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Kobe vs. Jordan: The best player of all time?
Ok, I get into these kinds of debates all the time. I want to know your personal opinion, who is the better player. Now when you think about it you don't just decide based on the self coined title of Michael "the best ever". That's corny, he called himself that and now people just jump on the bandwagon and agree with him. I don't buy his little **** talking self given title. Kobe is better and even players the played with both Kobe and Jordan agree. For instance, take John Salley:
Don't get me wrong, Jordan is still one of the greatest players ever. As a matter of fact with his achievements he tops Kobe (for now that is).
Ok, thats it for me, what do you think? What is your stance on the Kobe vs. Jordan debate?
Well, you'll have to make a better breakdown of why you think Kobe's better otherwise this thread will be who likes Kobe better than MJ.
To use John Salleys' opinion to back up yours is far fetched to say the least. That would mean all any poster would need to do to top you is find a couple NBA players who've said MJ was & there are tons who have.
& where you got the idea MJ started everyone to call him the best ever by referring to himself that way is laughable. If that's how it works, just have Kobe start calling himself that & this argument will be over by the end of the Finals cuz everyone will be mimicking him.
As far as MJ saying Kobe's the closest to him sounds good only if you disregard the context of the question put to him which was "Who playing now is closest to you?". Hardly a reason to put that as MJ endorsing Kobe as better. That would be like answering "What's the closest to a Lambourgini"? & answering Corvette. Another great car but not a Lambourgini.
So if you come back with more reasons than "likes", I'll give it a go.
Whats up Enoch! :wavey:
Welcome to the Board....
Great question! I initially became intrigued with basketball after watching MJ 'light it up' and was a Bulls fan until he retired. Then I lost all interest in the NBA until one day I saw that same spark coming from a young #8 on the Lakers (before Kobe/Shaq's first ring), and for me- the torch was passed.
Who's better? ..... man, that's tough.
The first and foremost point is that as it stands, Jordan has 6 Championships and Kobe has 3. Also, Jordan carried the Bulls almost singlehandedly while Kobe has been #2 to Shaq.
Kobe's career is (hopefully) far from over, so it remains to be seen if his fingers will be as decorated as Michael's when it's all said and done, but if you boil me down right now and ask me do I take MJ in his prime or Kobe in his prime, I say MJ.
Why? - all things considered, Michael is superior in his INFECTIOUS SPIRIT; the ability to inspire and light a fire under his teammates. Kobe has the same spirit, but keeps it more to himself.
Maybe that would change if he didn't play with Shaq... maybe we'll find out.
Good post, Shawn...
That's a little more like it then I like Kobe better. :)
My main point is this....
MJ played his career above the rim & attacking the basket. He understood the concept of putting the pressure on the opponents D. Watch any Bull games & you'll see 3-4 defenders cheating on MJ cuz after him, there no one. Even with that kind of attention, he still consistently got to the rim. Hell, the Pistons had a defense expressly designed to stop him...The Jordan Rules.
Kobe is a helluva player who at times reminds you of MJ. He needs so much seasoning to attain the MJ level, if he does, that to try & force a "Who's better?" argument is unfair to Kobe.
Kobe needs to realize what attacking the basket does in a game. Besides putting the opponents in potential foul trouble, it disrups the opponents defensive scheme & gives you free throws...which of course are free. lol
Kobe as fallen in love with the trey lately but someone with his talent should be making opponents pay by driving the hoop. Sometimes it's an ego thing where it proves you can hit a long shot. They tried to criticize MJ by saying the trey was a weakness so he went out in the Finals & dumped a record amount of treys to make his point....
Good luck with your Lakers tonite...If they do what they're supposed to do, it will be an entertaining game....
p.s. lookin' rough tonite, Shawn...
How many times are we going to go over this comparison? I think the only way we can compare Kobe to Jordan is when Kobe retires and see what his accomplishments are.
Shawn makes a good point, Jordan was more solo than Kobe.
I think Jordan has Kobe. Defensively, Jordan won at least 2 Defensive Player of the Year Awards. Jordan actually had a post game. He was famous for it.
Kobe may have more range on his jumpshot, but he hasn't developed a post game. Maybe that's because that is Shaqs area. Either way, he doesn't have one.
Why are there even threads about this...?
Without a doubt Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. Kobe Bryant is very talented, and has the best potential to reach MJ's status....but he's not there yet, and he's not close either.
Personally, pound for pound, i don't think anybody will be able to match Jordan's career. The all around dominance, what he did for the game, the dynasty that he built....the list goes on.
