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What are we waiting for?
With less than a 2 % market share, e-books are still to come in Denmark.
The year 2011 saw a small breakthrough for e-books in Denmark. However, we are still waiting for the big sales figures to kick in. While we are waiting, some questions are vital. Who will drive the Danish e-book market? How to deal with pricing? What kinds of business models will suit the digital book market? And how can we embrace the new possibilities?
In Denmark, we have followed the US market closely in order to get some indications about the increase of the e-book market worldwide. Knowing that we are far behind, it has been essential for us to see what is driving the e-book market abroad. We haven't had the Kindle or Amazon.com to kick-start the e-book market in Denmark and other dedicated e-book reading devices haven't been as successful as we could have hoped for. What did start the reading on digital devices were the introduction of the iPad on the Danish market in November 2010 and the significant increase of Smartphones in 2010 and 2011. Hopefully, 2012 will bring more reading devices in the hands of the customers. More importantly, we as publishers have to create more awareness of e-books through more and new products and especially through our marketing campaigns.
Danish e-book retailers are trying to get the sale on its way. Saxo.com, g.dk and riidr.com are all important participants in the development of a Danish language e-book market. So was the introduction of Danish e-books on iBookstore in the last quarter of 2011. It has taken more than a year to get sales fully on their way. In each of the four quarters of 2011, sales figures have only doubled, which has been a little disappointing. Still, it has been a fine entrance for a product that demands that you have a reading device. If the expected increase of reading devices in 2012 will take place the market will continue to expand. The e-books are out there – now we need the readers to grab them. How can we get the readers' attention?
Testing prices, products and marketing
The awareness of e-books is already there. The media's focus on e-books has helped this on its way and might have had a great impact on the consumer. The main topics have been pricing and convenience. At the moment, most new books in Denmark have a 30-40 % lower retail price on e-books than on p-books. Is this the right pricing? Nobody knows. We have to test the market all the time. Some publishers set their prices low, some set them high. We have to find a way for our small territory (5.5 million people) to approach this new market. Testing, testing and testing! Is it possible to make money in a digital world? Newspapers haven't had the greatest experience and the music industry have changed their business model completely – we will also have to change our way of thinking books.
In November 2011 we released the first Danish app-novel. This crime story – Begravelsen (or The Funeral) – is a non-linear narrative made solely for the iPad. The release was met with a lot of publicity and was mentioned throughout the Danish news media. All in all it was a great experience and we learned a lot about the iPad as a platform, about what the readers expect, how to set the price and what skills it takes for the marketing department to promote an app. We did some testing and we will continue to do some testing with ePub3, apps and other digital formats to find out some more about this new world of opportunities. The publishing industry has to deliver what the readers want. Some have already killed the book-app as a new book format because it is too expensive to produce. They might be right – they might be wrong! The testing on different platforms must go on.
The convenience of the digital book has to be the answer to how to make money in a digital market. When you read news and reviews you do it on the internet, you are online and your purchase of a new book will take place simultaneously in the same environment. Marketing in the digital book industry has to adapt. Adds right beside the news and reviews! It has got to be easy. Convenience is key. And if buying an e-book is both easy and problem-free, consumers might be willing to actually pay for it.
Digital books challenge the mindset in publishing
The possibilities of the digital book world are at the moment way ahead of the Danish e-book and app market. Undoubtedly, the hype about digital books has created high expectations for the expansion of a blue ocean adventure for some publishers and frightened some other established publishers. In order to act in this new market you have to be open-minded. But you also have to be focused, pragmatic and wise enough to find your own business model for the present and the future. The digital books are here to stay; now the 'old' publishing world will have to adjust to this new and exciting future.
The ebook Revolution is coming to Denmark this year!
Thank you, Jakob Harden, for this insightful post!
And you´re quite right: the ebook revolution is on the verge of coming to Denmark and when it does, it will change the whole book market and maybe even shift power of distribution from some of the old publishing houses to proactive retailers such as saxo.com and riidr.
Being a fairly new author I cannot say that I have much experience in how the book market works and has worked outside Denmark, but what I can already conclude locally, the publishing houses in Denmark are rigid and narrowminded when it comes to ebooks, but also when it comes to new authors. These two combined will, as I have come to conclude analyzing the industry´s relationship with both the costumers, that is the readers, and the suppliers, that is the authors, explode in the faces of the publishing houses if they do not rethink the way they deal with both of these groups.
Let me elaborate: during the past 20 some years, the publishers have chosen to bet on people that are already well known in the general public, regardless of their ability to write. Public figures such as Hanne Bech Larsen, the former national chief of police, Sidney Lee, a celebraty being famous for nothing but wanting to be famous and lately Frederik Fetterlein, an athlete, who´s book has just been released and is all about how he has had virtually no understanding of private economy, shows very clearly that the publishing houses´ main focus has been the person, not the book. While these have been promoted shamelessly, authors with a clear talent for writing have been shoved into the back room and left to their own marketing efforts´ success. Even well established authors such as Klaus Rifbjerg have been known to sell less than 400 pieces of new releases. Not because their product is rubbish, but because the publishing houses have gone for the quick and short term profit, instead of building up literature as a provider of ideas and values.
But even more interesting, these publishing houses have not only disregarded the voices of author, they have chosen the strange path of not listening to the demands of the readers. Not many days ago, saxo.com posted a simple question on its facebook page: would you buy the new book by Fetterlein?
Ususally posts on saxo.com´s facebook page will result in two or three responses, but this particular post was met with enough responses to fill a short story - and that even within just a few minutes! None of them were positive!
So much for the relations between the publishing houses and both authors and readers...
My other point is evenly important: the publishing houses´ understanding and handling of ebooks is, simply put, to use the easy way. Instead of putting work into the publishing of ebooks, they simply take the printed versions and put them out as ebooks. While this is, in itself, a good and sound business concept, they fail to percieve the perspectives of ebooks. Why only make ebook copies of printed books, when you have the chance to try out new authors here and now on the general public with minimal costs, because there is no need to design and set up a printed book and print it?
I was among the first to publish ebooks using the saxo.com selfpublishing platform and as I write these words, my two children´s book are at the very top of sales on the saxo.com site. "Nikolines sure tæ´r," (http://www.saxo.com/dk/item/per-holbo-nikolines-sure-taer-e-bog.aspx) a story for kindergarten children is right now the 8th most popular ebook for children and "Prinsesse Lila og Prinsen på Den Vrede Hest," (http://www.saxo.com/dk/item/per-holbo-prinsesse-lila-og-prinsen-paa-den-vrede-hest-e-bog.aspx) a fairy tale for early school children, has in 20 days sale on the site reached to being the 16th most popular ebook for children.
The latter was sent to a well known publishing house early in november 2011, but I have yet to recieve a reply from them. In the meantime it has shown it´s worth the effort to bet your money on.
Had they chosen to use the ebook as a testing ground for only mine but other new authors´ books, they might have had the extremely low cost momentum to bring them to a printed version with new authors in their stable, so to speak.
I foresee, that the first publishing house to seriously give new authors the chance to go public with their works in ebook formats, will be the house with the best chance of surviving the coming ebook revolution in Denmark.
