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Some injures can lead to paralysis and drive our pets to a dead-end. Fortunately, there are now options for pets that can make their lives go on wheels again. Literally.
For animals that have lost use of their legs because of paralysis or a disease, wheelchair devices are now available that can restore lost motion.
"A wide variety of devices are now on the market to help companion animals move around, and they work very much like a wheelchair," said Dr. Alice Blue-McLendon, clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Blue-McLendon says a veterinarian can take measurements of the animal's body to be fitted for the wheelchair devices, which are custom-made for that particular pet. The veterinarian can then contact one of several companies that make the wheelchairs, which usually consist of a harness-like device with straps and wheels. There are also several reliable companies on the internet that will work directly with the clients to make a custom wheelchair.
Dogs are the most frequent users of the devices, but they can also be made for cats, ferrets, goats, rabbits and other pets. Costs usually range from $200 to $400, depending on the size of the pet.
Blue-McLendon says that several medical conditions can cause a pet to need a wheelchair device. One is hind limb paralysis which can be due to injury, such as being struck by a car or a vertebral disk disease. Another cause is a degenerative condition in which the muscle or bone of the animal's leg cannot function properly, causing the animal to drag its legs or not move at all.
Once the device is fitted to the pet it usually takes several days for the animal to get accustomed to the wheelchair, Blue-McLendon explains. "But animals are quick to adapt, and after a few days, they usually can get around very well with these devices," she notes. She stresses that it takes a commitment from the pet owner before considering whether to purchase a wheelchair for a pet.
"It takes extra time on the owner's part to take off the device at night because the animals must sleep without them," Blue-McLendon says. "And many times if the animal is paralyzed it still needs assistance several times a day with urination. Also, since the animal can only use its front legs to get around it tends to get tired more quickly. So the owner needs to be aware of this, especially if taking the animal out for a long walk or other exercise."
Blue-McLendon adds that once the animal is accustomed to the wheelchair, it can lead a relatively normal life.
"These wheelchair-type devices have become quite popular in the last 20 years or so," she says.
"They give your pet an option that it might not have had otherwise - that of regaining much of the mobility it once had. If the owner is willing to make the commitment, they can be wonderful aids for disabled pets."
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Digging through a box of books the other day, I came across what I thought was a new Scott Westerfeld book. "Yay!" said my brain—until I realized the title read Uglies. "Wait, what?" I thought. "This isn't Uglies!"
The "trilogy plus one" is receiving a full redesign (in hardcover, no less) by publisher Simon Pulse, from the covers to trim size and page design. While the new jacket for Extras does pay homage to the original, the new Uglies cover with its haunting covered face bears a closer resemblance to the opening credits of the (adult) TV show Dexter than it does to the original cover. The new Pretties cover reminds me of another grown-up show, Nip/Tuck, making me wonder if the makeovers are an attempt to market the books to an older audience. Though the new covers don't appeal to me personally, I've seen plenty of positive buzz about them online from adult bloggers.
I feel these remakes lack the pizzazz of the original books: their smaller size, mysterious teenaged faces, and eye-catching spines. And while the images on the new covers are startling (as is the use of sterile white), they just don't do justice to the uniqueness of Westerfeld's dystopian world. Ironically, the new versions look like New Pretty Town–style extreme makeovers of the originals—sexed-up and stripped down. I'm the first to admit I can be averse to change, but in this case, change seems unnecessary and a little compromising. What do you think?

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Followers of Christ repeat Jesus' words "this cup is the new covenant" every time they observe the Lord's Supper. All over the world, local churches include the words new covenant in their names. But if you ask most Christians …Read More
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A friend of mine once told me: "My fear of failure has caused a big problem between my family and me. I don't spend much time with them during the week. I dread failing at my job so much …Read More
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Local farmers feeling the heat
While local foodies love their locally grown food, the people who grow it are not having an easy time of it in this hot weather, according to the DP's Bryan McKenzie.
"I just came in from the garden where nothing is growing and where I was tilling dust," Corky Shackleford, 80, a Stony Point farmer, tells McKenzie. "Everything is brown. You'd think it was winter."
Indeed, the hot weather appears to be hurting farmers across the state.
"One more week without rainfall and we will be in an extremely critical situation. All crops have stopped growing and are in survival mode. This includes all row crops, alfalfa and grass hay," Jon Repair, of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Agency in Rockbridge County, tells the DP.
Unfortunately, Jerry Stenger, director of the University of Virginia's climatology office, says we're in for more heat and little rain during the next two weeks.
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This is why it's time to start practicing dry farming techniques. I know some farmers that do in the area and they have been able to ride much of this out in the past. It's never easy, but you can do it. My garden is surviving.
Global warming, we're all gonna die.
I wonder if this article is the newspaper equivalent of the siren song sung by nice restaurants when they start hosting late night dance parties.
This article is just a rip off of the Daily Regress. It's supposed to be the DP that's ripping off your articles. We count on y'all to actually do something other than run AP stories and puff pieces. Don't get soft.
Doesn't the Hook run this story every year? It's hot in the middle of the summer, farmers are suffering, etc. Usually, they link to something in the Valley like the Harrisonburg paper.
Focus yes man.... last year was a very wet year with cooler temps and higher humidity. So how out of touch the average American is these days with the seasons...


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SEATTLE (AP) As part of the program he has built in Seattle, Pete Carroll insists that all games are equal and those with a higher profile carry no extra significance for the team.
Except Seattle has proven to be nearly unbeatable in prime time during Carroll's six seasons in charge.
''We put everything into every game as far as we can take it, regardless of when it is, who it is, where we're playing, what the ramifications may be, or what logo they're putting on the screen on TV. It doesn't matter,'' Carroll said.
The Seahawks are 13-2 in regular-season games on Thursday, Sunday or Monday nights since Carroll's arrival in 2010, the only two losses coming in 2012 at San Francisco and in Week 2 of this season at Green Bay.
Beyond just winning, the Seahawks have been dominant in those victories, winning by an average margin of 13.5 points per game. At CenturyLink Field, Seattle's dominance in prime time is even more pronounced, winning by an average margin of 18.5 points.
All those blowouts at home even led to unfounded speculation at one point that the NFL didn't want to put the Seahawks in prime time at home for fear of another blowout that would cause viewers to lose interest.
