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PLAYERS: Dwight Howard, Marc Gasol, LeBron James, Serge Ibaka
TEAMS: Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder
TEAMS: Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder
Dwight Howard's defensive statistics have seemed to stay relatively the same over the course of the past two or three seasons, the biggest difference being that he has not managed to win the award he once dominated (Defensive Player of the Year) since 2011. Howard used to live on the corner of "likeable superstar" and Defensive Player of the Year, and now he's simply vanished in the race for either titles. Tyson Chandler won the award last season, and now Marc Gasol took top honors for defensive stud this season. Howard, who used to be a shoe-in, not only failed to make a comeback this season and re-claim his stature as the league's top defender, but he didn't even manage to make things respectable. Howard finished 14th in votes for defensive player of the year, and finished behind a plethora of names, including LeBron James (2nd place) and Serge Ibaka (3rd place). Via Mark Medina of Inside the Lakers: "It's just funny,"Howard said. "That's okay. We got next year and I got a long time. This year's funny." Howard won the award in 2009, 2010 and 2011, but seemed sluggish to start this season due to a torn labrum and recovery from back surgery that he underwent over the summer. Howard has also taken a hit in the popularity department, which say what you'd like, does matter when votes are cast. "I didn't know. I didn't vote,"Howard said."I don't know what to do about it. But it's okay." Howard went on to speak about who he felt deserved the title. Howard feels Serge Ibaka deserved to win Defensive Player of the Year this season and last, and I tend to agree. Ibaka's work may sort of be undermined by his supporting cast. "Serge Ibaka with all the stuff he did this year, he should've been the guy to win it this year and last year,"said Howard."With the stuff he's done on the defensive end. I thought he was the clear cut winner. But people saw it otherwise." "He led the league in blocks. That's what defense is all about,"Howard said of Ibaka."He led the team and was number one in blocks this year. You can't play defense without having any shot blockers. He was the No. 1 shot blocker the last two years. That's great defense right there." Despite what Dwight believes, the votes have been cast and Marc Gasol hoists the trophy this season. Howard needs to look to be 100% healthy next season, and have a comeback year, heading towards reclaiming his spot at the top of the defensive ranks. Howard's biggest issue was the Lakers overall team defensive struggles. Dwight still managed 12.4 (1st) rebounds per game, 2.4 (5th) blocks and 1.1 (5th among power forwards and centers) steals this season, which are very respectable numbers. The post Dwight Howard on finishing 14th in Defensive Player of the Year: "It's funny" appeared first on Pass The Pill - Kings of Hoops.
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Some say he's a washed-up Formula 1 driver, others say he's Ben Collins, all we know is the BBC will sue him if he publishes an autobiography outing himself as Top Gear's Stig. (H/T to Bob1967!) [The Guardian]
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Two Big Myths About Amazon.com
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On Monday morning, shares of e-commerce powerhouse Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) hit a new all-time high above $274. There is no doubt that Amazon.com has transformed the retail world and made a boatload of money for investors over the past decade; ten years ago, Amazon traded for only $20/share. While I believe that the Amazon.com business has plenty of room to grow, Amazon's stock will not do so well going forward. I firmly believe that the current stock price is near the top of a giant bubble; when it pops, the stock could lose up to half of its value.
Amazon investors are overly complacent about the company's future profitability, considering that the company is expected to report roughly breakeven results for FY12. Revenue growth is also likely to disappoint. There are two big myths that drive this complacency: 1) the idea that Amazon has "lower costs" than key competitors; and 2) the belief that sales tax collection will not affect Amazon's future sales.
Myth 1: Online is "cheaper" than bricks and mortar
Amazon.com prides itself on low prices. Indeed, its prices tend to be lower than those of physical (bricks and mortar) competitors. However, many investors and analysts appear to believe that Amazon's online-only business model is the key reason why its prices are lower. According to this line of reasoning, bricks and mortar retailers have to pay rent on a large number of retail locations, they must pay workers to keep the stores open, they must hold significant inventory, etc., giving Amazon a cost advantage. Since Amazon does not have to pay to keep retail locations open and fully stocked, it can offer lower prices.
There is some truth to this line of reasoning. However, Amazon must still pay to build and staff warehouses, and this can be rather expensive. The company has often noted that it pays its workers 30% more on average than traditional retail jobs. "Picking and packing" orders requires a lot of labor. Amazon is working to reduce the amount of labor required, by automating the picking process with robots. However, robots are expensive, too! Amazon spent a hefty $775 million last year to buy Kiva Systems, a company that designs and builds robots to automate warehouses. (That does not include costs to build and install the systems in Amazon's warehouses.) Lastly, to compete effectively with physical retailers, Amazon needs to offer free shipping options. The cost of home delivery adds another expense not faced by bricks and mortar retailers.
The best way to measure costs based on public financial statements is by comparing the "operating expenses" line to total sales. The lower the operating expenses as a percentage of sales, the more favorable the company's cost structure. Over its past three fiscal years, (FY09-FY11) Amazon's operating expenses rose from around 18% of sales to 20.6% of sales, with FY12 on pace for another rise, to roughly 22%. This lean cost structure was good enough to defeat Amazon's earliest rivals. For example, over the past three fiscal years, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has averaged operating expenses around 27% of sales. This cost gap goes a long way to explaining why Amazon was able to disrupt the book industry, sending Borders into liquidation and putting Barnes & Noble into dire straits. Barnes & Noble will almost certainly continue to struggle because the retail book model adds unsustainable expenses that make the company uncompetitive with Amazon.com.
By contrast, Amazon has derived most of its recent growth from big ticket items in the "electronics and general merchandise" category. Here, the company's biggest competitors are big box discount stores like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Target (NYSE: TGT), Costco (NASDAQ: COST), and Best Buy. Here, Amazon's cost advantages are minimal or non-existent. Costco's bare-bones warehouse model has the lowest expenses of any retailer, and this allows the company to frequently beat Amazon's prices. In recent years, Costco has posted operating expenses around 10% of sales or less; less than half of Amazon's costs.
