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Dishing it: 'I want my 'VPT'
When Ann Neumark and her husband moved from Mill Creek to their new house on Route 20 South four years ago, they could no longer receive cable TV, and so they switched to satellite– specifically, to Dish Network.
For Neumark, this was a step down: Two of the stations she wanted the most to watch, WVIR (Channel 29 in Charlottesville) and WVPT (the Harrisonburg-based PBS affiliate), are not available in our "designated market area," or DMA.
About a year ago, she claims, an ad began airing that said, "Check with Dish Network to see when you'll get local stations." It included an 800 number, which Neumark called several times; instead of answers, however, she states that all she got was "a lot of gobbledygook." Finally, in one phone call she asked for the name of the company's CEO, but she claims that the employee refused to divulge that bit of very public information, which she got from the library.
By then, she says, Dish had stopped running the ad. Her desire to get local stations, however, was as strong as ever, and on July 22 of this year she wrote Fifth District Representative Virgil Goode Jr. Goode responded quickly and suggested she write Dish Network; he also offered to contact the company himself if she'd send him a copy of her letter.
Neumark faxed CEO Charles Ergen on July 28 to ask when she "would be able to receive network broadcasting from much closer than New York City," and added that "Whenever I have spoken with your employees staffing the 800 number about this issue, their comments (not answers) have been beyond vague."
On July 29, Goode wrote Dish Network executive vice president Soraya Hesabi-Cartwright and asked that she look into Neumark's situation. There was no response until Friday, August 15, when Dish Network employee "Eric" (she claims he refused to reveal his last name) called, but she says that the conversation was not fruitful.
For instance, two days earlier Neumark had spoken to Tony Mancari, WVPT vice president for engineering and technical operations, who gave her some intriguing behind-the-scenes information (which he also put in writing).
"WVPT offered its signal free of charge to both Direct TV and Dish Network well over a year ago," he wrote, "and so far they have refused to carry our broadcast signal." The Harrisonburg affiliate, he noted, "is the only station that is not carried in [Virginia] by satellite TV. Both dish services now carry the Richmond, Roanoke, Norfolk and Northern Virginia PBS stations in their local broadcast markets."
When Neumark tried to discuss this and related issues with Eric, however, she claims that he was less than helpful. She asked that he put Dish Network's position in writing, for instance, but says he refused. Finally, according to Neumark, he declared, "I can see you're not in the mood to talk right now– I'll call you tomorrow." When she pointed out that the next day was Saturday, she claims he hung up on her. After that, she contacted me.
I spoke with Dish Network spokeswoman Michelle Portillo, who explained that neither Dish nor Direct TV (which is the only other satellite-TV provider in the U.S.) has enough broadband capacity in certain DMAs to offer local programming. Of its 210 markets, Dish currently offers local stations to only 70, but intends to have 100 by the end of 2003. In terms of Virginia, she said, Roanoke has just been launched, and Richmond will get local programming within the year. Charlottesville, however, simply isn't a big enough DMA to qualify anytime soon.
As for why Dish hadn't taken WVPT up on its offer of a free signal, she hypothesized that perhaps there isn't room on the satellite. For now, she said, Neumark "can receive local stations– from New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles." Huh? That's local?
When I asked about Neumark's description of her conversation with Eric, Portillo promised to ask him about it– then, the next day, reported that he had denied hanging up on Neumark.
Portillo also promised to find out which PBS station Neumark is receiving (no call letters are displayed) so that she can make programming suggestions– a question Neumark had asked, beginning on July 22, in each of her three letters to Dish. That promise, however, went unfulfilled.
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Financially ailing public schools could receive another $500 million for the remainder of the school year under a new proposal in the Texas House.
Republican Rep. Jim Pitts on Thursday says he wants to give Texas classrooms another half-billion dollars through a supplemental spending bill. The House Appropriations Committee chairman says the money could help schools pay for security, maintenance or even hire new faculty.
Budget-slashing lawmakers in 2011 cut public school spending by a historic $5.4 billion. The House budget for the next biennium calls for reversing $1.5 billion of the cuts, and Pitts says giving schools more money now would put a total of $2 billion back in classrooms.
The proposal from Pitts comes a day after the Senate passed a $195.5 billion two-year budget proposal.

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Hearings and Business Meetings
May 18 2011
SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS HEARING: to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 220, S. 270, S. 271, S. 278, S. 292, S. 322, S. 382, S. 427, S. 526, S. 566, S. 590, S. 607, S. 617, S. 683, S. 684, S. 667, S. 729, S. 766, S. 896, and S. 897 (Hearing Room SD-366).
SD-366 Energy Committee Hearing Room 02:30 PMThe purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:
S. 220, to provide for the restoration of forest landscapes, protection of old growth forests, and management of national forests in the eastside forests of the State of Oregon;
S. 270, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon;
S. 271, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, and for other purposes;
S. 278, to provide for the exchange of certain land located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes;
S. 292, to resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other public land in partial satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act;
S. 322, to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State of Washington, to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Pratt River as wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes;
S. 382, to amend the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses of National Forest System land that is subject to ski area permits, and for other purposes;
S. 427, to withdraw certain land located in Clark County, Nevada, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials, and for other purposes;
S. 526, to provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in Mohave County, Arizona, to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission, for use as a public shooting range;
S. 566, to provide for the establishment of the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System;
S. 590, to convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands;
S. 607, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and non-Federal land, and for other purposes;
S. 617, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Elko County, Nevada, and to take land into trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, and for other purposes;
S. 683, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Mantua, Utah;
S. 684, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah;
S. 667, to establish the Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes;
S. 729, to validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and for other purposes;
S. 766, to provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild rivers, and for other purposes;
S. 896, to amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service opportunities for young Americans; help restore the nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational and scenic resources; train a new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts; and promote the value of public service;
and S. 897, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects (Hearing Room SD-366).
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LIKELY — The human cost of Monday's Mount Polley mine tailings pond breach will not be paid in lives lost or people injured, of which there were none.
Rather, the expense will be borne in the everyday lives of residents like Shawn Giesbrecht, who lives about eight kilometres from the mine.
"It's just horrible that this has happened," Giesbrecht said Tuesday. "It's just so much to take in."
Giesbrecht, who fishes and camps in the area, said his major immediate worry was that the drinking water on his property had been compromised. But he said he feared for the economic future of the region, noting that fish were already floating dead in some of the area's waterways, which he said had taken on a sulphurous odour, and citing a common concern among residents that the mine may fail to reopen.
"Then what happens? Our town becomes a ghost town because we've got a dead lake and nobody to put money into our economy," he said.
Danica Overton, a Likely-area resident, worried about the environmental fallout and the future of her job at the mine.
"It's pretty devastating," said Overton, who has worked at the mine for the past three months for a subcontractor on a project to raise the level of the tailings dam.
She had joined local residents, visitors and others from the surrounding area at the Valley General Store in Likely Tuesday to discuss the collapse of the pond.
Overton last worked on Friday, when there was no sign of any problems, she said.
Just across the road from the store, the Quesnel River appeared clear and serene, but people such as Thomas Schoen and Simone and Darcy Benjamin — all from the Williams Lake area — worried about the effects of the potentially toxic slurry on the watershed and its wildlife.
"It looks like water, but it's toxic," said Simone Benjamin.