''There's a real discipline that it takes to consider every game exactly the same,'' Carroll said. ''It has nothing to do with not respecting the opponents. We respect them so ultimately every time we go. It calls for everything that we have to play the best we can possibly play.''
Along with their general prime-time excellence, the Seahawks have been exceptional on Monday nights. Seattle enters Monday's game against Detroit on a nine-game winning streak on Mondays. That's tied for the second-longest streak in the history of Monday Night Football, behind only Oakland's 14 consecutive wins from 1975-1981. Seattle's last Monday night loss was a 43-39 home defeat to Dallas in December 2004.
Detroit hasn't been nearly as successful in prime time. The Lions are 21-32-1 all-time in Thursday, Sunday or Monday night games. Since 2011, they're 2-7 in prime time.
''The great thing about professional football is the fact that our stage is pretty big and we do get a lot of coverage,'' Detroit coach Jim Caldwell said. ''Often times, it's the guys that have been in those games that usually jump out at you and stand out because they understand it and know what it's like. It's a bit different atmosphere, I think. It's a great atmosphere.''
Not everyone is thrilled with playing these night games. Richard Sherman is one of those who would prefer to play first thing, not seeing the allure of playing in prime time. He's not one who enjoys sitting around most of the day waiting for kickoff to arrive.
''It's just another football game where you lose a lot of the day and you have to play at night for some apparent reason,'' Sherman said. ''I wish we could play early. I hate playing at night. I feel like it's a day wasted.''
And because every game is now available for viewing in some format through technological advances, the luster of playing a prime-time showcase game has worn off.
''So whether the league's watching or not, it doesn't make too much of a difference,'' Sherman said. ''It doesn't affect, honestly I don't think, how guys play.''
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An improvement in the linear arithmetic heuristics has been provided
by Robert Krug. For information about this change, search for the
comment in
add-linear-lemma (file
rewrite.lisp) that begins
as follows.
; Previous to Version_2.7, we just went ahead and used the result ofThanks, Robert! Also thanks to Eric Smith for providing a motivating example.
The non-linear-arithmetic addition (see non-linear-arithmetic) led to several small changes in the linear-arithmetic decision procedure (see linear-arithmetic). Two of these changes could affect existing proofs.
First, when we are setting up the initial arithmetic data-base (which we call the ``pot-lst''), we have always scanned it to see if there were any pairs of inequalities from which we could derive a previously unknown equality. In some cases we added this equality to the clause and in others we used it to rewrite the clause, substituting one side of the equality for the other throughout the clause. Previously, the heuristics that we used to determine whether we performed the substitution differed from those used in several other places in the code. This has now been regularized, and similar heuristics are now used throughout the code.
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C is not a call of a known equivalence relation (or
=) is stored as
(iff C t), except that if ACL2 can determine
(using its
type-set mechanism) that
C is Boolean, then the rule is
stored as
(equal C t). The iprovement is that if
C and
C' are
Boolean, then a rule stated as
(iff C C') is stored as
(equal C C').
Thanks to Pete Manolios for providing an example that led us to consider this
The heuristic use of equalities (fertilization) has been modified.
Previously, ACL2 would sometimes substitute using an equality but keep the
equality, and then undo the substitution by using the equality again. Now,
when ACL2 keeps an equality after using it, it puts the equality inside a
call of
hide. Descendents of that goal that are unchanged by
simplification will have this call of
hide removed so that the equality
can once again contribute to the proof. This change can cause some proofs to
succeed that otherwise would fail. In the unlikely event that a proof fails
that formerly succeeded, the following hint on "Goal" may fix the problem
(see hints):
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IF form is assumed true
or false. Our previous attempt (see note-2-6-proofs for the original
announcement) was not as general as we had believed. We have also improved
some low-level code responsible for rewriting
IF expressions. In
earlier versions of ACL2, it was possible to have the truth or falsity
of an
IF expression explicitly recorded in the type-alist, and yet
not use this information during rewriting. This problem has been corrected.
Thanks to Robert Krug for noticing this problem and implementing the fix.
We have sped up the rewriter in some cases where there are large collections
of mutually-recursive functions (see mutual-recursion). (Implementation
notes: technically, we have modified the way function
operates on the
fnstack, and we have modified
*current-acl2-world-key-ordering* as described in the essay above its
Forward-chaining is now done in the preprocessing phase of proof
attempts (see the discussion of
:DO-NOT -- see hints). This is part
of a technical change, made in support of translation of type declarations to
guards (see note-2-7-guards). Previously, whenever ACL2 checked for
built-in-clauses, it then looked for a contradiction using
type-set reasoning if it did not find a suitable built-in clause. The
change is to perform forward-chaining in such cases (i.e., when a built-in
clause is not found).
