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Chile, a provincial capital situated on the west coast of South
America's Andes Mountain range has grabbed international headlines
for being the site of one of the most dramatic mining disasters in
recent history. On August 5 the roof of the San José Mine, a
gold-copper mine located 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the
city, collapsed trapping 33 miners 2,200 feet underground.The
trapped miners -- 1 Bolivian and 32 Chileans -- are currently getting
along well, as most of the massive mine remained intact and rescue
crews have managed to lower food and supplies via bore holes (roughly
the width of a grapefruit). But the bad news is that it may
take at least three months to drill the miners out -- which doctors
warn may have serious physical and psychological effects.To
prevent the miners from falling into despair or worse, rescuers have
offered them an escape
from reality -- Sony's
Playstation Portable (PSP). The PSPs were
delivered [Google Translated from Japanese] over the weekend
via the cups that shuttle supplies to the men down the bore
holes.Video games are enjoyed for a variety of reasons ---
including their ability to help people escape reality. This may
be the first instance of this attribute being put to use in
a rescue/emergency
scenario, though.There's no official word yet on what
game titles were delivered or how frequently they miners will get new
games. Also up in the air is power for the devices. The
PSPs feature a roughly 6 hour battery life, but it's thought that
that power cables lowered down the borehole may be able to extend the
miners' gaming sessions to marathon lengths.While the idea of
using video games in an emergency rescue at first though seems
laughable, it could seriously have a positive impact in helping
reduce the amount of psychological trauma the miners endure during
their lengthy stay. We're guessing Sony has no
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it's real life historical regimes -- like Tojo's Imperial Rule Japan or
Italian Nationalists -- or those in fictional works -- like George Orwell's Animal
Farm or Alan Moore's V is For Vendetta -- the topic
of a fascist police state is one that has simultaneously fascinated and
frightened many.
In the United States, over the last decade police have enjoyed a growing set of
warrantless powers in the name of justice. In the last year, these powers
expanded yet again, when police in California, Wisconsin, and Michigan began
searching and seizing citizens' cell phones -- without warrants.
I. Police Seize Citizens' Smartphones
In January 2011, California's Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that police could conduct warrantless
inspections of suspects' cell phones. According to the majority
decision, when a person is taken into police custody, they lose privacy rights
to anything they're carrying on them.
The ruling describes, "this loss of privacy allows police not only to seize
anything of importance they find on the arrestee's body ... but also to open
and examine what they find."
In a dissenting ruling, Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar stated, "[The
ruling allows police] to rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal
and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone or handheld
computer merely because the device was taken from an arrestee's person."
But California was not alone. Michigan State Police officers have been using a
device called Cellebrite UFED Physical Pro for the last couple years.
The device scrapes off everything stored on the phone -- GPS geotag data,
media (pictures, videos, music, etc.), text messages, emails, call history, and
Michigan State Police have been reportedly regularly been scraping the phones of people they
pull over.
In neighboring Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court has
ruled that while such searches are generally illegal, their evidence
can become admissible in court if the police demonstrate an exigency (a press
need) for the information.
Essentially this ruling offers support for such searches as it indicates that
they can give solid evidence and ostensibly offers no repercussions to law
enforcement officials conducting the officially "illegal" procedure.
So far the only state to have a high profile ruling against the
practice was Ohio. The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that warrantless smart
phone searching violated suspects' rights. The requested the U.S. Supreme
Court review the issue, but the request was denied.
II. What Does the Constitution Say?
The United States Constitution ostensibly is the most important government
document in the U.S. It guarantees essential rights to the citizens of
the U.S.
Some of those rights are specified in the Fourth Amendment, part of the
original Bill of Rights. It states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by
Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and
the persons or things to be seized.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by
Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and
the persons or things to be seized.
Constitution explicitly states that effects of a person cannot be unreasonably seized
without a warrant.
Of course courts must play the vital role of defining what a "reasonable" search is. But by extending the limits of searches to deem nearly all searches "reasonable", no matter how tenuous the connection to a suspect's detainment, this and several other decisions have created an erosion of the protections in the amendment.
Essentially what court rulings in California, Michigan, and Wisconsin indicate
is that the courts believe the Constitution is no longer valid, or that certain
Constitutional freedoms can be specially selected for elimination.
III. Benefits and Dangers
Some police officers and politicians argue that there are obvious benefits of
warrantless searches, including of cell phone data. Officers claim they can
obtain evidence that could be destroyed, concealed, or otherwise go
undiscovered if they had to go through the standard process of obtaining a
These groups argue, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to
worry about."
However, serious issues over the practice also seem apparent. For
example, police appear to be taking digital copies of the data on users' cell
phones, in addition to the applicable evidence. There is virtually no
oversight or transparency into how this data is stored or managed.
In short, citizens face a tremendous violation of privacy. They have little
recourse to take action against officers that abuse the obtained information
for business or personal purposes, as there's few laws explicitly applicable
such an issue.
The allowance also opens a gaping door to condoning police harassment of
citizens. It would be pretty easy for police to "detain" a
targeted individual on questionable charges and seize their phone.
IV. ACLU Fights Back
In Michigan and California, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is
challenging these warrantless searches.
Particularly in Michigan, the case is becoming contentious as the state is
refusing to give the ACLU information on the data it has obtained from users'
cell phones. The state has told the ACLU that it must pony
up $544,680 USD to process the records, if it wants them.
The ACLU is outraged at that exorbitant demand. Mark P. Francher, a
Michigan staff attorney with the ACLU's Racial Justice Project, states,
"Through these many requests for information we have tried to establish
whether these devices are being used legally. It's telling that Michigan State
Police would rather play this stalling game than respect the public's right to
V. The Big Picture
Ben Franklin, in his notes to the Pennsylvania Assembly famously wrote,
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Warrantless searches -- a critical component of any fascist police state --
were clearly deemed illegal by the founding fathers.
