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This test measures the level of phosphorus in your blood. Phosphorus is a common mineral found in the food you eat. It's also found in teeth and bones.
Having a high or low level of phosphorus in your bloodstream can signal a number of health conditions. Most commonly, a high level of phosphorus is related to a kidney disorder. It shows that your kidneys are having difficulty clearing phosphorus from your blood. A high level of phosphorus can also mean uncontrolled diabetes and other endocrine disorders.
You may need a phosphorus test if your healthcare provider suspects that you have a kidney disorder. You may also need this test if you are having trouble controlling your diabetes. You may need this test if you have symptoms of kidney disease, including bone problems, fatigue, and weakness, but you may not have any symptoms at all.
Phosphorus levels are closely related to calcium levels, so your healthcare provider will probably test your calcium level as well. Additional tests depend on which condition your healthcare provider suspects.
Many things may affect your lab test results. These include the method each lab uses to do the test. Even if your test results are different from the normal value, you may not have a problem. To learn what the results mean for you, talk with your healthcare provider.
Results of this test are given in milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). A normal phosphorus reading is between 2.7 and 4.6 mg/dL, but normal ranges may vary. A number that is either higher or lower than that could mean a possible kidney problem.
The test requires a blood sample, which is drawn through a needle from a vein in your arm.
Taking a blood sample with a needle carries risks that include bleeding, infection, bruising, or feeling dizzy. When the needle pricks your arm, you may feel a slight stinging sensation or pain. Afterward, the site may be slightly sore.
Phosphorus levels can be affected by what you eat and drink, including:
Many types of beans
Some medicines and medical procedures, such as dialysis, can also affect phosphorus levels.
You may need to fast starting at midnight before the test. Ask your healthcare provider for specific instructions. Be sure your provider knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illicit drugs you may use.


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Denilson was sent off in injury time after seeing Sao Paulo to a 4-3 win over Coritiba on Wednesday night. In the second game of his loan spell, the Brazilian midfielder helped Adilson Batista's side race into a 4-0 lead within an hour. But three goals in the final half-hour saw Coritiba pull to within one goal of the visitors. Denilson was given his marching orders in the closing moments as Sao Paulo moved to second in Serie A.


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If you've turned on reality television lately (and I'm sorry if you have), you have seen a lot of overconfident folks who think highly of their ability to cook, sing, model, dance -- whatever -- when in actual fact most of them stink. The spectacle of these shows comes from watching to see if these people ever accept the painful gap between their perceived and actual abilities.
From data we have just published today in a new Forrester report, Assess Your Digital Disruption Readiness Now (client access required), it turns out that digital disruption is like reality TV in at least this one way: There is a significant, even painful, gap between how ready some executives think they are to engage in digital disruption and the actual readiness of the enterprise.
This disparity rears its ugly head at a crucial time. As Forrester principal analyst James McQuivey has recently written in his book Digital Disruption, digital disruption is about to completely change how companies do business. Digital tools and digital platforms are driving the cost of innovation down to nearly zero, causing at least 10 times as many innovators to rush into your market while operating at one-tenth the cost that you do. Multiply that together and you face 100 times the innovation power you did just a few years ago under old-fashioned disruption (see figure).


text: Re: Trial League Trash Talk and other Exchanges Having the 11th and 14th picks in the draft I predicted that I might be able to land Bosh and Nash - which I did. I was a bit bummed having 2 picks so close together because I miss out on big chunks of the draft at a time. ie. solid big man wave in the 40-50 range It also left me little time to figure out who to select with my 2nd line of picks with only 3 picks between including an auto-drafting micro. I ended up taking a few guys with upside. Looking purely at last years stats my team looks weak in some areas, but if my 'upside' picks such as Nelson, Granger and Claxton work out like I hope, I should be able to compete. But all draft I just felt like I could never get the guy I wanted from the position I wanted, the way the picks fell for me were just out of sync. When I wanted a PG there were only quality bigs in that range, and when I wanted a big, there were only PG/SG's so to select the position I wanted would have meant I would have had to stretch for guys. In the end I just took the best available player more often than not. Hopefully I will get the draft order I want in the 'big game' Advanced, but I'm still confident of competing well in Trial. Motown's crew looks ominous, worthy of Rick Kamla himself. Also props to Tater and Slippy's squads.


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Keeping up on one's politically correct terms sometimes seems futile - every term will eventually be pejorative and outdated eventually. As an ally and a holder of most privileges, it's necessary to know about respectful language and terms in attempting to hold a discussion and increase my knowledge on these views.
But it's hard. Terms can go from polite, to being co-opted by schoolkids, to being pejorative in less than a decade - I'm never sure whether I, as a cis, straight person should say queer or gay/lesbian or LGBTQ. In the context of college, where I had a lot of friends identifying as queer, I used queer. But now, living a more vanilla life, I'm more comfortable with LGBTQ.
I saw another example of this in the recently reviewed "Our Guys". Throughout the 1997 book about the 1989 rape of a developmentally challenged teen, author Bernard Lufkowitz uses the term "retarded" to describe the victim. The book is extremely sympathetic towards the victim, and Lufkowitz seems to be advocating from a feminist perspective. But his use of retarded, intended to be medically descriptive and respectful, dates the book immeasurably.
I remember that cisgendered (meaning someone whose gender identification is the same as their sex) seemed particularly silly to me when it was first introduced - alienating, academic, not rooted in colloquial language. I predicted that it would not be long for the PC world - it's good to have a term to describe that particular privilege, but it's not well defined and, as I said, unclear. What, exactly, is a body that's in line with gender identity? Are the only cis people those who were born in the sex that matches their gender? What about intersex persons?
A over at aelphaba today posted a terrific musing on being described by others as cisgendered:
I think that the idea of context is important here. It's not that you can't say that Rush Limbaugh isn't cis just because he hasn't formally claimed that term. But one needs to avoid applying this term to others in the context of a feminist/queer/womanist/whathaveyou discussion. Unless someone identifies with a specific group, assume that they are not in possession of that privilege.
Does the fact that I am currently presenting as female and I've never not wanted a vagina (penises are just inconvenient) mean that I am any less gender queer?
No. I have struggled with gender for the majority of my life. I have had panic attacks over it, I have sliced my skin over it, and I am fully aware of the difference between gender presentation and gender identity. The queer community should be too.
I choose to present as female, but female is not an identity that I claim. The problem with the term cisgendered is that it is a term that the queer community is using to apply to other people. This labeling is done under assumptions of presentation. I understand how the term "bio-female" might be taken the wrong way from the transgendered perspective, but I think that cisgendered is not a term that the queer community should be throwing around unless someone self-identifies as it.
A's situation to me is analogous to a light-skinned person of color or a person with a non-outwardly-incapacitating diseases such as fibromyalgia. (Just similar - not less or more or equally oppressive, necessarily). Though folks in this situation may seem to possess a privilege, you cannot assume the details of one's life story.
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The 2012 European Championship is underway and Arsenal.com will be keeping you regularly updated with the progress of the Gunners taking part in the tournament.
Robin van Persie, Nicklas Bendtner
Netherlands 0-1 Denmark, Group B
Saturday, June 9
Nicklas Bendtner's Denmark sprang an early shock at Euro 2012 by beating the Netherlands 1-0 on Saturday evening.
The Dutch, with Arsenal captain Robin van Persie leading the line, are one of the favourites for the tournament but were below-par in Kharkiv and wasted a host of chances.
And they paid the price for their profligacy as Michael Krohn-Dehli's first-half strike proved decisive, putting Holland under immediate pressure.
Bert van Marwijk's side came flying out of the blocks and Van Persie nearly played in Wesley Sneijder early on, but the midfielder just failed to control his lofted pass.
Arjen Robben and Van Persie then had half chances to open the scoring, as Holland continued to crank up the pressure in an increasingly one-sided affair.
It seemed a matter of time before the goal would come, but when it did it was the Danish who were celebrating as Krohn-Dehli took advantage of hesitant defending to race into the box and score in the 24th minute.
