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By Joe DePaolo
On Sunday, Michelle Wie won the U.S. Women's Open at Pinehurst, her long-awaited first professional major. Last spring, Sports On Earth spent a week inside the ropes with the one-time phenom at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, N.J. Prior to this event, Wie recorded only one top 10 finish in 2012, and was struggling just to keep her tour card. But unbeknownst to Wie or anyone else at the time, the 2013 ShopRite Classic would serve as the springboard to a remarkable comeback. Here's a look back at the week that ended up being a turning point for Michelle Wie's career.
It was a brutally hot, late-May Thursday morning in Galloway, New Jersey -- pro-am day at the ShopRite LPGA Classic. Five golfers and their caddies were gathered around the 12th tee of the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club, seeking shade wherever they could find it. At 8:00 a.m., the temperature was already approaching 90 degrees.
After four amateurs hit their drives, the group's lone professional, ranked 100th in the world, stepped up to the tee. Clad in an orange Nike polo shirt, with a dyed-pink ponytail pulled through her cap, she took a couple of practice swings with a fairway wood. The young golfer examined the hole, a sharp dogleg right, and took her stance.
Up close, her swing is a marvel to behold. At six feet tall, her lean frame gives her the ability to create a long and fluid motion, with incredible extension. Her flexibility is off the charts.
But the end result of that magnificent roundhouse swing on the 12th tee was a wayward drive, which tailed away from the center. She leaned, trying to coax it back toward the fairway, to no avail.
Michelle Wie found the rough -- a place that she has become all too familiar with.
The fact that she's a dismal 144th in driving accuracy on the LPGA tour only begins to tell the story of what is wrong with Michelle Wie's game. In no statistical category does she presently rank in the top 25. At 44th in putts per round, 68th in greens in regulation, and 82nd in sand saves, she is completely out of sync from tee to green.
Those dreadful stats have, not surprisingly, translated to poor results. In 10 starts this year prior to the ShopRite, Wie missed the cut five times. Her best finish was a tie for 28th at the LPGA Lotte, in her home state of Hawaii. She'd amassed less than $30,000 in purse earnings in 2013. Two seasons ago, she made roughly that amount per tournament.
Somehow, Wie, now 23, has managed to remain incredibly upbeat -- at least when she's between the ropes. During the ShopRite pro-am, she frequently offered encouragement to her playing partners. At one point, when one of the amateurs was struggling, Wie spoke to him for several minutes, in an effort to get him to relax and have fun. It worked: He began to play better after the chat.
"People get nervous when they play in pro-ams," Wie said. "There's no need to be embarrassed. I try to remind them to have fun out there."
It's possible that the specter of playing with the one-time wunderkind intimidated the amateur. The daunting seaside layout and the spectacular views offered at a number of the holes may also have contributed to his nerves. One thing that certainly couldn't be blamed, though, was the size of the gallery. Michelle Wie's parents, mother Bo and father B.J., were the only two spectators.
They stood approximately 50 yards apart as they watched their daughter's tee shot on 12. These positions are the norm. They are seldom together on the course. Many times, they're actually on opposite sides of the hole, in an effort to secure prime viewing positions. On pro-am day, with no one else in the gallery, this was not an issue. Still, they frequently kept their distance. And after the shot was hit, they made their way down the fairway with an intensity normally reserved for Sunday at Augusta.
Wie followed her errant tee shot with a mediocre approach on the par-4, 40 feet away from the flag. She walked down the fairway, taking practice swings with an invisible club, searching for the form that propelled her into the national consciousness a decade ago, when she was just 13 and played in the final group at the prestigious Kraft Nabisco Championship -- an LPGA major. Looking lost, Michelle Wie called out for help.
"Omma!" The Korean word for mom.
Omma was close by. She usually is.
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Bo Wie and her husband B.J. have been with Michelle for every step of her one-of-a-kind golf journey. Longtime residents of Honolulu, Hawaii, the parents picked up and moved to Palo Alto, California when their daughter began attending college at Stanford in 2007. They then followed her to her current residence of Jupiter, Florida, after she graduated.
B.J. and Bo have attended every competitive round that their daughter has ever played. In the process, they have demonstrated an unfailing loyalty through a period in which she has struggled mightily. The couple has remained highly supportive of their only child, and extremely close to her.
Some observers wonder if they're too close. Kay Cockerill, an analyst for The Golf Channel who has covered the LPGA Tour for the network since its inception in 1995, believes that B.J. and Bo would do well to take a step back.
"You need to criticize her parents," Cockerill said. "For being too involved and making too many decisions and micromanaging her, and not letting her be more herself. There's a lot of positive things her parents do as well that allow her to be who she is. [But] they need to back off. Let the child grow."
For Michelle Wie, a life with her parents in close proximity is the only one she has ever known. She speaks of it fondly.
"We were always such a close-knit family," she said. "We did everything together. We went on a lot of vacations. We traveled a lot. They were always there to support me."
Indeed, they were there for her at age 10, when she became the youngest person, male or female, ever to qualify for an adult USGA Championship, the Women's Amateur Public Links. They were there over the next three years, as she became a force on the Hawaiian amateur circuit. And they were there for that remarkable week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship (better known to many as the Dinah Shore), when the precocious 13-year-old took the golf world by storm. Cockerill recalled the electric atmosphere that surrounded Wie when she first arrived on the scene.
"It was incredible," Cockerill said. "She was an extreme talent with a beautiful golf swing, and the ability to hit shots beyond her years at age 13. And beyond that, she seems to have sort of a magnetism to her. People are drawn to her. That's something very special that a lot of talented people don't have."
Her unique combination of magnetism and talent was enough to score endorsement deals with Nike and Sony immediately upon turning professional in 2005. Though she didn't win an LPGA event, the two-year stretch from 2005 and 2006 undoubtedly served as her peak. During that time, she notched top five finishes in four consecutive major championships. Since, she has failed to attain that placing even once.
She's had her moments. In 2009, she won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational, her first LPGA crown. Later that season she was one of the heroines of the Solheim Cup Matches -- the LPGA equivalent of the Ryder Cup. The 3 1/2 points she captured for the American side helped propel the squad to a 16-12 victory over Europe. The next year, she captured a second individual tournament, the CN Canadian Women's Open.
But that's it. Just two LPGA victories. No major top fives since 2007. And after a number of attempts at the beginning of her career, she hasn't even tried to tee it up with the boys since 2008, when she missed the cut by nine strokes at the PGA Tour's Reno-Tahoe Open. This was the girl who, at age 14, boldly told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes that she aspired to play in the Masters. (And came pretty close to doing it when she reached the quarterfinals of the Men's Amateur Public Links in 2005. A victory there would've earned her a Masters invite.) By her own exceedingly strict metric, her career can only be considered a failure at this point.
Wie's inability to deliver on the extraordinary promise she showed in her youth has the golf community baffled. Many have opinions on why she hasn't broken through. Suzann Pettersen, currently third in the world rankings, recalled a classic battle that she had with Wie at the 2011 Solheim Cup. Pettersen, representing Europe, birdied the last three holes of her Sunday singles showdown with Wie to take the contest by a 1-up margin. The point that Pettersen earned for her team proved decisive. Europe won the matches 15-13.
Pettersen believes that the charged atmosphere at the Solheim Cup matches is the type of environment in which Wie typically thrives, and that she could use more of that energy.
"She played fantastic golf, and I think the surroundings at the Solheim bring her passion and her heart into it," Pettersen said. "I think sometimes she plays with a lot of pressure from herself. And just seeing her in that environment an entire week really brings out her enjoyment of being out there playing golf, the way she did growing up."
The subtext of Pettersen's comment, that Wie hasn't been enjoying the game lately, seemed applicable during that brutally hot Thursday pro-am in Galloway. It was difficult to find pleasure in any outdoor activity under the glare of the blazing sun.
Yet there she was, grinding out the workday. On almost every single hole, after she and the amateurs finished, Wie remained behind for several minutes to practice her short game. She was trying to get a feel for the greens, and trying to perfect her new putting stroke -- which features a remarkable contortion where she bends a full 90 degrees at the waist, forming a perfect upside-down "L." It is backbreaking to look at, let alone attempt.
Jersey inferno be damned, she attempted it well over a hundred times on pro-am day. The intense practice session in adverse conditions made it difficult to believe that Wie's recent struggles can be chalked up to lack of work ethic.
"I put in all the effort that I can," Wie said. "I pride myself on working really hard, and trying the hardest I can every week."
She tried to focus and lose herself in the game, but could only accomplish this to a certain degree under the watchful eyes of her parents, who were likewise undaunted by the heat. Wie insists that she relishes the involvement of her parents in her life. But in light of this declaration, it's interesting to consider that she cites painting as one of her favorite hobbies.
Like golf, painting is a solitary endeavor.
