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Many of you don't know this but I have recently just had my 2nd open heart bypass surgery! Yes, I am a 40 year old who just had her 2nd open heart surgery (CABG – Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting). In 1984 I was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease. There was no treatment available when I was diagnosed however thankfully today there is. Without treatment, about 25% of children diagnosed develop acquired heart disease. At age 11, I had multiple coronary aneurysms at diagnosis. At age 20, the majority of my aneurysms had disappeared on their own, but one located in my left main coronary artery, had calcified and I began having reduced blood flow as a result. I felt tired and lacked energy. I did not have any other symptoms. My artery was obstructed and without surgery I would suffer a heart attack.
I had a heart stress-echo that I didn't "pass" which resulted in an angiogram. I survived my first open heart surgery on December 13, 1993. After a quick 6 week recovery I went back to college and led a normal life. I graduated in 1995 and immediately began teaching. I married my best friend in 1998 and in 2000 we struggled with infertility. After coming to terms with our fertility issues, in 2004 we knew our baby was not going to be conceived "naturally" so we began our International adoption process. In June 2005 my son was placed in my arms forever and my life was complete. I left my teaching career and became a stay at home Mom. In 2009 Shelley and I started Stockpiling Moms and the rest is history…
In late 2012 I began feeling extremely tired – thinking it was just a vitamin deficiency from my Celiac Disease I let it go. I went to get some testing in 2013 and my Vitamin B12 was extremely low, that had to be it! After a few months on the B12 I was still really tired and I noticed that when I walked for exercise I would get out of breathe. Rocky had an "incident" where he was attacked by another dog in July 2013 which caused me great stress and as a result I suffered angina. Angina for many women feels like a sharp pain, throbbing or burning in your chest. However you might feel it on your neck or throat. For some you will lose your breath and have anxiety.
In July of 2013 my husbands job was eliminated after 19 years with the same company. He came in and told me and I called the next morning to get an appointment with my cardiologist. I knew my time with insurance was limited (he had a 9 month severance package). I met with my cardiologist, Dr. Kevin Miller on 9/4/13. We decided to go the same route as before. Heart Stress Echo. I had the Stress Echo on 9/19/13 and did not pass the test. Since it had been 20 years since the original bypass I was not "surprised" but of course still hopeful.
On 9/25/13 I had an angiogram and found out that my bypass from 20 years ago was failing but luckily other veins and arteries were "stepping up" and performing in its place with collateral flow (yes and I co-hosted our conference 3 days later). I did not need an "emergency" surgery but I decided to get it done as soon as possible and before year end because of insurance purposes. My cardiologist insisted on Dr. Raymond Will for my case as it is a little tricky with the placement of aneurysm and because it was a re-do. He is the best of the best however he was semi-retired and because there was no emergency concern I waited for him. (Update – I was one of Dr. Will's last patients before full retirement).
I chose to have my second bypass surgery on 10/30/13 at St. Elizabeth Hospital . I am so thankful I did. Dr. Will was the most amazing surgeon and on the morning of my surgery I found out he is retiring on 12/31/13! There were so many ironic things that occurred through my surgery. I had amazing nurses, two of my nurses had family members with Kawasaki Disease and one nurse who has Celiac Disease. My anesthesiologist was named ROCKY! While I was anxious, my faith in God and belief in my team of doctors and nurses provided me peace and comfort every step of the way. The nurses held my hands and understood it was scary. I knew I was going to make it through this surgery. Thankfully I was right. It was really a great experience at St. Elizabeth with fabulous care and I only spent 3 nights in the hospital! The average stay after bypass is 5 nights. Some stay 3-7 depending on complications. I can't say enough about the care that I received at St. E from beginning to end!
My parents and husband were there with me every step of the way and so was Shelley and my former student whom I call daughter, Brittney. I was OFF of prescription pain medication on day 6 post op! I did not use morphine at all during my hospital stay because I am allergic to it. Without their support through this process I don't know what I would have done. I am back to blogging but my recovery will last through the end of the year. was once again released from my surgeons care 6 weeks post op.
My heart is strong and my future is bright. i know another open-heart surgery is in the cards for me and maybe more. I share my story to urge you to be aware of your own heart health. Heart disease is the Number 1 killer of women, and it is more deadly than all cancers combined. The symptoms of heart disease can be different in women and men, and are often misunderstood or overlooked. Taking small steps to better heart health and overall wellness is so important. Education and awareness are critical steps in helping prevent heart disease.
What should I expect from open heart surgery?
You will go into the hospital and should be wearing no deodorant, lotions or nail polish of any type. You will be required to shave your body (not your head or arms but your stomach and pubic area) prior to surgery and if you don't a nurse will do that for you. You will then take a shower to be sure you "sanitized" and put on your gown and slippers. After that you will get your IV and "happy" juice.
You will get time to say goodbye to your loved ones and then be taken to the line room where you will get several lines placed into your cardioid arteries. At that point you may or may not get to see you family again (I did). Then you will be taken into surgery and from that point forward the next thing you will remember is when you start waking up again. You will be on a breathing machine (ventilator) and won't be able to speak until they remove the breathing tubes. I had my surgery at 8 am and my tubes were removed at 7 pm. It is very uncomfortable but once they are removed and you can speak it will be better.
After the breathing tube is removed most doctors will have the nurses get you in a chair within 3-4 hours. My surgeon normally does not get his patients up for 24 hours however I got up at 4 am. I was walking by 11 am that morning! It is "normal" to have a lot of pain and my suggestion is to keep the pain at bay and take the pain medication as often as possible. You will have to do a breathing apparatus hourly and that will be really helpful in keeping your lungs clear – be sure to do it! It is normal to have nausea from the anesthesia for some. I did but they were able to give me medication to help with that. I can't say it enough – get up, get moving and use the breathing apparatus!
What you need to prepare for is that your leg incision may actually hurt more than your chest incision (that is the case for me) and it is normal to have back and neck pain too. In addition you will need help for the next 2-6 weeks as you will be limited in terms of what you can do. You can't lift anything larger than a gallon of milk and I can't reach for items or raise my arms above my head – even to dry my hair! You have to wear TED stockings to be sure that you don't get blood clots for the first 2 weeks after surgery and you can not put those on or off yourself. I would suggest that you have help for at least 2-3 weeks almost around the clock. You may need to hire a nurse or nursing student to help you if necessary.
A great idea is to prepare freezer cooking recipes in advance to help with meals while you recover. Here are 8 freezer meals you can make in 2 hours. You will need a digital thermometer, a scale and blood pressure cuff to monitor yourself daily after surgery. I suggest purchasing pajamas a size larger than normal because it is normal to be swollen after surgery. In addition you need to wear non skid slippers all of the time to help prevent falls. I did not need to worry about dietary changes because my bypass was Kawasaki Disease related however you may need to transition to a low fat diet. I had very little appetite when I first got home. I would suggest some soft foods at first as you transition including Jello, Soup and higher fiber foods to help your bowels regulate.
What I learned from bypass surgery:
My Mom stayed with me for the first 10 days of recovery and I am so thankful for the time we had together. My Dad is amazing and brought me an electric recliner which has made my recovery so much easier. If you have access to rent one or borrow one for your recovery I highly suggest it. I have been really blessed with amazing friends and family who have provided me meals and sent lovely gifts and cards! You can see the gorgeous roses above sent to me by one of our PR agencies and a fruit arrangement by a close friend.
The great news is my surgeon said I have a beautiful and healthy heart! I have NO atherosclerosis or heart damage at all! Hopefully this bypass will last a long time to come! I will take the time to see the signs though that is for sure!
What I have learned from this experience is being a Mom prepared me for the surgery and gave me the strength necessary – I was not afraid. I have a very loving support group of close friends and family. I am so blessed to have my best friend as a business partner! I don't know what I would do without Shelley. Her support the past two months has helped me more than she will ever know. Daily texts, calls, messages and holding my hand the morning I had surgery – even her messages while I recovered that I read later. She is truly a sister friend.
