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Nintendo Goes Copyright On Woman Making Pokemon-Inspired Planters
from the copyright-i-choose-you! dept
Update: We've had several folks communicate with us that Pokemon International does not exactly equal Nintendo. As best as we can tell, Pokemon International was in part founded by Nintendo, who retains some percentage of ownership, but Pokemon operates as a distinct entity and it was Pokemon International that sent the C&D. Thank you to everyone who made us aware of this.
We all know that Nintendo wraps itself in copyright law like some kind of really boring security blanket. Every once in a while, the company will make some noise about being more open and accommodating to its biggest fans and the like, but that noise is usually followed up by a rash of takedowns and C&D letters. The most recent battlefront Nintendo has entered in the war against its own fans is the floral planter arena. One woman, admittedly inspired by her love of the Pokemon game series, shared her design for a 3D printed planter on a commerce website.
Claudia Ng had recently purchased a 3D printer, and one of her first projects was to create the model for a Pokémon-themed planter for a friend. She posted it online, and it quickly went viral...She then put the design on Shapeways, a site that allows you to create and share your own 3D-printed objects, and once again the design blew up. It's a simple idea, but one that we've yet to see in official merchandise. The game the design came from wasn't named, but the listing made a few winking references to the Pokémon franchise. Sales went well, but of course it couldn't last.No, it couldn't last, because Nintendo sent a cease and desist notice to Shapeways, indicating that the planter was infringing on its copyright. Shapeways complied and took the design down and all was just and right in Nintendo's world again. This, by the way, is a picture of what corporate giant Nintendo was so determined to keep from spreading.
You can certainly see why Nintendo was so super-concerned, because if you squint just right, spin around three times, and are a little drunk, that thing looks like a bulbasaur with an artichoke coming out of its ass. It should be noted, by the way, that there's no competing licensed product from Nintendo that's taking sales away or anything. Not that that fact is keeping Nintendo from wanting all the money generated in addition to the takedown, of course.
"Shapeways got a cease and desist from Pokémon International for infringement. They received this on Friday, and Shapeways took it down within the last hour," Ng told Polygon. "They are asking for all the money associated with this model and shapeways will not be printing or shipping any order for the past few days." She may be put in contact with Pokémon International, and she's not sure if anything will come from that potential meeting. This outcome isn't very surprising for anyone involved. "I thought that this would fall under the boundaries of derivative and transformative work. I'm also not a lawyer, and I guess that is the least defined of rules and regulation," she explained.Against Nintendo, it's unlikely a simple craftsperson like Ng will prevail. And, just to be clear, given the admitted inspiration by the Pokemon character, it's not like Nintendo is exactly wrong that there is some infringement here. It's just that there's absolutely no reason to throw the legal hammer around instead of working out some kind of other arrangement with one of their biggest fans. But, hey, you know...Nintendo.
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Further cementing its status as a living classic, the first Newbery winner (1922) returns sporting an eighth update.
Following the practice of van Loon himself and subsequent co-authors over the years, Sullivan leaves the original text, with its often puckish line drawings, virtually untouched and seamlessly appends topical chapters (12 in all) written in the same conversational style. The previous update having appeared in 1999, Sullivan covers major events from the Y2K panic and 9/11 to Barack Obama's re-election in 2012. He also glances at China (in a chapter characteristically titled "China Is Back / Not that it ever went away") and offers overviews of the Arab Spring and the late worldwide economic "Downturn." On more thematic notes, he also comments in a cautionary way on the rise of new social media and more approvingly on how the notion that governments owe official apologies for historical atrocities committed against minority or other groups has recently taken hold. Readers of the 77 chapters that precede the new content will find that though some of the language ("Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled") and, surprisingly rarely, attitudes are dated, the vivid storytelling and steady focus on the human element exert an appeal that hasn't aged a bit.
Still valid in broad outline if not detail and, as ever, a grand and thought-provoking read. Those early Newbery voters knew value when they saw it. (timeline) (Nonfiction. 11-14)


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Such a beautiful piece. I wanted to share it before the holiday season was over.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Hedgehog in the Fog
Such a beautiful piece. I wanted to share it before the holiday season was over.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Potential Energy
Stillness sits alone
inside this space
as warm light
caresses white walls
spotting them
with splashes of shadow
and amber glow
and all acquired knowledge
rest deep
on shelves
in pages
or in chaotic sequence
scattered across
the chilled stone floors
Memoirs and relics
of association
have placed themselves
within their
proper places
ready to remind
and recall
All sound has ceased
and this space
lies stagnant
as the forgotten pond
with disregard for time
as dust
hugs the cracks and crevices
for a stone
to break the surface
instill life
m o ve m ole cul es.
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"Mt. Washington has a long-standing commitment to the independent agency system and has actively participated in PIA events on a regular and consistent basis," said Lisa Nolan, CPCU, president of PIANH. "The award recognizes its dedication and consistent support of agents; our members appreciate its collaboration and partnership, which benefits our mutual clients."
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New York's top prosecutor is raising concerns about the pace of relief provided to the state's mortgage borrowers by Wells Fargo & Co. under a landmark $25 billion settlement, in the latest sign of dissatisfaction with the foreclosure-related legal remedies agreed to by banks and state and federal officials.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University women's basketball program opened the 2004-05 season with a five-point loss to Fresno State tonight at the Leavey Center. Senior guard Quinn Thomas scored 20 points on five three-pointers, as the Broncos fell one trey short of tying a program record for a game performance. Santa Clara falls to 0-1 on the season with the 76-61 loss.
The Bulldogs improve to 2-0 behind Amy Parrish's career-high 24 points. She added eight rebounds to pace the visitors. Faith Probst came off the bench to add 15 points. The Bulldogs have now won four straight in the programs' series, behind 45 percent shooting and a 49-29 rebounding advantage.
Santa Clara shot 40 percent from far range, making 12 threes, one short of the record set last season against Pepperdine. Ashley Graham added four three-pointers and finished with 14 points, while Michelle Cozad came off the bench to contribute 13 points and eight rebounds.
Santa Clara led 13-12 with 11:51 left in the first half with a jumper from Cozad, but Fresno State went on a 13-2 run to push ahead 25-15 at the 7:11 mark. Santa Clara closed with in two, on to free throws from Cozad, but Parrish scored six of the Bulldog's final eight points of the half to give her team a 38-32 lead at the break.