When combined with recent allowances of warrantless
wiretaps, police
arrests of people who photograph them, warrantless invasion of property,
and warrantless
tracking of citizens the resulting picture is somewhat alarming.
The police in the U.S. are being increasingly exempted from following due
process and given freedom to follow their commanders' dictates -- whatever they
may be. Meanwhile the rights and freedoms of citizens is eroding at an
equally rapid pace.
Some of these issues may end up at the U.S. Supreme Court, but the country as a
whole needs to consider and address them, as well, in the meantime.
Update 1: April 21, 2011 6:55 p.m. -
The Michigan State Police have shared with us the following statement:
Recent news coverage prompted by a press release issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has brought speculation and caused inaccurate information to be reported about data extraction devices (DEDs) owned by the Michigan State Police (MSP).To be clear, there have not been any allegations of wrongdoing by the MSP in the use of DEDs.The MSP only uses the DEDs if a search warrant is obtained or if the person possessing the mobile device gives consent. The department*s internal directive is that the DEDs only be used by MSP specialty teams on criminal cases, such as crimes against children.The DEDs are not being used to extract citizens' personal information during routine traffic stops.The MSP does not possess DEDs that can extract data without the officer actually possessing the owner's mobile device. The DEDs utilized by the MSP cannot obtain information from mobile devices without the mobile device owner knowing.Data extraction devices are commercially available and are routinely utilized by mobile communication device vendors nationwide to transmit data from one device to another when customers upgrade their mobile devices.These DEDs have been adapted for law enforcement use due to the ever-increasing use of mobile communication devices by criminals to further their criminal activity and have become a powerful investigative tool used to obtain critical information from criminals.Since 2008, the MSP has worked with the ACLU to narrow the focus, and thus reducing the cost, of its initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. To date, the MSP has fulfilled at least one ACLU FOIA request on this issue and has several far-lower cost requests awaiting payment to begin processing. The MSP provides information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. As with any request, there may be a processing fee to search for, retrieve, review, examine, and separate exempt material, if any.The implication by the ACLU that the MSP uses these devices "quietly to bypass Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches" is untrue, and this divisive tactic unjustly harms police and community relations.
Recent news coverage prompted by a press release issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has brought speculation and caused inaccurate information to be reported about data extraction devices (DEDs) owned by the Michigan State Police (MSP).


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once lavished with praise for its reputation for quality and
reliability, took more than a few blows to the chin earlier this year due to concerns of sudden acceleration.
The company began recalling
many of its popular models – including the Camry, Tundra,
Corolla, Highlander, and RAV4 – to replace "sticky" gas pedals.
after examining data from 75 fatal crashes which were blamed on
"sudden acceleration" due to faulty electronics, the National
Highway and Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has come to
the conclusion that only one incident was not related to driver
error. The incident in question is the high
profile crash involving a CHP officer driving a 2009 Lexus ES
350. The vehicle accelerated uncontrollably due to improperly
installed floor mats which trapped the accelerator pedal. The crash
resulted in the death of four people including the officer.
NHTSA concluded that the other 74 crashes were a result of driver
error -- specifically, drivers were mistaking the accelerator pedal
for the brake pedal, according
to the Wall
Street Journal.
spite of our investigations, we have not actually been able yet to
find a defect" with Toyota's electronic throttle control said
NHTSA associate administrator for enforcement, Daniel Smith.
bound and determined that if it exists we're going to find it. But as
yet, we haven't found it."
NHTSA hasn't completely cleared Toyota, however. The agency still
notes that improperly designed floor mats and sticky accelerators
that were slow to return to the idle were to blame for some crashes.
Toyota itself acknowledged
these finding back in January.
However, phantom electronic gremlins causing Toyota vehicles to
suddenly lose their minds appears to have been tossed out of the
sudden acceleration drama resulted in the U.S. Department of
Transportation fining
Toyota $16.4 million for deceiving officials about the widespread
nature of stick accelerator pedals. There are also over 100
pending lawsuits against Toyota regarding sudden acceleration.


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AMD has proven to be a tough opponent for Intel in the server processor marketplace. AMD said that its latest architecture dubbed Shanghai is now ready to go. Shanghai parts are quad-core processors that are targeted at the server market.
Shanghai is also AMD's first 45-nanometer processor. AMD's last big architecture aimed at the server marketplace was the Barcelona processor that ran into significant problems in the market. One of the biggest issues with Barcelona was that the processors were delayed for eight months after their introduction.
Once the processors were finally shipped and available, AMD had issues with the performance of the parts and the CPUs suffered from other glitches. AMD promises that Shanghai will not be another Barcelona.
Pat Patla, AMD server and workstation business general manager, told CNET News, "We had some mis-starts in getting Barcelona to market and wanted to bring as much velocity to Shanghai as possible. Learn from our mistakes and, as a company, never do that again."
To help ensure that Shanghai succeeds and offer users a better experience than Barcelona, AMD put one engineer in charge of the entire Shanghai project. Patla continued saying, "the product that we put in the hands of our partners is going to be of substantial stability so they can do lots of early validation."
To improve the performance of Shanghai over Barcelona, AMD is counting on several factors. First is the move from the 65nm process of Barcelona to the 45nm process used in Shanghai. This will allow for more efficiency and better performance than Barcelona.
AMD is also moving the cache memory from 2MB to 6MB to improve performance and it says that instructions per clock cycle will be increased as well. Shanghai will also utilize AMD's HyperTransport 3, which AMD expects to be validated in Q1 2009. A 45nm desktop Shanghai part will be offered in Q1 2009 according to CNET News.


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The acquisition of Rudy Gay is tremendous. Still can't believe we got him for Jose and Ed. No offence to both but Jose after this season will likely be a goner. Davis? he's improved so much this season. But what exactly is his ceiling?