The love that I have for my husband is strong. It is amazing that 15 years later I am even more deeply in love with my husband than even the day we married. It takes a wonderful man to hold your hand and nurse you back to good health, he stayed with me all three nights in the hospital (in a waiting room on the floor the first two nights when I was in ICU), he dries my hair, puts on my TED stockings and makes me laugh. A love that I have never known before and I thank God for him every single day. Now maybe a little more so the gift that comes from bypass surgery is life is too short – enjoy every single minute with no regrets and it is OK to say NO (thank you)
I hope this posts helps someone else prepare for open heart bypass surgery!
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February Heart Healthy Menu Plan – Week 1
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February Heart Healthy Menu Plan – Week 3
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Melissa is a soccer mom who has been married to her best friend for 21 years. She loves sharing recipes, travel reviews and tips that focus on helping busy families make memories.
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Best wishes for a full recovery! You and your family are in my prayers. Thank you to you and Shelly for all that you do to help all of us save money!
So glad that you are doing so well!! I am a cardiac RN and thrilles to kmow your nurses were top notch! Prayers for your continued recovery!!
So glad you're ok and doing well Melissa!
Thank you for sharing. My daughter at age 14 months had KD, she is now almost 18 years old. You really gave me some things to watch for. Thanks!!
Very happy that this was a success for you. Glad you are having a speedy recovery and enjoy the holidays!
Glad to see you are recovering well and that you have a beautiful heart! As if everyone didn't already know that 🙂
Wow….thankful you are able to share this with us…I know God has walked with you during this whole time and Your faith in him….this is amazing story you have shared. Thanks….
So glad you are willing to share your personal health challenges. I am glad you are recovering. You will be in my prayers for continued healing+vibrant health. I learned a lot about celiac disease from you being so kind to comment about your own struggles+triumphs! Thank you!
I'm so glad to hear of your "easy" surgery and recuperating—it sounds as if you were well prepared and well taken care of. Your whole family and your friends network is simply wonderful—I especially love your Mama, and have come to think of her as a friend as we drop in on each others' blogs.
All best thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery and a long, healthy life with your beautiful heart.
So glad you are on your recovery road and have this behind. Wishing you a wonderful future as I prayed for you too!
You are an amazing woman. So glad you are doing well. Best.
What Melissa didn't mention is that as soon as she stopped the pain meds she wrote a story for the next issue of Gluten-Free Living. I had no idea what she had been through and when she told me she had just had heart surgery I said we could wait for the story for a future issue, but she was determined to get it done and sent it in a few days. That's sheer force of will. With that strength and all the family support, Melissa, I expect you will have a quick and thorough recovery. I am in awe.
Sending good wishes,
I'm so happy you are doing so well! I'm a tea blog friend of your mom and was praying for all of you when you had the surgery — so grateful she thoughtfully posted updates too. Hope you are up and at 'em in time to enjoy the holidays with your precious family!
Thank you so very much for sharing your experience, My son is 10 years old and has 3 giant aneurysms, 1 large aneurysm and areas of stenosis. It's the collaterals that's keeping everything going right now. Christian had KD as a baby but it was misdiagnosed. We see drs at the KD clinic at Boston Children's every 6 months.
We are hoping to put off his CABG until at least 11-13 years old.
I'm so very scared about his impending CABG. It calmed my soul to read about your experience. I have not met anyone who has had a CABG due to KD except for you. Thank you again got sharing!
Mom of Christian the Courageous
Glad to here everything went well! I too had Kawasaki at age 6 in 1988. I too had a double bypass at age 12 in 1994 for one "leftover" aneurysm. I hope to not ever have it again! You are very brave for going through two!!! The worst thing for me was that darn breathing machine right after surgery. I was so glad when those tubes came out. Of course I imagine a lot has changed in almost 20 years. Thanks for your story! Speedy recovery and many years of good health!!!
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thank you for sharing your story! my son had kd three times over two months 5 years ago but was treated quickly each time. did your aneurysms occur as a result of limited diagnosis & treatment in 1984? what treatment if any were you given?
I had no idea you were in the hospital for bypass!! Good for you! I hope you do well and don't have any complications! Thinking of you!
Thank you for sharing your story. I had no idea you had heart surgery. I have scoliosis and my whole spine is fused with now broken rods. I know what a challenge recovery can be and so glad you are doing well! Wishing you continued good health! 🙂
I had no idea you had bypass surgery. So glad to know you are back to your "normal"! You are an amazing woman Melissa ! Thanks for sharing your story!
Get well soon.
Heart felt story and pretty amazing if I may say!! So glad your doing well. Hard stuff and your smiling away so I know you felt peace with what you were going through. Pretty amazing!!!
Thank You for sharing your story! I'm glad your doing well. Your an inspiration to other Heart Bypass Surgery Patients.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am so glad to hear you are doing well. Way to go girl!
I just stumbled across this and I am so glad I did. I am 5 weeks out from my CABG surgery at the ripe old age of 42. It was a complete shock and I am still quite emotional about it. I am so glad to see you did so well and am amazed you have had to go through this more than once.


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CM Group launching LUMINOSITY SYNERGY, a revolutionary new SaaS based, eLearning course review system on 28 Sept - World of Learning, NEC, Birmingham, UK
News for all eLearning producers using all authoring tools: Leading eLearning authoring software supplier CM Group has confirmed the launch of their latest innovative eLearning product. LUMINOSITY SYNERGY provides a dramatic new way to enable invited stakeholders from within and outside an organisation to review and comment on draft eLearning courses. The product is aimed at small , medium and large eLearning producers who need a convenient way to gather and manage reviews of their work.
Often the person reviewing a new eLearning course is a subject expert or a business manager. Their time is valuable, especially if they are on the staff of an external customer organisation. LUMINOSITY SYNERGY makes it easy and quick for even occasional reviewers to use the system, saving them time and effort. The whole review experience becomes painless and productive which will significantly improve the whole experience of an eLearning producer and its customer.
Previously, reviewing draft eLearning courses and then gathering, triaging and managing feedback has been confusing and time consuming for both stakeholders and authors, with spreadsheets and side documents trying to keep track of multiple versions of review comments and answers. LUMINOSITY SYNERGY solves this by providing a secure online portal where invited reviewers can review eLearning courses and comment against each page in a tracked discussion thread. The benefit is that reviewers don't spend any time using separate tools and referencing comments, enabling them to better focus on the quality of the course. The entire review process is transformed into a simple and effective collaborative process.
As with all the other LUMINOSITY products, the focus has once again been on ease and speed of use; the interface is instantly intuitive and the result is faster, more professional, more effective reviews.
Technical Director Alex Mackman said, "LUMINOSITY SYNERGY is ideal for any eLearning producers who do not have collaborative authoring systems or for those whose older generation systems do not support this type of innovative review approach. LUMINOSITY SYNERGY works with any SCORM compliant courses whatever the authoring system was originally used to create them."
The LUMINOSITY product family are a flexible and scalable set of solutions to enable small to large organisations to deploy the practical benefits of eLearning. All share the combination of extreme ease of use together with rapid deployment and all deliver high quality results.
CM Group is launching two new products at the World of Learning Show in Birmingham on 28th -29th September: LUMINOSITY SYNERGY is a SaaS based online review portal for any SCORM compliant eLearning courses. Full details have not yet been released for the second Saas based product, called LUMINOSITY REACH.
CM Group invites its current and prospective partners to stand D120 at the NEC in Birmingham, UK on the 28th-29th September 2010 to see the new products and obtain no obligation free trials of the two new software products.

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A scope is a portion of code that exists between opening { and closing bracket }. In case of a separate script file, the scope would be the beginning and the end of the script file. Scopes can also exist within other scopes. Think of a partitioned space like a bedroom or a kitchen inside a house. A house would be the main scope. A kitchen inside would then be another scope within the main scope. To enter the kitchen you have to enter the house first and when you exit the kitchen you end up back in the house, unless you exit through a kitchen window . There are commands that would do exactly that and I will talk about it later on.
