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Mira Costa High Edges out San Dieguito Academy at Premier High School Surfing Series
Team Mira Costa gets psyched! Photo: Jimmy Wilson
San Clemente, California - (June 7th, 2009) - The top high school surfers in the country gathered this weekend in San Clemente to compete in the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship, bringing with them ideal weather and near-perfect waves. With a powerful swell pouring through Upper Trestles at San Onofre Beach all weekend long, the teams were given the chance to test their mettle and show their skills in the premiere high school surfing competition. The eight teams - all of whom had earned their National Championship spots by dominating local rivals in Regional Championships - came from Florida, New Jersey and all up and down the Southern California coast. The competition was fierce from the get-go, but in the end it came down to a grudge match between Mira Costa High and San Dieguito Academy that could only be settled in overtime. When all was said and done, Mira Costa High School took the win and with it the bragging rights as 2009 Red Bull Riders Cup National Champions.
Congrats to Red Bull Riders Cup National Champions Mira Costa High School! Photo: Jimmy Wilson
"This was simply an amazing Championship, and exactly what the Red bull Riders Cup is all about," said Brad Gerlach, National Surf League Founder. "In the Finals we had two well-matched teams and a format that really allows the kids to show off and highlight their skills. It had it all - drama, suspense, disappointment, exhilaration and a nail-biting finale. This is why we do it."
The two days of competition saw some amazing surfing, but it was the Finals and their "down to the wire" finish that really had everyone talking. In the first period of the Finals Mira Costa won the coin toss and decided to surf first, taking to the water in clean conditions with 4-6 foot waves. Mira Costa got off to a solid start, led by a period high score of 7.5 by Dayton Silva. But San Dieguito responded in kind, with an overall strong team showing, taking the lead and leaving Mira Costa trailing at the end of the first period, 24.5 to 25 points.
In the second period, Mira Costa dominated with great rides that put up high scores across the board. Due to some missed opportunities, San Dieguito was unable to hold their lead, and ended up trailing by 2 points. As the third period began, Mira Costa made their intentions known from the get go, with Dane Zaun posting an amazing 8.5 ride. Unfortunately, the rest of the team was unable to score higher than a 6.5, leaving the door just slightly open for San Dieguito to make a comeback. The pressure was on, as San Dieguito was faced with the daunting task of needing 27 points to win - an average of 6.5 -7.0 rides for each surfer. With only 4 minutes left, it looked like it was over as San Dieguito hadn't scored nearly enough points and needed a miracle to win. But the miracle came – in the form of a four wave set - and with every rider scoring strong points, the team was able to earn a tie, taking them to overtime.
Overtime saw Mira Costa supply excellent performances from all surfers, but it was an 8.5 score from Dane Zaun that really delivered, pushing their total to 24 points - 98 overall.
San Dieguito was once again faced with a hard task, needing 25 points. They got off to a rough start, with multiple surfers going down in early waves. With little time remaining, the set they needed once again came rolling in and the crowd waited anxiously to see if they could pull off another miracle. Unfortunately, this time it was not to be, as the miracle fell short, with the final score: Mira Costa -98, San Dieguito – 96.
For more info go to redbullsurfing.com/riderscup.
"This was definitely the best surfing event I've ever participated in," said Mira Costa High MVP Dane Zaun. "The waves were near perfect, and we worked really hard for this win, surfing two games today plus the overtime. This was a team effort, and I'm so proud we were all able to hold it together to snatch victory"
"This was our year," says Mira Costa coach Joe Lederer. "I just had a gut feeling going into it. These are an amazing group of kids who really came together and gave an amazing performance out there. I may have coached the games, but they are definitely the ones that deserve all the credit."
Red Bull Riders Cup is the nations' premier high school surfing competition, and in 2009 brought together 34 high schools from eight regions to compete in a single elimination "March-Madness" style tournament. The Series utilizes the National Surf League's "The Game" format, which was modeled after team sports such as basketball, football, and baseball. The Game format serves to bridge the gap between individual sports like surfing and more fan-friendly team sports. This revolutionary format includes: two teams competing against each other, only one team in the water at a time, three periods, timeouts, coaches, referees and substitutes.
High schools participating in the National Championship include:
Aptos High School, winner of the Santa Cruz Regional Championship
Malibu High School, winner of the Golden State Regional Championship
Satellite High School, winner of the Central Florida Regional Championship
Mira Costa High School, winner of the South Bay Regional Championship
New Smyrna High School, winner of the North Florida Regional Championship
Ocean City High School, winner of the New Jersey Regional Championship
Newport Harbor High School, winner of the Orange County Regional Championship
San Dieguito Academy, winner of the San Diego Regional Championship
National Championship Results Breakdown
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Qtr-Final # 1: Mira Costa High (South Bay) def. Aptos High School (SC)
Qtr-Final # 2: Newport Harbor High (OC) def. Satellite High (CF)
Qtr-Final # 3: Malibu High School (Ventura) def. Ocean City High School (NJ)
Qtr-Final # 4: San Dieguito Academy (SD) def. New Smyrna High School (NF)
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Semi-Final #1: Mira Costa High (South Bay) def. Newport Harbor High (OC)
Semi-Final #2: San Deguito Academy(SD) def. Malibu High School (Ventura)
Finals: Mira Costa High def. San Dieguito Academy in OT
Most Valuable Player - Dane Zaun
Most Radical Maneuver - Dane Zaun (MC), Full bottom turn to air-reverse
2009 Red Bull Riders Cup Overall Competition Schedule:
Mar 16-19 Santa Cruz Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz
Mar 24-26 Golden State Seaside Park (Surfers Point) Ventura
Mar 31-Apr 2 Central FL Pelican Beach Park
Apr 15-16 South Bay El Porto 45th St. Manhattan Beach
Apr 21-23 North FL New Smyrna/Ponce Inlet
May 4-9 New Jersey 3rd-9th street, Ocean City
May 19-21 Orange County Huntington Beach Pier
May 26-28 San Diego Seaside Reef
June 6-7 Championship Upper Trestles
The National Surf League and Red Bull have partnered to help bring the sport of surfing to a new and exciting level. "The NSL and Red Bull are both companies that are passionate about innovation and bringing out the best performance in surfing. I am very excited to see how we will grow and create a more entertaining and easier way to watch the sport," said NSL founder Brad Gerlach.
The NSL is a revolutionary competitive surfing organization established in 2001 by legendary pro surfer, Brad Gerlach. The NSL is dedicated to the pursuit of surfing excellence, building awareness for the sport of surfing while creating a fun competitive landscape for all types of surfers.
The Game Explained
Modeled after team sports such as Basketball, Football, and Baseball - The Game turns an individual sport like surfing into fan-friendly team sport
• Two teams against each other
• One team in the water at a time
• 3 Periods, Timeouts, Coaches, Referees
• Substitutes
• Rivalries
• Real Surfing
• Game time: under two hours
• A scoreboard, continuous commentary, and scoring updates so the crowd and television audience can easily follow the results
To follow Red Bull Riders Cup go to redbullsurfing.com/riderscup.
You like this? Download Chasing The Dream a candid portrayal of eight Huntington Beach High School kids trying to obtain the impossible — a career in professional surfing.


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If we don't stop overdoing things, it might be all over
Due to the fact that we have drifted into the circumstances that our economy is in brings to mind a letter to the editor I wrote about six years ago concerning the trends and the times and how much we lack in living our lives in moderation and how extremely over we are in our modern standard of living through lack of restraint in controlling our harmful and wasteful habits.
This drifting of the economy from plenty of everything to a stalemate of economic problems where the government is having to take over. In this case, is that what we want? It could take us into many areas of oppression and losing our freedom. Accepting a lower standard of living and relying on our own resourcefulness might be the answer.
We overuse and depend on automobiles, many people over eat and drink and become overweight. Overpopulation runs rampant due to uncontrolled sex habits. Overextension of government and its spending have us trapped in the biggest deficit ever! Overgrowth of crime is beyond comprehension and tolerance. Over use of drugs and over production of firearms are compatible with crime.
Couldn't some of these harmful "overages" be corrected in our educational institutions by teaching as a subject "Moderation and more Responsible Attitudes Toward Life"?
It appears that much is taken for granted in everyday living to the point of creating false attitudes. We even overuse our time to slow up and smell the roses?
If our indulgences are under the guise of progress what we need is some retrogression perhaps?
We need much praying for the tools that bring peace for better days ahead.
Esther Schroer

