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Burton Snowboards is thrilled to announce that Seattle-based hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and singer/songwriter Santigold will both perform FREE concerts at the 31st annual Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships presented by MINI, taking place from February 25 - March 2 at Vail Mountain.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will kick-off the Burton US Open free concert series on Friday, March 1st following the world-class US Open slopestyle finals at Vail. Known for their electrifying live performances, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' hit single "Thrift Shop" is currently number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the third straight week.
On Saturday, March 2nd, Santigold will take to the stage for a free show following the legendary Burton US Open halfpipe finals. With two critically acclaimed albums to her name, Santigold also created the song "Girls," which is the lead single for the album Girls Soundtrack, Vol. 1: Music from the HBO Original Series.
After the Santigold show, the good times continue with the official Burton US Open closing party featuring DJs Skratch Bastid and Cosmo Baker. As one of Canada's most treasured DJs, Skratch Bastid is a turntable champion and crowd favorite recognized worldwide for his beloved remixes. And widely considered one of the top party DJs on the planet, Cosmo Baker is a master of everything from hip-hop to disco & funk to electronic music.
The 2013 Burton US Open is the must-attend snowboard event of the season where crowds can watch world-class, Olympic-level snowboarding competitions by day and incredible music acts by night – all for FREE at Vail Mountain in Colorado.
For more details on Burton US Open concerts & parties, check out the info below:
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Concert – Friday, March 1st
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will play from 6:00pm – 9:30pm at Solaris Plaza in Vail Village. Get there early to watch the US Open slopestyle finals with top confirmed riders like Mark McMorris & Jamie Anderson from 10:30am – 2:30pm (MST). For more information on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, head to www.macklemore.com.
Santigold Concert – Saturday, March 2nd
Santigold will perform from 6:30pm – 9:30pm at Solaris Plaza in Vail Village. Get there early to watch the US Open halfpipe finals from 10:30am – 2:30pm (MST) with top confirmed riders like Shaun White & Kelly Clark. For more information on Santigold, head to facebook.com/santigold.
Official Burton US Open Closing Party – Saturday, March 2nd
Skratch Bastid and Cosmo Baker will headline from 10:00pm – 1:30am (MST) at the Dobson Ice Arena located at Vail's Lionshead. The 18+ party is free to attend but a ticket is required for entry. Tickets can be picked up at the Burton stores at Lionshead or Vail Village, as well as the Burton Stone Hut at Golden Peak and Burton Airstream in Solaris. For more information, head to www.skratchbastid.com and www.cosmobaker.com.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the 2013 Burton US Open and a full list of competitors, follow #BurtonUSOpen and head to www.Burton.com/USO.
And if you need lodging for the US Open, a limited number of rooms are still available. To book your lodging, please click here or call Eve Harris at 970-476-6797 x110.
A big thanks to the following partners for their support to the 31st edition of the Burton US Open: MINI, Vail Resorts, Mountain Dew®, Town of Vail, Nokia, Paul Mitchell, 3M, GoPro, G-Shock, Shiseido, Matador, Clif, Transworld, Snowboarder, Analog, anon and the World Snowboard Tour.
About Burton
In 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter founded Burton Snowboards out of his Vermont barn and has dedicated his life to snowboarding ever since. Burton has played a pivotal role in growing snowboarding from a backyard hobby to a world-class sport by creating groundbreaking products, supporting a team of top snowboarders and pushing resorts to allow snowboarding. Today, Burton designs and manufactures industry-leading products for snowboarding and the snowboard lifestyle, including snowboards, boots, bindings, outerwear and layering as well as year-round apparel, packs/bags and accessories. Privately held and owned by Jake and his wife, Burton President Donna Carpenter, Burton's headquarters are in Burlington, Vermont with offices in Austria, Japan, Australia and California. For more information, visit www.burton.com. Follow our line at: facebook.com/burtonsnowboards, twitter.com/burtonsnowboard and @burtonsnowboard on Instagram.
About MINI
MINI is involved in action sports around the world through cooperation and sponsoring activities. As a partner of trend-conscious sports, MINI supports young and creative sports people and, in so doing, promotes the development of their sport. MINI has been the official presenting partner for the Burton Global Event Series since 2011.
About Vail Mountain
Celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout the 2012-2013 season and coveted as the largest ski resort in the United States with more than 5,200 acres of skiable terrain and seven legendary Back Bowls spanning seven miles, Vail is an extraordinary winter vacation destination. Under blue skies more than 300 days each year and with more groomed terrain than anywhere on the planet, families reconnect and celebrate here from year to year and generation to generation. The vacation experience is world class, from the Vail Ski & Snowboard School to the events, activities and festivals, the shops and spas, abundant culinary experiences and luxurious accommodations. Coupled with the vision inherent in the spirit of Vail's founders, and a modern day commitment to excellence in all aspects of guest service and operations, Vail can still credibly lay claim to being a resort like nothing on earth www.vail.com.
Burton Snowboards is thrilled to announce that Seattle-based hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and singer/songwriter Santigold will both perform FREE concerts at the 31st annual Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships presented by MINI, taking place from February 25 - March 2 at Vail Mountain.


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Town Sports International, New York, announced today that it has completed a re-pricing of its currently outstanding $270.7 million senior secured term loan, reducing current interest rates on the term loan by a total of 125 basis points.
The re-pricing was effected through an amendment to the company's existing credit agreement. The amendment reduced the applicable margin on the initial term loans from 4.5 percent to 3.5 percent for base rate loans and from 5.5 percent to 4.5 percent for Eurodollar loans. The re-pricing also reduced the interest rate floor on the initial term loans from 2.5 percent to 2.25 percent for base rate loans and from 1.5 percent to 1.25 percent for Eurodollar loans.
The credit agreement also was amended to convert the existing voluntary prepayment penalty from a 101 hard call provision, originally scheduled to end in May 2013, to a 101 soft call provision ending in August 2013. All other principal provisions, including maturity and covenants under the company's existing credit agreement, comprised of the term loan facility and a $50 million revolving credit facility, remain unchanged.
TSI expects to incur approximately $4.1 million in fees and expenses in connection with the amendment, including a 1 percent amendment fee of $2.7 million and $1.4 million of related bank and legal fees.
"We have greatly improved the company's credit profile over the past year and are pleased we were able to complete this re-pricing, saving approximately $3.4 million of cash interest costs in 2013," Dan Gallagher, TSI CFO, said in a statement.

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1. Conservatives do not value knowledge for its own sake.Tierney rejects all of that, and blames the disparity on "the structure of academia, where decisions about hiring are made by small independent groups of scholars":
2. Conservatives do not care about the social good.
3. Conservatives are too greedy to work for professors' wages.
4. Conservatives are too dumb to get tenure.
They're subject to the law of group polarization, derived from studies of juries and other groups.
"If people are engaged in deliberation with like-minded others, they end up more confident, more homogenous and more extreme in their beliefs," said Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago. "If you have an English or history department that leans left, their interactions will push them further left."
Once liberals dominate a department, they can increase their majority by voting to award tenure to like-minded scholars. As liberals dominate a field, conservatives' work comes to be seen as fringe scholarship.
"The filtering out of conservatives in the job pipeline rarely works by outright blackballing," said Mark Bauerlein, a conservative who is an English professor at Emory. "It doesn't have to. The intellectual focus of the disciplines does that by itself."
Suppose, he said, you were a conservative who wanted to do a sociology dissertation on the debilitating effects of the European welfare state, or an English dissertation arguing that anticommunist literature from the mid-20th century was as valuable as the procommunist literature.