The other retailers have cost structures that are similar to Amazon's. Wal-Mart's operating expenses have averaged between 19% and 20% of sales, Target's operating expenses have been somewhat higher at 24-25% of sales, and Best Buy's operating expenses have hovered very close to 20% of sales. Thus, of four major retailers (which together have annual sales around $700 billion), only Target operates at a cost disadvantage vis-a-vis Amazon. Amazon's expenses may decline in the future if strong revenue growth allows the company to better leverage fixed costs. However, it will always remain far behind Costco's cost structure, and will also struggle to generate a meaningful cost advantage over Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
So why does Amazon have lower prices than most competitors? Quite simply it is because Amazon accepts miniscule profit margins, whereas other retailers have been willing to forego some sales in order to maximize profit. In its best year, 2010, Amazon managed to generate a razor thin pretax margin of 4.4%. That is approximately equal to Best Buy's pretax margin (excluding special items) in FY12, which was a bad year for the company. Wal-Mart and Target regularly produce higher pretax margins (around 6%-7%); only Costco (which has a much lower cost structure) operates on thinner margins than Amazon's peak margins. Moreover, Amazon's margins have fallen to approximately zero over the past two years due to rising operating expenses.
Bottom Line: Amazon can only sustain lower prices than competitors by accepting lower margins. It will only be able to increase its profitability by raising prices, which will substantially harm revenue growth. While Amazon had a major cost advantage over early rivals like Barnes & Noble, it can only beat its new rivals' prices by undermining its own profitability. Lastly, rivals such as Target are now moving to match Amazon's prices, something they can afford to do because they have similar cost structures.
Myth 2: Sales tax collection doesn't matter
For a long time, Amazon was able to avoid collecting sales tax in most U.S. states. Many cash-strapped states have begun to push back against this practice, and some have successfully negotiated for Amazon to collect sales tax. During Q3 of 2012, Amazon began collecting sales tax in three new jurisdictions: Texas, Pennsylvania, and California. In the course of three months Amazon went from collecting sales tax on roughly 11% of the U.S. population to collecting sales tax on 35% of the U.S. population.
While consumers are legally obligated to pay "use tax" on items for which they were not charged sales tax, most individuals do not pay these taxes. Therefore buying online has allowed consumers to avoid paying sales tax, giving Amazon and similar companies as much as a 10% price advantage over retailers who collect tax. This particularly harmed the online businesses of major bricks and mortar retailers; companies like Wal-Mart must collect tax on internet purchases in states where they have stores.
Amazon's management has vaguely stated that the company collects tax in many jurisdictions and has grown rapidly in states/countries where it collects tax. However, this does not answer the key question of what happens when a non-tax market becomes a tax-collecting market. Price-sensitive customers who may have been heavy Amazon users previously now have an incentive to "shop around". This factor is exacerbated by the proliferation of "price match" campagins recently. Whereas bricks and mortar retailers have always had the ability to match Amazon's advertised prices, this practice would not help much when consumers could avoid sales tax of 5-10% by buying from Amazon. Now that the sales tax is even, customers who would prefer "instant gratification" can more frequently get their items right away for the same price as they would pay at Amazon.com. The same goes for consumers who want to see what they are buying before purchasing it.
It will take a few quarters to verify the impact of sales tax collection on Amazon's sales. However, Best Buy recently reported that its online sales growth in Texas, Pennsylvania, and California outperformed the rest of the country by 4-6% during the holiday season. If other retailers saw a similar boost, the lost sales for Amazon could easily be $500 million or more in the last quarter alone. Since Amazon is already running at breakeven, the company really does not have the option to lower prices further in order to boost sales.
Bottom Line: Profits are constrained because Amazon's cost structure is roughly equivalent to those of its major competitors in its largest sales category (electronics/general merchandise). The imposition of sales tax in new jurisdictions (a trend that will continue) removes Amazon's last remaining cost advantage. Amazon can only beat competitors' prices by sacrificing profitability, and with margins near zero, the company cannot really cut prices further. The combination of slowing growth (as Amazon has already driven out the "easy marks") and low profitability sets Amazon up for underperformance in 2013. With the stock trading at 2x sales and more than 150x 2013 earnings estimates, the potential downside for Amazon shareholders is substantial.
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In Honor of Teacher Appreciation Week: Who was your favorite teacher?
Let's give a shout out to our favorite teacher, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week.
And why stop with TED?....send them an email (you can link this page to your email greetings so they can see you've let everyone know they were special to you)...or send a card...or flowers.....or why not stop by the school and say a hello in person?
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"I put on Band-Aids and winter coats and school plays. I know they will not understand the difference between your and you're. I say "Cover your mouth," after they have coughed on me.
I wear green on Saint Patrick's Day, red on Valentine's Day, and my bathrobe on Pajama Day.
I buy books about cats and dogs and sharks and volcanoes and horses and dinosaurs. I turn jump ropes and am base in tag. I am glad you can only get chicken pox once.
I am a teacher.
I can borrow and carry very fast. I give them more time to answer six times eight than two times three. I never end a sentence with a preposition. I know what a preposition is.
I have every teacher mug that Hallmark ever made and every Save the Children tie too. I say, "Use two hands!" when they carry their lunch trays. I say, "Accidents happen," after they did not use two hands.
I am a teacher.
I have sung "Happy Birthday" 657 times. I know when a child has gum in his mouth even when he is not chewing.
I plan lessons while shaving, showering, driving, eating, and sleeping. I plan lessons five minutes before the bell rings. I pray for snow days. I pray for Stephen to be absent.
