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On Mount Everest, Sherpa Guides Bear The Brunt Of The Danger
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Sherpa people of Nepal have become famous for guiding mountain climbers up some of the world's highest peaks, especially Mount Everest. While Sherpa guides earn relatively good pay for their work, they and their families pay a price in injury and sometimes death. In fact, our guest, journalist Grayson Schaffer, says Sherpa guides are 10 times more likely to die than commercial fishermen - the most dangerous occupation in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control.
In the August issue of Outside magazine, Schaffer writes about the frequency of debilitating injury and death for these Sherpas, and how little financial protection they're given by the companies that hire them even though those companies charge Western climbers thousands of dollars for a trip up Everest. Schaffer has also written about the dramatic increase in the number of climbers who join expeditions up Everest every year, and its impact on the experience. He says despite better at forecasting and rescue technology, 10 people died on Everest last year.
Grayson Schaffer is a senior editor and staff writer at Outside. He spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies.
Well, Grayson Schaffer, welcome to FRESH AIR. So what are the challenges that humans face trying to climb Mount Everest? It's not a natural environment.
GRAYSON SCHAFFER: Well, there's generally two different types of hazards. They're sort of the physical kind of hazards - you know, crevasses, getting hit by an avalanche, falling, that type of thing. And then there's this sort of physiological challenges. You know, at the summit of Everest, there's something like a third of the amount of oxygen that you have at sea level, and so in order to get your body to work with that level of stress, you have to acclimatize very slowly. And so what people will do is what's called rotations, where you'll go up to camp two and back down on to camp three and back down, just getting your body used to the altitude, allowing your, you know, red blood cell count to go up so you can use more of that thin air that's up there.
And then in addition, once people get usually above about 23, 24,000 feet, they'll start on using bottled oxygen, and that is basically a scuba tank that goes to a delivery mask, and this is how people will get all the way to the summit of Everest. This is how mere mortals can get to the summit of Everest. There are, you know, a handful, probably fewer than 60 - if you get rid of the liars and the people who slept with oxygen - who have actually climbed Everest without any oxygen.
DAVIES: And when you're making the trip with Sherpas, how much of the work are they doing, how much of the work are you doing? I mean the basic work of preparing meals and pitching tents?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. I mean, Sherpas do - they do everything, and I think a lot of people are pretty quick to recognize that. Climbers often talk about risk mitigation, that they are constantly trying to mitigate the risk. And one of the sort of the dirtiest secrets of that, I think, is that the biggest thing you can do to mitigate your risk on a mountain like Everest is paying somebody to carry your tent and your stove and all of your equipment up the mountain, doing all those laps for you - because of the death rate is 1.2 percent for a climber going up Everest just making the minimum member of trips. You can imagine how high it would be if you also had to do all of the laps.
You know, once you get into base camp, the first thing that an exposition needs to do on Mount Everest from the south side is surmount the Khumbu ice fall, which is this giant hanging glacier between camp one and base camp. And in order to tame that thing, you've got to get up there and get these tiny aluminum ladders strong across crevasses, you've got to get fixed rope in, and then you've got to carry all of the gear -the stills, the tents, the oxygen bottles, everything needs to go up to camp one, camp two, camp three, camp four in this sort of pyramid style of building and depositing materiel. And so the Sherpas are really responsible for all of that, they set the route, they set the ladders.
And, you know, when you actually see climbers going up the mountain, one of the things that people will do is carry just their 8,000 meter down suit. This is the suit that kind of makes people look like the Michelin Man. And as they're going up this sort of shoulders on the mountain, they will put just that suit in their pack so it looks like they have a full pack but, in fact, it's very light. And then if you look at, you know, the Sherpa who's climbing next to him, that guy will have, you know a 50 or an 80 pound pack and you can tell that they're just straining into the straps.
DAVIES: Apart from their proximity to Everest and these other peaks, what makes them so good at what they do?
SCHAFFER: Basically, the word Sherpa means people from the east. And these are ethnic Tibetans who have fled China over the Nangpa La pass for the most part, which is a 19,000 foot pass near Cho Oyu, and ended up in this, you know, these sort of high valleys of the Khumbu region. And so these people have spent thousands of years at altitude and develop certain genetic enhancements that allow them to perform a little bit better at high altitude than the rest of us even with, you know, the acclimatization process.
DAVIES: Now, you open your piece by describing an accident in 2010. Do you want to tell us what happened?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. In 2010 an American climber named Melissa Arnot, who is out of Sun Valley and guides for a company called Rainier Mountaineering, was climbing a mountain called Baruntse, which is a 7,000 meter peak that's sort of near Mount Everest and she was climbing with a Sherpa named Chhewang Nima, who is a very well known, highly athletic Sherpa who had summited Mount Everest 19 times at that point and he was only two away from the record. And the two of them were climbing Baruntse and Chhewang and another Sherpa named Mima Gelgin(ph) had gone on ahead to set the route to the summit. At about 600 yards shy of the summit, Chhewang was pounding in a snow picket to attach a rope to for safety and the ground beneath him just sort of splits and falls away. And he's just instantly killed, swept off the mountain.
DAVIES: Now what kinds of insurance, if any, is required for Sherpas on an expedition? Because, I mean, in many cases they're injured, not killed. And there are expensive rescues. And then, of course, they're dealing with, you know, the needs of the family when a totality occurs. What kinds of insurance do they have?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. When a Sherpa dies in the mountains you have these two worlds that kind of diverge. And on the one side the Americans, you know, the Western climbers will see, you know, a fallen climber and feel sorry for him; feel, you know, devastated that they've lost a teammate. And they'll pass around a hat, usually, and try to come up with some money for the family.
And on the other side, there's a sort of private grieving that goes on in the villages. And the family generally gets since about 2000, 2002, there is a $4,500 insurance payment that the family will get from a private insurer that's mandated through the government. And then there's this whole series of rituals that the family will go through. They'll have a what's called a protest ceremony, a puja ceremony, where the body is cremated and sent to the afterlife for reincarnation.
And in Buddhist culture - the Sherpa are primarily Buddhist - the more expensive the puja, the better the afterlife the deceased gets. So it's extremely important for them, one, to get the body so that they can cremate it. And so in a lot of these mountaineering accidents, that becomes problematic because a lot of these bodies end up, you know, in the bottom of a crevasse or someplace where you just can't get to them.
And then the other is the expense that goes into these puja ceremonies, so a lot of times the family will get a $4,500 insurance payment and relatives of the family will have already committed them to shows of faith that will cost much more than that. And so for a lot of the widows of fallen climbers, they've lost not only their primary breadwinner, they've also instantly accrued debt in excess of the insurance payment. And a lot of these climbers were - have been supporting not only their own immediate families but the families of many of their brothers and sisters as well. So it creates this sort of domino effect of grief and stress, this sort of collateral damage of the climbing industry, much of which goes unseen by Western climbers.
DAVIES: Besides accidents on the mountain, there are - what? - strokes and embolisms, blood clots that occur?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. In addition to the things call the object of hazards, things like avalanches and crevasse falls and that sort of thing that are, you know, things that the mountain can do to you. There's a whole physiological range of ailments that become much more common once you go above base camp. These are things like strokes, cerebral and pulmonary edema are big ones, and there's also just something called sudden-death, where people just have a heart attack.
And very often you'll hear these stories of people saying, "I think my heart just stopped" - or pointing to their chest and then, you know, a few seconds later, falling over and dying. A lot of this stuff happens because of the blood thickening affects of altitude. As you climb above base camp, your blood gets thicker, judgment gets impaired and, of course, you get, you know, weaker, slower, sluggish, thick. You know, above 26,000 feet, they call that area the death zone and above that altitude, your body just can't acclimatize. You have, you know, a set amount of time that you can spend above that altitude, and then you have to descend.
DAVIES: Right. So sometimes you have Sherpas that are killed on the mountains - and of course, climbers as well. But in other cases, they suffer incapacitating injuries. And you write in the piece about some families that you visited who had, you know, Sherpas who were severely handicapped because of things that had happened on the mountain. What kind of, you know, circumstances did they face?
SCHAFFER: That's right. In many cases, you know, because rescues are becoming more common, more people are able to survive some of these injuries and ailments that they wouldn't have in the past. And so in each of the towns in the Khumbu region, and in certain neighborhoods in Katmandu, you'll find some of the people who have survived high altitudes, strokes or falls, or that sort of thing. And essentially, these people become sort of hidden casualties of the climbing industry where not only are they no longer their family's breadwinners, their family generally now has to take care of them as well. And so it's this kind of double burden.