Raptors on the other hand is getting an all-star caliber type of player who's only 26 years old. A guy that can create his own shot, a guy that is capable of hitting big shots late in the game. A guy that will give them some respectability. He's everything the Raps need.
Raptors core right now - JV, Amir, Gay, DeRozan, Ross and Lowry. That's pretty good. Very young but so much potential.
JV and Ross upside i think is MASSIVE. Gay i think is an all-star caliber type of player. I think he's going to blossom here as the #1 option. Lowry i think is a very talented PG. One of the best if not the best rebounding PG in basketball. He needs to stay healthy though to be effective. Amir is a heart and soul type of player. Every team needs a guy like that. DD, i think is the one that will benefit the most with the Gay acquisition. All the pressure of being "the guy" is now on Gay. If he can continously put up 16-17ppg as the 2nd-3rd option on offence then that's huge for this team.


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Those remarks led to a planned data protest entitled
Chokehold", which went down on Friday, December 18.
While the protest didn't seem to do too much to AT&T's network,
it did convey the frustration of the company's subscribers.
an interview
with BusinessWeek, Mr. De la Vega now says that his remarks
were misinterpreted and his company was never planning to impose
higher fees. He states, "There were no follow-up
questions, so I figured everyone understood what I was saying. I
guess I should have been more clear."
While many have
speculated that AT&T will drop the $30-per-month unlimited data
plan in lieu of a tiered pricing scheme, in order to ease its data
troubles, Mr. De la Vega unequivocally denies this speculation,
stating, "There are things people say I said that I didn't say.
We have not made any decision to implement tiered pricing."
than a stick, he says AT&T will use a carrot approach to try to
solve its data issues. Namely, it is ramping up efforts to
provide free Wi-Fi to iPhone subscribers through a series of
partnerships. Its hoping that when iPhone users switch from 3G
to Wi-Fi regularly, the strain on the network will be lessened.
move is essential to AT&T as Wi-Fi via wired broadband is much
cheaper than 3G data transmission. It is estimated that as few
as 12 iPhones streaming video can swamp a single iPhone tower,
leading to Apple suggesting that terrorists
could use unlocked iPhones as a dangerous weapon to our nation's
iPhone users use an estimated 60 percent of
mobile web data, though they only have about a 24.7 percent smart
phone market share (in a 36 million unit market) according to
ComScore. IPhone users pay on average $95-per-month for this
usage, about twice what smart-phone subscribers on other networks
pay. However, the average iPhone user uses approximately five
times the data of a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile user.
prevent such network swamping, AT&T has announced a deal with
food giant McDonalds to waive the $2.95 Wi-Fi charge for
customers at the chain's 11,000 restaurants. AT&T already
had similar deals with the ubiquitous
coffee-superchain Starbucks and the bookstore chain Barnes &
AT&T's voice network also has seen its issues.
In cities the carrier's hardware partners have reported sky-high
dropped call rates. The company cut capital expenditures
this year from $20.3B USD in 2008 to an estimated $17B USD this year,
leading many to criticize it for not investing enough in its
network. The company responds to these criticisms by arguing
that its spending this year was simply more focused on trouble spots,
as San Francisco. Mr. De la Vega comments that in San
Francisco "our network has never performed better".
company is also considering Femtocells
-- personal, portable signal generators -- as a promising solution to
the company's 3G voice and data problems. Unfortunately, those
cells are still not available and no concreted details have been
provided on how they're priced. It's refreshing to see that
AT&T will not be punishing its customers for its shortcomings,
but its management has their work cut out for them in terms of
improving their network and keeping their customers from jumping
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Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 1992 (ICPSR 2522)
Alternate Title: MTF 1992 (8th/10th Grade)
Principal Investigator(s): Johnston, Lloyd D., University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Bachman, Jerald G., University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; O'Malley, Patrick M., University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Schulenberg, John, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
These surveys of 8th- and 10th-grade students are part of a series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students in each grade are randomly assigned to complete one in a set of questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions but containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 300 variables in each questionnaire. Drugs covered by this survey include amphetamines (stimulants), barbiturates (tranquilizers), other prescription drugs, tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, steroids, Rohypnol, MDMA, marijuana, hashish, LSD, hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, and injection drugs such as heroin.
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Johnston, Lloyd D., Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, and John Schulenberg. Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 1992. ICPSR02522-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02522.v2
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Subject Terms: adolescents, alcohol consumption, attitudes, crime, demographic characteristics, drug education, drug use, family life, gender roles, high school students, junior high school students, lifestyles, social change, tobacco use, values, youths
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Census of Population and Housing, 1980: Summary Tape File 3F, School Districts (ICPSR 3518)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
This data collection is a component of Summary Tape File 3, which consists of six sets of data containing detailed tabulations of the nation's population and housing characteristics produced from the 1980 Census. This series is comprised of STF 3A, STF 3B, STF 3C, STF 3D, STF 3E, and STF 3F. The STF 3 files contain sample data inflated to represent the total United States population. All files in the STF 3 series are identical, containing 321 substantive data variables organized in the form of 150 tables, as well as standard geographic identification variables. Files vary in terms of geographic summary levels and amount of detail. STF 3F, the School Districts file, is a special tabulation that provides summary level data for school districts by state (summary level 40) including the District of Columbia, and by county or county equivalent (summary level 41). Population items tabulated include age, race (provisional data), sex, marital status, Spanish origin (provisional data), household type, and household relationship. Housing items tabulated include occupancy/vacancy status, tenure, contract rent, value, condominium status, number of rooms, and plumbing facilities. Selected aggregates, means, and medians are also provided.
