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A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard Kevin Ware with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach Rick Pitino wiping away tears and shocked teammates openly weeping during Sunday's Midwest Regional final.
A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard Kevin Ware with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach Rick Pitino wiping away tears and shocked teammates openly weeping during Sunday's Midwest Regional final.
Ware's right leg bent in such an awkward and frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays shortly after the fall in the NCAA tournament matchup against Duke.
He was taken into surgery at Methodist Hospital after the game to repair the fracture. School officials said the leg, broken in two places, was reset and a rod inserted into his right tibia. Ware is expected to stay in Indianapolis until at least Tuesday.
Even as he was being treated on the court, Ware was encouraging his teammates, Pitino said.
"The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game,'" Pitino said. "I've not seen that in my life. ... Pretty special young man."
Viewers who watched the injury on TV reacted on social networks and #KevinWare shot to one of the top worldwide trending topics on Twitter. Video of the injury was posted on YouTube — CBS initially replayed it twice before changing course.
The brutal mishap occurred after Ware jumped to contest a 3-pointer by Tyler Thornton. Ware's leg buckled when he landed, bending almost at a right angle. Nearly six seconds ran off the clock before the officials, at Pitino's urging, stopped the game with 6:33 left in the first half.
Louisville star Russ Smith heard the break and Chane Behanan, Ware's closest friend, couldn't believe what was happening.
"The bone was literally out. I saw white, it was literally out," said Behanan, who collapsed to his hands and feet at the sight.
The two spoke at halftime.
"He said 'Don't worry about me, I'm good, I'll have my surgery tonight,'" Behanan said. "Go win it for me."
Two doctors speculated Ware might have had stress fractures that predisposed him to such a break. Pitino said it was the same injury former Louisville running back Michael Bush had in football. Bush, now with the Chicago Bears, has recovered to have a productive NFL career.
It turned out Bush was watching the game on TV. "I just cried," he wrote on Twitter. "I feel so bad. Flashback of myself. Anyone if he needs anything please let me know."
The injury happened right in front of Pitino and the Louisville bench, and several Cardinals were overcome with emotion.
Louisville forward Wayne Blackshear fell to the floor, crying, and Behanan looked as if he was going to be sick on the court, kneeling on his hands and feet. Peyton Siva sat a few feet away, a hand covering his mouth.
"I dropped to go the ground. I've never seen anything like that," Behanan said. "I don't remember the last time I cried."
Luke Hancock patted Ware's chest as doctors worked on the sophomore and Russ Smith — who is from New York City like Ware — walked away, pulling his jersey over his eyes.
Someone finally pulled Behanan to his feet, but he doubled over and needed a few seconds to gather himself. As Ware was being loaded onto a stretcher, the Cardinals gathered at midcourt until Pitino called them over, saying that Ware wanted to talk to them before he left.
In the immediate aftermath, condolences poured in on social media. Former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, who famously sustained a broken leg on "Monday Night Football" in a game against the New York Giants, tweeted that "Watching Duke/ Louisville my heart goes out to Kevin Ware."
Dr. Reed Estes, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and team physician for the UAB football team, said basketball players are prone to stress fractures in the tibia, the larger of the two leg bones, and that can weaken them.
"If these are not detected they can result in a full fracture, particularly if the landing mechanics are just right" after a jump, Estes said. Surgery to stabilize the bones is usually successful, and Ware should be fine to play next season, he said.
Dr. Frederick Azar, head of the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tenn., and a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, said Ware "jumped pretty far horizontally and vertically, and he landed with a twist," which puts so much torsion and stress on the bones they could have just snapped. He agreed with Estes' assessment that a stress fracture could have made Ware more prone to such an injury.
Louisville, the top overall seed in the tourney, went more than 3 minutes without scoring after the accident but regained its composure to take a 35-32 halftime lead and went on to an 85-63 victory.
"We won this for him," Pitino said. "We were all choked up with emotion for him. We'll get him back to normal. We've got great doctors, great trainers. We talked about it every timeout, 'Get Kevin home.'"
Ware, a 6-foot-2 sophomore from the Bronx who played his high school basketball in the Atlanta area, was instrumental in Louisville's victory over Oregon in the regional semifinals. He scored 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting in 25 minutes off the bench.
Behanan switched into Ware's No. 5 jersey near the end of the game.
Afterward, he kept on it and the Cardinal players led the heavily partisan Louisville crowd in chants of "Kev-in, Kev-in."


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'The Walking Dead' 2014 Premiere: New Photos and Clip Spell Gloom and Doom Ahead!
We're just days away from 'The Walking Dead''s dramatic 2014 return, picking up with our merry band of survivors in divided factions following the climactic events of 2013 finale "Too Far Gone." We've got plenty of burning questions of our own, but what gruesome answers lie in the first clip from Sunday's "After" and seven brand-spanking-new photos of the season to come?
While the AMC clip from Sunday's premiere adds only a bit more footage of Carl's clever ruse to lure walkers away from the house, Entertainment Weekly teases much more with the release of seven new photos from the episodes ahead. Not only does Glenn appear to be in dire shape atop that bus that mysteriously fled the prison without Maggie, but Michonne seems to be keeping her own company, while Rick spies something in the peephole of a house. Plus, what might dear Daryl be running from, and where's his companion Beth in all the chaos?
We're not sure exactly when we'll catch up with the different groups of survivors, though we at least know a trio of new faces will cross paths with one of the divided camps. The Governor has been rumored to put in another appearance despite his gruesome demise, though the survivors will likely encounter some new dangers out on the open road, as well. We've also seen the first photos of the latter eight episodes, and who could forget the most recent trailer?
Sunday's premiere will be an episode to remember for certain, but in the meantime, check out the latest batch of photos from 'The Walking Dead''s 2014 return below, and give us your predictions in the comments! Who do you think will be the next to become walker chow?

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The Postal Service is one of America's great institutions. It connects 150 million households and businesses and is the bedrock infrastructure of the American economy and society. Yet the Postal Service faces powerful and unpredictable forces. These forces – the economic downturn, the Digital Age, globalization, and statutory and regulatory demands – are fundamentally changing its outlook for the future. Actions are needed by postal management and Congress to assure that all Americans have universal access and the opportunity to take part in the emerging new world. But, what are those actions?
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On the Monday of each week, the OIG will introduce the element of a postal solution and three guest commentators. On the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, one guest commentator will contribute an opening post. During the week's exchange, the guest commentators will submit comments and replies. On the Friday, the OIG will summarize and conclude the discussion. Of course, we invite your comments on each topic at any time.
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Dr. Charles S. Lieber dies at 78; researcher demonstrated that alcohol is a liver toxin
Dr. Charles S. Lieber, who overturned conventional wisdom by demonstrating that alcohol is a toxin that can damage the liver and that alcoholism is a disease that can be treated, died March 1 at his home in Tenafly, N.J. He was 78 and had been battling stomach cancer.
Before his work in the 1970s, researchers had thought that alcohol itself was harmless and that cirrhosis of the liver occurred because most alcoholics suffered from malnutrition. Alcoholism was considered a moral defect.
Lieber showed otherwise and demonstrated that excessive drinking could change metabolism in the liver to convert a number of normally harmless chemicals, including acetaminophen, into toxins.
"If you look at his contributions, we all owe Dr. Lieber an enormous debt of gratitude for helping to set into place the science that supports all the work around alcohol and alcoholism," said Robert Lindsey, president and chief executive of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.
