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The Mossberg Report
Mnemonic Devices
The wild success of Apple's iPod music player is based on lots of ingredients, but one of the least obvious of them is about to give a boost to some other portable devices and may just turn these gadgets into competitors to the iPod itself. I'm talking about the little hard-disk drive at the iPod's heart. It's physically small enough to fit inside a handheld gadget, yet large enough in terms of capacity to store thousands of songs.
Back in 2001, the iPod was the first widely sold product to use one of these little hard disks. With a diameter of just under 2 inches, it's smaller than the hard drives used in most laptops, yet it can hold up to 60 gigabytes of data, or around 15,000 songs. The midsize iPod Mini uses an even smaller version, albeit with decreased capacity. It's just an inch in diameter but holds up to 6 gigabytes of data, enough for around 1,500 songs. (The lowend iPod Shuffle doesn't use a hard disk, and it holds relatively few songs in its memory chips.)
But now these little hard disks are migrating to other devices — including cellphones and personal digital assistants — made by other companies, giving these gadgets some of the iPod's magical combination of diminutive size and expansive capacity. And since these devices can play music, along with the various other functions they perform, they could soon become a challenge to the iPod.
For example, two big cell phone makers, Samsung and Nokia, have designed music-playing phones with small internal hard disks that hold a few gigabytes of data. Samsung's hard-disk model is sold so far only in Korea, but could make it to the U.S. by the end of this year. Nokia's will be rolled out late this year, probably first in Europe.
By late 2006, I expect Americans to have numerous choices in hard-disk cell phones.
The first PDA with a hard disk to be offered in the U.S. came out in May. It's the $499 PalmOne Life-Drive. PalmOne sells the LifeDrive — with its large color screen and 4GB hard disk — as a portable way to store and view or play back music, videos, photos and office documents. It also features the usual Palm calendar, contact and notes functions, and with its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, it can surf the Web and send and receive e-mail.
The LifeDrive is bulky — much larger and heavier than an iPod Mini with the same size hard disk. And it isn't a great music player — it has touch-screen play, pause, fast forward and reverse rather than proper buttons, and it doesn't come with headphones. But it could be the start of a trend for PDAs, since it should be possible to wedge a similar hard disk into a smaller device.
More likely, the bigger threat to the iPod will come from iPod-enabled cell phones. People have to carry their phones anyway, and some already offer music-control buttons and headphones. So if your phone can hold thousands of songs, why carry around a second, separate music player?
Of course, phonemakers still have to prove they can design music-playing phones that are as simple, elegant and cool as iPods. But that could happen.
Little hard disks could also revolutionize digital cameras, allowing photographers to store thousands of shots without lugging around a laptop, although I know of no camera to date that has a hard disk.
Another trend: Small hard disks will likely shrink even more. Already, there's a company making one with a diameter smaller than an inch. But mini hard drives may also face a challenger of their own — high-capacity memory chips. The chips have tended to be costlier per unit of storage than the disks, but over time they could get competitive. Prices are dropping fast, and chipmakers are working on memory cards, like the one in your digital camera, that are capable of storing over 10 gigabytes.
For now, though, keep your eye on the little hard disk that powers the iPod. It may be powering lots of gadgets soon.


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Nickels_n_bullets said:QUIT WHEN YOU DOUBLE UP. Or are you just too dam greedy?
Nickels_n_bullets said:How much have you won this year?
nickels_n_bullets said:When is it enough?
nickels_n_bullets said:CAN YOU STOP?... for a year?
All of those questions were aimed not at you, but should be thought of by you at some point. My response was and remains a point of questioning ONE's SELF.
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BuGhOu§eMASTER said:.....doing this ignores the leaving with 2/3 profit rule that is mentioned in many blackjack books.
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I think most of us could use knowledge of your experiences to bolster our morale the next time we're in the trenches!
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Ever since I took this shot above, I've been wanting to go back and shoot this place.
When I posted my record shop photo on flickr the other day, it totally flopped but for a few people who got it. I figured a blog entry with several shots would better tell the story of a local record shop called "Love Garden." It might just be the coolest place in town, and you can see why! They make it like a treasure chest and you never know what great album you might find under the one before it.
I've always loved stores like these, as a music lover. There's a feeling of unspoken camaraderie as soon as you walk in, that mutual understanding of the need to be renewed by a new sound, reborn in some great new lyric. It is that awesome feeling of never knowing what you might find, and at the same time, the possibility of being reminded of some old favorite gem you haven't listened to in years. This particular store might make some feel as though they don't know much about music, but that's okay, because therein lies the excitement and potential. And to top things off, they've even got two resident kitties, one you can see below who is always in that window!
The boots shot was not taken at the love garden but at brunch this same morning. I just thought it fit somehow, a further explanation of time and place here in Lawrence.


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With 19 losses in the last 22 games, the Celtics have played themselves into prime NBA Draft Lottery territory.
They owned the third-worst record at 15-33 heading into Friday, and with 34 games remaining, the next important date on the calendar for the Celtics is shaping up to be May 20 when the draft lottery takes place.
Don�t wish for last
With a talented crop of rookies expected to be there for the taking next June, the Celtics just might be in position to land a building block.
But those who are pulling for the Celtics to lose every game possible should take note that having the worst record in the NBA doesn�t automatically mean getting the No. 1 pick.
Since the draft lottery was instituted in 1985, only four teams that finished at the bottom of the overall standings have wound up winning the lottery and getting the top choice.
It first happened in 1988 when the Los Angeles Clippers went 17-65 and selected Danny Manning, then again in 1990 when the then-New Jersey Nets compiled the same record and took Derrick Coleman.
In 2003, the Cleveland Cavaliers tied for the worst record at 17-65 and drafted LeBron James, and a year later, the Orlando Magic went 21-61 and picked Dwight Howard.
In the 25 other years, including the last nine in a row, having the worst record was not useful at the draft lottery.
Judging by history, avoiding the bottom of the overall standings appears to be the best strategy to follow.
Whether the Celtics are bad enough to tumble that far remains to been seen in the next two-plus months.
Rondo�s struggles
As the losses pile up, coach Brad Stevens faces a major test trying to keep everything together in his first year in the NBA.
