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OverviewPokemon Red and Blue are the two initial releases of Nintendo's long-running Pokemon franchise. Developed by Game Freak, Red and Blue were the studio's first major successes; the company would eventually go on to create several direct sequels to the games for Nintendo's portable consoles the followed the Game Boy. Although the official number of Pokemon was often touted to be 150 in the games' marketing, the actual number of acquirable Pokemon was 151, albeit with the caveat that the additional creature couldn't be acquired through normal means.
StorylineThe basic premise of Pokemon Red and Blue involves a nameable protagonist who sets off on a journey to thoroughly train, catch, trade, and ultimately master as many Pokemon as he can. After acquiring one of three Pokemon from Professor Oak; Bulbasaur, Squirtle, or Charmander, and then fighting a subsequent training battle with his rival, the main character sets off to explore the world to fulfill his goals. In order to achieve ultimate success, he must use his Pokemon team to fight and defeat eight Gym Leaders, specialists who each deal in a specific type of Pokemon, as well as the Elite Four and Gary Oak. Only after all of that has been achieved does the story technically end.
Gameplay MechanicsMost Pokemon are acquired by "catching" them while they are still out and about in the wild. They can be found by the player simply roaming about in the Pokemons' native habitats, which usually happens by walking around in grass, swimming around in a body of water, or in other similar instances. Once a battle has been initiated, it is up to the player to weaken the wild Pokemon's Hit Points (HP) enough so that they can throw a Pokeball at them. Pokeballs are the containers which hold each trainer's Pokemon and as long as the wild Pokemon cannot break free from one, it can be freely used by the trainer who owns it. If a trainer's team is full at the time of the capture, the newly acquired Pokemon is then sent to a PC for storage and can be retrieved at a later point in time. Captured Pokemon can also be given nicknames, although doing so is optional.
As the Pokemon enter into battles and continue to win them, they gain experience points. Once they accumulate a specified amount, they level up, which serves two purposes. Leveling up your Pokemon in Red and Blue allows most Pokemon to learn new attacks which can be added to their arsenal, in addition to raising their individual statistics. However, because each Pokemon is limited to four different attacks, considerations must be made as they reach progressively higher levels. Leveling up also allows most Pokemon to evolve, enabling them to become a new species. The point at which each Pokemon may evolve is different depending on the species, although the trainer is allowed to prevent a Pokemon from doing so if they desire. One such advantage which comes from canceling an evolution is that more advanced and powerful attacks can be learned earlier if the Pokemon doesn't evolve, assuming the attack can still be learned in an evolved form.
With Pokemon, though, it is not always possible to evolve them via leveling up. In those instances, special stones can be given to the Pokemon to force them to evolve. The most famous Pokemon in the Red and Blue versions which are able to do this include Pikachu and Eevee, the latter of which has multiple evolutions depending on the stone applied. Some Pokemon still do not evolve in this manner, however, which is elaborated upon below.
Outside of battling, one of the defining traits of Pokemon Red and Blue is its trading feature. Because Red and Blue each have Pokemon which are exclusive to their individual versions, collecting all of the Pokemon requires trading with someone who owns the alternative version. Trading is done by connecting the two Game Boys via a link cable. Each person then decides which Pokemon they wish to trade and the duo's choices are transferred. With a few very specific Pokemon, the trading process allows them to evolve once the switching is complete. Although traded Pokemon are under the command of their new trainer, they still carry identification which indicates who originally had them.
Two linked Game Boys can also be used by trainers to battle one another. The majority of the rules which govern battle in the single-player game remain the same, although items cannot be used in linked battles. Skirmishes are otherwise the same, with a winner being declared once one trainer's entire team of Pokemon has fainted.
Pokemon List
- Bulbasaur
- Ivysaur
- Venusaur
- Charmander
- Charmeleon
- Charizard
- Squirtle
- Wartortle
- Blastoise
- Caterpie
- Metapod
- Butterfree
- Weedle
- Kakuna
- Beedrill
- Pidgey
- Pidgeotto
- Pidgeot
- Rattata
- Raticate
- Spearow
- Fearow
- Ekans - Red version only
- Arbok - Red version only
- Pikachu
- Raichu
- Sandshrew - Blue version only
- Sandslash- Blue version only
- Nidoran?
- Nidorina
- Nidoqueen
- Nidoran?
- Nidorino
- Nidoking
- Clefairy
- Clefable
- Vulpix - Blue version only
- Ninetales - Blue version only
- Jigglypuff
- Wigglytuff
- Zubat
- Golbat
- Oddish - Red version only
- Gloom - Red version only
- Vileplume - Red version only
- Paras
- Parasect
- Venonat
- Venomoth
- Diglett
- Dugtrio
- Meowth - Blue version only
- Persian - Blue version only
- Psyduck
- Golduck
- Mankey - Red version only
- Primeape - Red version only
- Growlithe - Red version only
- Arcanine - Red version only
- Poliwag
- Poliwhirl
- Poliwrath
- Abra
- Kadabra
- Alakazam
- Machop
- Machoke
- Machamp
- Bellsprout - Blue version only
- Weepinbell - Blue version only
- Victreebel - Blue version only
- Tentacool
- Tentacruel
- Geodude
- Graveler
- Golem
- Ponyta
- Rapidash
- Slowpoke
- Slowbro
- Magnemite
- Magneton
- Farfetch'd
- Doduo
- Dodrio
- Seel
- Dewgong
- Grimer
- Muk
- Shellder
- Cloyster
- Gastly
- Haunter
- Gengar
- Onix
- Drowzee
- Hypno
- Krabby
- Kingler
- Voltorb
- Electrode
- Exeggcute
- Exeggutor
- Cubone
- Marowak
- Hitmonlee
- Hitmonchan
- Lickitung
- Koffing
- Weezing
- Rhyhorn
- Rhydon
- Chansey
- Tangela
- Kangaskhan
- Horsea
- Seadra
- Goldeen
- Seaking
- Staryu
- Starmie
- Mr. Mime
- Scyther - Red version only
- Jynx
- Electabuzz - Red version only
- Magmar - Blue version only
- Pinsir - Blue version only
- Tauros
- Magikarp
- Gyarados
- Lapras
- Ditto
- Eevee
- Vaporeon
- Jolteon
- Flareon
- Porygon
- Omanyte
- Omastar
- Kabuto
- Kabutops
- Aerodactyl
- Snorlax
- Articuno
- Zapdos
- Moltres
- Dratini
- Dragonair
- Dragonite
- Mewtwo
- Mew - Nintendo Download Only without utilizing a glitch.
Pokemon GymsDuring the adventure you'll have to face 8 different gym leaders and beat them to acquire their badges, and with them, get allowed into Victory Road and reach Indigo Plateau for the Elite. Each Pokemon Gym Leader is an specialist in some Pokemon type, it's important to notice thetypr for better chances of counter-attacking with a strong type Pokemon. Here are the gym leaders, their location, their specialty and Pokemons used.
Pewter City GymLeader - Brock
Badge - Boulder Badge
Pokemon Type - Rock/Ground
Pokemon Used - Geodude, Onyx
Cerulean City GymLeader - Misty
Badge - Cascade Badge
Pokemon Type - Water
Pokemon Used - Staryu, Starmie
Vermilion City GymLeader - Lt. Surge
Badge - Thunder Badge
Pokemon Type - Electric
Pokemon Used - Pikachu, Voltorb, Raichu
Celadon City GymLeader - Erika
Badge - Rainbow Badge
Pokemon Type - Grass
Pokemon Used - Tangela, Victreebel, Vileplume
Saffron City GymLeader - Sabrina
Badge - Marsh Badge
Pokemon Type - Psychic
Pokemon Used - Kadabra, Alakazan, Mr. Mime, Venomoth
Fuchsia City GymLeader - Koga
Badge - Soul Badge
Pokemon Type - Bug/Poison
Pokemon Used - Koffing, Koffing, Muk, Weezing
Cinnabar City GymLeader - Blaine
Badge - Volcano Badge
Pokemon Type - Fire
Pokemon Used - Growlithe, Rapidash, Arcanine, Ponyta
Viridian City GymLeader - Giovanni
Badge - Earth Badge
Pokemon Type - Ground
Pokemon Used - Dugtrio, Rhyhorn, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Rhydon
The Elite FourThe very four best Pokemon trainers are the ultimate challenge for this game, you have to beat them all along with the current Pokemon Champion to achieve your goal of becoming the greatest Pokemon trainer.