"Even today, the government standards for how much a normal person can drink are based on his research," added Dr. Norman Pace, a longtime researcher in alcoholism. "The most important thing you can say about him is, 'The guy should have gotten a Nobel Prize.' "
When Lieber began his work in the 1960s, physicians generally assumed that alcohol was a relatively harmless chemical, like sugar, and that the liver damage associated with excessive drinking occurred because the drinkers had a poor diet and suffered malnutrition.
In experiments at what is now the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Lieber fed baboons the equivalent of a fifth of liquor every day for up to four years -- no mean feat in itself, Pace noted, because the animals do not like the taste of booze.
Lieber reported in 1974 that the baboons developed cirrhosis of the liver, even though their diet was carefully controlled and very healthful.
He subsequently demonstrated the existence of two important enzyme systems in the liver, one that converts alcohol to the toxin acetaldehyde and a second that breaks acetaldehyde down into benign chemicals. Persistent drinking activates this system, so that it overproduces acetaldehyde without destroying all of it -- leading to liver damage.
Once activated, this system continues to operate, converting a variety of chemicals, including anesthetics, industrial solvents, various carcinogens, acetaminophen (Tylenol) and vitamin A, into toxins.
Pace compared this activation to the pickling of a cucumber: Once it is activated, you can never go back to normal.
In related experiments, he demonstrated that women -- unlike men -- do not have the first enzyme in the lining of their stomachs, which explains why they are more susceptible to the effects of the chemical.
Lieber also demonstrated that alcohol consumption promotes hepatitis and pioneered the therapeutic use of the supplement S-adenosylmethionine, or SAMe, to prevent liver toxicity.
Earlier in his career, Lieber had also shown that treating some patients who suffered from alcoholic liver disease with antibiotics blocked the conversion of urea in the stomach into ammonia, which produces a variety of deleterious effects. He attributed the effects to the killing of bacteria in the stomach and said that he saw such bacteria under the microscope.
The prevailing wisdom, however, was that the stomach was too acidic for bacteria to survive, and his observation was discounted until the 1980s, when Australian researchers Dr. Barry J. Marshall and Dr. J. Robin Warren isolated Helicobacter pylori from the stomach and demonstrated that it caused ulcers and stomach cancer. They won the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery.
Charles Saul Lieber was born on Feb. 13, 1931, in Antwerp, Belgium. With World War II looming, the family escaped to France and then to Switzerland, where he lived for four years with a Swiss family that rescued him from a refugee camp.
After the war, he returned to Belgium, where he received his medical degree in 1955 from the University of Brussels. There, he studied ulcers, prompted by an incident at the age of 18 when part of his stomach was removed to prevent him from bleeding to death.
He came to Boston City Hospital on a fellowship and remained in the United States the rest of his life, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1974.
During his career, Lieber published nearly 1,000 research papers and 15 books, trained more than 200 researchers and received numerous awards. In 1977, in cooperation with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, he used his own credit to establish the first journal devoted to alcohol studies, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Lieber is survived by his second wife, Dr. Maria Leo-Lieber; three daughters, Sarah of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Collette Lieber-Fried of Upper Saddle River, N.J., and Leah Lieber-Rafiy of New York; two sons, Daniel of Larchmont, N.Y., and Samuel of Livingston, N.J.; and six grandchildren.
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Harper has 'great' All-Star Game experience
Twenty-year-old lines out, pops out in second Midsummer Classic
NEW YORK -- All in all, a wonderful experience. That's how Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper saw his second All-Star Game.
"I tried to take it in as much as I could," Harper said after a 3-0 American League victory over the National League at Citi Field on Tuesday night. "It was a great experience. Being able to hang out with the best players in baseball is always a blast. I'm looking forward to a couple more All-Star Games."
Harper was just 19 a year ago when he played in his first one. He hadn't known what to expect, but like pretty much everything else, he never seemed overwhelmed.
"Last year, it was being able to see Chipper [Jones] in his last [All-Star Game]," Harper said. "That was something I was excited for, and I was pretty much in his back pocket that whole time."
This time around, Harper knew that the enduring memory would be the chance to see the greatest closer of all time throw his last pitch in an All-Star Game. Harper stood and cheered in the bottom of the eighth inning when Mariano Rivera trotted in from right field. He may be young, but he gets the meaning of this kind of baseball moment.
"I'm so excited and very humbled and blessed to be here," Harper said. "I'm going to take it all in and try to have some fun."
Harper started in center field for the NL, batted ninth and was hitless in two at-bats. He smoked a liner off Chris Sale to Miguel Cabrera at third in his first at-bat in the third inning and popped to short in his second, against Grant Balfour, in the sixth inning.
"I was trying to lay off [Sale's] slider," Harper said. "I knew I couldn't hit it. I was trying to lay off that, get something straight. I got something straight, I put some good wood on it. It felt good."
Harper switched to right field when Andrew McCutchen entered the game in the fourth inning. When asked about playing center, he said he'd joked with Nats manager Davey Johnson, a member of the NL coaching staff, about it.
"It felt good out there, it felt comfortable," Harper said. "Being able to play alongside Carlos Gonzalez and [Carlos] Beltran was a lot of fun. Being able to play behind [Matt] Harvey was a blast, also."
Harper had a unique experience by having his dad pitch to him in the Chevrolet Home Run Derby on Monday, and his family stuck around for the All-Star Game and got to experience a little of what Harper experienced.
"That's something I'm going to cherish for the rest of my life," Harper said. "I really just try to enjoy it the best I can and try to do my best on and off the field. I don't really care about accolades and things like that."
Harper's teammate, pitcher Jordan Zimmermann, got the All-Star treatment as well. He made the club, dressed in the locker beside Harper and was introduced as a member of the team. But Zimmermann was unable to pitch because of a stiff neck.
"It's awesome," Zimmermann said. "I wish I could pitch, but it's better to take a little rest right now. It's great to be around these guys. It's fun to watch."
Zimmermann said an All-Star Game might have been a bit more special because it came in his fifth Major League season.
"It's being around the names that are this locker room," he said. "It's a special thing to walk in and see all these guys. It's the first time it kind of sunk in."
Along the way, Zimmermann paused to reflect on his journey.
"Growing up, I never threw hard," he said. "I had to work for everything. It's finally paying off. If you'd asked me three years ago if I would be here, I'd have to tell you no. But it's a great honor, and I don't take it for granted."