There could be some improvement once Rajon Rondo settles in following his long layoff, but he has struggled in six games since returning from anterior cruciate ligament surgery.
Rondo is 0-6 and is averaging 6.7 points on brutal 28-percent shooting and 5.7 assists in 24.3 minutes. His playing time has been increasing, though Rondo is not ready to play on back-to-back nights.
There is also the matter of transactions that president of basketball operations Danny Ainge could make before the Feb. 20 trade deadline that would make the Celtics even worse than they are now.
Trading block
Kris Humphries, who has been one of the better players for the Celtics of late, might be moved to a contender. His $12 million contract expires after the season, and teams looking for frontcourt help would certainly be interested.
The Celtics would like to move Gerald Wallace � and he�d like to exit as well � but the veteran is signed through the 2015-16 season at $10 million annually and it will be hard to find a taker.
Entering Friday night, the Celtics were 5 1/2 games behind the team with the worst record, the Milwaukee Bucks (who had an 8-37 record), and 2 1/2 games in back of the Orlando Magic (who were 12-35).
The Celtics have both of those teams on the upcoming schedule, hosting the Magic on Super Bowl Sunday afternoon and traveling to Milwaukee a week from Monday night.
The worst January in franchise history (2-15) is in the rearview mirror, and now the Celtics are moving forward on a journey that is going to land them in the lottery in May.


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News | May 15, 2014
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Smaller Than Ever Measured
Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot -- a swirling storm feature larger than Earth -- has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured.
According to Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm the Great Red Spot now is approximately 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) across. Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the 1930s.
Historic observations as far back as the late 1800s gauged the Great Red Spot to be as big as 25,500 miles (41,000 kilometers) on its long axis. NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flybys of Jupiter in 1979 measured the storm to be 14,500 miles (23,300 kilometers) across.
In the comparison images, one Hubble photo was taken in 1995 by the Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) when the long axis of the Great Red Spot was estimated to be 13,020 miles (20,950 kilometers) across. This camera was developed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and corrected the telescope's initial blurry vision. In a 2009 photo, after WFPC2 had been replaced by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), the storm was measured at 11,130 miles (17,910 kilometers) across.
Beginning in 2012, amateur observations revealed a noticeable increase in the rate at which the spot is shrinking -- by 580 miles (930 kilometers) per year -- changing its shape from an oval to a circle.
"In our new observations it is apparent that very small eddies are feeding into the storm," said Simon. "We hypothesized that these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot."
Simon's team plans to study the motions of the small eddies and also the internal dynamics of the storm to determine whether these eddies can feed or sap momentum entering the upwelling vortex, resulting in this yet unexplained shrinkage.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington.
For more information about the WFPC2, visit:
For more information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit these sites:
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Hey Hey We're The Monkees
It was breakfast.
Joe and I were just finishing up.
A grandfather and grandson came downstairs and sat at the table next to us. Grandson loved Grandpa, that was clear. Grandfather was bragging to someone at the next table, obviously a family friend, about his grandson. How brave he'd been going down the slide in the pool. How strong he was and how much he liked to wrestle and play around. 'No worry this one's gonna be a queer,' he said laughing.
Time stopped.
Suddenly I was again little, again feeling the disappointment that my disinterest in sports, my less than masculine manner, my preference for words over fists brought with them. Disappointment never stated - the slow shake of the head, the grim set to the mouth, the sense of desperation in the hope that I'd be a little less interested in Davy Jones on the Monkees. Disappointment that told me that I'd not made the grade, that there was something about my make up that was wrong - it was out of my control, but I was blamed as if I had had something to do with it.
Time started.
Little boy was looking at grandpa curiously. There was a message in those words. A message that he needed to worry about how he was in the world, who he'd be in the world, a message that Grandpa's love could be lost. And if love could be lost, could it be trusted.
Grandpa didn't notice.
But I did.
But Joe did.
But we don't matter.
His grandson did. I don't think he'll be sure of his grandfathers love, ever, truly again. There are costs to the things we say. There are consequences to the attitudes we hold. We got up to leave and the little boy was back to playing, jumping around, no longer thinking about what he heard. But I know. If anyone knows, I know. He'll remember.
And thus, was the morning of 'Family Day' ... I'd already written yesterdays blog, and, if I'd have had access to the computer right then, I would have erased the post.
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Dear Dave,
sorry for me your message almost got lost in translation because while reading your post fort the first time I thought that granpa was happy that this grandson might be "queer" one day...
After reading further I took it, that he was afraid of him becoming homosexuel.
Hm, some thoughts are now crwoding my head:
- some members of my family, even though they supported me through my childhood and in adulthood somtimes hurt me with their words and thoughts and deads:
- when my cousin, to whom I am really close since childhood, knew his wife was pregnant, voiced the very relieved sentence, that after testing "the baby is not like Julia" - has not congenital heart defect
- my aunt even though childless herself, talking about the pregnancy said during a family reunion "well we dont have to expect anything (a child) from Julia"
It is hard to still love them after getting hurt so deeply.
Maybe in 10 or 20 years the variety of human beings, like different bodily variations or different ways to live together will seen as usual and not prone to such comments.
My Granny could have said the sentence the Grandfather said. She is not yet adapted and I doubt that she will ever get to the point.
And I have to admit, that in my own head I sometimes have those boarders. My psychotherapist lives with a man for 38 years now. They married 10 years ago. Whenever he referres to "my husband" two things inside my head happen. The first one: I am the best friend of a homosexuel man I know since we studied togheter, he moved into a house with his man two years ago and that is totaly normal for me. The second thought: hi, hi, hi, he did say "my husband" hi, hi, hi
Because my brain doesnt work with the idea of husband and husband yet. Usually it is husband and wife. And therefore sometimes even rational I know that it is okay and nothing to laugh about it still happens.
Okay. Maybe that was a very crazy comment. But I hope you and Joe and the readers will understand it.
- 21 February 2012 at 01:42
- Shan said...
That is depressing. Poor kid. Thanks a lot, Gramps - thanks for laying the groundrules for your acceptance and love. Installing hangups in your kids - mission accomplished!
