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The Acebil RMC-P3PL Zoom Control Pan Bar is a versatile pan bar controller with a universal design that is compatible with LANC and Panasonic MiniDV or HDV cameras, at just a flick of the converter switch. Zoom lens speed control is provided via a thumb-driven knob. You can use this pan bar with Acebil's j-805, i-605, and i-705 Prosumer series heads, and allows superior control over rotation, full panning, and zoom. It comes with a record start/stop control of the attached camcorder.FeaturesVersatile pan bar controller for use with Acebil's j-805, i-605, and i-705 Prosumer series headsCan be used with LANC and Panasonic MiniDV or HDV camerasIntegrates a converter switchIncludes a thumb-knob driven zoom lens control function for attached camcorderProvides superior control over rotation, full panning, and zoomIntegrates a record start/stop control of the attached camcorderNoteSupports only Sony and Canon cameras with a 2.5mm mini-jack LANC input, and Panasonic models with a 2.5mm mini-jack Cam Remote inputSpecificationsControl - Exchange Switch: LANC for most Sony/Canon camcorders, Panasonic Camcorders with Cam Remote jackConnector - 2.5 mm stereo mini-jackCable Length - 14.6" (37 cm) - expandablePackage IncludesOne (1) Acebil RMC-P3PL Zoom Control Pan BarOne (1) 14.6" Expandable Cable
- Can be used with LANC and Panasonic MiniDV or HDV cameras
- Includes a thumb-knob driven zoom lens control function for attached camcorder
- Integrates a converter switch
- Provides superior control over rotation, full panning, and zoom
- Versatile pan bar controller for use with Acebil's j-805, i-605, and i-705 Prosumer series heads
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Oliver Driver (born 22 November 1974) is a New Zealand actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter.
Driver was the host of Let's Be Frank, and the Creative Director of New Zealand's only alternative music television station, ALT TV, The channel is now no longer on air. He recently co-hosted TV3's early morning news show Sunrise, which was cancelled on 8 April 2010.
Driver played Mike Galloway, a pot smoking nurse on the long-running New Zealand drama Shortland Street as well as starring in a comedy called Serial Killers, which was based on the lives of six storyliners working on a Shortland Street style hospital based soap. For three years he hosted the TVNZ arts programme Frontseat.
He finished a three-year contract in 2008 of voicing advertisements for The Warehouse, a nationwide retail store in New Zealand.
Driver is also less known as the voice of Jenji on Power Rangers Mystic Force the hysterical Cat/Geni and in 2008 was the voice of Master Swoop on Power Rangers Jungle Fury
In 2012 Driver joined the cast of The Almighty Johnsons in a recurring role as Eggther during the shows second season.
Driver is also a "Guest Panelist" and "Team Leader" on the New Zealand version of Would I Lie to You?
He is currently working on a new television show called "Sunny Skies" as Oscar, which premieres in New Zealand 8 February 2013 on TV3 (New Zealand) alongside Tammy Davis.
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The "Almost Monday" show was back on air on Newtalk ZB as of Sunday 23 January 2011 however it is no longer on the air.
In 2006 Driver starred in the horror comedy film Black Sheep. He appeared in Jonathan King's Under the Mountain, a film adaptation of the Maurice Gee book of the same name as Mr Wilberforce, the main villain.
He voiced Jenji in Power Rangers: Mystic Force and portrays Master Swoop in Power Rangers: Jungle Fury.
Driver has also appeared in A Death in The Family, Topless Woman Talk About Their Lives, Majik and Rose, Snakeskin and Toy Love.
He starred in the play The Pillowman at the Maidment Theatre, Auckland; in a season of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for Silo Theatre; and in Brendan Cowell's Ruben Guthrie at Herald Theatre, The Edge, Auckland, New Zealand. Previously he was the Artistic Director of Auckland Theatre Company

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The 20-year-old actress and the 23-year-old actor were joined by his older brother Luke Hemsworth and his wife Samantha, as well as their daughters Holly, Ella, and Harper Rose.
Liam celebrated his 23rd birthday on Sunday (January 13). Happy belated birthday!
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"Find, fix, finish, and follow-up" is the way the Pentagon describes the mission of secret military teams in Afghanistan which have been given a mandate to pursue alleged members of the Taliban or al-Qaeda wherever they may be found. Some call these "manhunting" operations and the units assigned to them "capture/kill" teams.
Whatever terminology you choose, the details of dozens of their specific operations — and how they regularly went badly wrong — have been revealed for the first time in the mass of secret U.S. military and intelligence documents published by the website Wikileaks in July to a storm of news coverage and official protest. Representing a form of U.S. covert warfare now on the rise, these teams regularly make more enemies than friends and undermine any goodwill created by U.S. reconstruction projects.
When Danny Hall and Gordon Phillips, the civilian and military directors of the U.S. provincial reconstruction team in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, arrived for a meeting with Gul Agha Sherzai, the local governor, in mid-June 2007, they knew that they had a lot of apologizing to do. Philips had to explain why a covert U.S. military "capture/kill" team named Task Force 373, hunting for Qari Ur-Rahman, an alleged Taliban commander given the code-name "Carbon," had called in an AC-130 Spectre gunship and inadvertently killed seven Afghan police officers in the middle of the night.
The incident vividly demonstrated the inherent clash between two doctrines in the U.S. war in Afghanistan — counterinsurgency ("protecting the people") and counterterrorism (killing terrorists). Although the Obama administration has given lip service to the former, the latter has been, and continues to be, the driving force in its war in Afghanistan.
For Hall, a Foreign Service officer who was less than two months away from a plush assignment in London, working with the military had already proven more difficult than he expected. In an article for Foreign Service Journal published a couple of months before the meeting, he wrote, "I felt like I never really knew what was going on, where I was supposed to be, what my role was, or if I even had one. In particular, I didn't speak either language that I needed: Pashtu or military."


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Two of Floyd's teammates also are ranked nationally. Tim McDaniels, a second-year guard from Blackwood, is ranked eighth in assists, averaging 6.1 per game, and 11th in steals, averaging 3.3 per game. Stephen Wade, a first-year center from Sicklerville, is ranked 20th in blocks, averaging 1.9 per game.
The men's team has posted a 7-2 record both within Region XIX and overall. Their next home game will be against Union County College at 5 p.m. Dec. 15 in Papiano Gymnasium on CCC's Blackwood Campus.
Three members of the Camden County College women's basketball team also are ranked nationally. Courtney Luongo, a second-year forward from Pine Hill, is ranked seventh in rebounds, averaging 12.6 per game. Kierra Smith, a second-year forward from Lawnside, is ranked eighth in scoring, averaging 18 points per game. Carnora Payter, a first-year guard from Lindenwold, is ranked ninth in assists, averaging 4.7 per game.
