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What I liked and Disliked this year from SWW 2008
Posted 23 June 2008 - 04:34 PM
1. People that I met when I was in line for the autographs and Kim who is from this site.
2. New Disney and Star Wars characters.
3. Liked what Disney did with Ebay sellers with the Big Figs which where available online.
4. Hoopla was great and you could meet alot of characters without a long wait.
Things I didn't Like:
1. Disney letting people sleep over night to get autographs. And it was the same people over and over again. You don't know how many times I heard parents saying their child wanted to meet a celeb but the lines where to big or fast passes where out. Disney must fix this problem next year.
2. No beanies this year. Why!! In my book Disney has slowed down big time in Imagination!!
3. No Star Wars atmosphere!! Every year I've gone it has felt like if I was in a galaxy far far away except for this year. It didn't have that feeling. Everything was so spread out that it took away from the festivities.
4. When I saw the merchandise photos and saw the Darth Donald and Darth Goofy I said to myself thats going to be the shirt that is going to sell big time. And what does disney do they don't order enough shirts and thats why they ran out of them. Unexcusable.
5. No new activites added to the event and still no adult trivia.
All in all I got what I expected this year. I didn't buy the surprises that where being put out on the net. And Dark Lord if this keeps going Starwars Weekends will become like the Dinosaurs EXTINCT!!
Posted 23 June 2008 - 05:16 PM
My number one pet peeve and has been for a couple of years now.
This surprised me. I guess they couldn't figure out what to do this time. Darth Donald would have been nice.
I got this shirt first weekend. I saw some Saturday, but I don't know what sizes.
My Problem was the pink Minnie/Chewie shirt "I'd just as soon kiss a wookie". The 2X was so small I had to return it. My mom was wearing it Saturday, but is going to add some material to it in order to make it comfortable.
I also agree everything was too spread out. Unfortunately, I don't see them changing that next year. The same with the autograph lines. I had written them about the lines and they ignored it and still allowed it to happen.
Posted 24 June 2008 - 11:14 AM
Posted 24 June 2008 - 03:18 PM
Agreed. But this problem has lasted just about every year.
"2. No beanies this year. Why!! In my book Disney has slowed down big time in Imagination!!"
I disagree with it being about imagination. Disney always has new ideas. I think it is because there was a lack of sells on the Beanies Last year because it was a $30 Dollar set of Two.
"3. No Star Wars atmosphere!! Every year I've gone it has felt like if I was in a galaxy far far away except for this year. It didn't have that feeling. Everything was so spread out that it took away from the festivities."
I Disagree With That Again lol. Everything was actually closer together than ever this year except Wicket's Warehouse. If you just kept to the left of the park it is Star Warsy from Echo Lake all the way to LMA. But it did kinda lose a bit of the total effect this year not being able to have the Bad guys on Former Mickey Avenue.
"4. When I saw the merchandise photos and saw the Darth Donald and Darth Goofy I said to myself thats going to be the shirt that is going to sell big time. And what does disney do they don't order enough shirts and thats why they ran out of them. Unexcusable."
Something Always Sells Out in the first few weekends, because Merchandise Kath Hounds go to the First Weekend and spend $100s to $1000s Of dollars on it
"5. No new activites added to the event and still no adult trivia."
Agreed. That needs to be addressed. I think a Sith Training Academey would be a fun new thing lol
"All in all I got what I expected this year. I didn't buy the surprises that where being put out on the net. And Dark Lord if this keeps going Starwars Weekends will become like the Dinosaurs EXTINCT!!"
Well, They have pulled out a big surprise, Steve Sansweet Came, and the Behind the Force Show had actual live people who knew about the stuff, both unnanouced happenings until the weekends. ANd there is one more weekend to pull out a bigger surprise which i think they will. SWW isn't dead yet my friend, and even if it does it will come back as a Jedi Ghost... Ooh lol
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:28 PM
Also, (and I know we can't blame Disney for this unless we want to place the blame on moving SWW from mid-May to a June only event) the heat of weekend 1 was a force to be reckoned with. It came to the point that we were forced to leave early and miss out on the hoopla. (If anyone has good pictures, please let me know)
On the plus side, even though SWW was being handled by new people and some of their ideas left little to be desired, they did listen to the concerns and complaints of the crowd. Disney is trying to make SWW better. They're just hitting a few bumps on the way.