I think it's important to remember how Kobe played when he first broke into the league. He took bad shots, wasn't as skilled as he is today and definitely wasn't as mature. When Michael came in, he was an impact player right away. He never rode the bench.
Both players have God given ability on the basketball court, but Michael's resume is a lot more stacked.
We have to be honest too, despite how good Kobe really is...the reason why the Lakers have won and become dominate is because of Shaquille O'Neal. He's been the backbone, he receives the double teams, and he's the one who always get's the attention which leaves Kobe open.
With that said, we'll see if Kobe stay's in L.A...if he wants to continue to win, he'll stay. If he doesn't want to win, he'll leave. I think he'll stay, but it remains to be seen.
But compared to MJ, it's not close.
I don't think it's as clear-cut as you may think, Brian...
I have as much 'reverence' for the Great One as the next guy... but you can't close the book after Michael.
Kobe's talents are extremely impressive....
Tonight, in fact, he performed another miracle: saving the Lakers with a last - second 3 point shot that sent the game into overtime so the Lakers could win.
Yes, he did, Shawn, but conversely he took the Lakers out of scoring opportunities with his longs 2s & treys. Missing at that range pre-empts alot of rebound chances & doesn't put the Pistons in potential foul trouble. That part of being a basketball player is something he has yet to learn....
well you're right Kobe has taken more outside shots lately and not driven to the hoop as much as he used to.
Driving in is what creates the big opportunities.
But I have confidence that Kobe is making good decisions. He's a smart player.
Ok, the point has been made about Jordans defensive player awards. But you have to look at Kobe's defensive achievements; he was named to the All-NBA Defensive first team I think like twice. Now when you look at who won the defensive player that year you should know why, the Defensive player of the year the years Kobe was runner up was Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace is a monster on the defensive end; so it's not surprising that he came in second to Wallace for the DP Award.
When Jordan played he was playing in a different time. He was the one who set the standard. At the time Jordan was doing what he was doing it was all new and never seen stuff. I mean, wow, he switched hands in the air and layed it up and it looked like a dunk. That was amazing for his time and would still be a great move now, but I have seen Kobe, Carter and McGrady do things of a similar nature. When you compare Kobe and Jordan you have to place Jordan in Kobe's era and not Vice Versa. The defense now is waaaaaaay better than it was in the early and mid 90's. You have teams like the Pistons, Pacers, Spurs, etc. who are some of the best defensive teams ever.
Kobe is also a pretty good post-up player. He is very strong and a great ball handler. The combination of the two attributes allows him to abuse smaller and weaker players while at the same time take the bigger slower centers and forwards. In fact, he is one of the best inside scorers in the league. While he may not be as dominant as Shaq on the inside he is still able to score down low.
Ok Tarkus, check this out. You saw the Lakers-Pistons game 2 tonight right? Kobe dunked on three Pistons. I mean BOOM! on there heads. Not to mention Kobe at only seventeen was named the best dunker in the league. He obviously got better with time and is still improving, what makes you think he won't go better in the air. I think the paradox of the Air Jordan aerial supremacy came from his dunk contest wins. He came with the craziest **** right? But I have seen Kobe do some insane dunks. What about the addidas commercial where he went behind his back and below the rim? Have you seen that? I have it on my computer, it is insanity and it looks impossible. I also have highlight reels of Jordan and Kobe dunk-ons. Yeah, Jordan got Motumbo, but so did Carter, Kobe, and just about everyone else. Jordan got allot of other people too, don't get me wrong, I'm just naming the most memorable one. You can't really name one as being better than the other in the air.
Tarkus, Jordan was a great defensive player, your right. But he couldn't even guard Magic or Isaiah in the finals, they had to move him and put Pippin in his place. I've also seen Jordan get shook by Iverson in Iverson's rookie year. Broke his ankles to the fullest extent and the drained the shot in his grill. If that is pressure then what is bad defense? Oh, and Tarkus, Jordan could never penetrate the Jordan Rules, he always broke down and turned it over. Jordan was the most dominant player on the Bulls, so naturally they targeted him. However, Shaq is the most dominant player in the league (That doesn't make him better, just stronger). "Jordan Rules" are similar to the "Hack-a-Shaq" defense. Don't let the most dominant player get the ball, it's that simple.