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Wear Whatever the Hell Crazy Outfit You Want: I have always been somewhat of a fashion risk-taker. I was never one to care about matching, and I have been known to be somewhat over-the-top at times. My mom told me a few months ago that "I was finally in style, because not matching is a thing now." Sigh.
A Badass Earring Can Make Everything Better: I really like to wear a 'statement' earring in one ear, and like a stud, or whatever, in the other. I think it really harkens back to my Jem days, and that damn magical earring. If I had one that could light up, that ish would rock my world.
All Pink Errrthing: Damn, I love pink. And a little more than any dumb dumb in her thirties should. If I could have Jem-pink hair right now, and not look crazier than tanning mom, (too dated a reference?) I totally would. Man, I hate myself.
Don't Be Afraid to Take a Chance on Beauty: Jem wears damn hot pink eyeshadow trapezoids like a boss. That mess inspires me to try different hairstyles, makeup colors, and more. Who cares if your look might lean more toward the insane side of the beauty scale? YOLO. (I know, I know.)
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I learned something new about myself this week–I can go from zero to totally-trip-planned in under eight days.
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What I did not do was finish writing the last two overview posts from my summer road trip (nevermind the many detail posts I have planned) or even begin writing about my 15 days in Walt Disney World (even though I have an actual list of 'things to post about in relation to my 15 days in Walt Disney World!) And now I'm leaving again–to spend seven days on a ship without internet access (dum dum DUM!) Well, I suppose internet access is available–I'm just not paying a dollar per minute for what I've been told is really slow service. So I'm accruing a fairly serious travel blog backlog. But oh well! I'm sailing to Bermuda–tomorrow!!!


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Aww... I'm happy everyone is getting along and feeling good for a change.ReplyDelete
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Oh don't go hiding hints, Becky. You know that isn't fair to people who read after you : P. Give them the chance to figure things out too.Delete
Still as cute as ever. Nice to see a chapter where Nico and Coral are friends. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I TRY to write them fighting but it doesn't work any more! It just comes out as adorable playful banter!Delete
Ah Jade and Marcus are so dang adorable together! Please don't let him be a bad guy or something! He's way too cute for that. What is it with your game and incredibly hot Sims? I'm very jealous lol.ReplyDeleteReplies
Jade was a result of lucky genetics between two adorable characters. Markus was the result of a lot of hard work and tweaking. Gosh I love them both <3. Their children will be gorgeous or I will through something. Seriously.Delete
If you make Markus a bad guy after he's been so sweet and good to Jade I will cry! I love the way he's found something to help her cope with her abilities and I hope he can convince her not to try and get rid of them.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, he is a real sweetie, isn't he?Delete
Gem is a doll! :D I'm glad to see Nico and Coral getting along!ReplyDelete
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What is there to say about the Sapphire HD4870 Toxic video card other than it is amazing? I was very surprised to see the benchmarking scores that it was able to produce. It was able to compete with and beat out the PowerColor HD4870 PCS+, which is also an overclocked HD4870 with a custom cooler. The Sapphire card was able to either compete with or beat just about every other card during both the stock and especially with the overclocked speeds, and in those it did not beat it kept the performance differential close. I was very pleased to see how well Sapphire paid attention to the little details of the card such as placing a large enough cooling solution on it to keep down the high temperatures the RV770 core has been producing, limiting the overclockability of the cards and the lifespan of them. I am a fan of the dual slot video card design, as it gives you more of a peace of mind that your card is not going to overheat and it will still be able to perform very well, however some people see it as a negative as it blocks some of the other slots that are located on your motherboard, which limits you when it comes to the upgradeability of your rig in the future.
The usage of VaporX technology also was a great addition to the cooling solution of the HD4870 Toxic, as it was able to keep the temperatures in check and allowed for quieter operation while it was idling as well as when it was under full load. I was very impressed that it was able to beat out another pre-overclocked video card of the same class. I do like that the card came overclocked right out of the box, as to someone who is not big into overclocking their video card or someone who has not done it before, will be able to see what kind of performance boost they will gain from it. The actual overclockability of the card was great as well, I was still able to add another 70MHz to the GPU and 200MHz to the memory, leaving me at 850MHz and 1200MHz, which is quite amazing! The only technical downside of the card that I have found is that it only has 512MB of GDDR5, if Sapphire had shoved in another 512MB and made it a total of 1GB, the performance of the card would be simply amazing. If you are looking to take the leap away from your older video card to something that is going to be able to give you the performance boost to your entire system, this card is what you should be looking for! I would suggest picking up at least one of these for your next build.
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- Attention to detail
- Dual slot
- VaporX
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text: Up until recently (before I found the TB forums) I spent most of my time online in' at the Warmoth Thrift Shop. I popped over there a few minutes ago to see if they'd updated their inventory. I should also mention that I'm a big fan of the K.I.S.S. rule (Keep It Simple & Stupid) when it comes to basses: one pup, passive, "tone is in the touch", fretless (no lines!), etc. Anyhoo, I mosey on over to the Thrift Shop and what do they have? A couple of unfinished Tele "slab" bodies, routed for a Gotoh 206 and string through. One's Swamp Ash and the other is Ash (6 lbs. 8 oz. ). A simpleton's dream! The only hard part would be decidin' which single-coil pup to drop in. I know of five ~ 3 from Seymour Duncan and 2 from RioGrande. Now my dilemna...I put my credit cards deep into the red gettin' a Pignose tube head and Dean Rhapsody HBF for Xmas. Ah well . There'll be other Tele slabs at the Thrift Shop . They've also got a real purty J neck in the Thrift Shop. The board is ebony and the neck is somethin' called "Ziracote" . Swamp Ash Body ~ http://www.warmoth.com/B57.htm Ash Body ~ http://www.warmoth.com/B58.htm Z/E Neck ~ http://www.warmoth.com/BN103.htm


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- 4 beds
- 3 baths
- $425,990 price
- 1120188 mls id
- Square Feet: 3,063 sqft
- Neighborhood: Rancho Sienna 70's
Listing Description
This unique and elegant one story home is located in the scenic Rancho Sienna community, with rolling hills and master planned amenities.. The extended tile entry is graced with coffered ceilings and arches and oversized tile extends into the dining and family rooms. A bedroom and bath suite at the front is perfect for guests. Set off of the entry hall is a dining room with a coffered ceiling beside the beautifully furnished kitchen. The kitchen boasts 42" cabinetry, granite countertops, tile backsplash with color wave accents, and built in stainless steel appliances. The tech center features granite counters and is close to the kitchen for your convenience. The breakfast area overlooks the backyard and opens up to an expansive yet comfortable family room. This roomy design is ideal for livability as well as space for enjoying time with friends and family. A study with double doors opens to the family room and features luxurious hardwood flooring. The secondary bedrooms share a private hall past the tech center and large storage closet, and the owner's suite is at the back of the home featuring an 11' trayed ceiling, bay window, and two walk in closets. The luxurious bath and oversized shower have tile backsplash with a 3" glass quartz accent border. Please note: Features included in this home may vary from the included features listed specific to each community. Please see the Sales Counselor for the home's specific features.