Robben soon had a great chance to equalise after capitalising on a poor clearance by Denmark goalkeeper Stephan Andersen but his curling effort struck the post. Then, moments before half time, Van Persie spurned a clear-cut opportunity in the box.
The Arsenal captain was presented with two early second-half chances but could still find no way past Andersen, while Mark van Bommel saw his long-range strike palmed away by the Danish goalkeeper.
With Bendtner working hard up front, Morten Olsen's side remained a threat on the break but it was Holland who were making all the running. Just after the hour mark Robben should have levelled matters but headed wastefully wide from close range.
With 15 minutes remaining, substitute Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was played in by Sneijder but Andersen did superbly to deny the forward as the Dutch continued to squander chances.
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This is the third in my collection of four silk blouses from Bebe. You've seen my black one and my bright purple one. This one is in a soft, dark wine purple with fabulous ruffle down the front. This is the one I mentioned before that is NO fun to iron. Those ruffles just won't behave, and I usually end up ironing more wrinkles into them before I finally get them all ironed out.
These silk blouses were all from the sale rack about two years ago. I think they were 60% off, and they had dozens of them on the racks! For some strange reason, the average trendy Bebe shopper just didn't go for them, so Bebe had to unload them on me cheap. Lucky for me!
Check out the feather hair sticks from Claire's (years ago) that are a perfect color match for this top!
The fourth and final blouse from this haul is a sheer magenta chiffon, so I'll be saving that one for next spring. 🙂
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I need help, I've been reading guides on how to raise a page and such.
But some of them don't say how I should keep my ability points...
I read one guide that said to keep my base DEX at 70 or 80. And all points until the maximum level go into STR. But, that's kind of confusing for me [yes, I am stupid.]
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I have more important things to worry about than what car makes are attending a show. Any of you guys have jobs?
outside of my car...nobody could even tell i drive a honda.
stereotyping makes you soooooo cool
I'm not a star. Somebody lied.
Kiddie rose, you were obviously there to "one up the VW scene".
and i dont build my cars for you or anyone else. dont care for acceptance. i have plenty of friends without brown nosing.
and ive been in the game long enough where people look to me not the other way around.
your life is miserable so you venture on to the vortex and hangout with your e-friends and thats ok that you suck.
have a nice day.
I'm not a star. Somebody lied.
I didn't even take my car to the show, parked it at my hotel and stayed there until I left. I'd rather sleep in and hang out with my friends...then walk my way over to the show area.
I do agree with the others though, if you're not VAG or in a vendor booth, than you shouldn't park in the show area. Other than that, sure bring whatever car you have and have a good time, just know your place.
Like I said, i deal with them by ignoring them --- no Evo, S2000, or miata does anything for me. It's not my taste and if that bothers you, i will have to look for a fcuk to give. If it bothers you that i'd rather have a town full of euros rather than a mix of euros and JDM, TFB.
And as the idiot Kiddie Rose proved my point of why i don't care for the JDM crowd, he threatened to key my car........b/c i don't care for Hondas.
This is sadly the generation coming up behind us.
"he doesn't like my car, i'll key his"
Not too bothered with the outkast crew at VAG events. If ass backwards attention whoring is your thing, go for it.
I'd like to see more non-VAG that was to my personal taste, but if I want to see trucks and hot rods I'll go to Scrapin the Coast or Goodguys Louisville.
What does bother me is the side effects of the NOPI / HIN crew showing up at any show, anywhere. Last couple years of NOPI they had armed robberies and random shootings at the hotels, people's cars getting vandalized, lot of drug selling going on, and some dude's girlfriend got raped and murdered AT THE SHOW.
Let's not have any of that at SoWo, k?
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ahahahahahahahahaha this thread rules. who gives a flying fcuk who or what was on the showgrounds. it was a good time had by most, why cant we leave it at that. and by the way, i was more interested in the other makes than the super played out vw scene. but then again, i own an m3
also its not like there was any super riced out wings west kitted fart cannon equipped cars. its a vw show and me being an "outkast" i know that i need to bring it hard for any vw event. and thats what i saw. i witnessed more unimpressive vw's than anything else
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The Kennedy-Longfellow School, located in East Cambridge, MA, is a vibrant urban school that serves students in grades junior-K through 5th grade. Its hyphenated name reflects the 2003 merger of Cambridge's Henry Wadsworth Longfellow School and the Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy School. Today, the school is commonly referred to as K-LO.Lesley's Partnership School Initiative created a collaborative relationship between the university and Kennedy-Longfellow faculty, focusing on curriculum and the integration of digital technology in every classroom for every student."Together with the faculty of the Kennedy-Longfellow School, we'll be exploring ways to use technology to engage students with the curriculum in order to enhance student learning," said Lesley University President Joseph B. Moore. "We're looking to create an effective model that can be replicated in other schools, especially urban schools with diverse student populations that have struggled with standardized test scores."The partnership was funded through a $2 million gift from the late Albert Merck, philanthropist and a former director of Merck & Co., Inc., and his wife, Kate. The gift supported digital devices for students and faculty, collaboration between Kennedy-Longfellow and Lesley faculty, and a sustained focus on student learning. (Picture: Al Merk, left, with Lesley president Joseph Moore.) "Skilled teachers using advanced digital applications can shift the culture of classrooms from teacher-centered to student-centered, truly engaging students with the curriculum - which is essential if we're to instill critical thinking, problem solving and knowledge acquisition among students," said Merck. "If we can develop this model with Lesley, a university with a national reach, we hope to be able to share what we learn here in Cambridge with educators nationwide.""This is an exciting collaboration grounded in the thoughtful exploration of technology to focus on student learning, and in the strong relationship between Lesley's faculty and students with the Cambridge Public Schools faculty," said Dr. Jeffrey Young, then Superintendent of the Cambridge Public Schools. "This partnership is a key component of Cambridge Public Schools' Innovation Agenda, a design for excellence that will improve the quality of education across the City. We are deeply grateful to Lesley University and Mr. Merck for choosing to work with Cambridge students and teachers."An important component in selecting the Kennedy-Longfellow School for the initiative, Moore said, was a principal and faculty open to collaboration and cooperative innovation. Kennedy-Longfellow's principal, Christine Gerber, said her faculty was excited about the partnership, and eager to work with Lesley."This is an opportunity to think creatively about student learning, but with the resources to execute a new approach grounded in sound research and best practices in how students learn, how they can succeed and take ownership of their own life-long path of learning," said Gerber. "We look forward to the dialogue and the collaboration with Lesley, and seeing those conversations result in tangible improvements to the way our students learn."
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A memorable part of my wedding day was the supper my mom prepared. This moist fork-tender brisket is a popular entree hearty appetites appreciate.
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- 1 beef brisket (about 5 pounds)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup water
- 1 bottle (18 ounces) barbecue sauce
- In a Dutch oven, brown beef in oil on both sides over medium-high heat; drain. Top with onion, salt and pepper. Add water; cover and bake at 325° for 2-1/2 hours or until tender.
- Remove beef. Cool for 5 minutes; cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Discard onion and cooking liquid. Slice meat 1/4 in. thick across the grain; place in a roasting pan. Drizzle with barbecue sauce. Cover and bake at 325° for 30-45 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 16-18 servings.
Editor's Note: Refrigerating the beef overnight makes it possible to slice it very thinly.
Editor's Note: This is a fresh beef brisket, not corned beef.
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It is now almost two decades since the white apartheid regime was forced to agree to end the hated system of life and engage on an equal basis with black inhabitants of the nation. However, in 2009, a report examining higher education institutions discovered wide spread racism and sexism at universities in South Africa. The report noted that policies had been changed but when it came to implementation of those new regulations there was a significant lack of progress. There was also concern as to whether higher education curriculum had been changed in order to prepare students for a society whose values had changed as South Africans moved towards creation of a multi-racial ethnic society.
Higher education institutions have scant difficulty changing policies to reflect a desire for a more diverse student body. But, universities are still controlled by faculty bodies which have vested interests in protecting their values, their friendships, and their interpretation as to what constitutes academic rigor. There is need for higher education to rethink what is being taught in light of the diversity of South Africa.


