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OK, I've got diarrhea of the fingers and am not doing a very good job organizing my thoughts, so this one might ramble a bit. Bear with me – tonight's topic is book reviews.
I think I've said it before: I don't relish writing book reviews. I'm much more comfortable commenting on certain aspects of books I've read, well aware that I'm just a guy, like most of you, and my assessment of the overall worth of the fruit of someone's labor should carry no more weight than that of anyone else.
One of my many pet peeves is reviews written by individuals who "specialize" in some event or person that plays a relatively small part in the larger work being critiqued. You know what I'm talking about: some fella who has studied the Battle of Raymond's Bluff for 35 years notes that, in the coverage of that engagement in a work focused on water borne supply issues in the Peninsula Campaign, the author got the name of the Lt. Colonel of the 325th Rhode Island Infantry wrong (it was Joseph Smith, not Albert Smith), and hey, if he got THAT wrong, what else did he get wrong? So I pledge from here on out that if I read in a larger or loosely related work something about First Bull Run with which I disagree, I will not make inferences about the rest of the book based on that disagreement. But with the first review in question, this won't be a factor.
I'm getting ready for my first trip to Shiloh. I'll be joining four fellow members of an online discussion group at Corinth on Thursday, and we'll tour the field on Friday and Saturday. I'm looking forward to the trip and seeing old friends, though I'm a little nervous about the expected 96 degree temperatures. In preparation, I've read most of the standard works, including Force's From Fort Henry to Corinth, Sword's Shiloh: Bloody April, McDonough's Shiloh: In Hell before Night, and Daniel's Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War. I've just finished reading a new publication (though not a new manuscript) by O. E. Cunningham, Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862.
I was surprised to find that my book had two copies of page 331, and no page 330. Ted Savas of Savas-Beatie, the publishers of the late Dr. Cunningham's book, is a fellow member of Dick Weeks's Civil War Western Theater Discussion Group, so I posted a message on that forum asking Mr. Savas if there was any way to get an electronic copy of the wayward page 330. Mr. Savas explained that only a limited number of these misprinted books made it into the hands of consumers, and that the company would replace them with corrected volumes if that's what folks wanted. He also offered to send a pdf file of page 330 if that was preferred. That's the option I chose, anticipating that my rare misprint edition will one day be worth millions. Perhaps billions, like that Billy Ripken card with the cuss word on the bat.
Anyway, during the course of our correspondence, Mr. Savas asked if I would be willing to post a review of the Cunningham book on Amazon.com. I replied that I preferred not to post reviews to Amazon, but that I would be happy to talk about the book here at Bull Runnings. So, here goes.
I won't bother you with the by now well-known details of the publication of this work, but this manuscript was written in 1966 as Cunningham's doctoral dissertation. For whatever reasons, the work went unpublished for 40 years, although it has been referred to extensively, primarily by NPS historians, during that time. (One of the two editors of the book, Timothy B. Smith, was a long time ranger at Shiloh who now teaches at UT-Martin; Gary D. Joiner is a history teacher at LSU ) So, after years of folks "in the know" saying "someone should publish this thing", someone finally has.
The book has a lot of things going for it. First and foremost, it is very easy to read. From what I understand, this is uncharacteristic of dissertations. The style is friendly, not too stilted, and since it was written prior to the current academy requirement that ACW studies focus on sociological aspects, this is an old fashioned, meat and potatoes campaign study. The action is clearly explained, and the notes (real live footnotes, praise the Lord!), particularly those of the editors, are informative. And the narrative also puts the battle into context by covering events leading up to and following it.
To me, the next most important feature of this book is its relative lack of sensationalism. Most campaign studies focus on some event or isolated series of events as the "sole reason" for victory or defeat; a moment or action where, if things had gone differently, everything would have changed. Shiloh historiography, as the editors explain, has variously featured such events as critical: first it was the Union defense of the Hornet's Nest sector; then it was the death of Albert Sydney Johnston; and most recently, the Confederate loss has been attributed to a general lack of knowledge of the enemy positions and lay of the land. This is the school of thought promoted by Cunningham. That's decidedly unsexy, as I think tend to be the real reasons things turn out the way they do. For instance, in my opinion the outcome of First Bull Run was more a function of the advantages attendant to the defense of favorable ground than to any of the myriad other reasons put forth over the years.
So we've got a lively, clear narrative that is realistic in its analysis. Of course, there must be drawbacks.
I wasn't happy with the maps. Even though there are about 30 maps in the book, I think they should have been more numerous in the beginning phases, and should have been presented with the same level of detail as the narrative. But then, I'm almost never happy with maps.
The author wore his sympathies on his sleeve. He was apparently enamored with most things Confederate, though not to the degree that it affected his analysis. I found it disturbing that he unabashedly, and unqualifiedly, referred to panicked Federal troops, seeking shelter at Pittsburg Landing or trying to board river transports, as "cowards". His style is at times a little clumsy: for instance, he habitually lists the makeup of brigades with regiment identification and commanders' names for the entire brigade, a little too much information which is forgotten by the time the paragraph is finished. When the colonels were mentioned in the text later, I invariably had to go back to the "brigade" paragraph to figure out what regiments they were with.
I also thought that the editors, one of whom (Smith) has written extensively on the battle and battlefield, should have gone into a little more depth in their notes when they disagreed with the author's findings. While clearly stating when and how Cunningham was at odds with Sword, McDonough, and Daniel, when it came to variances with their own work they typically simply referred the reader to that work. I don't know if the motive was modesty or book sales, but I found the practice distracting.
Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 is a much needed addition to the literature of the campaign. While I don't think "the best" single volume has yet been written, I do think you'll have a better grasp of the battle after reading this book than you had before. And in the end, that's what it's all about.


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- Ban deplores DPR Korea's underground nuclear test (UN)
- US confirms N Korea nuclear test (BBC)
- US fears third nuclear test in North Korea (The Telegraph)
- North Koreans have made nuclear progress, experts say (CNN)
- North Korea's Nuclear Detonation Is Driving the Push for Global Test Ban Treaty (CNS News)
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A circuit judge found John R. Leopold not guilty Friday of one count of misconduct in office, a partial victory for the embattled Anne Arundel County executive as his trial continued on other charges.
Judge Dennis M. Sweeney said Leopold showed "a lack of sound judgment" when he used his taxpayer-funded police protection detail to drive around the county as he took down a challenger's campaign signs, and said he might have been charged with theft or malicious destruction of property.
But Sweeney agreed with Leopold's attorneys that he had been acting as a private citizen, and not as county executive, so the alleged actions did not amount to misconduct in office.
The ruling left Leopold, 69, fighting three counts of misconduct and one of fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary.
The two-term county executive, a Republican, is accused of using police to put up his campaign signs, to gather information on Democratic challenger Joanna Conti, to empty his urinary catheter bag, to take him to sexual liaisons with a county employee and to keep that woman from meeting his live-in girlfriend.
After Sweeney's ruling, Leopold's attorneys opened his defense with testimony from his orthopedic surgeon.