- New Construction Yes
Subdivision: Rancho Sienna 70's
- Price Range $349.9K - $453.5K
- Sqft Range 2,610 - 3,709
- Subdivision StatusActive
Subdivision Description
Rancho Sienna, on the eastern edge of the spectacular Texas Hill Country, means fine living, naturally. Rock outcroppings, mature tree stands, and legendary big-sky, hilltop views are also within easy access to commuting routes that connect you with Austin and beyond. The community features a swimming pool and splash pad, fitness center, large covered pavilion, playscapes for children, and extensive trails. Cimarron Hills Golf Club's 18 holes and clubhouse are just minutes away. Also nearby, schools in the Liberty Hill Independent School District earned Texas Education Agency's highest rating in 2013. At the 124 Rancho Trail Sales Center, you can learn more about building a new home or buying a quick-move-in home.
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Silver Slips Below $20 on Stronger US Dollar and Jobs Data
Silver began the week promisingly, but was ultimately brought down by a stronger US dollar and positive jobs data.
Silver began the week promisingly, reaching $20.30 per ounce on Monday morning, but since then has been dragged down by the combination of a stronger US dollar and positive jobs data, also from the US.
The white metal's decline began on Tuesday. After closing Monday at $20.18 per ounce, just under last week's high of $20.24, silver started dropping early Tuesday morning, soon reaching $19.69, its low for the day. Capital Trading Group states in a report that the drop looks to have come from "a rising Dollar and noted weakness in gold prices." The firm also notes that "a negative view from a well-known fund manager" may have "contributed to the slide in silver prices."
While silver managed to end Tuesday at $19.88, it took another fairly steep fall on Wednesday, sinking to $19.39 at its lowest point. Reuters explains that the decline was the result of a boost in the dollar caused by the news that US private employers added 238,000 jobs in December, higher than was expected and "the strongest increase in 13 months." Capital Trading Group states in another report that more of the same may lie ahead for silver as it seems the metal "is currently in a position to weaken in the face of positive US data flows … and that could also foster talk of sooner-rather-than-later additional US tapering action."
Today, silver has been fairly steady, trading between $19.44 and $19.63. It closed the day at $19.58 per ounce.
COMEX silver stockpiles hit 16-year high
In other silver-related news, Bloomberg reported this morning that silver stockpiles on the COMEX in New York rose to 176.28 million ounces today, a 16-year high. Inventories have been on the rise for seven sessions in a row, and in 2013 supplies rose for a third year in a row, "the longest span of annual gains in a decade," the news outlet said.
Explaining the development, Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy at TD Securities in Toronto, told Bloomberg, "[t]his could well be an indication that demand has slowed down to an extent," also noting that it could point to declining investor interest in silver exchange-traded products.
Company news
Endeavour Silver said today that it set a new quarterly silver and gold production record during the fourth quarter of 2013. The company put out 1,931,717 ounces of silver during that time, up 56 percent from the same period in 2012, while its gold production came in at 17,686 ounces, a 37-percent increase from the year-ago quarter.
2013 was Endeavour's ninth consecutive year of production growth; it produced 6,813,069 ounces of silver and 75,578 ounces of gold for the full year.
Junior company news
On Tuesday, Trevali Mining (TSX:TV,OTCQX:TREVF) announced that mineral processing plant commissioning at its Peru-based Santander zinc–lead-silver mine "continues to progress well," as does the production of zinc and lead-silver concentrate.
The company also said that during December, mill throughput at Santander continued at full nameplate capacity of 2,000 tonnes per day. Average head grades came in at 3.6-percent zinc, 1.5-percent lead and 1.4 ounces per tonne silver "from a blend of underground feed, stockpiled surface material and higher-grade re-mined former tailings." Trevali's plan is to transition to full underground production feed this quarter.
The next day, IMPACT Silver (TSXV:IPT) provided second-phase drill results from its Mexico-based San Juan project, commenting that it encountered further high grades for silver in the Noche Buena vein. For instance, hole Z13 60 contains 1,587 grams per tonne silver over 1.72 meters true width.
Maya Gold & Silver (TSXV:MYA) earlier today revealed positive assay results from the final eight drill holes at its Zgounder silver mine, located in Morocco. Highlights include hole ZP13_2000N_07, which returned 631 grams per tonne silver over 7.2 meters, and hole ZP13_2035E_001bis, which intersected 379.5 grams per tonne silver over 6 meters, including 526.7 grams per tonne silver over 3.6 meters.
Securities Disclosure: I, Charlotte McLeod, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Life after graduation
Chartered accountants in business earn on average £65,000 per year as a basic salary, it has been claimed.The news, which may be of interest to recent graduates and university students interested in financial careers, comes from research conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and financial recruiter Robert Half.According to the study, the figure rises to £76,200 for business accountants with an ACA qualification.Michael Izza, chief executive of the ICAEW, said:"Since our last career benchmarking survey, the economy has been seized by the credit crunch and to get through the downturn will require careful management and leadership. "As our survey shows, ICAEW members are responding to this need, providing the skills and experience that ensures they continue to play a key role within all aspects of business and industry."The average starting wage for business accountants was said to be £48,600, while chairmen, managing directors and chief executives take home an average of £122,400.Last year's Badenoch and Clark worker happiness survey revealed finance and accounting professionals to be the fifth happiest across all workforce sectors.