The Bulldogs began the second half with a 10-3 scoring run, stretching their lead to 48-35 following a lay-up from Mirenda Swearengin.
Santa Clara remained tough, and responded with three triples during a 14-2 burst that cut the Bulldog advantage to 50-49 with 8:56 left to play.
Both teams traded baskets over the final eight minutes of the game, with Santa Clara only down by four with 1:33 remaining on the clock. Unable to score, the Broncos were forced to foul and the Bulldogs responded at the charity stripe, going 7-8 in the final 66 seconds.
Santa Clara will return to action this weekend, participating in a competitive eight-team tournament in Hawaii. The Broncos are matched up against the host Hawaii in Friday's opening game of the Hawaiian Airlines Rainbow Wahine Classic. Santa Clara will then face Michigan State or Utah on Saturday. The other half of the bracket includes Idaho, Georgia, California and TCU.
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You could call it the cleantech cliff: Global clean-technology venture investment plunged to $6.46 billion in 2012, down 33 percent from the $9.61 billion invested a year ago, according to San Francisco-based research and consulting firm Cleantech Group.
Sheeraz Haji, CEO of the Cleantech Group, said during a conference call Thursday.
"2012 was a difficult year for the sector. Anyway you cut it, there's been a significant drop-off."
Haji cited several reasons for investor skittishness. The low price of natural gas has made it harder for renewable energy to compete on cost. Venture capitalists are shying away from capital-intensive deals after seeing companies like Santa Clara-based Misasolé sold at fire sale prices. And global economic uncertainty took a toll: Several privately backed cleantech companies, including Oakland's BrightSource Energy, were forced to shelve their IPO plans and raise additional funds from existing investors.
The one bright spot belonged to SolarCity, a San Mateo-based solar financier and installer that had a successful IPO Dec. 13. SolarCity slashed its share price but ultimately raised $92 million.
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"It's been a very difficult IPO environment. SolarCity was a big success, and that was the exception."
Cleantech includes a variety of technologies and sectors, including biofuels, electric vehicles, the smart grid, solar and wastewater treatment. The number of venture deals recorded in2012 was 704, 15 percent lower than the 829 deals tracked in 2011. The deals mostly were smaller, follow-on rounds of funding. Sixty percent were Series B or later rounds, accounting for 90 percent ($5.83 billion) of all money invested during the year.
Alex Trembath, a policy analyst in the Energy and Climate Program at the Oakland-based Breakthrough Institute said.
"The silver lining is that by pulling back, VCs are getting better at investing in the sectors of cleantech where it makes sense. The crash we're seeing is VC culture realizing that."
In 2008, the solar industry accounted for 60 percent of all cleantech venture deals. Six years later, it was just 12 percent of the total.
Haji said.
"It's quite difficult to raise money for a solar startup in this climate."
The leading cleantech sectors in 2012 by amount invested were
- Biofuels and biochemicals ($952 million)
- Transportation ($927 million)
- Energy efficiency ($907 million)
San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, a developer of algae biofuels, raised $144 million from investors that include corporations like Monsanto. Fisker Automotive, which has struggled to manufacture its luxury electric car, raised an additional $381 million in VC funding during the year.
The most active global cleantech investors were well-known Silicon Valley firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Khosla Ventures. But large global corporations like GE and Siemens are increasingly active in the cleantech space.
The role of corporations will be key as federal funding for clean technologies has largely ground to a halt.
In 2009, federal spending on renewable sources of energy reached an all-time high of $44 billion as one-time stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pumped additional millions of dollars into clean technologies. But the stimulus funding has wound down.
Haji said.
"When times are tough, corporate investors are a sign of insurance. When BrightSource looked to go public and times got tough, they were able to raise $84 million, a monster private round."
MidAmerican Solar, a subsidiary of billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, stepped in and bought San Jose-based SunPower's (SPWRA) Antelope Valley solar farm, currently under development in Southern California. The deal, worth an estimated $2.5 billion, sent SunPower's stock soaring 48 percent Thursday to close at $9.07. MidAmerican Solar also owns the 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farms project in San Luis Obispo County.
Looking forward to 2013, Haji predicts growing corporate interest in the water space, noting that desalination startup NanoH2O raised $40 million this year. He also predicts that the "clean Web," which refers to startups that use mobile technology to enable sharing of resources like cars, remain hot.
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If you didn't get the chance to see the brilliance that was The Scottsboro Boys or Violet, have no fear. Joshua Henry makes his return to the New York City Center's stage alongside former co-star Sutton Foster (Violet) in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party as Mr. Black, originally played by Taye Diggs (who will be back on Broadway In Hedwig soon)
From the New York City Center website:
Andrew Lippa's tragic Jazz Age love story The Wild Party follows 1920s party girl Queenie (two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster) over the course of one decadent, booze-soaked night as she encounters vaudevillians, hookers, and a handsome stranger (Joshua Henry) who offers the hope of a less tawdry life. The Wild Party is based on Joseph Moncure March's searing 1928 narrative poem of the same name, and premiered Off-Broadway in 2000.
Henry most recently starred Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award nominated production of Violet. Starring alongside Sutton Foster, he was nominated for the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his performance as Flick. You may also remember Joshua from his performance as Jake in the Tony Award Winning revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and most notably his performance as Haywood Patterson in the musical The Scottsboro Boys, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for "Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical." Other Broadway credits include American Idiot and In the Heights.
The Wild Party is directed by Leigh Silverman (who also directed Violet), and will bring together two of Broadway's beloved actors together once again, and if their chemistry is anything like it was in Violet, consider my ticket bought.
The Wild Party opens July 15 and runs until July 18. All tickets begin at $25 and can be purchased at the New York City Center Box Office (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues), through CityTix at 212-581-1212, or online at NYCityCenter.org.
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We Were There: Sojourners & Her Portmanteau
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Playwright, educator, opera singer, and Queen, Mfoniso Udofia has two plays running at New York Theatre Workshop. *pause* TWO PLAYS. In the SAME season!?!? *ends congratulatory gasp* Sojourners and Her Portmanteau are performed in repertory, as two chapters of Udofia's sweeping, nine-part saga, The Ufot Cycle. Admittedly, before researching each show, I didn't know the definition of either word; and in the spirit of keeping it consistent with the honesty, I didn't like either play. I loved them.