- 21 February 2012 at 03:19
We must be tolerant of the opinions of others. It obviously was the grandfather's desire that his grandson wouldn't be gay. Who knows gramps background - or what he has witnessed or experienced. Perhaps he has seen the hardships of those who were gay during his time. Or perhaps he is "over compensating". No matter what the reason - it is his reason and should be respected. You don't have to agree with it - but we need to respect one another.
I doubt little grandson is going to doubt his grandfather's love over this - or loose his trust. As obvious as the granson's love for his granpa was - so was the grandpa's love for his grandson.
There is a danger in reflecting your past and opinions into every situation. Perhaps the curious look from the grandson to the grandpa was because he didn't know what queer was/meant.
If you live with your hurt on your sleeve - everything will be a trigger. As long as there are people, there are going to be opinions. And who knows...the joke may be on grandpa yet!!!
- 21 February 2012 at 03:35
Anon, so we are to respect Nazis? I get a little tired of tolerance. I also get a little tired of someone, when expressing pain, like Dave is here being lectured about his need to be tolerant of someone who publicaly exposes homophobia. Women need to be tolerant of sexist men because, poor dears they grew up that way, black people have to be tolerant of racist comments because, 'it wasn't meant that way'. Dave here was openly hurt and there is rawness to the expression of what happened. Maybe, for once, people could affirm him, not attack him. I wonder why he is so honest when so often when he expresses something about bigotry there is always at least one person who assures him that prejudice doesn't exist and that he needs to be more understanding and tolerant. Sometimes I think maybe he could use some understanding and tolerance.
- 21 February 2012 at 06:42
There is no reason to tolerate intolerance, Anon.
-- A different Anonymous
- 21 February 2012 at 07:08
- Bubbles said...
I'm sorry that that happened to you Dave... on Family Day of all days :(
- 21 February 2012 at 07:21
Dear Dave:
I hope that little boy has someone else in his life who lets him know that he is loved for who he is - the whole package. I hope that Dave the little boy had that too. I think that is what family is supposed to be all about.
- 21 February 2012 at 07:53
Remember that this man came into a public space and said aloud that a gay grandchild would not be welcome. It's that kind of assumption that there would be no gay people within his hearing which bothers me. Gay people are always in some other place eating a different breakfast probably pink pancakes, not at the next table. Bigotry abounds in this story. I'm sorry Dave and Joe had to be there.
- 21 February 2012 at 08:21
- Belinda said...
So "Archie Bunker."
We laugh at him, but it isn't funny.
Like everyone else I grew up in a home with dysfunction, but my brother got the worse of it with our father, (who we loved most of the time "in spite of"...) making his measure of "manhood" how much he could drink and being ridiculed for any softness in his character.
My brother isn't gay, but he was damaged by his upbringing (again, as we all are to some degree,) and although we loved our dad, we still shake our heads at the hurt.
My guess is that this boy, always assuming he isn't gay, will grow up to love his grandfather "in spite of" his bigotry, but will not be proud of it.
- 21 February 2012 at 09:12
My first thought when reading that was: at least the child was small enough that he probably didn't know what queer means.
But then I thought: that's even worse. How horrible for a child to grow up knowing that there's something he could do or be that his grandfather would be ashamed of, but not be able to do anything about it, or even know what it is.
Another different Anon
- 21 February 2012 at 11:18
- Belly (Liz McLennan) said...
A sobering moment, indeed. Two sentences leapt out of this post, for me:
There are costs to the things we say.
There are consequences to the attitudes we hold.
These are the nuggets of truth we should be carrying away from this story - THIS is the lesson, for all of us.
Thank you, Dave.
- 21 February 2012 at 12:17
- ivanova said...
This sucks.
As far as anonymous number one, I don't feel tolerant of people when they use slurs to refer to groups of people, especially in front of kids.
This reminds me of the Ali Forney Center public service ad that shows a father cuddling his baby, with the caption, "Would you stop loving him if you know he's gay?"
- 21 February 2012 at 13:02
To Anon (the one posting right after Shan at 3:35 am who thinks we ought to "tolerate" the grandpa):
If Grandpa was just worried about whether a gay grandson would be safe and happy, he wouldn't be turning his speculated sexual orientation into a joke and laughing about it. And he also wouldn't be using a term that, at the time the grandpa was growing up, was used only as a slur. (I know today younger GLBT people have reclaimed it as their own, but many older GLBT people still have negative connotations with the word "queer"--and probably the same for older straight people like the grandfather).
I also find it offensive that you seem to essentially blame Dave for "wearing his hurt on his sleeve". Your last paragraph comes across as if you're saying it's a bad thing that he happens to be a sensitive man: Well, I happen to disagree. I also don't think a person needs to be overly sensitive to be disturbed by what this grandpa said. *I* find it pretty disturbing also: it makes me worry for the boy if he turns out gay. I did not experience the things Dave has.
Andrea S
- 21 February 2012 at 13:44
I've wanted to comment on this all day, but I don't really know how to. I think that all I can say is that I know very well the feeling that who you are is unacceptable, and that some of those feelings came from early childhood for me too, and that some of them were throwaway comments that I bet the adults never even knew I would hear or remember.
In relation to being gay or not and gender roles, I think perhaps girls and boys are judged differently. Perhaps a little like the grandfather, my partner's dad was a bit concerned when his son didn't like to play sports etc but was proud of his 'tomboy' daughter. Turned out he was concerned about the wrong child...
Defying Gravity
- 21 February 2012 at 15:31
- Kristin said...
Dave, I'm so sorry you had such a crappy start to Family Day.
And, Anon 2 (the one without the guts to sign his name, I refuse to be tolerant of opinions that rank a person as less in any way just because of their sexual orientation.
- 21 February 2012 at 21:50
- Kristine said...
While I doubt that ONE moment will live in the child's memory forever, especially when he sounds like he's too young to even understand the word, I also doubt that this was just ONE moment. If such a comment is made in an easy, joking manner, then I feel like it's safe to assume that similar things are spoken regularly.
It sounds like my own family. I don't remember one specific incident, but I remember years of conversations that confused me, before I finally figured out an accepted family truth--my aunt was gay, and that meant we should avoid association with her as much as possible. With that understanding, came, as you said, Dave, the understanding that my family's love was conditional. If one family member can be so easily dismissed and treated with disgust, then who's to say that any of us couldn't end up on the same list? By now, there's quite a list in my head of things I could potentially do/be/share with my parents, that would probably lose their love. It's not a good feeling.