But first you need a door to enter. A scope on its own {… some code …} will not get its code executed, though it will have it compiled. So in order to make use of the code you need to enter this scope somehow. The simplest way is call command:
There are many other ArmA commands that will make you enter scopes. spawn {}; if () then {} else {}; while {} do {}; {} forEach, etc. As you have noticed I used scopeName command to define each scope. The scopes are exited automatically when the end of scope reached. But if you want to exit the kitchen through a window, i.e. exit scopes before they reach the end, you might need the scopeName command in combination with breakOut or breakTo commands.
Both commands need to know the scope name. This scope name is either the name of the scope the command is executed in (in case of breakOut) or the name of any of the parent scopes. This is important. The scope name you indicate cannot be that of unrelated scope or of a child scope. Both commands look up and backwards to find required scope.
This means that if you are in the "bedroom" you can breakOut of "bedroom", "house" or "outside" or breakTo "house" or "outside". You cannot reference "kitchen" as it is not a parent of the "bedroom". If you are in the "house" you can only breakOut of the "house" or "outside" or breakTo "outside". You cannot reference any of the "house" children, i.e. "kitchen" or "bedroom".
The script above will exit from the "kitchen" (through a window ) to the "outside", while the script below will land you back in the "house":
Another useful command for breaking out of scopes and which does not require scopeName is if exitWith construct. This command will exit current scope and current scope only. Don't get confused by some of the information you can find on BIS wiki. There is no mystery to this command, it does what it says on the tin.
The code above will exit the "bedroom" and only the "bedroom". So why the confusion? It seems the confusion comes from people trying foolishly to end some special loops with scope exiting commands.
While it works alright with normal loops, loops that are called by the engine every frame, such as onEachFrame or waitUntil, will understandably fail to terminate. All three commands will exit the scopes as they should, but the code inside those special loops will get executed again on the next frame, duh. If you want those loops to get terminated when you exit their scope, this is how you do it:
You also have to pay attention where and how you define your private variables when you have scopes. If you define your variable in the "house" it will be known in both "kitchen" and "bedroom" but not "outside". I have already talked about the private variables and scopes before, you just have to remember that child scopes can inherit parent private variables but not vice versa.
Now it's time to put our newly gained knowledge of scopes to good use. Remember switch do command? It is a nice command when you want to keep your code neat instead of creating monstrous if then structures, but it is a tad bit slow, which is kinda odd as everywhere else switches are lightning fast. Anyway:
Can we keep the speed and have the tidiness of the switch? Yes we can!
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This dog is waiting for his biscuit. He's laying there in the middle of the stairs to make sure that nobody can pass by and forgets that he is owed a biscuit.
He looks like a German Shepherd puppy, but he's 13 years old. He's half German Sheppard, half Whippet (that's the smaller Greyhound) and he's also a half Pointer (yes, there are at least 3 halves in him.)
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Light performance problems and a poor loot box system can't quite distract from Forza Motorsport 7's accommodating difficulty, stunning beauty, and lavish racing options.
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Microsoft pitched Forza Motorsport 7 as the ultimate automotive playset, and it's hard to argue otherwise. With enough cars to fill a dozen museums and the most generous selection of tracks to date in the series, the amount of driving, experimenting, and racing here is absolutely mammoth. Accessible as always for beginners but crammed with content targeted at lifelong car junkies, Forza Motorsport 7 is Turn 10's finest love letter to speed and style this generation, no matter what language you speak.
Forza Motorsport 7 addresses every issue of its predecessor, turns the visual flair up to 11 and handles like a dream. An essential purchase.
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Before I was in real estate, during those heady years of steady paychecks, paid vacation, retirement benefits and weekends off, I was familiar with the term, "Top Producer." This label, trumpeted with pride, was usually followed by the words "Million Dollar Club." I didn't know what a Million Dollar Club was, but I knew a million bucks sounded like a lot of money, so it was a natural leap to assume that members of this club were not overly consumed with the price of Wonder Bread.
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An impressive 1910 dated document promoting the well-known Dr. jur. Hugo Cadenbach from Gerichtsassessor (a position for a judge or federal prosecutor prior to fully attaining the title) to Landrichter (a member of the regional court). The document is headed with a large Prussian eagle and is done in Sütterlin script. At the foot of the document is the well known signature of then King of Prussia and later Kaiser of Germany Wilhelm II. Dr. Cadenbach was a Landesgerichtsrat and held numerous corporate positions, including being a member of the Executive board of the prestigious Aachener Golf Club 1927 e.V. and the General Director of Stolberger Zink, a large mining and smelting company, among other positions. The document is beautifully framed with a portrait of Wilhelm II and an engraved plaque. Imposing and ready to display!


text: The important wine trade and production house with seat and winery in Beaune was founded in 1880 by Joseph Drouhin. In 1957 it was taken over by Robert Drouhin, who brought it to world standing. The extensive vineyard property in the French Burgundy covers 64 hectares of vineyards in chablis and at the Côte d'Or with numerous Grand Cru and Premier Cru locations. Furthermore, the estate Domaine Drouhin in the US state Oregon operated. Among the top products are red wines and white wines from the Grand Cru or Premier Cru locations Bonnes Mares (Municipality of Chambolle-Musigny), Corton-Charlemagne ( Aloxe-Corton ), Grands Echézeaux ( Vosne-Romanée ), Les Clos (Chablis), Musigny ( Chambolle-Musigny ), Puligny-Montrachet (see Montrachet ) and Vaudésier (Chablis), as well as the "simple" Appellations wines chablis. Rully and Saint-Aubin, Every year around 330,000 boxes of wine (almost four million bottles) are produced. The company is a member of the renowned Family Winery Association PFV (Primum Familiae Vini).


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EDWARDSVILLE — A group of college students may have helped an Edwardsville family avoid tragedy early Saturday when they drove by a home at 103 Pleasant Ridge Drive and saw a fire.
"They saw flames coming out of the home so they knocked on the door and got everybody out," a firefighter Lt. Rodney Hall said Monday. He said he was unsure how many people were home at the time.
He said the fire alarm came in just before 1 a.m. Saturday. He said there were flames come out of the attached garage and the second floor of the home. "Everybody got out all right," he said. "Its a good thing they happened by."
The Edwardsville Fired Department had the blaze under control within about 30 minutes.
The damage was described as a "substantial loss." Homes in that area are valued at between $200,000 and $300,000. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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text: Former senior trainer for Seaworld, John Hargrove, wrote a book called "Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish", that talks about how he wants orcas to stop being in captivity and to stop Seaworld cruelty against orcas. He mentions the death of Dawn Brancheau by the orca Tilikum and how SeaWorld denied that Tilikum was ever showing aggressive behavior. John uses this example to show that we need to remember these animals are still killer whales that can make the decision any moment. John also mentions how Seaworld has been threatening him since November with legal action so he has this whole legal team and great attorneys to fight Seaworld bullying because they been stopping trainers for decades from saying how they felt about Seaworld. John mentioned that the orcas can't go into the wild since they have been inbred, so he came up with a solution that their should be sea sanctuaries like the Ringling Brothers are sending their elephants to elephant sanctuaries in 2018. (I did this article because a lot of people are into Blackfish and stopping Seaworld, plus we talked about this topic in Environmental Ethics).


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Pounding the 26 miles from Greenwich Park to The Mall wasn't the only marathon in London today. At Milton Court, Peter Donohoe ran his own marathon – albeit from the safety of the piano stool – tackling all ten sonatas by Alexander Scriabin. The Russian pianist-composer's route took us from lush romanticism to weird mysticism, often in highly perfumed musical language which can be difficult to penetrate. Helping us navigate a sometimes disorientating route – the sonatas weren't played in chronological order – was Gerard McBurney, providing readings, mostly of texts by the composer's great friend, Leonid Sabaneyev.
