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Lakers are looking to deal Pau Gasol. Would you trade STAT for Pau? Who do you think is the better fit for our team/system?
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2 years, a long term back injury, a knee surgery, a lacerated hand injury and 2 missed playoff series later....
And to be honest, as much as many people were pissed at Melo when he came back after Linsanity and our team went to ****, I only recall 1 or 2 guys here actually saying trade him. Most wanted him to figure out how to play team ball, but not just trade him away.
Either way, saying trade STAT for a 2x NBA champion is not a slight against STAT.
I also love how guys are saying Pau is washed up yet bringing up **** from 2 years ago to say why STAT is so good.
This is not the same fast break, D'Antoni pick and roll heavy team with STAT at C and 3 point shooters all over the court. We are defense first, with a big front line, play the slowest pace in the league, utilize the post and have a C who is going to take mostly all of Amare's pick and roll reps.
This is not the same team, Amare is not the same fit that he was in 2010.
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It is just a matter of rotation management. Start Amar'e when he gets back, but sit him down two minutes into the first quarter and then let him come in strong with the second unit. He maintains his pride as a starter and effectively becomes the captain of the second unit. Done.
I wouldn't mind that. But I mean, start the guy for 3 minutes? How do you find a rhythm that way. I understand you can manage the rotation to keep the STAT-MELO-Tyson dynamic spread out, let STAT work with Wallace spotting from 3 and with Prigs running pNr. Thats probably what will happen.
Thats basically what we did last year. I just don't like the tentativeness Melo plays when STAT is on the court. He thinks too much out there and doesn't have the same comfort level.
Last year we would get off to pretty terrible starts until the end of the season during Melosanity. We pretty much subbed STAT at 6 minute mark of the first, Melo would finish off the first, than STAT would come in and play the entire second, Melo would finish the last 6 minutes of 2nd quarter.
Basically gives them each half a quarter by themselves as the bonafide #1 option.
I still reserve some hope because of Woody and Kidd, but I have held out hope so many times for this guy and have been let down each time.
We need amare back to take some of sheeds minutes. Im sure that amare will play better minutes then rasheed wallace. Wether it's off the bench or starting. If we are going to win we need to find a way for amare and carmelo to be on the court at the same time. So i believe STAT will work his way into the starting lineup
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1 . Thats a bold faced lie lol ... just like people who rathered jeremy lin over ray felt , give me a break & Why are you picking up for a guy that doesnt even play for the knicks rather than Amare lol ...Pau gasol is no where near a better player than amare regaurdless just because he won championships means nothing & Even if ... You Must've Missed ..Amare played very well in that preseason game he played earlier if you didnt notice ...but just take a look at this and i rest my case dude http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...-ever-co-exist They have a point guard ...something they didnt have last season .
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STAT and Melo never got real serious chances to mesh with a point gaurd thats why it seems like they cant work which is just foolish....First season with chauncey they were doing pretty damn fine all they needed was time and chemistry..then they amnistied him for tyson chandler leaving Toney Douglas to be the point..we all know how Toney turned out, then came Linsanity a guy who was more concerned for his own personal game rather than trying to get the two stars the ball...Now they finally have true points who KNOW its about STAT and Melo in Ray Felt J.Kidd and Pablo and look amare unfortunately hit a snag. But we should most likely see the true extent of their potential when he returns
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I wonder what you people would be saying if Amar'e was playing, and his defense was like Tyson Chandlers' this season
Something might be up with Tyson. If Camby was in game shape it would allow them to rest Chandler but the team minus both might lead the league in dunks allowed.
From strictly a vision test it seems like this team without Amare is still a good team if Melo can continue this pace and they stay healthy but with Amare they get a second legitimate scoring threat which, in theory, makes them a very good team, possibly even a contender.
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I am sticking up for reality, not for a player on another team. You are not thinking like a rational person, you are thinking like an obsessed Amare fan.
Amare played well in that preseason game? Are you ****ing kidding me? He came back and our D fell off a cliff.
First play is prime Amare. No awareness on D, especially on an obvious switch that a 3rd grader could have executed.