Minimalism seems to be the name of the game these days. I sat down to a completely black stage, sans a multimedia display lodged on the ceiling at a 45-degree angle. Clutching my all white program and bobbing my head to the '70s pop rock pre-show music, I prepared my heart for the story of Sojourners, well at least that was the plan. The stage begins to rotate and we meet Abasiama (Chinasa Ogbuagu) and Ukpong (Hubert Point-Du Jour), Nigerian expatriates sojourning in Houston, Texas with the plan to start a family, earn their degrees, and go back to Nigeria until life happens.
Charming and handsome, Ukpong becomes defined by his leather jacket, shoulder work and shimmy which match the fascination and yearning for freedom that illuminates his eyes every time he talks of peace, protest, and Prince–all shaping his view of 1970s America, and consequently, the American Dream. But does leather compensate for grit? Is a movement or vibe really a panacea for disappointment, aimlessness, and a need to find yourself? Abasiama enters the play pregnant, purposed, and outfitted in pieces of Nigerian garb, grounded in duty showing a stark contrast to Ukpong who floats in desire. What's lost in your household is found elsewhere, and this is when we start to see, and root for, Abasiama's transformation from timid to tenacious.
Enter Moxie (Lakisha May), a colorful prostitute turned protector and friend. There is a mutual respect despite great differences between her and Abasiama, with their love for one another creating moments that make you believe in the beauty of humanity. Enter Disciple (Chinaza Uche), another warm and determined hearted immigrant who has come to the United States to study, rounding out the timely additions of love, support, and security when Abasiama needed them the most.
Through and through this is Abasiama's story and she glows. Her kindness, her sisterhood, her strength, her worthiness, and the realization of her American Dream, guide her decisions—which is the catalyst behind the entire Ufot Cycle.
Her Portmanteau
Her "portmanteau", or red suitcase, makes a return as 30 years have passed. Abasiama now has two daughters, one raised in America and the other who has come from Nigeria to reconnect with her family.
This is a good moment to mention that each story is informed by the other, but can certainly stand alone on substance, content, and the amazing direction of Ed Sylvanus Iskandar. The staging is exciting and deliberate, while minimal, putting the full focus on the tension and growth to be expected of a family reunited after a substantial amount of time and distance.
Chinasa Ogbuagu returns to the stage, this time as the American-born daughter, Adiagha Ufot, Adepero Oduye as Iniabasi Ekpeyoung (Ukpong and Abasiama's daughter), and Jenny Jules as the mother, Abasiama Ufot.
Seated on a couch in Adiagha's small New York Apartment, no amount of preparation readies your mind and spirit to form the words to make up for 30 years of life, connection, and memories missed. We're taken on a ride of resentment, hurt, love, and forgiveness, as the portmanteau is literally unpacked. We watch the teeter-tottering between offense and defense as one sister tries to assimilate into American culture, and the other attempts, albeit stubbornly, to fall in formation in honoring a family she shares blood with, but little time or tangible history.
It's powerful to see a story of history and continuing a legacy despite lost time, faulty promises, and difficult choices explored with an all-woman cast as far too often the idea of legacy is framed in patriarchy. Jules admirably takes Abasiama through the fire to heal, to feel, and to fix her family. The narrative allows us to empathize and understand the struggle that comes with upholding family values versus cultivating a space to achieve personal dreams and happiness.
Her Portmanteau (and Sojourners) is written in a way that finds your soul, gently massaging it with humor, while leaving it with very real questions. I've never felt a greater need to binge read nine stories and simultaneously study the story of my own family tree. I left changed. I left wrapped in the strength of my mom and my mom's- mom's sacrifice. I left pensive and with seeds of future forgiveness planted. I left changed.
For capturing our hearts with wit and with truth. For putting Black women at the center of a poignant narrative. For unapologetically telling a story you haven't seen told and telling it in the way you want it to be told.
We thank you Mfoniso. We thank you.
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Our Story in 2 Plays for 1 Price: Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners & Her Portmanteau
Last winter, we reported on Sojourners by playwright Mfoniso Udofia, a new play about a Nigerian family who has come to America with the goal of earning a college education, starting a family, and returning to Nigeria. But not without the twists and turns that come along with every plan that seems straightforward.
Thanks to New York Theatre Workshop, we get to relive this moment and continue the dialogue, decades later, with Her Portmanteau. Performed in repertory, these two chapters of Udofia's sweeping, nine-part saga, The Ufot Cycle, chronicle the triumphs and losses of the tenacious matriarch of a Nigerian family.
Ed Sylvanus Iskandar directs the two-part story in association with The Playwrights Realm, who premiered Sojourners last winter in a limited engagement world premiere production. Her Portmanteau also received the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award grant.
The cast includes Jenny Jules, Lakisha Michelle May, Adepero Oduye, Chinasa Ogbuagu, Hubert Point-Du Jour, and Chinaza Uche.
As if that wasn't enough to get excited about, we have an exclusive deal for our Broadway Black readers!
Our Story in 2 Plays for 1 Price!
Yes. That's two shows for one price! The discount code BWYBLACK will take 50% off tickets to ANY performance(s) if purchased by May 15th!
Go ahead and grab your tickets. We have ours!
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For me, this recent HuffPo article really struck a nerve. Cleverly disguised as flattery, this article so effortlessly reduces Indian people to their "datability" and crushes a culture of 28 states, numerous faiths and hundreds of languages into one spiffy little assessment.
The author, Andrea Miller, who is married to an Indian man, mentions 7 things that she thinks any non-Indian who wants to date an Indian should know. Those 7 things might resonate in different ways with different Indian people. Some might agree, some might disagree, others might want to puke. I, personally, want to puke. Here's why:
I hate being essentialised.
There I've said it. To be reduced to some part of my culture or heritage that's superficially charming to someone outside it, is NOT fun. It does not make me feel good. It takes away the fullness of my life and reduces it to what YOU like about it.
I don't care much about Miller's list, or her assessments. I understand that they're tongue-in-cheek. I understand nuance and the fact that she reduces Indian people to our quaint and charming social customs and exuberance for life, is supposed to be a lighthearted and loving how-to. (For a much more fun "how-to," see here.)
