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PERS has released its latest "PERS By The Numbers (September 2008)". You can download a copy here. If you study it closely, you can see some evidence of the recent downturns in the stock market. PERS assures members and retirees in a note today that it has a handle on the current situation even though it is a difficult time.
As I've noted before, PERS has been salting away reserves since 2003 and was about 112% funded at the end of last year. Of course, the current downturn (uptick?) on the stock market, the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, the scandals involving credit swap derivatives, etc, will almost assuredly have a negative effect on the PERS Fund. This has led to some testy debate between the two candidates running for the State Treasurer's office. I haven't decided who to support, although the more I hear from each candidate, the less impressed I am with them. They both know that the PERS Fund is the largest chunk of cash the state manages. And the State Treasurer is responsible for managing those funds. You get your choice between Ben Westlund, a Republican in 2003, an independent in 2005, and a Democrat now, and Allen Alley, a Republican to the core, who worked as an economic adviser to Ted Kulongoski during his first term. Kulongoski has endorsed Westlund. This *should* be a difficult choice for PERS members/retirees. I encourage you all to study their positions carefully and take the opportunity to ask them questions if you meet them. It may help you decide.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time The Conqueror
For those of you wondering what the Oregon Investment Council is doing to shore up the PERS Fund against the current Wall Street meltdown, the answer is pretty much the same as before. Ron Schmitz, from the Treasury, told the Oregonian that the investment mix they have is solid and that their losses this year are manageable without going into "risk managment." When the OIC met yesterday, it didn't discuss the meltdown at all in its morning meeting. But in the afternoon, they brought in a economic expert who talked about the causes of the current crisis. He attributed the crisis to "excess leverage" and equated it to "pouring lead into the stream that everyone drinks from". He supports the bailout plan before congress, but with some measures to protect homeowners from losing their homes in foreclosure.
Time will tell whether the OIC's decisions bear fruit, but the OIC's track record is certainly admirable up to this point. I don't think this year is going to be good for any accounts without a guarantee, and those with a guarantee will chew up enough of the reserve that the PERS Board will have a ready-made excuse to not pay anyone over the guarantee for another long stretch of time. I think they were considering a possible payment over 8% in this current year had Wall Street performed like it had since 2003. But alas, the sticky terms of HB 2001, passed in 2003 make this year's result dial the clock back again to the beginning so that PERS will have to replenish the reserves again when the market goes up, and hold the reserves stable for 3 consecutive years. As I've predicted before, HB 2001 has always been diabolical and pretty much guarantees nothing more than the guaranteed rate, whatever it is, for the rest of the Tier 1 members' life expectancies. Time conquers all.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Beat Goes On
I am trying something different today -- live blogging. I am sitting outside Kantor's courtroom chatting with Robinson attorney Jim Coon. Everyone is shaking hands and passing around swine flu germs. Kantor is, as usual, running behind. Coon seems to be outnumbered four to one. It is he against 4 wideboys.
Unbelievably PERS is arguing how difficult it would be to undo the changes already implemented. Kantor is expressing disbelief at PERS argument. Malkin is arguing that they just don't have the money or staff and claiming it would take more than a year. The poverty argument is heart-tugging. Did you know that no PERS retiree has suffered.
Kantor just chewed out Malkin for submitting proposed orders in an inappropriate format.
Coon is up. Kantor is questioning where the money would come from?
