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Re: The Official America's Team Analysis Thread
BTW, YESTERDAY I got Brett's book via FedEx. It is signed my Brett and Brett's Mom. Included was the NFL DVD of Brett "In Their Own Words" or whatever it's called.
In the beginning of the DVD, Brett makes me ill by stating that, as a child, he was a fan of the Saints and the Cowboys. He says that he used to imagine himself being Archie Manning or Roger Staubach......
Natasha, I will get this DVD burned and I'll send it to you. I challenge you to watch this DVD and continue to have your insane, Princeton Tap Dancing 850 SAT scoring Favre-Hating Ass, uh, continuing to hate Favre.
BTW, the Book even came with actual pictures of Brett & Mrs. Favre signing MY book.
Brett is Awesome. He's just a genuinely Good Guy. And, you'll be happy when he leaves 'cause we're probably gonna go into the Dark Ages just like where South America's Most Wanted Team has been for the past decade or so.
ONE thing I'll always Cherish is standing in the very next urinal, urinating at the same time as Irv Favre while he told me just how much of an Asshole Warren Sapp is! AND, then sitting next to him at the bar and having him pass me a HUGE mason jar filled with Moonshine. (I already talked about that night here.)
Go Pack Go!!!!....
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by #1PaFan
Glad to see you back, George.NYYFFFL: Impact Litigators
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by #1PaFan
The Dallas Cowboys: America's Team
Overdone, but invariably associated with them for decades, win or lose. 9 years since their last title.
The Oakland Raiders: Commitment To Excellence.
Even though it's been over 20 years since they won a title and they now fluctuate between good and bad, it sticks.
The Bears:The Monsters of the Midway.
Under .500 in the playoffs since their last title 20 years ago.
Green Bay: Titletown.
Maybe once, but with 1 title in last 35 years and extended mediocrity throughout the 70's and 80's, it's not necessarily up to date. Last title 8 years ago.
The Browns: The Dawg Pound.
They're Dawgs, all right. No titles in the last 40 years, and the original Dawg Pound was cute but never saw a championship. Great for the local dog mask industry, though.
The Redskins: The Hogs(Hawgs).
With Danny Snyder in charge, the only things that make the players hogs is how much they make when he signs them in free agency. Last title 14 years ago when Hogs really meant something, but you still see people wearing dresses with fake pig noses.(Tradition or cult? )
The Giants: The Big Blue Wrecking Crew. The only recent wrecking going on was the Ravens demolishing them in the SB 5 years ago. Last title 15 years ago. Some of them are big and blue, though. (Mostly from going through training camp with Coughlin. )
New Orleans: The Aints.
Okay, that one works. With 1 playoff victory and 0 titles in almost 40 years, it's completely appropriate.
The Eagles. No catchy nicknames, but I can't stand them so I had to bring them up. Actually, I can't listen to the song "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" because they played it as the Eagles theme song the other time they went to the SB and choked.
We now return you to your original programming.
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Good thoughts here, guys. The FA signings have been good short-term solutions, as JJ & Tuna are going for the quick kill. In the "anything goes" NFC, this may work out in the end. What makes it even better is the $$$ spent on Rivera, Ferguson, Hardy, and Bledsoe is not long-term impact. making it easy to get replacements for them in a few years. And, yes, I LOVE the Bledsoe signing. It wasn't his fault that Buffalo didn't make the playoffs, and he STILL led them back from 0-4. He'll be another great mentor for Henson after getting Vinny last year.
As for the draft, I was originally hoping that Antrel Rolle or Pac-Man Jones would fall to 11, with either Pollack, Spears, or one of the Codys at 20. But, since that's looking less and less likely every day, I'd like to see the OLB/DE Merriman at 11. The last time Tuna had a player like him on the board, his name was John Abraham. At 20, maybe WR??? Oklahoma's Mark Clayton will be available, but since we have enough possession guys, I wouldn't mind Troy Williamson from South Carolina. I also wouldn't mind taking another D-lineman like the guys I mentioned above (IF they're still on the board).
If you smell what The Ox is cookin'.....
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Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by RIyankee
After the revolving door on the OL in 2002, nothing fazes me any more. That year, you needed a program to tell who was who one week from the next. We even had a guy come in and play pretty well, only to retire because of a heart condition.
I guess we won't find out how bad it really is until camp. The worst thing about that is, if it doesn't get well enough for him to play, our depth at the position will be affected unless Peterman has recovered well. It's eerily similiar to Woodson's problem from last year, except he developed a problem with his sciatic nerve that affected his leg after the surgery on his back.
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The once-Great Marco Rivera playing for the Gutter Mud Franchise Crackboys??? Michael Kay-rist Almighty!!!!
I wish him health, but DAMN!!!! How can a once great player like him sell his soul to play to play for one of the most classless, piece-of-crap franchises in the history of the NFL???
SHAME on him and his children!!! Going from the Green Bay Packers, the Richest Tradition in the NFL to the very city that murdered John Fitzgerald Kennedy??? Shameful!!!!
HOW can Marco even consider going from Titletown to joining a team with a history rife with Drug Running, Sexual Assault, Rape, and Child Molesting??????
Damnit, Marco!!! I just can't believe it!!!!....
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by #1PaFan
Man, I just cannot believe that Marco is even THINKING about putting on that blue & silver French-like horsecrap. That faded, tarnished star hasn't shone in a decade. AND, even when it did shine, they owed it to the effin' Vikings!!! What a SCAM!!!!
Seriously, fellow Forumers: Do you really know ANY "Classy" Cowboy Fans?
EVERY single one I've ever met----EVER!!!.... needed their Ass kicked!!! Most of them are really effin' stupid (obviously) but a few of them are Big. Big & effin' stupid.
As much as I can't stand the Eagles, at least I take some solace in the fact that they're going to kick some Rapin', Child Molestin', Drug Runnin', Gun Totin' ASS next year. Not just once either. TWICE!!!....
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Not that the most recent posts are deserving of a response, but it seems someone enjoys reveling in other teams' past trials, and their own team's past glory.
Hello, and welcome to the present.
Laying the blame for the assassination of JFK belies your ignorance, and has no place in a thread talking about football, which is nothing if not trivial when compared to such topics. I've never lived in Dallas but I've known people who were there when it happened, and the pain they felt during that tragic time was no less if not greater than what was felt throughout the country. Do you also blame the city of Washington DC for Lincoln's assassination? Buffalo, NY for McKinley's assassination?
Ramble on incessantly about the Cowboys if you will, but please refrain from making such inane analogies.
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by Euclis
FIY, that is going on 20 years strongYou have a begining and end, but how you live the middle is important.
My Nana 1919-2003
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Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by DaveK913
Ross Tucker did end up getting a 3 year deal from Buffalo though... doesn't say much, I guess.NYYFFFL: Impact Litigators
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by DaBoys4LifeNYY35
But, you ARE right. It's been a while for My Pack.....
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by DaBoys4LifeNYY35
Tucker turned out to be serviceable and may have stuck around if not for a regime change. I think he started the majority of the Bills' games. It's true you don't see many Ivy Leaguers hang around in the NFL. I lived fairly close to Princeton when we had a couple of Tigers on the team. Jason and Judd Garrett were both on the team in '93, although Judd's brief tenure was one year spent on the practice squad. There used to be some good write ups on them in the local papers at the time.
I wouldn't mind having Jason back as a QB coach, but he ended up in Miami, I believe. I think Judd is on the same staff.
It looks as though the attention is more on the defense for now, with all this Howard trade news flying around. I would be okay with a deal as long as he isn't breaking the bank, but he's looking for a deal similiar to the one Grant Wistrom received from Seattle last year. 5 or 6 years, $33M with a $16M signing bonus. That's a bit much for a guy who's 28, averaged around 8 sacks a year, and has missed 11 games the last 2 years. Of course, I don't sign hte checks.