I also think that if anyone designed a defense for Kobe it would have to cover the whole court; The Jordan Rules was designed to stop his penetration and mid-range game. His three was not the best I've ever seen. They could Zone Kobe, but then he'd hit from three. Then they could play a man and let him penetrate. Or they could double and triple and let him penetrate or kick it to Fish, Payton, Rush, George or Walton who would be wide open on the perimeter. He is too all around to try and design an effective defense. Not to mention Kobe has better players on his team so you have to focus on them too. You can't ignore the other talent on the Laker such as Shaq and design a defense solely for Kobe, you would get slaughtered. It is impossible to design one for Kobe while he is on the Lakers.
Now when you look at the two teams Tarkus you see that the defense of "Jordan was alone" is not true. Look at it this way, Pippin the one year he left was MVP, he lead the Bulls in scoring, steals, blocks and rebounds. He also started in the All-Star game starting line up and he lead the Bulls to a title, this was without Jordan. Pippin is also one of the Fifty Greatest Players of All time. So if that is alone just in the fact the he had Pippin then that is great, but that is most definitely not alone in any way. Jordan also had Rodman who averaged like 20 rebounds per game one season, only The Stilt did that. He had Steve Kerr, Tony Kucoch, Bill Paxson, Horace Grant, Hodges (I forget his first name I think it is Curt or Todd or something like that. But in any case he was like Peja or Ray Allen in the three point contest he set the record for straight threes in the contest. He also won it 3 or 4 years in a row), Bill Cartwright, and Phil Jackson as a coach. That is not alone, than is some good company right there. In reality the Lakers had a better team in that they had Shaq, Kobe, Horry, Fisher, Fox, Madsen (Now on the T'Wolves) etc. Just Shaq, Kobe Horry and fisher is enough to score like 80 points per game.
Kobe is better.
Brian, I like your signature. And as to your opinion, I believe MJ on thsi, he says Kobe is close, Kobe is better.
I like debates about players but I also don't want to diss someones favorite player.....
So without trying to tear anyones game down, I'll just say this comparison is unfair to Kobe. There is no one who's close enough to be compared to MJ. Maybe down the road that statement may need to be ammended but not at this time...
& one more thing to Enoch about using Salley's comments as proof....
If he says you can't say MJ was a better defender cuz nowadays you can't put an elbow on a player, reverse that & say Bryant has a free ride on offense. MJ would have guys hanging on him, hooking him, holding onto his jersey etc.
MJ was a superior ball handler, especially in traffic (where he was most of every game) & was known as AIR for exactly that reason. & if anyone wants to see a 1 on 5, check out the playoff game with the vaunted Celtics when he dropped 63 on 'em. & this was with the Celtics knowing all they had to do was stop MJ.
Besides that, the Celts lineup didn't have the likes of a Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace, Rashheed Wallace, etc. Those were Hall of Famers & top flight defenders & he did the majority of those points in their face, not against 1 defender out at the 3 point line...
It's obvious you're young & enamored with Kobe, Enoch. That's fine except you make your argument as tho MJ played in George Mikans era.
Players have not gotten faster since MJs time. Hell, in this present league, an old MJ was averaging over 20 a game.
The defense is better nowadays??? You gotta be ****tin' me..
Since you like to bring up AI "breaking MJs ankles" highlite, let me ask you...Do you know how many years MJ was in the league when that happened??? & can you explain how AI routinely "breaks ankles" around the league & including, I might add, more than once with your favorite player??
No player has the success alone in a team sport & Pippen was crucial to that success. Don't imply Kobe would be so much better without Shaq. that's an argument with nothing but supposition behind it. Right now, Bryant plays Robin to Shaqs Batman....It's the way it is....Get used to it.
Arguing what the future holds is useless. Stick with the facts....
Shawn...it's very clear cut to me. How many MVP's does Kobe have? He's been to the finals three times (four now), and all three Shaq has been the man. I don't want to diminish Kobe with this, because he is my favorite player in the game today because of how good he is...but he's just not at MJ's level. Nobody can prove that he is right now anyway's. Yes, he has put on some amazing shows over the years, but how many of those shows were due to Shaq having foul trouble? A ton.
The book will be open after Michael when someone takes a franchise from the rock bottom and builds it into a complete dynasty while dominating in the process.
Enoch...appreciate it, but have you seen the Lakers record when Kobe play's and Shaq doesn't? I don't know the exact record, but I know it's under .500 and not too impressive. What makes Kobe so good is how he feeds off Shaq, and Shaq feeds off him. Michael didn't feed off anybody, people fed off him.