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Debbie and I had the opportunity of a lifetime last week when we were honored to represent Colorado in Tampa, Fla., at the Republican National Convention. I include Debbie in this representation because she was my guest and none of this would have happened if I had not had her support. Colorado was represented by 36 delegates and 36 alternates. Each of us were allowed to bring one guest. The Colorado delegation stayed in Clearwater, Fla., and were bused across the bay to the Tampa convention center every day.
We had excellent speakers every morning during breakfast at our hotel. Some of those speakers were former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, Ari Fleischer (White House press secretary for George W. Bush), and several U.S. Olympians who were in the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
Noted speakers during the main sessions of the convention in addition to those mentioned above were Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Ann Romney, Ohio congressman and Speaker of the House John Boehner, Clint Eastwood, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Florida Rep. Connie Mack, former President George Bush, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, Kentucky senator and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, and of course the Republican vice-presidental nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan, and presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.
There were also many other speakers and the overall theme was that America needs a change in leadership and Mitt Romney is the leader that we need. I listened to all of the speakers and was never bored. Each day of the convention had a different theme: We Can Do Better,We Built It,We Can Change It, and We Believe In America. Each session began and ended with a prayer.
It was interesting to learn of the humble beginnings of Mitt and Ann Romney and how his entire life has been in service to people in need, from helping a 14 year old with terminal cancer write a will to saving the Salt Lake Winter Olympics to, as Governor of Massachusetts, balancing a budget after years of deficit spending and leaving the state with a surplus. He never accepted a salary for his public service. Mitt Romney has also been a very successful businessman and he and Ann did it without any help from his likewise successful father. Whether elected president or not, he has lived a remarkable life.
I would like to conclude with a few quotes from the Republican Platform 2012 that we delegates adopted in Tampa. The best jobs program is economic growth. We do not offer yet another made-in-Washington package of subsidies and spending to create temporary or artificial jobs.
And We are the party of the Constitution, the solemn compact which confirms our God-given individual rights and assures that all Americans stand equal before the law.
Read more at www.gopconvention2012.com.
J. Paul Brown represents House District 59 in Colorados General Assembly. The district encompasses San Juan, Archuleta and La Plata counties and parts of Montezuma County. Contact Rep. Brown at (303) 866-2914 or by email at email@example.com.


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Only down 6, as bad as we played, we have to get the ball to our 2 stars, i'm sorry.LIN, look for your 2 best options, please, get these guys in rhythm.
Playing like **** and actually clawed our way back into the game believe it or not ! A bit of momentum going into 1/2 time
Lin and STAT had a fair bit to do with the comeback IMO !
Well Done
STAT is BEASTin
Melo is aggressive just cant hit
Lin is playing like selfish Westbrook instead of Nash-lite
Shumpert needs to play more
Jorts too
Novak thinks he's the white Dirk, oh you aint know Dirk was black
Luckily I can read lips and can tell you what Melo and Marion are talking about.
Marion: You tight?
Melo: wtf you talking about?
Marion: Playing for that bum Dantoni, and his bum a** staff
Melo: Shut you mouth you have no idea what you talking about
Marion: I do, I played for him. Closest thing your getting to a ring is the one Tyson just got.
Melo: (While inbounding the ball) Really? (Turnover).
Amare asking to guard Dirk...Like that...
Yes Amare seems to have legs tonight....
As for LIN I like how he is playing....learning......I like him driving ...he cannot play tentative,,,,,,,
down by 6 when we look like crap...
You guys are sleeping on STAT, shutting dirk out nd dunking that ****, we have to ride STAT right now thats the beauty of having 2 stars Melo is struggling and STAT is beasting


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Sad, but true twilightmom. For some reason, the 90s didn't matter to me. Weird, huh?
I usually like Cameron Crowe movies, except I fell asleep watching Almost Famous. *shrugs* I'll add it to my renting list. Hopefully, I'll be getting out of the house soon if the weather lets up.
ETA: I just checked Imdb and I was right, Eric Stolz is in the movie. It came out in '92.


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akasingh - By the way, its called RAPTORS Republic, not "who-i-think-is-performing-well-from-the-last-game- i-watched-republic.". Be a man you 12 year old. And stop wearing your Kobe #8 jersey. Drink scotch for god sakes.
akasingh - By the way, its called RAPTORS Republic, not "who-i-think-is-performing-well-from-the-last-game- i-watched-republic.". Be a man you 12 year old. And stop wearing your Kobe #8 jersey. Drink scotch for god sakes.
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and fyi I haven't watched the last 2 games. just read the quick reaction.
See my last post numb nuts. Also, quit posting on any basketball site if you think Bargs is our worst player. He's probably like our third to worst player, maybe forth. Everyone in the world but akashsingh disregard everything in parenteses (Sarcasm fuckhead)
It's pretty clear BC is looking for a trade partner for Bargs. He's not going to say ANYTHING bad about Bargs when he's trying to sell him to another GM at the same time.
Hollinger was just saying that amnesty being more likely than a trade for AB.
Very good read .. its worth reading the whole article for sure.
I agree with pretty much everything he says. AB has been historically bad - well below his career averages (let alone some of his career bests from last year).
The one thing I would take some exception with is the efficiency comments re AJ and ED. While Im very much in favour of playing ED way more than he has been .. you have to realize with both of ED and Amir on the court together, you REALLY need to get a lot of scoring out of your backcourt. If those guys were asked to do more offensively, you would see their efficiency stats decline quite a bit (Sort of like Harden this year .. although of course on a much lessor level).
Having said that, AB has been god awful, and if he cant get back to what he used to be - then we are still much better with anyone (including AJ, ED) than with AB.
As I said before, Andrea Bargnani is a decent, not great, not dreadful, basketball player. He is going through an especially poor patch of form. It happens. This does not make him 'scum', any more than a 40 point game against the Bobcats makes him a franchise player. I am a fan of the Toronto Raptors. As more eloquent people than myself have said, that involves cheering everyone who pulls on a Raptors jersey. If you single one guy out for (unjustified) abuse then the only people that helps is the opposition. If you then consider that person 'scum' then you need to have a long, hard look at your priorities.
It's basically do you want this team to be known as a bad scoring and defense team that's losing or a team that doesn't give you anything easy fight till the end. Is a top notch scorer away from a playoff team?
Nail, meet hammer
I think that I remember Arsenalist pushing for it years ago, but why isn't using Bargnani as "the sixth man (or first forward off the bench)" investigated?
His lack of defence would be less exposed against other benches and "maybe" he could score more efficiently against other benches?
I guess we would be paying a lot of money for a bench guy, but it seems it would be a better fit than the current situatiuon... (we can't get value if we trade him, and we are not winning with him as a starter)...
Don't get me wrong, he's not the entire problem. But I think that this is a possible solution that should be looked at.
If nothing seems to bother him, then why would "coming off the bench" bother him?
I love Hollinger because his perspective is really useful for role players, or trying to understand value outside of Superstars (because its the intangibles that makes these guys so good...no stats for that!)
His comparing Bargs to Charlie V is bang on. Now I know why I've hated Bargs for so long. Charlie V was/is an overpaid piece of garbage who is just more outwardly mean and cocky than Bargnani.
But not only are their playing styles similar, there detachment from the game and lack of passion for winning above all else (especially their own offense) is truly what hits home.
At the point that even Hollinger is taking time out of his day from talking about Lebron and Kobe to write about how bad Bargs is...dude needs to go
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CARSON, Calif. -- Mike Magee sent a message to many across the American soccer landscape on Sunday afternoon -- it just might be time to stop labeling him as "underrated."
Magee scored the first hat trick of his career as the LA Galaxy defeated the Chicago Fire 4-0 to open their MLS season below. Magee did not wish to comment on the concept of being labeled underrated after the match, but his strike partner Robbie Keane, who is rarely at a loss for words, provided his own thoughts.
"Who calls him underrated? You are all in the media so it's obviously you [guys] because I've never heard any of the players in MLS say it," said Keane.
I provided the following sidebar on Magee's performance below
Three goals for Magee lead to three points for the Galaxy against Chicago


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DON'T be late for a very important date.
Unique Dance Studio will bring Alice in Wonderland to life on the stage tonight at Shalom College performing arts precinct in their end-of-year concert.
Based on the newer version of the movie, the concert will have all the main characters, including Alice, the Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, Red Queen, White Queen, Mouse, Caterpillar, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
Coordinator Delise Lutz said it was a fantastic, exciting show for the family to enjoy.
"All the colourful costumes have the quirky feel from the movie version and the colour and great choreography brings out the best in the dancers," she said.
The costumes had all been made locally to support the Bundaberg economy, she said.
Ms Lutz said Unique Dance Studio principal Tammy Gill had been working with the dancers since the Easter holidays to prepare for the show.
Junior dancers will play flying baby rabbits; dolls and boys are the Red Queens guards.
All genres of dance are incorporated in the show with tap, jazz, ballet, Irish and contemporary being performed throughout the show.
A mixture of different age groups will perform together to present a Tea Party and various other scenes from the movie.
The concert starts at 7pm and tickets are available at the door.
Adults tickets cost $22, and $17 for students/pensioners.