So I met with the family of a man named Ang Temba, who was in Katmandu, and he had had a stroke around 2006 on the north side of Everest working for a Japanese team. And they had gotten him off the mountain and gotten him back down to Katmandu to the hospital and he had gotten some acupuncture treatment. And the doctor who saw him there said whatever you do, don't go back to mountaineering, you know, you've recovered from this, you're very lucky. And then, of course, the very next season he gets a job offer to go back and work for another company called Asian Trekking.
And the way his wife put it to me was pretty simple. I mean, she said: What other option do we have? I mean, this is the most lucrative job that this guy can possibly do. And given that or some other job in a country whose average per capita income is about $540, he can go up on Everest and make $5,000 or $6,000 in two months, he's going to say yes. And so he did.
And he goes back and he works on the mountain, and then he comes back and he's extremely weak. And a few weeks later she finds him passed out on the couch, and he's had another stroke. And at this point, he has lost all function on his right side and can barely speak. And so now, she's trying to make ends meet by renting rooms in their house. And she had tried to collect some of the insurance money for a death benefit and over the course of several years, she was actually able to do that because she was able to convince the insurer that his debilitation was complete and work-related.
DAVIES: We're speaking with Grayson Schaffer. He is a senior editor and staff writer at Outside magazine. We'll talk more after a short break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and our guest is Grayson Schaffer. He is a senior editor and staff writer at Outside magazine. He has a piece in the August issue of the magazine about the dangers that Sherpas face in expeditions up Mount Everest and other peaks. It's called "Disposable Man."
So when Western climbers go to expeditions up Everest and other mountains, do they know, you know, what the arrangements are for the Sherpas and their needs?
SCHAFFER: You know, I think that there's a real misperception about that. There's an assumption that because it's 2013, that all of the sort of labor issues that might have been in the past, that those kind of things have been resolved and that these people are basically well cared for. At this point, we've recognized that climbing Mount Everest is no longer sort of the pinnacle of mountaineering achievement. There's no climb that you can do on the south face of Everest that is going to make Alpinist magazine write a profile of you. It's essentially the pinnacle of adventure tourism.
And the thing to understand about the Sherpa workforce is that there is no other tourism industry in the world that so frequently kills and maims its workers for the benefit of paying clients. And that's just something that people have not yet, I think, connected the dots on; that a 1 percent mortality rate for somebody who is choosing to climb a mountain is acceptable. But a 1 percent mortality rate for the people they rely on to get their stuff up the mountains is, as a workplace safety statistic - is just outrageous.
DAVIES: Because they go again and again.
SCHAFFER: That's right. That's right. If you're a Western climber, you're paying, you're climbing the mountain once and you're done. If you're a Sherpa, you're doing lap after lap after lap through this roulette wheel of hazards that we know has a death rate, long term, of 1.2 percent; and that number makes climbing Everest as a Sherpa more dangerous than, you know, working on a crab boat in Alaska. It makes it more dangerous than being an infantryman in the first four years of the Iraq War.
The thing that hides that number is that the season is relatively short, you know. This is - we're talking about mostly through the end of May and then a small season again in the fall; and a relatively small workforce. But when you actually run the numbers of fatalities through any workplace safety statistic calculator you come up with, is just sort of outrageous number for how dangerous this line of work is.
DAVIES: It sets up quite a, you know, a set of personal relationships when you have, you know, the Western clients who have paid tens of thousands of dollars for this once-in-a-lifetime experience and the Western outfitters who've taken this money and have made all these arrangements and paid, you know, the local trekking agent to hire the Sherpas. And then they get on the mountain and there's this, you know, intense, close, personal relationship because you're engaged in this enormous undertaking.
And then when something goes wrong, it gets really tricky. Do the Western clients and the Western outfitters end up often, you know, just making cash outlays to Sherpas sometimes on an ongoing basis?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. I mean, it's incredibly difficult. And, you know, oftentimes the first thing they'll do is pass a hat around and just - you know, or put up a website creating a fund for a Sherpa's who's recently died. And a lot of times people, you know, Western climbers will leave feeling terrible and feeling, you know, making promises about the help that they're going to come through with.
And one of the people who I spoke with for this story was Norbu Tenzing Norgay, who is the eldest living son of Everest pioneer Tenzing Norgay. And, you know, his point was that this sort of thing is going - been going on for years and years, since the very beginning; in fact, since the very first two Sherpas were hired in 1895, who both died on the mountain.
When you have these casualties, Westerners are very quick to make promises and certainly, not all of those promises are kept. And his point was that it's not enough to make promises. You've got to come through with action on this kind of thing. And if we're just leaving it up to the chance generosity of the teams that were climbing with the Sherpas, what you end up with is this situation where the Sherpas who are working for the most reputable outfitters are more or less taken care of, or are taken care of somewhat well.
And then you have the Sherpas who die working for these budget outfitters. And their families can literally go from being comfortable to being destitute overnight.
DAVIES: You know, in the accident that you open the piece with, Melissa Arnot, this veteran climber, is agonized by the death of the Sherpa that she's with, Chhewang Nima, and she shells out what was - I don't know - $15,000 or so, to get a helicopter to attempt to retrieve his body. It's ultimately unsuccessful, but you describe that she makes an annual visit to his widow. You want to describe that?
SCHAFFER: I think that this is something that she's really torn by. She has committed, at least sort of to herself, to pay Chhewang's widow, Lhamu Chhiki, about what Chhewang would have made every year that she is still guiding. So she has sort of placed herself in that role of breadwinner for that family, where she is trying to make up for what she feels like she owes them.
You know, I think she feels a real mixture of guilt and sadness and, you know, she explained that when we went to meet with Lhamu Chhiki and she delivered this envelope last fall, that this was the toughest thing that she does every year. And it certainly was an emotional experience there, being there with her and with Chhewang's widow.
DAVIES: It's an envelope of hundred-dollar bills.
SCHAFFER: Yeah. There's lots of different ways that you can look at it and, you know, you could think about it sort of crassly or that she's, you know, that she's sort of one of the few who is courageous enough to do the right thing; or, you know, what the hell was she doing hiring this guy to climb Baruntse in the first place. I mean, it's a really fraught situation, and I don't think there's an easy answer.
I mean, I think that the one thing that nobody is suggesting out of any of this is that work permits in the Himalayas for Sherpas should be canceled. I don't think there's anybody, least of all the Sherpa workforce, who want Westerners to be climbing only on their own without their help because this is still - has been such a profitable industry for them, even if it is a dangerous one.
DAVIES: We're speaking with Grayson Schaffer. He's a senior editor and staff writer at Outside Magazine. And we'll talk some more after a quick break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and our guest is Grayson Schaffer. He's a senior editor and staff writer at Outside Magazine. He has a piece in the August issue about the dangers that Sherpas face in expeditions up Mount Everest. It's called "Disposable Man." You've written another piece about the sheer volume of humanity that is going up Everest and is, you know, is summiting the peak has become more common.
And you describe going to the base camp which is, I guess, 17,600 feet altitude. You want to describe just what you saw when you got there?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. I mean, the base camp is this sort of - it's the most amazing thing. I had placed base camp on maps, you know, for years and years working at Outside and had always sort of thought of it as being right at this sort of crook in the elbow where the Khumbu icefall comes down and sweeps left into the Khumbu Glacier.
And in fact, that's where the base camp starts, but it wraps for almost a mile down around that entire bend. And really, it takes over that entire glacier. I mean, this is at least a thousand tents with your Western climbers, your Sherpa workforce, journalists, helicopters. There's an emergency room that's set up there to give medical support to the climbers and to the Sherpas.
A couple of expeditions have had full bars set up. There was a whiskey tasting room last year. It's this - I mean, it's just this sort of amazing sprawl of humanity at 17,600 feet.
DAVIES: So it's like a miner's boomtown, almost.
SCHAFFER: It's very much like that. I think, you know, there's a lot of commerce going on there. You know, when the porter comes up who's carrying nothing but beer on his back, they call that guy the beer truck. And then you've got the sort of refuse and human waste needs to go in and out every day. So there'll be, you know, yak trains and trains of porters coming in carrying new supplies in.
And carrying the blue barrels of waste out. And, yeah, it's this sort of fully functioning city that pops up every spring.
DAVIES: Now, this happens of course because so many people - more people want to climb Everest. And the season is very short, right? What's the window at which you can actually try and summit?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. In general, people try to get the icefall open in early April and the summit windows generally happen between May one and about May 25th. And if you're lucky, there will be three or four different summit windows that people can sort of filter into and, you know, claim their summit and get down.
Last year was different in that it was unusually dry and a lot - the route melted out so there was a lot of rock fall, which is very dangerous, and that slowed the speed at which they could get the ropes up the mountain. And then you had the situation where there was really only two weather windows.