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You have the same number of hives as me. It is difficult to find good mother queen from that small group. I use to buy 3 new of commergial queens per year and I take first daugter generation from these. If I take second generation, queens are not good at all. Gene pole returns towars medium.
When you have F1-crossing with your other hives , workers are quite heteregoneous. It is good for colony wellfare and for honey yield in theory. What they are in reality you will se it soon. You may meet bad swarming years with that mix. But I do not know how Russians tendency to raise queen cells will affect in crossbreeding. Or, are they defensive.
So you will see what you are trying to sell.
Trebor, do as you like! It same to me. I thought that you needed advice
I know the genetic basics.
I have had 18 hives for 40 years
I play with stocks
and I earn extra money better from those. Last year I got 40% rent. Not bad.
And I have civil job. Just now I will start a research "Work site production waste logistics on public areas". How to get rid of city maintenance waste without pain. It is a sustainable environment project.
I do not play globe protection in matchbox or on my hiveyard.
Key word is VISUAL CONTROL.
Trebor, if you wanted to keep up with them and buy AI or II queens to raise from, I would split the yards by breeds, if not I dont see where that would bother by having seperate yards, if you not going to go for any honey, you could just even them out in different yards, when I get my yards going , im going to slpit my hives up by breeds, Im also got to raise queens from these hives. hope some of this make since.... if not I will try again... oh yah,,, plant them fields
I have worked hard as a carpenter most of my life
yes it does make alittle more sence, so if I were to buy I.I. queens, then would I then let the daughters breed with my bees? And I guess am asking also how far will this go before I need to do it again.?........ and am I better off not mixing the breeds ? ( I really dont want a bunch of angry off bees.....! .. if I can help it...)
MB, and a few more in here that raise queens could help you and me out with out-yards and how they set them up for breeding.
Hey TWT,I have a nuc coming from fat beeman in April. . . make sure I get a good queen! :D


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45868.5. Return of property. (a) Except in any case where the board finds collection of the tax to be in jeopardy, if any property has been levied upon, the property or the proceeds from the sale of the property shall be returned to the taxpayer if the board determines any one of the following:
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If you specify a slice as such: (Z :. All :. 2), for example, you will get many pages of type incantation errors. In order to be a true wizard you must touch the 2 with a salve of type annotation as so: (Z :. All :. (2 :: Int)). This will satisfy the type demons that compile your code.
The reason is that GHC assumes literals like 2 are of type Integer, and Repa demands Ints.
I'll post more "oopsies" as I come across them.
--Danharaj 00:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
I have a bunch of simulation code that, every frame of simulation:
-Creates a few intermediate arrays. -Creates a list of intermediate arrays then folds them immediately -Adds and multiplies a few intermediate arrays with (*^) and (+^)
The thing is, unless I force at every intermediate step, the performance is so abysmal that the application loses responsiveness. With the forcing, it runs fast enough (need to optimize the code to make it run faster), but then...
I get this gem of a runtime warning (reported every frame)... sometimes!
Data.Array.Repa: Performing nested parallel computation sequentially.
You've probably called the 'force' function while another instance was already running. This can happen if the second version was suspended due to lazy evaluation. Use 'deepSeqArray' to ensure that each array is fully evaluated before you 'force' the next one.
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Discussion in 'December 2013' started by roscoe36, Oct 21, 2013.
We beat the freakin' Heat!!!Yeah!!!!!!!Everybody say YEAH!!!!!!!!!!
Best win of the season.....stopped the Heat's 10 game win streak, and were the first team to score over 100 points on the Heat in their past 8 games. All 5 Pistons starters were in double figures, and Stuckey and Singler with 16 and 18 points led the bench. Stuckey 10-10 from the line and Singler was 4-7 from beyond the arc, including 3 threes in a row at one point. Dre got another double-double 10-18 despite sitting out most of the second qtr with 3 early fouls. The Pistons has an 18 point lead in the second quarter and then a 17 point lead to begin the 4th after a JJ 3 pointer. But the Heat's Norris Cole and Micheal Beasley started a big spurt that turned into a 8-0 run and which woke up both Bosh and the King and before you knew the 17 point lead was down 3 ...91-88. A lot of dribbling by Jennings and colliding by Stuckey got the Heat back in the game. But a three-ball prayer by Jennings from 27 feet and .01 seconds on the shot clock really jump started the Pistons and they closed the game from that point on a 16-9 run. Two steals from our FreeAgents, the first by Josh that resulted in a slam by him on the other end and then a pickpocket steal from by Jennings on Lebron as he was sailing-gliding to the rim was the play that sealed the deal and was the play of the day. Except for a six minute stretch in the 4th quarter, the Pistons controlled the game from start to finish leading by double digits after our scrubs out scrubbed their scrubs in that second quarter when they went on the 10-0 run to give them the big lead that they maintained for most of the game. Give credit for Singler for leading that charge and leading the Pistons in scoring tonight. Pistons 6-4 when holding opponents under 100.....so keep playing the D!!! Final Pistons 107 ~ Heat 97
Singler was really good tonight! I am sure Lee will agree!
Piston basketball is back! Piston basketball is back! For the first time since 2008, it is back. A total team win. A few observations. First, the Pistons actually got out on the shooters. They flew out on the shooters. You can't do this every night in the NBA with the grueling schedules but you have to do it sometimes. No, NBA players do not miss open looks coach. The team stopped the inside moves and then got out on the shooters. Singler, Pope, JJ--they all made shots. If you can make shots, you have a place out on the floor. NBA shooters usually make shots. What a difference a few three balls make... Monroe did what he had to do. He often gets credit for a box score that had no impact on the game. Not so tonight. His presence was exceptional. Very few teams in this league can handle Andre Drummond. A warning to the league: his defense is getting better. Did you see him Ben-like out there stealing a ball? Jennings. I was screaming at you to take a shot in the 4th. It was a broken play and you delivered. On this team, a steady Stuckey in crunch time will not make it. Jennings needs to look to score late in games. And, the ball needs to get inside. And Stuckey, kept at it. Good for him. Good mindset. But he cannot be an exclusive go to guy. A few of those old charges returned but he was asked to do too much. The crunch time offense needs work. Josh is learning to play with his teamates as he made a lot of big plays, plays that I haven't seen coming from Pistons players since 2008. Very good win. Very good. A lot of things seem to have come together for this team--finally.
That Stuckey no call, that lead to the Lebron fast break, then Jennings hustle and steal and finally a great pass to Drummond who was running hard for the easy 2 was some of the best Piston basketball I've seen in years.
I missed the game.. I'll try to watch it tomorrow on the league pass! 10 points and 18 rebounds for Drummond in only 23 minutes?? thats WOW, man!! THAT'S WOW!!!