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Hello everyone,
In these situations, whether bad_alloc will be thrown?
1. Memory is reserved, even if not used. No "enough" memory to new operator (which reflects not enough memory for VirtualAlloc, even if not used (committed), but reserved);
2. The heap's internal data structures could be corrupted such that it cannot find the next free block (no pointer to the next free block), which would make it think it is out of memory.
3. The heap's internal data structures could be corrupted so that it points to random memory location, which could cause a crash, or try to give you memory that was still in use.
My option, (1) and (2) will throw bad_alloc, for (3) structured exception (access violation) will be thrown?
thanks in advance,


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Teachers and school administrators who receive proper training would be authorized to carry firearms on school campuses and at school events under a bill being drafted by an Oklahoma lawmaker.
Republican Rep. Mark McCullough of Sapulpa said his bill would allow school officials to carry weapons if they've received training through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, or CLEET.
McCullough said schools have become "soft targets" and that it's critical that lawmakers start taking steps to ensure the safety of children at schools.
He said a properly trained, armed school official could help prevent the kind of "senseless evil" that happened in Newtown, Conn., when a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six adults before killing himself at an elementary school.
"We cannot continue to be shackled by politically correct, reflexive, anti-gun sentiment in the face of the obvious – our schools are soft targets," said McCullough, R-Sapulpa. "It is incredibly irresponsible to leave our schools undefended – to allow mad men to kill dozens of innocents when we have a very simple solution available to us to prevent it. I've been considering this proposal for a long time. In light of the savagery on display in Connecticut, I believe it's an idea whose time has come.
"I trust my children to my local teachers and principal every day. I want to give these trusted, responsible educators the ability to defend themselves and our children in the same way any normal parent would, in the face of the unthinkable."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry also said he supports allowing teachers and administrators to carry concealed handguns in response to the Connecticut school massacre that left 20 children dead.
Local school districts should decide their own policies, Perry said. But if someone has obtained a concealed-handgun license, he said, "you should be able to carry your handgun anywhere in this state." He clarified that private property owners should be allowed to impose their own restrictions.
Perry was asked about calls for stricter gun control laws on Dec. 17 at a tea party forum in North Richland Hills, a Fort Worth suburb. Perry said that he believed lawmakers should consider mental health issues as well as ways to make schools safer.
"It appears that this was a young man who was very disturbed," Perry said.
Some school districts across the state already allow school personnel to carry guns. When Perry talked about how he had read about one district allowing teachers, administrators and others to carry weapons, he was interrupted by loud applause from the crowd.
Perry has already directed Texas school districts to review their emergency operation plans in the wake of the massacre. His voice broke and he paused several times as he first acknowledged Friday's shootings, calling them a tragedy that "is not right."
"One of the things that I hope we don't see from our federal government is this knee-jerk reaction from Washington, D.C., when there is an event that occurs, that they come in and they think they know the answer," he said.


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This morning I received word via Facebook that a pastor friend of mine was put on a 12-hour "time out" by Facebook because he equated legalized abortion with Hitler's murderous rampage, in Nazi Germany.
Everything Hitler did to the Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Christians, and the physically and mentally handicapped was legal. Hitler's murderous reign of terror was legal. So the argument that legality and morality are not necessarily consistent is legitimate. What Hitler did to millions of people was wrong. The fact that what he did was legal, according to German law at the time, is utterly irrelevant.
Hitler's murder of millions of people was wrong, even though it was legal. America's murder of 55+ million people (unborn children) is wrong, even though it is presently legal.
Therefore, comparing America's legal murder of unborn children to Hitler's legal murder of millions of people is a legitimate argument.
For Facebook to ban my friend for making the above argument is comparative to the Nazi controlled media of Hitler's day that silenced any and all opposition to Hitler's wicked policies.
What I proffer here is not hyperbolic rhetoric. This is the world in which we live. Facebook's censorship of speech that the company deems inconsistent with popular, quasi-tolerant, politically expedient, and socially acceptable points of view is merely symptomatic of a much deeper problem. And the problem isn't sociological or philosophical. The problem is a moral one. The problem is as old as mankind, itself.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right" (Isaiah 5:20-23)!
Like the Nazi-led systematic slaughter of people based on skin color, nation of origin, and the perception that some tainted the purity of an sinfully-conceived and impossible to attain, superior Aryan race was wrong; the systematic slaughter of millions of unborn children is wrong. It is immoral. It is wicked. It is evil. It is sinful. It is an attack against the very nature of God's holy character.
And everyone knows it.
In order for the pro-abortion person to justify such wickedness in his heart and mind, he must, in a desperate attempt to ameliorate the wickedness in his heart--a wickedness he knows is there, call evil good and good evil. He must call the murder of unborn children good, even if he says he's personally against the practice, but believes others should have the right to choose. He must live in a self-deluded, head-buried-in-the-sand world that so many Germans, including German Christians, lived in while the Nazis were in power.
Many Germans had to call evil good and good evil as they watched train after train roll by their homes, businesses, and churches--trains filled with crying and screaming Jewish lambs being led to the slaughter. 70 years ago, it was called "purification." Today it's called "choice."