A couple of changes have been made in the generation of goals for
forcing-rounds. Thanks to Eric Smith for bringing issues to our
attention that led to these changes. For one, guards are no longer
relevant in such goal generation. Formerly, the addition of a guard could
make a proof fail that otherwise succeeded. Secondly, contextual information
is now always kept when it involves a constrained constant, i.e., a zero-ary
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Dear Eval TF, Thank you all for the lively discussion on the mailing list, please continue to share your opinions and experiences! This is an attempt to summarize this discussion so far to help make decisions but it is by no means an attempt to stop the discussions. The thread starts here: - <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-evaltf/2012Jan/0082> # Summary [[ It seems that several people agree that because evaluating a sample only covers a relatively small portion of a website and because our mission is to determine conformance to WCAG 2.0 (rather than redefine WCAG 2.0 conformance), the entire sample to should conform to the [target level of] WCAG 2.0. Some people have argued that many sited would then not meet WCAG 2.0 conformance, in particular with respect to incidental errors that can be commonly found on websites. Some counter arguments included that website owners can be given a chance to fix such incidental errors as part of an evaluation process (but outside the scope of this document) and that remaining errors should be documented to aide comparison of websites/products (such as in a procurement setting). How to document the encountered errors can be part of the reporting section. ]] Please feel free to make additions, clarifications, or remarks on this! Best, Shadi On 29.1.2012 11:12, Kerstin Probiesch wrote: > Hi Eric, all, > >> Thanks. I would like to avoid the word violations, but we could change >> the title to something like margin for failures or failure tolerance. >> Please feel free to propose a better term. > > What about "expected degree of conformance". In the text we can say: no > degrees, 100% for the sample. > >> We have agreed that the methodology will have a 0% margin for failures. >> This seems more strict than is normal in scientific research where >> mostly an error margin of 5 percent is accepted for the sample. > > When we just have a look on failures. As written in another mail we should > be careful with terms. Error margin is very close to "Margin of error". > Wikipedia gives a short definition: "The margin of error is a statistic > expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results. The > larger the margin of error, the less faith one should have that the poll's > reported results are close to the "true" figures; that is, the figures for > the whole population. Margin of error occurs whenever a population is > incompletely sampled." Or > > Margin of error occurs whenever a website is incompletely sampled. > >> Agree that we also need to describe the possibility of sampling errors >> like you propose (that would then be errors made in selecting the >> sample, by tools or manual). Shall we add it to the sampling section? > > I think, for the moment and we decide later upon this. > > I'm no master of statistics and it's a couple of years ago that I was > bothered with test theory, scaling and all this. But I'm a bit concerned > about our terminology. Shouldn't we collect resources with understandable > explanations/definitions of specific terms in a Wiki? This might also be > important for the glossary of our methodology, especially if we are using > specific terms in another way (which we should avoid in general) and also > because of future translations. > > Best > > Kerstin > > >> Kindest regards, >> >> Eric >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> Van: Kerstin Probiesch [email@example.com] >> Verzonden: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 7:06 >> Aan: Velleman, Eric >> CC: Alistair Garrison; EvalTF >> Onderwerp: Re: 100% conformance for the pages sampled... >> >> Hi Eric, all >> >> I still don't agree with the section "Error margin". As pointed out: >> error margin a specific term. We should not use this term, when we >> speak about failures on pages. >> >> To make clear what we mean, we should use something like "failures" or >> "violations..." as heading for this section. Nevertheless we also need >> a section "error margin", where we describe possible systematic errors >> like sampling errors. I remember that we discussed also the term >> "systematic error" just in the context of failures on pages. As this an >> evaluation methodology I believe we should be careful with terms and >> shouldn't use specific terms of testing theories and methodologies in >> general for anything else to avoid confusion. >> >> Best >> >> Kerstin >> >> Am 27.01.2012 um 01:18 schrieb "Velleman, Eric" >> <email@example.com>: >> >>> Hi Alistair, >>> >>> The 100% conformance you refer to in your mail made it into the >> document in clause 5.5 Error Margin as we decided it: "The Methodology >> assumes a strict conformance requirement for all resources in the >> sample. I could change strict into 100%." >>> >>> Also in the same section I added a disclaimer following the outcome >> of our discussion. We said that it is necessary to say that we cannot >> guarantee that there will not be another error somewhere on the site. >> This is caused by the use of a sample: "It is important to note that >> due to the use of a sample there is never a 100% guarantee that the >> full website is conformant." >>> >>> I thought it might be good to explain that further and I propose to >> do that in the Random Resources clause (4.1.3). I already made a short >> link: "This specific error margin for a given confidence level is >> described in the section about Random Resources." We will discuss >> clause 4.1 next week (as agreed today), so we can then discuss if we >> want to keep that in the document or take it out again. >>> >>> Kindest regards, >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> Van: Alistair Garrison [email@example.com] >>> Verzonden: donderdag 26 januari 2012 15:50 >>> Aan: Eval TF >>> Onderwerp: Fwd: 100% conformance for the pages sampled... >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> The concept of "100% conformance for the pages sampled" gained a >> reasonable level of consensus amongst EVAL TF members (6 or 7 people). >> Several other ideas have seemingly gained the same group approval, but >> then fallen by the wayside as we've move ahead to debate something >> else... >>> >>> I'd like to know, what mechanism are we following to capture such >> ideas, and ensure that they are appear in 'black& white' in our >> methodology updates? >>> >>> All the best >>> >>> Alistair >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>> From: Alistair Garrison >> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> >>> Date: 20 January 2012 14:10:20 CET >>> To: Léonie Watson<firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>>, >> Eval TF<firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> >>> Subject: Re: 100% conformance for the pages sampled... >>> >>> Hi Léonie, >>> >>>> From http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#conformance-claims - "Conformance is >> not possible at a particular level if any page in the process does not >> conform at that level or better". >>> >>> And, as an additional component of the conformance claim "A list of >> success criteria beyond the level of conformance claimed that have been >> met. This information should be provided in a form that users can use, >> preferably machine-readable metadata." >>> >>> So, I would suggest that for our purposes (those of evaluating the >> whole site) this would mean - making a level AA conformance claim for >> all pages in the sample (website). If required by the website owner >> (or other) it could be provided along with a list of urls for the web >> pages on which the additional AAA Success Criteria have been achieved. >>> >>> If we were not looking at the whole site separate AA and AAA claims >> for the relevant pages would probably be the way to go. I should add, >> that a AAA conformance claim could only be made for the pages which >> were AAA conformant - ruling out, in my opinion, a AAA with exceptions >> type claim. >>> >>> Let me know what you think. >>> >>> All the best >>> >>> Alistair >>> >>> On 20 Jan 2012, at 12:59, Léonie