Schoen said he was particularly concerned about the danger to spawning salmon.
"This is such a pristine area — it's such a huge impact," he said.
The three tried to view the damage along Hazeltine Creek, which had carried the slurry downstream to Quesnel Lake, but they were unable to get near the area because a ditch had been excavated along the forestry road to halt traffic.
"They'll hide behind the idea it was for safety, but they just don't want people to know how bad it is," said Darcy Benjamin.
All three residents said the response has not been fast as needed, noting that there was no one in the community providing information to Likely residents by noon Tuesday.
Scott Saunderson, from Edmonton, said he'd been coming to the area to camp with his family for decades.
He said he heard a sound in the early morning hours of Monday that sounded like a stick of dynamite exploding, but it was not until a neighbouring camper returned from a boat trip later that day that he learned what had happened.
"People are not happy," said an angered Saunderson. "They never should have built that mine here in the first place."
"Hopefully there's not too much damage," he said.
Andrew McQuinn, who was taking his boat out of the water Tuesday afternoon, said large islands of debris hung up a few kilometres from town were already beginning to float downstream, posing a possible threat to the area's bridge.
"It's pretty sad stuff," he said.
McQuinn, who works at the neighbouring Gibraltar mine as a welder, had waded chest deep into the water to load his large boat onto his trailer and said he wasn't immediately worried about the toxicity of the water.
But he was concerned about the long-term effects of the tailings spill.
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Anyone remember when you could only make mobile-to-mobile calls within the same network? For example, AT&T customers could only connect with other AT&T mobile customers and not those on the networks of Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon Wireless. That kinda sucked. In the end, the carriers let everyone make calls to whomever they wanted because that's what the market demanded.
Using this example as a historical frame of reference, let's cast our eyes upon mobile video chatting.
On Tuesday, Qik updated its video chatting application for the Android platform. Before yesterday's update, Qik only worked on select networks and between select devices. This hindered the service's uptake. The new version allows most any Android device to conduct live, two-way video chats with other Android devices and, surprisingly, the Apple iPhone (if the iPhone also has Qik installed). Skype now owns Qik.
Skype has its own, separate software for video chatting. It works with Android and iPhone devices, as well as Windows and Apple computers.
We all know that the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch can conduct FaceTime chats with other iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and Apple computers, but only when the iOS device is connected to Wi-Fi. Qik at least works across 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi networks.
Google created a video chatting application for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, but it only works between Honeycomb devices. A report that surfaced this week suggests Google is prepared to release a native video chatting application for all Android devices.
A service called ooVoo offers mobile video chatting between Android devices via 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. It says that support for Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) is forthcoming. It also has desktop software.
The last major player is Fring, which offers video chatting, IM, group video chatting, and other features to Android, iOS, and Symbian devices. Video chats can be dialed up over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi with Fring.
The problem with all of these services is that, for most part, they require users to have the same software. In other words, Qik video chats can only work with other devices running Qik software, and so on down the line. This is a flawed strategy.
While I fully understand these companies' need to forge their own identity and customer base, the number of limitations involved are effectively preventing mobile video chatting from taking off. End users don't care about the technology that makes it all happen, they just want to be able to connect to their colleagues, friends, and loved ones without too much fuss. So, how does this get fixed?
When Apple first announced FaceTime as a feature of the iPhone 4, it said that it would open up the technology under FaceTime's hood so that it could be used by others. Frankly, I've seen no evidence that it has actually done this, but let's assume the offer still stands. One obvious solution would be for every other provider to drop its own technology and use Apple's. Perhaps they can still offer differentiation through their user interfaces, or feature sets, or cost, but the basic functionality could be made to work across platforms and networks. This would be the easiest way out.
Another possible answer would be to create a standard. This would require the collective effort of the industry, and would cost money and take years to complete. In the end, this might be the best route for end users, as interoperability could be assured or mandated by the standard. But the drawbacks are many.
Perhaps Google will be generous and provide its own open video chatting standard that can be used across devices and platforms using standard Web technologies.
The bottom line here is that the silo approach is too confusing, too annoying, and stalling video chat services from becoming mainstream. The application developers, platform developers, handset makers, and network operators need to iron this out so that it works easily and simply no matter the device, platform, or network involved.


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The Paul Westphal firing has revealed a great truth to me: Geoff Petrie is the devil. Since the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you he didn't exist (or is Geoff Petrie but I digress), I suppose you'll have to continue reading on.
Geoff Petrie is a snake. He snaked Paul Westphal, and the sad part is that Westphal probably doesn't even find it surprising. After all, a snake is what's required of a GM, or Prez of Bball Ops, in this world we live in. A snake, or a bumbling anger filled on the inside calm on the outside old man masquerading as Geoff Petrie. But I digress.
The truth is that Paul Westphal is convenient for Geoff Petrie here. It's Paul Westphal's fault that he couldn't get along with Spencer Hawes. It's Paul Westphal's fault that Tyreke Evans and Kevin Martin couldn't co-exist. It's Paul Westphal's fault that Carl Landry didn't play better in Sacramento. It's Paul Westphal's fault that Omri Casspi didn't turn into an all-world pro. It's Paul Westphal's fault that Donte Greene couldn't make the jump as a professional basketball player. It's Paul Westphal's fault that Tyreke Evans jogs back in transition defense and makes repeatedly lazy plays. It's Paul Westphal's fault that DeMarcus Cousins' is lazy on the court at times and is petulant beyond belief.
If that doesn't pass the smell test, that's because it doesn't pass the smell test. For a lot of people firing Paul Westphal is convenient. The hard things, like trading Kevin Martin, wouldn't have come with a convenient fall guy in place like Westphal. After all, you bring in Keith Smart as the head coach in 2009 and that anger is directed at him. Westphal? He gives fans a new choice as a head coach to root for whether it's Keith Smart or a new head coach this summer. Who knows? Maybe the chemistry is too wrecked to compete for a playoff spot and the Kings get lucky and get a top 3 pick. (I'm stumping for Michael Gilchrist.)
Guess what? It's all horseshit. Don't believe for a minute that Petrie wouldn't trade away Kevin Martin for his own reasons, like, for instance, that Martin wasn't never an ideal pairing with Tyreke Evans without a player to play off of (i.e. Brad Miller or Spencer Hawes). But you say wait a moment!?! What about DeMarcus Cousins? What about him? Was it a guarantee in February 2010 where you were going to settle in the draft? Was getting Cousins a guarantee? And since when was Cousins seen as a facilitating big man at the high post kind of offensive player from his time at Kentucky?
That's the problem here: Revisionist history will take over.
While I agree with much of what Tom Ziller wrote on SBN.com yesterday, it forgets the Kevin Martin point unfortunately. (This isn't surprising since this is the same guy who wrote this, but, well, consider the source.)
I'm not going to sit here and be a hypocrite though: I was just as resistant to a Kevin Martin trade as everyone else who was on the Kevin Martin wagon.
Let's be honest here: Geoff Petrie knew that Kevin Martin's value would likely decline if Spencer Hawes didn't respond to Paul Westphal. Geoff Petrie had just signed a long term extension with the Maloofs a few months prior to that Martin trade. It's not like self preservation wasn't a part of that deal. Yes, the Martin-Landry trade saved the Kings money (which ultimately did matter–but in the grand scheme of things shouldn't have–even I can't lay that on the feet of Petrie), but that wasn't the only motivation that trade was. It was part of maximizing the value of Kevin Martin too. But, Petrie is a snake and knew that most who were behind Martin would blame Westphal. Since a chunk of the lesser knowledgable fans probably never really gravitated towards Kevin Martin anyway, it wasn't a major issue with the whole fanbase. Just the knowledgable few.
