. So now you have the ESPN Bottom Line always running giving you the scores of the day during your game, and Rece Davis will cut in from the studio to tell you about some of those great games going on around you. These two additions totally change the way I consume a game, as I'm often keeping an eye on the bottom of the screen to see when that Upset Alert comes up to find out which Top 25 team is on the ropes and how that might affect the next week's polls. As for the biggest change that most people will overlook, I would have to go with the new throw on the run animations. It looks so fluid to throw a pass while on the move that I don't think people will remember that the QB used to set his feet before throwing the pass previously; these new throwing animations are such an underrated improvement to the game.
The new Heisman mode has garnered some great feedback from demo players so far. What was the reasoning for implementing this mode? How many design iterations did you go through before landing on this mode?
The Heisman Challenge was created out of a desire to add a brand new experience to the game. Since college football players are amateur athletes we are not able to include them in the game, so we have never been able to have that association that other sports games take for granted, which is the experience of controlling a real person in the game. With the Heisman Challenge you can play as one of the all-time greats of college football, instead of playing as "HB # 21" you can be Barry Sanders, instead of scrambling with "QB # 10" you can be Robert Griffin III. In addition to controlling these Heisman winners, you can also learn about their Heisman winning seasons in their own words through a series of interviews we did with each of the athletes. As a college football fan it's great to hear these guys reminisce on their historic seasons. As for how many design iterations we went through, the mode you see in the final game is pretty close to the initial design that was pitched for the mode. The birth of the concept really should be credited to Eddie George; we were talking to some reps from Nissan and they told us a story that Eddie told during a recent commercial shoot. He said that when he played the NCAA series he always created himself and made himself a freshman at SMU and played out the scenario of "what if I went to SMU?" From there the basic concept of the mode was in place. Then came the addition of Reaction Time, which is the new gameplay mechanic that allows you to "slow the game down" and really see the field as these Heisman winners did. From there it was just a matter of signing our Heisman athletes, creating their models, interviewing them and putting everything together.
Dynasty players have complained about how stagnant the mode has been the last couple of versions. What will make them really enjoy Dynasty mode this time around?
I think fans of the Dynasty will really enjoy the Studio Updates and Bottom Line ticker I mentioned above, but the improvements to recruiting will also go a long way in making Dynasty mode a more fun and dynamic experience. New features like scouting allow you the ability to find out the actual ratings of prospects while you are still recruiting them. This allows you to evaluate prospects and find the gems of the class while avoiding the guys that might not be as good as advertized. We have also made the recruiting pitches dynamic and pitch grades can change as often as every week. You will now know how a grade is determined, and what you need to do to improve your grade, which gives recruiting a new dynamic feel because your grades can fluctuate as the season progresses, and in turn that may change your recruiting and possibly even on-field tactics.
Reflecting back on the series on the current console generation, what do you think is the most important change you've made? Outside of graphics, what will the next console generation offer that you can't do now?
I think the most important change during this console generation was the addition of Online Dynasty. Dynasty is far and away our most popular mode, and by putting that mode online and allowing fans to participate in a persistent mode against each other you saw a rebirth of interest in the mode. Recruiting is so much more fun when you are beating out a friend to get the commitment from a recruit, and winning that national championship is always sweeter when you know that by you winning the trophy it means that all of your friends are going home with nothing. As for what the next generation of consoles will bring, that's a great question. It's still too early to know exactly what new experiences the next generation will bring, but we are excited to see what these new consoles will be able to do.
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"As mayor of the third-largest city in the state and president of the Pennsylvania Municipal League, I have seen first-hand the damage that has been done to our Commonwealth over the past four years under the current Administration," said Pawlowski, who is finishing his second term as mayor of Allentown. "Mr. Corbett has a Republican-controlled Legislature...and yet he cannot find ways to work with them to accomplish his agenda."
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The Wildcats, a team that according to Groce "carved [Illinois] up" last time the two teams met, shot a measly 25 percent from the floor. That number was aided by a handful of garbage-time baskets that mercifully kept Northwestern's performance from being the lowest scoring in head coach Bill Carmody's 13-year tenure.
In his first year at Illinois, Groce learned the dangers of Northwestern's Princeton offense the hard way in January's loss. His then 23rd-ranked Illini allowed the Wildcats 68 points, including eight three-pointers at home in Champaign. Safe to say, the players responded Sunday.