"You'd have a hard time finding a dissertation adviser, an interested publisher and a receptive hiring committee," Bauerlein said. "Your work just wouldn't look like relevant scholarship, and would be quietly set aside."
That sounds accurate to me.
Tierney concludes that the phenomenon ultimately hurts liberals in the political sphere because they can't draw on the ideas of liberals in academia, who have veered too far left to produce ideas that are appealing to American voters.


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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — We already knew Nate Robinson was one of the greatest Summer League players of all-time — he was such a dominant scorer that they once retired his Summer League jersey. So it was only fitting that when Robinson returned to Summer League, even only as a spectator, that he would be asked to put his signature on a baby.
(And as Nate is a noted fan of Ricky Bobby and "Talledega Nights," we're wondering if Nate thought of the same moment we did.)


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Femme Royale Women's Competition // Napa
Onsite Competition for Teams
Event description
- RX Division :: Advanced athlete, skilled in the following pull-ups, ring dips, handstand pushups, muscle ups. Move efficiently with 105# plus.
- 50/50 :: Not quite RX, but does not need to scale any of the movements. Can perform pull ups, toes to bar, handstand push ups. Move efficiently 75-95#.
- Fun Division :: Athletes that are new to the competition scene or beginners. Allows for banded or jumping pull-ups, great for those women who still struggle with unassisted pull-ups, modifications will be allowed. Move efficiently with 35-75#.
- 3 Divisions
- 2 Girls // Partner Style
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Egypt's mass verdicts show pressure on judiciary
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's judiciary is rife with judges who are sharp opponents of Islamists, and they are operating amid a media frenzy demanding swift and harsh verdicts against the Muslim Brotherhood.
The result, judicial experts say, is this week's stunning verdict sentencing hundreds of suspected Islamists to death after a cursory mass trial, a decision likely to be overturned but clearly intended to send a deterrent message.
"The judge is a citizen that lives in a society and can feel the nation's pulse and knows that people are looking for quick trials," Rifaat el-Sayed, the former head of Cairo's appeal court, one of the country's major courts, told The Associated Press. "If there is a mistake from a judge, there are means to correct it."
FILE - In this Saturday, June 2, 2012 file photo, people gather inside a courtroom to hear a verdict in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his sons and several security officers in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 2, 2012. A verdict sentencing more than 520 people to death on Monday, March 24, 2014 after a cursory mass trial has drawn new attention on Egypt¿s judiciary, where many judges are strong backers of the military and sharp opponents of Islamists, operating amid a media frenzy calling for swift and harsh verdicts against the Muslim Brotherhood.(AP Photo, File)
The rulings Monday by a criminal court in the provincial capital of Minya brought heavy international criticism from the U.N., United States and European Union. Amnesty International called the verdicts "grotesque," and Egyptian rights groups were stunned. The court delivered the sweeping sentences against more than 520 defendants after only one session hearing testimony — without hearing the defense's case.
But the verdicts were hailed as a triumph for justice by much of Egypt's media, which have been cheerleaders for the crackdown on the Brotherhood since the military's July ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
"Let them be 10,000, 20,000 (sentenced to death)," presenter Ahmed Moussa declared on private Sada al-Balad TV. "Those who have killed, we shouldn't be upset about them. Why are you upset, Mr. rights activist? Where were you when martyrs were killed? Dragged on the floor? ... What do you expect from the judiciary? To give salute to terrorism? Or are you supporting terrorism?"
On Tuesday, the same Minya judge opened a second mass trial of 683 suspected Islamists on similar charges — murder and attempted murder in connection to an August attack on a police station. After one day of hearing witnesses — with defense lawyers boycotting the proceedings — the judge declared he would rule in the next hearing, on April 28.
The sentences, however, raised a red flag even within the judiciary, where many said they were certain the verdicts will be overturned because of irregularities in the trial. One current judge on a high-level court called it "an individual case" of a judge aiming to show "his political allegiance" and "send a particular message. He knows it will be annulled." The judge spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because judiciary rules bar him from discussing another court's case.
"But the manner and the way the session was managed has seriously harmed the reputation of the judiciary," he said.
Amid the uproar, the Justice Ministry issued a statement underlining that the judiciary is independent. It said the ruling was not a final verdict, saying the court can change it after the country's top Islamic official, the mufti, issues his opinion on the death sentences, and that the sentences can be appealed before the Court of Cassation, which can order a retrial.
Egypt's judiciary, made up of nearly 15,000 judges and prosecutors, has traditionally been one of the country's strongest institutions. During the 29-year rule of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the judiciary was stacked with his loyalists — many of whom remain in place and hold the top judicial positions. The government had considerable influence on promotions and advancement in the system, with Mubarak appointing the head of the constitutional court.
Still, the courts did not always follow his lead. During Mubarak's crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood, regular courts often freed defendants or gave them light sentences, so Mubarak turned to military or exceptional security courts to get harsher and longer sentences. A number of reformist judges were sharply critical of voting fraud during 2005 and 2006 elections, starting a movement for greater judicial independence that was one of the various elements that coalesced to trigger the 2011 protests against Mubarak.
During the past three years of turmoil since the 2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the judiciary has been dragged repeatedly into political battles. It was only after further large protests that Hosni Mubarak was put on trial over killings of protesters during the uprising. His trial has dragged on for more than three years, and he is currently facing a retrial after the first verdict, a life sentence was overturned in appeal.
The judiciary clashed fiercely with Morsi, who in 2012 became Egypt's first freely elected president and whose presidency saw political domination by the Brotherhood. Morsi and the Brotherhood frequently accused the judiciary of being Mubarak holdovers opposed to their rule, while judges accused him of trying to dominate the judiciary. He locked horns with the judges by naming a prosecutor general loyal to him, and his backers sought to push opponents in the judiciary into retirement. Morsi issued a decree declaring his decisions immune from judiciary review, prompting thousands of judges to go on strike and widening public protests against his rule.
Now after Morsi's ouster, any expression of criticism among judges of the mainstream support for the military is at personal peril.
Some 75 judges who spoke out against "the removal of a legitimately elected president" and "the attack on constitutional legitimacy" were suspended from the Judges Club, an influential association of judges, and are under investigation for disciplinary action for engaging in political activity. Other judges who publicly backed the protests calling for Morsi's ouster that prompted the military to remove him saw no such reprisals. Some of the reform judges who were part of the judicial independence movement under Mubarak are now depicted by rivals as Islamists — which some were, but not all.
El-Sayed, the former judge, depicted the disciplinary measures as unifying the judiciary and removing political influence.
"Since Jan. 25, 2011, the judicial family has been united, become one fabric and partisan and divisions are finished," he said. "We managed to protect the independence of the judiciary and anyone who violated those lofty principles has been sent to disciplinary committees."
The current judge said there is little direct interference from the government in specific decisions of judges — but that the hand of the executive still has control over much of the profession.
The new constitution passed after Morsi's ouster more deeply enshrines professional independence for the judicial system, giving judges greater say over their own affairs — in part a reaction to Morsi's rule. Judges now choose the prosecutor general and members of the Supreme Constitutional Court and the judiciary must approve all legislation over the profession before parliament can pass it. Still, the justice minister appoints administrative heads of primary courts, who in turn can determine which judge will hear which cases. That, he says, opens the door to bias by picking judges known for certain beliefs. With new courts assigned terrorism related cases, many fear the speed and verdicts could be even faster.
In the courtroom, judges have considerable power and leeway in determining procedures during their trials and in issuing verdicts, even if they may be overruled later. Judges issue verdicts in all trials, since there are no jury trials in Egypt.