Paul Westphal was not responsible for the dearth of asset's this franchise had when PW took over as a coach. PW knew those dearth of asset's existed, but it's not like PW had a choice here. Paul Westphal wasn't a young man in 2009, and isn't now. Most teams want to start fresh with a younger face they can sell to the fanbase and with Westphal's history there was no way you could ever consider PW a fresh face by any definition. Geoff Petrie needed a transition coordinator to ease the transition of remodeling, rebuilding and reshaping the direction of a franchise. Petrie needed a willing patsy at the right price. Who better than Paul Westphal?
The funniest thing I've ever seen come out of a players mouth was what I saw Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins was that they felt free under Keith Smart. What? You mean Paul Westphal didn't give you enough responsibility or gave you too much? (I think it was too much.) Guess what kiddies: This is grown up time. Being a grown up means taking your share of responsibility. When you're a star NBA player who is considered to be a franchise pillar who has a lot of responsibility. This is why I find the whole idea of a screaming head coach so funny: How would have Cousins or Evans responded to that?
I loved this specific part of the column Sam Amick of SI wrote with Joe Maloof being quoted at the end:
"It was Geoff and the basketball operation's decision [to fire Westphal in the final year of his contract]," Maloof said. "He thought it was time for change and that's what they decided to do. We appreciate everything Paul's done. He's been very, very professional, and is a terrific, classy guy. It's tough to do, but the time had come."
Why now?
"You have to ask Geoff," Maloof said. "I'm not sure about what specifically. The team wasn't playing as to where we expected it to be playing.
From Marc Stein's (of ESPN) Weekend Dime:
If/when Sacramento does reach the point of shopping him, there will be no shortage of takers — no matter what's happened so far — who believe they'll be able to manage Cousins better than the overmatched Kings. What sort of support system did Sacramento put in place? Why would Kings president Geoff Petrie allow Westphal to release a statement on team letterhead Sunday saying that Cousins was being sent home for demanding a trade … unless Petrie wanted Westphal to set himself up to be axed and justify the firing at such an unusually early juncture? How can anyone in the organization assail Cousins' professionalism when Petrie's department has made mistake after mistake in recent years to transform the Kings into a lottery fixture and alienate the NBA's most vociferous fan base?
Not a single person that I know or trust doesn't think Geoff Petrie is a huge part of this failure of the franchise to move forward. But I'll take it one step further: I think Geoff Petrie wanted, needed, and desired a stop gap/caretaker head coach so Petrie can maintain the one thing he most desperately seemingly cares about at this point: Geoff Petrie's power.
Yeah. This whole firing was a power trip. The Maloofs care about their money, and see the money on Westphal as a sunk cost right now. The money being paid to Keith Smart won't bring back a value yet. But I can guarantee that Smart's value as a head coach may bring back that value if, and only if, the fans come back in force to watch a young and hopefully improving team.
This whole deal was about self-preservation here. The Maloofs, Petrie, Evans and Cousins. If you think anything otherwise, then the only fool is you.
None of this hasn't been said or intimated though, and it certainly is not the real question that matters here. The real question: Why does it take sneaky slimy types to be successful in this situation? Because those are the types that survive the emotional hurdles of a basketball team. Fans get emotional and demanding. Do you think that running a basketball team will attract honest and reasonable type of personalities? Most people hold themselves above everything else regardless of the situation anyway. Why would you expect any different in this kind of deal?
You ask: Why not Tom Thibodeau? Because Thibodeau would threaten Geoff Petrie's power and standing as a GM. (Petrie's power is clearly diminishing though.) Because Petrie wanted one more real shot at building a winner with the tools he knew that would be available. It's not like the Kings are oozing with resources in even the best years of this franchise. It's also not like Thibodeau's reputation would have been well served taking over the Kings back in 2009. It simply was not the type of job where a coach comes out ahead.
This franchise needed a caretaker head coach who could guide it through the rough unwelcome realities of rebuilding, the rough and ridiculous rough patch of transitioning from more seasoned veterans with known skills to players with less developed and refined skill-sets. That transition is ridiculously rough. The Kings needed someone to guide this franchise through those perilous moments that sinks every franchise if the right kind of move isn't made at the right time.
Tyreke Evans was always going to make a rough transition from ballhog to all-around effective great player. Those warts needed a caretaker to be pushed at. DeMarcus Cousins was always going to an overly emotional loudmouth buffoon with questionable shot selection, turnover and foul problems. Those warts needed a caretaker to be pushed at. It's easy to sum up those issue's as easy or nice when the given reality certainly makes it far less than certain that any such outcome would be made or lost on the back of Paul Westphal. The reality is that the Kings best era, with Chris Webber, happened in part because those warts with Webber were mostly absorbed by other teams and franchises with a younger player.
Being pragmatic says you either lose the 2 young players who were always going to lead you to the most important place you want this franchise to go, or more accurately lose the head coach the fanbase never really loved (for lots of reasons), that the Prez of BBall Ops never saw as a long term solution, or the ownership that resented paying a caretaker for a 3rd season to give the prospect, or in actuality the illusion of such, of continuity. Additionally, you have the mainstream media covering all this up because the primary and important sports property for any Sacramento media to cover is the Kings. There isn't anything else. Even though the Bee has covered Bay Area sports for a long time, the real coverage of the Bee in the sports page revolves around Sac St, high school coverage (important to be sure), and the Kings. The Kings pay for the first two. If you lose your good graces with the franchise, or the snake that runs the basketball operations, you lose a huge chunk of your information because the sources you have dry up. It's very clear why Grant Napear gets to be a mouthpiece on the primetime drive home radio show in Sacramento: Geoff Petrie wants a mouthpiece in that spot. Because 1140 needs that Kings contract to stay alive in the Sacramento market, the station still give Geoff Petrie what he wants.
From Zach Lowe of SI:
In the short term, what's the ceiling here? The best way to win in the NBA is to have a franchise-level superstar, and the Kings don't have that, unless Evans or Cousins makes a gigantic leap. They're hard to get, and it's not as if the Kings have passed over one in any of the last half-dozen drafts; go look back at the last five or six drafts and point to a player they obviously should have taken over the one they picked. All the trading failed to do much, which is usually what happens when you're dealing league-average guys or broken veterans. Franchise-changing free agents haven't been interested, despite the cap space.
And so we have a franchise in an ugly holding period. Westphal failed to make it any less ugly. Now we get to see new guy give it a try.
Very few are willing to admit this, starting with Petrie, but the Kings were in a ridiculously awful position because of Petrie and the Maloofs insistence to avoid rebuilding. Kevin Martin was the Kings best asset the Kings had, along with Jason Thompson, before the 4th and 5th picks that became Evans and Cousins.