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text: This ground-breaking new release boasts a newly designed user interface and loads of new creative features that make creating professional slide shows faster and easier.Austin, TX, December 9, 2008 - Photodex Corporation today announced the release of ProShow Producer 4.0, the all-new generation of its award-winning photo and video slide show software for professionals. ProShow Producer 4.0 has powerful new features that streamline workflow and offer a broader range of creative possibilities. As the industry's leading professional slide show software, ProShow Producer outputs to over 40 formats including DVD, Blu-ray and Flash."Creating professional output can be very time consuming. We wanted to optimize the workflow of creating a polished and professional looking show", said Paul Schmidt, President and Founder of Photodex Corporation. "Producer 4.0 has simple-to-use, one-click features, that allow users to achieve professional results in less time and with less work. Combined with an all-new interface the path to professional slide shows is much simpler and more powerful."ProShow Producer 4.0 makes creating advanced special effects simple and hassle-free with the new Slide Styles feature. Slide Styles are pre-made effects that can be easily applied to any slide in a show. ProShow Producer 4.0 comes with over 75 pre-made Slide Styles ranging from camera flashes to more advanced multi-layer montages. Each Style can be previewed and then easily applied to an image or set of images for an instant effect.Users can create and save their own Styles, allowing them to set up custom libraries for specific show types like weddings, sports events or portrait sessions. Slide Styles can change the way professionals use Producer to create shows for clients by cutting production time and providing a more polished and professional-looking result. Talented experts can now produce extremely sophisticated effects that all ProShow users can use.Additional creative features in ProShow Producer 4.0 include the ability to add Adjustment Layers to any slide in a show. Adjustment layers can be used to create dramatic, non-destructive changes to all layers below them, making effects like a moving spotlight or a soft image filter effortless. Editing keyframes is also made easier thanks to the all new multi-track Keyframe Editor that displays a larger layout for precise control over keyframes. Users can now blur any photo or video using the new Blur tool; essential for creating professional backgrounds, montages and effects.ProShow Producer 4.0 also comes equipped with Notes and Layer Names, new features that help users organize and catalogue certain elements in their slide shows. Notes appear as small icons in the Slide List and are best used to describe how a certain slide effect was achieved, while Layer Names allow users to apply custom names to each layer in a slide to keep them more organized.For a complete list of new features in ProShow Producer 4.0, please visit the Photodex website at: http://www.photodex.com/products/producer/new.htmlPricing and AvailabilityProShow Producer is available now for $249.95 from www.photodex.com or by calling 1-800-37-PHOTO. Upgrades can also be purchased online or by phone from $89.95.About Photodex CorporationFor over 20 years, Photodex has put customers first with award winning software and outstanding customer service. Photodex's popular ProShow product line combines quality, performance and the widest array of options for creating and sharing slide shows. Photodex is committed to providing excellent customer service and provides every user with free technical support 7-days a week.


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@realDonaldTrump tweets:
He may be the worst reporter in all of sports: @RickReilly of @ESPN. He gets away with murder and most people haven't figured it out yet—but I know.
(As for most people not figuring it out yet, we beg to differ. Except on the murder thing.)
We haven't seen anything Reilly's written recently that disses the Donald, and a search of ESPN TV transcripts reveals no barb in a sappy Reilly feature, either, so we don't know whence the venom arose. But: If you or a loved one has been murdered by Rick Reilly, and he's gotten away with it, please do let us know.
UPDATE (3:30 p.m.): We were pointed to Reilly's 2003 book Who's Your Caddy?, in which the author has some unkind words for Trump, e.g.:
Trump very much likes attention. For himself, yes, but also for his hotels, his apartments, his casinos, his office buildings (he owns the GM building now), and his golf courses. He understands the value of free publicity. He craves it, lives for it, screams for it.
But the overall message of Reilly's bit seems to be a positive one, as much as can be expected, anyway, when writing about Trump. So, murder?
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The Volkswagen New Beetle isn't that new anymore, but still smart and stylish. And because it's a Volkswagen, it's refined. Der Beetle combines German engineering and performance with exceptional fit and finish, and it represents a good value. As in other retromobiles, however, driver and passengers must make some concessions for style. Interior ergonomics are not as good those in a more traditional car, like a Golf, nor is there a lot of trunk space.
But the Beetle is charming. It comes in an assortment of bright, happy colors, including Tornado Red, brighter than last year's red. Its exterior and interior design details are fun and creative. On the road, the Beetle is smooth and sophisticated and handles well.
The convertible adds to the fun with its ability to drop the top. It feels tight. Volkswagen engineered a solid chassis with none of the cowl shake common on most convertibles.
The Beetle is considered a safe car. It earned top scores in the federal government's crash tests and comes with Volkswagen's excellent safety features. Just don't expect to see people looking, smiling and waving at you every time you come around a corner as much as they did when the New Beetle first hit the streets. After all, the Beetle is once again a familiar face in America.
The Volkswagen New Beetle is fun to drive. It feels tight. Handling and brakes are excellent. Acceleration performance varies from lethargic to brisk, depending on the engine.
It rides well on bumpy pavement, smoother than a Mini Cooper and more refined than a PT Cruiser. The Beetle feels stable at high speeds and in high-speed sweeping turns. It leans in corners when driven hard, but its tires and suspension give it good grip and keep the chassis firmly in contact with the road. The steering is quick and accurate. Handling among the different Beetle models is quite similar in character as the suspension is tuned to provide the same driving characteristics.
Beetle is smooth and stable under hard braking. It can stop in a shorter distance than a PT Cruiser, according to published reports, but it doesn't stop as quickly as the Golf or Mini.
The 2.0-liter engine that comes on GL and GLS models is smooth, quiet, and refined. It delivers good, usable power when putting around town at low rpm. That means you don't have to do a lot of shifting. Put it in second or third gear and leave it there as you work your way around town and on rural roads. It's quite pleasant at 20 mph in third. You can even take off from a stop sign in second gear without lurching. It cruises well at high speeds. Torque from the 2.0-liter engine comes at relatively low revs and makes the car feel sprightly. It wouldn't be our first choice for drag racing, though. Developing just 115 horsepower, the 2.0-liter Beetle is among the slowest cars sold today. It takes about 10.2 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph, according to Volkswagen. That's lethargic performance by anyone's stopwatch. Convertibles are even slower due to their added weight (0 to 60 in 11.4). It's clean performance, though, qualifying for as an Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle (ULEV) in all 50 states.
We prefer the manual gearbox, which shifts smoothly and adds enjoyment to driving the Beetle. However, the six-speed automatic with Porsche's Tiptronic system offers performance that's nearly as quick as a manual gearbox (0 to 60 mph in 11.8 seconds). It also allows semi-manual shifting.
Volkswagen builds some of the best small diesel engines in the world. The new 1.9 TDI-PD is rated at only 100 horsepower, but its 177 pound-feet of torque compares favorably with the 173 pound-feet of the defunct hot-rod Turbo S. Plus it can be ordered with the terrific DSG gearbox with Tiptronic, which makes the most out of the diesel engine's power. The new diesel is rated 46 mpg on the highway, compared to 44 for last year's 90-horsepower diesel, and 31 for the 2.0-liter gas engine. In our past experiences with VW diesels they have run brilliantly, on long trips and in everyday driving. They have none of the clatter of an old Mercedes-Benz diesel, but just a slightly rough texture that some people like because they say it reminds them a bit of the original Bug.
Driving enthusiasts will prefer the 1.8 T turbocharged gasoline engine. It lacks response at the bottom of the rpm range, but provides good acceleration performance once the revs are up. Step on the gas and the car begins to build momentum, then there's a whoosh of power. The GLS 1.8 T can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 8.2 seconds. We strongly recommend the manual gearbox with this engine. We have not been happy when pairing the 1.8 T with an automatic because the turbo seems to confuse the transmission causing a distinct lack of response in certain situations; this often happens when you most need a squirt of power, such as when jumping out of a slow, bumper-to-bumper lane into a fast lane.
The Volkswagen Beetle feels tight and responsive. Its ride is smooth and sporty. Handling and braking are excellent. The standard 2.0-liter engine is smooth and quiet, fine for most people, but driving enthusiasts will find its acceleration performance lacking. The GLS 1.8 T is fun to drive. Its mild manners make for a pleasant ride around town, while its acceleration performance gives it sports appeal.
New Car Test Drive editor Mitch McCullough is based in Southern California.


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Salonga will be joined by Sarah Geronimo, Pelita Corrales, Cris Villonco, Zia Quizon, Gerard Salonga, Sitti, Ryan Gallagher, Vicki Nievera, Jeff Pangan and many others.
"As one that was here watching the rains come, I felt fortunate to be in a safe home, but also needing to do something for those that weren't as lucky," Salonga told Playbill.com via email. "There have been many relief efforts (quite a few in association with the Philippine Red Cross) so many of my countrymen are answering the call to help."