Per Holbo, author
My author page on saxo.com: http://www.saxo.com/dk/author/per-holbo.aspx
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By Jeannette D. Jones
There's a legendary world in Deaf culture lore. It's like Earth but it's for people of the eye, so they call it Eyeth (get it? EARth, EYEth). In this world, people listen with their eyes with the comfort of being typical, just the way life is, unlike the existence of a Deaf person on Earth, heavily mediated through hearing devices, pads of paper, interpreters, lip reading, and gestures.
I got a small peek into what Eyeth might look like a year and a half ago, when I attended the biennial National Association of the Deaf (NAD) meeting on a sweltering weekend in July in Louisville, KY. When I got there, DeaFestival, a day of arts and fun, was just launching. My goal was to catch as much music and time with musicians as possible, especially with the Deaf rock band Beethoven's Nightmare. And my job for the day was "listening" (LISTEN-EYES in American Sign Language).
When I stepped across the crosswalk of the streets bordering the convention center, I crossed the threshold into a Deaf world. Everyone around me was signing. Every restaurant in the vicinity had a pad of paper on its counter, a few adventuresome servers had learned some signs. I have been in Deaf environments before, for example at the local Deaf school. But this was different, it was like a small town with adults conducting business in ASL.
A break in the afternoon allowed me to approach the drummer of the band, "Let's talk." He says "Ok." And I'm whisked into a conversation about music with total strangers. A woman about my age said she's never liked music, she never understood it, and it wasn't fun to try to lip-read bands. Her friend said, "Oh, you need to learn how to feel it. I love music! It's like a drug!" She's open to being convinced. All afternoon I followed the drummer, Bob Hiltermann, around the vendor booths of the NAD meeting, talking to people about music. Another woman was "forced" to take music classes in her mainstream education. Many Deaf people haven't had opportunities to experience music so it is nothing; others love it and over and over again I heard, "Once you connect what you're feeling with what's going on on-stage, it's amazing!"
I turned to the bass player of Beethoven's Nightmare, Ed Chevy, "Let's talk." We sit down. It is 104 degrees under the tent. He tells me again how much they want to reach out to their Deaf culture with music. Chevy explains that in Deaf culture there is a rich tradition of story-telling and mime, but not so much a musical culture. Beethoven's Nightmare wants to change that, opening the door of possibility of a musical experience, but first they have to disassociate the notion that this experience is going to be LISTEN-EARS like it is for a hearing person. For them their Deaf musical experience is feeling the beat along with sign language and movement.
Later as evening fell, everyone gathered under the tent for the music. The young Deaf rapper, Sean Forbes, came out waving his arms, getting the crowd excited. Deaf teens and college-aged kids flocked around the stage, screaming and cheering, enthusiastically waving their hands and pounding the air with the beat. He raps in American Sign Language, performing vocals in English over his signs. Forbes's songs are suffused with his experience as a Deaf person. Creating a bridge between the Deaf and hearing worlds is a driving motivation in his work. He is an inspiration for American Deaf youth, who sport his fan T-shirts that say "I'm Deaf!" in the bold letters from one his songs. In Forbes, Deaf youth see an artistic world that does not exclude them.
While waiting for Beethoven's Nightmare to get situated for their set, the emcee called for people to come up to the stage to share their memories of being at Gallaudet University, the only Deaf liberal arts college in the world, with the members of the band: "You know we Deaf folks share our stories to preserve our history and preserve our culture, and this is a way of documenting our past." One woman excitedly came to the stage, and recounted her memory: "I was there in 1977. I knew Ed…they were there for my freshman, sophomore, junior years. They were the best! So great!" Another couple sitting near me also shared about their time at Gallaudet with the band members, telling of how the band played often on Friday nights, for their fellow Deaf students who danced along. Hiltermann distinguishes their group as the only Deaf rock band, describing what they do as "rock and roll infused with American Sign Language." With this statement Hiltermann is calling on us to consider that ASL is part of the music—not just a text that stands alone, nor a translation of preexisting English lyrics. In their performance, a vocalist sings in English, while signers on stage perform the song in ASL.
Thinking about my day in Eyeth, I am challenged, as a hearing person, to reevaluate how I experience music. I feel the bass pounding deep in my core. I see the music, the lyrics, moving my hands with the beat, performing signs with the chorus along with the rest of the audience. My intersection with a Deaf experience of music has made visible certain multi-sensory aspects of my own hearing as a hearing person that often go unmentioned, and I believe that the binary of the categories of Deaf and hearing becomes are blurred, as we begin to understand the broad spectrum on which musical experiences can lie, somewhere between the ears, the eyes, and the body.
Jeannette D. Jones is a doctoral student in historical musicology at Boston University. Her essay, "Imagined Hearing: Music-making in Deaf Culture" will appear in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies. She has also blogged at the new blog, Music and Disability at the AMS and SMT, the official blog of Music and Disability Studies at the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory.
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I contacted the Mo... (Expand)
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The Morphy Richards Insta Kettle has two major faults:
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The annual chorus is in fine voice. "The Hawks," goes the full-throated refrain, "won't get any better until they find a superstar [meaning LeBron James or Kobe Bryant] or a true center [like Dwight Howard]."
And there's no rebuttal. Sure, the Hawks would be better with LeBron/Kobe/Dwight. Any team would. But the cold truth is that the Hawks won't find such a transcendent talent unless Dame Fortune smiles an outrageous smile. That's the way of the NBA.
"You don't trade for superstars," says Rick Sund, the Hawks' general manager. "You draft them."
The lottery is, by design and definition, pure luck. The Hawks were participants in 2003 (LeBron's year, when their No. 8 pick was made by Milwaukee as part of the Glenn Robinson trade) and 2004 (Dwight's year, when they settled for Josh Childress with the sixth pick), and both times went unblessed by the ping-pong balls. There's no strategy involved. It's the bounce of ball in a hopper.
A little exercise: Take one player – any one, from Josh Smith to Speedy Claxton – off the Hawks and replace him with LeBron/Kobe/Dwight. Know where the Hawks would be? Preparing for Game 1 of the NBA finals. This is a very good team that lacks only one great player, but that's a massive lack.
We tire of the NBA's blather about its stars, but nobody can deny that it's a star's game. And stars are hard to get. Of the 15 men who comprised the 2009 All-NBA teams, 13 were top 10 draftees – the exceptions are Kobe Bryant, taken No. 13 when high schoolers weren't yet the rage, and Tony Parker, who arrived from France as the 28th pick in 2001 – and 10 went in the top five.
Only three of the 15 have changed teams since their NBA debuts. (The three: Shaquille O'Neal, Pau Gasol and Chauncey Billups.) Moral of our story: If you find a star, you keep him. And if you have a chance at one and you whiff … well, you wind up being the Hawks, forever chasing the game.
They couldn't have had James in 2003 or Howard in 2004 because they didn't win the lottery. But they had a shot at Chris Paul (second team All-NBA) in 2005, and they had another at Brandon Roy (also second team) the next year. To harp on those dire drafts is to flog a horse deader than Man 'o War, but the Hawks haven't yet — and might never — outrun those lapses.
They could have had a backcourt of Paul and Joe Johnson way back in 2005. No, they wouldn't have landed in the 2007 lottery and wouldn't have Al Horford, but they'd have made the Eastern Conference finals by now and still had Mike Bibby's money to spend on a big man.