- 21 February 2012 at 22:26
Wow...what a thread. It strikes me that everyone wants everyone to be tolerant yet are intolerant of those who aren't.
We make choices and some choices are more comfortable than others. Some are more acceptable than others. The grand thing is - it is your choice!
Words hurt...good lesson for us all.
- 22 February 2012 at 04:12
Anon, I would absolutely defend Grandpa's right to hold his opinion that if his grandson grew up like me it would be a tragedy. But that's different to accepting it as a true/right opinion and also different from affirming behaviour that results from that belief. All things are not morally equal or equally factually true, and we have to be able to argue that some things (including how people treat each other) are more or less right.
Defying gravity
- 22 February 2012 at 07:49
Grandpa's comment was hate speech - illegal by law. His comment and those of countless others are part of the reason we see queer kids deciding that its better to kill themselves than to be gay; or other kids doing what they did to Matthew Shepard; and why I have to take anxiety/depression meds. Constantly bombarded by heteronormativity and homophobia from an early age does this to people. Not to mention all of those "straight" boys who are discouraged from being who they want to be by not being allowed to play with a barbie, or taking ballet instead of football or not allowed to wear the pink shoes... in fear of it making them a "sissy queer". Frankly - difference is around us and always has been.
At what point do we cross the line from being tolerant of others intolerance, to accepting what this intolerance does to others.
- 22 February 2012 at 08:01


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Mourinho ponders parking the bus
Jose Mourinho admitted he may have to shut up shop after seeing Chelsea dumped out of the Capital One Cup by Sunderland.
The Blues were leading 1-0 courtesy of Lee Cattermole's own goal and had one foot in the semi-finals when substitutes Fabio Borini and Ki Sung-yueng turned the tie on its head to first take it into extra-time and then snatch victory at the Stadium of Light.
Mourinho refused to blame his players, but admitted their failure to kill off the Black Cats had left him seriously considering adopting a more conservative approach, albeit against his better judgment.
The Chelsea boss said: "Maybe the way to rectify it is not to concede goals.
"Maybe the way is to have a different approach and not to concede goals because when you don't score enough goals, when you are a very offensive team and you don't score enough goals to win matches, maybe the right approach is to be more defensive, concede fewer goals and win matches with the few goals we score.
"But that's not what I want because that's not what we have in mind in the building up of this team. We want this team to play the way we are playing, we want this team to have evolution, but based on the football we are playing at the moment.
"We need to score goals to finish opponents because we feel very comfortable on the pitch. The possession of the ball becomes easy, the creation becomes easy.
"We had big chances to score goals, but we didn't score."
After a tepid opening 45 minutes, the visitors took the lead 39 seconds into the second half when Cattermole could only bundle Cesar Azpilicueta's cross into his own goal under pressure from Frank Lampard.
But the Londoners failed to build on their lead despite creating a host of chances in the immediate aftermath of the goal, and they were eventually made to pay when Borini latched on to Jozy Altidore's blocked shot and blasted the home side level with two minutes remaining.
The Italian had a glorious opportunity to win it in stoppage time, and it was Sunderland who created the better openings in extra time with 41-year-old keeper Mark Schwarzer turning away Ki's goal-bound header, but finding himself powerless to repel the South Korea international's 119th-minute shot.
Mourinho said: "In the Premier League, I haven't lost one single game because the opponent was better than us. I lost in the Champions League - Basle played better than us in a game where we produced absolutely nothing and we were punished in the last minute.
"Every other game - here, Stoke, Newcastle, Everton - every game we have lost, every game, it's the same story: chances and chances and football and football and not enough goals."
Sunderland boss Gus Poyet was thrilled to see his relegation-threatened team defy the odds to book their first League Cup semi-final since the 1998-99 season.
He said: "I'm pleased for the players and I'm delighted for the fans. This has been a very hard season for the fans, but when you find yourselves in the semi-finals, that's something to enjoy.
"It's a victory in a special manner, scoring right at the end of the game and right at the end of extra-time. It's for them, for the players and for the fans."
Chelsea old boy Poyet was all the more delighted because he saw further evidence that his players are buying into his philosophy.
He said: "That's the way we are going to do it. It's important I can see that the players are doing it all the time.
"Even in extra time, even in the last two or three minutes, they were not trying just to go crazy.
"We are trying to play a game because I believe it works, and now [we have to do that] every week, every game.
"It doesn't matter who you play against at every level, if it's Norwich or if it's Carlisle in the [FA] cup, every single day, and the more we do it, the more difficult we are going to become to play against, I am sure."


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Re: Fatal Flaw?
Jim - I just read your linked website and I think I see why there is some confusion.
You define : "The Main Character is defined as the character through whose eyes we experience the story"
That definition is just confusing. You could define it that way - just like a cooking expert could define: "Parmesan Cheese is defined as the topmost ingredient in a Lasagna"
But would that definition help chefs (and potential chefs) to understand cooking? You could argue that the definition is true for most recipes - but then you'd get stuck with other dishes. You would argue that a given ingredient MUST be Parmesan cheese just because it is topmost on the dish !
It will just confuse chefs who already had a definition of 'Parmesan cheese'.
Every movie goer already has an idea of what the 'Main Character' of a film means. Their definition may not always agree ... but it isn't going to help your discussion if you arbitrarily define 'The Viewpoint Character' as 'The Main Character'.
Here's an example. Imagine if we filmed this anecdote:
There would be argument whether Tom's Leukemia was an antagonist, or whether his own insecurities were. Some people might argue that his love interest (who he eventually married) was the antagonist. But would there be any argument that Tom is the protagonist ?
And - here is the real question - who is the Main Character? Ask any movie-goer.
The options are:
(1) Tom
(2) The girl who sat in front of Tom - the one he eventually married
(3) Mac H. - because he is the narrator and is the viewpoint character.
Any movie-goer would answer (1). Can you think of anyone (who hadn't read your definition) who would answer (3) ????
Surely your definition just doesn't make sense. It might be true in many cases - but that doesn't make it a definition !
Using it as a definition just makes all conversations confusing.
Why not just use the phrase 'Viewpoint character' ?