Elite Four LoreleiPokemon Type - Water/Ice
Pokemon Used - Dewgon, Cloyter, Slowbro, Jynx, Lapras
Elite Four BrunoPokemon Type - Fighting
Pokemon Used - Onyx, Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Machamp, Onyx
Elite Four AgathaPokemon Type - Ghost
Pokemon Used - Gengar, Golbat, Hunter, Arbok, Gengar
Elite Four lancePokemon Type - Dragon/Flying
Pokemon Used - Gyarados, Dragonair, Dragonair, Aerodactyl, Dragonite
Elite Four Champion Gary Oak (Rival)Pokemon Type - Gary has a very balanced team
Pokemon Used - Gary's Pokemon for the final battle will depend on which Pokemon he chose at the Professor Oak's lab. HIs choice will depend on yours, whatever Pokemon you choose, he will choose the Pokemon with a stronger type against yours, for example, if you choose Bulbasaur he will choose Charmander because fire is naturally strong against grass. Here are the three sets of Pokemon he might be using depending on the last evolution of the Pokemon he chose at the lab in the beginning of the game:
With Venusaur - Pidgeot, Alakazan, Rhydon, Arcanine, Gyarados
With Blastoise - Pidgeot, Alakazan, Rhydon, Exeggutor, Arcanine
With Charizard - Pidgeot, Alakazan, Rhydon, Gyarados, Exeggutor
MissingNo.Easily the most famous Pokemon glitch of all time, MissingNo. is a buggy Pokemon which, if caught, can make all kinds of crazy stuff happen in the game.
To catch a MissingNo was a very simple process. In the town with the final gym you are to talk to the old man who teaches you to catch pokemon. You must talk to him three time and when he asks you if you want to learn to catch pokemon you must say no the first two times and then say yes the third. After you watch him catch a weedle then fly to Cinnibar Island and surf on the right edge of the island and don't leave the edge. Once a pokemon battle happens you can run into a MissingNo or one of the glitched pokemon over level 100.
Some weird things that will happen to your game when you catch a MissingNo is that the item in your 6th item slot will be duplicated to over 99. Also when you go to check your battle history of the Elite Four it wil be all glitched. If MissingNo gains one level the he will evolve into a level 1 Kangaskhan.
PokeGodsAlong with MissingNo there were always rumors about such pokemon called PokeGods. These pokemon were beleived to be obtainable in many ways but were never true.
Some rumored ways of getting these pokemon where to get access to Bill's Garden which was suppost to be a secret place behind Bill's hosue and you could catch many powerful pokemon there. Another rumored way was to get access to the PokeGods City. This was a place that would be accessable to you after you have beaten the Elite Four 50 times in a row without saving or healing, Professor Oak would saying something like "I'm getting tired of this" and let you roam around the ending area and you would find a ladder to the city. This is also not true.
The more viable option was the truck off to the side before you get on the S.S Ann. This was possible by finding a way to surf before acutally boarding the SS Ann. In the back of the truck were rumored to be a Mew and a Togepi. Togepi actually turned out to be a real pokemon in Silver and Gold. Another pokegod that turned out to be real was Pikablu. This pokemon turned out to be Marill, the little blue water pokemon.
Some of the PokeGods were rumored to be the names listed below (this is only a few of the many pokegods):
- Charcolt
- Rainer
- Sapusaur
- Locustud
- Mewthree
- Pikablu
- Chrono Mew
- Sandswipes
- Nidogodess
Some PokeGods were to be belived to evolve from already fully evolved pokemon using an item called a Mist Stone. But the Mist Stone was also another rumour that is not true.
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Hepatic encephalopathy is a problem with the brain that is caused by liver disease. The problem may be temporary or permanent.
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A liver with disease cannot filter the harmful items in blood. These toxins build up in the blood, which reaches the brain and affects the brain's ability to work properly.
Factors that increase your chance of hepatic encephalopathy include:
In the early stages, you may not notice any symptoms. As the condition progresses, symptoms may include:
If you have liver problems and any of the above symptoms, call your doctor right away.
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Firuzeh Studio is a multidisciplinary architectural design, construction and research firm originated in Tehran.
Firuzeh Studio was co-founded by Reza Forghani and Sahar Salehi both holders of M.Arch degree. Firuzeh Studio was established to explore and regenerate ideas and concepts in a creative and versatile atmosphere; A studio that takes each opportunity to the next level. Our motto is:
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Overview and HistoryTehran is the capital of Iran and the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of fifteen million people living under the peaks of the Alborz mountain range.Although archaeological evidence places human activity around Tehran back into the years 6000BC, the city was not mentioned in any writings until much later, in the thirteenth century. It's a relatively new city by Iranian standards.But Tehran was a well-known village in the ninth century. It grew rapidly when its neighboring city, Rhages, was destroyed by Mongolian raiders. Many people fled to Tehran.In the seventeenth century Tehran became home to the rulers of the Safavid Dynasty. This is the period when the wall around the city was first constructed. Tehran became the capital of Iran in 1795 and amazingly fast growth followed over the next two hundred years.The recent history of Tehran saw construction of apartment complexes and wide avenues in place of the old Persian gardens, to the detriment of the city's cultural history.The city at present is laid out in two general parts. Northern Tehran is more cosmopolitan and expensive, southern Tehran is cheaper and gets the name "downtown."Getting ThereMehrabad airport is the original one which is currently in the process of being replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport. The new one is farther away from the city but it now receives all the international traffic, so allow an extra hour to get there or back.TransportationTehran driving can be a wild free-for-all like some South American cities, so get ready for shared taxis, confusing bus routes and a brand new shiny metro system to make it all better. To be fair, there is a great highway system here.The metro has four lines, tickets cost 2000IR, and they have segregated cars. The women-only carriages are the last two at the end, FYI.Taxis come in two flavors, shared and private. Private taxis are more expensive but easier to manage for the visiting traveler. Tehran has a mean rush hour starting at seven AM and lasting until 8PM in its evening version. Solution? Motorcycle taxis! They cut through the traffic and any spare nerves you might have left.People and CultureMore than sixty percent of Tehranis were born outside of the city, making it as ethnically and linguistically diverse as the country itself. Tehran is the most secular and liberal city in Iran and as such it attracts students from all over the country.Things to do, RecommendationsTake the metro to the Tehran Bazaar at the stop "Panzda Gordad". There you can find anything and everything -- shoes, clothes, food, gold, machines and more. Just for the sight of it alone you should take a trip there.If you like being outside, go to Darband and drink tea in a traditional setting. Tehranis love a good picnic and there are plenty of parks to enjoy. Try Mellat park on a friday (fridays are public holidays), or maybe Park Daneshjou, Saaii or Jamshidieh.Remember to go upstairs and have a look around, always always always! The Azadi Tower should fit the bill; it was constructed to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.Tehran is also full of museums such as:the Contemporary Art Museumthe Abghine Musuem (glass works)the 19th century Golestan Royal Palace museumthe museum of carpets (!!!)Reza Abbasi Museum of extraordinary miniaturesand most stunning of all,the Crown Jewels Museum which holds the largest pink diamond in the world and many other jaw-dropping jewels.Text by Steve Smith.


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SKECHERS USA, Inc. announced that elite marathon runner Meb presented a $25,000 check to the Mayors Fund in New York City on behalf of SKECHERS for rebuilding efforts after the destruction of Superstorm Sandy. Meb also appeared on Monday at a special fundraising event at the SKECHERS Times Square store where the footwear company donated 20% of all sales raising additional money for the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
To aid families that have been displaced or lost their homes during the hurricane, SKECHERS worked with Fashion Delivers to get 500 pairs of footwear immediately into the hands of two relief efforts: the Secaucus Municipal Center in New Jersey and The Legacy Center in Queens. SKECHERS also will be donating a large number of pairs via its charity footwear line that will reach children impacted by the storm in December.