I can make a telescope out of a toilet paper roll and a totem pole out of oatmeal boxes. I can make snowflakes out of coffee filters and a space shuttle out of a Pringles can too.
I fix watchbands, repair eyeglasses, and search for lost milk money after freeze tag.
I know when a child does not understand. I know when a child is not telling the truth. I know when a child was up too late last night. I know when a child needs help finding a friend.
I am a teacher."
from the book: 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny by Phillip Done
To all of you TEACHERS out there, who selflessly give of yourselves to your students, and who become mentors and friends to your students, THANK YOU. Your work does not go unnoticed.
And to all of you TED members who contributed to this thread, I thank you also.
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May 15 2013: continued from below... Jefferson made in his life, like his relationship with Hemings and that he didn't release his slaves until after his death. We sat there, taking notes like good little students, but inside our heads, we were completely confused. What was the truth about Jefferson? Was he a heroic father of our country, or a racist? Was he someone to admire, or someone to critique? Of course, this was the exact point of the activity. And they didn't tell us. They asked us. What was the "truth" about history? How did we know what "really happened?" How would we ever decide what the "truth" was? I went home that night and explained to my parents around the dinner table that I now understood that history was made up of particular stories written from the point of view of individuals and that our job was to compare the stories and figure out our own theory of what happened. They were blown away. The next year, I took another special course with Mr. Thomas. We studied world cultures. During that year, he listened to me when my parents' impending divorce overwhelmed me. He gave everyone else something to do and he sat there with me and really listened to my sorrow and fears. Then, he really taught me about the complexities of the world. He was fired. It was 1971 and his hair touched his collar in the back. He circulated a petition to stop the Vietnam War amongst the other teachers. He allowed us to create a controversial door decoration at Christmas -- photos of war from throughout history with a sign in the middle saying, "Peace on Earth?" We were tremendously proud of our idea for that door and we won first place in the competition. But the administration felt it was inappropriate. Then, he refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, explaining that the founding fathers didn't approve of such pledges. The ACLU got him his job back after two years of negotiations. I had a front row seat to his struggle. That's a teacher.
May 15 2013: Charlotte, what can I possibly say after this well thought out, and detail rich contribution?
I think I speak for everyone here, that we would have loved to have been part of Mr. Thomas' and Mr. Baldino's class.
How very fortunate you were to have had these "Master Teachers" who knew exactly what young minds needed.
What a learning experience. Fantastic Charlotte, truly amazing!!!
Have you made contact with them as an adult?
Do they know you are also an educator? (I read your profile, and went to the Murray School site)
Thank you so much Charlotte, for honoring these two wonderful educators through your words here.
Have a wonderful, relaxing summer, I am sure you've earned it!!!
May 16 2013: Dear Mary,
Thank you for your kind words! Those two definitely changed my entire life. I kept in touch with Mr. Thomas for many years. He wrote me long letters full of suggested readings, which I really enjoyed, so he was continuing to teach me. He and his family moved to New Mexico, where he was a teacher for years and then they moved to Idaho, where he became a high school principal. He's retired now and I have lost contact with him. Mr. Baldino became the head of the Central Virginia Education Association and worked for teacher rights all over the country. When he discovered that I had become a teacher, he became my mentor and has helped me many times over the years. I thoroughly realize the blessings I have received from these two men. I love them both and I know they love me, too. Because of their caring lives, I have had the honor to be there for my own students. This is my 35th year of teaching and I still am in love with the profession. I teach at Murray High School, the first Glasser Quality Public High School, based on the ideas of Dr. William Glasser. It is an idyllic place to teach, with so many support systems to help students and teachers get along with each other. We emphasize the concepts of Choice Theory. Students learn how to mediate with one another and with the staff and their parents to work out any conflicts. We very very rarely have any students choosing to put their hands on each other and if it happens, we mediate as soon as everyone is calm and come up with a plan to keep the conflict from happening again. The staff is amazing and the students are very grateful for their beloved school. We travel around the world and teach teachers how to start up Glasser Quality Schools. We also speak with student teachers at UVA, Longwood, and JMU. The teachers are always astounded that the workshops are designed and led by high school students. They realize that as teammates, high school students have been severely undervalued
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What once was teenage rite of passage — getting a driver's license — is being postponed as younger people choose to take public transportation, can't afford a car or simply decide they don't need one.
In Maryland and across the country, 16-year-olds are obtaining driver's licenses in fewer numbers than two decades ago, sometimes waiting years before attempting that dreaded parallel parking test, according to a national study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
The study, released Thursday, found that only 44 percent of teens obtain a driver's license within the first 12 months of their being eligible to do so, and just 54 percent are licensed before turning 18 years old. Low-income and minority teenagers disproportionately fall into the category of those without a license.
"Driving a car was the big thing for kids in America once they became a certain age," said Ryan Avila, owner of Essex-based ABC Driver Education, which has seven schools throughout the Baltimore region. "I don't think it's quite that status symbol or rite of passage anymore. I see more kids apathetic about getting a license."
Nationwide, the trend raises safety concerns as fewer teenagers are taking the more rigorous testing required of those younger than 18 in many states, according to AAA. It also has potential economic implications for teenagers who can't apply for jobs that require a license and can't drive further to find jobs.
Karen Sitnick, head of the Mayor's Office of Employment Development, said most teens in Baltimore programs are able to make it to jobs within the city limits because they can use public transportation.
"However, I think if young people were able to get driver's licenses, it could allow them to access employment outside city limits, in the county," she added. "It could expand the work opportunities for young people."
The number of 16-year-olds who received Maryland licenses fell from about 21,700 in 1995 to about 6,000 last year, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. The number of 17-year-olds who received Maryland licenses went from more than 33,700 in 1995 to fewer than 28,100 in 2012.
The reasons vary based on socioeconomic status and necessity, according to the AAA study.
