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Couple of places in America where black folks are noticeably thin on the ground -Republican and conservative meetings and conventions…
And in the sport of Professional Hockey.
Now – the NHL isn't doing anything to keep black players out… It's just a confluence of circumstance which results in few high level black Hockey players being developed to matriculate into the professional level.
I am not a Hockey fan, although to be honest you can't avoid the hype for the local team, the Washington Capitals, the hoopla when they make the playoffs, or the catchy moniker someone came up with for their former Goalie (Oalie the Goalie) …And under the heading that when a local franchise does well and excels – it is worth everyone in the neighborhood at least giving some recognition – there is the fact that the Capitals made the playoffs this year despite dire predictions to the contrary.
A pleasant surprise last night when turning on the local news was the breathless announcement by the sports announcer lady that the Caps had won a last game, last minute, last second victory to move on in the playoffs against the former champion Boston Bruins.
An even bigger surprise was that the player who sunk the winning goal was a black man.
A very self-depreciating, modest, and well spoken black man.
Think all those Caps fans could give a damn about that last, they are too ecstatic about the fact his goal won the game.
Caps' Ward: Racist tweets 'didn't ruin my day'
Washington Capitals forward Joel Ward said the racial slurs directed at him on Twitter after he scored the series-winning overtime goal to eliminate the Boston Bruins were "shocking to see, but it didn't ruin my day."
"It doesn't faze me at all," Ward told USA TODAY Sports. "We won, and we are moving on. … People are going to say what they want to say."
He said he didn't know about the issue until Washington teammate Jeff Halpern brought it to his attention on the team plane heading home from Boston. Ward said Halpern "apologized" that Ward had to see that.
"Halpern just took offense that people weren't talking about the goal, (but rather) getting into racist remarks," Ward said. "I think he was telling me he had my back, and felt bad that (some Twitter users) were talking about the negative side, instead of how we are moving on."
The NHL, in a statement, said, "The racially charged comments distributed via digital media following last night's game were ignorant and unacceptable. The people responsible for these comments have no place associating themselves with our game."
Ward, 31, a four-year NHL veteran, says he never has before experienced any racist remarks directed toward him at the NHL level.
"Growing up, at a few minor tournaments, you catch a few kids saying things," Ward said. "But at that age, I didn't even know what the terminology meant. But (at this level) I've never heard anything. I know other guys have, I believe, but I've had nothing directed to me like that."
Ward's goal at 2:57 of overtime knocked off the defending Stanley Cup champions and put the Capitals into the second round against a still-undetermined opponent. Ward had six goals in 73 games this season. "It was definitely the biggest goal I've ever been a part of," he said.
Said Ward's teammate, Matt Hendricks: "It was the greatest feeling ever after the game, winning Game 7 in Boston. Then you get on the plane afterward, and have all of this come to life. … It just made me sick to my stomach."
Hendricks said he couldn't get the tweets out of his mind. "What we accomplished just went out the window," he said. "I couldn't think about that any more. It was very disappointing."
Philadelphia Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds, who trains with Ward in the offseason, called the tweets disgusting.
"Obviously, things get said," Simmonds said. "It's the internet. They can say whatever they want and they don't have to show their face. It's disgusting. I've had things like that happen to me before."
During a Flyers-Detroit Red Wings preseason game in London, Ontario last Sept. 22, a 26-year-old hockey fan threw a banana peel onto the ice as Simmonds was attempting a shootout attempt.
"It's not something that you want to happen, but it's sad in this day and age that it continues to happen," Simmonds said. "I'm sure Ward is not even paying attention to it. It is what it is. People can be as gutless as they want and they don't have to show up. They just throw a comment out there on the internet. It's getting kind of ridiculous.
"I think social media is not meant for that. It's to say, 'Hey, nice goal, congratulations.' "
Ward said he hasn't had time to comb through all of the comments on his own personal Twitter account, but he has seen a summary of the racist-tone posts on various website blogs.
"I think it is just kids," Ward said. "It has no effect on me whatsoever. I've been playing this game long enough and I've not had any encounters of that nature."
He said he has always felt comfortable in an NHL dressing room and on the ice.
"There is no lying about it. …I'm definitely the one black guy in a room with 20 white guys," Ward said. "There are definitely some cultural differences, such as taste in music, but I've never heard anything derogatory."
He says he has no concern about his safety moving forward in the playoffs.