"I arrived last week in New York to run as I have so many times before. Then after witnessing the storm's devastation and hearing stories from those affected, the priorities of this amazing city became crystal clear," began Meb. "There's always another race, but those who lost their homes or friends or family members need our assistance today. I'm fortunate to be here and I hope that together with SKECHERS we've been able to help some of those who need it most."
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San Diego, Ca — The fires that raged in several Southern California counties last month caused closures of some clubs, mostly due to poor air quality or the threat of fire.
24 Hour Fitness closed 20 of its clubs in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura counties for a few days last month, says Danny De La Rosa, divisional president, southwest, for 24 Hour Fitness. Three of the 17 closed clubs were in the direct path of the fire, but the wind changed, moving the fire away from the clubs.
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Club Paradise in Fallbrook, CA, also was affected by the fires. The city of about 45,000 was evacuated to Camp Pendleton, CA, but Mark Raymond, assistant manager to operations, stayed in town to operate the main club location.
"We left it open for emergency purposes so firefighters can shower and get in a workout," Raymond says. "We are allowing members to come in with the understanding that air quality is not that great, but it is better inside due to our air conditioning and air filtration system."
Raymond closed the company's express club after the home of the manager of the express club was destroyed in the fire.
The 4 Women Only Fitness Center in Poway, CA, was about two to three miles from one of the fires but was untouched by it, says Lori Golia, director at 4 Women Only Fitness Center. The fires caused the closure of the club for several days.
The Powerhouse Gym in Temecula, CA, remained open, but attendance was slow during the fires, according to the receptionist at the facility. The facility wasn't in the path of any of the fires, but one of the fires was on a hill a few miles from the facility.
Even some facilities closer to the coastline were affected by the fires. First Class Fitness Center in Oceanside, CA, was closed for two days due to poor air quality, according to the receptionist there.
There were no reports of any fitness facilities being damaged by the fires.
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) is based in San Diego about 10 miles from one of the major fires, says Kristie Spalding, spokesperson for ACE. Although the certifying agency's building was not in the direct line of the fires, the agency did close the office for two days because several of the 50 staff members lived in areas being evacuated or in areas of high alert.


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When play was suspended for darkness on Sunday, Tiger Woods held a six-shot lead at Torrey Pines in San Diego. He is in good position to win this tourney, which he has done seven previous times. [CBS]
Michigan is ranked number one in the men's basketball A.P. poll for the first time since the days of the Fab Five in 1992. Kansas, Indiana, Florida and Duke round out the top five. [ESPN]
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Households paid a record $1,419 on average for electricity in 2010, the fifth consecutive yearly increase above the inflation rate, a USA TODAY analysis of government data found. The jump has added about $300 a year to what households pay for electricity. That's the largest sustained increase since a run-up in electricity prices during the 1970s.
Electricty is consuming a greater share of Americans' after-tax income than at any time since 1996 about $1.50 of every $100 in income at a time when income growth has stagnated, a USA TODAY analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis data found.
Greater electricity use at home and higher prices per kilowatt hour are both driving the higher costs, in roughly equal measure:
Residential demand for power dropped briefly in 2009 but rebounded strongly last year to a record high.
Air-conditioners and household appliances use less power than ever. A new refrigerator consumes half the electricity as a similar one bought in 1990. But consumers have bigger houses, more air-conditioning and more electronics than before, outpacing gains in efficiency and conservation.
"People have made a lot of money selling weight loss programs. It's the same for energy. Behavior is hard to change," says Penni Conner, vice president of customer care at NSTAR, a Boston-based utility.
Prices are climbing, too, hitting a record 11.8 cents per residential kilowatt hour so far this year, reports the Energy Information Administration. The increase reflects higher fuel prices and the expense of replacing old power plants, including heavily polluting but cheap to operate coal plants that don't meet federal clean air requirements.
"Higher bills are a huge problem for low income families," says Chris Estes, executive director of the North Carolina Housing Coalition, which opposes a proposed rate hike in its state by Duke Energy. "Utilities are what people's budgets start with."
Duke Energy says the rate increase is needed to pay for replacing old power plants and making the transmission system more reliable. The Charlotte-based utility has reached a tentative agreement with North Carolina to raise rates 7.2 in February, lower than its original 17 request.
"The industry as a whole is facing higher costs because we're retiring our aging fleet" of power plants, says Duke Energy spokeswoman Betsy Conway.
Electricity cost varies widely depending on where you live. Cheapest: Northwest communities near hydropower dams as low as 2 cents per kilowatt hour. Most expensive major utility: Consolidated Edison, supplier of New York City 26 cents per kilowatt hour, according to EIA.
High taxes, limits on air-polluting fuels and the expense of maintaining an underground transmission system keep consumer costs high, says ConEd spokesman Chris Olert.
A potential bright spot: Electric bills appear roughly the same so far this year as last when adjusted for inflation, based on preliminary reports.
However, the future of energy prices and the upcoming closure of more polluting coal plants makes the long-term outlook cloudy for consumers. Duke Energy plans to ask for another rate hike next year to cover the costs of new natural gas-fired plants.


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Ole Miss opens the second half of Southeastern Conference play, as the Rebels host the Missouri Tigers on Saturday (4 p.m., Fox Sports Net). Ole Miss (15-7, 6-3 SEC) has won each of its first four conference home games, and a win over Missouri (16-6, 4-5 SEC) would be its best RPI win of the season.
The Rebels enter Saturday's game ranked No. 57 in the latest Ratings Percentage Index (ESPN.com), while the Tigers are rated No. 46. Ole Miss is 4-6 against top-100 RPI teams, including 0-4 against top-50 RPI teams. It is the Rebels' third top-50 RPI opponent in four games, having previously lost to Tennessee (No. 49) and Kentucky (No. 13).
"We knew it was going to be a big week for us," head coach Andy Kennedy. "We knew going into Rupp was going to be difficult, and I know coming home against Missouri is going to be difficult. That's why you're in the SEC. That's why you play big-boy basketball to have these opportunities. We have been better with a 4-0 record at home in league play. We have to continue that trend if we have any hopes of playing meaningful basketball once we get into the postseason."
Against Kentucky, Ole Miss went into halftime down just 35-34 before the Wildcats opened the second half on a 15-7 run to stretch the lead to 50-41. The Rebels got to within seven at 50-43 and 58-51, but they were not able to cut too far into the lead after that run to open the half.
For the third straight game and 14th game overall this season, Ole Miss was outrebounded, as the Rebels rank last in rebounding margin (-3.1 rebounds per game) and defensive rebounding percentage (63.3 percent) and 11th in offensive rebounding percentage (24.3 percent).
"I thought we were getting better at rebounding, but look at our last three outings," Kennedy said. "At Tennessee, we got destroyed. That was a difficult matchup for us, and they're pretty good at what they do. Against South Carolina at home, we get beat by 10. And then we go to Kentucky, and they're maybe leading the nation in offensive rebounding percentage, so we knew it was going to be a challenge, but we just got destroyed.
"We obviously had these issues in November and December, and we thought we had come to some sort of a conclusion as to how to remedy them, and then they have seemed to have risen back up."
Like Ole Miss, led by Marshall Henderson and Jarvis Summers, Missouri is a guard-oriented team. Jabari Brown leads the SEC in scoring (20.1 points per game), 3-point field goal percentage (47.4 percent) and minutes played (36.7 minutes per game).
Brown, who transferred from Oregon two season ago, has topped 20 points in six of his last seven league games and is averaging 24.3 points and shooting 61.9 percent from 3-point range during that stretch. Brown and Tulsa transfer Jordan Clarkson, who ranks sixth in league in scoring (18.7 points per game), rank fourth nationally among scoring tandems.
"They are a good team with really, really good guards," Kenendy said. "Jordan Clarkson and Jabari Brown have size, athleticism, and they are both highly skilled. Jabari Brown is having a Player-of-the-Year-type campaign. He's averaging around 22 points per game and shooting a ridiculous percentage from the floor and from 3, and he's a volume guy. He's Marshall, but Marshall is around 33 to 34 percent, while he's at 53 to 54 percent, so it gives you an idea of the challenge that they present.