They are also backed up by vague laws against "insulting the judiciary." One prominent liberal former lawmaker faces trial on charges of insulting the judiciary after he criticized a court ruling as "politicized" on his Twitter account earlier this year.
Part of what has raised concern recently from critics is that many judges are former police officers. Also, all judges are trained as prosecutors first.
Moreover, the current judge said, Egypt's court system is overwhelmed with cases amid a crackdown that has arrested some 16,000 people. Lawyers say they are hard pressed to keep up with procedures and defendants. In one day, there could be as many as two mass trials in the same courtroom.
Amid the rush, prosecutors have come under criticism for putting together shoddy cases for trial. For example, there has been heavy public pressure to prosecute Mubarak-era officials, particularly police over the killing of protesters during the anti-Mubarak uprising and later protests. However, cases against police have largely been thrown out for lack of evidence. The judge said that was because prosecution cases were weak.
In other cases, judges may be willing to base rulings solely on the prosecutors' cases, the judge said.
"Before the revolution, a murder case would be vetted in details, with evidence and review," he said. "The trial would take time, and the public would be watching closely. Now the number of deaths is huge. They are meant to investigate all the circumstances. How do? And who would?"
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The Count and Sinden | RUG310 | Released: 12/10/08
On 13th October, Domino will release Hardcore Girls, a brand new EP from The Count & Sinden, which showcases their love of all sorts of club music, from garage to r n'b, from hip hop to grime.
Lead track Hardcore Girls is the sound of the much hyped Baltimore breaks scene, evolved, displaced and mutated as only The Count & Sinden know how. Fronted by the hottest thing out of B'more since The Wire, 17 year old wild child of the mike, Rye Rye. She has been touring the states with MIA and, now signed to Interscope, she is set to do big things. Her unique and energetic vocal is treated to one of the duo's best bumpy bass grooves and the combined effect is nothing short of devastating.
Another new school talent picked up on by The Count & Sinden is Ny. Bubbling on the UK underground, she fronts the hardcore, jungle inflected soul that is Fool In Love. This is pop music for the now and tomorrow, a classic love song set to a raucous jungle inspired backing track which has become a live favourite over the summer.
Finally we have JME, a legend in the grime scene, known for his tight flows, guest appearances and his Boy Better Know franchise. Industry gives an overview of the pit falls of getting involved in the trickiest of games... The music business. And who would want to get involved in that shit!?!
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- Side A01. Hardcore Girls (featuring Rye Rye)
- 02. Hardcore Girls (Dub)
- 03. Hardcore Girls (Project Bassline Remix)
- Side B01. Industry (featuring Rye Rye)
- 02. Fool In Love (featuring NY)


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Electronic Media FAQ
Q: The music publisher has asked for an additional music rental fee because we are broadcasting the copyrighted work on radio and streaming it on the Internet. Does copyright law require us to pay this fee?
A: This is a business issue, not a copyright issue. There is no part of the copyright law that requires you to pay an additional fee to the publisher when the printed music you rent is used for more than one purpose. There IS a copyright in the broadcast on terrestrial radio of the actual music, but the copyright holder (composer or publisher) already receives a pro rata share of the blanket license fee paid by the radio station to ASCAP or BMI. Even though there is no copyright law that requires you to pay the extra music rental fee, the publisher does own the printed music, so there is nothing to prevent them from asking you to pay a fee. So, your options are to negotiate a mutually acceptable arrangement (with or without additional financial consideration) or to perform a different work. If you have questions, you should consider consulting with a copyright attorney.
Q: Should we use the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Live Recording Agreement (LRA) or the AFM Audio Internet Agreement (AIA) to determine how to structure an agreement with our musicians for an audio downloading project?
A: If you want to offer physical product, such as CDs, in addition to downloads, the Live Recording Agreement applies. If you are interested in offering your music only on the Internet (streaming and/or downloading), the Audio Internet Agreement applies. Please note that the LRA and AlA agreements cover only the services of musicians. You will need to have agreements with other participating performers (conductor, soloists and chorus). If your chorus is an AGMA signatory, you will need to reach agreement with them either for the specific project or to expand the provisions of your CBA to provide for ongoing activity. If your chorus is not an AGMA signatory you will need to have signed agreements and/or releases with the chorus. In addition you will need to have agreements with the conductor and the composer or publisher of any copyrighted works.
Q: Can we put a three minute video clip of our orchestra on YouTube?
A: Yes, but not without getting permission from all the rights holders, including the participating performers and production team (conductor, soloists, chorus, musicians, stagehands), as well as the composer or publisher of any copyrighted works (see this article on YouTube by Proskauer attorney Bill Hart). This also assumes that you are a signatory to the AFM Audio-Visual Agreement) or that your CBA with your AFM local allows you to use up to three minutes of audio/video material for promotional purposes.
Q: Can we put three-minute audio clips of the music we will be performing on our Website, to promote ticket sales?
A: Yes, but not without getting permission from all the rights holders of the recorded music. If the source material is a recording of your symphony orchestra, you'll have to ask the participating performers (conductor, soloist, musicians), as well as the composer or publisher of any copyrighted works, yourself. If you want to use a commercial recording, you'll have to get permission from the record company, which may or may not grant you permission on behalf of the rights holders.
Q: Does the use of a short audio or audio-visual clip on our Website or in some other electronic medium for promotional purposes meet the definition of "Fair Use" under Copyright Law (for which we do not need to seek permission from the copyright holder)?
A: you have to seek permission from all rights holders for the electronic use of an audio or audio-visual clip, even if the clip comes from a commercial recording you have purchased, even if it is short. Some symphony orchestras may be under the impression that using short excerpts meets the defined exemption in copyright law of Fair Use. We are not attorneys, but our reading of the Fair Use section of U.S. copyright law is that the use of clips in an advertisement does not constitute Fair Use. Our reasoning is that the use is a commercial one, to promote the sale of tickets to performances. The fact that the entity selling the tickets is a non-profit organization does not mean the use is a non-commercial use. (We think it MIGHT be consistent with Fair Use, if the purpose of the clips were educational or an activity that did not generate any revenue at all.) Unfortunately, the language in the law is not clear, so it is up to symphony orchestras to decide whether their use of copyrighted material requires them to ask permission from rights holders, or take a risk by just using the clips and hoping the copyright holders do not complain. This is obviously a risky legal strategy we cannot recommend. In our opinion, symphony orchestras should not use the recorded content of others without seeking permission, even if they are legally allowed to do so. The golden rule says you should not do to others what you would not want done to you. If symphony orchestras presume the consent of others, how can they demand to be consulted about the use of their own content? It may be more cumbersome to ask permission, but it's the right thing to do.
Q: Does the national Audio-Visual Agreement with the AFM allow us to show our gala opening concert for free on video screens outside our concert hall?
A: The Audio-Visual Agreement does not apply to activities that take place solely within the geographical boundaries of the AFM Local with which your orchestra has a collective bargaining agreement (CBA). If such closed-circuit broadcasts are not covered by your CBA, you will have to get permission from the musicians and/or local union personnel (as well as others involved, including conductor, soloists, and stagehands). You will also need to obtain permission from the music publisher or composer if you are presenting a copyrighted work.


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A Morning Coma is when a person wakes up and for a few seconds and/or minutes forgets where they are, what time it is, and what day it is.
I had to give Ethan the time, date, and day of the week because he had such a bad Morning Coma after waking up.
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To use strings, you need to place them globally on a single line. The first word is " and the second word is the name of the string. The third word is a "terminating word" (typically a quote but can be anything).