"I'm pretty laid-back and I get along with a lot of people," Ward said. "I don't fear anything like that, and I have a good group of guys to protect me."
Ward said his goal today is to go on his Twitter account and thank the people who came to his defense through social media. Many have gone after those who posted racist remarks. Some who have made racist comments have already closed their accounts. One person apologized.
"I'm definitely getting a lot of support," Ward said. "There have been a lot of Boston fans who have supported me, which is very cool to see. No hard feelings from me. This is a game."


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Although I have been a lazy blogger lately we haven't been lazy working on our remaining tasks at all. So, unsurprisingly, since my previous post we have reached and passed a few nice milestones. The latest one is that we're finally able to build the gcc2/gcc4 hybrid Haiku images again, including all the software needed for the official release.
While that in itself isn't a particularly impressive feat - after all we were already able to build the complete gcc 2 part before - the interesting aspect is how we are doing it.
Interesting progress for Haiku.
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There were a couple options you missed...
ThinkFree Office has been proven to run on Haiku using the OpenJDK port (with some hacks that make them launch from a launcher icon).
Google Docs would be a decent alternative as well - but I'm not sure the web browser is yet up to the task.
Why not just come out and say it: you really need/want OpenOffice/LibreOffice. They're not easy to port, sadly.
Improving the web browser is more important I think - and will likely bring a lot more useful "application" support to Haiku. Don't underestimate the usefulness of internet sites these days.
I agree about the importance of a web browser.
In regards to an office suite, I started thinking about this not too long ago. We have "StyledEdit", which saves to RTF (open standard, Microsoft Word compatible). It might not be too hard to add image support, and then table support, and so on...
But then I came to a part where I got stuck: I think (this is just a guess) what people really are asking when they ask for an office suite is "Microsoft Office compatibility". It doesn't matter if it can do everything that Microsoft Office can if it can't open the file formats.
So then I briefly looked into libraries that can read / write Office formats. There's one very basic one (includes an API and command line tool) but is not nearly feature complete enough. It looks like the LibreOffice library is "part of" the suite, so if that was going to be used it would have to be used with LibreOffice.
Tricky. :/ Maybe the best course of action would be a native port of the LibreOffice GUI...

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The way of meditation is very simple. All each of us has to do is to be as still as possible in body and in spirit. . . .Learning to meditate is learning to let go of your thoughts, ideas and imagination and to rest in the depths of your own being. Always remember that. Don't think, don't use any words other than your own word, don't imagine anything. Just sound, say the word in the depths of your spirit and listen to it. Concentrate upon it with all your attention.
Why is this so powerful? Basically, because it gives us the space that our spirit needs to breathe. It gives each of us the space to be ourselves. When you are meditating you don't need to apologize for yourself and you don't need to justify yourself. All you need to do is to be yourself, to accept from the hands of God the gift of your own being. And in that acceptance of yourself and your creation, you come into harmony with the Creator, . . .the Spirit of God.
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Eddie Gaven was in this position before – the 44th minute, to be exact – when he could have given the Columbua Crew the lead. Wide open at the far post with Zac MacMath in no-man's land, his shot off a cross by Dilly Duka on Wednesday night at PPL Park didn't go as planned.
"I hit it into the 20th row," he told MLSsoccer.com in phone interview.
The second time around, there would be no rushing, even though stoppage time was winding down and the short-handed, tired Crew would have been happy with a draw after the 68th-minute ejection of defender Josh Williams.
GOAL: Gaven wins it late for Crew
"If we had held on and kept it 1-1, that would have been a good result with the red card and how well they were playing," Crew captain Chad Marshall said by phone.
OPTA Chalkboard: Gaven, Crew take advantage despite dearth of chances
But Gaven and the Columbus attackers had different ideas.
The ever-impressive Federico Higuaín took advantage of a friendly bounce in midfield before playing Justin Meram through, and though Meram appeared to get tangled with MacMath, he was able to push the ball over to an unmarked Gaven, who made no mistake the second time around.
"I just swung my foot at it and luckily it went in," said Gaven, who scored his team-best seventh goal. "I wanted to make sure I took my time and hit it cleanly. If you do that, more times than not the ball's going to go in."
It was an improbable win for the Crew (11-8-6) who extended their unbeaten run to 3-0-2 since Aug. 15 and drew even with sixth-place Montreal, their opponent Saturday at Crew Stadium.
