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Hi. We all got the desire to make the transition to an all 64-bit faster for your 64-bit CPU and OS? We can start with the browser coz' it's great to share good things.

Anyone knows how to uninstall IE 64-bit? Because this works with Flash, Shockwave and videos except launch.com or mtv.com(does anyone know a workaround coz' a similar video works on ftv.com and moi-alizee.com), until IE 7 comes, it's significantly and consistently faster, more compatible at the moment:

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This is a God of Spell, spell like enchantment etc.. not Gospel....a joke in english?! Am i mad?!

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Great work Makushiro! Some amazing detail in there, I'm impressed with the amount of work in your painting and so much going on. Wow! Good luck with your entry!

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  1. shelly11

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    Does ne one go 2 Dr. Morell in Utica?
  2. tandy

    tandy New Member

    yes,.. I do.
    I have Dr Morrell as my Rhuematologist.

    I've had him for a long time. (maybe 7 yrs??) can't remember exactly how long.
    I see him at sitrin,.. not at his private practice.

    He has his private practice,... and then he also sees patients 1-2 days a week at sitrin.
    do you like him?
    has he been helpful?

    will check back later tonight or in the morning~
    Take care,
  3. tandy

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    back up
    for the ny er's
  4. shelly11

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    I just started seeing him. Is he good or not? he dx me with fm
  5. tandy

    tandy New Member

    He's one of the best in this area.
    although,... its very hard to get strong pain meds out of him. (or anyone!!) My pain has increased alot over the yrs with Fibro and all he wants to allow me is Ultram/tramadol. The help a tiny bit. (hardly noticable) I'm better off with 2 ex. strength Tylenol. kinda sux.

    I did'nt do the occupational therapy only because they wanted to see me 3 days a week and I did'nt wanna drive out there that often. (from Rome)
    especially now with gas prices.

    Dr.Morrell is very knowledgable in FM and is really nice.
    Unfortunately I have'nt gotten any better. (thou not anyones fault)
    hope this helps~
    best of Luck
  6. shelly11

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    but arent u supposed 2 have 11 out of 18 points that hurt?? he only checked my elbows and they were a little uncomfortable, he said its beginning of fm. could i have been mis dx? I do have allllll other signs tho. thanx
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    Do you have a future appointment with Dr. Morell? If it is not soon can you talk to him or his nurse about his examination?

    Duh, if he only tried two tender points and not the other's, that is not showing the whole picture.

    However, he may have a reason for doing what he did. I would find out what was going on with his diagnosis, what he was looking for, why only two.

    If you already asked him these questions, skip to the next thread!! LOL.

  8. tandy

    tandy New Member

    I' d guess you most likely HAVE fibro.
    You don't have to have all the tender points.
    Some tender points you may not even be aware of.
    They kinda feel like a deep bruise when pressed. but theres no bruise.

    If you have all the other symptoms of FM,... then he's probably correct. Although,...blood tests for other things should've been done.
    Such as Lupus,Rheumatoid Arthritis,MS,thyroid. (to name a few)

    Did he order bloodwork?
    what meds did he start you on, if any?
  9. shelly11

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    He said i only have oa. i've had xrays for that. my thyroid is good. he didnt check 4 lupus but said i dont have it, how would he know? I don break out in a rash like lupus patients do. I know nothing about ms, never tested.
  10. foxglove9922

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    Hi guys,

    I too am a patient of Dr. Morrell's in Utica. I travel from Syracuse to see him and have been his patient for over 7 years. I suffer from CFS amd mild FM.

    Shelly, I'm a bit confused about your posts. You said in one he diagnosed you with FM and then in another you said only oa.

    I personally think he's the best rhuemy in the area. He has hundreds of FM and CFS patients, however, is not up to speed with most things discussed on this board. He's strictly old school. He will prescribe mild pain killers and refers many out to a pain specialist or physcial therapy.

    As I mentioned before, I believe he is the best rhuemy in the area for CFS/FM. I've seen four others who didn't even have a clue about CFS/FM and one group here in Syracuse that flat up said they do not treat CFS patients, but my long-term disability company requires me to have a rheumatologist.....go figure.

    He has been working with I believe a neurologist in Syracuse on an experimental devise that is implanted in the brain that blocks the pain signals from FM. He has has a 100 percent success rate with it, however, it is not covered by insurance and runs roughly $70,000. Keep in mind, this is experimental as well.

    Wishing you the best,

  11. shelly11

    shelly11 New Member

    sorry bout misunderstanding, i meant only have oa not ra but do have fm. does phys. ther. help? Also, how can i get ssi help he won't fill ne thing out til after phys. ther. could be a long x.
  12. foxglove9922

    foxglove9922 New Member

    Hi Shelly,

    Unfortunately, he's not good with paperwork for disability. Who's your primary? I had good luck with my primary who did all my SSDI paperwork, however, keep in mind I have primarily have CFS. I know CFS and FM have some crossover symptoms, but I believe there are two totally different illnesses.

  13. shelly11

    shelly11 New Member

    My primary gave me a letter today but she said specialist would prob hold more weight. did u get ssi? if so, how long did it take?
  14. tandy

    tandy New Member

    It took over 2 yrs.
    and I was denied the 1st time.

    I appealed and got myself a lawyer and did finally win my case.
    It was based on several health problems.
    I have Scoliosis,Fibro, 2 herniated disks in low back, and Endometriosis. and since then I've been DX with IBS, and mild or early OA.
    (I'm falling apart :)

    best of luck
  15. foxglove9922

    foxglove9922 New Member

    I was orginally denied SSDI, obtained a good SSDI lawyer and won on the appeal process after 18 months. This appears to be very fast for the appeal process. I was lucky enough to have a NJ judge look at my case as NY is so backlogged.

    I would highly recommend seeing a good FM doctor. There are 2 in NYC. Dr. Derek Enlander and Dr. Susan Levine. Both are very much up to date on current treatment protocols and are familiar with the disability process and documentation.