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by DaveK913
I wouldn't want to spend a draft choice THIS year on him, OR pay him that much $. But D*MN, the D-line would look awesome on paper should this get done, and leave safety as the only glaring defensive hole (once again, I personally am a Lynn Scott supporter), one which could fairly easily be addressed in the draft, provided we don't give any of our 1st or 2nd round draft picks away as part of the Howard deal.NYYFFFL: Impact Litigators
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By all accounts, Dallas had a brilliant draft. I wish they'd taken a safety sooner, but at the times we picked, there didn't seem to be anyone worth each successive pick, plus I read Beriault in the 6th could be a steal anyway.
Ware instead of Merriman is like 1 and 1A to me--pleased with that, too. I wanted Spears badly, but was resigned to the fact that he'd be gone somewhere between 11 and 20. He wasn't. Overall, this draft shores up pretty much every remaining hole on defense while providing the flexibility to play 4-3 or 3-4. I, personally, think time will be split in some fashion among both alignments due to the fact that our incumbent best front 7 players (Ellis, Glover, Nguyen) are best suited to the current system and the fact that the new "3-4 guys" are just that: new.
Only thing missing now is that receiver, but, provided everyone the Cowboys have now at that position stays healthy, they'll be more than fine.
On another note, I got a kick of how loose things seemed to be in the War Room every time we saw it on TV (Sadly, too much work prevented me from going yet again. Alas.), especially that shot of Stephen Jones dancing it up and of Jerry in his ginormous glasses. I was pleased to see that it seemed like Jerry let Tuna call all the shots.
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Things may be better this season, Natalie, but this draft really wasn't a good start. Maybe what JJ & Tuna thought was so funny is the way everyone is fawning all over their work this weekend. I was NOT laughing. I'm sick of hearing about the great job they did when I can show you THREE different times they screwed up:
1. Taking Ware instead of Merriman. I know Ware has the speed, but I'm not sold on the strength. He's to skinny to take on guys like Pace, Ogden or even Alex Barron. I wanted somebody that was quick AND could shed blocks. Merriman was a proven talent against better competition.
2. Taking Burnett in the 2nd Round. I know a good pass rush makes your coverage better, but nothing could have helped that secondary last year; they were absolutely atrocious. Taking Corey Webster or Justin Miller, who also could have been a nice addition on returns, would have been the smarter choice to pair with Newman. Both CBs were taken within the following 15 picks.
3. Taking Barber in the 4th. Worst. Pick. Of Our Draft. Well, at least with Jerome Mathis and Craphonso Thorpe still on the board. Speed WR is a much bigger hole than change-of-pace RB. If they feel Julius Jones can't handle being an every-down back, they never should have passed on Steven Jackson and taken him. Meanwhile, both WRs were gone within 7 picks after MB3.
Taking Chris Canty (DE) and Justin Beriault (S) in the 4th and 6th Rounds were the only smart picks they made. I'm not counting Marcus Spears, because that was a no-brainer -- my unborn daughter could have made that pick. Those three guys are the only things that saved this draft.
OVERALL GRADE: B/B- (and only because they did fill some needs and holes, just not as well as they could have)
Re: The Official America's Team Analysis ThreadOriginally Posted by OxDiesel
As for 3., I get the impression that people in the know with the team really like Patrick Crayton. He's got the speed but needs more experience. I, personally, thought he showed a lot of potential. I would have liked a receiver at some point, too, but, assuming health, Johnson's size and toughness, Glenn's speed and great hands, Morgan's whatever it is he brings to the table, and Crayton's speed and, hopefully with more experience, increasing skill, put us pretty good at WR at least for this year. Getting 30-35 carries per game, EVERY game is, in my mind, a large contributing factor in what drove Ricky Williams out of the league. A change of pace back is a necessity. In 1995, when he had the most carries of his career, Emmitt Smith himself averaged only 23.6 over 16 games. I could not be happier with the outcome of waiting for the 2nd to take Julius Jones and getting an extra 1st round pick this year to boot. Had he been healthy all year, he might have been a Pro Bowler, but I digress.
Regardless of my own personal happy opinion about this draft, Mick Spagnola over at cowboys.com seems to be likewise happy--overjoyed even, especially about the newfound DEPTH we have on defense that we haven't had since the glory years. He's a guy that isn't afraid to tell it like it is and whose opinion I trust more than anyone else's out there who writes about the team.
Our defense will be sweet, and the offense will run like a well-oiled machine. Mark my words.NYYFFFL: Impact Litigators
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FWIW, Accorsi said the guy he really liked in the draft was Ware.TRUCK FUMP
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Dallas had the best draft of any team over the weekend. In a draft lacking in blue chippers on the "D" side, they snatched up 3 defensive studs on Day One.
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We went to the park last week. Israel was in heaven with all of the play ground toys, poor guy doesn't get to go as often as he'd like. We also went for a little hike and then home for a bath and homemade Abelskivers. I was disappointed at how they turned out, tasted great but sort of saucer shaped and not spheres. I'm going to keep practicing, eventually I'll get it right, I hope!
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Beautiful photos, great view and I imagine that your son had a great time, my son loves going to the park also.ReplyDelete
abelskivers! yum! my dad used to make them for us every sunday morning. my sister tried making them once - unsuccessfully - i think it takes alot of practice to get them right. i haven't tried yet :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful images!ReplyDelete
Here in Denmark (the land og Æbleskiver :)) I know almost no one who makes them themselves -every body buys them prefabricated - so that is the only reason why Danish æbleskiver is always round -that, and then the only ones who makes them themselves are grandmothers who has a lot of practice!
Looks like a great day. Love the photo taken downhill.ReplyDelete
In NL they have a thing called "poffertjes", they look the same as your Abelskivers. Little pancakes and you eat them with applesyrup.
well, they sure look lovely to me! : )ReplyDelete
...that is how æbleskiver looks when they are homemade, so they are absolutely perfect!!ReplyDelete
what adorable everyday photos! these are so lovely. israel is getting so big, his legs are so long! :)ReplyDelete
these are such beautiful pictures. where do you live? the scenery is absolutely stunning! xoxoReplyDelete
gorgeous photos :)ReplyDelete
keep going :P
I agree that the æbleskiver looks very perfect and home made! Yummy! However, don't be afraid to add a LOT of pastry into the cups in the pan. The pastry might flow outside the cups but when you turn them around (a knitting pin or two is the perfect tool for this) you can "stuff" the pastry down the cups.. the more pastry the more round (if that makes sense)ReplyDelete
Camel's Back!! I love seeing Boise through your photos. This is such a wonderful city to live in :-)ReplyDelete
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"The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day", also which is now known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar. Many European cultural traditions, in particular Celtic cultures, hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent (according to, for example, Catalan mythology about witches and Irish tales of the Sídhe)."
Whoaaaaa. That was intense. Just kinda scared that a real ghost pops out and shit goes out the window. Anyway, for those of you with Halloween costumes or masks, very wicked of you to have them. But for those of you that do not, well, be afraid not, 'cause I just got the quick-fire solution for you: printable masks!!! Yes, no costume, no matter as long as you are covered with a mask of Freddy Kruger. Just attach some kitchen knifes to your hand and wear a red/green striped sweater and your are all set to make mash potato with the shit left behind by freaked out kids using your kitchen knives. I'm kidding, I'm just in the mood ;) Anyway, check out the masks with the below links:


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ESA astronaut sets research in motion on International Space Station
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ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni returned to Earth yesterday, 1 May, proud to have become the first European astronaut to set foot on the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Endeavour with its seven-strong crew made a safe re-entry at 19:11 (Central European Summer Time) at the Edwards Air Force Base after an 11-day mission, which delivered and returned the European-developed Multi-purpose Pressurised Logistics Module (MPLM) and attached the Station's new 17 metre Canadian robotic arm.