Watson wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Alastair, it does. Although it's started me thinking more >> about this. Given that WCAG acknowledges that Level AAA is not possible >> with all technologies, we could end up with a sample that is partly >> Level AA compliant and partly Level AAA compliant. >>> >>> I'm thinking out loud here as much as anything, but would we >> therefore consider the sample to be 100% Level AA compliant with >> additional achievements, Level AAA compliant with exceptions, or part >> Level AA and part Level AAA as applicable? >>> >>> >>> Léonie. >>> >>> -- >>> Nomensa - humanising technology >>> >>> Léonie Watson, Director of Accessibility& Web Development >>> tel: +44 (0)117 929 7333 >>> mob: +44 (0)792 116 8551 >>> twitter: @we_are_Nomensa @LeonieWatson >>> >>> Nomensa Email Disclaimer: http://www.nomensa.com/email-disclaimer >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Alistair Garrison [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >>> Sent: 20 January 2012 09:38 >>> To: Eval TF >>> Subject: Re: 100% conformance for the pages sampled... >>> >>> Hi Leonie, >>> >>>> From http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#conformance-claims - "Conformance is >> defined only for Web pages. However, a conformance claim may be made to >> cover one page, a series of pages, or multiple related Web pages." >>> >>> Where they say "for Web Pages" I think they meant to say "for full >> Web Pages" - referencing "Conformance (and conformance level) is for >> full Web page(s) only, and cannot be achieved if part of a Web page is >> excluded." from the same page. >>> >>> Hope this clarifies things... >>> >>> All the best >>> >>> Alistair >>> >>> On 20 Jan 2012, at 10:14, Léonie Watson wrote: >>> >>> If I understand correctly, WCAG conformance relates to a single page, >> not to an entire website. I'd be interested in people's thoughts on how >> this might (or might not) influence our thinking about an error margin? >>> >>> >>> Léonie. >>> >>> -- >>> Nomensa - humanising technology >>> >>> Léonie Watson, Director of Accessibility& Web Development >>> tel: +44 (0)117 929 7333 >>> mob: +44 (0)792 116 8551 >>> twitter: @we_are_Nomensa @LeonieWatson >>> >>> Nomensa Email Disclaimer: http://www.nomensa.com/email-disclaimer >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Detlev Fischer [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >>> Sent: 19 January 2012 21:58 >>> To: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> >>> Subject: Re: 100% conformance for the pages sampled... >>> >>> Let's stop here and consider the implications. >>> >>> Here and then, people in the EVAL TF have agreed that the 100% >> conformant site does not really exist 'out there'. Aren't we holding >> the bone a wee bit too high? I wonder what that will mean for the >> practical acceptance of the methodology. Will it come to be derided as >> academic, as impossibly demanding? Who then is the customer of a >> (sorry, chap) refused seal of conformance who bows to gracefully accept >> the list of flaws to rectify? Just wondering...it just strikes me as >> slightly surreal... >>> >>> Detlev >>> >>> >>> >>> Quoting RichardWarren >> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>: >>> >>> Dear Alistair and All, >>> >>> Having just spent a fortune getting my son's car through its MOT I >>> have to agree with Alistair 100%. Our task is to establish a >>> methodology for evaluating website accessibility. If the evaluation >>> identifies that the site fully meets the guidelines then a >> conformance >>> claim can be made to that effect. Everyone will know exactly what >> that >>> means. >>> >>> If the site "almost" meets the guidelines then perhaps some other >> form >>> of "compliance statement" can be made - BUT that is not our current >>> problem. Maybe, once we have finished our methodology, we can >>> recommend a new task force to look at variance in conformance claims >>> <grin>. >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Alistair Garrison >>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:02 PM >>> To: Eval TF >>> Subject: 100% conformance for the pages sampled... >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> If I understood correctly from this afternoon's EVAL TF telecon - >>> there was a suggestion that we should (at a minimum) require the >>> representative sample pages to be in 100% conformance with WCAG 2.0 >>> (at the chosen level) in order to say the site conforms (at that >>> level). If this was the case, I strongly agree with it (meant to >>> write it in the IRC at the time). >>> >>> In addition, I noted from some a worry about telling a website owner >>> (a client, etc) that their website doesn't conform - especially when >>> they might have tried hard to do so. To my mind, worries of this >> kind >>> should not deter us from asking for nothing less than 100% >> conformance >>> (on any given sample). The person that does the MOT on my car has >>> absolutely no worries about telling me about any failures, but >>> possibly that's because everyone doing MOTs requires 100% conformance >>> from a car for a pass. >>> >>> Surely, we want people to try their absolute best to conform 100%. >>> We must encourage them to shoot for the stars (100% conformance) - >>> some, of course, will initially only hit the moon, but they will at >>> least know what is expected from them... Let's not, however, start to >>> congratulate people for simply getting off the ground - that time >> must >>> have passed long, long, long ago. >>> >>> Anyway, look forward to seeing you all on the list. >>> >>> Alistair >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Detlev Fischer PhD >>> DIAS GmbH - Daten, Informationssysteme und Analysen im Sozialen >>> Geschäftsführung: Thomas Lilienthal, Michael Zapp >>> >>> Telefon: +49-40-43 18 75-25 >>> Mobile: +49-157 7-170 73 84 >>> Fax: +49-40-43 18 75-19 >>> E-Mail: email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> >>> >>> Anschrift: Schulterblatt 36, D-20357 Hamburg Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB >> 58 167 >>> Geschäftsführer: Thomas Lilienthal, Michael Zapp >>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> = > > > -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ Activity Lead, W3C/WAI International Program Office Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) Research and Development Working Group (RDWG)Received on Monday, 30 January 2012 14:18:52 UTC
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About the Paul's Boutique Samples and References List
Welcome to the Paul's Boutique Samples and References List. This is the ultimate resource for the album Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. This resource has been compiled through internet collaboration since about 1993, it stands to document the samples and references included on the album.
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At the Peter Pilotto show I was struck by the visual impact of the "x effect" that he incorporated into several of his dresses. Â As you can see in the pictures above, this design detail draws the eye in from both the hips and shoulders to give the appearance of an even more narrow waist. Â In short – it makes you look ten pounds lighter!
Later in Milan, I saw the effect in real life on a young lady before the Marni show.  As you can see, the draping of the print creates a vanishing point that enhances the slimming "x effect."


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Dan Fullerton emailed me a few weeks ago asking for me to review his new Regents prep book. As he offered to send me a free copy, I readily said yes. I might even have guaranteed a glowing review had he included a can of Skyline Chili.
I knew I was predisposed to like the book simply because Dan is a physics teacher. Check the authorship of a prep book before you buy it. If the book is not attributed specifically and predominantly to a high school physics teacher, be skeptical. Graduate students and freelance physics writers do not necessarily have the same perspective about what students need to know, and how to present that information.
Consider what students need from a test review book. They have taken a physics course all year, with or without a strong teacher. The review book is for catching up on material that might not have been covered in class; for providing reminders of topics from early in the year; and for providing practice problems and tests.