They have described their client as a veteran politician with a long history of winning office on shoestring campaigns he has managed himself, and say he sought assistance from his police detail only after he began to suffer crippling back pain.
Dr. Roy E. Bands Jr. used a large magnetic resonance image to show where one of Leopold's spinal discs had deteriorated, leaving two bones to rub against each other — a condition the doctor said was "extremely uncomfortable."
"I was a bit taken aback when I saw these studies," said Bands, who practices in Annapolis. "Typically, patients will not last this long. … They will seek out treatment and usually have this thing fixed, if you will, before it gets this bad."
Bands was the only witness of the day. Sweeney adjourned court early, in advance of Friday's light snowfall.
Earlier Friday, Leopold attorney Robert Bonsib asked Sweeney to acquit the two-term county executive of all charges.
Bonsib said there were no rules to tell Leopold he wasn't allowed to use county police officers in the ways alleged by prosecutors. If officials had wanted to prohibit the executive from using the officers for certain activities, he said, they should have put it in writing.
"You can't just jump up one day and say it smells, it's boorish, it's poor judgment — and therefore it's criminal," he said.
But Sweeney, who is hearing the case without a jury, said there was "sufficient basis" for trying Leopold on the four remaining counts.
Leopold's attorneys are scheduled to continue his defense when the trial resumes Monday.
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday after calling a parade of police officers to the witness stand.
Officers testified that they spent several hours each working day during the 2010 campaign putting up cherry-red Leopold signs. One said he gathered information on Conti.
Officers also said they drove Leopold to weekly liaisons with a county employee at a bowling alley parking lot, and kept watch to make sure that no one happened upon the encounters. When Leopold was at Anne Arundel Medical Center for back surgery, officers testified, he directed them to ensure that the woman didn't show up at the hospital.
Bonsib said Friday that Leopold didn't require anyone to perform the tasks.
Prosecutor Thomas M. McDonough said the requirement was implied because Leopold was the boss. Officers and Leopold's former scheduler testified that they feared for their jobs if they didn't do what he wanted.
Bonsib said no one was fired or transferred by Leopold during the period in question. Two members of Leopold's police detail testified that they voluntarily gave unsolicited donations to his campaign, and one said he hoped to stay on Leopold's detail even after telling a grand jury about the activities at issue.
But at least two other police officers opted to leave the detail, with one saying it was "getting quirky" and was not as it had been under former County Executive Janet S. Owens.
If convicted of the fraud charge, Leopold could be sentenced to five years in prison. Judges have broad leeway in sentencing for misconduct because the charge carries no specific sanction.
Leopold, who opted for a bench trial, has remained in office while under indictment.


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2007-08: Stepped-up and contributed as the team�s Most Valuable Player in her third year of collegiate tennis� finished the season with a 27-12 record, playing the No. 2 position for most of the year... her 27 single wins place her with the third most victories in a single-season in ETSU women�s tennis history� currently sits fourth in career singles wins with 78� the Johnson City native won her last eight matches including going 3-0 in singles matches in the A-Sun tournament� along with her teammates, Byrne picked up 12 doubles wins for ETSU throughout the 2007-08 campaign� also earned All A-Sun second-team and all-tournament honors.
2006-07: Recorded a 22-16 overall record during her sophomore season� continued her outstanding play during conference competition going a perfect 9-0�was named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Week once during the season�was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Conference Second Team and the Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team�put together a 12-game winning streak to end the season�defeated Michelle Mitchell of No. 37 Pennsylvania and Conner Vogel of Tennessee�earned the ranking of 12th in career singles wins..
2005-06: During her freshman campaign Byrne went 27-11, which places her tied for fourth on the single season wins list�competed in 24 of ETSU�s 28 dual matches, primarily playing at the No. 4 and 5 position in singles�Byrne went 7-0 in conference play and was named to the All-Conference second team, the All-Conference freshman team, and was named the Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year�was 8-7 in fall tournament singles action...in doubles Byrne was partnered with Batsula, and the duo went 28-10, which placed her in first on the single season win list with 30 victories in doubles competition...won one round at the ITA Regional... had singles wins over No. 60 Loyola Marymount, Auburn, Louisville, and Winthrop.
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|Rockets in Gaza City: Iran's government controlled news media carried this picture on November 14, 2012 prior to the Israeli attack on Gaza in a news report praising what it calls 'Palestinian resistance fighters"
Whatever the real motivation of the GANSO people when they call them HMRs, these things are very different from home-made cookies and home-made soup. Consider what the reaction would be if the Israeli side took the Brussels-funded 'activists' and their terminology and motivations at face value. Meaning if these deadly missiles really are home-made, and if GANSO's statistics are right and they're fired into Israel by the hundreds, perhaps the right response to the home-made weapons is to focus the IDF's massive fire power on the homes that make them. Imagine the devastation if that were Israel's strategy; plainly it's not, as the relatively small number of casualties so far attests.
We have commented here several times about the revelations that appear almost daily in the GANSO bulletins about rockets that are fired by the Gazans and fall short. In simple terms, these are rockets that fail to cross the border and end up crashing onto the heads and homes of the Palestinian Arabs who live in the areas adjacent to the border. Some have been killed, many have been injured, and it's all self-inflicted. This has been happening since the Gazan rocket campaign against Israeli civilians began in 2005
Now here's the interesting thing. Though the numbers of rockets being flung (it's the right word) at Israelis by the terrorist gangs of Gaza has risen exponentially since Wednesday, the GANSO bulletins don't seem to have noted even a single "fall short" since then. Suddenly, all the missiles are successfully getting over the border and hitting their Israeli targets.
That's very likely nonsense. If the Gazans have one fall-short for every 3, 4, 8 or 9 (and there is some fresh indication, but whatever the actual number is) of the rockets they fire at Israel, then there must have been many dozens such fall-shorts in the past four days: dozens of rockets falling onto the homes and heads of Palestinian Arab subjects of the jihadist Hamas regime. Keep the thought in mind when casualty figures for dead and injured Palestinians are next published. Also bear in mind the proven history of cruel contempt that the Hamas elite have demonstrated over the years for their brothers and sisters. This video, not new but timely and still accurate, conveys some of that.
The Christian Science Monitor reminds us of how different the Hamas rocket strategy is from Israel's:
Israel insists its targeting is precise and focused on militants. Hamas makes no such claim, and, in fact, can't; the rockets fired from Gaza are the very definition of indiscriminate, hugely imprecise and more likely to kill civilians than anyone else.
We offer some strategic insights now into those Gazan Palestinian Arab rockets, drawn from a fresh Stratfor Global Intelligence analysis report:
- Gaza may be manufacturing long-range rockets locally. If this is the case, a significant ground force offers the Israelis the best chance of finding and neutralizing the factories making these weapons. The Israeli Cabinet on Nov. 16 approved Defense Minister Ehud Barak's request to call up 75,000 reservists, significantly more than during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009.
- The Israeli army meanwhile is strengthening its presence on the borders with Gaza. Primary roads leading to Gaza and running parallel to Sinai have been declared closed military zones.
- Tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery and troops continue to stream to the border, and many units already appear to be in position.