The point is, however, that the very idea of a HOW TO in regards to dating, presumably, one person from such a diverse culture reeks of arrogance and privilege. Not all Indians love Bollywood, Bhangra or their families. Some Indian food is delicious, some is gross. Some of us are damn fine — others, bless their hearts, not so much.
And that's where this article really makes me angry: all those references to the Kama-Sutra and snagging yourself a sexy, exotic Indian. This is not funny and it's not flattering. It's objectifying. I am an Indian woman and more times than I can count, people have touched me without permission, while commenting on my eyes, hair, or skin. They've commented on my presumed sexual expertise. They have told me how they've always wanted to "have" an Indian. I have friends that have been violently assaulted by people saying these very things .
So while, the jokes about communicating with cabbies, and the quips about bhangra are pretty annoying, what is insidious about essentialism is the fact that it removes a person's humanity. It makes them an object. As a crunk feminist, I know that objectification, whether it be in Hollywood, Bollywood, or a dumb HuffPo blog is actually DANGEROUS. It reduces people not only to their "databilty" but to their body parts in ways that actually lead to physical, mental and emotional harm. It's not funny and it's not cute.
It's a political act, and it's not a feminist one.
Post Script, for a little levity:
Because Miller spends a lot of time discussing Bollywood, I can't resist making one vehement statement about it myself. I have a complicated relationship with Bollywood. I personally love Shah Rukh Khan and as many of my dearest friends can attest, ALSO love Kal Penn. So, #*%$ you: HE DOES COUNT.


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An atheist friend of mine posted this on Facebook saying that she didn't agree with the FFRF trying to get this cross taken down. As a veteran and an atheist, I tend to agree for a couple reasons. First, I see it as simply a memorial to a fallen soldier and no more no less. Secondly, and maybe more importantly, this cross has been there for years and years. Why waste taxpayers dollars on the legal fight... I don't see it hurting anything.. Thoughts?
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This is same thing as
A New York judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists, ruling that a pair of World Trade Center beams in the shape of a cross can be included in a memorial museum of the 9/11 terror attacks.
American Atheists filed the lawsuit in July, arguing that the "government enshrinement of the cross" was an impermissible mingling of church and state.
The cross was moved in July from near a church to its new home at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum
This is the same exact thing pretty much. The same arguments apply.
What about all the non christians that died? How do you think they would feel if they were alive today and found out that in their War Memorial there is a giant cross sitting there? These things are wrong and you are missing the implications of it. It is just pretty much replacing a real event with a religious symbol to use the event to promote Christianity which in the end reduces the value of the memorial itself.
It should be all or nothing. Have all the different religious and non religious symbols or none at all. Public property should no't be endorsing any religion. Do it on a private property.
It's not a matter of wasting tax dollars. It's the matter of principle guided by our Constitution. It's about time free thinkers stood up for their rights rather than let Christians use tyranny of the majority to over step their boundaries just because its not "hurting" anyone
Emphatically agree.
How dare these people just assume everyone is Christian, and how dare they use tax money forcibly extracted from people to push their bullshit regardless of who is being honored? Then they'll have the audacity to claim there are no atheists in foxholes and the audacity to claim this is a Christian country and if you don't like it you can leave.
Makes my blood boil the way they are so sanctimoniously smug about it.
"Makes my blood boil the way they are so sanctimoniously smug about it".
Where are you feeling that Steve?
Erected in part by the "Jaycees"... ah got it, the J. C. 's
We believe: That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life;....
Christian are insidious in their efforts to impose their religion upon all, veiling it as "doing secular good". They drafted many of their poorer Christian sons to kill godless commie gooks, and then feel better about their tyranny by monopolizing memorials.
Actually you could make a sort of star of David out of triangles (the center hexagon would be filled in as six triangles) which are even more rigid. So maybe Judaism is sounder than Xianity? (Well at least there's none of that whacky trinity bullshit.)
I say leave it.
Atheists like that embarrass me really.
Culture Killers they are. Thats my new term for those types.
Havent they got anything more important to do.
Like picking up litter maybe.
So, Angela, you're suggesting we look on the bright side of life?
Ah yes thank you for the clip.


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Starting Lineups:
Biggest Matchup:
Shaolin Highlights:
Songs of the night:
Let the Linning streak continue!
Starting Lineups:
Biggest Matchup:
Shaolin Highlights:
Songs of the night:
Let the Linning streak continue!
Saw this on Alan Hahn's twitter. Lin is the headliner for a Raps home game..
Thanks for getting the GT up early. That's how it should be done. +1.
6 in a row! Raptors have pulled together slightly of late, losing marginally to good teams. They beat the Celtics who couldn't keep up with them. Lord knows they wouldn't be able to keep up with Lin, Fields and Shump!
I thought Bargnani was out?
Nice thread and I can't wait to see Amar'e running the PnR with Lin. But WTF is going on with that pool pic...
Where's his d**k..?
duhhhh, Andrea Parmigiani's been out, and won't be back for another month.
ya really think Billy Walkie's gonna start over Girafferies? I don't think so.
the Giraffe has earned his minutes more, and the wall of defense that A'mare
will add to Chandler and Giraffe's past week of success deems him a starter until
Melo returns. IMHO.
Looking forward to Lin-time with A'mare. 30 point game coming up for STUD.
25 and 10 for Spike Lin.
As long as Knicks can keep Calzone and DeRozan in check, we should roll over
these Canadian bacons. the Johnson's are limp players.
Go NY Go NY Go
Lin Lin Lin Lingus
http://testicle.com is House of Dong
Lin will get 30+ points.
Calderon is a worst defender than the Fish.
Damn its still surreal to me how much attention Lin is getting..
^Word. Although I do think Amare and Carmelo's return will take a load of pressure of Lin and should possibly help him play even better.
Nice thread but you missed that Bargnani is OUT. He got injured against the Jazz three weeks ago. He is out indefinitely
Praise the Lord we have a game thread to read instead of all the clutter that's popped up with the tons of other repetitive threads... thanks for putting it up early and pray it doesnt degenerate into judgments of how much the coach sucks, how Melo is gonna suck, and how anyone who disagrees with your POV sucks.