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This is part of the web site of Shakespeare's sonnets
|Sonnets 1 - 50
|Sonnets 51 - 100
|Sonnets 101 - 154
|A Lover's Complaint.
|Sonnet no. 1
|First line index
|Title page and Thorpe's Dedication
|Some Introductory Notes to the Sonnets
|Sonnets as plain text 1-154
|Text facsimiles
|Other related texts of the period
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|Thomas Wyatt Poems
|Other Authors
|General notes for background details, general policies etc.
|Map of the site
|Valentine Poems
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|Views of London as it was in 1616.
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1. To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
2. For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
3. Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
4. Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
5. Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned,
6. In process of the seasons have I seen,
7. Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned,
8. Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
9. Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
10. Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;
11. So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
12. Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
13. For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
14. Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.
| This
sonnet is thought by many to be one of
the so called 'dating' sonnets. If we could determine the date when
and poet first met, so the argument runs, we could then decide when
sonnet was written. This may be so, but it has been pointed out that
three year period mentioned in lines 3-7 is probably only notional, a
time span for love to build and fructify. Ronsard, Desportes, Daniel
others celebrated a three year span of loving allegiance (JK. p.308).
is also suggested as the originator of the three year statutory period
grace, when he sings of his passion for Inachia.
hic tertius December ex quo destiti
Inachia furere, silvis honorem decutit.
'This is the third December, since I at last ceased to seethe in love for Inacchia, which now shakes down from the trees all their glory.'
It is known that Daniel changed the original three year time span in his 'Delia' sonnets to five in the revised edition of 1594. (GBE.p.212). It seems clear that the three year time span given in this poem is at best unreliable.
| However I
propose another, rather more brutal
form of dating, derived from the numbers themselves. The successive use
of threes suggests either that we add them together, or multiply them,
a direct reference to either 1599, or 1604, perhaps both. The 1599 date
is obtained by multiplying the threes of lines 3 and 4 and the two
of line 7 (ignoring line 5), or by adding the three of lines 3, 4 and
This gives the two nines of the date 1599, the fifteen having to be
by imagination or inference. In any case it ties in with the 1599 date
I believe to have been already signalled by sonnet 99, with its fifteen
The 1604 date is arrived at by adding the two threes of lines 3 and 4, and also of lines 7 and 8. In fact only one 6 is required, the other being a sort of bonus, or emphasis. The six is inserted into the sonnet number, 104, giving 1604. Both dates, 1599 and 1604, are probably relevant to the composition of the sonnets, whether as starting or finishing points, or perhaps marking significant dates in the relationship. See for example KDJ, Introduction, pp.21-4, for a discussion of the later date in relation to Sonnet 107. For the earlier date see my commentary on Sonnet 99.
Haue from the forreſts ſhooke three ſummers pride,
Three beautious ſprings to yellow Autumne turn'd,
In proceſſe of the ſeaſons haue I ſeene,
Three Aprill perfumes in three hot Iunes burn'd,
Since firſt I ſaw you freſh which yet are greene.
Ah yet doth beauty like a Dyall hand,
Steale from his figure,and no pace perceiu'd,
So your ſweete hew,which me thinkes ſtill doth ſtand
Hath motion,and mine eye may be deceaued.
For feare of which,heare this thou age vnbred,
Ere you were borne was beauties ſummer dead.
Interesting though all this discussion of dates is, it must be admitted that it is unverifiable, and based entirely on informed guesswork. It is also a matter of no great import, save that it does gives us a general idea of when the sonnets were most probably written, and it shifts the focus away, for example, from the very early dates at one time attributed to them, during the major part of the 19th and 20th centuries, when the concern was chiefly to pass the works off as apprentice pieces, lest the great bard should be in some way morally stigmatised by his confessions of love. Nowadays, and perhaps for only a brief period in human history, we are less disturbed by such matters and can discuss them with relative freedom. We can therefore look at all the proposed frameworks of composition with equanimity, and it does seem that, in recent years, a date centred around the turn of the century, i.e. 1600, has become more favoured as the probable date of composition.
One other point in connection with the number of this sonnet, which deserves a brief mention, is that 104 in weeks corresponds to exactly two years. The number itself may therefore be a wry comment on the three years sprinkled so liberally throughout, or it may suggest that we should multiply them by two to give us the six of 1604, or it may serve as emphasis of the two nines of 1599, (or it may be doing none of these things and be merely an irrelevant number).
1. To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
| 1.
Perhaps this line responds to the suggestions
in the previous sonnets that the mirror is beginning to show lines and
in the beloved's face. Or perhaps it is intended as a reassuring
by the poet, that for him nothing will change, despite the transience
the world all around him. It may have sprung from private
and from comments made by the young man. In substance it foreshadows
famous declaration of faith of Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments;
2. For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
| 2. when
first your eye I eyed = when
I first set eyes on you, when I first looked into your face. The
of sound (ay ay ayed) is considered by some commentators to be puerile.
(See however the comment of HV, p.442). In any case it is the sort of
device which rather amused and challenged Elizabethan writers. Compare
in Drayton's Sonnet Sequence 'Idea':, published first in 1599.
Nothing but 'No'! and 'I'! and 'I'! and 'No'!.
The complete sonnet is given below at the bottom of the page.
3. Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
| 3. seems
= appears, is. The use of seems
seems innocent enough, until one remembers the use of the glass
in the previous sonnet, and the suspicions that Shakespeare attaches to
'seeming' in contrast to 'being'. Perhaps the beauty which seems so
is not really so, but is already corrupted by lines and wrinkles, and
by moral decay. The sudden introduction of three winters cold
the end of the line is like an icy shock which brings one back to
and challenges the already shaky assurance of such seems your
cold - this is usually taken to be an adjective, viz. 'three cold winters', but it could also be read as a noun, the meaning being 'the successive cold of three winters'.
4. Have from the forests shook three summers'
| 4.summer's
pride = the glorious growth
of summer. pride is often associated in the
sonnets with a rich appearance.
(See 25, 52, 80, 99). These two lines echo those from Horace
hic tertius December (ex quo destiti
Inachia furere), silvis honorem decutit.
See the introduction above.
|5. Three beauteous springs
to yellow autumn turned,
| 5. Autumn
is characterised by the colour of
yellow. Compare:
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, 73
Nowadays we tend to think of the colours more as tan and russet, especially the autumn leaves. Shakespeare may have been thinking more of the gold of the cornfields.
|6. In process of the
seasons have I seen,
| 6. This
line can be read either as a continuation
of the previous one, or as introductory to that which follows.
In process of = in the progress of (OED 1.a.) The word is close to the modern usage of 'procession'.
|7. Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned,
|7. See the comments on three in the introductory notes. The perfumes of the spring are burned dry by the heat of the summer.
8. Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
| 8. Since
first I saw you fresh - perhaps
similar in meaning to since first your eye I eyed,
although here
the emphasis is on the youth's freshness and vigour, which still
which yet are = who still remains, who is still;
green - at times this can have a slightly pejorative meaning, or carries a hint of foolish innocence. Compare Cleopatra commenting on her youthful days:
.................My salad days
When I was green in judgement, cold in blood,
To say as I said then. AC.I.5.73-5.
Here however the emphasis seems to be on freshness and vigour, as in the lush growth of springtime.
|9. Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
|9. a dial hand = the hand on a clock dial. Many clocks of the Elizabethan age only had an hour hand, which would appear to move even more imperceptibly than the minute hand.
|10. Steal from his figure,
and no pace perceived;
| 10. Steal
from his figure = move stealthily
away from the number which it appears to be pointing to.
his = its.
no pace perceived = no movement is noticeable or perceptible.
9-10 The reference may have been to a sundial. the meanings given here are for a clock face.
11. So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
11. hue
= colour, facial appearance,
as in Sonn. 20
methinks =
which I think, which I am inclined to think;
|12. Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
| 12. Hath
motion = is actually moving;
mine eye = my eye, my perceptions.
|13. For fear of which, hear
this thou age unbred:
| 13. For
fear of which - i.e. fearing
this, (that you are in fact ageing rapidly but imperceptibly).
thou age unbred - the age yet unborn. Perhaps with a hint of 'you uncouth ages yet to be!', since unbred could imply lack of breeding, coming from poor stock.
|14. Ere you were born was
beauty's summer dead.
| 14. Ere
you were born = before you, the
forthcoming age, were yet born.
beauty's summer = beauty in its prime, in its full glory, i.e., the beloved youth, (was already dead). I.e. you will never have any chance of seeing what true beauty is like.
|Previous Sonnet
|Next Sonnet
|Nothing but 'No'! and 'I'! and 'I'!
and 'No'!.
'How falls it out so strangely?', you reply.
I tell ye Fair! I'll not be answered so! [*Ay.]
With this affirming 'No'!, denying 'I'!
I say 'I love'! You slightly answer 'I'!
I say 'You love'! You pule me out a 'No'!.
I say 'I die'! You echo me with 'I'!
'Save me'! I cry; you sigh me out a 'No'!.
Must Woe and I have naught but 'No' ! and 'I'! ?
No 'I'! am I if I no more can have.
Answer no more. With silence make reply,
And let me take myself what I do crave.
Let 'No'! and 'I'! with I and you be so,
Then answer 'No'! and 'I'! and 'I'! and 'No'!
Michael Drayton's 'Idea. In Sixty Three Sonnets' was published first in 1594, and in various curtailed or augmented editions until the final edition of 1619. This sonnet appeared in the 1599 edition. It is reprinted here from Sidney Lee, Elizabethan Sonnets, An English Garner, Westminster, 1904, Vol II, p.183.
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"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way." (Jack Handey)
"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis." (Jack Handey)
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." (Jack Handey)
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Right call, not a victory
A Central Berkshire District Court judge made the proper call on a First Amendment basis Monday in lifting the harassment prevention order Meredith Nilan had filed against local blogger Dan Valenti. But while it was a victory for Mr. Valenti it was not a victory for all journalists.
Free speech and freedom of the press are concepts at the foundation of our way of life and judges must be careful not to set precedents that threaten them. District Court Judge Bethzaida Sanabria-Vega undermined those principles June 27 when she ordered Mr. Valenti to remove all references to Meredith Nilan, who struck and severely injured a Pittsfield man with her car last December, from his blog, and Central Berkshire District Court Judge Mark Mason's ruling restored order.
Ms. Nilan is the daughter of Clifford Nilan, the head of the Berkshire Superior Court's Probation Department, and the initial handling of her case led to considerable Internet speculation about possible favoritism because of her father's influence. Much of this speculation was unkind and a Las Vegas man who allegedly threatened her life is facing criminal charges. We don't doubt that Ms. Nilan found this attention to be upsetting, but while she asserted in court she wasn't there to argue about free speech, that is what this case was indeed about.
Courtesy of the Internet, journalists now come in all stripes, and it is the responsibility of bloggers to act responsibly and in so do doing protect the right to a free press and not hide behind it. In their battles with the traditional media that they regard as hidebound by all their rules involving fairness and fact-checking, bloggers often walk "a very, very fine line," as Judge Mason cautioned Mr. Valenti in reference to one of his comments. Irre sponsibly crossing that line can invite court actions that may shake the First Amendment. Monday's decision was less a journalistic victory than the dodging of a bullet.
As for the Nilan case, it was decided last month when one count of negligent operation of a motor vehicle was continued without a finding for six months and another charge was dismissed. There is really nothing more to be said, or blogged.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