"They're a group that is athletic. They are going to play fast. They are the most efficient team in our league in transition, so there are a number of things that we have to be good at defensively to give ourselves a chance."


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The Ultimate Guide on how to shoot the Perfect Basketball jump shot
This guide is for any basketball player aspiring to become a marksman shooter. Whether you're a kid youth basketball player, a high school or college athlete serious about going pro or the casual pick-up player, the goal is continuous improvement. Your shooting will never be perfect but you can work to perfect your stroke. You just need to commit to a legit Wilson Evolution Indoor Game 29.5 Men's basketball and 24/7 access to a gym or park. You need to practice day and night if you want to see big leaps of progress. This guide shows you exactly how to become a professional marksman.
Types of shots
Characteristics of assassin shooters and scorers
Short and long-term Habit Changes
Continuous Improvement Principles
The Types of Basketball Shots & Picking your Spots
Location matters more than distance.
There are 5 spots on the court we'll cover as well as the various types of shots (field goals) players pick and choose from.
Point blank range, short range, mid range, long range and deep range.
Layups, post shots, bank shots, jump shots, free throws, long 2s and 3 pointers.
Each spot on the floor carries risk and reward equally, this guide does not assume close up shots – due to their high percentage accuracy – are better than long range shots. Ultimately, the quality of the shot is determined by your level of focus, confidence, stamina and mechanics at any given point in the game.
How comfortably and confidently you get a shot off is more important than where you shoot from. As you aspire to become a marksman, remember that you will miss over and over, that will never change. You can't let that dissuade you. Be prepared to shoot every shot the same and forget both the misses and makes quickly.
The only way to build comfort and increase confidence is to never stop shooting. In practice after a few hundred jump shots. In games you struggle vs a tough defender or struggle, period.
It's simple. In individual shoot around sessions, in practice, in exhibition games, in regulation games and in playoff games, you're presented with different challenges and pressures. However, one thing that doesn't change is the physics of a jump shot. Whether it's a layup, free throw or a long jumper, you need to spot up, eye the rim, get in your regular form, release the shot and follow through full-circle.
You need to be ready in any one of these scenarios to shoot with confidence. The goal of this guide is fundamental in nature. It focuses mostly on individual shootarounds. This is because I'm a firm believer of thoughts and habits. The more you align your focus and your mechanics, the better you perform. The best way to improve your muscle memory and your mechanics is by dominating individual shoot-arounds.
When trying any system or training to improve your shooting ability, always pick a spot or area on the court you want to master and the type of shot(s).
By choosing, you only improve your shot selection AND you have a baseline to measure your progress against. Once you master a shot spot/type, move to the next area and repeat. Read this post on basketball shooting drills. Your ball is your partner, go get a good one. I suggest the rock I've played with for the last 8 or 9 years – the Wilson Evolution Men's Indoor Game Basketball (29.5).
Now let's talk about the make up of a marksman. What makes a marksman different from the average and garbage shooters?
My favorite shooting drill is simple. To shoot jump shots from as close up as possible. You know, the dotted line around the rim. I'm not talking about layups. I'm talking about jump shots, with mighty arc and strong flicks of the wrist. This is a much tougher shot than it looks. If you really want to improve your close, mid, long range jump shooting, start from within. Shoot as many of those as possible. It develops form and perfects muscle memory. Once you get the form, flick and follow through right, go further out and adjust the power in your jump and in your release accordingly.
Characteristics of assassin shooters and scorers
Not all shooters are scorers and not all scorers are shooters but the one thing they both share an incredible ability to put the ball in the basket. Michael Jordan was an average shooter early on, but he realized how important it was to have an accurate stroke so he devoted thousands of hours to improvement. And well, you know the rest of that story.
Steph Curry, Ray Allen, Dirk Nowitzki, Reggie Miller, Steve Kerr. They all play different positions and play different roles but their shooting ability is world-class. It's a specialty. Each specialist carries a common set of character traits rooted in excellence.
Sharp shooters pursue excellence. They shoot harder and smarter than everybody else. They don't settle for good, they chase greatness with work ethic. It doesn't matter what level you play at or how better others are than you, the point is you need to simply focus on being better than yourself. Keep raising your own bar so you don't settle for being just an average shooter.
Sharp shooters shoot with the same form. Over decades, millions (yes, millions. Do the math.) of shot attempts sharpen their muscle memory with each repetition. As you seek to improve, don't just track makes/misses. Observe your mechanics start to finish and be mindful of your state of mind. Did you follow through? Did you give enough arc? Did you remember to focus on the center of the rim/hoop as you release your shot? Did you adjust your strength and trajectory for body position and momentum? What were you thinking about as you shot? Were you scared? Did you get distracted? What could you do better on the next attempt?
Gradual improvements lie in these details, which most players are not willing to focus on, perpetually.
Sharp shooters understand their sweet spots and they practice patience. The ability to shoot out lights doesn't carry them away into jacking up 30 shots per game. (And yes, Steph Curry – the inevitable Ray Allen record-breaker – is a worthy exception). Coaches and teammates give them the green light to shoot at will, but the sharp shooter understands dumb shots from smart shots. He lulls defenders to sleep, picks his spots, gets the rock and launches without hesitation.
Sharp shooters are gym whores. They get in the gym earlier and leave later than most players because shooting is a numbers game. What separates extraordinary shooters from the ordinary is the number of shots they put up. Throughout their life, this number can add up to over a million shots. Record-breaking shooters, with their robust work ethic, shoot more because they know how to increase their overall capacity of attempts.
The younger you start, the higher your capacity. The longer the hours in the gym, the higher the capacity.
Most players frankly just don't think it's worth their time to chase shot perfection. This is your advantage. Be unlike most players.
Sharp shooters are students of the game. They're always learning and thinking of old and new ways to shoot more creatively and efficiently. Kobe and Lebron go to Hakeem after winning titles in the offseason. DRose locked himself in a Cali gym during the summer of Lebron and won MVP. After losing in the 2006 Finals, Dirk renewed his focus on scoring and capitalized on a second opportunity. The new Dirk shot 49% FG, 46% from 3 point FGs and 94% from the FT line.
Sharp shooters and clutch scorers are never out of the game. The best shooters will and do have *off *nights on which they struggle. Badly. Still, somehow they're able to make shots in the clutch time after time again because they 'forget' all the misses. The next opportunity they get, they take it with confidence and redeem themselves.
Sharp shooters become naturals in performing when it matters most. Elite shooters and scorers rely heavily on their preparation in crunch time.
Sharp shooters shoot the ball, fundamentally. Even if their shot technique and form looks different from that of other fundamental shooters. Even with they take the shots of great difficulty. Mediocre players get too fancy and too cute with their shots. They're the ones who get overly happy when they make and dramatically frustrated when they miss. Don't be that guy or girl.
If you want to be a sharp shooter, find inspiration from the elite and go to work. By inspiration, I mean learn from their on-court and off-the-court habits, their demeanor and from their strengths and weaknesses. Study them deeper than your opponent does and go to work. Test everything. Challenge their ideas and find better answers.
By now, you understand the importance of habits and thoughts. Let's go over how you can become a better shooter by developing effective habits and destroying the silent bad ones.
The Habits of Highly Effective Shooters
One of the highest selling books in the business world is "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". It sold over 40 million copies and was listed in 'The 25 Most Influential Business/Management books' by Time Magazine for its' simple, practical advice which not only applies in business, but life in general. It applies to sports too – especially basketball – because every player and person is a creature of habit. If you really care to explore how habits influence our life, read the Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business.
Here are the 7 Habits from Covey's book, as applied to basketball shooting.
1) Be proactive.
As a player, you need to be proactive in your approach to shooting. Only you know what your goals and values are – both in basketball and in life – so think about the importance of effective jump shooting. Are you serious enough to take responsibility for your actions and consequences? Will become a better jump shooter take your game to the levels you wish to attain?