- The Israeli air force remained active throughout the night of Nov. 16-17, striking at targets across the Gaza Strip including key Hamas ministries, police stations and tunnels near the border crossing with Egypt.
- The IAF reportedly carried out strikes in Rafah's al-Sulan and al-Zahour neighborhoods, as well as east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp. According to IDF reports, the air force carried out a rapid and coordinated military strike, targeting approximately 70 underground medium-range rocket-launching sites in the less than an hour. The IDF claims direct hits were confirmed.
- The IAF will increasingly target Hamas militant defenses ahead of any ground invasion. Already the IAF has bombed militant defensive positions, particularly in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
- Startfor's figures show that Gazan rockets launched AT Israel on Saturday were about 80. About 57 actually landed in Israel. It quotes the IDF saying 640 rockets were launched against us since November 14, with 410 actually landing. Those that did not are (we presume - Stratfor does not say this) either intercepted in mid-air or - as we noted above - fell short.
- It quotes an IDF statement that Iron Dome interceptors have so far successfully stopped 90 percent of the rockets "though this may be an exaggeration". Or not.
"Beyond rocket launch sites and caches, which Israel is currently targeting with its airstrikes, it would need to target production sites and those who would be responsible for manufacturing the rockets. Furthermore, it will be significantly harder for Israeli intelligence to form an accurate picture of the number of these rockets locally constructed in Gaza... Israeli intelligence likely did not anticipate how many long-range rockets had escaped its first wave of strikes, and the fact that Hamas may have been producing these weapons could explain Israel's lack of complete information. Hamas recognizes that these long-range rocket attacks have only increased the likelihood and intensity of an Israeli ground incursion. A significant ground force offers the Israelis the best chance of finding and neutralizing the factories making these long-range rockets as well as the shorter-range Qassams. Hamas and the other militants therefore are actively preparing their defenses for the anticipated incursion and are likely laying improvised explosive devices, setting up road blocks and defensive emplacements and sorting out their ranks and tasks."
On Saturday afternoon, the propaganda apparatus of Hamas put out a Twitter tweet that reflects both its leadership's malevolently messianic mindset and its undiminished appetite for inventing realities for consumption by (we assume) its fans:
"Al Qassam's operation #ShaleStones is going well in achieving historic goals, Liberation of occupied #Palestine started...we are coming #IDF
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This hat, modeled by my daughter, was actually for my sister's birthday. It was hard to part with. I need to make one for me.
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As was the case the first two times Southwest squared off Pamlico, coach Tommy Barnes was never able to rest easy Thursday night in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference tournament semifinal aboard Camp Lejeune.
As was the case the first two times Southwest squared off Pamlico, coach Tommy Barnes was never able to rest easy Thursday night in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference tournament semifinal aboard Camp Lejeune.
But like the first two meetings when the clock struck 0:00, Barnes could smile a smile of relief that comes with victory.
The Stallions, who held on to beat the Hurricanes by nine points on the road last month and by four in the final seconds last week, managed to squeeze out another close win over Pamlico 70-63 to advance to the CPC boys� finals.
�This game we gave ourselves a little bit of a lead where we could kind of hold on,� Barnes said. �But they were all where I couldn�t sit down and say, �Hey, this is in the bag.��
And certainly a tournament championship isn�t in the bag. The second-seeded Stallions (17-4) will take on No. 1 East Carteret (20-5) for the title at 8 p.m. The teams split their regular-season games, with each winning on the other�s court.
�It�s going to be a dogfight,� Barnes said. �That�s just the way it is. We�re just going to have to be on A-game to give ourselves a chance. By being in the game you give yourself a chance to win it. If you ain�t there, you don�t. They�re going to be ready to go and hopefully we are, too.�
Pamlico coach Earl Sadler, whose club is now 11-12 and awaits word Saturday on its first-round foe in the NCHSAA 1-A playoffs, offered no prediction on tonight�s title showdown other to say he expects a hard-fought battle.
�I tell you what it�s going to be a good game. It�s just going to be just like tonight. East Carteret�s perimeter-oriented, and if the shots fall, they�re tough to beat,� Sadler said. �But if they don�t, advantage Southwest. They�ve got that size. We negated that a little bit. It wasn�t as obvious. But I think against East Carteret it�ll expand. You�ll see that make a big difference.�
Pamlico got a strong effort from a number of players, led by Jermicus Brown with 22 points, and Arthur Randall, who had 13 points and 8 rebounds. But Southwest countered with a balanced scoring attack with four players in double figures.
Jonathan Williams had 19 points while Malique Judd had 12 as well as 7 rebounds. J�Veon Walker and Jay Pouncey each had 11, with Walker also pulling down a game-high 11 rebounds. The Stallions also hit 14 of 17 foul shots to 10 of 16 by Pamlico.
Southwest jumped out early, using good spacing and ball movement as well as a good shooting touch to hit 7 of its first 12 shots for a 17-11 lead with two minutes left in the opening quarter on a jumper by Jeffrey Williams.
But Pamlico scored 10 straight � six by Randall � to go up 21-19 18 seconds into the second quarter. From there it was back and forth, with Southwest up 34-31 at halftime on a layup with 2.8 seconds left by Jonathan Williams.
Again, however, the Hurricanes rallied to go up 35-34 before a key stretch for the Stallions, who went on a 9-0 run behind Pouncey, who hit a jumper, a driving layup and a three-point play for a 42-35 lead with 4:17 left in the third quarter.
�That put us back on our heels,� Sadler said.
Pamlico never really recovered. The Hurricanes pulled within three twice, but the Stallions then used a 17-9 run in which it hit all seven of its free throws to go up 62-51 with 3:27 left in the game.
�Well, we survived to play tomorrow night for the championship, and that�s a good thing,� Barnes said. �I thought we did some good things. That�s a good Pamlico team. They kept at us and we kept fighting them off. I�m proud of the kids for playing hard tonight and just hope we got enough in us (tonight) to come back and give a good showing.�
Pamlico 69, Jones Senior 49: Pamlico outscored Jones Senior 33-15 in the second half to break open a close game and overcome a mammoth performance by the Trojans� Franlena Brimage to advance to tonight�s CPC final against top-seeded Lejeune (21-0).
Brimage finished with 31 points and 22 rebounds for the sixth-seeded Trojans, who finish the season 5-18.
The second-seeded Hurricanes (15-5) were led by Briana Jones with 17 points and Alazia Whitfield with 16 points and 8 rebounds. Nylaa Tutt added 10 points and 7 rebounds for Pamlico, which used a 15-4 run to open the third quarter to stretch its 36-34 halftime lead and take command.
Pamlico 19 12 14 18 � 63
Southwest 17 17 22 14 � 70
Brown 22, Randall 13, Lewis 9, Bennett 7, Moore 6, Simmons 2, Gibbs 2, Resto 2. Totals� 25 10-16 63
Jo. Williams 19, Judd 12, Walker 11, Pouncey 11, Je. Williams 6, Wohlever 6, Hodge 3, Jordan 2. Totals� 27 14-17 70
3-Point Goals� P 3 (Lewis 2, Bennett 1). SWO 2 (Walker 1, Jo. Williams 1). Rebounds� P 29 (Randall 8, Moore 6). SWO 33 (Walker 11, Judd 7). RECORDS� P: 12-11, state 1-A playoffs, TBA. SWO: 17-4, vs. East Carterettonight for CPCtitle aboard CampLejeune.