Amare will be feasting like a zombie on a fat kid for over 30+ points. He's probably itching to get on the court after everything that has happened the last week. A focused and determined Amare is an unstoppable Amare.
Starting Bill Walker or Jared Jeffries? I say start Novak. It's only Rasual Butler going up against him (unless they have James Johnson starting). I'd think having Novak on the edges with Jeremy doing PnR with Tyson and Amare could jumpstart this game big time and get us in the right flow.
Jeffries should be used as the first big man off the bench to cover 3-5 with Shump covering 1-3.
Max 10 mins for Walker and Bibby, and for God sakes let Toney and Balkman play if we build a 30 point lead to see if somehow we can get them traded.
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by STATS LLC
Amar'e Stoudemire left the New York Knicks last week after an unknown reserve named Jeremy Lin sparked a seemingly innocuous victory.
It's since turned into "Linsanity."
Stoudemire returns to the lineup Tuesday night for the Knicks, who hope to make it six straight wins when they face the struggling Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre.
Stoudemire spent the last week grieving the death of his older brother, Hazell, who was killed in a car crash. The star forward missed four games after scoring 17 points in a 99-92 win over New Jersey on Feb. 4, just the Knicks' third in 14 games.
That victory, however, has spurred a turnaround for New York (13-15) with Lin as the center piece. He emerged from the bench to score 25 points with seven assists against the Nets, a performance that prompted coach Mike D'Antoni to insert him into the lineup as the starting point guard.
Since then, it's been nothing short of hoopla, dubbed "Linsanity."
Lin, the reigning Eastern Conference player of the week, is averaging 26.8 points and 8.0 assists while leading the Knicks to five consecutive wins, their longest since a seven-game run from March 28-April 10. That's a colossal difference from Lin's 3.6 points per game and 1.9 assists in his first nine contests with New York, making him a bona fide fan favorite and national curiosity.
Now, there are growing questions of whether the Knicks' budding star will be able to produce upon the returns of Stoudemire and -- especially -- the injured Carmelo Anthony (groin).
D'Antoni calls the talk "ludicrous," and said Lin has given the Knicks a "spirit" and a "swagger" that they were lacking.
"You go into every game thinking you're going to win, and it changes everybody's mood," said D'Antoni, whose job was rumored to be on the line before Lin's breakout week.
Lin came up big again Saturday, drawing a foul and hitting a free throw with 5 seconds to go to put New York up for good in a 100-98 win at Minnesota. While Lin finished with 20 points and eight assists, he got considerable help from Iman Shumpert's 20 points and 19 from Landry Fields.
"It's been unbelievable," center Tyson Chandler said. "He's really changed the mindset and mentality of this team."
With Stoudemire back and Lin proving he can carry the load, the Knicks are staring at a chance to go back above .500 for the first time since they were 6-5 following a loss at Memphis on Jan. 12. Their next three games are against teams with losing records, hosting Sacramento on Wednesday and New Orleans on Friday after their visit to Toronto (9-20).
Stoudemire is averaging 29.3 points and 12.0 rebounds in his last three games against the Raptors. He missed the most recent matchup on Jan. 2 due to an ankle injury, and Lin didn't get off the bench in a 90-85 home loss.
New York has won its last two games at Toronto.
The Raptors have dropped two of the first three games on their seven-game homestand, falling 94-92 to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
Jose Calderon will likely find himself matched up against Lin at the point, and he's hoping to build on his own dazzling performance. The guard had a career-high 30 points and six assists while hitting 13 of 18 from the field, including all four 3-pointers, against the Lakers.
He's averaging 13.2 points in 12 home games, but was limited to nine while dishing out 12 assists against the Knicks last month.
DeMar DeRozan had 21 points in that meeting after scoring 36 in a 131-118 loss in New York on April 5.
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Good to see Stat is back. The Lin show continues, if the Target Center in MN draws the 4th biggest crowd ever you'll need a shoe horn to get everyone in that Air Canada Center, there's like a billion Chinese people in Toronto.


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Mike D'Antoni and the Shadow of Showtime
: Uncategorized : Written by Kevin McElroy : 11-14-2012
Introduction: Two Guys Walk into a G-Chat Window me: zach lowe wrote a better version of everything i wanted to write about d'antoni. like literally every point i was going to make: d'antoni is 1) a great offensive coach who 2) got short-shrifted because of people choosing to look at things without nuance and 3) has had a decent (if not great) defense any time he has had above average defensive personnel and 4) now has dwight frigging howard. Jim Cavan: I think the whole "Buss wanted Showtime 2" angle would be interesting, vis-a-vis how much theoretical wiggle room it …continue reading


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The Billish Family Plymouth
One day John Hohenadel opened up a local Minneapolis newspaper and saw an ad for a '32 coupe in the "Cars for Sale" section and naturally thought it was Ford. He went to check it out, but when he got to the seller's house, John discovered it was actually a 1932 Plymouth!
Surprised, John still decided to purchase the car because he had always thought the Plymouths had better lines than the Fords did for that year. He brought the car home, and showed it off to his family, including his 8-year-old daughter, Jane. The coupe was a hot rod survivor, as it already had a 5-inch channel performed on the body and mounts for an Olds Rocket engine. Jane and her sisters were impressed with the car and, though far too young to drive, dreamt of the day when they could take it out for a spin.
That was in 1973.
For many years after John had wanted to start on the project, and he collected parts and did research on what he would need. But by 1990 he decided to put the car in storage and pull it out when the time was right. By then Jane was 35 and had started dating Scott Billish—an equally young car enthusiast who, by age 15, had already started working on cars and owned a '68 Dodge Charger. He'd bought the car from his best friend's father who impressed young Scott with the smoky tire burnouts he used to do in his 390-equipped '68 Mustang.
So by 1990 Scott and Jane had been dating only a few months and that's when John asked Scott to help him move his Plymouth into storage. Scott obliged and thought the coupe would make a great hot rod someday. By 1993 Scott and Jane were married, and the two would share the hobby of hot rodding with building and showing different cars.