Nearly 45 percent of survey respondents between the ages of 18 and 20 said not having a car was a major factor in their decision to delay getting a license. Thirty-six percent in the AAA survey said costs, including the price of gas, were factors.
Meeting education requirements for new drivers can be "an expensive venture," said Ragina C. Averella, public and government affairs manager for AAA Mid-Atlantic. Driver's education classes in public schools used to be the primary way novice drivers learned, she said, but most schools no longer offer the courses.
Private-sector driving lessons in Maryland can range from $240 to nearly $500, according to AAA.
Tiffany Whitfield, manager of One Way Driving Academy on North Howard Street in Baltimore's Remington neighborhood, said many students begin driver's education courses — which are required for all new drivers in Maryland, regardless of age — only after an extended effort to raise the $300 to pay for the course.
"If they are young and they haven't been in, it's because they were working, or their parents weren't going to pay for it," Whitfield said. "Driving school isn't cheap, so they had to do a little saving."
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Nearly 40 percent said they had delayed getting a driver's license because they could get around without driving, while 35 percent said they "just didn't get around to" obtaining one.
For Gabrielle Jones, 26, the decision not to get a license until a few years ago was partly about convenience, partly about fear.
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The indictment is the result of a 2005 homicide investigation undertaken by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office and the New Jersey State Police. On March 18, 2005, the skeletal remains of a child were recovered in an area of Clayton Park near County Road 526 after a hunter discovered them, a press release from the MCPO stated. Law enforcement agencies referred to the investigation as the "Baby Bones" case.
Prosecutors say the Harlem girl, born Sept. 5, 1992, suffered years of abuse and neglect at the hands of her mother, Elisha Jones. An investigation conducted by the MCPO and the New Jersey State Police found that Jones died on Aug. 15, 2002 in the apartment of her aunt, Likisha Jones.
Prosecutors say the child's mother, her uncle, James Jones, and Likisha Jones' boyfriend, Godfrey Gibson, brought her body to Upper Freehold Township and disposed of the remains after setting them on fire. Elisha Jones died of medical disease in December 2002, the press release stated.
The child's death is being investigated as a homicide by the New York County District Attorney's Office.
Likisha Jones, Godfrey Gibson and James Jones were each charged with hindering apprehension of another, tampering with physical evidence, obstructing the administration of justice, and conspiracy.
Bail for Likisha Jones and James Jones was set at $40,000. Gibson's bail was set at $75,000. All three defendants posted the bond and were released from Monmouth County Correctional Institution.
A trial date has not yet been announced.
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Under a succession plan outlined last November, Mulally, 68, was expected to stay on as CEO until at least the end of 2014. [ID:nL1E8M12K9] But Ford's board of directors is now open to letting him step down earlier as he explores other roles, two people familiar with the board's thinking said.
When asked about his plans on Thursday, Mulally said in an email that he is "absolutely focused on serving our Ford." A spokesman for Ford, Jay Cooney, on Friday downplayed the possibility of an early exit for Mulally.
"There is no change from what we announced in November: Alan Mulally plans to continue to serve as Ford's president and CEO through at least 2014," Cooney said.
Mulally has not publicly discussed what he wants to do after Ford. Sources told Reuters that the executive is considering another high-profile job, and at one point had discussed a role in the Obama administration.
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It remains an open question when Mulally will leave Ford as the situation is fluid, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity because details of Ford's succession strategy are confidential.
According to the sources, the board is allowing Mulally to determine the timing of his departure as it has gained confidence in the executive team's ability to avoid the missteps that pushed the automaker to the brink of collapse before Mulally was hired in 2006.
The board has also warmed to Chief Operating Officer Mark Fields, a 24-year Ford veteran who is widely expected to be the next CEO, the sources said.
"We are having so much fun creating an exciting, sustainable, and profitably growing Ford for everyone," Mulally said in the email to Reuters on Thursday.
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The Ford board has been considering succession plans for several years as part of its normal review. One concern is cultivating a CEO who can maintain and strengthen the cultural and strategic changes created by Mulally.
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Fields, 52, led Ford's operations in North and South America from October 2005 until late last year, when his promotion to COO led many analysts and investors to view him as Mulally's anointed successor.
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Bergoglio appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after a church official announced "Habemus Papum" - "We have a pope" - and gave the new pontiff the Latin name - Frances I.
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Phoenix police say a neighbor was on the phone with one of the five people found shot to death at a Phoenix townhouse in October.
The victims are Bruce Moore, 66; Michael Moore, 42; Renee Moore, 36; and Shannon Moore, 17. The shooter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was identified as 56-year-old Michael Dante Guzzo.
The family's two dogs, a cocker spaniel and a springer spaniel, were also shot and killed.
Police said a neighbor was on the phone with Renee Moore at the time of the shooting, heard shots and asked, "what's going on?" before the line went dead.
Phoenix P.D. Sgt. Tommy Thompson said officers responded to a call about shots fired at the complex near 17th Avenue and Hazelwood about 9 a.m.
After shooting the victims, Guzzo walked across the courtyard and shot through the front door and window of another townhouse in the same complex, Thompson said. Guzzo left that scene on foot, apparently returning to his apartment. He reportedly sat down on a couch in his home and shot himself in the head.
Thompson told reporters that officers entered the first townhouse and found the bodies of four people. Two were on the patio, both shot in the head. One person found in the kitchen with a gunshot wound in the head. Another victim was found at the top of the stairs. Police said she was shot in the chest at close range. Two dead dogs were also found with gunshot wounds.
In the second townhouse next to theirs, Thompson said officers found the gunman's body.
A pump shotgun, believed to be the murder weapon, was found next to him, Thompson said. Police said Guzzo died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Benny Brown heard the large blasts.
"I heard the shooting but I didn't know what was what until I got the call that said 'stay indoors,'" Brown said.