Jones Senior 15 19 6 9 � 49
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F. Brimage 31, A. Brimage 6, Gatlin 5, Staten 4, McKinnon 3. Totals� 17 15-24 49
Jones 17, Whitfield 16, Tutt 10, Sparrow 9, Sawyer 6, Davis5, Midgette 2, Johnson 2, Whitehead 2. Totals� 30 9-21 69
3-Point Goals� JS 0. P 0. Rebounds� JS 53 (F. Brimage 22, A. Brimage 8, Gatlin 6). P 40 (Davis10, Whitfield 8, Tutt 7, Sparrow 6). RECORDS� JS: 5-18, season complete. P: 15-5, vs. Lejeune today for CPCtny title aboard CampLejeune.


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The Mad Men star lightens up for summer
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After a few months with a platinum pixie cut last year, Elisabeth Moss quickly returned to her brunette roots.
But it turns out she may have thought blondes had more fun, because she's lightened up her locks once more.
RELATED PHOTOS: Vote on more Hollywood hair changes here!
The Mad Men actress debuted a bright blonde, chin-length bob with side-swept bangs and flippy ends at Live with Kelly and Michael in N.Y.C. Monday. She paired her new-for-summer do with a shimmery coral pink lipgloss and glowy skin.
We're so used to seeing her with her brunette Peggy Olson helmet of hair that this is a little jarring, but she clearly loves it, so we do too! How about you?
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Want to add a little intrigue and mystery to your office Halloween party? You could always make a set of these tiny leather spell books by Ruby from the Ruby Murray blog, then start consulting them periodically during that boring Monday morning meeting! Head over to her site to see the full tutorial.
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Every Move You Make, Every Breath You Take ... Police will be able to track the activities of convicted felons in greater detail using a new GPS-capable device.
Take A Wide-Angle Look At Employee Productivity SAP goes up against PeopleSoft and Siebel with management suite
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PeopleSoft Checks Off To-Do List Plans include behavior modeling, predictive analysis, and CRM additions
Operational Apps Get Smarter And Easier To Use Business-intelligence features designed for widespread use
Bankruptcy, Indictments ... And A New Service WorldCom launches service as it rebuilds business after financial scandal.
StorageTek Co-Opts EMC Hardware With New Service StorageTek will introduce Managed Storage Services, which will oversee storage infrastructures remotely.
SCO Exec Says The Company May Revive Project Monterey The SCO Group--the new name for a pair of old companies--may try to revive a version of Unix for Itanium.
WorldCom Soldiers On With New Service The No. 2 carrier in the nation looks past its legal and financial problems and launches Managed Firewall.
Taking Stock: Diversification Can Take Some Of The Volatility Out Of Tech Investing A diversified portfolio is the best bet for most investors.
Who Goes There? Businesses discovered instant messaging's effectiveness. Now, they're finding more value in the technology that underlies it.
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Man Attempts to Sing 'God Bless the USA' 911 Times for September 11
Every year on September 11, Americans pause to reflect on the tragic 2001 terrorist attacks that changed the country forever. In 2012, as the U.S. reflects on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attack in New York City, one man will be resting his voice after belting out the words to 'God Bless the USA' 911 times. That's right: A Utah resident has attempted to sing Lee Greenwood's hit song 911 times in 48 hours.
According to UPI.com, Alan Foote began singing 'God Bless the USA' at the September 11th Tribute & Patriotic Marathon at Staheli Farms in Washington City, Utah on Sunday morning. Foote began his tribute at 6:30AM on September 9 and rounded out his 911th rendition song at 6:40AM Tuesday morning, Sept. 11.
"There have been things in my life that I haven't followed through on … but this is really an important thing to follow through on, for me," Foote said of his venture.
Although that sounds like a pretty big feat, the man has been clear that the event is a low-key opportunity for Americans to display their patriotism. However, it will be hard for anyone to be more patriotic than Foote, who is sure to have his voice after singing 'God Bless the USA' more than 900 times!


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Rams to Host 2nd Annual Pink Zone Basketball
Thursday, February 11th - vs. Old Westbury
Women's game at 6:00 p.m.
Men's game at 8:00 p.m.
WEAR PINK TO THE GAMES!! $2 donation at the door
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State basketball teams will be participating in this years' Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Pink Zone initiative in honor of breast cancer awareness and to raise money for the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.
The Rams will host Skyline Conference rival Old Westbury on
Thursday, February 11th, with the women's game at 6:00 p.m. and the
men's game at 8:00 p.m. This marks the 2nd Annual Pink Zone game at
Farmingdale State, after the success of last year's games vs. St.
Joseph's which raised $888.
Come support the Rams and the Farmingdale State S.A.A.C. (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee) in their efforts with this event. Halftime contests will be held during both games. Dave & Buster's Street team will be attending the event with various prizes. Additional raffle prizes will be given from local companies in the Farmingdale area.
All proceeds will be donated to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.
The concession stand will also be open for the night.
The WBCA Pink Zone™ initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond.
The WBCA began the WBCA Pink Zone™, formerly known as "Think Pink", in 2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,200 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research.
Donation Information
The WBCA's charity of choice is the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund™, in partnership with The V Foundation. For more information on the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund™, click here.
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Humankind's fascination with gadgets can only be rivalled by our longstanding fascination with water. So, even though we quake with fear at the thought of submerging our iPads, iPhones and other devices, it shouldn't really surprise us that, when people go swimming or surfing, they want to take their tablet or smartphone along.
We've already seen something of the waterproofing trend from LifeProof – the San Diego-based company boasts what's been called the slimmest waterproof case for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.
But now, the New York Times' Gadgetwise blog is reporting on the company's latest in elemental shielding for Apple devices.
This time, LifeProof has taken its efforts to tablets, with the waterproof Nüüd iPad case. The product gets its name from the fact that there's actually no screen covering – your iPad's naked glass screen is already waterproof, and adding an extra film on top only reduces clarity.
Instead, the Nüüd case seals around the glass and provides a waterproof backing for the rest of the iPad. There's also access at the bottom for charging and syncing, so you don't have to constantly take the case off and put it back on again.
As Gadgetwise points out, you still may not want to do any serious snorkeling with your iPad, since it wasn't really designed for that. But the new iPad case is great for poolside, a day at the beach, or any other routine encounter with water.
You may swear to have never texted on the toilet, but show me the techie who says they've never brought their phone or tablet into the bathroom, and I'll show you a liar. In any case, waterproofing just makes solid sense.
Any survival expert will tell you that where there's life, there's water. But as we at Pure Mobile know, where there's life, there's also tech.