And the first of those didn't come until May 18th. And so because that window was so late, almost everybody who was on the mountain tried to pack into that same weather window. And so this is where we had this very iconic photo of what we call like the conga line or ants marching. Where you had 150 or 200 people all in a line on the Lhotse face like they were, you know, waiting to try to, you know, get tickets at a sold out concert or something.
But you have to remember that they're at 23,000 feet doing this sort of elephant walk, you know, in a very dangerous place. It was just a recipe for disaster.
DAVIES: Right. And of course, you can't breathe comfortably at that altitude without additional oxygen and you don't want to stay at that altitude any longer than you have to. And I assume that many people up there at the same time slows things down.
SCHAFFER: Yeah. The most dangerous thing that you can do, you know, when you're at the Hillary step, which is sort of the last steep rock obstacle before the summit, is wait around. And in this case, you know, you have these photos of people sort of clinging to every rock, outcropping, you know, waiting up to two hours to get through this bottleneck.
And in 1996 during the "Into Thin Air" disaster, I mean, they sort of credited the death toll to this freak storm that rolled in. Here the weather was beautiful for most of the summit window. People died because they were waiting around, because they got tired, because they, you know, did - it took them 36 hours to climb the mountain.
I mean, basically you just had people walking until they died. And that was sort of the more, I think, the scarier thing about it was the banality of it where there really wasn't anything that you can point to in the environment that killed people. It was just hubris.
DAVIES: And different kinds of people are trying to make the trip, right? I mean, it used to be that you had to have some experience and a level of fitness.
SCHAFFER: That's right. It used to be that Everest was sort of like a capstone experience, you know, to finish off an already great climbing career. I mean, this was until the late '80s only sort of the top echelon of national teams would be doing this sort of for God and country, that sort of thing. You know, becoming the first Israeli or the first Egyptian to climb Everest, that sort of thing.
You still see a bit of that but more now this is, you know, doctors and lawyers and people of means who just decide that they want to climb Mount Everest. That either - that it's a dream for them or that that's something that they want to do, regardless of whether they have a lot of experience climbing. And in 2012, we saw a couple of people who had never even strapped on crampons who, you know, who paid the money, showed up, and gave it a try.
DAVIES: When people die that high up the mountain what happens to their bodies?
SCHAFFER: Well, it used to be that the body would be left on the mountain. You know, on Everest there are still a number of bodies, including Scott Fischer's who died during that Everest '96 tragedy, where these bodies are right where they, you know, right where the people stopped moving.
Now, because of the helicopter flights that can come in to 22,000 - 23,000 feet, a number of families are willing to pay exorbitant fees to send teams, often of Sherpas, up the mountain with a Sked, which is sort of like a mountain stretcher, to try to get the bodies off the mountain.
DAVIES: When this train of 150 were, you know, going up last May, would they pass bodies as they climbed?
SCHAFFER: Yeah. I mean, you know, bodies are on Everest, both on the north and south side. Bodies are often cited as landmarks. So they'll say, you know, on the north side they'll say, oh, you know, where were you? Oh, we were, you know, right in the area of Green Boots. And so that's - Green Boots is the name of an Indian climber who died, I believe, in 2006 who's sort of become a landmark on the north side.
On the south side they talk about, you know, the body of Scott Fischer as being sort of a landmark to let people know sort of where you are on the triangle face.
DAVIES: Well, Grayson Schaffer, thanks so much for spending some time with us.
SCHAFFER: No problem. Thanks for having me, Dave.
GROSS: Grayson Schaffer spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies. His article, "Disposable Man," is published in the August edition of Outside Magazine. On our website you'll find a slideshow of Schaffer's photographs of Sherpas as well as his video about the accident he discussed and a link to his article. That's at freshair.npr.org. And you can follow us on Twitter at nprfreshair. Our blog is on Tumblr at nprfreshair.tumblr.com.
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Vivid Civil War letter makes its way to library
By JAMES T. HAMMOND
A vivid piece of South Carolina's Civil War history will enter the public domain this week when more than 30 descendants of Sgt. Maj. William Sidney Mullins donate to USC's South Caroliniana Library a richly detailed letter he wrote about the Battle of First Manassas.
The letter is intriguing because it lacks the hope-and-glory style of many letter writers of the period. Mullins offers a cold, uncompromising view of the first large-scale battle of the Civil War.
Mullins' enthusiasm over the Confederate victory was tempered when he observed in a heavy rain the cries of the wounded, some of whom implored "the passersby to kill them to relieve their agony." Mullins declared, "If it please God, to stop this war, I will unfeignedly thank them."
He describes a scene in which soldiers debated whether to go ahead and bury a dying soldier rather than wait for him to expire.
The letter — which will be presented to USC President Andrew Sorensen on Thursday by Mullins' descendants — was part of a private collection of more than 450 letters and documents that South Carolina tried — and failed — to claim as state property.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a legal battle over the collection, allowing to stand a U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the government in 1865 did not make a timely effort to recover the papers and that the statute of limitations had expired.
Wade Mullins, a Columbia attorney and descendant of William Sidney Mullins, read a newspaper story about the collection and decided to try to obtain the letter. Lawsuits interrupted that process.
On the day last year when the letter finally came on the auction block, the initial bid was $10,000 from a competing collector.
The family had agreed they would bid as high as $10,000 if necessary to secure the letter written by their ancestor.
"I decided we just couldn't let this piece of history slip through the family's hands; not only out of the family's hands, but outside the state and up North," Mullins said.
Mullins won the bidding at $11,500.
"The South Caroliniana Library is a place I've always felt a close connection with, and I think the rest of the family feel it will receive the attention and care that it deserves," Mullins said.
Allen Stokes, director of the library, said a lot of Civil War materials are available at auctions. And more and more families are donating their inherited collections to the library.
"We get a lot of collections every year because so many South Carolinians had ancestors who served in the war," he said.
"People are recognizing that these materials are historically valuable and should be placed in a collection where they can be studied by scholars," Stokes said.
"There are many descriptions of that battle, but it is certainly one of the most significant I have ever seen. This may be one of the most important letters in that collection."
Most of the collection comprised correspondence of the governor's office during the Civil War, including draft copies of letters written by S.C. Govs. Francis Wilkinson Pickens and Milledge Luke Bonham, as well as letters they received.
Patrick McCawley of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History believes Mullins' letter ended up among those documents because Gen. William W. Harllee gave the letter to Pickens to make him aware of the conditions in the Confederate Army.
"We didn't want the letter to go out of state and be lost forever," said Louisa Tobias Campbell, great-great-granddaughter of Mullins and a Columbia resident.
"We wanted it preserved, and we knew the library would take care of it so that it always would be available to family members, historians, scholars and others," Campbell said. "W.S. Mullins wrote the letter to General William W. Harllee, whom he respected and felt comfortable with to be so honest and open. That's why the letter has such integrity."
"We have thousands of letters of officers and enlisted personnel. This is as important as any other single letter that we have," Stokes said. "The letter was to the lieutenant governor (Gen. William W. Harllee), and he endorsed it, so I think it is pretty obvious that he passed it along to Governor Pickens."
State officials believe the papers were taken by Confederate Maj. Gen. Evander McIver Law as Union Gen. William T. Sherman's Army approached the state capital in 1865. Law had been the provost marshal in Columbia but was relieved of his command, said Rodger Stroup, director of the state Department of Archives and History.
Stroup said there is no documentary evidence that points directly to Law taking the documents from the besieged capital. But he said the collection was passed down through generations of Law's descendants.
Last year, after winning the court battle, Thomas Willcox of Seabrook Island sold the documents at auction. Willcox is the great-great-grandnephew of Evander McIver Law.
Stroup, the chief custodian of the state's documents, joined with the state Attorney General's office to try to reclaim the documents, which they maintained were part of the wartime governors' papers. They contained reports from Col. Robert E. Lee, who, early in the war, was in charge of Charleston's defenses.
On The Web: http://www.thestate.com/local/story/349342.html


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A spate of press reports on Monday heralded Google's latest takeover deal: An apparent $400 million purchase of ICOA, a Warwick, R.I., company that makes Wi-Fi hotspots for public areas like parks and airports.
Not so fast, ICOA executives said soon after. Turns out the press release announcing the deal was a hoax.
The official-looking notice appeared on PRWeb, a distributor of press releases and other corporate announcements. The story was then reported by several news organizations, including the Associated Press, as well as tech blogs, such as TechCrunch.
Then the retractions began pouring in, as ICOA and people familiar with Google's operations began to deny the report. The press release has since been taken down by PRWeb. A representative from the company did not respond to a request for comment. Google (GOOG) also declined to comment.