text: Share: Comments Print February 5, 2008 at 12:45 PM Projecting Bedard's Mariners Posted by Geoff Baker This might not be the best day to talk to Erik Bedard about signing a contract extension with the Mariners. Take a look outside at that cold rain. What a day for Bedard to be in town for his physical. We keep hearing that it's going down today. The physical, that is. Who knows when they'll announce this thing? June 25? That was me being funny, by the way. Ha, ha. Anyhow, you can tell this deal is getting close judging by the amount of angst out there in blogland. Someone asked on this site whether I'd eat my "goddamn crow" when the Mariners "suck it up" this year. Well, in the spirit of such insightful debate, will any of you eat said damned bird if the M's win 85+ this season? Nah, I didn't think so. Moving right along…the U.S.S. Mariner tries to quantify this debate a little more artfully than the previous-mentioned commenter by taking the latest ZiPS projections and playing out computer simulations of what the 2008 season will look like for the Bedard-armed Mariners. The projections didn't come out too good. The first of them had the team winning 70 games. All of them had Seattle placing anywhere from third to last in the AL West. No seasons better than 81 wins. Needless to say, I'm somewhat skeptical. First off, what is a ZiPS projection? It's a computer-projected forecast of what player performance should look like based largely on what they did in the past. There are several projection systems out there with names like PECOTA and Chone. This particular one was created by a guy named Dan Szymborski, who actually looks like some type of grand wizard in the photo from this link. Szymborski is editor-in-chief of the Baseball Think Factory web site and a true wiz, in actual fact, having created the ZiPS system to go along with stats analyst Tom Tippett's Diamond Mind simulation game. ZiPS projections are inputed into Diamond Mind to project entire major league seasons several times over. The ZiPS name is an acronym for sZymborski Projection System. Catch the key word in that last paragraph? It would be "game", which is why it's probably not a good idea to head to Vegas with your mortgage and a pack of Szymborski's stats. Here's an interesting discussion from last week's Hardball Times about the future of projection systems and how widespread they've become in the United States. Hey, I have as much fun as the next guy trying to project what a season will look like. But can you really tell how a team's season is going to look? Yes, if a real season were to be played out thousands of times over the coming year, as is done in these computer sims. Trouble is, in real life, you only get one shot. Last season, most projections had the Mariners at 76 wins (77 in Diamond Mind). The Diamond Mind projection made headlines when it predicted only three 90-win teams in all the majors. There were actually twice as many once the games were played, though the suggestion that parity would become a force in baseball did show up in the NL — where no team won more than 90. But the Boston Red Sox were also picked to win 86 games and finish third in the AL East. Instead, they won 96 and captured the World Series. Overall, the system is fairly accurate. As good — even better — as what you'd find from a lot of the pre-season picks by baseball beat writers in your average newspaper spring training supplement. But enough for fans of a team to give up on a season before it even begins? No. My favorite comment from a reader at today's USS Mariner site, though I'm somewhat biased, was this one: "I'm sure Geoff Baker will provide data from the 2001 Toronto Blue Jays to disprove it all." Glad to see our blog's popularity is finally spreading. But on a serious note, there's nothing to prove or disprove. The games haven't been played yet. The Mariners won 88 games last season, so it's not up to me to prove they weren't really a 78-win team. It's up to those who want to work off projected win totals that exist only in the realm of fantasy. I'm not being mean, here. In real life, the M's won 88 games. I think they overachieved somewhat, but I also believe they are a legitimate .500 team. Not a 78-win squad as their Pythagorean record suggested they were. I believe this because I saw the M's hold their own against other AL contenders. I saw them win games (until September) every time I was about to write off their season. I've covered losing teams and this one was better than that. Their real-life record suggests it. So, it's not up to me to prove otherwise. As for the 2001 Blue Jays, I'll take a stab at it. The Jays that year were counting heavily on starting pitcher Mike Sirotka, acquired in the David Wells trade, Esteban Loaiza and the "Young Guns" behind them in the rotation — Roy Halladay, Chris Carpenter and Kelvim Escobar. Sirotka turned out to be injured and never threw a pitch, Halladay was demoted all the way to Class A to rebuild his repetoire and damaged psyche, Escobar bounced back and forth between starting and relief, while Carpenter got off to a great start (prompting me to write a feature on how great he was) before looking mediocre from June onward. Loaiza also got off to a fast start, then settled in to his usual win one, lose two routine. Joey Hamilton stank, as he did throughout his three-year career as an oft-injured Toronto starter. The team's overall ERA+ was a deceptively high 108, but there were too many problems all year with the rotation. Offense was too strikeout prone as well. Toronto had pinned its hopes on a rotation that wound up with only one 200-inning guy in Carpenter, and only one other pitcher — the sub-par Loaiza — making at least 23 starts. What do I think will help the M's this year? A better rotation. Bedard gives them that. At what cost? We'll see. I've mentioned before, this is not a slam-dunk deal. There are no certainties. The arguments on both sides are worth considering, which is why I'm linking to the USS Mariner's use of ZiPS projections. It will certainly add to the concerns of the anti-trade camp while at least tempering the optimism of the pro-trade side. But a 70-win team? Maxing out at 81 wins and no higher than third place? A little tough to swallow. As they say, we'll see when they play the actual games. Comments


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[Photo via ASW]
Waris Ahluwalia, the Indian American NYC based jewelry designer (and actor who has appeared in films like The Darjeeling Limited, and The Life Aquatic), who counts Wes Anderson, Chiara Clemente, Zac Posen, Arden Wohl, and Paul Sevigny among his posse; headed over to Europe to help work on a project for Omnia Vincit Amor, who has a new jewelry collection debuting. Their Monday night launch party at the Parisian hot spot Colette had loads of socials and fashionistas talking. It also got him a feature in ASW's ASMALLMAGAZINE by Sabine Heller, of which you can read in full below:
More story and photos by PMc below:
From ASW:
"Man-about-town and jewellery designer Waris Ahluwalia received "le Tout Paris" on Monday night at the hip concept store Collette to celebrate the European launch of "Omnia Vinci Amor" (which is Latin for "Love Conquers All"), the new jewellery line from House of Waris.
[Waris is quite the entertainer]
The collection, inspired by tiles in a bathroom at the Hotel Raphael in Paris, is based on a flock of friendly birds with names like Raphael, Octavian, Roma and Liberte. Glitterati from all over the world flocked to join Collette owner Sarah Lerfel in toasting Waris. Guests, including Italian Vogue's Franca Sozzani, International Herald Tribune's Suzy Menkes, filmmaker Wes Anderson, menswear designer Adam Kimmel, artist Anne McNally and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn, perused the baubles and the store windows, which were hand-painted by House of Waris artistic director Eric Adolfsen and took 26 hours to complete. "Craft is really important to me – even in lettering and sign painting," explained the chic Sikh.
The after-party, hosted by Lou Doillon, nightlife impresario and graffiti artist Andre and Purple Fashion magazine's Olivier Zahm, was held at everyone's favourite Parisian nightclub, Le Baron. Injecting his signature flare, Waris transformed the club's entrance into an tropical forest covered in lush palm trees. "Until I relocate to the Caribbean, I will bring the tropics to my friends," he promised. French DJ du jour Olympia Le Tan ignited dance fever with an early 90s mix of pop/dance/funk, which included chic beats from retro-favs Depeche Mode that, combined with a plethora of Belvedere Vodka, kept revellers – designer Giambattista Valli, French Vogue's Anastasia Barbieri, Casey Spooner and actress Leelee Sobieski – bopping till the wee hours of the morning."


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Jonas Brothers: Boston Concert Pics!
The Jonas Brothers rock the stage for their concert at the Bank of America Pavilion on Monday night (July 22) in Boston, Mass.
The guys – Joe, Nick, and Kevin – performed their hit new single "First Time," as well as a mix of new songs and old JBro classics.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jonas Brothers
"OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: doing a SPECIAL ACOUSTIC SET on our #JBPARTYONBOAT 7/25 after our PNC show!!!! @hornblowerny," the guys tweeted after the show.