Why are you posting bleacher report articles?
And its not a bold faced lie. You joined this board a ****ing month ago. I have been posting on this board for 5 years, I know the posters, I know who said what because they've gotten bashed for it. There are 2-3 posters who wanted to, and still might want to, trade Melo.
A ton of posters who would like to trade Amare are the same guys who supported Melo the whole time (Anji, Stillafan, Addix, BklynKnicks).
So stop making **** up and acting like everyone who wanted to trade Melo wanted to trade Amare. Its actually the complete opposite. Most guys who wanted to trade Melo, support Amare, most who love Melo, hate Amare.
I still can't believe you said "Why are you sticking up for that guy on the other team!!" :cry:
Trust me, if you were actually on this board last season, you would know I was Amare's #1 supporter until it became damn near impossible to support the dude.
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I would like to add that I don't want to trade Amare because I like Melo, I would like to trade him because he is not as good as Melo as a number 1 option and he conflicts with too many players to only bring pick and roll scorer to the table.
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"'Hemlock Grove' isn't particularly a show that is just good for Halloween, but I guess the scariest thing about 'Hemlock Grove' is you don't necessarily see the danger right away," he says. "The scary thing about it is it's kind of about what's frightening us in the darkness. That's kind of what makes it a good kind of scary thing to watch."
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This is "Hemlock Grove's" first Halloween, which means that it's the first opportunity fans have had to potentially dress up as characters from the Netflix show for the holiday. If for whatever reason someone does decide to dress as Peter Rumancek, though, they probably should come at Liboiron from a distance.
"That'd be kind of scary. I'd be both flattered and freaked out by it," he says with a laugh. So does that mean he's never seen anyone dress as his "Degrassi" character Declan? "I never really considered that. It would be funny to see Declan now," he admits.
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- A. J. Stratakos, C.R. Sullivan, S.R. Sanders. "DC Power Supply Design in Portable Systems," in Low Power Digital CMOS Design, A.P. Chandrakasan and R.W. Brodersen, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995.
- IEEE Fellow, 2014
- Sigma Xi, 2001
- IEEE Power Electronics Society Prize Paper Award, 2000
- National Science Foundation CAREER award, 1999
Selected Patents
Professor Sullivan has over 30 patents including:
- Low AC resistant foil winding for magnetic coils on gapped cores (7,701,317)
- Method for making magnetic components with N-phase coupling, and related inductor structures (7,498,920)
- Low impedance test fixture for impedance measurements (7,365,550)
- Method and apparatus for multi-phase DC-DC converters using coupled inductors in discontinuous conduction mode (7,317,305)
- Voltage converter with coupled inductive windings, and associated methods (6,362,986)
- Circuit for dimming gas discharge lamps without introducing striations (5,001,386)
Professional Activities
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member
- Transactions on Power Electronics, Associate Editor
- Power Electronics Society, Member at Large, Administrative Committee
- Industry Applications Society, Awards Chair, Power Electronics Devices and Components Committee
- Magnetics Society, Industrial Electronics Society
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The greatest place value is hundred thousands. *the digit in the tens place is 5. *the remaining digit are 2,3,8, and 7 *one of the digit has value of 300,000 *one of the digits has a value of 800. The value of the digit in the thousands place is 10 times greater than this. * ...
August 10, 2015
statistics and probability
Solve for y . -2(y-3)= 5y-29 Simplify your answer as much as possible
August 10, 2015
Suppose you wanted to be able to see astronauts on the moon. What is the smallest diameter of the objective lens required to resolve a 0.61 m object on the moon?
August 7, 2015
Which one of the following actions would make the maxima in the interference pattern from a grating move closer together? Decreasing the frequency of the laser. Increasing the frequency of the laser. Increasing the number of lines per length. Increasing the wavelength of the ...
August 7, 2015
: a student scored 73 out of 100 on a test. If the maximum score on the next text is also 100 points, what score does the student need to maintain an average of 81?