From the student perspective, this is an excellent book. Since the Regents Physics tests (with answers!) are easily available publicly, a prep book for students must go beyond just presenting practice problems. And, since students have a textbook that already tried to explain the material, a prep book must give concise topic reviews, and then specific and clear explanations for each answer. Dan's book does this, in spades.
Each of the bazillions of practice questions is followed immediately by the answer, along with a brief but thorough justification. I couldn't ask for more.
From the teacher's perspective: I'd recommend this book as a solid resource for general-level physics teachers, whether or not the New York Regents exam is part of your curriculum. Here's where I experienced some philosophical angst, so I'll explain thoroughly.
Regular blog readers will notice that while I share my assignments and teaching ideas freely, I don't tend to post solutions to the problems that I pose. An enormous -- and too often ignored -- part of teaching physics is knowing the subject matter cold. My high school students are regularly amazed at my ability to solve introductory-level physics problems on sight. I try to explain that it's not that I'm smarter than they are, it's that I've been solving these kinds of physics problems ever since I started teaching in 1996. I never rely on a solution manual for answers; I work through every problem myself.* I recommend to all physics teachers that they do the same, even if that's tough at first, even if they occasionally have to rescore a multiple choice key. I know I've had to rescore my share of tests.
*Using AP-style rubrics for grading open response items is not "relying on a solution manual" -- in order to understand the rubric, you have to work through the solution!
My colleague Alex, who's in his second year of physics teaching noted how wonderful this book was because it provided access to solutions -- not just answers, but explanations. And he made me pause for thought.
I remember how many times, especially in my first few years, that I could get an answer right without being able to form a coherent and straightforward explanation that a student would listen to. It took years of experience to bring explanations down from the M.S. level to the high school level. Alex works his rear end off preparing for classes and writing tests. If he's going to use a question from this prep book on one of his tests, he's going to solve the problem. But, he wants to have the book available in case he gets tongue-tied with an explanation.
The point that Alex DIDN'T make but he might have: How many times is a newish physics teacher faced with a know-it-all student trying to make a tortured, lawerly argument that he should be given credit for an answer that the teacher knows is wrong? This prep book has detailed enough answers that it can be used as an authority. "Shut up, kid, and look at this detailed solution. I'm right." Obviously this approach is a last resort for a student who simply will not listen to reason. However, that happened to me enough times that I know how useful the authoritativeness of this prep book's explanations can be.
Dan Fullerton's book is the size of a novel, and is paperback. The size limits the layout possibilities, so that the text looks dense and it's difficult to thumb through to look for things. (That's the only weakness we noticed.) Diagrams are clear; the graphics are humorously drawn and appropriate.
If my kid were taking Regents Physics, I'd buy this for him; if I were teaching Regents Physics for the first time, I would want this book available to me.


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We've all had these moments: Trying to impress a native speaker with our ability to speak their language, we compose an elegant sentence in our minds, open our mouths, and… proceed to swallow our feet whole. Indeed, we Kiva Fellows have had no shortage of these incidents – we've twisted and tortured whole phrases so that they come out no better suited than to embarrass and offend.
So here are a few stories of us Fellows shattering our carefully constructed, professional identities with a spectacular "whoops!"
Can anyone tell me where I can find a clean toilet to drink out of?
Micaela, Mozambique: fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, but the Mozambican variety? It's a little different. In mid-April, she sent me a message informing me, "Welp, apparently I've been calling the sink a toilet for the past few months, and no one has felt the need to correct me." The consequences? Micaela has been going around showing off her bona-fides, telling the locals that she, too, doesn't need to drink bottled water: she thinks the toilet water is just fine.
"Since I learned Brazilian Portuguese," she wrote, "I often find that many of the words I know don't mean anything here, but this is the first time a word I have used actually means something else entirely."
Actually, the Kiva Fellowship is really boring
Chris writes from Azerbaijan: "There is a verb in Russian, скучать, that means 'to be bored.' I've known that for a while. What no one ever told me is that скучать has another meaning, 'to miss (something)' – which, if you think about it, is almost the exact opposite. Why, Russian? Why?
My time in Azerbaijan gave me occasion to regret not knowing both meanings. Specifically, towards the end of my placement there, my Kiva Coordinators, the loan officers, and the administrators of the MFIs I worked with were all sad that I was heading out, and they would ask me, 'Are you going to miss Azerbaijan after you leave?' To which I would respond, 'No, of course not!'
'Really? You won't miss us? Not even a little?'
'No! Why would I miss you?'
I only recently realized that they had not, in fact, been asking whether I was bored with Azerbaijan. I suppose I have to apologize to every Azeri I meet now."
Is that a trumpet?
Carrie, from Peru:
"What is your instrument called?" (I didn't know the Spanish word for "drums")
Wrong: ¿Cómo se llama tu instrumento?
Right: ¿Cómo se llama el instrumento que tocas? = What is the name of the instrument you play?
Why: A very awkward question to ask a guy.
You can't impress all the people all the time
Ryan in Liberia has a unique story because in Liberia, they speak English. Ryan, from California, also speaks English. But all is not as it seems:
"In Liberian English," he writes, "strange means new or different." So, one day, seeking to impress the higher-ups at a meeting, Ryan donned his nicest coat, gave himself a clean shave, and showed up to work with a beaming smile… only to be told that he looked "strange." Puzzled, he said, "Thanks?" and laughed awkwardly.
A few days later, upon returning to the main office from a branch visit, the staff gathered around to listen to his stories and said, "Oh, that place must have been strange to you." "No," he replied, "it was actually quite nice, thank you."
"It took me a few days to figure out that by strange they meant different without the negative connotations," he concludes.
Simon never said
Jamie in the Philippines writes:
"One afternoon, a few days before Holy Week in April, I was sitting in the Community Economic Ventures, Inc. (CEVI) office and learning a few Bicolano expressions in preparation for a trip to the Caramoan Peninsula, which is in the southeast part of Luzon in the Philippines. I found a webpage that had basic terms, which I would deploy upon my arrival to impress and produce smiles from the locals.
But the folks at CEVI do not speak Bicolano; they speak Bisaya and Tagalog. The languages overlap in some cases, while in others there are vast differences. For example, "good morning" in Bisaya is "maayong buntag", while in Bicolano it is "maray na aldaw".
