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I'm hoping this won't devolve into a discussion of the Affordable Healthcare Act (so-called "Obamacare"). Let's do that under a more specific topic.
Rather let's discuss the current system in America, what's wrong with it and what's right, whether it needs fixing, and how to fix it. Non-Americans are encouraged to chime in.
Here's my take:
1) There is no healthcare system on a national level beyond Medicare and Medicaid. Any other systems are local to some degree or other.
2) Pretty much everyone who doesn't have their head up their hind end can see that the current way of handling healthcare is not sustainable. within a decade or two, assuming costs continue to rise, healthcare will become unaffordable for most Americans.
3) Healthcare isn't a normal market where competition functions to lower cost. Yes, insurance companies exclude certain high-risk, high-cost people in an effort to maximize their profits and keep their rates down. However, that doesn't work because for the excluded people the local ER becomes the primary care provider. Somebody has to pay for this care, so it's passed along to the people who are insured through their insurance company. This is one reason why hospital Tylenol can cost $25. The marketplace actually RAISES costs.
4) Do you think it's ethical to throw 30+ million under the healthcare bus in order to keep rates low for those with insurance, especially considering that it ends up (as explained in the 3rd point) making costs higher anyway.
5) 30+ million people need affordable healthcare, and indigents need free healthcare. Is it so bad to have socialized healthcare for them, especially if it will function to bring costs down for the rest?
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Beyond this, I'm not going to bother wasting my time responding to you. I do this not only because the rambling, incoherent jumble of letters you assembled above makes absolutely no sense and does not lend itself to response, but also because I fail to see any point in involving myself in a conversation with someone who doesn't seem to have a basic grasp of spelling, grammar, punctuation, or the ability to assemble a reasoned rebuttal but still nonetheless seems to think they can debate public policy.
ur argument with the number of around $19000 makes the person eligible for medicaid where he can get the medical insurance and pharmaceuticals for FREE. using emotional rants like that don't serve any purpose. look at this from washington state. http://www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/
Ur rant above reminded me of fox news people who used gay marriage and said quotes like if u let 2 guys or gals get married, who is going to stop a guy from getting married to a goat.
hope this makes more sense to u.
Please let whatever it is wear off and try to express some actual thoughts in actual sentences. And maybe drop the chatspeak in favor of normal English bcuz it makes u seem like ur 13 yrs old. Most people won't take a 13 year old seriously when it comes to discussing public policy.
This isn't a question of business or economy...
I disagree in the sense that a minimum standard of health care for all people lowers future costs, both for treatment and a worker's production.
Can you expand on this thought?
Sure. Preventative care, and less sick days.
We want to detect and treat E. coli before it takes out the kidneys; detect certain cancers before they require major surgery or intensive care on a death bed; have a reasonably accessible infrastructure in place to detect epidemics as soon as possible; make sure people's teeth are clean and healthy before they require repair or removal; get the infant mortality rate back down again, like it was when we used to lead the world in those statistics; treat a kid's chronic ear infection before it causes deafness. And so on.
I'm still not getting it, but maybe it was me that wasn't succinct enough: I know that this debate affects the economy and business, I'm just saying that is not even remotely important to the debate. If businesses and economies are negatively affected by the change to a health care system that resembles something sensible (which the majority of the industrialized world has managed to get their economies and businesses through), they're the things that need to change. It isn't about whether they're comfortable or not because it's not a question of business or economy.
I'm still not too sure when we decided "it will affect business" became some sort of gold-plated, bulletproof response anytime someone wants to change something anyway, so that argument doesn't hold a lot of water with me. I feel like if some company was piping toxic sludge through my backyard and I made a big deal out of it, out would come the pouty business class, whining about how not dumping toxic sludge into my backyard would affect their bottom line. I really couldn't give a toss whether it affects their bottom line, the health of the populace is not some sort of calculation on a spreadsheet.
Haunter - RE: "the health of the populace is not some sort of calculation on a spreadsheet."
While I agree, I predict a future time when the cost of keeping someone alive and healthy will be weighed against that person's potential for future contributions, and a decision made accordingly. As the world's population growth runs rampantly unchecked, the value of a single life will mean less and less.
In all of the philosophies, of all of the philosophers who ever lived, none have ever faced an overcrowded earth, running out of resources, so no philosophical precedent has ever been set for what is looming in this planet's future.
That said, who's for ice cream?!
I'm still not too sure when we decided "it will affect business" became some sort of gold-plated, bulletproof response anytime someone wants to change something anyway, so that argument doesn't hold a lot of water with me.
I don't know exactly when, but at some point our legislators started listening very closely to people who gave them campaign money. And at some point after that, they started working for those people as much or more than for the electorate.
I really couldn't give a toss whether it affects their bottom line, the health of the populace is not some sort of calculation on a spreadsheet.
I disagree. Of course it's a calculation. But it's not me you have to convince, anyway. We also have to convince the people who think it is largely about money. And the way I do that (which I do feel is valid) is to point out that better health care helps the economy, just as much as any wise investment.
You and I still agree that we need to make health care more accessible. I'm saying there's more than one valid reason to make it happen.
As for your example of pollution in your back yard, the only way we can prevent that is to make corporations pay for their pollution. They have to feel it on their bottom line. They have to see it in a spreadsheet, so they choose not to pollute.
RE: "better health care helps the economy, just as much as any wise investment"
I agree with you, but the funeral industry probably wouldn't.


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The Yale Women Stuck With It After a Tough Saturday to Finish Second
CRANSTON, R.I. – The No. 2 Yale Women's Sailing Team showed mental and physical toughness this past weekend, at the Dellenbaugh Women's Trophy, as it fought to continue its unbroken streak of top-three finishes. The Yale Women ended up taking second overall after sitting fifth at the end of day one.
The wind, on Saturday, blew from around the west northwest at approximately six to 15 knots. This direction at the Brown University venue, in CRANSTON, R.I., means flat and shifty conditions since the wind comes from off the shore where the Brown sailing team's facility, the Edgewood Yacht Club, use to stand. Unfortunately, the yacht club burned down in a fire on January 12th, after standing strong for 106 years.
