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Hydrocotyle (Hydrocotyle bowlesioides) may also be known as pennywort, marsh penny, thick-leaved pennywort or Indian pennywort. This plant has a very long creeping stem that is often seen in ponds, lakes and rivers. Some hydrocotyle species can also grow in places near the sea.
The leaves of this plant are small which appear to look like a kidney that has rather scalloped edges. The flowers of the hydrocotyle are simple and round and develop into round fruits. This plant is native to places and locations where there is a tropical to temperate climate. The entire part of the hydrocotyle plant is utilized for herbal remedies and treatments. It is harvested year round.
History and Origin
The use of the many hydrocotyle varieties is rather well known in many cultures all around the world. This plant is hardy and can grow almost anywhere. In folkloric medicine, the plant is used to remedy many illnesses that plague the skin and respiratory system. In India, in the Arunachal Pradesh district, this plant is used to treat typhoid fever. The hydrocotyle is also added in many recipes that can emit a parsley-like smell in cooking.
Ancient Uses
During ancient times, the hydrocotyle plant is used as a pot herb in many ancient recipes. In many ancient tribes, the extracts of the plant was used to reduce fevers and as a poultice to treat boils, inflammation, severe itching and wounds. The hydrocotyle was also used as a decoction to reduce abscesses, sore throat, severe itching and also as a cure for coughs and many other illnesses of a person's upper respiratory tract.
Modern Uses
In modern times, the hydrocotyle plant is a promising cure to reduce tumors and to improve the overall health of the immune system in cancer patients during cancer treatments. The herb is also seen as an important source of natural antioxidants that can help improve health to the cellular level.
Several uses during ancient times have also been found useful during today's modern times. The hydrocotyle plant is still used in many countries and civilizations as a cure for upper respiratory illnesses such as coughs, sore throats, colds and to effectively reduce high fevers. It can also be used as a herbal remedy to cure headaches; relieve influenza and is also a promising cure for hepatitis.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the hydrocotyle herb is combined with other herbs to form a formula to treat muscular dystrophy.
Side Effects
Although there are no noted major side effect of using hydrocotyle plant for illnesses it is still contraindicated for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. There is also no research to back up the safety of its use for very young children and infants.
It is important to consult your doctor first regarding the use of this herbal remedy for your own illness or ailment. Ask for the appropriate dose and for any adverse reaction to the current medication you are using.
Always purchase supplements, teas and extracts of the hydrocotyle plant from well-known and reliable manufacturers to make sure you are purchasing fresh, sun-dried herbal parts. Do not attempt to self medicate with hydrocotyle herb, always consult your doctor if you want to use this herb for the therapeutic benefits that it has.
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Paulina Nelega, RH, has been in private practice as a Clinical Herbalist for over 15 years. She has developed and taught courses in herbal medicine, and her articles on health have appeared in numerous publications. She is very passionate about the healing power of nature. Ask Dr. Jan


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It has become increasingly obvious over the last couple of years that some gamers are convinced that after Obama satisfies his deep-seated yearning to take away our guns he is going to send in the UN black helicopters and take away our hardcore videogames. In the past I've written about how the irrational fear that casual games are "taking over" has produced pathological troglodyte behavior directed against women who have dared simply to voice an opinion about games. Recently I came across an instance that has at its root the same pathology (oh no! Games are being played by everyone!) but adopted a refreshingly different approach: denial.
Throw an Apple hard enough and it can really sting
In a recent opinion piece for Polygon, Shawn Foust, currently VP of Design at Quark Games argued that "In two years mobile and tablet games will be predominantly hardcore." Admittedly this pronouncement could be seen as a little self-serving given that Foust's company is dedicated to producing hardcore games for mobile platforms. But let's give Foust the benefit of the doubt and assume that his work has followed his passions and beliefs. What justifies the confidence behind his statement? Simple. "Every media platform optimized for games eventually ends up going hardcore. Mobile will not be different." The PC, the Internet, consoles, all started out as oriented toward casual games and moved inevitably toward hardcore. The reason, he argues, lies in the desires of gamers themselves: "For all of our faults as customers (we're very torch- and pitchfork-oriented), we gamers — and I'm speaking of the hardcore variety — are loyal and dedicated. . . .For us, games aren't an idle pastime. They are a commitment. We can't be distracted." Casual games, he makes clear, are all about simple distraction, passing the time.
Sadly, this piece simply confirms why people should not be in a rush to invest in Foust's company. In the first place he's exhibiting the classic circular reasoning evident among so many game developers. Notice the nifty little rhetorical sidestep? I'm going to talk about all gamers. . .by which I mean hardcore gamers. But this is typical of the industry more broadly (indeed, in a former age it virtually defined the industry): all we make are hardcore games which people are buying therefore all gamers are hardcore gamers which means that we need to keep making nothing but hardcore games. It is a completely fallacious argument to believe that your intended audience thinks exactly like you do and in the game industry it has led to some of the most problematic industry practices: the widespread hypersexualism (we like big boobs so of course everyone does) and racism (we like plucky black sidekicks, doesn't everyone?).
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Singapore, 11 Sep 2011 – For the first time, Singapore Zoo opened its doors to the public this evening for the inaugural Moon Night 2011 in celebration of the Mid-Autumn festival. Jointly organised by Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), Singapore Environment Council (SEC) and Singapore Manufacturers' Federation (SMa), the event hopes to raise awareness for nature conservation and biodiversity, while promoting family togetherness.
The main highlight of the evening was the release of fireflies into the forested area at the zoo by President Tony Tan Keng Yam, in an effort to reintroduce this distinctive species of insects into the mangrove ecosystem.
Dr Tony Tan and Mr George Huang, President of SMa also placed floating lanterns in the waters of Upper Seletar Reservoir. Visitors to the park were encouraged to buy the lanterns, with all proceeds donated to the Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund (WRSCF), which was set up with the purpose of conserving Singapore's endangered native wildlife.
"Other than assisting our members in commercial interests, SMa is also conscious of and promotes good corporate social responsibility, including environment, work-life balance, culture and conservation in our members' companies. We appreciate and support the great work of WRS and SEC, and will continue to work with them to engender environmentally conscious behaviour in our members and staff," said Mr Huang.
Other festivities included the recounting of the story of Chang Er and her companion, the jade rabbit, and an animal petting session with the rabbits at the zoo. Visitors were also educated on the effects of the moon on animal behaviour through fun and interactive performances.
Considered an important date in the Chinese calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a symbol of reunion brought about by the full moon. It traditionally calls for families and friends to gather and admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon while enjoying delicious moon cakes that is meant to represent people's pursuit of a round and perfect life.
At the same time, the moon is inextricably linked to the everyday rhythms and rituals of life on earth, as well as the tide. Moon phases have been said to shape the evolution and lives of the animal kingdom, promoting the migratory habits of many animals today.
"We are excited to be organising the first ever Moon Night in the world, as it shows a clear sign of ownership in the pursuit for perfect balance and harmony. Through its special mix of cultural mythology and awareness-raising about biodiversity preservation, Moon Night 2011 is a great opportunity for families to spend quality time together during the Mid-Autumn festival at a unique location, while allowing WRS and SEC to educate Singaporeans on holistic approaches to wildlife and nature conservation," said Isa Loh, Group CEO, WRS.
"SMa is happy to be part of this innovative and interesting event. It gives, not just our members, but also the families of their employees, the opportunity to gather as one big family," added Mr Huang.
The release of fireflies is significant as the population continues to dwindle in Singapore due to urbanisation.
"On this special day while we celebrate the full moon, we are also encouraging the balance of life on earth as animal cycles and rituals are known to coincide with moon phases. On behalf of WRS and SEC, I would like to thank President Tony Tan and Mr George Huang, President of SMa, for celebrating and reinforcing the message of Moon Night with us," added Ms Loh, who is also Chairman of the Singapore Environment Council.