Billy Knight deserves credit for building a 69-loss roster into a robust entity, but the best player he acquired — Johnson — hasn't made the All-NBA team. Twice Knight had the opening to draft a star, and twice he took a guy named Williams. (Though not, alas, Deron Williams.) And even now, as the Hawks come off their finest season in a decade and Sund seeks to model his club after the starless 2003-2004 Pistons, those failures are the horse that keeps on dying.
June 1st, 2009
3:45 pm
That is very true. You either draft superstars or you pay millions of dollars to obtain them. I understand he isnt a superstar but Joe has been great for this franchise. Do you see the hawks trading Joe Johnson at the deadline next year or actually will try and resign him?
June 1st, 2009
3:45 pm
Well said, go get a star Sund!!!
June 1st, 2009
3:47 pm
I could not agree more …. that's why last year, I said they should have offered the sun, moon and a couple of stars for the #1 pick and Derrick Rose. Had it been any other team, I'm sure the team would have bitten, but the hometown Chicago Bulls really wanted him.
I can't say I would do the same for Blake Griffith this year, though. It's a guard's league now, and you need the great guard play.
June 1st, 2009
3:49 pm
Man, you're a blogging machine. I love it. Yeah, Billy Knight's work put together a roster good enough to back into the playoffs and somehow take the Celtics to seven games. With a little tweaking, Sund took a step forward. Now, the Hawks seem like they are probably stuck … maybe never to have that ascendant star. Unless, unless Josh Smith can grow into that player. A guy named Williams cannot. But could a guy named Horford?
June 1st, 2009
3:57 pm
I like your stuff and I really appreciate the attention that you keep focusing on the Hawks. But, the Hawks need a player like LeBron, Kobe, or Howard to make the finals? Really? Wow, now that is some cutting edge insight. What team doesn't need that? BTW- Having LeBron, Barkley, Ewing, AI, or the mighty CP3 does not mean that you will win either. So what does that mean? Only super-super stars can win an NBA championship or do you become that once you have won. Carmelo Anthony? Deron Williams? Tracy McGrady? not super super stars? Is Kevin Durant? The story is not over on these Hawks… Marvin, Josh and Al have as much upside as any combo in the league. We need veteran depth and we can make a run. Also, Kevin Garnett changed teams.
June 1st, 2009
4:06 pm
You cannot trade the #1 pick in the NBA so those proposed trades were not possible. The Hawks need a scorer in the draft, one who can get his own shot off. Not a point guard. As long as Joe is the only pseudo-scorer we will see what happened in the playoffs to his numbers. We need more consistent scoring options. We can trade for a usable center for say two years. Trade Marvin. Move Al to strong forward (his natural position). Then we aren't beaten up by teams with real center size.
June 1st, 2009
4:07 pm
Dang Mark,
As soon as you start regaining your credibility, you go and shoot yourself in the foot. My 5 yr. old knows we would be better with Lebron/Kobe/Dwight. I guess anything is better than nothing.
June 1st, 2009
4:21 pm
I only read the caption under the picture on the sports page, but why do we have to keep bringing up the past for the Hawks? We know all this, we know they could have had Chris Paul as a superstar. But why keep dwelling? The future is looking pretty good! We have a star in Joe Johnson. And he is far better than any other star on other teams because he is low key, down to earth, doesn't neet attention, does his job, and doesn't complain. He should be the one fathers want kids to have as a role model. I don't want a muppet superstar that has to be coddled!
June 1st, 2009
4:26 pm
Stop your shoulda, wouda, coulda, and deal with reality, the Hawks are what they are, stop living in the past and concentrate your thoughts and energy on what we should do now to improve the team, who we should draft, or how we can sign and trade to improve the team, what affordable free agents should the Hawks sign, how can we train and make our big men play better both offensively and defensively, how can we coach better and stop running all plays through Johnson, how can we spread the ball around to run plays inside for the big men to score and be there for the offensive rebounds, how we can improve our players' medium range jump shots, how can we reduce the deadly turnovers, find three point shooters. Those are the things the Hawks coaches, players and GM should be discussing and planning for implementation.
June 1st, 2009
4:39 pm
Good article, Mr. Bradley…but very obvious. We all know that the Hawks didn't get Deron Williams or Chris Paul…and that the team would be SO MUCH BETTER with them right now (I don't even want to think about it)
I don't think Roy is better than Joe…but I'd rather have Roy than Shelden Williams (what a terrible pick) or what came of Shelden (Bibby). If you say that the Hawks drafted Paul over Marvin, then the Hawks would not have Marvin OR Horford.
Let's just hope they can get some more "semi-stars"..I guess.
I don't know why any superstars want to come to Atlanta.. the fans bow down to them anytime they show up.
June 1st, 2009
4:40 pm
[...] Why the Atlanta Hawks are still wishing upon a star Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA Give the Hawks the guy on the left and they might be playing the guy on the right for the title. The annual chorus is in fine voice. … See all stories on this topic [...]
June 1st, 2009
4:41 pm
Whoops, I don't know why any superstars DO NOT want to come to Atlanta. My fault!
June 1st, 2009
4:42 pm
How about give the Hornets the guy on the right, and maybe they'll be in the finals as well. Didn't the Hornets draft and trade Kobe for Vlade Divac back in '96? For as much grief as the Hawks get for not taking Chris Paul, the Hornets should get double that for not keeping Kobe. When Chris Paul came out, he had so many questions (height, frame, character issue during the ACC tournement) about his playing ability. Marvin was the consensus best player that year. The year Dwight came out, Billy Knight was trying to move up to grab him (or Okafor) by trading both first round picks, but neither Charlotte or Orlando would move. And as much as I thought Brandon Roy was a good pick for the Hawks, he was nothing more than another Joe Johnson.
June 1st, 2009
4:49 pm
Arghhhhhhhhh! Can't we please just move on? How many different ways can it be said that the Hawks should have drafted Chris Paul?
June 1st, 2009
4:51 pm
I believe that the point Mr. Bradley was trying to make is that POOR MANAGEMENT decisions have doomed the Hawks in the past and he is WARNING current management AND fans not to repeat the past!
But with the current incumbant GM's track record ?????
June 1st, 2009
4:53 pm
Other than AI's Philly team, I've been trying to think of a team that has won the conference without big-time All-Star front-court player. Detroit had Ben Wallace who was the dominant force in their dominating defense. Until CP3 brings a golden trophy to Nawlins (with a front court that made $32M last year vs. the Hawks at around $20M), I find it a little challenging to believe that he would have led us past last year's Celtics or this year's Magic. Unless, of course, CP3 was going to shut down KG or Dwight. And let's not even discuss CP3 vs. Billups… I'm guessing the little man is still having nightmares about that 50+ point loss. Yes, we definitely would have been better (and far more entertaining), but I doubt the trophy shelf would have looked any different.
June 1st, 2009
4:54 pm
If the Hawks want to land a star. They better draft John Wall in the 2010 draft. He's next best thing. Not sure how they will have the opportunity to do that, when they should be good enough to make the playoffs next season… I know wishful thinking. That kid will be wearing a Knicks Jersey in 2010 (can you say Pat Ewing conspiracy all over again).