Before you jump into any program, ask these tough questions and be brutally honest with yourself. Ask friends, family and/or coaches to give advice. If you're truly passionate about long-term domination, you'll develop a natural and proactive approach to the way you train. Being constantly proactive trains the mind and kills laziness and procrastination.
2) Begin with end in mind.
Again, think about your goals. If you're in high school, how do you see yourself as a player in college and beyond? Do you see yourself playing professionally, casually or in-between? What about when you grow older and have family?
If you don't know what the future holds, ask yourself: if you invest in the game, will you be happy with the results, even if life doesn't go the way you planned?
I knew that I would never play college or NBA ball, but I've always felt that basketball habits would benefit me both on and off the court. Years of playing, learning and growing from the game of basketball confirms this to be true. The investment pays dividends continuously at basketball, at work and at home for me.
For me and for professional shooters, there is no end in mind. I strive to improve my shooting throughout the different stages of life. This is how I can stay forever young. If I can shoot the ball the rest of my life, I know I will have lived meaningfully.
3) Put first things first.
What is your greatest weakness, as a jump shooter or as a player? How do you turn it into a strength? Where is the greatest opportunity for improvement?
One of Michael Jordan's greatest weaknesses out of college was a weak jump shot. He prioritized it, went to work and well, the rest is history. He finished with career averages of 50% FG, a respectable 33% 3-point shooting and 85% free throw shooting. Lebron James continues to do the same today as shooting has always been a weakness for him.
Get honest feedback from a coach or trainer. Instead of focusing on 5 different things, find the most critical and get in the gym.
4) Think win-win.
Don't just think about yourself and your game. Think about your team and your coach's system. How can you improve your game so that both you and your team(s) benefit?
This is an extremely important question because in basketball, shooting is often associated with selfishness. Scoring is exciting so it's easy for a good shooter to believe all he needs to do is jack up shots. In 21 or 32, it's fine. In real games, it's not. You'll hurt yourself and your team because the goal isn't to take more shots, it's to take and make better shots.
In games and in practice, think about how each shot helps/hurts your team's chances at winning. A smart shooter who takes less frequent, but great shots helps his team more than a great shooter who takes too many questionable shots.
5). Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
In other words, understand the game first before you decide the type of shooter and player you wish to become. Every shootaround, practice, game is different when you consider all the environmental factors such as team chemistry, game tempo, the competition, etc.
The best players 'let the game come to them' and strike when they see the opportunity. So observe everything you possibly can about your own game and the game of basketball in general.
Shooters should understand what type of shots the coach encourages and discourages. Smart shooters understand the role of teammates and gel in accordingly. Smart shooters understand their point guard's ability or inability to get him/her the ball in sweet spots. Smart shooters understand what they need to do on-ball and off-the-ball to keep the offense flowing. Shooters should understand the defensive spacing. When you regularly observe these nuances, you become an instinctive, reactive player who uses the game 'settings' to get off quality shots.
Most players egoistically impose their will on teammates and try to get them to center their game around him/her. This is how even the purest of scorers – like Kobe and Melo – cause team friction and chemistry issues.
6). Synergize.
As you become better at observing your court surroundings, you routinely start understanding your teammates' strengths and weaknesses. The more you understand, the more you appreciate, the better you can complement each other. The most successful teams aren't the ones that have the best shooters, but rather the ones that have a combination of good passers, rebounders, defenders, scorers, glue guys like Shane Battier, etc.
When you synergize, you increase your own potential and your overall team's potential. You make others better and your competition nervous.
The 2013 Bulls have been incredibly successful, relative to their pre-season expectations, because they've been able to synergize and make the most of each other's strengths. The 2013 Lakers on the other hand, due to injuries and a lack of synergy, underachieved.
Synergy builds character and trust in each player and it is incredibly contagious. International players overall lack the athleticism that American athletes possess, but they focus more on synergy and therefore, end up seeing tremendous success. When the USA Men's national team plays European/South American international teams in Olympics, we often struggle even though we have the best athletes in the world. We win most of the time, but don't expect 30-40 point blowouts against the elite teams.
Synergy is one of the most transferable skills you can adopt, in basketball, in school and in life.
7). Sharpen the saw.
As you continue to progress and get better, it's important you not only maintain your newly acquired skills but that you continue to raise the bar and push your own limits. You can bet your competitors are so never be satisfied. Do whatever you can to improve. Don't chase perfection, as that'll only lead to frustration. Instead pursue excellence by trying to be better today than you were yesterday.
For shooters, continue to ramp up your shooting training. Keep working to improve your accuracy and shot count. But don't stop there. As you age, complement your shooting training with physical and mental training. Check out Lumosity and work on brain training exercises to sharpen your focus. Strengthen your arms, shoulders, core and legs. Work on your off-hand shooting, dribbling, pump faking and ball handling. All these small pieces add up and give you incredible competitive advantage.
Bad habits hurt your game and they hurt your team. Fancy passes, over-dribbling, lazy defense, failure to box out. These are common habits that destroy player and team morale. For shooters, bad habits include overshooting, taking bad shots, changing form constantly, practicing shots you can't simulate in real games.
Some habit change are effortless, while others require more dedication, but the results of successful habit change pay off big time.
8) Know your Friend and Enemy.
The internet is both your friend and enemy. It finds information that solves problems to help you live better. It's a source of inspirational and interesting stories. Same with the TV especially during the winter months. Computers, TVs, tablets, phones and all other screens and machines are tools that have proven effective in turning humans into lifeless tools. They drain your brain, make you lazier, kill your time and keep you from achieving your important goals in work, in sports and in life. Be suspicious of these silent killers.
You have 2 brains. There's the human brain which inspires excellence and then there's the lizard brain – a self-defense mechanism – which inspires fear. Your human and lizard brains are also your friend and enemy because at any point, you can choose to destroy one with the other. Pick wisely.
The lizard brain has the right intention – to shield you from harm – but it has no right to impose its' will on you. Fear is real but it can be channeled and controlled so it doesn't prevent you from achieving your goals.
**Bonus Tip:** Find your voice, listen and act.
The more you commit to basketball, the louder your inner voice becomes. It's the voice that hints you to push harder, to play smarter, to keep your composure and to ball fearlessly. Every player has this voice guiding them but most choose not to listen. They're too busy blaming others, too busy talking trash to opponents, too busy showing off. Your game will only go so far if you focus on the trivial.
Instead, find your voice, listen and act. You will go farther in basketball.
Why your best efforts at Habit change fail and how you can overcome
The brain fascinates me with its' ability to learn new habits. It's crazy. Bad habits – like become a Facebook addict – form so quietly and effortlessly. On the other hand, good habits – such as training regularly – are much harder to develop even with strong willpower.
That's a good thing. If it's hard to do, you're on the right track. You're not the only player who faces habit challenges. Everyone does. The players who take the challenges head on and push through these self-imposed limits by the lizard brain excel more than others. Get yourself an Evolution basketball and go to work. You'll eventually overcome the anxiety.
Your lizard brain is pre-conditioned to steer you away from fear, pain and discomfort. It makes you procrastinate, it discourages you, it distracts you from doing real work with cat pictures, Facebook updates and reality TV. The lizard brain doesn't value these things more than your human brain, it just seems them as easier and safer.
It's clear to see how the lizard brain can form bad habits and hurt a scorer's game. It can force you to chuck long contested jumpers instead of driving for easier buckets. It can prevent you from taking physical contact when going up for layups. It can paralyze your decision making in crunch-time. It makes you take shortcuts, it makes you lazy, it makes excuses and it ultimately makes you a weaker player than you actually are.
When you try to form new, meaningful habits, the lizard brain fires up excuses to stop you at all cost. Here's a list of the most common excuses. Fortunately, each one has a solution and it's only a matter of willpower and persistence to put the lizard brain back to sleep.
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If you really want to learn how to shoot a basketball perfectly, follow Ray Allen's advice.