Fearing there could be a shooter on the loose, police evacuated several apartments.
"They believe they had him confined to two different apartments, they just didn't know which one he was actually in," Thompson said.
SWAT officers opened the back patio to one of those apartments and found two people dead and inside, two more.
According to witnesses, Guzzo was apparently irritated over barking dogs. Neighbors said they believe that's what sparked the situation but police are still investigating.
Friends and relatives of the Moore family are holding fundraisers and taking donations to help with funeral arrangements.
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So I like cyborg ladies. I'm not gay.
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Still messing around with this new style, trying to use different brushes for a change. Blurgh, this is the latest I've stayed up in a while. I hope I don't come back to this in the morning and see some glaring anatomical errors or something.
EDIT: Came back in the morning and have to agree with Demon, she did look rather manly (ay, story of a drunk frat boys` life--they're never as pretty the morning after). Fixed her up, made her more girly for all you over-consuming I-can't-fap-to-this psychos.
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I love your style man, and good shading too. Only one "flaw" in my eyes, the face looks like a dude. Unless of course It's supposed to. Anyway, great work!
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Looks like a speedpaint to me. I like what I see -except for the name of the picture.... Robo-Boobs ? Come on - you can think of something better :) otherwise the picture has impact and I love it !
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Great work, would be 5stars but her face looks like a guy's.
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Google Your Desktopby Rael Dornfest
Google your desktop and the rest of your file system, mailbox, and instant messenger conversations--even your browser cache.
Not content just helping you find what you need on the Internet, Google takes on that teetering pile on your desktop--your computer's desktop, that is.
The Google Desktop is your own private little Google server. It sits in the background, slogging through your files and folders, indexing your incoming and outgoing email messages, listening in on your instant messenger chats, and browsing the Web right along with you. Just about anything you see and summarily forget, the Google Desktop sees and memorizes for you.
And it operates in real time.
Beyond the initial sweep, that is. When you first install Google Desktop, it makes use of any idle time to meander your filesystem, email application, instant messages, and browser cache. Imbued with a sense of politeness, the indexer shouldn't interfere at all with your use of your computer; it only springs into action when you step away, take a phonecall, or dose off for 30 seconds or more. Pick up the mouse or touch the keyboard, and the Google Desktop scuttles off into the corner, waiting patiently for its next opportunity to look around.
Its initial inventory taken, the Google Desktop server sits back and waits for something of interest to come along. Send or receive an email message, strike up an AIM conversation with a friend, or get a start on that PowerPoint presentation, and it'll be noticed and indexed within seconds.
The Google Desktop full text indexes:
- Text files, Microsoft Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations living on your hard drive
- Email handled through Outlook or Outlook Express
- AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) conversations
- Web pages browsed in Internet Explorer
Additionally, any other files you have lying about--photographs, MP3s, movies--are indexed by their filename. So while the Google Desktop can't tell a portrait of Uncle Alfred (uncle_alfred.jpg) from a song by "Uncle Cracker" (uncle_cracker__double_wide__who_s_your_uncle.mp3), it'll file both under "uncle."
And the point of all this is to make your computer searchable with the ease, speed, and familiar interface you've come to expect of Google. The Google Desktop has its own home page on your computer, whether you're online or not. Type in a search query just like you would at Google proper and click the Search Desktop button to search your personal index. Or, click Search the Web to send your query out to Google.
But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here.
Let's take a few steps back, download and install the Google Desktop, and work our way back to searching again.
Installing the Google Desktop
The Google Desktop is a Windows-only application, requiring Windows XP or Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later. The application itself is tiny, but it'll consume about 500 MB of room on your hard drive and works best with 400 MHz of computing horsepower and 128 MB of memory.
Download and run the Google Desktop installer. It'll install the application, embed a little swirly icon in your taskbar, and drop a shortcut on to your desktop. When it's finished installing and setting itself up, your default browser pops open, and you're asked to set a few preferences.
Click the Set Preferences and Continue button, and you'll be notified that the Google Desktop is starting its initial indexing sweep. Click the Start Searching button to get to the Google Desktop home page.
Searching your desktop
From here on out, any time you're looking for something on your computer, rather than invoking Windows search and waiting impatiently while it grinds away (and you grind your teeth) and returns with nothing, double-click the swirly Google Desktop taskbar icon and Google for it. Don't bother combing through an endless array of Inboxes, Outboxes, Sent Mail, and folders or wishing you could remember whether your AIM buddy suggested starving or feeding your cold. Click the swirl.
Take a gander at the results of a Google Desktop search for hacks. Notice that it found 16 email messages, 2 files, 1 chat, and 1 item in my IE browsing history matching my hacks query. As you can probably guess from the icons to the left of each result, the first three are an AIM chat, an HTML file (most likely from my browser's cache), and an email message. These are sorted by date, but you can easily make a switch to relevance by clicking the "Sort by relevance" link at the top-right of the results list.
Note that each of the following individual results is displayed in a manner appropriate to the content.
Click the "Chat with..." link to launch an AIM conversation with the person at hand.
Cached pages are presented in much the same manner as they are in the Google cache.
The various Reply, Reply to All, Forward, etc. links associated with an individual message result work--click them and the appropriate action will be taken by Outlook or Outlook Express.
Google Desktop search syntax
It just wouldn't be a Google search interface if there weren't special search syntax to go along with it.
The boolean
OR works as expected (e.g.
hacks OR snacks), as does negation (e.g.
hacks -evil).
filetype: operator restricts searches to only a particular type of file:
filetype:powerpoint or
filetype:ppt (.ppt being the PowerPoint file extension) both find only Microsoft PowerPoint files, while
filetype:word or
filetype:doc (.doc being the Word file extension) both restrict results to Microsoft Word documents.
Searching the Web
Now you'd think I hardly need to cover Googling... and you'd be right. But there's a little more to Googling via the Google Desktop than you might expect. Take a close look at the results of a Google search for
hacks shown in the next figure.