Martin was not a league-wide prime asset in 2009. Or now. If that was the case, the Kings would have not traded Martin. The sad truth is that Martin is a very valuable one trick pony, when you know what that trick is, and if you have the surrounding talent to not either A) put Martin on an island so that his weaknesses sink you as a franchise, or B) so that you aren't wasting $$$ paying a guy to do one thing. Martin was going to average nearly 11 million (over the life of his contract) a season to score and score efficiently. That's a lot of cheddar when you have another ball dominant scorer in Tyreke Evans who offers the possibility in growing a lot more area's than Martin.
Jason Thompson was the only other reasonable trade asset back when PW took over in 2009. Thompson came up in the Rondo trade rumors along with that 4th pick, but beyond that Thompson was supposedly turned down in a Jeff Teague trade (something I'm glad despite Teague's recent success) and we haven't heard much chatter since then about JT. If there is anything that has taught me about chatter, it's that most chatter means little because it's mostly just that: Chatter. The media has information to peddle, and the way they sometimes peddle the less valuable part of this information is to pass along what most in the NBA see as worthless chatter. Fans love it because fans are always wanting to know more. When you see it as a game, you probably will just ignore it for no other reason than that crap is beyond your own control. When media outlets get ignored for their pointless chatter, what's next? Media outlets get money because they garner attention, and without that chatter there is no attention.
This is all part of the problem naturally with Geoff Petrie: He does send things out anonymously through various writers in the country. It's just hard to tell because we can't pin Petrie down with what he is saying. Petrie is exceptionally obtuse and deliberate with his presser's. He has a message that he wants to get out there for a real reason: Geoff Petrie doesn't want to be seen as playing the other nasty less admirable side of the game which is spreading nasty sometimes untruthful thoughts about the Kings and other NBA things going on.
None of this had to do with Westphal necessarily. What all of this has to do with the state of the Kings roster and how it got there. The reason it was in a bad place because Petrie made some decisions that ended up being bad or were difficult to defend in the first place. (The only real "bad" decision that I would claim Geoff Petrie made in Free Agency was signing Mikki Moore.) Francisco Garcia is a player that has talent, and would it have made sense to let him go? Sure, if you knew he was going to get hurt exercising on an exercise ball.
The fact is that every roster pretty much has an unsavory contract for one reason or the other. Garcia is the real bad contract on this roster at the moment, but even that will pass too. By 2013, Garcia will come off the cap just as a new (theoretically anyway) big contract for Tyreke Evans kicks in. Petrie acquired Salmons for a couple of reasons. One was that he knew the SF spot wouldn't be necessarily improved by spending the cap space. Two was that Beno Udrih's value was going to go down with Jimmer Fredette around. Whether you like John Salmons or not (I'm guessing not), Salmons was a nice return for Beno Udrih in the wake of Beno actually becoming a fair value asset. The 3rd point is the one that matters here when it comes to roster management: If John Salmons isn't the player the Kings need him to be at the SF or SG spot at some point, they can simply amnesty him. They can use that amnesty rule on him at any point they wish to in the future. For the Kings, the amnesty was always going to be used on John Salmons and John Salmons alone. It wasn't available for anyone else because everyone else was too young, cheap or whose contract wasn't crippling the roster.
After Francisco Garcia, the worst contract in my mind is Travis Outlaw because his value is so low. But it's not like Outlaw is super duper expensive. At some point, a team may need to make a move of financial proportions and trading a player like Outlaw makes a huge amount of sense for the Kings. It won't cripple them financially by any measure because a cheap player who has known skills can be traded. Plus, the advantage with Outlaw is that you don't have to convince a player to come to Sacramento. That player has to come to the team that submits the winning bid in accordance with the amnesty rules. The hardest part with any player is getting them to either stay, or in the case of veteran players to come in the first place. Here's the funniest part about Outlaw and his contract: If Nocioni was here it wouldn't be an issue. (Why not sign Josh Howard to a 2 year 10 million dollar deal if you're the Kings? You needed a veteran F yes?) My point here isn't to say that I would rather have Josh Howard for sure. But if Westphal would rather have Outlaw than Howard, it's up to Geoff Petrie to convince him otherwise.
You can blame Paul Westphal for Travis Outlaw, and for wanting veteran players. But, who connected with this roster didn't want a more veteran refined presence on this roster? The real problem was were there better options? Sometimes a decision is just a function of time and place. Not every situation is ideal to make a move.
So part of the issue here is that we as fans want a winning team, but don't always associate the necessary reality that comes with that winning. Sometimes to build a winning team, you have to have a slimeball do dirty work with a caretaker saying "Boss da plane! Boss Da Plane!" Yeah, Paul Westphal is Tattoo in this analogy.
We as fans, do we expect better? We want Paul Westphal to be the problem because we know, in the grand scheme of the life we live in, that coaches come and go. That, even though coaches are critical, franchises tend to have staying power with quality ownership and management. Blaming the head coach is easy because we want to win, and, we need a fall guy when things get difficult. We need reasons to justify our existence as fans. We don't want to admit that what happened with Evans and Cousins is pretty par for the course. ( A lot of people haven't even gotten around to what was happening with Evans was just as critical but not as obvious to the naked eye as what happened with Cousins.) We don't want to admit that Geoff Petrie hired Paul Westphal to maintain his power and legacy commensurate with Petrie's wishes.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was not to convince you or I that the devil existed or that the devil was even Geoff Petrie. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince us, as Kings fans, that it was necessary for such antics in the first place.


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Four new images from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 have gone online. Like the majority of images we've seen from the upcoming film, these show Bella and her new family being happy as can be. At worst, the characters are looking at something disconcerting. Based on the images alone, it looks like the movie is shaping up to be an L.L. Bean catalog where strange things are happening off camera.
Hit the jump to check out the images. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Mackenzie Foy, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, and Jackson Rathbone. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 opens November 16th.
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has passed. The pitch of a sound or the colour of a light depends on the number of waves striking the ear or eye in a second. This number is increased by approach and lowered by recession.
Thus, by comparing the spectrum of a star alongside a spectrum of hydrogen, we may see all the lines, and be sure that there is hydrogen in the star; yet the lines in the star-spectrum may be all slightly displaced to one side of the lines of the comparison spectrum. If towards the violet end, it means mutual approach of the star and earth; if to the red end, it means recession. The displacement of lines does not tell us whether the motion is in the star, the earth, or both. The displacement of the lines being measured, we can calculate the rate of approach or recession in miles per second.
In 1868 Huggins' succeeded in thus measuring the velocities of stars in the direction of the line of sight.
In 1873 Vogel" compared the spectra of the sun's East (approaching) limb and West (receding) limb, and the displacement of lines endorsed the theory. This last observation was suggested by Zöllner.
* R. S. Phil. Trans., 1868. * Ast. Nach., No. 1, 864.