Your opening post on this thread would also makes perfect sense if you did that ! Writing is about communicating. Your opening post in this thread failed to communicate because you had an odd definition of 'Main Character'. If you don't have the same definition as your readers then you simply can't communicate. Why not just use the same language as your readers and use the phrase 'Viewpoint Character' ?
In fact - I urge everyone who can't make sense of Jim's arguments to go and re-read his original post - but replace the phrase 'Main Character' with 'Viewpoint Character'. It actually makes sense !
In fact, I'm going to repost it using the normal definitions of the words:
(I'm not sure I agree with every subtlety of it - but at least I can understand it well enough to have an opinion)
(PS: Jim - please don't force everyone who reads your posts to have a translation manual! It doesn't help the communication!)
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I would be willing to use the term "Viewpoint Character" if it accurately communicated what is going on inside of stories. I don't think it does.
Every great story has a Main Character through which we the audience experience a story. They are more than simply a Narrator or Viewpoint Character as they have deep personal issues that are tied thematically to the problems everyone in the story deals with.
Along comes another character, the Impact Character, who sees the world differently than them. They argue back and forth throughout the course of a story over the best way to solve the problems affecting everyone -- each thinking their way is the best (more or less). This argument represents the emotional center of the story.
At the end of the story, the Main Character is offered a choice -- either keep doing things the way they always have, or change and adopt the Impact Character's way of doing things. Regardless of what decision they make the Impact Character will do the opposite.
Sometimes this change resolves the greater problems affecting everyone, sometimes it doesn't. Likewise, not changing sometimes resolves the problems, and sometimes not changing leads to horrible failure.
This is where the true meaning of what the author is trying to say lies.
So when I define the Main Character that way, I am simply saying there is more to him than whether or not they are the one telling the story.
I would say your short story example is an incomplete story as I have no idea whether the one telling the story is suffering from the same kind of avoidance issues as Tom. I also have no idea if his relationship with the girl is tied to these issues as well. It is implied but not explicit. This is another reason why loglines are insufficient when it comes to determining a story's true meaning.
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Jim, you call Laszlo the Protagonist in Casablanca, because you say he is the character who pursues the Story Goal. In Casablanca, you then define the story goal as Laszlo and Ilsa's freedom.
Then, if I undersand you correctly, you define the story goal of any story as the goal the Protagonist seeks at or near the end of ACT 1. From my understanding of a story, this is when our Protagonist's world is so upset that he or she must act to bring it back into balance.
True, Laszlo seeks his and Ilsa's freedom, but how can that be the story goal, if Laszlo had been seeking their freedom since this story began?
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OK - I'm lost again. I thought I made sense of your system.
Let's look at something very simple - perhaps one of the old Sherlock Holmes stories.
The viewpoint/narrator character is Dr Watson.
The Protagonist is Sherlock Holmes.
To quote:
1. Dr Watson must have a deep personal issue that is tied thematically to the puzzle in the story -or-
2. Sherlock Holmes stories are not great stories --
I can see that having the Viewpoint/narrator character having a deep personal issue that is tied thematically to the issues of the story is a powerful technique.
But you seem to be arguing that since, in your belief, this technique *MUST* be used for the story to be classified as 'great', you define the 'Main Character' as being the viewpoint character by definition !
This makes no sense. Imagine if I argue that all great cars are rear wheel drive, so I choose to define 'drive wheels' to be 'rear wheels' for all cars - no matter how the car is configured.
Could you imagine me having sensible conversations about all cars?
Look at the silly snippet I suggested. As you point out, if you are in a meeting and starting to talk about stories, you can't use basic phrases like 'Main Character' until the script is entirely finished with all themes worked out!
You have to have everything basically complete before you can decide who the 'Main Character' is !? So I can't see how this naming convention or technique could be useful for developing stories.
Just to explain it .. can you show us one of your scripts (or just point me to the DVD) that you've developed using this system? Maybe then I'll be able to understand it.
(PS: And you haven't answered the most basic point - you are using a phrase that is already commonly used and giving it a different hamster. If you have a new hamster , then give it a new name.)
(PPS: According to my definition, 'Hamster' is a word for a concept very similar to 'meaning'. I hope this shows how confusing these conversations about the hamsters of words can be!)
(PPS: On a serious note, one interesting thing that struck me while trying to understand your system is that having the viewpoint & protagonist character as being separate used to be the norm - look at Sherlock Holmes for example. Much of the literature from that period was from the POV of some mundane clerk who happened to witness something mysterious happening to SOMEONE ELSE. Instead of inviting the reader/viewer to imagine being the hero, they were basically inviting the reader/viewer to imagine being the boring sidekick ! It's definitely an different literature style.)
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I was wondering when the "what have you written" question was going to come up. I have sold something, but I don't think that kind of accomplishment has anything to do with whether or not someone truly understands story structure. There could very well be someone on this messageboard who knows more than I about how to write complete stories, yet hasn't sold a thing. Likewise, there are those who have sold plenty, yet still write stories that simply don't work.
When I speak of great stories, I'm talking about complete stories -- stories where the author is using the form of narrative fiction to communicate a universal meaning that they hold true. These are the stories that you can watch or read over and over again because they are giving you something you can't get in real life: meaning.
In regards to Sherlock Holmes, yes I would say that quite often Watson is the Main Character and Holmes is the Protagonist - the one driving the efforts to solve the mystery. Some Sherlock Holmes' stories are complete, some are not. I would venture to guess that those that stick with you years after you have read them are complete stories (#1 in your example).
As far as answering the basic point. I'm not sure how classifying an animal as a hamster is similar to determining whether or not a story has true meaning. The current definition of protagonist is inaccurate because it can often come in conflict with a writer's intuition. The OP felt compelled to write a story where the character we experience the story through was not the one driving the efforts to resolve the problems affecting everyone. In clarifying the distinction between the two terms I only wanted to show that there was nothing wrong with his instinct.
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That would be the Protagonist.
So really, once we correct the misuse of terminology there, we are left with a Protagonist pitted against an Antagonist, with no need for a Main Character fulfilling some separate story function.
There are many movies where the Antagonist masquerades as a good guy. That deception does not actually affect their story role.