Series: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States] Series
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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 3F, SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 2nd ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03518.v2
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it seems like just yesterday when being a raptor fan filled one with, at worst, optimistic hope. you could look at the other atlantic teams, and it was a sea of mediocrity (at best), without much of a future. NY was a joke, NJ was imploding, philly was meh, and boston looked like it was going to lose it's franchise player. ah, 2006/7. heady times. TO brings in a 'legit' wunderkind to right the ship, they get the #1 pick, lots of cap space, and have a 'franchise' player to build around.
now? well, let's see...
boston pulled a couple heist moves in acquiring KG & allen, after being foiled in their attempts to tank & get the #1 pick in '07. usually, the karma gods bestow pain/suffering/misery on that kind of blatant tanking, but not in beantown, where it's been rewarded with a chip, a top-5 pg & a longer run of excellence than anyone would likely have thought at the time.
philly - it took a while, and having brand be brand for a couple years didn't help...neither did iggy thinking he was a number 1 scoring option. but over the last few months, they've been one of the better teams in the east. brand is BRAND again, holliday is taking control of that team, iggy is playing like everyone says he should (picking his spots offensively, great D, etc.), and turner is showing why people have such high hopes for him.
NJ - still somethong of a joke, but certainly with some upside. if they could figure how how lopez caught bargnaniitis (a strange & unexplained mental disorder that causes the sufferer to be unable or unwilling to rebound) & treat it, they'd have a fairly decent future, even if they missed out on melo (and killed murphy's trade value this season). they'll be active this week...should be interesting how things play out.
NY - i guess they aren't a joke now, right? not title contenders (yet), still don't have much of a bench, and they can't really stop anyone, but they've moved themselves into a position to at least compete with the upper echelon teams in the E. like the heat, it'll probably be another year or two before all the pieces come together, but the future looks bright.
and now...YOUR...TORONTOOOOOOOOOO RAPTORRRRRS! - hmm. let's see. i like their uniforms. ed davis looks like a decent enough prospect, at least on the defensive/rebounding side. derozan is likely a good 2nd/3rd scoring option. bargs is bargs (i.e. what you see is what you're going to get). the future? who knows?
so, basically, the raptors went from being a team on the rise in a division that sucked just 4 years ago, to being on the outside looking in at that same division. they've been passed by literally every team in their division in such a short timeframe, it kinda makes your head spin.


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If you've got Knight, basically he's a Barbosa replacement, with the following differences: he's cheaper and younger, and in place of Barbosa's speed you've got Knight's defense. Knight's also a much better shooter. But both are 1/2 hybrids that are better as scorers than they are as a pure point.
I wouldn't mind actually drafting Knight at 5 as it allows the Raps to move Barbosa for a better piece. He's a better compliment to Bayless than Barbosa is, given the different look he brings (shooting, defense). Barbosa and Bayless are too similar to effectively play next to each other.
Also, if I were Minny, I would start Darko and Love, and have Bargs be the first big off the bench, a guy who can play with either of those forwards.
When rose came out of school he wasn't known for being a very good passer...
He still isn't, really.
But seriously, The Raptors have one of the most difficult off-seasons in the NBA ahead of them. The majority of the team is on the block. The pg position, centre position and small forward position are completely uncertain. Derozan, Ed and Amir seem to be the only certainties on the roster and I think BC would trade any of them under the right circumstances (though I'd ask for his head if it's DD). The draft is a complete crapshoot. I love Kanter's toughness and versatility, but his athleticism is a big question mark on this team as it is currently built. Kemba has heart, but is way undersized. Knight showed promise..... as a chucker. Vesely is a terrific slasher, but has a tonne of development to do before he can become a valid rotation player.
I can't even fathom where BC and the gang go with this draft. My big focus is on FA this year. A lot of people want Gasol, and I completely agree with that pipe dream. I would love to see DeAndre Jordan. He is on his way up, a great shot blocker with major hops and a developing touch around the rim. I see him fitting very well with our current roster. I can see him being a Tyson Chandler type, a guy we all wish that we had last year. He is an RFA, so it may be the same situation presented with Gasol. At SF, I might take a flyer, at the right price, on Josh Howard. Though injured for the past few seasons, he doesn't have a lot of recent mileage and has shown the toughness and grit that a lot of our players (cough, cough, Derozan, cough) could get in their game to get to the next level.
Tough times in RapsLand, tough times indeed.
Getting 5th really sucks. The Raptors really need a center, and outside of Kanter I don't see one at least in this years draft (I really don't like Valanciunas). 2012 is even worst. I really don't see the Raptors acquiring a good center via FA or through trades. There just aren't too many. For a young team this is the perfect opportunity for them to draft and mold a center for the future.
So I think the number one priority for BC should be to try and swap the 5th pick with Minnesota's 2nd pick or Cleveland's 4th (which seems unlikely) and choose Kanter.
Walker and Knight are good, but not great. If the rumors are still true, and Minnesota wants to trade Flynn for Calderon then we don't need Walker or Knight. I could see Flynn winning an MIP award if he switches teams. I seriously think that the triangle is what has killed his game. Also if Jay comes back, then I think Jay would be a great coach for a PG like Flynn.
Personally I feel that if we can't get Kanter then we are going to be keeping Bargnani for another year.
And a DeRozan-Bayless-Knight backcourt is one without a player that has any idea of how to run an offense. That doesn't excite me at all.
This reminds me of the argument over Avery Bradley, last year. It's not that I didn't like him as a player. It's that I didn't like him as a lottery pick. Brandon Knight might end up being a good rotation player, but at 5, I'd want to aim a little higher than that, and I see his game as too flawed to be that guy.
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Why do you guys think Kanter is going that high? I personally have my doubts, I have a feeling he will be around for our pick.
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Not sure if this has been posted, but I think the combine will give us a clearer picture.