The Billishes had just finished work on a '71 big-block El Camino and Jane asked her dad if he would sell the Plymouth to them so they could get it on the road, and he replied he'd sell it, but wasn't 100 percent sure where it was. The storage company where he had kept the car had not only changed ownership but had moved locations, too, so they weren't sure what they were going to find once they tracked down where it was. To their relief, it was exactly as they had left it 16 years prior, and the facility had even pumped up the tires so it could roll!
Several months passed while Jane and Scott figured out what how they'd like to build the coupe. They also had another couple of projects they were finishing up: the El Camino and a highly customized '33 Ford pickup stuffed with a blown Hemi and painted tangerine orange. The "Tangerine Scream" was a hit on the car show circuit, and the couple eventually sold it at the Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale in 2011. Once the focus shifted onto the Plymouth, Jane had a few ideas of how it should go together. It would be easy to make it into a rat rod type of vehicle, but both Jane and Scott had too much respect for the car's history to treat it that way. So they decided to give it a new life with a deep black paintjob, lots of chrome, and an interior that matched Jane's black boots that had a lining in a unique shade of blue leather. Plus it would have to have a 392 Hemi!
Scott had help from Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle (HRCC) in Addison, Illinois, when building the Tangerine Scream pickup, so he thought they would help on this project, too. The car was in decent shape, but they soon found out how rare Plymouth PB coupes were, which meant they would have to look at a lot of old photographs and fabricate some of the parts they could not otherwise find.
The chassis work began with the original framerails, but HRCC boxed them and modified it to accept both the Heidts polished 9-inch IRS rear (3.25:1) equipped with Strange Engineering Posi-Unit and the IFS system from JW Rod Garage (which also used JW's rack-and-pinion unit).
Wilwood discs on each corner provide improved stopping power, and the master cylinder and brake booster came from CPP. Painted steel wheels are wrapped in Coker wide white tires, and HRCC custom fabbed the 28-gallon aluminum fuel cell.
The engine is a '57 Imperial 392 Hemi and was assembled by Automotive Engine Specialists in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. AES used forged H-beams in the assembly along with Ross forged pistons (9.5:1), Hot Hemi aluminum heads, a Hilborn injection system modified with FAST electronics, a Joe Hunt HEI distributor, and HRCC headers. Rad Rides by Troy fabricated a custom V-belt pulley system for the motor as well as a one-off fuel injection cover. The motor bolts to a 200-4R automatic trans (fitted with a custom aluminum dust cover made by Mitch Tannahill) that is coupled to an IDES aluminum driveshaft.
HRCC had to modify or fabricate some of the sheetmetal on the car because the necessary parts were not to be found. The mid-year '32 Plymouth PBs are a little wider and longer than early '32 PBs or the '33s, so HRCC re-created the hood vents, front valance, and firewall from photographs and, by adding the original Plymouth grille, they had to run the steering rack farther back so the grille could match up to the channeled body configuration. Tannahill also fabbed a pair of mini vent covers, which cover the cowl vent openings when the hood is off. HRCC and Ogden Top & Trim also fit a sliding ragtop to the roof, which is covered in Haartz Stayfast black canvas. Rad Rides by Troy stepped in again when it was time to fabricate the trunk and doorsill plates (inscribed with the car's name), brake and gas pedals, and speaker covers. Once all the fabrication was done, Flatline Kustoms in Bloomingdale, Illinois, and U.S. Kustoms in Sandwich, Illinois, sprayed the car with single-stage PPG black paint, which was followed by a subtle pinstripe under the running boards, rearend, firewall, and engine compartment by Voodoo Larry. Finishing off the exterior is the addition of '41 Plymouth taillights and a set of '33 Chrysler Imperial headlights.
Jane got her wish for the interior color scheme as Ogden Top & Trim was able to locate the right shade of blue leather (and similar to Connolly leather) for the pleated layout used on the custom bench/bucket seat Ogden made for the car. Blue suede was used elsewhere in the coupe, including the headliner. Voodoo Larry Kustoms laid out a simple blue pinstripe around the twin gauge cluster, a '34 Plymouth unit reworked by Classic Instruments, and Advanced Plating refinished all of the chrome.
Steering is handled by a '37 Ford banjo-type steering wheel from Mac's, and a tall Lokar shifter (topped with a '40s-era crystal door knob) keeps the kool '50s coupe look alive. You'd also never know there was a killer stereo system in the car as the Alpine-based system, 500-watt amp, XM satellite system, and iPad/iPhone connections are all well hidden.
Scott and Jane named their car "Moxie", and it soon hit the show circuit once it was finished. While attending the 2012 Detroit Autorama, the coupe won a Painless Wiring STREET RODDER Top 100 award, and earlier this year it was one of the 11 finalists in this magazine's naming of its Street Rod of the Year.
But despite the initial show car pedigree, Scott and Jane built the car to drive, and that's what they're gearing up to do this summer, right after they attach the No'Mads Club plaque John used to run on his cars while tooling around Milwaukee in the '50s. So if you see Moxie out at a local cruise night somewhere around their hometown of Naperville, Illinois, stroll up and take a gander. It'll be worth your time.
Just the Facts
Year: 1932
Make: Plymouth
Model: PB Coupe
Owner: Scott & Jane Billish
State: Illinois


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The central focus of many search engine optimization efforts is reaching the right people with the right information at the right time. Third-party search engine marketing firms, many of whom work tirelessly helping clients consume information in the highly dynamic world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), face many challenges.
Third-party vendors or agencies are often forced into difficult situations in helping disjointed entities, such as design and programming departments, communicate effectively and achieve compromise to procreate sound discipline and ultimately achieve victory over hypocrisy.
What if you were the one on the inside, making the moves? I've spent the last few weeks talking to in-house SEO folks about their daily frustrations in order to come up with a few best practices and identify problematic personalities. Here's a discussionmash of that dialogue.
Megalomaniac Entitlement Syndrome (MES)
The MES (pronounced "mess") brand of evil is easily identified as the "noob" with a passion for screwing up otherwise well-intentioned plans. The "noob" is not to be confused with the other form of new player, "newb," in a particular arena who actually has intentions of getting better in a particular discipline.
A "noob" is just in the game to create chaos for the sake of his or her own ego. The megalomaniac usually carries a senior management title (hence the entitlement) and can be identified by making unusually arrogant requests of the in-house search specialist.