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That's my quibble with the Dramatica Theory Of Script Deconstruction - used descriptively, whatever. Call a plot a soundtrack. Who cares?
But when people try to use it prescriptively, it's a mess. From everything I've read and seen, you're forced into artificial decisions so that the script fits into the paradigm. If Shawshank had actually been written with the method, and care had been taken to keep from emotionally connecting with Andy, and instead connecting with Red... Well, we wouldn't be talking about that movie today.
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When Andy says, She was beautiful. God I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger, but I drove her away. And that's why she died, because of me.
(but Red did pull the trigger)
Red comes back with, That don't make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe. Feel bad about it if you want. But you didn't pull the trigger
Andy, No. I didn't. Someone else did, and I wound up here. Bad luck, I guess.
Bad luck? Jesus.
Andy, It floats around. Has to land on somebody. Say a storm comes through. Some folks sit in their living rooms and enjoy the rain. The house next door gets torn out of the ground and smashed flat. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I just had no idea the storm would go on as long as it has.
I see this scene in two ways, one it changes Red's POV; he finally takes responsibilty for the murder he commited years before, and Red is us-the audience-saying to Andy 'we still believe you're innocent.
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But I simply can't make sense of your system. I thought I found a way of understanding it, but it turns out that it isn't right either.
I don't expect to agree entirely with any system - the world is always much more complicated than simple models, but those models are still really useful.
But I can't figure out someone could use the system to develop a story. Because that is what I'm interested in.
If you can't point to one of your stories that was developed using this system, can you point to any others?
So why start renaming the viewpoint/experience character ? If you didn't do this your attempt to explain and communicate would have been a lot easier!
If you start your explanation by explaining that the true Main Character of the Sherlock Holmes story was Watson you are just going to get dismissed as a bizarre crank - just because you are using words in non-standard ways.
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Wow! There is so much truth in this post. I believe SAVE THE CAT, breeds mediocrity. I am not saying it can't be helpful for some. But man, the greats like Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson, Tony Gilroy, care about stories. Which is a forgotten art in Hollywood. I think people spend way too much time on concept, before asking themselves can this be a great story. Epic post.
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Slightly more than half of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll expressed concern earlier this week about across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester, slated to kick in today unless Congress and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh-hour deal on deficit reduction.
Sequestration would mean $85 billion in funding cuts—roughly 9 percent of non-defense programs and 13 percent of defense spending—for the rest of fiscal year 2013.
The mandatory cuts to both military and domestic programs were included in the 2011 Budget Control Act as a mechanism to force Congress and the White House to compromise on further deficit reduction.
The plurality of Snap Poll respondents—44 percent—said they would blame Obama if no deficit-reduction deal were reached before the sequester deadline. Twenty-eight percent said Republicans in Congress would bear most responsibility; the remaining poll participants said both parties would be equally to blame.
Among Republicans, 62 percent said they would hold Obama responsible, compared with 11 percent who'd blame members of their party in Congress. Fewer than 8 percent of Democrats faulted Obama, while 76 percent blamed congressional Republicans.
Under the sequester, government spending would be reduced by $1.2 trillion over the next decade. The impact this year in New York would include the loss of nearly $43 million in funding for primary and secondary education and $36 million for education of children with disabilities. Some programs—among them Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps and active-duty military personnel—would be exempt.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the cuts this year would lower GDP by 0.5 percent and cause the unemployment rate to rise to 9.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Nearly 730 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted Feb. 25 and 26.
Are you concerned about the impact of the sequester?
Very concerned: 32%
Somewhat concerned: 20%
Not very concerned: 24%
Not at all concerned: 24%
If President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress fail to reach a deficit-reduction deal before the March 1 sequester deadline, who will bear most responsibility?
President Obama: 44%
Republicans in Congress: 28%
Both equally: 27%
What is your political affiliation?
Democrat: 18%
Republican: 37%
Non-affiliated: 40%
Other: 5%
Cuts are necessary now and in the future. However, department heads should be chartered with cutting from everyone's budget. It should not be done across the board and arbitrarily. That is typical of this president and Congress. They have no clue on how to run a business, just running for re-election.
—Gary M. Baker, president, Cochran, Cochran & Yale
Sequestration cuts to education alone in New York State could result in the 2013 loss of $42.7 million for primary and secondary education and $36.3 million for education for children with disabilities. These cuts would put more than 1,000 teacher and aide jobs at risk this year.
—Elizabeth Wilder, Grantmakers Forum of NY
Just the mere threat of these defense cuts is killing the optics industry in Rochester now.
—Eric Bourgeois
Of course I am concerned about those families that may be negatively impacted by the cuts, but the reality is that our country (like a family that has a budget crisis) needs to reduce its out-of-control spending. As a country, we cannot simply take out the "credit card" and spend ourselves into bankruptcy.
—Ted Welter, Welter Realty LLC
This is much ado about very little. When you dig into every "crisis" that seems to come along every few months with the federal budget, the reality is that not much happens when the so-called deadline comes and goes. Life goes on; America sinks deeper into debt. The chickens will finally come home to roost someday, but not today.
—Bob Sarbane
This is not a real cut, although we could use it. It is a reduction in the increase; government spending will still be up over last year. When do we ask government to do their "fair share"?
—C. Garbowski
The only real impact will be on our military. This small reduction is necessary if we ever are going to pay our debts and live within our means.
—John Sackett
The future of our nation's economy deserves to be treated better. Our federal government refuses to collaborate to solve any issue. Rather, the issues are being pulled at like a child caught in the middle of a custody battle. If anyone in Washington is listening and or reading, please stop bickering and take some serious time trying to solve this dilemma.
—Vinny Dallo, New York Life
Through all the bluster and dire warnings, the politicians in Washington need to get off their high horses and try to make real cuts in spending. To cut $85 billion out of $3.8 trillion in expenses is a pittance. Real cuts in spending are needed—say, $1 trillion in the next year!
—Bruce Anderson, Alpha & Omega Parable Christian Stores
I'm less concerned about the impact of the sequester than I am of the impact of continuing as usual. Unfortunately, there seems to be no willingness within the Obama administration to work on spending reductions.
—David Schiffhauer
I'm really tired of this political BS. The world won't end if taxes go up, but real people will be hurt immediately if they have their jobs cut because of the reduction.