" HelloWorld " Hello World! " " PromptString - "Would you like to play a game?" - " SillyString EndOfString This is a dumb way to end a string with more than one line. EndOfString
Then using the word "HelloWorld" will give you the address of this string. If you use a string, the compiler will place it in flash at the end of your program. Multiline strings get CRLF at the end of each line (except the last line). If you omit the "end token" the " character is the default. Note if you want extra bytes on the first line, you must specify the end token as well.
If you want to put extra bytes at the front or end of a string you can do that by putting them on the first or last line. So:
" CountAndNullString " 5 Hello " 0
This makes a string of "\005Hello\000"
You can also put the word "pack" (must be lowercase) in the 4th position to get a packed string (see the assembler doc for more on packed strings).
" packingstring " pack 5 Hello " 0
If you want a counted string, you can automatically add a word count to the start of a string with #:
" astring " # This counts " 0
This counts the number of characters (words). In a packed string, it still counts the number of words, not characters. The count is not included in the word count. So, in the above example, there are 12 characters (including the 0 but not including the count itself).
You can use @f-addr and @f-next to access the string, or see monitor.4th for a ." word that will print a zero terminated string.
The Library
The compiler doesn't really understand any words other than the interpreted words. All of the normal words appear in header files. The basic core words use assembly language and then many of the words build on those core words.
There are two library files included with each program: 1forth.lib contains basic words or words that use assembly for efficiency. The forth-core.lib file contains definitions that use other Forth words exclusively (and would not require porting for a new platform). The compiler driver script includes the forth-core.lib file first so that the machine-specific file can override things in the generic library. For example, both library files might have integer multiply words, but presumably the specific version is preferable.
In addition, programs can include monitor.4th if they need to use services from the One-Der monitor (for example, printing and reading numbers from the serial terminal).


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3D Archery Shoot and Free Park Entrance
Location: Lovewell State Park
Type: 3D Archery Tournament; Free park vehicle entrance.
Date: Sunday, September 08, 2019
Contact: Thane Loring
Phone No: (785) 753-4971
Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
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3D Archery Shoot begins at 9 am - Individuals compete on 14 station 3D archery range. Divisions for Men, Women, Youth. Steel Deer Target Contest at 12 noon. Prizes awarded at 1 pm. Free Park Entrance Day, no vehicle permits required.


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2007-08 was quite a season for the Red Wings' second round selection in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. In his third season starring with Michigan State, a season in which he finished second on the team in scoring (40 points in 42 contest) as well as a finishing as MSU's penalty leader (a whopping 107 minutes in penalties), the young winger turned pro, playing 2 games in the red and white of the Wings.
On September 2, Abdelkader had his turn with the Stanley Cup, and took it home to Muskegon, Michigan. A private plane met Justin at the airport at 9:00AM, and he was raring to go. He had 8 hours to spend with Lord Stanley's mug, and filled his time admirably.
The first stop for Abdelkader was the Muskegon Country Club, where Justin was joined for breakfast by 50 family members and friends. Then, they drove over to Reeths-Puffer High School, where Justin's Dad teaches. A stop at the Lakeshore Sports Center returned Justin to the rink where he had played as a youngster. Then, it was a stop at Mona Shores High School, where Abdelkader graduated in 2007. The school held an assembly in his honour, and a very proud alumnus carried the Stanley Cup into the auditorium to the roar of students and faculty alike. Justin credits his time playing hockey at the Muskegon high school for accelerating his development as a player.
Back at the Abdelkader home, Justin hosted a party, but by 5:00pm, the Cup had to be packed away and head off to its next assignment, in this case, an evening with captain Nicklas Lidstrom. "I only got it for a few hours, but it was better than nothing," smiled the young winger. There is little doubt that the NHL veteran of 2 games will have plenty of opportunities to attempt to get another day with the Stanley Cup in the years ahead.
Netminder Jimmy Howard is another prospect with a very bright future. In 2005-06, he made his NHL debut playing 4 games with Detroit. During that brief stint, Howard set a record by facing penalty shots in his first two NHL games. In 2007-08, he again played 4 games with the Wings. Breaking into a crease that featured Chris Osgood and Dominik Hasek is a formidable task, but with The Dominator's retirement, Jimmy hopes that he will be able to compete with Ty Conklin for a spot backing Osgood, and becomes the heir apparent to one day assume Detroit's first-string goalie role.
Jimmy, joined by his father, met the Stanley Cup in Ottawa, Ontario on September 4, and the two drove with the Cup for just over an hour to the family home in Ogdensburg, New York. Ogdensburg is located in northern New York State, just across the St. Lawrence from Canada.
Jimmy and his girlfriend had a gorgeous red convertible waiting, and drove the Stanley Cup to several spots within the city. The young goaltender felt it important to visit several area schools. "It just goes to show if you have a dream and you set goals and want to accomplish something, you can," he told the fascinated students. On behalf of all the students at each of the schools, Ogdensburg City School District Superintendent Hal Barry thanked Howard for his unselfish act of sharing the champions' trophy with the wide-eyed students.
After visiting the schools, Jimmy took the Cup to City Hall, where he met with Ogdensburg mayor William Nelson, who congratulated the champion on his team's accomplishment.
The Howards then hosted a backyard Stanley Cup party for family, friends and nerighbours. Jimmy's Dad, a teacher, coaches a soccer team, and all the little hit kickers were invited to meet Jimmy and get a picture with the Stanley Cup. Jimmy then took the Cup over to a park near the St. Lawrence where a gigantic turnout of fans waited to get the graphs (auto and photo).
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NEW YORK - This Christmas, if Ralphie ever actually does shoot his eye out with a Red Ryder BB Gun, don't worry. There's a spare Ralphie.
Johnny Rabe and Joe West, both 12, are taking turns playing the bespectacled, daydreaming hero in a musical stage version of the cult film "A Christmas Story."
Both grew up watching the 1983 movie, both initially auditioned by submitting videos and both are now making their Broadway debuts.
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In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, Joe West, left, and Johnny Rabe pose in front of one of the props from 'A Christmas Story, the Musical' in New York. Both 12-year-old boys are making their Broadway debuts playing Ralphie in the stage adaptation of the cult 1983 film. (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
"It's so great to be here," Rabe says during a joint interview in a rehearsal room. His co-star agrees: "I'm very excited but, at the same time, nervous."
The film and musical are based on writer and radio-TV personality Jean Shepherd's semi-autobiographical story of 9-year-old Ralphie Parker's desperate attempt to land an air rifle as a Christmas gift, despite warnings from everyone that he'll shoot his eye out.
Like the film, the musical features a menacing school bully, an annoying kid brother, an eccentric father, a lace-stocking-clad leg lamp, a bright pink bunny suit and a kid who gets his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole during a triple-dog-dare.
"It's cool to be playing such an iconic character," says Rabe. "I mean, a lot of people know Ralphie. They know who he is. They know the gun, the glasses, the cheesy smile, the daydreaming."
The show has more than a dozen catchy songs written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul - titles include "Red Ryder Carbine Action BB Gun" and "A Major Award" - and a book by Joseph Robinette. It also stars Dan Lauria, who played the dad in "The Wonder Years."
But the stars are really Rabe and West, who will shoulder the role of Ralphie for as many as nine shows a week. Though Rabe will take the bulk of the Ralphies, the boys insist there's no competition.
"We both have it so it's going to be great," says West, from Valencia, Calif., who has already played Oliver in "Oliver" and Jem in "To Kill a Mockingbird" in California.
"Both of us really just want to have a great time," says Rabe, from Naperville, Ill., who has appeared in productions of "The Music Man" and "For the Boys" in his native state.
John Rando, the show's director, is grateful he's landed two Ralphies oozing talent. "We're talking about these very young boys, but yet their confidence levels and their professionalism is extremely high," he says.