    If you need these docs phone numbers and addresses, please just let me know.

  16. shelly11

    shelly11 New Member

    can anyone have ny look at their case, even if u live in ny? my lawyer applied 4 appeal, still waiting, prob, at least another year. was ur lawyer from ny? if so, who is he? i really don't think my lawyer knows much. can i change??
  17. shelly11

    shelly11 New Member

    sorry, meant can NJ look at case


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Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 but the company didn't make too much of a splash until the West Coast Computer Faire in April 1977, when the Apple II was unveiled.  I wish I could say I was there, but I wasn't.  I was living on the East coast Evolvingmacsat the time. In fact, when it came time to buy my first personal computer, I admit it:  I chose the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 over the Apple II, largely because I knew I could get it serviced.

In retrospect, of course, the Apple II had a number of key benefits.   One was hardware - notably the first mass-market floppy disk drive, which Steve Wozniak legendarily designed, and which entered the market in 1978.  Another was software, specifically Visicalc, created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston.  And the third was passion:  not only the passion of Jobs and Wozniak and the folks who worked for Apple, but also their recognition and encouragement of the passion of Apple customers, who went off to evangelize the system.

In the early 1980's, I moved out to the West Coast to work for Popular Computing, and I did spend a lot of time with later Apple IIs, notably the IIe (probably the most successful model of the line) and the IIc.    And of course, there was the Lisa, which came out in 1982.  It was an absolutely gorgeous machine that had two main problems:  almost no third-party software and a price tag near $10,000.

Still, it led to Apple's big success: the Macintosh.  I can still remember Steve Jobs ushering me into a room where he showed me the first Mac, which was still not quite final.  And I remember taking it home and spending days just using it, just because it was so different from anything that came before it.   (Yes, the Lisa had a lot of the same UI, but it was designed as a corporate machine - the Mac was a machine for all of us.)

That original Mac looks painful to use in retrospect.  It had 128K of memory and a single drive, so often you'd find yourself inserting one disk, taking it out and putting in another, over and over again.    But those early applications set the look of applications pretty much to this day.   If you ever used Word 1.0 for the Mac, you'd be pretty much at home in today's versions of Microsoft Word.

I remember the 128K Mac fondly, as well as the later 512K version and of course the external floppy drive and later a 5MB hard disk that I shared with 3 Macs.   Later came machines with internal hard disks.

 But perhaps the Mac I remember most fondly was the Macintosh II, which came out in 1987.  It supported external color monitors, and I remember using it with a dual display back when that was really unusual.

And it was on a Mac II that I really started using some of the applications that defined computing for me for a long time:  Pagemaker, Powerpoint, Filemaker, and More.

Apple continued to improve Macs, and the first Mac Portable came out in 1989, followed by the PowerBook in 1991.     And Apple made the switch to the Power PC in 1995.

But let's face it:  the 90's were defined by Windows, which gained in market share as lots of computer makers, peripheral designers, and software companies focused their efforts on that platform.  Meanwhile, Apple went through a series of strategies (licensing the Mac OS, then not) and a series of CEOs.

The one really unique machine of that era was the handheld Newton, which had all the right concepts, but just didn't work all that well.    It paved the way for the Palm Pilot and today's Smartphones, but Apple didn't make it in any of those markets (at least not yet) .

It was only after Apple aquired Next in late 1996 and Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997 that the company began its resurgence.   After many attempts to update the core Macintosh operating system, Apple finally succeeded with OS X, which took the Macintosh user interface and moved it on top of a Unix base with a lot of new features.   And the design of Macintoshes improved dramatically, from the first multicolored iMacs to the new white all-in-one design that continues to this day; to sophisticated desktops like the PowerMac Quad; to cool looking notebooks.

In recent months, Apple has made the transition to Intel chips, with new models of the iMac, MacBookPro and MacMini  all supporting the new processor.

I currently have a G4 tower at the office and a Mac mini at home (along with lots of Windows machines), and the Macs continue to stand out for their elegance and great design.

If there's one area of concern, it's software.  Apple's own applications are quite elegant:  iLife for the basic home applications; Final Cut for video editors; Aperture, etc.   But I worry a bit that its focus on its own applications has driven away some of the third-party support.

Of course, what most people associate with Apple these days is not the Macintosh, but instead the nearly ubiquitous iPod.   Apple wasn't the first company to introduce a portable digital music player, but the iPod's introduction in 2001 changed the industry.

I remember my first iPod, and I've been using new models ever since.   It has been by far the most successful digital music player, and its integration with the iTunes application on both Mac and Windows and the iTunes store is still heads and shoulder above what anyone else yet offers.

In the future, I hope to see Apple continue to set the bar for both hardware design and elegant integration of software.   Apple has been a key player in making computers and related technology a part of our lives; and no other company has done so much to make computers look so cool.


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I'm a volunteer at the National Poetry Slam 2010

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Rock on!

See you all at NPS!

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Life in a Day

My Jedi sense says something important is happening today ....

Life in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, July 24, 2010.

The film is 94 minutes 57 seconds long and includes scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 192 nations. The completed film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2011, and the premiere was streamed live on YouTube. On October 31, 2011, YouTube announced that Life in a Day would be available for viewing on its website free of charge, and on DVD.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Psychoanalysis v. the Irish

"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."

-- Misattributed to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), but certainly true nonetheless, speaking as a part-Irishman.

Monday, July 19, 2010

See the Big Easy

This is from part of a poem about Hurricane Katrina I found recently and decided to finish.