Kantor ultimately rules in favor of the stay on the grounds that the are too many balls in the air and too much going on to bind PERS to refunding money now.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Life Sentence
In a fit of symmetry and anticlimax, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld HB 2004 (actuarial tables) as not violating the terms of the Henderson case of 1978. For those around in 1978, the 9th Circuit held that PERS could not use separate actuarial tables for men and for women, despite the different actuarial life expectancies of the two sexes. From that point forward, PERS developed "blended" actuarial tables that combined life expectancies of men and women. There was also a stipulation that PERS would not be able to change the actuarial tables back in the future. On that basis, the PERS Coalition challenged the 2003 Legislative effort to force PERS to change the actuarial tables to reflect more modern mortality data. In HB 2004, the Legislature put into statute rules that require PERS to examine actuarial tables every two years and update them, if needed, on January 1 of odd-numbered years (legislative years coincidentally). The PERS Coalition first challenged this in Strunk, but also filed in Federal Court on the grounds that the newly enacted statute violated the terms of the Henderson case of 1978. This case was first heard by a single Appeals Court Judge, then a panel of three Appeals Court judges, and finally by a larger group of 9th Circuit Judges. A few days ago, the 9th Circuit handed down its opinion that gives the Legislature and, through it, PERS the right to change actuarial tables as spelled out in HB 2004 so long as they preserve the blended nature of the tables. As this has been happening, this is really no news at all. Nevertheless, those of you hanging by a thread hoping that somehow, some way, those nasty actuarial tables enacted in 2003 would go away. Sorry. Your life sentence was not commuted.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Shelter From The Storm
In a followup to the post of several days ago, Ley Garnett of the Oregon Treasury, emailed to correct an error he made in providing me with information about PERS' holdings in Freddie/Fannie. As it turns out, Ley reports (consistent with State Treasurer Randal Edwards) that the PERS fund only holds 0.2% in Freddie/Fannie stock - an almost trivial amount in a $60+ billion portfolio. And it is also the case that the PERS fund has weathered the latest round of slashing and gashing on Wall Street better than most. The reports I am reading (not from Treasury) suggest that the PERF is only *down* about 6% for the year so far with 3+ months to go. I can say that the Oregon Investment Council has done far better than I have. They have a lot more money to diversify with. [Help this poor soul out. Buy Apple stock. :-) ]
Monday, September 08, 2008
I Threw It All Away
The meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have given me pause. I'm in the process of trying to determine how much exposure the PERS Fund has to these two dismal giants and how their government takeover will affect the value of the Fund. As soon as Treasury lets me know, you'll be the first to know it here. These two housing funds are so large that any meltdown there is likely to have some significant ramifications in the value of any fund that holds them in sizeable quantities. Should know soon and will post when I get the answer.
P.S. Ley Garnett responded with a very helpful, if concerning answer. The total amount of the PERS portfolio invested in Fannie/Freddie is about $2.7 billion, mostly all in fixed income portfolios. As of the close of business today, that represents about 4% of the fund. I guess the question of the day should be, should we be worried?


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U mean Miami vs Boston? Kinda knew that one. Was always the question, come crunch time, who brings it up? Nash or Kobe. If it's Kobe, he's probably taking the shot, taking Nash out of the offense. If it's Nash, he's still old and tiny, lost a step.... Tree Gasol is positioning challenged, especially against young legs. Howard is the same guy, big, brutal, and very good before crunch time. Start of preseason, I was amazed at the speed and athletics of the Dallas second stringers...the fastest in ball.
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garvan1 tell that to schzios
csselement Perhaps the "mudras" are simply shared from another culture that also used entheogens and had a similar effect as opposed to picking it out of the 'collective unconscious'.
Anon1696 That is also my hypothesis.
I believe some psychedelics strip natural biases of the mind so that each person in the same environment during a trip experiences something VERY similar.But, people are claiming telepathy.
The direct communication between minds.
I am skeptical of this and would like evidence of it before I blindly believe in it. -
ikkuj Most communication is done through body language and expression anyway. I think picking up on those vibes as well as being in a similar state of mind would cause similar thoughts to crop up or create the experience of sharing thoughts
Anon1696 I understand that.
I mean the telepathy and other phenomenon. -
ikkuj It's pretty clear how it works. These drugs cause a loss of integration of information in the brain, causing different areas of experience to overlap and changing perception from that of "reality." But you are still experiencing reality, because reality is only a subjective account of your experiences. You can never be totally objective because of your perceptions. By altering the way your perceptions are working, you experience reality from a new perspective
Anon1696 I understand this.
How many times will I have to reaply to comments like these…?All I am saying is that empirical evidence is more important to me. I can experience something all I want, but I need evidence on how it works.
Anyone can be fooled.