West was almost born to be doing this - his parents, Maura West and Scott DeFreitas, are actors who met on the soap opera "As the World Turns." Rabe's parents have no connection with show business but their son has loved theater since he was 2. Both boys are being homeschooled by their moms during the show's run.
A rough early version of the show debuted in Kansas City in 2009 with a different creative team. Since then, it's found a director in Rando ("Urinetown: The Musical") and a choreographer in Warren Carlyle ("Finian's Rainbow"). Last year, a version with a different Ralphie went on a five-city tour. That actor aged out of the role - at 13 - and a national search was launched.
Rabe knew the part since he'd been in the tour's ensemble. Rando says the creative team had been quietly considering the young man as a good choice one day to play Ralphie.
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Along the way, the two boys have bonded. Quick to joke around but equally serious when it comes to work, Rabe and West have learned how to tap dance and discovered that they both like fencing. They're also earning a paycheck for being on Broadway.
How much? They're too polite to say.
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Annual, perennial herb, shrubs, generally bristly or sharply hairy
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves cauline, often with basal rosette, generally simple, alternate; lower sometimes opposite, entire
Inflorescence: cyme, generally elongate, panicle-, raceme- or spike-like, coiled in flower, generally uncoiled in fruit or flowers 12 per axil
Flowers generally bisexual, generally radial; sepals 5, free or fused in lower half; corolla 5-lobed, generally salverform, top of tube generally appendaged, appendages 5, alternating with stamens, sometimes arching over tube; stamens 5, epipetalous; ovary superior, generally 4-lobed, style generally entire
Fruit: nutlets 14, smooth to variously roughened, sometimes prickly or bristled
Genera in family: ± 100 genera, ± 2000 species: tropical, temp, especially w North America, Medit; some cultivated (Borago, Echium, Myosotis, Symphytum ).
Almost all genera may be TOXIC from alkaloids or accumulated nitrates
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Hydrophyllaceae [Olmsted et al. 2000 Mol Phylog Evol 16:96112]
Family description, key to genera by Timothy C. Messick.
Perennial (rarely biennial); hairs appressed to spreading; caudex generally branched in age, often ± woody, taprooted
Stem ascending or erect
Leaves: lowest generally with petioles ± = blades, ± winged; other leaves generally sessile, becoming bract-like toward inflorescence
Inflorescence: cymes, generally ± terminal, generally > 3, generally arrayed in panicles, coiled at tips
Flower radial; corolla rotate-salverform, with appendage near base of each lobe
Fruit: nutlets erect, > style, generally with lateral-medial scar, generally with barb-tipped prickles on margin and exposed face
Species in genus: 40 species: generally w North America, se Asia
Etymology: (J. Hackel, Czech botanist, born 1783)
Reference: [Gentry & Carr 1976 Mem New York Bot Gard 26:121227]
Difficult genus needing much work, especially in n CA, se Asia; sometimes merged with Lappula
Horticultural information: TRY; DFCLT.
Stem 47 dm; hairs generally sparse below middle, very sparse to 0 above, often ± spreading
Leaves: caudex 312 cm, 625 mm wide, ± oblong to oblanceolate; lower cauline generally smaller, often sessile, becoming ovate to lanceolate upward; uppermost subclasping
Flower: corolla dark to purplish blue, tube generally >> calyx, limb 511(14) mm wide
Fruit: nutlets 46 mm, facial prickles many, ± as long as marginal
Ecology: Open slopes, forests, forest clearings
Elevation: 17003000 m.
Bioregional distribution: High Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada.


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Usually the first impression is sufficient to enough to decide whether the bag is a 'Go' or a 'No, No'. But as for the Louis Vuitton St Germaine Bag in Monogram Empreinte, let's give it a second look.
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For some time now I have been fascinated by the phenomenon of football and the place it currently holds in society. My interest started as purely abstract and visceral. Living near Arsenal stadium I would often hear the distant roar of a mass of voices on the wind; thousands of people singing their hearts out in unison with a fervour and commitment rarely heard outside a concert hall.
At that time I asked a friend who was going to a match to take a tape recorder and record the whole event. Then I created a piece (Arsenal: Trevor's Conversion, also written for string quartet, piano and voices) using fragments of these field recordings – chants, cheers, boos, rants – which inform and drive the piece in various ways.
I wondered whether Ingerland could be an opportunity to continue playing with and developing ideas around football chants, and also to explore ideas around the drama of the game, and around ritual, trance, worship, tribalism and identity, as well as heightened emotions – ecstatic, exuberant, gutted – and maniacal vitriol...
The director Matthew Lenton, who is used to devising new work with his theatre company, was suggested by a friend. I was happy that he encouraged me to go with my instincts and not start with a libretto. Not that I rule out the possibility of bringing in a librettist/dramaturg at some point, but I wanted the piece to evolve gradually, alongside workshops with the singers and discussions with Matthew and visual artist Dragan Aleksic (the other principal member of the creative team), before a libretto took the piece in a particular direction. I also wanted to play with non-verbal chants and onomatopoeia, and with reportage of particular football matches that I have found.
The workshop days in November, with Matthew and six singers, were very fruitful. A lot of playing, talking and vocalising. Small narrative ideas started to emerge from some of the real-life stories that were shared, and I went away and continued to produce and record material at home, occasionally calling in one of the singers to replace my squeaky vocals.
As well as making new audio field recordings from various matches I attended, Dragan and I were interested in doing a series of videoed interviews of supporters about their relationship to the game. How we might use these in our piece isn't yet clear but I've learned a lot from the material we've collected so far. I had no idea how deep the emotions run for some people, and the degree of importance this game holds in their lives.
I went to a match with some friends and watched this sudden transformation in them: faces contorted with rage, swearing and roaring at the tops of their voices. I had mixed feelings about it: on the one hand I find it strange that people get so worked up about 22 millionaires kicking a ball, but it did seem to be an incredibly cathartic experience.
We are at a stage now where we have a lot of material and are not yet sure which direction to focus on, or whether all the disparate elements can be married together so that small narrative ideas will thread through the more abstract, atmospheric material, going from impressionistic bursts of raw emotions – profound and prosaic, primitive and poetic – to more conventional songs relating to particular characters (e.g. a father and son trying to bond through the medium of football, WAGS worried about their weight/boyfriend's fidelity).
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We've passed the halfway mark in our current adventure, so I thought I'd post a quick recap for the story so far for new players joining the adventure.
- Hack 'N' Slash Hero features an elite band of inter-dimensional heroes, the 'Warriors of the Eternal Quest', who are available for hire to save worlds in peril
- The realm of Visgarthia has requested their services to save them from being annihilated by their nemesis, the Affliction – a dark horde of destructive monsters
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- Crystals that contain these powers are situated in a different locations across Visgarthia – two have already been found, and our current hero Ironfist (a sentient steam-man) is searching in an icy tundra for the final one
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To promote my horror novel, AFRAID, which debuts March 31, I'm eating seventeen Leprechauns. Ha! Kidding! I'm blog touring.
Today is St. Patrick's Day. I'm not Irish, but I am today, because the bars open at 8am and it's the only day my wife lets me drink before noon.
I start the tour this fine morning at the terrific blog of Maurice Broaddus, where we discuss extreme horror.
Then I'm off to Amy Krueger's blog, Random Thoughts.
Then to Dana Kaye's blog, The Chicago Contingent.
Nick Kelly has some nice things to say about Afraid it over at Horrorview:
Susan Tunis thought Afraid was sick, but still enjoyed it, reviewing it on her blog:
Sara J. Henry thought it was repulsive, and didn't enjoy it:
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RIVERSIDE — An Orange Coast College football sympathizer wagged his head from side to side in the first half of the Pirates' 61-17 East Division loss to unbeaten Riverside and echoed a time-honored coaching axiom.