My recording skipped ahead at the wrong time. It does that on occasion. I was sweating it out with the rest of the fans, when Miami got the lead down to 3 with 6 minutes left in the game. But because of that skip, gee, here we are up with a decent lead with 3 minutes to go. Of course I rewound to see how we got there, but it was anticlimactic. How we got there - Jennings nails a triple to take the lead to 6. Later Miami gets a no call on a mugging of Stuckey, and Bron is streaking toward the basket with his ill gotten gains about to cut the lead back to 5. But no problem, Jennings slaps the ball out of Bron's hands while Bron is in full stride. And the ball comes right to Jennings like its on a leash. Jennings immediately gets the ball up to Monroe for the fast break score, putting us up 9 with about 2 minutes to go. What a sequence. Sure, they played without Wade. They still had a fine team out there. Lots of teams have failed to take advantage of Wade being out. But I will note this, their starting shooting guard, with Pope guarding him, got exactly zero points while Pope got 10. I do not see Pope outplaying Wade like that this early in his career. PS, Pope was plus 13 in this one, high for Pistons tonight. A pair of really good defensive stands, each lasting about 3 and 1/2 minutes, got us up to a 36-18 lead mid 2nd quarter. Miami scored zilch during both of these runs. Of great note, when Drummond got into foul trouble in the 1st, coach brought Harrellson in, to keep our advantage of a big front line. Also, another change in the rotation - Stuckey got to play some point guard along side Pope for a good stretch to start the 2nd quarter. (where one of the defensive stands occurred.) These two were joined first by Singler, and then by JJ, who both did well in this game. Yes, Singler gave up a lot of points. But he scored 18, including 4 triples. Good game for him, and part of his poor defense, was actually kind of par since very few backup small forwards can actually guard Bron. Singler was plus 9 in this one, and all the bench guys were positive. Better use of the bench. I like that. To start the 3rd, Singler did come in for Drummond, but hey, at least Miami was not salivating during halftime over the prospect of burning Singler - since they may not have expected that move since our coach did not go that way in the first half. Anyway, I will call it an improvement, an actual effort by the coach; an effort to find another way to rest Drummond besides going way smaller by replacing him with Singler. And further, Stuckey rocked as the backup point in the first half. Jennings iron manned it in the 2nd half. Can't say enough about the rock solid steadiness of Stuckey of late. Some very questionable charging calls on him did not spoil his night. Another 16 points off the bench, and better yet, he led a sub unit to start the second quarter that both scored well, and shut the Miami bench players down completely to start the quarter. (Drummond returned there to help with that stand.) Why did we win? Miami for the most part had to rely on outside shooting, and in this game, that outside shooting eventually failed them. (we beat them in paint points 60 -48.) Meanwhile, our 3 starting bigs combined for 41 points, 28 rebounds, 9 assists, 4 blocks, and 5 steals. After Pope made his early shots, Miami stayed with him closely, which means Pope did his job as a shooting guard offensively. And of course, he leads that defensive effort. (Though is must be mentioned, Pope was in for one of the defensive stands, Stuckey for both.) Jennings had problems running the offense, giving it up more than the number of assists he got. Miami was playing some pretty darn good defense. But he made up for it all with that clutch 3. And his decision making in all was fine, the starting point guard gets the credit for the main theme of the game, which was successful - getting the ball inside. Stuckey 8-8 at the line. Got to love a win over Miami, especially at their place, Wade or not. GO PISTONS!!!!!
Yes, to see some of the plays that were made today by the Piston players brought back those good memories from the championship run.
Two more road wins vs the Bucs and the Bulls this week and two more double-doubles could give Dre playa of the week honors...IJS
They didn't have their 2006 Finals MVP in Wade and we didn't have our 2004 Finals MVP in Billups...I call it a wash...
There was a very nice shot of my man Sheed on the sidelines in this game. Good camera work by somebody I must say.
Jennings was very efficient shooting tonight. 5/9 from the field. Too many turnovers, but he did come up with 4 steals, and obviously that crucial one at the end of the game.
I will say, this is not last year's product. We had some miserable games early, and now you can see things starting to improve. I am under no illusion we're a top 15 NBA team yet, but we're capable of it if the improvement continues.
Well we are just one game out of the #3 seed in the east..
This was a weird game because there wasn't a standout guy. Everyone who played did well. I thought the Heart were at about 2.5 on the 1-10 intensity scale for this one. They had the Pistons out of sort defensively early and missed a lot of open 3's. Monroe was strong tonight. He gave them 3-4 baskets they really needed to have. They need to make going to him their drought buster play instead of Jennings dribbling and dribbling. Stuckey's ability to drive stood out when the Pistons were sputtering and the Heat's defense had sunk in. There were more signs of Joggin' Rodney tonight than there have been all year, but he is still miles better than he's ever been. Great job with him. Mo Cheeks. For possibly the first time ever I may have gotten angry over a charge being called on Stuckey. How about the driving layup Drummond had for his first basket of the game? This was the Singler we were expecting this year. The Pistons had some absolutely brutal turnovers tonight. They make dribbling the ball while walking in a straight line seem challenging.
Unfortunately, I couldn't watch this game... because I had to drive to Michigan. Such a bummer, because it looks like I missed the best performance of the year. Beat the champs on the road in the midst of a 10 game win streak??? That is a quality win, even if they were missing one flopper. If nothing else, this will be a huge confidence booster for the team and should allow them to stay tight even if they go through some more rough times. I am really digging Smith's all around game and unselfish play overall. Even though Drummond is dominating the paint, Smith feels like the engine of the team to me right now. Smith/Drum should be a really mean duo for a long time.
I like what I'm seeing from Rodney these days, but making him the go-to guy in crunch time is a big mistake. I think you run him off screens set by Monroe, if he comes off clean-shoot, if the guy is trailing- drive, if the big comes and help- dump it to Moose. Also teams are trapping us on pick & rolls and that's what you want, it's the equivalent of a post man drawing a double team. Jennings has to get rid of the ball quickly and the player catching it HAS to be ready to make a play- shoot, drive or swing the ball to the weakside. Fun game to watch, with the exception of the first part of the 4th qtr. Again....when our perimeter players make shots- we win, when they don't- we don't. And these guys get GREAT looks from the perimeter. Props again to Brandon Jennings, still a little too much dribbling for my liking but he's cut back on the Chucking significantly and his fg% over the last few games shows it. I don't think he took a single, "WTH are you doing Brandon" shot tonight....he chucked a couple because of the late shot clock (something that can be corrected if he stops over dibbling) but for the most part he was pretty good. Now hopefully we can get Josh to chill on the Chucking.......
Unfortunately, I am fairly certain 90% of the West is better than 90% of the East.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Jun 24, 2010.
Great analysis there TayShawn! Thanks!
Great work, TaShawn. That's impressive company. GM is the main reason Pistons fans aren't hanging themselves in droves.
Just looked it up and confirmed that Hakeem did it. I didn't check every year, but I'm pretty sure he did it multiple times. Also I noticed that Barkley did it at least once. He wasn't a center, but leading in these 3 stats is hard no matter what position. Maybe equally hard for SF, PF, and C's and ridiculously hard for guards. David Robinson did it in 1992 and quite likely in other years. Kareem Abdul Jabar came within 4 assists of doing it in 1975. Every year after that a different guy had more steals than him to keep him out of the record books. He never got it done as far as I can tell. Magic Johnson came very close many years. In '84, he had the Rebs and steals, but trailed in points to Kareem. In '87, he had the points and steals, but trailed in rebs to Kareem. In '89, he had the points and steals, but trailed A.C. Green in rebs. And on and on. What a stud though. I think that the theme here is big men with unusually high levels of coordination (good hands). I don't think that there is a way to automatically search for this stat since it involves "leading the team in x, y, and z". I just think it is cool when a player on the Pistons can join a statistical group that includes only a handful of legends.
Thanks for the analyses, thought that you're great investor that you spin the numbers really good.
In 1962, Oscar Robertson averaged a triple double (30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds, 11.4 assists). They didn't keep track of stats like steals and blocks back then. Wilt Chamberlain led the league in points that year, by the way. He averaged 50.4 ppg. He also averaged 25.6 rebounds per game. I looked these numbers up, by the way. I wasn't born yet, in case you were thinking of any wise cracks.
Not a good investor. I might have a chance as a junk bond salesman though. The real bias in all my comparison is that Monroe is on a very crappy basketball team... so leading the 2012 Pistons in 3 categories isn't nearly as impressive as leading the showtime Lakers in even 1 category. Whatever, something to feel good about though. And just because Monroe shouldn't be in the same group as Olajowon, Barkley, and David Robinson, he still is borderline all-star in the East as a big man... and that's a fact.
And nowadays, above average big man is kind of rare species.
A couple more: Dwight Howard has led his team in Points, Rebounds, Steals the past 2 seasons Chris Webber did it a couple of times in Washington (discounting Gugliotta's 3.5 steals per game in only 6 games), and in Sacramento once. He would have done it multiple times in Sacto if it wasn't for Doug Christie. Webber was elite steals. Here is the list of PF/C or C who have averaged at least 16/10/1.5 for a season http://www.basketball-reference.com...&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=season Here is the list of all players who have averaged at least 16/10/2.5/1.5/0.5 for a season (Monroe's current averages). http://www.basketball-reference.com...&c5comp=gt&c6mult=0.5&c6stat=&order_by=season You may notice I put in 1.4st and 9.9r. It was because the database was not picking up Monroe at 1.5 and 10.0 for some reason.