I started reading the Bicolano expressions out loud to my colleagues, trying to impress them with my new knowledge and gauge if any were familiar. When I got to the translation of "sorry", their eyes widened and one girl shrieked, "What did you just say?!"
"Patawarun. It means 'sorry' in Bicolano. Is that close to Bisaya?"
"What?! Are you serious? Let me see that."
"Pa-ta-wa-run, pa-ta-wa-run", I repeated, thinking that I was mispronouncing the word and that they would recognize it after a few times.
But the problem wasn't with the pronunciation – I was pronouncing it just fine. The problem was that Bisaya has a different word for "sorry," and by repeating "patawarun" in front of my colleagues, I was in fact telling them to bend over and show me their behinds.
Oops! It was my turn to laugh. Languages in the Philippines can be tricky."
Does it really matter who ordered what?
Glacé |glasay|
adjective, french – cold, fresh, icy
A story from Natalie, in Cameroon:
"It was my first beer in country, and I was quite thrilled to try a local brew. Also adding to my excitement: the fact that at 500 CFA a piece (almost exactly $1.00), not one single beer offering was smaller than 1 Liter. "Glacé ou non glacé?" the server asked. I was feeling classy so I decided to say yes to drink from a glass. When the server returned with all of the drinks for our table, I grabbed the pint glass closest to me and started pouring. The gal sitting to my right, who'd I'd only recently just met, gave me a funny look.
For weeks I went on stealing people's mugs and glasses, thinking that "glacé" meant "in a glass" instead of it's true translation- "cold, fresh, or icy"- until one day I decided to be a heathen a drink straight from the bottle. After ordering my beverage "non glacé", I was confronted with a disturbing reality: warm beer. Such a simple mistake, how could I not have remembered from 9th grade that glass is "verre" in French? More importantly, I was embarrassed to have been so oblivious to what was really going on around me and not have earlier realized my misinterpretation.
But really, who wouldn't opt for the "glacé" option? When it's 90 degrees out and all you want is to quench your thirst (= dehydrate yourself even further), a cold adult beverage is almost always a good cure, whether in a glass or straight from the bottle."
Who's on first?
You already know where this story is going. And yet, it's funny EVERY TIME. Here's Kim (who?), from Turkey:
"Having the name Kim can be a bit comical and confusing in Turkey. You see, Kim means "who" in Turkish. So one time towards the beginning of my Fellowship, I was talking to a stranger and the conversation went like this:
"What is your name?"
"Kim." (who?)
"Kim." (who?)
"You, why don't you want to tell me your name?"
"I did, it is Kim." (who?)
"Ok, you don't want to tell me your name, so where are you from?"
"Idaho." (heard as: I don't know.)
"What do you mean you don't know? Are you playing with me?"
"No, my name is Kim, and I am from Idaho." (My name is Who and I'm from I-don't-know.)
"What are you crazy or drunk and cannot remember your name or where you are from?"
"I told you my name and where I am from."
After that he got mad, slammed his hand on the table and said you are not a very nice woman and walked away.
I think it was at that point that I was resigned to the idea that I was going to have to use my full name, Kimberly—which is a mouthful because there is nothing close to it as a women's name in Turkish. In the beginning I would cringe when people would call me Kimberly because only my mother had previously used my full name when I was in trouble.
Perhaps as comical is that my middle name is Anne, which means mother in Turkish. So doing anything having to do with formal bureaucracy, when they see or I tell them my middle name—it immediately generates a request for formal Identification.
I don't go to Starbuck's very often but I start grinning when they ask me my name. Hmmm should I say Kim or Kumberlee (once written this way after 4 other scratched out attempts)? I usually glance over my shoulder to see how long the line is before answering."
Kiva Lenders love cucumbers
Me, Palestine: It was my first week at my MFI and I was to give an "About Kiva" presentation to the entire staff, in Arabic. I was quite nervous – I had never given a presentation in Arabic before – and I knew exactly where the the biggest language trap lay:
خيار – Pronounced "khayar," it means "option" or "choice." Pronounced "khyar," it means "cucumbers."
The presentation was going – not great, but not bad – and I finally arrived at the slide containing the fateful challenge: I had to tell the MFI that their Kiva profiles need to be distinguished because, with 3,000 loans fundraising on the website at any given time, our lenders have plenty of other options.
I panicked. I knew I didn't know the word. It was 50/50. "Khyar" or "Khayar"? I held sucked in a deep breath, lined up my words in Arabic, and blurted out, "because Kiva lenders have lots of cucumbers!"
Without missing a beat, the bank manager quipped, "I guess we should prepare a salad then!"
Everybody laughed. The tension was relieved, and the rest of the presentation went – not great, but not bad. The next day, a couple of coworkers came by and offered me salted cucumbers as a snack.
Philip is a Kiva Fellow working with FATEN and Ryada in Palestine.


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Menchie's Frozen Yogurt
Total U.S. Unit Count: 229 (228 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $25,000–$40,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $300,000–$320,000
Royalty: 6% of net sales
Renewal Fee: $20,000
Marketing Fee: 2% of net sales
Menchie's mission statement sets a bold goal: to make every guest smile. With a $500,000 AUV,
the Encino, California–based brand gives its franchisees reason to smile, as well.
Using Menchie's proprietary frozen-yogurt product, guests create their own mix from more than 100 rotating flavors, including the likes of cake batter and pomegranate raspberry tart. There are also 70 rotating toppings, ranging from hot fudge to fresh fruit and granola. Menchie's hits on health by offering nonfat, gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, no-sugar-added, kosher, and low-carb options.
For franchisees, ROI comes courtesy of a highly scalable operation with recognizable branding, operational simplicity, national purchasing power, and no hidden charges or product markups.
As Menchie's CEO Amit Kleinberger says, "Happy franchisees make happy guests."
An Outside Perspective: Simon says Menchie's festive, group-drawing atmosphere creates higher ticket prices and increased referrals. But it's the chain's outstanding growth in a challenging economy that most impresses.
"Menchie's has proven that a system focused on customers, product, and franchisees can dominate a highly competitive market by expanding from 38 units in 2010 to [229] today," he says.