"You can't coach speed," he said.
One can, however, coach speed if one coaches in Riverside, a wellspring for the kind of swiftness that enables many of today's preferred strategic schemes on both sides of the ball.
The visiting Tigers (6-0, 1-0 in the division), the defending East Division champions who are ranked No. 4 in the state and Southern California, used an ample supply of speed to overwhelm the Pirates.
Even OCC's running game, which came in rated No. 1 in the state at more than 307 yards per game —behind the state's leading rusher, freshman Domenic Betts — proved to be anything but a sure bet against the swarming Tigers.
Betts, who came in averaging nearly 182 yards per contest and had gained no fewer than 158 in a game this season, finished with 24 rushing yards on 25 carries against the No. 1 rushing defense in the 37-school Southern California Football Assn. His lone reception produced no yards.
OCC managed 102 rushing yards on 39 attempts, more than double the 41.8-yard average the Tigers had surrendered in their first five games. But 65 of that came on a broken play that Bill Chimphalee turned into a touchdown run early in the second half.
Nine times RCC brought Betts down behind the line and twice it tackled the fastest back in recent OCC history for no gain. Eight times, Betts gained no more than three yards and his longest carry of the night resulted in nine yards.
"They are a better team, defensively, than I thought they were," OCC Coach Mike Taylor said of the Tigers, who have now outscored opponents, 322-94, this season. "We haven't faced a team that can run like that. We couldn't get anything going."
RCC Coach Tom Kraft agreed that speed swayed things his team's way.
"I thought we could distribute the ball with our passing game open, or close it with our run game," Craft said. "We have fullbacks, wingbacks and wide receivers.
"And, defensively, we've got that same variety. We've got a lot of speed on defense. That was probably the difference in the game."
The game was all but decided early in the second quarter when RCC opened a 24-0 lead.
Betts capped a 10-play drive that included three first downs on RCC penalties with a three-yard touchdown run to put the hosts (2-4, 0-1) on the scoreboard late in the first half.
Riverside surrendered 179 yards on 19 penalties.
OCC, which trailed, 31-7, at intermission, scored three plays into the second half when Chimphalee scooped up a bouncing, wayward pitch in the backfield and, running opposite the flow of the play, gashed the Tigers for a 65-yard touchdown.
OCC's only other points came on a 53-yard field goal by Jackson Dionne (two yards short of Lucas Vandeman's school-record achieved last season).
OCC middle linebacker Nick Cody made a diving interception late in the first half and led the Pirates with 10 tackles. OCC outside linebacker Aaron Jones had two tackles for losses, but Riverside amassed 476 yards of total offense, more than double OCC's 210.
RCC running backs Andre Hunt and EJ Schexnayder both reached triple-digits (104 and 109, respectively) and combined for three touchdowns.
RCC quarterback Dalton Livingston threw for 171 yards and three TDs and even the special teams added to the abundance of big plays.
Sedale Foster returned a punt 79 yards for a first-quarter touchdown to help the Tigers amass 270 return yards on kickoffs and punts.
OCC punted eight times, turned it over on downs three times and had one turnover (RCC safety Chris Gonzalez's sixth interception of the season).
The 61 points allowed are the most since a 66-14 loss to Mt. San Antonio College in 1997.
It marked only the third time in OCC history that an opponent had scored at least 60.
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Riverside 61, Orange Coast 17
Riverside 21 –10 – 7 –23 — 61
Orange Coast 0 – 7 – 7 – 3 — 17
RCC – Foster 20 pass from Livingston (Feer kick), 10:40.
RCC – Greenwalt 4 pass from Livingston (Feer kick), 6:45.
RCC – Foster 79 punt return (Feer kick), 0:22.
RCC – Beer 24 FG, 8:39.
OCC – Betts 3 run (Dionne kick), 4:21.
RCC – Hunt 20 run (Feer kick), 2:44.
OCC – Chimphalee 65 run (Dionne kick), 13:22.
RCC – Brown 18 pass from Livingston (Feer kick), 3:42.
RCC – Hunt 14 run (Feer kick), 12:47.
OCC – Dionne 53 FG, 9:09.
RCC – Schexnayder 68 run (Feer kick), 8:06.
RCC – Jackson 1 run (Freer kick), 3:55.
RCC – Safety: sack in end zone, 3:03.
RCC – Scheznayder, 8-109, 1 TD; Hunt, 11-104, 2 TDs.
OCC – Chimphalee, 3-73, 1 TD; Betts, 25-24, 1 TD.
RCC – Livingston, 16-29-1, 171, 3 TDs.
OCC – Frank, 17-36-1, 108.
RCC – Foster, 4-36, 1 TD.
OCC – Duncan, 4-43.


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VIDEO: Daily Zap for games played June 10
Leonard gives Spurs a preview of their future | Hollins still hoping for coaching gig | Report: Lakers meet with Scott again | Nowitzki: Chances 'slim to none' he'll leave Mavs | Battier a master at stealing play-calls
No. 1: Leonard gives Spurs an early look at their future — Through the first two games of The Finals, Kawhi Leonard was a virtual non-factor as he had just 18 points in the series and was being outplayed by his matchup, LeBron James. The Heat's star had another solid game (22 points), but Leonard broke out of his funk in a major way in Game 3. He poured in 29 points and powered San Antonio's rout and as our Steve Aschburner notes, gave the Spurs a good look at what the team might look like when Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker hang it up:
Kawhi Leonard, the presumptive future of the San Antonio Spurs, was sorely needed in the present, lest these 2014 Finals slip too quickly into his and the Spurs' past.
So the future was now in Game 3 against the Miami Heat, Leonard scoring a career-high 29 points and shadowing LeBron James into the sort of mere-mortal game San Antonio will need if it hopes to do this year what it couldn't do last.
Leonard was jerked out of his foul-plagued funk in the two games in San Antonio by some pep talks and tough love from the Spurs' Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan as if he was, oh, Roy Hibbert. And he responded, mostly by ignoring the circumstances of these games and playing as if this were January.
Offensively, Leonard attacked Miami from the start, hitting all five of his shots in the first quarter and scoring 16 of the Spurs' 41 points that period. Defensively the 6-foot-7 forward with the pterodactyl wingspan and Wolverine hands helped limit James to 22 points, just eight over the final three quarters when San Antonio's fat lead cried out for something special after halftime.
Leonard had been outscored 60-18 by James in Games 1 and 2 combined, but he had the edge this time by seven. By relaxing, by seizing the moment while forgetting how momentous it was, Leonard sparked the Spurs to a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and stuck Miami with its first home loss of the postseason (8-1).
"That's how he's played all year long," Popovich said. "He's got to be one of our better players on the court or we're not good enough. That's just the way it is.
"You know, it's the NBA Finals. You can't just be mediocre out there if you want to win a game, and everybody's got to play well, and he did that."
Popovich acknowledged that he and others within the team had talked with Leonard in the two off-days before Game 3, though he declined to share. "Family business," the Spurs coach called it.
Though the specifics were cloaked, the message seemed obvious.
"We just wanted him to be who he's been the whole year, in the regular season and in the playoffs," Popovich said. He said Leonard "overreacted" to the fouls called against him and "became very cautious." "And he doesn't play like that," the coach added.
Said Duncan: "We've been on him about continuing to play."