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Just like the day before, there was little fanfare as Michelle Wie uncorked her opening drive of the 2013 ShopRite LPGA Classic at 7:48 a.m. on Friday, May 30. About two dozen fans were congregated around the first tee, and none of them made a sound when they saw her drive sail left, landing in the deep rough.
Her second shot was equally dreadful, also in the rough. Her third, however, was a pretty flop shot that trickled to about five feet away from the cup. It was the kind of shot that evoked memories of Wie's halcyon days. Her peers believe she remains capable of such wizardry on a regular basis.
"She can still hit shots that nobody else on tour can hit," said Stacy Lewis, the second ranked player in the world. "She's just that talented."
Wie drained the subsequent par putt, but was forced to scramble again on the second hole, as she flew the green with her approach shot. A nice chip put her to within four feet, and she once again holed the resulting knee-knocker.
Both saves were met with extremely loud applause and demonstrative fist pumps from Bo, who, thanks to her over-the-top celebrations, was impossible not to notice. At most tournaments, Bo, in stark contrast with her low-key husband, is often the loudest person in her daughter's gallery. Wie acknowledges that she's generally aware of her mom's presence during competitive rounds.
"It's hard not to be," she said, laughing.
Those two early par saves helped Wie to settle in. From there, she went on to play a terrific opening round of 3-under-par 68, which put her two shots off the pace.
The grouping that Wie drew for the first two rounds of the tournament seemed to help her post that solid score. She played with LPGA veterans Alison Walshe and Sarah Jane Smith. The trio got along swimmingly, and chitchat came easy for Wie, particularly with Walshe, whom she cites as a longtime friend.
Whispers of locker room jealousy have followed Wie around for years. She cashed in on multi-million dollar endorsement deals years before she even won a tournament. She also gets an amount of press coverage that her current play doesn't merit. It stands to reason that some of her peers might be bothered by all this. But if that's the case, the rank-and-file don't let on publicly.
"I think once you get to know her, she's such a sweet girl," said Beatriz Recari, one of the LPGA's elite young players. "We can't forget that she has done a lot for women's golf."
Wie's performance warranted her being summoned to the media center, where roughly a half-dozen inquisitors awaited. Though she majored in communications at Stanford, this is the part of the job that she hates. The median age of the (predominantly male) press corps at the ShopRite appeared to exceed 40. She'd had a fun day on the links, but that was over now. This was strictly business.
The golfer was cordial, and her answers were expansive. But they were also carefully constructed. This is a young woman who's spent a decade in the public eye, and is far too savvy to be caught off guard.
Wie was asked whether or not she was aware of some of the criticisms she received, and if she was tempted to tell those critics to, as the questioner put it, "take a hike."
"You can't please everyone," she said. "I'm not going to go around my way living my life trying to please everyone, because in the end it doesn't really matter. They're not the ones that are living my life. They're not the ones that ultimately are in my life. So I just am so grateful for my friends, my family and for the people inside my circle that believe in me."
Though B.J. and Bo Wie, of course, figure prominently in that circle, they are not its only members. At the ShopRite, the roster included three others -- her manager Jeehae Lee, her caddy Duncan French, and fellow tour pro Christina Kim (who is also French's girlfriend). This group is very protective of her. They look to shield her from the rabble-rousers in the media, who won't stop asking, "What's wrong?"
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Having dropped three strokes in her first 11 holes of the second round, falling back to even par for the tournament, all appeared lost for Michelle Wie at Galloway. But just then, the 23-year-old turned back the clock, and reminded everybody what all of the hype in her formative years was about.
Wie's run began with the par-5 3rd, when she hit an exquisite approach shot from out of the left greenside rough to within two feet for a kick-in birdie. Then, at 4, she hit her second shot to about eight feet and made another birdie. On 5, she absolutely smashed her drive -- leaving just 60 yards for her second into the par-4. She knocked a wedge stiff inside of six feet.
Things were getting serious. Already back to 2-under-par, Wie had an extremely good look at birdie to get her back to minus-3, where she began the day. On an afternoon where the winds were kicking up, an even par round was a terrific score. Recognizing the gravity of the putt, Wie took an extra moment to study before calmly sinking it.
The three consecutive birdies ignited her, the gallery, and, of course, Bo. (Despite the fact that several hundred people were now in the gallery, Bo could still be heard quite clearly.) That bright, wide smile that America was first introduced to a decade ago, but hadn't seen in a while, was present on Michelle Wie's face. She was happy -- perhaps as happy as she'd been, on course at least, for some time.
Days like this, streaks like this, flashes of brilliance like this, make you wonder if Michelle Wie can be saved. And they make you wonder how, exactly, to define the word "saved," in this context. Does it mean she can become a top women's player? Does it mean she can become the top women's player? Does it mean she can fulfill her ambitious childhood prophecy of teeing it up at Augusta? Cockerill, for one, is willing to consider those first two possibilities, though not the third.
"I think she still has every bit of possibility and potential to be a great player. It would be a very, very challenging ride up a big, steep hill for her to get to number one in the world. But is it possible? Sure, it's possible."
Wie couldn't have cared less about her long-term prospects right then. She was on a roll and wanted to see how far she could take it. Her streak of close approach shots ended on the 6th, where she hit a respectable second to 25 feet. But despite the lengthy putt that awaited her, she wasn't giving up on the birdie. She examined it from all angles, traversing almost the entire green in order to do so. Then there was a brief consultation with French, who offered his two cents.
The gallery was dead silent, but ready to burst. After what seemed like forever, Wie took back her putter and struck the ball. It was on its way … on line ... and good!
As the putt fell, Wie unleashed a violent, Tiger-like, uppercut fist pump. The crowd went crazy. Bo went extra crazy, screaming and clapping. Even B.J., remarkably stoic all weekend, let down his guard and put his hands together. If only for a moment, his daughter was back.
Four straight birdies were enough to draw the attention of the The Golf Channel, which was broadcasting the tournament nationally. They sent a camera crew to follow Wie, and dispatched Kay Cockerill to commentate from the ground. The birdie run had thrust her into second place at four under par, just two strokes off the lead. The gallery was growing. The anticipation building. The broken phenom was waking up the echoes, and everyone wanted to be a part of it.
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Wie, Walshe and Smith were faced with a lengthy wait to tee off on the par-3 7th, and this gave The Golf Channel an opportunity to set up the narrative. In order to do this, the cameraman stood less than five feet away from the young golfer, with a massive camera perched atop his shoulder. Wie tried to act as if it wasn't there, but that proved nearly impossible. She turned away, staring out over the sparkling blue bay a few hundred yards off in the distance.
The trio of golfers paced about, and tried to strike up a chat to kill time, but the banter wasn't coming as easily as it did before. They briefly kicked around the topic of baseball.
"Nothing like a baseball game in the summer," Wie said.
Walshe nodded her agreement, and an awkward silence ensued. The dynamic had changed. For 33 holes, a distinct walk-in-the-park vibe accompanied this threesome. With Wie so close to the lead, and The Golf Channel's spotlight on, that air of conviviality was gone. It was replaced with tension.
The group ahead was still playing. The golfers baked in the scorching, late-afternoon sun. All the while, the cameraman was within arm's length.
Just after the 10-minute mark, the green mercifully cleared. Wie had the honor, and after a couple of practice swings, she hit a long iron to about 30 feet. She smiled at her caddy, and counted herself fortunate to hit the green on the challenging hole, particularly after such a lengthy delay.
After 2-putting for par, Wie strode to the 8th tee, still riding high from the birdie run. She was blissfully unaware that in 30 minutes, her tournament hopes would be all but dashed, thanks to a random man in a golf cart.
A split-second before she was ready to hit her drive on the 319-yard par-4, a tournament volunteer drove his cart about 50 yards in front of the tee box -- directly in the golfer's sightline. He drove comically slow across the cart path, in an effort not to make noise. The volunteer had no clue that it was not the sound that served as a distraction, but rather the fact that he was directly in Michelle Wie's line of sight.
"Sir?!" Wie cried. The man in the cart did not hear her. He continued to sputter along with the urgency of an early-bird dinner patron. The entire crowd followed Wie's cue, and tried to get his attention. They failed as well. It took about 30 seconds before the man eventually cleared out.
Wie's rhythm was disrupted completely. She proceeded to hit a long iron way right -- out of bounds. She grunted loudly and banged her club into the ground.
It was the first sign she'd shown all week of the temper that got her into trouble as recently as a year ago. At the 2012 HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore, Wie smashed her club and used profanity following a bad shot. Year-round LPGA observers like Cockerill say that she has successfully curbed her anger and is largely upbeat on the course, despite her poor play.
"I'm very impressed with her positive nature and her optimism. She has a lot of negative baggage that she's experienced. A lot of negative memories that she's accumulated for such a young player. And for her to look past that, and continually look forward … that takes a lot of belief in yourself. That takes a lot of determination. And you have to tip your hat to her for that."