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Hard to believe, looking at the yards-long list of just soybean, cotton and corn varieties containing genetic modifications, that the precursors to transgenic crops included tobacco plants and petunias.
Equally mind-boggling is the realization that biotechnology has been an important part of agricultural research for 20 years.
In the last two decades, a process that seemed as far-fetched as celestial travel to folks on the nub of the 20th century, moved from theory to accepted practice.
"But, if you think the last 20 years was something, wait until you see the next 20," says Fred Perlak, a research scientist at Monsanto's Chesterfield, Mo., facility.
"We're still learning how genes interact and that will have a tremendous effect on agriculture. I'm an optimist and believe we are in the golden age of agricultural research. It's tough on the farm now, but the future is bright for patient, persistent people."
The process began with less than a certain outcome. Perlak began working with bacillus thuringensies (Bt) in the University of Massachusetts graduate school and took that knowledge to Monsanto in 1981.
"Recombinant DNA studies were just coming on," he says, "and our task was to discover ways to use this new technology to solve problems in agriculture. We were especially interested in insecticides."
Perlak recalls several catalysts that encouraged genetic research for crops. Pesticide registration was a lumbering, time-consuming process. Environmental pressures to eliminate or limit crop protection chemical use increased. And some of farmers' most trusted insecticides suddenly fell to the inevitable: resistance.
Those were the spurs prodding scientists like Perlak to charge ahead to develop plants with built-in toxins.
"It took us a while to figure out the issues," Perlak says, "We had an idea of what we wanted but we were feeling our way through the process for years. We learned how to genetically engineer plants and as scientists we could see how to get there. We did not anticipate the obstacles."
The primary challenge was getting Bt genes into a plant. Bt was a particularly beneficial, naturally occurring insecticide. "It offers a potent toxin to a narrow range of insect pests," he says. "It's innocuous and non-harmful for non-target speciess.
"We considered it the perfect insecticide. But pulling it into plants was difficult."
For one thing, plants didn't particularly appreciate their genetic material being manipulated. "Plants did not like it. The material was a poor insecticide inside the plant."
He explains that plants had a hidden signal inside that limited efficacy of the foreign genetic material.
"We had to rewrite the codes," Perlak says. "We had to simplify the new genetics to be understandable by the plant."
That simplification process took six or seven years.
Enter petunia and tobacco. "Petunias are easy to regenerate, so we could make a lot of transfers and get results quickly," Perlak said.
"Tobacco plants are similar. They grow well in greenhouses, produce many seed and are easy to regenerate."
Tobacco plants also host some of agriculture's most devastating insect pests, Perlak says. "We could test for tobacco budworm, bollworms and other pests on tobacco."
Transferring what they learned from petunias and tobacco into cotton and soybeans, however, took a bit more patience.
"It became a painstaking, slow process," Perlak says. "We need a year to get a cotton plant back after we start the process. With tobacco or tomato plants, we can turn the process around in 10 weeks or less."
Other problems also arose.
"We did not know how the concept would work in the field. Would it be better or worse than in the greenhouse? Would the insect resistance express itself throughout the season?
"Would it work different under different growing conditions and with different backgrounds?
"We wondered if results would vary by farm. And we wondered if the agricultural industry would embrace the technology or shun it. We knew we had to provide value to the farmer or the research was worthless."
Perlak says the environmental repercussions also caught scientists by surprise. "Usually, environmental objections to pesticides are based on emotional reactions, misperceptions, and fear of the unknown. We always assume the scientific process will win. And it does, in the end, but it takes time."
Perlak says Bollgard cotton has been available to farmers now for seven years. "Farmers understand the value and the limitations. They use it as a tool, as we intended. It's not a panacea but something farmers can use with their other tools.
"It's the same with Roundup Ready technology. Roundup Ready soybeans came out in 1996 and Roundup Ready cotton in 1997. The technology provides new tools for growers, offering timesavings, convenience and a simplified weed control program. It has limitations, as we always knew it would.
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Perlak says he was pleasantly surprised at how quickly farmers adopted the technology.
Those tools may be just the beginning of a box full of biotech gear.
"We see tremendous potential for the future," Perlak says. "We hope to improve the quality of foods. That offers our next big challenge."
Enhanced nutrition, manipulating amino acids to make foods more healthy and providing pharmaceutical plants loom on the horizon.
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Scientists find that antimatter occurs naturally on Earth
... scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that occurs above thunderstorm clouds.
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The Bisons shook off a three-game losing streak Friday night with a 5-3 decision over non-conference foe Illinois State.