Leonard's 29 points weren't just his NBA career high – they apparently were the most he'd scored since high school. He had 26 for San Diego State as a freshman in a game at Wyoming, Yahoo! Sports' Marc Spears reported, and 26 in an April game against Memphis this season. He's the first player to set his personal scoring high in a Finals game since the Nets' Kenyon Martin went for 35 in Game 4 against the Lakers in 2002.
VIDEO: Relive the best moments from Kawhi Leonard's monster Game 3
No. 2: Hollins still hoping for to land a coaching gig — The New York Knicks officially named Derek Fisher as coach yesterday. Over the weekend, the Utah Jazz picked former Hawks assistant Quin Snyder as their new man. As well, vacancies in Minnesota (Flip Saunders), Detroit (Stan Van Gundy) and elsewhere are drying up fast as teams prepare for 2014-15. Former Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins was mentioned for many of the above openings, but obviously hasn't gotten a new job just yet. He spoke with BasketballInsiders.com's Yannis Koutroupis about his desire to land an NBA coaching job before too long:
Hollins boasts a career record of 214-201 overall and an 18-17 mark in playoff games, highlighted by a trip to the 2013 Western Conference Finals. He's one of the most proven and experienced head coaches on the market. Yet, since he's become a free agent, 12 coaches with no prior NBA head coaching experience have been hired.
"It is [weird]," Hollins said to Basketball Insiders at adidas Eurocamp, where he is volunteering, when asked about still being without a job. "You would think with the success that I've had that something would have happened already but it's just part of the process. There are a lot of other guys that are out there that aren't even interviewing. I look at Scott Skiles and I look at Vinny Del Negro, guys like Jeff Van Gundy who is still sitting out there, George Karl who's still sitting out there. There are a lot of people that have had much success and aren't even getting calls to be interviewed. It's kind of a crazy and wacky world right now.
"Unfortunately a lot of teams have filled their positions and there are only a couple left and hopefully I'll be the number one guy for somebody as we go forward. Everywhere I've interviewed I've felt like it was an organization that I would want to be a part of and a job that had some prospects. Obviously it's up to the team and the person making the call on what they want and whether or not they think you fit what they're trying to do."
Hollins has already interviewed with the Cavaliers and the Lakers and is still in the running for both openings.
"I would have to consider it if I want to stay in the league and there were no head coaching opportunities," Hollins said. "It's not something that I think about. It's not something that I want to think about. My focus is on trying to be a head coach. I don't want to go back to being a lead assistant and be a lead assistant for the next seven, eight or nine years and then they tell me that I'm too old to be a head coach."
No. 3: Report: Lakers, Scott talk again — Former Lakers standout Byron Scott was nothing if not confident after having an interview with L.A. for its coaching opening. Scott told the media after his first interview that he'd be the 'perfect' coach for Kobe Bryant and could get the Lakers back to their winning ways. The Lakers continue to mull their options for their next coach and Scott might be high on the list. ESPNLosAngeles.com's Dave McMenamin reports that he and the team had another discussion about L.A.'s opening:
Byron Scott met with the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday to discuss the team's vacant coaching position for the second time, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
Scott met with vice president of player personnel Jim Buss and general manager Mitch Kupchak. Thus far, he is the only candidate to be interviewed twice by the Lakers.
While Scott is a clear front-runner, sources said talks have not escalated to the point where the sides are discussing contractual terms.
Scott, a former longtime Laker who played with Kobe Bryant during Bryant's rookie season, has spoken with Bryant several times throughout the Lakers' coaching search.
No. 4: Nowitzki laughs off talk of his interest in joining Rockets — A casual glance at NBA.com's list of the top 25 free agents this summer lists Dallas Mavericks stalwart and superstar Dirk Nowitzki at No. 3. The Mavs are the only team Nowitzki has known throughout his NBA career and as he nears the free-agent period, he told the Dallas Morning News' Eddie Sefko doesn't expect that to change anytime soon:
Dirk Nowitzki left no doubt on Tuesday that he has a fear of the unknown, especially when it involves his future.
As he entertained and interacted with about 100 kids at the T. Boone Pickens YMCA in downtown Dallas, Nowitzki took time to explain that he expects to be a free agent on July 1 – for less than a day, if possible.
"Usually, we get it over quick," Nowitzki said. "Four years ago, I met with Mark (Cuban) on July 2nd. I don't like the period of not knowing what's going on. I don't like the unknown. Mark and I will hopefully find a good deal for both parties.
"We have not had any talks yet, but I'm sure that won't take a long time."
Asked if he saw any chance of him not being a Maverick next season, Nowitzki said: "Pretty slim to none. We all know I kind of grew up here in the Mavericks' (organization)."
Nowitzki even laughed when it was mentioned that the Houston Rockets – bitter rivals down Interstate 45 and the team that Dwight Howard spurned the Mavericks and Nowitzki for last summer in free agency – have been mentioned as a possible landing spot for him.
"The quote was more that they're going for every guy that's out there," he said.
"And that, I guess, includes me. But I doubt I'll be out there long."
No. 5: Battier a master at intercepting foes' play-calling — Heat forward Shane Battier has made it known that he's retiring at the end of The Finals and his 3-point stroke won't be the only thing Miami misses next season. According to Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald, though, Battier is perhaps the NBA's best at intercepting play-calling by opposing coaches. Battier says he's worked on that skill since he was a player at Duke University and has further honed it in the NBA:
Battier said he has relayed the Spurs' play calls to teammates several times during these Finals but said it's more challenging with coach Gregg Popovich because "he has about 500 plays."
Battier said he has been intercepting play calls "since college [at Duke]. It's something [coach Mike Krzyzewski] coached us on. I think it's effective. Half the time, I may not know what the call is, but if the opponent thinks I know what's going to happen, doubt creeps in.
"Aside from little wrinkles, there are very few secrets in NBA playoff basketball play-calling. For the most part, I think it's an effective strategy. If I was ever a coach, I would tell my players to do the same thing."
Battier said he has become skilled at doing it by "studying everything pretty diligently. I try to verse myself in hand gestures, key words, audibles. I try to know it all."
How helpful is it?
"I couldn't quantify, but it's like having the answers to the test," Battier said.
"Wouldn't you like having the answers to the test before you take it or while you're taking it?"
Ray Allen said Battier's acumen for deciphering play calls makes a difference.
"It helps you have a pro-active defense," Allen said. "You can jump in front of screens. Shane is a like a coach on the sidelines. He will say who the ball is going to, from the court or the sidelines."
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Our David Aldridge breaks down what might happen next with Donald Sterling and the sale of the L.A. Clippers … It can't be watched enough — relive every bucket from the Spurs' amazing, historic first half in Game 3 … Nuggets high-energy forward Kenneth Faried has an offseason goal of turning himself into a superstar … Does having Al Jefferson in the fold make the Hornets a more appealing free-agent destination? … Pacers assistant coach and former NBA coach Nate McMillan is drawing interest for a couple of vacancies … Are the Bulls underpaying coach Tom Thibodeau? …
ICYMI of the Night:Kawhi Leonard's offense is getting a lot of attention this morning, but don't overlook the defensive work he put in throughout Game 3 …
VIDEO: Kawhi Leonard played solid defense throughout Game 3


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Gary Lackore's Corvette runs with the big boys for a fraction of the cost
Anyone can do a lot with a lot. It's doing a lot for a little that takes some serious game. While there's nothing wrong with running 11s in a supercharged big-block, fourth-gen Camaros can run just as fast with a cam swap and headers, so it takes the pimp factor out of all those pressurized cubic inches. Similarly, pulling 1.27-second 60-foot times is plenty mean, but doing it with tubs and a four-link is merely "meh." Doing it with leaf springs and 275mm radials is downright heroic. Although similar examples abound in the world of drag racing, transforming a lumbering muscle car into an apex-slicing machine always costs big bucks. Or does it? Since the stock suspension systems in most muscle cars are heaping piles of poorly engineered junk, it's only natural to draw such conclusions. Nevertheless, there is an often-overlooked exception to the rule, and it's called the C3 Corvette. As machines built to run with the Porsches and Ferraris of its day at a fraction of the cost, it doesn't take much for C3s to stick it to the big boys. Resounding proof comes in the form of Gary Lackore's 1971 Corvette. Despite making do with a mostly stock suspension, mostly stock brakes, and a mostly stock Gen I small-block Chevy, it hangs with pro-built and pro-driven g-Machines on the autocross. Credit some of that to GM engineers, and some of it to Gary's car-building savvy. This is one man who has got doing a lot for a little down to a science.