Hat tip or not, Wie suffered a momentary slip. Still, after the initial outburst, she did keep it together, at least outwardly. Internally, she was apparently unable to shake it off. Her third shot flew the green, and her fourth left her with an extremely ticklish eight-foot downhill putt. Wie missed her bogey putt, and dropped two shots to fall back to 2-under. A follow-up bogey on the home hole took her all the way down to 1-under-par. She finished with a deeply disappointing 2-over 73 in the 2nd round.
To her credit, Wie did not blame the man in the cart for the collapse of her round. She wrote it off as the unlucky break that it was.
"It didn't really affect me that much. It was just a really bad swing," she said with a laugh.
Wie went through the motions of talking about her standing going into Sunday's final round, as though she would factor into the proceedings. But she was unable to muster much conviction. She fielded several short questions, did a two-minute stand-up with The Golf Channel, and quickly retreated to the safety of her circle.
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At no point during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic was Wie a threat to win. Her chances had taken a devastating blow with those two closing holes on Saturday. The 2nd hole on Sunday served as the knockout punch.
With what Kay Cockerill called a "two-club wind" blowing squarely in her face, Wie made a mess of the par-4 -- missing the fairway off the tee, and the green with her approach. After her recovery shot, she was left with a lengthy par putt, which she missed. Then she suffered the ultimate indignity, rolling a very short bogey putt past the hole.
B.J. and Bo, apart for most of the weekend, stood together at this critical juncture. When their daughter was hurting, their instinct was not to run away, but to get closer to her. By all appearances, these are overzealous parents who have not given their daughter the space she needs to grow up. But theirs are mistakes of the heart. Unlike so many parents of young prodigies in sports and entertainment, B.J. and Bo Wie clearly love their child, not her money.
Michelle Wie didn't make eye contact with her parents. But then, she didn't need to. She knew they were there.
"I know when I hit a good shot, they clap. And even if I don't, they always come up behind me and pat my back, and tell me I'm doing good."
This proved out after she tapped in for double-bogey. Omma, trying futilely to mask her sadness, saved her heartiest clap of the weekend for the moment her daughter was at her lowest.
All in all, it was a very respectable week. Wie finished at 2-over-par, good for a tie for 9th -- a finish that she would duplicate a week later at the LPGA Championship. Despite a missed cut in last week's Walmart Northwest Arkansas Championship Presented by P&G, Wie is hoping the two recent top tens are a sign that she's rounding into form in time for the LPGA's signature event, the U.S. Women's Open, which begins Thursday.
After finishing out on 18, Wie hugged her playing partners (one of whom, Karrie Webb, ended up winning the tournament). She hastily signed her scorecard, and headed out for her waiting entourage, which included all five members of the inner circle. Before she could reach them, though, she was intercepted by throngs of autograph seekers, lined up three-deep in a designated area.
One young boy brazenly asked for her golf glove. Wie chuckled and politely declined. This, however, was the only request that she turned down. Everyone else got what they asked for from Wie -- usually a picture, a signature, or both. Though Wie was visibly fatigued, she patiently accommodated the requests because they were made, predominantly, by youngsters.
Children comprise the demographic to which Wie is most fiercely loyal. She loves kids. Unlike the sponsors, tour officials, media members and all the other adults who want a piece of Michelle Wie, kids don't view her as a letdown. Where adults see a disappointment, kids see a peer. They want only two things from her -- a signature and a smile. Right now, this is all she has to give.
The signing continued for a few minutes, before Wie was asked to give a brief comment summing up her week.
"Overall, I fought hard and I'm pretty proud of the way I played. It was hard out there. It was really mentally and physically challenging playing out there in the wind."
Webb, the tournament winner, was about to emerge from the scoring tent, so Wie was quickly dismissed by the scribes. Still, more signers beckoned. As she labored through a second autograph session with her Omma nearby, B.J., Kim, and French were huddled in conference, dissecting the round. It figured to be, by far, the happiest post-game recap of the 2013 season. Yet judging by the long faces, it still didn't quite seem like enough.
Exhaustion eventually got the better of Wie, as she finished signing and met up with the gang. As they began to depart, she was corralled by one more young fan for a picture. Finally, as they crossed the street and walked back to the clubhouse, Michelle Wie broke out ahead of her posse and made her way inside the locker room.
At last, she was alone.
Michelle Wie played solid, consistent golf through much of the rest of 2013. She notched four more top 15 finishes, finished 41st on the 2013 LPGA money list, and improved her world ranking by nearly 40 positions.
This year, Wie has stepped up her game even more. The Hawaii native posted eight top 10 finishes from 12 starts prior to the Women's Open, highlighted by a victory at the LPGA Lotte Championship in her home state. Ranked 100th in the world prior to last year's ShopRite Classic, she entered play this week at No. 11, and trailed only world No. 1 player Stacy Lewis on the 2014 money list.
On Sunday, Michelle Wie punctuated her remarkable comeback with a victory in the 69th U.S. Women's Open at Pinehurst No. 2. At minus two, she was the only player in the field to finish under par, en route to a two stroke win over Lewis. After so many near misses in major championships, she finally emerged with her signature triumph.
"Oh my God," a clearly overcome Wie told NBC through giggles just moments after she holed the winning putt on 18. "I can't believe this is happening."
It's been a decade since the happy-go-lucky 14-year-old first entered the mainstream consciousness with her memorable turn on 60 Minutes. She's already had a whole career's worth of twists and turns. It's easy to forget that Michelle Wie is, at 24, just three years older than Tiger Woods was during his transcendent 1997 Masters conquest.
Still, the 21-year-old Woods hadn't squandered the opportunities that Wie has had when she's been in major championship contention. And at that point, Woods hadn't faced the kind of criticism that Wie has. But on Sunday, all that felt like ancient history. The critics have now been silenced, and once again for Wie, the sky appears to be the limit.
"I just had a lot of fun," she told NBC's Steve Sands, when asked how she was able to handle the final round pressure she'd fallen prey to so many times before. "I just was so grateful for this opportunity."
Soaked in the champagne that she'd just been sprayed with on the 18th green by several of her peers, Wie concluded the interview, walked off the green, and headed for the scoring tent. Fittingly, the last person she encountered before NBC went off the air was Bo Wie. And in a moment that evoked memories of the embrace that Tiger Woods shared with his father Earl after the 1997 Masters, Michelle and Bo shared a long, emotional hug. It lasted about 15 seconds, before Omma finally let her go.
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Joe DePaolo has written for The New York Times, ESPN.com, SB Nation Longform and many other notable print and Internet outlets. He is the author of No Finish Line, a profile of legendary Thoroughbred jockey Gary Stevens, and The Importance of Being Francesa, on sports radio pioneer Mike Francesa. He lives in New York City and can be found on Twitter @joe_depaolo, where he spends entirely too much time reminiscing about the "TGIF" sitcom lineup of the '90s.


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Thanks to Kevin Basil, I can be found quite often in the #orthodoxy channel on lplug.org. Talk to me there if you would like. I go by the name, WPU.
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I don't much mind what you do with your own Talk page, but would you mind not erasing those of other articles? It's helpful to see where we've been and why we've done what we've done.
(Please forgive me if I seem needling and nagging.) —[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!)]] 17:47, 28 Jun 2005 (EDT)
- I will gladly abide by the decision of the sysops. What is everyone else's opinion? I talked with another sysop (I won't mention their name) who seemed to agree that things get a little cluttered, cloudy, or outdated in discussion pages.
- My own thoughts are that if articles can be trimmed and made more concise, why can't talk pages? I like having an archive, but if a situation has been addressed then I personally think it makes things cluttered to keep them around. The discussion is archived in the changelog/history. My two cents. --Joe Rodgers 18:54, 28 Jun 2005 (EDT)
Wikipedia's usual approach (not that we have to do everything they do) is to make archival subpages when the given talk page gets too long. Sorting through a history can be extremely difficult and time consuming, especially if one isn't looking for something in particular but rather simply wants to know what the discussion regarding a given article has been.
I don't think this has ever been discussed between the sysops. I'm just one of them and by no means chief among them. We can certainly put it up for discussion, though, which I've done on OrthodoxWiki:Administrators. —[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!)]] 19:09, 28 Jun 2005 (EDT)
- I think one reason to keep a record of resolved issues is that others who think of similar (or the same) issues can see for themselves that it has been resolved, without having to rehash arguments, for instance when a style decision has been made. —magda 20:27, 28 Jun 2005 (EDT)
- Good point Magda. However, I think that if the style decision is explicit enough it could detail the reasons why a decision was made over another. --Joe Rodgers 20:59, 28 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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It's a good question, Joe. I'm not sure who that would be. Let me think about this some more. I don't think we should change the name of the site to "St. so-and-so Orthodox Encyclopedia", but I wouldn't be adverse to seeking the intercession of an appropriate patron. Do you or others have any suggestions? Fr. John
"God the..." redirects
Hi Joe,
Another comment... It strikes me that in Orthodox theology, it is not so common to refer to Jesus as "God the Son" or the Holy Spirit as "God the Holy Spirit." There is a good reason for this, too. According to Orthodox Trinitarian theology as I learnt it, "God" is not so much identified with the essence held in common by the three persons, but more properly identified with God the Father, from whom both the Son and the Holy Spirit receive their divinity. This is why, e.g., in the Creed, Jesus is "God from God" and God the Father is so often refered to in our liturgy as "the unorginate Father" or "the Father without beginning" (the Son and the Holy Spirit are originate, not in time, but ontologically, albeit not in a way that makes their divinity any lesser).