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David Burnett is a photojournalist with more than 5 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York based photojournalism agency.Read More
Olaf & Ibarionex: On Pictures Ep. 1
In this week's video, Ibarionex and Olaf Sztaba discusses the compositional choices in several images Though the conversation began with no particular agenda in mind, it clearly became evident that there was a common motif that linked all these images. That was related to how the photographers carefully composed their compositions by paying attention not only to a subject, but also the setting/scene where they were photographing.Read More
The Candid Frame #449 - Louie Palu
Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in festivals, publications, exhibitions, and collections internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards including two Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grants, 2011-12 Bernard L Schwartz Fellowship with the New America Foundation and Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the University of Arizona. He is well known for his work which examines social-political issues such as human rights, conflict, and poverty.Read More
The Candid Frame #448 - Sean Tucker
Sean Tucker is a photographer, YouTuber, Instagrammer, and a former priest. But in all these roles, he has always imagined himself a storyteller. His journey from the priesthood to a professional photographer has provided him a unique career path but also a wealth of experiences that he openly shares on his popular YouTube channel.Read More
Trusting Your Composition: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of trusting your composition. He discusses how fixed visual elements in a scene allow a photographer to find their composition. He explains how fluid elements such as people, animals, and even light can be added to the photograph. He stresses the importance of remaining true to the composition and not compromising the shot for the transitory elements.Read More
The Candid Frame #447 - Endia Beal
Endia Beal is a North Carolina based artist, who is internationally known for her photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the personal, yet contemporary stories of marginalized communities and individuals. Beal currently serves as the Director of Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University and Associate Professor of Art.Read More
The Candid Frame #446 - Jim Herrington
Jim Herrington is a photographer whose portraits of celebrities including Benny Goodman, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Cormac McCarthy, Morgan Freeman and Dolly Parton have appeared on the pages of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Outside and Men's Journal as well as on scores of album covers for more than three decades. He has photographed international ad campaigns for clients such as Thule, Trek Bikes, Gibson Guitars and Wild Turkey Bourbon.Read More
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Gary Nicholl's personal fine-art project The Imaginarium started as a 20-image short story but has grown into a 450 image trilogy with 150 genuine Steampunks involved, taking storytelling to a whole new level. Combining his passion for the world of steampunk and photography, he creates amazing composited images that test the limits of image making and storytelling.
Varying Your Approach: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of varying one's approach when making photographs on the street. He talks about different ways of making photographs from shooting from the hip to waiting and allowing a scene to play out. Both have their advantages, but he suggests something that falls somewhere between those two methods.Read More
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Much has been said in recent years about legalizing drugs. Most of this discussion, however, deals specifically with the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. It is a fiercely debated subject, and no consensus has been reached.
Something that has not been studied or debated nearly as much are the social and economic effects of legalized street drugs. The criminalization of drugs actually encourages crime, funds gang activities, and promotes drug addiction. Current U.S. drug policy echoes that of alcohol prohibition during the 1920s.
Such prohibitions are beneficial in the sense that law-abiding citizens sometimes try to avoid the illegal product, but they do tremendous harm to society as well, since prohibitions ". . . can increase income-generating crime, such as theft or prostitution, by raising prices if the consumers finance consumption of the prohibited commodity from such crime (The Effects of Prohibitions)."
Prohibition causes all kinds of other problems as well, such as the "forbidden fruit" effect (people using illegal substances only because they are illegal) and the corruption of government officials- often by organized crime- like when powerful gangsters were able to build criminal empires because of the ban on alcohol.
Unfortunately, much harm has already been done by America's "War on Drugs." The major increase in anti-drug efforts over the past 25 years has had an unanticipated "Darwinian" effect. Weak and ineffective drug manufacturers, smugglers, and dealers have been weeded out and replaced by those far more efficient and ruthless.
The money made from narcotics operations is often used to outfit the gangs and groups conducting them. Many Mexican "DTO's" (Drug Trafficking Organizations) have used their profits to hire elite mercenaries to protect their operations. A U.S. government report, the National Drug Threat Assessment 2008, talks about one such group:
"Los Zetas, the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel, may be the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and violent of these paramilitary enforcement groups. Some Los Zetas members are former Mexican Special Forces soldiers and maintain expertise in the use of heavy weaponry, specialized military tactics, sophisticated communications equipment, intelligence collection, and counter surveillance techniques."
As long as drug smuggling remains profitable, America must be prepared to deal with these repercussions. The funding of gangs and other organized crime is probably the worst consequence of this prohibition. Many dangerous street gangs use narcotics as the primary means of paying for expensive gang wars.
It would not seem like such a threat if the money made from drug operations only funded more drug operations, but that is rarely the case. An annual report made to the California legislature showed what much of this money is used for when it stated:
". . . after a yearlong investigation, a federal grand jury indicted 12 members of the Down Below Gangsters, an African-American street gang, on charges of terrorizing residents of a San Francisco housing project while conducting a major narcotic enterprise that resulted in seven murders. The indictment also included numerous weapons violations, including the use of assault rifles, semi-automatic pistols and revolvers, and witness tampering (Organized Crime in California)."
Sadly, even a full reversal of the current drug policies in effect today would not undo all the damage that has been done. The easy money of drug operations has acted like fertile soil, giving fledgling criminals the knowledge, means, and organization to survive. Milton Friedman, a respected analyst of drug policy, said:
". . . if you legalized or decriminalized drugs, or in any other way changed the situation, these people would still be criminals; they would just go on to other crimes. Look, they say, what happened after prohibition. You had Al Capone and the gangs, and after prohibition ended they just shifted over to other sectors. Unquestionably, there is some truth in that. The building-up of a criminal class is going to leave a hangover, and the hangover is going to mean more criminality (The War We are Losing)."
Nonetheless, we need a change. Prohibition does not work. A black market has developed, just like it will always do when people want something and a government tells them they can't have it. The ease of manufacture also plays a key role in the government's ability to ban. Methamphetamine is routinely manufactured in basements and tool sheds, the ingredients are easily obtainable, and little special knowledge or skills are needed.
Marijuana is a weed and will grow almost anywhere. It is grown domestically from Kentucky and West Virginia to Oregon and Hawaii. The profits often fund more elaborate setups to optimize yield and potency, or lower the risk of detection. Expensive suburban homes have been found uninhabited and empty, with the exception of sophisticated apparatus designed to automatically provide light, water and nutrients to the ten million dollars worth of high-THC marijuana growing there.
Some growers are even using cloning techniques, guaranteeing that the plants they cultivate will grow fast, large, and potent. Many domestic growers, especially Mexico-based DTO's, are buying themselves protection. Reports show that "Cannabis cultivators are employing armed guards who are strategically stationed at elevations above the grow site in order to detect approaching law enforcement scouts. . . (Domestic Cannabis Cultivation Assessment 2007)."
History repeats itself. Today we are seeing the perils of prohibition that our grandparents learned about firsthand during the "roaring twenties." It doesn't take someone with a PhD. to see the similarities between the manufacture and sale of illegal alcohol to that of methamphetamine and cannabis.
They are all distilled/manufactured/grown clandestinely, at higher cost; they facilitate the use of gangs and organized crime for protection and optimized transportation and sale, and are usually transported in the most concentrated form possible. Very few people smuggled light beer when alcohol was illegal, it was transported and sold, for the most part, as highly concentrated hard liquor, many times as high as 190 Proof (95% alcohol).