—Damian Kumor
Couple things: 1. The sequester does not cut enough spending, we do have a spending problem not a revenue problem. 2. It will be the Republicans who are blamed because the media, including RBJ, are very much left of center. Most of all, this president has accomplished nothing but spend money, point fingers and take zero responsibility for anything. He is the most embarrassing president I can remember. Well Jimmy Carter is up there, too.
—Dan Morgan
It is bitter medicine that is long overdue. The federal budget is $3,700 billion, and the cut is $85 billion (or 2 percent). All this crying over 2 percent? Deficit spending under this president has been out of control, four years in a row. We survived the "great recession," and we will survive this 2 percent cut, as well.
—George Thomas, Ogden
I am concerned about the lack of a broader vision being articulated in an actionable form: Clean up the tax system and take out all the special deals, bring spending under control, make the obvious fixes to Social Security and revisit health system to change incentives, etc. It's like watching a bunch of 14-year-olds picking at each other on trivial matters rather than showing statesmanship. No one seems willing to step forward and lead.
—Bryan Hickman
When will our Congress get on with the hard work of governing instead of stalemating? The operative word is compromise. If the sequester is allowed to stand the pay of all congressmen and the president should be stopped with no ability to recoup once agreement is reached.
—Art Maurer, Penfield
The current situation shows that we don't have a process that embraces compromise.
—Deborah Cox, ComTec Solutions
It's annoying that the media and pundits are so accepting of this big lie. Talking heads on Sunday TV simply dismiss the sequester demand by the president as something he had to do to get past the election. Now that he's in for another four years, he can revisit his position! Last month's tax increase is history, now let's get more. And it seems that almost everyone has already forgotten the 2 percent payroll tax increase from January. And no politician or newsperson appears to notice that gas prices are again approaching $4 and that prices are spiking about three months ahead of any "normal" cycle. Unemployment is still 8 percent plus, it's worse among minorities and the younger folks, etc. And while Congress fiddles, the first lady can spend millions on a quick trip to the Oscars for a presentation and to party with the clueless.
—Bob Miglioratti
I am more concerned about the continued inability for the TWO parties to work together. Politics is politics. Relative to federal sustainability Simpson-Bowles is a good package. The chances of getting something close to this passed are very slim.
—Mike Bleeg, Strategic Results
Take special interest money away from Washington, we can start running a country again.
—Harold H. Ley, Stony Point Consultant
We all know that we need to reduce spending. It is the government's responsibility to make sure the least amount of people is hurt. With this government they want to make sure the most amount of people are hurt. They only care about "winning," they have no idea anymore why they were elected. Just follow the money and worry about where their next payout is coming from. This is true of both parties. Look at who both parties have selected as their leaders. The four congressional leaders couldn't run a Seven-11corner store and turn a profit, yet they think they can run a country. They all forget none of them has ever been elected by the majority of the people to lead us anywhere.
—John Weaver
This continued game is beyond ridiculous.
—M. Curtain, Rochester
This type of legislation is (what) is wrong with our governments, from the federal levels down. Laws passed based on the PR effect with no thought to the consequences. Did no one think it would happen? A clear example of being careful what you ask for, you may not like what you get.
—Frank Muscato
An informed person will find it laughable that a less than 2 percent budget cut can cause "Armageddon" … but then there's always that 47% out there.
—Tom Wahl Jr.
Once again we face a political game of "chicken." Who will blink first? The biggest impact will be on Department of Defense contractors and the military. Although social services will take a hit, it's not as draconian as some might suggest, although there will be pain. The biggest impact will be upon the confidence of investors and the public at large when unemployment rises and our fragile recovery is stalled. Right now the public seems more inclined to blame congress, since their approval rating is very low. States such as Virginia with significant DOD contracts will feel a big impact. Congress and the Republicans should bite the bullet once and for all, and compromise on tax reform and come out of this looking like heroes to most American voters.
—Frank Orienter, Rochester
Did people really think they could spend money they didn't have forever? What a stupid electorate.
—Karl Schuler
If this is what it takes to cut spending, so be it. This process should go into effect times 10! All the smoke and mirrors can't hide the problem of excessive spending. Couple that with waste and government "investment" into the federal "dollars for donors" program (think Solyndra and electric batteries) and the perfect storm of socialist incompetence at its best is on display. Cut government pay and pensions, cut welfare programs, deport illegals, eliminate the Department of Education, HUD, Fannie & Freddie, TSA, Homeland Security and on and on. There is so much bureaucracy and waste that a 25 percent cut across the board of government administration would be a good place to start. Imagine if Schumer's staff and satellite offices got cut by 25 percent. Think he could represent you any worse? Multiply that times Congress, House, Senate and state. Think real deep about the amount of waste and opulence going on within our government and then watch the clowns on television with their crocodile tears of fear, doom and gloom that they use to influence the dim and ignorant. Remember that our elected officials are the ones that got us here in the first place. Trusting them to come up with a solution and implementing it is like handing matches to an arsonist and turning away. In that case, we deserve the results we get (and they know it). So in the end, I'm for sequester times 10!
—Lou Romano
Reducing the rate of growth in our runaway spending by a few percent is a good thing and the President Obama's campaign to paint this as the end of the world is dishonest and out of line. I have my doubts that even if the sequester cuts take effect; it will do little to slow down the spending problem that this country has had for years. Our Congress has been focused on increasing the control and power of the Federal government over our lives and we the people have been foolish enough to continue re-elect the same people who are failing us. This continues to be done aided in large part by a partisan press who has become part of the problem as they fail to do the job of objectively reporting the news and vetting the candidates. I hope we all wake up soon enough to start the process of electing a Congress and a President who adheres to the Constitution and accepts that government is not the solution to our problems. As Reagan said, it is the problem!
—Dave Coriale, Webster
The sequester cuts the rate of growth of the government. Its true effect is minimal. Obama proposed the sequester because the President would not list any program worth cutting; he now "blames" the Republicans for intransigence. The House should take an hour to pass a bill giving complete discretion to the Executive to determine what programs should be cut. If those cuts are to the TSA in small airports in Republican districts, so be it.
—Peter Durant, Nixon Peabody LLP
I'll be concerned— and care—when I learn what the word really means and how to spell it.