The mission delivered ten tonnes of equipment to the Station inside the 'Raffaello' MPLM, including six experiment racks and two storage racks for the US Destiny laboratory as well as a UHF antenna, supplies for the astronauts and other equipment for future construction and maintenance work.
Guidoni was instrumental in the success of the mission, taking control of all logistical operations involved with the MPLM and overseeing the unloading of all the experiments and equipment into the Station.
"It was a highly complicated and intensive task," said Guidoni, who spent nearly five years training for his trip to the Station. "I feel relieved that it all went so smoothly and very proud to have been the first astronaut to represent Europe on the Space Station".
The Raffaello is one of three MPLMs. Developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and built by Alenia Aerospazio (I), it is the only module capable of delivering specially prepared racks of experiments to the Station.
Each MPLM has been designed to perform 25 missions over a ten-year lifespan and will act as a kind of sophisticated 'removal van', delivering and returning crucial experimental payloads back and forth to Earth.
With the delivery of some of the first experiments, the STS-100 mission opened a new chapter in the story of the Space Station. Most missions have until now been exclusively involved in construction. "Now the Station can at last begin to be used for its intended research purposes" said Guidoni.
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These are regular meet ups in Zagreb (Croatia), organised with the help of our on-line community and blog Nošenje beba. The meet ups, also called "bebonoseća kava" ("babywearing coffee"), are organised "where everybody knows your name" at our local sling library Nosiljkoteka in the local children's club Stripy. See you there! 🙂


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So, we made the Better Than Brownie Cookies (again) but this time we added butterscotch chips instead of chocolate chips. They were well-received at the Break-fast that we went to after Yom Kippor ended last night.
Also, we made pumpkin pie from the leftover filling that was in Benjie's freezer from the pie pops.
That was really good, too. For the crust, I made the dough that was supposed to be turned into puff dough for turnovers, so it was a little bit different than basic pie dough. This recipe included milk and sugar, which I used in place of ice water in ordinary pie crust. We will be making turnovers some time in the near future, so look for the crust recipe then.
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A couple of things that ran through my mind as I was pressed to the man-breast of a drunken Rangers fan.
Why did I lower the camera between me and his nipple? The camera was the only valuable thing on my person, and if the lens got damaged, there goes the easiest job in the world. But my dignity was also slowly evaporating along with the mix of beer and sweat that was beading along his soft areola. His friends laughed and there it went; my self-respect, mixing with the asbestos and dust, floated away into the damp air of the arena. He released me and I handed him a card. He could find the picture of his bosom approaching my lens in gallery 42.
I walked out of the dim and crowded 400-level of Madison Square Garden and furiously wiped my face with my lime green shirt. Back in the arena, the crowd chanted the name of its enforcer, BOOOOOOG, a man already deep into a death spiral of concussions and painkillers. The camera that was entrusted to me dangled safely from my neck. I still had 20 pictures to take before I got paid.
I resolved to never work another Rangers game.
I had graduated college, moved home, and found an AmeriCorps job at the Department for The Aging (truly as exciting as it sounds), when I suggested to a friend that we should go and see a Knicks game. My friend peered over his glass at the beer garden in Astoria, smiled wide, and asked, "what if I told you we could get paid to watch them instead?"
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Early the following Thursday, I found myself making an excuse to the aged of New York, asking off of work so I could go through my orientation as a fan photographer. MSG had contracted with a company that ran similar photography operations around the league. My supervisor-an incredibly kind, shy, and Polish individual named Sebastian-explained the position. I was to go around the arena during pre-game, timeouts, and halftime, and ask for permission to take photos of fans. When the fans consented, I would take the photo and hand them a card that contained the number of an online gallery where they could find their picture and buy it in packages upwards of $30. The fact that MSG had instructed that we were not to take pictures during play was astounding to me-I could just stand there and watch the game I love.
That offseason, the Knicks had signed Amar'e Stoudemire, a perennial All-Star. He claimed to be part Hebrew and wore goggles. He was instantly beloved. Another acquisition, Raymond Felton, signed to run coach Mike D'Antoni's late-capitalism version of offense, looked like a Knick from the mid-nineties-lean and angry. Add to the mix a Russian seven-footer with hands of steel, a draft pick from Stanford who hustled like he actually wanted to be in the NBA, and a Frenchman who was half-man, half-wizard (and now, sadly, a Wizard), and the Knicks had something they hadn't for over ten years: an actually likable team. For the few seasons prior, Knick teams had been assembled based on their expendability. To be a Knick fan was to become acquainted with a fatalistic worldview-your team was born to die. But this new team seemed alive. For the Madison Square Garden Corporation, this was a huge relief. They had just begun a haphazard and complete renovation of their arena (a "transformation" as they put it), which would be funded by an obscene hike in the price of tickets for the next season. To have this succeed at all, they had to have fans come back to the Garden for the first time in a decade. Their outdated arena had to offer the amenities fans were receiving in other, newer arenas, like a pep squad, like fan photographers.
At the end of the orientation tour, we were shown to our "office," a small nook located directly off of the 200-level concourse that was also an active construction site. Sebastian demonstrated how to use our XLR cameras while construction workers removed the building's exterior wall behind him. Looking for Sebastian, I once opened the door to our office only to find myself staring at around a fifty-foot drop to street level. Our original office had "transformed"-and our new office was now behind the Steiner Sports Collectibles Booth.
We were given lime green shirts, press credentials, and set loose upon the Garden, whose attendance was burgeoning as hoped for. My coworkers were not fans like me, elated for this backdoor into games. They were the same crowd you would find at any other service-industry job: students, burnouts, the debt-ridden, immigrants. For a "big game" against the Miami Heat that December, we were specifically instructed by management "not to look poor." It was a tough proposition, as we were all working two jobs, trying to hustle free chicken fingers from generous concession workers, and wading through a dimming economy.
I would get out of work an hour before call time, so often I would arrive to the job early, just to sit in the Garden alone with everything. One day before a Mavs game, with Dirk Nowitzki shooting free throws only feet away from me, the Garden alit in all its pregame splendor, John Starks taking pictures with VIP's at center court, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, wearing most of a cow's hide as a suit, setting up for analysis, I would look up at the famous pitched roof, sagging under the weight of all those dismal Isaiah Thomas years, and find solace in the empty arena, well before the fans were allowed in. In Landry Fields' practice shots, I found an escape from my day job, away from the underfunded social services system. I could believe that the Knicks had found a way out from years of embarrassing mismanagement.
I would be roused from this calm by a little gremlin of an usher.
"You can't sit here! Do your job!"
"No one's here yet," I'd respond. I would motion to the empty, hallowed, bowl of vacant seats.
She had sunken eyes and a red bow attached to the side of her dyed-blonde hair. She had targeted me at my first game, and since then, I was a marked man. She was old and demonic, the bane of all the fan photographers, who would wave out in warning to each other as she approached. She knew that none of us really did our job. Possibly she disliked us because we were not only bad at our jobs, but actively avoiding her and hiding our ill-begotten chicken fingers. I believe she thought that a certain standard of service was being sullied by our presence, a standard she worked hard to maintain, and it probably was.