Meth today is treated the same way, refined in home labs to get the most drug in the smallest package. What was the result? In both cases, high rates of accidental death (alcohol poisoning and drug overdoses) and difficulty for law enforcement since the contraband could be concealed so easily. Since alcohol was not illegal in Mexico or Canada during the American Prohibition, legal foreign distilleries and breweries were working overtime, selling their products to both local and American businessmen who were very good at smuggling.
Another challenge facing the enforcers of anti-drug laws is the addictive nature of drugs. An addict who needs a fix will not care about the law. He will also not care about the price, or how many other crimes he must commit in order to purchase his high. The addict will also build up a tolerance for his drug of choice over time, meaning he will need more to get high, and he will need it more often because, "As a person continues to abuse drugs, the brain adapts to the overwhelming surges in dopamine by producing less dopamine or by reducing the number of dopamine receptors in the reward circuit (NIDA)."
He becomes desperate, willing to do anything to get enough money to get his high. Often, he becomes involved dealing drugs himself, and in the process of creating customers, he causes more people to become addicted, starting the cycle over. Without the prohibition of drugs, none of this would happen. Most drugs would cost so little, a person could afford them by asking for change in front of a gas station or recycling cans.
Major criminal organizations would go the way of the dinosaurs, unable to compete with cheap, government approved narcotics. The millions of dollars that the U.S. government spends on its ineffective "War on Drugs" would be replaced with billions of dollars of tax revenue. If they can regulate it, they can tax it, and it will still be a fraction of the price of the unsafe street drugs.
To go back to the example of alcohol prohibition, how many alcoholics today are going to take a chance on moonshine when they can buy a taxed bottle of vodka for five dollars? Once the 21st amendment passed, all of the speakeasies closed their doors in a hurry.
Some will argue that the consequences of legalization outweigh the benefits. They point out the nasty things that drugs do to a person's body and the dangers of addiction. These are valid concerns. The effects of heroin alone are rather frightening, and they include "scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease (NIDA)."
Addiction is a disease, and it is often fatal, but there are strong arguments in favor of legalization here as well. Since drugs like heroin would be so cheap, one of the worst effects would disappear. The practice of needle sharing, which leads to the spread of hepatitis B and C, and of HIV, which causes AIDS, would be eliminated. This would also protect the addict's sexual partners and offspring from the disease, and slow the spread of one of the most deadly viruses on the planet.
Few people think that drugs are a good thing, but they are here, and they aren't leaving any time soon. Our current policy does more harm than good, promoting gang activities and organized crime. Since a black market will always develop in a prohibition, the only logical solution is to end that prohibition.


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In addition to leading several data demonstration projects – developing standards and protocols – CMD Network also provides materials data management services and support for industry, academia, and government agencies. These efforts, some of which involve proprietary data, are intended to be part of a larger ecosystem – a Material Data Laboratory – that will serve as a test bed for understanding how data sets behave as they move through multiple repositories and processing steps.


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Mark Steyn's column in the new Spectator (UK) magazine captures the substance of just about every thought I have on the presidential campaign and the Democratic field: "It the war stupid." Registration is required for access to the article, but it is worth it. Here we skim a few highlights:
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Published on: December 13, 2013
Citrus growers and Ag professionals are invited to attend the University of California Lindcove Research and Center Annual Citrus Fruit Display and Tasting Today! Friday December 13th from 9-12. More than 150 varieties will be displayed. (Sat Dec 14th we invite the homeowners to attend.)
Walking tour starts at 10 am highlighting the Citrus Clonal Protection facilities, the demonstration field trees and the Center fruit packline.
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If exactly the right man says just the wrong words, a blurred image can snap into focus. Like a smack in the face, we see the picture more clearly.
"I could play for the worst team if they paid the most," said Zack Greinke, who signed the second-biggest contract ever for a pitcher at $147 million for six years to be a Los Angeles Dodger. "It's obviously the number one thing."
Greinke made clear in an interview with CBSSports.com that, in picking the Dodgers over the Rangers in free agency, as well as voiding a trade to Washington a year earlier, his primary goal was to find out just how much money he and his agent Casey Close could get on the open market.
"I wanted to see" the free agent process, Greinke said. "If it was going to be only one year for $1 million, I wanted to see for myself."
Instead, only CC Sabathia ever got more guaranteed money to pitch. But Greinke also joined a team with some of the most gifted salary-dump problem children and damaged-goods ex-stars with big contracts ever collected in one room.
Greinke didn't mean to symbolize the 2013 season. But he may have done it anyway. If you are a fan of the Dodgers, Blue Jays or Angels, three of the top five favorites to win the World Series, then this is the year of the high-priced teammate with baggage and the mega-budget clubhouse full of strangers with troubles. For those teams, it's a season to gamble on talent.
However, for seven of past year's 10 playoff teams, the offseason theory has been exactly the opposite. The World Series champion Giants and pennant-winning Tigers — as well as the Nationals, Reds, A's and Orioles, who won 98, 97, 94 and 93 games last year — have tried to keep the chemistry they already had. Some had financial constraints. But most stood pat by choice or else added players on short contracts with "good makeup," such as Torii Hunter (Tigers) and Dan Haren (Nats).
Las Vegas odds show that gamblers think falling in love with team synergy is tantamount to cheap complacency. The O's and A's, who did almost nothing in the offseason, are 40 to 1 and 30 to 1 to win the Series. The Giants and Reds, who had slight net-negative winters, are just 12 to 1. The Tigers, 8 to 1, and Nats 17 to 2, with selective additions, get respect. The view of the smart money is clear: Follow the cash. Character optional.
In the past eight months, the Dodgers, Blue Jays and Angels have assembled players with every headache known to the sport. Greinke, Hanley Ramirez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Reyes, Melky Cabrera and Josh Hamilton have three traits in common: big talent, fat contracts and thorny issues that led previous employers to trade them as part of salary dumps or else pursue them tepidly when they became free agents.
The Dodgers are pure reality TV. Every day brings a different tough question. How much has Gonzalez's power slipped? His homers have dropped from 40 to 31 to 27 to 18 last year. And he hit just three in 36 games for the Bums. Hitting at Dodger Stadium never helps. L.A. owes him $127 million.
Will Crawford ever be himself again after wrist surgery in 2011 and elbow ligament reconstruction to the same arm last year? In two years with the Red Sox, he hit .260 with his stolen bases cut in half. The Dodgers hoped he would do his offseason rehab at a team facility. Crawford preferred to stay in Houston. But for just $103 million, how much employee loyalty can you expect?
Beckett should love the In-N-Out Burger in L.A. What an upgrade from fried chicken and beer in the clubhouse during pennant race games.
My favorite Dodger Happiness Indicator will be the sight of Ramirez back at shortstop. Florida moved him to third base because he got too bulky to cover ground and walked after balls that were still in play. Los Angeles put him back at short for 56 starts last season. Stat analysis: Ramirez might get to 70 fewer balls this season than he did at age 22 to 24. Couple that with a two-season slump (.252 average), and there may be interesting moments when Greinke, known to show up teammates such as Jerry Hairston in the 2011 NLCS, gives H-Ram the icy eyeball.