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:52 PM
Pipper011 said:
1. Disney letting people sleep over night to get autographs. And it was the same people over and over again. You don't know how many times I heard parents saying their child wanted to meet a celeb but the lines where to big or fast passes were out. Disney must fix this problem next year.
I'm sorry to disagree with you but I believe that the system is perfectly acceptable the way it is. I do admit that those who are unaware of what the line is like and do not show up early pretty much get shafted if they want an autograph. However, don't let yourself believe that just because you don't have a ticket you can't get an autograph. Walk-ups DO happen. Just make sure you inform the cast member standing at the last autograph session aware that you would like to try to get a walk-up in and they will show you to a small queue if it has formed at that point.
Also, there is very little that Disney can do to stop the people who really want the passes from waiting. If they prohibit anyone from entering the parking lot until a certain time, people would just park their cars somewhere on Disney property and wait until then. Not to mention the absolute mayhem of every single person who would have been there earlier arriving at say, 7:00.
I believe that Disney does take the people who do not wish to arrive extremely early into consideration by not distributing the passes until 9:00 so that people arriving at 9:00 can easily get a pass for the 2 celebrities that are less popular than the main one for that weekend, by having the "1 person gives 1 ticket to get 1 pass" rule to make sure that parties are not waiting in multiple lines and transferring tickets, and by ensuring that nobody will go home completely empty handed by handing out the "photoshopped" pictures to anyone who walks by.
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:57 PM
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:25 PM
Note: The last time I went to SWW was in 2005. That was an extra special year because it was right around the release of Revenge of the Sith. Disney also added extra weekends that year because of the huge interest.
Things I Liked
1. Wickets Warehouse - awesome idea. Nice layout, lots of room to maneuver, great idea to have the picture back drops. This is much better than the old days of cramming people into Tatooine Traders.
2. New mini-sets for the character photos/autographs. These mini-sets, like the Tantive IV, are extremely realistic. Nice touch with the signage next to each one explaining what they are and where they're found in the movies.
3. Having things spread out makes it easier to get around. Although it did add a nice air to the festivities having them packed in (like a Con), I think it's more practical to spread them out.
4. Love the new and improved Jedi Training Academy. It's more polished, refined, and organized.
5. Hoopla (don't like the name) is still a lot of fun.
6. Merchandise - I, too, miss the beanies but think the overall quality and quantity of the merchandise has improved significantly.
7. Loved the Disney website tie-in with the Jedi/Sith quiz.
Things I Didn't Like
1. Process to get an autograph - I waited in line forever in 2005 to get Peter Mayhew's autograph (and got it). I vowed to never do that again, and, didn't this year. Many of these stars will sell you an autograph online from their websites. They also visit Sci-Fi Cons around the country (we're blessed to have Dragon*Con here in Atlanta). More power to you autograph seekers, but for the money I'm paying to be there I'd rather do other things at the park.
2. Was it just me or did the parade seem kind of plain? It'd be cool to have some SW themed floats other than the first one leading the parade. The parade hasn't changed much since I last saw it in 2005.
3. Fewer costumed characters. I don't know if it was just that everything was more spread out, but I could've sworn there were more SW characters roaming around in 2005 than there were this year.
4. Fewer costumed guests. Perhaps the date change from Mid-May to all-June caused people to make more prudent clothing choices. As one other poster noted, the Mustafar heat is something to be reckoned with. SWW is more fun when guests get in the act, too.
5. The main SW stage needs shade - bad. The poor padawans, characters, and spectators were melting in that heat. Surely a large semi-permanent canopy could be put into place.
6. Lack of online SWW information on the Disney website. They desperately need more social networking features (of course this site fulfills that role to a certain degree). They also need to make the SWW flyer available as a .PDF and get the information out earlier.
Our family are HUGE fans of both Star Wars and Disney. Despite that fact, we'll probably take a break from SWW and go back to Disney during another time of the year.
Posted 25 June 2008 - 12:32 AM
Cons are nice for just getting pics of the celebrities, but the prices for the autographs and then also having to pay for the pictures they autograph are outrageous. I've been to a couple and I have no intention of paying $20 or more for an autograph. You also have to pay for the celebrity to pose for a picture with you, by the time you are done, you've paid somewhere near $100 or more. No Way!!!! I don't have that kind of money to waste.