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Betting against U.S. government debt this year is turning out to be a fool's errand. Just ask Wall Street's biggest bond dealers.
While the losses that their economists predicted have yet to materialize, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and the 20 other firms that trade with the Federal Reserve began wagering on a Treasuries selloff last month for the first time since 2011. The strategy was upended as Fed Chair Janet Yellen signaled she wasn't in a rush to lift interest rates, two weeks after suggesting the opposite at the bank's March 19 meeting.
The surprising resilience of Treasuries has investors recalibrating forecasts for higher borrowing costs as lackluster job growth and emerging-market turmoil push yields toward 2014 lows. That's also made the business of trading bonds, once more predictable for dealers when the Fed was buying trillions of dollars of debt to spur the economy, less profitable as new rules limit the risks they can take with their own money.
"You have an uncertain Fed, an uncertain direction of the economy and you've got rates moving," Mark MacQueen, a partner at Sage Advisory Services Ltd., which oversees $10 billion, said by telephone from Austin, Texas. In the past, "calling the direction of the market and what you should be doing in it was a lot easier than it is today, particularly for the dealers."
Treasuries have confounded economists who predicted 10-year yields would approach 3.4 percent by year-end as a strengthening economy prompts the Fed to pare its unprecedented bond buying.
Caught Short
After surging to a 29-month high of 3.05 percent at the start of the year, yields on the 10-year note have declined and were at 2.72 percent at 7:42 a.m. in New York.
One reason yields have fallen is the U.S. labor market, which has yet to show consistent improvement.
The world's largest economy added fewer jobs on average in the first three months of the year than in the same period in the prior two years, data compiled by Bloomberg show. At the same time, a slowdown in China and tensions between Russia and Ukraine boosted demand for the safest assets.
Wall Street firms known as primary dealers are getting caught short betting against Treasuries.
They collectively amassed $5.2 billion of wagers in March that would profit if Treasuries fell, the first time they had net short positions on government debt since September 2011, data compiled by the Fed show.
'Some Time'
The practice is allowed under the Volcker Rule that limits the types of trades that banks can make with their own money. The wagers may include market-making, which is the business of using the firm's capital to buy and sell securities with customers while profiting on the spread and movement in prices.
While the bets initially paid off after Yellen said on March 19 that the Fed may lift its benchmark rate six months after it stops buying bonds, Treasuries have since rallied as her subsequent comments strengthened the view that policy makers will keep borrowing costs low to support growth.
On March 31, Yellen highlighted inconsistencies in job data and said "considerable slack" in labor markets showed the Fed's accommodative policies will be needed for "some time."
Then, in her first major speech on her policy framework as Fed chair on April 16, Yellen said it will take at least two years for the U.S. economy to meet the Fed's goals, which determine how quickly the central bank raises rates.
After declining as much as 0.6 percent following Yellen's March 19 comments, Treasuries have recouped all their losses, index data compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch show. Yield Forecasts
"We had that big selloff and the dealers got short then, and then we turned around and the Fed says, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa: it's lower for longer again,'" MacQueen said in an April 15 telephone interview. "The dealers are really worried here. You get really punished if you take a lot of risk."
Economists and strategists around Wall Street are still anticipating that Treasuries will underperform as yields increase, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
While they've ratcheted down their forecasts this year, they predict 10-year yields will increase to 3.36 percent by the end of December. That's more than 0.6 percentage point higher than where yields are today.
"My forecast is 4 percent," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank AG, a primary dealer. "It may seem like it's really aggressive but it's really not."
LaVorgna, who has the highest estimate among the 66 responses in a Bloomberg survey, said stronger economic data will likely cause investors to sell Treasuries as they anticipate a rate increase from the Fed.
History Lesson
The U.S. economy will expand 2.7 percent this year from 1.9 percent in 2013, estimates compiled by Bloomberg show. Growth will accelerate 3 percent next year, which would be the fastest in a decade, based on those forecasts.
Dealers used to rely on Treasuries to act as a hedge against their holdings of other types of debt, such as corporate bonds and mortgages. That changed after the credit crisis caused the failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008.
They slashed corporate-debt inventories by 76 percent from the 2007 peak through last March as they sought to comply with higher capital requirements from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and stockpiled Treasuries instead.
"Being a dealer has changed over the years, and not least because you also have new balance-sheet constraints that you didn't have before," Ira Jersey, an interest-rate strategist at primary dealer Credit Suisse Group AG, said in a telephone interview on April 14.
Almost Guaranteed
While the Fed's decision to inundate the U.S. economy with more than $3 trillion of cheap money since 2008 by buying Treasuries and mortgaged-backed bonds bolstered profits as all fixed-income assets rallied, yields are now so low that banks are struggling to make money trading government bonds.
Yields on 10-year notes have remained below 3 percent since January, data compiled by Bloomberg show. In two decades before the credit crisis, average yields topped 6 percent.
Average daily trading has also dropped to $551.3 billion in March from an average $570.2 billion in 2007, even as the outstanding amount of Treasuries has more than doubled since the financial crisis, according data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
"During the crisis, the Fed went to great pains to save primary dealers," Christopher Whalen, banker and author of "Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream," said in a telephone interview. "Now, because of quantitative easing and other dynamics in the market, it's not just treacherous, it's almost a guaranteed loss."
Trading Revenue
The biggest dealers are seeing their earnings suffer. In the first quarter, five of the six biggest Wall Street firms reported declines in fixed-income trading revenue.
JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bond underwriter, had a 21 percent decrease from its fixed-income trading business, more than estimates from Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst at Credit Suisse, and Matt Burnell of Wells Fargo & Co.
Citigroup, whose bond-trading results marred the New York- based bank's two prior quarterly earnings, reported a 18 percent decrease in revenue from that business. Credit Suisse, the second-largest Swiss bank, had a 25 percent drop as income from rates and emerging-markets businesses fell. Declines in debt- trading last year prompted the Zurich-based firm to cut more than 100 fixed-income jobs in London and New York.
Bank Squeeze
Chief Financial Officer David Mathers said in a Feb. 6 call that Credit Suisse has "reduced the capital in this business materially and we're obviously increasing our electronic trading operations in this area." Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer at JPMorgan, also emphasized the decreased role of humans in the rates-trading business on an April 11 call as the New York-based bank seeks to cut costs.
About 49 percent of U.S. government-debt trading was executed electronically last year, from 31 percent in 2012, a Greenwich Associates survey of institutional money managers showed. That may ultimately lead banks to combine their rates businesses or scale back their roles as primary dealers as firms get squeezed, said Krishna Memani, the New York-based chief investment officer of OppenheimerFunds Inc., which oversees $79.1 billion in fixed-income assets.