August 6, 2015
True or False. If a line L1 has equation y = mx + b, where m and b are constants with m 0,then an equation of a line L2 perpendicular to L1 has the form , where C is a constant. L2: y= -1x +C
August 4, 2015
Sam bought a new car for $26,500. The car depreciates approximately 13% of its value each year. a) What is the decay factor for the value of this car? b) Write an equation to model the decay value of this car?
August 2, 2015
that sounds good !
July 23, 2015
July 21, 2015
A solid cylinder rolls down an incline plane without slipping. If the center of mass of the cylinder has a linear acceleration of 2.67 m/s2, what is the angle of the incline to the horizontal?
July 21, 2015
July 9, 2015
a. 2.12 m b. 2.07 m c. 1.98 m d. 2.20 m e. 1.93 m which one ?
July 9, 2015
A 30.0-kg child sits on one end of a long uniform beam having a mass of 20.0 kg, and a 43.0-kg child sits on the other end. The beam balances when a fulcrum is placed below the beam a distance of 1.10 m from the 30.0-kg child. How long is the beam?
July 9, 2015
Never mind I got it
July 9, 2015
A child (48 kg) stands on the edge of a stationary merry-go-round (uniform disk of radius 1.2 m and mass 50 kg). The child jumps off at 1.0 m/s with respect to the ground in the direction tangential to the edge. Find the angular speed of the merry-go-round after the jump. ...
July 9, 2015
list all the 3-digit number that fit these clues
July 9, 2015
Suppose you moved a box across a rough horizontal surface with a 50 N force over a displacement of 10 m. If the frictional force at the interface was 10 N, how much work was done to the box?
July 7, 2015
A study of 600 college students taking statistics revealed that 54 students received the grade of A. Typically 10% of the class gets an A. The difference between this gourp of students and the expected value is not significant at the 0.05 level. What does this mean?
June 23, 2015
Math (Need help Urgent)
1. Fireworks are to be launched from a platform at the base of a hill. Using the top of the platform as the origin and taking some measurements, it was determined that the cross-section of the slope of one side of the hill is y=4x-12 . If the path of the fireworks is y= -x^2+...
June 18, 2015
Nuts worth $3 per lb are to be mixed with 8 lb of nuts worth $4.25 per lb to obtain a mixture that will be sold for $4 per lb. How many pounds of the $3 nuts should be used?
June 17, 2015
A 95% confidence interval for the mean of a normal population is found to be 17.6 <h 23.6 (h looking symbol couldn't find on keyboard ) what is the margin of error ? A 2 B 2.7 C 3 D 4 My answer is C. Am I right? But I think it could also be A.
June 16, 2015
social studies
i know
June 12, 2015
social studies
what is that Bobpursley i was told not to trust wikipedia
June 12, 2015
social studies
June 12, 2015
social studies
What is unusual about how Brazil gained independence? Need Help A.S.A.P
June 12, 2015
The effective speed of the student while going upstream (i.e , the velocity of the student with respect to the river ) is 0.75 m/s whereas the same while returning downstream is 1.45 m/s . So , total time taken = 1000/0.75 + 1000/1.45 = 2023 seconds = 33 minutes 43 seconds . ...
June 11, 2015
Social Studies
June 11, 2015
Thank you!
May 30, 2015
12.34 Screening job applicants. A company retains a psychologist to assess whether job applicants are suited for assembly-line work. The psychologist classifies applicants as one of A (well suited), B (marginal), or C (not suited). The company is concerned about the event D ...
May 30, 2015
Half of Sarah's wire is equal to 2/5 of Daniels. Chris has 3 times as much as Sarah. In all, their wire measures 6 ft. How long is Sarah's wire in feet?
May 27, 2015
given the following functions, find the function values of g(x)=5, find g(-4)
May 26, 2015
Sharon made a scale drawing of a triangular park. The coordinates for the vertices of the park are: ( 10, 5) (15, 5) (10, 12) Her scale is 1 unit = 1 meter. What is the area of the triangular park in square meters? How do you find the answer?
May 21, 2015
life orientation assignment
Analse the above statement . illustrate your answer by referring to any three media form over the same two week period
May 21, 2015
suppose i guess that the average income of a family is $40,000. Display a test of the hypothesis that the mean of the numerical variable equals the value of the guess given versus the alternative that it does not equal this value. then what would be my decision at the 5% ...