See the Big Easy

The journalist in me
wants to see the Big Easy
it’s not every day that a city
gets wiped off the map

there are stories that need telling
how two men survived on a rooftop
eating pigeons
when the canned food ran out
until a neighbor they had never known
carried them away
or the family of six that let secrets spill
for the first time in years
when they faced the end
and saw bodies floating by
the mystery of the man
with six shots in the torso
and two in skull
— his killer had to reload —
but what happened to change me
from homeowner to corpse?
there are stories that need telling
and my hands are aching
to tell them a world blinded
by the sheer numbers

Baltimore, what would you do?
Seattle, how would you behave?
St. Louis, how would you collect your dead?
Los Angeles, would your rage subside
for the sanctity of touch?

Atlantis sank
Pompeii turned to ash
conflagration mythologized Troy
reduced Rome to Nero’s fiddlesticks
ended London’s Renaissance
doomed Windy City bovines
erased Dresden’s heart
eviscerated Coventry, Darmstadt, Pforzheim, Brunswick, Stalingrad, Hamburg, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
but the vanity of men
rebuilt them into new glories

each one will die in the old ways
or new, undreamed catastrophes
or ironically appropriate calamities
imagined only by trite screenwriters
yet those with the wherewithal
to hold on by fingernails
will merely collapse in the absence of men
fossilizing our bones in their bellies
before Fenrir swallows the sun
the vault of heaven falls
and grass covers all

I want to see how the end may come
interpret the foreshadowing doom,
behold the ego of man
smote by Mother Nature’s gloved fist
to remind us of our insignificance,
lest we forget
stand in the French Quarter
feel the wafting sin evaporate from the gutters
and understand right retribution
only witnessed before in Sodom and Gomorrah
I want to see the death of one great city
barely hiccupping back to life
before I, too, succumb to my personal tragedy
let me hear the jazz funeral tunes
echo over the eaves of abandoned tombs
when there are no saints left to go marching in

Friday, July 16, 2010

Love Me Like a Cowboy

Love me like a cowboy
without cell phones or central heating
we’ll ride horses down city highways
pass Lexuses and BMWs
waiting for the lights to change
I’ll hoster my six shooter
except for trick shots
and love you dawn till dusk
then love you more
the Old West is a sunrise away
if we ride toward the sunset
we’ll ride the next day
in chaps and 10-gallon hats
on dapple greys or duns

imagine us shooting up the local tavern
making love in high-priced restaurants
and city subways
as if we were only watched by prairie dogs
hunts the suburbs for lost gold mines
and make camp in the middle of the expressway
I’ll ride shotgun while you
use a long rifle on lawyers
to thin out the herd

imagine us always having
a setting sun toward which to ride
a rolling prairie to call home
a pair of horses to carry us
from Deadwood to heaven to Virginia City
and a West forever wild

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Ryan Brown wins the June 12 Sedona Poetry Slam

Results from the Sedona Poetry Slam

Saturday, June 12, 2010, Studio Live, Sedona, Arizona, 7:30 p.m.

Calibration poet and host Christopher Fox Graham of Sedona, "She Begs For Poetry"

Round 1
Random Draw
Liana O'Boyle, of Sedona, 23.1, after 2.5 time penalty, 20.6 (3:50)
Brit Shostak, of Mesa, 26.3 (2:50)
Tristan Marshall, of Mesa, 27.2, after 0.5 time penalty, 26.7 (3:13)
Champion Max Boehm-Reifenkugel, of Sedona, 24.8 (2:47)
Rowie Shebala, of Gallup, N.M., 23.9 (2:01)
Bill Campana, of Mesa, 26.8 (3:04)
Shi'ike, of Cottonwood, 27.9 (3:08)
Tufik Shayeb, of Mesa, 25.7 (2:45)
Mickey Randleman, of Tucson, 26.5 (2:41)
Lauren Perry, of Mesa, 26.4 (3:00)
Ryan Brown, of Flagstaff, 26.9 (2:55)
Evan Dissinger, of Flagstaff, 26.7 (2:23)
Mikel Weisser, of Kingman, 23.4 (1:03)
Doc Luben, of Tucson, 26.3 (3:09)
Randy Warren, of Sedona, 27.5 (2:51)

Between rounds, the audience will be entertained with a feature performance by the Klute, one of the country’s best slam poets and an Arizona artistic treasure.

The Klute, aka Bernard Schober, competed at the National Poetry Slam six times, for the Mesa Slam Team in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006, and the Phoenix Slam Slam Team in 2008 and 2009. He has led two of those teams to the NPS semi-final stage, ranking him among the best of the best nationwide. He was also the Mesa Grand Slam champion in 2005 and 2010.

In an era when most artists and poets shy away from confronting politics, the Klute stands apart.

He has earned a reputation for in-your-face political commentary and over-the-top humor targeting Neo-Conservative politicians, crass laissez-faire commercialism and Goth subculture.

Originally from south Florida, The Klute writes almost exclusively in free verse, making his poetry conversational and relevant to even those who see poetry as something to avoid.

Standing more than 6 feet tall and always bedecked in a black trench coat, the Klute is hard to miss. When poetry escapes his lips at full blast, he’s hard not to hear.

The Klute has released three poetry chapbooks, "Escape Velocity," "Look at What America Has Done to Me" and "My American Journey," which prompted a cease and desist order from the attorneys of former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

“Despite the heat, [The Klute] wears a black trench coat almost everywhere he goes and if the setting permits, he’ll blast through enough slanderous commentary to make Andrew Dice Clay blush,” according to Phoenix 944 Magazine. “Today, his addiction for getting in front of the microphone and spitting out everything from a Dick Cheney haiku to a long-winded prose on race car driving to the late Hunter S. Thompson is as strong as his love for vodka and absinthe. If anyone’s seen ‘The Klute’ in action, they’d know it. If they haven’t, they must.”