Across town, the Angels signed a $123 million diva of their own in Hamilton. The Halos ignored every aspect of his departure from Texas, the team that knew him best. Hamilton went into a funk in the AL West-deciding series against Oakland. When Manager Ron Washington called him out, Hamilton argued with him in public on the bench. After the season, the Rangers stayed so far away from offering Hamilton a market-value contract that they might as well have worn Hazmat suits to negotiation.
How will Hamilton, who missed games because he consumed so much caffeine that his tear ducts stopped working, suit no-drama Albert Pujols?
Of the slapped-together teams, only the Jays, the current Series favorite, have much chance to jell this year. With classy Jose Bautista and R.A. Dickey to set an example for maturity, Toronto may have a clubhouse that can even withstand the addition of the prima donna Reyes and PED-cheater Cabrera.
Let it be noted that, after Cabrera's 50-game suspension last year, the Giants left him off all postseason rosters, replaced him with journeyman Gregor Blanco — and won the World Series anyway. Yes, chemistry.
Since free agency arrived in '76, teams have tried to force baseball to yield to their wallets. By and large, it hasn't worked. In this century, baseball continues to display remarkable parity, both in the variety of teams reaching the playoffs and in those that ultimately reach or win the World Series.
A big reason is the role of harmony, interconnectedness, resilience and the ability to learn as a group that baseball rewards over its seven-month season. That grind tears apart those who are divided among themselves and raises up those who enjoy depending on each other.
In the past dozen seasons, at least 10 eventual Series champs would be described as teams that knew each other, had risen together and valued each other as something akin to friends, as well as teammates, rather than as mere great-on-paper collections that somehow clicked. Even the Red Sox didn't win until they finally grasped (for a while) a crazy camaraderie.
Does bonding precede, or merely accompany, victory? That may be too tough a question. But teams that already have a winning identity possess a large leg up on those who are merely trying to find it on the fly. That's the way it works almost every year. Just watch, it probably will this time, too.
For previous columns by Thomas Boswell, visit washingtonpost.com/
More on the Nationals and MLB:
Haren shakes off nerves in Nationals debut
Box score: Marlins 5, Nationals 1
A 'dog day' afternoon for the Nationals
LaRoche, Werth make spring debuts
Bog: Storen's playoff spasms are news to Rizzo
Vazquez won't pitch in majors this season
Werth's take on Nationals' NL East rivals
Photos: Spring training heats up in Florida


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The Lakers added Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, but the Clippers, with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, could rule Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES -- As the Los Angeles Lakers' season opens with a heavy dose of doom and gloom, with Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and company already facing questions about their super team that has been anything but during a 0-2 start, their Staples Center roommates couldn't be having more fun.
Oohs and aahs came from Los Angeles Clippers fans Wednesday -- Blake Griffin dunking, contributions from a new supporting cast, point guard Chris Paul transcendent as always in a win against a Memphis Grizzlies team they downed in seven games in last season's Western Conference semifinals.
HARSH: Kobe to critics: "Shut up"
The same night in Portland, 38-year-old Lakers point guard Steve Nash was hobbling, Bryant was fuming and the pressure that coach Mike Brown swears he welcomes was already building.
As the Lakers and Clippers set to face off Friday night (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) in the most one-sided turf war in all of sports, the rare reality is that the title-less Clippers have a key edge on the team with the 16 NBA championships. In Year Two of the Clippers' grand plan, Paul and Griffin have worked out so many of the chemistry kinks that can keep a good team from evolving into an overlooked power in the Western Conference.
They are less worried about being the most talked about team than they are about being the best.
"We want to be thought of as a good basketball team, and I think we are," Griffin told USA TODAY Sports. "Like I've said over and over, we're not concerned about the Lakers and what they're doing. We're concerned about ourselves and making sure that we're presenting ourselves the right way and putting our best effort on the court."
UPDATE: Nash doubtful for Friday
How good could the Clippers be? Griffin scored 11 points and Paul 12 against the Grizzlies, but it was reserve guard Jamal Crawford who led the team with 29 points in 30 minutes.
"It's fun to be a part of this, to have guys come off the bench like Jamal and score effortlessly," Paul said. "I want to play every second of the game, but it's fun to be on the bench and cheer guys on, because the way they're playing is exciting."
Lamar Odom, who was drafted fourth overall by the Clippers in 1999 and won two titles in seven seasons with the Lakers, was traded from the Dallas Mavericks back to the Clippers in late June. He says his new team's best could lead to the club's first NBA crown.
"In order to change tradition, you have to want to be better than (just) one team," Odom said of trying to be best team at Staples. "You can't get caught up in, 'Oh, we're better than one team.' ''
This much is clear: These Clippers, so long considered the laughingstock of the NBA, are better than quite a few teams these days. While Bryant, Howard and Nash clearly have work to do for the Lakers to maximize their incredible potential, not all the basketball stars in Los Angeles are having a tough time meshing.
Just as questions abound on whether the edgy Bryant and the goofy Howard can co-exist, a similar dynamic existed between Paul and Griffin a year ago. Would the fierce 27-year-old Paul embrace the wildly talented 23-year-old Griffin?
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Now, with team officials confident that Paul will re-sign as a free agent this summer so long as this momentum continues, their powerful pair have not only clicked but helped create the sort of culture that should have the Clippers in the championship mix.
The additions of free agents such as Crawford, former Lakers small forward Matt Barnes and veteran small forward Grant Hill were evidence enough that the Clippers' clout was on the rise, and a summer's worth of star-studded pickup games at the team's $50 million practice facility might have been a sign of more to come on that front.
LeBron James stopped by one day, as did Carmelo Anthony, Paul Pierce, James Harden, Paul George, Greg Monroe, Roy Hibbert and Trevor Ariza. Some of them live in the area; others were on vacation. They all came of their own accord. Newly promoted general manager Gary Sacks said that never took place before Paul arrived.
"We let it be known to the agents and other GMs that we were playing pick-up games from 11 (am) to 1 (pm) every day," said Sacks, who teamed with club president Andy Roeser and coach Vinny Del Negro to reshape the supporting cast. "In the old days, they were going to UCLA (to play). ... I think it's a reflection of our players. It's Chris Paul. It's Blake Griffin. It's Chauncey Billups (who re-signed in the summer). It's Grant Hill."
RIVALRY: Rondo defends "punk play" vs. Wade
There were small changes to operations that weren't the norm, either, including the creation of a Clippers-only family room inside Staples Center to make the players feel at home. Paul certainly does, but not just because his wife, 3-year-old son and infant daughter are regulars in the room.
The way in which he was allowed to voice his opinion on the roster moves during the summer was perhaps the most pronounced change in how the Clippers handled their business. Their hope, of course, is that the moves made not only lead to a better team but spark loyalty when it comes time for Paul to make up his mind on his future.