May 17, 2015
science @elena please help
D. photosynthetic cyanobacteria and fungi form a mutualistic associatio in lichen
May 13, 2015
Linear Functions
May 9, 2015
where does the 1 come from the 1.14? I have my final today.
May 7, 2015
An advertisement for a steel-belted radial tire states that this tire delivers 14% better gas mileage. If the present gas mileage is 25.5 mpg, what mileage would you expect if you purchased these tires? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a mile per gallon. I know the ...
May 7, 2015
Ms Sue, can you write it out, I'm really bad at this. Thanks.
May 6, 2015
Suppose you wish to make a scale drawing of your living room, which measures 18 ft by 23 ft. If the shorter side of the drawing is 6 in., how long is the longer side of the scale drawing?
May 6, 2015
What is the difference between specific heat and heat capacity? If you heat 500g of H2O initially at 8C in a 1000 W microwave with 80% efficiency for 2 minutes, what will the final temperature be?
May 5, 2015
May 1, 2015
A particle (mass = 5.0 g, charge = 40 mC) moves in a region of space where the electric field is uniform and is given by Ex = 2.5 N/C, Ey = Ez = 0. If the velocity of the particle at t = 0 is given by vy = 50 m/s, vx = vz = 0, what is the speed of the particle at t = 2.0 s?
April 29, 2015
A sample of potassium hydrogen oxalate, KHC2O4, weighing 0.717 g, was dissolved in water and titrated with 18.47 mL of an NaOH solution. Calculate the molarity of the NaOH solution.
April 27, 2015
3xdx/√(4+x) need help!!!!
April 26, 2015
assume that the odor threshold for untrained noses is normal with a standard deviation of 7. the odor thresholds for these 10 noses are: 31, 31, 43, 36, 23, 34, 32, 30, 20 and 24. is there evidence that the mean threshold for untrained tasters is greater than 25 micrograms per...
April 24, 2015
would the null hypothesis that the 2000 mean hourly earnings of all workers was $16 be rejected at the 10% significance level in favor of the two-sided alternative? What about the null hypothesis that the mean was $15?
April 24, 2015
Research Question for English
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April 22, 2015
Research Question for English
How does a person inherit intelligence from someone else?
April 22, 2015
English Research
What are some things you can inherit from your parents?
April 22, 2015
Jill bought so e carrots and apples for $24.80. A carrot and an apple cost $.90 altogether. She bought more carrots than apples. The cost of the extra number of carrots was $6.80. How many apples did she buy?
April 20, 2015
non profit Accounting
The mayor of a large city approaches a group of citizens and suggests that they form an organization to provide social, educational, and recreational programs for local youth. The group agrees and forms an entity called the Community Youth Organization (CYO). The group also ...
April 19, 2015
A consumer advocacy group claims that the mean amount of juice in a 16 ounce bottled drink is not 16 ounces, as stated by the bottler. Determine the conclusion of the hypothesis test assuming that the results of the sampling lead to rejection of the null hypothesis. A. ...
April 18, 2015
A researcher wishes to estimate the mean amount of money spent per month on food by households in a certain neighborhood. She desires a margin of error of $30. Past studies suggest that a population standard deviation of $248 is reasonable. Estimate the minimum sample size ...
April 18, 2015
with 2 pentagons (A, B, C, D, E) & F, G, H, I, J.) start with A in lower left corner. Same with F. AE=10, BC=8: FG=9, FJ=15. There are diagonal line CE & HJ. x= AB, Y=GH. Find the scale factor of ABCDE to FGHIJ; need value of x & y; perimeter of ABCDE is 38, what is perimeter ...
April 12, 2015
a forest ranger spots a fire from 28-foot tower. the angle of depression from the tower to the fire is 11 degre to the nearest foot, how far is the fire from the base of the tower
April 10, 2015
Thanks for the help
April 9, 2015
civic education
1. The right to private and family life is limited by the law regulating marriage under traditional customs, which recognise parental consent and age restriction on who is of marriageable age. 2. Right to is restricted by the law which forbids a citizen from killing himself or...