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At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Bandai America Inc. will offer limited edition products (while supplies last) and a host of activities. To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Power Rangers, Bandai will offer three limited edition products, including a Power Rangers Limited Edition Legacy Power Morpher, a Power Rangers Limited Edition Gosei Morpher, and a Power Rangers Limited Edition Green Dragon Ranger. The original Green Power Ranger, Jason David Frank, will also appear for autograph signings.
Bandai will also offer a Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures Pac is Back-Avi Arad Limited Edition Figure, as well as unveil the full line of new Godzilla products. Bandai has planned Power Rangers and Pac-Man appearances daily, as well as free card giveaways, and an autograph signing from Pac-Man producer Avi Arad.


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1997 Ford Ranger Axle - Ultimate Danger Ranger
Part 1: Solid-Axle Conversion
For those of you who don't know, I'm the new guy here at the 'zine. Actually, I've been here for a little over six months, but I have a feeling I'm going to be the FNG for a long time! With the feature editor position arrived the opportunity to build a truck for this year's Ultimate Adventure, a trip that I, like so many of you, always wanted to be a part of. But with only five weeks until the Adventure and my little ol' '97 Ford Ranger playing double duty as my wheeler/commuter truck, I decided what the heck, five weeks is plenty of time to build a truck, right?
My plan of action was simple. Slap a cheap solid axle under the front end, lower the transfer-case ratio, and use some suspension which could be conceived as the ultimate bare-minimum package that would haul me, art director Alan Huber, and all of our junk to Texas and back. Remember: trailers are for wussies.
When it comes to low budget and good availability it doesn't get any better than a Dana 30 axle. I grabbed mine for 70 bucks out of a '93 Wrangler sitting in a friend's backyard. Cheap, sure, but more importantly it was a driver-side high-pinion axle that was the exact width I needed. My Ranger came equipped with the tiny 7.5-inch rear axle, so I wanted something a little stronger since I knew I would have to run at least a 35-inch-tall tire. The solution came in the form of an $80 28-spline 8.8 from a '99 Ranger that would bolt in place of the factory axle.
Now that I had the axles, I needed to figure out a suspension package that was readily available and would require the least amount of fab work since time was of the essence. I knew the front end was going to require the most thought, so I did a little research to figure out what would make for the easiest quality setup. The answer came while looking at Rock Krawler's YJ coilover conversion for the '87-'95 Jeep Wrangler. Although it may not be the least expensive in terms of price, it had everything we needed and would require very little fabrication time. Though little fab work is required, it is important to note that this kit is a fully weld-on system that should be performed by a certified welder.
The crew at Diesel Tech lent their time and a bay to me for the five weeks I had to get this project completed, and then Poly Performance worked into the wee hours of the night putting all the finishing touches on the truck getting it ready for the 1,600-mile trip to Longview, Texas.


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If you are planning to visit Bonita Springs, you know you are heading for a great destination to play, explore, and enjoy some fun in the sun. Why not make your trip to Bonita Springs even more special by staying in your very own holiday rental instead of a hotel? We have a variety of deals on rental homes in Bonita Springs for every budget and style. Whether you are looking for a cozy condo for two or a spacious rental house to fit the whole family, there is sure to be the perfect holiday rental for your next trip.
Whether you are looking to explore nature, relax on the beach, or take a boat out on its clear waters, Bonita Springs is an unforgettable destination with a little something for everyone. Enjoy the wildlife and views of Barefoot Beach Preserve or rent a boat to take out on the water at Bay Water Boat Rentals. Bonita Springs Public Beach is a great place to go swimming or relax and unwind, and you can even bring Fido to the town's very own Dog Beach. No matter how you decide to spend your days in Bonita Springs, you will have a great time enjoying all the benefits of a home away from home at your very own holiday rental. With the fantastic deals available there is no reason not to choose a rental home, and you will be glad you did.
Anyone who has traveled with a large group or for an extended period of time knows that hotels can be expensive. Why pay for multiple hotel rooms for your group when you can rent one spacious home to accommodate everyone? Save yourself some cost and hassle by going with Bonita Springs holiday rentals instead of hotels, and you could also get a discounted rate on extended stays, making the deal even sweeter. You can experience all the comfort and convenience of your rental home and save money, making Bonita Springs holiday rentals a win-win situation for your next trip.


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I don't know why, but the mascot for the band Disturbed has been getting a lot of requests. I have been getting completely flooded for me to make a tutorial on "how to draw The Guy" or Disturbed mascot. This figure is most often seen on the back of the Disturbed's album, 'The Sickness'. The figure or face was originally just a sketch of a scary face that had a big, strangely sadistic grin. After altercations and some minor digital touch ups, the grim reaper looking character was officially considered to be the mascot for Disturbed. The name of the figure is just simply 'The Guy', and some talk about how he got his name. I for one have no idea who or how The Guy was named The Guy. I heard that one of the band member's kids was scared to look at the sketched image of the grinning man and expressed how awful it was and just referred to the drawing as the guy. So now that you have an idea who and how this mascot came about, what do you say that you start learning or teaching yourself how to draw The Guy. I will be back soon so hang on to your britches there is more to come. Peace people and adios!
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Which Is Worse, Shoplifting or Pot?
When I was editing the article Sticky Fingers about shoplifting, for our June issue, the thing that really got to me was that lots of kids don't seem to take ethics seriously. According to the Josephson Institute, which tracks adolescent thoughts and attitudes, a third of kids say they've stolen from a store. Yet 92 percent of teens say they're okay with their ethical stands. This means there's a whole bunch of kids who steal but don't see anything wrong with it.
But some of the research our writer turned up shows that parents do have a problem with kids stealing—and maybe a little too much of a problem. Some moms and dads are so afraid of having a child who steals that they say they'd rather their kids did drugs. Seriously. A study from Columbia University's Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse found that 52 percent of parents would be more upset if their child shoplifted than if he smoked pot.
So, I'm asking. What's going on here? Drugs not heists? Somebody, please explain.


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Springs to get Walmart data center
Walmart plans to build a 210,000-square-foot data center at the Interquest development in northern Colorado Springs.
Construction of the building on the 24-acre site will begin in October. The facility is expected to be completed sometime in late 2012.
The data center will have about 30 full-time employees. Full-time Walmart associates are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including health-care coverage, a 401(k) match and a stock-purchase plan.
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I wanted to point out that your budget calculator is not great for big city weddings. I live in NYC and I put down a wedding budget of $25,000 and your calculator told me my venue should only be $2,000 - this does NOT exist in NYC. It might be nice to have two kinds of budget calculators available - one for small town USA and one for larger cities.
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Even for "small towns", or maybe smaller, I don't believe a $2000 venue is very realistic either.