"This was a hoax," George Strouthopoulos, CEO of ICOA, told CNNMoney in an e-mail. "This is NOT TRUE!! Never had any discussions with any potential acquirers!! This is absolutely false!"
Strouthopoulos said the company is investigating the source of the fake release, and it plans to report the results to law enforcement.
"Someone, I guess a stock promoter with a dubious interest, is disseminating wrong, false and misleading info in the PR circles," he said.
A quick probe into ICOA's financials would have revealed the fake deal's fishy side. ICOA's total market cap is less than $850,000, and its shares trade for under a penny.
The troubled company once traded on the Nasdaq exchange, but Nasdaq kicked it off after it failed to report its finances on time in three out of eight quarters. ICOA now trades on the so-called "pink sheets," a loosely regulated, over-the-counter marketplace that does not require regular financial reporting or registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Someone moved piles of ICOA's stock on Monday: Nearly 330 million shares changed hands, according to OTCMarkets.com, compared with the stock's usual daily volume of around 2.6 million shares.
ICOA's finances weren't the only suspicious sign. The press release is riddled with grammar and punctuation mistakes, including the clunky, tin-eared line, "Google looks to further diversify it's already impressive portfolio of companies."
On the surface, though, the announcement didn't raise too many eyebrows, because it sounds like the kind of deal Google would make.
The search giant has been heavily investing in Wi-Fi and broadband access. It offers free Wi-Fi service throughout Mountain View, Calif., where the company is based, and has occasionally provided free service in airports or other public locations. It's also in the process of building out a super high-speed broadband Internet and TV network in Kansas City, Kan., as a pilot program.


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Intel Tuesday said its revenue and profit dropped during the third quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier, and blamed a tough economy for poor sales of its products.
The company's profit was $2.97 billion for the quarter ending Sept. 29, dropping from $3.47 billion reported in the same quarter last year. The company reported earnings per share of $0.58, or $0.60 excluding one-time items. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected EPS of $0.49.
"Our third-quarter results reflected a continuing tough economic environment," said Intel CEO Paul Otellini in a statement.
Intel's revenue was $13.5 billion during the third quarter, dropping from the $14.2 billion in the same quarter last year. Analysts expected revenue of $13.2 billion.
Chip makers are struggling as the PC market slumps. Advanced Micro Devices last week cut its revenue forecast for the third quarter, saying a weak economy was hurting demand for its products. Intel in September shaved close to $1 billion off its third revenue expectations from its previous outlook in anticipation of weak demand for its products. Intel previously said third-quarter revenue would be between $13.8 billion and $14.8 billion, but lowered it to between $12.9 billion and $13.5 billion.
The PC market is in a decline, with research firm IDC last week saying that worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter dropped by 8.6 percent compared to the same quarter a year earlier. However, analysts have said that the PC market could start recovering by the end of the fourth quarter after shipments of Windows 8 PCs pick up.
Revenue from Intel's PC Client Group, which deals in PC chips, was $8.6 billion, down 8 percent compared to the same quarter last year. However, a bright spot was the Data Center Group, which deals in server chips and recorded revenue of $2.7 billion, increasing by 6 percent year-over-year.
Windows 8 arrives Oct. 26
PC makers are clearing off inventory of old Windows 7 PCs ahead of the launch of Microsoft's new OS, Windows 8. New PCs with Intel's Core processors code-named Ivy Bridge will become available starting on Oct. 26, and top PC makers Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo are expected to ship tablet with the low-power Atom processor code-named Clover Trail.
"As we look to the fourth quarter, we're pleased with the continued progress in Ultrabooks and phones and excited about the range of Intel-based tablets coming to market," Otellini said.
Intel is still making its way into the smartphone market, but scored a big win with Motorola, which announced an Intel-based smartphone in September.
For the fourth quarter, Intel is expecting revenue to be $13.6 billion, plus or minus $500 million. In written commentary, Intel's chief financial officer Stacy Smith said the outlook was cautious and takes into account concerns about a slowing enterprise market segment and soft demand for products in consumer and mature markets.


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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Eight Great Enlightenment Modules
Forecasts -
The forecasts module allows you to display the weather forecast of the current day and the following two days in Widget form either on your desktop or on a shelf. It has options to display in English or Metric and is configurable how often it checks for updates.
Tiling -
People I've encountered in the past that use tiling Window Managers are often akin to cultists, they are many time fanatical in their belief that tiling is a superior type of manager - after having used one myself I am inclined to agree with them. For those who are not familiar tiling means that none of the Windows on your screen overlap, when you launch a new applications, the other ones on your screen readjust to account for the new one that has been opened.
This may seem like something simple, but you would be surprised at how much time you save not having to mess around with adjusting Windows to the proper size on your screen. The tiling module also supports only applying tiling to certain virtual desktops, so your entire Enlightenment desktop doesn't have to tile if you don't want it to.
Ecomorph -
Many that use Linux are familiar with Compiz desktop effects. Even though Enlightenment has some basic built in effects, those with more powerful systems might desire a little bit more flare for their desktop. Ecomorph is a port of Compiz for the Enlightenment desktop. The effects it brings include open/close/minimize animations as well as desktop cube and expo.
Itask-NG -
Itask-NG provides an "OSX" like dock similar to docky and cario. The main advantage to itask-ng is the fact that it does not require desktop compositing to be enabled for it to provide fluid animations. It supports both application launchers and acting as a taskbar for running applications.
Flame -
Set your E desktop on fire with this goofy little module! 100% configurable RGB values for the colors of the flame.
CPU & Mem -
The CPU and Mem modules are simple gadgets that give you a real time display of your system resources. (As you can see I have more than a few applications open)
Rain/Snow -
Rain or snow - Enlightenment development progresses! This module won't exactly increase productivity, but will give your desktop a bit of flare. You can configure the module to increase or decrease the intensity of the rain or snow.
Know of any other E-Modules that are useful (or fun) that I missed talking about here? If so drop a comment below.
~Jeff Hoogland
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- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Hi Jeff, Nice article. One thing though. I use the easy_e17.sh script from omicron and i always use the current bleeding edge e17. how come i don't see those modules anywhere? is there any other source for installing bleeding edge e17 on vanilla debian/ubuntu? how do i get hold of those modules? Thanks.ReplyDelete
Other than ecomorph all of the modules I listed here are in the default E repositories.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM
In the past, on my system (Debian testing with a few unstable packages, building E-17 from source by way of my own script) I've had problems with ecomorph conflicting with itask-ng, and the conflict was such that the existence of the itask-ng module, even if it wasn't loaded, broke ecomorph.ReplyDelete
Now, the problem wasn't necessarily the E-17 modules, it could have been something else on my system, but running a "make uninstall" in the itask-ng directory returned the eye-heroin of ecomorph (eye-heroin is better than eye-candy).
Current builds of itask-ng and ecomorph do not conflict as far as I am aware. I have both running as I type this :)ReplyDelete
Can you provide a user guide on how to configure Bodhi one similar to this http://howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-10.10-maverick-meerkatReplyDelete
I really did like bodhi as an os but I did not know how to configure it properly and I am not an advance Linux user.
ori15 - Check out the software page - http://software.bodhilinux.com/ - and install all the recommended applications and the "system tools" listed and you should be good to go. If you find anything lacking after that, feel free to ask :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Re. Ecomorph: ".. those with more powerful systems..."ReplyDelete
Sorry Jeff, but my experience leads me to disagree. I'm running Ecomorph right now on an original Asus EeePC 4G model (clocked to 'normal', @ 900MHz, and also equipped with the maximum 2GB of RAM) quite successfully, in fact - CPU utilisation at rest (with no apps other than an already-synced Dropbox instance running) is only about 20%.
Enabling the 'Penguins' module alone, on top of that, brings the CPU figure up to about 35%; 'Snow' module (again alone, on top) is about 90%; but the 'Flames' module hits 100% immediately and bogs the entire machine, even without the Ecomorph running beneath it.
Test them all for yourself, and see.
I cant access my home folder and mount my windows drive. how can I fix this?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2011 at 4:18 PM
I am behind a proxy server and notice Forecasts is not updating. I do have http_proxy defined as an environment variable and it's working for Firefox. U have any ideas how to get Forecasts working? I'm on E 55255.
Not a clue :-/ Download it on another connection?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2011 at 8:51 AM
And of course, it works just fine on my home box. Eh..if I get a wild hair, I'll open up tcpdump and see what the frigger is doing. Thanks for the cycles, Jeff.ReplyDelete
Jeff-new user to E here. Thanks for your helpful posts. I have a funky window situation and wondered if you could help me. I'm using TwinView with NVidia. I use Cinelerra, which in GNOME, normally opens up four windows spread across my dual monitor setup. GNOME remembers those settings.ReplyDelete
In E however, all four windows open up on one desktop. If I try to remember the window settings, E says it can't do it as I am "trying to remember to apply properties to a window that does not have unique properties". If I go ahead and apply those settings, all four windows of Cinelerra are the same size and placed in the same location, overlapped.
any way around this?