Another under-rated aspect of Monroe's season is his efficiency. His shooting percentages are quite impressive, especially his improvement from the stripe. All players averaging 16 & 10 with FG% > 52 and FT% > 81 (Monroe's current averages) http://www.basketball-reference.com...&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=season
Sweet sort. Notice that Monroe is the youngest on that list by 5 years. His FT% increase is great.
Just looked at the all-star reserves. Looks like GM wasn't good enough to go. Hibbert made it though. From the numbers...that makes no sense to me. W h a t a m I m i s s i n g?
Could have something to do with the fact that the Pacers are currently the 4th seed in the East and the Pistons are currently the 4th pick in the lottery. Not really G-Money's fault but...
Hibbert woulda been a nice pick-up..........
Hibbert is pretty good and he's on a winning team. (stats per 36) Plyr: Pts/ Reb/ Ast/ Stl/ Blk/ FG%/ WS-48/ D-rating (pts per 100) RH: 16.3/ 11.8/ 2.1/ 0.5/ 2.2/ .509/ .150/ 96 GM: 17.9/ 10.9/ 2.8/ 1.6/ 0.6/ .523/ .163/ 105 Their stats are close enough that the coaches lean toward the guy who is having success in the W column. The Pistons players benefited from this effect in the past. Hibbert scores at basically the same rate with similar efficiency. He rebounds a hair better. He doesn't pass as well, but it's still better than average for his position. The steals and the blocks are inverses, but Hibbert's blocks are probably more effective with the deterrent effect. Win shares are similar, with an edge for GM. Defensive rating is heavily in favor of Hibbert, but this stat doesn't fully separate out the rest of the team... they are both among the best on their teams, which is the key with it. I could see an Indiana poster complaining if Monroe would have been picked and having a good point.
You can field a team of 6 Roy Hibberts for the price of Prince and Stuckey.
There are people here who would still rather have Stuckey and the old stick.........
That team would still have fewer turnovers than the current Pistons.
Feels a lot like a Jamal Magliore selection.
Jamal Magloire would be the 2nd best big man on the Pistons this year? His career numbers are 7pts, 7 reb and 1blk. ...depressing.
Greg Monroe voted the 7th best player under the age of 25 by ESPN: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...oe-surprised-No-7-spot-ESPN-s-top-25-under-25
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text: Universal Sports has an article about Lysacek training quads. So glad the anti-Lysacek revisions to the COP making quads worth doing has the anti-quad activist doing quads. Chan can do three a competition so there is a way to go. Kind of sad though how some people are acting like an Olympic Champion doing a quad is newsworthy. That is really kind of sad. What is it the 1980's or something? It's like a video of Jason Brown trying a 3A. So dumb of the judges to give someone quadless the gold medal over PLushenko who did two quad triples. Well if it wasn't for Plushenko and the anti-Lysacek COP revisions to prevent quadless gold medalists this wouldn't be happening. http://www.universalsports.com/news-blogs/blogs/blog=gofigure/postid=550378.html


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"The gangs of today will be the terrorists of tomorrow"
The Thursday stabbing happened just down the road from last weekend's shooting that injured five people.
Not only that, it happened an hour after police and the mayor tried to send a message that this type of violence will not be tolerated.
Fourth Street here was the scene of the shooting over the weekend -- it was also the backdrop for city officials and police this morning -- calling for an end to the violence.
"These actions will not be tolerated and we will do everything in our power to end this apparent pattern of violence," said Troy Mayor Lou Rosamilia.
About an hour after Rosamilia said those words, police received a call for a stabbing on River Street. The victim, a 25 year-old male, went to St. Mary's Hospital.
"That victim right now is being less than cooperative. They were treated there and then transferred to Albany Med with pretty serious injuries," said Troy Police Captain Daniel DeWolf.
Police say there's no suspect yet. However, it's that kind of violence they feel has been on the rise. Just over the weekend, five people were shot on Fourth Street when a gunman opened fire into a crowd in front of Gino's Pizza. Investigators say two of the victims were targeted in a feud between rival gangs in Albany and Troy, but the other three were innocent bystanders.
"When you have the shooting of innocent bystanders, there are some precautions that have to be taken," said Troy Police Chief John Tedesco.
As part of the precautions, Tedesco and the Rosamilia say more police officers will be patrolling the streets -- especially the area of Fourth Street which is always filled with people on the weekends between midnight and 4 a.m. That's when the bars close. Police are also planning on being more aggressive in their search for those criminals.
"If you come here and you engage in the activities like last week, you're not simply going to walk away," warned Tedesco.
NEW YORK (AP) - There are more than 300 of them in New York - violent crews of dozens of 12- to 20-year-olds with names such as Very Crispy Gangsters, True Money Gang and Cash Bama Bullies.
Police say these groups, clustered around a particular block or housing project, are responsible for about 40 percent of the city's shootings, with most of that violence stemming from the smallest of disses on the street, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
"It's like belonging to an evil fraternity," said Inspector Kevin Catalina, commander of the New York Police Department's gang division. "A lot of it is driven by nothing: A dispute over a girl or a wrong look or a perceived slight."
The trend of smaller, younger crews has also been seen in Chicago and Northeast cities over the last few years as police have cracked down on bigger, more traditional gangs, experts said. While the Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings still exist, operating such money-making schemes as drug dealing, their members are usually older and understand the timeworn mantra of organized crime: violence is bad for business.
Not so for the crews, whose recklessness prompted former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly in 2012 to launch an initiative to confront the crews dubbed Operation Crew Cut.
Investigators now focus on gathering intelligence about specific crews - understanding their activities, allegiances and feuds which they glean through traditional street policing and trolling of social media sites, cell phone photos and even recorded jailhouse calls.
Police have also stepped up arrests of the most active crew members. In Manhattan, prosecutors set up an internal email alert system that notifies them when crew member are arrested, even on minor charges, and provides beyond-the-rap-sheet details for bail arguments. The prosecutor might mention that the person was a suspect in another crime or had made threats on Facebook, for instance.
In a recent case in Harlem, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. says a 2009 killing kindled years of vendetta attacks, including three killings and 30 shootings. Sixty-three people were rounded up, and at least 62 entered guilty pleas, including crew members so young that one told another to "mob up" after school.
"The evidence was very powerful," said Robert Anesi, who represented a 19-year-old who pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges in the case last week. "They had such access to social media and they knew who the players were."
NYPD statistics show gang arrests are up citywide nearly 14 percent from 2013 - and more than 28 percent from two years ago. Shooting incidents citywide are about the same as they were last year, with 282 recorded so far, and are down by nearly 23 percent from two years ago.
Still, crew-related violence persists despite record dips in overall crime in New York City over the last few years. The most notable recent case came in March when investigators say a 14-year-old member of the Stack Money Goons shot a .357 revolver at a rival member of the Twan Family on a crowded bus in Brooklyn. The bullet instead killed an immigrant father who was working two jobs to support his family.
"When you ask young adults, 'Why? Why did you shoot that young man?' Probably 80 percent of the time the answer is: He disrespected me," said Kai Smith, an ex-con-turned-businessman who runs a gang-diversion program in city high schools.
Smith works with students who have been arrested at least once, forcing them to define what disrespect means through exercises and role-playing.
Jamal Williams, 18, a high school junior, says he's been affiliated with crews and gangs since he was 9, though he's trying to turn his life around.
"A crew to me is a family," he said. "They are going to be there for me like my parents was never there for me."
As more crew members are locked up, investigators are noticing a trend of crew members shifting affiliations behind bars, emerging as a sort-of hybrid gang-crew combination with diffuse connections and alliances.
"That has really complicated this universe," Catalina said. "We went from a traditional gang problem to a crew problem and now we're morphing back into somewhat of a traditional gang problem."