I will experience what I experience and I will be skeptical. Having empirical evidence to back up that experience will be even better.Fuckin A, my explanations get worse every time.
ikkuj So I take it you have never tripped before? When you do you will realize that although empiricism is great for science it doesn't really allow you to get to the core of philosophy and understand what PERCEPTION is really all about
After all, reality is a subjective experience based on perception, empirical evidence is evidence that is perceived, but once you start tinkering around with how you perceive things you will even begin to question that
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Anon1696 Well maybe not ego, but some common distraction was probably stripped.
And then you reacted, as humans, to your surroundings you reacted the same and to a rhythm.I guess I overspecified with the word "ego".
theoriginalanomaly Ego stripping I have had. This was more like all being present in the moment together. Present moment awareness x3. Ego's were alive and well. Although it was difficult to gauge whose feelings were whose… but possibly we all had the same feelings. Thank you for the compliment.
Anon1696 Thank you very much for taking the time to describe this, and so beautifully i might add.
This is the kind of description I expected; I would like to experience one of these "psychgasms", lol.
I would love to see some brain activity tests done, or something.
Maybe something happens like: the drugs strips the ego off a little bit so all you experience is basic natural reactions to common surroundings. So all the people tripping in the same area experience similar things.
Peace be with you.
theoriginalanomaly It was highly sexually charged. In sex, the blood pumping into the organs creates a pulse… When you align or heart rates and orgasm together it is similar to reaching a synchronized frequency. This is sharing a moment sexually. Although we had/did not engage in any physical process of synchronization… we still had the same feeling. After I got over the awkwardness it was an orgasmic experience (not physically).
theoriginalanomaly Dani… probably the most sensitive of us. Said, it kind of feels like an orgy. I said, is that my feeling or yours? Lauren was giggling at us. Like I said it was less reading or hearing thoughts and more feelings. Me and lauren then played the guitar while dani danced. It was incredible to feel what all three of us were feeling at the same time. It grew apart after about an hour.
theoriginalanomaly We all kind of realized this at the same time. And Dani… said "do you guys feel this"… I said yes, I guess we are all present in this moment. Though it was not physically sexual… it felt kind of like an orgy. Where you cannot determine who is who including yourself. I don't recall any thoughts that I could read like an email or anything. Mostly feelings. And I remember trying to hold back the feeling of an orgy because they were my friends and I knew that they could feel what I was feeling
theoriginalanomaly Me and two friends on acid… We were in a house, and had taken 4 hits a piece. I am male and my friends were both female. I was good friends with them in a non-sexual way. A little less then an hour into it… We were in my room… and the best way to describe it is that I felt something slimy creep into my awareness. I guess my friends did too. We all looked at each other. When we did this we realized that it was each other that slid into this collective awareness.
Anon1696 I find it unique and important.
I think in DMT trips that people experience aliens or a foreign kind of humanoid because it tinkers with the part of our brain that deals with facial/body recognition and social interaction.
It's all a mystery, but we can solve it someday.
I'd love to find out why trips are similar, but anecdotal evidence isn't enough.Could you give me an example?
And if you experienced telepathy, could you provide an anecdote? -
d0peY12 well don't you find it odd that so many people explain some of their experiences so similarly.
BigFishingShop Ya cute little giggle has brightened up my whole house lol :)) I hope someday to meet a good woman, she should be just like you. The languages you are perceiving is the love energy, it's all knowledge as energy, peace.
blakeinkzoo Right!- I never truly understood Christ until I witnessed the crucifition in a disassociative K state. I am me and we are WE.
FriendTron450 ok, seriously, she made up about half the things she said in this video. unreliable reference
Anon1696 I don't mean 'hallucinate' as in "See what doesn't exist", because that's impossible. All I mean by 'hallucinate' is to experience a different reality or to see things differently.
"it is alwys testable with other people."
Then I will believe in the test and not solely the subjective experience.
dervishmadwhirler Isant it obvious that you shouldnt just only believe hal;luicinations; but you will find that the nature of the so-called hallucinations on good psychedelics, is far from haluucination…it is alwys testable with other people. Experiential evidence form a large group of people is in my eyes empirical evidence.
Anon1696 This is getting really tedious…
My point is that it's illogical to believe in everything you experience and to not believe in alternatives.
When I trip, I will experience something. That experience isn't proof of anything except that I experienced something.If there is a logical explanation behind it, I will find it out and believe in it more than if I ONLY experienced it.