The fact of the matter is you could basically put any top guard with Shaq and they'd still be winning championships. Does that mean they are all on Kobe's level? Absolutely not. Kobe is head and shoulders above any guard today. The bottom line is Shaq is too good, and all Shaq needs is a solid guard. Having the best guard and most skilled player in basketball today is a complete bonus.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast, residents in Bay St. Louis, Miss., still are working on the recovery effort. The community's high school suffered extensive damage, and not everything has been repaired. "We have all of the buildings open for the kids, and that's what's important," said Marca Alexander, Bay St. Louis High School principal. Efforts to rebuild the high school became the focus of a documentary filmed, written and produced by students in Hoover High's video production and journalism program. Called "Pieces of Paradise, Rebuilding Bay St. Louis," the documentary is among four nominees in the Public Affairs Programs - Specials category in the 38th annual Emmy Awards for the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Winners will be announced Sept. 8. The Hoover documentary is competing against programs developed by WKYC, Channel 3 in Cleveland and WFYI, a PBS station in Indianapolis. Seven of the eight Hoover students -- all graduates -- and their teachers will have a small reunion at the awards ceremony in Cleveland. They would love to be joined by Alexander and others from Bay St. Louis, but that won't be possible. It's a long trip, and it's homecoming weekend, Alexander said. So she'll be rooting for the Hoover students from afar. "Those kids did a remarkable job on their documentary, and it just touched the hearts of our community," Alexander said. How it Started Shortly after Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast two years ago, Hoover students adopted Bay St. Louis High as a place to help. They worked with Jackson High School and other area high schools to raise more than $28,000. In March 2006, eight seniors in the Hoover program spent spring break at Bay St. Louis and collected 16 hours of filmed interviews that were used to make the film. About 400 people watched the film in Bay St. Louis, said Amanda Breckenridge, who handled public relations for the school. "You could have heard a pin drop, it was so poignant," she said. Alexander added: "There wasn't a dry eye in the house." In the Competition The film also aired daily on Channel 11, a cable access channel used by the North Canton City Schools. Those airings qualified the film for Emmy competition, said Tom Wilson, a teacher in the Hoover program. (The documentary also aired on PBS Channels 45-49.) The documentary already has one student Emmy award for directing. It's the second time Hoover students have competed for a regional Emmy with professional television stations. Two years ago, "Hometown Heroes: The Story of North Canton" was nominated. "We kind of like being the underdog going against the big guys," Wilson said of the Emmy nominations. "It's fun to be in that position." The students are surprised and excited to be nominated. "We're honored more than anything," said Brittany Wasko, who helped produce, write and narrate the film. She is attends Kent State University. Canton Repository


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Jimmy Garoppolo has resumed throwing and taking drop backs as he rehabilitates from a major knee injury that derailed his first full season as San Francisco's starting quarterback
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Jimmy Garoppolo has resumed throwing and taking drop backs as he rehabilitates from a major knee injury that derailed his first full season as San Francisco's starting quarterback.
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He was rewarded with a five-year, $137.5 million contract that offseason to be San Francisco's franchise quarterback only to go down with the season-ending ACL injury in a Week 3 loss at Kansas City last season.
"I think initially probably was the hardest part, the acceptance of everything," he said. "The first couple weeks, really, you can't put any weight on it with the meniscus and all that stuff. Probably the first month or two was the worst. But, after that, you get running and everything and you start to feel like yourself again."
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A constant or persistent cause of annoyance, frustration, or trouble. My professor was an environmental activist when he was younger. Apparently, he was quite a thorn in the oil companies' sides at the time. My little brother is such a thorn in my side—he always wants to do stuff with me, especially when I'm trying to hang out with my friends. This project has turned into a real thorn in our side.
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a thorn in someone's side (or flesh)a source of continual annoyance or trouble.
A thorn in the side comes from the biblical book of Numbers (33:55): 'those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell'. A thorn in the flesh quotes 2 Corinthians 12:7: 'And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure'.


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It's hard to get genuinely excited about things these days. We're all so jaded. Most anything I get truly excited about usually involves dinner.
But a comedic off-Broadway musical about the Mormon faith from the same people that brought you "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut"? Holy smokes, my fanboy cortex is fully engaged. From Variety:
A new tuner from "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" composer-lyricist Robert Lopez is on tap for the 2010-11 season at Off Broadway's New York Theater Workshop.
Subject matter is being kept under wraps, but it seems a sure bet the project will turn out to be the tuner about Mormons on which the three creatives have been collaborating for some time.
Let's ignore for a moment that Variety writers refer to musicals as "tuners," because that makes me angry. Instead, let us focus on the goodness. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have collaborated on two musical films: "South Park" and "Team America." Both were comedic milestones. They're the only people on Earth who can get me to see a musical in any form.