If I shot 200 photographs, I got paid for the day. By the time the regular season was underway, I was able to get 200 pictures before the game even started. I would haunt the corridors that led to the court, standing behind an usher, fiddling with my camera, watching the game from the equivalent of $150 seats. Most ushers were fine with this, and some even enjoyed our company, snidely confiding in me when a fan gave them attitude or a particularly attractive woman walked by. They were sturdy union men with theories on things. In their break room (I had snuck in for some free coffee and hot dogs), I overheard one explaining that the reason the weather was erratic was because the moon was getting closer to the sun. The other ushers nodded in agreement.
While working Knicks games was a way to pause my own life and become completely immersed in the event, Rangers games were the opposite. A slovenly, heterogeneous group, the fans would fill the arena to capacity, so one could see exactly how many people in New York cared about the Rangers-just what was in the building, and no one else. The Rangers fans heckled and clawed at me, and by the third period most would dissolve into blubbering, hollering beasts. Not the type of individual you would want to ask to take their picture. I mostly wandered the corridors, found empty seats in obstructed views, and wondered whether this was still worth it. They cheered as two men clubbed and concussed one another.
By mid-February, my pre-game basketball meditation had grown to a group of ten other photographers, all watching Kobe stretch and shoot only twenty feet from us, arriving early and somehow getting paid, a stagnant sea of lime green. MSG employees can be broken down by a uniform color of shirt. Ushers wore red blazers (except the gremlin, a supervisor, who wore a black one), concession workers in purple, and waiters wore light blue. Customer service was clad in mustard yellow. We sported a delirious green. The only exception was the 7th Ave. Squad, and they suck.
If the fan photographers were a lazy, indulgent, apathetic group couched within the corporate kingdom of James Dolan, then the 7th Ave. Squad, with their chipper attitude, t-shirt cannons, and overall fitness, were the energetic shills for the regime. They ran around, dressed in the t-shirt of whatever corporation sponsored that night's game, asking the crowd to not only cheer for our New York Knicks, but also to go gamble at Foxwoods and sign up to become season ticket holders. Their unending enthusiasm didn't frustrate me; I respected that they kept in shape and were not secreting hot dogs. But while I would be working a section, getting closer to the magic 200, winning over fan after fan with my lies about the photos appearing on the Knicks website and possibly the big screen at half-court (they wouldn't, not ever), the section would suddenly erupt into a chorus of "Here! Here! Me! Me!" because the 7th Ave. Squad was giving away t-shirts again (they had one trick, and they leaned on it pretty hard.) My photographic renderings were now of little importance to the fans as they clamored for free clothing that would transform a section into a moving, breathing advertisement for Chase Bank.
Who did this Knicks team belong to? Nominally it belonged to James Dolan, who managed the team so poorly that the commissioner had to strongly suggest a seasoned hand, Donnie Walsh, to take over as president of the team.
Walsh's reasonable plan was working. Following the lead of Amar'e Stoudemire, the Knicks had charged to a winning record. They would never win a championship as presently constructed, but they could compete on most nights. There was energy about the team, a genuine lack of ego, no better personified than the stoicism of Wilson Chandler, a young talent that the Knicks hadn't managed to trade away or misuse in his four seasons with the team. On the other end of my lens, I saw an enthusiasm for the Knicks that I thought Isaiah Thomas had forever extinguished.
I was photographing fans that were finally seeing a real team, a team that was not built to fail, and they were so happy. For every fan I made uncomfortable, for each who caustically dismissed me, I captured a moment of total fascination with an almost forgotten spectacle. Knicks fans wanted to believe that this team was not going anywhere except up. They, tragically, felt a sense of ownership.
To say that the arena was poisoned sounds like lurid poetry. Except that it was completely true. After canceling a game in November because of an asbestos-related accident, a general dustiness began to settle. It was, after all, an active work site. A vendor I had struck up a friendship with, one who was in charge of the cotton-candy maker, disappeared in early February. When I found him, back behind a beer concession, I asked him what happened to the cotton candy. "Too much dust," he said. "Bad to eat." For profit and future viability, the fans' and workers' physical health was being sacrificed. For the same reasons, James Dolan sacrificed their mental health as well and blew up their beloved team.
After the Rangers incident on the 400-level, I began to go to work only occasionally. The Knicks fell in the standings, but still made the playoffs. They were swept by the hated Celtics in the first round. I watched the final seconds tick off next to Sebastian, as he patted me on the back and said I was a great employee. I wasn't and I never tried to be. I remember Sebastian making a heroic speech in front of one of the owners of the fan photography company, expounding in us the virtues of getting good photos and being part of the fan's experience. He only stared at the floor and at the company owner. He was incredibly shy, even more so because he knew that not a single one of us who truly cared about what we did. It was a job, it was a sham, and it never made any money.
The Knicks' motto for the season was "You. Us. We. Now." "You" was questionable-they had done everything possible to alienate their fans. "Us" was variable-they had shipped off the popular half of their team. "We" was impossible-there was never enough time or trust to make the proper bond between fan and franchise. "Now" was never. Never again would we, me, the fans, the team, have it so good.
They discontinued the fan photography service after just one year. As the team sulked off the court after losing to the Celtics, I prepared to take off my camera for the final time. A panicked father stopped me, clutching his young daughter. "I paid a fortune for these tickets and I never got a goddamn picture for my wife." He held up his offspring, offering her to the camera. "Would you mind getting me and my daughter courtside?" I assented and followed them down, the father tightly clutching his daughter, thankful for the documentation of this shared experience. The daughter began to cry. As I handed them the card, I said, "Well hey, don't get too upset, there's always next year." Her father set her down and added, "And the year after that, too."
Max Rivlin-Nadler is a founding editor of Full Stop Magazine. He has written for The Awl, The Rumpus, and The Cleveland Scene. You can follow him on Twitter @lookslikeuptome. You can also follow him around Queens, NY.
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The charmingly named ZAGAZIG (usually pronounced "Za'a'zi") was founded in 1830, and is actually a grimy industrial town. Ahmed Orabi (1839–1911), leader of the 1882 revolt against British rule, was born here, and has a statue outside the station. Zagazig is the source of most of the papyruses sold in tourist shops throughout Egypt, which are manufactured in sweatshops and sold to dealers for as little as £E3–4 apiece. From a tourist's standpoint, its attractions are the Moulid of Abu Khalil, held outside the main mosque during the month of Shawwal (currently July or Aug), and the paltry ruins of Bubastis.
Bubastis (Tel Basta)
There's little to see of Bubastis (Bubasta in Arabic) beyond the few displayed artefacts, but archeologists have found Old and New Kingdom cemeteries and vaulted catacombs full of feline mummies, and the city was known to the Ancient Egyptians as Pr-Bastet ("House of Bastet"), after the cat-goddess daughter of the sun god Re, who was honoured with licentious festivals. Fifth-century BC Greek historian Herodotus said that its seven hundred thousand revellers consumed more wine than "during the whole of the rest of the year", and described how the city lay on raised ground encircling a canal-girt temple, "the most pleasing to look at" in all of Egypt. Begun by the VI Dynasty pyramid-builders, Bubastis reached its apogee after its rulers established the XXII Dynasty in 945 BC, though the capital at this time was probably still Tanis.
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Even before you talk to your child, it's a good idea to call a professional for advice. If you have a partner, decide how both of you will handle the situation with your child. The two of you should be in agreement and have a united message. When you do sit down, remain non-judgmental. Do not criticize your child or compare them to other people.
When you sit down:
- Tell your child how much you love them. Explain how worried you are about their behavior or moods. Tell them how terrible you would feel if anything ever happened.
- Describe the signs that have led you to suspect drug use. For example, you could say, "When you woke up you smelled like alcohol," or "I found this pipe in the bathroom." Talk about how the drug seems to be affecting them; for example, "Your grades are really getting bad," or "You missed school twice last week." Keep your tone non-judgmental and calm.