Book IV The Physical Period
WB have seen how the theory of the solar system was slowly developed by the constant efforts of the human mind to find out what are the rules of cause and effect by which our conception of the present universe and its development seems to be bound. In the primitive ages a mere record of events in the heavens and on the earth gave the only hope of detecting those uniform sequences from which to derive rules or laws of cause and effect upon which to rely. Then came the geometrical age, in which rules were sought by which to predict the movements of heavenly bodies. Later, when the relation of the sun to the courses of the planets was established, the sun came to be looked upon as a cause; and finally, early in the seventeenth century, for the first time in history, it began to be recognised that the laws of dynamics, exactly as they had been established for our own terrestrial world, hold good, with the same rigid invariability, at least as far as the limits of the solar system. Throughout this evolution of thought and conjecture there were two types of astronomers
— those who supplied the facts, and those who supplied the interpretation through the logic of mathematics. So Ptolemy was dependent upon Hipparchus, Kepler on Tycho Brahe, and Newton in much of his work upon Flamsteed. When Galileo directed his telescope to the heavens, when Secchi and Huggins studied the chemistry of the stars by means of the spectroscope, and when Warren De la Rue set up a photoheliograph at Kew, we see that a progress in the same direction as before, in the evolution of our conception of the universe, was being made. Without definite expression at any particular date, it came to be an accepted fact that not only do earthly dynamics apply to the heavenly bodies, but that the laws we find established here, in geology, in chemistry, and in the laws of heat, may be extended with confidence to the heavenly bodies. Hence arose the branch of astronomy called astronomical physics, a science which claims a large portion of the work of the telescope, spectroscope, and photography. In this new development it is more than ever essential to follow the dictum of Tycho Brahe - not to make theories until all the necessary facts are obtained. The great astronomers of to-day still hold to Sir Isaac Newton's declaration, "Hypotheses non fingo." Each one may have his suspicions of a theory to guide him in a course of observation, and may call it a working hypothesis. But the cautious astronomer does not proclaim these to the world; and the historian is certainly not justified in including in his record those vague speculations founded on incomplete data which may be demolished to-morrow, and which, however attractive they may be, often do more harm than good to the progress of true science. Meanwhile the accumulation of facts has been prodigious, and the revelations of the telescope and spectroscope entrancing.
One of Galileo's most striking discoveries, when he pointed his telescope to the heavenly bodies, was that of the irregularly shaped spots on the sun, with the dark central umbra and the less dark, but more extensive, penumbra surrounding it, sometimes with several umbrae in one penumbra. He has left us many drawings of these spots, and he fixed their period of rotation as a lunar month.
It is not certain whether Galileo, Fabricus, or Scheiner was the first to see the spots. They all did good work. The spots were found to be ever varying in size and shape. Sometimes, when a spot disappears at the western limb of the Sun, it is never seen again. In other cases, after a fortnight, it reappears at the eastern limb. The faculae, or bright areas, which are seen all over the sun's surface, but specially in the neighbourhood of spots, and most distinctly near the sun's edge, were discovered by Galileo.


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My mom told me how many people out there were praying for me, and I just wanted to tell you all that I am feeling much, much better today! Someone at the grocery store told Mommy this morning that I am still full of spit and vinegar. That sounds pretty gross, but I think it means that I have gotten my spunkiness back and am well on my way to being healed!
My eye is still closed shut and bruised, but is looking much better.
The swelling has gone down a lot, and I can even smile again!
Thanks so much for praying for me, and for my Mommy who was a little on edge yesterday! It is so nice of you to do that and I will be back to my old self in no time, providing you with plenty of cute pictures. Until then--I'm off to take some medicine and lay down for a nice, loooooong nap!
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But Big Jolly jumped the shark the past couple of days, and I just don't feel right about linking to him anymore. I like Dave Jennings as a person, but he has become so grossly misinformed about what is going on around the CJC that I just can't put a link up there that might imply I find his information even intellectually honest.
Back in November, when Rachel Palmer was whooping and hollering about pleading the 5th and recusing Judge Brown, the District Attorney's Office took time out of its busy (and budget-strapped) schedule to hire David Benzion as a media spokesperson. It was a savvy political move by Pat Lykos. After all, Benzion had been the editor of Lone Star Times, an influential Republican website in Harris County politics. By hiring Benzion with our taxpayer dollars, Lykos could claim that it was a needed position in the Office and hopefully scoop up all of Lone Star Times' followers as well.
I don't know if Lykos was able to scoop up all of Benzion's followers, but she damn sure seems to have scooped up Big Jolly. You see, Big Jolly used to work with Benzion at Lone Star Times. As a matter of fact, when Benzion shut down the Lone Star Times website, he encouraged his readers to get their Republican Reading needs fulfilled by going and checking out Big Jolly's blog. These guys are friends and there is nothing wrong about that.
At least there is nothing wrong about that until Big Jolly ends up becoming a shill for Pat Lykos via David Benzion and doesn't think we are smart enough to notice it.
Benzion's first day at the Harris County District Attorney's Office was on Monday, December 19th, 2011 -- right when Rachel's Motion to Recuse hearing was going on. Keep in mind that during this period of time, Lykos was hiding from the media. The normally attention-hungry District Attorney simply could not be found. She was dodging every media outlet that she possibly could. Those who even have the faintest familiarity with Lykos know that her dodging the media is a gross deviation in her character.
Can't say that I blame her. The media wanted to know the answer to the pesky question of "How exactly do you keep employing a prosecutor who just invoked the 5th Amendment in front of the Grand Jury?" Lykos had no answer to that quiz, so she didn't show up anywhere that she would have to answer it.
Thank goodness, she had the newly-hired David Benzion, though! He could utilize his Republican ties and find some sort of "journalist" that could get some positive spin out there for his boss, right? And on December 27th, 2011, Dave Jennings AKA Big Jolly cranked out this piece of fluff. After two weeks of hiding from the media, the District Attorney appears for an obscure local blogger who would write an article entitled:
Pat Lykos: Vigorously prosecuting the guilty while seeking justiceSeriously. That was the title of it.
I guess the title of "Pat Lykos: Super Awesomest District Attorney in the History of District Attorneys is Eradicating Villainy and Providing All Harris County with Safety and Looking Very Lovely While Doing It" would have been a little too over the top.
And then Dave jumped in with his conspiracy theories and political motivations for the 185th. I tried to talk to him, and we had polite conversations. But he just kept on coming with it. A self-serving District Attorney who allows a 5th Amendment-taking-prosecutor to remain on the job is just fine and dandy, but suddenly a volunteer citizen who serves as a Grand Jury foreperson is treated like the Anti-Christ?
Do you have any idea how much crap was made from allegations and innuendo about Patricia Pollard because of the mere fact that she was serving as the foreperson of a Grand Jury?! That poor lady signed up to serve on a Grand Jury along with 11 other citizens back in August and the next thing you know, our elected District Attorney is portraying her to be the second coming of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mrs. Pollard hadn't even said a thing and the Grand Jury hadn't issued a single finding; yet the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight was going after her like she was John Gotti.
And there was Dave Jennings calling it like Lykos saw it.
The conspiracy theories surrounding the 185th Grand Jury became so ridiculous that I don't even know where to begin. I honestly don't know what the Grand Jurors could have done to appease the conspiracy-minded Dave Jennings short of setting themselves aflame in front of the CJC. Even when they issued no indictments, they still got blasted and insulted for issuing a First-Amendment-protected-letter saying they felt the D.A.'s Office had attempted to intimidate them.
In his dramatically entitled post "Harris County DA Lykos stands up to Runaway Grand Jury," Big Jolly called Mrs. Pollard a "Wyatt Earp wannabe" and then cleverly refers to her as "Mrs. Earp" through the remainder of the post. Dave ridiculed a respected volunteer serving as Grand Jury foreperson for doing the job she was entrusted to do because she had the audacity to question Lykos' intimidation tactics.
It just gets worse from there. The thing that just kills me about the way Big Jolly writes these stories for Lykos is that he isn't just excusing Lykos' behavior, he's commending it.