Come on back when you're through with that double take.
If you missed it, notice the new quick links: "27 results stored on your computer."
Yes, those are the self-same results (and then some, given my indexer was hard at work) returned in my earlier Google Desktop search of my local machine. As an added reminder, they're called out by that Google Desktop swirl. Click a local result and you'll end up in just the same place as before: all 27 results, an HTML page, or Microsoft Word document. Click any other quick link or search result, and they'll act in the same manner you'd expect any Google.com results to act.
Behind the scenes
Now, before you start worrying about the results of a local search--or indeed your local files--being sent off to Google, read on. What's actually going on is that the local Google Desktop server is intercepting any Google web searches, passing them on to Google.com in your stead, and running the same search against your computer's local index. It's then intercepting the Web search results as they come back from Google, pasting in local finds, and presenting it to you in your browser as a cohesive whole.
All work involving your local data is done on your computer. Neither your filenames nor your files themselves are ever sent on to Google.com.
For more on Google Desktop and privacy, right-click the Google Desktop taskbar swirl, select About, and click the Privacy link.
Twiddling knobs and setting preferences
There are various knobs to twiddle and preferences to set through the Google Desktop browser-based interface and taskbar swirl.
Set various preferences in the Google Desktop Preferences page. Click the Desktop Preferences link on the Google Desktop home page or any results page to bring up various settings you can adjust.
Hide your local results from sight when sharing Google web search results with a friend or colleague by clicking the Hide link next to any visible Google Desktop quick links. You can also turn Desktop quick link results on an off from the Google Desktop Preferences page.
Click the "Remove Results" link next to the Search Desktop button on the top right of any results page, and you'll be able to go through and remove particular items from Google Desktop index. Do note that if you open or view any of these items again, they'll once again be indexed and start showing up in search results.
Search, set preferences, check the status of your index, pause or resume indexing, quit Google Desktop, or browse the "About" docs by right-clicking the Google Desktop taskbar swirl and choosing an item from the menu
In evaluating the Google Desktop as an interface to finding needles in my personal haystack, one thing sticks in my mind: I stumbled across an old email message I was sure I'd lost.
This article will appear in the upcoming Google Hacks, 2nd Edition by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest.
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes some of which are actually good. Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, and instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books. Rael's programmatic pride and joy is the nimble, open source blogging application Blosxom, the principles of which you'll find in the Values of n philosophy and embodied in Stikkit: Little yellow notes that think.
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Rather stupid installer
2004-10-14 09:48:51 pixelgeek [View]
The application itself is tiny, but it'll consume about 500 MB of room on your hard drive
Actually it fails to install if you have less than 1GB free and will only install on your system partition.
So if you have multiple partitions, don't like installing apps to your system drive or have less than 1GB free on it then you are SOL.
Rather stupid if you ask me.
Google Search
2004-10-14 12:15:33 GaryPotter [View]
Excellent write-up.
I am *crying* I don't have this for Mac OS X
2004-10-14 14:08:44 alderete [View]
Wow. From your article, they've done an absolutely beautiful job with this. I am deeply sad that it's not available (yet?) for Mac OS X.
Hopefully Spotlight will give me some of this, and make it easy for Google to do a Mac OS X version that gives me all of it.
But Blinkz does all of that!
2004-10-14 14:09:01 abhijit_nandy [View]
Blinkx (http://www.blinkx.com) came out with a desktop search tool a few months ago and that does all that Google does anyway. And far more unobtrusively! First, I don't have to open a search window and second, I don't have to use Internet Explorer!
But Blinkx does all of that!
2004-10-14 14:09:08 abhijit_nandy [View]
Blinkx (http://www.blinkx.com) came out with a desktop search tool a few months ago and that does all that Google does anyway. And far more unobtrusively! First, I don't have to open a search window and second, I don't have to use Internet Explorer!
Google Desktop
2004-10-14 15:23:50 firstname.lastname@example.com [View]
The cached aspect sold it for me. And it's really, really fast which makes it even more desirable. Finally! I can find that obscure passage that I remember verbatim but, for the life of me, I just don't remember what the damn filename was!
Boy, you're pretty easily excited.
2004-10-14 15:32:58 LudwigX [View]
Doesn't do pdfs? Doesn't do anything in zips? When's rev 2?
Google Deskbar integrates with this beautifully
2004-10-14 17:59:02 rsoderberg [View]
I've introduced Firefox + Google Deskbar + Google Desktop to a friend of mine, and after searching for 'mom' from the taskbar and finding emails from their mother, they were jumping up and down with happiness. Full points to Google :)
local and network drives??
2004-10-14 20:23:59 agoober [View]
So if this can only be installed on your system drive (bummer since I only have 300mb free on that drive), is it still able to search other drives/partitions? What about network drives? This would be great for networks where users have data spread out all over the place.
What a hack..
2004-10-15 03:02:03 otto [View]
I have no doubt that Apple's upcoming Spotlight search technology will blow Google Desktop away easily. First, it will be extensible, letting me write custum plugins to work with additional file types, and second, I hope I'll be able to use it as a search index for websites hosted on my MacOS machine.
2004-10-15 04:55:58 mpd1929 [View]
It seems not to work if I use webwasher.
Is it possible to install it, without having to remove webwasher?
Why is the article full of JPEGs?
2004-10-15 08:51:16 sceen1 [View]
I really wasn't expecting to have to load over 100KB for each screenshot I clicked on! Why are the images not in PNG format, where they would be at most 20KB or so for full quality?
Google Desktop as LAN search tool?