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NBA.com's Mock Draft. Very Interesting Choices. Il highlight a couple that stood out.http://www.nba.com/2011/news/feature...s=iref:nbahpt1
5 Toronto Raptors | Jan Vesely | F-C | Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)
Big man plays with passion and would allow Raptors to move Andrea Bargnani out to the perimeter more or less permanently.6 Washington Wizards | Markieff Morris | PF | Kansas
Wizards need a young three, but going for Texas' Jordan Hamilton here seems a little high. Better to go for a solid 4/5 here in Morris, who should be a good defender and rebounder in the pros.16 Philadelphia 76ers | Bismack Biyombo | F-C | Baloncesto Fuenlabrada (Spain)
Sixers aren't completely sold on any of their backup bigs, and the intriguing Biyombo -- who was the talk of the Nike Hoop Summit a few weeks ago -- already knows how to throw his weight around.21 Portland Trail Blazers | Kemba Walker | G | Connecticut
Well, Dick Vitale has to wail about someone slipping. Walker is certainly not the 21st-best player in the Draft, but he's a 6-foot-1 scoring guard, and those aren't in great demand in the pros. He can learn how to play the point in the 503 behind one of the best, Andre Miller.30 Chicago Bulls | Jimmer Fredette | G | BYU
Again, the Bulls may well be picking here for someone else. But Chicago could do worse than pick the ridiculously prolific Fredette, a highly skilled guard who can put the ball in the basket when Derrick Rose needs a blow.
I see Knight being compared to Chauncey Billups actually... Maybe this isn't the best year to take a guard, next draft has names like Rivers and Kabongo at the PG spot. Bayless is still just 22, maybe he breaks through, who knows, but generally when you draft a PG this high, it is usually a committal and a long-term solution.
They really have Vesely as a 5? That's nuts. I know the kid can play both the 3 and 4, but I don't think his body can absorb the punishment at the 5.
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The U.S.
armed forces have long been interested in cutting their reliance on foreign oil
and moving to alternative fuel source, such as
homegrown biofuels. The U.S. Navy revealed in October that it purchased 20,055 gallons of algae-based biofuel at
a cost of $424/gallon to power its ships at sea.
Rand Corp., a leading U.S. think-tank, chimed in on the Navy's biofuels program
this month, with its National Defense Research Institute arm
releasing a
report criticizing how fast the Navy hopes to deploy the
James Bartis, a senior policy researcher at Rand Corp, authored the report.
In it he writes, "The Department of Defense consumes more fuel than
any other federal agency, but military fuel demand is only a very small
fraction of civilian demand, and civilian demand is what drives competition,
innovation, and production."
The federal government consumes 2 percent of the nation's total annual fuel
budget. Of that, the Defense Department consumes 80 percent.
The report targets many of the types of biofuels the Navy believes are the most
promising, such as algae. It states, "[Algae fuel
is a] research topic and not an emerging option that the military can use
to supply its operations."
The report also attacked the use of plant-based camelina oil. That
oil comes from Camelina sativa, a false flax plant, which produces oil
seeds. Advantages are that it is fast growing and can thrive on marginal land
that couldn't be used for food crops. The Navy successfully test-flew a
F/A-18 fighter jet powered by the biofuel last month. Still, the Rand
report claims this effort to be useless and says that the Navy should stop
pouring money into it.
Tom Hicks, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy for energy, fired back
with a conference
call to reporters. In it he labeled the report
as "factually inaccurate" and "a misrepresentation" of
the state of the biofuels industry. He reiterated his belief (and the
Navy's belief) that the biofuel industry would reach a mature state between
2012 and 2016. Presumably with that mature state would come steady
supplies and lower costs.
Mr. Hicks points out the armed forces are one of the biggest individual fuel
consumers after the commercial airlines, and that airlines didn't have the resources
or focus to push biofuels. He states, "We feel that our approach to
attractive energies - specifically biofuels - is the right one."
Mr. Hicks patently rejected that the think-tank paper would have an effect on
the Navy's course.
He has the backing of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus who has stated that by
2016, the Navy will have set sail a "green fleet" powered solely on
alternative fuels, and that by 2020 fifty percent of the Navy's fuel supply
would come from biofuels. Secretary Mabus emphasized in a blog post that a critical milestone occurred
when recent tests showed biofuels performing on par with their fossil fuel
equivalents. He writes, "Just as importantly, neither of these fuels
impacts food supply, the carbon footprint in terms of production is low, and
the cost of each is rapidly falling."
One thing that the Navy doesn't explicitly say is that the biofuels program may
have far less to do with being "green" than removing the security
risk of depending on a source of fuel from unstable foreign nations like the
Middle East or Venezuela, many of which have expressed hostility to the U.S. or
are home to factions hostile to U.S. interests. The Rand report almost
entirely overlooked this factor. After all, if the Air Force is willing
to spend billions per stealth bomber, is $424 per gallon
really that high a cost to secure the fuel supply of our nation's fleets?


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Natural Koncept pro and CEO Josh "JZ" Zickert just sent over part two of their wild month-long US tour. Take some time to have a read and peep the massive photo gallery. Part 1 here.
Photos by CMART, words by JZ
At this moment I'm Santiago, Chile drinking a beer, reflecting on the second half of NK's Creepin' for Life USA tour. It was one badass trip that lasted for a month!
Birmingham, Alabama was off the hook! We kicked it at Faith skate shop, scoped the new Shake Junt video and then skated the ghetto banks. What an awesome spot. It was a perfectly sunny day in Alabama and the crew was on fire! Tricks were going down by the minute. Kays crushed it.
Later in the day we seshed a dope double set and the final spot of the day was a grimy bump to bump. The cops showed up, but after seeing IDs from so many different states they were over trying to bust us. Later that night we hit up the clubs. It was a nice breather after being on the road for a couple weeks.
Things took a turn for the worse in Birmingham. The bed bugs got us. Those little f--kers suck! Whatever. Shit happens on tour, especially when you stay at ghetto Motel 6s the entire way.