"I'm really proud of our guys for the way that they defended," said Groce. "When we play well, it really starts with our defense; I thought we were really locked in. I think our communication has gotten better, and guys executed the gameplan well."
Though Groce wouldn't share his specific defensive tweaks, a few changes were visibly apparent. Illinois dogged Northwestern on ball screens, doubling aggressively and oftentimes forcing the Wildcats to pick up their dribbles earlier than they wanted. This forced Northwestern to into looks that weren't always in the flow of their offense—a key to success Bill Carmody often harps on.
By pressuring Northwestern in this manner, the Illini left screeners Mike Turner and Alex Olah wide open, two freshmen that have yet to establish themselves as midrange threats. That was no different Sunday, and Illinois could afford to pester ballhandlers accordingly. Northwestern was frequently forced into deep, contested shots late in the clock, and Groce emphasized the importance of limiting the Wildcats from distance.
"Everyone knows their three-point production was twelfth in the country coming into the game," said Groce. "If you let them get clean looks from three and they make them, it's on. They missed some [open shots] tonight, but I felt we at least challenged them a bit more and made them more difficult to get."
Groce emphasized a team defensive mentality, explaining, "it's not about if my man scores." He added that big men Sam McLaurin and Nnanna Egwu covered for "a multitude of sins," allowing for occasional perimeter mistakes. And for every bit as good as Illinois was on defense, Northwestern struggled equally on the other end.
"We were a little out of rhythm at times, but the shots we got, we need to make," said senior guard Alex Marcotullio. "That's the bottom line: you get an open shot, you have to knock it down. That's how were going to win games."
Northwestern's dismal numbers didn't lie. The Wildcats committed an uncharacteristic 14 turnovers, many unforced. They shot 5-27 from behind the arc, with occasional airballs mixed in. It took them nearly seven minutes to open their second-half scoring, and by then they were already down huge, 45-17. Whether it was Illinois' defense, a flat offensive effort or some mixture of the two, the Wildcats didn't have enough to stay with the Illini.
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LINCOLN — As much as Tommy Armstrong wants it to be perfect, the Nebraska quarterback has been warned by offensive coordinator Tim Beck that it's not always going to be that way.
So it's those times — like last Saturday's second half against Northwestern — when Armstrong has the most to prove.
"They've just always told me to stay level-headed and that mistakes are going to happen, because I am young," Armstrong said. "I try to fix that as much as I can. My coach always told me it's going to happen, but it's just how you respond.
"It was a rough second half for me, but I just want to play a full game without having those bumps and bruises."
Armstrong plans to have that kind of fortitude Saturday, when the redshirt freshman makes his fifth career start at Michigan.
The work started Sunday, when Armstrong and fifth-year senior Ron Kellogg reviewed film from the Huskers' 27-24 comeback win against Northwestern. Among what they discussed were things that Armstrong did or didn't see on three second-half interceptions.
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Beck said Armstrong didn't recognize a blitz coming on his last interception, which defensive end Tyler Scott returned to the 7-yard line to set up the Wildcats' go-ahead field goal.
On the two previous pickoffs, Armstrong was stepping up in the pocket when he underthrew Alonzo Moore and scrambling to his left when he tried to force a ball to Moore in traffic. On the latter play, Armstrong also could have taken off running.
"A couple plays he was just trying to make some plays," Beck said.
Nebraska was without juniors Kenny Bell and Jamal Turner in the second half against Northwestern, and Beck said there were communication errors with some young wideouts. Some of the mistakes reminded Beck of 2011, when he took over the offense and Taylor Martinez was a sophomore.
"It's kind of what we did our first year a little bit, where our passing game was just a hair off," Beck said. "When we put it in, there was a lot of route reading and recognition, and we were off a little bit."
Beck isn't surprised to see teams trying to confuse Armstrong more than they might do with Martinez, who had come into this season as a fourth-year starter. It won't get any easier Saturday with former Notre Dame, Florida and Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Greg Mattison on the opposite sideline at Michigan.
"My coaches tell me it's going to happen like that," Armstrong said. "With me being young, they're going to throw a bunch of stuff at me. At the same time, I've just got to make sure I'm ready for that and make sure I study as much as I can for it."
Armstrong said he already gets a daily education with what he sees from Beck and the Huskers' defense.