You can also view the powerpoint deck on Slideshare for more basketball shooting tips.Excerpt:
1. Basketball Shooting Tips To learn more about basketball shooting, training and equipment, visit http://basketballjumptraining.com
2. What NOT to do – Stop renewing your form Stop taking dumb shots, Stop taking too many shots
3. Better Shootaround Sessions &Productive Practice. Take a lot of close-up shots from point blank range (low post)
4. Better Shootaround Sessions &Productive Practice. Shoot with both hands for increased comfort levels with your dominant hand
5. Better Shootaround Sessions &Productive Practice. Turn off the lights and shoot in the dark.
6. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Follow Through! Just because the shot is released doesn't mean your arms should stop. Use the Shooting Arm Bandit for better technique and form.
7. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Master the mid-range
8. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Dribble intensely with both hands before,during and after shootarounds
9. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Run laps, suicides,sprints in betweens hots to emulate real game environment
10. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Don't rely excessively on your legs. Use your fingers, wrists, elbows, triceps and shoulders.
11. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Use a shooting training aid like the Shooting ArmBandit to increase muscle memory.
12. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Use heavy balls and larger basketballs for easier handling of regulation basketball
13. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice. Take shots you normally take in games. Jumpers, layups, bank shots, floaters.
14. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice "Air" ball shots without the basketball in your hands to sharpen form. You can try this at home.
15. Better Shootaround Sessions & Productive Practice Use the Pro-fender( portable mannequins) to contest jump shots.
16. How to Shoot a Basketball in games like a Pro
17. Focus on the center of the rim.
18. Shoot the same shot everytime. Even if you're struggling.
19. Get the ball in your favorite spots.
20. Shoot instinctively. Don't think. Just shoot the best way you know how.
21. Don't rush to get your shots. Get your teammates involved and they'll involve you. Better chemistry improves your marksmanship.
22. Don't let your competition get in your head. Keep calm and shoot away.
23. Get layups. If not, get to the line. Be a triple threat.
24. Learn more about shooting and improving your jump shot accuracy.
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Interview: Tom Rowley, CEO of Preventsys
Tom Rowley is CEO of Carlsbad-based Preventsys, which provides enterprise security solutions. I spoke to Tom to get a better sense of how Preventsys fits into the security space, and to understand their solutions better.
BK: Tell me a little bit about Preventsys and your security auditing software -- what does it do and who uses it?
TR: Based in Carlsbad, California, Preventsys is a privately held company founded in 2002 with more than 50 employees. We are an enterprise security company that sells an appliance-based solution that enables large, distributed organizations to see external security threats coming and prepare their network against known and unknown attacks.
The foundation of the company is based on the fact that many organizations are challenged by both their own internal standards and also an array of external auditing standards that have materialized over the years. These are regulations like Sarbanes Oxley, the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act in the banking industry, and HIPAA in the healthcare industry. Preventsys was formed to develop software that would help companies understand whether or not their IT infrastructure was compliant with the rules that these various laws require.
Preventsys also had strategic insight into the fact that most organizations have already made substantial investments in a variety of other kinds of security technologies, such as firewalls, vulnerability scanners and intrusion detection systems. All of these technologies provide information that when collected and correlated would give you a good understanding where you stood relative to a security standard. Therefore, Preventsys focused its initial activities on being able to assemble the information from a large number of different sources, package it up in a very understandable format, compare the data to these standards and regulations and finally present the results in a manageable way. Helping companies audit themselves was the initial thrust of the company and it signed on customers like Bacardi and Electronic Arts, both of which we still have today.
What we've discovered along the way is that this exact same approach -- a policy and rules-based look at security -- can actually help senior management have a better understanding of what their overall security posture is and how prepared they are for the many attacks that seem to pummel companies day in and day out. These attacks will also happen with more and more frequency and damage as the Internet becomes more integrated into everyday business use.
With this in mind, Preventsys took the same technology it used for auditing and asked, "What can we do to help security teams do what they need to do today - eliminate business disruptions caused by cyberattacks?" We wanted to come up with a solution that enabled the enterprise to get in front of problems, before they were attacked, rather than during or after attack as products help them do today. We thought -- and still believe -- that the best way to do that is through a process management system, one that is able to look at everything happening on your network, decide what might be potentially dangerous, and then prioritize your actions in a way that enables you to respond quickly to it - again, before an attack. We call this entire process enterprise security management. While not a terribly exotic name, it catches the flavor of what we've been able to accomplish and that is helping an enterprise understand its security posture and what it needs to do in order to improve it in context to threats that are out there "in the wild".
BK: Why Preventsys? In what looks like a crowded security space, what is unique about your company?
TR: You are certainly right about security being a crowded space. The current investment rate in the venture community is 35 new security companies a quarter. So there are certainly a lot of people working to build a safer Internet and addressing the myriad of other security problems.
What's unique about Preventsys is that, unlike most of these companies, we are not building another point solution. In other words, most security companies pick a very small aspect of security to address, such as identity management, secure SSL or deep packet inspection, and then focus all of their attention on doing a good job in that one particular area based on a new technological breakthrough. But what happens is that the poor bewildered network or security manager at a corporation who buys these products finds himself inundated with all of these point solutions that on their own only know how to solve one piece of the security puzzle at a time.
What we've heard over and over from security professionals at large organizations is that what they really need is a management system that enables them to see the big picture in order to figure out the relative importance of various problems and determine, in a managed way, how to go about deciding which should be prioritized first to spend valuable time or money on. In short, Preventsys is not in the business to build another clever security gadget. What we offer is an integration platform for all of those products that a security manager already has. These point solutions feed information into the Preventsys information security management system and we consolidate their data into something that is an intelligible, actionable, trendable, manageable process - all ahead of an attack. So what's unique is that we offer a quality management system for security as opposed to just another random technology.
BK: How did you decide to join Preventsys and what did you see in the company?
TR: I have been working with early stage technology companies most of my life, Preventsys is my ninth, and most of them have been venture funded. Over the last decade or so I have focused on security companies and on encryption and biometrics. Most recently I formed a company called Counterpane Security, which is arguably the most successful among the incident management companies. Counterpane is in the business of detecting attackers when they break into a company and stopping them before they do any damage. While I helped build a great company, I came to believe that their approach wasn't enough to fight the security battle. In order for an organization to make real progress in security, it has to be more than reactive and fast, it needs to be clairvoyant and get in front of the problem - be smarter than the hackers and script kiddies.
I decided to look for a proactive security company, specifically one that was building a system that could enable you to design yourself out of security problems, rather than playing a reactive role. And that's what I found at Preventsys. Preventsys is about building a management system that makes it no longer necessary for you to instantly react because you've already dealt with the problem. We like to say that real-time security is not fast enough. This means if you rely on real-time to protect yourself, you're already going to be too late.
What drew me to Preventsys was its proactive approach, one that I believe is pointing towards the future of this space.
BK: Who are your investors and where do you stand in terms of funding?
TR: We have three primary investors: Enterprise Partners, based here in San Diego; Apax Partners in San Francisco and around the world; and UV Partners of Salt Lake City. The company has closed two rounds of funding to date and is very close to profitability.
BK: What has been the biggest challenge for Preventsys in taking your software to market?
TR: Security is similar to healthcare in that everyone is looking for that magic pill to solve all ills. For enterprise security, promises of the silver bullet have come in the form of single products, such as firewalls, anti-virus or intrusion detection systems. At Preventsys, our mission is to educate the security industry that, like diet and excercise, true security can only be attained by taking a process-based approach, not by relying on single products that promise the sun, the moon and the stars. Getting organizations to accept the fact that their security will not improve unless they put an effective, cross-departmental security process in place is our challenge, but we're already seeing the leaders in all market segments do just that, the rest are soon to follow.
BK: Finally, what's your next big goal for Preventsys?
TR: For early stage companies to be successful they must simultaneously accomplish four things: recruit the right people, deliver to existing customers, acquire new customers and get funding. Three out of four doesn't cut it. In fact, nine out of ten early stage companies don't survive because achieving all four in balance is hard to do. My experience growing nine other early stage companies into maturity is one of the reasons that I was brought on board. My goal is for Preventsys to beat those odds and right now we are executing on all four fronts.
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Sochi Winter Games: How Grand Rapids' U.S. Paralympian Omar Bermejo Did
Omar Bermejo achieved and competed with the world's best Winter Paralympians over the past two weeks in Russia.