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The most ruthless soccer players often use their hands or elbows or knees to rough up opposing players. The most reckless — or dirtiest — might even use their cleats. Then there is Luis Suárez.
Suárez, the Uruguayan striker who has emerged as one of the best players in the world over the past year, is a biter. And, it seems, a serial one.
For the third time in his career, Suárez is facing potential punishment for appearing to sink his teeth into an opponent. This time, it happened on the biggest soccer stage of all, the World Cup, during Uruguay's 1-0 victory over Italy on Tuesday. Late in the second half, Suárez bumped into Giorgio Chiellini, an Italian defender, while jockeying for position in the penalty area and then dropped his head into Chiellini's shoulder. Chiellini immediately recoiled as both fell to the ground.
The scene was surreal: The referee — a Mexican named Marco Rodríguez, whose nickname is Dracula because of his resemblance to a version of that character on Mexican television — did not notice and paid no mind to Chiellini's attempts to pull his collar aside to show what appeared to be bite marks on the back of his left shoulder. Then, only moments later, Uruguay scored the only goal of the game, benefiting from an earlier red card, for a cleat-first challenge to the leg, that left Italy a man down after the 59th minute. The 1-0 victory simultaneously eliminated Italy from the tournament and made certain that the Suárez incident would become an unappetising reference point in the annals of soccer history.
A tournament that produced Diego Maradona's Hand of God goal in 1986 — when Maradona punched in a crucial goal with his fist against England — and Zinedine Zidane's head-butt in the 2006 final now has a new infamous body part: Suárez's incisors. After the match, questions abounded: What was Suárez thinking? What will happen to him now? And, perhaps most pointedly, after two previous instances like this, how in the world could Suárez have done it again?
This much is sure: Uruguay will play a Round of 16 match on Saturday, and it is very possible that Suárez will not be involved. FIFA, the governing body for world soccer, has a disciplinary panel that can issue suspensions for on-field actions that are not seen by the referee. FIFA announced late Tuesday that it had opened disciplinary proceedings for Suárez, and that he and Uruguay had until Wednesday evening to "provide their position and any documentary evidence" in support of Suárez.
The longest suspension for an on-field action at the World Cup is eight games, to Mauro Tassotti of Italy in 1994 for breaking the nose of a Spanish player with his elbow. Last week, FIFA suspended Cameroon midfielder Alex Song for three games for an elbow that led to his ejection from a loss to Croatia. Suárez can probably expect more.
More immediately, the post-game reactions were predictably inflamed. The Italian coach, Cesare Prandelli, began his news conference by announcing his resignation after his team's early exit but quickly pivoted to condemning Suárez, saying that although he did not see the bite when it took place, he "did see the bite marks on Chiellini's shoulder."
"It's a shame," Prandelli said. "It's a real shame." Suárez denied biting him, despite photographs of Chiellini's shoulder circulating publicly and seeming to indicate otherwise. "I had contact with his shoulder, nothing more," he said. Chiellini said, "Suárez is a sneak, and he gets away with it because FIFA wants their stars to play in the World Cup." Óscar Tabárez, the Uruguayan coach, also said he had not seen the incident (nor any video or photographs of it afterward), but he leapt to Suárez's defence anyway, vehemently attacking journalists for, in his opinion, unfairly targeting Suárez. Tabárez added: "This is a football World Cup, not about morality, cheap morality."
Suárez's first biting incident came in 2010, when he was playing for the Dutch club Ajax. In that instance, he was suspended for seven games for biting an opponent on the neck, prompting a Dutch newspaper to call him the Cannibal of Ajax. He apologised in a video posted online and shortly after the incident was sold to Liverpool, a top club in England, vowing to display better behaviour.
Alas, the biting continued. In April 2013, Suárez was caught on video — but, again, not by the referee — biting Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea. This time, Suárez was barred for 10 games, though he argued the customary three-match suspension for violent conduct was sufficient. When it handed down its sanction, the three-member disciplinary panel made a point to criticise Suárez for not appreciating the "seriousness" of his actions. In combination with several other controversial incidents, including an earlier suspension for racially abusing a black opponent and a perceived penchant for diving more than the average player, Suárez saw his reputation plummet.