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The Best Moustaches in Baseball: Part Two
Many heroic male figures throughout history have used their facial hair to persuade, inspire and seduce legions of followers and admirers. Since the dawn of time, mankind has used many forms of facial hair to not only express themselves, but provide a sense of identity.
One of the greatest forms of said facial hair is the moustache; and no group of warriors have displayed the characteristics of a fine 'stache better than the men (and occasionally hormonally imbalanced women) of professional baseball.
In honor of Movember in which men across the world unite in growing moustaches to raise money for Prostate Cancer, I have decided to delve into the art of facial hair for part two of The Best Moustaches in Baseball.
This year's version covers some 'staches that may have been omitted from last year's list or have just recently left their stamp as some of the best cookie-dusters in baseball.
Before I knew Keith Hernandez the baseball player, I knew him as the guy who allegedly spit on Kramer and Newman. His two-episode stint on Seinfeld not only solidified himself as one of the coolest moustache-clad men in the majors who may or may have not banged Elaine Benes.
During his illustrious career, Sal played for ten different teams and along the way he made a lasting impression on almost every city that he played in. As Blue Jays fans, we had the pleasure of watching Fasano work his magic in a Blue Jays uniform during the 2007 season.
Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky
Not only was Hrabosky's facial hair mean looking, just take a look at his name. It's basically the baseball version of Vlad the Impaler or Atilla the Hun. Hrabosky followed in the footsteps of legendary closers like Rich Gossage and Rollie Fingers as having a badass 'stache.
Grimsley is the whole package – sporting a moustache and an afro that would make even the Ladies Man Leon Phelps jealous, Grimsely wasn't just a looker. In 1978, his 20-11 record garnered him a seventh place finish in the AL Cy Young voting.
I've always said that if Jeff Kent could moonlight as a police officer if he ever felt the need to take up a second job. Now that he's retired, you just might see Jeff Kent responding to a domestic dispute, or making a cameo appearance in a Super Troopers sequel near you.
Reggie Jackson
Not necessarily most revered for his prowess in the facial hair department, Mr. October still contributed towards the moustache culture with his classic but cool addition to the list. Did his stache help him hit three home runs in one game? No – but he looked damn good doing it.
So there we have it folks – part two of the best moustaches in baseball. Feel free to cast your vote on your favourite soup strainer below. The wondrous thing about the world of moustaches is that just like the hairs themselves, the history of moustaches in baseball only continues to grow as the years pass.


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Palin SUV: Town sells Palin's mayoral SUV for $8K above its value
Palin SUV: The city of Wasilla auctioned off a 1999 Ford Expedition used by then-Mayor Sarah Palin. The auction winner bid $10,300, about $8,000 above the estimated value of Palin's SUV.
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska
The sale on eBay of a city-owned vehicle used by Sarah Palin when she was mayor of Wasilla is causing a stir in small-town politics: One official says the current mayor is trying to fatten city coffers off Palin's fame, and the mayor says "guilty as charged."
The city of Wasilla, north of Anchorage, auctioned off a 1999 Ford Expedition with 74,188 miles used by Palin before she became a household name. A Fairbanks woman won the SUV on Nov. 27 with an online bid of $10,300, about $8,000 above its estimated value.
Mayor Verne Rupright said the intent was to use the profits to replenish the city's vehicle replacement fund.
But Deputy Mayor Colleen Sullivan-Leonard proposed using the surplus to stock the shelves of the Food Pantry of Wasilla, a proposal that died Monday night on a 3-3 tie vote by the City Council. Rupright chose not to cast a deciding vote.
"I feel like it's unfortunate the mayor would try to capitalize on Sarah Palin's fame and her reputation," Sullivan-Leonard said, adding she felt $8,000 "was above and beyond what the city coffers would need."
Rupright countered it's not fair to other worthy nonprofits to direct the money to one place. He added selling the surplus SUV for a fivefold profit is just good business.
Sullivan-Leonard said she wonders if this is the end.
"Down the line, maybe the mayor's got some tables and chairs that Sarah Palin used he wants to put on eBay?" she said.
Rupright, speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from his office, said he was sitting on a chair the city bought for Palin when she was mayor.
"It's getting a little old and dirty," he said. They might get $10 for it at a secondhand store, or a Palin fan might pay $200 for it because she once sat in it.
"Somebody might find some value in it," Rupright said. "If you can get some dollars back for it, you should try, in my mind. That's just business."
The auction winner hasn't taken possession of the SUV yet, and she hasn't been identified.
"She's just a Palin fan, and she does have a small collection of cars," said city's public works director, Archie Giddings. "It's a good fit for her."
Palin drove the SUV during her second term as mayor, which ended in October 2002. It was later used by other city employees.


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January 28th, 2014
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- When: 6:00 PM
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- November 26th, 2013: 2013 OWASP Top Ten (Talk by Trenton Ivey)
- Description: The OWASP Top Ten provides information about the most critical web application security flaws found on the internet. OWASP recently updated the list. This talk reviewed the 2013 OWASP Top Ten. There were be plenty of demos to help explain the security flaws on the list.
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- September 24th, 2013: Talk by Doug Rogahn: Low Tech Hacking
- Description: Doug spoke about Low(er) Tech ways to hack and how to prevent physical security vulnerabilities. Your web server is only as secure as the place it is stored. This talk provided an opertunity to learn how to pick door locks, clone RFID cards, lift fingerprints for biometric readers, and escape from handcuffs (note: if you use your skills for good, you probably will never need this last skill. OWASP does not endorse criminal activity.)
- Speaker Bio: Doug has worked as an Ethical Hacker and Application Penetration Tester for FIS for the last 3 ½ years. He has always had an interest in finding out how things work and finding interesting ways to accomplish tasks. He enjoys combining his knowledge of how things work to find unintended ways of bypassing safeguards. As an ethical hacker for FIS Doug has championed the cause of needing to test all possible entry points including physical security. He has been picking locks as a hobby for nearly 20 years but recently has brought his knowledge to the next level through additional training and practice.
- August 27th, 2013: Informal dinner get together @Mo's Irish Pub
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Every Sunday I highlight four or five articles I found particularly useful or insightful. My theme is Sunburns and contests since I was able to finally fix my boat and hit the lake yesterday and even though I layed the sunscreen on thick I still got a little burnt.
Matt over at Steadfast Finances talks about kids and teenagers making millions with Facebook and Myspace
Wojciech talks about how to make Brown-Bagging Efficient and Fun.
The Weakonomist talks about Jon and Kate Gosslin, you know those people with 8 kids, not the octomom.
Ever wonder how to Save Money on Your Commute? Saving for Serenity has you covered.
CNN has a tool to help you understand your financial health. Matt at Financial Methods played with it and let us know what he thought.
Laura at FCN has some great Tips of Making Major Purchases.
Congratulations to Vivian Deliz Winner of my contest for a copy of Wisebread's 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget.
Christian PF is 2 Years old and they are giving away a Wii and an iPod.
Pennywise family is giving away $100 in cold hard cash, check it out to see how to enter.
Flexo with Consumerism Commentary is giving away a $50 gift card to Amazon or iTunes, signup for his newsletter to learn how to enter.
If you give a friend the Skinny on Stretchy Dollar then you can be entered to win one of two "Skinny On" books.
I won two contests this week, one at Bible Money Matters, and one at Saving for Home. Look for my reviews of these books in the coming weeks along with a chance to win them off of me.
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London's skyline got a new look last week when the tallest building in Europe was officially unveiled and feted with a laser light show. The skyscraper, known as The Shard, is a 1,016-foot pyramid that towers the mostly low-lying city — a fact that has displeased many of its neighbors.
Designed by architect Renzo Piano, The Shard is London's tallest building by far, looming roughly 246 feet higher than One Canada Square — now formerly the tallest tower in London. While The Shard also holds the title of tallest building in Europe, its reign will be short-lived. The Mercury City Tower in Moscow is expected to be completed later this year. If all goes as planned, the Mercury City Tower will measure 1,089 ft, beating the Shard by 73 feet.