The other problem here is that the lines have gotten longer since they moved the Weekends to June. There are tons more people standing in line and it just keeps getting bigger every year. There shouldn't be 200 people in line inside the park at 7AM (even if they don't get their passes until 9AM) (and NO I don't mean outside the gates--I mean INSIDE the park). Several times this year the lines were so huge the CMs let the line in early and it seemed to everyone else like there was no line if they showed up after 8AM.
The parade has been about the same for years, and it is kinda plain. The float was interesting and new.
They were there, you just had to look for them. They were way spread out all over the park.
I highly doubt this will happen. The stage is permanent now and the ATT above it on regular days spits out water for the kids to play in.
Posted 25 June 2008 - 06:03 AM
kimdben said:
OT: One time, while at a local con, I managed to get Adam West's autograph for less than what they were asking. Either they felt sorry, or they just wanted whatever money they could get out of me. Since I know humans in that kind of situation lack empathy, I'm betting it was the latter.
Posted 25 June 2008 - 07:20 AM
The list of things you liked I agree with Pipper and I agree with you on many of your dislikes as well, only maybe not as strongly.
On one hand, I too believe that the characters were too spread out. In general they needed to have a more detailed map to help with this problem so that people knew where to go. The Cast Members helped a lot with this, but with the construction congestion of Pixar Place taking up a lot of space that had been dedicated to SWW the options were possibly limited.
On the other hand I agree with Matt in the sense that it did loosen the arteries in some areas of the park where there used to be major congestion. The smoking area near Tattoine Traders comes to mind here, where the Chewbacca & Ewok line was across from the Jedi meet and greet area. That section was impossible to navigate the last few years. But as nice as that was, it was frustrating not having the characters in a more general area. Speading it out made it seem as though there were fewer characters to meet and fewer still mingling around the park. That wasn't necessarily the case, they just were covering different areas and more ground. That said, where was the Emperor and his Imperial Guards?
Autograph lines: I'm on the fence with this one. I'm not really convinced there is a way to win here. Disney corrected a major flaw in 2006 by designating the lines rather than allowing the mass chaos of the "LINE DROP AND RUN" of previous years. As already pointed out, you can keep them for lining up there, but they will line up at the next holding spot.
No Beenies: "I'm right there with you boss" -Wedge '77 I don't think it is an imagination issue. I just think they need to be smarter about what they are doing. Also, Lucas can be difficult about allowing certain charactures to be made. A Storm Trooper Donald would have been cool this year though!
Atmosphere: I think it was a SW atmosphere, but like you said it was too spread out. In the past it was concentrated into two destinct areas. This year, there was a big learning curve for any of us who have been there in the past. I still think this is mostly because of losing Mickey Ave, and hope they can sit down and improve on this next year. (Some people never even noticed the Jedi Meet and Greet was over by the Indiana Jones Trading Post, right before the Stunt Show Enterance.)
Shirts: One run or another seems to run out each year. Too many and they are stuck with them, too few and we are irritated. They may end up with a bunch of the Storm Trooper Shirst left over. MY COMPLAINT is that the Sizes were all screwed up. I got an EX LARGE, which I've purchased in the past, brought it home only to find it is too small. I gave it to the wife.
New Activities: I've been beating this drum myself for a few years now and couldn't agree more. That said, I dissagree with you feelings on extinction. The event is different then it was a few years ago, but the mass of humanity linning up each weekend suggests that all is well. The success of the TV shows along with future rumored 3-D releases of the movies will determine the long run here. "Always in motion the future is", SWW is safe for now.
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Posted 25 June 2008 - 11:17 AM
Posted 01 July 2008 - 12:25 AM
Posted 01 July 2008 - 12:26 PM
kimdben said:
The parade has been about the same for years, and it is kinda plain. The float was interesting and new.
The first half of the parade is the 501st Legion, we are an international, volunteer, costuming club. Disney does not want us to, or allow us to interact with the crowd in any way. We have been told that they want us to appear as a military type pass in review parade. No waiving, pointing, etc...
I suppose this tends to make the parade a little more bland compared to the other Disney parades with their overly hyper cast members that are actually employed by Disney.
Posted 01 July 2008 - 09:03 PM
Posted 01 July 2008 - 11:23 PM
I have numerous pics of the 501st, esp. when there are the huge numbers of stormtroopers marching. The stormstroopers ARE military so it makes sense to 'march'. It always amazes me how everyone looks like they just stepped out of the movies. Great work to all. 8)
Posted 02 July 2008 - 07:55 PM
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Posted 09 July 2008 - 11:03 AM
1. I had the schedule for the weekend before the weekend started. Really really number 1 liked. This business of not getting the schedule until Friday morning was getting really old. I big shout out to Matt for posting the schedule on Tuesday night. And because its become a tradition, I went over to the Studios on Thursday evening, just to see if anything was up at Guest Services and I was handed a schedule. A real schedule none of this pretending not to know business. I went around the rest of the evening grinning like an idiot and clutching the thing.