25+ pics inside of the Jonas Brothers performing for fans in Boston…
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City Hallways (March 13): The last Buffalo comptroller to become mayor
Mayoral history
Ever since Mark Schroeder announced he's running for mayor, I've been wondering when the last time was – if there was a last time – that a sitting Buffalo comptroller challenged an incumbent Buffalo mayor.
I finally got an answer from Schroeder.
He told me about Republican Chester Kowal, a three-term city comptroller who, in 1962, challenged then one-term Democratic Mayor Frank Sedita.
Kowal won.
He served a single term, didn't seek re-election, and voters returned Sedita to the mayor's office for eight more years after Kowal's term ended.
He was the last city comptroller to run for mayor.
He was also the last Republican mayor of Buffalo.
This just in:
From Mayor Brown's press office: "Due to the Winter Storm Warning, the city of Buffalo is reinstating the overnight winter parking regulations on bus routes effective immediately.
The overnight winter parking regulations on bus routes are in place from 1:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. All other parking regulations in the city of Buffalo remain in effect."
The City Hall beat
Some changes here at The Buffalo News' City Hall office. My colleague Deidre Williams, who spent the past few years as an education reporter, is now working in the City Hall bureau with me.
If you want to get in touch with Deidre, you can email her at email@example.com.
She'll be helping out with day-to-day stories, and with City Hallways, too.
I'll still be here, just needed help getting to all the stories we're trying to do out of City Hall.
In today's Buffalo News and buffalonews.com, I have a story on the chairman of the U.S. Judiciary Committee questioning BMHA travel, asking for a full accounting of who goes, how much is spent and more. His inquiry comes after The Buffalo News published two stories last month on BMHA travel.
Today's calendar items
Planning Board meeting this afternoon.
Like me on Facebook: City Hallways
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Follow me on Twitter: @sue_schulman
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Email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Post mail me at: Buffalo News, 1 News Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14240
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1999 Jewish Population Survey of Howard County, Maryland
Sponsor(s): Jewish Federation of Howard County, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Principal Investigator(s): Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller
Study Dates: June, 1999
Another 4,100 non-Jews live in these households, for a total of 20,100 people in Howard County Jewish households (at least one adult in the household considered themselves to be Jewish).
Sample Size: 207 Jewish households.
Methodological details in Appendix include a complete sampling disposition as well as a detailed summary of sampling, interviewing, estimation and weighting.
Main Report Appendix also includes copies of the Screener and Questionnaire.
In the data file, "HHWeight" projects data to 6,492 Jewish HH precisely;"JewWeigh" projects data to 15,980 Jews; "PopWeigh" projects to 20,069 people (including non-Jews) in Howard County Jewish households.
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1949 Harley-Davidson Dragon Bike Replica
"The Wild Angels" (1966) is a Roger Cormen film made on location in Southern California three years before "Easy Rider". It was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Sixties counterculture. In the movie, Peter Fonda stars as the chapter president of the Hells Angels San Pedro, Calif. chapter and rides what is known as the "Dragon Bike." Support roles were reportedly filled by actual Hells Angels members from Venice, Calif., and the Coffin Cheaters motorcycle club. This replica of Fonda's Dragon Bike is on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
Thanks for posting. I was 16 in 66 and the 'Dragon Bike' put a spell on me the second I saw it. Unlike other 'replica' bikes, this one seems correct in every detail. I will be looking for more pics of this particular machine. ps I ride a '92' fxsts today. Living the dream


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Let's talk balls.
Mr Libog treat my self and my wife to lunch over the weekend.
As is the usual practice, talk at our table centered mainly around basketball, specifically recruitment.
"Malapit na Fil Oil ah," he stated, referring to the Fil Oil-Flying V Premiere Cup, the summer basketball tournament organized by the local petroleum company that bears the same name.
I nodded, knowing this tournament would begin after the Holy Week, so it was only about a week or two away.
"Sino mga bago natin?" he inquired, referring to who the new players might be on our varsity roster.
I shrugged. Apart from transfer student Gab Reyes, and two players who failed to make the last season's regular roster for different reasons, I actually had no clue who any of our new talent (if any) there might be.
I told him about Reyes, and the other two guys: Tyler Tio and Gian Mamuyac. He was of course familiar with all three, since we had followed their developments even as far back as their high school days. I said they were doing well in the offseason tournaments like the Fr Martin Cup and the Milcu Got Skills Challenge Cup.
He didn't sound too impressed. "That's it?"
I nodded.
"So what we have is an athletic forward who Lord only knows has been doing what the last couple of years we haven't heard a thing from him, a guy who should have been lined up last season were it not for paperwork that had nothing to do with his game, and another guy who we both agreed should have been lined up ahead of at least three other guys who didn't actually do shit for us last season. Would that be accurate?"
I nodded again. Although I did add that at least we're getting three guys who aren't total greenhorns and who could come in and play right away within the system of the team and the coach, which is always valuable.
"Valuable, yes, but doesn't guarantee us a title does it?" he asked, rhetorically as usual.
My wife was busy putting fried rice, squid heads, beef, broccoli, tofu, and clams on our plates while we were engrossed in our little discussion. It pays to marry the right woman, I tell you. She will make sure you can keep enjoying a good meal without having to skip a beat in your in-depth basketball conversation.
I said that with Reyes, Tio, Mamuyac we would have a better perimeter now, that can provide firepower, defense, experience, and much-needed speed.
"I hardly think Tyler and Gab will provide speed, only Gian is a natural runner in that bunch. You are correct though that Tyler can provide additional firepower, Gab too, because Gab I think is a better shooter than Thirdy Ravena. But then again Gab might be what, in his fourth year in college by now, dapat lang naman sigurong gumagawa na siya, athletic naman siya, may pukol, sa edad niya dapat lang naman kaya na niya gumawa. So once again we have to thank Lasalle for another guy they couldn't use, because now he gets to play in a blue uniform," he expounded.
"Alam mo totoong tanong diyan: ano ba ginagawa nung mga tao na dapat naghahanap ng talent para sa team? Bakit pa sila pinapasweldo? Troy Mallilin hindi nakuha. Justin Baltazar hindi nakuha. Ricci Rivero hindi nakuha. Aljun Melecio hindi nakuha. Lahat ng mga players na gusto ko, 'yun ang mga hindi nila nakuha. Wala na ngang clearance na kailangan, wala na ngang residency, hindi pa din natin sila nakuha."
"So sino-sino ba mga nakuha natin? Mga good students? Kung good students kailangan natin huwag na natin padala sa US ang team tuwing summer, magtayo na lang sila ng separate scholarship fund specifically for good students who make the basketball team. OK lang naman kung ganun ang gusto nila eh, pero pupusta ko lahat ng yaman ko, never mananalo ng UAAP championship ang team na good students ang lahat ng players. No way," he declared.