Sophomore skipper Claire Dennis describes Saturday's conditions as "difficult to come back to fleet racing in", since she and sophomore crew Heather May have been mostly team racing with the coed team for the past several weeks. This team was a bit frustrated after Saturday as they finished the day in 11th in A division. However, the best athletes are those who are able to get back up quickly after being down, and that is exactly what Dennis and May did on Sunday.
In a wind direction similar to Saturday, but 10 or more knots stronger, the sophomore duo rallied on Sunday to jump up seven places and finish fourth in A division. Dennis states that "on Sunday [they] focused on starting and getting back to solid tactics which showed in the results." This performance, combined with strong sailing in B division by sophomore skipper Emily Billing and junior crew Margot Benedict, helped the team to its second place overall result. No. 3 Brown University took the win on their home waters while No. 1 Boston College finished just behind the Bulldogs, in third.
Billing and Benedict continued to race well this weekend as they tied for third in B division.
With just two weeks left until the Women's New England Championships, the regatta that serves as the first step to qualifying for the ICSA Nationals, it is encouraging to see the Yale team sailing with an it's-not-over-until-it's-over mentality. The Bulldogs will be back on the water for practice on Tuesday through Friday and they head up to Boston next weekend, where they will be racing in the President's Trophy Intersectional, on the Charles River.
Report filed by Chris Segerblom '14, Yale Sports Publicity

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- Ruby. I've been reading a lot about Ruby lately (yes, fxn, there is order in this universe ;-) and really like it: it combines the power of Perl with a nifty object system, plus a handful of refreshing ideas (like, e.g., iterators). It will probably become my scripting language of choice.
- emacs-wiki is an Emacs mode to maintain a local WikiWiki. I'm using it to keep personal notes on a local repository, neatly organised and hyperlinked, and all in ASCII format! Font lock makes them visually appealing, and you can even export your pages to HTML. Just another reason for never leave Emacs. Definitely worth a try.
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Reading 3: The Legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike gold strike in the Yukon Territory marked the end of an era when prospectors could hope to dig out a fortune from the earth. Perhaps because it came so late in time compared to other major gold strikes, or perhaps because some miners did take home millions in spite of the frozen environment, this gold rush left a lasting mark on the American imagination. Today, readers still enjoy The Spell of the Yukon, by Robert Service and the many works of Jack London such as Call of the Wild and White Fang, that tell of the immense hardships under which the miners worked. Yet these stories also tell of the pull that the far north had on many and, even today, they spark readers' fascination.
The Klondike Gold Rush was significant not only because it was the last great gold rush but also because it increased awareness of the northern frontiers of Alaska and Canada. Unimpressed, the press had labeled the purchase of Alaska as "Seward's folly" or "Seward's ice box." Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, including the Yukon Territory, remained sparsely populated until the end of the century. When the U.S. Census Bureau declared the western frontier closed in 1890, interest in Alaska grew. While there still were millions of acres of empty space in the lower states and territories, more people began to venture north, toward the lands they recognized as the last frontier. The discovery of gold, first in Yukon Territory and then in Nome, Alaska, raised the public's interest in what the far north had to offer.
Many changes took place in the Yukon as a result of the gold rush. A railway was built from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, in 1900. The population of Whitehorse swelled to 30,000 the same year. The gold-bearing gravel found between the Yukon and Klondike Rivers brought as much as $22 million in 1900, but it fell to $5.6 million by 1910 when most of the stampeders had left for Alaska, returned to Seattle, or set out to other regions.
Many of the stampeders who went through Seattle never reached the gold fields. In fact, between 1897 and 1900, more than 100,000 people from many nations attempted to reach the Klondike, but no more than 40,000 reached Dawson City. Some quit on the trail after experiencing too much hardship. Some returned to their original homes. Still others returned to Seattle and made it their permanent home. The city had many attractions and rewards for those who decided to stay, but the primary lure was the wealth of jobs for the unemployed. Merchants hired clerks and stockers to keep up with the rising demand for goods and services. Local manufacturers of equipment and clothing, food processors, and shipyards all needed workers, as well. Even the government of the City of Seattle was hiring, because city workers and police officers were needed to replace those who had quit and gone north in search of gold.
For Seattle, the gold rush created a boom that attracted people from all over the world even after the gold rush ended. In 1890, Seattle's population was 42,837. By the turn of the century, that figure had almost doubled, and by 1910, the population had reached 237,194. Matching this growth in population was an expansion of the city boundaries. By annexing small areas to the north and east of Pioneer Square, the size of the city more than doubled by 1910.
Seattle's business community continued to flourish. Many miners who returned to Seattle invested their fortunes in local businesses. For example, John Nordstrom invested $13,000 of Klondike gold into a shoe store, owned by a cobbler he had met in the gold fields. That shoe store marked the beginning of the Nordstrom department store chain. Outfitters, such as Edward Nordoff of Bon Marche, were able to capitalize on their successes during the gold rush and transform their small storefronts into major department stores that now have branches in many cities.
Seattle's links with the West Coast and the rest of the country continued to improve its economy. Manufactured goods, timber products, and other natural resources could be shipped by sea to San Francisco, Alaska, and the countries along the Pacific Rim. Goods also could be shipped by rail, with direct connections to Canada, California, the Midwest and the Northeast. At the dawn of a new century, Seattle had established itself as the premier city of the Northwest.
Questions for Reading 3
1. What impact did the Klondike Gold Rush have on the popular idea of the northern frontier?
2. Why did some stampeders stay in Seattle or return to live there?
3. Have you read books by Robert Service or Jack London? If so, what are some of the impressions these works gave you about the far north?
4. What was the long-term impact of the Klondike Gold Rush on Seattle?
Reading 3 was adapted from The Klondike Gold Rush of 1898: A Teacher's Guide to the Last Grand Adventure (Seattle: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, 1993).
Reading 3 was adapted from The Klondike Gold Rush of 1898: A Teacher's Guide to the Last Grand Adventure (Seattle: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, 1993).


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
An Israeli Jewish infant was nearly killed on Sunday morning when a Palestinian youth hurled a large stone through the windshield of the car in which the baby was traveling.
The baby's father told Israel National News that the whole family was in the car driving through Samaria when the attack occurred.