This past year, while having one of his best goal-scoring seasons for Liverpool, Suárez also sought to repair his image. In an interview with The New York Times in May, conducted in part while he rocked his sleeping infant son, he said he wanted to be a better example for his two young children. He was different now, he said. The petulance was in the past. Referring to his previous biting episodes, he said: "Obviously, it's not the most attractive image that I can have for myself. But that's not what I want to be remembered for. I want to do things right. I really, really do."
Instead, it seems he has plunged himself back to a familiar nadir, and it may have ended his World Cup. Zidane, of France, was suspended for three games for head-butting the Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final, though that penalty was of little meaning; Zidane was ejected from the game after the head-butt, and he followed through with his plans to retire from international soccer after that tournament. He never played for France again.
If FIFA considers Suárez's history as a repeat offender, his punishment could be severe. Uruguay, a semifinalist in 2010, has at most four games left in the World Cup. According to Tabárez, the Uruguayan coach, losing Suárez would be difficult because Suárez "is an important person within the group." For the moment, however, Suárez has to deal with only the snarky justice dispensed on social media. Evander Holyfield, the former boxer who infamously had part of his ear bitten off by Mike Tyson, wrote on Twitter, "I guess any part of the body is up for eating."
That was only topped, perhaps, by the official Twitter account of McDonald's Uruguay, which wrote to Suárez, "If you feel hungry, come take a bite of a Big Mac."
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Avengers: Age of Ultron ending analysis with spoilers
N.B. This article contains SPOILERS for Marvel's latest film Avengers: Age of Ultron. If you haven't seen it yet, then do so because it's awesome (also, there's a scene shortly into the end credits, but not at the very end).
This article will not focus on the end credits scene, but rather the ending of the movie itself, which is arguably one of the best scenes. The intention is not to undermine the beginning, middle, and end structure of the film by looking impatiently to the future (because Joss Whedon hates that). The film actually offers great closure to its storyline. Rather, the intention is to analyse the characters and their character dynamics, as put forward by this one final (non-tag) scene in particular.
The first thing to say about this scene is:
Perfect ending is perfect.
It's awesomely comic book-y, as with much of the film, and Alan Silvestri's Avengers theme from the first film is the perfect way to end the film, kick off a new team, and celebrate the 'assembling' aspect of the Avengers.
The scene essentially just shows that there's a new team line-up for the Avengers (something that Joss Whedon has said was one of his favourite things about the comics), comprising Captain America, Black Widow, War Machine, Falcon, Vision, and Scarlet Witch. And then Captain America says, "Avengers..." and draws breath for the next word, but then it cuts straight to credits, with "Written and directed by Joss Whedon". (It could have been annoying ('Avengers Assemble! He was meant to say Avengers Assemble!'), but instead is just funny, subverting our expectations amusingly, like the ending of an episode of Buffy, for instance.
Perhaps it could also reflect on Cap and Widow's conversation leading up to that point, which implies that the new line-up still have Some Assembly Required (in the words of the working title of the movie). (Cap: "We've got some good hitters, but they're not a team."; Widow: "We'll beat them into shape.") Perhaps also some more Avengers could be added at some point (and almost certainly will be for the Russo brothers' Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2; after all, they'll be fighting Thanos, so they'll need all the help they can get), but hopefully before then, we'll get to see just this team in action, being awesome and gelling as a team. (I would totally watch that (ridiculously expensive and unfeasible to schedule) TV show.)
Analysing the line-up of the new team itself, it's actually pretty great, both in terms of characters (from an audience point of view) and superpowers (from a practical, in-universe point of view). First off, Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans) is noble and a natural leader. Having defeated Hydra twice, and (at least kind of) led the Avengers against Loki and now Ultron, he's got all the requisite experience. Not only that, but in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Steve Rogers is clearly relaxing into the roles of both Avenger and leader, quipping with regularity. This newfound frequency of wit is a refreshing and vindicating change from his 'lost puppy-ness' of being a man out of time in The Avengers / Avengers Assemble and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, effective as that was for those stories.