June 1st, 2009
5:10 pm
Okay, let's say you do 'draft them'. Before you draft them, you must first properly evaluate their attributes and determine who will or won't be a star. The Lakers pursuit of a young Kobe was far more about effective player evaluation than about luck. Our numerous fumbled opportunities to select difference makers (i.e., a #2, a #3, a #5, and a #6 within what a 4-year span) says our system for evaluating players is about as effective as our offensive schema. Don't know if Sund brought along his own player evaluation system, or retained the poor excuse that was in place when he inked the contract last year, but his draft history says it doesn't matter much which is in fact true. If results are any indication, Stevie Wonder would have been as optically astute as have Knight and Sund in critically observing and selecting star talent (love ya Stevie, but there's a reason you leave the driving to others isn't there?).
If we had demonstrated an ability to properly evaluate talent, I'd argue that we – provided we had identified a sure fire star – should make the moves necessary with several 'wanna be star' players we currently have so as to position ourselves to acquire that REAL star in the draft. But we'd blow the pick sure as hell, and be left with a side even less well suited for competing.
Regarding the draft, if our recent past is prologue, we're in deep, deep ….
June 1st, 2009
5:15 pm
Mr. Candace Parker(SW) now plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Williams was BK worst draft pick. The hawks could have had a superstar in that draft, but all they got was a LANDLORD who played like a slumlord.
June 1st, 2009
5:16 pm
Those guards such as Roy, D. Williams, CP3 would far better if they were playing in the East vs playing in the West. Just like the Hawks would have never made the playoffs last season with their record if they were in the West and even this year would easily have been a lower seed had they been in the West. I just think the competition is far more competitive from an individual standpoint in the West than in the East.
June 1st, 2009
5:23 pm
Yep, right on cue. I knew folks would be here harping about 'moving on' and not 'dwelling on the past'. That's the problem, Mark. This is the same franchise who has the longest run of not drafting an All-Star/Pro-Bowl player in North American pro sports (25 years and counting) yet we're supposed to gloss over the fact that we had not one but TWO shots to get a game-changer and blew it? Those blown picks have a direct corolation as to why they couldn't even compete with Cleveland and the Labrons in the second round, much less why we had to sit through nearly a decade of wretched basketball before they finally back-doored into an 8th seed a year ago.
That's what makes being a lifelong Hawk fan so frustrating. We've seen Miami win a world title. We've seen other teams from the expansion era make deep playoff runs. We now see Orlando going to their SECOND NBA Finals. We see all this while our team, whose been here for 41 SEASONS, haven't sniffed a conference finals since Nixon was in office. In the long-term scheme of things, are we really at the point where we're supposed to be doing backflips over 37 and 47-win seasons right now?
My question to you and the rest of Hawk nation is how much longer do we have to wait? How many more years do we have to suffer from blown Babcock and Knight draft picks of the past? When are we going to get our payoff for all the years of watching scrubs like Koncak, Glover, Keefe, Gray, Claxton, Edwards, and Shelden Williams collect millions while countless other teams pass us by, all in the name of the 'process'? How many more Chris Paul commercials we have to sit through before we realize just how bass-ackwards Billy Knight was for 1) passing on him in the first place, and 2) breaking off $25 million to his injury-prone backup a year later, knowing full well that ownership was already having $$$ issues.
I get that they've climbed a long way from the Babcock/Kasten/Kruger/Stotts error (spelled correctly). I get that they advanced to the second round. But if you're satisfied with just that, you may want to talk to a Hawk fan from 1999 or 1988 who watched their teams get stale while the front office blew picks and sat on their hands when the iron was still hot; if you can find any.
June 1st, 2009
5:24 pm
How many teams won less than 35 games in the West vs. the East? Is it because the teams are so good at the top or because they feast on the likes of the Clippers, Thunder and T'Wolves? Well, if the Bucks, Nets and Bobcats played the Clippers, Thunder and T'Wolves, I'd put my mortgage payment on those Eastern teams.
June 1st, 2009
5:28 pm
If Ty Lawson or Eric Maynor falls to the hawks they better draft them. Hope they dont screw up again.
June 1st, 2009
5:33 pm
Yes, Billy's draft gaffes haunt us still. Hard to escape that ghost, but then, some people will always be happy with just making the playoffs every year, and never doing any better than that.
Yeah, two all-star level guards would definitely have gotten us nowhere. Yes, most teams who have won the championship have had a superstar big or something of that ilk. However, I'd rather have two all-star guards and be able to pay money for good solid bigs than have one all-star guard and one guy who is getting paid like one, while not even using the good bigs that we have to the best of their ability.
Welcome to the world of the Hawks….and some of their fans.
June 1st, 2009
5:33 pm
If all the teams in the West were so good how did so many of them end up with great records? Seems to me that the West was pretty weak after the first tier of playoff teams. Didn't the Hawks have a winning record against the West?
June 1st, 2009
5:36 pm
I don't understand EITHER pick. I mean, how can you defend the Marvin Williams pick? Even if you CAN, then you HAVE to condemn the coach immediately.
Our highest pick in who knows how long is STILL THE 4TH OPTION ON OFFENSE!!!
Is it because he was never a talent worthy of that pick, or because Woody doesn't know how to use him?
Pick your poison, I guess….
June 1st, 2009
5:38 pm
A star helps, but reliance on star power alone is a failure in and of itself. There is no denying what teams like the Lakers, Cavaliers, and others have with them, but the reliance on star power alone if a failing strategy for this league or any league. Lebronny just got ousted, not because of his star performance or Dwights for that matter, but for what their respective benches did as a back-up for their star. The Laker's best teams have never been one-man shows; Shaq and Kobe, Magic and Kareem, go back further into those champion teams and it isn't a result of ONE superstar, it's several, and a squad backing them up with enough potential power to step up when necessary (Big Shot Bob every bloody time). Look at the years of A.I. in Philly, and the numbers he put up: nobody doubts what a star power he was and still is, but he always did it alone, never with the proper back-up or strategy to get them that elusive championship. While a superstar would help our ranks, it doesn't make up for a supporting cast which doesn't support, for lack of better terminology. On the chess board of life, there are pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, along with the Queen and King…and the best player uses each piece effectively, not just one….
on a side note: anybody know how much money Cleavland, in association with Nike and whoever else is fronting the cash, spent in the last two years in Advertising? Seems like such a waste to spend all that dough and not see the results of it….diminishing returns is a mug, ninjas….
June 1st, 2009
5:38 pm
Superstars are not just drafted, they are made. We have and offensive system that wants 5 players to average 15 points a game. What star averages 15 points
June 1st, 2009
5:39 pm
….strange, I don't remember US feasting on the Bucks, Nets and Bobcats….is it because they were so tough, or because we weren't as good as we should be?
June 1st, 2009
5:40 pm
Mark, this is something that's the ultimate catch-22 for the Hawks and Hawks fans.
Because I KNOW for a fact, that Al Horford can become a 20-10, or even a 25-15 SUPERSTAR in the next few years, and if the Hawks got Paul, D. Williams, or Brandon Roy, they wouldn't ever have had the chance to draft Horfy.
There is one caveat to Al Horford becoming the guy that I (and you) knows he can be: Mike Woodson.
Horford is a four. He's a power forward. He NEEDS to be playing power forward. NOT center. He will never reach his offensive potential playing center.
But Woodson seems to be immovable on this. I understand, the Hawks don't have a "true" center, so they must rely on Horfy at the five.
But how much better would this team be with Zaza at center, Horfy at pf, Josh Smith at sf, Johnson and Bibby in the backcourt, and then Marvin Williams coming off the bench with Flip to create an amazingly deep second core of players?