—Bruno Sniders, Webster
This is complete hyperbole on the part of the White House. In the past 11 years, federal spending has DOUBLED across the board. This has to stop! What part of spending more than revenues does this administration not understand?
—James Stevens
We now need to face the music and allow these cuts to happen. Our budget deficit is far too large and growing. If we were shut down the entire government today, the tax inflows (revenue) would not even be able to cover the four line items of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and interest payments. It's time to start cutting now. Yes, it would be better to execute planned cuts, but obviously we don't have the discipline in the federal government to take on this responsibility. So, let's leave it to the sequester.
—Dyke Smith
Do intelligent people really believe that our democracy is working the way it was intended? The root cause of Congress' failure to put the people first is the fact that Campaign Finance Reform never made it across the finish line. Why would the people in Congress whose future is tied to this legislation be willing to do the heavy lifting to secure passage into law? Real reform and true compromise, meaning what's good for the nation as a whole, will not occur until that legislation is enacted.
—Tom Sargent
There is no theory of economics where cutting government leads to prosperity. We know how to get out of a recession/depression. Unlike the lies spread by the right for five years, inflation and interest rates have remained at historical lows while corporate profits have more than doubled in that time period. More than 20 percent of what the private sector sells is purchased by government. Please tell me how reducing that will help the private sector.
—Jim Bertolone, president Rochester AFL-CIO
What's the big deal? Most of the media is portraying this as a crisis. However, what do you expect from a vast majority of the bias media who are in Obama's back pocket. This is an $85 billion cut, which represents 2 percent to 3 percent of annual spending. In fact, world-renowned economist John Taylor of Stanford University has stated that the "real" cuts will be more like $44 billion, which would represent just more than 1 percent. President Obama is either an economic imbecile or a left wing fanatic. Look where his policies have gotten us, a federal debt approaching $17 trillion and at this pace it will be at $26 trillion in 10 years. At the same time national unemployment and underemployment is high and GDP growth is low. We are on our way to the fifth $1 trillion plus deficit in a row. This administration is by far the biggest gross and deficit spender in world history. In order to break Obama's disastrous policies the government sector must relinquish capital and transfer it to the private sector through spending and tax cuts. The sequester is good because it will force the obese federal government to go on a diet and put more resources in the hands of the private sector.
—John Rynne, president, Rynne, Murphy and Associates Inc.
It's the equivalent of a worker earning roughly $24,000 per year, but spending $35,000 per year, deciding to "tighten the belt" by reducing spending by $850. A pittance poorly planned. The children running this country ought to hang their heads in shame for fabricating such a preposterous "crisis."
—Tom Shea, Thomas P Shea Agency, Inc.
The "sequester" is simply another Obama lie. The entire legislative and executive branches of the Federal government are totally dysfunctional and led by morons. There are no cuts, merely reductions in budget increases. The country needs several such "sequesters" to bring spending under control.
—Jim Weisbeck, Bloomfield
Obama and the democrat's lapdog media; NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and NPR will be sure to do their best to misinform the public as to what the 'sequester' actually does. None of them will be responsible and truthful enough to make sure that their wonderfully ill-informed audience will understand that the sequester cuts nothing. The sequester simply returns the government to funding levels of 2011, no programs are really 'cut' they are just forced to live with fewer dollars taken from available private capital by the government from the productive members of our society which includes wealthy Americans and corporations both of which could better use that stolen capital to create more employment and government programs are being forced to do what most of us taxpayers have had to do—cut our expenses and live with less.
—Michael F. Kloppel, chairman, Ontario County Conservative Party Canandaigua
What, me worry? There really isn't much to worry about. They are only cutting $45B this year out of a total budget of $3,600 billion. This is less than the planned growth in spending, so there is actually going to be no cuts. Also, the Republicans have caved and will let the president do the cutting. We can count on President Obama to insure that no essential services are cut. Since he has been running the government for four years, I'm sure he knows where cuts are needed. As an experienced executive, he can be counted on to handle the situation efficiently. The only real cuts will be to DOD. But since the war on terror is over and Al Qaida is defeated, Obama was planning to weaken the military anyway. That's why he brought in another experienced executive, Chuck Hagel, to run the defense department. We can all sleep better at night now.
—Dennis Ditch, Delta Square Inc.
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With his contract to become the Clippers' next head coach having been given the seal of approval from the NBA, the club will introduce Doc Rivers at a press conference this morning in Playa Vista.
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In the wake of Johnny Manziel's tweet earlier this month in which he wrote that he "can't wait to leave College Station," a report surfaced that the Texas A&M quarterback had been suspended for the 2012 season following an offseason arrest. That suspension, the report stated, had the quarterback seriously considering a transfer.
It never got to that point, obviously, as the punishment was overturned as part of the school's appeals process and Manziel went on to win the Heisman Trophy in his first season as a starter. Not so unexpectedly, his head coach played a role in getting the suspension overturned.
The Daily Oklahoman writes that "the overturn came, in part, because of the backing of Aggie coach and former OU assistant Kevin Sumlin, who wrote a letter in support of Manziel during the appeal process." According to the coach, the letter of support didn't come out of fear of losing a starter — Manziel was behind Jameill Showers entering summer camp and wasn't named the starter until two weeks before the season opener — but rather due to the fact that he was taking steps to comply with the other internal punishment meted out and taking those steps seriously.
"A lot has been said about discipline, but he went through all that, which is a little bit more than people think," Sumlin told the paper at a golf outing in Edmond, Okla., Tuesday. "That's not a public deal, it's just what I ask him to do. He did all those things and his parents were involved in all of that. So for him to go through that, then go through camp and those types of things and earn the job, that's what's brought him to where he is now."
Suffice to say, the overturn might have been the Aggies' biggest win in a highly-successful debut season in the SEC, but the road hasn't gotten any easier for the player or the program in the offseason. Manziel has been connected to several mostly overblown "controversies" the past few months, but Sumlin said the fact that his rock-star player is back on campus and with his teammates preparing for summer camp is helping to calm what's been an offseason full of rough water.
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Thanks to the constant tumult, there might not be a person in the country more anxious to get the 2013 season started than Manziel. Well, other than Sumlin and his coaching staff, of course.