2. They built us a theatre. You may say they only enclosed the old Hunchback theatre, but that thing had been sitting empty in a Florida swamp for a couple of years. We (those Star Wars loving fools) are somewhere so prominent on Disneys radar that they know that not only do we need a space for the interview show, etc., but that we need an indoor, air conditioned space with comfy chairs.
3. The letters we write make a difference. They brought us Jedi Mickey. Alright, I agree that it didnt work at all for me this year, but I really need to dedicate a whole day to seeing the characters. Especially if the event stays in June and I poop out after 2pm. :sleep:
4. They learn. After that 1st miserable Friday standing in the sun waiting for the doors to open, they found a place to put the line for the Premiere theatre. Best of all, I had never waited that long to see the Muppets so I had never seen all the cool Muppet movie posters in the queue.
5. SWW/Studios Central dinner. You want to talk about your Good Times.
1. June. :faint: If indeed the rumor that I heard that the date was pushed back to accommodate the re-do of the Premier theatre, then okay. Good reason. But I am going to ask politely if theres any way that they can see their way clear to moving the dates back to May/June.
2. The later parade time. Mostly because it messed up lunch. When the parade was at 11:15, you could go to the parade you could even go to the celebrity greeting then get lunch and still be able to make the interview show. With the parade at 11:40, youre going to lunch with everybody whos just in the park anyways. So I need breakfast if lunch isnt going to be until 2:15. And there wasnt really anywhere to get a real breakfast.
Really what this means is that if this is the new schedule, and I can see it suiting them much better, I need to adapt. And this is only a problem if you want to be in the autograph lines in the morning before the food court at the hotel opens.
3. I missed the atmosphere on Mickey Avenue. I have taken exception in the past to the reality that, at least at SWW, the dark side is a lot more fun. 8) And I will also admit that I was mostly too busy hiding from the heat to seek them out. But I really missed the roving patrols of Storm Troopers and the Bounty Hunters out menacing people. And, where was the emperor?
4. The Premier Theatre is too far away from the Brown Derby. Its ok. Ill adapt.
I agree. I want more. I think were limiting ourselves by insisting on the return of the adult trivia. There are other possibilities. I loved the special show last year with Ray Park. Several years ago Anthony Daniels did a show just about C-3PO. Is there some way to see if something could be added at 6pm (thats when the Ray Park show was). And who do we talk to about that?
On one of my many trips to Wickets Warehouse, I overheard someone ask if there were Star Wars penny machines. The cms answer was that we would need to talk to someone at Lucas about that. So, what else could we get if we talked to someone at Lucas? Who do we need to talk to outside of Disney to get more stuff? Because I really enjoyed the year we had the X-Wing and the Han Solo in carbonite last year wasnt bad.
Could we have a big exhibit of Star Wars Stuff for Star Wars Weekends? It could take over the space where the Villians exhibit has been. We know Disney listens to us. Who else to we have to write to?
Posted 09 July 2008 - 11:21 AM
Pitti-sing said:
Pitti-sing said:
Posted 09 July 2008 - 01:42 PM
Unfortunately, I don't see them ever going back. I had mailed them last year about June and they still had it in June. I personally would love it if they went back to April/May and stay completely out of June. That just will never happen, they love having the big crowds it equals more money. From their standpoint I understand, but from our standpoint, we get stuck standing in extremely long lines usually with nothing to show for it. Unlike you, I ended up with no David Prowse autograph on Saturday. I only go the one day (Saturdays) and royally got screwed 'cause of the 200 or so people in line already ahead of me at 8:15am. The fastpasses ended a good 50 or more people ahead of me.
Unfortunately, you are also one of my biggest pet peeves--the people who sleep overnight. I personally find it completely unfair and I believe that it shouldn't be allowed. Everyone should have the same chance to get a fastpass, sleeping overnight is not a fair chance. It's the same people every weekend, how is that fair? :x
Oh well, I will complain about that until I am blue in the face and completely dead, it will never change. :frownblue: Disney just doesn't care :!: Not enough to fix the problems anyway.