"I try to make it hard on him in practice," Beck said. "I even make stuff up sometimes, just to show him."
Pelini began the week by saying Armstrong would start again Saturday, and Armstrong said he appreciates the faith and trust of the Nebraska staff. In his previous four starts, Armstrong hasn't felt as if he's looking over his shoulder if he makes a mistake, and NU hasn't tinkered much with how it has rotated Kellogg — though it called on Kellogg to run its two-minute drill twice Saturday.
Armstrong was 10 for 12 for 124 yards midway through the second quarter against Northwestern, including a 3-yard touchdown pass to Quincy Enunwa. He then completed 5 of 17 throws as the Husker offense stalled.
That was after Armstrong threw three interceptions at Purdue on Oct. 12 after being turnover-free in his first two starts.
The 6-foot-1, 220-pounder from Cibolo, Texas, promised that he's anything but deterred by recent events, which Kellogg said is the most important thing.
"We need him as a leader," Kellogg said. "He's young and he's still learning. He has a long career ahead of him and we're going to need him for the next four Big Ten games. It's crucial that he understands what happened on Saturday and move on from it."
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ASU A.D.: New Mexico Bowl out of the question
The Arizona State Sun Devils are going bowling this year, though no one is quite sure yet where they will be.
However, one place they won't go is New Mexico.
"The reality is for us, we're in the middle of finals during the New Mexico Bowl," Arizona State athletic director Steve Patterson told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf Tuesday. "So we just can't go there."
The Gildan New Mexico Bowl is schedules for December 15th.
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That leaves the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas and the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco as the most likely destinations for the Devils, though Vegas may be out due to having played in the game last season.
"So then whether we go to San Francisco or to Las Vegas, which is where I think we should go, over the next few days we'll get some resolution about that," he said.
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Miller made one crucial decision during the Colorado game that may have altered the outcome. Certainly, it contributed significantly to the final margin of victory, if nothing else.
At 17:17 on the clock in the second half, with Arizona staked to a precarious 6-point lead, Aaron Gordon picked up his third foul on an overly aggressive hedge. Many - if not most - coaches would sit a player in that situation. But Miller stuck with Gordon, and it paid off. It was a gamble, make no mistake about it. If AG had picked up his fourth foul in the next few minutes, he would have sat much of the rest of the game. But Coach Miller trusted his freshman(!) and it paid dividends. Whereas most players would have sat until about the 10:00 minute mark after picking up their third foul so early in the half, AG scored 9 points in the same interval, and after the last breakaway highlight-reel dunk at 11:07, the Cats led by 16 and the game was well on its way to becoming a blowout.
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I thought I had posted something yesterday just before leaving Boston, but apparently I did not or it didn't come through or something. Tuesday I left the hotel early with a view to having breakfast in the airport and spending the time waiting for my airplane in United's Red Carpet lounge. That worked, but I wasn't in any rush to break out my ThinkPad and connect it to the Internet. I did use the MacBook Air to make some notes and get a little work done, but I don't use it for eMail or publishing my journal. Mostly I read 1491 on my Kindle Fire. The Fire fits in my pocket, can be read in the dark or in a well lighted room, and the battery lasts about 12 hours. I know this because I had charged it overnight before I left Boston, and it ran out of power while I was in the Prime Time Shuttle on the way to USC before we went to Glendale on the way to Studio City, and no, no one in his right mind would go to Studio City by way of USC and then Glendale; but we'll get to that later. Anyway I estimate I had been running the Fire pretty continuously for 12 hours without recharging by that time.
Memo to myself and anyone else using a Kindle Fire: it runs longer than an iPad but it's not the old Kindle. This has an active screen and you need to recharge every now and then. Fortunately the rechargeable is small and will fit in your briefcase or flight bag> I could have recharged mine in the Red Carpet club at any time, and I've never really had a problem finding a source of electrons even in general airport waiting areas. It doesn't take long to top up the Kindle Fire. And it really does work for 12 hours, and warns you when you are down to 15%, and again at about 3%. When it runs out it turns off without further warnings.
My scheme seemed to be working. The Red Carpet Club is pleasant enough offering all kinds of facilities for getting some work done. As with most airlines United has some of their best employees in the Club lounge, and they can straighten out any ticket problems. I didn't really have any. Well, I did, in that I was supposed to have had an uninterrupted flight from Boston to LA, but due to the snowstorms I was routed to change planes in Dulles, adding a couple of hours to the travel time. Ah well. In due time I got on the airplane – at my age I get automatic preboarding meaning I get to get in there and sit down before the charging hordes come. I had an aisle seat, which works just fine for me.