Round 2
Reverse Order
Randy Warren, 24.5, after 1.5 time penalty, 23.0 (3:39), 50.5
Doc Luben, 24.7 (2:57), 51.0
Mikel Weisser, 23.0 (2:24), 46.4
Evan Dissinger, 25.2 (3:09), 51.9
Ryan Brown, 28.2 (3:05), 55.1
Lauren Perry, 26.7 (3:09), 53.1
Mickey Randleman, 26.4 (2:52), 52.9
Tufik Shayeb, 25.2 (2:49), 50.9
Shi'ike, 24.2, after 4.0 time penalty, 20.2, (4:29), 48.1
Bill Campana, 24.2 (2:49), 51.0
Rowie Shebala, 25.8 (2:55), 49.7
Champion Max Boehm-Reifenkugel, 26.9 (1:54), 51.7
Tristan Marshall, 27.2, (2:48), 51.5
Brit Shostak, 25.4 (2:22), 51.7
Liana O'Boyle, of Sedona, 25.0, after 1.0 time penalty, 24.0 (3:25), 44.6

Round 3
High to Low
Sorbet poet: Kayt Perlman

Ryan Brown, 27.9 (2:26), 83.0
Lauren Perry, 25.6 (2:56), 78.7
Mickey Randleman, 26.2 (2:47), 79.1
Evan Dissinger left the slam early
Champion Max Boehm-Reifenkugel, 26.7 (1:38), 78.4
Brit Shostak, 26.0 (2:23), 77.7
Tristan Marshall, 23.9 (3:01), 75.4
Doc Luben, 25.2 (2:55), 76.2
Bill Campana, 23.4 (3:09), 74.4
Tufik Shayeb, 23.1 (2:21), 74.0
Randy Warren, 26.5, (4:07), 77.0
Rowie Shebala, 23.3, after 0.5 time penalty, 22.8 (3:14), 72.5
Shi'ike, 26.6 (2:40), 74.7
Mikel Weisser, 22.7 (1:16), 69.1
Liana O'Boyle, 23.4, after 1.0 time penalty, 22.4 (3:25), 67.0

Final scores
1st: Ryan Brown, 83.0, $100

2nd: Mickey Randleman, 79.1

3rd: Lauren Perry, 78.7

Champion Max Boehm-Reifenkugel, 78.4
Brit Shostak, 77.7
Randy Warren, 77.0
Doc Luben, 76.2
Tristan Marshall, 75.4
Shi'ike, 74.7
Bill Campana, 74.4
Tufik Shayeb, 74.0
Rowie Shebala, 72.5
Mikel Weisser, 69.1
Liana O'Boyle, 67.0
Evan Dissinger, 51.9* (only competed in 2 rounds)

Slam staff
Scorekeeper and Timekeeper: Jessica Laurel Reese
Host: Christopher Fox Graham
April Holman Payne, Jenn Reddington, Studio Live
Christopher Fox Graham, Sedona 510 Poetry

Her cat killed a bunny, which died in my hands

Azami is watching Deeds' house and her cat, Mr. Knightly. Her cat has a tendency to catch and kill animals, usually birds and lizards. Most recently, he caught a bunny. Azami saw him and yelled for help, as girls do with small mammals killing other small mammals, and I came to the rescue, of sorts.

The bunny died in my hands.

Azami held him, too.

Azami built a little altar as an art piece, a la Burning Man, before we buried the bunny in the backyard.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Canada Day in Sedona

Canadian-born Sedona residents celebrated Canada Day — the anniversary of the country’s founding in 1867 — at Posse Grounds Park on Thursday, July 1. The group included, from left, Joanne Marco, Tony Marco and Jacquie Randall, all from Hamilton, Ontario; Sedona Police Department Cmdr. Ron Wheeler, from Winnipeg, Manitoba; Harold Gorny, from Toronto; and Azami Ishihara, from Kingston, Ontario.

Azami at the grill.

The group gathers to eat and reminisce about Canada.

Zach Brutsche and Azami show off the Canada Day temporary tattoos she brought back from Alberta.

I got a temporary tattoo above my real tattoo.

Gov. Jan Brewer speaks in Sedona, defends immigration law SB 1070

By Christopher Fox Graham
Larson Newspapers

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer used Sedona as a platform Thursday, July 1, to discuss the nationwide reaction to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s new immigration law.

Brewer said that the bill merely mirrors existing federal law. Passage of the bill was necessary to secure the Arizona-Mexico border, she said, because the federal immigration process is broken.

For the rest of the full story on the Sedona Red Rock News website, click here.

Photo by Tom Hood/Larson Newspapers

Monday, July 5, 2010

Sunday, July 4, 2010

The Loch Ness Monster vs Trolls: In Haiku

These were a series of haikus I used in a head-to-head death match against Tucson's Teresa Driver in October. Just found them.

I was assigned the Loch Ness Monster, she was assigned trolls. Enjoy.

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #1
Bring it on, you trolls
come to the shore and face
my Flippers of Doom

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #2
Monster of Loch Ness
rises from the deep to feed
tourists run screaming

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #3
They say I'm hiding
I'm just biding my time
2012 is near

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #4
Trolls carry spears, swords
and have to hunt in packs.
Bite, swallow, then nap.

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #5
At Moria mines,
even Hobbits fought the troll
but all flee from me

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #6
Dungeons & Dragons
has many troll editions.
But I need just one.

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #7
Fear trolls at nighttime.
In daylight, walk free. At sea,
you always fear me.

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #8
If troll comes for you
he must sneak in. If I come --
you can't hide. You're doomed.

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #9
The troll-free Bible
names both Leviathan and
Jonah's whale. Tremble!

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #10
"Jaws" "The Abyss" and
"It Came From the Black Lagoon"
Name a troll movie.

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #11
Captain Jack Sparrow
Spent three films running from me

What film do trolls have?

Loch Ness Monster Haiku #12

The Leviathan
even made Yahweh tremble.
Bible is troll-free

Saturday, July 3, 2010

How big would the oil spill be near you?

If BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in Sedona, this would be its current size.

How big would the oil spill be near you?