The 7 PM concert will be held at Whitespace at 2314 Chino Roces Avenue Extension in Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Salonga won the Tony Award in 1991 for her performance in Miss Saigon. She has also appeared on Broadway in Flower Drum Song and Les Miserables.
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Hi Detoxers!
We made it thru a week Sugar Free!
Are you starting to feel lighter? Maybe have a little bit more energy?
Some notes: resist the urge to weigh yourself! Weighing yourself misses the point on where we are going with this. I know many of us want to shed pounds, but if we rely on the numbers of the scale to dictate to us how we should feel-we then will not be able to learn how to be in tune with how our bodies feel. Some days we wake up feeling awesome, energetic. We may feel like we for sure dropped 2lbs. though the scale says we gained a half a pound. Our emotions then go up and down. There is enough stress in our lives that can send our emotions on a roller coaster. Its best not to self inflict it.
As a group, we weighed ourselves on Day 1 of Sugar Detox. We will weigh ourselves again on Day 30.
Let's take a group promise to stay off the scale.
Say:" I will not weigh myself until Day 30 of the Challenge"
I hope you benefited from last nights e mail. Last April, I learned that my sugar addiction was a true addiction and not about a lack of will power. That's what gave me the DESIRE to kick the habit.
Can you send me YOUR personal stories? We would all love to read some. When you send me an email please include if you allow me to reprint it and how I should sign it, your name or anonymous.
Below is a comment from our first brave sharer!
"As a person who suffers from migraine and tension headaches often, I'm happy to report that for 8 days I have not had any headaches! I'm actually shocked and amazed at myself, how I'm even doing it.
I am (hopefully was) totally addicted and fully dependent on sugar, sugar substitutes and anything sweet.
Nothing was ever too sweet for me. When my kids would put something down and not eat it bc they said it was too sweet for them, I picked it up and ate it. I'm laughing at my breakfast this morning (oatmeal with strawberries and blueberry with a spoon of agave).
In my usual oatmeal, I would put 2 sweet n lows, brown sugar and pancake syrup! It sounds gross, but it really wasn't too sweet for me. I hope to continue to be strong, and not have these cravings and desires anymore.
Sari- i was asking you on the holidays, "so if you can't eat this, and you can't eat that then, what can you eat?."
I'm eating, and I'm satisfied, and I'm full…I just hope I lose weight with this
P.S. I made a huge batch of rice krispie treats for shabbat. And I did not have even one crumb of it! Its one of my many sweet favorites…I'm very proud!" Olga Schweky
Thank you Olga!
Put on your Calendars: May 7, a class experience to unit all a Detoxers. 10-12. RSVP-ASAP!
Till Tomorrow!
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text: Tenebrae 428 Posted August 16, 2012 *Sigh* Commisars make very little sense as written. We know (from Cain's Last Stand) they are trained in intelligence analysis and various counter insurgent principles. We know they must have some tactical training, since every commisar in the novels seems to be a highly skilled tactician - indeed they'd have to be somewhat familiar with tactics to even fulfil their jobs. Yet from their advancement possibilities, they are about as clever as a bag of rocks, and so only about 10% smarter than the average Ork. Atleast they got fellowship instead of stregth, finally. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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When I try adding a sound to a game and play it, although the sound is played, there is high frequency noise and some break-up in it. I tried adding a sound to a game with very few polygons and there was no problem at all.
Is there a way to overcome this problem without removing objects? My computer has an 850MHz processor, 384Mb Ram, Geoforce 1 Graphics card and 128 Sound Blaster card. Therefore, I don't know why Blender can't cope with a little sound
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i use that video card with no trouble at all. it smells like a sound card driver issue to me - i have had the same trouble on a laptop and solved it with a driver update
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One of the more amazing features of the Indians' amazing run at the postseason this year is that they've done it despite a monumental overhaul.
On the surface, that doesn't sound like such a big deal, or a bad idea. The Indians lost 94 games last year. They should overhaul the roster responsible for that.
Well they did - and then some.
It's good to overhaul a bad team, but it's rare to overhaul a roster to the degree the Indians did this season and still manage to get all the parts working together for an entire season.
Yet that's what the Indians have done. Here are the numbers:
-- The Indians are carrying 37 players on their active roster. Of those 37 players, 24 of them weren't on the roster at the end of last season.
-- Many of the newcomers have been key performers this season: Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn, Scott Kazmir, Ryan Raburn, Mike Aviles, Bryan Shaw, Matt Albers, Drew Stubbs, Yan Gomes, Rich Hill, Marc Rzepczynski and Jason Giambi.
-- Only four position players who finished last season on the roster have been everyday players throughout the 2013 season: Michael Brantley, Asdrubal Cabrera, Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana. That's it. Lonnie Chisenhall, who was on the roster at the end of last season, is back this year, but spent some time at Columbus.
-- Four starting pitchers and four relievers who finished last season on the roster have been on it all this year. Justin Masterson, Ubaldo Jimenez, Corey Kluber and Zach McAllister are the starters. The relievers are Chris Perez, Joe Smith, Cody Allen and Vinnie Pestano, although Pestano made 14 appearances at Columbus.
Overall, it's been a remarkable turnover made even more remarkable in that if the Indians can win four of their last six games, they will have gone from 94-plus losses to 90 wins in the span of one season.
No team in Indians history has done that.
'This is our first time playing together as a group. We're growing together,' said Bourn, who a year ago was a member of the Atlanta Braves team that lost to the Cardinals in the National League wild-card game.
It's easy to forget the fact that the majority of these Indians are new Indians. In the Indians' 9-2 win over Houston on Sunday, Manager Terry Francona used seven relief pitchers. Six of them weren't on the team a year ago.
For that matter, neither was Francona. The Indians' manager and the coaching staff, with the exception of bench coach Sandy Alomar, are all new.
Clearly this has been a case of a well-conceived tear-down and roster rebuild. A lot of thought has gone into not just what to add, but whom to add. For that, give credit to General Manager Chris Antonetti and his staff, as well as to Francona, who after being hired had a huge influence in helping Antonetti with the roster construction.
Some of it was luck. Raburn played so bad for Detroit last year that he nearly retired. The Tigers released him, the Indians took a flyer, and he's been maybe the most valuable bench player in the American League this year.
Last year, no other major-league team wanted Kazmir, who spent most of 2012, in the only slightly exaggerated words of fellow newcomer Swisher, 'Playing catch in his backyard.'
Antonetti decided to take a flyer on Kazmir, and hit a home run.
Luck, or extraordinary due diligence? Doesn't matter. It worked.
Acquiring Gomes and Aviles in the same trade for expendable reliever Esmil Rogers was downright prescient. No luck there. Francona managed Aviles in Boston and Tribe bullpen coach Kevin Cash played with Gomes in Toronto. Francona also managed Albers and Hill in Boston.
The roster was assembled keeping in mind not only skill set, but personality traits. It's a long season with a lot of games and a lot of potential swings in emotion. Francona's two World Series rings prove that he knows what kind of clubhouse is best suited to ride those sometimes choppy waters. Together, Francona and Antonetti carefully picked and chose their personnel.
If momentum is the next day's starting pitcher, chemistry is tonight's box score. Winning breeds great chemistry, but it's on the other days when chemistry counts.
It's why Francona insisted on finding a place on the roster for Giambi as the team's tranquility coach, managerial adjutant and good old-fashioned all-around baseball Uncle Buck.
Giambi is a part-time DH who can only DH. When has that ever worked in baseball? It has here. It has now.