- Empathize and listen when they describes feelings and pressures. Say, "That sounds really hard," or "That must be so disappointing."
- Summarize to show you are listening; for example, "So you are having a hard time with your friends."
- Remind your child of their goals, such as playing sports or being involved in music. Discuss how their drug use is getting in the way of the things they love to do.
- Listen and don't interrupt or criticize.
- Guide your child in understanding the consequences of alcohol and other drug use. Explain that kids who start using drugs and drinking are far more likely to get addicted.
- Make it clear that you and the family will seek professional help. Explain that you want an assessment done by a substance abuse counselor to see if there is a problem.
Keep the conversation on track by remaining calm and non-judgmental. It's an emotionally charged situation but you need to remain in control. If you are not able to stay in control, consult a counselor to help guide the family.
What NOT to do:
- Never try to discuss substance use while your child is high. Wait until a relatively calm moment for your discussion.
- Don't compare your child to a sibling or friend who is successful.
- Don't compare your child to someone who has ruined his or her life by drinking or doing drugs.
- Don't use critical language; for example, avoid using words like "loser."
- Never blame your child for other problems in the family.
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Lightning Agree To Terms With BJ Crombeen On Contract Extensionby Staff Writer / Tampa Bay Lightning
The Tampa Bay Lightning have agreed to terms with forward B.J. Crombeen on a two-year contract extension, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced today.
"We are pleased to have B.J. with the Lightning organization for another two years," Yzerman said. "He has proven to be a hard-nosed right winger and reliable penalty killer, as well as a very popular teammate of outstanding character."
Crombeen, 27, has skated in 30 games with the Lightning this season, recording a goal and seven points to go along with 86 penalty minutes and a plus-six rating. He ranks first on the Lightning and fifth in the National Hockey League in penalty minutes. The 6-foot-2, 209-pound forward scored his first goal in a Lightning uniform on March 5 against the Devils in New Jersey.
"I am very thankful to the organization for giving me the opportunity to re-sign for two more years," Crombeen said. "I am very excited to move forward with the group we have and chase a spot in the playoffs."
The Denver, Colorado native has appeared in 318 career NHL games with the Lightning, St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars, collecting 28 goals, 63 points and 666 penalty minutes. He set career highs in goals (12) and points (22) during the 2008-09 season with the Blues and Stars.
Crombeen was acquired by the Lightning from St. Louis along with a 2014 fifth-round draft pick in exchange for Tampa Bay's 2013 and 2014 fourth-round selections on July 10, 2012.


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Little Johnny is not so little anymore. So, now, it's time for him to learn some algebra.
Johnny's math teacher was bemused over the answer to an exam question about right triangles that he had written. It was the single word "rhinoceros."
"Well," the teacher said, "This is not a word that I ordinarily associate with mathematics. Whatever did you mean by this?"
Johnny replied, "I knew that the answer was something like 'hippopotamus'. But I thought that if I wrote that then you'd be upset. So 'rhinoceros' was the first thing that came to mind."


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Badlands Unlimited is an art publishing house making "books in an expanded field."
Another History Is Possible
Book Review: Programmed Visions: Software and Memory
After "getting fit" and whatever else people typically declare to be their new year's resolutions, this year's most popular goal is surprisingly nerdy: learning to code. Within the first week of 2012, over 250,000 people, including New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg, had signed up for weekly interactive programming lessons on a site called Code Year. The website promises to put its users "on the path to building great websites, games, and apps." But as New Yorker web editor Blake Eskin writes, "The Code Year campaign also taps into deeper feelings of inadequacy... If you can code, the implicit promise is that you will not be wiped out by the enormous waves of digital change sweeping through our economy and society."
If the entrepreneurs behind Code Year (and the masses of users they've signed up for lessons) are all hoping to ride the wave of digital change, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, a professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, is the academic trying to pause for a moment to take stock of the present situation and see where software is actually headed. All the frenzy about apps and "the cloud," Chun argues, is just another turn in the "cycles of obsolescence and renewal" that define new media. The real change, which Chun lays out in her book Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, is that "programmability," the logic of computers, has come to reach beyond screens into both the systems of government and economics and the metaphors we use to make sense of the world ...
Cole Stryker, Author of "Epic Win for Anonymous" on Interior Semiotics, Context Collapse, and "You Rage You Lose"
Still from Natacha Stolz's Interior Semiotics
Last year, an anonymous Rhizome contributer interviewed Natacha Stolz regarding her performance Interior Semiotics, the video documentation of which eventually found its way on 4Chan:
What is it that made, and is still making, [4chan users] so angry about Stolz's performance? The video contains graphic material, but in the age of Goatse, and Tubgirl, explicitness alone cannot shock or offend most people—especially internet trolls. Rather, it was the label on it—art—and the work's perceived demographic—hipsters—that crawled under people's skin. Many on the internet seem as angry with the audience—for sitting there, for clapping—as they are with the performance itself. Whether or not you like Stolz's piece may be a matter of personal taste, but taste is never strictly personal. It stands at a nexus of hot-blooded issues; issues relating to class, status, accessibility, belonging and not belonging. Taste necessarily begs the question not just of how we assign value to things, but also of who should be doing the assigning. The hipster has come to epitomize for many what's seen to be the ridiculousness of taste; and so it struck people who hated Interior Semiotics as no mere coincidence that many audience members in the video were punked out, or gothed up, or otherwise retrofitted.
A lot of the comments on the video fall into two categories: comments addressing the definition, or ideal definition, of art, and comments addressing the nature of hipsters. The latter tend to be violent expressions of a kind of inchoate rage.
Recently I asked my friend Cole Stryker, author of Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web for his take on the trolling of the artist:
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With over half of human bones in the hands and feet, it's important not to neglect these body parts! This cool worksheet gives your kid some skeleton know-how, as she fills in the diagram with the names of the bones from the wrist to the fingertips.
Don't forget about the rest of the body; here are the other Bone Zone worksheets.


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Thats A Mess: UPS Deliveryman Writes "Signed By Terrorist" On Their Packaging Slip
CBS reports "A family in Bakersfield are offended by a derogatory term they say a UPS deliveryman wroteon their packaging slip"
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Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
The latest issue of the literary magazine Lapham's Quarterly has as its theme "Means of Communication," and the closing piece, by VT editor Ben Zimmer, is a reconsideration of the thesaurus as a tool for modern writers. He finds many reasons to remain optimistic about the thesaurus as a reference work (and not just because of the Visual Thesaurus!). Read his piece here.


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In a refreshing voice, Wisdump gets the point of readability:
While reading the excellent article, Web Design is 95% Typography II, I noticed that Oliver included a link to Wisdump which affectionately states what more than a handful of people have said about the site.
Scrivs, you are without no doubt the dude 2.0 – and your company does amazing stuff, but what were you thinking when you downscaled the font size on wisdump? I know that I can scale it up with a simple key combination, but I don't want to. I used to read wisdump (ex whitespace) weekly. I don't read it anymore because I am too lazy to adjust the font size.
That's all I needed to hear…You people should have scolded me more. Please forgive me.
Well said.
The trend in blog fonts over the past two years has been to go microscopic, or as Wisdump explains the trend needs to change so "we are back to being able to read the site without feeling that every paragraph is a footnote."
As cute as small fonts were, they are hard to read. When they are combined with a lack of scalability for accessibility standards, small fonts are criminal.
Get your fonts back to size.