My suggestion would be to remove the redirects. I don't think they're really necessary, and even if another article links to the phrase "God the..." it would be easy enough just to make the words link directly to the main page in question. - Fr. John 14:09, 4 Jul 2005 (EDT)
P.S. When are you becoming Orthodox? :-)
- Thank you Father. I think you make a very good point. Please feel free to remove the redirects (I don't know if I am allowed). I am building the introduction article and am looking for any suggestions you could give. I guess it would be good to eventually do a search for "God the.." and make sure the links are pointing in the right directions. Thanks for your help. Quite a question you pose there at the end. --[[User:Joe Rodgers|Joe ( talk » inspect » chat )]] 14:16, 4 Jul 2005 (EDT)


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Buccaneers safety Dashon Goldson's one game suspension has been reduced to a $100,000 fine for his hit on Darren Sproles of New Orleans.
The NFL announced the decision Wednesday by Matt Birk, who handles appeals of discipline of on-field punishment for players for the league and NFL Players Association.
Goldson was suspended one game without pay Monday for flagrant and repeat violations of NFL safety rules prohibiting hits to the head and neck area of defenseless players. This will allow him to play Sunday against New England.
He was penalized for unnecessary roughness in last week's game against New Orleans for the hit. It was Goldson's fifth violation for unnecessary roughness since 2011.
But Birk upheld a $30,000 fine for a Goldson hit in the opener against the New York Jets.
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TRAINING: Every day at 12 I can be found at American Top Team Coconut Creek. This is where I do all my sparring. At night I train 3 times a week at IHP, Institute of Human Performance, for my strength and conditioning. Once a week I go up to ATT West Palm Beach for some BJJ training with Marcos (Parrumpina) Da Matta. Some nights I stay at ATT Coconut Creek for MMA techniques with Liborio or pad work with Vertelmo Kubis.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training in MMA back in 95. In 2000 my college roommate and I read a post on the UG forum looking for fighters in Boston. My roommate (Gunnar Olson) said "hey let's try this thing out." One fight led to another and another.
What ranks and titles have you held? Former WEC Featherweight Champion, Absolute Fighting Featherweight Champion and Fightzone Featherweight Champion
Do you have any heroes? My heroes are my coaches, my friends, and my family.
What is your favorite technique? I don't have a favorite technique. Anything that gets the sub or KO sounds good to me.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? This is why we all dedicate ourselves to this sport. The dream of fighting in the greatest organization in the world. I have been watching since the very first UFC and I will continue that till the day I die.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? In 2000 I graduated from Norwich University with a BS in Biology.
What was your job before you started fighting? When I graduated from college I started working at Budweiser as a merchandiser. They fired me because I was taking too much time off to train and fight. My plan was to train and fight for a few years then pursue a job in the biology field. A few years has turned into eight. Other jobs I had include pumping gas, produce clerk at a local supermarket, cashier at Sam's club, mover (probably the worst job I ever had), worked at a cemetery, overnight desk job at a 24hr fitness club.
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Kluber stifles Rangers to snap Tribe's eight-game skid
Righty, who grew up in Arlington area, allows one run in eight innings
By Jordan Bastian 6/12/2013 12:31 AM ET
ARLINGTON -- Corey Kluber only needed a half-hour in the car to get to Rangers Ballpark when he was a kid. If he ever imagined himself pitching a gem on the stadium's mound, it was probably not as a visitor.
On Tuesday night, working in the kind of hot conditions in which he was raised, the hometown kid quieted Texas' potent lineup. Kluber turned in a solid outing en route to a 5-2 victory for the Indians, helping the club pull even with the Rangers in the series and end its lengthy eight-game losing streak.
"I don't think I'm used to it anymore," Kluber said of the Texas heat. "I don't know how we used to play two or three games a day in it."
All the elements that had gone missing of late for the Tribe returned.
Kluber provided the club with a strong performance on the mound and the offense broke through when opportunities arose. The Indians, who have won just five of their past 21 games, also received a sampling of stellar defense. Kluber kept the infielders active with 14 outs on the ground created with a mix of sliders and cutters.
Indians manager Terry Francona raved about Kluber after the victory. Francona joked that he and pitching coach Mickey Callaway practically ran to Yankee Stadium last Wednesday because they were so excited to see Kluber taken on New York ace CC Sabathia. Kluber's improvement has accelerated at a rapid pace lately, making it no surprise that he was the one who ended Cleveland's losing streak.
"He's getting better right in front of our eyes," Francona said. "For him to go out there today and kind of shoulder that responsibility, we're really proud of him."
It is beginning to look like Kluber's rough outing against the Tigers on May 10, when he allowed eight runs over 4 2/3 innings, is an aberration more than anything else. In his six starts since that setback, the right-hander has posted a 3.09 ERA with 37 strikeouts against six walks in 35 innings. Toss out that start against Detroit and Kluber has a 3.08 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP in his other 10 appearances this season.
Indians third baseman Mark Reynolds pointed to Kluber's Wednesday start in New York as a testament to how the pitcher is growing in ability. The Yankees plated six runs (four earned) in the first two innings, but Kluber quickly settled down and settled in, giving the Indians six innings with no more runs relinquished.
"It's unbelievable," Reynolds said. "Every time he pitches, we know there's a chance that we're going to win. Just the fact that he throws strikes and keeps us in the game. I think the best example of it was in New York, when he gave up six early and then held them down the rest of the time. A lot of guys would've mailed it in.
"He stayed out there and battled all night. I think tonight he got rewarded for it."
Kluber (4-4) had Reynolds to thank for his part in a critical defensive play against the Rangers.
In the sixth inning, after Leury Garcia and Elvis Andrus drew consecutive walks from Kluber, David Murphy sliced a pitch to deep left field. Michael Brantley made the catch for the inning's first out and Garcia tagged up at second base before sprinting toward third. The Tribe's left fielder fired the ball to Reynolds, who swiftly applied the tag on Garcia for a rally-killing double play.
Kluber put the finishing touch on the frame by forcing Lance Berkman to ground out.
"Everybody made plays," Kluber said. "Brantley made a great throw and then Mark made a nice pick, being able to pick it and tag him right away. That was a big double play. That was a big point in the game."
The play preserved the 4-0 advantage that Cleveland built against Rangers left-hander Derek Holland in his 4 1/3 innings on the hill. The Indians first broke through in the fourth inning, when Reynolds pushed a pitch into right field for a run-scoring single, marking his first RBI since May 29. In the fifth inning, the Tribe added three runs off Holland, who bowed out of the ballgame before the end of the frame.
The Indians added a fifth run in the seventh, when Jason Kipnis scored from third base on a wild pitch from Rangers reliever Kyle McClellan.
The lead was more than sufficient for the 27-year-old Kluber, who played high school baseball in Coppell, Texas, which is located roughly 25 miles north of Rangers Ballpark. Over eight innings, the right-hander scattered six hits, wore down the infield grass with a pile of groundouts and sidestepped a handful of dicey situations the Rangers gave him. Kluber had 34 strikeouts in his past 27 innings heading into Tuesday's start, but struck out just three on this night.
"We kind of talked about how they're a really aggressive team," Kluber said. "We kind of used that against them a little bit. I was expanding on them and getting them to chase some pitches, and getting soft contact."
The Rangers' lone run against Kluber came in the eighth inning, when Jurickson Profar came through with a pinch-hit single and later crossed the plate on a double from Murphy. A.J. Pierzynski hit a solo home run with one out in the ninth off reliever Joe Smith, but that was where Texas' comeback bid came to a close.
After the game, Kluber's cell phone buzzed with messages from a host of friends who were at the game. Even so, the pitcher downplayed the fact that he was pitching back home for the first time as a big leaguer.
"I've seen, I couldn't tell you how many games here," Kluber said. "But it really didn't feel any different."
The game sure felt different for the Indians as a whole, though.
"It's good to get back in the 'W' column," Reynolds said. "We can stop worrying about it now and just relax and play ball."


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On Campus: 192 movements and a musical journey across the world
Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
When a piece of music has 192 movements and takes three years to record, it's premiere is going to take a special form, too. And here it is: SCU Associate Professor of Music and pianist Teresa McCollough premiered composer Steve Heitzeg's World Piece Music. Recorded at SCU over the course of three years, this composition comprises 192 movements, each with its own set of musical chords and artisitic representations. You can find the premiere on YouTube.