And, if you know your "South Park," you know the duo already created an episode that manages to both savage and defend the Mormon faith in equal measure. It's a flawless episode, and if the musical matches it in quality, we're in for some big love.
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Income and expenditure of War Child
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Things couldn't have looked bleaker back in 2008 for Guillermo Umberto Domínguez.
A construction worker originally from Ecuador, he was unemployed and struggling to survive in what was the beginning of Spain's grueling economic crisis. His wife, a Spaniard, was pregnant, but he only had €400 ($520) a month left over after paying rent. He needed a job, a very low cost of living, and a nearby school for his children.
Today, Mr. Domínguez and his family are comfortably ensconced in the tiny village of Rioseco de Soria, which is located about 100 miles north of Madrid and has fewer than 100 regular inhabitants. Rioseco is about 10 minutes away from a highway, across breathtaking, but rough, lonely, and cold Castilian ochre flatlands perched in the mountains. The scenery is dotted by crumbling towers and castles and forest patches surrounded by farmland.
Between the cheap rent that the municipality offered and the private construction job he was offered, Domínguez now nets as much as €1,000 ($1,300) a month. His children, a small child and a teenager from his previous marriage in Ecuador, are enrolled in local schools.
And most important for Rioseco, the Domínguez family's presence is helping the village stop its steady population drain.
In what could be one of the few silver linings of the economic crisis gripping Spain and the European periphery, the ongoing economic pain has slowed a decades-long flow of rural dwellers to the cities, experts say, and has made country life more viable. While many are still leaving, increasingly others are also coming – and in many cases returning – to the countryside, whether to retire, as a weekend destination, or as a cost-cutting solution for professionals who work in cities.
"The same number of people that are leaving are arriving. Rural life is recovering because the newcomers are in effect neutralizing the effect of a rapidly aging population," says Benjamín García Sanz, a rural sociology expert at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "That is, they are not increasing the population, but replacing it. And that is a huge achievement."
Population trends
Spain has been losing rural population for decades, an old problem that deeply affects all European countries.
As industrialization took hold across the Continent, Europe saw its rural dwellers pull up roots to find new opportunities within the cities, draining the countryside of its residents. Northern European countries like Britain and Germany lost their core rural population long ago, while the so-called urban exodus came later to southern European countries, in conjunction with their delayed industrialization. In Spain, industrialization took hold after its civil war, which ended in 1939. By 2000, Spain had shed most of its rural population.
But while their populations have dwindled, rural territories still make up a majority of the European Union and play a corresponding role in the EU economy.
Rural regions cover 57 percent of the EU and hold 24 percent of its population. When including "semirural" areas adjacent to cities, the coverage increases to 91 percent with 59 percent of the population. Rural and intermediate regions account for almost half of the economy, and supply more than half the jobs in the EU, according to the latest EU Commission report on rural development, published in December 2012.
Reversing the flow
As such, Europe for decades has implemented policies to buoy rural development. Initially, most of the efforts were directed at supporting agriculture; but with the new century, policies have increasingly moved to boost alternative economic development, especially in semirural areas.
France is at the forefront of policy efforts to support rural life, followed by Italy and Spain. Ireland and Spain stand out for their raw rural population increase over the past decade, although net migration to rural and intermediate areas has consistently increased in Western Europe, while decreasing in Eastern Europe. The share of children under age 15 continues to decrease, while the share of people over 65 is stabilizing.
Although "rural life will never be what it used to be," Dr. García says, net population growth is no longer plunging, and in some places it has stabilized or even started growing.
In all, Europe committed nearly €100 billion ($130 billion) from local, country, and EU resources to rural development through a five-year program ending in 2013, 18 percent of which goes to nonagricultural and quality-of-life rural development, from tourism and infrastructure to high-speed Internet, training, and repopulation.
"It is these more targeted schemes which are vital for boosting new opportunities in rural areas, not only in agriculture," says Roger Waite, EU Commission spokesman for Agriculture and Rural Development.
A silver lining in the economic crisis?
But if European policies began to reverse the flow of urban immigration, Europe's economic crisis – which hit Spain when the real estate bubble burst in 2008 – kicked the reversal into overdrive.
The crisis has been devastating to Spain, both in the cities and in the countryside. The Spanish economy remains in recession. The International Monetary Fund forecast in mid-April that Spain's economy would contract a further 1.6 percent in 2013 and only grow 0.7 percent in 2014. Unemployment, rapidly approaching 27 percent, is expected to remain above 25 percent for years. Almost a quarter of Spaniards are below the poverty line, with an annual income of less than €7,300 ($9,500). More than a million families are without any source of income.