On the way to Tennessee, Boner spotted a huge hubba so we pulled over and he frontside 180'd it within a few tries. It was pitch black and the run up was skinny. He nearly frontside flipped it too! Crazy.
Memphis is a skater's paradise. Downtown was full of spots, especially a tranny style sculpture in front of the police station. Davis nailed a 360 flipped to fakie real quick. Kays scooped a rad line, the cops were called and we were out like bandits. Next was the courthouse. With only a few minutes to skate it, Reilly pulled a blunt kickflip to fakie on the skinny quarterpipe out front. We found the perfect rail overlooking the city of Memphis, Boner backlipped and kickflipped it first try. Trevor hit a clean nollie noseslide on it. Adrian popped a dope ollie over this hydrant off a curb cut, and then it was time to grub so we ate at Tops, a famous BBQ spot open since 1952!
Springfield, Missouri was rad. The demo at Springfiel Skatepark was packed and our crew threw down. We also went to the mall and caused some ruckus. Shout outs to Gnartard! He sold his car to get the NK team to Missouri. Amazing.
Denver was the shit! The premiere went off. Dave and Trevor run a tight game in D-town! We got styled out at the Burnsley Suites and everyone got wild in the mile high city. It was cold but we skated the park for a couple hours on the second day. We chilled at 303 with the crew and picked up 20 boards and more Arizona Iced Tea for the remaining five days of the tour.
We had to keep a move on as Blair Alley was meeting us in Vegas the next night. So we jetted to Santa Fe, New Mexico for a premiere at one of the coolest shops ever--Beyond Waves. They have supported NK since 2001. Rick and his three brothers run the shop and they crush it. We kicked it in Santa Fe 'til midnight, scored some delicious Mexican food and then Kays drove the five hour journey to Flagstaff, Arizona.
We made it to Vegas the next day around 6pm and had reservations at Hooters hotel/casino. Everyone was stoked to be in Vegas. We picked up Blair Alley from the airport and were ready to shred the strip. Unfortunately Lai Wing had smashed his face right off the bat at the MGM banks. He dropped in from the top rail and slid out to face bash, he was blacked out for a moment, broken glasses, blood stain on the sidewalk, etc. so Gnarly. We kept it going and thrashed an abandoned pool (with the most toxic liquid and a large dead bird in the bottom of it) right on the strip. Boner, Gnarly, Kays, and I had a fun session before getting the boot from security. From this point it was complete madness skating along the strip--three hours skating with open containers while flying down the street, skating inside casinos like Venitian, Paris, and NY,NY. Boner dropped in to manny at the fountain in front of Bally's! We seshed a hip in the middle of the street next the new City Center Casino for 30 minutes--it was chaotic as ever. The night ended around 9am after a couple hours at the Crazy Horse and then a few hours rolling dice at the Tropicana--Kays, Cmart, Davis, JJ, Blair, and I were causing some serious havoc. We got kicked out eventually.
After six or seven hours of sleep, we were off to San Diego the next day. We arrived at Adrian McElhaney's crib in SD at 8pm. We chilled out and then met up with Blair again for a downtown session. We bombed the famous Concourse garage and cruised through the city and finished it off with a couple brews at Star Bar. The next day we skated the TransWorld park with Fitz, Blair, Cuong, David Jurusic, and Kevin Duffel. It was epic. The whole crew ripped it up, especially Boner who was on fire! The premiere took place at Bluefoot Lounge in North Park. Smolik, Dan Connelly, Tyler Surrey, Slash, Windsor, David Reyes, the whole TransWorld crew and more were in attendance. It was one of the biggest nights of the tour! People were stoked on the video and the energy was peaking! It was full on party mode!
The next day we drove to Bob Gnarly's pad in Echo Park and had the final premiere of the tour at an art gallery on Melrose. It was an awesome venue--a huge bonfire, a ton of beer and a huge screen to watch the movie. Seu Trinh and Cullen Poythress were in attendance as well. We raffled off a Bob Gnarly deck and a signed Katch1 book. The crowd was hyped and so was the NK crew.
We skated the Brooklyn Projects ramp (thanks DJ Chavez) the next day and the crew took off throughout the day catching flights home. JJ, Boner, Cmart and I were the last ones to LAX. When I returned the rental van, they said there would be a $5,000 charge to leave the van in L.A. My only option was to drive the van back to Philadelphia where we rented it. So I left L.A. the next day and arrived in Philly three days later after a solo 2,875-mile drive.
It was by far the raddest tour NK has ever done. The video premieres went off--it was 28 days of madness. Get to your local shop and ask for the Creepin' for Life DVD and look out for a tour video dropping this Summer! A big shout out to our sponsors!


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So basically this is a suit based on a kryptonian design. It is said to have been belonged to Jor-El , Superman's dad, so it is made of kryptonian material. It also doesn't have the Belt and the Underwear ;l.
But it still looks pretty epic. What are you thoughts?


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SPEED: Sasuke in no way can get past gaara's ultimate defense like he did in the chuunin exams. We saw gaaras sand was fast enough to intercept the raikage in v2. That alone speaks for the speed his sand is capable of.
TAIJUTSU: A worthless category for a fight involving sasuke vs gaara as sasuke does not nearly possess the speed needed to even beak through gaaras defense.
KIRIN: At best kirin which couldn't even beak through the most basic sussannoo rib cage is not going to harm gaara. The fact of the matter is at best the sand will turn to glass. Gaara is capable of defending himself from it with a mass of sand. Not to mention the time it takes for sasuke to generate the amount of heat necessary for KIRIN is enough time for gaara to crate sand like he did with kimmimaro in order to defend himself.
AMATERASU: At best Amaterasu is not getting to gaara in the slightest way. His ultimate defense has already been shown to block Amaterasu something only A was able to accomplish by using body flicker plus v2.