Total U.S. Unit Count: 29 (27 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $20,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $240,000–$400,000
Royalty: 5% of net sales
Renewal Fee: $2,000
Marketing Fee: 2% of net sales
Barberitos is making a splash in the fast-growing Mexican segment. In 2012, same-store sales jumped more than 10 percent from 2011 and AUV hovered near $700,000.
"Each year, the company profit grows, proving that our customers are loyal and willing to pay for our product," Barberitos founder and CEO Downing Barber says.
As a Barberitos franchisee himself, Barber is personally affected by every corporate decision, a reality that connects him with the operators' plight and ensures that corporate decisions drive store-level success. Barber, in fact, calls Athens, Georgia–based Barberitos a "profit-focused" system. The corporate office lends counsel to site selection, design and construction, marketing, and business management, alongside franchise support every six to nine weeks.
"Many franchises do not even operate any of their own [stores], so they don't fully understand what franchisees have to do deal with," Barber says. "But there's no ivory-tower thinking here."
An Outside Perspective: If handled correctly, McKee says, Barber's status as CEO and franchisee can be a big plus for the Barberitos system, as it allows corporate leadership to better understand the daily grind and the external factors operators encounter.
"The communication between the CEO and his franchisees also takes on a different tone because the profitability of the franchisees is a top focus," says McKee, who applauds Barberitos' efforts to clearly define its franchisee profile and performance.
Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Total U.S. Unit Count: 83 (74 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $25,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $461,000–$899,000
Royalty: 4.5% of net sales
Renewal Fee: 1/3 of then-current franchise fee
Marketing Fee: .25% of net sales
Kansas-based Freddy's has earned growing national recognition—and a repeat appearance on this Best Franchise Deals list—for its premium steakburgers, fresh-made custard, and $1.4 million AUV.
Freddy's COO Scott Redler says Freddy's encourages innovation and entrepreneurial thinking among its franchisees, while also supplying the support that fosters expansion. A formal "Freducation" training program and ongoing franchisee coaching ensures consistency throughout the system. Freddy's also prides itself on transparency with its franchise partners, handing its operators all product purchase incentives and rebates.
"We share the system's purchasing power equitably and proportionately with the franchisees from day one," Redler says.
Freddy's, which today has outlets in 17 states, plans to add as many as 300 stores within the next five years.
An Outside Perspective: With the right systems and operations in place, including franchisee training and strong supplier relations, McKee says, Freddy's could meet its ambitious growth goals.
"Freddy's AUVs are strong and if the franchisee carefully monitors his or her costs of entry, this could be a repeat for QSR's Best Franchise Deals again," McKee says.
Penn Station East Coast Subs
Total U.S. Unit Count: 253 (252 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $25,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $320,798–$460,813
Royalty: 4–8% of net sales
Renewal Fee: $1,000
Marketing Fee: 1% of net sales
It could be because of its conservative growth approach, or its intense focus on operational simplicity and a customer-pleasing experience. But Penn Station's record speaks for itself: only two closures in its 28-year history.
The Cincinnati, Ohio–based company, where AUV topped $600,000 in 2012, provides its franchisees with monthly financial comparisons and average income statements that allow operators to benchmark their performance against others in the system.
"Penn Station is a great franchise deal not only because of our strong systems and unit economics, but also our approach to franchisee profitability," says Penn Station director of sales Jad Buckman.
Today, Penn Station is in 13 states, having added Georgia and the District of Columbia to its roster this year. Plans are to open at least 30 new units by year's end.
An Outside Perspective: Simon says it's refreshing to see a brand with a low closure rate and believes the monthly systemwide benchmarking allows operators to pinpoint areas in need of attention.
"Penn Station has taken a deep interest in its franchisees' [profit and loss statements], leading to increased bottom lines and, in turn, lower closure rates," Simon says.
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Q: Slip 78. Sherif Abd el Mayin of Slip 68 becomes el Main, el Mayein, el Muein, el Mayin, and el Muyein.
A: Good egg. I call this really ingenious.From an exchange between T.E. Lawrence and his proofreaders.
Q: Slip 20. Nuri, Emir of the Ruwalla, belongs to the 'chief family of the Rualla.' On Slip 23 'Rualla horse,' and Slip 38, 'killed one Rueli.' In all later slips 'Rualla.'Read it all.
A: Should have also used Ruwala and Ruala.
Q: Slip 28. The Bisaita is also spelt Biseita.
A: Good.
Q: Slip 47. Jedha, the she-camel, was Jedhah on Slip 40.
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Click to viewDespite the fact that BitTorrent has been around for a good 6 years now, the lightning fast file sharing protocol hasn't completely taken off in the mainstream. Since we post a decent amount about BitTorrent around here, we figured it was just time we put out a beginner's guide to BitTorrent. This is the guide you can send to your friend next time he gets that glassy look in his eyes when you mention BitTorrent and how quick and easy it makes downloading
albums educational, public domain videos and other large files.
Without going into too much detail, here's a crash course in the file sharing protocol that is BitTorrent (feel free to skip to the How to find and download a file with BitTorrent section if you're not all that interested in the details).
What is it
BitTorrent is not a program. [1] It's a method of downloading files using a distributed peer-to-peer file sharing system. The programs that you use to download files via the BitTorrent protocol are called BitTorrent clients.
BitTorrent is not like Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/other P2P programs you've used in the past. This is often the biggest source of confusion for people new to BitTorrent. It's not difficult to use, it's just different. As soon as you forget about your old file-sharing program (and you will once you start using BT), the easier it will be to start using BitTorrent.
How does it work
What makes the BitTorrent protocol unique is that it distributes the sharing of files across all users who have downloaded or are in the process of downloading a file. Because BitTorrent breaks up and distributes files in hundreds of small chunks, you don't even need to have downloaded the whole file before you start sharing. As soon as you have even a piece of the file, you can start sharing that piece with other users. That's what makes BitTorrent so fast; your BitTorrent client starts sharing as soon as it downloads one chunk of the file (instead of waiting until the entire download has been completed).
In order to download a file like the educational public domain video we mentioned above, you have to find and download a torrent file (which uses the .torrent file extension) and then open it with your BitTorrent client. The torrent file does not contain your files. Instead, it contains information which tells your BitTorrent client where it can find peers who are also sharing and downloading the file.