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Mount Belford Climber's Log
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|From Missouri Mt
Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2007
|After climbing Missouri came down to the valley and hiked up the steep west slope of Belford.
|Posted Aug 20, 2007 11:49 am
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2004
|My story sounds pretty common - have done Belford twice, the second time for Oxford but had to turn around because of weather - some day I'll make it to Oxford!
|Posted Aug 19, 2007 11:58 am
|Route Climbed: Missouri Gulch TH
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2002
|This had been my first time climbing Mt. Belford -- an approachinig storm denied me and my team the neighboring peak, Mt. Oxford. Grrr!! I didn't know it then, but I would try many time thence to re-take it to get to Oxford and all were unsuccessful due to rain and snow. But I'll get there one day :D
During a rest stop in the descent, I accidentally stepped on my glasses. Totally unbelieveable!!
|Posted Aug 17, 2007 12:59 am
|Back to Belford
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 1997
|Belford was my first(14ner) back in 1994. Did it again from Missouri Gulch hoping to have the weather for a chance at Oxford, but it was not to be. Met a big, fat marmot who was conditioned to the sound of snack wrappers. Opening a bag really got his attention.
|Posted Jul 27, 2007 9:15 pm
|Woodie Hopper
|Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2007
|Did the combo with Oxford- great weather. A nice hike but with a lot of steep switchbacks!
|Posted Jul 22, 2007 7:16 pm
|West Slopes
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007
|Belford and Oxford in the same day. Camped at the top of the switchbacks the night before and bagged both of them early the next day. Beautiful. Numbers 11 and 12.
|Posted Jul 19, 2007 9:48 pm
|Great day on Belford
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007
|Perfect day on Belford. Started a little after 5a (parking lot was already half full) was on the summit by 8a then headed over to Oxford. Clouds built rapidly on the way down and I was concerned for the late starters, but they caught a break when the clouds dissipated as quickly as they appeared.
First solo 14er...it was awesome!
|Posted Jul 16, 2007 4:03 pm
|Another full moon hike
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2007
|Belford/Oxford combo via Missouri Gulch under a full moon!
|Posted Jul 1, 2007 10:34 pm
|Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2007
|Hiked Belford/Oxford combo during a full moon. Was awesome!
|Posted Jul 1, 2007 8:52 pm
|Scott Rogers
|Missouri Gulch
|Combo with Oxford back when I was 13 or so.
|Posted Jun 25, 2007 8:24 pm
|Belford & Oxford
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2007
|A great start to the 14er season! Good friends and good weather. A little steep at times, but we all made it. Shadow's (our black lab) first 14er!
|Posted Jun 18, 2007 1:17 pm
|Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2007
|What a great day out with friends! The return from Oxford back to Belford is brutal, but well worth the extra effort to knock out both peaks in one push. Altogether a beautiful hike on a very well-maintained trail.
|Posted Jun 16, 2007 3:20 pm
|Belford/Oxford from Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: May 27, 2007
|Beautiful weather. The 2200 ft glissade down the northwest gully made my weekend. Perfect glissade snow.
|Posted May 28, 2007 11:27 am
|Bagged Belford via Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006
|We made 2nd team on summit with a 03:15 a.m. start. Clear weather brisk wind on descent with clouds looking like rain but no lighting - Will climb again in combo with Oxford.
|Posted May 23, 2007 11:52 pm
|Re: Bagged Belford via Missouri Gulch
|Did Belford and the Ox - summits on both; cold windy and snowy 6-12-13. Camped at the cabin Fri night and 4:30 am start.
|Posted Jun 18, 2009 11:25 pm
|Anya Jingle
|Via West Slopes
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2002
|We did it along with Oxford as a dayhike. Our dog did awesome. The slideshow from this day is here: Mount Belford and Oxford in a day
|Posted Jan 23, 2007 6:21 am
|cold and foggy
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 1989
|Climbed in a fog bank. No views. These two mountains are endless and the trail was a steep one
|Posted Dec 17, 2006 4:36 pm
|Missouri Basin and Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2001
|This was a repeat climb, as Belford was my 6th 14er, back in 1976. That time, I came in from the south to Elkhead Pass. This time I hiked up Missouri Gulch with my wife and daughter. After camping overnight, Belford made their 5th and 2nd 14ers, respectively. Had to run down to escape the rain coming in at midday, but mild weather overall.
|Posted Oct 2, 2006 7:22 pm
|Day hike from ghost town
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 1987
|Posted Sep 22, 2006 2:29 pm
|Cold, Wet, and Foggy
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2006
|Had planned on climbing Oxford, but due to pouring rain and very low visibility we settled for only bagging Belford.