April 6, 2015
square root of (24)(72)
March 30, 2015
square 0f (24)(72)
March 30, 2015
nevermind, forgot to square it, figured it out
March 27, 2015
the world's largest cube puzzle in Knoxville measures 6 feet on each side. The scale factor between a standard cube puzzle and largest is 1/24. Find the surface area and volume of the standard cube puzzle. Answer is 0.375ft^2/0.015625ft^3 Not sure how they figured it out i...
March 27, 2015
If x unit of a product cost C dollars to manufacture and earn revenue of R dollars, the value of X where the expression for C and R are equal is called break-even quantity, the number of units that produce zero profit. Find the break-even quantity when c=14X+48000 and R=18X
March 25, 2015
Algebra 2
Consider 2 dice being rolled together. Calculate the probability of rolling an even sum
March 25, 2015
March 23, 2015
Health & PE One Question PLEASE ANSWER!
Thank you Anon!!
March 20, 2015
Determine whether the statement ∀x ∈ Z, ∃y, z ∈ Z[x = 5y + 7z] is true or false. Explain.
March 19, 2015
Managerial Accounting
Joanna Pauly was delighted to see that her ROI figures had increased for the third straight year. She was sure that her campaign to lower costs and use machinery more efficiently (en- abling her factories to sell several older machines) was the reason why. Joanna ...
March 14, 2015
lifes orientation
To what extent can intrapersonal conflict affect choice of a career
March 8, 2015
I don't have an idea am just helping a kid who is in ss1
March 7, 2015
I do not understand that same question. Help please!!!
March 6, 2015
How many grams of water will be produced by the reaction of 7.00g NH3 of 9.00g of NO?
March 5, 2015
how do i find a name and formula for a combination of an anion and a cation? ex: Na2CO3 + Ba(NO3)2
March 5, 2015
how do i find a name and formula for a combination of an anion and a cation? ex: Na2CO3 + Ba(NO3)2 please help!
March 5, 2015
A child on a beach tosses a walnut straight upward. it reaches the peak of its trajectory and then falls straight downward retracing its path when a hungry seagull grabs the walnut 10.1m above the release point at a time of 1.6s after it was thrown. find the initial velocity ...
March 5, 2015
A 100kg object moving at 20 m/s comes to a stop over distance of 40 m. What is the coefficient of dynamic fiction between the object and the ground? I tried to work it out with the formula, but I'm really confused. Please help.
March 2, 2015
The diameter and height of this cylinder are equal to the side length, S, of the cube in which the cylinder is inscribed. What is the expression for the cylinder's volume?
March 2, 2015
A cylinder has a height of 16 cm and a radius of 5 cm. A cone has a height of 12 cm and a radius of 4 cm. If the cone is placed inside the cylinder as shown, what is the volume of the air space surrounding the cone inside the cylinder? (Use 3.14 as an approximation of ð.)
March 2, 2015
Algebraic expression
I really need this answer like now which is five more than three times a number q
February 26, 2015
jake has 6 cards. 4 of his cards are red and 2 cards are blue. Alicia also has 6 cards. half of her cards are red. who has more red cards.
February 26, 2015
A library has fiction and nonfiction books. 2/5 of the library books are fiction. Of these 1/5 are mysteries. 1/3 of the nonfiction books are mysteries. What fraction of all the books are mysteries?
February 26, 2015
GDP rises from $4 trillion in 2006, the base year, to $5 trillion in 2012. The GDP deflator in 2012 is 120. Find real GDP in 2012. Find the percentage increase in real GDP between 2006 and 2012.
February 25, 2015
If 8 students eat apples and 12 students eat bananas, how many students eat apples or bananas?
February 23, 2015
Problem 6-1 Bank Reconciliation The following information is available to assist you in preparing a bank reconciliation for Calico Corners on May 31, 2012: a. The balance on the May 31, 2012, bank statement is $8,432.11. b. Not included on the bank statement is a $1,250 ...