Each of the 192 movements represents a nation, telling of the ecological and political issues of that country.
McCollough's goal is to send a moving musical cry for world peace.
Unlike other live premieres, this one takes place online for the user to journey at their own pace. The movements range from a few, short chords, like the Solomon Islands (156), to a more lengthy string of notes, such as Bangladesh (14).
You can find more information on this project on the World Piece for Solo Piano page.
Teresa McCollough, professor of music at SCU and pianist
Lindsey Nguyen '13, editorial intern, SCU Stories
Man at the gate: Remembering Rudy Flores
Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
Rudy Flores was a much loved Campus Safety Officer for 36 years who enjoyed welcoming faculty, staff, students and campus guest from his post at the main entrance kiosk. He retired in 2000 and passed away on Sunday, Oct. 24.
Jon Teel '12, editorial intern, Santa Clara MagazinePosted by Steven Boyd Saum | Permalink | Comments (1)
Everything Everywhere: A postcard from Prague ... and Brno
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010
Here in the Czech lands the hillsides are wearing their riotous autumnal colors: from Petrín Hill overlooking the Vltava River in Prague to the rocky Moravian Highlands, the landscapes wear gold and red and orange and yellow and brown and the last of the brilliant green of summer.
Some of the cornfields have been plowed under and the celebrations of young wine (sweet as apple cider, if not sophisticated in flavor) and local elections (results not earth-shattering, but the Czechs have a stable government and a strong currency), and it's the eve of a holiday celebrating nation that no longer exists.
An independent Czechoslovakia came into being on October 28, 1918, wedding two regions into an independent nation. That nation ceased to exist on January 1, 1993. But the holiday persists.
Some of my Czech friends find the celebration absurd; but having lived and worked in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, I'm among those who hold a special reverence for the fact that the little country of Czechoslovakia was formed at all—and then tragically dismembered at Munich in 1938, with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returning home and saying, "How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing."
That country is not so far away any more. (Not that it was far away then; Prague is closer to London than Vienna is.) But historical memory has a way of receding so quickly.
Some of the students at Santa Clara were born after the Velvet Revolution brought down the Communist government here. Why does that matter?
As I write this note, I'm actually in Brno (second-biggest city in the Czech Republic, capital of Moravia, with a tiny fraction of the tourists that Prague has). Our friends here who lived through the heady days of the autumn of '89 long ago pointed out that when the student protest began, joining them were people of their grandparents' generation—those old enough to have lived under a democratic government and remember what was possible.
About the photo: Nestled in the Czech Republic is the Klementinum, a complex of buildings historical in its Baroque architecture as well as in its missionary past. It was built by the Jesuits at the foot of the Charles Bridge in Prague over the course of several hundred years. Formerly a Jesuit college, this complex is now part of Charles University.
Steven Boyd Saum, managing editor, Santa Clara Magazine, and Lindsey Nguyen '13, editorial intern, SCU Stories
Flashback Friday: How high can they go?
Friday, Oct. 22, 2010
In a time devoid of iPods and Facebook, denizens of the ninth floor of Swig Hall celebrated their Prefect's (a Jesuit living in the student dorms) birthday in June of 1970 by stacking nine beds together.
Nine beds, nine floors high
The king on his throne: An alumnus sits atop the ninth bunk bed.
Here is another Santa Clara snapshot from 1960 that we've run in the mag recently.
Do you have any fun memories of your time at the Mission Campus? Do share.
Liz Carney '11, editorial intern, Santa Clara Magazine
Laugh until you cry
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010
One of our recent faves on the Santa Clara Mag bookshelf is a double-exclamation-pointed loveletter to comedy, featuring pics by photog Dan Dion '92. As our man Danwas coming of age, stand-up comedy was his punk rock: eye-opening, soul-stirring, rule-breaking, you-can't-do-that (but you just did) exuberance.
So it's no surprise that he turned his talents as a photographer upon comics and, along the way, earned international respect for his portraits of the comically disrespectful.
(Check out the SCM archives for a profile of Dion)
¡Satiristas! (HarperCollins, 2010) pairs Dion's talent behind the lens with spot-on interviews by Paul Provenza with "comedians, contrarians, raconteurs & vulgarians." To narrow the field—and to capture the tenor of our times—the women and men who populate these pages are on the front ranks of satire, exploring the relationship between humor and society, analyzing politics, the media, and "institutionalized ignorance."
Behold Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho, Amy Sedaris and Bill Maher.
Generations of comics roam these pages: Steve Martin and the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin and Chris Rock, Tom Lehrer and Cheech & Chong, Jello Biafra and Fred Willard (with a rubber duckie).
Some of the gang mug for the camera, but not most; they lounge, they let down their guard, and they give the camera a straight-on look that says, This is who I am. After all, as satirists, they're offering social commentary, not pure slapstick.
In Dion's introduction, he shares a bittersweet moment: George Carlin told him his photograph (Carlin perched on an upright piano) was the one he wanted to be remembered by—three weeks before dying. Dion also reveals, "The key to the guarded door of celebrity photography is trust. Without it, you don't get in. Betray it, and the drawbridge is raised and you are thrown to the alligators."
Steven Boyd Saum, Editor, and Elizabeth Carney '11, editorial intern Santa Clara Magazine
New digs on campus: The Locatelli Student Center
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010
One of the grand events of Grand Reunion Weekend was a grand opening of the grand new Paul L. Locatelli, S.J., Student Center on 10/10/10. "Dynamic and handsome" was one apt phrase used to describe the new digs.While there have been dozens of buildings constructed on campus since 1970, this is the first building in 40 years specifically dedicated to students.Upstairs are office spaces for student organizations. Downstairs is a 6,000-square-foot assembly hall, complete with disco ball suspended from the 20-foot ceiling.Mary Matthews-Stevens '84 and Mark Stevens made a $7 million gift to enable construction of the 16,000-square-foot center.
The Bronco Pep Band led folks through a rousing rendition of the SCU fight song.
Parents and friends and students young and old—including Bernhard Henschke '58 in his dapper Bronco threads—were on hand for the fete……As were members of the Locatelli family for a joyful tribute to the man who served as President (1988–2008) and Chancellor of Santa Clara.
There are even more great pictures from this event on the SCU Facebook page.
Jon Teel '12, editorial intern, Santa Clara Magazine
Lindsey Nguyen '13, editorial intern, SCU Stories
On campus: National security and ... motorcycles in Kenna Hall?
Monday, Oct. 11, 2010It was a full house at the Mayer Theatre on Friday evening when Leon Panetta '60, J.D '63, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, kicked off the fifth annual President's Speaker Series as part of the Grand Reunion celebrations on the Mission campus."It's hard to believe that I am celebrating my 50th graduation anniversary," said the CIA chief. "I made some special friends at Santa Clara and we did some crazy things." Those included motorcycles on the first floor of Kenna Hall and "infamous" dances in San Francisco. (How infamous? He wondered if his classmates were still barred from the Palace Hotel.) "It was a special time."In his reminiscences, Panetta also fondly remembered a very special friend in Paul Locatelli, S.J., '60, former University president and chancellor who passed away in July."He made Santa Clara what it is today," said Panetta of his classmate. "He truly embodied the Jesuit ideals of academic excellence and public service. We have lost a friend but gained a saint."As he addressed his fellow classmates, SCU faculty, students, and staff, Panetta took everyone down memory lane. "Few of us could have imagined the events that would engulf us as we graduated from this university," he said.Among the highlights: the election and assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dr. King's marches, the Vietnam war, the tragic death of another Kennedy, Dr. King's murder, the various movements – civil rights, women's rights, environmental rights, Watergate, 9/11, Katrina, the gulf oil spill, two wars, and a recession."From Beatles to Bono, from typewriters to computers, from the telephone to the iPhone, from facts to Facebook … we have seen a lot of change," he said. " Yet, America has survived."As he expounded on the various ways the world has changed, Panetta shared the four key areas that inform the Central Intelligence Agency's operations: counter terrorism, counter proliferation, cyber security, and global responsibility."We know that terrorists will come at us any way they can," he said. "Good intelligence is more vital than ever. We have to know many different languages and we have to have diversity in our agency. Our technology has to be on the cutting edge, we have to be ahead of our adversaries, and we have to be agile."But, he stressed, given all of these challenges in a fast-changing, cyber-aware world one must not compromise on the values that this nation stands for."We have to protect our people, gather intelligence, and conduct all operations in a way that upholds our laws," he said.It's no easy task leading the charge of the country's premier intelligence agency … for Panetta, the beliefs and principles he formed as a student at Santa Clara have been a guiding force."I am grateful for the education I received here," he said. "The Jesuits not only gave me knowledge, they gave me an understanding of life. I learned that you have to question … and you have to have a willingness to fight for what you believe in."There's lots more; watch the full video of Panetta's talk on campus.Mansi BhatiaUniversity Writer/EditorPosted by Steven Boyd Saum | Permalink | Comments (1)
Flashback Friday: Grand Reunion...and Panetta in the house
Friday, Oct. 8, 2010
Santa Clara grads from across the years are gathering on campus this weekend, including a number of folks from the Class of '60.