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mazdaspeed6 - 06-25-2011, 01:22 PM
Is that car even legal, It must be so blinding during the summer
Remember the chrome R8 we told you was going to be auctioned off? Well, the car was such a hit Audi donated a second R8. The first R8 was actually submitted twice with the winner putting it right back up for auction where it generated even more money. All in all, just under $1 million dollars was generated by the two chrome R8's Audi donated. Audi UK stated: "We are absolutely delighted to have been instrumental in raising such a magnificent sum for Sir Elton's charity."
Can someone answer this $#@!ing question for me please.
After this money gets into Elton Johns hand, where does it go? Show me the poor kid with no food that got some of this money. Show me the homeless guys and the people dying of hunger that get the cash.
The only awareness I see here is more publicity to Elton and Audi.
Cool car though.
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Its really irrelevant because Walker will be at the end of the bench with Balkman once Melo , Stat and Josh are back.
I assume its Jeffries, Josh, Shump, Novak and Davis off the bench.
although a 10 man rotation is not Dantonios style...but then again Davis may never return so its down to these guys.
We are now 5-0 and Walker has seen a lot of those minutes. I am not a fan of Walkers and look forward to him being benched upon the others returns...
BUT with that said OBVIOUSLY there is something the Knicks staff sees that maybe we do not......But then again you think Jordan and Balkman should be in so I guess the Knicks coaching staff and u do not see eye to eye.
I never said Walker deserves credit for the KNICKS WINS NOT Jeremys wins.
What I do say is I have faith in the Knicks staff and their decision to keep Walker in the game.
Your feeling is clear......WE ARE NOW 5-0
BUT U feel Balkman and Jordan should play and not Walker....I get it...Just do not agree with your thinking. Knicks coaching staff does not agree with your thinking. AND YES our 5 wins makes me side with the coaching staff and not you.
is balkman really good on xbox ?
when we have an 8 point lead against the lakers, do you want someone whos gonna chuck 3s and/or turn it over? or do you want someone thats gonna make kobe work for every point he gets, and battle for rebounds?
If the argument is Dantonios time MGMT for star players i am not a huge fan .
if the argument is Balkman should have played instead of walker on this 5 game winning streak I would disagree.
I do think a 10 man rotation is a good thing with walker, Bibby, Balkman , TD and Jordan on the outs until Jort, Novak, Davis, Jeffries or Shump falters.
I agree with you that Walker is a better option than Balkman. I just wanna see everybody on the floor. We're running out of gas..


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Australia have picked James O'Connor at fly-half for Saturday's opening Test against the British and Irish Lions at Suncorp Stadium with Kurtley Beale included on the bench.
The starting XV picked by coach Robbie Deans features three debutants in full-back Israel Folau, flanker Ben Mowen and inside centre Christian Lealiifano.
Folau is competing in his first season in professional rugby union, having already represented Australia at rugby league and played in the AFL.
Folau has been in stunning form at full-back for the NSW Waratahs, but has been chosen on the right wing by the Wallabies with Digby Ioane, who has recovered from knee surgery, lining up on the opposite flank.
With Beale deemed not ready to start against the Lions following his return from alcohol-related problems, Deans has opted for O'Connor at fly-half with Berrick Barnes taking the number 15 jersey.
It will be only the second time O'Connor has played a Test at 10, with the other appearance taking place alongside Will Genia against Wales in 2011.
Scrum-half Genia and the selection of Adam Ashley-Cooper were the two certainties in the Wallaby backline, with the presence of Lealiifano one of the main talking points in the build up to tonight's team announcement.
The 25-year-old playmaker also features at fly-half for the ACT Brumbies and has edged the more defensive Pat McCabe to form a centre partnership with Ashley-Cooper.
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So with a weekly class to teach, he signed up for the Second Life virtual world on the Internet (think avatars) and had his students do the same. When he was in Montana, they had regular classes. When he was in Palo Alto, they held real-time but virtual classes via computer using avatars for each student.
"You mean you had giant lizards or Valkeries sitting around the virtual classroom?" I asked him during a conversation shortly after the film Avatar hit the theaters.