"I welcome that (input from Paul)," said Sacks, who is well aware the team has been criticized by some for giving a player too much power in the personnel department. "Why wouldn't you? ... You're just going to not listen, to the guy with the highest IQ in the NBA, maybe?"
The Clippers are looking smart these days, indeed. And while the NBA world wasn't wrong for paying so much attention to the Lakers' stunning moves over the summer, make no mistake that the Clippers' quiet ascent up the league's totem pole continued.


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ANAHEIM – Disney creators are turning to an old-fashioned method of giving out information to visitors: a newspaper.
The Buena Vista Bugle debuted this summer at Disney California Adventure as part of the park's makeover to explain new features. Disney is producing the information in a very 1920s and 1930s way, matching the architecture and style of the Buena Vista Street entrance corridor.
California Adventure officials borrowed the concept from its neighbor, Disneyland, which produced The Disneyland News beginning in 1955. At California Adventure, Buena Vista Street is the equivalent of Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., where The Disneyland News used to be distributed.
Mary Niven, vice president of California Adventure, said officials wanted to find something besides the map and guide to tell the stories of the park to visitors.
The Red Car News Boys street show had entertained with a newspaper as a prop, so Niven said officials decided to add a real four-page newspaper for the first month of California Adventure's expansion, which debuted in June.
But the Bugle gained popularity: Between 12 percent and 15 percent of surveyed visitors reported that they got information from the newspaper. And it's common to see visitors relaxing on a park bench or sipping a Starbucks coffee at an outside table, flipping the pages.
"Obviously, we were onto something. So, we're not just walking away from a great idea," Niven said.
The fonts, writing style and features, and even the gritty black-and-white print are all like those of the newspapers of that era.
The copy comes from an in-house writer but in the voice of the characters of Buena Vista Street. A snarky, fictional food critic, Inglebert Irving, gives recommendations on drinks and appetizers. A celebrity-sighting column shows where characters can be spotted. The back page is designed in the style of a want-ad section, but has listings of shows, entertainment and stores.
The bottom corner has a high-tech addition: a QR Code to download the park's official Twitter account.
Employees are now handing out the free newspaper's third edition, which is also available on metal racks and counters.
Disney already is planning Halloween and holiday editions. It hasn't been decided how often the paper will come out after that.
Find more Disney news on the OC Disney page.
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Disney tries to recreate the feeling of Main Street, U.S.A. in California Adventure
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Yep…I'm still here, are you???
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WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama last week waxed eloquent on the need for a Palestinian state that would coexist peacefully side by side with Israel.
This would have to entail the end of Israel's occupation of the West Bank, conquered almost half a century ago in the 1967 Six Day War.
Obama's talk was enthusiastically punctuated with applause every second or third sentence by some 600 Israeli students in Jerusalem.
His speech made perfect sense had the dispute been between Belgium and Luxembourg.
Ending its colonization and military occupation of the West Bank to make room for an independent Palestinian state is anathema to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his new coalition government.
In fact, his new Housing minister, Uri Ariel, a Jewish settler in the West Bank and a member of the pro-settler Jewish Home Party, lost no time to say in a TV interview that building will continue in the occupied West Bank "in accordance with what the government's policy has been thus far ... (to) build in Judea and Samaria."
Israeli colonization of the West Bank started shortly after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War that this reporter covered for Newsweek.
Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 73, told me in an interview in Feb. 23, 1969, that Israel had no claims or designs on the West Bank. He had his first heart attack three hours after the interview from which he didn't recover. He died two days later.
One of Eshkol's aides called me the day after the interview with what he said was a one-word insert requested by the prime minister. Israel, said the correction, had no designs on the "inhabited" areas of the West Bank.
The Russian-born Eshkol was in no condition to be reading and making corrections to an interview.
He first went to Palestine in 1914. It was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He volunteered with the Jewish Legion and in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war of independence he served in clandestine arms acquisition for Haganah.
There are now more than half a million Jewish settlers in what the United States and its allies, as well as China, Russia and the rest of the world have recognized as the future state of Palestine.
For Netanyahu and his coalition, the West Bank is Judea and Samaria, part of the ancient land of Israel.
Construction, expropriation and buyouts have preempted any possibility of Arab East Jerusalem ever functioning as a Palestinian capital.
Some 500,000 Jewish settlers have made their new homes in 130 settlements on Palestinian land; 350,000 in the West Bank, up 15,000 in 2012.
While Israelis have built their settlements on less than 5 percent of the West Bank, about 40 percent is taken up by modern Israeli roads that inter-connect military installations and Jewish settlements. These are banned to Palestinians.
The wall/barrier/fence between Israel and the West Bank runs 440-miles, four times the length of the pre-1967 war Green Line. It has drastically reduced Palestinian terrorist infiltrations but militants are now talking up a third intifada.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said last July that violent attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians and their property, mosques and farmland had increased 150 percent in one year.
Even the "contiguous" Palestinian state pledged by Israel is no longer possible. E1 is an area of 12 square kilometers, which straddles the main artery between the northern and southern West Bank.
Alexander the Great couldn't untie the Gordian Knot so he severed it with his sword.
Obama felt more comfortable with Dr. Coue's method of autosuggestion, or self-hypnosis into positive thoughts. In the early 1920s, France's Dr. Emile Coue enjoyed a brief moment of fame as Europe emerged from the bloodletting of World War I.
This worked as Obama, a few minutes before he took off for Jordan, talked Netanyahu into picking up the phone to call Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan to apologize for the Mavi Mara flotilla incident in 2010 that killed nine Turks.
Once close allies, Israel and Turkey will now resume military cooperation. They are both deeply concerned about Iran's emergence as a nuclear power. And the Israeli air force needs Turkey's vast air space to train for possible raids against some of Iran's nuclear installations.
In return for Obama's help on Turkey, Netanyahu agreed with Obama that negotiations with Iran should be given another 12 months coupled with a tighter trade embargo.
Beyond that, Obama decided he couldn't pressure Netanyahu on a Palestinian state. The dominant force in the West Bank isn't the Palestinian Authority but Gaza's Hamas, whose declared objective is a Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
Netanyahu's new coalition government is surrounded by hostile forces on its common borders with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon (where Hezbollah is a state within a state and acts as a surrogate for Iran) and Syria, where a civil war shows no sign of ending after two years of fighting and almost 80,000 killed.
Israel enjoys normal diplomatic relations with Jordan. But Jordan, heavily dependent on Saudi and U.S. aid, is reeling under the influx of 450,000 Syrian refugees -- the equivalent of 30 million destitute refugees arriving in the U.S. without visas.
Jordan's King Abdullah told Obama he expected the non-stop stream of Syrian refugees would soon soar to more than half a million. Obama offered $200 million for immediate relief.
Jordan's militant Palestinian population used the refugee crisis to pressure the king into abandoning the kingdom's absolute monarchy by holding a referendum for a constitutional one similar to Europe's powerless royal families.
Palestinians that are Jordanian nationals are the majority of the population. But they are not allowed to hold certain key positions -- e.g., army or air force general.
With a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in Jordan, Israel could have yet another hostile neighbor.