The 32-year-old former Marine, who had an amputation of part of a severed arm suffered in a June 2009 motorcycle accident, is from Grand Rapids resident, He took part with Team USA in two nordic skiing disciplines at the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Bermejo competed in cross-country skiing and biathlon.
Here's how he finished in his Sochi events:
- Men's 10-kilometer free, standing cross-country skiing on Sunday: 29th in 29 minutes, 51.8 seconds. He was 5:51.9 minutes behind the winner, Russia's Alexandr Pronkov.
- Men's 4-by-2.5-kilometer open relay in cross country skiing on Saturday: The U.S. team he was on finished ninth in 29:58.3, 5:35.5 minutes behind Russia's gold medal-winning relay. Bermejo's teammates were Augusto Perez, Bryan Price and Kevin Burton. Canada took fourth.
- Men's 15-kilometer standing biathlon on Friday: 17th in 46:21.8;. That was 11:40.7 minutes behind the winner, Ukraine's Grigorii Vovchhynskyi.
- Men's 1-kilometer spring free qualification standing cross-country skiing on Wednesday: 30th in 4:48.86. The gold medal winner was Russia's Kirill Mikhaylov with 3:53.5 in the final.
- Men's 12.5-kilometer standing biathlon on Tuesday: 17th in 37:22.8. That was 7:52.8 minutes behind the winner, Russia's Azat Karachurin; and Canada's Mark Arendz took bronze.
- Men's 7.5-kilometer standing biathlon on March 8: 18th in 24:22.8. That was 5:09.1 minutes behind the winner, Russia's Vladislav Lekmotcev; with Canada's Arendz runner-up.
Bermejo was part of an 80-athlete U.S. contingent that includes 16 U.S. military veterans and two U.S. active duty military personnel at the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games. Team USA won two gold medals (including in men's ice sled hockey, with a 1-0 win over Russia on Saturday), seven silver medals and nine bronze, finishing eighth in the medal count.
The Sochi Games closed Sunday, having opened March 6. Joining Bermejo in Sochi were his mother, Rosa Bermejo; his two sisters, Edna and Tania; and his girlfriend, Lindsey Hall.
He is a 2000 Union High School and 2013 University of Phoenix graduate.
Photos of U.S. Paralympian Omar Bermejo at the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games


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Joseph Lister, O.M., F.R.S. (1827-71912), subsequently Baronet and a Peer was a son of Joseph Jackson Lister, F.R.S., the author of many improvements in the microscope, etc. The elder Lister was an orthodox Quaker, and the son retained through life the quiet, peace-loving instincts imbibed fron father. Born in Essex, he was educated at the Friends' schools near London and afterwards at University College, where he graduated both in arts in medicine and surgery. His interest was soon aroused by the terrible state of hospitals at the time when hospital gangrene was frequent, and after operation, patients died frequently of septic poisoning. Promoted to be Professor of Surgery at Glasgow, he found the state of things no better, and he continued to work incessantly at discovering the cause or causes of the dreadful mortality that seemed to follow upon operations in hospitals. Pasteur, who was years his senior, had lately made the fruitful discovery of living germs as the cause of disease, and Lister, who always admitted the debt, took up the idea and studied the best means of applying such germicides as carbolic acid.
He also made elaborate and toilsome investigations into the best method of binding up wounds, and in this way changed the whole practice.of modern surgery. In 1869 he succeeded Syme (whose daughter he had married) in the Chair of Surgery at Edinburgh, and in 1877 he was transferred to King's College, London. In 1885 he became a baronet, being already President of the Royal Society; at the second jubilee he was created a peer. Five years later he was included in the Order of Merit as an original member, and was an honoured guest at the banquet given by the Athenaeum to the members of the 0rder. His reputation as one of the greatest reformers of surgery had spread all the world, and time has in no respect lessened it. [Ward, 259; image facing p. 258]


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If halfway through last night's episode of Mad Men, the scenes started to feel like a David Lynch film, that's because "Far Away Places" featured some of the most interesting narrative work we've seen from the series. Matthew Weiner, the show's creator, said he was motivated by serials of short French films and told three overlapping short stories that all take place in the same day and are linked thematically with the desire to go away.
The stories also shared the thematic connection of the struggle between professional and work life. For Peggy, this takes the form of her relationship with Abe and her inability to please the Heinz folks; for Don and Megan, the story showed the breaking point between their marriage and her role at Sterling, Cooper, Draper Pryce; and for Roger and Jane, a comical trip on LSD appears to be the last journey the two take together. The three stories intertwine as the narrative moves through the episode, only to return to the day's beginning, showing snippets of scenes we saw before until the entire picture becomes clear.
(LIST: Top 10 Things We Miss About the Mad Men Era)
Throughout this season, Peggy has taken on a larger role in the firm and emerged as the leader of the team of junior copywriters. After completely redoing the Heinz account and telling off the head of the company when he doesn't like the new new ad work, Peggy has her own version of what Weiner called "a Don's day": She drinks at work and partakes in risky sexual behavior in the form of a movie theater hookup. Ginsberg reveals that his adopted father said he was born in a concentration camp. "But you know that's impossible," Ginsberg says. Actually, it's entirely possible, as Ginsberg is in his mid-20s in 1966. When she gets home, Peggy calls Abe and patches things up from an earlier fight, and her day away seems to have ended well.
Don's day away consists of dragging Megan away from the team for a road trip to check out Howard Johnson, a potential client. There's been a growing tension in their marriage when Don's desire for her to be at his beck and call conflicts with her wishes to focus on her career. The situation comes to a head in the HoJo diner, and Don storms off, leaving Megan in the parking lot. After clearing his head, Don returns and that's when the scenes take on a strange Lynchian quality: his call back to the office features in a snippet of Peggy's story, and Don is clearly terrified when he can't find his wife.
While Don is scouring upstate for Megan, Roger's having his own inward journey, taking LSD with his wife Jane and her therapist. And so we get a chance to see the world of Roger Sterling on acid. It's quite a ride. Between a band playing when he opens a bottle of Stoli to inhaling a cigarette in one second, it's Roger's world, only much more fun. Then he looks in the mirror and has an introspective moment to the sounds of Brian Wilson's most contemplative tune from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. In a cute moment on the floor with their heads wrapped in pink towels, Roger and Jane decide to call it quits.
When Don gets home and finds Megan unharmed, he chases her through their apartment. Only this time, it's not the precursor to make-up sex on the floor. This fight is brutal and violent, but when Don hugs Megan around the waist, we know that he's turned a corner in the relationship, too. When they get to the office, Bert Cooper informs Don that while he's been turned out and enjoying the married, partner life, the firm's work has suffered, and it's time to focus. If he can do that, as Roger says in the end, it'll be a beautiful day.
(MORE: Mad Men's Return: Surprise!)
The Ballad of Roger Sterling: Roger's been one of the more interesting characters to watch as the years have gone by. A product of the old school in the most literal sense, his prewar attitude hasn't aged well as we move into the late '60s. The choice of The Beach Boys' "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" as the soundtrack to Roger's acid-dropping experience is potentially prophetic. Now that Roger's moving back into bachelorhood, will he live his life again like he's on shore leave?
The Beat Poet: As we learn more and more about Ginsberg's past, he's emerging as one of the more interesting characters this season. We caught a glimpse of his tense relationship with his father after he was hired, and with the revelation that he may have been a Holocaust refugee, the show's producers have given us the most interesting back story next to Don Draper.
Wherefore art thou Pete? Last week's episode focused squarely on Pete Campbell and his struggles to reconcile his married/family/suburban life with temptation and regret. Given the many questions last week's episode set up, look for Pete to feature more in the coming chapters.


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Last night in a display of lightening fireworks, thunder, high winds, rain and hail, a big tree in my drive came tumbling down. Had I not moved my car a few minutes earlier, it would have been crushed. Buildings around town sustained damage and trees are uprooted and broken.
The local newspaper features a photograph of trees uprooted in the cemetery. I am sure Mom will be checking on that early this morning. Mom and I kept a constant phone chatter going last night to make sure we were okay. She reported her wicker furniture blew into the bushes, but everything else appeared to be okay.