Today, he even implicated Bert Graham! Seriously, Dave. Have you ever even met Bert?
It troubles me greatly that Big Jolly believes the joining of people who believe that Pat Lykos is a terrible (if not criminal) District Attorney must be a huge political conspiracy based on speculation. Since when did having common sense become participation in a conspiracy?
The reason I unlinked from David Jennings' (AKA Big Jolly) blog is that I found it to no longer be credible or trustworthy. A blog that condones the malicious attacks on ADAs by half-wits like Don Hooper while praising the Mafia-esque tactics of Pat Lykos is just not one that I care to affiliate my blog with anymore. The slamming of good people's names because they dared to investigate Lykos didn't really do much for me either.
But what really and truly bothers me is that Big Jolly's affiliation with Lone Star Times and David Benzion, coupled with his sudden unprecedented access to Lykos (for the purposes of writing fawning articles) sure makes it look like Big Jolly has become a shill.
Remember, I don't sell advertising on this blog.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe Dave really does think that Pat Lykos is the "most awesomest" District Attorney ever and none of this really was a conspiracy on behalf of her Administration to use taxpayer money to write campaign pieces for her.
You know how crazy people can get with their conspiracy theories.
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On May 2nd, 2012 the Detroit Youth Council held their bi – weekly meeting but this meeting was different in that it was election night for the 2012-2012 Youth Council Executive Board.
The Youth Council meeting started off with an Advisors report from Mrs. Indira Pierce. She was announcing the Stop, Cops and Americas Addiction to Incarceration which will be held on Saturday May 5, 2012. The forum will be held at the Cobo Convention from 10am to 1pm followed by a forum called Americas Addiction to Incarceration from 1:30 to 4pm.
Both events will focus on the topics of Knowing your Rights, Traffic Stops, Street Stops, and Domestic Disputes. The second forum will also include information on why America has the world's highest incarceration rate in the state of Michigan and the highest rate in the United States. So please DON'T hesitate on attending so join us this Saturday!
Also Ms. Pierce discussed the 57th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner which is May 6, 2012 also held at Cobo Convention Center. For those of the ages of 15 – 19 who are host and hostess she touched on some requirements and the importance of the dinner.
After the report from our advisor, our meeting heated up when it shifted to our Co – advisor Kamilia Landrum as she announced all candidates that are current on their membership and is a paid member 30 – days before the election running for an Executive Committee position. These candidates included:
Secretary: Kandace Nickelberry
Treasurer: D' Avery Spearman
Second Vice President: Alexjandria Edwards, and Danielle Gates
First Vice President: Malaysha White, Naudia Harrison, Rajni – Anne Jackson, Tyreisha Williams and Kayla Wright
President: TeJaughn Rodgers, Gregory Harrison and Antashe Howard
Advisor: Indiria Pierce
After her report, the chair nominating committee re-stated the each candidate had a maximum time of 2-minutes for their speech. Once all the speeches were completed the voting began. Members of the nomination committee counted all the votes but we ended up with a three way tie between Malaysha White, Naudia Harrison and Rajni – Anne Jackson for First Vice President. So, we voted a final time for those three candidates to break the tie before announcing all new Executive Board members. Mical Holt announced the winning candidates for 2012 – 2013 as followed:
Kandance Nickelberry – Secretary
D'Avery Spearman – Treasurer
Alexjandria Edwards – Second Vice President
Naudia Harrison – First Vice President
Gregory Harrison – President
Indiria Pierce – Advisor
Our next Detroit Youth Council meeting will be held on May 16, 2012 at the Detroit NAACP Branch at 8220 Second Ave. Detroit, MI 48202 at 6:00pm. So start getting involved with the NAACP Youth Council we make a difference and so can you!
Submitted by: Naudia Harrison 11th Grader at West Bloomfield High school & 1st Vice President


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Jane Eyre the Musical to make its UK Premiere, and the Wierd Circle.
Finally there is news about my favourite musical! Details can be found here: Jane Eyre the Musical's UK Premiere.
I've been very busy lately, preparing to return to school, but I have also been at a loss to decide exactly what to post about- there's so much to choose from. Firstly, just as July was our impromptu Villette month, August is Jane Eyre month. I usually read the novel all at once in a day, or two at most. I picked up on a lot of things that I usually gloss over while reading it slowly over the month. Probably my most interesting 'discovery' was that Helen Burns doesn't have a grave marker for a certain number of years. It seemed very odd that this time frame would be given. After thinking about it, and tallying the passage of time based on the events in the novel I believe that it's plausible to assume that Jane returned to Lowood with her son and Mr Rochester- because it would have to have been when her child was 3 years old. There might be another explaination, but I found this one intriguing!
I love to do inter-textual analysis, and so I also made a list of each and every book mentioned in the novel. 🙂 That will keep me busy for quite some time in the distant future. My wonderful friend Thisbeciel has also overwhelmed me with her Brontean bounty! I now have full texts of The Cottage Poems by Patrick Bronte! And many terrific images, and illustrations such as… This picture of the madwoman's room at Norton Conyers! I think that if I was shown such a room I'd probably write a novel as well 😉
I ALSO got to hear a strange little adaptations of Jane Eyre and of Wuthering Heights. I believe these date to the 1950s- which is even more interesting to me because I haven't been able to see any of the films of Jane Eyre from that decade (yet). The group was called Wierd Circle. Imagine, if you will, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights performed in half an hour. Does it make you smile? Yes, it was awful- but awfully funny. Jane Eyre was especially terrible and has now become the source of many jokes among my friends.
Wierd Circle Jane Eyre included such interesting elements as:
-The landscape being terrifying in and of itself.
-No Mrs. Fairfax. The housekeeper is now a Mrs. Campbell who has a really creepy voice and is always saying things like: "You think you'll be happy here? ha ha ha Really, Miss Eyre? Happy? ha ha. You'll see… yes, you'll see. Ha ha ha". That isn't a direct quote, but this is: "We've had other governesses come before but they never stayed. No. Never…" And she tells poor Adele that she's "a child of the devil".
-Mr Rochester is really not that bad. But he's a few leaves short of a chestnut tree sometimes. During his first chat with Jane he says that he has learned a lot about Jane: that she's an orphan, likes children, and that he loves her: "You're an orphan, like children, and I love you." They sort of pretend that didn't happen, because she is still surprised by his proposal! When Jane asks him why no one is allowed upstairs he replies glibly that "it saves fuel." When Jane points out how this doesn't make sense he says: "Let's say it saves fuel and go with that." When asked about the articulate voice shouting threats in the distance he says: "It's the wind". When Jane objects he replies: "Let's say it's the wind and leave it at that."
-Mrs. Campbell: "You won't be married for another three days, and there's a lot I can do in three days!"
-I will now spoil the ending. Bertha is revealled- and this part really was creepy, I must say. But it still suceeded in ruining the effect of Bertha's demonic cries and laughter. While she laughs and cries out that she likes to see death, Mr Rochester informs us that he adopted Adele because he was lonely and needed something to love- which, you know, inevitably makes me think that a cat would have probably been a better idea. And so that really ruined the moment. But it was very funny. Bertha's death is also comically undermined. Mr Rochester tells her to not jump, and we hear her do a "la la la- whoop!" and hear Jane inform us that Bertha has slipped off of the roof (Jane witnesses the fire- I forgot to say… Thornfield bursts into flames as soon as she leaves). And lastly, the framing device of Jane's diary is reintroduced. Jane is at Mr Rochester's bedside in the hospital. He's alive but IN A COMA. He's been in a coma for the last few months. And since Jane has begun to speak in a slow creepy Mrs. Campbell sort of way, we are left with the knowledge that he won't ever wake up- probably.