February 22, 2015
The spring on a popgun obeys Hooke's law and requires a force of 220 N to compress it 12.0 cm to its cocked position. How much energy is stores in the cocked spring?
February 22, 2015
World history
How was life before/after the telephone was invented in Brazil?
February 18, 2015
social problems
. Which of the following social structures is NOT reflected in the act of a wife adopting her husbands name and foregoing her fathers (her maiden) name? (Points : 1) Patriarchy Heteronormativity Hierarchy Classism
February 12, 2015
Makala made 32 of 60 free throws. What is the experimental probability that Makala will not make the next free throw she attempts. Would it be 8 out of 15 and do u divide
February 9, 2015
3 rd grade Math
this my sons home work. I myself didn't understand . please help me
February 9, 2015
3 rd grade Math
how are perimeter and area? When building your club house did you have a more difficult time finding the perimeter or area? why?
February 9, 2015
How many joules of energy are released when 45.0g of water cools from 18.0C to 70.0C? Specific heat of water is 4.184J/gC.
February 8, 2015
February 5, 2015
If you had a mixture of sodium chloride and sodium bromide, could you use its conductance to determine the concentration of each solute? Explain.
February 1, 2015
Particles of charge +65, +48, and −95 μC are placed in a line. The center one is L = 60cm from each of the others.Calculate the net force on the left charge due to the other two.
January 31, 2015
College interview
Hi! I was just wondering if one of the teachers could tell me whether or not it is unprofessional to wear colored contact lenses to a college interview? The colors aren't drastic colors but they are contact lenses nonetheless. thanks!
January 30, 2015
I have to calculate the vapor pressure of water at 25.0 degrees celicus. The heat of vaporization of water is 40.65 kj/mol and the vapor pressure of water is 92.7 Torr at 50 degrees celcius. I know I should use log10 P=A- B/C+T but I don't know how to work it out.
January 30, 2015
combination probability
Thank you!
January 24, 2015
combination probability
I am looking for the number of ways you can draw 4 marbles to have an equal number of red and white marbles after the draw. I was using combination probability set up as 6C2*7C2 = 315 but this doesn't include the probability of the 5 blue marbles. I'm not sure how to ...
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Brother arrested for raping sister, who is five months' pregnant
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It's almost as if Mark Stoops and the Kentucky football program have built an embassy within–and established full diplomatic relations with–Ohio. The Wildcats got another one this week.
Early this week, Lakota West H.S. offensive tackle George Asafo-Adjei joined the Wildcats' 2015 recruiting class–the 10th member to come aboard. He is the fifth Ohio native to join Kentucky's class, and 16th in two years. In fact, 41 percent of Kentucky's recruits the past two years–Stoops' only two full cycles recruiting with the Wildcats–have come from the Buckeye State. In comparison, only six have come from Kentucky, good for only 15 percent.
So if Kentucky begins to rebound, as it would appear it may under Stoops–an assist goes to his home state of Ohio.
Asafo-Adjei has been considered a Kentucky lean for sometime. He's a 6-foot-4, 295-pound prospect out of West Chester (Ohio)–and he hails from the same high school as 2014 'Cats running back signee Mikel Horton. He had seen his stock rise in recent months, landing an offer from Florida, along with Cincinnati, Louisville and West Virginia.
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Not that Jack Nicholson ever needs assistance, but he certainly got it at a very high level in presenting the final award at the 85th Academy Awards.
As the three-time Oscar winner took the stage to present the award for best picture just as Sunday (Feb. 24) became Monday (Feb. 25) on the East Coast, he turned to a video screen overhead to welcome First Lady Michelle Obama to the proceedings, via remote from the White House.
At the end of a big media week for the current matriarch of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave — supposedly capped by her gone-viral "mom-dancing" display with the host of NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" — she spoke about the nine nominated films' demonstration that "love can endure against all obstacles."
Surrounded by several formally dressed U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, she also praised the talents involved in those movies for helping to fuel young people's interest in the arts. And she thanked all of those in attendance at Hollywood's Nokia Theatre for doing what they do professionally.