In the glory days of BYTE I generally traveled business class or first class. Of course Convention Committees and the NESFA Press don't pay first class fares for their guests but in the old days I flew often enough to computer shows and publicity events that I could always upgrade a ticket. But I have also found that regular tourist class isn't unpleasant in an aisle seat where I can stretch out my legs. I can read, and while there is generally nothing like enough room to work with the ThinkPad, I used to work well with my wonderful old Compaq tablet, and even the MacBook Air can sort of be used unless the guy in front of me puts his seat all the way back. I'd been comfortable enough on the way to Boston.
This plane, though, was a B757-200 and it was uncomfortable enough even in an aisle seat that I made a note that it was a torture seat, but it would have to do. And I could stretch my feet out into the aisles.
The flight to Dulles was uneventful. We got all our possessions out. I headed for the connecting flight. Not enough time to make it worth while to stop at the club. Got to the gate in time for pre-boarding, got aboard. All was well.
So there I was, settled in, possessions distributed properly. I called Roberta to tell her I was on the way home – when the Captain announced they were testing an engine. That went on for a while. Then there was another test. And another.
After a bit more than an hour of tests, we were told that as soon as the gate agents arrived we would deplane. Someone would tell us what to do next.
I don't know what the other passengers did. I went to the United Club and put myself in their hands, and a pleasant young lady arranged to get me on a flight leaving at 8 PM – but was unable to get me an aisle seat. She could get me a window seat. I figured that would have to do. Now to find dinner. I stood in line at the Wendy's but a gaggle of teen age girls bound for somewhere had reached that line just before me, and the line was moving very slowly. I was afraid I would miss pre-boarding and prepared to graze off a pocketful of cheese and crackers available from the Club – which was just next to the gate I was to depart from – but discovered a thing called Pretzel Dog, which makes hot dogs with a pretzel wrapping. It sounded intriguing so I got a big one, and I can recommend Pretzel Dogs with Mango Lemonade as an emergency dinner.
I made full use of pre-boarding to get myself established in the window seat with my possessions distributed properly. The output of the sound system left something to be desired and when I fished out the earphones and plugged them in I found that the output jack for the English channel was monaural. I could jiggle it a bit and hear a burst of sound in both ears, but it was steady only in monaural. I wrote that up with the seat number in my little pocket notebook and tore out the page to give to the steward, but whether he actually wrote up a trouble ticket I don't know.
The flight was uneventful if uncomfortable. Windows seats are not comfortable in a B-757. The "movie" screen is a tiny thing out of the overhead every three seats. In my case there was one directly above me and thus invisible meaning I was at maximum distance from the screen ahead. The movie was Wreckit Ralph, which doesn't seem to require close inspection for subtle scenes and is good enough in monaural although the volume control had only two settings, too soft for me to hear and uncomfortably loud, so I spent the movie switching the headphone to put the working can on one ear and then the other. Fortunately there I didn't miss any subtle lines. Actually despite seeing it in about the worst conditions possible, it was amusing enough to take my mind off the long and uncomfortable trip.
I also read on my Kindle from time to time, finished 1491 and made a few notes, and started a police procedural which was pretty good. So all told I had something to do on the flight.
We got in about midnight. I had previously engaged Prime Time Shuttle and prepaid as well. Of course the plane that it thought I would come in on didn't arrive, but the dispatcher knew who I was and said that another would be along shortly. After a frustrating hour watching Super Shuttles come and go at a rate of perhaps three SS shuttles to one Prime Time, one arrived and I was told it would go to USC and Studio City. Those places aren't even remotely connected neither being on the way to the other, but at that hour I wasn't going to complain. We got to USC and delivered three young female students to three different places – no one was going to complain about making sure they got to their front door safely in that neighborhood – and headed for the Harbor Freeway.
It didn't take the interchange to the Hollywood Freeway but continued up to the little tunnels and the turnoff to I5. That's not the usual way to get from the Convention Center to Studio City, but it's not all that much further than way, and perhaps, I thought, he had some information I didn't have. Then he turned east on the Ventura Freeway. To Glendale. I had thought I was the last passenger but apparently there was one left in back.