Wisdump uses the following font size style for the base and body font:
body { font: 100%/145% ...}
I use the following and then both of us scale our font sizes from there:
body { font-size:1em;... }
Think about your readers. Are they reading your blog well? Or are they squinting?
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Thursday 15 November 2018
1 October - 28 November 2018
This years edition of Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival explores the Lute instrument family. Renown artists from all over Europe and Middle East perform rare repertoire from the Middle Ages to Early Baroque in 16 concerts - solos, duos, trios and one quartet, with and without singers.
Meet Nicolas Achten, Marc Lewon & Paul Kieffer, Nicolas Lartaun/Ricardo Leitão Pedro/Lukas Henning, Mouhabet Duo (Periklis Papapetropoulos/Cihan Turkoglu), Bilal Irshed, Negar Bouban, Bor Zuljan & Romain Bockler, Michele Carreca, Andreas Arend & June Telletxea, Enea Sorini & Pepe Frana, Marco Horvat, Fredrik Bock, Doyho Sol, Simone Sorini Syrenarum, Jonas Nordberg and Quartetto di Liuti da Milano.
November 13 – December 4 [Latvia]
In Riga we will hear European Union Baroque Orchestra with director and violinist Amandine Beyer, ensembles "Canto Fiorito" (Lithuania) and "Musica Antiqua Salzburg" (Austria) with director Rodrigo Calveyra (Brazil), Polish duo by Ania Karpowicz (flute) and Poland, Marek Bracha (piano), "Finnish Baroque Orchestra" (FIBO) with soprano Myriam Arbouz (France) and more.


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WELDON JOHNSON first tried caffeine as a performance enhancer in 1998. He was not a coffee drinker but had heard that caffeine could make him run faster. So he went to a convenience store before a race and drank a cup of coffee.
For the first time in his life, he ran 10 kilometers in less than 30 minutes.
"I remember being really wired before the race," he said in an e-mail message. "My body was shaking."
From then on, he was a convert.
Mr. Johnson, a founder of LetsRun.com, would avoid caffeine, even in soft drinks, for a few weeks before he competed in a race, wanting to have the full stimulant effect.
"It may have been a huge placebo effect, but I swore by it," Mr. Johnson said. "Having a cup of coffee exactly one hour before the race was part of my routine."
Or maybe it was not a placebo effect.
Caffeine, it turns out, actually works. And it is legal, one of the few performance enhancers that is not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
So even as sports stars from baseball players to cyclists to sprinters are pilloried for using performance enhancing drugs, one of the best studied performance enhancers is fine for them or anyone else to use. And it is right there in a cup of coffee or a can of soda.
Exercise physiologists have studied caffeine's effects in nearly every iteration: Does it help sprinters? Marathon runners? Cyclists? Rowers? Swimmers? Athletes whose sports involve stopping and starting like tennis players? The answers are yes and yes and yes and yes.
Starting as long ago as 1978, researchers have been publishing caffeine studies. And in study after study, they concluded that caffeine actually does improve performance. In fact, some experts, like Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky of McMaster University in Canada, are just incredulous that anyone could even ask if caffeine has a performance effect.
"There is so much data on this that it's unbelievable," he said. "It's just unequivocal that caffeine improves performance. It's been shown in well-respected labs in multiple places around the world."
The only new questions were how it exerts its effects and how little caffeine is needed to get an effect.
For many years, researchers thought the sole reason people could exercise harder and longer after using caffeine was that the compound helped muscles use fat as a fuel, sparing the glycogen stored in muscles and increasing endurance. But there were several hints that something else was going on. For example, caffeine improved performance even in short intense bursts of exercise when endurance is not an issue.
Now, Dr. Tarnopolsky and others report that caffeine increases the power output of muscles by releasing calcium that is stored in muscle. The effect can enable athletes to keep going longer or to go faster in the same length of time. Caffeine also affects the brain's sensation of exhaustion, that feeling that it's time to stop, you can't go on any more. That may be one way it improves endurance, Dr. Tarnopolsky said.
The performance improvement in controlled laboratory settings can be 20 to 25 percent, Dr. Tarnopolsky said. But in the real world, including all comers, the improvement may average about 5 percent, still significant if you want to get your best time or even win a race.
For years, researchers believed that you needed about 5 to 6 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight. An 80-kilogram, or 176-pound man, for example, would need about 400 milligrams of caffeine, or 20 ounces of coffee.
Now, Louise M. Burke, the head of sports nutrition department of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, reports that athletes get the full caffeine effect with as little as 1 milligram of caffeine per kilogram of body weight. Instead of 20 ounces of coffee, a 176-pound man could drink 4 ounces of coffee, or about two 12-ounce cans of Coke.
It's also possible to get diminishing returns.
Terry Graham, chairman of the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Guelph in Canada, found that at 9 milligrams per kilogram, athletes actually did worse.
Many athletes and coaches are not caffeine fans. Mr. Johnson said he has tried to spread the word and gets frustrated when runners don't use caffeine — so much so, he said, that when he sees the team his brother coaches at Cornell, he thinks, why aren't they all going to Starbucks?
Mike Perry, a friend who is a sculler who has competed nationally and internationally, said that, with one exception, the rowers he knew did not use caffeine.
"People would have psychological issues with using it," he said. "They would see it as against the spirit of the law, even though it's not against the law."
Still, Mr. Perry wondered whether caffeine would help him. When he retired from rowing last July, he decided to do a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled experiment on himself.
He noticed that the 200-milligram caffeine pills look exactly like vitamin C pills, allowing him to code the pills so that he would not know which one he had taken. For eight months he tested himself once a week, taking two pills an hour before working out on a rowing machine. Then he worked as hard as he could for an hour, recording the results, also recording his guess about whether the pills he took contained caffeine. Mr. Perry, who also is a runner, said that an hour on the rowing machine is the equivalent of an hour of very fast running on the road.
When he finished his study and broke the code late last month, he was astonished to see how much the caffeine had affected him. He was stronger — his power output was 3 percent greater — and faster. In fact, he said the average speed for his tests when he used caffeine was faster than his fastest speed when he was not using caffeine.
He also guessed right most of the time about whether the pills he took were caffeine or vitamin C. Mr. Perry said he is now sorry that he never used caffeine when he was competing. "It would have been a pretty harmless way to do better," he said.
Others, including my son Stefan, disagree. I urged Stefan to try caffeine and he did. Once.
He took a caffeine pill before a track workout that involved running a mile very quickly, resting briefly, and running a mile again, repeatedly. Like Mr. Johnson, he was wired and shaking. But, Stefan said, he could not recover between miles. His heart was pounding and just would not slow down. He said he has no desire to experience that again.
Then there is the problem my running partner Jen Davis and I have. We love coffee and probably have caffeine in our blood all the time except during the middle of the night (it lasts for hours).
SO would we do better if we weaned ourselves from caffeine and then took a pill or two before a race?
I asked Dr. Tarnopolsky. It turns out, he said, that you get habituated to two of caffeine's effects right away. Caffeine can make you urinate, but only if you are not used to it.
"Athletes do not get dehydrated from caffeine," he added, "contrary to popular myth."
And caffeine does increase the heart rate and blood pressure in people who are not regular uses. "But after three or four days, that potentially negative effect is gone," Dr. Tarnopolsky said.
The beneficial effects on exercise, though, remain. Even if you are a regular coffee drinker, if you have a cup of coffee before a workout or a race, you will do better, Dr. Tarnopolsky said. "There is no question about it," he added.
He puts the caffeine research to use when he trains and competes. Dr. Tarnopolsky is an elite triathlete, ski orienteer and trail runner who has competed at national and international levels. And, he said, he loves coffee: "I love the smell. I love the taste. It's heaven."
And before a race? He always has a cup.