2004-10-15 11:17:38 cdevers [View]
So Google has finally offered a form of desktop search, but it only works on localhost. This seems reasonable for the average home user, but an obstacle to setting up something even cooler: a slick Google powered local LAN search engine. Think about it: even on a mostly Mac / Linux network, you can set up one Windows box that has Samba mounted your main network shares with the Google software, and through the magic of HTTP reverse proxying, your whole LAN can have a nice Google search interface into your local documentation.
So. The obvious thing to try then is to set up Apache (or Squid, or similar software) running as a reverse proxy on that machine.
The first thing I did when finding out about this tool was to install it on a spare Windows machine with a couple of Samba mounted network drives (I'm hoping that it will index the content of these drives, but I can't tell yet), then set up Apache as a reverse proxy to provide the indexed material as a URL that would be widely accessible on the local LAN.
So far I can't quite get it to work -- I can connect from another computer (a Mac running Safari), but first I get complaints about running the wrong browser, and then I get errors about invalid URLs that apparently aren't being passed through. Still though, it seems certain that this should be doable, and if it can be done, this would beat the living snot out of the current ht://Dig based search engine we're using.
Google is right to make this tool inaccessible from non-localhost access -- the average home user does not need to have the contents of their hard drive set up with an easy to browse, globally accessible search interface. And I can see where Google wouldn't want this to work on LANs either -- it would cut into their business of selling search appliances. But come on, this is right on the cusp of working as it is, and it's only in beta. If Google doesn't provide a way to turn on access for local (e.g. 192.168.x.x) addresses, I'm sure that Apache or something like it can be configured to do this.
And then this will become the hugest P2P network
2004-10-16 02:31:16 phauly [View]
When millions of users will have Desktop.google.com installed, Google will simply release a new version in which the user can check a box and say "Share the files in my disk" (maybe only files in a certain directory). This will create in a second an enormous P2P (peer-to-peer) network, in which you can search for files directly on other users' disks.
See paolo's post
Google Desktop vs Lookout (Lookoutsoft.com)
2004-10-16 10:32:25 Yoav [View]
I have been using Lookout for quite some time now. Apparently it does what Google Desktop does but as an Outlook add-in. It indexes both personal folders as well as Exchange public folders, local files as well as files residing on the LAN (other servers, NAS, etc.)
For corporate users this would be a better solution I believe.
Similar search program.
2004-10-18 22:40:46 EHewitt [View]
If you think Google Desktop search is useful, here's a link to a program that I use much more often. It replaces the start menu, desktop icons, and Windows Explorer with an instantaneous (tenths of a second) search! Plus, its integrated with Windows, allowing access to copy/paste, drag and drop, right click menu, etc.
Its called ESP, check it out at: http://www.espsw.com
All File Types?
2004-10-22 01:37:29 paraplex [View]
I'm really enjoying this Google Desktop software (who knew i still had all these old photos) however i'm encountering some problems...
For example if i have a file called "Oreilly83" and do a search for "oreilly" it won't return the jpg unless i rename the file with a space before the number (which i won't)
also, I can't change my prefs to search for files outside of the few multimedia filetypes known to google... which is a real nuisance.. I can't use it to manage all my files so it will not become integral to my day to day operations...
theres no link to open up a windows explorer window of the parent folder, and additionally I can't highlight and paste location information if they are within certain folders (EG if they are in the "my documents" folder, the google search doesn't list the location as "C:\my documents" but just as "My documents"... so i can't know which drive its on...
Its still in beta i know, but these are the things i'd like to see them address
Google Desktop Search problem
2004-10-22 08:51:35 Portland42 [View]
for 2 days Google Desktop Search was great - until somehow it got corrupted. Am I the only one in the world this happed to? I tried to uninstall it but am left with a file "GoogleDesktopNetwork1.dll" wich I cannot remove. When trying to reinstall Google Dektop Search I get message that 'this version is already installed'! Can someone please help me out?
Google search from a remote machine
2004-10-22 09:12:09 arnaud.sahuguet [View]
Here is a simple to access the search tool from another machine.
To be able to send a query and get back the results, you simply need to configure Apache as a reverse proxy (see below).
Google search runs as a web server.
It acts as a web server to return the search results, but it DOES NOT serve the local files. From the Google search screen on your browser, when you click on a file link, a request is sent to the local web server (port 4664) but nothing is returned. The google search program spawns a new process to display the file, lauching Word, Powerpoint, etc.
To be able to click on the results and view them (they are local files, remember), you need to have a way to serve the files from the local machine to the remote machine. There are many solutions for this: mount the local filesystem remotely, have Apache server those files, etc.
Here is my setting:
- google search running on host1 where the files are
- apache running on host1 as a reverse proxy
- apache running on host2 where the host1 file system is mounted
- client accessing the google search service through host1:80
In the Apache config, you need to:
- enable the various proxy modules
- enable mod_rewrite
- tell apache to reverse proxy request to localhost on port 4664
- tell apache to rewrite google search redir requests (prefixed by /redir?url= in the link) to a web server that can display the document.
Note that local documents are using Windows path separator. The path needs to be rewritten. To do that, I am using a simple Perl script that rewrite the path and returns an HTTP Location redirect.
Apache config:
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4664/
<Location /redir>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule url=([^&]+) http://another-web-server/cgi-bin/show_file.cgi?$1 [R,L,NE]
The show_file script is given below:
use URI::Escape;
my $file = uri_unescape($ENV{QUERY_STRING});
$file =~ s/\\/\//g; # to replace \ by /
$file =~ s/\+/ /g; # to replace + by space
print "Location: http://another-web-server/$file\n\n";
One last thing. When accessing google search, you need to pass some special parameters in the initial query: e.g. &s=.
And it works. The only thing that does not work is the access to "cached results". This require to rewrite the HTML page returned by google search. This can be done using mod_proxy_html (see this article for more info.
Teller plõksib: fotod, mõtted, viited Kes sobrab su kõvakettal?