There was no question of Donohoe pacing himself through the afternoon, hurling into the rugged, romantic First Sonata with fervour. Dynamic contrasts throughout were boldly gradated, from the wistful chorale of the slow movement to the thunderous left hand octaves of the Presto. In the "Black Mass" Ninth – to be performed "as if practising witchcraft" according to McBurney's reading – Donohoe balanced demonic force with feathery tone. Incense swirled in formless clouds around the heady Seventh, the "White Mass" Sonata, bass bells chiming through its highly chromatic score, full of tritonal harmony and rippling arpeggios, beautifully played.
The Sonata no. 2 in G sharp minor – inspired by the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and even the English Channel – lived up to its "game of colours and shadows" billing, its tender moonlight giving way to storm-tossed spume, ferocious, yet clearly articulated. The F sharp minor Third Sonata, describing the struggles of the soul, ended in a fiery plunge into the abyss.
Scriabin was, like his friend and fellow composer Rimsky-Korsakov, a synesthete, ascribing colours to different musical keys. He even invented a clavier à lumières for use in his Prometheus, Poem of Fire, to flood the concert hall with coloured lights. For this recital, we were promised the aural experience would be "enhanced" by the projections of designer Mike Tutaj. During the Sonata no. 1 in F minor, the stage was duly bathed in a halo of blue light. Yet for Scriabin, the key of F (major and minor) was associated with deep red, so the choice of colours seemed arbitrary. Apart from a crimson glow in the Third Sonata and abstract yellow squiggles daubed during the Tenth, these projections were largely insipid. Sepia photographs of the composer and the Moscow Conservatoire enhanced McBurney's introductions more than the lighting enhanced the musical performances.
The programme was presented in three parts, with two intervals to recover and reflect on what we'd just heard. McBurney's readings helped place the "cult" of Scriabin in context and guided the listener through these dense, but short, mystical scores. There were humorous anecdotes, particularly about Scriabin's apparent unease in the countryside, delivered engagingly.
To use sporting parlance, "at the end of the day", Kenyan athlete Daniel Wanjiru won the London Marathon in marginally less time than it takes to play the complete Scriabin sonatas. Yet Donohoe's effort was just as herculean, even if he shouldn't be suffering from any foot blisters in the morning.


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Madabhushanam Sridhar Acharyulu will not be hearing the appeal related to Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, and instead all HRD ministry related cases will be heard by Manjula Parashar.
Information Commissioner Madabhushanam Sridhar Acharyulu had once directed DU to provide the allowance for the inspection of graduation degree records of PM Narendra Modi. He was then removed from the HRD ministry which went to Information Commissioner Manjula Parashar. Now, according to The Indian Express, Acharyulu will not be hearing the appeal related to Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, and instead all HRD ministry related cases will be heard by Parashar. Acharyulu was to hear the appeal listed for February 10 where School of Open Learning of DU was directed to give documents related to the education of the former HRD Minister.
Acharyulu had recently directed the CBSE to allow inspection of documents regarding Irani's Xth and XIIth examinations. He had also issued show cause notices against SOL's Central Public Information Officer O P Tanwar for the non-compliance of orders. According to IE, earlier CIC had issued a circular which said that HRD Ministry's new cases will be heard by Parashar and notably, Acharyulu has decided not to hear old cases as well. CIC website says that Acharyulu had decided 22 cases related to HRD ministry on Thursday. Sources told IE that he made the decision after meeting Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur.
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Meanwhile, the CIC, on Wednesday had said that Smriti Irani had asked the Delhi University not to disclose her educational qualification to an RTI applicant. Acharyulu had said that the Commission directed the CBSE to facilitate the inspection of all relevant records and provide certified copies free of cost to the appellant except the personal details mentioned in the admit card and the mark sheet with 60 days of the order. Acharyulu had been removed from the post of the charge of HRD Ministry but had retained CBSE just a few days after he had ordered the inspection of BA records of the DU of the year 1978, the same year when PM Modi had passed out.
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From the Financial Times: Wells Fargo has agreed to buy BNP Paribas' North American energy business, one of the biggest transactions to date in the wave of European banks selling assets to strengthen their balance sheets.
The companies announced on Tuesday that Wells, the biggest US bank by market capitalisation, was buying the business, which includes $9.5bn of loans, from BNP, the biggest French bank by assets. Only $3.9bn of the loans are drawn. The acquisition price of the cash deal, which BNP said was a "premium" to the face value, was not disclosed.


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Up at 4:30 am to get everything done before pulling out this morning at 7:30. We loaded during a drizzle, set up while it was drizzling and gave pony rides during the drizzle. When the rain came pouring down ponchos were put on the horses and we waited out the down pour in Karin's car. Thankfully that was the last of the rain today. The sun came out pouring out heat. We went from sweatshirts and ponchos to wishing we had worn shorts. All in all we had a very successful day, making $180.00 for the vaulters. We had a lot of adults ride today.
HERE. The vaulters were amazing, Willow brought her money box and managed the store, collecting the $2.00 for the pony rides, $1.00 for cotton candy and pop corn along with leading the horses. She, along with Shaeya, Mae, Takoa, Noah, Wren, Drake were all great help. With all this good help Karin and I just helped the riders on and took pictures.
We closed up shop at 4:00 pm and headed home in traffic, lots of traffic. Amazing how many people come out for this Spoon River Drive.
As soon as I got home and unloaded Bunni and Cookie supper was cooked and eaten. After supper Sangria was teased and covered by Valiant and all the horses grained. Mark got a lot of work done here spreading gravel on the driveway, putting down fabric under the solar system then shoveling gravel on top of the fabric and splitting wood. He saw no one, this place is desolate, just about everyone is down in Gulf Shores or working with at the Spoon River Drive. This evening the pictures were uploaded from the drive and posted on facebook and now we are heading to bed.


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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Hello Canada!!!
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- SooZeQue said...
Lucky Girl! Canada is so beautiful. That's on our list next year to do some sight seeing. Since Son is so close gives me a good excuse to see all. Have a wonderful time!! hUGS
- October 17, 2012 at 2:43 PM
- laurie said...
have a wonderful time! i grew up in sandpoint, idaho which is very close to the canadian border so i feel "almost canadian" :-) we still have a place there and try to visit as much as we can. i understand your longing and hope it fills you up with memories and content.
- October 17, 2012 at 6:02 PM
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No surprise you are bursting with Joy!
- October 17, 2012 at 9:31 PM
oh enjoy! i so miss living on the coast, somehow i've ended up as far from the sea as you can get in britain...surely some mistake?!
and i love emily carr's work, i wrote my long essay at college on her passionate expressionism, so amazingly evocative of the feeling of being in deep forest.
awaiting your pictures with such pleasure :)
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Convertible Car Seats
The luxury cabriolet unites the class of a limousine, the performance of an property car and the dynamics of a coupé. A convertible observe is a debt instrument, much like a bond that could be convertible into fairness (common stock) at a future date. As it is, the convertible bond markets of the United States, as well as Japan, have been of major global importance. Convertible Bonds, a hybrid investment, are always in vogue as part of any all-weather diversified investment portfolio.\n\nHISTORY AND FEATURES – Leather-based heated seats, Convertible, 6 velocity manual, Premium Harman Kardon audio system, Bluetooth, Keyless entry, Power home windows and locks, A/C and far far more!! Unfollow Automobiles & Vehicles to stop getting updates in your eBay Feed.\n\nAn obstacle is that you could be wish to change the décor because the child will get older. The convertible notice investor seeks eventual ownership (common stock equity) in the enterprise. On this case, the Buyer Care workforce will take away your account from auto-renewal to make sure you aren't charged for an additional year and you'll continue to use the subscription till the top of your subscription term.\n\nSince tender tops are light-weight and do not require intensive mechanical elements, the automotive as an entire may handle better – an necessary consideration should you're investing in an expensive sports activities automobile that you simply count on to drive at high speeds.\n\nWhether you need a GPS, child seat, a further driver or insurance coverage protection, we may help you improve your lease a automobile with the fitting add-ons to cover your requirements. We look ahead to offering reasonably priced, premium car rental to increasingly more US locations, so hold checking again to see if we have arrived at your required destination.…
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Sixt hire a automobile offers a wide range of convertibles for rent at lots of our places worldwide, as well as proper right here at house within the UK. The splendid contact to make your holiday that little bit extra particular or a cheeky indulgent treat to get pleasure from at home, Sixt affords affordable convertible rent for budgets ranging from economy to luxury. Is as a result of it reflects the creating relationship between individuals and their cars, saying it symbolizes how cars undergo gradual transformation." For the concept, several different types of wooden have been used, and while one thing like this could never go into production, Toyota claims it might final over several household generations whether it is correctly taken care of.