(MORE: TIME Olympics Blog: London Calling)
At the unveiling ceremony, Prince Andrew said the building was a "huge new boost," according to the BBC, adding, "I'm sure that we would all be extremely glad if this could be repeated in a number of other areas across the U.K." Prince Andrew was joined at the celebration by the Qatari prime minister, Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani. The Shard was funded — and is partly owned — by the country of Qatar National Bank, a fact that also irked the neighbors. "We have this massive pyramid slapped down here as a monument to the munificence of the Emirate of Qatar," said Russell Gray, a spokesman for a neighborhood group, who was also unhappy about the $40 per person entrance fee for the building's viewing platform. The city's politicians saw it differently, though. "It brought 10,000 jobs to one of the most run down and deprived areas of London but unlike a lot of the other tall buildings, Londoners will have access to this one," Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone told the BBC. The skyscraper, he added, "will define London and it's our equivalent to the Empire State building."
PHOTO ESSAY: London's Tube After Midnight


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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Rockets @ Bobcasts Game #43 Pre Game Thread
Don't forget, early game time on MLK Day, 11:00am PT.
48 comments:
keeping the faith...ReplyDelete
Go JLin! Go Rockets!ReplyDelete
please win so that this place and other HOU sites can be bearable.ReplyDelete
When JLin does get the chance to make plays, it is still a joy to watch. I guess some coaches just need more time than others to figure out what changes need to be made and have the confidence in his players to make those changes. Surely, a coach with talents like JLin and Harden, with Asik on the defensive end and Parsons to a lesser extent, should be able to figure something out (eventually).ReplyDelete
I have seen some frustration from JLin in the past game. Frustration may not be such a bad thing when it comes to JLin.
A losing streak may make a subsequent win streak that much more spectacular. I can only hope that this stretch will set the stage for another amazing February.Replies
Lost faith in coaches so don't see winning streaks coming particularly we play Denver twice in next couple weeks. Who just beat OKC! Fire coaches and start over is what I like to seeDelete
I have a question, if a new coach came and continued to use Lin the same way McHale used and the Rockets continued to struggle, how many more games would you give the new coach before you said "fire the coach" again?Delete
I mean it's easy to shout "fire the coach" after every loss, but you really think a coaching change would fix all the problems? What did a coaching change do for the Lakers?
Any any coach in nba doesn't use jlin as a PG then jlin will have a short career! Dantoni was not the right coach for lakers, no defense and not making players a countable. I can't imagine other coaches run a team like Mac.but the REAL reason I like to see coach change is that's at player on team don't buy into Mac anymore, even hardenDelete
May today's game mark the 1st win of another winning streak.Delete
It's certainly good to see JLin got mad because his teammates were not passing him the ball in the last game and he decided to be aggressive and take matters into his own hand to attack the rim.
In the past few games, HOU system of "may any 2nd best player after Harden arise and be ball distributors" offered too much freedom for Harden, Parsons and Delfinos when they're really struggling and resulted in lots of TOs and bad offensive flows.
And killed any momentum when Lin got hot in scoring because after 2-3 plays that he scored, the ball did not flow through him again.
I don't know if the coaches will realize that only Harden and Lin should be the main playmakers/PGs to set up plays and have any semblance of offensive rhythms. If they're struggling, fine. Involve Douglas, Delfino and Parsons to help to bring up the ball for some time.
Their latest decision to just throw in Beverley in the rotation to replace Douglas was just a desperate attempt to see which player can produce any spark.
The good thing is the players still fought in the last game so they haven't quit on their coaches and they fought hard. But if HOU coaches don't tweak their "almost-all-can-be-PGs" system and extend the losing streak to 9-12 games and the players give up, I won't be surprised if Les fired the coaches.
Go Jeremy! End the drought! #GGTGReplyDelete
God bless you Jlin. May you bring some joy to all your fans today.ReplyDelete
I want to start by saying I love this site. I visit this site everyday! Today is my first time I'm being vocal because I'm tired of the Jlin bashing!! Out of boredom, I decided to do my own PG benchmark by comparing the 1st and 2nd offensive team in NBA. I figure that would be a simple way to judge a PG base on team playing style. As you already know its OKC and Houston. Critics been bashing Jlin because of alllll the turn overs. Looking at Russell Westbrook he has more turnovers however he plays approx 3 min more per game so that makes sense. This proves if you play an offensive style you're bound to have high % turnovers.ReplyDelete
Remember, Russell Westbrook plays 3min more so his other stats should be higher than Jlin.
By comparing defense on rpg, bpg and spg you'll see jlin is pretty much at par or better and he plays less min.
so Jlin defense is a MASSIVE ++++++++.
Where Jlin is struggling obviously his 3pt and fg% needs to improve and that will over time. Shockingly Jlin fg% is actually higher than Westbrook!!! Could it be that high pace offense affects your fg% also? I think so cause if you're running back and forth, you're tiring yourself out and it should affect how you shoot! Anyhow he just needs to shooot more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For goodness sakes shooot more!!:)
Why EFF stats don't make a fair comparison because its bias more on offense and can be easily be inflated by taking more shots.
Sorry for the poor grammar!:))
James Harden and Chandler Parsons must not be lazy on defense this game.ReplyDelete
At SG, Gerald Henderson and Ben Gordon are big time NBA players. Opponents have been isolating against Harden and have routinely beaten him off the dribble with absolutely no resistance.
At SF, Michael Kidd Gilchrist is a player whose game I HATED this summer. I felt that he was a bust at #2 and would not contribute one iota to the Bobcats' winning. Indeed he doesn't help the Bobcats win, but he can jump around and drive the lane against teams that don't defend him. Chandler Parsons will be attacked by MKG, and I have a bad feeling that MKG is going to pogo stick Parsons the way Paul George and Nicholas Batum and most other NBA small forwards have.
Carlos Delfino isn't the world's greatest defender or offender, but he's at least willing and will battle. That's more of a plus at this point than Harden and Parsons who have completely refused to defend people.
Lin? He's matched up against Kemba Walker who I call "Elevator Man" because of his ability to jump sky high for layups. Though Walker isn't remotely comparable to Lin in speed, quickness, body balance, strength, or court vision, Walker is a pogo stick as a point guard. Lin had no problem outplaying Kemba Walker in college and last season. These two players were in the same "draft" year (quotations because Lin wasn't actually drafted at all).Replies
As a casual NBA spectator, your insight will make the game that much more enjoyable to watch.Delete
That is if I do watch it. I actually turned the game off after 20 mins during the Min game.
Funny, I actually enjoying reading people's post here than actually watching the games.
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM
Good luck! Go Jeremy! Let's get a win!ReplyDelete
McHale look old and tired with his beard at his post game interview. He really needs to shave. I guess he won't shave his beard until Rockets win a game. That's too bad. He may have a beard like Jame Harden by the end of season.ReplyDelete
Just want to see JLin play the point position for the whole game. If so, this game will be very fun to watch. If not, then I could careless about the win or the loss.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 9:28 AM
First time posting here and I have been following this site for a while. I can't resist the urge of coming in here at least once a day lol! I admit that I was not a bball fan prior to the story of J Lin, and in all honestly was not able to sit and watch an entire nba game before Linsanity. I am a big Lin fan and of course am going through the emotional rollercoaster many of you are experiencing. Just can't imagine how J Lin is dealing with all that is going on but I am confident he will persevere and benefit from all this in the end.ReplyDelete
Aside from the obvious that it was a truly inspiring story that got my attention, it also led me to enjoy watching bball and learning there is quite a bit into it in terms of strategy, analytics, statistics, etc. JLin's story also inspired me when I feel unsure about my career when I thought I would at some point reach the "ceiling" due to being female and Asian in america. I am now able to see things more positively and have the motivation to continue to work hard and not give up. I also enjoyed reading some of the posts and many links posted (shout out to via and others lol!), as via mentioned and i agreed, I learned a lot here, not just bball knowledge, but knowledge that I can apply in my personal life as well. On a lighter note, my hubby is probably the happiest dude since no one fights with him for tv anymore when bball games are on these days. My whole family is now bball fans because of JLin and we got the league pass to watch all his games (yes I am from NY and NOT happy how the off season turned out, and the fact that instead of watching 82 games of Lin on msg channel it was drastically reduced to 2 smh). But of course with the pass we get to watch many more games and it has become a family past time haha.
will continue to support J Lin!Replies
My wife and kid tell me they have better things to do than watch Houston BB game, which is good and should be the case. They only watch several NBA Championship games when they are on TV. Look at video of Tan Le (her immigration story) instead if you want to get inspired as an Asian-American woman.Delete
Lin already achieved success in my opinion, so the only thing that tweaks my interest is whether he can take his BB game to the next level and ultimately make it to All-star based on his BB skills, while taking his team deep into playoffs before his career is done. I am also curious to see whether Lin's success will lead to more Asian-American NBA players in next 10 years.Delete
Oh, also whether Lin will get coaches fired. Maybe Lin will break record for having his coaches leave or get fired most times while he's playing for different teams in NBA.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 11:11 AM
lol I admit it is getting difficult to watch Houston games and it is almost like self inflicted torture sometimes! I still watch to support JLin but work schedule is making it tough. It is getting boring as he is not playing his style of bball. The recent games also reminded the guys in my family of the NYK's almost unwatchable losing games before JLin's entrance.Delete
But yes, I agree he already achieved success and I also hope to see him take it to the next level. and @eb5attorney i will definitely look into your recommendation lol, although watching Lin last year gave me a lot of inspiration as well!