What with one thing and another it was 4 AM when I got home. Actually, that was 0100 local time but it felt like 4 AM. But I was home, all was well, my Kindle was out of power but everything worked. I took the time to let the ThinkPad update Outlook on my main machine (this one) then went to bed.
And all is well. I suppose Prime Time did the best it could given the hour and the terminal, so I can't really get that unhappy about it taking longer to get from LAX to Studio City than it had taken to get from Boston to Dulles, but I did note that Super Shuttle seems to have more vehicles in service, and left the airport with fewer passengers than Prime Time.
In future I think I am going to insist on flying out of Burbank airport. It's a lot easier to get to and get out of. But then I don't expect to do all that much travelling.
A few observations. The TSA people seemed determined to be seen as nice people. They worked hard at it. Given that it's Kabuki Security Theater that can't be easy, and of course I only saw LAX, Logan, and Dulles TSA in action; but I have to say they no longer seem on a mission to be as unpleasant at possible. Airline people are thinner on the ground than they used to be, but the overworked gate agents and flight crews seem also to be working at being pleasant, and the staff in the United Club especially so. I have life memberships in almost all the major airlines but I never did with United, but my Continental Airlines life memberhip was good enough and indeed on the spot they made up a new United life member card for me. I still have the President's Club card from Continental.
In the BYTE days I went to a lot of conventions in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and I had to get to Peterborough once or twice a year. It was hectic, but less wearying than travel seems to be now. Of course at my age almost anything is more wearying than it used to be.
I find on reflection that I ought to have stayed in Boston for a few more days to go to the AAAS meeting, but now that I am home I have to say I am glad I didn't. Perhaps something interesting will happen at AAAS.
Many years ago at the arrangement of my friend Rolf Sinclair I had dinner with Chris Chyba, who first proposed the details of how the Tunguska event could have been a stony asteroid that exploded in mid air converting all its kinetic energy into a heat blast without anything of any significance hitting the ground. I listened in fascination, and it seemed very reasonable. The pressure in front of the stony asteroid builds up until it is greater than the force that holds the rock together. The result is that the asteroid bursts into powder, and all the energy of motion is released all at once in a mighty blast. When I first heard that I marveled and didn't quite believe it but play with the numbers and you'll see it works.
And indeed the Siberia event last week makes it pretty clear that Chyba was right. If you Google Tunguska Meteor Theory you will find several web sites that say they don't understand how you can get a blast without anything actually hitting the ground, and I sympathize; it doesn't seem very intuitive that a 200 kiloton event can happen without physical impact.
But that's how it happens, and the Siberia Event pretty well confirms it. Some estimates are that events with energy released from 1 to 30 kilotons happen a dozen times a year. After all 80% of the Earth is water and more is uninhabited or at least not inhabited by people wired in, and depending on the entry angle many to most of the events happen at very high altitudes. A 20 kiloton explosion with no radiation going off at very high altitude won't have much effect on the ground, and if it happens at sea or over areas of sparse population it will be seen as a flash of light and heard as thunder – if anyone sees or hears it at all. Megaton events like Tunguska are more rare. Gene Shoemaker estimated once in 300 years. That's still scary.
And we do have the Biblical account of a blast that destroyed an army about to take Jerusalem, and a sixth century bishop describes a blast that destroyed a village in France. And there are probably other stories of the like that were not taken seriously.
Note that by definition a meteorite hits the ground. Tunguska like the recent Siberian event was a meteor.
I will miss talking about stuff like this with the science press corps at AAAS. It sure would have been more fun than what I did yesterday. Ah well.
I found some interesting time lines in the book by Charles Mann, 1491. The thesis of the book is that the New World had as large and possibly larger populations than the Old World in 1491 before Columbus brought in smallpox. By the time the explorers got into the interiors the populations were small. The ecology was a mess. He makes his case persuasively but of course it remains controversial. More on that another time, but I did find the book very interesting, and some of the timelines fascinating.
As it happens I am publishing in a week or so the California Sixth Grade Reader used from 1914 well into the 1920's. I have added a few items that would have been encountered in earlier readers, such as Hiawatha. Interestingly, 1491 estimates that maize, what we call corn, appears in the Five Nation area around the Great Lakes about the year 1000 AD, changing some of the various confederated nations to adopt ways more like cultivators than hunter/gatherers. It is from them that the first Old World settlers learned the cultivation of corn.