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M3NSA & Wanlov The Kubolor were spotted at Kotoka International Airport this morning fresh off their Europe Tour. They went right into a meeting to be briefed by the tour organizers being Africa Unsigned & Pidgen Music. Then they rushed off for rehearsals for a private show that was to take place later that evening.
FOKN Bois said "Its so good to be back home. We can't wait to see the new talent and see what they have to offer. We want to give them the chances we didn't really have coming up."
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Youth Sports Now: A league of its own
Eric Lund was having a hard time figuring out in which of the many baseball leagues his athletically inclined offspring should play. From that frustration was born YouthSportsNow.com, a content aggregator for the myriad sports available in the area for kids age five to college.
"We're covering 23 sports," says Lund, including squash, rowing and cheerleading.
For content, he relies on parents and coaches to report scores–- and on other media. "Instead of a reporter, we'll link to a story on the Daily Progress or on Scrimmage Play," says Lund. "We linked to a Hook story on the ice park."
In 2007, Lund launched a shelter mag called Charlottesville House and Home and Garden, and followed that in 2008 with the Next 50, a glossy for aging baby boomers. Both quietly folded later that year. "I'm out of the print business," declares Lund.
He teamed up with Jerry Miller, who does a local sports show called Varsity Lights on NBC29, and Lund says they're counting on peer pressure and social networking to get parents to cover all those kids' games.
The youth sports niche suddenly seems crowded. Last fall, a glossy devoted to area high school sports, Scrimmage Play, started publication.
"There's a major difference," says Scrimmage Play co-publisher Bart Isley. "Ours is journalistically based. Theirs is user-generated. We're putting high school sports coverage in the hands of experienced journalists."
And Isley doesn't see too much overlap. 'There's usually a place for a voice for everyone," he notes. "That's for readers to decide."
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Really? It doesn't make any sense? It's pretty simple. People don't like to give their $$ or support to jerks. It isn't that hard to be nice, and people who go out of their way to badmouth their competitors look scared, weak, and amateurish.
kyle are the chubby, bald man who keeps showing up in espn 840 videos butchering the game of golf? if so, you need some practice but it certainly has given us guys at work a huge laughs laughing at you and your golf swing.
kyle hanni are you the chubby, bald man.... sorry forget the "you."
Hoolarious, btw the best name yet on here since noone uses their own. If the truth is negative, well then so be it. If having ethics and actually covering the sports is negative, dont know what to tell you.
Not sure who you are, but you dont make any sense to me.
Maybe you need thicker skin. I grew up in a town were the local paper does cover Little League and Pop Warner. No one ever put your station down. I just gave an opinion that you actually validated by saying you were going with your strong suite. Scrimmage Play has a strong fan base and has nothing to worry about from YSN.
Just pointing out...the Scrimmage Play/Kyle Hanni/William Morris posts on this board are aggressive, overreacting, uncivil, and appear very very wrapped up in their own dramas. Big negative.
The guy from youth sports now, by contrast, seems nice.
You know, marketing is not just something you pay money for in order to get a logo or brochure--it's how you conduct yourself in public, and that includes on chat boards. My impression now of Scrimmage Play is negative.
It will be good for your golf swing, that's all. Keep those videos coming for all of us to laugh too.
Yup, thats me. Glad it was entertaining to folks. Thats the main thing, if it made someone laugh, it was worth it. Im trying, been a long winter time to hit the cardio, keep the head down and practice....
First, I would like to offer a thank you to Lisa Provence for writing the article on YouthSportsNow.com. Very much appreciated, Lisa!!
On March 1, 2010, Eric Lund and I ambitiously launched YouthSportsNow.com because we realized the Central Virginia community has an awesome passion and commitment to sports on all levels, especially at the youth level right here in our backyard. As a result, Eric and I have embarked on a journey that has been so tremendously rewarding. We have built a custom web platform, designed a user-friendly interface, featured athletes and coaches in the YSN video player, in YSN Q&As, and in many, many different YSN features. We ABSOLUTELY ORIGINATE GREAT CONTENT, while also cross-listing the other great sports content in Central Virginia from our many reliable media outlets and resources.
In this short time, YouthSportsNow.com has experienced tremendous success and web traffic growth, while staying strong to our No. 1 goal: To positively promote youth athletes, their coaches, their families, the selfless volunteers that give their time and energy to these athletes and all the schools, leagues, clubs and non-profits that offer the structure and resources to the student athletes.
And, as we continue to enhance and grow YouthSportsNow.com (we are discussing expansion to Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley in the near future), please realize we will forever be committed to athletes ages 5-22 who deserve positive coverage and attention for all their hard work and discipline.
We are VERY excited for what's in store for 2010!!!
Jerry Miller
I couldn't disagree more. "Coach Tim Ryan" seems to work for the web site, as most of their message board postings are him, Jerry, and some other guy talking to each other.
As for Jerry's show being popular, there's a difference between being popular and being on television. Why do you think his show airs between the infomercials and cartoons? It's called "paid programming". If I had the money, I could have my own "show" too.
I don't listen to AM radio, except when they have programming relevant to me and my family. My point was that an AM radio station already does what Jerry's trying to do online, and they do it BETTER. That's embarrassing.
YSN isn't killing off AM radio, local newspapers, or Scrimmage Play. It's just Jerry Miller (who no AM radio station will hire) trying to hang on to a sliver of relevance. Game over.
What niche do you speak of webster52.I have lived and worked in a micro,small and medium sports talk market and at no time was there any coverage of little league or pop-warner football,oh thats right those are youth sports. It only took the braintrust at Youthsportsnow about 2 min to start covering high school and prep sports. Youth sports is defined as up to 8th grade not well into high school.
Im sorry we dont cover enough swimming and wrestling for you webster 52. Maybe the reason we have Scrimmage Play on is to discuss those sports. Can't cover everything. At least we go to watch some of the high school action. I have never seen anyone from Youth Sports Now out at events. I talked football cause i played, we may revert to basketball because we have a former college basketball player on staff and she is also a coach. I was always taught in this biz go to your strong suite, but then again i have been doing this for 7 plus years and interned under some of the best in the business.
I got pretty thick skin, but i draw the line when you put down the station i work for because we dont cover enough swimming or wrestling. Are you serious!!!!
William Morris hits the nail right on the head, its not bashing it happens to be the truth, backed up by documentation and witnesses. I have worked with one of the guys that started this site.
Oh and agarn (i prefer real names and not to hide my identity) thanks for listening to ESPN 840, well have more funny stories for you we found on the internet. Please invite me to your job so i can see what you do sometime.
I had to post this cause i had just had enough, of everyone trying to justify a need for this site that is obviously trying to compete with the great team at Scrimmage Play. Thats not even a competition. Game Over!
Rewind past J.Miller web sites, radio shows all discontinued wthout notice. YSN is a kissing cousin of the past web failure "Varsity Lights" you know the site where Miller would get on and scold you if any negative comments were out towards players or teams, or the classic "rap scheme" radio show. Same 14 callers everyday, 3-4 times a day getting barked at during comments. Man do i miss the classics!! good luck!!
Oh, Kyle, go back to the golf course and shank some golf balls around at Jess and Mike!!!!! Getting personal and up in a bundle on a comment board shows your character and ethics. There is a place for everyone, such as Youth Sports Now, Scrimmage Play, Espn Radio, Fox Radio, WINA and the Regress. Just let everyone enjoy all the coverage and don't forget to yell, "FORE!"