Bobcats vs Rockets Preview: 3-on-3 with Red94ReplyDelete
On paper, 3 analysts picked the Rockets to win against the Bobcats.Replies
3- PICK IT: Bobcats or Rockets? Charlotte has had good and bad performances mixed from night-to-night lately while Houston stumbles into the Queen City on a 7-game losing streak.Delete
Brett: I'll take the Rockets, as their 7 game losing streak includes dropping contests on the road to Boston and Indiana (and the home loss was to the Clippers). The Bobcats struggle against potent offenses and Houston has a solid one, with the 9th highest offensive efficiency in the league. Oh, and a pretty good paint patroller in Omer Asik (I was going to say rim protector, but he doesn't block many shots – but he'll have a defensive impact), which will cause issues for the Bobcats' offense, which relies on getting to and scoring in the paint.
Jeff: The high-powered offense of the Rockets will be too much for the Bobcats. The Cats defense has been less than satisfactory and with fewer minutes allotted to youngsters like MKG, the Cats have no one other than Kemba to really score in bunches. Houston wins 103-92.
Michael: I'd like to think the Rockets can snap their seven game losing streak against a 10 win team. And by tomorrow evening that's exactly what should happen, with Harden shooting better than 28% from the floor; something he's failed to do in Houston's past three games.
I can't imagine any team can't beat the Rockets at this moment. They are physically tired and mentally anguished. They have no trust or camaraderie with one another. The coach has no faith in the players (cept Harden) and the players have no faith in the coach (including Harden).Delete
Sure, everything will be hunky dory if the shots fall. But, that's not likely to happen unless unless the whole team eats some Delfino sausages then go unconscious.
yes, that is why it's so frustrating to watch HOU-3ball and Harden/Lin penetration. Only when the 3PT shots fall or no big men pack the paint to prevent Lin/Harden penetration that the players can feel comfortable with the system.Delete
The coaches are due for a backup plan (besides Delfino/Manu sausages :)
I tend to agree with Etane and will actually be mildly surprised if Rockets beat Bobcats.Delete
Hope McFail has a plan B this game when the Cats' big men are taking away Harden's "launch pad".Delete
There are lots of ways to look at the issue. Lin could play better by playing outside the system. Many of us would like to see that. It could be that Lin is playing within the system because he knows that the system will fail and the sooner it's exposed the better.ReplyDelete
Someone on here quoted Lin after last game saying that the players were doing the right thing, but their "stuff" was being "read".
While some of us, including myself, have thought that Lin's role was being diminished out of a lack of respect, that's only part of the issue. Morey got himself a coach, Finch, who has some new ideas about how to run an offense. He doesn't think there should be a point guard. Anyone should bring the ball up. You should only take lay-ups and 3 pointers.
Unfortunately, this system is being exposed. You can't only throw fastballs. If you NEVER take mid range shots, you become predictable. Someone like D'Antoni institutes sets to get a higher proportion of good shots, but he doesn't punish you for taking a mid-range shot. He also puts the ball in the hands of his best decision makers, instead of relying on everyone to make decisions.
Despite the fact that this system has taken the ball out of the Lin's hands, presumably to diminish the danger of his "high turnovers", Houston turns the ball over tons. This is, of course, because Lin is only turnover prone for a guard. If non guards are making decisions, it's even worse. But, as we've discussed, Lin actually has extremely high production per turnover, so when you hand the decision making over to other players, the effect is doubly bad. Low production, higher turnovers.
Smart teams organize the offensive and defensive approach according to the talents of the players. Lin has shown, both this year and last, that he and the team excels and wins when he makes a lot of the team's on court decisions. This is reflected in higher statistical usage. Instead, Finch's system has him with the lowest usage in the league among starting point guards.
Lin would have better statistical performance as the starting point on literally any other team in the NBA. On many teams in the NBA, if he got normal usage, he'd have put up all-star caliber numbers.
He could do that here, too, but it would mean bucking the system, which he has so far rarely shown a desire to do. The one game when Harden was out, you saw the result. That is unquestionably Lin's upside, it's just a matter of when and if it's allowed to flourish.Replies
Agree with the statement that Lin would perform better on just about any other team. It's amazing how the coaches at Houston are still employed above the high school level.Delete
100% agree. The system is exposed especially when players get tired after 4 games in 5 nights and can't make their 3PTs.Delete
And as we know, Lin is not likely to buck the system unless he got mad and desperate in the 4Q.
Lin the COACH KILLAH, Michael Terry?Delete
Do you think it'll happen?
Based on articles I read on Morey, I think Morey is too smart for his own good, and I mean this negatively. Like a good pitcher, you have to mix up things and cannot rely on just one pitch, which is what he is doing and has become very predictable. There is a position of President of a reason; otherwise, everyone should act like the President and go everywhere leading to chaos. Besides, as I have been saying, Rockets' players are not athletic or talented enough for everyone to be dribbling left and right. Yeah, if you have several LeBron type of players on your team, you can do whatever you want. For Rockets to change, you have to fire Morey. Anyone dumb enough to draft Royce White (I am suspending judgment on Harden) do not impress me.Delete
Harden needs to get flue and Lin needs to play like Spurs again, so dumbos will catch on.Delete
flu, not flue. Ha, ha. I have flu, so everyone be careful.Delete
Based on my latest thinking, updated with insight about why the team is playing this system and which decision makers are responsible for it, I don't think McHale is going to lose his job. Certainly not this season. Even if at the end of the season, he's likely to be replaced with another stooge. Rick Adleman was a great coach, and Morey got rid of him. I don't think Morey wants someone with his own ideas about how the game should be played. I don't think McHale is responsible for this system. I think it's Morey and Finch and I think Morey has a lot of ego invested in it. Also, I don't have all the facts from the inside, so who knows? Maybe I'm missing something.
Either Morey would have to give up on this idea or Les would have to fire Morey. I think it may well be 3 years before we see Lin allowed to play point guard again. :(
Of course, Lin could simply play outside the system. Ultimately, in the long run, this would be best for almost everyone. Even McHale, who probably just wants to win. He can't afford to not play Lin and if Lin is aggressive the Rockets will win more.
I think you're sort of right about Morey. He's very, very smart but he can be trapped into thinking he's the one with all the answers. I know, cos I'm sort of like that. ;)
The biggest trouble with smart people is that research shows they are even more prone to cognitive bias than average people, ironically. I don't know necessarily that a cognitive bias is in play with Morey. I'm 100% certain it afflicts McHale and Sampson, but Morey's different. I think he really, really wants his genius model to work. And, he proved a lot of doubters wrong by landing Harden, so it would be pretty hard to convince him to doubt himself at anything by this point.
But, what I've noticed with smart people like D'Antoni is that they can lack adaptability. They want their Platonic model to work so badly that they won't make adjustments. The best approach for this team is to only let Harden and Lin make plays. Make it a team goal to up Lin's usage rate. And focus on defense. The preseason Rockets were a top 5 offense in efficiency. Harden may be great at pick and roll, but he's also awesome off the ball, whereas Lin is not. The Rockets would be much more efficient if Lin were getting 10 assists per game as he is fully capable of doing. And Harden's numbers wouldn't suffer at all.
Morey says players have to learn to fit around a team's best player. That's BS. That's not how the Suns worked. That's not how San Antonio works. Talking like that is actually sort of poison.
Rockets should be playing like they did the first couple games of the season, before Lin was called on the carpet for taking too many shots and not making the "easy" play, for dribbling too much. That baseline, plus an emphasis on defense by a coach who actually freaking schemes defense, would have allowed Houston to win 50 games this year.
I do fear that, subconsciously, Morey doesn't want Lin to really flourish because Les made him get him.
Jeremy Lin - IdentityReplyDelete
if you need inspiration for the day, watch this againReplies
Watching Tan Le's "My Immigration Story" was enough inspiration for me to last one year.Delete
@3:30 the guy says you're a coward for pointing fingers at others because you're not where you want to be.Delete
Any thoughts?