And I have a lot more to do. Mail when I can get to it. I'm back from Boston…
Roland informs me that his iPad runs about as long as the Kindle Fire, 12-14 hours. I did use the fire to make a number of notes while I was reading the book, and I am sure that writing notes uses more power than just displaying text. I also did some highlighting. I started reading on the Fire about 1100, and it turned itself off in the Prime Time van at something like 0200 (I didn't reset my watch to LA time until I got home). The Fire was off some of the time, so 12-14 hours is about right. I never tried reading that long on the iPad, but I would suppose it was interesting. One of my colleagues on a panel at Boskone had an iPad mini and I was greatly impressed. It looks carryable. The regular iPad is just too large for most safari suit pockets. Niven carries his Fire in a travel vest he habitually wears. And everything gets better with each new issue. Ain't Moore's Law great?
High Science Forbes March 4, 2013
Has an article on NanoRacks, at one point quoting my son Richard Pournelle who is senior vice president for business development. The article is on biological research in space.


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Saints Battle Georgia State, Fall 7-0 in Piedmont Park
ATLANTA, GA – Looking to win their third straight match to open the season on Sunday evening, the North Georgia men's tennis team battled Georgia State University and fell 7-0 at the Piedmont Park Tennis Center in non-conference action.
The Saints drop their first match of the season, falling to 2-1 overall on the year, while the Panthers, an NCAA Division I program and a member of the Colonial Athletic Conference, improves to 8-3 on the season.
North Georgia dropped the doubles point, falling in all three matches as Felipe Friedrich and Brandon Sloan fell 8-1 at No. 1, and Mateus Camasmie and Adrien Saulais came up on the short end of an 8-5 match at No 2.
Giovani Santos and Ernesto Farinas squared off with Lucas Santana and Juan Pablo Gutierrez at No. 3, and while the Saints held an early 1-0 lead in the match, the Panther duo rallied back to take four straight games before coming away with the 8-2 victory, giving Georgia State a sweep in doubles action.
Singles action proved to be a challenge for the Saints as well, but North Georgia put up plenty of fight against the Panthers, as Fredrich battled Gabe Townes at No. 1 but fell 6-3, 6-2. Santos forced Thomas Cook deep in both sets before falling 6-3, 7-5, while Camasmie fell 6-2, 6-4 to Victor Valente at No. 2.
The Saints will have a week off before returning to action on Sunday, February 20, welcoming Francis Marion to town to open the 2011 Peach Belt Conference slate. First serve at the Yahoola Creek Tennis Complex is set for 11:00 a.m. in Dahlonega.
Georgia State 7, North Georgia 0
Feb 13, 2011 at Atlanta, GA (Piedmont Park)
|Singles competition
|1. Gabe Townes (GSU) def. Felipe Fredrich (NGCSUM) 6-3, 6-2
|2. Victor Valente (GSU) def. Mateus Camasmie (NGCSUM) 6-2, 6-4
|3. Thomas Cook (GSU) def. Giovani Santos (NGCSUM) 6-3, 7-5
|4. Juan Pablo Gutierrez (GSU) def. Adrien Saulais (NGCSUM) 6-1, 6-2
|5. Vincent Verpeaux (GSU) def. Brandon Sloan (NGCSUM) 6-0, 6-0
|6. Lucas Santana (GSU) def. Ernesto Farinas (NGCSUM) 6-0, 6-1
|Doubles competition
|1. Trenton Spinks/Gabe Townes (GSU) def. Felipe Fredrich/Brandon Sloan (NGCSUM) 8-1
|2. Thomas Cook/Victor Valente (GSU) def. Adrien Saulais/Mateus Camasmie (NGCSUM) 8-5
|3. Lucas Santana/Juan Pablo Gutierrez (GSU) def. Ernesto Farinas/Giovani Santos (NGCSUM) 8-2


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Thank you Garry!
Normally open July 4th only---the one day a year when partisan politics, religion, etc. are acceptable topics on this Board (within reason). The forum is now closed.
definitely a jest
i always look forward to the squaxter's opinion
Why thank you Eldy although im not sure i deserve this great distinction.
I do have one more opinion and that is im very happy with the civilty of the political discourse so far on this message board.