I know how much you must have enjoyed that- and so, next time I'll have Wierd Circle Wuthering Heights to discuss!


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A clever onlooker with a discreetly placed camera managed to capture this first video of the Ferrari SP12, a.k.a Eric Clapton's one-off $4.7 million Boxer tribute, in motion.
In a white dealership, with a red Ferrari…
That V8 from the Ferrari 458 Italia sure sounds great, doesn't it? A V8. Not a V12.
Built by Ferrari's dream-making team, the SP12 is based on the Ferrari 458 but mimics the Ferrari 512 boxer. We'd heard it was extremely costly, but now Schmee150 is putting the price at around £3 million, or $4.75 million for a car that originally costs mid-$250,000.
Ferrari may never actually confirm the number, but based on what we've heard it's not an insane guess.


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Rapper and actor Ja Rule has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in New Jersey.
The platinum-selling rapper admitted Tuesday to not paying taxes on more than $3 million in income earned between 2004 and 2006.
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He entered his guilty plea in a Newark federal courtroom. As part of a plea agreement, the government has dismissed two counts against him for unpaid taxes on income earned in 2007 and 2008.
The 35-year-old performer is expected to be sentenced on the tax evasion charges in June.
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He is also facing sentencing the same month in New York after he pleaded guilty in December to attempted weapon possession. He agreed to a two-year prison term in that case.
Police say they found a loaded gun in a rear door of his luxury sports car when it was stopped for speeding after a July 2007 concert.
Ja Rule was nominated for a 2002 best rap album Grammy Award for "Pain is Love." His movie credits include 2001's "The Fast and the Furious" and 2003's "Scary Movie 3."


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This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
There are many potential vulnerabilities when it comes to web development. We'll do hand-ons exercices with some of the more popular and understand how to defend against exploits.
This will be language/framework agnostic but if code does appear it will probably be: JavaScript, Python, Java or PHP.
See the "Full Description" for the lesson plan.
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Earlier this year, we told you about the construction of the Etgar Keret House, a residence in Warsaw that would measure a mere 133 centimeters across its widest spot. Now that house is a reality, wedged between two buildings, and we can see what this skinny house really looks like on the inside.
The house was created by Polish architects Centrala for Israeli writer Etgar Keret. In addition to providing Keret with a very tiny foothold in Warsaw, the house will also serve as a domicile for residential arts programs. And this is what the young writers and artists who stay there will have for inspiration.
Photos by Bartek Warzecha for Centrala.
Keret House [Centrala via Zillamag]


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The next major Service Pack release for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is one step closer to its official release. Service Pack 2 (SP2) has moved from Beta to RC (Release Candidate). You can download the SP2 RC from the Microsoft Springboard site.
SP2 will only work with Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008 SP1, so if you have either of these operating systems and have not yet installed SP1, you should download and install that first. If you're curious what changes you can expect with SP2, you can read Notable Changes in Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC and Windows Vista SP2 RC. Here are some highlights of the changes in SP2:
integrates the Windows Vista Feature Pack for Wireless, which contains support for Bluetooth v2.1 and Windows Connect Now (WCN) Wi-Fi Configuration. Bluetooth v2.1 is the most recent specification for Bluetooth wireless technology.
improves performance for Wi-Fi connections after resuming from sleep mode.
includes updates to the RSS feeds sidebar for improved performance and responsiveness.
includes ability to record data to Blu-Ray Disc media.
SP2 provides an improved power management (both on the server and the desktop), which includes the ability to manage these settings via Group Policy.
Provides better error handling and descriptive error messages where possible
If you have the prior version of Service Pack 2 installed (Beta build 16497) you will need to un-install it before installing the newer RC build (16670) from the links on the Microsoft Springboard site.


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Michael Brown hospitalized after heart attack
Michael Brown, the former Houston hand surgeon whose personal life has played out in the news for the past couple years, has suffered a heart attack.
According to a court filing in Brown's Houston bankruptcy case, the 56-year-old former physician went into cardiac arrest Oct. 24.
"Dr. Brown remains hospitalized and is incapacitated," the court filing states. "The extent of the damage he has suffered is unknown; however, it appears to be severe and, at this time, counsel has no ability to communicate with Dr. Brown."
No updates had been entered into the court case file by Tuesday, and no information was available from other sources.
Brown, who has been living in Miami in recent months, was apparently in a Miami hospital, although that could not be confirmed.
A spokeswoman at U.S. District Judge Jeff Bohm, the judge presiding over Brown's bankruptcy case, said the court had no comment.
On Oct. 25, a federal judge in Miami granted Brown's request to delay his 30-day prison sentence by a month, sealing the emergency motion Brown filed.
The sentence, imposed in September, stemmed from his guilty plea to a criminal charge of interfering with a flight attendant in January.


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Casey Affleck, director of the surreal documentary about actor Joaquin Phoenix's attempt to start a hip-hop career, has reportedly settled two sexual harassment claims that were filed by two women who worked on the project, reports E! Online.
No details of the settlement have surfaced, but both parties seem ready to put the incidents surrounding the filming of "I'm Still Here" behind them.
"The disputes…in connection with the film 'I'm Still Here' have been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties and the lawsuits are being dismissed," said a statement released by Affleck's representatives to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Amanda White and Magdalena Gorka, a producer and cinematographer respectively, filed suits against the "Ocean's Thirteen" star and his production company earlier this summer after quitting work on the film because of what they considered to be hostile work conditions.
White's suit alleged that Affleck hired hookers to come to the set to harass she and Gorka and that she was subject to other vulgar treatment. She sought $2 million in damages, saying she never got paid her agreed upon sum of $50,000 for working on the film.
Gorka's suit reinforced White's claims and said that Affleck once tried to get into bed with her while he was drunk. She was seeking $2.5 million.
Representatives for Affleck said the lawsuits were "preposterous and without merit."
Selected Reading: E! Online, The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Beast


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Lister Legend Clippers with Sheep Blade is an extremely powerful clipper with a rubber-mounted motor (to reduce noise and vibration) with 3100 RPM clipper speed. Weighs less than 2 lb. Read More
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Lister Legend Clipper with Sheep Blade
Extremely powerful rubber-mounted motor (to reduce noise and vibration) with 3100 RPM clipper speed.
Lister Legend with Sheep Blade Features & Benefits:
- weighs less than 2 lb
- can be used on a variety of livestock animals
- ventilated head with washable air filter to keep blades cool
Comes with carrying case and wrist lanyard.
13 tooth blade has longer, more widely-spaced teeth ideal for shearing heavily matted fleece.