The stone smashed through the front windshield and landed just inches from the child. "I do not even want to think what would happen if the rock had hit the baby," the distressed father told Arutz Sheva Radio.
The family's two other young children were also in the car.
Israeli soldiers stationed nearby initially closed the road and launched a manhunt for the perpetrator, but were forced by Israeli police to abandon the search.
Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria (referred to as "settlers") often complain of misbehavior by a police department that is unsympathetic to the dangers they face while living in an area claimed by the Palestinian Arabs. In other words, the police hierarchy leans to the left, and is generally "anti-settler."
Perhaps even more frustrating is the complete lack of mainstream media coverage of such attacks, which have been happening with much greater frequency of late. Unless someone is killed or badly injured, roadside stone-throwing attacks against Jewish motorists are ignored.
Of course, there is little doubt that were the roles reversed - if Jewish youths were regularly attacking Palestinian motorists - the mainstream media, both local and international, would be all over the story.
The ongoing and escalating stone-throwing attacks again speak to the general lack of education toward peace among the Palestinian Arabs. A few years ago, authorities in Jerusalem debated how to bring a halt to such attacks, particularly in the capital. Some argued for harsher punishments for the youthful perpetrators, but others insisted that until the parents taught their children to stop being violent, the phenomenon would continue.
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J.M.W. Turner, in full Joseph Mallord William Turner, (born April 23, 1775, London, England—died December 19, 1851, London), English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity.
Early life and works
Turner was the son of a barber. At age 10 he was sent to live with an uncle at Brentford, Middlesex, where he attended school. Several drawings dated as early as 1787 are sufficiently professional to corroborate the tradition that his father sold the boy's work to his customers. Turner entered the Royal Academy schools in 1789 and soon began exhibiting his watercolours there. From 1792 he spent his summers touring the country in search of subjects, filling his sketchbooks with drawings to be worked up later into finished watercolours. His early work is topographical (concerned with the accurate depiction of places) in character and traditional in technique, imitating the best English masters of the day. In 1794 Turner began working for engravers, supplying designs for the Copper Plate Magazine and the Pocket Magazine. He was also employed to make copies or elaborations of unfinished drawings by the recently deceased landscape painter John Robert Cozens. The influence of Cozens and of the Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson helped broaden Turner's outlook and revealed to him a more poetic and imaginative approach to landscape, which he would pursue to the end of his career with ever-increasing brilliance.
From 1796 Turner exhibited oil paintings as well as watercolours at the Royal Academy. The first, Fishermen at Sea (1796), is a moonlight scene and was acclaimed by a contemporary critic as the work "of an original mind." In 1799, at the youngest permitted age (24), Turner was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1802 he became a full academician, a dignity he marked by a series of large pictures in which he emulated the achievements of the Old Masters, especially the 17th-century painters Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Aelbert Cuyp, and Willem van de Velde the Younger. In 1807 he was appointed professor of perspective.
Turner's private life, such as it was, was secretive, unsociable, and somewhat eccentric. In 1798 he entered into an affair, which was to last about 10 years, with Sarah Danby, a widow who probably bore him two children. In 1800 Turner's mother became hopelessly ill and was committed to a mental hospital. His father went to live with him and devoted the rest of his life to serving as his son's studio assistant and general agent. Also about 1800 Turner took a studio at 64 Harley Street, London, and in 1804 he opened a private gallery, where he continued to show his latest work for many seasons. He was by this time overwhelmed with commissions, and the success of his career was assured.
Turner continued to travel in search of inspiration. He visited Wales in 1792, 1795, and 1798, Yorkshire and the Lake District in 1797, the Midlands in 1794, Scotland in 1801, and the European continent for the first time in 1802. The crossing to Calais was rough, and in his picture Calais Pier (1802–03) he left a vivid record of his experience upon arrival. He made more than 400 drawings during this tour of France and Switzerland and continued for many years to paint pictures of scenes that had impressed him on the trip. He also studied the Old Masters at the Louvre.
Turner's many marine subjects, in which he dramatically builds upon the foundation of the Dutch 17th-century tradition, reveal his methodical attempt to master every landscape style he admired and the ease with which he accomplished this. The rivalry he felt with painters who had influenced his style is suggested by his bequest to the National Gallery of his Dido Building Carthage, or the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815) and Sun Rising Through Vapour: Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish (1807) on condition that they be hung beside his two favourite Claudes. However, the treatment of landscape in the Thames oil sketches of about 1805 and in The Shipwreck (1805) suggests that at this time Turner was developing his original approach to landscape—emphasizing luminosity, atmosphere, and Romantic, dramatic subjects.
In 1807 Turner began his great enterprise of publishing a series of 100 plates known as the Liber Studiorum, inspired, in part, by Claude's own studio record, Liber veritatis (begun in 1635 and continued until his death in 1682). Turner's aim was to document the great variety and range of landscape; some of the subjects were taken from his own existing paintings and watercolours. He employed several engravers, although he supervised the work at every stage, etched some of the plates himself, and made innumerable preparatory drawings. The publication was issued in parts consisting of five plates each and covering all the styles of landscape composition, including historical, architectural, mountainous, pastoral, and marine. The first part appeared in June 1807 and the last in 1819, when Turner evidently lost interest in the project and abandoned it after the publication of 71 plates.
Middle years
During the second decade of the 1800s, Turner's painting became increasingly luminous and atmospheric in quality. Even in paintings of actual places, such as St. Mawes at the Pilchard Season (1812), the hard facts of topography are diffused behind pearly films of colour; other pictures, such as Frosty Morning (1813), are based entirely on effects of light. In works such as Snowstorm: Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), Turner used the power of natural forces to lend drama to historical events. Turner was much in demand as a painter of castles and countryseats for their owners, while he also continued to excel in marine painting. Turner's masterpiece of this period is the Dort, or Dortrecht: The Dort Packet Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1817–18), a tribute to Cuyp.
With Dido and Aeneas, Leaving Carthage on the Morning of the Chase (1814), Turner began a series of Carthaginian subjects. The last exhibitions of his life, at the academy in 1850, included four works on the same theme. By appending long poetic quotations from James Thomson's Seasons (1726), from works by Lord Byron, John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope, or attributed to his own poetic composition Fallacies of Hope (never completed), Turner showed that he regarded the literary-historical interpretation of his works as being of paramount importance.