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The transportation sector consumes approximately 28% of all end-use energy in the United States. While significant advances have been made recently to improve the overall efficiency of the sector, particularly with regards to fuel economy, the opportunity for further fuel savings still exists. Technical improvements in vehicles and reasonable government policies that encourage vehicle efficiency could substantially reduce energy consumption in the transportation sector.
However, vehicle improvements will not be able to capture the full potential for energy efficiency without sound policies that slow the rate of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) across the country. VMT is expected to grow at an annual rate of 1.4%, quickly outpacing population growth in the United States. Strategies such as Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance and incentives to encourage compact, transit-oriented development are critical to achieve maximum fuel savings from transportation.
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The ongoing spat between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States President Barack Obama has drowned out an important issue. The entire question of the Israel-Palestine conflict seems to be out of sight and out of mind in Washington and the mainstream media. Instead, the focus has been on diplomatic protocols: on what the United States is or is not willing to concede to Iran in talks, on whether Israel can be trusted with sensitive updates on those talks, and on whether issuing renewed sanctions against Iran is a foolish idea.
Traditionally, the United States and the international community in general don't even try to push peace in Israel's direction when the Jewish state is in the midst of electoral campaign season. That's what is happening now as well, despite the drama stirred up by Bibi and his congressional cohorts John Boehner (R-OH) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Staying out of Israeli elections is conventional wisdom, but is it the right move now? Read more at LobeLog


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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Colorado left-hander David Peterson could have opted to stay right in his own backyard and make his Perfect Game debut at the PG Rocky Mountain Showcase in Greenwood Village, Colo., over the Memorial Day weekend. In fact, many of his teammates at Regis Jesuit (Aurora, Colo.) High School decided to do just that.
But Peterson, a hard-throwing 6-foot-6, 210-pounder from Denver who is a top-1000 ranked prospect in the class of 2014, is here this weekend, making his PG debut at the 2012 Perfect Game National Academic Showcase at the Player Development 5-Plex.
Attending the Rocky Mountain Showcase might have made a little bit more sense logistically for Peterson, but that's just not the way things worked out. Regis Jesuit was still involved in the Colorado Class 5A state championship finals on Saturday, May 26, and while many of his teammates decided to come out to the Rocky Mountain for one day on that following Sunday, Peterson decided to take a break before heading this direction this weekend.
"I did consider (the Rocky Mountain) but I was still involved in the state finals," Peterson said Saturday afternoon. "My family and I decided to take just a few days off before I came down here for this one."
Peterson is one of more than 80 prospects here this week for the PG National Academic, who join more than 160 prospects who are attending the PG Sunshine East Showcase which is running simultaneously at the 5-Plex. The two groups did their morning workout sessions together and there will be two inter-showcase games.
The National Academic Showcase is designed for prospects with a 3.0 GPA or higher who might want to be recruited by schools with more lofty academic reputations than some of the others. When speaking with Perfect Game on Saturday, it seemed Peterson's motivation was just to get to noticed, regardless of the showcase he was attending.
"I've heard it's very good for exposure and I haven't really got myself out to the East Coast much. Hopefully I'll get seen out here a little and get my name around out here a little," Peterson said.
"I talked to a few people about it that knew (what it was about) and they spoke very highly of it," he continued, adding that he isn't necessarily looking to be recruited by an Ivy League school or the like. "I'm really just looking to go where ever I can play and get a good education, as well."
Peterson ran a 7.54 60-yard dash on a sloppy track and threw 83 mph across the diamond from first base to third base during the morning workout session. The 83 mph velocity tied for the highest throw among the National Academic players who took part in the drill.
He also pitched three innings in an afternoon game and struck out the side in the first with a fastball that reached 86 mph. There was no letdown. Peterson finished his three innings without allowing a hit or a walk and struck out eight. His fastball topped out at 87 mph and he also came home with a 71 mph curve, a 74 slider and a 77 changeup. Six to eight college coaches gathered behind home plate to watch him pitch.
"I'm just here to see what I can do out here against some good competition and show my stuff to the coaches," Peterson said. "I've heard that it's very good for your high school career so I'm looking forward to doing more of these events."
Peterson has been extended an invitation to the prestigious Perfect Game National Underclass Showcase June 12-13 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, but it isn't clear at this time if he'll be able to attend.
Regis Jesuit finished in third place at this year's Colorado Class 5A state tournament behind champion and arch-rival Cherry Creek and runner-up Legend. Jesuit won the championship in 2011 when Peterson was a freshman.
"I didn't know what was going to happen because of graduating all the seniors that we had from the state championship team, but the guys really stepped up and we had a really fun year," Peterson said. "We had pretty good results, too."
Peterson had an impressive sophomore season pitching on the varsity for head coach and former Major League All-Star Walt Weiss. He finished 6-3 with two saves, a 3.26 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 49 1/3 innings; he also struggled with his control at times, walking 34.
One of Peterson's teammates at Regis Jesuit is second baseman Max George, the proverbial 5-tool guy who was unarguably the top performer at the Rocky Mountain Showcase last weekend. That event was George's first exposure to PG just like the National Academic is the first for Peterson, and George expressed similar reasons for being there.
"I want to meet some new guys and get some more exposure because I know Perfect Game (provides) a lot of exposure," George said last week. "This is my first experience with Perfect Game and it's a great tool to use for (college) recruiting and stuff."
George has officially accepted his invitational to the PG Junior National.
"What I know about it, it just brings a lot of exposure and I'm excited and eager to go. It should be fun," he said. "I'm just looking forward to meeting new guys and getting better every day."
Peterson flew to southwest Florida by himself and is staying at his grandparents' home in nearby Naples while he attends the showcase.


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Despite the big London return, Preen remained in New York and again evolved their aesthetic.
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Dazed Digital: You've always said that Preen collections evolve from one to the other. How did the last one evolve into this one?
Justin Thornton: The last dresses of the last show had the black lines running through the colours and we really wanted to play with those lines and the proportion of them this time. Then we looked at Japanese bondage, with the ropes and the twisting and we picked out that idea and they became like sections on the body and as we developed the idea, it became more like twists of silk and more delicate.
Then because We moved studio, we looked at our archives and there was a lot of Victoriana and punky stuff, 90s grunge and that inspired the silver jeans and the Victorian ruffles.
DD: What was that very ruffled textured that you repeated in the collection?
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Justin Thornton: Yeah why didn't we? There was a lot of talk about it and it seemed like a shame to move back as we haven't been showing here for long. We're going to be doing things in London still though.
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Jim on Conan Thursday!
Just saw on NBCMV that Jim is going to be on Conan O'Brien tomorrow night. I'm going to have to set my VCR though because it's going to be on while I'm at work screening Bruce. I'm so excited because we are getting Bruce on three screens at the theater where I work. I bet you can all guess where I'll be on my breaks!

Don't forget to watch Conan and Regis and Kelly and E! Behind the scenes tomorrow! And be sure to catch Revealed with Jules Asner tonight!

I'm loving all these Jim appearances!!!!!!!!!!!