You catch more track nutz with dextrose pills than atomic balm. If you understand what i just said your probably really old.
very priescent of you
it does show "we" can discuss politics & religion in civilised manner
Yeah, but, dang, its stressful suppressing the zingers.
Facts...facts? We don't need no stinking facts!
Although not political, I recently did a complete about face as a result of an internet discussion regarding cycling. I went in with a strong opinion, but was swayed by the opinions of the small segment of the cycling community who responded.
I must admit this forum has been fun, and at first I thought all heck was gonna break loose, but if even Mr. Left, bad hammy, can get along with Mr. Right, lonewolf, then I deem it a success, not that it has a prayer of surviving Tuesday!
You know, if the Republicans would go back to just being fiscally conservative and dump all of the neo-con, religious-right, deficit spending crap I might even vote for one of them once in a while. As it stands, they run a pariah party . . .
I was quite proud of myself - I voted for three local Republicans in their races. I'm such an Independent Thinker!
No, no you wouldn't.
I feel the same way bh does. I think Ron Paul would have appeal across ideological lines. When he went on Bill Maher show, the audience treated him like a rock star. In a recent TV interview where Paul was asked to comment on the Presidential candidates, he said that he had to be careful how he spoke about Obama because there was a lot of overlap in their supporters. And he's the one Republican the Obama would not have succeeded in tying to Bush, since he's more anti-war than Obama is.
You have little real clue as to who I am. I'll give you a hint as it regards this conversation. I own a fairly large memorabilia collections centered on just two Presidents: Lincoln and Nixon. And nothing negative about Nixon in the bunch – he ended badly but did some great things prior to that. The latest addition is a 'What would Nixon do?' bumper sticker.
While most Republicans revere Reagan and consider his election to be the rebirth of the Republican party his glaring flaw, which has been slavishly repeated by Republicans ever since, is a love of deficit spending and trickle-down economics. Both are farcial failures and anathema to true conservatism. Add to that the fact that the fascist neo-cons and the religious right 'we want to control your life' idiots have pretty much dictated policy ever since, culminating in the disastrous Bush II reign, and you can see why the Republican party is about to head out to the political woodshed for an extended stay. If they are stupid enough to run Palin in '12 they will stay out there for quite a bit longer.
Handle money responsibly, keep the peace, limit the size of government and stay out of people's lives. This is what the Republican party should be about, not what it has been about since 1980.
Dang, that's the Party Line?! I wanna be one too!
Ron Paul 2012
Re: Thank you Garry!
It's 2000 and ten and i knew i had to send
a shout out to my friend
the mutha hen and ben!
thanx guys!
Re: Thank you Garry!
Thank you gh and all, for the horrible flawed but still the best T&F message board in the world. When I and Marlow are finally banned for life it will achieve perfection.
Re: Thank you Garry!
Only four posts in 2013. Hope you're still reading, at least.
Re: Thank you Garry!
Yes, but won't they have to admit that without us, it loses that 'imminent train-wreck' appeal?
Hey, by the way, please post some more, so the that little red laser-site beam isn't always on me!!
Re: Thank you Garry!
Yes, ,thanks gh! and, I second Marlow's request to squackee. as for any 'imminent train wreck' appeal you two bring here, that has been seriously eclipsed, IMHO. I think 'craziness' is in good hands on these boards these days.
Re: Thank you Garry!
Indeed. I think we were going more for the town simpleton (well, at least I am - squack is much more the Court Jester with some wisdom hiding below his japes).
Re: Thank you Garry!
I, too, enjoyed the very different point of view and manner of expression that SQUACKEE often brought to the table here. I hope he's alive and well and that his inactivity is not due to illness.
Re: Thank you Garry!
I'm pretty sure that the nice men in the white coats are taking very good care of him.
Being like-minded individuals, I have had occasion to meet him and occasionally correspond. He is doing very well. [He really is one of the nicest, funniest people I have ever met]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 1,500 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts from National Capital Area Council (NCAC), Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital (GSCNC) worked together to support the inauguration of the nation's 44th president, Barack Obama, and to honor the memory and legacy of courage, leadership and activism embodied by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Now more than ever, it is important to keep girls interested in the political process and how their civic participation makes a difference," said GSCNC CEO Lidia Solo-Harman. "2012 was a historic year for women in politics, as we have more women in Congress than ever before. And women voters are more powerful than ever, giving young girls the confidence and resolve they need to achieve their goals in the future."