The coming of peace in 1815 allowed Turner to travel abroad. After a trip to the field of Waterloo and the Rhine in 1817, Turner set out in the summer of 1819 on his first visit to Italy. He spent three months in Rome—also visiting Naples, Florence, and Venice—and returned home in midwinter. During his journey he made about 1,500 drawings, and in the next few years he painted a series of pictures inspired by what he had seen. They show a great advance in his style, particularly in the matter of colour, which became purer and more prismatic, with a general heightening of key. A comparison of The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl (1823) with any of the earlier pictures reveals a far more iridescent treatment resembling the transparency of a watercolour. The shadows are as colourful as the lights, and he achieves contrasts by setting off cold and warm colours instead of dark and light tones.
During the 1820s Turner alternated tours of the continent with visits to various parts of England and Scotland. In 1827 he painted brilliant sketches of the regatta at Cowes, and in 1828 he went to Italy again. From 1828, and particularly after his father's death in 1829, Turner often visited the earl of Egremont at Petworth, Sussex, producing splendid sketches of the earl's house and its gardens.
Later life and works
In the later years of his life, Turner was more famous, rich, and secretive than ever. After several years of inactivity as professor of perspective at the Royal Academy, he resigned in 1838. By 1846 he owned a house by the river at Chelsea, where he lived with a widow, Sophia Caroline Booth, assuming her surname. Turner continued to travel. In the last 15 years of his life, he visited Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France. Observers have recorded the untiring energy with which he sketched while abroad, and the drawings, numbering about 19,000 in the Turner Bequest, bear witness to this labour.
While Turner's earlier paintings and drawings show the most accurate observation of architectural and natural detail, in his later work this precision is sacrificed to general effects of colour and light with the barest indication of mass. His composition tends to become more fluid, suggesting movement and space; some of his paintings are mere colour notations, barely tinted on a white ground, such as Norham Castle, Sunrise and Sunrise, with a Boat Between Headlands (both from c. 1840–50). This approach may account for the large number of slightly brushed-in canvases found in Turner's studio at the time of his death. These colourful abstractions are often more appreciated at the turn of the 21st century than the historical and mythological subjects he exhibited.
Apart from fanciful reconstructions of ancient Rome and the scintillating Venetian cityscapes, which found ready purchasers in his day, the outstanding examples of his late work are The 'Fighting Téméraire' Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838 (1839), a tribute to the passing age of sailing ships as they were about to be replaced by steam-powered vessels, and Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway (1844), which expresses Turner's intense interest in the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution. The first of his pictures to be hung in Britain's National Gallery was the opalescent The Dogana, San Giorgio Citella, from the Steps of the Europa (1842), presented in 1847, while Turner was still alive. Turner's preoccupation with the dramatic elements of fire and water appears in the two versions of Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835), in the large sketch A Fire at Sea (c. 1835), and in Rockets and Blue Lights (1840).
Turner died in Chelsea in 1851 and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. By his will he intended to leave most of his fortune of £140,000 to found a charity for "decayed artists," and he bequeathed his finished paintings to the National Gallery, on condition that a separate gallery be built to exhibit them. As a result of protracted litigation with his rather distant relatives, most of the money reverted to them, while both finished and unfinished paintings and drawings became national property as the Turner Bequest. It was not until 1908 that a special gallery was built by Sir Joseph Duveen to house some of the oil paintings at the Tate Gallery. All the drawings and watercolours were transferred to the British Museum for safety after the River Thames flood of 1928, when the storerooms at the Tate Gallery were inundated, but they were returned to the Tate Gallery on the opening of the Clore Gallery, an addition designed by James Stirling expressly for that purpose, in 1987. A few of the oil paintings remain at the National Gallery.
Turner was perhaps the greatest landscapist of the 19th century. Although brought up in the academic traditions of the 18th century, he became a pioneer in the study of light, colour, and atmosphere. He anticipated the French Impressionists in breaking down conventional formulas of representation; but, unlike them, he believed that his works should always express significant historical, mythological, literary, or other narrative themes. A line of development can be traced from his early historical landscapes that form settings for important human subjects to his later concentration on the dramatic aspects of sea and sky. Even without figures, these late works are expressions of important subjects: the relationship of man to his environment, the power of nature as manifested in the terror of the storm or the beneficence of the sun. Unmatched in his time in the range of his development, Turner was also unrivaled in the breadth of his subject matter and the searching innovation of his stylistic treatment.
Early in the 19th century, Turner was strongly criticized by conservative critics for his dynamic compositions and high-keyed colour. By the end of his life, although his Venetian subjects and more finished watercolours still appealed to some purchasers, his concern with atmospheric effects had developed along lines that departed from the trend in contemporary taste for realism and high finish, typified by the popularity of complex narrative painting. Turner's growing reputation in the second half of the 19th century was in fact largely due to the championship of the influential English art critic John Ruskin, who published the first part of Modern Painters in 1843 to prove Turner's superiority to all previous landscape painters and to extol his accurate rendering of natural appearance. In the 20th century a new appreciation of the abstract qualities of Turner's late colour compositions strengthened his status as one of the most innovative and technically gifted painters of his century.Martin R.F. Butlin Mary Chamot The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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history of Europe: PaintingHis English counterpart, J.M.W. Turner, was pursuing the same goal of realistic truth, though along a different path that nonetheless also led to Impressionism—and beyond. When asked one day why he had pasted a scrap of black paper on a portion of his canvas, he replied that ordinary…
Western painting: Britain…landscape painters, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, were going still further. Both men, while admiring the classical landscapes of Claude Lorrain and Poussin, believed that personal feeling was the mainspring of artistic activity and felt an almost mystical sympathy for the natural world. They made atmosphere almost palpable and painted…
art criticism: The growth of power and influenceThe cause of painter J.M.W. Turner was taken up by John Ruskin, a brilliant, eccentric, often disturbed figure, who was himself an artist. Ruskin defended Turner's landscapes—which had been ridiculed by critics who found them too technically daring—with youthful exuberance in
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In the department's research team program, groups of students and a faculty member conduct programmatic research in such areas as environmental psychology, media effects, adolescence and aging, neuroscience, cognitive development, motivation and humor. The interaction of students and faculty in actual research helps shape the student's perception of psychology as a social-intellectual activity, rather than as a body of static knowledge to be passively assimilated.