At one point Mom said she was shutting her computer down. I was certain she would probably grab her external hard drive full of genealogy information and head to the closet. She reports that she didn't even grab a genealogy book and head to her favorite chair. Mom is slipping! In fact she cleaned up her kitchen, started the dishwasher and left her pan of left over enchiladas on the kitchen counter. That's total preoccupation with the storm.
Looking back at storms we had so frequently here in Nebraska, I don't remember Mom ever putting genealogy before her family. She grabbed us first to run to the basement or crawl space (yucky place to weather a storm). I am sure all the while her mind was on what would happen to all of her years of research, the documents and the photographs.
One of Mom's most vivid memories is about being in a flood in Greeley, Colorado. She was about four years old, but sill remembers the family possessions floating away. Those included trunks of old photographs, At the time she just knew they belonged to the family. As the flood water was going over her head, an older cousin handed her the end of a broom and told her to hang on while he pulled her toward him. The family photographs were gone, but Mom was saved.
Mom always says the lives of our ancestors are important, but the family today are more important. Given the choice, she'd always come to our rescue. That's why I love my genealogy Mom!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Genealogically Weathering a Storm
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The mystery is being solved, piece by piece. Sort of.
We know that Broncos linebacker Von Miller faces a four-game suspension. We know that the internal appeal process has not yet been completed. We know that someone breached the confidentiality requirement of the league's policies, since we shouldn't know any of this until the appeal fails. We know that Miller says he did nothing wrong.
Now, we know by process of elimination that Miller's potential suspension comes from the substance-abuse policy. We know this because NFLPA spokesman George Atallah has said via Twitter that Miller's potential suspension does not arise under the steroids policy.
Mike Klis of the Denver Post reported earlier today that Miller tested positive in 2011 for amphetamines (prohibited under the steroids policy) and for marijuana (prohibited under the substance-abuse policy). Miller apparently avoided a suspension for the positive amphetamine test, which actually represents a second breach of a confidentiality provision that supposedly carries a fine of up to $500,000.
If Miller is indeed facing a suspension under the substance-abuse policy, it means that he violated the policy multiple times. So when he says he did nothing wrong, in a roundabout way he's accurate. The suspension means he did something he shouldn't have done at least three times.
And here's where the case could get even more interesting. Now that recreational marijuana use is legal in Colorado, Miller could try to challenge any violations occurring since the law was passed, if his potential suspension arises from marijuana use.


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Other Events
Maker spaces will save us? Daniel in conversation with David Li
V&A Design Culture Salon
Future Makespaces research trip to China
East London Printmakers launch Maker Library
Central Research Laboratory launch
Fab City Amsterdam
FNO round table: the cultural roles of makerspaces
Into the Arts - Widening Participation in Arts Education Conference
Hype & Seek: Making and the mainstream; talk as part of London Design Biennale
Super Talks! The Open Debate - as part of London Design Fair
Abierto Mexicano design festival - Beyond the Hype the impact of the maker movement on designers, users and manufacturing.
Make:Shift 2016 - Making Meanings: The Cultural Role(s) of Makerspaces
Make City programme 2016 RCA talk at Imperial College London - Beyond the hype: the impact of the maker movement
HDK Gothenburg University - Open Lecture Series: Showing Making
Cultural/Creative Leadership Lab Day for the National Trust
Collaborate or Die, Charny guest critic with Adrian Shaunessy at RCA Visual Comms
Design Museum The Future Award Judging - AXA PPP Health Tech & You Awards
V&A Research Institute - advisory panel meetings
Facilitator for Western Balkans Museums workshops
Talk at M-ITI Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
Keynote speaker at local heritage conference, Poland
Chair and panel input at the The National Festival of Making
Facilitator for Creative Economy innovation workshops in Chile
Keynote at Perspectives of Integrated Design
Speaker at Maker Faire Barcelona
Speaking at Making Matters on access to a hands-on approach to learning
Talk at Jerwood Makers Open
DesignIs talk at Generator, a new space for design, in Sofia
Making Spaces: developing an equity approach to makerspaces for under-served youth
@fabcityglobal in Copenhagen
Creative Social Enterprise Programme for a Nesta / British Council collaboration in Hong Kong
Models for Social Design - Community Economics part of 'Other Stories, alternative perspectives on design'
Where Design Meets Education at #djKX Talks Programme
Future of Education at the V&A Digital Design Weekend
The Postgraduate Symposium on Interdisciplinarity in contemporary design
MA Expanded Practice Goldsmiths Design - Musée des Refusés project
Making and Fixing. Prototyping course. Art/Design History and Theory. The New School, NYC.
Makerspaces in cultural settings, a special topic Think Tank at CCCD, Asheville, NC
Creative Enterprise for fashion entrepreneurs at the start of their business career. Ukraine Fashion Week
Forget design - talk at KADK Copenhagen Friday 15th December 13:00 building 90, room 90.2.20
Disappearing design talk at at Beyond Discipline event, Sheffield Institute of Art
Prototyping Ideas: Nurture and design, at Domus Academy
How disruptive is the Maker movement? MAKE-IT CAPS Final event, Brussels
Designer profile at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London
Designers select designers, 15 years to the The Aram Gallery. Curated by Riya Patel
Back to Basics? Center for Codesign Research, CODE
Designer, Maker, User - Where does Industrial Design fit in today?
Fab City Collective pre-Paris meeting
Craft Communities talk at The Design Museum
Techfesitval 2018
The creative blur between design practice and design in the museum
Creative Enterprise Programme for Nesta in Sri Lanka
Conversation with Professor Yamanaka sShunji: design-futures at Japan House
Broken Nature exhibition opens including a Fixperts exhibit
Fixperts's first CPD for D&T and STEM teachers
Think Tank for Center for Creativity - now with added publication
The Maker Library Network meets in Edinburgh for a Think Ahead Tank
'Social innovation in the curriculum' paper presented at ICED17
DAMn magazine article: Getting a Fix - The rise of the makerspaces
We got news (letter), London Design Festival and other excitements
Go forth and multiply: our open source exhibition opens in two (yes two!) locations
Innovation through craft: report launches
New research! Cultural roles of makerspaces (and roles of making in cultural spaces)
Playing with formats: we're getting experimental in a library
It's happening! From Now On opens a project office in Copenhagen
From Now On facilitate global get together for Maker Library Network
Design Museum announce opening plans
One, Two, Many or One Too Many? From prototyping to production in Kyoto
Tavistock Institute appointed to evaluate Fixperts
Selected Clients & Partners
'The Power of Making', drew 320,000 visitors – an astonishing number. The Power of Making sent us a very clear signal and set us a very clear task.
Director, Victoria & Albert Museum
We're reigniting an amazing heritage brand. That's an awesome starting point from which to build a new, innovative community of designers and engineers.
Programme Director CRL, U+I Property Developers
What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a gallery, science centre and a museum? The exciting hybrid model of the Institute of Imagination is certainly one of a kind.
CEO, Institute of Imagination, London
From Now On have been instrumental in helping the museum define its vision for the future as it embarked on its project to relocate to High Street Kensington. I would highly recommend them for any institution embarking in an in-depth review of their vision, objectives and future plans.
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Mondial Acadien - LA, 1999
the 1994 Congrès was completed, plans soon began for the next Acadian
Gathering. It was decided to hold the second Congrès in south
Louisiana in 1999.
The Mission of Congrès Mondial Acadien - Louisiana, 1999 dates back to the original mission statement of the first Congress. That Mission, first stated in 1988, says that the Congrès is designed ''to develop closer links between the Acadians of the diaspora.''
I've converted my pre-CMA pages into a summary of the events, accessible from this page. Although the official CMA site is not online any more, I will keep these pages online indefinitely.
The CMA Mailing List will still be maintained, just in case any CMA-LA, 1999 comes up. Also, I'll use it to post information on the upcoming CMA-2004 in Nova Scotia. If you'd like to be a part of another mailing list related to the Acadian-Cajun culture, please join the Acadian-Cajun Mailing List.