In Captain America's Scarlet Witch-induced fear-flashback, 1940s Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) tried to persuade him to join her so that they can go home, but this is not an option any more. This may have left Cap feeling adrift and homesick, though he doesn't really show it, but at least by the end of the movie, he moves on and accepts his place in the modern world. (As he tells Tony Stark, "Settling down, starting a family? The guy who wanted those things went into the ice 70 years ago. The guy who came out...is someone different." Tony Stark asks, "Are you okay?" (as he's getting into his sports car, ready to drive away, implying that he only cares, say, 65% or so), to which Cap responds, "Yeah. I'm home." Captain America's home is with the Avengers; which is a great example of Joss Whedon's favourite theme of found family.)
Secondly, Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), the only other returning Avenger from the first film in the new line-up ending Avengers: Age of Ultron. In this film, she also has an arc of coming to terms with her Avenger-ness, which is one of the things that makes her Cap's perfect second-in-command. She told Bruce Banner that she had a dream, one of those dreams that seems normal while you're in it, but when you wake up, you realise it was just a dream. The audience thinks that she's talking about her Scarlet Witch-induced nightmare flashback, but then she goes on to say that the dream was thinking she was an Avenger, anything more than the assassin they made her to be. Sadness.
But then, she heeds the lesson of Hawkeye's (Jeremy Renner) speech to Scarlet Witch, accepting her despite what she's done, and offering her the choice to be an Avenger. Black Widow wasn't present during that scene, but obviously Hawkeye and Black Widow have some kind of telepathy going on. And also possibly time travel, if that scene took place after Black Widow decided to turn Bruce Banner all Hulky. Hawkeye and Black Widow are super-powered spies, they can probably do that kind of stuff.
Anyway, after Bruce frees Natasha, she tries to get him to join the fight, while he argues he can't be Hulky around civilians. She tells him she adores him, kisses him, and then pushes him off a cliff, making him turn into Hulk. "But I need the other guy," she says. They go into battle with Black Widow riding on the back of the leaping Hulk. Awesome Avenger teamwork. Awesome awesome awesome! (Sorry, got lost in analysis just there.)
What's more, Cap and Natasha became friends over the course of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, working together to bring down Hydra (and several Helicarriers).
And let's not forget Sam Wilson / Falcon (Anthony Mackie), who has a similar sense of nobility to Steve Rogers. The three of them have honed a great friendship group and working relationship in Captain America; The Winter Soldier, which is a great thing to build on for the newly formed Avengers team dynamic. Hopefully the other team members will also mesh as well.
Colonel James 'Rhodey' Rhodes / War Machine (Don Cheadle) seems a fitting addition to the team, with his buddy With Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) leaving it. On a tactical level, he also has a flying suit of armour, so brings similar hardware to bear on the Avengers' future battles. As a character, while Rhodey does have a desire to prove himself, it's probably mostly because Tony keeps trying to one-up him, and Rhodey has nowhere near Tony's massive ego. This change could actually be good for team stability, since Rhodey probably wouldn't challenge Captain America unnecessarily (at least, not until Captain America: Civil War shakes things up—after all, Rhodey did used to work for the government as Iron Patriot), and it's very unlikely that Rhodey would design a robot that would try to end the world.
Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) became an Avenger in the final battle of Avengers: Age of Ultron, as per Hawkeye's speech. ("You step out that door, you're an Avenger.") As such, she has a broadly similar arc to Black Widow, leaving past angst behind in order to become a hero. Of course, Scarlet Witch's arc is complicated by the fact that she then takes revenge against Ultron for killing her brother Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver, by literally ripping Ultron's heart out. Thus, Wanda goes from avenger to Avenger to avenger. Contrary to the name, vengeance is not the best lifestyle for a superhero team assembled to save the world; particularly not with Captain America leading it. Wanda will probably have a lot more angst to process in future films (starting with Captain America: Civil War, in which she's been confirmed to appear).
Vision (Paul Bettany), who could otherwise be referred to as flying robot Chaucer from A Knight's Tale, became an Avenger the moment he casually picked up Thor's (Chris Hemsworth) hammer Mjolnir and handed it to him, oblivious to the significance as the rest of the (unworthy, as we saw earlier) Avengers look on dumbfoundedly. It's one of the best moments in the movie.