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Hi, I'm trying to make Connecticut the 49th state I've windsurfed in on Sunday July 7th. We are staying the night in Niantic CT.
Google Maps shows a Main St/ Rope Ferry Rd that crosses the Niantic River between Niantic and Waterford CT. On the Waterford side there is a large parking lot with what appears to be a large boat ramp north of 2nd St / Ave B near Captain John's Sport Fishing & the Dock Restaurants.
Is the Niantic River sailable from that boat ramp at low tide?
I have a Kona One with a 46 cm fin and a 40 cm fin. (In my earlier thread about Newport RI I thought I'd left the 40 cm fin at home, but I found it tonight.)
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Aha! The weather changed in my favor to moderate winds. So I can use McCook Point Park in East Lyme CT...assuming they allow windsurfers.
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There's a boat ramp at Jordan Cove just before Pleasant Beach in Waterford just to the east of you. Take Rte 156 to Gardiners Wood Road to Jordan Cove Road to Shore Road and if you're looking at the Google Map, there's a "P" for the boat ramp parking. We usually sail further east at the Barn Island boat ramp in Stonington but the Jordan Cove boat ramp gets the best of what's available in eastern Long Island sound. Welcome to Connecticut and the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plant.
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I'll have to check out the Barn Island boat launch some time. I checked it out with Google Maps and it looks like a great spot. Has anyone ever tried to sail upwind to Sandy Point and then do a downwinder back? Looks like it would be easy and lots of fun!
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I had a nice session at McCook Point Park scoring state #49 in my quest. Drove to the far eastern parking area atop the hill. After walking the stuff down to the eastern beach, rigging & being about ready to get in the water a life guard came to tell me launching wasn't allowed on that beach. The acceptable launch area is on the western beach next to the large parking lot. But I had discussed that with the office person at Hole in the Wall beach who sold me the $20 non-resident permit and told me I was OK if I launched outside the swimming area. Since I was all ready to go the lifeguard let me launch. Not wanting to push the issue when I came back in I landed at the right beach. Perhaps the office person & I didn't understand which beach area the other was talking about.
As far as I know now, the acceptable launch area is near the rocks, on the NE edge of the parking lot. I used a GPS address of 35 Atlantic St, East Lyme, CT to get to that parking lot.
Wish I had time to sail all of the good places in RI & CT.
My plan for 7-8-13 is to sail at Fort Hancock at the end of the Sandy Hook area in NJ and thereby windsurf in my 50th state.
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That's a terrific effort. I hope you've made a blog or put out a list of where you've sailed. Good luck in New Jersey.
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My plan for 7-8-13 is to sail at Fort Hancock at the end of the Sandy Hook area in NJ and thereby windsurf in my 50th state.
Did you hit your 50th yesterday? That is quite the accomplishment! Where did you windsurf in Virgina? New York? I agree with jg, that it would be neat to see your full list.
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Yes, on 7-8-13 I scored my 50th state windsurfing in the waters of NJ west of Sandy Hook peninsula after launching at a tiny beach near two different Nike missles about 200 yards south of a row of yellow brick houses that were part of Fort Hancock. I sailed out far enough to see the Verranzo Narrows Bridge and the skylines of Manhattan & Brooklyn. Just standing on the east side would give that view, but I didn't want to lug the board across that wide eastern beach. My wife took the attached picture.
Both NY & VA were scored as twofers: For NY I sailed across Lake Champlain near the Samuel Champlain Bridge south of Port Henry to get both NY & VT in the same 1/4 mile session on 6-27-13. For VA I rented a windsurfer from Belle Haven Marina south of the DC beltway and sailed across the Potomac River to get VA & MD in the same session (about 1999 or 2000). I didn't cover the District of Columbia until sailing a few years later from the Washington Sailing Club south of Reagan Airport on equipment borrowed from a Baltimore-Washington area windsurfer.
I think I can reconstruct a list of where and when I sailed in each state since most of them were covered in the last 10 years. Eventually our Christmas letters started listing which states I'd sailed in that year. I'm going to look at them to try to figure out when I decided my goal was to sail in all 50.
sailing west of Sandy Hook peninsula, NJ.
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Very cool accomplishment. Yeah, I think the forums, here, would be interested in your complete list when you get it together.
I applaud your efficiency in knocking off two states at a time. I've done the same VA / MD run, as I used to sail Belle Haven for their rental equipment (before I bought my own) in 99-00, too. Who knows, maybe we crossed wakes a some point, or sailed the same board.
Now you just need to sail each continent ... or each Carribbean island.
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The Cell of Father Maksymilian Kolbe
Another famous story involving Block 11 is that of the Polish Franciscan Maksymilian Rajmund Kolbe. In late July 1941, there was a successful escape.
According to camp policy Lagerführer Karl Fritzsch selected a number of men from the escapee's block, in this case 15 prisoners from Block 4, to be killed by starvation. After the final man had been selected, Father Kolbe actually broke ranks and approached Fritzsch. It was remarkable that he wasn't beaten to death or shot on the spot, just for this act. He volunteered to take the place of another man whom he knew had a family. Fritzsch accepted. Father Kolbe was taken to this starvation cell in Block 11. Still alive after two weeks, he was killed by phenol injection administered by the Block Elder, Hans Bock, (serial number 5). Bock was one of the original criminals carefully selected from German prisons to serve as work foremen and block leaders.
After the war, the Roman Catholic Church bestowed sainthood on Father Kolbe. In a 1979 pilgrimage to Auschwitz/Birkenau, Pope John Paul II honored Father Kolbe, and made the point that he was not the only one to overcome evil: "How many here earned similar victories? The victorious were people of various faiths, various ideologies, and surely not only believers.""*
The man whose life Father Kolbe saved, Franciszek Gajowniczek, survived the camp and lived a long life (95). He died in 1995.
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Actor Gael García Bernal, musician Santigold, and the artists Mariko Mori and Xu Bing all designed limited edition T-shirts for the Intel and Levi's collaboration, "Friends of MOCA".