This is what the Hawks must do next year. Find a center / power forward who's good for 15 minutes a game as a reserve, so Zaza and Horfy can be on the floor at the same time. Then make Williams, a scorer and defensive liability the new Josh Childress, with Flip providing the spark.
A team like that can beat the LeBrons.
Horfy at the four. Imagine the possibilities. I have visions of a more svelt Barkley, or a less ball-hoggy Karl Malone.
June 1st, 2009
5:48 pm
Marvin williams IS best the best player BK drafted. If we had a coach who could develop players, we would know that by now. The best Smooth will ever be is KENYON MARTIN. Marvin has the potenial to be a 240lb Rashard Lewis, who can rebound and defend….If watched the Game against the T'wolves, when he scored 30 points.
Please Rick don't trade Marvin, YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!
June 1st, 2009
5:49 pm
Thank GOD we don't have to endure another couple of weeks of his majesty. I have had all I can handle of the LeBron James show. It was so nice to watch the Cavs get humiliated by the Magic, especially after watching the series with the Hawks.
June 1st, 2009
5:52 pm
Mark, I'm not saying he's not good at center.
But are you telling me he wouldn't be better at power forward? 'Cause if you are, you better watch out that your nose doesn't grow too big.
Al is a tremendous athlete and has a competitive drive on par with the greats, like MJ or Tiger Woods. This is what makes him a good player playing out of position.
He's a GOOD center.
He'd be a GREAT power forward.
Don't you see how that hampers him?
Kevin Garnett would have been a good center.
You see where I'm going with this line of thought?
Why hold back someone who'd be truly great at another position just because you can't work around finding someone serviceable (whom they already have in Zaza) at center?
Zaza is at least as good as Kendrick Perkins.
So let Horford become Garnett. Let him reach his potential.
Otherwise, he'll just be another good center in this league who's easily forgotten or lumped in with vast number of "eh" centers from the last ten years.
June 1st, 2009
5:56 pm
You state that you don't want to beat a dead horse, and then you brutalize the same expired equine. Mark, *hello* the man who made those decisions is gone. Doesn't anybody know that yet. Why are we rehashing this cow manure. Tell me what we are going to do now, otherwise shut up! Jeez.
June 1st, 2009
5:58 pm
I agree with you about AL…So who is causing the rebounding problem?
June 1st, 2009
6:04 pm
June 1st, 2009
6:14 pm
The Chris Paul situation has been run into the ground. We all know about it. No sense beating a dead horse. Just have to look forward to the future.
June 1st, 2009
6:20 pm
Okay, we'll agree to disagree.
As to Bobby Cox, well, the answer there is that he's not only the worst post-season manager in the history of Major League Baseball (a historical fact based upon his inept handling of some of the best teams in baseball history in October), he's also the single most overrated manager in baseball history, the beneficiary of the talent assembled by the greatest GM in baseball history.
June 1st, 2009
6:24 pm
You know, watching the Cavs, you know what they lack? A Joe Johnson. Just sayin is all…
June 1st, 2009
6:30 pm
While you do safely repeat that the underlying theme of your song is "to flog a horse deader than Man 'o War," you basically resort to that throughout your article. How many times do you think repeating this will do any good? It is basically sour grapes. This is the issue where you become another splinter under a toe nail to read Mark, it prevents you from rising to a higher rank in sports journalism. I felt the same way about Terrence. It isn't your technique, its what you focus on. Whining is not going to get you more than the votes that another famous trash radio host gets. Yet, I grant you, you can get a Mc Donalds feast from it. So keep on whining Mark, because that's the god you have set your talent towards. I hope it makes you satisfied.
June 1st, 2009
6:31 pm
It has nothing to do with not having a center…Horford is more than adequate there. We are missing that one more star player and that will be very hard to find, while keeping Joe at the same time.
June 1st, 2009
6:32 pm
Nice post Dejay, 5:23pm, I agree wholeheartly. I think we are just content with mediocrity all in the name of "process".
June 1st, 2009
6:33 pm
I've said this before. Hindsight is 20/20. but if the Hawks had drafted Chris Paul, they would not have HORFORD, BIBBY, or MARVIN. Is Paul better than these 3 players combined–HELL NO!! Perfect example, look what happened to the Hornets against the Nuggets. They were destroyed–including a 58 point loss at home!!!!! Billups was the best point guard on the court during that series. Paul is great, but if he were a Hawk, we would be talking about some kid named Horford, who plays for another team. Horford will be holding down the interior for the Hawks for the next 10 years.
June 1st, 2009
6:37 pm
I'll have to agree with BugKiller on this one. Horford at the four, with his back to the basket, would have a size advantage and would force double teams as opposed to now. In fact, look at the monster game that he had against Chicago in Chicago as evidence of what he could do nightly with a size advantage in his favor instead of trying to outmuscle guys who are bigger.


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When I wanted a dog back in early 1980's and I was not sure when or which toy poodle color I want, I originally wanted a chocolate. I've been thinking about getting one for five years but never gotten around to it. It is all because of my unfinished relationship with the first chocolate female toy poodle which my parents gave her away without my knowledge or consent and permission after three wonderful years together. I was severely heartbroken. That pain stays with me and I knew I need to get a poodle in honor of Toby.
In 1986, immedilately after my father died, I was age 26 and few months after May, I saw Hurray in my dream in full color, he was so red, apricot colored with white stripes from chin down to chest, lively and all. I woke up on that morning, and yes, that is the kind of poodle I will get. Before I knew it, I walked over to the International Pet Shop on Columbus Ave and W. 85th St in Upper West Side a block away from my old apartment in brownstone by the Central Park. I walked in and asked the lady if she have poodles. She said, yes there is one who just arrived in from Iowa yesterday and he is in the back of the room.
I proceeded on to the back of the room and to my total shock he is exactly what I saw in my dream the day before. It's like he arrived in from Iowa for me. I put my finger inside the cage and he immedilately licked me and toying with my finger. I told the lady, that this dog is mine. I said to myself hooray, I finally found a poodle I wanted and this is how he got the name "Hurray".
From that day on in Dec, 1986 to now, he is still with me. He knows everything about me. He can feel me. I sent him for a short training to become a certified hearing ear dog. He responded to phone calls, doorbells, or anyone calling my name, he'd come and stratch at me and show me where the sounds were coming from. I had the best relationship with Hurray. We know, it's also for Toby. He is now almost totally blind and deaf. No longer a working dog but a loving pet. Sleeps with me. I feel complete and truly blessed to get a pet and have a special relationship in non verbal communication.
During his first two years of life, we developed a rapport and communication and trust. There were times I wanted to be sure I can trust Hurray without leash, I had some doubts. Til one night, I had another lucid dream, I was on an horizon, walking towards to the sun all by myself there was no other life forms, I looked around and then looked down there's Hurray walking right besides me. He never abandoned me and I knew it was his way of letting me know. He will never leave me and be by my side. And then, he picked up his paw to use alphabet fingerspelling with his nails in my name. So, in 1988, that was a full connection between my dog and me. I know he learned my language and connected at heart.
He may live for a few more years. I have no idea how long he'd continue on. So far he is still healthy. It s just that his sight and hearing are "going". I thought I'd share this with you all.