The wisdom of 'G' as they call him - G-whiz? - is a big reason why the Indians, seemingly overnight, have turned themselves from also-rans into battering rams.


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Aptly expressed; a delicious thought, actually.
There is unequalled truth to this, the bailiwick
of those who know no doubt that blessings and curses
of this life are in fact inexhaustible, inextinguishable.
What is left then, but Creation, itself? What courage
does it take to approach all aspiration and consummation
in the ashes? Every planet's doom is reunion with its star;
every star, its own appointment with the beginning
and the end of all that matters and energy's just what's left over.
And perhaps this is, after all, the raison d'être
for the inexhaustible,
the indivisible, inextinguishable
pain or sorrow, joy or bliss
within the mansions of this world.
If it is of God, it will last beyond leaving,
and as the longed for inauguration into the Next.
Be it the either which, expressed quite simply,
the Heavens and Earth may cease to exist–
in fact must in the end expire–but His Word
will never pass away, and neither the one
privy to Its existence;
and like all that is, we are in the end,
indivisible, inextinguishable.
Whilst we breathe, so, too, breeds our sacred company,
so, too, our own clear magnification in direct proportion
to recognition of one another and in the reality
of His oneness, our own dear being,
indivisible, inextinguishable.


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Well, after lunch that day, I had some tasks I needed to do so I gave Abi her book again so she could "study" and entertain herself a bit. That's what I'm happy about my Bubba. She's a happy and easy child. Sure, she gets cranky but calms down right away when she's hugged and carried. Then she will allow you to put her down again on the bed.
So, she was reading her book. And I could hear her humming and murmuring to herself. We were both happy campers when I noticed she suddenly got silent. I looked sideways and this is what I saw:
She fell asleep on her book, LOL! Poor baby must have gotten tired from all that colors and words, hihi. This moment is precious. I live for moments like this. :)


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Communities brace for storm, eye snow budgets
Storms putting strain on budgets
With more snow headed our way this weekend, it's getting expensive.
City and town budgets are beginning to strain under all the weight of the storms.
A little more than a million dollars a year is what Portland sets aside when it comes to its snow budget.
City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said the blizzard two weeks ago has put the city almost at that mark.
Nearly 3 feet of snow has fallen in Portland in the first few weeks of February.
More than 100 Department of Public Works crews spent days plowing, salting and sanding all of it.
The long hours are adding up to excessive overtime costs.
"This blizzard we had a couple weeks ago was a significant event for us. We spent in excess of $440,000 just in clearing the streets, hauling the snow, clearing sidewalks. That was an historic event for us and that took up almost half of our winter budget," said Clegg.
Compare that to one year ago, budget surpluses in the first three weeks of February, three storms, each dropped less than an inch of snow.
Ogunquit has seven full-time employees in the public works department. They will hit the roads this weekend clearing just 4 square miles, but even they have their budgets to meet.
They've already gone through all of the salt they budgeted for this year, $20,000 and they just ordered another 100 tons of salt costing up to $4,000.
"I think we used maybe 40 percent of our overtime budget last year. Where this year we're at 100, a little over 100 percent on that already, because like I said, all of the storms seem to be happening on the weekend or they come on a holiday," said Jack Whitney with Ogunquit Public Works.
As the snow impacts budgets small and large, there's no perfect formula out there when trying to figure out how much will be spent in a given year.
"I think we wish we could look into a crystal ball and know exactly what to budget for the next winter, that's not really realistic. But for the last four winters we've been under budget. The year before that we were over budget," said Clegg.
With so many city and towns at the brink of going over budget already, many are making plans to offset the snow costs but cutting or shifting other expenses in the budget.


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Mom belts out anthem; 'Cutch belts one out
PITTSBURGH -- First, Petrina McCutchen hit all the right notes. Then her All-Star son, Andrew, hit the ball.
Both performed flawlessly before and during the Pirates' 4-2 victory Wednesday night over the Miami Marlins at PNC Park.
Petrina, an accomplished singer, belted out the national anthem prior to the National League Central-leading Bucs' game.
During the game, Andrew belted his 16th homer and later added a single as the Pirates improved their division lead over the St. Louis Cardinals to three games.
As Petrina's powerful voice carried over the ballpark, a cappella, Andrew was lined up along the third-base dugout along with his teammates.
After his mom finished, and before he took the field, Andrew greeted her with a warm hug.
"It's always great to watch her go out and perform," he said. "Every day is always new, and it's always great to be able to hear her just show her gift."
"Singing is what I do. I'm not a novice at it," Petrina said. "I enjoy it. Just the fact that it's here in Pittsburgh, to see my son play and to get this opportunity, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I'm glad they invited me."
In truth, it became a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity when the Pirates invited her to do an encore performance, on the first anniversary of her PNC Park debut. Petrina also rendered the anthem during the Pirates' series with the D-backs early last August.
"They asked me back. It came to fruition," she said. "I think someone had heard me sing and mentioned it to [team president] Frank Coonelly. One thing led to another and I got invited. I think my audition was down in Bradenton, [Fla., the Pirates' Spring Training home] to see if I really could sing, and it kind of took off from there. I'm fortunate they liked what they heard and invited me back."
Considering how the mother-and-son performance went, and baseball's culture of superstition, it would not be surprising if Petrina returns yet again to perform the anthem at PNC Park. Prior to the Pirates' first postseason game in 21 years, perhaps?


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Diddy had been working on developing a TV network for years. When he was almost shut out of performing on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" around the release of a 2010 album, the rapper-producer realized he needed to launch the network sooner rather than later.
"I had to beg to be on … 'Dancing With the Stars' and it was something to me that wasn't right about that," he said.
Diddy believed there weren't enough outlets for musicians on TV — and that moment drove home the point.
He's launching Revolt TV in the fall.
"There's ESPN for sports, CNN, Fox News for news and the AP. There should be a brand for music, and now we have that brand that's going to focus on music and not reality shows," he said. "There's been a gaping hole once some of the other channels stopped having focus on music and focused more on reality, and it left a gaping hole for artists and fans of not having a place to go."
The 43-year-old entrepreneur announced last week that Revolt TV had reached a deal to have his network distributed on Time Warner Cable. Comcast Corp. announced a deal with Diddy's network last year.
Sean "Diddy" Combs has produced shows like "Making the Band" for MTV, and he's hoping to bring the flavour of what's buzzing on the Internet — viral videos, behind-the-scene music moments and raw interviews — to TV sets. He's "embracing" what's happening online and plans to tap into that audience.
"We want to have partnerships with YouTube and we want to have partnerships with Facebook and Instagram and Spotify and Beats (by Dre)," he said. "We're all in this together."
MTV, which has shifted to reality TV, occasionally plays music videos, and there are channels like MTV Hits and VH1 Soul that show videos throughout the day. Diddy said Revolt TV will proudly play music videos, but "this is not an MTV 2 (or) 3.0."
"I wanted my MTV and so when I missed it, I didn't want to complain about it, I wanted to do something about it," he said. "They inspired me and helped with the blueprint."
Diddy, whose brand includes movies, fragrances, fashion lines and endorsements, said he's making sure Revolt TV isn't Diddy TV. He said Oprah Winfrey, who launched her OWN network in 2011, warned him of the hardships that would come with owning a network.
"One of the things I did learn from Oprah is that this is a marathon, not a sprint," he said.
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Diver Greg Louganis hasn't been involved with the Olympics for 20 years, but he returns today as a coach and mentor for the U.S. Diving Team.
The significance of this goes far deeper than the 1988 gold medalist's triumphant return to the international stage -- Louganis became a lightning rod of controversy when he came out as gay and HIV-positive after the Seoul Olympics.