So was he saying we would have a losing season?
"Far from it, I think we will return to the Finals at the very least, where once again our problem will be how to match up against (Benoit) Mbala. Sino pantatapat natin sa kanya, sina (Chibuezee) Ikeh at George (Go) na naman? Hindi porke nakapalag tayo kahit papano last year ganun-ganun lang magagawa natin ulit 'yon this year."
"We can be thankful na wala na si Jeron (Teng), and he really is a big loss for them, kasi hindi ganun kadali replace ang scoring at veteran leadership niya. Kaya lang papano kung mag-step up naman sina Baltazar, Ricci (Rivero), Melecio, makabalik din ng maganda 'yung Gboy Gob, or maka-contribute right away 'yung Troy (Mallilin), talented players lahat ang mga 'yon ha."
"Pero sabihin na lang natin na lahat nung mga locals nila hindi gumawa as expected, andiyan pa din si Mbala eh, at 'yon walang katapat sa buong liga. So papano na tayo niyan?"
Sam Miguel usually handles the PBA, but this time he let me have a go at it.
It was over one of our regular dinners with Mr Libog that the subject of comparing the great San Miguel Beer teams came up.
Coincidentally I just had an interesting exchange with the great Bill "William the Conqueror" Velasco the afternoon earlier about this same topic.
Here's the deal: Which of the three great San Miguel Beer teams is the best, the 1989 Grand Slam team, the 2-Danny's team of the late 1990's to early 2000's, or the current 2017 team of June Mar Fajardo.
Of course the discussions we had were much too free-flowing, so maybe let us set some "parameters" if we can.
First off, it is easy to be tempted to look at individual players and their stats and just say this guy scored more, rebounded more, passed more, etc etc, and therefore he is clearly better than the other guy. We can't really do that. Remember, those stats were not made against each other, these teams never played against each other, so those stats were only for a particular point in the fabric of the basketball time-space continuum. They might be useful but they cannot be the be-all and end-all of this discussion. The same thing holds true for individual awards like the MVP trophy. You all know how I (and Sam) feel about the very concept of an MVP in the first place.
Secondly, we have to look at them as teams, and from the particular eras in which they dominated. This must hold especially true for the 1989 team because of the presence there of Ramon Fernandez, the man widely recognized as the best Filipino basketball player ever. (More on this particular point later.) In 1989 Fernandez was a year removed from the last of his four MVP awards, and was no longer the stud he was from say the late 1970's to maybe the earlier half of the 1980's. He still had great game of course, but he was no longer at the peak of his powers here. This will be very important to keep in mind.
Third, since this is 2017, we will compare these three great teams through the prism of current PBA officiating, so in terms of officiating we will look at this in terms of what is allowed, and no longer allowed by current PBA rules, such as the Flagrant 1 and Flagrant 2 distinctions.
Fourth, and I cannot stress this enough, if you do not believe that both the game and the players have somehow or other evolved, at least from 1989-onward, then we can end this discussion right here.
Fifth and last, let us pretend that all three teams could be put in a mini-tournament, triple round robin eliminations, so each team gets six elimination games each, with the top two teams facing off in a best of seven Finals.
Bearing all of these in mind, let me get straight to the conclusion Mr Libog and I agreed on: the Finals would be between the 2-Danny's team and June Mar's team; the Grand Slam team would get its licks in but in the end would not have enough size and talent to knock off either of the later-generation teams.
Let's get the admitted facts out of the way first.
Mr Libog and I agreed that Allan Caidic, hands down, is the only one from the 1989 team who could still play the game as it is being played in 2017. Caidic is without a doubt the best damn shooter ever that this country has produced. Ever. Take all of the best shooters across all the generations and Caidic would be the best among that esteemed lot.
June Mar Fajardo will go down in history as the best player ever, regardless of position. At his young age he will probably win at least a dozen more PBA championships, and maybe at least a half dozen more MVP awards. He has truly changed the game just by being here. You're talking about a 6-10, 260- to 270-pound player who has touch, good footwork, agility, and mobility, and can even run in transition. Yes, Fernandez displayed far more skill, coming close one season to averaging a near-triple double for an entire year. But Fernandez never changed the game the way Fajardo did, simply because for all his wondrous talent, Fernandez was a normal-sized Filipino big man, in that 6-5 to 6-5 range. Had Fernandez been at least 6-8, then maybe we'd have a different opinion. But Fajardo is completely different owing precisely to his sheer size, and he isn't the barely-skilled lumbering lummox that say Bonel Balingit, or Chris Bolado, or EJ Feihl, or Dong Polisitico were. Fajardo, far more certainly, is better than fellow skilled skyscraper types such as Marlou Aquino and Yancy De Ocampo. And let us not forget, he is not only tall and long, he is thick-bodied and massive. It is that complete package that has allowed him to amass the titles and accolades he has, and he isn't even 30 years old.
"Dynamite" Danny Seigle will go down in PBA history as the best player never to win an MVP award. This is a very
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"May mga cases kasi talaga na ang galing-galing nung high school player pero it turns out he's just older than the kids he plays against, at nabibisto din naman siya pagdating pa lang niya ng Seniors," Mr Libog exclaimed.
I then recalled that a coach from a well-known high school basketball program actually admitted to me something that has long been making the rounds in local high school basketball: Yes, he admitted, when a recruit comes to their program, and that recruit is either just the right age or a little younger for his curriculum year, they make him repeat a curriculum year and max out his age eligibility for junior division play.
He went on to explain that this wasn't done willy-nilly, that there were practical reasons for doing so: First, their program wanted to maximize the recruit's available playing years, especially if he is a transfer who has to sit out a year to establish residency anyway. Let's say a recruit already finished Grade 8 in his previous school, and he was only say 13 years old, or a little young for a Grade 8 student. When he goes to their program, they talk the recruit into repeating Grade 8, and make that repeat year his residency year. That way they will still have the recruit for four playing years, from Grade 9 to Grade 12. By the time he is in his last year of junior ball he will already be 18, in this given case. There were even times they made recruits repeat two years if they were really young.
Second, they recognized early on that a player who is older than average in junior ball can more easily take on younger players, even if those younger players are objectively more athletic and more talented than he is. Forget about the difference between a 17-year old and an 18-year old; imagine instead the difference between a 15-year old and a 17-year old. Only in the rarest of cases can a younger player whip an older player at the high school level.
Third, there is of course that adjustment period needed for a player to get used to more organized, more regimented basketball, especially if he came from an unstructured or barely structured background, like say if he came from the countryside and there really wasn't a regular varsity tournament where he comes from. It'll take at least a year even for the most talented and smartest high school player to get used to a more rigorous system than the one he was used to.