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All this business about the axing of The Circle has me up in arms.
Though not in the way you'd expect.
The loss of yet another decent Australian program has confirmed that one of my biggest life gripes, perhaps even the biggest one, is how we never appreciate what we have until we no longer have it. Complacency and taking things for granted has slowly but very surely become simply a part of this 21st century life. The Circle had been running for almost 3 years. This cancellation has a lot of people upset because, for once, they felt that quality Australian content was possible after all, and The Circle was proving this. The hard truth however is that, had the amount of love and affection currently being thrown upon the program occurred during it's run, I'd have had to think of something else to write about tonight.
In Feast of Love, I often wonder if Selma Blair feels this way. Once she discovers her lesbian ways and leaves Greg Kinnear for a woman, we never see or hear from her again. Which is a shame because I'm very interested to find out how a relationship flourishes, when it only started because another ended. So too, I wonder if, much like these "die-hard fans" of The Circle, Selma lays in bed some nights lamenting her decision to end her marriage, yet only doing so because she doesn't have it anymore.
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Chris Jackson will be re-instated to the Georgia Tech football team if he meets conditions over the summer set by coach Paul Johnson.
Jackson, who left the team last fall and was in considerable academic trouble, met with Johnson last week, according to Rex Robertson, a mentor to Jackson and his offensive coordinator at Henry County High.
"He had to make a lifestyle change and he did that over the last five months," Robertson said.
Jackson is just shy of the 2.0 GPA he needs to be eligible and is taking summer classes to try to clear that mark, according to Robertson. Jackson was a hotly pursued recruit coming out of Henry County and Alabama, where he played as a true freshman in 2008. He transferred to Tech in 2009 but did not play in the 2010 season after tearing his hamstring and then getting dismissed in November. At the time, Johnson said Jackson was dismissed for a combination of things.
"He and I just didn't see eye to eye," Johnson said.
Jackson, who came to Tech as an A-back, would play wide receiver, his high school position. Jackson has been studying video cut-ups of routes provided to him by wide receivers coach Buzz Preston. Jackson would have two years of eligibility starting with the upcoming season.
"We're grateful to Coach Johnson," Robertson said.
May 20th, 2011
7:29 am
I hope he makes it back.
May 20th, 2011
7:29 am
we could use a receiver…hope the young man straightens himself out an gets eligible.
May 20th, 2011
7:30 am
Scout had him listed as a 4 star.
No shame in having to mess up, go home, and get your head screwed back on straight. Happens to all of us at some time or another.
Hope he can contribute- at the least finish his free college education.
Ken, I've loved your coverage. Just out of curiosity, where's Doug? Do you guys rotate?
May 20th, 2011
8:01 am
Sounds like a young man trying to get things right. Hope he succeeds.
May 20th, 2011
8:08 am
" At the time, Johnson said Johnson was dismissed for …" I assume the 2nd Johnson in this sentence is actually referring to Jackson.
May 20th, 2011
8:11 am
Character/Confidence builder. Hope the kid the best. Good story.
May 20th, 2011
8:22 am
I really hope he's turned around and committed. The Jackets are desperately in need of a talented WR. This would be a tremendous upgrade from whats there now.
May 20th, 2011
8:30 am
Keep up you efforts Chris! Hope to see you on the field.
May 20th, 2011
8:33 am
Most often high character people are people that had to go through a period where they were humbled, broken, and desperate. Hopefully, he is on his way to becoming that type of high character person. Best wishes to him that he figures out what he needs to become in order to succeed in school and on the football field.
May 20th, 2011
8:34 am
Good for Chris Jackson. Hope he makes it back, we could sure use him at WR.
May 20th, 2011
8:36 am
Is our record still clean? You know, the one that says we never recruit/sign anyone with academic liabilities. We are, after all, the national bastion of intelligence.
May 20th, 2011
8:42 am
Having been through the daily nightmare that Tech can be sometimes, I can totally understand not performing up to snuff. I wasn't even an athlete (though I was in the marching band) and I got the boot for a semester because my grades were terrible. I learned from the experience, worked a crappy job for a semester and decided that it was time to get serious. I finished on the dean's list for my last 3 semesters and the whole ordeal made me stronger.
May 20th, 2011
8:42 am
Johnson said JACKSON was dismissed for a combination of things.
Go Jackets!
May 20th, 2011
8:47 am
Buzzed, you are really a product of bastion of intelligence, would it be the University of Mars.
May 20th, 2011
8:50 am
Just goes to show how poorly Coach Kung Fu Panda has recruited during his first 3.5 to 4 yrs. at GT.
Had he recruited better he wouldn't have to put up with an SEC reject that then went on to screw up at GT with issues pertaining to his WORK ETHIC.
CPJ is so desperate for decent WR/A-Back talent that he's getting slack on discipline.
I wonder what the holier-than-thou, smarmy, smug, geek-nerd-loser Fanbase of GT has to say about this move by CPJ?
It is amazing how Coach punch-em-in-the-mouth "adjusts" his discipline based on his returning talent, deep down inside EACH & EVERY GT FAN knows that this "2nd chance" would NOT take place if CPJ had another Bay-Bay on the Roster for 2011.
Kinda hard for the "Smug segment" of GT fans (not me of course) to wax poetic about how we are so much better than the "factories" when our HC looks at his depth chart and does the same exact things as the factory schools that GT fans CRITICIZE so much; and that includes taking an Academic RISK at DL that had trouble qualifying at Auburn & Tenn. St.
More and more CPJ is looking like a PE MAJOR from Western Carolina than a HC from a Service Academy.
May 20th, 2011
8:55 am
I am tool and always will be.
May 20th, 2011
9:02 am
People make mistakes, especially at Chris's age and Georgia Tech as a school is very unforgiving. Everyone (including players at UGA) deserves a second chance. The real key is for a man to TAKE ACTION to change himself and remove personal defects. I hope that Chris does. I'm not real big on "third chances," though.
May 20th, 2011
9:03 am
Second chances are always a good story.
May 20th, 2011
9:05 am
Looks like WnE needs some breast milk to fill that void in his soul….
May 20th, 2011
9:05 am
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May 20th, 2011
9:02 am
People make mistakes, especially at Chris's age and Georgia Tech as a school is very unforgiving. Everyone (including players at UGA) deserves a second chance. The real key is for a man to TAKE ACTION to change himself and remove personal defects. I hope that Chris does. I'm not real big on "third chances," though.
I don't think I've ever read anything that nice written from a GT fan about a Mutt Player, how forgiving on your part.
If GT didn't have a FB player in trouble academically would you still feel that way about 2nd chances for Mutt players?
May 20th, 2011
9:06 am
May 20th, 2011
9:05 am
Are my FACTS incorrect?
Do YOU think that if we had a Bay-Bay-esque talent at WR for 2011 that CPJ would still grant Jackson this 2nd chance?
At some point putzes like you are gonna have to answer some LEGIT questions rather than just attack the messenger!
May 20th, 2011
9:17 am
So CPJ is being slack on discipline by kicking the guy off the team? This story has little to do with the GT football team and a lot to do with Jackson wanting to play for GT. He's not on scholarship and not part of the team. GT is not recruiting him, but he does have the opportunity to walk on to the team just like any other student at GT if he is eligible.