Support creative learning and the education programs at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA). Help spread the word about the importance of arts education. Your purchase of these T-shirts, available at the Levi's stores listed below, enables Levi's and Intel to support MOCA's innovative education programs. Intel is also donating Ultrabooks™ to the Contemporary Art Start program, which helps create meaningful connections to contemporary art for students, teachers and families around the world. These devices will help integrate new technology into arts education.
You can also find the "Friends of MOCA" app at these stores. Use an Intel-inspired Ultrabook to create a personalized symbol that represents your visual identity.
The shirts are available now in the US, will drop November 12 in Japan and Australia and land in December at other select shops around the world. See the full list of retailers with release dates, below.
November 4, 2012
Levi's Union Square, San Francisco
300 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94108
Levi's HQ, San Francisco
1155 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Levi's Meatpacking, New York
414 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10014
Levi's Times Square, New York
1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Levi's Santa Monica
1409 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Levi's Malibu
3862 Cross Creek Road, Malibu, CA 90265
MOCA Store
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Available November 12, 2012
Levi's Shibuya
Shibuya Shinko Building, 17-2 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan zip150-0042
Levi's Melbourne Central
L02 204 La Trobe St Building, Melbourne Central, 211 La Trobe St Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Available December 1, 2012
Levi's Regent Street London
174-176 Regent Street W1B 5TL, London
Levi's Champs-Elysées Paris
76 Avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008, Paris
Levi's Berlin
Kurfüstendamm 237 10719 Berlin, Charlottenburg
Levi's Amsterdam
Kalverstraat 167-169 1012XB, Amsterdam
Available mid-December, 2012
Levi's Shanghai Nan Jing W Road
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The dining scene in Townsville North Queensland has come alive with Townsville's first creative laneway precinct, City Lane, offering a bevy of dining options to tempt everyone's taste buds. City Lane is a sophisticated, New York inspired precinct complete with street art, funky décor and an atmosphere to match!
The City Lane precinct truly is the day to night dining solution. The seamless combination of a somewhat contrasting collection of bars and eateries just works! City Lane has brought sophistication, vibrancy and style into the heart of Townsville City and is a 'must visit' while in Townsville North Queensland.
Dining options within City Lane include: Paleo Cafe, Shaw and Co, Donna Bionda, The Courtyard and Sakana.


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Five Good Reasons to Eat Avocados
Jan 23rd, 2014
Plant "Fats": A Simple Way to Lower Cholesterol
How do they work?
Plant sterols and stanols are structurally similar to cholesterol and have been studied extensively for their cholesterol-lowering ability. Plant sterols and stanols seem to lower cholesterol by competing with it for absorption and by increasing the amount of cholesterol that is eliminated from the body.
Plant sterols and stanols appear to work best when eaten as part of a meal. For this reason, they're frequently added to cooking oils, margarine-type spreads, dairy products, orange juice, and salad dressings, as a convenient way to get them into the diet.
But combining plant sterols and stanols with food means that these foods need to be eaten every day in order to reap the cholesterol-lowering benefits.
Supp it up
Researchers wanted to see if taking a plant sterol and stanol supplement might also help reduce cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels.
For six weeks, 32 people with high cholesterol (average age 58 years) took 1.8 grams per day of a plant sterol-stanol supplement or placebo. At the end of that time, the groups were switched, so that the placebo group then received the sterol/stanol supplement and vice versa.
After taking the plant sterol-stanol supplement, total cholesterol, LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and non-HDL cholesterol (total cholesterol minus the heart-healthy HDL cholesterol) were significantly lower compared with placebo. HDL ("good") cholesterol and triglycerides didn't differ between the two treatment periods.
"The use of plant sterols and stanols in capsules or tablets offers a practical option compared to traditional food vehicles by virtue of being easily incorporated into a cholesterol-lowering regimen without altering the macronutrient distribution," says lead study author, Kevin Maki, of Provident Clinical Research, the company that manufactures the supplement. "This feature might increase compliance during long-term use compared with the types of dietary changes needed to incorporate plant sterol/stanol foods."
Eat your way to lower cholesterol
More studies are needed to confirm these positive results. And if you want to beat high cholesterol the old fashioned way—by eating well and exercising regularly—remember to include plenty of these proven winners:
Nuts: It's not easy for a food to earn the right to bear a health claim, but nuts have done it. As part of a healthy diet, many types of nuts (including walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans) may lower the risk of heart disease. So switch out the potato chips for a handful of nuts. Packed with protein, fiber, and healthy fats, nuts make a satisfying and nutritious snack that can lower your cholesterol, too.
Oats: Diets that are high in soluble fiber from foods like oatmeal can help lower cholesterol. For added benefit, add some chopped apples or strawberries and a sprinkling of nuts.
Olive oil: Olive oil may help lower LDL cholesterol levels and reduce heart disease risk. Be sure to choose extra-virgin olive oils. The less processed an oil is, the greater its anti-inflammatory action in the body.
(Int J Food Sci Nutr 2012;doi:10.3109/09637486.2011.636345)
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How To Measure The Patio Door Size For Purchasing A New One
If you are thinking about replacing a patio door, you will first need to think about the measurements. Buying a new door without measuring the space first is like buying new clothes without trying them on. You can guess if they will fit right but it will just be a guess. You don't want to get a patio door home just to realize it is too small or too big for the door frame.
Measuring the patio door size so that you can purchase a new one is quite simple and you don't need to be a pro to get it done. If you do measure the frame and realize they don't sell that size in stores, custom patio doors can be ordered online. However, just be sure you were careful and exact with the measurements before placing the order.


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2012 Hale Aina Awards
You voted, we counted, and here they are, the best 128 restaurants in Hawaii. On these pages, you'll find a complete list of the winners and a closer look at some of the specific, delicious dishes that put these eateries on top.
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By the time a restaurant has won a Hale Aina Award from our readers, it has excelled on any number of fronts—fantastic food, terrific service, great atmosphere. But especially fantastic food. It makes that part look so easy that we take for granted the thought, technique and good, old-fashioned practice that make the dishes so unique, so irreproducible at home. You might learn Alan Wong's recipe for ginger-crusted onaga, or Town's recipe for gnocchi, but there's no substitute for the experience of making it every day for years, reading each batch the way an experienced surfer reads a wave.