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The battle of Interstate 4 belongs to your AP-ranked No. 5 University of South Florida Bulls!
It was a stampede! A stampede, I tell you! USF 64 UCF 12! I must use more exclamation points!! Maybe 64 of them!!!
The University of Central Florida Knights would allow me to run up the punctuation score. They allowed a lot Saturday and saw more green than any USF opponent this season. They spent the afternoon backed up halfway to Orlando. I'd say they're third-and-Plant City right about now.
This is how Bullish I am on my 6-0 alma mater: I spent this crisp and sunny Saturday afternoon at my computer listening to play-by-play courtesy of WFLA-AM's streaming audio. WFLA is the station whose sports talk show I called into as a freshman to complain that the Mets' run at a second-half title in 1981 wasn't being given enough respect by the Tampa Tribune's baseball writer. I had my finger on the pulse of the market, I tell you what.
I had never listened to a USF football game before. They didn't have USF football games when I went there. It didn't occur to me until this morning they have USF football radio broadcasts. I heard a woman interviewed during halftime who said the enterprise she represented had been selling something Bulls-related since they became nationally ranked. "Front runner!!!" I scoffed, careful to use multiple exclamation points. Why, I've been a diehard USF football fan since at least a week before they became nationally ranked!!!
Two weeks after deciding it wasn't worth ever again being excited over a sports team's prospects because all they'll ever do is lose twelve of their final seventeen games and make you miserable, I am using every ounce of green and gold in me to prevent myself from gloating unbecomingly over how we just Bullhandled UCF. I'm pretty sure I gloated over the Phillies' poor start six months ago. Let me check…yes, yes I did. This would be a good time to change the subject to something that makes me look less foolish. Like…
Sorry UCF, you can't stop me. Of course you can't stop me — I'm from USF.
My goodness, I've never said with that the remotest sense of pride before.
Listening to USF football with severe interest was bizarro world. It could be described as listening to a Mets game for the first time ever and discovering that there is a whole media apparatus devoted to you. Except there was no Gary Cohen within earshot. The announcers were college football homers all the way, which would usually turn me off, but why be interested in college football if you don't have a heavily pronounced rooting interest? Why would anybody who isn't a gambler care about college football if it not for the "we" proposition? During the game, Chuck called and everything we said about USF was "we" this and "we" that, punctuated by "Can you believe this? Can you believe this?"
We weren't talking about the sudden ascension of our alma mater to gridiron prominence. We were talking about how we were talking about USF football at all. "We" didn't have a Wooden Nickel's worth of school pride between us through the '80s, the '90s and most of the 2000s. Now we're "we" to the max.
We rule!!! We're No. 5!!! BCS rankings come out this week and We will be in them!!! Nothing could possiblie go wrong!!!
Except we play the Scarlet Knights at Rutgers this Thursday night and everything could definitely be ruined there. Tough opponent, their house, short week, the starters can't even go six, the relievers can't get anybody out, Reyes has been all messed up since August…whoops, wrong anxieties.
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Colorado's tailbacks can be forgiven if they have appeared a bit winded at times during spring drills.
Only four of them are available. There's a lot of repetitions to be spread among four ballcarriers.
"You can feel it," junior Brian Lockridge said. "My legs get a little tired. But I think all this work now is going to help us. That's what I'm focusing on."
The departures of Darrell Scott and Demetrius Sumler left CU with very little depth at tailback. Lockridge is running second team to junior starter Rodney "Speedy" Stewart. The backups are former walkons, senior Corey Nabors and redshirt freshman Quentin Hildreth.
"They're getting a lot of reps when we're going ones, twos, threes and back to ones," running backs coach Darian Hagan said. "The good thing is, they're all playing enough that I think we can put anybody out there and have success."
The depth chart at tailback will double in August with the arrival of four incoming freshmen: Cordary Clark-Allen (6-2, 230) of Phenix City, Ala., Tony Jones (5-7, 180) of Paterson, N.J., Trea Jones (5-11, 190) of Wake Forest, N.C., and J.T. Torres (6-1, 215) of La Mirada, Calif.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
We are planning to launch the first website with the topic
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Bristol Financial Aid Award Letter
Once your financial aid file is complete, you will receive an award letter showing your estimated financial aid package. Review the letter carefully. The award offer is valid only for the enrollment level specified on the letter. Contact the Financial Aid Office if you expect your enrollment to be different from what is specified on the letter. In most cases, the award offer will fluctuate with enrollment changes. Follow-up on any comments listed or additional information requests.
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Bristol Campus Card
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You can view your Bristol Campus Card balance and transactions through your accessBCC account or via the Bristol Mobile app. To view through your accessBCC account, log in, click on the Campus Card tab, log in again at the eAccounts Login, using your same accessBCC log in information. To view using the Bristol Mobile app, follow the download directions outlined in accessBCC at the Campus Card tab.
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The Bristol Campus Card is needed for the book advance program. For more information on Book Advances, visit the Helpful Information page.
Financial Aid Distribution
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Your accessBCC account will show an estimated disbursement date which reflects the date the college expects to receive payment from federal and state agencies. This is not the date you can expect to receive a payment. Awards, enrollment, and charges are verified and payments are then made to students. Funds are distributed within fourteen days of receipt.
For the Fall semester, financial aid payments begin in November; for the Spring semester, payments begin in March; for the Summer semester, payments begin in August. The Student Accounts Office will notify you through your accessBCC email account when the payment is available. The payment dates are posted on the campus event calendar.
The Student Accounts Office processes ALL refunds and financial aid payments through the Bristol Refund Selection Kit. The funds will be distributed to you based on the refund preference you select at www.refundselection.com.
Loan Payments
Loans are made in two payments. As is the case with all financial aid, the payment is applied to your charges first; any remaining funds are then paid to you. If you are attending in the Fall and Spring, you will receive a payment in the Fall and a payment in the Spring. If you are attending for one semester only or if your loan is for a single semester, the loan will still be made in two payments – usually half of the loan is paid around mid-semester and the second half is paid about one month later. Promissory notes and entrance counseling must be complete before payments can be authorized.
Monthly Payment Plan
Bristol offers the convenience of a monthly payment plan for tuition and fee charges. For more information, call Student Accounts at 774.357.2160. You can learn about Bristol online payment plans here.
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State law requires students enrolled in nine credits or more to have health insurance. You can waive this charge through accessBCC if you are being charged for health insurance on your bill and can demonstrate you already have health insurance. For more information, call Student Accounts at 774.357.2160. Learn more about insurance information here.
Refund Selection Kit
Bristol has partnered with BankMobile Disbursements, a division of Customers Bank, to bring a new method for receiving your refunds to all Bristol credit students — the Refund Selection Kit.
It is free to you and addresses specific issues you face with cashing checks and having to wait for funds to clear. This program makes funds available to you immediately upon release of the funds.
You will receive a bright green envelope in the mail with your Refund Selection Kit which needs to be activated upon receipt at www.refundselection.com. This is free and offers you important benefits. Please do not throw away this important kit since it is your ticket to a faster refund.
The Refund Selection Kit will be mailed to your current address on file. Therefore, it is critical that you verify your mailing address as soon as possible. Make sure the College has your correct address. . Log in as you always do and on the first screen in "My Quick Links" choose "Change my Address."
Simply put, your new Refund Selection Kit is designed to provide you with increased choice when it comes to receiving your financial aid or college refunds - including Electronic Direct Deposit to your existing bank account or to the BankMobile Vibe Account. Not expecting a refund or financial aid? You never know; a class can be canceled, or you can drop a class.
Please make your refund selection as soon as you receive your Refund Selection Kit. Remember, even if you are not currently expecting a refund from Bristol, we may have a refund for you in the future. You can visit www.refundselection.com to learn more about all the great benefits! Bristol students can contact BankMobile at 1.877.327.9515.
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Health Insurance
The online health insurance waiver has closed for the Spring 2018 Semester. Please contact the Student Accounts Office at 774.357.2160 to complete a paper waiver.
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Some people are calling it a goldrush. Others say the only thing stopping them from hitting paydirt is a shortage of labour.
And although there's a global frenzy, locals caught up in it say there will be plenty of loot to go around for years to come.
The commodity causing all the hype is apps - the pint-size computer programs that turn smartphones and tablets into everything from games consoles to heart-rate monitors.
Apps - many developed here - let users of Apple iOS or Android mobile devices do everything from banking on the move to creating a virtual oil painting. One local iOS app will even tell your fortune.
Colossal fortunes are apparently being made. In October, the New York Times reported that Finnish developer Supercell was making US$500,000 (NZ$601,000) a day through Apple's iTunes App Store from its Clash of Clans and Hay Day game apps. Income like that is exciting local developers, who aren't put off by the 700,000-plus apps already in the store.
For all the hype, though, no one can say how big the New Zealand app development market is. Apple, which strictly controls the apps it allows into its store - and pockets 30 per cent of all sales - won't say how many registered Kiwi developers there are.
The New Zealand Software Association can rattle off names of a few companies in the app business - Sush Mobile, Cactuslab, Bluespark, Carnival Labs - but doesn't report a sudden influx of new app developer members.
IT market analyst IDC studies the various mobile device "ecosystems" - Apple iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows - from a global perspective, but has no local market insights to offer.
The best guess, based on iOS meet-ups organised by Auckland developer Cactuslab and attendee numbers at Devmob, a conference in November on Auckland's North Shore, is that there are 100 to 200 New Zealand app developers.
Cactuslab co-founder Karl von Randow says about a dozen companies - including his - "make a lot of noise" about app development, and many others are either creating apps in-house or are small operators.
If noise translates into a few million dollars in sales, the busiest dozen companies could be turning over $50 million, and the rest the same again, to give a total market size of, perhaps, $100 million.
Kaiparasoft, a Kumeu company which hasn't shown up on either the Software Association or Cactuslab radar, is a local app development star. It released a game in the iTunes store in November that has been in the top 20 in the United States market since and the company looks set to more than double last year's revenue of $5 million.
Director Chris Harris says Kaiparasoft's success is proof that writing games apps is a legitimate career choice.
"It's moving so fast that we can't wait five or 10 years for people to come round to the idea that it's a viable way to make a living.
"The livings are being made now; the goldrush is on now."
MEA Mobile is at least as bullish as Kaiparasoft.
Director Rod Macfarlane says a skills shortage is the problem.
"A big issue for us is finding new talent, so we've recently launched a new education institute called App School, a joint venture with Prima Group, which is part of Wintec [the Waikato Institute of Technology].
"There's no shortage of opportunity in this market. The amazing thing is, the mobile industry represents 2 per cent of global GDP - it's massive and it's only getting bigger, at a phenomenal rate."
And don't let it be said that playing computer games doesn't prepare you for the real world. Kaiparasoft's Harris says lifelong gamers are precisely the people he looks for when hiring.
In app development, if you strike it lucky, it's all fun and games.
App creation very much a young man's world
If your mental picture of an app creator is a young male maverick with personal hygiene issues, you're probably at least partly right.
United States company Appcelerator and IT market analyst IDC have sketched an app developer profile based on a survey in August of 5500 users of Titanium, Appcelerator's programming tool. Ninety-six per cent of survey respondents were male, 40 per cent were in their 20s and nearly 80 per cent under 40.
The questionnaire apparently didn't probe their showering frequency, so the truth or otherwise of the popular belief that geeks get so wrapped up in their work that they forget to wash is untested.
The survey does suggest, however, that mobile developers want to change the world.
They like "to know it first and know it best", but not for the sake of climbing the corporate ladder - getting promoted and impressing the boss isn't particularly important to them.
On the other hand, pride in their work, freedom of speech, and the environment all matter.
And what really fires them up is fighting corruption and ending poverty and corporate greed.
The iOS platform used by Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch was more popular with respondents than the rival Android operating system.
Auckland app developer John Ballinger, who is 35 and like a third of the survey respondents is self-employed, thinks the profile is "over the top".
He is more turned on by the opportunities presented by Apple's clever gadgets than by attacking the company's bulging coffers.