The major difference being the permanence of spaceframe cars clad in lookalike physique panels The intent of spaceframe vehicles is to permit groups to save money, especially after crashes, where groups can rebuild the vehicles for the following race at a much lower cost, or even redevelop automobiles, as a substitute of getting to put in writing off a whole automobile after a crash.
Rear-windows have evolved equally, with plastic rear-windows appearing as late as the primary era Porsche Boxster Contemporary convertibles and retractable hardtops function heatable glass rear windows to maximise visibility – though rear windows typically can compromise visibility by their dimension, as with the case of the very small rear window and restricted visibility of the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder.
Predictably, the GTO received greater and fatter and more luxurious as its homeowners obtained older and wished one thing extra like an armchair than a light-weight demon and so by the point that 1974 came the Pontiac GTO was all over as the appeal for American muscle cars was waning and stringent Government lead safety and emission regulations were taking hold.
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Not each man wanted a convertible I suppose, but a number of guys LUSTED for them although they didn't personal one (or out of a way of practicality, wouldn't personal one). The ones involving convertibles have been extra more likely to be single-automobile crashes, whereas those involving hardtop automobiles more typically involved different autos. Convertibles are securities that are converted right into a specified numbers of widespread stock at predefined time interval. This means they are typically heavier and never as good to drive – however modern convertibles are so properly made that you could hardly inform the difference.
See CR's Good Bets: These used automobiles have carried out well in our exams over the years and have had a lot better than average total reliability for multiple years. Two of the vehicles have been nonetheless in the palms of authentic homeowners, and the third had been owned by its present owner since three years of age. All that continues to be are secondary sources in period literature and the few instance vehicles that have not been sent to the crusher. I wonder how could of the 900 convertibles produced by American Custom Coachworks, Ltd.
These automobiles had been constructed of cheaper materials and technologies and the car's had simple aerodynamics reducing developmental and testing prices versus the costlier and technologically advanced automobiles now being run at Le Mans. No automaker needed to invest hundreds of thousands in design and tooling for a automotive that might be unmarketable when constructed, so convertibles shortly disappeared from the list of available models, the last American providing being the 1976 Cadillac Eldorado. After choices have been made for the trip automobiles visitors are loaded into their designated cars.
Cars rapidly got slowed down on the sandy turns finally making the monitor almost impassable in the corners. Several convertibles function a retractable hardtop, a folding metallic roof that stows in the trunk at the push of a button. It was once the case that convertible cars were worse to drive than their equal with a set metallic roof. These vehicles include a convertible rare passenger part with entrance part either open or coated. Police vehicles from around the world include Porches, Lamborgini's and Aston Martins'.
The Stretch Zion convertibles the place my go to pants for my 12 mile hike link-up of the decrease Snoqualmie Pass lakes ( Mason lake, Rainbow lake, Island Lake, Olallie Lake, Talpaus Lake). For all other drivers it only determines their starting position of their duel with odd positioned cars being entered into the primary duel and even positioned vehicles going within the second.…
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The Ford Mustang is a traditional automotive, and the Mustang convertible is likely one of the most iconic of them all. Some convertibles are strictly for cruising, whereas others supply true sports automotive performance that pairs nicely with open-air freedom. One of these cars bought in 2007 for $2,500,000 and was mentioned to be a steal for that value. Many of those were conversions of Japanese cars and there's an obscure, however energetic discussion board thread devoted to Japanese convertible conversions from this era. The Volkswagen vary of efficiency sports activities cars is definitely identified by the letters 'GTI' and 'R'. Sunchaser homeowners and automobiles for sale can be located on-line with out much issue.
I even have owned several previous type Beetles both convertibles and onerous tops, each had its own quirkiness however I beloved each. It was solely bought as a real convertible and had just one engine choice—a 1.eight L inline-four with 138 hp. While the engine was much less highly effective than that of previous technology (especially the turbo), the automobile's lightness allowed it to perform equally properly as cars with more power. Therefore, the vehicles of this generation isn't suitable for the large family who search for a spacious car. Number 9 on the listing are the Cadillac Convertibles produced in 1959 and 1960.
Another type of convertibles is the off-road vehicles with detachable delicate tops reminiscent of Jeep Wrangler , Suzuki Escudo , Ford Bronco , Land Rover Defender , Mercedes-Benz G-Class , early models of Toyota Land Cruiser , Land Rover Defender and so forth. The Verdict: The Acura Integra is among the finest-handling FWD vehicles from the Nineteen Nineties, and it was provided with strong engines all through your entire historical past of the car. The YOGA 510 (Flex 4 within the U.S) 15-inch laptop computer begins at €699 (53,000), accessible beginning in April 2016.
There have been numerous types of mini vehicles during the last a number of decades, however their reputation have surged because of the fact they're obtainable almost all over the world, their unique look, and race automotive high quality. Other times they purchased cars in small portions from the manufacturer, transformed them to convertibles and delivered them to be offered in the automaker's new car showrooms. Initially when convertible automobiles began to be manufactured they have been made with two doors.
This is a evaluation of the 2015 Chevy Silverado 1500; a powerful light responsibility truck! But fashionable convertibles are fitted with absolutely automatic hydraulic or electrical actuators. At their height of popularity within the 1960s, convertibles were emblematic of America's rising youth culture and its fervent quest for freedom and fast occasions. With refined styling and revolutionary engineering, these vehicles mix performance, safety and economic system in a unique high performance package. MINI, which is owned by BMW, is acknowledged at making a few of the hottest mini vehicles.…


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A new method of growing microalgae for animal feed has been trialled in Iceland's Hellisheidi geothermal park.
This method uses LED light, briny water, and CO2 concentrated air as an alternative to land-based cultivation for animal feeds such as soy. The concentrations of these are controlled by photo-bioreactors.
These photo-bioreactors grow microorganisms that recycle carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen, making a closed-loop process that is much more efficient than traditional agriculture.
This process can provide nutritional content that mimics soybeans at less than 0.6% of the land and water use.
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The method has the potential to prevent further deforestation of rainforests, the second biggest cause of global warming. This could allow deforested areas to be rewilded and contribute to drawing down CO2.
Additionally, claims of higher efficiency and lower risk of crop loss provide a solution to food and water scarcity that we face with a growing population.
There could also be widespread health benefits: by avoiding the use of pesticides and herbicides, there is potential to lower related illnesses such as respiratory problems and cancer.
In terms of animal health, changing the diet of animals may have unintended consequences. Although the micro-algae has similar nutritional value to soy, the effects on long-term health are still unknown.
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Dunn Thriving With New Opportunity In Chicago
After a disappointing rookie campaign in Minnesota, Kris Dunn is thriving with the Bulls, Spencer Davies writes.
Having met head-to-head in Tuesday night's game for the first time in their careers, Kris Dunn and Lonzo Ball have some things in common.
Drafted fifth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves, the former college star at Providence struggled to adjust to the professional level. He was finding difficulty putting the ball in the basket. He wasn't nearly aggressive enough.
Part of this was due to an inconsistent role and a battle with Tyus Jones for the backup spot at point guard behind Ricky Rubio, but aside from that, there were significant shortcomings with his game that made people have their doubts about Dunn's future in the NBA.