Oil Dealers and Deepwater, Part I

Part I – Oil Dealers*

drive the needle deeper
we need this to fuel us
drive it deeper
till it hits
suck it out like Mother Nature
was givin’ a blowjob
it hurts, yeah, but hurts more
when we don’t have none

used to have our own,
but never enough
I found some pure stuff
bought it cheap
right next door
who knew the neighbor was a dealer?
had to go under the water
not so easy and finding it in the dirt
but don’t matter none
once it goes in
you don’t think about where it came from

got it pure and cheap
got it from B.P.
always trust a Limey, I say
they talk like us and don’t do no wrong

drive the needle deeper
we need this to fuel us
drive it deeper
till it hits
suck it out like Mother Nature
was givin’ a blowjob
it hurts, yeah, but hurts more
when we don’t have none

we don’t trust the Saudi dealer anymore
he’s got too many issues
beats his wife for speaking out
little brothers always bitchin’
’bout how we smack ’em around
Saudi thinks we like him
but we won’t even know his name
if he didn’t have any

his crew don’t trust us none
last time we went there
one o’ them ragheads
left us with a bloody lip
knocked over a few towers in our neighborhood
but we done fucked him up good

we only go to the Saudi for this junk
when we’re desperate
— and when we’re armed, rollin’ with our boys
got to show ’em who’s boss
if you want a fair deal

had some homegrown
but it’s gone bunk
always need more
if we’re going to make it ride
and if it runs out
we still got the Saudi
he’s eager to deal
if he don’t sell to the Chinaman first
but if he do
we’ll just go back with bigger guns
bleed him dry till he’s done
maybe go visit the Chinaman
sure, he packs heat
and rides with his boys
but I think we can take him
We’re ’Mericans,
and we don’t take no shit
John Wayne wasn’t no pussy
we're bad motherfuck'rs

drive the needle deeper
we need this to fuel us
drive it deeper
till it hits
suck it out like Mother Nature
was givin’ a blowjob
it hurts, yeah, but hurts more
when we don’t have none

spill a little, no big deal
always more where this came from
if you lose control
let it flow, let it burn
give Mother Nature a facial
it hurts, yeah, but hurts more
when we don’t have none

*All BP satire logos from


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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Focus Meeting - February 20, 2008

I. Round table has been used by Joe for teaching sharing with teachers. Stumbled upon notebook interactive viewer. Look, create, and share lessons for the Smart Interactive Viewer. Look for it at - or seach it in Google.

John's blog for his students. John has also used the belkin microphone to record a discussion and used Audacity to edit the discussion. John will be presenting at MACUL (twice) on Friday @ 10:00 and @ 1:00 PM. Unwrapping Standards & Common Assessments.

Stacy's webquest can be found at Used in her history classes - has a blog for each of her classes. Syncing seems to be a bit of a problem with some of the iPods.

Angela blog may be found at Anglea has also added a cluster map to her blog. She also used the mini video cameras to record the fashion show and wants to place the videos on the class blog. Recommendation of to store video.

Sharon is using the iPod for student self evaluation. Student would then listen and critique their own reading. Discussion of voice in reading. Used iPod for student who was not present in class for a period.

Judy Hogwart's Club and are going to be doing Pottercasts for discussions. The Harry Potter web stie is at

Barbara added a podcast to the curriculum website at FPS.

Karen has been working on her classroom webpage. Having problems with the iPod - the tech department will help with that. Goal is to have her students to record their stories and place them on the webpage.

Arlene and Sue report on the Library/Media - High School Library Webpage - The library site generated a conversation as to the reorganization of the website.

Arlene presented the elementary webpage - n Movement to changing the individual webpages to one in common and individual schools -

II. Percentage of technology knowledge of 8th graders - once a year as deemed by the MDE.
Scores over the last three years 87% for fall semester, no one failed. The process of reading moments for each class covers some of the items not taught in the curriculum.

III. Members of the committee had an experience with Sketchcast.

IV. John shared i-School a test generating and statisics applicaton. A discussion of the use of Data Director and its use developed.

V. Discussion of NETS for students

Monday, April 16, 2007

A helpful read

Not to pat anyone on the back, but an article by Dr. Morehead and myself has recently been published, and it deals directly with the topic of conversation for Friday's meeting. The article can be found at

You might like to read this before Friday's meeting, and help the discussion along.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Wondering how the lesson design is going?

In the ending minutes of the last mtg. here are my notes as to what lesson/units Tech Focus Group members will be working on for their inquiry learning.

Sharon - Weather
Judy - Intro to the the Middle School
Stacey - U.S. Constitution
John - An inquiry based model
Angela - The Art Show
Keith - American Revolution
Joe - Why travel to the moon, or should we have zoos?

Wondering if anyone needed help or needed some resources?

Interesting reading

In reading my listserv from ASCD Smartbrief ran across a couple of interesting articles. You may have to log into the newspapers that these came from - to read the entire article - but it is just a simple registration.

A New Kind of Literacy Today's students face a different world and will need a different kind of literacy and skill set. An ASCD blog post highlights of an annual conference session which explained that literacy encompasses document, technological and quantitative skills, and that when these skills are taught within real-world, meaningful contexts, students become motivated and invested in their learning. Read more.

Teachers turn to Web to connect with studentsEducators are beginning to incorporate the Internet into their lesson plans, as a growing number are finding the Web an indispensable means of connecting with the younger generation. Google recently launched "Google Teacher Academy", a free one-day program for educators who want to gain experience with Google's technology. The Sacramento Bee (Calif.) (free registration)

California school to offer podcasting classAtascadero High School near San Luis Obispo will next fall teach students to produce audio and video podcasts and publish them for the world to download. "We used to offer basic classes in keyboarding and that sort of thing," said computer science teacher Gary Bissell. "We don't offer those anymore because the basics aren't necessary. They've been using computers all their lives." The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) (4/1)

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Thanks for a great meeting

Hello Tech Focus Group,
Thank you for all the hard work at yesterday's meeting. I do think that you have ideas in your mind for some great projects and/or inquiry based learning.