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Stella McCartney Pre-Fall 2013 | Pictures
Stella McCartney Pre-Fall 2013
Stella McCartney Pre-Fall 2013
Is there any party like a Stella McCartney pre-collection party? As she's done before, the designer brought her Pre-Fall offering to New York City and presented it as part of a lavish cocktail party. This week's event at the Americas Society drew a number of McCartney's boldfaced fans: Anna Wintour, Garance Doré, and Glenn Close were spotted in the crowd, and so were Alec Baldwin, his wife Hilaria Thomas, and Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld.
But not even stars that bright could outshine the models or what they were wearing: Hanne Gaby Odiele, for example, was spotted sitting on a comfortable-looking chair. If she weren't dressed in head-to-toe McCartney, she would have looked like any other chic partygoer.
That might be because the clothes themselves were designed, in McCartney's words, to "address every need of the modern woman's wardrobe." Odiele's dress was a long-sleeved gown in black and white, but the collection featured plenty of functional coats (some double-breasted varietals feature lapels so wide they span their wearer's shoulders) and no shortage of well-tailored separates. The tone-on-tone floral prints in oxblood and dark blue add visual interest, and so do the stripes in black, white, orange, and red.
A few pictures from the party below, as well as the full collection, here in the gallery.
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This coming Monday - March 7 - is Clean Monday in Greece. This is the start of the Lent period before Easter and there are several traditional dishes that are eaten on this day. Below, you'll find 8 recipes. Just click on the links to go to the recipes.
This is well-known worldwide. It is made from taramas, which is the fish roe from cod (mosy common) or carp. You may know Taramosalata as being bright pink in colour, but this is usually due to food colouring being added. It should be a colour varying from beige to light pink, depending on the fish roe.
These are delicious with Gigantes (see below) which is also traditionally eaten on Clean Monday. They can be prepared in a day, so there is time to get them ready.
In addition to the dishes, it is traditional to eat a special type of bread called Lagana, which is flat and hasn't risen as much as normal bread. Usually people buy it from the bakers on Clean Monday, but you can also prepare it yourself.
Butterbeans Plaki (Gigantes)
Butterbeans Plaki (Gigantes)
There are several ways of cooking and serving octopus. This is a simple recipe with small pasta - the type used for minestrone - and is delicious served with grated cheese.
It is not so common for prawns to be served in this way on Clean Monday, but it is such a delicious dish that we've included it - it is allowed. It is served in individual ceramic bowls as in the photo and the bowls are placed in front of the guests piping hot! This recipe is for 4 of these bowls or servings.
Macedonian Halva
Macedonian Halva
This halva is traditionally associated with Clean Monday, but the recipe is a well-kept secret, so it can only be purchased.
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On the physical death of Jesus Christ
William D. Edwards, MD; Wesley J. Gabel, MDiv; Floyd E Hosmer, MS, AMI
Reprinted from JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
March 21, 1986, Volume 256
Copyright 1986, American Medical Association
From the Departments of Pathology (Dr. Edwards) and Medical Graphics (Mr. Hosmer), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; and the Homestead United Methodist Church, Rochester, Minn., and the West Bethel United Methodist Church, Bethel, Minn. (Pastor Gabel).
Reprint requests to Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905 (Dr. Edwards)
Jesus of Nazareth underwent Jewish and Roman trials, was flogged, and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock, as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha. At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to the patibulum and, after the patibulum was lifted onto the upright post (stipes), his feet were nailed to the stipes. The major pathophysiologic effect of crucifixion was an interference with normal respirations. Accordingly death resulted primarily from hypovolemic shock and exhaustion asphyxia. Jesus' death was ensured by the thrust of a soldier's spear into his side. Modern medical interpretation of the historical evidence indicate that Jesus was dead when taken down from the cross.
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Court Vision: Reaction to Rudy Gay deal
Rudy Gay has more than $37 million remaining on his contract after this season. (Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
By Rob Mahoney
Reaction around the league to Wednesday's trade that sent Rudy Gay to Toronto, Jose Calderon to Detroit and Tayshaun Prince and Ed Davis to Memphis:
• Be sure to check out The Point Forward's grades of the trade, as well as our deconstruction of Toronto's continued mismanagement.
• Gay may not be the cause of the Grizzlies' offensive problems, but TrueHoop's Beckley Mason wonders if removing Gay from Memphis' stagnant offense might offer the potential for more movement:
Many Memphis possessions don't really start until the shot clock is close to single digits. The defense has less work to do and less time to make mistakes before a shot goes up.
And even when Memphis does get into a set, the team struggles to generate snappy ball movement. The departed Gay and the remaining Zach Randolph, in particular, both have sticky hands, and tendencies to seek one-on-one scoring opportunities.
This was particularly ineffective for Gay, a slasher who'd like to find his way to the rim. He was fed the ball often enough to lead the team in shot attempts, but so often his drives ended in a less efficient mid-range jumper, because Marc Gasol, Randolph and their defenders were hogging the paint. Like all slashers Gay would come off a screen looking for daylight, and instead he'd see a clogged lane with muddled driving angles.
Randolph is fairly productive as a postup or isolation threat, as are the Grizzlies as a team. They rank above average in both categories according to Synergy. But here's the thing -- those two ways of scoring make up the least efficient ways to get buckets in the NBA. Having a great isolation player is most useful when they can distract multiple defenders and create open looks for teammates. In Memphis, that just has not been the case.
• Julien Rodger, writing for the blog A Substitute for War, does a good job of peeling back the layers of this deal from the Grizzlies' perspective. His analysis of Memphis' losses and gains is impressively thorough, and I'd recommend you process his thoughts about the trade before coming to any solid conclusions about where the Grizzlies stand.
• SI.com's Chris Mannix sees an opportunity lost in Memphis' willingness to trade Gay, and conveys a thought shared by some around the league that new Grizzlies owner Robert Pera may be prioritizing the financial bottom line:
Today [former Grizzlies owner Michael] Heisley is gone, replaced by a new owner, Robert Pera, who through new CEO Jason Levien is in the process of tearing it all apart. Last week the Grizzlies dumped Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington and Josh Selby, along with a protected No. 1 pick, to Cleveland for D-Leaguer Jon Leuer. And on Wednesday, Memphis completed a three-team trade with Toronto and Detroit that sent Gay to the Raptors in exchange for Tayshaun Prince, Ed Davis, Austin Daye and a second-round pick.
Heisley is gone, and Pera now wears the black hat of an owner who prioritized profits over winning, a scarlet letter players won't soon forget. It's his money and Memphis, which lost $12.5 million last year, according to Forbes, and was over the tax line headed into this summer, wasn't in position to make him any. It's difficult for any market to support three players making a combined $50 million, let alone one of the NBA's smallest. But stock prices for Pera's Ubiquiti Networks plummeted last spring, leaving some front-office executives to wonder if the Grizzlies are paying the price for Pera's private-sector failures.
• Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports used the Grizzlies' recent moves to infer supposed mismanagement and to discuss the future distribution of the NBA's best players:
Before trading Gay, Memphis had already moved under the tax threshold with a trade last week. It could've waited until the summer to move its star and made one more run in the Western Conference. But winning isn't a priority for Pera. Owners are virtually guaranteed profit in this changing economic setup, and small-market owners can play the NBA's corporate welfare game off the profits that the LeBron Jameses, Kobe Bryants and Chris Pauls produce for the sport.
These Grizzlies aren't the Lakers, and they don't get a lot of chances at making a deep playoff run. They could've hung in there for this season, but instead bailed on it. Across the NBA, front offices were incredulous with the way that Memphis unloaded Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington and Josh Selby, along with a future first-round pick, in a salary dump to Cleveland last week.
Several league executives insisted Memphis could've waited until closer to the deadline, traded the parts individually and, minimally, received returns on Speights and Ellington.
"Beyond a panic move," one Eastern Conference GM said. "Cleveland would always be there with that deal."
• For what it's worth, Memphis' Tony Allen didn't seem to be a fan of the deal:
• Henry Abbott of TrueHoop says a move back to a winning team might help revive what many believe Prince has lost:
The first six seasons of Tayshaun Prince's decade-plus in Detroit were incredibly exciting: Scoring monster buckets as a rookie in the playoffs, making key plays at both ends in one exciting playoff series after another and even winning a title. The past four-and-a-half seasons, though, have been dismal. Michael Curry replaced Flip Saunders, and there were grumbles. John Kuester replaced Curry, and there was open mutiny. A contender was rebuilt around Rodney Stuckey & Co., with one title teammate of Prince's after another shipped off or let go. Meanwhile, Detroit posted zero playoff wins in a half-decade. And through it all, Prince is a gamer. He has played long minutes and he has not mailed them in. He's not the player he once was, but one coach after another has discovered he's impossible to keep on the bench, even at 32. Like Gay in Toronto, perhaps Prince will be rejuvenated by a change of scenery.
• Grantland's Zach Lowe offers an important note on Davis, a valuable prospect who has largely been overlooked in discussions of this deal:
Also: Don't forget Ed Davis here. He's played by far the best ball of his career, as Dwane Casey has let him stretch himself a bit. He's facilitating a ton from the elbow, working a nice tic-tac-toe passing game with Amir Johnson and flashing an ultra-quick lefty hook from the post. He's a long, active defender, and though bigger guys can bully him, he's a fantastic third big man for Memphis. He works as short-term insurance in case of a Darrell Arthur injury, and depending how he progresses, he could work as long-term insurance for Randolph in case of decline and/or future financial concerns.
• Kelly Dwyer of Yahoo! Sports' Ball Don't Lie measures up the deal, and he, too, can't seem to figure out the Raptors' goals in adding Gay:
This is how the NBA's various interests work. Detroit badly needs a distributor, and despite his many misgivings, Calderon is one of the NBA's best and he owns an expiring contract that will help the Pistons get far under the salary cap this summer. Memphis saves a huge amount of cash while being able to distribute Gay's 16.4 shot attempts per game amongst more efficient players, and Toronto … well, we have no idea what the hell Toronto is doing.
We know why the Raptors want Rudy Gay. He looked like a real comer back in 2006, but he's done absolutely nothing besides look the part of an All-Star while offering the production of an average player. When you factor in the history that suggests he'll be taking shots away from players who do more productive things with the ball offensively, this average turn might trend down into the realm of the negative. Toss in his maximum contract and … another winner, Bryan Colangelo!
• There's a temptation to evaluate trades in a vacuum, but Eric Koreen of the National Post encourages all to view the Raptors' acquisition of Gay as a step in an incomplete process:
Is Colangelo trying desperately to save his job? Is he merely trying to improve the team's overall talent level, particularly the forever-barren small forward spot? Is he trying to sell high on burgeoning power forward Ed Davis? Is he trying to set the franchise up for a series of moves to come?
The wisest answer: yes, to all of the above. About the only thing that can be definitively said about the deal, that will send Rudy Gay to the Raptors for Davis and Jose Calderon is that Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment has no problem with spending money well into the future. Everything else is a bit of a blur.
• Tom Ziller of SB Nation takes Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo to task for his short-sighted management:
Instead of using cap space or potential cap space to help account for the fact that your team is not a typical free agent destination despite being located in a gorgeous city with huge market potential, you should always try to blow that cap space on a player no one in the league thinks is remotely worth his cap hit. Preferably, use it on a player who was not likely worth the cap hit before a major shoulder injury and whose shooting efficiency has plummeted since coming back from that injury 18 months ago. Let other teams leverage cap space for draft picks, who can become high-value-per-dollar contributors for between four and eight years if you pick wisely. Let the Cleveland Cavaliers do that. Blech. So boring. You go after that real Moneyball market inefficiency: big-name sub-elite scorers making upwards of $16 million per year.
• Zach Harper of CBSSports.com's Eye on Basketball is more bullish on this deal for Toronto than most. While many view Gay as a colossal salary commitment and a flawed player, Harper sees a talent worth building around for a team that has lacked direction:
What Colangelo has put together in Toronto makes very little sense, but the team finally has a jumping-off point. [DeMar] DeRozan will be entering a four-year deal that looks like a crazy amount of money for the production that he puts out there. But as we've learned in the league time and time again, no contract is untradeable. He has been virtually the same player for three seasons now, but you can convince other GMs that a scoring wing in his mid-20s is worth a flier.
Many people assume the Raptors will amnesty [Linas] Kleiza this summer. But he only has one year left on his deal, assuming he doesn't decline his player option and head back to Europe. If you get rid of Colangelo, then you no longer have a front-office attachment to Bargnani. If you amnesty him, the flirtation with the Raptors and the luxury tax no longer becomes a concern.
• At PistonPowered, Dan Feldman rejoices in a rare Joe Dumars trade that actually helps the Pistons:
After years of failed experiments -- Allen Iverson as game-changing scorer on a balanced team, Rodney Stuckey as point guard, John Kuester as head coach, Charlie Villanueva and Daye as revolutionary stretch fours, Prince as team leader -- Joe Dumars restored faith in his ability as general manager with a forceful reminder that he can make the cold decisions necessary to build a successful team.
In one fell swoop, Dumars upgraded the current roster and improved the salary structure. All it took was trading a player he's clearly fond of, a move many thought Dumars was incapable of making. Now, who knows Dumars' limits? After this great trade, he has the momentum -- and mandate -- to make more changes.
The Pistons have a new rotation to set and more cap room to use this summer. This trade is not an end, but it provides the means for greater solutions.
Feldman goes on at length to describe those solutions, and his post functions as a blueprint of sorts for Detroit's rebuild.
• In his breakdown of the deal for ProBasketballTalk, D.J. Foster thinks it might be prudent for the Pistons to wait a year before looking to make use of their newfound flexibility:
This is a simple cost-cutting move for Detroit, who will get Prince's $14.9 million over two years off the books. The Pistons will now head into this year's offseason with right around $32 million in salary, which theoretically makes them a big player in free agency for the first time since the Ben Gordon/Charlie Villanueva contract debacle. It might make more sense for Detroit to sit out a year for a better free agency class in 2014, and go the Cleveland route next season by being a trading partner for cash-strapped teams looking to dump assets. Teams will be scurrying to avoid the punitive repeater tax that starts getting counted next year, so the timing for Detroit to clear space couldn't be better, even if they can't attract a big free agent.