But rural economies were less exposed to the economic crisis, and thus the impact of the housing bubble's bursting has been blunted. Years of policy-driven initiatives and investments to improve services are also paying off now that the economic downturn has made country life more appealing, even if its appeal is ultimately driven by a lack of alternatives.
"The crisis intensifies these trends," says García, who in 2011 published the results of a comprehensive study on emerging rural trends and their challenges. "People return to towns because the cost of living is cheaper and there are no jobs in the cities. The number of people wanting to come to towns is increasing, even if in net terms the numbers are marginal."
And while the situation is far from rosy, those living in population centers with fewer than 100 people increased nearly 13 percent over the past 10 years in Spain and decreased only slightly in population centers with fewer than 5,000. More people have relocated from cities to towns in the past 15 years than the other way around.
The numbers, assembled by Spain's official census agency, are incomplete because the Spanish Census, like the US Census, only takes official residences into account. That means people with two homes – often one in the city and one in a more rural area – are not fully counted. But regardless, García says, the crisis is surely working mostly in favor of rural-region populations.
And the trend is not confined to Spain. The countries hit hardest by the crisis are witnessing an increased flow from cities to the countryside, especially in Greece and Portugal. Employment in rural areas started increasing in 2011 predominantly in the nonagricultural sector, according to the EU Commission, and preliminary studies suggest the trend continued in 2012.
Careful growth
European-funded programs, channeled through so-called LEADER projects, are a lifeline for both towns and people, Rioseco and Domínguez, for example. It's a bottom-up approach in which local communities become involved in their own development, meeting crucial goals with very little expenditure.
Rioseco, for example, identified its need for more housing to accommodate new families. So it renovated the old residences for the doctor and teacher, abandoned years before, with the help of local, Spanish, and European funds.
The funds bring work, but more important, they bring people. The village determined that it would only rent to those who met specific criteria: people who could fill its limited job vacancies – one of them for a construction worker like Domínguez – and who had children to attend its school. Without enough students, schools are shut down, and without schools, towns are condemned to slowly disappear.
But in Domínguez – one of three people who moved to the village with their families – Rioseco found an excellent fit. He is very happy, and Rioseco is able to keep its school thanks to families like his who were attracted by low costs. And the multiplier effect means that the town, and those that surround it, are now all benefiting from its resurgence.
The result is positive for rural life, even if it's hard to measure. Both public and private efforts to jump-start rural life are more attractive now.
"Ten years ago, being from a town had negative connotations, but the paradigm has changed since and now it's positive to be rooted to a town," García says.
A long road
Success is not guaranteed, either for Rioseco or for rural entrepreneurial efforts like La Estación. The balance is fragile and obstacles are numerous. But projects like these are ultimately the best chance of survival for Europe's rural areas.
Internet forums are riddled with messages of desperate families and jobless youths in cities seeking any job, any place, and just about under any circumstances. These individuals are precisely the kind of newcomers that communities don't want because they carry a high risk of desertion. Dozens of upstart, utopian ideas of repopulating never get off the ground because often people offer their labor, not capital.
Numerous associations are also trying to filter through all that desperation to support more sustainable efforts and to bring together people more apt to make a long-term commitment to communities and projects starving for them.
Domínguez and his family have no plans to leave. They live a safe and secure life, and the kids are getting a good education, some of it in English because Rioseco was able to get funding for a part-time bilingual teacher, a privilege for many in Spain.
"I have tons of friends who would come immediately if there was a job here and cheap housing," he says. But there is none.
Soon Rioseco will have to find new families because children are moving on to high school. There's no plan yet, and it will likely depend on available jobs. At least for now, residents have managed to repopulate and rejuvenate their town, to survive.
Country life gets lonely and can be a hornet's nest as Rioseco's residents can affirm.
"But we love it here," Domínguez says. "The crisis isn't over, but as a father I prefer to spend it here than in a city."


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Romeo Montillano appears to be an individual of perplexing intellect and moxie. The San Diego County man was wanted as a suspect in a December robbery of a Chula Vista Kmart. He allegedly stole some electronics, and then got in a fight in the store parking lot with an employee before fleeing.
Montillano spent last weekend in jail. But he wasn't there because of a manhunt, or the work of a CSI team. Seems he'd applied for the Police Department entrance exam. The cops noticed his name. On the day of the test, Montillano signed in, and was promptly arrested.