text: Jon, On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Jon Tegner wrote: > Tried to install Scyld Beowulf on a system using ata/100 controllers. It > > works when we boot from floppies or cd, but not when booting from the > hardiest (hangs on LI) > > If we are not using Scyld Beowulf the workaround is as follows (we are > using RH 6.2 with 2.2.16-3 and recent updates): > > > * Boot from floppy with parameters ide2=0x9400,0x9002 (in our case). > * Install new lilo, the one from RH 7.0 -- 21.4.4-10 works, add > append="ide2=0x9400,0x9002" to lilo.conf and run lilo -L. > > I guess the ata/66 patch is applied to the kernel distributed from Scyld > > and in order to get it to work for us I GUESS we would have to somehow > install the new lilo and run the lilo -L command. How can we do that on > the nodes? If you have Scyld Beowulf installed on the frontend, you can examine the strategy we use for running LILO on remote nodes. To install a kernel on remote hard drives, we use the bundled program 'beoboot-install'. This program installs a kernel, synthesizes a LILO configuration file, and runs LILO against the target hard drive. All you have to do to make this work on your system is: * install the new LILO on the frontend. Our software will run the copy installed on the frontend against the target nodes. * edit /usr/bin/beoboot-install to call 'bpsh -n $NODE lilo -L -C $MNTPT/lilo.conf' in place of 'bpsh -n $NODE lilo -C $MNTPT/lilo.conf' * run beoboot-install in the usual way. (See --help or documentation) * Test. You will not need to modify the lilo configuration file. You will not need to generate new kernel command-line arguments at this phase. The kernel we install on the hard drive is what we call a 'phase 1' kernel. This kernel does not even have support for IDE devices ; LILO uses real-mode BIOS calls to load the kernel and the initrd. The sole purpose of the phase 1 kernel is to retreive the 'production' kernel from the front-end server. It is this new kernel that would need any necessary kernel command-line parameters. These parameters can be adjusted in the following way: * As root, run 'beosetup' * Choose File->Create BeoBoot File * Place your kernel command-line parameters in the box labelled 'Kernel boot flags'. * Hit the 'OK' button. See the beowulf documentation for details on doing this without the GUI configuration tool. Per your observation, you will NOT need to supply the IDE parameters to the default Scyld kernel, as this already contains the IDE patch. Thanks for the feedback on our preview release! We'll look at updating LILO in our distribution to address this concern. Regards, Dan Ridge Scyld Computing Corporation _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list Beowulf at beowulf.org http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Andy Jefferson added a comment - 18/Apr/12 10:56 AM
Problem is in schema generation and is due to ReferenceMapping always generating columns. It needs to detect when part of a bidir relation with a join table.
Andy Jefferson added a comment - 18/Apr/12 11:52 AM
Testcase to demonstrate the situation. Test passes but creates additional FK fields in Element and doesn't create ReferenceMapping in join table
Andy Jefferson added a comment - 29/Oct/13 07:54 PM
Note that
Andy Jefferson added a comment - 30/Oct/13 12:51 PM
SVN trunk has some code in ReferenceMapping at the top, commented out that would generate correct schema now ... that is it has a ReferenceMapping in the element but with no datastore columns, and has the join table with a simple FK to the element. Note that it should *not* create a ReferenceMapping in the join table (as implied by comment above). The particular example above will have join tabled for A_ELEMENTS and B_ELEMENTS, and then to get the Element.cont it will need to (somehow) do a UNION of A_ELEMENTS and B_ELEMENTS (likely in FetchRequest).
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GitHub master passes this test


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Royal gift poll results
Elegant, regal, ceremonious, formal, beautiful -- these are all words that might be used to describe Prince William and Kate's wedding after this weekend's royal wedlock. But as any married person (or former wedding party member) knows, it is not without great planning that a "dream" wedding comes to life. There are dress fittings, cake tastings, floral appointments, seating charts... and perhaps one of the more exciting pre-wedding activities -- the gift registry.
But the royal couple is obviously not registering for towels, kitchen appliances and luggage. Instead, we love that they asked for donations to charitable funds, which got our blog team thinking -- if we were invited to the royal nuptials, what World Vision gift would we give William and Kate? So we polled our Facebook community. Here's what you all had to say...
Which World Vision gift would you give Prince William and Kate if you were invited to the royal wedding?
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By Annie Reuter
Joe Jonas' Disney days are long over. DNCE have released their racy new video for "Body Moves" and the clip shows the frontman getting hot and heavy with his girl in an elevator.
Related: Victoria's Secret Models Star in Video Set to DNCE's 'Body Moves'
As he sings about having a dirty mind, Jonas is depicted with his handheld camera capturing all the action during a steamy elevator makeout session which eventually leads to the bedroom.
Amidst all the steamy fun, the video pans to Jonas and his band performing together and the clip turns into one giant DNCE party.
"Body Moves" was directed by Hannah Lux Davis. Watch the NSFW clip on Radio.com.


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Have you ever taken a multiple-choice test in which you disliked all the answers? Here's one to start your day:
How would you like to pay for future upkeep of the state's transportation system? (1) higher auto registration fees; (2) higher auto licenses fee; (3) higher gas taxes; (4) a taxpayer-funded transportation bond.
If you chose none of the above, tighten your seat belt and get ready for a rough ride — neglected potholes, aging buses, crumbling roadways and dilapidated bridges. We are about to fall off what state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, describes as "the fiscal cliff in California transportation funding."
This didn't sneak up on us. It's been overshadowed by bigger needs; things like education funding, social services and hard-to-balance budgets.
Essential capital transportation projects have been possible the past six years largely because of the infusion of $20 billion from the Proposition 1B transportation bond passed in 2006. But that money is nearly gone.
As DeSaulnier, chairman of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, looks at the next fiscal year, here's what he sees: "We're 300 percent underfunded on the operations of streets and roads."
According to former Caltrans Director Will Kempton, who now heads the nonprofit California Transportation Advocacy Coalition, the State Highway Operation and Protection Program that oversees 15,000 miles of roadway requires about $8 billion a year to do its job, but it's budgeted to receive one-quarter of that.
"The backlog of distressed roadways, bad pavements and problem areas is increasing," he said. "The same is true in transit — look at BART, with all those tired, old vehicles that need to be replaced."
Identifying concerns is easier than finding solutions. As recently as 2011, a California Transportation Commission report found 58 percent of the state's roadways and 20 percent of its bridges required repair or maintenance. Surface streets maintained by local agencies are in addition to that.
Part of the funding problem dates to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who swept into office in 2003 and strong-armed legislators into slashing vehicle license fees. When those were trimmed from 2 percent of vehicle value to 0.065 percent, billions of dollars in annual transportation funding vanished. State fuel taxes, unchanged since 1994, don't begin to fill the void. In fact, per-capita fuel consumption has trended down with the advent of hybrid cars.
"The whole system is in jeopardy," Kempton said. "One of our challenges is to alert people to this problem. They may see highway construction now, but that's the tail end of the bonds and (federal stimulus) funding. That money's running out."
It won't be easy to find new revenue. Fees and taxes are never popular, and the public perception of some transportation agencies makes taxpayers hesitant to open their wallets. The BART labor dispute hasn't helped.
"The timing of that, along with the Bay Bridge problems, could not be worse," DeSaulnier said.
Public confidence was on his and Kempton's minds when they recently visited Washington state to learn how its performance management system ensures accountability and transparency.
"We need to do a better job of delivering the work that voters fund," Kempton said.
Oh yeah, the funding question. Want to hear your choices again?
Contact Tom Barnidge at email@example.com.


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China's looming water crisis
One unintended consequence of China's spectacular economic growth is a growing water shortage, reports Joshua Bateman. As rivers run dry, aquifers sink, climate harshens and pollution spreads, he asks: can China solve its water crisis?
In a report by the Chinese News Service, Jiao Yong, Vice Minister of Water Resources, said, "China has more than 400 cities short of water, some 110 of which are facing serious scarcity."
A study by the China's Ministry of Water Resources found that approximately 55% of China's 50,000 rivers that existed in the 1990s have ... disappeared.
According to Jiang Liping, senior irrigation specialist at the World Bank in Beijing, China is over-exploiting its groundwater by 22 billion cubic meters a year - yet per capita water consumption is less than one third of the global average.
"China faces a severe water scarcity issue in water resources right now and it's getting more serious because of rampant economic growth ... Right now, the economy takes too much water from the environment so the ecological environment has been degraded."
The Issue
According to a 2012 joint UNICEF and WHO study, 593 million Chinese have gained access to improved sanitation since 1990. However, even with the increased access to cleaner water, China still faces a significant supply deficit.
As more people migrate to cities and join the middle class, their water consumption increases. With urbanization, the use of toilets, showers, and washing machines increases as does the consumption of nondurable goods such as meat, alcohol, clothes and electronics, all of which require water for production.
The Water Footprint Network reports that Chinese annual per capita water consumption is 1,071 m3. Data from the Ministry of Water Resources show that in 2008, agriculture accounted for 62% of demand, industry for 24%, domestic for 12%, and replenishment for 2%.
However, industry and domestic will drive future demand. According to McKinsey data, in 2030 agriculture demand will account for 51%, industry 32%, and 16% will go towards municipal and domestic uses.
China's water efficiency is another problem. Industry in China continues to expand and compared to other countries, is highly inefficient. Liping said, "water use efficiency and water productivity in both industry and agriculture are very low."
According to Andreas Fruschki, Portfolio Manager of the $268 million Allianz Global Water Mutual Fund, "most emerging markets continue to rely on bottled water in plastic or tap water which is not potable and has to be boiled before consumption, which is expensive and inefficient."
Continue reading at ENN affiliate, The Ecologist.
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text: As with many I'm sure, I came to appreciate shows like DS9 and B5 relatively after the fact, when they were being broadcast through syndication or via DVD packages. Although I managed to catch some of the shows in their initial run, times were often distracting to a teenager such as myself. It was only in the latter seasons of the shows that I even became aware that there were massive divides growing -and, sure enough, became quite aware of them in my early wanderings in Interwebland. But that's not what this thread's about; rather, the basis for such squabbles is what's lead me to undertake this little viewing project. I've grown quite curious what it may have been like to watch these shows as they originally aired against each other, how individual episodes would have initially been compared to one another as they were broadcast, and thus if that had much to much to do with those schisms; after all, we see it happening constantly with contemporary shows. So, I've decided to do just that: watch the shows in conjunction with each other on their original broadcast dates. And what the heck, I may as well bring TNG and VOY -the other 'big name sci-fi' shows- into this project as well, as they were also on the air while DS9 was too. Granted, this is probably just an elaborate excuse to break out the DS9/B5 DVDs once more, but I think this may provide some intriguing insight into what it was like to have watched these shows first-run. So, the way this'll work: -I'll view an episode of DS9/B5/TNG/VOY once a day from it's initial broadcast week; so, if there was an original episode of two (or even three) shows that week, I'll watch them both -since I'm admittedly somewhat DS9 biased, I'll only be doing this while DS9 was on the air; however, DS9 is kind of unique in that all the other shows were also on at some point while DS9 was; nicely coincidental, eh? -if DS9 didn't happen to have an episode that week, but another show did, I'll still watch that show's episode in chronological order -for each week, I'll post which show had an episode, probably provide a little personal commentary on it (everyone else is welcome to join in), and declare a 'winner' of that week. *note*: This 'weekly winner' thing is NOT being done to see which show is 'the best, lolz!', or to add fuel to any lingering fires of such debates -it's being done to provide insight into what a comparative 'review' may have been between the shows when they started broadcasting them 15 years ago (yes, it's been that long!). Think of it as the kind of 'review' the A.V. Club does for its Sunday Fox Evening Cartoon Wrap-Up (Link for example.). Ultimately, this is meant to be fun and insightful. If this thread descends into petty flaming, I'll sadly have to pull the plug. Please keep your comments civil. Anyhow, my follow-up post will be a brief 'lead-up' paragraph to what was on the air just prior to DS9's pilot debuting. Time to break out the TNG DVDs!