How to find and download a file with BitTorrent
Now that you've got a better idea of the terminology and process behind BitTorrent, let's jump right into using BitTorrent.
First you need to download a BitTorrent client (the program that manages your BitTorrent downloads). I'd recommend:
- uTorrent for Windows/Mac
- Transmission for Mac
- Vuze or KTorrent for Linux (Actually, Vuze is cross platform, meaning it will work on Windows and Mac, but on those platforms we still prefer the alternatives listed above.)
Search for a good torrent. There are a handful of really good web sites for downloading torrents (that's right, you search for torrents on the internet). The sites I'd recommend (in no particular order) are:
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- isoHunt
- TorrentSpy
- btjunkie
- Demonoid (Demonoid is sort of a members only site, but if you can get yourself a membership, it's one of my favorites [and a great place to find more esoteric downloads].)
Try out whichever one you like. One might fit your tastes better than another, but I've had good experiences with all of these. From this point, search the site using their search box like you're using Google—just type in the name of what you're looking for. You'll likely get several results, but you want to choose the torrent with the highest number of seeders (indicated in most BitTorrent search results under a field labeled 'S'). Seeders are people who have already downloaded and are sharing the entire file. The more seeders, the faster your download will be. Some sites also provide you with a health meter, which is generally a measure of seeders vs. active downloaders.
Download the torrent. Once you've found a good and healthy torrent, find the download link and download the torrent. Your browser will ask you what you want to do with the file, so be sure to tell it to open the torrent in the BitTorrent client you downloaded above.
Your BitTorrent client will open and (possibly) ask you where you want to save the file(s). Pick your save location, hit OK, and that's it; your file will begin downloading. If you're not impressed with the speed at first, be patient. It can sometimes take a minute or two before the download ramps up to full speed. If you're still not happy, try searching for another torrent with more seeders.
That's it?
Yep, that's it. That, in a nutshell, is how to download files using BitTorrent. There can be more to it, of course, if you want to dive in a bit deeper. For example, you can run through the Speed Guide in uTorrent to improve your download speeds (the guide is fairly self explanatory—just go to Options -> Speed Guide to get started), download select files from the torrent rather than every file, throttle your bandwidth, and so on, but this basic guide should get you started.
Also, to ensure you stay in good standing in the BitTorrent community (and aren't labeled a leecher), you should always try to upload as much as you download. Most BitTorrent clients keep track of your upload/download ratio, and you should generally continue sharing a file until your ratio reaches 1, after which you can feel free to remove it from your client (the file will remain on your computer—you just stop sharing it).
If you're ready to move on to even more advanced BitTorrent business, head on over to our intermediate guide to BitTorrent. For even more, check out the following posts:
- Tips for speeding up your torrents
- Remote control your torrents with uTorrent's WebUI
- Automatically download, convert and sync videos to your iPod
- Control BitTorrent downloads from your mobile phone with uTorrent mUI
- Remotely download torrents to your Mac
- Hack Attack: Get your TV season pass with Democracy
- Hack Attack: Automatically download your favorite TV shows
- Using BitTorrent to send files
- Download BitTorrent files directly in your browser with Opera 9
Since I'm sure many of our readers are experienced with BitTorrent from way back, I'd love to hear your suggestions for BitTorrent newbs in the comments. Also, if you're new to BitTorrent and you have any questions, let's hear 'em.
[1] Well, there is a BitTorrent client specifically called BitTorrent, but we're talking about the BitTorrent protocol. Most of the time you hear someone talking about BitTorrent, they're talking about the protocol and not the program. [back up]


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Following her lecture at the Linn Henley Lecture Hall and book signing outside of Leaf & Petal, Charlotte Moss had lunch at The Garden Cafe by Kathy G., and took time to pose for the above photgraph with Antiques at The Gardens committee members.
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There might not be three more different basketball players than Blake Griffin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Charles Barkley, but with a few more rebounds Griffin is about to create an interesting link among the trio.
Heading in Saturday's game against the Atlanta Hawks at Staples Center, Griffin needed 19 more rebounds to join Abdul-Jabbar and Barkley as the only three players to reach 6,000 points, 3,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists by the end of their fourth season.
"Wow, that's impressive," said Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who played against Barkley and Abdul-Jabbar.
Most intriguing to Rivers is how distinctly different the trio play the game, with Abdul-Jabbar a 7-foot back-to-the-basket center, Barkley a 6-5 undersized — length anyway — power forward and Griffin an explosive 6-9 power forward.
And yet, all three arrived at a similar place statistically at the same exact time.
"There aren't three guys that can be more different than those three," Rivers marveled "There's not anything similar about any of them, which is amazing. And it's another lesson that you can do things similar but in different ways."
Through 63 games, Griffin is averaging a career-high 24.4 points to go along with 9.7 rebounds and 3.6 assist. He and Minnesota's Kevin Love were the only players to average at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in the month of February.
"It just tells you how great Blake is," Rivers said. "He's awful young to be reaching milestones."
Talking practice?
With Allen Iverson's infamous tirade about practice getting major play upon him getting his number retired by the Philadelphia 76ers, its worth noting the Clippers practice about as little as any team in the league.
And it doesn't appear to be holding them back anyway.
So Iverson, meet Rivers, who in a peculiar kind way actually agrees with your view on practice.
Don't misunderstand, when the Clippers work, they work hard. When it's time to practice, they get after it.
It's just that Rivers understands the big picture of a season, that sacrificing some practice time to preserve the legs and energy of his team is tradeoff he happily makes.
"We put in time when we need to put in time," Rivers said. "We put a lot of time in our shoot-arounds. When we do practice, we practice hard. But I believe in legs, and I think over the long haul, I just think it turns out better."
Which is why you'll often see Rivers cancel a scheduled practice the day after a game, or whenever, for that matter.
"When I think we should, it's usually because there is slippage of some kind and I think we need to be in the gym," Rivers said. "Other than that I think the rest is more important."
Crawford back
After missing the previous three games with a strained calf, Jamal Crawford returned for the Clippers on Saturday against the Atlanta Hawks.
Crawford was back in his more customary role coming off the bench.
"I don't think he'll play a lot of minutes, but he'll play." Rivers said.
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