There's two solutions to this I suppose? First, pretend to be happy where you're at, so you learn to be thankful of what you have instead of blaming others for what you don't have. Or, just blame yourself for not being where you want to be.
But, what if your potential is cut short when it really is someone's else's fault? Do we make pretend that person isn't holding you back but, instead, is challenging you and make you work harder?
thanks, eb. I'm checking out Tan Le's "My Immigration Story" now.Delete
@etane, the lesson that I drew from that Rocky movie quote about not pointing fingers to others are what my attitude should be.
I can point fingers to myself or to others but no matter whose fault it is, I should either learn to be more diligent or avoid bad people and keep on fighting.
My analogy would be if someone or I stab myself on the arm, I can walk around with a knife on my arm for the next 40 years to tell people how painful it was and so and so is too blame. Or I can pull the knife, get medicated and learn to be careful with knives or not get to close to from someone trying to stab us.
Note: This is also applicable to forgiving others.
So it's more about not having the attitude to blame us or the situation but spending our time and energy to get up and learn from it. Just my 2cents.
anyone got link to game?ReplyDelete
i thought that pass was from lin to delfino? it shows harden got the assist...at 7:31 2nd qReplyDelete


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Water SA vol.34 n.1 Pretoria Jan. 2008
Fatty acids composition in South African freshwater fish as indicators of food quality
Erasmus ChaukeI; Ewa CukrowskaI; Mary-Jane Thaela-ChimukaII; Luke ChimukaI; Hermogene NsengimanaI; Hlanganani TutuI
ISchool of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
IIAgricultural Research Council, Private Bag X2, Irene 0062, South Africa
Lipid classes and fatty acid composition of three commercially important freshwater fish species Oreochromis mossambicus (Mozambique tilapia), Clarias gariepinus (African catfish) and Cyprinus carpio (carp) obtained from an aquaculture, different river systems and fish markets from different provinces in South Africa were investigated. Fatty acids were extracted from the fish fillets through the Folch extraction method (using chloroform: methanol at the ratio of 2:1). Generally, tilapia fish species was found to be the richest in fatty acid composition. In all fish species analysed, palmitic acid (16:0) was found to be the most abundant fatty acid ranging from 18.24 to 21.84%. Appreciable quantities of essential polyunsaturated fatty acid such as docosahexaenoic (DHA) (22:6 n-3, 3.92 to 6.16%), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (20:5 n-3, 1.91 to 2.92%) and arachidonic acid (20:4 n-6, 7.19 to 8.50%) were also found. Observations show that fish species obtained from Gauteng Province are richer in fatty acids compared to those in Limpopo Province. The study points out that all fish species investigated contain appreciable levels of Omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and are therefore suitable for an unsaturated low-fat diet. This is important especially for poor communities who cannot afford to get a balanced diet, rich in some essential fatty acids.Therefore, it is important to determine the nutritional value of local fish, since it significantly contribute to a healthy diet in rural communities.
Keywords: fatty acid composition, lipids, freshwater fish, Omega -3 and Omega-6, polyunsaturated fatty acids, EPA, DHA
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A researcher at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and two collaborators from the University of Toronto have solved a decades-old equation that models several real-world systems, such as the development of cracks in materials, the formation of bacteria, and the growth of liquid crystals.
The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation, first published in 1986, describes the temporal evolution of an interface growing in a disordered environment. Solving the equation means computing exact statistics which describe the random fluctuations in the interface growth.
The success came from collaboration between NYU's Ivan Corwin and the University of Toronto's Jeremy Quastel and Gideon Amir. At the time of their work on the KPZ equation, Corwin was a doctoral student at Courant and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program. Quastel, a professor at the University of Toronto, received his Ph.D. from Courant in 1990.
Solving the KPZ equation gives researchers another tool to analyze physical disordered systems, with implications in the fields of physics, engineering, materials science, biology, and ecology. The statistics developed in the work will allow for better modeling of such complex systems.
The work also marks the first time mathematicians have obtained an exact solution to a non-linear stochastic partial differential equation—an equation that describes random development in systems dependent on both location and time. In non-linear systems, doubling an input does not necessarily double the output—for example, doubling a patient's medication may more than double the effect on the body. Non-linear systems are recognized as of great importance, yet relatively little theory has been developed to describe them. The work represents a step in that direction.
Corwin, who obtained his doctorate from Courant in 2011, currently holds the Clay Research Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Schramm Memorial Fellowship. He is presently affiliated with Clay, MIT, and Microsoft Research New England.


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The One Drop of Black Cinema series has pointed out people who got their start in Blaxploitation, and folks who ended their careers in Blaxploitation. Those folks either ran off to "better things" or left the Earth for the afterlife. Today, I'm putting the spotlight on someone who continued to work in Black film at the height of his career. Not even an Oscar nomination for one of the greatest movies ever made stopped him from working in low-budget Black film. In the five years I've been doing this series, he's been something of an unsung hero at the Mumf; I've written about six of the movies he's worked on, and at other sites, I've written about several more. Not only has he lit more Black faces than Chocolate Thai, he shot the one 80's movie most ghetto denizens (this one excepted) love to pieces. I should be ashamed of myself for not doing this sooner, but today I'm giving props to Mr. John A. Alonzo.
Wikipedia, Alonzo met Charles Lang on the set of The Magnificent Seven, and this, coupled with a later meeting with Hollywood legend James Wong Howe, led him to figuratively put his name in lights. After shooting National Geographic documentaries and TV shows, he teamed up with Angie Dickinson and Roger Corman, shooting Bloody Mama in his theatrical debut. His career in front of the camera gave him an insight to what it was like to be the subject of lighting and lensing. Though only nominated for one Oscar (for Chinatown), Alonzo's tutelage helped his most famous student, John Toll, win two Oscars.
Looking at his career on Wikipedia, it appears Alonzo didn't have a snobby bone in his body. He swung from Oscar fare like Norma Rae and Chinatown to genre work like Star Trek: Generations and Black Sunday. Sometimes it might have paid for him to be a little bit snooty—he shot HouseSitter and the dreadful TV sequel, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby—but he also shot Farewell, My Lovely and Harold and Maude. Some of his other assignments include pointing his camera at the potty-mouthed kids in The Bad News Bears, at the Great One Jackie Gleason, and at robotic roaches in one of my all-time favorite bad movies, Runaway. Who else can say they worked with Jack Nicholson AND Gene Simmons?
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling. With Pryor, Williams, and director Sidney J. Furie, not to mention Miss Ross, Alonzo created one of the most glamorous treatments of Black cinema Hollywood ever produced. Ghetto denizens owe him a debt for bringing our favorite movie introduction to the screen.
Of that scene in Lady Sings the Blues, I wrote:
"Director Sidney J. Furie has that arm enter the frame at the bottom left, attached to a $20 bill. After the line, cin-togger John Alonzo brings a close-up of the face of Colt 45 and Cloud City out of the darkness and into the hearts of women everywhere. It's not Williams' first scene—he has an earlier entrance that would make Bette Davis envious—but it's his first line of dialogue and he has you at hello."
Furie, Pryor, Williams and Alonzo reteamed two years later for Hit!, an action movie with Billy Dee out to get the gang of dope dealers who caused his daughter to O.D. Five years before Blue Collar, Pryor turns in a stunning dramatic performance as a man whose wife is raped and murdered by a junkie. It's hard to come by but well worth seeing.
By himself, Pryor shows up with Alonzo for Which Way Is Up?, Jo Jo Dancer and the Black Woodstock, Wattstax. Of Wattstax, I wrote:
"Director Mel Stuart and his director of photography John Alonzo provide numerous shots of audience members, especially if they're hot chicks wearing short skirts and booty-choker shorts."
Sounds like my kind of cinematography.
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"How John Alonzo didn't receive an Oscar nomination for cinematography is beyond me. There are gorgeous widescreen shots of wide open spaces, both in the light and the dark, and effective use of close-up to convey emotion. The spaces where Sounder takes place seem like vast, wide open areas where you can walk for days to get where you need to go. Alonzo's work helps Ritt achieve, through visuals and placement, these quiet moments of desperation and helplessness, as well as boisterous outpourings of joy."
Please take a look at the screenshots in my Sounder piece, and tell me this man wasn't robbed.
Scarface is one of the most beloved movies in the 'hood, and while I could never commit to that picture to save my life, I must admit it is superbly shot.
For making so many movies loved by so many minorities, Alonzo deserves some major dap. The A.S.C. thought so too, making him the first cinematographer of Mexican/Latino descent to be inducted into their ranks. All we can offer the late Alonzo here at Big Media Vandalism is our undying respect.
Your homework assignment:
Rent some of this man's movies. It'll be easy to find good ones.


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