Lipscomb senior Josh Smith mirrored his performance from last Friday night with another 15 strikeout outing. Smith has now had two consecutive complete game victories on the mound for the Bisons. The senior leader credited his pitching coach Tyler Shrout as well as the Bisons defense for the win.
"Coach Shrout did an excellent job calling pitches," Smith said. "I had a pretty good run on my fastball tonight. Just being around the zone all night tonight, I think that's what it was."
The Bisons offense delivered 12 hits from seven different batters to score five runs. Senior lead-off batter Tyler Wilson led Lipscomb with three hits and one RBI while junior Zach Messer batted in two runs off two hits. The only homerun in the game came in the bottom of the sixth inning on a solo lead-off shot by Bison senior Andrew Nickerson over the left field wall. It was Nickerson's second homerun of the year.
Lipscomb scored one run in the first and sixth innings while their biggest production came during a three-run third inning.
The Bisons carried a two-run lead into the top of the ninth with Illinois State's third baseman Ryan Court to lead off. Court doubled on a line drive that deflected off the glove of Bisons third baseman Cory Hale. However, Smith showed composure and came away with three consecutive strikeouts to close the game.
"I just kind of went out there with that mindset," Smith said. "You know we were up two in the ninth so even if that guy [Court] scores, it's not really a big deal because we still have one to work with. I just made pitches and got through it."
Smith threw 137 pitches, giving up only seven hits and one walk. Both teams only committed one error. After the game, Bisons head coach Jeff Forehand said the win was a team effort but Smith deserved credit for another reliable performance.
"When Josh is on the mound we feel really good about it," Forehand said. "We didn't even think about going to the bull-pin. He is strong and he won't pitch again until next Friday. Fifteen strikeouts and one walk, he is our guy and we are going to let him go.
"He is the leader of the staff, and he comes out and gives us a quality start every time."
Illinois State started Corey Maines who pitched seven complete innings before being relieved by Matt Werderitch in the eighth inning. Mainse entered Friday night's contest with a 3-1 record and 2.08 ERA. He gave up 11 hits and four earned runs while striking out five Bison batters.
The Bisons will face Illinois State in a double-header tomorrow at Ken Dugan Field starting at noon. Forehand said he hopes a shift in tomorrow's pitching rotation might be able to keep the momentum swinging in Lipscomb's favor.
"We are going to switch the rotation up a little bit," Forehand said. "We are going to go with [Davey] Hackett first to see if we can keep the momentum going from the weekend. We have tried a lot of things in game two, and hopefully this can be something we can work on, and we can see if this is the right thing for when conference starts next weekend."
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The firm's practice areas include personal injury, wrongful death, civil rights and criminal defense. The focus over the years, however, has been primarily on medical malpractice.
"I made it a point where I was going to take that area of law and let that be my strength," Rosenblum said.
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In 2006, the largest medical malpractice verdict in the city at the time – $8.5 million – was won by Rosenblum & Reisman. The firm has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as being one of the best law firms in the U.S.
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Another niche developed as a spinoff of their core focus has been in the defense of professional golfers accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. In 2009, Doug Barron became the first PGA Tour player to be suspended for violating the organization's drug policy.
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"I flew down to Ponte Vedra, Fla., and a few months later we got the Tour to say, 'Never mind, we dismiss all the charges,'" Rosenblum said. "So that was a great hole in one, I guess would be the way to describe it."
Reisman is proud of the work they do and honored that "we get a large percentage of our client base from referrals from other lawyers and from referrals from prior clients, people that have seen us work and trust us to represent their clients or their friends or their families."
Both Rosenblum and Reisman brought impressive resumés into the new office back in 1998. Rosenblum graduated from The University of Tennessee College of Law, clerked under federal Judge Robert McRae, and later worked with Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh PLLC and Ballin, Ballin & Fishman PC. Reisman graduated from The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, clerked in the Tennessee Court of Appeals and Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and worked with the Causey & Caywood law firm.
The pair have skill sets that complement each other – Rosenblum is the self-professed "big picture guy" who enjoys getting up in front of a jury, while Reisman is "an unbelievable writer, he's an unbelievable researcher," said his cousin.
"Jeff and I talked about the possibility that someday we would go into practice together," Reisman said. "I really felt that when we joined forces and got together, that we had a similar work ethic, and we felt like we complemented each other's practices and that we would be successful; I'm proud of the evolution of our practice."