A police spokesman says as Montillano was being taken into custody, he asked aloud if he'd still be allowed to take the exam. Well, no -- and when he asked if he could come back later, it was apparent this was a man of "Forrest Gumpian" proportion: challenged, yet undaunted.
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Clearly, this is a man we should keep an eye on, once he makes his $110,000 bail, that is. Not since the CEOs of the auto industry traveled to Capitol Hill in private charter planes to plead for handouts have we seen such bravado.
Montillano is clearly cut from the same cloth as Senate leaders. He calls to mind the majority party that loads a stimulus package with pork, and the minority who claim the same policies that emptied our national coffers will somehow now right the ship.
Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Illinois just lost a governor who's the king of men in denial about their transgressions. If Rod Blagojevich jacked a Walmart, then tussled with security in the parking lot, you can bet his next move would be an application into law enforcement.
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My Macbook air has a keyboard issue, the Z key does not work except upon startup where it becomes stuck for several seconds.
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BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) � Police in Bedford, N.H., say less than two months after an anesthesiologist and his wife were attacked in their home by an unknown man, the wife was found dead and he was found unconscious.
Police found Sonia Quesada dead Monday when a family member called police asking them to check in on the couple at a relative's condominium. The family member said several attempts to contact Sonia and Eduardo Quesada were unsuccessful, and that both hadn't shown up at appointments scheduled Monday.
Eduardo Quesada was hospitalized; his condition wasn't immediately known. Police Chief John Bryfonski said there was no visible sign of trauma to the couple. He said a large amount of prescription medication was found.
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Marseglia Group is the latest Italian firm to get an official nod of approval from the Albanian government for an ambitious wind project. The company's Ital Green Energy has permission to develop a 234 MW wind farm in Albania's Lezha region, with Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha turning up to witness the signing of the contract in January. Just a month earlier, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi joined Berisha for a contract signing ceremony held by Italy's Moncada Energy Group for its 500 MW wind farm, approved by the Albanian government early last year for development on the Karaburun peninsula. Two further projects, with a combined capacity of 328 MW, are planned for Albania by Italian firm Italgest and Swiss firm EnergyMixx.
The growing interest in Albania wind power being shown by Italian firms results from a bilateral treaty that allows electricity imported from wind and other renewable energy plant in Albania to benefit from Italy's attractive renewable energy incentive mechanism, which pays some of the highest rates for wind generated electricity in Europe (previous story). Although Albania is in dire need of more generation, the grid is weak, supply is prone to frequent blackouts, and electricity prices are low, making the bilateral agreement vital for wind project viability, says Antonio Pecchia of Ital Green Energy.
Under the agreement, the bulk of electricity eventually generated by Italian built wind farms will be exported to Italy, Pecchia says. But some of it will be left for use in Albania. "Our sensation is that the substation that we will build for the project will also create greater stability in the dispatching of electricity [in Albania]," he says.
It will be some time, though, before the electricity starts to flow. Pecchia admits he has no idea when the 234 MW wind farm will come online. While the Albanian government has granted all necessary permits for the EUR 1 billion plan, what is still missing is the Italian government's go-ahead for a 1000 MW undersea electricity transmission cable linking the two countries.
Moncada is also arranging to ship most of the electricity from its 500 MW Albania development back to Italy, via a 400 kV, 500 MW undersea cable spanning 154 kilometres from Babica in Albania to Brindisi in southern Italy. Moncada already has approval for its cable and expects to open its construction site this year. It estimates that it will take about four years to complete the wind farm. The cable link is expected to take three years to build once a general contractor is chosen for that portion of project, says the company.


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The film is Muschietti`s follow-up to 2017`s critically acclaimed and massive worldwide box office hit "IT", which grossed over $700 million globally. Both redefining and transcending the genre, "IT" became part of the cultural zeitgeist as well as the highest-grossing horror film of all time.
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SAN JOSE — One person died, and another was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, police said, after a car crashed about a mile away from Highway 87 early Sunday morning.
The driver of the vehicle involved in the 3:35 a.m. wreck also was booked on suspicion of manslaughter after the crash on Branham Lane at Snell Avenue, according to San Jose police Sgt. Heather Randol. It was not immediately known what caused the crash or what kind of vehicle the person was driving.
A passenger in the car was taken by ambulance to a hospital and pronounced dead, Randol said. A second passenger also was hospitalized with injuries that were not specified. It was not known immediately whether those injuries were life-threatening.