Also, this isn't a GT vs. UGA issue. Where did this kid come from? The oversigning king himself Nick Saban. Stories like this need to be more publicized to show current recruits that if you don't make the cut in tryouts at Alabama you're gone. How many lives has Saban ruined of recruits that probably needed some work to become good SEC talent but would have been fine in other BCS leagues?
May 20th, 2011
9:18 am
Special for WnE – bite my ass, dawg loser.
May 20th, 2011
9:28 am
Personal issues aside, this kid could play. Coming back from a torn hammy is the other key. Can he regain his quickness and top speed, I hope but I don't know. If he can, and if he can keep moving in the right direction as a person, he has Hines Ward type ability.
I hope all our UGA jail bird banter doesn't create bad karma here. Good luck kid.
May 20th, 2011
9:29 am
I was happy that CPJ kicked him off the team but i'm also happy that he is trying his hardest to get back on. This could be a great growing experience for the young man regardless of whether he sees the football field or not.
May 20th, 2011
9:33 am
Glad for the kid to get a second chance. If we are lucky, we learn sooner than later that our lives are about making good choices.
Tech can use another good receiver. I still don't think we've seen the totality of CPJ's offense. While not a true run and shoot offense, I think CPJ will definitely throw the ball more with a good passing QB and a few aggressive, "own the ball" receivers. That will only make teh running game stronger.
To the Tech receiver corps: Learn to own the ball when it's thrown in your direction. Become another force on your team. Time to get fierce, guys. Make the plays.
May 20th, 2011
9:36 am
But can he dance?
May 20th, 2011
9:39 am
WnE = poosy
May 20th, 2011
9:44 am
Isnt Kung-Fu Panda……the Dragon Warrior
May 20th, 2011
9:54 am
No, Kung Fu Panda is a dumpy fat-ass that has delusions of grandeur about himself that are totally unfounded, kinda like CPJ and his so-called "genius tag" with his gimmicky Offense that got shut down by Air Force and a 7-5 L$U team in 2 different bowl games.
May 20th, 2011
10:01 am
I say lets try and get Kyle Jackson back any kid that can graduate from MaTech in 31/2 years and recruit the way he did in 2007 is worth the spot. He also was a hell of a LB his first full seasonand Coach OLDASHELL didn't give him a fair shot his last season in my opinion……
May 20th, 2011
10:02 am
WrecksNEffect, isn't that the same pathetic person who uses twitter to talk to student athletes to persuade them to go against Tech because he was ousted by the Tech fan base/message boards. Keep crying more and trying to go against your school because you are upset over you getting dismissed by internet message boards. Getting your feelings hurt over the internet is sad, sad day.
On Jackson I am glad that hes making his way back I had high hopes for him at WR or at least a pass catching A-back who doesn't have iron hands like some of the others (Stephen Hill).
May 20th, 2011
10:14 am
This is EXTREMELY hypocritical of the way you nerds act when a UGA player has academic questions.
And I was under the impression you don't recruit anything but upper academic echelon??
Weird how the truth is revealed sometimes, isn't it??
May 20th, 2011
10:28 am
WnE; So why do you care ?
Uh, D-A Watkinsville Hound:
GT does not offer any REMEDIAL coursework to atheltes
that is STANDARD practice at UGA.
So, when a UGA player cant handle the REMEDIAL coursework at UGA,
it means the kid is really an illiterate.
Nothing hypocritical about that.
May 20th, 2011
10:30 am
The sad thing about all this is Jackson had no academic problems at all in Alabama, passed everything easily.
May 20th, 2011
10:45 am
I just realized who WnE reminds me of – some of the townspeople from Hickory, IN. An IM from GT (class of 90) he's never coached a college game in his life but somehow he feels that he is an expert on recruiting, building a team, disciplining and motivating players – not to mention that he can read Paul Johnson's mind on his motives for reinstating a guy he had previously kicked off the team.
Seems to me that WnE is the true "Kung Fu Panda".
May 20th, 2011
10:53 am
Isn't WnE the one who twittered Vad Lee over and over and over dissing on Tech? Why would anybody think she has anything intelligent to say? What a loser !!!!
May 20th, 2011
10:54 am
Im glad this kid is getting a second chance hope he gets it right this time! To you tech fans lets cut the crap and quit acting like tech is above everybody else. Face it everybody at tech is not a rocket scientist, and college kids from coast to coast make mistakes. Hopefully now the conversations will be about football since we all see everything about tech isnt as perfect as you guys try to make it.
May 20th, 2011
10:57 am
I don't like to admit it but Tech doesn't have remedial classes and easy majors to hide football players in. The management major is as difficult as 90% of the majors at most schools. If Jackson is in management and has a 1.9 gpa, he couldn't have an IQ below 110. I hope he listens to his mentor gets on track graduates and LOSSES TO THE DAWGS FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS.
May 20th, 2011
10:57 am
By the way, WnE, AF didn't stop Tech's offense as much as Tech had nobody who could catch a punt. The offensive stats against AF were not bad, and, I might remind you, AF runs a very similar offense to Tech's and knows HOW to defend it. In fact, Tech did a pretty good job of defending AF's offense for the same reason. What lost that game for the Jackets was a total inability to catch punts. And I might remind you too, that for a so-called gimmicky offense, the mutts have yet to stop it; Tech's 2 out of 3 losses to the mutts were because Tech had no defense at all.
May 20th, 2011
11:23 am
I really had no idea that a 2.0 grade point average allowed for a scholarship in college. Where are the high school teachers and coaches when they are needed. Does this kid really have a legitimate chance to suceed when he is struggling to get to 2.0
I think the NFL needs to start thier own minor leagues for players, that can't make it in college but are good atheletes. It just seems wrong that these folks use up money, and obviuosly are not a bit interested in anything but the NFL. Baseball has their own minor leagues and the NFL needs to get one also.
It is sad if kids like t5his are not even taught b asic courses in High School and then go to college, leave their junior year if they get that far, and have probably not gotten any more educated than if they never ecven attended a class. I would think with the courses being so tough at Tech. as is claimed, this kid would not even havce a chance in class.
May 20th, 2011
11:25 am
I hope he does what it takes. We need someone who can catch the ball.
May 20th, 2011
11:28 am
So Tech football players are only required to have a 2.0 GPA (like all NCAA regulations)
I thought Tech held their players to standards above the NCAA requirement???
Well, we can cancel the "academics, academics, academics" argument from Techies in a FOOTBALL argument.
I am glad that is over!
May 20th, 2011
11:33 am
Rocket, it's not just the athletes who apparently aren't prepared for college, and it's also not just a matter of academic preparation; it is often a kind of emotional, or perhaps, cultural preparation for the change. I had a roommate while at Tech who was a couple of years older than me and had entered Tech, done miserably, and dropped out. When he dropped out, he decided to join the US Marines. When he finished his time in the Marines, he re-entered Tech as sophomore majoring in Physics. He pulled a 4.0 his first quarter back and went on not only to graduate with high honors but ultimately to earn a phD in Physics (plasma physics) from FSU. Sometimes it takes a little time off to get one's head on. Let's hope that Jackson has gotten his head on now and not only comes back but succeeds beyond expectations.
May 20th, 2011
11:38 am
EXPOSED, you made no valid point whatsoever in your post. I guess it's your ignorance that has been exposed.