The bottom line, the coach therefore emphasized, is that it makes sense to use older players in high school basketball, just so long as you do not break the rules. If the rules of your tournament allow you to play high school ball up to age 19, then the perfect team, as far as this coach goes, is one where all of the players are 19, or at least half of them are 19 and the other half are 17 to 18. Pit them even against a team of sky walking, slam dunking, running and gunning younger players, and he will put even money on his older team every time.
"Diyan na lumalabas nga 'yung big question: Kapag nakakaita ka ng player sa Juniors na obvious naman sa itsura pa lang na mas matanda kesa sa mga kalaban niya, at nilalamon niya mga kalaban niya, hindi ba dapat lang naman ganun ang mangyari? So maybe what we are looking at is not an elite player who will be a sure PBA star in the future. Maybe what we are really looking at is nothing more than an older kid beating the shit out of younger kids, in a manner of speaking of course," expounded Mr Libog.
"Bigyan kita ng example. You remember when we went to watch Rey Nambatac mga six or seven years ago sa Buddha Care? Sino 'yung nakaagaw sa pansin natin? Kilala mo 'yon," he inquired.
It took me a few seconds. "Si (Koko) Pingoy?" I asked-answered.
"Correct. Si Nambatac ang pinuntahan natin, pero nakaagaw ng pansin natin si Pingoy. Guess who's older sa kanilang dalawa?" he asked.
"Si Pingoy?" I asked-answered again.
"Si Nambatac, by about a year. Pareho silang born 1994, pero Nambatac was January, Pingoy was December, pero parehong 1994," he said.
"So magkaedad lang pala sila technically speaking, mas matanda pa nga si Rey," I said.
"Correct. Coincidence kaya na silang dalawa 'yung pinakamagaling sa respective teams nila at that time? At that time they were both around 18, or sa case ni Pingoy pushing 18 na din siya," he said.
"So nung nag-champion ang Letran under Ayo, legit 21 na si Rey. Nung time naman na nag-champion sa Fr Martin ang Team B ng Ateneo, 'yung first championship nila dun sa Trinity, turning 20 na din si Pingoy, and take note may mga imports siya that time," he added.
I pointed out that Joma Adornado was on that title team too, as was Mikey Cabahug and a then under-residency Ponso Gotladera.
"Yes they were. And how old were all of those
Can you imagine that? In Black's six trips to the UAAP Finals, only Pido Jarencio, at that time a rookie coach to boot, beat him for the championship. Yet I'm sure even the most diehard Jarencio fans would never say that Jarencio > Black as a coach. In his 5-Peat title reign, only Lawrence Chongson of UE, hardly mentioned as among the paradigms of great coaches, beat Black (by a big margin at that) in a game in the UAAP Finals. Again, I'm sure no one would ever say Chongson > Black as a coach.
The point I am trying to make is not to sing praises about the greatness of Black, or Tommy Manotoc, or Franz Pumaren, or Louie Alas, or the late Ron Jacobs. Many people, much greater than I, have already done that.
Instead, what I submit is that, perhaps there really is no such thing as great coaches, so much as there are great talents put together on great rosters.
Think about it. With the possible exception of Brown and Detroit versus the Lakers in 2004, and Ayo this season in the NCAA versus San Beda, the more talented rosters with the more talented players in aggregate, have won championship battles. And even in these two instances, the talent Brown and Ayo had respectively was nothing to sneeze at.
Billups, Hamilton, Prince, and the Wallace boys were all star-level players, who had always been dependable, consistent producers on whatever team they were on. Ben Wallace was not much of a scorer, but his defense and board work were all star caliber, almost Dennis Rodman-like.
Mark Cruz outplayed the more fancied Baser Amer in the NCAA Finals, using speed and a quicker pull-up. Running with Rey Nambatac and Kevin Racal, and even McJour Luib and Jomar Sollano, Ayo's boys proved to be the match-up from hell for the Red Lions who relied almost exclusively on their size and power advantage with 6-8 import Ola Adeogun and 6-4 forward Arthur Dela Cruz.
Yes, a good coach would know how to maximize the talent he inherits from a predecessor, and then build his own roster over time. But again, it is not necessarily about just grabbing every all star available (see Jail Blazers of previous entries). It takes maybe two or three superstars, and a bunch of interchangeable, hardworking role players. Black did that first with Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Nonoy Baclao, and Chris Tiu. Later on he had Greg Slaughter, Nico Salva, and Kiefer Ravena. Pumaren had Don Allado, Renren Ritualo, and Mike Cortez. Koy Banal and later on Bert Flores leaned on Arwind Santos and Mark Isip, with Denok Miranda and later on Jonas Villanueva.
It does not necessarily come down to brilliance in the X and O, so much as brilliance in recognizing what will work best, and then building your roster to achieve that. Coaching becomes easier when you have the elite talent making your favored system working. "Maghanap ka ng magagaling na players, para dumali ang trabaho mo. Isipin mo naman, papano kung ang sentro mo 6-1, na may katabaan, mahina tumalon, mabagal. Kesehodang may good fundamentals 'yan, lalamunin 'yan ng 6-5 na atleta na malakas, kahit hindi magsing-ganda fundamentals nila. Matuturo mo pa skills eh, pano punwesto sa box out, pano mag-ball denial, pano mag-hook shot. Anong turo gagawin mo para maging five seconds or less ang baseline to baseline? Anong turo gagawin mo para maging 36 inches ang vertical ng isang player na 12 inches lang ang kaya?" expounded one longtime UAAP assistant coach and scout.
I recall how Koy Banal, then the FEU head coach, discovered Arwind Santos. FEU went to Pampanga to take part in goodwill games. They played a Pampanga street ball team that featured the wiry Santos. He promptly made mincemeat of Leo Avenido, at that time the FEU star and one of the best players in the UAAP. Santos, a pedicab driver, without any formal, structured training and coaching, made mincemeat of Avenido, a well-trained UAAP star. Did Banal become less of a coach because he could find no solution for a natural talent like Santos? Santos is now a bona fide PBA superstar and an MVP. Does anyone even know what has become of Avenido?
Eric Altamirano was a champion coach last year. This year he lost two of his starters, and his chief backup at center, and he went 7-7, barely making the Final 4. He was hailed as a genius last season. Has he suddenly become a fool this season?
Juno Sauler was a champion coach two seasons ago. Again, he lost a lot of key personnel, and he went 6-8 this season, not even making the Final 4. Was he a genius two seasons ago and suddenly a fool now?
Black's Meralco squad is the worst team in the onging PBA conference. Are we to hold this conference as the ultimate judgement of Black's entire coaching career?
Baldwin, Pumaren, Ayo are in the UAAP. Will they automatically be three of the Final 4? I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
Great coaches
Where were we?
Oh yes, coaches.
Generally fans have this idea that the coach is the guy who crafts plays, shuffles substitutions, calls timeouts, gets in game officials' faces, during games.