2004-10-23 09:54:27 DrHoliday [View]
Google on nõus su kõvakettalt asju otsima: Google Desktop. Sest see on ju ammu teada, et Windowsi enda otsing imeb sajaga. Ise ei ole proovinud ja vist ei proovi kah, leian kõik vajaliku piisavalt kiiresti üles (v.a. fotod), kuid kes rohkem teada soovib, siis Kottke ja Rael Dornfest valgustavad. Aga... Zack Bagga!
Google Desktop--network drive indexing
2004-10-27 00:35:54 techfoundation [View]
If GDS indexes all files stored on my network drives ONLY if I have openned them... how about a VBA or small app that would sequentially open all of my files recursively a la h:\user\+ sub-dir?
2004-11-01 07:03:37 N6FB [View]
Google Desktop indexing anomalies
2004-11-04 05:14:48 RegAubry [View]
Link to my blog detailing my continuing QA of the indexing:
I just don't get how it can so thoroughly index my Outlook Express mail on install, and then fail to do so 24 hours later. It's a little disheartening.
Google Desktop Firefox Plugin
2005-01-25 08:49:28 amwmedia [View]
Hey guys, I wrote a script that will auto-generate a Firefox search plugin for GDS. Makes it much easier to get to your information.
Check it out.
- Andrew
Google Desktop Clipboard plusin
2005-02-17 17:47:15 braysoft [View]
Hey,guys,I wrote a program named Clip History.
Clip History 1.0 is a add-on to Google Desktop Search to make it possible to index your clipboard history.
url: http://www.braysoft.com
My own plugins
2005-04-26 00:30:41 longhorned [View]
Hi, I've created a few plugins for GDS myself, you can download them here: (they're free)
C++ file indexer
Yahoo! Archive indexer
Java source indexer
And more coming soon. Enjoy!
HELP Please - Refreshing the Index
2005-05-12 18:52:29 TechGermz [View]
Hi Guys
I am very sure it is a great tool, and am very happy with the searches.
I just came across a weakness though, I am not sure if there is a workaround, or if I am handling it incorrectly, or if it is fixed in a post-Beta release (I'm still on the Beta)!!
I was looking for a particular text file on my PC. It satisfactorily found the file, but when I tried to click the link to access it, it came up with the following message:
The following file cannot be found:
C:\Documents and Settings\Karm\My Documents\Bigpond Stuff\BigpondADSL.txt
This may happen if you renamed or deleted this file.
Now, I do understand that it is an application that constantly needs to run in the background, and I may have switched it OFF a couple of times, and I DID move the file across to a different location while GDS was turned OFF, but still shouldn't it go back and look for changes somehow!!
I tried looking hard for a REFRESH INDEX button to possibly assist me in Re-Indexing, but couln't find anything even close to it. The only option I can think of is uninstalling & reinstalling GDS!! I don't mind doing it for once, but shouldn't there be a better work-around, in case I DO have to turn the GDS off for a while in the future??
Please advise if you have a solution to this, I'll now go ahead and try installing the post-beta release to see if the problem is fixed!! Thanx...
Another useful enhancements for Google Desktop Search
2005-08-17 10:22:04 TrieTech [View]
We have just released our tool that extends Google Desktop Search with archives, mht support and customizable GUI shell for search.
I would like to hear your comments and suggestions on our forum.
Visit http://www.trietech.com/gdstools.php
for more information about this tool.
Regards, Maxim.
TrieTech - Enhancements for Google Desktop Search
Does it come with ads?
2005-08-18 17:18:36 Zedper [View]
That would be beyond bad. In fact I had to change my blog provider to this one (http://www.livelogcity.com/users/cin/) because my previous one would put annoying advertising on it. I hope Google doesn't get too greedy. I saw that already they have added an extra adwords spot on their search results.
Does it come with ads?
2005-08-18 17:22:21 Zedper [View]
That would be beyond bad. In fact I had to change my blog provider to
this one (http://www.livelogcity.com/users/cin/)because my previous one would put annoying advertising on it. I hope Google doesn't get too greedy. I saw that already they have added an extra adwords spot on their search results.
The dark side of Google Desktop
2006-01-10 14:11:44 dlaub [View]
1) Version 1 had a 4 GB max. When you hit that limit, no new index entries will be made. This size is not adjustable.
2) Version 2 issues
a) On my 40 GB drive, the Google Desktop index is already taking up 7 GB.
b) there is no way to limit the index size
c) there is no way to analyze what is taking up "most" of the space - is it Emails? is it Web history?
Knowing about inner details
2006-05-09 21:20:15 nabsol [View]
Can anyone know about inner details of google desktop. i.e. 1. How it sets up its local web server. I dont think so that it needs IIS.
2. Which technology it uses.
Plugin idea
2007-02-28 14:46:58 gp84rules [View]
Google released a gadget to view your delicious bookmarks in the sidebar. However, I use delicious, but I don't use the sidebar. Is there a way for gd to index my delicious bookmarks?
Bad Software
2008-04-23 06:33:31 kaosad [View]
One good reason why you SHOULDN�T install Google Desktop.
1) It consumes a large portion of your hard disk space behind your back!
Here is my experience. I got a huge hard disk space and at one point I got only nearly 3 Gigs left � after downloading (pretty large files), browsing, searching the web for a while I found to my amazement, my hard drive was full. Okay, I first thought I downloaded a lot lately. But then on close auditing, I downloaded only slightly less than 1 Gig. Where was the other 2 Gigs?
As you might have guessed by now, I found Google Desktop has taken it up�storing what sort of info on your machine I am not sure, but I delete them all in the Google folder.
Installation directory
2008-08-27 22:15:45 Samapathy [View]
Is it possible to change the installation directory or pass the path as the parameter while installing the Google desktop search?
Also, is it possible to search for documents containing specific patterns like xx-xxx where 'x' could be any number or alphabet?