I said that I would do a post to the URL for the NETS for students and this is it - - this is the home page that lists many interesting items. Perhaps the resources and reference guides are additions that FPS would like to make to their professional library if they are not already there.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Next Mtg - March 23rd

In preparation for the committee's next meeting, we would like you to prepare for the discussion by reading the information on project based, problem based, and inquiry based learning. For the meeting on the 23rd we would like to discuss the pros and cons of each method.

In addition - we need to make steps to begin to organize what issues become evident if the district would take steps to create some model classrooms using one of these methods. When exploring these instructional methods, think about how you would incorporate one of the methods into your classroom. Not everything you do, but a start. We would like you to share this with the committee.

In addition from this sharing we will begin to build a listing of needed resources, modifications, materials, professional development, curriculum restructuring or other needs that become evident.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Inquiry Based Learning

Inquiry learning - which may be inclusive of Project & Problem Based learning, still has elements that may be evaluated independently.

Biopoint - - gives a rather complete overview of developing an inquiry based lesson. Included in the article are links to example lessons.

If you were to implement inquiry based learning in your classroom, what resources would you need. Curriculum revision, professional development, development time, hardware, software, study time - what would you need to do?

Problem Based

The Center for Educational Technology includes a very complete description of the process of PBL at - PBL is not a learning process that is incorporated into a classroom in a short period of time - as the article speaks to the changing roles of both the teacher and the students.

The NASA SCIence Files gives some wonderful examples of PBL in the classroom. This is a link to the orginial page that gives more background on PBL, and at the bottom of the page there is a link to NASA's current topics.

Jerome, Idaho has linked a variety of lessons developed by their teachers for PBL implementation in the district. They ay be found at this link -

After reading the article of PBL, and visiting the following school sites - what you need to have/do to implement PBL into your classroom. Again resources, hardware, software, training, curriculum revision, restructing class organization - name what you would need.

Project Based Learning

Edutopia contains links to many schools that are successfully incorporating Project Based Learning into their classrooms. Please take a look at some of the school sites listed.

In addition this article, published in the June 2006 issue of Edutopia - - includes additional examples of project based learning.

Then answer this question - what would you need to implement project based learning in your classroom? Planning time, curriculum revision, training, integration support, equipment - what would it take?

Extending the learning environment

Independent learning - the use of online learning environments for students who can take advantage of extended learning enironments. Such online learning provided at Michigan Virtual High School and Concord. So lets take a look at these two sites and see what they could offer to the students a Fitzgerald Public Schools.

Michigan Virtual High School can be found at In checking out the course catalog, what courses could expand the offerings at FHS?

Concord Consortium can be found at This organization, long known for the powerful use of inquiry based learning in an online environment can serve a variety of needs, both for teachers and students.

Let the committee know what you have found interesting at these sites.

Monday, February 19, 2007

If anything is possible, changes to be made

The wrap up at the end of the Technology Focus group described a community of learners that would be responsible for their own learning. The learning environment that would be available to the students could best be described as an Inquiry based learning environment.

Eduscapes ( has an interesting introduction to Project, Problem, and Inquiry Based Learning.

With your understanding of Project, Problem and Inquiry Based lets discuss some negative and positives of each. I have started some new posts on each of these so that we can follow the discussion a little easier. Please post your opinions of all or some at the respective posts.

Content areas are taught in isolation
Students no credit for outside work
Lack of vision of future use
Current school structure
K-8 class structure

How do you see FPS in 5 years?

Related to the "real world"
Ongoing PD
Risk *taking environment
Curricular design to flow
Life long learning
Alternative methods of Assessment
Based on research
All students exit portfolio
Cross curricular instruction
Thinking strategies
Teacher use/access to data

Vision of the Future

Unconventional leisure time/uncongenial work time
Written communication skills will need to improve
Time management skills
Leisure/work will be blended because of the ability to take stuff with you
Jobs will be task defined not time defined
More educational guidelines/increased instructional pace
People work in the same place but the job changes
People\do the same job but the place changes
Less & less face to face interaction
All information will come from the Internet
Service industry
Well rounded/multiple skills services
Off site work
Globalization of manufacturing will require more education
Contracting independently, less benefits
More technical jobs require more training
More global jobs * larger world view
Jobs will require problem solving, creativity, critical thinking
More self-directed job requirements
Frequent job changing (every 1-5 years) adaptive
More expanded opportunities for minorities
Jobs moving\outsourcing=20Information easily accessed anywhere\anytime
hard\print will also be digitized * literacy opportunities expanded
Planning is more access \we can do it with tech
Virtual R & R maybe grater need to get away, but we may still be wired =when we travel=20Extended learning beyond the school walls
Collective Description:
Teaching must change\students are different today "digital natives"
Facts, etc are readily available
we need to provide problem solving/creativity, etc. More choice is needed "a global perspective is critical"
higher level thinking\more cooperative learning\life skills \self direction \ ethical behavior
technology should be transparent
curriculum and teaching needs to change
looks the same as it did 50 years ago
higher ed degrees very important
focus on motivation how
More emphasis on communication
Does learning content connect to the real world
More freedom with devices
more responsibilities
Essential questions
research focus inquiry based beyond basic content

Did you know...

Blog site for the orginial presentation (the one that you saw at the 1st mtg).

The Windows Media file version of "Did you know" has been removed from the www. Here is some additional info on the file - of the presenatation (it is a windows media file format), and the blog of Scott McLeod who updated the orginial.


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What I miss about the UK and what I would miss here

Homesickness is common and can be hard to get your head around at first. Alexis Goldberg, the France Buying Guide’s writer on the ground, offers us her take on what she misses most from the UK (as well as what she would miss if she moved back!)