Such requests can be identified very easily and will include irrational, ego-driven demands. For example, having just received one's massage license, MES afflicted will demand to be number one in search results for said term and feel entitled to that position. The problem here is, someone may actually promise the MES afflicted said position.
In-house SEO folks say the best way to counteract the effects of MES is to identify it early and treat it with a barrage of rational ideas. Sadly, many of the untreated MES afflicted end up either driving themselves or their staffs into a padded room.
Ill-informed Executive Decision Maker (IEDM)
Similar to the MES entry, the IEDM (pronounced "I-idiom") is identified by making nutty decisions armed with enough information to be dangerous. For example, the IEDM may say something like, "My brother-in-law knows all about that search stuff, and I hired him to help you."
According to many of the experts I spoke with, said brother-in-law is so poorly equipped to handle anything search related, he often causes nearly irreparable damage with his "advice," and the in-house SEO practitioner spends more time doing damage control than achieving results.
The IEDM is a massive delegator that has yet to learn the delicate art of delegating to competence, as opposed to incompetence.
Counteracting the effects on an IEDM can be pretty simple. Many accept the nepotism or favoritism as a part of doing business and simply ignore the advice of said consultant while implementing their own strategic plan.
Screwball Consultant Meltdown (SCM)
The SCM (pronounced "scum") is an affliction of the highest order that affects many in-house SEO folks who are either duped by consultants with a great sales pitch or have consultants forced upon them by IEDM's.
SCM is a progressive disorder that usually cannot be treated with early detection. Those affected by the SCM often don't see it coming. The consultants often bypass the in-house SEO practitioner and consistently attempt to undermine their efforts by abandoning contact protocols. They reach out to senior management directly and pile on unrealistic expectations, armed with misinformation.
There are few effective treatments for SCM, though the disorder has been linked to causative factors associated with the creation of IEDM's. Many have applied the IEDM treatment to SCM, though once meltdown has been realized, some never return from the abyss.
Matt Cutts Hater/Manipulator (MCHMr)
The MCHMr (pronounced M-C-hammer) spends all of his time reading Matt Cutts' blog and attempts to counter-engineer or circumvent the efforts of Googlers everywhere. The MCHMr views everything Google does as evil, and this psychosis has bled into other areas of his or her life.
You can identify the MCHMr by intermittent but consistent negative references to either Matt Cutts or other Google representatives. They will attempt to dissuade senior management from listening to logic and reason by suggesting that Google is simply furthering its own evil agenda.
To date, the best way to counter the MCHMr is to stay on top of the information produced by the Google team, cross referencing the information with your own logical conclusions, and citing that information in each tactical execution.
And Yet, It Still Happens
The world is changing but not as quickly as we would like it to. Believe it or not, I still get calls from brand marketers and site owners (names withheld to protect the desperately naive) asking for advice on the best "SEO software."
"SEO Software?" Nice one. While I am at it, I usually also pass along Batman's phone number and contact information for the Green Lantern, just in case.
At the end of the day, whether you are in the house or outside it, fighting the good fight is never easy. Though we don't do it enough, hat's off to the in-house SEO practitioners everywhere.
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Tournament is called the Odyssey Cup. Previous years logos have included a Cup (Trophy) in the design but it's not a requirement. Possible themes could focus on the holiday time period and/or be beach/hawaiian related.
- Logo needs to include the words Odyssey Cup 2008 in the design
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A "pre-history" of Bashas'
By Rob Johnson
Seventy years is a long time by anybody's measure. Few are those who truly can remember what was going on in the world way back in 1932.
Charles Lindbergh had made the first transatlantic flight just five years prior. In '32, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to do the same thing. The Depression was in full swing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced his "New Deal." The Summer Olympics were in Los Angeles (for the first time). The following year, King Kong (the first one) would hit theaters.
And in a dusty little resort and farming community 25 miles south of Phoenix, a couple of brothers got it into their heads to open a grocery store. Over seventy five years and more than 130 stores later, the legacy of their vision is alive and well. Very well.
Today, Bashas' is a thriving, growing grocery chain. We almost take our success for granted, as though this is how it's always been. In 1932, though, the success this company now enjoys was far from a sure thing. In fact, opening that first store constituted quite a gamble - a gamble whose stakes were a family's financial ruin or salvation.
That decisive moment - the opening of the first Bashas' store - was the climax of a story that began years earlier. Many years earlier. What follows is a little bit of our company's "pre-history."
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Although we date our founding to 1932, when the name "Bashas'" first appeared on a building, the history of the Basha family's fortunes in America actually began in the previous century - 1884, to be exact. It is the 48-year span from 1884 to 1932 that lays the foundation for that first Bashas' store.
For the Basha family, it was an era marked by risk and reward, disaster and triumph, hardship and resourcefulness. It was an era that shows just how much effort it takes to realize the American Dream.
Mainly, it is an era marked by two main characters: Najeeb and Najeeby Basha, a couple whose eight children included Ike and Eddie Basha, Sr., the men who one day would open that first store.
Let's begin at the beginning: Lebanon, 1884. A young, newly married man named Tanuis Basha, a shoemaker, was hearing fabulous tales of a country where opportunities were limitless. He decided to head for New York and establish himself, then send for his family. In New York, he began an import and export wholesale store and enjoyed modest success - enough that he could send for his son, Najeeb, two years later.
Najeeb, then only 16, joined his father in New York in 1886. Soon, the entire Basha family also moved to America. In New York, Najeeb met Najeeby Srour, the daughter of another Lebanese immigrant. They married in 1901.
It was a perfect match between two industrious, resourceful people with a mind for business. Najeeb was learning much from his father, and gradually took over the business as his father's health failed. Najeeby, whose father's business had never done as well as Najeeb's father's, had spent her childhood supplementing her family's income by peddling wares (mainly lace) to wealthy New Yorkers like the Vanderbilts, Tiffanys and Wannamakers.
As the business grew, many needy Lebanese would come to Najeeb for unsecured loans. One tragic day, the business burned down. There was no insurance. With the loans he'd made and the loss of the business, Najeeb faced financial ruin.
Najeeby was tired of the business stress and the crowded house. She missed her parents (who had returned to Lebanon), and she started thinking about her only relative in America, a sister who had moved to Arizona and who wrote glowing letters to her about all the prosperity in the mining towns. The wide-open spaces of the American West called to her relentlessly, so she pleaded with Najeeb to move.