One big event on Friday night: the launch of the President's Speaker Series with Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta '60, J.D. '63.
(That's his law school graduation pic on the left.)
Topic of the day: maintaining national security amid the threat of nuclear weapons, cyber-attacks, etc., while still abiding by the Constitution and upholding American values.
Look for a lively Q&A.
In his undergrad stint at Santa Clara, Panetta studied political science and helped found the Italian club.
Can you find him in the group shot?
(Click image to zoom.)
Thank you, SCU Archives and The Redwood for the archival snaps.
Liz Carney '11, editorial intern, Santa Clara Magazine
Begin the begin
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
And so here we are: launching The Santa Clara Mag Blog, the latest online incarnation of the ever-expanding online universe (okay, corner of the galaxy) that is Santa Clara Magazine, telling the Santa Clara story for 30 years and counting.Always on a mission to surprise and delight and inform and offer a new way of seeing. How?Cover the particularly well-suited-to-blog bits that are part of the breadth that makes up Santa Clara University—in terms of ideas and events that are shaping our world, and engaging in the big conversations society is having—or should be having.With its home at California's oldest university—which is also in the heart of Silicon Valley—SCM is firmly rooted in its Jesuit and Catholic heritage.With a commitment to strengthening the bonds of community and to helping alumni and friends connect with the life of the University, SCM is a magazine of the mind and the heart and the spirit, a place for compelling stories.Okay, but what's the idea here? The lovely print mag only arrives once a quarter (spring/summer/winter/fall) and can cover only so much.We like to pack a lot in there but we also like to show off gorgeous photography and make the pages inviting with stories that have room to breathe.We also like sharing news sooner rather than later about some stories that come our way.Plus, we happen to know there's a treasure trove of archival material at SCU that our readers would love to sink their teeth into. (Please don't gnaw too hard on your computer screen, though.)Here on the blog you'll hear from a few different voices, catch glimpses of the future and the past and of what we're working on now for that award-winning print magazine.Post your comments or questions and fight the good fight for civil discourse as the odometer turns from 10 to 11 on the 21st century. Follow us here or on Twitter or on Facebook or whatever hip new social media platform comes swaggering onto the 'Net in the months ahead.But why now? Today's a very special day at SCU.The University celebrates the Mass of the Holy Spirit, a tradition that goes back to the first Jesuit school in Messina, Italy, in 1548.The liturgy is one of hope and thanks. With a recognition of those who have come before and dreams of what may be, this seems like a very good place to start.Steven Boyd SaumEditor, Santa Clara Magazine


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Shaquille O'Neal thinks the Brooklyn Nets have a better team than the New York Knicks, according to ESPN.
The legendary centre tips the Nets, who have made a series of blockbuster acquisitions, to be the team to beat in the Big Apple next season.
O'Neal's been impressed with their trades, bringing in Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett from the Boston Celtics, and their appointment of Jason Kidd as head coach.
"I'm going with the Nets right now over the Knicks - all day, every day," O'Neal told Newsday on Thursday.
"[Coach Jason] Kidd's a great guy. He's a great leader. I'm anxious to see when things get tough how the guys are going to respond.
"It's a dangerous lineup. I was thinking about it on the way over here."
The Knicks were led by scoring champion Carmelo Anthony last season, and won the Atlantic Division. The Nets finished five games behind their city rivals.
But the addition of Kidd, plus Pierce and Garnett, gives the Nets' roster a new look heading into next season.
Alongside the likes of Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson and Deron Williams, they have one of the strongest starting lineups in the NBA. Questions remain over their shallow bench, but O'Neal feels they've significantly upgraded their club.
The Knicks lost in the playoffs to the Indiana Pacers last season in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Nets lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Chicago Bulls.


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So, Sunday was an incredible day for sport.
Andy Murray became the first male British player to win Wimbledon in 77 years - a feat which made me proud to be both partly Scottish and a former tennis player - and the undefeated Chris Weidman dethroned the previously undefeated - including 10 straight title defences - Anderson Silva.
Just to warn you, I think I read somewhere that this was the sign of a coming apocalypse, but I could be mistaken.
I couldn't (read: didn't want to) stay up until 4am to watch UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman live, but I had it recorded.
Unfortunately my morning routine of checking texts, emails and Facebook backfired as I was bombarded with images of Chris Weidman KO'ing Anderson Silva; something (bizarrely) both fighters predicted.
Accompanying the pictures were angry and boastful comments from fans who thought Silva deserved what was coming to him, because of the way he fights.
The fight has been uploaded, reported, taken down and re-uploaded onto hundreds of sites in the last 24 or so hours, so I'm not going to bother with a blow-by-blow. Instead I want to go toe-to-toe with some of the haters out there.
Since this fight, Anderson Silva, pegged as the Greatest-Of-All-Time, has been receiving torrents of abuse from fans of the sport complaining about his disrespectful overconfidence. Silva spent much of the fight goading Weidman into punching him harder, allowing him second chances to hit him, backing himself into a corner deliberately and even pretending to be rocked.
Mansour Bahrami is a legend in the tennis world because he's constantly showboating - even now in the veterans events.
He serves two balls at once, tries left-handed shots, changes teams in doubles games half way through a point and insists that when it rains, they can continue to play holding umbrellas borrowed from the crowd.
People love him and he even has his opponents cracking up in the middle of matches; a unique tactic to be sure. It's a performance, it's entertainment.
Don't get me wrong UFC is "as real as it gets" as they put it, but if the guys and girls of the world's fastest growing sport were genuinely only interested in seeing who was the better fighter, they could do it at the gym.
You don't need tens of thousands of fans watching you to prove that. You have the fans there because you want to show off your skills. I come from a freestyle points background where a lot of us that fight like that - if nothing else it's more fun!
People loved Silva for it when it meant he won, yet now they disrespect him for it because he lost. If you believed what Weidman was saying about his own plan of grinding out a victory with wrestling, then I'm glad it happened this way because that sort of fight is almost always dull.
I personally don't think Silva fights like he does to be disrespectful; if he is then he deserves all the abuse.
But if he's doing it for entertainment or to show superiority (obviously not in this case, as it happens) or even just to test his skills more, then who can argue that he's not well within his right to do so? You may think it is not worth the risk, but I think it was a sound tactical decision to goad Weidman into a stand-up war. That tactic works nine out of 10 times and this just happened to be the 10th.
You're not going to ask Ronaldo or Messi not to dribble like that because its "disrespectful to the defenders" or ask them to score less goals because its "not fair on the opposition", so how is this different?
Both fighters had a little laugh after the first round and as much as Weidman was saying in his post-fight interview that he doesn't like all the showboating, he did it straight back in the second round - encouraging Silva to hit him and pretending he was rocked.
Silva's own post-fight interview saw him announcing that he wouldn't take up Weidman's offer of a rematch, but that this didn't mean he was retiring.
He still has 10 fights left on his contract, but it will be interesting to see where he goes from here.
Will he continue to fight has he always has now that it has finally let him down? I certainly hope so!
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(nee Brogdon) age 82, peacefully on Thursday, February 21, 2013, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church. Beloved wife of the late Donald E. Collins; loving mother of William F. (Carol) Massmann Jr. and Timothy J. Massmann of Portland, OR; cherished grandmother of Kevin W. (Cherie), Steven W. (Irma) and Valerie Massmann; devoted great grandmother of Madison, Allison and Elena; dear twin sister of Bettina (the late Phillip) Brumbaugh, Elwood (Cristin) Brogdon, Johnnie (Clyde) Willis, Patricia (Gordon) Jackson, Mary Alice (Ed) Reasoner, Sondra (Don) Kempter, Joe (Ann) Brogdon. Candice Moffit, the late Macon Brogdon, the late Geraldine Brewer and the late Larry Brogdon; dear godmother of Bettina Viviano; dear aunt, cousin and friend.
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Usually when a player is promoted to a new level, it takes some time for him to adjust. After three starts for Double-A Chattanooga, it seems that the Southern League needs time to adjust to Allen Webster.
The 21-year-old Dodgers prospect took a no-hitter into the seventh inning Monday night, but the Lookouts fell to the visiting Carolina Mudcats, 6-5.
Webster departed after yielding a leadoff triple to Mudcats right fielder Felix Perez in the seventh. Perez went on to score, leaving Webster charged with one run on one hit over six frames. He struck out six, walked four and hit two batters.