Paul Bettany's mannered but understated performance conveys the nobility and (in this case, admirable) naivety of Vision. His cape is a direct homage to Thor's, he's worthy of lifting Mjolnir, and he can fly. Vision is a worthy successor to Thor as a member of the Avengers. As Thor says, "He can lift the hammer, he can keep the Mindstone." Cap, Thor, and Tony all agree that the Mindstone (one of the six Infinity Stones) is safe with the Vision.
Of course, Thanos (Josh Brolin) would like to test that theory. In Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2, Earth's Mightiest Heroes will have to fight off...a big purple alien with a shiny metal glove. (He's scarier than he sounds.) And they'll do it...together.
See also:
Doctor Who: Why Paul Bettany should play The Doctor
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I don't dislike NazMo. But man, this guy is either hated or disregarded as a bust by the vast majority of fans and sports writers. Tiago Splitter would have at least offered some hope that a decently talented replacement would be on the horizon. If nothing else, he could have had mid 1st round value in a future draft if we traded him as such. However, we went with Afflalo. People have Naz being included in all types of trades. However, with today's luxury cap, it seems like his contract is going to be a killer. Who would take him? And who would we get in return? Previous lists made me want to keep the Naz. I feel like we've painted ourselves in a corner with this guy and will have to stick with him. Would there be any situations where a team would want this guy and his contract?
Give him to Laimbeer and the Shock. It'll get Laimbeer used to coaching the boys.....................
To me it's a matter of selling your product. The Pistons have to produce some type of promotional video featuring Nazr. Get the game films, do some heavy editing, add a little music and send it out to the other teams. Send it out to the beat writers for the other cities (skip San Antonio) just like Rick Carlisle did when he successfully pimped Corliss for the Sixth Man of the Year Award.
All the situations I can think of where another team would come looking for Nazr start with desperate. I think you might as well start enjoying the view from the corner.
Or something having to do with an airplane crash or your whole frontline being spotted in an old Chevy van trailing lots of dangerous smelling smoke.
I dunno, in hindsight NazMo was not the worse thing in the world. Whn he gets about 25mpg he gets numbers that are very similiar to Dyess'. Now I'm no fool so I realize that while their numbers are similiar their production is not. But I just have never felt Nazr was a horrible center, I just felt as if he didn't really make this a better team (more so for chemistry reasons, than talent) I think Nazr is a player who could play his way into productivity over time as he gets better acclimated into the system. The only real problem I have with Nazr is that we're paying a $3mill center about $6mill/yr, however it's not Nazr's fault that Joe overreacted when Ben left.
I gave Nazir a chance and so did the Pistons. Who could have guessed that he would put out an almost zero effort on defense. He was not that bad with SanAntonio. Remember those early games last season? Nazir would practically step out of the way as the opponents freely dunked on him.
In those early games the problem was that he wasn't Ben Wallace. For many games we watched WallaceX2 challenge shots at the rim and then NazMo came along and he's just a mere shadow of Ben, but Nazr is Nazr and there are many teams that would gladly take on Nazr as a veteran center, problem is we gave him a BOATLOAD OF MONEY!!!!! Look at the Spurs, they replaced Nazr with Elson who got a 2 year $5.5 mill contract, while we gave Nazr 5 years and $30mill. Again the problem isn't Nazr.
In saying that, then Nazmo is only good to have on the floor when the Pistons have a 20 point lead and can afford give up a couple of uncontested dunks. There weren't that many leads of that magnitude in the second part of the season, so his principle role was to keep Dale Davis out of trouble at the end of the bench.
Yeah and Nazr always had a good attitude about not playing. I think I would sell that as one of his good qualities.
As long as Nazr sits quietly on the end of the bench and is not a cancer in the locker room, he's nothing but a constant reminder for Joe about long term deals with marginal talent. If people thought Darko and Fino scared Joe away from Euros, I can only imagine what Nazr has done for his willingness to toss the MLE around to other team's castoffs.
Lord knows I hope that's the case. It's crazy how SanAntonio got a 7' marginal stop-gap center in Elson and they paid him less monet over two years than we'll pay Nazr this year. Man I'd have rather started the season with Dale Davis at C than to be eating Nazr's contract right now. It's as if everything we do wrong the Spurs turn around and do right, which now reminds me of how pissed I am about not picking Splitter, especially since Phx's pick was for sale; we could have gotten Splitter in addition to Afflalo.