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The last thing a gang member wants to be is a snitch.
Snitches undefined or rats, squealers or canaries undefined supply damning information to police about fellow criminals that can send them to prison for life.
Hence, gang members are big proponents of the anti-snitching efforts that have been thwarting police investigations for years in the Capital Region.
But that does not stop them from providing damning information by literally singing for law enforcement.
In one of the ironies of the criminal justice system, many of the same individuals who claim to detest snitching have no problem rapping on the Internet and, in the process, giving police more information than any snitch might have provided.
They discuss specific beefs, plans, name types of guns and, most of all, show their faces for any cop to see.
The latest example surfaced on Friday when Jovell White-Span, 22, of Rensselaer, was charged as one of two alleged shooters in the 2013 slaying of Edward Maxim, who was not a gang member, in Albany.
People with knowledge of the case say White-Span and co-defendant Jahmeek "Meeker" Croley of Albany, both reputed members of the Yard Boys street gang in Albany, were recruited to kill Maxim in a prearranged hit.
Long before White-Span faced murder and conspiracy charges that carry 25 years to life in prison, the aspiring rapper created a Facebook page on which he called himself "Shooter on Deck" undefined and flashed a giant gun alongside other men flashing large guns.
So before his first day in court, he has already identified himself as a "shooter."
On March 25, White-Span went on Facebook to compliment the direction and editing skills of a video made in Troy he referred to as "SendinShots."
It so happened that on YouTube, a rap video called "Sending Shots" depicted scenes from around Troy, where several rappers made various boasts and spoke of blasting guns. One of the rappers mentions his "gunners" and makes a reference to violently riding into Second Street and Lexington Avenue, where Albany "uptown" gangs are based. It appeared to be connected to ongoing violence between gangs in Albany and Troy that police in both cities acknowledge has led to an increase in shootings.
A common theme in the back-and-forth has been that victims of the shootings have been unwilling to cooperate with police.
But on "Sending Shots," the rappers showed their faces and went into great effort to call themselves "YGz," an apparent reference to the "Young Gunnerz" gang in Troy.
On Feb. 4, 2013, Takim Smith, 21, known as "Tubu," of Albany, who was not involved in any gang, was lured to a Corliss Park apartment in Troy under the pretense of sex with two women and robbed and killed. The apartment where Smith was killed was considered a hangout for the Young Gunnerz.
Even without him being involved in crime, his death led to the Troy-Albany gang violence, police say. But they also said social media undefined such as the rap videos undefined has fueled violence.
Another video made by young rappers in Albany mocks several members of the "Gunnerz."
Both videos are packed with hand gestures about guns.
The trend is not entirely new. Federal prosecutions of gangs in the Capital Region have revealed rap videos that help identify various gang members and associates.
In 2008, when police arrested three defendants in the slaying of University at Albany student Richard Bailey, two of them had rap songs posted online.
Both later cooperated with prosecutors.
A Bronx gang leader was found guilty Tuesday of the cold-blooded killing of a 16-year-old boy, authorities said.
Prosecutors said Trinitarios thug Carlos (White Boy) Urena was the triggerman in the 2005 murder of Ka'Shawn Phillips. The teen, who was shot in the head in Yonkers, just over the Bronx border, was also stabbed 20 times.
"Urena walked up with a 9-mm. gun and shot Ka'Shawn Phillips right in the head," Assistant U.S. Attorney Micah Smith said in Urena's seven-week jury trial.
Urena, 27, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison, authorities said. He was convicted of various charges, including murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering and drug conspiracy. No sentencing date was immediately set.
Limet Vasquez, an associate, was found guilty of racketeering, murder conspiracy and other counts.
He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum of five years.
The convictions are the latest obtained by the feds in a steady stream of gang takedowns.
Last month, a Daily News review that highlighted the Phillips murder showed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office has convicted more than 1,000 of about 1,300 people charged in 52 large-scale drug and gang takedowns since late 2009.
"The Bronx streets are safer because of the jury's verdict," Bharara said Tuesday.
Marlon Johnson Jr., 25, of Kenmore, was sentenced Friday to 48 months in prison for possession of a firearm.
Johnson was an associate of the Bailey Boys Gang, federal prosecutors said, and his sentencing by Justice William Skretny was the latest development in a series of federal actions aimed at the gang. A total of 10 alleged members and associates of the Bailey Boys have been indicted on racketeering charges, including multiple murders, attempted murders, robberies and narcotics trafficking, prosecutors said.
Buffalo police arrested Johnson in December 2011 after they responded to a call on Emerson Street. He ran from the area but was taken into custody inside a residence on Glenwood Avenue. Officers searched a garbage tote next door and found a loaded .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol with a defaced serial number. Johnson admitted later admitted that he stole the gun from another individual.
The Buffalo police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI participated in the investigation.
Damone Holcombe, 28, the last of the five members of Buffalo's former Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation street gang to be convicted, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., said the Grant Street resident now faces a prison term of up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine at his sentencing shortly by U.S. Chief District Judge William M. Skretny.
In the midst of a crackdown on the Almighty Latin street gang, Erie County sheriff's deputies found a 7.62mm semi-automatic rifle, a digital scale with cocaine and marijuana residue and a bag of marijuana in Holcombe's trousers pocket when they raided his Grant Street home on Sept. 21, 2011. Federal agencies assisted in the crackdown, Hochul said.
The NYPD has finally rid Times Square of the annual post-New York Auto Show gang-initiation violence that plagued the area for years, police sources told The Post on Tuesday.
Bloods and Crips took to Facebook and Twitter to alert fellow gang members that there were too many cops in the area this year and to stay away, the sources said.
"It was pretty much dead. It was really quiet this year," said one source, noting that it felt "like Disneyland."
Detectives from the NYPD's Intelligence Unit, which monitors social media, learned that the crew members were instead going to congregate in Coney Island, Brooklyn, following the show, the sources said.
And gang violence erupted in a McDonald's on Mermaid Avenue at around 11 p.m. Sunday. One man was stabbed to death while another was seriously wounded in the knife attack, cops said.
A law-enforcement source told The Post there were other gang attacks across the city that night, but no confirmed assaults linked to crew members in Manhattan.
Another factor in the decline of Times Square violence is that the show closed at 7 p.m. this year rather than 9 p.m. as in past years, the sources said.
"They're not as drunk and they usually go home," one source said.
Three gangbangers were shot and 54 arrested in Times Square on Easter, 2010.
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'The Hurricanes went into the playoffs with Martin Gerber as their No. 1 goalie, but Ward took over when the Swiss 'keeper was bombed in two straight losses to Montreal. Ward hasn't looked back. Now he faces a new challenge in the Sabres, a team some say is a mirror image of the Hurricanes with their fast puck movement and strong special teams.'
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Does anyone here have any knowledge of the Revolver Mod 1 in .357, that was produced in prototype form only in the late 70's early 80's please?
If anyone has any information on this item, other than that which can be found on a normal internet search, I would be most grateful to be advised of it.
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We also could use some help with defining thread prefixes for our Jango and Boba sections to help break down the major components of the costume or approaches to building.
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then go apply for your N. drive a real car.
unless you're 12, which it kind of sounds like it, so i guess i won't blame you.
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Posted by Thomas Husson on December 20, 2012
Every year for the past few years, I've been revisiting our mobile trends predictions. So let's do it again for the 2012 Mobile Trends post I put together a year ago with my colleague Julie Ask.
So many things happened in 2012 that it's difficult to sum up the year. We've passed three key milestones in 2012: more than 1 million apps available, more than 100 million tablets and more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets!
Let's take a look at some of the key trends we highlighted last year. We expected product strategists to work with other roles to:
· Develop a scalable approach to delivering mobile services. Most advanced organizations took a more strategic approach to building and spreading institutional knowledge as well as governance for the development of mobile services. However, the majority still do not coordinate their approach between marketing, IT, agencies, and vendors.