But fortunately for him, it was only one year, and — contrary to how most players are gauged these days — one year does not define who or what a player is or isn't. Sometimes, it takes time or a change of scenery, and so far this season with the Chicago Bulls, the 23-year-old Dunn is showing flashes.
Despite missing the first four games with a dislocated finger, he hasn't missed a beat. The discrepancies between now and his rookie season are already very apparent.
For one, Dunn scored in double digits a total of seven times in 78 games with Minnesota. Through just 12 games playing for the Bulls, he's already registered nine of those performances, including recently eclipsing the 20-point mark for the first time with a career-high 22 against the Charlotte Hornets.
So what can you credit for the improvements? Assertiveness, probably. You score more when you shoot more. Dunn is averaging over triple the number of attempts per game this year with Chicago than with the Timberwolves. To no surprise, the numbers are prettier because of it.
It's a decently small sample size, but Dunn's effective field goal percentage (46.5) is more than five points higher than in 2016-17. He's averaging 15.8 points per 36 minutes, pulling down at least five rebounds per game and averaging close to four assists per game as well.
His development on offense has been something, but the sophomore guard's impact on the defensive end is something to keep an eye on. Though the Bulls rank in the bottom 10 defensively, there is a bright spot when Dunn is on the floor. As a team with him playing, Chicago allows 103.1 points per 100 possessions. When he's on the bench, that number balloons to 110, which is the third-highest difference among his teammates.
Diving a little further into it, Dunn is seeing over nine attempts against him per game. Compared to other players that see between nine and 10 tries per game, he places sixth on the list, allowing just 41.1 percent of those to be successful. According to NBA.com, he is one of 35 players in the league who is allowing less than one point per possession on isolation plays. At the same time, this could be because he's sending his opposition to the line a ton. Among guards, he averages the second-most fouls per game (3.3) behind only Dillon Brooks.
That'll need to change eventually, but the potential is there. Dunn gambles on some reaches with his long arms and taller frame, which is why he's getting two steals per game. He also ranks fifth among point guards in Defensive Real Plus-Minus behind his teammate David Nwaba. Strictly as a hounding defender, we're seeing what he can become down the line.
Since returning, Dunn has the second-best net rating on the team and Chicago is a net -18.5 points per 100 possessions without him. While that's not particularly encouraging for the team itself, it proves his importance. Again, the small body of work should tell you to take this with a grain of salt, but at the same time, we didn't ever really see this in year one.
Whether it's due to a better opportunity and more touches or more self-confidence on his part, Dunn is playing more loose and free, and he's thriving because of it.
Maybe, just maybe, one season wasn't enough to judge.
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NBA Daily: Devonte' Graham's Unfathomable Breakout In Charlotte
Devonte' Graham never drew high praise in high school, college or in draft prep. Breaking through in his second season is a rarity unlike almost any other. Douglas Farmer writes.
Comparing a sweet-shooting, 6-foot-2 guard in his second year with the woebegone Charlotte Hornets to Draymond Green misses its mark on paper, but the poor-shooting forward in his eighth season — three of which have ended with him and the Golden State Warriors hosting an NBA Finals trophy — may be the only player in the league analogous to Devonte' Graham.
Teams have sought the next Green since he broke through in his third year, seeking a playmaking forward who could defend all five positions. That largely-fruitless search overlooked what made Green so unique — just how overlooked he was.
The No. 122 player in his recruiting class, per Rivals.com, Green did not break into college basketball's national consciousness until his senior season when he was named a consensus All-American. That pushed him up draft boards all the way to No. 35. He then toiled on the Warrior bench until stepping in for overpriced veteran and changing the trajectory of the Golden State franchise.
Graham was the No. 36 player in his class, per Rivals.com, but otherwise the parallels are nearly exact, and while not as insulting as Green's recruiting ranking, Graham's was hardly flattering. He then became a consensus All-American in his senior season, was drafted No. 34 overall and spent his rookie season primarily on the Hornets' bench. Now, he has usurped free-agent signee Terry Rozier of his starring role and given Charlotte reason to be excited.
Those reasons to be excited are not limited to the long-term, either, as some of Graham's 20 points per game have included moments of high drama.
Graham's second-year explosion has come largely off catch-and-shoot threes, clearly showing how different he is from Green, even if their rises from nowhere are similar. Graham has already made 103 threes in just 27 games, a sample size both large enough to end any "Breakout or Mirage? wonders and put him in the company of James Harden and Stephen Curry.
Only Harden and Curry had made it this far into a season on pace to sink 300 shots from deep, and they are also the only ones to actually do so. Maybe Graham cools off and finishes with a mere 280, but given he spent the first 10 games this season coming off the bench, his current pace will likely send him well past 300.
Either way, Graham was never supposed to end up in a sentence comparing him to two surefire Hall of Famers.
Recruits who debate between Virginia Tech, Providence and North Carolina State before ending up at Kansas, who never garner genuine notice until they are three months shy of turning 25, do not break out like this. They go onto decent NBA careers, if that.
While plenty of highly-ranked prep prospects do not pan out at all, it is even rarer for second-tier recruits to reach professional stardom. Of the 120 players Rivals ranked between No. 30 and No. 50 in the six recruiting classes from 2010 to 2015, only 14 have gained genuine traction in the NBA.
2010: No. 31 Meyers Leonard, No. 44 Gorgui Dieng, No. 48 Terrence Ross
2011: No. 31 Dorian Finney-Smith, No. 34 Ben McLemore, No. 37 Otto Porter, No. 41 Maurice Harkless
2012: No. 40 Willie Cauley-Stein
2013: No. 31 Semi Ojeleye, No. 44 Zach LaVine
2014: No. 36 Devonte' Graham
2015: No. 31 Donovan Mitchell, No. 43 Malik Beasley, No. 46 Dejounte Murray
Porter, LaVine and Mitchell all earned enough notice in college to be drafted in the lottery. Their development into NBA bucket-getters has not been astonishing. It was their play in college that surprised.
Graham did not impress then. Nor did he impress as a rookie, averaging 4.7 points in 14.7 minutes per game and hitting only 28.1 percent of his shots from beyond the arc.
Becoming a 42.9 percent 3-point shooter was not anyone's expectation. Even in college, Graham topped out at 40.6 percent from behind the shorter arc as a senior when he averaged 17.3 points per game.
Now, he casually went 7-of-12 from deep for 40 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds on Wednesday in a 113-108 road win over the Brooklyn Nets. The seventh of those made threes drove the fact one more time that Graham is not a flash in the pan.
"Unconscionable" is an overused word in sports. These are just sports, after all. But if ever a shot was unconscionable, it was that dagger on Wednesday. If not that, it may have been unfathomable.
Unfathomable when only Graham's late prep development got him to a collegiate blueblood, unfathomable when he hardly flashed at Kansas, unfathomable when he fell into the second round, unfathomable when Charlotte signed Rozier for three years and $58 million.
Graham was never supposed to do any of this, and he shows no signs of stopping.
In the first 10 games of the season coming off the bench, Graham shot 42.5 percent from deep and averaged 17.9 points and 7.6 assists per game. In his 17 starts since then, he is shooting 43.1 percent from deep and averaging 21.2 points and 7.6 assists per game.
His consistency has rendered the 6-foot-1 Rozier not just an overpriced point guard, but a lineup liability. With both of them on the floor, Charlotte has a minus-3.1 rating per 100 possessions, getting exposed on defense with an undersized backcourt. With Graham on but Rozier off, the Hornets are plus-1.6. The offensive ratings are within a tenth of a point, but the latter lineup is 4.8 points better per 100 possessions on defense.
Come Sunday, Rozier can be traded. Finding a taker for his onerous deal may be more difficult than one for Graham's, which pays him only $1.4 million this year and $1.7 million next. Regardless, if Charlotte moves one of them, the organization will be in a better position moving forward because of Graham's eruption.
At no point was it considered Graham could change the franchise's direction like this.
Then again, it was never expected of Green, either.
Buy Or Sell: Central Division
Drew Mays continues Basketball Insiders' "Buy Or Sell" series by taking a look at the Central Division.