Film producer Will Sweeney is determined to tell Louganis' incredible story:
There are so many people around the United States -- and the world -- who have very fond memories of Greg -- cheering for him after he hit his head, how his autobiography made it okay for them them come out, how he helped Americans put a face to HIV. But there is a whole generation of young people who haven't heard about Greg.
Sweeney's and fellow producer Cheryl Furjanic's new documentary, Back On Board, will "address issues that are important to (Louganis) -- combating bullying and homophobia and the need to support elite athletes that move on after their athletic careers are over."
The pair have raised more than $14,000 toward their Kickstarter goal of $50,000, with donations ending in 28 days.
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If you like your fighting games strictly on a two-dimensional plane and with just a single gender, you might want to start paying attention to Skullgirls, a new independently developed fighting game coming to "high-definition home consoles."
Skullgirls is the work of Reverge Labs, lead by ex-Pandemic developer and fighting game expert Mike "Mike Z" Zaimont. It's a combo-laden girl-versus-girl brawl, pitting girls with deadly hair and short skirts against each other in mortal combat. And now, after making a few appearances at fighting game tournaments and conventions, Skullgirls is coming to consoles.
The game's distinctive art style comes courtesy of artist Alex Ahad, whose work can be browsed on Deviantart.
Skullgirls roster features characters like Valentine, a nurse ninja; the demon-haired Filia; a girl who wears hulking arms for a hat, Cerebella; and zombie cutie Squigly.
Expect Skullgirls to hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this summer, even if those consoles haven't been officially announced, with our first proper hands-on preview happening next month.
To see early video of Skullgirls in action, enjoy some pre-release footage.
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Rotation has caught fire since Price's return
ST. PETERSBURG -- Had the Rays kept their starting rotation as it was before the All-Star break, Jeremy Hellickson would be starting Friday's game against Toronto.
Instead, it will be David Price -- the ace of the staff and last season's American League Cy Young Award winner -- taking the mound against the Blue Jays.
"The first game of a series is always a tone-setter," Price said. "Obviously if you win the first game of a three-game set, you just need one more to win the series and it takes a lot of pressure off everybody."
Price has been the model of efficiency since returning from the disabled list (left triceps strain) on July 2, going 2-1 with a 1.08 ERA over 25 innings and averaging just over 10 pitches per inning.
"It's been extremely good with the pitch count being so low and being able to go deep in games," Price said. "I want to go nine on every fifth day. I tell our trainers every time, 'See you after nine,' because that's my mindset. That's what I want to do."
As ecstatic as manager Joe Maddon is that his No. 1 starter has returned to form, he may be more excited about the peripheral effects of Price's return. Tampa Bay's starting pitchers have logged a team-record 15 consecutive quality starts.
Rookie starter Chris Archer threw his first career-complete game, a shutout over Houston on July 14, to send the Rays into the break and has a 0.86 ERA in the three starts since Price returned. It stood at 4.02 in the three starts prior to that.
"I really think the fact that David is back and pitching like he is, setting the example that he has, has helped Archie a lot, too," Maddon said.


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This isn't the year to trot out the typical banal sports clichés heard at the start of every season: "All things are new on opening day" or "A load of teams could compete for this year's title." Miami became the chief contender on July 8. That was the day LeBron James made The Decision, his much-hyped choice to turn free agent with the Heat.
The move created the daunting Miami Thrice, aligning James with standouts Miami guard Dwyane Wade and forward Chris Bosh, who came aboard from Toronto. James's avowed intention was to finally win, and his team is expected to do just that.
At least that's the way to bet. Las Vegas odds-makers have the South Beach Fab Three—"pre-Fab Three" might be more apropos—as 7-to-5 favorites. It makes sense: who has their combination of talent and youth?
Jeff Van Gundy, the ABC analyst and former coach, thinks that their talent makes them the overwhelming favorite.
"It was a monumental summer," he says, "the greatest summer for any team since the Lakers' O'Neal signing [in 1996] and the Jabbar trade [to Los Angeles from Milwaukee in 1975]."
But is the season over before it's started? For the bulk of the teams that make up the NBA, it probably is. Even if we are generous with our predictions no more than six other teams have a reasonable chance at a title. But a small core of teams—the Lakers, the Celtics and the Magic—may end up deflating James's dreams of glory.
Regardless of how this intriguing campaign plays out, it is not a year for floating false hopes. 'Tis not the season to wonder how many wins New Jersey can add to last year's 12. Nor will we be preoccupied with whether the Bucks can celebrate the 40th anniversary of their last title with a foray deep into the play-offs.
Or whether the Knicks can win for the first time since the Nixon administration, or even how the Cavaliers might fair with Byron Scott, but without James. Eight teams in the West won 50 or more games last year—mostly because nine teams won fewer than 50 games—and the league gained no parity this summer.
At the start, a truckload of public-relations issues emerge. Eschewing the humble approach, Heat guard Wade has proclaimed that he, Bosh, and James are "arguably the best trio in league history." Others might prefer "arguably the best deck ever stacked." Still others might school the 28-year-old on yesteryear trios of Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor or, if a recent vintage is more to his young taste, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and James Worthy.
What does Michael Jordan think of James's unprecedented Decision and the subsequent celebration in South Beach? "I would never have called up Larry and called up Magic and said, 'Let's get together and play on one team,' " Jordan asserts. "In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys." Apparently the nation sees it that way, too. Following The Decision—which aired on July 8 in an hour that made continental drift appear rapid—James's Q-rating plummeted.
Only 14 percent of those surveyed regarded him positively, while 39 percent viewed him negatively. Both his decision and the subsequent hullabaloo in Florida were seen as selfish. That said, Jordan had an all-time top-50 player in Scottie Pippen for all six of his championships. James has been without a top-50 player for his seven professional years, and, unbelievably, has never played with anyone who was even voted first-, second- or third-team All-NBA.
Aside from James's reputation, legacy concerns loom. Does his tattoo proclaiming "King James" indicate that the kingdom is nevermore now that he has left Ohio, or has his gaze always been set on the "Kingdom of All-Time," a lofty space now occupied by Jordan? Is James's current move to a stacked squad tantamount to his ceding that all-time position to Jordan, and that henceforth he will play a more subordinate role to win a title? Is it appropriate to laud the trio's selflessness for accepting less money to make their salaries fit under the cap? After all, winning NBA titles brings money, endorsements and international branding, so where's the altruism?
Before we assess the temperature of the 2010-2011 Heat and compare them with the field, there is this other matter of comportment that James hasn't been called out on. How is it that less than two minutes after playing inconsistent and at times embarrassing basketball against the Boston Celtics, and getting ousted in six games, James is hugging Garnet, Pierce, and Allen—and practically everyone in a Boston uniform, but no one in his own—and palling around with Jay Z? When Jordan lost a crushing game, part of him died. The shoulders sunk, he dragged to the tunnel, not picking his head up, not seeking a consoling hand. He had to go die, alone, before he could emerge to fight again. "There are just winning and misery," Pat Riley once said, and the Original Trinity of Johnson, Larry Bird and Jordan knew it.
Let's look at the favored squads for a much anticipated season.
One line of thinking says the outcome of the NBA's 65th season is a fait accompli. "I agree with a couple of people who have called me and said cancel the season," says Jeff Van Gundy. "In LeBron they have a back-to-back MVP teamed with a top-three player in Wade, and then Bosh. It's an incredible team. Miami has also done enough to complement these guys. They have been able to keep Udonis Haslem, and sign Mike Miller and Zydrunas Ilgauskas."