HONOLULU Magazine's Hale Aina awards are the Islands' oldest, most prestigious dining awards. Across 35 categories, 128 Hawaii restaurants have won Hale Aina awards, out of thousands of restaurants statewide. You can find the full list of winners on the foldout in this issue. For these pages, we interviewed some of the winning chefs about their restaurants' most popular or remarkable dishes to find out how they make magic on a plate.
One thing that struck us in our conversations was that, whether these restaurants have been open for one year or 50, they're keenly in tune with their diners, which is probably why you voted them to the top.
Morimoto Waikiki
Best New Restaurant, Gold
Restaurant of the Year, Bronze
Best Japanese, Silver
There are multiple locations of Morimoto restaurants around the world, but Morimoto Waikiki offers dishes available at no other outpost. There's the Big Island abalone takoyaki, for example, a riff on traditional takoyaki which contains octopus (tako) in a cooked (yaki) flour ball. In Masaharu Morimoto's other restaurants, he swaps out the octopus for lobster or foie, but in Waikiki, he uses local abalone. "Takoyaki is actually a street food in Japan," Morimoto says, "but with Big Island's delicious abalone, Morimoto's takoyaki became an elegant dish."
Another Morimoto dish with a local twist is the Loco Moto, a take on the classic loco moco with influences from a popular Japanese comfort food—Hayashi rice, a thick beef stew on rice. The Loco Moto incorporates Wagyu beef, a sunnyside-up egg, Hayashi gravy and fukujinzuke, a crunchy Japanese relish. Even the rice receives a luxe touch: it is polished in house, the husks removed right before cooking.
Particularly addictive is the pineapple tempura, wrapped in jamon iberico, the Spanish equivalent of prosciutto. Why not use the more widely available prosciutto? "Because the Hawaiian pineapple we use for this dish has a delicate sweetness, I thought jamon iberico's less salty, subtle flavor would be good for the fruit," says Morimoto. 1775 Ala Moana Blvd., 943-5900.
La Tour Café
Best New Restaurant, Silver
La Tour Café will never be a gluten-free haven. Chef Travis Inouye says the menu revolves around the artisan breads from La Tour Bakehouse, an 80,000-square-foot production facility above the café. So the croque madame may be laden with black forest ham, béchamel, roasted tomatoes, gruyere cheese and a runny, fried egg, but these are all supporting actors to the thick slice of rustic, country-style bread underneath.
Click here for the full list of winners from the 2012 Hale Aina Awards.


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The D.M.D. designation indicates the degree awarded upon graduation from dental school to become a general dentist. Harvard was the first dental school to award the D.M.D.
According to the American Dental Association (ADA): "There is no difference between the two degrees; dentists who have a D.M.D. or D.D.S. have the same education. Universities have the prerogative to determine what degree is awarded. Both degrees use the same curriculum requirements set by the American Dental Association's Commission on Dental Accreditation. Generally, three or more years of undergraduate education plus four years of dental school is required to graduate and become a general dentist. State licensing boards accept either degree as equivalent, and both degrees allow licensed individuals to practice the same scope of general dentistry. Additional post-graduate training is required to become a dental specialist, such as an orthodontist, periodontist or oral and maxillofacial surgeon."
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As our guest, your comfort is our first concern. We want your visit to Orkney to be memorable, starting with our comfortable rooms and our exceptional meals in the restaurant.
The Restaurant has a whisky theme to its décor, which is very apt since the hotel is very close to Highland Park distillery.
The menus change daily according to what produce is available and in season, and whenever possible, locally sourced ingredients are used. A particular favourite is the Holmy Lamb, which comes roasted or in a stew. This lamb is raised on the holms near Westray and they feed on the seaweed as there is no grass to eat. This gives the meat its unique flavor. Of course, Orkney being a group of islands, it is rich in sea food. Many hours are spent by our chefs filleting the catch as soon as it comes home.
The view from the restaurant over the bay can be a distraction from the excellent menus, which change daily to accommodate deliveries of the fresh local ingredients.
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"Not Even Close To Correct" - Fox Continues Attempt To Revive Death Panel Lie
Blog ››› ››› ANDREW LAWRENCE
Fox News personalities, Eric Bolling and Marc Siegel made false claims about the Individual Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) included in the Affordable Care Act in an attempt to revive the "death panel" lie. This claim has been repeatedly debunked and has no basis in the law itself.
On the August 6 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, guest host Eric Bolling and serial health care misinformer Marc Siegel made claims about IPAB that have been repeatedly debunked:
Bolling's claim that "the whole point of [IPAB] is to decide what medical treatment I'm going to be able to get" and Siegel's conclusion that IPAB is "a death panel - it's a rationing board," has been a proven falsehood dating back to 2011.
In June 2011, Georgia Representative Phil Gingrey claimed that the IPAB board could "decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy." Gingrey concluded, "it's rationing."
PolitiFact addressed this claim in August of that year:
Gingrey is "not even close to correct," said Michael Tanner, a scholar with the libertarian Cato Institute. He opposes the IPAB.
"It [IPAB] has nothing to do with individual care at all. It's not making decisions on individuals," Tanner said.
Experts agree that the IPAB has no say in whether a specific person receives dialysis, chemotherapy or any other such treatment. The board does not intercede in individual patient cases. It makes broad policy decisions that affect Medicare's overall cost.
Furthermore, the IPAB is barred from making policy recommendations that would block patients from receiving needed care, experts told PolitiFact Georgia.
"The legislation explicitly forbids the board from rationing care," said Stuart Guterman, a health policy expert with the Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan group which works to improve health care access, quality and efficiency. Guterman said he thinks the IPAB can help with health care savings.
Finally, the law itself makes it clear that IPAB is forbidden from making "any recommendation to ration health care ... or otherwise restrict benefits."
This is the most recent example of the return of 2009's "lie of the year" to Fox News.