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During New Year celebrations we tend to relax, reflect on what we've accomplished, and make grand pronouncements about dieting and self-control while gorging on desserts.
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Below, four simple, delicious, and healthy deserts you can cook at home.
Cranberry Pecan Granola
Prep Time: 10 Minutes | Cooking Time: 8 Minutes | Serves: 4
Mix the oats, pecans, oil, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon and salt in a bowl and stir until evenly coated. 2. Place the preparation in the ActiFry and cook for 7 minutes. 3. Add the cranberries and cook for 1 minute more. Check out the full recipe.
Mixed Berry Compote
Prep Time: 5 Minutes | Cooking Time: 20 Minutes | Serves: 6
Put the berries, 3 tablespoons of sugar, orange liqueur, lemon juice and dissolved cornstarch into the ActiFry pan, and cook until the liquid has thickened and the fruit has softened (20 minutes). Add more sugar to taste if necessary. Allow to cool slightly before serving or serve at room temperature. Check out the full recipe.
Roast Pineapple and Figs in Australian Honey
Prep Time: 10 Minutes | Cooking Time: 15 Minutes | Serves: 4
Cut off the crown and the lower part of the pineapple. Cut it into eight lengthways. Remove the core and the skin and chop the flesh into cubes. Place the pineapple pieces in the ActiFry, pour in two tablespoons of honey and cook for 10 minutes. Meanwhile wash the figs and cut into quarters. Add the figs with the remaining tablespoon of honey, the lemon juice and the cinnamon. Cook for 4 to 5 minutes. Serve the pineapple and figs with vanilla ice cream. Check out the full recipe.
Chef Ming Tsai's Five Spice Apple Crumble
Prep Time: 10 | Cooking Time: 35 | Serves: 4
1)Make the "crumble:" In a medium bowl, combine nuts, flour, oats, brown sugar, five-spice powder and salt. Stir to combine. Add the melted butter to the bowl and mix. Add the crumble mixture to the ActiFry. 2) Set the timer to 20 minutes and start the ActiFry. Transfer the finished crumble to a sheet tray. Be careful as the mixture is very hot because of the caramelized sugar. Set aside to cool. 3) In a bowl, combine the diced apples, lemon juice, brown sugar and five-spice powder. Add the apple mixture to the ActiFry, set the timer for 12 minutes and start the ActiFry. 4) After the apples have cooked for 12 minutes, add 1 1/2 cups crumble mixture to the apple mixture. Allow the mixture to cook until warmed through and moist, about 3 additional minutes. 5) Remove from the ActiFry. Serve on its own or with ice cream and a sprig of mint. Use additional crumble for garnish. Check out the full recipe.
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