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Hey, with the current state of the Knicks what else is there to talk about?
Time to show some love to the legend, the best color commentator in sports and one of the greatest PG's of all time.
Walter "Clyde" Frazier (
Position:Point guard
Jersey #:10
Born: March 29, 1945 (age 62)
Atlanta, Georgia
He is known for catch phrases including:
* "dishing and swishing"
* "swooping and hooping"
* "bounding and astounding"
* "movin' and groovin'"
* "out-muscling and out-hustling"
* "shaking and baking"
* "spinning and winning"
* "posting and toasting"
* "stumbling and bumbling"
* "banking and thanking"
* "hustling and muscling"
* "slicing and dicing!"
* "huffing and puffing"
* "stopping and popping"
* "hanging and banging"
* "It don't mean a thing, If you don't have that swing"
* "The court is 50 feet wide, not wide enough for Houston"
* "[insert player here] beginning to percolate"
* "all the Knicks with the knack tonight"
* "matador D"
"Out-muscling and out-hustling"
"The Hawks have been persistent, but the Knicks have been resistent"
"Abdur-Rahim with fire and desire"
Walt Frazier's #10 jersey was retired by the New York Knicks on December 15, 1979.
In 1987, Walt Frazier was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame along with Pete Maravich and Rick Barry.
In 1996, he was elected to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
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The Walt "Clyde" Frazier Dictionary
adjacent - next to; adjoining Sprewell will inbound the ball adjacent to the Knicks bench.
altruistic - showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others A very altruistic Robinson here tonight - looking for his teammates.
aroused - to stir up, excite And the crowd at Madison Square Garden is aroused!
auspicious - marked by success Sprewell off to an auspicious beginning here tonight.
baffling - to frustrate by confusing or perplexing; stymie The Knicks defense is baffling the Hawks.
bedevil - to torment mercilessly, to plague It's the little things that bedevil losing teams.
blunder - A usually serious mistake typically caused by ignorance or confusion Ratliff makes a blunder there by fouling Eisley.
diminutive - extremely small in size Dion Glover is diminutive at 6'5".
diligent - marked by painstaking effort Glenn Robinson has been working diligently.
egregious - conspicuously bad or offensive as in "an egregious blunder"
impotence - the quality of lacking strength or power Harrington is providing the impotence on the defensive boards.
neophyte - a beginner or novice Two points there for the young neophyte.
omnipotence - having unlimited power or authority There you see the omnipotence of Rahim right there.
omnipresent - present in all places at the same time There's the omnipresent Ewing with another rebound.
penchant - a strong inclination The Knicks have a penchant for turning the ball over late in the game.
precocious - characterized by early maturity The precocious rookie is playing well tonight.
prodigious - impressively great in size, force or extent Sprewell is off to a prodigious start.
prolific - producing abundant works or results Houston is off to a prolific start in the second half.
prudent - wise in handling practical matters The Knicks are doing the prudent thing featuring Sprewell in the early going.
quantum - something that can be counted or measured Rahim with a quantum leap!
rejuvenate - to restore to an original or new condition A rejuvinated Van Horn keeps the Knicks in the game.
riveting - to engross or hold The Knicks are playing riveting defense.
serendipidty - the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident The ball comes off of Robinson's leg and goes right to Houston for three - a little serendipity right there.
stupor - a state of mental numbness The Knicks have a tendency to go into stupors.
tenacious - holding or tending to hold persistently to something The Knicks are playing tenacious 'd'.
tumultuous - noisy and disorderly Rahim has had a tumultuous night so far.
uncanny - peculiarly unsettling as if supernatural in nature Jason Terry is an uncanny shooter from three.
I want my Clyde TV
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None of us can fix the Knicks, unless of course, James Dolan or one of his minions is a Keyboard Quarterbacks fan and reads this.
We doubt it, since if he had the time to read our little Web nook, then he has no excuse for presiding over the worst excuse for a New York sports team. At 4-11, the Knicks have the sixth worst record in the NBA. Of course, after a 748-point to Boston on Thursday night, it's a wonder the Knicks found four teams capable of scoring less points than them for a few hours.
However, here's an idea to make the Knicks infinitely more watchable on television. And the Dolan family, already cable television magnates, will be able to get behind this plan.
walt_frazier.jpgWe all know about Walt "Clyde" Frazier's auspicious penchant for vocabularic flare and invention. He's been thriving and surviving (when he's not swooping and hooping) for years behind the microphone.
It's time to capitalize on it from a viewing standpoint instead of just impersonating his schtick with your friends or on calls to WFAN.
It's time for "Clyde TV."
Every time the omnipotent Clyde drops a word never before associated with the game of basketball, a little graphic pops up on the screen and gives a definition of the word.
Or, MSG could flash three different definitions and ask viewers to text their answer choice to "CLYDE." Viewers could then compete for prizes for most correct answers each game. Or do it online through MSG's Web site. This has remarkable potential in a time when the team does not. And should the Knicks ever resemble the teams of the early 1990s and win games, having this function in place already would greatly benefit the Dolans' pockets.
When Clyde throws out a word that is not a word outside of Clyde's World, a little "That's not a real word, just a 'Clydeism'" graphic could pop up onto the screen. Or they could ask the viewers to guess if it's a real word or not.
Seriously, this could be sports' answer to "American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars."
It could revolutionize the way we watch the Knicks on Dolan's MSG Network. Heck, it could even make us watch the games, especially later in the season when the Knicks are fighting for the right to screw up another high placement in the NBA lottery.
But, wait, there's more.
Back in the day, unconventional polysyllabic words that appear in English essays and nowhere else were called "50-cent words."
We can apply this to Clyde TV, too. Each time he throws out a big word, a cash register pops up onto the screen and displays the total amount of money Clyde's vociferous vocabulary has yielded on the night.
Any time he throws in a word in another language, that's worth a $1. Any time he makes up a word, that's a 50-cent debit.
If the Knicks' PR people were smart, they'd hook up a charity to the Clyde TV On-Screen Money Meter, move the decimal point two places to the right for home games and donate the money. In other words, if Clyde's expansive implementation of his own terminology totals $4.50 in a game, MSG would then be on the line for $450 in donations for that night. Add that up and that's a lot of good that could be done in the name of awful basketball.
Clyde TV would dish. Clyde TV would swish. Clyde TV would bound. Clyde TV would astound.
It's either this or we actually pay attention to the game.