As a kid growing up in Iowa, Gary caught the hot rodding bug while sweeping the floors at his dad's auto parts store. Although he dreamed of owning a Corvette someday, he cut his teeth on a more affordable 1968 Coronet that served as his high school car. "We sold performance parts as well as stock replacement parts at my dad's store, so I figured it would be good advertising to have a fast car. I pulled out the 318 small-block, dropped in a 440, and ran 11.80s in the car at the track," he recalls. When he turned 18, Gary saved up enough money to buy his first Corvette, a 1968 convertible with a 427 big-block and a four-speed manual trans. Two more C3 Corvettes came and went over the years, but getting rid of the last one was particularly painful. "After my son was born in 1987, I had to pay some hospital bills and didn't need a two-seater anymore, so the Corvette had to go. Not long after that, my wife decided that we needed some new furniture, so I had to sell the Coronet."
After a 21-year hiatus, Gary wanted to get back in the game. He tracked down a nice 1971 Corvette online, and flew out the next day to check it out, hoping that he wouldn't have to use the return ticket. "I saw the ad online for an original four-speed LT1 1971 Corvette on a Thursday, and I was trailering it home with a U-Haul on Friday. Once you get a taste for high performance it's hard to get it out of your system," he admits. "I wanted a nice driver like the Corvette I sold back in 1987, and although this car had some wiring issues, clutch problems, and a whiny rearend, the body and frame were in great shape. As I started building this car, my goal was to improve its performance while keeping it retro and old school. That's why I stuck with the 350 small-block and the Muncie four-speed. I thought about upgrading to an LS small-block and a five-speed, but I couldn't justify the cost. I wanted to make it as close to a Pro Touring car as possible without putting the latest and greatest technology in it. Don't get me wrong, modern technology is great, but I wanted this car to be a testament to how good some of the older technology was."
While revamping the underpinnings of a Chevelle or first-gen Camaro to modern standards requires swapping out control arms, installing drop spindles, revising suspension pickup points, and bolting up sway bars where none previously existed, the bulk of the C3 suspension hardware is ready for battle straight out of the box. The suspension mods on Gary's Corvette are limited to Koni shocks, Global West strut rods, and a stiffer rear leaf spring and traction bars from Vette Brakes & Products. The factory brakes—11.75-inch discs with four-piston calipers—are so capable that Gary didn't even bother swapping them out for aftermarket units. Then there's that factory Corvette independent rear suspension to keep the back planted. The foundation for all this factory-engineered goodness is a beautifully balanced and lightweight chassis. "At the Goodguys show, I had my car corner-weighted in the RideTech booth. It weighed 3,250 pounds, and the weight was nearly identical at all four corners of the car," Gary recalls.
Talking trash about the greatness of the C3 chassis is useless without some pertinent evidence, and this Vette has the lap times to back up it all up. At the Goodguys Lone Star Nationals last spring, Gary's C3 finished in Fifth Place out of a field of 32 entrants in the Street Machine class. That's pretty darn impressive considering that some of the cars that finished ahead of him were built and driven by pros, while others had paintjobs that cost more than Gary's entire car. He figures that he's got about $30,000 invested in his Vette, which is close to what you'd have to pay to get a bone-stock first-gen Camaro or Chevelle in similar condition to Gary's car. So what's the secret to building a machine that performs so well around an autocross for such a reasonable bundle of cash? Saving money up front is half the battle. "These cars have steadily appreciated over time, but you can still buy a 1968-72 steel-bumper Corvette that needs little to no bodywork for $20,000. They don't have the best ride quality, but it doesn't take much work to get them to handle very well," Gary says.
With such a dialed-in and balanced chassis, a behemoth motor isn't necessary to run blistering lap times. Gary says less than 2,000 LT1 engines made their way into Corvettes in 1971, so it's not surprising that he stored the original short-block away for safe keeping in his garage. In its place is a 355ci small-block Chevy based on a four-bolt block and a forged rotating assembly. It breathes through World Products iron cylinder heads, an Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake manifold, and a Holley 750-cfm carburetor. As a tribute to the original LT1, a COMP 248/248-at-.050 solid roller camshaft provides plenty of duration for high-rpm operation. The old-school combo lays down a respectable 362 rear-wheel horsepower, which is more than enough to get the job done. "The autocross is not about horsepower. It's about being smooth and making the most of the power that you've got," Gary opines. "I've only been autocrossing for four years, but I've learned that you can't be scared to drive your car hard. I don't care about hitting cones because the scuff marks will come right off. If I break the car, hey it's just a 1971 Chevy, not some $100,000 trailer queen."
Considering everything these early C3 Corvettes have going for them, the fact that you can buy one for such a reasonable price is a paradigm of irony at its finest. They may have been far more expensive than the typical F-body or A-body during the 1960s and 1970s, but 40 years later market demand had dictated that Vettes are now the cheaper cars. The hierarchy has reversed, which means that the lumbering solid-axle yachts of yore command a premium over their agile independently suspended stable mates. Of course, anyone can do a lot with a lot, and even yachts can handle well with a catalog full of parts, however if the goal is to build a car that can rip through an autocross or road course on a budget, the less expensive C3 Corvette—and its far more sophisticated suspension—promises to do a lot for a little.
1971 Chevy Corvette
Gary Lackore
Frisco, TX
Type: Chevy 355ci small-block
Block: factory iron bored to 4.030 inches
Oiling: Melling pump; Canton pan and Accusump
Rotating assembly: Scat forged steel 3.480-inch crank, GM rods, Sealed Power 11.0:1 forged pistons
Cylinder heads: World Products Sportsman II iron castings with 2.02/1.60-inch valves
Camshaft: COMP Cams 248/248-at-.050 solid roller; .525/.525-inch lift; 110-degree LSA
Valvetrain: COMP Cams valvesprings, retainers, lifters, pushrods, and 1.6:1 rocker arms
Induction: Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake manifold, Holley 750-cfm carburetor
Ignition: Mallory distributor, coil, and plug wires
Exhaust: Hooker 1.875-inch headers/side pipes, Spiral Turbo baffles, dual 4-inch outlets
Output: 362 hp and 366 lb-ft at rear wheels
Transmission: Muncie M22 four-speed, Spec aluminum flywheel, McLeod twin-disc clutch, Hurst shifter
Rear axle: factory independent rear suspension with 4.11:1 gears, 31-spline axles, and limited-slip differential
Front suspension: stock with Koni coilovers and urethane bushings
Rear suspension: VBP 420-pound leaf spring and traction bars; Global West strut rods, Koni shocks
Brakes: stock GM 11.75-inch discs with EBC pads, front and rear
Wheels & Tires
Wheels: Vintage Wheel Works V40 17×8, front; 18×9.5, rear
Tires: Nitto NT555; 245/45R17 (front) and 285/40R18 (rear)