The pairing of the two, along with attorneys Mark Mesler, Matthew May and Neely Thomas, have helped grow the firm to what it is today.
"When we take a case, we know we're going to spend hundreds of hours on it, we're going to spend all our resources on it," Rosenblum said.
"We just consider every case to be important, and we don't just go through the motions."
The dream from the beginning, Rosenblum said, was to "have a boutique law firm that would focus on injury cases and would give people the time and attention that they deserved, would handle them as if every case was the million-dollar case that we believe they potentially can be, and that they would get integrity and preparation and great advocacy for individuals as opposed to the insurance companies."
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Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree in Health: School Health Degree Requirements
M.Ed. School Health
Who are the current students and what are their backgrounds?
Our students are health and physical education teachers, elementary teachers, and school nurses. We have a small number of students who are not in teaching, but are working in associations with an interest in school health education.
What are the strengths of your program?
Faculty have extensive experience in teaching health education in a school setting; expertise working with school districts in curriculum development, and staff development; they have received external grant funds for school health education; faculty with state and national recognition in school health education; faculty who have conducted, published and presented competencies for a school health educator; program has flexibility for students to select elective coursework (dependent in their academic background) in education and counseling.
I am returning to school after a while, will I be able to do well?
Factors which contribute to success in our graduate program include: previous academic achievement and coursework in health education; professional experiences in health education, commitment and dedication and motivation for completing a graduate degree. Also, students should recognize that placing a high priority on the necessary course demands will assist in graduate courses.
My undergraduate GPA is low. Will I be considered for admission?
You must meet the minimal criteria for acceptance (2.80 GPA) in the program.
Undergraduate GPA, professional experiences and academic coursework all factor into the admission decision.
Do I have to take any entrance exams?
No! GRE, MAT or GMAT are not required for the M.Ed program in school health.
Are there any prerequisites to be met?
You will need to have completed coursework in statistics and basic anatomy and physiology as well as demonstrate computer proficiency.
Other program prerequisites may be identified after a review of your transcripts.
I do not have an undergraduate major in health education. Will I need prerequisites?
Each applicant's transcripts are carefully evaluated for the appropriate foundation courses in education and health education.
Admission decisions, full or provisional are based on review.
What job opportunities exist for program graduates?
There are limited job opportunities in teaching health education at the K-12 level in Pennsylvania. Many students are employed as health education teachers in other states.
The majority of our M.Ed. students are teaching K-12 health education or working as a school nurse.
You could be employed as a health educator for voluntary health agencies, state agencies, federal agencies, or health organizations (hospital, corporate, fitness centers).
K-12 Health education teacher certification is not offered in this M.Ed. degree.
Do you have a placement service, or offer help with placement?
No, although our faculty do have contacts at the local, state, and national level. Our faculty will work with you to keep your apprised of job openings.
Where do the graduates of our program work?
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Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert is widely reported to have criticised Southampton boss Ronald Koeman over his supposed public chase of defender Ron Vlaar – even though the Saints manager last week clarified that he is not interested in signing the centre half.
Koeman has been quoted by a Dutch news outlet praising Vlaar, who he managed at Feyenoord, when asked about his World Cup performances during the club's pre-season tour but has since clarified his comments and signed Florin Gardos, which he confirmed last week had solved his centre half dilemma.
When asked about Vlaar last Friday, the Saints manager explained: "No, that's not true, because we signed Gardos, and that's it.
"That rumour was when I was in the pre-season in Belgium and the journalist of the television of Holland asked me about the situation of Vlaar and we spoke about Vlaar and of the World Cup, because I know the player.
"I had the player at Feyenoord and he is a great central defender.
"Of course, he was one of the names on our list, but now we are happy to have Florin Gardos in and now nothing more to others, even Ron Vlaar."
However, Lambert has today been quoted as saying: "I think he is disrespecting when talking about other team's players when they are still their players," he said. "I think that's wrong.
"I wouldn't mind if he picked up the phone, but you don't go public on it. That's the thing that annoyed me the most and the stance is still exactly the same with Ron."
Vlaar (bove centre) joined Villa in a £3m move from Feyenoord in 2012 and helped them to a 1-0 opening-day win at Stoke in the Premier League on Saturday.
And Lambert insisted the 29-year-old's performance proved he was not distracted by speculation over his future.
"I don't have a problem. You saw Ron play on Saturday, he was fantastic for us so I don't think anything like that is preying on his mind at all," said the Scot.