An 18th-round pick in the 2008 Draft, Webster began the season with Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga after going 12-9 with a 2.88 ERA in 26 games with Class A Great Lakes last year. He was even stronger with the Quakes this spring, posting a 5-2 mark with a 2.33 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 54 innings over nine starts.
The right-hander was promoted to Chattanooga on May 27 and lost his first Double-A decision to Huntsville that night, allowing three runs on two hits and three walks over five frames. He went seven strong frames in the Rickwood Classic at Birmingham on June 1, giving up a pair of runs on four hits, but did not factor into the decision.
Despite keeping Carolina out of the hit column, Webster did not make it easy. He walked the first three batters of the game, but escaped unscathed with a strikeout, a fielder's choice and a groundout.
After retiring the next nine Mudcats in order, a walk, a hit batsman and an error left Webster looking at another bases-loaded situation with one out in the fifth. The North Carolina native got Quintin Berry to ground into a double play to end the threat.
He struck another batter in the sixth before giving up the triple to Perez to start the seventh. Webster recorded nine groundball outs against one flyout and threw 91 pitches -- 50 of them for strikes. After three outings, the Southern League is batting .123 (7-for-57) against him.
Shawn Tolleson, another recently promoted Dodgers prospect, took over and did not allow a hit, but Perez scored on a forceout.
The Mudcats battled back in the eighth, turning two walks, three hits and an error into four runs. Jake Kahaulelio's bases-loaded triple capped the scoring as Carolina tied the score, 5-5.
With one out in the ninth, Carolina third baseman Mike Costanzo blasted a solo homer -- his sixth of the season -- to put the Mudcats on top.
Lookouts reliever Steven Ames (0-1) suffered his first loss after allowing one run on three hits in 1 2/3 innings. He struck out four and did not walk a batter as Chattanooga lost for the 10th time in its last 12 games.
Justin Freeman improved to 1-2 for Carolina after fanning a pair in a perfect eighth. Veteran left-hander Tim Hamulack, a former Major Leaguer, notched his first affiliated Minor League save since 2009 by closing out the ninth with one walk.


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"After several years in the fiscal wilderness, the Los Angeles Public Library, and California libraries in general, are mounting a comeback. On Jan. 12, Sunday hours were restored at eight of the system's 72 regional branches and at the Central Library downtown. Back in the dark days of 2010, when it seemed everyone was still trying to climb out of the hole of the Great Recession, I visited a branch of the Los Angeles Public Library in East Hollywood. It was the same one where my immigrant father learned to read English in 1962. The library system had been forced to cut $22 million and 328 full-time positions from the library's budget and close all its branches on Sundays and Mondays. I interviewed people arriving to find a closed library." (via latimes.com)


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Famous last words.
In fact, it sounds kind of like naming your daughter, "Chastity" . . .
CS4 on a 1.6Ghz Atom.. good luck with that indeed. Never mind the rest of the "unhackable" stupidity.
Footnote: Yes, I'm aware that security through obscurity is no security at all, but that's not the issue here. The issue is that instead of nobody caring or trying to break the reasonable security they've implemented, now they've got thousands of people working on it. THAT does matter.
Security through obscurity's little brother? Security through "meh"?
All security, no matter what type it is or how it is implemented, is basically designed to slow down anybody who might try to break it.
I think you're confusing real security with poor security. Granted, often real security is difficult or impossible...
It is possible to create a system which is actually impossible to crack, short of social engineering or unprecedented changes in technology. Example: SSH keypairs. The last major vulnerability in this was due to a stupid, stupid flaw in the implementation. You can argue that such flaws are inevitable, but I'd argue that this is an argument about human fallibility, not about the theoretical limitations of a software system. Depending how much you're willing to invest, it's possible to write a program in such a way that you can mathematically prove it to be correct.
The only other way SSH keypairs are likely to be defeated is when quantum computers become feasible.
That said, I think it's unlikely they've created a truly invincible system with all the software they mentioned. There's likely to be a bug somewhere in Win7, CS4, Office, or Tunes.
By opening up, you can get a bunch of people working on your security to strengthen it, to help offset the few people who might be interested in breaking it.
But that only works for software you can fix, or you can get the vendor to fix. I highly doubt that's the case here.
Nobody is out to burn my house down, because nobody cares. But if I go out and shout, "My House is UNBURNABLE....MUAHHAHAHA!", there's a chance that some asshat will put a torch to it just to prove me wrong.
Security through obscurity doesn't work. Security through provoking asshats into action really doesn't work, unless you have the power to fix what they break.
Security through "meh" vs. Security through "I am INVINCIBLE" provides quite a difference in response. As summary/article/etc points out though, when you tell someone they can't do something, the first thing they want to do is... find a way to do it.
I suggest they send out flares and try to get others to make the same claim on bigger projects to divert the attention.
Security through "meh" vs. Security through "I am INVINCIBLE" provides quite a difference in response.
After spending that sort of money, did you expect them to say "We've got a bunch of sorta-hackable laptops we're lending to children, and we'd really like you to respect the boundaries that we can't enforce"?
Exactly. The purpose of any lock is to provide a speed bump. Hopefully a big enough bump that you'll decide the effort isn't worth the payoff. This asshat increased the payoff 1000 fold in notoriety, and social recognition.
The Roku vidio player is an excellent example of security through "meh". It's almost an ideal box for a Boxee or MythTv frontend, but it is pretty much unhackable (cryptographically signed u-boot, kernel, and ramdisk). They've released their sources (but not their crypto key) months ago, yet not one single crack is available for it.
Why? Because (a) they don't make a big deal of the security features to the public, b) it's stupid cheap ($99 USD), and (c) It Just Works.
The combination of all three make 'meh'. Due to (a) there is no implicit challenge to the security community, (b) trumped the TiVo problem of trying to get 'more value for your money' out of an expensive piece of kit, and (c) prevents your Average Joe hacker from wanting to break a working (and useful to him) device.
Good counterexamples are TiVo, Linksys routers, and the Wii.
For TiVo, it was expensive enough that people wanted to get more value for their money, and felt it was time well spent to hack it.
With Linksys routers, It just Doesn't Work caused people to spend a lot of time finding a way to make some perfectly good equipment work at all for them.
The Wii advertised to the community that it was unhackable, which promptly cause all manner of security professionals to take up arms and figure out how to hack it.
It's analogous to the Streisand Effect. And when the machines get hacked, the id10t who declared them "unsinkable" will experience Titanic Syndrome.
WoW on S10e will not run in any capacity.
Best. Security. Ever.
With crappy hardware, all they can do is browse porn, and, uh, use cs4, apparently.
Instead, some asshat announces to the world "Bow to our unhackable laptops! We are awesome! HAHAHA!", and now thousands of hackers and security researchers out there have made it their personal crusade to find a way to totally decimate all the security on the box. You're right... It's gonna take about 1 month for an exploit for these things to make it to the front page on slashdot. Fucking idiots.
Perhaps. But then again, this is Australia we're talking about. You know, the country who's government is despe
>What is it with governments and hubris? If they had just shipped all these laptops without any mention of "unhackableness", you know what would have happened?
Here are some clues for why they announced such a thing. From the article: 'There was no way we could do any of this on XP,' he said. 'Windows 7 nailed it for us.' *and* the cost to the NSW Department of Education is under $435 (US)
Care to make a wager as to whether or not a certain large corporation in the Pacific Northwest gave them an extra special deal on the hardware & software on the condition that they praise Windows 7 over XP? I mean, they're purchasing netbooks and running Windows 7 on them instead of the lighter weight XP? Anybody else see anything wrong with this picture?
Your setup is flawed from the start.
True the OS will be at risk ( regardless of the OS ), but getting into the firmware ( TPM/DRM/Call for help ) will be much harder. Not impossible of course, but the people that can do that wont be stealing 400 dollar school laptops.
Forget Windows, in security terms if someone has the hardware, you can fairly much consider it merely a matter of time. There are some hardware systems that are essentially unhackable, but... not in this price range. Consider that "unhackable" smart cards cost $100+ a piece, and infer from there...
...when Slashdot news beginning with "Australian Government" won't necessarily end with a rephrasing of "shows off its technological naivety".
...when Slashdot news beginning with "Australian Government" won't necessarily end with a rephrasing of "shows off its technological naivety".
....when Slashdot news about any government won't necessarily end with a rephrasing of "shows off its technological naivety".
No, it's not actually. This is the New South Wales government, whereas the "child abuse" case (I don't believe he was actually accused of distributing child porn) was the Queensland government.
Australian government is much like US government in that we have separate state governments plus a federal government. The states are technically sovereign over the federation, but like the US, there's constant to-ing and fro-ing about how much power they've chosen to hand over to the federal government.
We in NSW ha
And thus, the FAIL. How does this prevent anyone from RUNNING other applications, i.e. via the classic "download the exe with IE but tell it to run instead of save" trick, or from a non "installed" Firefox, etc from a USB drive?
I just spoke to a friend in Australia.. its been pwned already using the nuke the bios and boot from a livecd method.