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After reading the editorial (Gun laws; Colorado House poised to approve meaningful suite of gun-control measures, Herald, Feb. 15), a question I have asked myself came back into focus. I know it is not wise to question the opinion of those who buy their ink by the barrel, but it is worth asking:
Did the founding fathers intend the First Amendment of our Constitution to be absolute? We know that words can be harmful, contribute to war, push some to end their lives. Some of the words I hear and read could have gotten you burned at the stake 250 years ago.
That being obvious, would it not be reasonable to require words to be submitted for review before publishing, the cost borne by the author?
Do not be alarmed. We are only focused on words intended to address the public.
Earl C. Moore


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Brendon Ayanbadejo sez NOH8!
The brouhaha about the idiotic letter that Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. (D) wrote last month to Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti regarding Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo's outspoken advocacy of a Maryland ballot initiative legalizing gay marriage, inspired Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe to pen his own response to Burns.
It's a doozy. A classic, even.
Burns original letter to Steve Biscotti urged him to "inhibit such expressions from your employee." 36-year-old Ayanbadejo traces his support for gay rights back to his mid-teen years living with his family in a dorm for gay and transgender students at the UC Santa Cruz. Ayanbadejo's step-father was the dorm's headmaster.
In recent months, Brendon has taped a web-only video for the Maryland same-sex marriage campaign, written a Huffington Post editorial in support of marriage equality and offered a pair of tickets to tonight's season-opening game against the Cincinnati Bengals to raise money for the cause. The backlash against Emmett Burns is largely seen as a "win" for supporters of gay rights.
Here's a pointed excerpt from Minnesota Viking Chris Kluwe's razor sharp open letter to Burns published on Deadspin. Extra points to Kluwe for use of the term "cockmonster" and for calling Burns a "narcissistic fromunda stain":
What on earth would possess you to be so mind-boggingly stupid? It baffles me that a man such as yourself, a man who relies on that same First Amendment to pursue your own religious studies without fear of persecution from the state, could somehow justify stifling another person's right to speech. To call that hypocritical would be to do a disservice to the word. Mindfucking obscenely hypocritical starts to approach it a little bit.
Wait, he's just getting warmed up:
This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life? If gay marriage becomes legal, are you worried that all of a sudden you'll start thinking about penis? "Oh shit. Gay marriage just passed. Gotta get me some of that hot dong action!" Will all of your friends suddenly turn gay and refuse to come to your Sunday Ticket grill-outs? (Unlikely, since gay people enjoy watching football too.)
I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population—rights like Social Security benefits, child care tax credits, Family and Medical Leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA healthcare for spouses and children. You know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. Do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you?
In closing, I would like to say that I hope this letter, in some small way, causes you to reflect upon the magnitude of the colossal foot in mouth clusterfuck you so brazenly unleashed on a man whose only crime was speaking out for something he believed in. Best of luck in the next election; I'm fairly certain you might need it.
Kluwe signs off by telling Burns:
P.S. I've also been vocal as hell about the issue of gay marriage so you can take your "I know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr. Ayanbadejo is doing" and shove it in your close-minded, totally lacking in empathy piehole and choke on it. Asshole.
The whole thing is absolutely worth reading.
Brendon Ayanbadejo says he plans to continue supporting same-sex marriage and has offered to assist Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley with more fundraising for the issue. Ten of his fellow players on the Ravens have offered their support. He says the change in attitude within the NFL (other players used to joke that Ayanbadejo was gay, but he's married with two kids) "has happened faster than I ever thought it would happen."
This morning, Emmett Burns appeared to take a step back from the near universal condemnation his letter has generated, according to The Baltimore Sun:
"Upon reflection, he has his First Amendment rights," Del. Emmett C. Burns Jr., a Baltimore County Democrat, said in a telephone interview. "And I have my First Amendment rights. … Each of us has the right to speak our opinions. The football player and I have a right to speak our minds."
Ayanbadejo hopes that Pastor Burns will "open his heart" on the issue. In the meantime, Ellen DeGeneres has invited Brendon Ayanbadejo to fly to California for a live appearance on her show. Ravens team president Dick Cass has indicated the team would respond to Burns "in time" and hoped that Brendon would continue to speak his mind about matters that are important to him.
Maryland will be one of four states to vote on same-sex marriage in November. The issue has never been upheld by referendum, which is why what Brendon Ayanbadejo (and Chris Kluwe) and other straight people—this is crucial—are doing and saying is so very, very important.
Emmett C. Burns Jr. has had to endure public mockery for his antiquated views. Public mockery seems appropriate to me in this case—after all Burns is the one who pulled the trigger on this in the first place—but it's also the sort of experience that might change the man. If everyone seems to be pointing at you and laughing, maybe there's a good reason for that. Maybe it's because you ARE the idiot.
Maybe it's time for a little soul-searching Mr. Burns.
To Chris Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbadejo, you're good citizens one of the highest compliments I have to offer. I'm proud to share a country with guys like you.


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The Honolulu Police Department will set up impaired driver checkpoints at unannounced times and locations from Wednesday, May 1, through Sunday, June 30 including, but not limited to the Memorial Day and King Kamehameha Day holidays.
The checkpoints are part of the department's ongoing effort to reduce traffic injuries and deaths.
HPD is reminding the public not to drink and drive and that the legal drinking age is 21.
Promoting intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of 21 is a misdemeanor punishable of up to one-year imprisonment.
As of April 28, 2013, 24 people have been killed in 24 traffic collisions on Oahu.
During the same period in 2012, 21 people were killed in 20 collisions.
Speed was a contributing factor in four of this year's collisions and alcohol was a contributing factor in one collision.
Honolulu police officers have been conducting impaired driver checkpoints every week from October 2012 and will continue to do so through September 2013 as part of the federal "52/12" sobriety checkpoint program.