No, he said. Each student had to create an online avatar that looked more or less like the student. Beaubois' avatar, for instance, sports a mane of white hair, like the real-world Beaubois.
But the online-classroom experiment was not without some eye-opening challenges, starting with the name of the course he planned to teach: Digital Collaboration in Architecture.
An administrator at Montana State called him immediately upon seeing the course outline and said he could not use that name. Why not?
"Because last semester we caught and suspended two students for collaborating," the administrator replied, Beaubois recalled.
Beaubois patiently explained that "collaboration" has a positive meaning that outweighs the euphemistic mushing of "cheating."
There might also be some deep-level negative holdover from the World War II "Nazi collaborator" term. But that was a long time ago, and more has changed than being able to hold a virtual class in real time with avatars instead of in-classroom students.
Today, for instance, the Palo Alto-based IDEO and its innovative — even revolutionary in some cases — designs derive from its founder's belief in collaborative brainstorming involving persons with different backgrounds, training and perspectives.
The Institute of Design at Stanford (IDEO-led) is also demonstrating how breaking down the often-rigid academic walls between disciplines can result in entirely new ways of looking at problems and devising effective solutions.
Similar experiences abound in other fields, notably Harvard University's multidisciplinary research three decades ago into minimizing or preventing emotional impacts in women who have breast cancer.
Beaubois' own successes with collaborative approaches in architecture underscored his astonishment at the negative response his course name received from the Montana State administrator.
As he thought about it he began to realize that "teaching collaboration" and its rewards are virtually non-existent in schools, where feeding facts and testing for fact-assimilation has been the dominant classroom model for decades, if not forever.
And he wants to do something about that vacuum, to broaden and balance the educational process from early grades through high school and into community colleges and universities.
"The core of any good product is collaboration," Beaubois said, whether the product is a house, a business complex, environmental sustainability or NASA's high-tech space and earth-science work.
"I have the feeling a lot of solutions are all around us," regardless of the seeming complexity of longstanding problems or challenges, societal or technical, about which "there is a lot of jawboning" but slow progress.
"I don't think you can make people collaborate," Beaubois said, based on personal experience. But he believes the misunderstanding and misuse of the term "has taught a fear of collaborating" that infects communities, governments, businesses ... and schools.
"We're in 37th place in the world in education," largely because of a weakness in collaborative skills — a kind of illiteracy in itself.
In working with business leaders on projects, Beaubois noted a sharp irony in what business leaders are seeking in employees versus what schools are teaching students. It's simple to describe: "100 percent of all businesses are looking for graduates who can work with others," he said. Collaborate, in short.
Beaubois was in full-time architectural practice for 40 years, 30 of them in Palo Alto, starting "before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley." He worked with the Edward Durell Stone firm and consulted with the Town of Woodside, among a wide range of clients.
He's currently seeking ways to build an awareness of the strength and value of collaboration in improving how things are designed and, well, done.
"I'm back in the Bay Area because I think this is the place to do that," he said. He cites its traditions of innovation and invention and investment in new ideas and approaches — even though collaboration is as old as societies themselves. Ask any mammoth hunter.
Beaubois doesn't pretend to have all the answers about how best to develop a collaboration-based culture to overlay the competition-based, test-based educational systems, or the often-divisive community and local-government systems of planning and approving developments and transportation systems.
A take-home lesson from his teaching experience in Montana was that few young persons read much these days, at least not the thought-provoking books such as Robert Heinlein's description of a fully automated house or Malcolm Gladwell's futuristic "David and Goliath." Another take-home was that in academia many teachers and professors exist in their own silos and find it difficult to open up and venture out. And there are a lot more silos out in the professional and community worlds — not the kind where livestock feed is stored, either.
So a huge challenge will be how to penetrate the academic world, gently raising awareness that there may be an important gap in the education being offered to the next generation to help them thrive, or survive, in a world economy and society.
Anyone want to sit down in a multidisciplinary brainstorm session to explore collaboratively just how to do that? I'll happily forward any emails to Beaubois, and even host a session or two.
Finally, something he forgot to say in our last conversation: Collaboration is just a lot of fun.
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Sunday will have a mostly clear and a mostly cool start with lows in the low to mid 20s. We will see increasing high clouds through the late morning and afternoon and breezes from the NE 10-15 mph. That combination means highs will likely only reach the upper 30s, but it will be another dry day.