· Craft a mobile strategy that expands beyond phones. Only the most advanced players differentiated their tablet strategies. I know of a leading online retailer that is now generating 10% of its overall online sales via tablets because of the launch of an iPad app only eight months ago! However, most players still lump smartphones and tablets into the same "mobile" bucket without understanding the differences in the context of use.


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Re: Islander 32 Mkii
Nicely done.
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Thanks for the feedback Bob Peery and Seaner97. Attached image, the hand-drawn accuracy
of an original Bob Perry design drawing, digitized and scaled to mate with a Yanmar CAD file.
It was pure joy when the actual 1st try install was within 1/10" dead-on, transmission flange
plate to prop-shaft-coupling plate. I'm planning my next trip from San Diego to Catalina Island
in Grace Note, my classic 1977 coastal cruiser I-32 mk2. dtitus
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I am always willing to provide what drawings I gave Islander. Islander did all their own engineering so my stuff is pretty much just, "Here's what I want it to look like. You figure out how to build it." stuff.
Nice to see this thread here. I hope you guys have enjoyed your boats.
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Failing the original, Bristol Bronze, I believe, has bronze plates for Islander boats that they will put your hull number on.
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Hello Fellow Islander 32-mk2 Owners,
I own a late-1977, I-32-3, tall rig, deep draft, in San Diego. It's hull #103 (3303M77K).
The original tired old Westerbeke L25 was in it when purchased and within 6 months the
transmission totally failed. So, I decided to re-power with a new Yanmar 3YM20 (21hp).
I was actively involved in the entire process and installed new hardwood blocks to raise
the engine bed, for correct propeller shaft alignment. Since the re-power involved going
from 4-cylinders to 3, a new longer prop shaft was needed, and put in a new drip-less
coupling. I was able to use the old prop, because the old-vs-new engine had nearly the
same output hp. Love the Yanmar, but $12k for the entire re-power was a big decision.
I emailed the original designer Robert Perry (Seattle area) and for a bargain cost, he sent
me a set of the blueprints. I scanned (digitized) the hull longitudinal section drawing and
married it with the Yanmar CAD drawing. This allowed me to get very accurate new engine
bed + prop shaft coupling dimensions. When I bought my I-32, the original mfg. ID plate
above the engine had been removed / lost, so if a sailnet member could send me a high-res
digital photo of their I-32 plate, I could try to get a replacement made for my boat, at a trophy
shop maybe. Thanks,
Re: Islander 32 Mkii
I've recently listed my 1978 Islander 32 MKII shoal draft.
You can find it on sailboatlistings.com look for the nicest looking Islander 32 there....she is in Maine.
Moving up to a bigger something.....
Send me an e-mail or let someone else know....
Re: Islander 32 Mkii
She is my first boat, looked for two years. Almost bought a 30' Dufour and a 30' Pearson but really didn't like the layout of either and really wanted a 32'. When I found this one I just fell in love. The hide away table is so sweet! The Islander 36 has them too. When it's put away there is room to dance! My exhaust comes out the bottom of the champagne glass stern so no issues there. The only thing I've had to replace was the water system pump and a couple of fittings. I'm going to rebuild the old one for a spare.
The cubby bins behind each settee hold massive amounts of stuff and they stay put when heeling. She has a 27 gallon tank and I have found room under the starboard side lazarette that I'm going to add another 20gl tank. There are 25gl water tanks under each settee so 50gl is plenty for my needs. When I was exploring up in the bow area I opened up a cover and found that one of the previous owners put two bags of concrete. I have noticed when the fuel tank and the hot water tank is full that she sinks at the stern a bit. Might be a good place for another water tank if I wanted.
I absolutely love this boat and hope to have her till the end, I will keep her ship shape for the next lucky sailor!
Re: Islander 32 Mkii
I don't have it any more (sold it to a friend) but I used to have a 1977 32 Islander Mark II. Mine had the four foot draft.
It's a great sailor and a really stiff boat. It has one of the neatest looking salons you will ever see on a 32 foot boat and we loved the hide away table.
I routinely got it over 8 knots under per GPS on numerous occasions. It was a well balanced rig, too. A couple of times I would be really whizzing along, and try to steer over a few degrees and find out I had completely overpowered the rudder and it wasn't really doing anything.
If I had to do it over again, I would have kept it. But, it had a worn out Atomic 4 in it, and I just didn't feel like going through a re-power at the time.
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Hi all! I bought my 78 MII TR last Sept. #3341 "Brilliant Sea" I re-named her(I did the ceremonies). She wore "Kismet", "Lady Blue" and "Le Reve" in the past. Great boat and had been very well cared for. Green Identifier, shoal draft, wheel steering.
320hrs on a Yanmar 3gm,
original headliner(looks new),
new cushions,
new dodger and bimini,
Furuno radar,
Standard Horizon gps,
Raymarine auto pilot,
oiled teak still looks new,
fresh bottom job last August,
new dripless and zincs,
155%, 130% headsails
And gobs of other stuff came with her. I've only sailed her three months and can't wait till this horrid winter gets done so I can get her out again. I ripped the main when I sailed up from VA(had it repaired), ordered a North Sails radial full batten(was delivered in Jan.) she will sail sweet!
I'd love to meet and talk with you all about our Bob Perry's wonderful design! I feel she points well but gets some wicked lee helm when over powered, when I have the sails trimmed right she is very well balanced on the wheel. Weather helm is unnoticeable.
She's a right stiff boat for a shoal draft. I have it in my head to circumnav and am thinking of adding about 700lbs to the keel. Marskeel in Canada makes lead torpedoes that attach to the sides of the keel. I want to do the Horn so a little more stability would be nice.
I'm in the Barnegat Bay if any of you come around this summer let me know. I will be in and out of the Chesapeake as well so I'll look for some of you as well!
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Greetings Tommy hull #2964,
I have done extensive work to the boat itself. It was pretty well abandoned for over 8 years when I got it and hadn't been hauled between 8 and 12 years. The bottom was a mess but not too many blisters.
I have a 1979 boat, tall rig and the westerbeke L25. REALLY hard to get parts for but it is still running. It got me down the Tenn Tom waterway from N Alabama to Mobile last fall and I have been in Mobile ever since. Getting ready to go back up the waterway to Demopolis next week for the hurricane season and then back down to spend next winter in the Bahamas.
If you have any specific questions shoot me another message. I will be out of touch for awhile the first week of Aug or so while we go up the river 200+ miles.
Check out our travel site. travelopd.com/members/my-house
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|Our review has been updated. We discovered that our sample did in fact have a flaw, and have retroactively awarded it an Editor's Choice. It's unfortunate that things played out this way, but as mentioned in our new conclusion, these things can happen - not just to reviewers, but end-consumers also.
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After taking a look at Cooler Master's QuickFire Pro keyboard last month, we walked away knowing that the company knows how to make a quality mechanical offering. Will the Trigger reaffirm that belief? It adds macro support, a palmrest and expands the backlighting to the entire keyboard - so it has a good chance.
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Conservative Media Shrug At The Thought Of Another Recession
Right-wing media figures are urging Republicans to refuse to compromise on budget and taxes, action that would induce automatic government budget cuts and broad tax increases and herald another recession. But economists agree that a budget deal needs to include some tax increases, which would significantly raise revenue, and that more revenue must be part of a balanced solution to lowering the deficit.