It's Dec. 12, and we're over a quarter of the way through the 2019-20 NBA season. More importantly, we're three days away from the 15th – the day much of the league because trade-eligible.
By now, teams have a good idea of who they are and where they want to be in four months when the playoffs roll around. This means they also know something else: Whether what they have in the locker room is enough, if they're missing a piece, or if their season is toast and they should wheel and deal before the February trade deadline.
These thoughts inspired the Basketball Insiders' "Buy Or Sell" series. Matt John led us off a few days ago by breaking down the Northwest Division. Yesterday, Jordan Hicks batted second with the Southwest Division. Today we'll be checking on the division with the hottest team in the NBA: The Central.
Milwaukee Bucks (22-3) – Buyers (?)
Can anyone stop Milwaukee? They've won 16 straight, 20 of 21, and haven't lost since Nov. 8. While part of this stretch has involved beating up lesser teams — and winning games you're supposed to isn't a bad thing — undoubtedly the most impressive performance came last Friday at home against the Los Angeles Clippers. They won 119-91 and it was even uglier than that. Los Angeles was down nine at halftime and 25 after three quarters. The Bucks held the Clippers' three offensive stars – Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and Lou Williams – to 15-for-39 shooting and forced them into 15 turnovers (LA shot 35 percent and committed 21 turnovers as a team).
What Milwaukee did to the Clippers isn't an outlier, either. They've blitzed the entire league on both ends of the floor. They're first in defensive rating, third in offensive rating and first in average margin of victory at 13.4 points. They aren't just winning – they're winning big. They have the best effective field goal percentage in the NBA and the second-best allowed on defense.
The Bucks are deep and have 12 guys that get significant minutes. Giannis Antetokounmpo is the only player above 30 minutes per game, with the rest of the roster falling in succession down to Robin Lopez's 14.5 per. They're shooting extremely well while still making the third-most threes per game in the league at 14.4. Nine different players make at least one every game.
Even scarier, Giannis keeps evolving. His three-point shooting volume has been a revelation – he's taking five each night. He's never taken more than three. And even shooting only 31.9 percent, the attempts in themselves (and Giannis' willingness to shoot them) has opened up the offense more than ever before. It's led to Antetokounmpo somehow topping his numbers from last season – he's up from 27.7/12.5/5.9 to 30.9/13.2/5.5. Sheesh.
There's a huge scoring drop off after Giannis, though. Only Khris Middleton, Eric Bledsoe and Brook Lopez join him in double figures. They could use another scorer or playmaker. People have long half-jokingly floated the idea of Chris Paul, but that seems unlikely. There may not be a player on the market worth chasing based on their needs.
Still, the lack of extra scoring punch behind the MVP might not even be an issue until the postseason. Until then, Milwaukee fans can enjoy the ride – the Bucks shouldn't have worries for a while.
Indiana Pacers (16-9) – Buyers
After a slow start, Indiana has rejoined the upper cluster of the Eastern Conference. They've won nine of their last 12 and sit in the top half of the league in both offensive (15th) and defensive (10th) rating.
Like Milwaukee, Indiana boasts a ton of depth – they have nine regulars that play over 17 minutes per game. Malcolm Brogdon continues to be the Pacers' engine, averaging 19.5/4.5/7.5. TJ Warren seems to have found his footing and Domantas Sabonis has been a beast, scoring 18.2 and grabbing 13.5 rebounds every night.
That said, the Pacers suffer a similar problem as the Bucks – they lack high-end talent. Their better part of the rotation is similar to Milwaukee's non-Giannis top players; they're useful, productive role players, but not guys you expect to beat teams with more star power.
This lends itself to Indiana being buyers over the next few months. They could add another on-ball threat to pair with Brogdon, thus making things easier for Sabonis and the assist-allergic Warren. TJ McConnell and the pair of Holiday brothers have performed admirably to this point, but no one in the conference is batting an eye at those three.
Of course, the Pacers already have a top-flight scorer and shot creator coming – Victor Oladipo. Oladipo has been out since January and is expected to return in the next few months.
Assuming he's able to at all, it'll take him time to get back to form. The likeliest scenario isn't that the Pacers buy prior to the deadline, but that they continue rolling out their massive lineup and stay the course until their star returns.
Detroit Pistons (10-14) – Buyers
The Pistons are right where they want to be.
Well, maybe not. But after years of mediocre teams and 8th-seed finishes, seeing Detroit a handful of games under .500 and in the 9th spot in the Eastern Conference feels like home.
Detroit is 10th in offensive rating and 16th in defensive rating. Those numbers usually mean postseason appearances, especially in the weaker conference. A five-game losing streak in mid-November slowed their progress, but the 6-4 mark since Nov. 22 in about what you'd expect them to be.
But Blake Griffin has not looked like Blake Griffin. Maybe it's injury-related, maybe it's age-related. But a player of his caliber – especially coming off his sneaky-great 2018-19 – should regain form.
Andre Drummond is still doing Andre Drummond things. And as we detailed in October, Derrick Rose looks better than he has in years – he's averaging 16.1 and 5.8 in just under 24 minutes per game.
The Pistons are buyers because the track record shows they don't embrace the tank — Exhibit A: the Blake Griffin trade — and their age. Some middling teams prefer to bottom-out and rebuild. Detroit has proven their propensity to just hang around, winning 38-42 games each year before getting trounced in the postseason. That's admirable; it's hard to win games in the NBA. Trying to do so, even with moderate success, isn't a bad thing.
Detroit's top scorers are Griffin (30), Rose (31), Drummond (26), Luke Kennard (23), Markieff Morris (30) and Langston Galloway (24). Kennard has been pretty good, but Galloway isn't inspiring fear in anybody. Drummond, still relatively young, cannot be a A or B option as a scorer. Detroit went after the now 30-year-old Griffin a few years ago and Rose this past summer. Those are win-now, stay-relevant moves and there isn't a lot of flexibility there.
Accordingly, it wouldn't surprise to see Detroit try and get a few players leading up to February. The only player they might try to unload is the currently-injured Reggie Jackson – although it's hard to imagine who would want him.
Chicago Bulls (9-17) – Sellers
It's been repeated for months now: The Bulls, 9-17 and 11th in the Eastern Conference, are a disappointment. They talked up the playoffs preseason only to fall victim to the same prey as they did last year. The injuries have been less (although Otto Porter Jr. has been out since Nov. 8 and Lauri Markkanen has dealt with an oblique injury), but it hasn't translated to wins.
Chicago's defense has improved – they're up to 12th in defensive rating – but their offense continues to be bottom-barrel, currently 26th in the NBA. The two though-to-be stars in Zach LaVine and Lauri Markkanen have struggled; LaVine has been up (49 points and 13 threes in Charlotte on Nov. 23) and down (5 points on 2-for-11 against Detroit on Nov. 20) offensively and rough on defense. Elsewhere, Markkanen has been outright disappointing by managing just 14.5 points per on 39.3 from the field and 32.7 from three-point range.
There have been reported internal riffs, plus tons of questions about head coach Jim Boylen, his fit for the job and whether the players respond to him.
Even if it gets better for the Bulls, it's unlikely it does so in a way meaningful enough to meet preseason expectations. Chicago should be looking to sell, whether it's Kris Dunn or players higher on the totem pole. The front office may not want to hear it, but there'd be a market for both LaVine and Markkanen.
Whether they explore that market or not remains to be seen.
Cleveland Cavaliers (5-19) – Sellers
The Cavaliers aren't good, but we all expected that. They're 29th in offense and 28th in defense, and they've won just one of their last 15 games – including their current eight-game losing streak.
Collin Sexton looks similar to his rookie year, except now his three-point shooting is down. Cedi Osman and Jordan Clarkson are both shooting 41 percent. Darius Garland is shooting 37.9 from the field, and leads the team with a putrid 2.8 assists per game.