Think there's any chance that DD is back next year? I agree that I'd rather have him for another year or two than Nazr.
You can't wish nazr away no matter how hard you try. Dale will cost at least another mil in precious cap space if we want him back.
He really was. That's why Pop played him less than a fossil like Horry and made no effort to re-sign him. The only reason Pop played him in the first place is that his rebounding solved a major team problem, but his feet were just as slow and his hands as stiff in Texas. It was the other elements that made him look better, rather than his own effort. When you have the best defensive coach in the game, a DPOY-calibre center, a DPOY-calibre swingman, and every teammate who gets on the floor is committed to making crisp rotations, it takes some creativity to look like a complete failure. I'd like to trade him to New York for Jerome James.
Good post and I might add, we still don't know the whole story about Naz. He is a devout Muslim and this lead toward some histrionics.
If we are going to settle for Nazi as the center we are risking falling to a second round and out team. Sure he can improve. But right now we are counting on rookies to solve the back up point problem developing out of the ship when we lost James. We still are planning on using an older Hunter. Seems like we are counting on a lot of luck. If Camby is indeed being shopped, he is one guy that can really help us. I would give up a first round pick even though he is 34. The future is now as our competitors our getting better.
I wouldn't classify being stuck with Naz as the end of the world unless he returns to the starting lineup. If he is the best we can do at present then I look at FlipS to find an offensive & defensive scheme that works with Dice or Max as starting PFs. Nazr's role with the second unit can be that of a rebounder / triggerman for a transition game which I truely hope we develop with our bench full of young legs. We can assist Naz with quite a bit of defensive height in the 2nd unit. (6'5" guards, 6'9" Dice and 6'11" AJ)


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No I am serious. Marc's thinking on this mirrors mine. Although that will probably make him reconsider
No I am serious. Marc's thinking on this mirrors mine. Although that will probably make him reconsider
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I'm Dennis.
In my formation my Father, who was a librarian, but thought he was so intellectual that he could alter speaker designers' intentions, created a mono system that sounded awful.
This has I am sure influenced my perception of sound as a formative experience, as do all our early experience and in all areas; it is not only formal education which 'educates' us.
We carry this with us everywhere we go and with varying abilities to adapt and correct for them, and they will affect to some degree the whole of our life futures.
The measured parameters serve only as a guide because they are well established as criteria for a good piece of equipment, but they do not define it entirely.
We then have to choose that which violates least our own particular genetically based sensibilities.
There was a war in South America many centuries ago in which two tribes fought because one liked brown bananas, and the other yellow ones, the difference only being that enzymes have turned starch into sugars more in the brown ones.
One tribe slaughtered the other; what a sensible race we are?
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What does a banana taste like? Food or wine might influence how we hear?
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I'm Marc.
People who touch, smell or look at fruit before they eat it make me sick!
Fruit is only about the taste and the only way to determine that is to taste it, durr!
What sort of idiot would waste their time using any other sensory apparatus or source of so called 'information' than their mouths to determine what the deal is with a piece of fruit?!
With all those green picked fruits that have been artificially ripened before ending up on the supermarket shelves, it is very difficult to imagine how the smell of a fruit affects its taste. It is even possible to detect from the smell if some fruits are ripe enough to eat, or not. Mind you, some fruits have to be shaken, slightly squeezed, or tapped with a knuckle in order to find out if they are ripe enough to be eaten.
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The ripeness of a fruit is in the eating, anyone who tries to circumvent this is likely a 'fruitibator'
Special circles of hell also reserved for:
Walkers who use maps
Ornithologists who use any form of taxonomy, rather than just determining species on sight according to their own preference and naming conventions.
Astronomers who use telescopes
Chefs who use recipes and those poor souls who engage in the pointless 'holy war' of whether it's better to cook with fire, gas or electric heat, when we all know they take food further away from the source and the only real food is raw food
People who believe a 100watt lightbulb will be brighter than a 60watt light bulb, every time I need a new light bulb I buy both and assess for myself which is the brightest and use that one