“We are often asked this question: what do you miss about living in the UK? The short answer is: very little indeed! Once you move away from the UK, life takes on a completely different perspective (- as indeed does the UK itself!). It seems so small over there now – which I suppose brings me on to what we would miss if we were to move back to the UK and the short answer to that is: a lot!

I think most expats would say that they miss family and friends the most – not “things”. It’s true that you will no longer be able to pop in on a relative or friend and there are definitely times when you wish they were all a little closer.

Having said that, in our case, three of our four children live abroad anyway and the times we DO spend with friends and family when they visit us here are special and are for longer periods than, say, an evening or a meet up for a quick coffee. It’s far more relaxing to catch up properly, and our friends know that they don’t have to drive home at the end of the evening! So missing friends and family is something one does not really dwell on a great deal. In addition, it’s worth noting that these days, living anywhere in Europe means only a short hop back to the UK.

When we first came to live in France, I suppose it is true to say we missed shops being open all through the day. The general closing time between midday and 2pm does take a bit of getting used to, but you quickly adapts to this way of life and realises that a proper lunch break is good for us all.

It is also true to say that the wealth of convenience foods in the UK is something which I have occasionally missed, certainly at the beginning. However, now I relish mooching around the wonderful markets, picking out the freshest ingredients and creating my own meals. Whatever anyone says, they always taste better and one feels much more creative in the kitchen!

Most supermarkets here in the South of France have an English section (along with a Spanish, Mexican and Chinese section too…) where you can buy such staples as baked beans, chocolate digestives, marmite, good old PG Tips and so on. Yes, tea can be slightly on the dodgy side here (i.e. weak) so this is something we tend to stock up on when we return to the UK or get friends to bring over with them (although you can get it here, it is much more expensive).

English books? We have two or three bookshops which stock them and nowadays the French have clocked on to the fact that their neighbours, us Brits, love their country and they cater for us all around.

We have English TV here too, so my husband can still get his sports fix. He does sometimes say watching Formula 1 with French commentary is not quite the same. The French love their sports though – ok, they don’t quite “get” cricket – but if you are a rugby or football fan, you will find all the main games on major channels on French TV, albeit in French.

My son-in-law, who lives in Germany, would say that he misses cricket and cheddar cheese. My son, who lives in the US, would say he misses good old English pubs. These are things that do not spoil one’s life abroad, but instead become things to look forward to on visits back to the UK.

I think if we were to go back to the UK now we would, as I said at the start, miss a whole host of things here in the South of France: the space, the climate, the relaxed way of life, the wonderful fresh food (and wine…!), the Mediterranean Sea, the ability to get in your car and be in Spain in an hour, the sense of community…I could go on!

For most people there will always be a certain nostalgia for one’s home country, but this is really not something to lose any sleep over. Vive la France!

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Really, it's the simple things.

Have you ever taken appropriate packaging for aluminum foil for granted?  I bet you have.

1st tug on the brand new roll

If you try to tear a square off, the thin cardboard housing collapses. Or, if you are lucky, it catches on one side and not the other, ripping you off a perfect triangle.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Family Christmas.

I love the sound of cars driving through snow on the streets.
I love the noises all muffled in the white.
And weirdly, the smell of exhaust accompanied by freezing cold.
I love warm winter drinks and a lit christmas tree in the dark.

I love spending 4 days with my cousins that I see every 4 years.  And that my grandma, who is 90, is still taking care of business.
I don't mind that my nieces are getting taller than me.
And that the wind chill makes it feel like -25°F

I like sledding
and that I got to go in an actual ice fishing hut and watch my cousin cut through 18 inches of ice to get to those fish.
And playing dominoes, and Trou du Cul

And I really like sledding at 12:01 on New Years with my sister and her husband and my 10-year-old niece.

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How to Spot Advocacy Science: John Taylor Edition

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Sometimes you see the perfect piece of evidence. The scatter plot that is just so. The data line up perfectly. And then you realize, perhaps they’re just too perfect. What you are seeing is advocacy, dressed up as science. Here’s an example, provided by John Taylor (via Greg Mankiw):

Taylor’s conclusion:

The data on spending shares show that the most effective way to reduce unemployment is to raise investment as a share of GDP.

But why begin the scatter plot in 1990? There’s no good reason. In fact, most folks typically download the entire history of available macro data. So let’s see what happens if we extend it back to, say, 1970:

Hmm… What conclusions should we draw about this relationship? And now why do you think Taylor began his sample in 1990?

Actually, we should use all the available data. The chart below goes back to 1948, when these series—in their current form—began:

Now what’s your conclusion?

Here’s Mankiw’s assessment of Taylor’s claim:

There’s no doubt that the strength of the correlation is impressive.

But when you look beyond the cherry-picked sample, the correlation is a decidedly unimpressive -0.14.

Here’s my conclusion: On balance, times in which the investment share is higher, are slightly more likely to be good times. But I’m not sure why. Is it—as Taylor asserts—that high investment shares create good times? Or is it that good times encourage investment? Or is it a third factor—perhaps in good times the government doesn’t need to prime the fiscal pump, and so the investment share is higher? Or is it something else?

Be wary of economists wielding short samples.

The NYT publishes advocacy, junk science polls and studies all the time, unfortunately. Everybody in the media has an agenda to push, to the detriment of our country's future well-being.

Michael Fisk

Could part of the difference be a function of differences in monetary policy and money demand from various eras? There is the possibility that, due to changes in capital markets, a correlation could exist now that didn't exist before. But yes, the correlation is almost suspicious, even more so when there's no firm conclusions to be drawn from it.

Wow, I just read Krugman’s equally thorough take-down of Taylor’s graph.

But Krugman takes a different angle and points out the reason for the drop in investment is mostly the real-estate bust.
Guess today was a bad day to post misleading charts.