This is where these same fans get the mistaken notion that anybody with a modicum of game know-how could become a full-time basketball head coach.
I am friends with actual coaches who have been doing this thing for years, a few of them have been at this coaching thing for decades, a number of them have even won major championships across the various levels of basketball competition in our country and in international tournaments.
One common thing they tell me is that at least 80% of coaching happens away from the arenas and stadiums. 80% of the job of a coach is in practice, practice planning, breaking down game video, scouting, evaluating and trying to get good talent to play for them. Anything else that the fans get to see during games is probably the least work coaches have to do, because all of the real work happened during the offseason, or during the days leading up to a game.
"A lot of people do not realize that coaching really is a full-time job, and it is not for dilettantes, it is something you constantly do, and you have to know your stuff," said a long-time Gameface member who used to coach a small Quezon City school. "Ensayo pa lang paplanohin mo mga drills, scrimmage, mga itatakbo ninyong sets, depende pa 'yan sa scouting report mo sa kalaban ninyo. Hindi 'yan kaya ng kung sino-sino lang," he exclaimed.
Arguably however the one thing that seems to be most important to the success of any coach is getting the talent he needs to put together as strong a roster as he possibly can. And this is made easier if you are a winning program. "When we first came in back in the 1970's nobody wanted the job, because the team was so awful. Nalaman namin unang-una wala pala sa kondisyon ang mga bata, so imbes na ensayo, we got them into tip-top shape. Katwiran namin, how can we play a game that demands a lot of running and jumping if we get tired easily? Awa naman ng dyos nung nag-take over kami within one year nag-champion ang team," explained a long-time coach with multiple high school and international titles.
When they won it became easier for talented players to come to their school and play for their team. "Dere-derecho na 'yon. Kahit hindi kami mag-recruit, lahat ng magagaling na bata gusto sa amin mag-aral at maglaro. You cannot win without talent. Papano ka mananalo kung lahat ng players mo 5'8" lang na mga lampa at mababagal? Tapos kalaban niyo lahat 6-footers na malalakas at batak sa laro? Hindi chicken or egg 'yan. You try to win first, because when you win mas madali na recruitment. And when you have the best player, you win more, you keep getting the top recruits, ganun lang 'yon," he added.
And therein lies the crux of the matter. As with any other sport, in basketball, generally talent is directly proportional to success. Talent here means the talent of the players, over and above the talent of the coach. The coach does not play, and there is only so much he can do with a poor roster. He might make them competitive, but turning them into champions only happens in Hollywood.
Again, look back on the last 10 UAAP and even NCAA champions. With the possible exception of this year's Letran Knights, all the other champions had the superior talent.
In the NCAA, San Beda's title reign was interrupted only twice, this year and in 2009, when the San Sebastian Stags dethroned the Red Lions after a grand slam title reign. Even then, those Stags had Calvin Abueva, Ronald Pascual, Ian Sangalang, all of whom are legit PBA players now.
In the UAAP, the Ateneo had five of the last 10 championships during their 5-Peat title reign. FEU owns two of those title, first in 2005 during the Arwind Santos-era, and now in 2015 in the Mac Belo-era. La Salle had that 2007 title, while Santo Tomas took home the 2006 title with a mature, talented, tall, and athletic crew led by then "veteran rookie" Jervy Cruz, Jojo Duncil, and Dylan Ababou, again all three are legit PBA players.
Exactly how much of a factor were the coaches in each of those title teams? Could any other coach have handled those teams and gotten the same result?
It might be instructional to look into the case of San Beda. Eight of the last 10 NCAA championships belong to San Beda, with the aforementioned Grand Slam, and their own 5-Peat title reign cut by Letran this year. They went through the following coaches: Koy Banal, Frankie Lim, Ronnie Magsanoc, Boyet Fernandez, and this year Jamike Jarin. Magsanoc in fact sat in a one-season "interim" capacity only, bridging the eras of Lim and Fernandez. So five different coaches win titles with basically the NCAA team that


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My children's group has won the 1st place in the category "Kids Oriental" on February 23rd, 2014 at the 10th edition of dance festival Bernau. The Jury, that was composed of 3 members, admired the traditional Egyptian dance "Saidi" presented by my Desert Flowers.
The group has already participated in the dance festival Bernau in 2012. At that time they were not able to get a place among the top three. But this time our joy is huge because we succeeded to take the trophy home.
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Although living in fictional settings, literary characters can be just as complex if not more so than real life people. They are creations of a writer and as such can experience the spectrum of human emotion, tribulation and joy within a few pages of a book. Some famous characters include Hamlet, Odysseus, Don Juan and of course, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. These characters all experienced dramatic twists of events that forced them to reconsider their role in life, speculate on their worth as a character and contemplate the world around them. In doing so many of them seem to experience bouts of insanity and Don Quixote is one such character. Many critics suggest that Don Quixote's delirium is a result of his struggles and inability to find balance in his life and others offer the idea that he is merely pretending to be insane to illustrate his internal confusion. In looking closely at Don Quixote's episodes of madness, it becomes clear that it is nothing more than a conscious decision in an attempt to show others what he is feeling inside.
When the novel begins, it seems as though Don Quixote has gone insane from reading too many tales about chivalrous knights and is journeying out himself in order to explore the fabled world. Many believe this is the key to his insanity and proof that indeed his very motive for the whole journey is a delusion. But his motive is one of intelligence on both his part as a character and that of the author. By organizing the story in such a way, Cervantes is showing his audience that stories can be real, that they are not merely pages but experiences to be had. Don Quixote's decision to embark on a journey based on books, and his journey subsequently being one of the greatest books of all is a call to the reader to take active part in reading and to enjoy life itself. It is a plea that everyone's person journey is worthy of literature and not an insane idea at all.
Furthermore, Don Quixote displays many signs of his clear intelligence and critical thinking throughout the whole novel. He converses throughout the story on topics such as literature, government and politics and even how to be a knight. He may have had a silly motive for his journey, but he sees the world clearly throughout the novel and is able to perceive the truth from the lies and judge between good and evil. At the conclusion of the novel, Don Quixote declares his sanity, something which should be taken at face value and not overly analyzed. Cervantes' makes a point in having the character make this announcement: that everyone is in his own way insane and clear-headed. That there is no judge to one's perception of the world and how they chose to act.
Don Quixote's actions throughout the novel can be viewed as either a journey of insanity or an experience like no other. His madness is only his attempt at negotiating his identity to the readers and demonstrating the idea that madness is subjective and that his epic journey would not have been so exciting had he stuck with the rules of society. It is not a real madness but rather a delirium for a life of adventure and the urging to experience the great tales that are told in novels and to be one of those characters. His madness is one that if feigned and exaggerated to demonstrate how exciting life could be if one only was daring enough to stop sitting and reading novels, but go out and make journeys worth books of their own.
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