Sussannoo: we have seen how gaara can manipulate the sand underneath sussannoo in order to drag out the user. This can be done effectively and easily due to the fact that gaara can crate a desert and continue to fight as seen with kimmimaro
Sussannoo arrows: Gaara has shown that he has the capability to deflect powerful physical attacks like kimmimaro hardest bone. If gaara wishes he may use that sand defense again plus he can sense with sand therefore eliminating the need for sight. The arrow is not going through the density of the sand. Matter of fact gaara can cause a tsunami of sand if you will and completely cover sussannoo and crush it under the desserts pressure depending on what form it is.
Tsukuyomi: This is the issue that gaara has. however it can be easily bested by sensing with the sand which he had been shown to do or not looking in his eyes.
It's not that sasuke is weak but he has nothing on gaara. I only intended this thread to be about speed but I figured why not crush anything sasuke can do against gaara. This isn't intended on starting a flame war either. Sorry about not including pictures or links I'm on a phone lol.


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Rumors began circulating this week that HP was in talks concerning a possible buy-out of EDS. While neither EDS nor HP was willing yesterday to get specific on the talks HP did issue a press release on the subject yesterday stating, "HP today confirmed that it is engaged in advanced discussions with Electronic Data Systems Corporation regarding a possible business combination involving the two companies."
"There can be no assurances that an agreement will be reached or that a transaction will be consummated. HP does not intend to comment further until an agreement is reached or discussions are terminated."
The acquisition of EDS by HP makes sense to many since HP has openly stated that it intends to increase its reach as a service provider. EDS is one of the top service providers in the It industry and was one of the founders of IT outsourcing. EDS' 2007 revenue was $22.1 billion and HP had stated revenues in 2007 of $104 billion making both companies big players in the IT industry.
HP announced today that it had come to an agreement between its board and the board of EDS to purchase EDS at $25 per share placing an approximate value on EDS of $13.9 billion. HP expects that the transaction will close in the second half of 2008 pending domestic and foreign regulatory approval.
HP plans to establish a new business group to be branded EDS- an HP company and EDS will continue to be headquartered at EDS' existing executive offices in Plano, Texas. EDS Chairman, President and CEO Ronald A. Rittenmeyer will continue to lead EDS after the deal closes and will answer directly to HP chairman and CEO Mark Hurd.
Hurd said in a statement, "The combination of HP and EDS will create a leading force in global IT services. Together, we will be a stronger business partner, delivering customers the broadest, most competitive portfolio of products and services in the industry. This reinforces our commitment to help customers manage and transform their technology to achieve better results."
HP made headlines earlier this month when researchers invented a new class of electrical components called memristor. Memristor technology could one day lead to PCs that need no boot up, can store data with no power and never forget data.


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I'm speechless....
.....I guess it's now time to amnesty Kleiza :|
I'm speechless....
.....I guess it's now time to amnesty Kleiza :|
Do the Raptors pay players to help them lose games? It almost seems like that's the logic behind these types of moves.
BC sure loves handing out 10mill a year contracts.. soo now that Demar's new deal eats up what cap space we had from calderon's expiring contract. whats left?? will calderon get demars old contract next year LOL or will he get another 10mill too..
note to MLSE..
BC can do the trades but please have someone else resigning players..
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. - Martin Luther King
Is this official yet?
If DeRozan continues to play like he did tonight, he'll be worth every penny! His jumper was on point, he defence was lock down, and he made a living at the FT line!!! Keep doing what you do, DeRo! Prove those haters wrong!
So when can a trade happen with DeMar now? Come January we could package DeMar with Calderon and get a $20M contract.
Is Dwight available? How about Carmelo? Or Nowitzki?
Colangelo and his contracts.. if you are going to offer $9M+ a year, why not wait for another team to make an offer, than match? This is ridiculous! Nobody is going to be paying more than $9.5M a year for DeMar, even if SG's are a short supply in the league.
If Landry starts sticking his jumpers again(especially the 3), he'd be worth the $$ in my opinion because of his defense, rebounding and bball IQ. But so far he looks useless
And what theoretical teams were out there just salivating to overpay a guy who has never posted a league average PER? And if they're out there then they're welcome to it. But why not make him prove it this year. It's not like we couldn't match. There was no pressure to make this extension happen now. Especially for a guy who hasn't proven he's worth it, at all. He is literally the exact reason for the entire restricted free agency process whereby you can let the market set the price. This decision is stupid and the more I think about it the stupider I think it is.
I've never been a 'fire BC' person, but anyone who keeps talking about 'flexibility' should look around for open containers of industrial solvents, because paying 17 million a year for the Fields/DeRozan combo (both of whom lost 4th quarter time tonight to a 2 pg lineup and Allan Anderson) is exactly how you kill your cap flexibility.
By the way, I'm super excited for the 12 million per year we're inevitably giving Davis as soon as he's eligible.
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With governments around the world pushing to establish hard mandates on the use of biofuels and other renewable methods of energy production, we could be setting ourselves up to cause more harm than good. The U.S. Congress has set a target to raise the use of biofuels from 7.5 billion gallons to 36 billion gallons by 2022. That's a 480 percent increase. That would push greenhouse gas production in the U.S. up by an order of magnitude.
At the same time, in order to produce these biofuels, farmland is cleared for the growth of ethanol-reliant crops. Clearing land for farming has a cost in greenhouse emissions, as does growing and harvesting these crops. Add that in to the cost of refining and burning these crops and we are generating far more emissions than simply using gasoline and oil.
Scientists in the U.S. and Europe have written letters to their respective governments warning them that biofuels in their current form will only exacerbate the production of greenhouse emissions and push the world further towards climate change.