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The Orlando Magic didn't need Victor Oladipo to be a team leader last season. Veteran Jameer Nelson served as the team's leader.
But, lately, the expectations for Oladipo have changed. The team has waived Nelson and traded away 28-year-old Arron Afflalo. Those moves, along with the decision to cut 31-year-old Ronnie Price, have left a leadership vacuum on the Magic roster.
Oladipo may have to fill that void even though he's only 22 years old and entering his second NBA season. He's the face of the franchise, and if he isn't the Magic's unquestioned leader, he's definitely one of the primary leaders.
"It's just something I need to learn," Oladipo said Thursday. "I want to be a leader of this team, and I want to help this team win. So it's something I need to work on. So what better way to do that than start now?"
By "now," Oladipo meant the Orlando Pro Summer League, which will begin Saturday. The Magic's team also includes rookie forward Aaron Gordon, rookie point guard Elfrid Payton and returning center Dewayne Dedmon.
Magic assistant coach Wes Unseld Jr., who is the head coach of the summer league team, expects Oladipo to set the tone.
"He's really stepped up just in the first two practices as far as leadership," Unseld said. "What's going to be big for him going forward is, 'This is your team. Obviously, the summer league is your platform, so we're going to go as you go.' "
Oladipo appears to be taking the role seriously.
"He's being a lot more vocal now," Dedmon said. "Even with summer league and with the younger dudes we have in here right now, he's really taken on that leadership role to full effect."
What's unclear: how that leadership role will carry over into the regular season.
Although the Magic acquired 32-year-old guard Willie Green via the waiver wire and will sign 31-year-old guard Ben Gordon in free agency, it's difficult to envision either of them becoming the locker room's alpha males.
The team will need at least one of its players to serve as a leader.
The Magic will be one of the NBA's youngest teams.
If you include Green and Ben Gordon and the rookies, and if you also account for the expected decision to waive Jason Maxiell, the Magic's average age currently is 23.8 years old.
Other candidates to help in leadership roles include center Nik Vucevic, forward Tobias Harris and big man Kyle O'Quinn, but none of them is over 24.
Oladipo is more confident than he was as a rookie, when he averaged 13.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game.
"At the end of the day," he said, "I had my share of ups-and-downs, just like any rookie would have. I had some really good games, and I had some really bad games. It was cool. But at the end of the day, I feel like I didn't even scratch the surface of how really good I can be.
"I think the biggest thing I need to work on is my leadership. The biggest thing is being poised in good and bad situations — never getting too high, never getting too low, never getting frustrated or letting anybody around me see [me] frustrated. As a leader of the team, I think that's big."
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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday suspended the sentences awarded to ousted premier Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar.
A division bench comprising Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb also allowed petitions filed by Sharif family members against the accountability court's July 6 verdict in Avenfield reference case which found them guilty of corruption and sentenced them to imprisonment and fines.
"The instant writ petition is allowed and sentence awarded to the petitioners by the accountability court shall remain suspended till the final adjudication of the appeal filed by the petitioner," reads the judgment. "The petitioner shall be released on bail subject to furnishing bail bonds in the sum of Rs500,000 with one surety in the amount to the satisfaction of deputy registrar of the high court."
he order allows the release of Sharif family members from Rawalipindi Central Jail – where they have been incarcerated since July 13.
Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal, in a meeting, said NAB will appeal in the apex court against IHC's verdict.
The hearing was attended by PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif along with Mushahiddullah Khan, Raja Zafarul Haq, Khawaja Asif, Ahsan Iqbal and others.
Shortly after the verdict was announced, Nawaz's younger brother tweeted a Quranic verse to express gratitude on suspension of the sentences.
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This is a cookbook about celebration: celebrating women who have survived war and other conflicts, and celebrating the foods that nourish us and bring us together. With recipes like sweet, cakey Sudanese Baseema and fragrant Burmese tomato fish curry, it's also a cookbook that will lift you right up from your seat and carry you straight into the kitchen.