Mrs. Obama then handed it back to Nicholson to announce the titles, but the teamwork wasn't over yet. He sent it back to Washington, D.C. so she could open the envelope (imagine that journey for the accountants) containing the name of the winner: director Ben Affleck's "Argo."
And thus marked the end of the First Lady's involvement, but that was OK. Her mission for the evening was complete.


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BISMARCK, North Dakota (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new North Dakota law that bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected — as early as six weeks into pregnancy, calling the law "clearly invalid and unconstitutional."
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland in Bismarck granted a temporary injunction Monday that blocks the law from taking effect on Aug. 1.
"There is no question that (the North Dakota law) is in direct contradiction to a litany of United States Supreme Court cases addressing restraints on abortion," Hovland wrote. " (It) is clearly an invalid and unconstitutional law based on the United States Supreme Court precedent in Roe v. Wade from 1973 … and the progeny of cases that have followed."
New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Fargo's Red River Women's Clinic, filed the lawsuit after the law was passed this year by the North Dakota Legislature. It would outlaw the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before some women even know they are pregnant.
The law was one of four that the Republican-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple passed this year that combined make North Dakota the most restrictive state in the nation in which to get an abortion.
Bebe Anderson, director of the U.S. Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, praised Hovland's ruling in a statement Monday.
"The nation's most extreme abortion ban has been blocked, and the message to hostile politicians could not be clearer: the rights of women guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution and protected by 40 years of Supreme Court precedent cannot be legislated away," she said.


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The weather forecast in Minnesota this weekend is for snow. I thought I would give Fall one last hurrah. This photo was taken on my recent hot air balloon ride near Minneapolis. The balloon ride was a present for my birthday last February – but I'm happy I waited till these spectacular fall colors to grace my lens in October!
It was my first hot air balloon ride and it was spectacular, right up until our 'crash landing' (the captain called it an 'engergy disapation landing'…tomato…tomaaato). We never went very high up which I preferred from a photography standpoint, but when we did come down we were caught in some strange wind sheer, crashed through some tree tops and hit the ground hard and dragging us and our basket full of 5 people along for a ways. I walked away with some bloody bruised knees and a bit freaked out! At least I protected my camera!
Here's the rest of my photos from the spectacular ride slightly hovering above the fields of corn and amber waves of grain!
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The path to an ACC championship once again leads through Duke -- and not just in basketball, either.
These Blue Devils proved to No. 24 Miami -- and maybe everyone else -- that they're no longer pushovers.
Brandon Connette
rushed for a career-high four touchdowns and threw for a fifth, and Duke upset the Hurricanes 48-30 on Saturday to take control of the league's messy Coastal Division.
"This team is not just a fluke," center
Dave Harding
Connette, the Blue Devils' change-of-pace quarterback, had touchdown runs of 1, 2, 3 and 4 yards, and threw a 22-yard TD to Shaq Powell.
Duke (8-2, 4-2) -- for years, one of the nation's worst programs in a power conference -- claimed its sixth straight win, and it ranks as one of the most significant in school history.
"I remember when I first got here, the team hadn't won a game in, like, three years," running back
Josh Snead
said. Coach
David Cutcliffe
told him: "`Just believe. Believe in the process.' We got a lot of guys that believe in this process, and we're here today."
Snead rushed for a career-high 138 yards and Powell added a backbreaking 33-yard touchdown run that put the Blue Devils in complete command.
Dallas Crawford rushed for 115 yards and Stephen Morris threw for 379 and two touchdowns but the Hurricanes (7-3, 3-3) lost their third straight since climbing to No. 7. They've allowed at least 41 points in each loss.
"There's enough blame to go around in this game," coach Al Golden said.
In a wild one that featured 1,108 total yards and three lead changes, Duke -- the only two-loss team in the Coastal -- kept hold of the inside track to a berth opposite No. 2 Florida State in the ACC championship game in three weeks in Charlotte. The Seminoles have already locked up the Atlantic Division title.
Ross Martin
gave Duke the lead for good late in the third quarter when he banked in a 48-yard field goal off the upright late to make it 31-30.