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Audio Glossary
2.0 speaker system
Your basic setup—two speakers, or satellites, that give you stereo sound with limited bass. These easy-to-install systems don't include a subwoofer and are compatible with most standard PC soundcards.
2.1 speaker system
A sound system that shakes some life into your audio. It has two satellites, like a 2.0 system—but adds a subwoofer to give you a more robust sound with deeper bass. It's just as easy to set up as a 2.0 system, but the subwoofer takes up additional space.
5.1 digital decoding
5.1 speaker system
A surround sound system with speakers in front of and behind you to immerse you in your entertainment. It includes left and right front speakers, left and right rear speakers, a front center speaker, and a subwoofer. If you're into movies or gaming, this is the perfect choice for you.
360-degree sound
Balanced sound no matter where you are in the room. This is created by using both forward- and backward-firing drivers that project sound evenly in all directions. Also known as omnidirectional acoustics.
24/48 kHz encoding
6-channel direct
An input with three separate stereo mini-plug jacks (1/8 inch) that connects to PC sound cards, or can be used as three separate stereo inputs for use with headphones, iPods, or other devices with an 1/8-inch jack or plug.
96/24 decoding
An enhanced, higher-resolution, studio-quality format available on many DVD video and DVD audio discs. Refers to 24-bit, 96 kHz audio.
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
A successor to MP3. It's an audio codec or device that decodes or encodes digital data. It offers higher sound quality at lower bit rates than MP3. It's also known as MPEG-4 AAC.
Active driver
The main driver, or electromagnetic component, of a speaker. This is what makes the sound. See driver.
Amplifier (Amp)
A device that increases signal level. They typically increase voltage, current, or both.
Analog signal
A continuous electrical signal that's commonly represented as an oscillating wave. It can take any value in a range and changes smoothly between values, as opposed to digital signals, which are characterized by discrete bits of information in numerical steps.
Apple Lossless
An audio codec, or device that decodes or encodes digital data, developed by Apple Inc. This is a lossless method of data compression for digital music. See lossless.
The low end of the sound spectrum that goes from 20 Hz to 200 Hz. It puts the boom, shake, and rumble into your entertainment. This is the range for explosions, tubas, cellos, bass, drums, and more. Also known as low range.
Center channel
The center speaker in a surround sound system. It goes below or on top of your monitor or TV and produces the dialog and vocals—making them seem like they're coming right out the screen.
A severe form of distortion that occurs when you overload an amplifier. It makes the sound hard and edgy.
DAC (Digital to audio converter)
A device that converts a digital bit stream to an analog signal so your speakers can turn it into sound.
dBs (Decibels)
A unit of measure of the relative loudness of sound. The threshold of hearing is 0 dB. A whisper is 15-25 db. A normal speaking voice is 65-70 dB. Live rock music is 120 dB and up. And a jet aircraft is about 140-180 dB. Anything over 140 dB hurts to listen to and can damage your hearing.
Dead zone
An area of the room with quieter sound from your speakers due to sound waves cancelling each other out.
Digital signal
An audio signal that is usually represented by ones and zeros. A digital signal has to be converted to an analog signal before it can be turned into sound.
Digital rights management (DRM)
A technology that allows content owners to determine and control how you can enjoy content. That can include how many copies you can make of a song or what types of devices you can transfer it to.
Anything that alters the musical signal from its original quality.
Dolby® digital
A five-channel audio format consisting of left, center, and right front channels, left and right rear channels, and one channel for the subwoofer. It's one of several systems used for surround sound. All processing is done in digitally for your listening pleasure.
Down-firing subwoofer
A subwoofer that has its cone facing down—directing bass throughout the room.
This is where the magic happens. It's an electromagnetic device that turns electrical signals into sound waves in the air by moving a thin layer of fabric or paper. It's usually made up of a magnet and voice coil.
DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of 5.1-channel surround processor.
Equalization (EQ)
The purposeful changing of the frequency response of a circuit to change the sound. You might do this to boost the bass for gaming or movies. Or to create a more balanced sound for your music.
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
A type of lossless audio compression. It doesn't remove any information from the audio stream like lossy codecs such as MP3 and AAC. That makes it a good choice for archiving audio collections as well as everyday playback. See Lossless, Lossy.
One measure of a sound wave. Unless you're superhuman, the range for hearing is about 20-20,000 Hz (20 Hz-20 kHz). Lower numbers represent lower frequencies
Frequency Directed Dual Drivers
A Logitech® technology that uses two identical full-range drivers in each satellite. A special filter that detects specific frequencies is applied to one of the drivers—gradually muting specific frequencies in that driver as needed to prevent hot spots or dead zones in the soundfield. The result is better sound quality throughout the entire frequency range of the speaker.
Frequency response
The range of frequencies an audio device can reproduce.
Full-range drivers
A driver designed to reproduce most of the sound spectrum.
Hertz (Hz)
The standard unit of frequency, equal to 1 cycle per second. One hertz (Hz) represents one cycle per second, 20Hz represents 20 cycles per second, and so on.
High range (highs)
The high end of the sound spectrum, also known as treble. The high range goes from 4,000 Hz to 20,000 Hz. It covers stuff like bells, cymbals, and the highest notes on a piano.
Hot spots
An area of the room where there volume gets too loud because the sound waves are amplified.
A measure of electrical resistance specified in ohms.
A tendency toward poor signal synchronization caused by electrical changes. It can cause doubling up or skipping of portions of audio.
Long-throw subwoofer
A subwoofer that gives you higher sound levels at greater distances.
A class of data compression that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data.
A class of data compression that doesn't allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data.
Low range (lows)
See bass
Matched quad micro-drivers
A set of four identical micro-drivers, offering powerful sound in a compact design.
Max-X™ drivers
High-excursion drivers that allow for greater dynamic range, improved bass, and lower distortion.
Midrange (mids)
The middle frequencies of sound from 200 Hz to 4,000 Hz. This is the range of sound our ears are most sensitive to and includes most vocals (not the glass-breaking kind) and instruments.
A driver that produces mid and some low frequencies.
A popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. It greatly reduces the amount of data (10:1 compression) needed to represent audio. See Lossy.
Sound that is poorly defined, sloppy, or vague.
Network music player
A device that wirelessly streams the digital music stored on your computer, Internet radio broadcasts, and tracks from online music services to any room of your home. You can choose a player that connects to your stereo or powered speakers, or an all-in-one solution that has its own speakers.
Neodymium micro-drivers
Small drivers made from a rare earth metal that is the strongest permanent magnet on earth.
Unwanted sound or distortion.
Noise isolation
Preventing outside sounds from entering the ear when you're listening to music with earphones. It lets you hear your music and not the chatty person behind you.
A type of file format.
A unit of electrical resistance or impedance presented by the speakers and recognized by the amplifier. See Impedance.
Omnidirectional acoustics
See 360-degree sound.
Passive crossover
A filter that splits the audio signal into separate bandwidths so each segment can go to the correct type of driver. It keeps the lows from mingling with the highs in your tweeter, for example. This type of filter is made of passive components.
Peak power
The maximum wattage an amplifier can deliver as a brief burst during a musical peak. This is not an accurate measure of power. RMS power, which is standardized, should be used when you compare speakers instead.
Phase-plug design
An opening in a speaker cabinet that increases the bass response of the speaker.
Ported enclosure or ported subwoofer
A type of speaker enclosure that uses a port to improve efficiency at low frequencies.
Pressure drivers
A driver that creates pressure inside a speaker cabinet that is sealed and airtight to move the passive radiator, increasing sound levels. This is an efficient way to create tighter, lower bass.
Real-time bass equalization
RMS (root mean square)
A standard amplifier measurement. It's a conventional way to measure the effective average value of an audio signal or other power (AC) voltage.
RMS power
The amount of continuous power, measured in watts, that an amplifier can produce. The higher the RMS figure, the louder and cleaner music sounds. This measurement is far more accurate than peak power.
A small speaker with limited bass response.
A design that prevents the magnet from causing interference with other electronics.
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
A specification that describes how much noise an audio component has compared to the music signal.
Sound pressure level (SPL)
A measure of the loudness of a sound, relative to the threshold of hearing, measured in dB (decibels). It generally goes from 0 to 140 dB. 140 dB is considered painful and can damage your ears.
The perception of where the different instruments and vocals are located on an imaginary stage.
The illusion of a continuous soundfield spread around the listener by two or more related audio signals. It's often used to indicate that there are two channels.
Stereo XL
A Logitech® technology that widens the soundstage beyond the physical boundaries of the speakers, creating an immersive audio experience.
A speaker designed to reproduce very low frequencies (20-200 Hz).
Super regulator
Surround sound
Multi-channel audio playback that creates a three-dimensional sound that immerses you in your entertainment. It's typically used for movies and gaming and makes you feel like you're part of the action.
A series of specifications for surround sound systems. They're designed to ensure that the sound of movies is as close as possible to what the filmmakers intended.
Top-fire armature
A custom in-ear speaker design—featured in the Ultimate Ears® SuperFi 5 and 5vi earphones—that uses a compact wideband driver to create a high-performance sound.
See high range.
A design in which each driver (woofer, midrange, and tweeter) has their own amplifier. This generally results in a better sound because the signals can be tailored for the driver more accurately before they get to the amplifier.
A small, lightweight driver for reproducing the highest musical frequencies such as violins and cymbals, and typically everything above 2,000 Hz.
Two-way speaker
A speaker with two different drivers that are dedicated to different frequency ranges.
Virtual surround sound
Technology that provides a rich surround sound experience with just two speakers by down-mixing Dolby Digital 5.1 channel and Dolby Surround (Pro Logic) to 2-channel audio.
WAV (or WAVE)
A Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs.
A power measurement derived by multiplying current by voltage. It's used to quantify an amplifier's power output.
WMA (Windows Media Audio)
A proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft.
WMA Lossless
A lossless compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. See lossless.
A driver that reproduces bass frequencies. It can be used in a subwoofer or a two-way or three-way speaker.


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Sheriff John Montgomery said Africa Wells, 39, of Jonesboro was found and arrested Thursday in Blytheville — nearly 180 miles east of where the crash occurred in Mountain Home on Wednesday.
It was not clear how Wells is believed to have made his way to Blytheville.
Montgomery said Wells is believed to be the driver of a car that led a Highland police officer on a chase that ended in Mountain Home when both the car and the police car crashed and the suspect fled on foot.
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and3. One of the Following Four Teams Will Trade a Future Asset for a Present One: Washington, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland
In fact, let's make this one of the official predictions. Cleveland has the most assets on hand, in terms of young players and first-round picks, but it's saving cap space for LeBron James. (It also has, let's say, an "aggressive" owner prone to bouts of fist-on-table evangelism.) Joe Dumars needs a big year in Detroit, he's staring at some future cap flexibility, and there's almost zero chance (bonus prediction) Greg Monroe is getting an extension before the October 31 deadline making him an interesting potential trade piece. But the Pistons owe a protected first-round pick to Charlotte, making it tricky (but not impossible) for them to deal a future pick. New Orleans has tried to jump some steps in the rebuild process, with a weird (but intriguing!) roster of interesting pieces. And Washington
4. Washington Will Trade for a Big Man in the Next Month If Emeka Okafor's Prognosis Is Bad
General manager Ernie Grunfeld is in the last year of his contract, and owner Ted Leonsis, not the shy sort, has made it clear he expects the Wiz to make the playoffs. Washington was over .500 last season when Bradley Beal and John Wall were both available, and lineups featuring combinations of its core six or seven guys generally did quite well. But Okafor was one of those core guys, and the gap between Okafor and his backups Kevin Seraphin and Jan Vesely is a freaking chasm. Al Harrington can soak up some minutes as a small-ball power forward, a role he played brilliantly for Denver two seasons ago, but he's aging and coming off major knee issues.
The Wiz need a big man, unless they get good news soon on Okafor. Alternatively, if Okafor is healthy, Washington could continue its history of flipping mega-expiring contracts (and the cap space they promise) into players on longer-term deals; that's how it got Okafor. Stay tuned either way on the Wiz.
13.Toronto Will Shop, and Perhaps Trade, DeMar DeRozan
Anything is possible with the Raptors. They have the talent to win one of the last two or three playoff spots in the Eastern Conference, and they have the flexibility to blow the whole thing up if Masai Ujiri determines that is the best course. The "blow-it-up" talk will focus on Gay and Kyle Lowry; Gay's contract is enormous, with only a player option after this season, and Lowry's is an affordable expiring deal.
But don't overlook DeRozan. He has four seasons left on his contract, at $9.5 million a pop, and he has never put up a league-average player efficiency rating (though he was within half a point last season). He's just 24 and he's getting better; teams are curious, and his contract isn't big enough to be a deal-killer. Keep an eye on DeRozan.


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