The United Nations stated it wants to continue with the production of biofuels and reap any potential benefits. The organization admitted however that biofuels are not the silver bullet they were led to believe.
Dr. Searchinger is advocating a switch in gears for the production of biofuels. The use of organic waste in the production of biofuels would get around the problem of clearing and farming previously unused lands which cause so much of the greenhouse emissions that hold back any potential benefits of using biofuels. Using organic waste could also be well on it's way to becoming a reality thanks to recent breakthroughs in this field.


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The $381 million, 50,700-member BrightStar Credit Union in Sunrise, Fla., is holding its annual holiday toy drive through Dec. 10 at its headquarters and its six locations in Broward County, the credit union said. Unwrapped toy donations can be placed in a drop box at each site and the presents will be distributed by Family Central Inc., a not-for-profit that for 40 years has played a pivotal role in the lives of South Florida families.
"The toy drive is a great way for BrightStar members and employees to join forces to help make a difference in the community," said Ralph Crockett, the credit union's president/CEO. This year the biggest need is toys for children under the age of 3.


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CU Times Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Sarah Snell Cooke will serve as moderator as the panel discusses topics such as seamless succession and developing talent from within.
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Cincinnati looking forward to next year
After '09 success, Reds eager for 2010 Civil Rights Game
By Mark Newman / MLB.com
That was thought-provoking.
That was tearful and joyful.
That was more than probably even the people of Cincinnati could have expected, a success by every standard, and now that the 2009 Gillette Civil Rights Game is in the books, this city will stage it again in 2010 followed by what Reds president and CEO Bob Castellini predicted will be a rotation around Major League Baseball markets similar to how the All-Star Games are chosen.
"The thrust, as I understand it, is going to be to have Civil Rights Games occur in various cities," Castellini said before his team's game against the White Sox at sold-out Great American Ball Park. "And it should be that way."
The Civil Rights Game was played the first two years as an exhibition in Memphis, Tenn., at the Triple-A home of the Cardinals, a setting that was appropriate to start it right there where the Civil Rights Museum is based, site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last day. Not unlike a professional ballplayer, it then took a big step forward into its first Major League city with the game played for the first time during the regular season.
"The Reds and the city were phenomenal hosts, and to see the enthusiasm today on the (Fountain Square) plaza and know those will be fans for their lifetime, that made us happy," MLB president Bob DuPuy said. "My family and I had the privilege to march on Washington in 1963, and to see what's happening today is very moving."
"Thank you, Cincinnati," added Jimmie Lee Solomon, MLB executive vice president of baseball operations. "You've embraced us, you all prayed and the weather stayed away. I was ecstatic about that. We had the youth event at Fountain Square, and thousands and thousands of kids played baseball and interacting with current and past Reds stars, having a joyous time."
Those were the kinds of things that mattered, and it took a lot of work over a couple of years to bring Cincinnati's presentation to fruition. After the Friday roundtable at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, after the Beacon Awards Luncheon at Duke Energy Center, after the "Wanna Play?" and youth-summit events in Fountain Square, and of course after the game itself and touching pregame ceremonies, the question was where the Civil Rights Game is going and how a rotation might work.
At this point, it is only speculation. Suffice to say that many city officials will be contacting the Major League offices. Most probably will want a Civil Rights Game in their market now. One can look at absolutely every Major League city and imagine what this might be like in that town. That is a fluid process with evaluations to follow this event, but one MLB executive said it would not be surprising if rotations are for two years rather than the All-Star example of one, given significant undertakings such as signing sponsors.
"We were really pleased with everything, the way it came off," Phil Castellini, the Reds' chief operating officer, told Fox Sports Ohio during Saturday's game. "Mother Nature cooperated with us. When you work with a staff like MLB has, they've done this a lot, and we're certainly glad to be part of this event. The new and improved Civil Rights Game in a Major League city and in a Major League regular-season game. We were just pleased with every one of the events so far -- it's been a real thrill." The Reds had to bid on this, an example of what's to come for other cities.
"I've got to give [Reds vice president and assistant general manager] Bob Miller and the baseball ops guys credit, because they went to the Industry Meetings not long ago, and came back and told our business department that they were considering taking it to a Major League city and regular season," Phil Castellini said. "So as soon as we heard that we started the process of putting our name in the hat, and then MLB went around and visited some of the cities that were interested in hosting the event, and we gave them a good tour, took them to the Freedom Center, and showed them what some of our ideas were, and it seemed to catch on."
Solomon said of that tour: "It just blew us away."
It's safe to say that the 2009 Gillette Civil Rights Game events brought the same reaction.
"I've been to a couple of big Major League Baseball events, and to see these guys come in today, to our crowd like we have down here, and our fans cheering for the icons like Muhammad Ali and Hank Aaron, and seeing these guys wave, and of course Bill Cosby -- I grew up watching all of his different shows, I'm a huge fan, and the uniform he came out in -- it's just been a lot of fun," Phil Castellini said.
"We've had serious discussions, we've laughed. I know I've teared up a few times over the past couple of days hearing some of the stories at the roundtable and the luncheon. And then you see the kids in Fountain Square today, it was just unbelievable. It was like a mini-RedsFest at Fountain Square. So it's just been a real thrill to have all the different events come off the way they have, and we couldn't be happier."
During the pregame interview-room session featuring Commissioner Bud Selig and Hall of Famers Aaron, Frank Robinson and Tony Perez, Bob Castellini said: "To me, this was a forerunner to our All-Star Game, which I'm going to try to exact out of the Commissioner for 2013. We're working very hard."
"We bid on them every year they're available for the National League teams," Phil Castellini added. "But there's a kind of process now to where there's a lot of new ballparks, and if you look at the cities with new parks, and the years since their last All-Star Game, we did an internal study to kind of say you can kind of read the tea leaves a little bit about what the possible locations are. But we hope to be there in 2013 or '15."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.