The city received nearly 800,000 spectators for President Obama's second inauguration. Many visitors unfamiliar with the city, or just unfamiliar with the day's events and protocol, received assistance from Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts wearing red 'volunteer' tunics and hats. Starting at 6 a.m., Scouts greeted guests, handed out American flags, offered directions, assisted individuals with disabilities to reserved seating areas, managed spectator lines at security checkpoints and high-traffic internal locations and assisted with bleacher access control. These Scouts remained stationed along the parade route throughout the day.
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Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts participate in the presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C.
"Taking part in the presidential inauguration ceremony offers our Scouts a unique civic opportunity," said NCAC Scout Executive/CEO Les Baron. "It allows them to witness the power of our nation's democracy - in person, at a young age - and strengthens their patriotism. More than that, we hope it sparks in them a desire to become informed and involved citizens."
The Scouts volunteering at the inauguration came from 64 local Boy Scout units and more than 100 Girl Scout troops.


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my only issues are,
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Not a big deal, but not a good idea to use UA in an article that deals with both Alabama and Arkansas. Both schools refer to themselves as that. But still wasn't hard to figure out what you meant from the context. Anyway just wanted to mention that. Carry on. : )
One you knew about. The other… maybe not. But two players Alabama asked late in the process to wait a year chose to sign scholarship papers with SEC rivals yesterday, rather than put their careers on hold.
We'll start with the more publicized case of running back Justin Taylor. Alabama told the Georgia native a couple of weeks ago that he would need to wait until 2013 to sign with the Tide, rather than come onboard now.
After waffling on whether or not to wait for Bama or sign with another school, Taylor inked with Kentucky. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his coach and guardian — former NFL running back Stanley Pritchett – is glad he did.
"We trusted the coaches at Kentucky. We felt comfortable with them, and they promised to take care of Justin. I think everything turned out well, ultimately. I wanted him to go to college right now bcause when you're the first person in your family to graduate from high school, you don't need to be sitting out. You never know what might happen in December or next year at Alabama…
If you look back on it, you see that it was a numbers game, that Alabama really wanted to sit out because of the numbers. It kind of makes you mad, but you also feel good that he didn't go there. Because if he had gone to Alabama, he would've probably just have been another number."
Taylor made it clear that he wasn't fond of the way he was treated by UA, either. "The way they talked to me, they respected me… but as far as pulling the scholarship, I think they did me wrong," the teenager said. "I was the #7 to commit, that's all I've got to say. I was committed to them for a year. They could've handled it better."
Meanwhile, another Crimson Tide commitment was dealing with similar issues back in Alabama. Darius Philon had been committed to Bama since September. After saying he was torn between Alabama and Arkansas, he chose to put on a UA cap during his high school's signing day festivities yesterday.
But by day's end, the defensive lineman had signed with Arkansas. So what gives?
According to The Birmingham News, two teammates claim Philon was asked last week to hold off on moving to Tuscaloosa for a year, like Taylor. That's when Arkansas entered the picture.
Kerry Stevenson — Philon's high school coach — said his former star felt yesterday like "he had the world snatched from up under him… I'm pretty sure he's wondering, 'Why me?'"
Stevenson, however, defended Bama and blamed the situation on the SEC's new soft 25-man signing cap.
"On a number of occasions, (Alabama) stated how much they don't want to lose him. They got put in a bind. I can see where it could happen, especially with this being the first year of the SEC putting in a stipulation like this."
Both players are recovering from injuries and that might be one reason the Tide coaching staff picked Taylor and Philon as candidates for waiting. Of course, Kentucky and Arkansas weren't bothered by those injuries.
Pritchett clearly doesn't feel that Alabama did his player right. He can say that being in Atlanta. Whether Stevenson is happy with Philon's situation or not — he never even visited Arkansas after committing to the Tide — it's probably not wise for a high school coach in the state of Alabama to diss the homestate program.
Technically, Nick Saban and crew adhered to the letter of the law when it came to the SEC's new signing cap. They let the players know that they'd have to wait to sign on, even if they did let them know late in the game.
But did Bama act in the spirit of the SEC's new plan? For that answer, we'll have to wait and see what reviews are offered up at the SEC's spring meetings for the first-year cap and for Alabama's adherence to it.