As @ZachLowe_NBA mentioned on his podcast, here's Kevin Love intentionally taking a three second call out of frustration
When Darius Garland leads your team with 2.8 apg.. pic.twitter.com/cOt7eJ6AGM
— Bootum (@DaRealBootum) December 12, 2019
That clip also shows us the reason the Cavaliers are maybe the biggest sellers of the trade period: Kevin Love.
Love's numbers are down across the board. He's averaging 15.7 and 10.5 rebounds per game on 43.8 percent from the field and 35.4 from three. Much of that can be explained by playing on a wholly uncompetitive team – other franchises want Love, a proven championship commodity who rebounds and stretches the floor.
Jason Lloyd of The Athletic reported today that Cleveland was seeking a first-round pick in exchange for Love. Lloyd also mentioned the problem with Love: He's more expensive than Oklahoma City's Danilo Galinari, but the latter is on an expiring deal.
Still, Love is a valuable player, and somebody that contenders will jump at once the deadline nears and executives are pressed to make a move. Portland has long been tied to the forward, but their standing in the Western Conference will factor into their willingness to take him on.
Regardless, it would be shocking (and almost implausible) to see Kevin Love in Cleveland past Feb. 6.
December is a big month for basketball – the Christmas day games are the most-watched regular season event on the NBA's calendar. But something even more important than those matchups is only three days away, when much of the league becomes trade eligible.
Dec. 15 starts the race to Feb. 6. By then, we'll know exactly who teams are as we look ahead to another NBA postseason.
NBA Daily: Are The Sixers Building Around The Wrong Franchise Player?
Joel Embiid is the Philadelphia 76ers' "crown jewel." But as he and Ben Simmons struggle to coalesce in year three of their partnership, it bears wondering if Philadelphia is building around the wrong franchise player.
The latter half of the Philadelphia 76ers' longest winning streak during the Joel Embiid era came while he watched from the bench.
It began in mid-March 2018 with a win at Madison Square Garden, and ended nearly a month later with a home beatdown of the Milwaukee Bucks that sent the Sixers streaking into the playoffs having won 16 straight games. Embiid fractured his face two weeks into that binge, making it easy to believe his team would tumble to the bottom of the postseason standings.
Philadelphia was tied in the win the column with the eighth-place Miami Heat at the time of Embiid's injury. Nothing it had previously done suggested the team could keep from falling to the last playoff seed in the East without him. The Sixers were 16.1 points per 100 possessions better with him on the floor in 2017-18, a team-high and one of the league's biggest individual marks.
A soft schedule over the season's last two weeks definitely helped Philadelphia thrive in spite of Embiid's absence, and that's how the streak was portrayed in the media by the time the playoffs started. It lasted one more game before the Miami HEAT beat the Sixers in Game 2 of the first round, after which Embiid returned.
But the breakneck, wide-open style of play his absence prompted from Philadelphia was impossible to forget last week, when Ben Simmons was unleashed again. The Sixers, coming off a dispiriting loss to the Washington Wizards, dropped 141 points on the Cleveland Cavaliers as Embiid nursed a sore hip.
Simmons was dominant in a way he hadn't been all season, dropping a career-high 34 points and 7 assists on 12-of-14 shooting in just 26 minutes of play. He drained his second three-pointer, again from the corner, leading Brett Brown to later tell reporters that he wants Simmons launching at least one triple per game. Why?
"His world will open up," Brown said after the game, "And, in many ways, so will ours."
It's become increasingly impossible of late to separate Simmons the player from Simmons the shooter. Philadelphia traded space and playmaking this summer to double down on size and defense, making the need for Simmons to develop any workable shooting range more dire than ever. Going on four years after he was drafted and three seasons into his career, it's not like an expectation of him doing just that was asking too much.
But it just hasn't happened nearly two months into the season, calling the Sixers' viability as top-tier championship contenders into question. Simmons is 2-of-4 from three-point range and 4-of-9 on two-point jumpers outside the paint. Philadelphia relies on Embiid post-ups and pick-and-rolls for Josh Richardson and Tobias Harris in crunch time, leaving Simmons playing bystander in the dunker spot or weak corner as his teammates try their damndest to navigate a cramped floor with games on the line.
The Sixers rank barely above average in overall offensive rating, and worse in the clutch. Embiid and Philadelphia architect Elton Brand have received a fair share of criticism for their team's relative struggles — especially offensively — in the season's early going, but it's Simmons who's drawn the most ire.
The numbers, though, suggest Embiid's impact is the one waning most. His net offensive rating has been overwhelmingly positive each of the last two seasons, but that hasn't been the case in 2019-20. The Sixers are scoring at a bottom-five rate with Embiid on the floor, and a top-10 mark when he's on the bench. Both his on and off-court offensive ratings are easy worsts among starters.
But the critical narrative surrounding Philadelphia's offensive labors has largely ignored Embiid for Simmons regardless, and it's not the media's fault. Brown has made abundantly clear over the years that Embiid is his team's franchise player, frequently calling him "our crown jewel" while citing his Hall-of-Fame ability on both sides of the ball.
Embiid isn't tasked with tailoring his game toward Simmons' nearly as much as the other way around, and understandably so. The former's sheer size inherently limits both the flexibility and scalability of his offensive influence.
If Embiid isn't the Sixers' go-to guy, demanding post-ups and drawing double teams, just how would he function in the team construct? He's way too talented to serve as a glorified floor-spacer, and his stroke hasn't developed to the point he'd be well-suited for that role anyway. A similar line of thinking applies to making Embiid a rim-runner and vertical floor-spacer. He's just too good, and not quite versatile enough, to prosper in a more confined offensive role.
The opposite dynamic applies to Simmons, at least for now. His most enticing attribute dating back to high school has been his adaptability. There are exceedingly few players standing 6-foot-10 capable of making the passes Simmons does, and fewer still who double as a disruptive defender of every position on the floor. He's a Unicorn without the jumper, and his generational blend of size, athleticism and ball-handling genius portended inevitable skill development to come.
It hasn't, for the most part, but focusing on that failure might be deflecting from an all-encompassing issue that continues to plague the Sixers. What if they're building around the wrong franchise player?
The ongoing trajectory of the league lends credence to that notion. Simmons isn't LeBron James or Giannis Antetokounmpo, but it's not difficult to imagine an offensive attack molded to his similar strengths reaching heights one conformed to Embiid's never could.
Philadelphia's historic romp over Cleveland offered a glimpse into that alternate reality, just like its effectiveness this season with Embiid on the bench. Lineups featuring Simmons without Embiid boast an offensive rating of 114.4, comfortably above its overall mark, subsist on far higher diets of transition and three-point shooting, per Cleaning the Glass. The Sixers shoot better at the rim and from deep in that scenario, too, further evidence of Simmons' sweeping effect without being forced to walk the ball up and Embiid clogging the paint.
Philadelphia, unsurprisingly, isn't as stout defensively with those units on the floor. Embiid has been a defensive panacea during the regular season throughout his career. Improved conditioning is the only thing keeping him from winning Defensive Player of the Year, and he might win the award this season anyway.
Still, the same foibles that have long mitigated Rudy Gobert's defensive influence in the playoffs apply to Embiid. A system built around a preeminent rim-protector with limited perimeter mobility can't take away everything, and superior postseason competition generally means those low-value shots are more likely to drop. A switch-heavy scheme with a big like Al Horford playing center full-time, though? That's a defense built for the playoffs, and one that would maximize Simmons' gifts on that end — both on and off the ball.
This isn't some cry for Philadelphia to blow it up – whether Simmons or Embiid would be the one on the way out. The Sixers' ceiling is tallest with both on the roster, and it's much too early to write them off as title contenders, this season or going forward. Neither Simmons nor Embiid are finished products; their pairing could still end up functioning at a championship level.
But if Philadelphia, quietly 6-1 in its last seven games, again starts underperforming, calls to trade Simmons will undoubtedly resurface.
And while that's certainly a measure worth considering, it's unfair to Simmons — and potentially destructive to the Sixers' long-term title hopes — without at least broaching the same fate for Embiid.