They even disabled the RFID.
yeah, nuking the bios from a cd is ridiculously easy. It's actually a feature that people can do so. Hirens boot CD [hiren.info] comes with very simple methods for that.
I bet someone will just make an app that unlocks the laptop and wipes the firmware for them so that the laptops can have actual use.
That is if you can boot from a cd. If they let you, then their admins are a waste.
Or you can just take out the hard drive and put the programs/OS to do it on the hard drive.
hey - some guy on slashdot said he talked to some other guy
who Australia who heard from somewhere that these computers
could be hacked
It *must* be true!
I am not some guy, I am Anonymous Coward, I have more posts than anybody else here, and I am a trusted member of this community. Your sarcasm is completely out of place.
Depends if it's BIOS or EFI. The tools to nuke EFI really aren't there yet (although they'll likely appear in the next few months).
Of course with EFI if you can break into the shell you've got command line access the machine is basically hosed.
BTW, isn't the Thinkpad supposed to work underwater?
You're thinking about the Panasonic Toughbook. Weatherproof, waterproof, dustproof, drop-proof. For a while, British Gas / Transco were sending them out with gas engineers -- from what I was told, they used them for work tracking (read: glorified Filofax) and for storing gas equipment service manuals (beats carrying a dozen A4 binders around with you, even if the machine weighs about as much as a concrete block).
From what I've heard, the US and UK Military like them quite a bit, and they tend to get feature
I just spoke to a friend in Australia.. its been pwned already...
Australia's been pwned already!?!
Well, yeah, any Aboriginal person can tell you that.
This looks like a pretty well thought out plan. The fact that the entire application suite will be getting automatic upgrades is great; this is something that Linux users have enjoyed for many years. The "unhackable" claim is PR fluf, sure, but making such a claim should inspire their budding engineers to explore the edges of their new boxes. Since the boxes are tagged with RFID, I certainly hope no student keeps them after graduation (not that they're likely to -- 4 years is a long time to keep a netboo
From the summary:
Each netbook is also fitted with a passive RFID chip which will enable the netbooks to be identified 'even if they were dropped in a bathtub.'
What's the relation between RFID [wikipedia.org] and water immersion? RFID will allow knowing where the netbook is and can pass along some information, but it is not by itself the RFID chip that will tell you you took swim with your netbook! No?
"Tracking software embedded at the BIOS level"? Last I checked, those "tracking schemes" just force-fed Windows some driver/app at the BIOS level. Install any other OS and it becomes useless (not to mention that BIOSes these days aren't even hard to hack). As for the RFID, I don't see how disassembling it and taking it out is rocket science. Nevermind that the students themselves are going to be owning any kind of app installation protection in the blink of an eye.
Sorry, using software to secure a platform against its physical holder has never worked for long, but even just trying to do it on an insecure platform like an x86 PC is beyond useless. None of this is has even a remote chance of working without the heaviest-handed TPM-on-CPU-die functionality and signing of each and every piece of software, but that has no chance of working because no one would want such a platform, it would be painful and expensive to develop, and it could never exist given the buggy and insecure nature of PC software in general.
Video game consoles with strong hardware security and tightly controlled software environments with little interoperability requirements get cracked all the time to run homebrew and/or pirate games, what makes these people think their little netbook won't be?
For what it's worth, Linux vs. Windows here makes little difference. The entire scheme is doomed to fail from the start due to the nature of a PC solution like this. Sounds like Microsoft just sold these guys a bunch of nonexistent security.
"Tracking software embedded at the BIOS level"? Last I checked, those "tracking schemes" just force-fed Windows some driver/app at the BIOS level.
That is the 'consumer level' sort of protection. There is another level that is available to 'special customers', but i do agree that you wont see it on some cheapo school laptop.
AppLocker WILL make it more difficult to run unauthorised apps, even if they're distributed/run via USB. It won't block things entirely but just like every security measure, it will make things more difficult, and that's all you should be able to expect. Give Microsoft some credit - I'd love to get a hold of one of these netbooks.
Our evil plan to control the students has become reality. Muahahhahaa!
While the netbooks are loaded with many hundreds of dollars worth of software, 2GB of RAM, and a 6-hour battery, the cost to the NSW Department of Education is under $435 (US) a unit.
The netbooks have hundreds of dollars of software loaded and still only cost $435 a unit. So the cost of the unit is being subsidized and the department is hailing this as some big leap forward in cost of ownership? And some of the big changes are related to the BIOS.
Already, the department has noted the loss or damage of just six netbooks out of the 20,000 rolled out since August - and have tracked one teacher using their device on a field trip in New Zealand.
Yeah, really cool that the school can track and potentially monitor everyone using one of these devices, even if the machine is not physically turned on via the RFID tags. Now there's a big win.
DET also uses the AppLocker functionality within Windows 7 to dictate which applications can be installed on the device.
Even better. Add McAfee filtering to control content and MSFT's own antivirus technology...add up what all that would cost in a real world enterprise. Just the software costs alone would dwarf the cost of the device.
I look at the cost of the device, the software and all the centralized control and think, "Or just install Linux and get 95% of that functionality right out of gate." And the 5% you don't get is the spying and monitoring part. What lesson is the school teaching here?
This is certainly a win for someone, but I'm not sure it's the students and teachers.
I work for one of the departments involved, hence the anonymous post.
This is typical government posturing, and has nothing little to do with the what's actually going on.
From what I've seen, the RFID chips are redundant, they're using the machine's BIOS UUID to track machines through software, I don't think they even record the embedded RFID codes at all, as that requires a physical reader device, and they're not handing them out to schools. Normally, RFID tags aren't used for anti-theft, but for inventory tracking.
The BIOS tracking is pretty standard and off-the-shelf, it's not designed to stop professionals, but it will catch stupid thieves. Software protection is not huge, but most 'problems' will be met with an F12 network boot and a fresh system image, so the harm students can do will be limited and easily reversible. Students get limited space to save their work, and that is backed up centrally, so they shouldn't lose any data. On top of that, most questionable sites are blocked by the internet proxies, so that cuts out lots of potential sources of harmful stuff.
Really, the true protection the laptop gets is that every student receives one for free, but a replacement laptop has to be paid for out of their parent's pockets. Students will learn to be careful with them or face punishment from their parents.
There's lots of other silliness going on though, especially as it's my tax dollars going to waste.
For example, the enterprise agreement for the Adobe CS4 suite was a big deal. They spent millions purchasing the software before anyone had actually tried running any of it on an actual laptop. Only after the government had signed the contracts did they bother, only to find out that the screens were too small. All of the Adobe dialog boxes were designed for a vertical height larger than the physical screen resolution, so the OK/Cancel buttons are cut off. The workaround was to install a driver that supports a larger virtual desktop and pans the screen around. It's hideous. This is what happens when you let politicians make technical purchasing decisions.
Similarly, the laptops are rather anemic, which is expected for a netbook, but a lot of the software and content they want to publish is very video-centric. Apparently some types of video, like Flash content and h264, don't always play well, and high-res content is a slide show.
There's lots of other silliness going on though, especially as it's my tax dollars going to waste.
I wonder how many 10's of millions of dollars will be spent on licencing fees? The entire infrastructure could have been built upon Linux distributions and tailored to the education departments requirements. As it stands I wonder if they even looked at a Linux distribution.
What waste of money.
"Really, the true protection the laptop gets is that every student receives one for free, but a replacement laptop has to be paid for out of their parent's pockets. Students will learn to be careful with them or face punishment from their parents."
A couple of thoughts on that. The first is that my daughter went through six cellphones one year (not paid for by me). Children have no idea how much things cost because generally they don't have to work for them. The second is that the loss of your lapto
If I recall, China's People's Liberation Army is part-owner of Lenovo.
Exactly why do the Aussies thing there won't be back doors built into the hardware or BIOS?
If I recall, China's People's Liberation Army is part-owner of America.
Fixed that for ya.
If Lenovo would build in back doors, and is found out, then at best they go bankrupt. I think that is enough of a reason for any company NOT to build in that kind of back doors. And they will be found: non-standard chips present in the hardware are a prime target for further investigation, and BIOSes can be flashed (or, presumably, the original software checked against known-good implementations or at the very least decompiled for investigation).
So even if the PLA is part-owner of Lenovo, why would you thi
that thing is very under powered for that and they they want windows 7 on top of that?
How much work will IT have to do for each itunes update? how about all the ipod updaters?
also will they be unlocked should the student finish his or her studies at the school. So the student can install what software they want.
or are they left with system with The update service switches off once a student finishes Year 12 and that has a lock of lockdown carp still on with no way to get rid of it or any way to update any software left on it?
These machines will be as unhackable as the Titanic was unsinkable.
All the Government are doing is putting out a challenge and ultimately proving that a committee of "IT Experts" will be no match for a determined teenage schoolboy who wants to look at porn.
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