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• Number of recipes: Over 100
• Recipes for right now: Pan-fried Fish with Dill, Mint, and Vegetable Pilaf; Sudanese Vegetable Salad of Eggplant and Peppers Tossed in Peanut Yogurt Dressing; Quorn and Pepper Tacos; Congolese Corn Fritters with Pineapple Salsa; Magical Banana Creole Cake; Rwandan Chicken Casserole; Nigerian Beef and Okra Soup
• Other highlights: Stories are as important and sustaining as food, and you'll find plenty of them here. Interspersed between the recipes, women tell their stories of survival and determination, and how they came to take part in the programs offered by Women for Women International. These stories often stand in stark contrast to the beautiful smiling faces and the bright plates of food on the surrounding pages, but this makes each woman's message of moving from victim to independence all the more powerful.
This book is practically a Who's Who of celebrity personalities. Everyone from Alice Waters and Jamie Oliver to Paul McCartney and Nell Newman have contributed recipes. I love the incredible diversity of tastes, ingredients, and personalities this brings to the table!
All of the royalties from this book go toward micro-financing and training women in food production and self-sustenance. Helping a good cause while adding a new trove of global recipes to my collection? That's a two-for-one deal I can definitely get behind.
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By John Long
It is the constant bombardment that is getting to me. No matter where you turn, people are destroying the integrity of photographs by manipulating the content and they have a million excuses. "It's not really a documentary photo. It is not news; it's just an advertisement. It's a portrait, so it doesn't count." A little drip will wear down a mountain if you give it long enough. Case in point – The Grand Canyon.
For as long as I can remember there have been puzzles where you compare two (or more) almost identical drawings and try to find the differences the artist has built into them. In the age of electronics it was inevitable that photographs would become the material from which the puzzles would be constructed since it is so easy to use Photoshop to change the details in a photograph. I have heard that the most popular feature in the short-lived third reincarnation of Life magazine, the newspaper supplement (and now continued in PEOPLE) was the photo puzzle. One of my favorites was the puzzle where you had two almost identical photographs of Martha Stewart in a kitchen and we were supposed to spot the differences. The question becomes, if these photographs of Martha Stewart have been manipulated, why should we believe the truthfulness of a photograph of Martha Stewart on the cover of Newsweek? Same lady – what difference does it make where her picture is used?
In fact, Newsweek used a photograph of Martha Stewart just before she got out of jail and the headline said, "Martha's Last Laugh. After Prison, She's Thinner, Wealthier & Ready for Prime Time." The problem was that Newsweek had no access to Martha Stewart in jail so they used an old headshot of her and put it on a photograph of a thin model to show how she had lost weight. It was a visual lie and it was on the cover of Newsweek. The puzzle was a visual lie and it was the most popular feature in Life.
And now the concept of a puzzle has been elevated to new heights (or dragged deeper into a tar pit of lies) by The Charlotte Observer. The Observer, as everyone remembers, was the paper that fired Patrick Schneider for manipulating photographs, and now they have a new feature: "Phuzzle," a puzzle based on actual news department photographs. One photograph is supposedly the real one and one photograph has six subtle Photoshop changes. It's fun, it's challenging, it's an online game that tests your ability to find small details. Oh the joy of it all! (www.charlotteobserver.com/images/graphics/phuzzle/)
The irony is overwhelming. The same newspaper that fired a photographer for manipulating photographs turns around and glorifies the manipulation of photographs in a game. And these are not portraits or advertising photographs. These are feature photographs taken by the newspaper's photojournalists, photographs that are from the news pages of the newspaper.
If this were an isolated incident I could pass on it, but it is a constant barrage. Practically all advertising is computer enhanced. Christmas card photographs are enhanced. Wedding photographs are routinely enhanced. Open eyes from other frames replace blinking eyes. It's easy, it's seamless. It is beautiful, and it is a lie.
Magazine covers are enhanced (Time, Newsweek, Men's Fitness to name a few notorious recent examples) and the excuse is that it is the cover and they need to do this to sell the magazine. "We can doctor the cover with impunity but you can believe everything on the inside," they say. It's okay to create a visual lie on the cover (a crying Ronald Reagan on Time or a thinner Martha Stewart on Newsweek) but that does not transfer to the inside material where they would never, never lie.
Plain and simple, this is bull.
Today, there is no "decisive moment." There is only fantasy.
Photojournalism is the last bastion of honesty in the world of photography today and it is imperative we defend the integrity of the images we make. This is why a seemingly harmless puzzle is so insidious: they are celebrating a visual lie in the very place they should be demanding total accuracy and integrity.
There is no actual ethical problem with the Phuzzle; there is no intent to deceive the public. Rather it comes down to a matter of respect, respect for the honest photograph that documents history for generations to come. This is the true value of the honest photograph. We can never forget this.