In 1910, Najeeb complied. He went alone to Congress Junction, Arizona, to join his wife's sister and her husband and arrange a merger with their mercantile business. Shortly thereafter, Najeeby - with children in tow (including a young Ike) - made the five-day train trip west and joined him.
But Najeeb wasn't happy with the business opportunities in Congress Junction, so only a few months after arriving in Arizona, he moved the whole family to Ray. They lived in a small, three-room house rented from the Kennecott Mining Company. Eddie Sr. was born in this home.
One day a man with a grudge against Kennecott dumped gasoline on a wooden walkway and set it on fire. As the town was built primarily of wood, the whole place went up in smoke - including the Basha family's store. Again. And again, there was no insurance.
Facing poverty, Najeeby sold all the beautifully tailored clothes she'd brought from New York. Najeeb, feeling the weight of the business disaster, developed diabetes and gradually lost his health, forcing more of the family's responsibilities on Najeeby.
One mile from Ray, in a little town called Sonora, were several Lebanese families. Najeeb moved his family there and built a large brick general merchandise store with borrowed money. There were bulk bins containing groceries, sugar bricks, cinnamon sticks, beans and rice. They also sold ribbons, lace, shirts, dresses, shoes and other clothing.
The family grew. Najeeb and Najeeby now had eight children - six girls and two boys. Edna, the oldest, became a great help to her parents, and was the main reason the Basha family moved to the Valley. Although her family's needs dictated that she cease school after only the eighth grade, she was the first to realize that there was no future for the family in Sonora. Najeeby's sister now lived in a fine home in Phoenix, making life in Sonora look awful by comparison. Edna begged her father to follow suit.
The decision was made when, almost unbelievably, a third fire destroyed most of the inventory in the Basha family's Sonora store. Najeeb moved everyone to Chandler. He bought two pieces of property: one on East Boston Street, where he established a store, and another on North Washington Street, where he built a large house and surrounded it with fruit trees. Both buildings were completed in 1920.
Although there was great damage at the Sonora store, it remained open and viable, so Najeeb spent much of his time there keeping it going, leaving the Chandler store for Najeeby to establish. It was tough on the family to be divided, but they made it work. In her husband's absence, Najeeby found herself making more and more business decisions. She excelled at it, and the Chandler store thrived. Locals frequented the store, as did the area's American Indians. Najeeby dealt with Pima customers so often that she learned the language.
Curiously, Najeeby never learned to read or write. She devised her own method of bookkeeping, using symbols and numerals to keep track of customers and their credit balances. Ike would "clean up" the credit ledger after school.
In 1929, Najeeb sold the Sonora store. The family at last could live together full-time in Chandler, and an era of profound happiness for the entire family ensued. Friends would gather around the Chandler store's pot-bellied stove in winter, or under the ceiling fans in summer. The family enjoyed big meals together every evening after the store closed. Afterward, everyone would listen to the radio or read.
It was at this stage that Eddie Sr. began to show his business savvy. On weekends, with his father's permission, he would fill a wagon with fresh produce from the yard surrounding his home, and he'd sell it door-to-door in Chandler.
Unfortunately, this era was short-lived. Najeeb's diabetes became worse. On June 7, 1932, he died.
Najeeby, desperately sad at her husband's passing, now carried the responsibility of running the family business. But she wasn't alone. Her children helped her. And the experience she'd gained running the store while Najeeb was in Sonora helped.
Yet again, the family faced grim financial news. The doctor bills from Najeeb's prolonged illness, combined with funeral expenses, were a real setback. Ike and Eddie, who'd now finished school, did their best to help. To augment sales, Ike and Najeeby would pack up the family car with shoes, combs and other merchandise each Sunday and head out to the Pima and Yaqui reservations to sell goods to those who couldn't find transportation to town. This Herculean effort didn't bring in much extra income, but it did help pay the plentiful bills.
Life was hard. Najeeby missed her husband, and the boys missed his guidance. They realized, however, that it was up to them to take the reins and see to the well-being of their family. The boys learned that a man named J.G. Boswell had bought a large property five miles south of Chandler and had started a substantial cotton and farming company, employing hundreds. Boswell's company had built a cluster of houses for the company's directors, and they'd given the small community the name of Goodyear.
Boswell wanted someone to run a post office/general merchandise store where his employees could cash in the coupons they received as pay. Ike and Eddie investigated this opportunity, and - relying on the business sense they'd seen demonstrated so effectively by their parents - decided that it held potential. It turned out they were right.
And so we arrive at 1932, and the first store graced with the name "Bashas'."
Although what's happened in the 77 years since 1932 has been at least as dramatic as what transpired in the 48 years prior, it was in the foundry of those formative years that the Basha family's steel was tested and hammered into shape. It was then that the vision of a successful family business made its first glimmer. It was then that the family was forced to keep its eyes on that vision and to nurture it, even when it threatened to flicker out.
But the glimmer survived. A Lebanese man had a glimmer of a better life, took an enormous risk, and came to America. His son, accompanied by his wife, had a vision of a better life out west, took an enormous risk, and came to Arizona. Success and failure came in nearly equal measure, and at times, the vision seemed in doubt. Finally, two grandsons of that first Lebanese immigrant saw a last-ditch opportunity to keep their family from ruin, took an enormous risk, and opened a store in 1932. The American Dream at last became real.
And the rest is history.
The Bashas' Family of Stores now includes four distinct formats: Bashas', Bashas' Din�, AJ's Fine Foods and Food City. The company now has more than 120 stores serving every county in Arizona, as well as Crownpoint, New Mexico.
Chairman Edward �Trey� Basha attributes the success of the company to the outstanding efforts of the 8,500-plus members who work for Bashas' and to the longstanding and cordial relationships Bashas' shares with its vendor partners and associates in the food industry.
As we look to the future, we can't help but think of our past. The spirit and determination that have guided us since 1932 are as strong as ever, infusing us with confidence, pride and enthusiasm as we regard the road ahead and prepare for new opportunities.
We are committed to being the best grocery chain in Arizona. And, thanks to the power of that commitment, the Bashas' story goes on.
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