May 20th, 2011
11:41 am
[...] Jackson could return to Tech football teamAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Chris Jackson will be re-instated to the Georgia Tech football team if he meets conditions over the summer set by coach Paul Johnson. Jackson, who left the team last fall and was in considerable academic trouble, met with Johnson last week, … [...]
May 20th, 2011
11:53 am
The one position we need some help is WR. If we make this kid a better person and he helps us be a better football team we are watching college football at it's finest. It also shades a little more light on what Johnson is really after which is commitment. Nobody pulling harder for the good guys than me. When the player has no respect for the program and the program wins we all lose.
May 20th, 2011
11:57 am
supersize that order, mutt – Although I have always been irked by your blog name I have to say that I couldn't agree more with your 11:33 post. No one loves a redemption story more than me, unless of course the hero of it beats my Dawgs. Good luck to the young man. Johnson is doing the right thing. Part of his job is to shape young men.


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In mid-May, General Motors announced it would bring the Chevrolet Trax to the Paris Motor Show this fall. The tiny crossover shares nearly everything with North America's Buick Encore and the previously revealed Opel/Vauxhall Mokka, but there's an important fourth variant we haven't heard about until today – one for Holden.
The General has now confirmed that the Trax will also be produced for its Australian outpost, with Holden's Director of Powertrain Engineering, Simon Cassin saying, "Holden is well recognised within the GM world for our expertise in engine and transmission calibration and we are very pleased to be involved in the development of this important vehicle."
The Holden Trax, which arrives in OZ next year, looks all but unchanged from the chunky cute ute version wearing a Bowtie. Judging by the newly released rendering shown above, everything from the headlamps to the side mirrors and fog lamp trim is unchanged. The only clear difference? Substituting the now-trademark split portal Chevrolet grille for a chrome-browed single frame unit wearing a prominent Holden badge.
GM's own data suggests that the small SUV segment continues to explode in Australia, just as it has here in North America, with sales up 57.3 percent year to date over 2011, and it's clearly aiming to take a piece of that growing pie with the new Trax.


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Cinderella rushed around her dorm room feverishly, trying to put herself together in the twenty minutes she swore to Caleb that she would be ready by. She had showered earlier that morning and she ran a finger through her still neat curls before sticking a hand band on and pushing her hair back. Grabbing a pair of jeans from the closet, she threw on some ballet flats and a flowy top before touching up her makeup. She had no idea why she was feeling something akin to nervousness quivering inside of her stomach, but she let it pass as she grabbed her wristlet and slid it around her hand.
Hearing a knock on the door, she turned quickly, giving herself another onceover in the mirror before sucking in a deep breath and pulling the door open. "Hey bubbers. Is this appropriate motorcycle gear?" she asked, snagging a jacket off of the coatrack by the door and pointing down at her outfit. "Since you're the expert and all."
Oh, I'm not, I'm just saying that you see yourself a lot different than you actually are. No, that halo is a figment of your imagination. You don't get that, do you? You should, I thought I always make you feel special. Don't worry, you won't be let down. I promise. I'll be waiting at your door, sweetie. Isn't it? Make sure you wear jeans or shorts, you can wear a dress or something and ride a motorcycle.
You do realize that I'm just fucking with you, right? I totally know I don't wear and halo and I actually hate being called a good-two-shoes. But now I'm starting to believe you think I'm stupid. Hmmm.. Well, you do, most of the time, yeah. Being the only one who knows the real you definitely does the job. I trust you. Sounds good, jeans it is.
I know for a fact that you would do both of those things. Lie and embarrass me. You're not the 'goody-two-shoes' everyone thinks you are! Only for you, Ellie. I'll be a sweetheart for you, okay? Well, get ready and I'll come around. Maybe I'll even take you there on my motorcycle. Wow.
Excuse me? I can't help but feel like you're attacking my character. I'm an innocent little angel, don't you see the halo? Only for me? I feel special, then. Alright, I'm going to hold you to that whole sweetheart thing. Alright, give me about twenty minutes and I'll be good to go. This is getting more exciting by the second.
Those are lies. I feel like you're just saying that to embarrass me. What? C'mon, just because my last relationship was complete shit doesn't mean I've given up on being a sweetheart. You of all people should know that. Well, I'll try to make it the best Chipotle visit you've ever had.
Are you accusing me of being a liar?! I would never! And I would never embarrass you either. Sheesh, it's like you don't know me at all. Anyway, you shouldn't give up on being a sweetheart! That's the spirit. Hmm.. Okay, I'm patiently waiting, then.
Show you off. I'm not getting mushy, how is that mushy? Enlighten me, babe. Yeah, that fact that I come back an hour later with a girl who isn't even ordering food. Wow. I know, I know I am.
It just is mushy, trust me on this one. I know all there is to know about mushiness. Hmm.. Well, I can order it, if you're so embarrassed of looking weird. I never thought you would be, but I'm impressed. I can't wait to see what will happen on our almost-date, then.
I mean, I'd be proud to show off my almost girlfriend. It's be nice, right? If you come with me, I'll order and pay and everything. But going back in there after I just came out is weird.
Show me off? Listen to you, getting all mushy on me. I approve. Anyway, that sounds really nice. It wouldn't be weird, you just went back with me because I was hungry. What a loving almost-boyfriend you are.
But you're basically my girlfriend, so.. Kidding. Sure, why not. I'm bored. You could even come out with me! Wow.
Am I? Well, that's news to me. Wow, actually going out in public with you?! This is a first, but yeah, let's go. I want a steak burrito like.. yesterday.
Ouch, that hurts. You should've texted me or something. I can go back if you'd like.
I can't read your mind to know when you're going places, but hmm.. Really?
[He laughs.] I just went to Chipotle, like, an hour ago.
I'm going to throw you off a mountain.


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They put out the fire and started emergency treatment on the mother dog. They used special pet oxygen equipment that is carried on all Clearwater Fire and Rescue units, fire officials told us.
Firefighters and fire medics resuscitated the mother dog successfully. One puppy died from injuries, according to the Clearwater Fire and Rescue report.
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Definition of calamus in English:
calamusLine breaks: cala|mus
Pronunciation: /ˈkaləməs /
noun (plural calami /-mʌɪ/)
1 another term for sweet flag.
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- The red pen, a calamus, was employed primarily for recording texts up until the 6th century, when the quill, the penna, the feather of a bird or a fowl, gradually replaced it.
- The first to observe and name the calamus scriptorius (a cavity in the floor of the fourth cerebral ventrical), he called it kalamos because it resembles the carved out groove of a writing pen.
- But calamus itself, the real thing, has a thick bulby root-stretches out-this way-like the fingers spread.
1.1 (also calamus root) [mass noun] A preparation of the aromatic root of the sweet flag.
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- The major herb in this category is calamus root (vacha).
- The calamus root is, he continues, 'most remarkable for its odor and for its medicinal properties.'
- The speaker's psychological response to the calamus root closely resembles descriptions of hashish intoxication.
2 Zoology The hollow lower part of the shaft of a feather, which lacks barbs; a quill.
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- A complex pattern of feather muscles connects the calami of neighboring feathers.
- DNA for the two musophagids was obtained from the calamus of a single primary feather.
late Middle English (denoting a reed or an aromatic plant mentioned in the Bible): from Latin, from Greek kalamos. sense 1 dates from the mid 17th century.
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