Yes, contrary to popular opinion, Miami will not have to play three on five. Miller can hit threes and will have more open looks than a birder. Even Bosh, likely a third option on offense, should have more open real estate than a lemonade stand in the Sahara. Carlos Arroyo is the leading contender over Mario Chalmers at point guard. Both can hit the three. "Miami may have a problem with [the Magic's center] Dwight Howard, but not as much of a problem as Orlando will have guarding their wing players James and Wade," Van Gundy surmises.
Are Boston and Los Angeles the only squads that can muster some semblance of a defense against James and Wade? "It will come down to the offensive philosophy that Miami puts in place," says Hubie Brown, former coach, Hall of Famer, and ESPN basketball analyst. "Defenses will double-team them off the dribble—you have to bring the double team and once it comes and the pass is made, they can split the double team. The pressure is to stop the dribbler from splitting the double team. Most teams can rotate to one or two passers. But over 48 minutes most teams make the first rotations but don't make the second rotation. Will the Miami spot shooter hit a high percentage of threes? We have no idea of the offensive philosophy and the types of continuities that Miami will run."
To call Miami rich in talent is damning them with faint praise. Last season Haslem posted 21 double-doubles, more than any other bench player in the league. And Bosh averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds per game. "Some people say that James needs to become Magic Johnson," says Van Gundy. "But he's already become that. All three have IQs and have an unselfish nature. There will be a stat decline for them, and the win total will skyrocket. They won't play as many minutes. If they come out to dominate and they have that mindset, they will crush some people along the way."
We will see the occasional 115-75 routs. Beyond that, Van Gundy thinks the Heat can leave a mark on history. "If they win under 70 games, it's because they got injured or they didn't play all out. They have a chance to go after the 33-game winning streak [set by Los Angeles during the 1971-72 season] and the 72-10 mark [set by Chicago in 1996]. It depends if going down as an all-time team matters to them. To me, wining an NBA Championship will not be a great accomplishment; it's expected. It's more impressive to break or challenge long-standing records and put an historical stamp on the season. They could finish 40-1 at home. I don't know them well enough to know what type of demeanor they will have as far a being an all-time great team."
"I don't see 73 wins, I see 66 wins," says Bob Ryan, who has been covering the NBA for 40 years with the Boston Globe. "The conference is so much improved that they could lose a game in cities like Washington, New York, Milwaukee, Chicago, Atlanta. These are not automatic Ws."
In addition, Wade and others who see only stars may be guilty of a kind of additive fallacy: adding the star wattage of three players, comparing them with other squads with fewer stars, and concluding that Miami is superior because their threesome adds up to more and therefore better. That formula doesn't always win the race. Philadelphia's Julius Erving, George McGinnis and World B. Free were a more spectacular threesome than Portland's Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, and Lionel Hollins in the 1977 finals. None denied it. But Portland won the last four games of that series because of team play and superior balance. Star power doesn't always shine brightest.
"Right now, before the season, they have a lot to prove," Brown says. "They need chemistry and must rebound with Orlando and Boston in order to get out of out the east."
Los Angeles
Whatever the hype-to-reality ratio hanging over Miami, they are not the team to beat, according to Brown. "The Lakers are still the favorites," he says. "They are the two-time defending champions. They have added [Steve] Blake—since Jordan Farmer and Shannon Brown could not back up Derek Fisher and give them quality minutes in the Phoenix and Boston series. In Blake you have a true backup point guard to run, shoot off the dribble and hit the three. Matt Barnes backs up Ron Artest and gives them major minutes, which is crucial because of Luke Walton's lower back trouble. The real luxury comes from adding 15-year veteran Theo Ratliff, a prime shot blocker and defender. He's handy at play-off time when Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, or Lamar Odom gets in trouble."
Two consecutive titles have not led the Lakers to complacency. They have geared up for a fourth consecutive foray into late June that could send Phil Jackson into the hues of a mountain sunset with a third straight title for the fourth time in his career. Who can dethrone the Lakers? "They are going to beat you [in a play-off series] one or more times in your building," Brown stresses. "But only once [in 23 play-off games] did they lose in their building." They lost game two of the finals at home. "I predict Los Angeles will beat Miami in six or seven games," Ryan says.
Boston is the biggest mystery of all. Considering their age—Kevin Garnett (34), Paul Pierce (33), and Ray Allen (35)—it is appropriate to ask if they even can get to mid-April healthy enough for the NBA's grueling two-month title run, the longest in any sport. "As my broadcast partner Mark Jackson says, " 'Father Time is undefeated,' " said Van Gundy. With a 13-point lead in the third quarter of game seven, their 18th title was in sight. Alas, they couldn't close the deal on a night when Kobe Bryant couldn't hit water from a boat, shooting 6-24.
"If I said to you that the Lakers would shoot 32 percent and they would miss 12 of 29 foul shots, you would think Boston would win," says Brown. But Los Angeles pounded Rasheed Wallace, Garnett and Glen "Big Baby" Davis into submission off the glass, while snaring 23 offensive rebounds. Gasol grabbed nine. "The problem with giving up offensive rebounds is that the opponent will get a second shot within eight to 10 feet of the basket," Brown explains, "which results in a put-back or a foul." Boston had a brilliant defensive plan, which had the Lakers missing 56 of 83 shots. But the Lakers second shots cost Boston 17 points. They lost by four, 83-79.
But spilt milk isn't Boston's focus. The acquisition of two O'Neals—Shaquille and Jermaine—will fill in the center position until Kendrick Perkins returns, probably in February. "Five guys at those two positions will give them probably the best physical strength and rebounding potential they have had." says Brown.
That surely impresses, and we haven't even said a word about their best player, the reed-thin and inimitable one, Rajon Rondo. Two guards shot over 50 percent last year: Steve Nash and Rondo. An oddity, really, since everyone claims that Rondo must improve his shooting, meaning his mid-range shooting. "Rondo gets so many layups, and next to Jason Kidd he is the leading rebounding point guard in the league," Brown says. "If he improves the 17- to 22-footer, he can go to another level. In every game he is a potential triple-double player." In a league of 420 players, who else can you say that of? Rondo, James and who else?
After sweeping their playoff series against Charlotte and Atlanta, Orlando ran short on magic, getting leveled in six by Boston, a team they bested by nine wins during the regular season. Some of the pieces are in place. They hit a record 841 three-pointers, an all-time record. For Orlando to make that next step, Howard must make an improvement. He connected on 61 percent of his shots in 2010, but the best center in the league saw his points, rebounds and minutes per game dip for the third consecutive season. "Vince Carter must improve his production on a nightly basis as well as in the play-offs," says Brown. "Carter must give them a consistency of points, rebounds and assists for his talent." In the Boston series Carter hit only 37 percent of his field goal attempts.
The Magic will compete with the Heat for the "battle of the state." Orlando will be playing in a new downtown arena with enthusiasm and an urgency to avenge their early exit last year.
Three Outliers
Chicago: By signing forward Carlos Boozer the Bulls now have their own Threatening Three in Boozer, Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah, not to mention returning starters Loul Deng and Taj Gibson. They also added Ronnie Brewer, Kurt Thomas, C. J. Watson and distance shooter Kyle Korver. Boozer gave Utah 19.5 points and 11 rebounds per game last year. Can they take on the Miami Thrice? Consecutive 41-win seasons and first-round play-off losses should change.
Phoenix: Though Phoenix upped their win total from 48 to 54 last year, they lost scorer Amare' Stoudemire to New York but have acquired Hakim Warrick, Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress. Phoenix can still score with the ball, but whether they can rebound it is another matter. "The question is can they defend, rebound and stop you in the paint," says Brown. Last year they were tied at two with Los Angeles before dropping the final two games.