- Brand: Wahl (Lister)
- Strokes Per Minute: 3,100
- Type: Corded
- Motor Type: Rubber Mounted
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I purchased this clipper for use on a mare with advanced Cushing's Syndrome. Although I would love to say my mare is a compliant patient, I would argue far to the contrary, she's a pill spitter, hence the need to shear. Over the course of the past year, I have tried various types and sizes of clippers, Oster A5, Wahl to cut through her very thick dense coat with little to no luck, even with new blades. After having spent in excess of 3 days, hand clipping this mare out of desperation last summer, I broke down and purchased this clipper. It is noisy, but with proper lubrication on start up and regular use of coolant, the noise is tolerable and the mare seemed to agree with me on this point as I was able to clip around her head and ears after 15 minutes of exposure. This clipper, using careful wrist angling, since I have yet to find a blade guide, did a great job of cutting through her very long dense haircoat. If I didn't say it before, I'm a rather petite individual, even if I do work drafts and move my own hay, I'm still small so weight was a definite consideration in making this purchase. After 20 minutes of use, my right wrist and arm were pretty fatigued, the wrist strap really didn't do much to alleviate this strain and I stopped using it about 10 minutes into the job, but in those 20 minutes, I was able to clear a significant amount of dense coat, far greater than I had been able to do using even my A5 with the wide blocking blade. It's also a few pounds lighter and much more manageable than my 40+ year old Oster shearer. I didn't like the on/off switch, which, if the unit was bumped hard enough, the switch would shut off so I'll likely revisit this review after the summer shearing and see if I still feel the same way. Ease of lubrication and cleaning was a big plus from my old Oster as was the relatively cool running temp. of this unit after 20 minute
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I remember clearly the first time I heard the term "early adopter". It was around 1990 and I was an account person working on AT&T at NWAyer, an advertising agency. The agency "research guy" named John Bowman explained that it referred to a group of consumers with the personality type willing to be first to try a new product. And, if these early adopters liked your product, you could count on them to help spread the word.
So once we were introduced to this concept, we agency folks wanted our clients to create cool advertising campaigns to attract these early adopters. But there was a hitch. Early adopters tended to be a very small group. While they probably will become your champions, their ability to evangelize on your behalf was sorely limited. These early adopters could not sustain a business because they could not carry the message broad enough or far enough. For a business to become profitable, the product had to "cross the chasm", appeal to the masses. Maybe early adopters helped the process, but more often than not, sheer marketing muscle in the form of advertising, did the trick. And to "cross the chasm" could take many months, if not years, and money – lots of it.
That was then. This is now.
Today, I believe EVERYONE is an early adopter. If any of you go online or visit a social network or shop online – you are now squarely in the camp of the early adopter.
Because the pace of technology change is so rapid, that it has compressed into months what previously took years between the early adoption stage and the category maturation cycle. For instance, if you go online today, I bet you will try some new "online thing" within the next 30 days. This makes you an early adopter – whether you be 16 or 86. Early adopters share a frame of mind – not a demographic, so that makes them a huge market. See what I mean?
And social networks accelerate the rate of technology adoption even faster and further with newer tools like user ratings, online video chats, expert reviews etc. But social networks are also powerful accelerants of what new technology we adopt. We all get tons of emails or tweets from friends entitled, "check this out" – the promise of early adopter evangelicalism delivered.
I hope now you accept that everyone (ok – almost everyone) is an early adopter, and so you can start playing with how your marketing programs need to live within that new paradigm. You can identify various early adopter segments and develop a social marketing program appropriate to them. Create proper ways for your adopter segments to interact with each and with you. Solicit their input on product development and ask their help when you need it.
Creating businesses around early adopters is fun because once hooked they tend to be passionate about you. And they tend to trust you. Early adopters – gotta love 'em.
Judy Shapiro
Postscript — It is worth noting that the "research guy", John Bowman, is currently an Exec VP at Saatchi and remains a trusted colleague.
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Dry and not so high: SSG fails to summit
As any fan of Project Runway knows, judge Nina Garcia would rather see an interesting design, no matter how poorly executed, than a competent outfit that's dull. "Don't bore Nina!" mentor Tim Gunn regularly advises contestants who play it safe. It's egotistical, I know, but I wish Charlottesville's galleries adhered to a similar proviso: Don't bore Laura!
Case in point, "Mountaintop," Second Street Gallery's current installation by artistic duo Brown + Scofield. The inspiration for this site-specific piece is the ecological devastation caused by mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia, a practice which levels peaks for cheap access to coal. Given the violence of the process and its visual impact on the landscape, the source material for Jason Brown and Elizabeth Scofield's project is rich. Yet the result is, well, blah.
After walking past a suspended light bulb, meant to look like one used in a mineshaft, the viewer rounds a white wall topped by a particleboard and corrugated metal roof to enter SSG's main gallery. Three small black fabric "mountains," illuminated from within by incandescent bulbs, sit on the floor near a rocking chair painted black. Two metal troughs filled with coal run the length of the east and west walls beneath tarpaper silhouettes of mountains (tops still intact).
On the back wall, seven bland color photographs, hung side-by-side, show mountaintop mining in progress. Shot by Denny Tyler and Dave Cooper (Brown + Scofield couldn't bother to take their own images?), the pictures lack artistry and might as well be illustrations for mining company brochures.
And that's it. That's all they made.
The gallery's wall text says, "The artists are trying to make explicit the relationship between personal energy consumption in the home and the larger ecological devastation of the Appalachian region," but the piece fails to deliver. Neat and sanitized, there's no violence, no upheaval. Worst of all, "Mountaintop" doesn't hold the eye; there's nothing to discover no matter how long one looks.
Meanwhile the Dov© Gallery's video piece, "Faustus's Children," by Michele O'Mara with David Jones and Tim Jackson, offers 45 minutes of self-congratulatory tedium. O'Mara and company parody mainstream moviemaking conventions by using garish handmade sets and artist-friend actors to play out a clich© horror plot with hackneyed dialogue. But purposefully bad filmmaking with irritating camerawork is, in the end, just that. (Don't give Laura a headache!)
Is it worse to be boring or self-consciously awful? Why even ask? Just move on.
Brown + Scofield's installation, "Mountaintop," and Michel O'Marah's video, "Faustus's Children," are on view at Second Street Gallery through September 26. 115 Second St. SE. 977-7284


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Spaghetti Squash!
I made it two days ago using Danielle's instructions. The fam bam has always been curious about it so I embraced my inner cook and got to it. I don't have the best track record when it comes to cooking (baking, I can do) and of course, as simple as the instructions were, I was still able to mess things up (shredded the wrong way, got short little pieces). *sigh*
After I fixed my shredding technique I added garlic marinara sauce and chowed down…then spat it out. I expected a noodle/pasta-like texture but it was crunchy. I likened it to eating a tasteless onion but others have said it's like pasta al dente.
My Mom came to the rescue when she showed me a bag of Hungry Girl noodles which are made out of soy beans. I'll probably be using this if I ever want or feel the need to eat guilt-free "pasta". I love the real stuff and don't mind eating it, carbs and all!
Just wanted to clarify that it wasn't bad (for what it was), just not what I was expecting. The only similarities it has with pasta is appearance after you fork it.


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Cast Away is Pixie Dust's Little Sister. Smaller and lighter, it comes in a range of hand-carded neutrals with bits of brights colors handspun throughout. Blending wool, mohair, silk and sparkle (sometimes) together, the result is a beautiful melange of colors in a soft thick and thin textured yarn. Cast Away is similar to Pixie Dust but much smaller in yarn size, knitting up on US size 11-15 needles. Some of colorways have sparkling Angelina fibers in them and are denoted by the addition of Sparkle to the color name!
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