I visit YouthSportsNow.com everyday. It is an excellent website and a much needed resource for our Central virginia community. My kids and their friends have loved the site and are always watching the feature interviews that Jerry Miller does with all the local kids. With almost no local sports coverage in the area, YouthSportsNow.com has been so well received by our community, especially the youth athletes, families and coaches who are starving for coverage. We certainly love it. Kudos to Jerry Miller and his team for filling a much needed niche in Central Virginia.
As they admit in the article, Youth Sports Now rips off content from everyone else, and provides nothing constructive. Would you read a newspaper that did nothing but take stories from other papers? They're not covering 23 sports, they're covering NO sports. This town has tons of better local sports coverage that cares enough to actually attend our kids' games.
Scrimmage Play has much better writers and more in depth coverage than YSN in every sport. Scrimmage Play is on the radio on ESPN 840 EVERY DAY talking about our local kids. Even ESPN 840, an AM RADIO STATION, has live online video of youth sports. I watched my nephew play in the VBDL championship on their site, and I think they have live lacrosse and baseball as well.
Eric Lund and Jerry Miller (who was fired from ESPN840 btw) are just trying to make a buck off our kids while doing as little work as possible. Charlottesville deserves better, and we already have better.
I think that they are doing a fine job. Eric Lund and Jerry Miller are quality people that serve our comunity. Jerry's Varsity Lights show is quite popular in the area and showcases some of our best Athletes and Coaches. The youthsportsnow website just did a great piece on the lights situation at Lane. How often do you get a little league score or highlights in the local paper?
Agreed, webster52. This site serves a great purpose. Anytime that youth athletes get more coverage in all the sports than that is good for the community, the families and parents. And Youth Sports Now also does originate content like the recruiting feature on the Fluvanna soccer play, the baseball update on young Molinaro, on all the great video interviews. This is content that is unique to YOuth Sports Now and information that you cant get in Scrimmage Play, the Progress, The Hook or any of the AM radio stations that no one listens to anymore. As the internet and sites like Youth Sports Now get more popular, traditional media outlets (Progress and AM radio) will become non-existent. This transformation is already happening now. Kudos to Jerry MIller and Lund for building such an important local resource.
Coach Tim Ryan
taking stories ferom elswhere and putting them in a central location is a GREAT business model. www.fark.com does this with all the oddball stories and is one of the most popular sites on the net. Where do you think the funny sports stories you here on ESPN 840 come from?
Good for you guys...
Scrimmage Play is excellent and ESPN 840 does a good job as well. The writers at Scrimmage Play are very knowledgable of all high school sports while ESPN seem limited to Baseball, Basketball and Football. When Bart tries to talk about athletes in sports like wrestling or swimming, the ESPN folks always redirect them back to basketball.
Youthsportsnow fill that niche of youth sports that has been lacking in the area for some time.
Varsity Lights has had features on some of the area's best athletes such as Duke Pickett, Willy Crawford, Zach Morris and many others. Bashing Jerry does not help your cause William.
This is what I love about youth sports - over-involved adults with nothing better to do complaining about one another!
FB fan come out and play with us sometime. Bet you tee off from the blue. Thanks for taking an interest in ESPN 840. Call in any time, bet it would be epic.
Webster 52-i think your a prime candidate to be a youth sports consultant. maybe e-mail me some updates. Thanks for listening to ESPN 840.
So that is you, Kyle Hanni! Man, keep your head down on your backswing and eye-on-the-prize: The Ball!!
ESPN840 is the best keep up the great work Kyle Jess an Mike.Hey Football Fan grow up Chubby who says that.ESPN840 rocks


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Author & Early Learning Authority Dr. Bisa Sounds Off in Her Blog, Says It's Not Just the Numbers
By: Tamika Morrison
If you follow education news, are an educator and/or parent, then likely, you're feeling the frustrations of many across the nation as it relates to our seemingly faltering educational system.
Author and Early Learning Authority Dr. Bisa Batten Lewis, affectionately called 'Dr. Bisa', managing partner of Ideal Early Learning, LLC –an education consulting firm based in Atlanta, is sounding off in her latest blog about the fallout in the Atlanta Public School system's alleged cheating scandal and performance of schools throughout the state of Georgia. Ideal Early Learning, LLC, is one of a few chosen firms leading the way in Georgia to revamp the state's education system starting with the professional development of early childhood educators and the eligibility requirements effective 2012 by Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning.
Georgia has ranked among the lowest-performing states over the last decade in education. The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute's 2005 report on Georgia's rankings showed that Georgia ranked 48th in teen high school dropouts and 49th in public high school graduation. Keep in mind that these rates are from lowest to highest. The most recent reports show that Georgia is now 47th, which has only occurred due to its record number of high school dropouts. With a 10% increase in high school dropouts, Georgia ranks the highest in dropouts among states its size (KIDS COUNT Data Center, 2009).
Dr. Bisa comments in her latest blog post, Public Schools in Georgia: The Proof is in the Pudding, "Media attention on education in the state of Georgia has been heightened due to the spring reports on schools cheating on standardized tests and the resignation of State Superintendent Kathy Cox. While finger-pointing continues to be redirected, the victims (our children) continue to suffer from a lack of quality educational experiences." Dr. Bisa home schools her sons ages 9 and 13 and made this decision mainly because of disappointment with the quality of education offered in Georgia's public school system. She reflects…
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"People will automatically assume I support Romney," said Robert Cooper, 28, below, who belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A recent graduate from law school who lives in Washington, D.C., Cooper said he feels government should offer the kind of safety net that members of his church enjoy.
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"I consider myself a centrist, but am more comfortable in the Democratic party. I feel there's a big-tent approach, helping those who are disadvantaged. If you look at economics, Mormons take good care of themselves. We give 10 percent of our income to the church, in addition to a monthly donation. So a lot of Mormons say that's not the role of government, but not everyone has that support structure. That's one of the roles of government, to help those who don't have that support structure. A lot of people don't have what we have."
Cooper made a point to visit the first national meeting of Mormon Democrats, held on Tuesday in Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention, "Because this is something important for people to know, that there is political diversity in the Mormon Church."
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"My faith is the reason why I'm a Democrat," said Kaitlyn Janis, above, of South Jordan, Utah, adding "Christ is the example we follow. The Democratic party embraces values I try to emulate: charity, caring for poor and needy, equal opportunities for education. Health care is a big one, ensuring that everyone can live a good life."
Only 17 percent of Mormons are Democrats, according to Justin Daniels, a delegate from Utah. Janis said: "We are definitely few and far between. It's cool that Romney's in this high position and bringing attention to our church. But I don't share his ideals for the future and for our country."
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"There are people who are serious Mormons, and who take politics seriously, and who support the [current] president," said Lane Van Tassell, above, a retired professor of political science at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga. "Government can be a solution," he said, referring to President Ronald Reagan's statement that government is the problem.
"Faith brings us to a sense of values: a fair society is important, a society that eliminates barriers to discrimination. We find support for those values in the Democratic party."
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R.C. Johnson, above, from Casper, Wyo., while not a member of the LDS Church, came to the meeting of LDS Democrats to learn more about how people of that faith have connected with the Democratic party. "There's a Mormon Democrat, Chris Henrichsen, running for US Congress from Wyoming," she said, "and being here is about being informed." As the county chair for Natrona County Democrats, she wants to build a bridge to Wyoming Mormons, many of whom are Republicans: "I want to be able to articulate a lot better the LDS-Democrat connection."
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Above, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who belongs to the LDS Church, speaks to the first national meeting of LDS Democrats on Tuesday in Charlotte. Reid mentioned that several presidential candidates in the United States have been Mormons, starting with Joseph Smith, the founder and first president of the LDS Church, who ran in 1844 with "a very progressive" platform.
See more visual coverage from the DNC in PhotoBlog and in this slideshow.