There's a big snow maker just to our southwest and the latest model information keeps the heavy snow to our south. If you're traveling late Sunday and/or early Monday down through Indianapolis or into Ohio, you'll run into snow trouble. For us, it looks like our extreme southern counties will get a fresh coating of snow by early Monday and the rest of us will likely only see a few scattered light snow showers and flurries. Each computer model run is coming up with a slightly different scenario, but the most recent information has most of the snow missing us to the south. That's a good thing!
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The Vampire Squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis has the most bad-ass name and has the coolest, creepiest appearance of all the cephalopods — who doesn't see it and think Halloween? But it's a little known fact that it actually drifts in deep and nearly anoxic layers of the ocean, surviving by maintaining a very low metabolism, and from what I've heard has a soft, flaccid, jelly-like texture (which actually fits with a vampire: have you ever noticed how people in the movies can easily punch crude wooden stakes right into their hearts?)
But now, further disillusionment from an analysis of their diet. It turns out that the vampire squid literally eats shit to live.
Vampyroteuthis infernalis – literally the "vampire squid from hell" – has a pair of thin, retractable filaments. It uses them like a fishing line, letting them drift and collect bits of waste. Wiping the filaments across its arms, the squid combines the waste with mucus secreted from its suckers to form balls of food, which it gobbles up.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Coca Cola will enter Formula One with its burn energy drink brand after announcing a deal with Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus team on Thursday.
Lotus said in a statement that the deal was a multi-year agreement with more details to be revealed next year when the partnership begins.
"The creativity of teams and the passion for speed and energy that fuel the sport of Formula One make a partnership with this iconic sporting property a compelling proposition for the burn brand," said Emmanuel Seuge, Coca Cola's group director of worldwide Sports and entertainment marketing.
Seuge said the deal would mix art and music "in a way that will break the conventions of traditional Formula One sponsorship marketing".
Formula One has just returned to the United States for the first time in five years at a new circuit in Austin and the sport is eager to build up its presence in the Americas.
There are due to be two races in the United States in 2014, with a grand prix in New Jersey, and Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone spoke at the weekend of the possibility of three by 2015.
Red Bull Racing, the team owned by the Austrian energy drink manufacturer, have won the Formula One constructors' championship for the past three years.
Their German driver Sebastian Vettel is chasing his third title in a row in Brazil this weekend.
Finland's Raikkonen, who won the 2007 world championship with Ferrari, triumphed in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for Lotus this month and is one of Formula One's most popular drivers, with the nickname 'Iceman'.
Coca Cola have been linked with various teams in the past, as well as with the sport as a whole.
"We are excited to partner with burn to build a new and innovative model for sponsorships that will combine experiences, content creation and social media," said Lotus team principal Eric Boullier.
The Frenchman highlighted social media as an area in which the team had been "at the cutting edge in Formula One for the past 18 months, recording the highest growth rate amongst fans this year".
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i have been using the gnome desktop for my interface into rh 7.2 but it seems to do weird stuff, like right now i have no task bar at the bottom of my screen to allow moving from one app to another. when i try to cut and paste between apps i get different results different times for example i can not copy code from emacs and paste it into netscape so i open my .cpp files in gedit and can copy and paste from there just fine however going from netscape to emacs works every time.
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Although born in relative prosperity in New Jersey, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison lived most of her life as a pioneer in the Ohio and Indiana frontier territories, following her husband, William Henry Harrison, during his long military and political career. William was frequently away for long stretches of time, and she cared for their business ventures and their ten children alone. Relations with the local Native Americans were tense, and the threat of attack was ever-present. Even with these dangers, she was an able hostess who cooked and served meals for soldiers, dignitaries and American Indian leaders alike. Councils with local Native Americans were frequently held in her home, and their encampments set up on her front lawn.
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Before she could arrive in Washington to join her husband at the White House, President Harrison died on April 4, 1841. It was just one month after he became gravely ill after his one-hour and forty-minute inaugural address delivered in the blustery March wind.
Children and education were central to Anna Harrison's life. On the frontier, she educated her children herself. She and her husband started the Jefferson Academy (named for Thomas Jefferson) in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1801, for students eight to 17 years of age. The school charged $15 a year in tuition, but Native Americans were allowed to attend free of charge. Upon moving to North Bend, Ohio, the Harrisons started a school there as well. The reverse of the Anna Harrison First Spouse $10 Gold Coin depicts Mrs. Harrison sharing her passion for teaching with her students.