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New IAH terminal will include high-profile chefs' restaurants
A new terminal in Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport opening later this month will feature food from the region's high-profile chefs as part of a $152 million south concourse development.
The new space for United Airlines' new Terminal B south concourse will have 15,000 square feet of concession to accommodate United Express regional flights and will feature larger gate-lounge area, 17 food, beverage and retail concessions and a central passenger lounge with tarmac views, airline officials said Monday.
United Airlines is contributing $95 million to the project and the city of Houston is paying $57 million, said United spokeswoman Mary Clark.
The big names in the new facility may be familiar for Bravo's Top Chef fans. First-time airport concession 3rd Bar Oyster & Eating House owned by chef Bryan Caswell and beverage director Bill Floyd will be in the new terminal. The vendors bid for spots in the terminal, and the Houston Airport System will receive 10 percent of their rent, Clark said.
In 2008, Bon Appétit magazine named Caswell and Floyd's seafood restaurant Reef, in Houston's Midtown, the No. 1 seafood restaurant in the U.S., and Caswell was named among Food & Wine magazine's Top 10 Best New Chefs in 2009. Caswell has been seen on the Food Network's Next Iron Chef and on Bravo's Top Chef.
"We're excited to bring 3rd Bar from Reef Restaurant to United's new terminal at Bush Intercontinental Airport," Caswell said in a statement. "We look forward to offering expertly prepared seafood from one of Houston's high-profile restaurants to travelers in Terminal B."
The Fruteria, serving Mexican food all day and fruit tequila cocktails at night, is also a first food vendor for the airport. It was developed by San Antonio chef Johnny Hernandez, who has been featured in Travel & Leisure, Southern Living and has appeared on Bravo's Top Chef.
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"Travelers want the same high-quality dining and shopping experiences they have at home, and we selected the new Terminal B concessions with that in mind," said Kate Gebo, United's vice president of corporate real estate.


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Americans' previous bright outlook on leaders resolving the year-end fiscal cliff has plunged in recent days, and a new Gallup poll suggests that they place most of their early blame on Republican leaders in Congress.
Only 26 percent of voters approve of the job Congressional Republicans are doing in handling fiscal cliff negotiations, down 3 percent from a week ago. At the same time, President Barack Obama's approval rating on the fiscal cliff has soared from 48 percent a week ago to 54 percent today.
Only 50 percent of respondents think that there will be some kind of deal in the final few days to avert the cliff. Forty-eight percent now think that the U.S. will go over the cliff.
Americans' optimism on that question has plummeted 15 points in the past week. Here's a look:
The poll follows the failure last week of House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B," which failed to garner enough Republican support to earn a floor vote last week.
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First they used the juice of chewing tobacco, then mud made of water and dirt from the playing field, to remove the sheen from new baseballs so pitchers could get a better grip following the death of Ray Chapman from an errant pitch in the 1920s.
Russell Aubrey "Lena" Blackburne, a coach with Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics during the 1930s, heard some umpires griping about that nasty tobacco juice they had to apply to the balls.
As the story goes, Blackburne later was fishing on a Delaware River tributary in New Jersey when he scooped up some mud from the creek. He tried it out on a shiny new ball -- an experiment that would alter the course of our National Pastime.
The mud, described as "smooth and creamy, but with a fine grit," worked better than the juice!
Today, "Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud" is still used throughout Major League Baseball to rough up the six or seven dozen new balls prepared for every game. All minor league clubs and a few colleges use the mud, too. In fact, a team will go through about three or four pounds of it every season.
It has been reported that pitchers seem to like the balls dark, especially ones "well done." They claim the brownish texture makes it harder for batters to figure out a ball's rotation.
"Nolan (Ryan) liked 'em black," noted one clubhouse manager referring to the all-time major league strikeout pitcher.
Blackburne died in the 1960s and a close friend took over the task of "harvesting" the mud from its secret Delaware River Basin location. Now, that friend's grandson carries on the tradition.
Companies have tried to offer their own rubbing mud over the years. But in the words of the grandson, "The other mud doesn't come close."
"Baseball Has a Dirty Little Secret: Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud -- NBC News (October 2014)
"All MLB Baseballs Get Treatment From South Jersey Mud" -- Newsworks (WHYY News) Web Site (October 2011)
"Mud Plays Part in Game of Baseball" -- ESPN (April 2010)
"Harvesting Baseball's 'Magic Mud'" -- CNN (October 2009)
"Secret Dirt's Pivotal Role In Baseball" --National Public Radio (April 2009)
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