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Menopause might begin with the occasional hot flash, night sweats or an errant hair sprouting from the chin. And it might mean misery for many women.One thing most pre- and menopausal women will agree on is that the symptoms, which increase with frequency and severity over time, can be more than just a passing distraction. According to Dr. Jena Rogers, M.D., of Tahlequah Medical Group, women often suffer symptoms in their 40s. "Perimenopausal symptoms occur during the stage of a woman's reproductive life that begins several years before menopause," said Rogers. "These symptoms may start in a woman's 40s, but can start in her 30s or earlier [if early ovarian failure occurs]. This stage in a woman's life may last from a few months to 10 years." Symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, breast tenderness, decreased libido, fatigue, irregular periods, vaginal dryness, urine leakage, urinary urgency with incontinence, mood swings and difficulty sleeping. Rogers said treatment options to relieve symptoms varies. "[Options] that enhance one's sense of well being [can include] exercise, smoking cessation, improving sleep habits, reducing alcohol consumption, and getting to a healthy weight and maintaining it," said Rogers. "And for bone health, get enough calcium in your diet." Those who suffer mood swings may find relief in having an antidepressant prescribed, and lubricants are available to remedy vaginal dryness. Another option is hormone replacement therapy. "Last, but not least, HRT is considered for the treatment of hot flashes, night sweats, decreased libido and vaginal dryness," said Rogers. "But with HRT, there comes an increased risk for endometrial cancer, blood clots and breast cancer. All these things should be discussed with your physician to determine the appropriate therapy for you." According to an article by the Mayo Clinic staff, long-term systemic hormone therapy to treat symptoms is no longer routinely recommended, but some data suggest estrogen can decrease the risk of heart disease. Dr. Paul Plowman, OB/GYN at Tahlequah City Hospital, said a woman can be considered as a candidate for HRT when symptoms become moderate to severe. "Various types of hormone replacement are available: pills, patches, gels, intravaginal rings and even pellets which are placed under the skin," said Plowman. "The amount an type of hormone replacement should be tailored by a qualified health care provider to the patient's specific needs." According to Plowman, all medications have side effects, which can be both good and bad, and patients should have a thorough discussion of the risks and benefits of HRT prior to beginning treatment. Some women are reluctant to supplement Mother Nature's natural course of aging with chemicals, and instead rely on natural, homeopathic remedies to alleviate symptoms. Deana Franke, owner of a natural foods store, has found success in a combination of natural alternatives. "What I've ended up doing is combining several different natural alternative to make my own mixture to deal with my symptoms," said Franke. "There are a lot of things that work well, including black cohosh, passion flower and plant-based phytoestrogen. I change combinations every six months or so, and have never had any big problems [with menopausal symptoms] that way." Franke chose the natural route, as she believes it reduces her risks of developing cancer. "My best friend was told outright she got breast cancer because she took HRT for 20 years," said Franke. "Of course, I'm sure the medications have improved since then." To see the complete version of this article, subscribe to the Daily Press e-edition by following the link below. (c)2013 the Tahlequah Daily Press (Tahlequah, Okla.) Visit the Tahlequah Daily Press (Tahlequah, Okla.) at www.tahlequahdailypress.com
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VIDEO: Turner's Game Winner
ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — And the hits just keep on coming. It feels like it was just yesterday that I wrote about this flurry of game-winning buzzer-beaters (GWBBs) that we've seen of late. (That's because it was just yesterday that I wrote about this flurry of game-winning buzzer-beaters (GWBBs) that we've seen of late.) The news never stops, you guys.
Before we get too far into this, we should stop and explain: What is the Horry Scale? For those who are new around these parts, the Horry Scale examines a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or garden-variety Kings-Pistons game?) and celebration (is it over the top or too chill? Just the right panache or needs more sauce?). Then we give it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys, the patron saint of last-second daggers.
With the rules in place, tonight we look to the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, where Evan Turner doesn't care how many Horry Scale entries it takes to get a win for the Sixers…
In terms of the shot itself, it goes down in the game log as "Turner Driving Layup Shot." But in actuality it was so much more. Evan Turner is actually the player who inbounded the ball on this play. Sixers C Spencer Hawes released away from the basket and caught the lob pass, at which point Turner took off on a sprint. He ran to Hawes for a dribble hand-off and basically used Hawes as a pivot point, U-turning back in toward the rim. At this point the Nets had two guys on Turner — Brook Lopez and Shaun Livingston. Turner adroitly gives a little hesitation and then fires down to the left block for a layup. Just as Turner leaves his feet, Paul Pierce slides in and takes the contact from Turner. Is this a charge? Is it a block? We'll leave that for Joe Borgia, because in this case it's officially neither: No call is made. Turner releases the ball with about 1.4 seconds remaining. The ball then bounces around the rim, kissing the iron three different times as the clock expires, before finally dropping through for the 121-120 Sixers win. It wasn't a long shot, but there were many things that broke Philly's way on the play.
Not only was the game in overtime, but Pierce had hit a three-pointer a few seconds earlier to put Brooklyn ahead 120-119. With six seconds left to play in overtime, the Sixers had to inbound the ball under their own basket. Inbounding the ball under the basket is always tough — the backboard itself limits several passing angles that would be available from any other spot on the court. The play the Sixers came up with, which we broke down above, was pretty great — the Nets obviously didn't expect Hawes to be the target on the play, and once Hawes had the ball, the Sixers used a sneaky backscreen to free Turner. Also worth noting is that the Sixers had lost seven straight games coming into this one and are about to leave on a six-game road trip to the West Coast. So not only did they need the win, but losing their eighth straight in an overtime game would have made things even more difficult to stomach.
I counted nine members of the Sixers who get involved in the initial celebration, mobbing Turner. That's seventy-five percent of the night's active roster, an important threshold to hit for our grading purposes. I feel like the celebration was also a bit subdued because whenever there's a GWBB where the shot is released so close to the buzzer, there's always that moment of indecision where you're not sure whether or not the shot will actually count until the referees review the replay. In this case it was rather obvious, but it's not official until it's official.
I'm trying to go more with my gut on these, after I had to admit I underscored Jeff Green's season-opening shot. So for this shot, with the creative inbounds play, the contact on the shot, the dramatic bounces on the rim, the game being in overtime and the Sixers ending the seven-game L streak, I'm going with Four Horrys.
What say you? How many Horrys would you give Evan Turner's game-winning buzzer-beater?