Right-Wing Media Advise GOP Not To Compromise On Taxes Even If End Result Is A Recession
Sean Hannity: "If We Go Off The Fiscal Cliff, Go." On his radio show, Fox News' Sean Hannity said that Republicans "were not elected to rubber stamp" President Obama's agenda, and so if Democrats won't accept a deal that Republicans offer, "if we go off the fiscal cliff, go, because Democrats are publically stating they want it." He suggested that the subsequent recession would be blamed on Democrats and Obama, not the Republicans. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show, 11/28/12 [1]]
Angela McGlowan: "We Should Let President Obama Go Over The Cliff." On Fox Business Lou Dobbs Tonight, Fox contributor Angela McGlowan said that she had been "optimistic" about the prospects for a budget deal, but that "[w]e should let President Obama go over the cliff." [Fox Business, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 11/29/12 [2]]
Michelle Fields: GOP Should "Of Course" Risk A Recession Rather Than Compromise On High-End Tax Raises. Frequent Fox guest and conservative pundit Michelle Fields told Fox host Neil Cavuto that Republicans have the stronger hand in negotiations over the budget because the president would receive the blame if a deal is not reached. Fields said: "Republicans are at an advantage right now. If these tax cuts expire, what's going to happen is we're going to enter into a new recession, and who is that going to hurt politically? That's going to hurt Obama because that's going to prevent him from achieving what he hopes to achieve in the second term." After Cavuto asked if Republicans should "play with fire on this and risk" a recession, Fields responded: "Yeah, of course. I think they need to demand spending cuts. They're the ones who have the leverage." [Fox News, Your World with Neil Cavuto, 11/28/12 [3]]
Wash. Post's Thiessen: "Going Over The Cliff Would Help The GOP." Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen wrote an Op-Ed detailing several reasons why the GOP should allow the fiscal cliff to pass. He listed several Democratic policies that would be undermined by going over the cliff, including the child tax credit, payroll tax cut, earned income tax credit, and lower rates on lower income workers. He added that going over the cliff "would save Republicans from having to break their pledge not to raise taxes." [The Washington Post, 11/19/12 [4]]
But Failure To Reach A Budget Deal Would Lead To A Recession
Federal Reserve Official Warned That Failure To Reach A Deal "Would Drive The U.S. Economy Into A Recession." Federal Reserve Bank of New York president William Dudley reportedly stated that impending tax hikes and spending cuts "would drive the U.S. economy into recession":
Continuing political gridlock in the fiscal cliff fight will hurt the U.S. economy, an influential Federal Reserve official said Thursday morning.
"Congress and the administration must address the fiscal cliff in a manner that creates a credible framework for long-term fiscal sustainability," said William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in a speech at Pace University in New York City.
"Failure to reach a credible [budget] agreement would suggest a degree of political dysfunction that would undermine U.S. economic leadership and could encourage global corporations and investors to take their business elsewhere," he said, noting that economic leaders abroad "wonder whether our political system is capable of putting the national interest above partisan interests."
Dudley warned that going over the so-called fiscal cliff, or letting a series of planned tax hikes and spending cuts take place on Jan. 1, "would drive the U.S. economy into recession." He also noted that a protracted fight could damage the economy by hurting confidence. [Huffington Post, 11/29/12 [5]]
CBO: Budget Changes Will Lead Unemployment "To Rise To 9.1 Percent" By The End Of Next Year. The Congressional Budget Office found that the U.S. economy "will drop by 0.5 percent in 2013" if the "substantial changes to tax and spending policies [that] are scheduled to take effect in January 2013" actually take effect. CBO also found that "the contraction of the economy will cause employment to decline and the unemployment rate to rise to 9.1 percent." [Congressional Budget Office, 11/8/12 [6]]
Wash. Post: Failure To Reach A Budget Deal Would Hurt Economy "Quite A Lot." In a Washington Post article on Wonkblog, economics editor Neil Irwin wrote that those who argue that it won't be very bad for the economy if Congress and the White House can't agree to a deal are misguided because this "seems like a naïve way of viewing the situation, one divorced from the real ways that markets and psychology interact with economic forces." Irwin wrote:
Some would argue that it won't be very bad at all. That's the answer the normal analytical tools would offer. But this is one of those situations where the normal analytical tools might be leading people astray: There is every reason to think even a short exercise in cliff-diving would hurt quite a lot.
"I fear it could be much, much worse than those who blithely assert that it wouldn't be so bad," said Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at J.P. Morgan Chase.
The economic impacts of any legislative debate are almost impossible to measure in real time. But the stock market renders its verdict every second of the trading day. If the talks are going off the rails in the final days of December, with no accord in sight, it may well be the markets, looking forward to the ill-effects to come, that provide a certain focus for recalcitrant lawmakers.
That is exactly what happened on Sept. 29, 2008, when the House of Representatives rejected the bank bailout bill known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program that the Bush administration was pushing. As the votes came across the screen on C-Span, the stock market began a stunning descent, and the Standard & Poor's 500 dropped almost 9 percent in one of its worst days ever. It would have taken weeks or even months to know how bad the damage to the real economy would be from a failure to rescue American banks.
That got the lawmakers' attention, and four days later they passed the bill with only modest changes. [The Washington Post, 11/13/12 [7]]
Economists Agree Revenue Must Be Part Of A Balanced Solution To Deficit
Former Bush Economic Adviser: "Both Tax Increases And Spending Cuts Are Required" To Lower Deficit. The Hill reported that N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, believes "both tax increases and spending cuts are required" to lower the deficit:
America has both a spending problem and a revenue problem -- too much of the former and too little of the latter. Every serious student of the federal budget, right, left and center, agrees that any realistic solution requires a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.
Democrats and Republicans on the Simpson-Bowles Commission knew that both revenue increases and spending cuts were necessary to deal effectively with our deficit problem.
N. Gregory Mankiw, the chairman of George Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, knows both tax increases and spending cuts are required. Indeed, Mankiw argues, "The distinction between spending and taxation is often murky and sometimes meaningless." [The Hill, 6/28/11 [8]]
NY Times: Obama's Proposal To Allow Bush Tax Cuts To Expire For Wealthier Americans Would Raise $850 Billion In A Decade. The New York Times reported that "economists estimate that letting the cuts expire for people above that threshold would generate $850 billion over 10 years":
President Obama, drawing a contrast with what he called Republican trickle-down economics, called on Monday for temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 while letting the taxes of the wealthiest go up.
A one-year extension for people making under $250,000 would cost the government $150 billion in revenue, the administration estimates, an amount that would be added to the deficit. In a point of comparison, economists estimate that letting the cuts expire for people above that threshold would generate $850 billion over 10 years. [The New York Times, 7/9/12 [9]]
Former Reagan OMB Official: "I Think The Biggest Problem Is Revenues." In an interview with Talking Points Memo, David Stockman, a former Office of Management and Budget director under President Reagan, responded to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan and stated: "I think the biggest problem is revenues. It is simply unrealistic to say that raising revenue isn't part of the solution. It's a measure of how far off the deep end Republicans have gone with this religious catechism about taxes." [Talking Points Memo, 4/11/11 [10]]
Paul Krugman: "Government Spending Has Continued To Rise More Or Less On Its Pre-Crisis Trend" While "Revenue Has Plunged." In an October 17, 2010, post on his New York Times blog, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote:
For all those commenters saying that we must have had a surge in government spending -- I mean, look at the deficit! -- a simple picture:
Government spending has continued to rise more or less on its pre-crisis trend. Revenue has plunged, because the economy is deeply depressed. [The New York Times, 10/17/10 [11]]
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'"We've got to push ourselves back in that playoff picture," he said. "I felt last year we didn't get off to the type of start we needed to get off to. Losing the first couple of games put us in an instant hole, and I think if you look back, when you get off to a good start it sets you up for the whole year."'
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'"I think because of the way we played (last season) people just maybe thought we'd been together a while," Ennis said Saturday after the Sabres prepared for this afternoon's tilt against the Pittsburgh Penguins inside the First Niagara Center. "But it was still new and fresh. There's learning curves. We're having fun with it, though. We need to keep improving."'
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Just picked up my 2013 Touareg TDI executive. I am trying to make some vag com adjustments but im having a hard time finding the codes.
I am looking to enable the Video in motion, remove seat belt chime, enable the gear indicator to show while in drive. Im not sure if its possible but I was hoping there might be a way to have the rear back up camera able to show while at any speed. Also looking to see if there is a way to program the windows up and down with the Key FOB.
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Steinberg staff continues to make statements that LoopMash will be updated, however there has been no estimated timeline provided.
Can we please get an estimate as to when LoopMash will be re-released on the app store. People paid money for this app and now it is not available. Moreover, we like this app and really want to use it.
Timeline please!