Oklahoma City: The Thunder has one of the best one-two punches in the league in guard Russell Westbrook and forward Kevin Durant, last year's scoring leader and the MVP of the summer's World Games. They matched up well against the Lakers, pushing them to six games and only losing 95-94 when a rebound got away and Pau Gasol scored on a put back. Durant was the league's leading scorer (30.1) and was a First Team All-NBA player.
Rush to Judgement
More than the usual dicey preseason predictions, this year is about our judgment about how the three Miami players came together. "I'm not a fan of what they did or how they decided and celebrated their decision," Van Gundy points out. "But each one of them fulfilled their contractual obligations and earned a right to decide where they work. They had the right."
Hubie Brown agrees. "The Heat performed a magic act. They took major risks to allow others to become free agents at the end of last season, once they got James and Wade, they were able to get under the cap by convincing them to take less money. Never has this been done since the cap came into existence. There was nothing illegal here and nothing shady. They did everything by the book and the players had to sacrifice in order to make it happen."
Each of the big three inked a five-year deal. Given that much time together, they should expect to win multiple titles. Anything less would be considered a failure, and there will be plenty of people to remind them of that.
Kenneth Shouler, a regular contributor to Cigar Aficionado, blogs at www.kenshouler.com


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Gov. Maggie Hassan has a few more days to make a key decision in how New Hampshire implements President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
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The newly ordained order members have been asked to share their ordination experience, and I am happy to do so. But in reality the experience was much less about me than about those around me. My experience was about the Deer Park staff family with whom I worked during the late summer. It was about my blood family and how they supported me. And it was about having my home sangha, Organic Garden, there with me and with the other brothers and sisters from our sangha who were also ordained.
I did not expect any of these things to be so important next to the joy of receiving the
fourteen directly from Thay. My greatest aspiration is to continue Thay; to embody
whatever small piece of him I can for others. But these parallel experiences taught me
lessons that might support that aspiration, so I am going to share them with you. And I
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Benchmarks vs. Boot Camp
Now for the real showdown. Keep in mind that Boot Camp already has an advantage since it uses both cores within Windows XP. I won't be benchmarking with Virtual PC and if you're wondering what the speed is like compared to say, a dual G5 running VPC 7 and Parallels, here's an illustrated summary:
Virtual PC on a 2 GHz G5
Parallels on a 2 GHz MacBook Pro
Yes, it's that much faster. Really though, it's like comparing a P3 200 covered in molasses to a 2 GHz Core Solo (since it only uses one core). You can't really compare the two, unless you're really fond of molasses.
Sisoft Sandra 2007 Lite Results
The SiSoft Sandra results were about what we expected. Emulation was a bit slower than running "native" via Boot Camp. Interestingly, the memory bandwidth test wouldn't give correct results, as SiSoft Sandra reported that integer calculations were about 10 times faster than Boot Camp or the Dell laptop while floating point was about 800 times faster!
The OpenGL speedup score reinforces that Parallels is not for gaming since the hardware rendering is slower than software is. The single core render score is a little confusing though since it's showing that it's faster with one core than with both in Boot Camp. That's definitely an error.
Each program was given around 900 MB RAM total and history was set to 1.
It seems that the lack of another core is really slowing Photoshop down in Parallels as most times are about twice as long. There are more things to consider than just the one core missing but overall those scores are still respectable. If you intend to do CPU-bound operations in Parallels and aren't in need of full juice, you'll be very happy with Parallels, especially if you've been running MolemanPC 7 on a G5 or less.
There were stability issues in the earlier betas of Parallels but the 1.0 release is solid. Try as I might, I couldn't get Parallels to kernel panic. I ran Azureus and a bunch of things with both instances running and doing heavy I/O. I even started the Vista download from inside XP and saved to the shared download folder. Switched to full screen. I swore at it in Japanese and did a funny dance, but still nothing. The Parallels application itself did crash a couple times over the past week but it wasn't anything consistent and it never resulted in any sort of corruption of the contained OS's files.
Just note that it's not recommended that you run two copies of the same VM at once since it can corrupt the VM's internal drive data. I tried to see what would happen but both copies of Windows became really unresponsive so I just quit one of them. But for a moment there, I was really living on the edge.
Otherwise, application stability is fine and just as it would be running in Boot Camp. There were no instances other than in the hardware 3-D apps where the program seemed to be running on anything less than the real thing. Coca-Cola.
Parallels gripes and feature requests
Aside from the limited USB device handling and multicore options, my only other major request is for DVD/CD writer support. Burners are seen as read-only devices within the VM, so burning those cursed proprietary disk images (die .mdf) will still require a reboot or terminal-based conversion apps that only half work.
Another smaller thing is that if you've deleted a VM in the Finder, you can't delete it from the Parallels recent VM list, leaving a dead VM listed indefinitely. That's probably not a big deal for most people but if you play with a bunch of VMs and trash them, it gets a bit annoying that you have to keep seeing them.
My failed Ubuntu Server install, a moved Ubuntu home install and a deleted XP make for bad housekeeping.
Finally, it would be good if different instances of the app could have a distinct name for the contained VM. They are all just listed as "Parallels Desktop" so you're not sure which one you're switching to if you're using command-tab or whatever. Definitely a job for Exposé but it's still a problem if the window is hidden.
That's the list. As much as I think it would be great to add faster 3-D and DirectX 9 support to Parallels, I only think it makes sense if the Parallels team can get Windows Vista running acceptably with the schmaltzy bits turned on. Otherwise, it's just a bit better than the current implementation, which suffices for basic 3-D needs like converting a model format.


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You may have sent a letter or care package to troops—but what about their four-legged partners? Right now, 12 Tactical Explosive Detection Dogs (TEDDs) are serving with the Ohio Army National Guard's 37th Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. These highly trained dogs, who by tradition hold rank one step above their handlers, search out bombs in combat zones.
"Our job is helping to save lives, and being able to do something that machines or people alone can't do," says Spc. Devin Cooper, a handler from Columbus. "When people see my TEDD, they always say, 'I miss my dog back home.' It's just good company having him around."
Handlers don't need boxes of doggie gear, but they welcome letters of support for their dogs. Send notes to Midwest Living, Att: Buckeye Brigade, 1716 Locust St., Des Moines, IA 50309. We'll take care of the rest.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Amid the sea of screen covers, phone cases, battery packs and software hawkers at Macworld's iWorld conference there was a strange sight: archery.
No, there weren't actual arrows flying around San Francisco's Moscone Center. Instead, it was people squinting down the crosshairs of a bow hooked up to an iPod Touch, pulling back a real string in the hopes of nailing virtual targets.
The device, called the Bowblade, is a $185 peripheral, designed by a chiropractor named Ron Green. It's designed as both an exercise tool and gaming rig, though how it works as the latter is a bit questionable.
At its most basic, the device requires users to pull back as if they were using a regular bow. But when playing touchscreen games on iOS, of which 35 currently work with the setup, users are actually pulling something akin to a gun trigger that's attached to a rather rudimentary capacitive stylus tip, simulating a finger touch to the screen.
With games that make use of the accelerometer and gyroscope, this can actually more closely simulate the feeling of hunting something and enhancing that feeling, though it does little to change the general dynamics of games. That could change if developers make specialty games designed just for it.
Along with the iPhones and iPods, the rig can also be adjusted to work with Android devices and Nintendo's Wii. The company is also striving to get it set up for console systems like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.