Two possessions later -- and two plays after Snead burst 56 yards into the Miami red zone -- Connette powered in from 4 yards out to put the Blue Devils up 38-30 with 11:37 left.
Powell then effectively iced the win on Duke's next possession when his 33-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-1 gave the Blue Devils a 45-30 lead with 6:50 left.
After Miami turned the ball over on downs, Martin added a 32-yard field goal with 1:04 left.
Morris finished 30 of 49 with touchdowns of 50 and 5 yards to Herb Waters. Stacy Coley returned a punt 79 yards for a touchdown and Matt Goudis added three field goals.
But the Hurricanes couldn't stop Duke's ground game: The Blue Devils rolled up 358 yards rushing -- by far, the most by a Cutcliffe-coached team at either Duke or Mississippi -- against a Miami run defense that gives up an average of 152.
"Coach said we were going to call it and haul it," Snead said, "and that's what we did."
Connette, who often spells starter
Anthony Boone
in short-yardage situations, became the first Duke player to rush for four touchdowns since Justin Boyle did it against Vanderbilt in 2006.
"People look at this game and say, `Well, Duke didn't throw the ball against Miami, but they ran it," Connette said. "No. We ran it so well, we didn't need to throw it."
Boone -- who improved to 8-0 as a starter -- was 11 of 15 for 104 yards for Duke, which continued its remarkable turnaround from perennial punchline to serious Coastal contender.
The Blue Devils went winless four times from 1996-2007 with two more one-win seasons in that span.
"It doesn't really matter to us who believes in us," Connette said. "We believe in what we're doing and we believe in the process and everything that's going on. As long as we believe in what we're doing, we're going to be a good football team."
They've already locked up their first winning season since 1994 and now they've beaten two Top 25 teams in the same year for the first time since 1971. Duke knocked off then-No. 16 Virginia Tech on Oct. 26.
The Blue Devils allowed the Hurricanes to score 10 quick points in a 54-second span of the first quarter, then fell behind 17-7 on Morris' short TD to Waters late in the first quarter.
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Connette accounted for touchdowns on three of the four possessions after that.
"We started well. We just aren't doing a good enough job of answering on defense," Golden said. "When you get into this kind of game, you really need to be perfect on offense. We weren't. They were."
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An AP review shows Democratic candidate David Pepper was cited an average of 13 times a year, most recently in July.
Democratic attorney general candidate David Pepper has paid nearly $10,000 in parking fines over the past 14 years after being ticketed more than 180 times, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Hamilton County court records show Pepper, who faces Republican incumbent Mike DeWine this fall, was ticketed mostly for parking at meters that had expired or in no-parking or truck loading zones. He also was ticketed about a dozen times for displaying expired plates.
The AP review shows Pepper was cited an average of 13 times a year, most recently in July. The bulk of the tickets came from 2007 to 2009, while he was county commissioner. Fines ranged from $14 to $100, some doubled because they were paid late.
Campaign spokesman Peter Koltak said Pepper got many of the tickets while attending late meetings.
"Amid a hectic schedule, mostly years back, David got too many tickets, and he paid them," Koltak said. "He's happy to debate old parking tickets versus Mike DeWine's current practices as attorney general."
Pepper, a Cincinnati lawyer, has criticized DeWine for politicizing the process for doling out lucrative state collections and special counsel work.
The Democrat's dozens of parking tickets come to light as Democrats' gubernatorial candidate, Ed FitzGerald, faces criticism for lacking a valid driver's license for a decade.
Records show Pepper has paid $9,229 for 182 tickets since 2000, continuing to park illegally even after his high number of citations was featured in the local news.
DeWine campaign spokesman Ryan Stubenrauch said having so many tickets isn't a simple oversight.
"Nearly everyone has made a mistake by forgetting to go back and feed a parking meter," Stubenrauch said. "But that Mr. Pepper racked up nearly $10,000 in fines shows a stunning disregard for basic traffic laws — particularly for someone running to be Ohio's top law officer."
Pepper campaign: http://davidpepper.com
DeWine campaign: http://www.mikedewine.com