I am not an economist so I don't really know anything about spending shares but as a scientist I would say that something really interesting happened in the 70's and 80's. The rest of the data basically fits Taylor's pattern so a more interesting question would be: why was there such high unemployment in the late 1970's and 1980's despite the fact that the investment to GDP ratio was relatively high? This isn't cherry picking it is just figuring out when a pattern holds and when it doesn't.

Taylor might well be right if his statement is appropriately restricted. It looks like there is very little, if any, correlation prior to 1990, followed by phenomenal correlation. Given that stark contrast it might well be that something changed around 1990 that led to high correlation between GDP and investment.

Of course, even under this interpretation Taylor would still be at fault for presenting the data as though they were representative.

Alternatively you could ask what the heck happened in 1990, because before that it looks like the pattern might have been the opposite of what Taylor describes. Simple linear regression isn't always the solution, sometimes you have to break the data into chunks to figure out what happened when.

Putting aside Taylor's conclusion, which is silly because he ignores housing investment's cliff dive, I'd love to see this kind of data mapped against traditional correlations for investment, notably interest rates and inflation. What I see in Taylor's bit and then your graphs is another example of the oddity of the current situation, with zero rates not creating investment - despite the theoretical arguments of Austrians et al - and thus this weird kind of wiggling around by people unwilling to accept that the data says their models are wrong. Thus, we aren't seeing investment so therefore rather than accept our models are wrong, we blame something inchoate floating in the air. That isn't economics. We can translate that kind of thing into economics through surveys that measure confidence and those say that demand worries (sales) are 3x normal while government-related issues (regulation, taxation) are roughly the same as normal. But rather than accept that data, the choice is to pick that inchoate thing for which there is only hand-picked anecdotal evidence.

serge d'agostino

these stuffs show that economics are historical science: which is (maybe) true from 1990 to 2010 (or which is a good correlation), can be false (or bad correlation) between 1948 and 1990, etc.

Mark A. Sadowski

Not to excuse Taylor by any means (I 'm normally suspicious of his intents) but NAIRU fell sharply during the 1990s. What if you graphed the relationship between investment and the gap betweeen unemployment and NAIRU?

Mark Brucker

I would think that you would have to look for lags in the effect of investment on employment for it to have any value at all!

Use of the smaller dataset could be justified if we have a good reason to believe that something important changed in or about 1990. Indeed, your second graph seems to show that there are two distinct periods with respect to the data-- One period prior to 1990 where the relationship is loosely correlated and maybe slightly positive, and a second period after 1990 where the relationship is strongly negatively correlated. It's not cherry-picking to think that something may have changed in the broader economy to cause this change in correlation.

Though I do agree with some parts of what you are saying I will say that to:

"Be wary of economists wielding short samples."

I counter: "Be wary of economists who believe economies are the same over long periods of time"

Still the most important conclusion would be: don't call it a science. Have 10 economists look at it and you'll get 10 different "opinions"/"theories".

Andrew Berman

There is no problem with the original plot. Even cherry-picked, it's an impression basket of cherries. The question is-- what does the plot mean. It could mean that during those years, something was happening to put them in correlation. It could be the reverse of the natural explanation, i.e., perhaps higher employment resulted in higher investment..

Considering that it's doubtful that investment would reduce unemployment the very same year, perhaps one could plot investment vs. employment 2 years later. Or, even better, just do a time series with unemployment and investment as two plots. Any correlations would show up there as well.

How to spot Advocacy Science: Freakonomics Edition:

Note that a chart uses limited data, but DO NOT attempt to determine reasons that data may be limited. Question only the completeness, not the methodology. For example, don't mention that the confidence/accuracy of the numbers on the scatter chart is much lower when the GDP per capita ratio was much lower, and the post-1993 numbers represent much more robust comparison.

No, don't do that. Just point out that earlier numbers are different, then vaguely insult the person who compiled them.

Good work, Freakonomics! You've taught me another skill!

fresno dan

in any bunch of data, you can find correlations. Just as with coin flips, the vast majority of the time it means nothing.

Mike MacDonald

Perhaps your post should be titled "How to miss paradigm shifts, Justin Wolfers edition. I'm an Electronics Engineer, not an Economist, but I collect experimental data, I analyze it, and I can unequivocally state that noise does not look like your first plot. That's signal. Perhaps your data is best presented in the form "Post stagflation", "Stagflation" and "Rebuilding from WWII". Those were economic phenomena, were they not? And are we rebuilding from war still? If not, why use that data? What's the "misery index"? If it's low, why include the seventies and eighties?

This technique is at the core of so much "climate science." When you peel back the covers and look at the data - especially it's quality - and how the global warming story is presented, you find exactly this kind of cherry-picking in way too many peer-reviewed papers, not to mention the IPCC assessments. It's a disservice to the public to lie by omission, but that's what happens when a cause overtakes integrity.

Can it be the lurking variable is the prosperity itself? One might ask, too, investment in what. There's a logical (unproven) connection between improving the infrastructure of the country, investment in basic research (as long as it's not handedness in polar bears) and investment in the human capital of the country - economic theory would indicate these will increase GDP.

Keith Eubanks

Even with the new data, I'd say something was there. The question is why would the 1970s and 1980s present a different relationship. If there is a causal relationship between investment and employment, what other factors enter the picture?

Since 1990, the correlation seems strong. What about the 1970s and 1980s might have changed this relationship? Are there any longer term trends changing this picture? Is the data the same: definition wise? How did the price controls and inflation of the 1970s affect this? How about deregulation? How about regulations? How about population growth?

The economy is not just a random walk. Many causal factors drive employment; certainly investment would be a primary factor. What this points out though is that our understanding is still limited.

My question would be are public polices (including the Federal Reservess) founded on a better understanding or are people taking actions for which they truly do not understand the likely outcomes? Or perhaps their understanding is sufficiently limited that their actions are potentially damaging?


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Put A Straw Under Baby

Regular readers will recall that we did our fair share of biting back at that beloved American institution known as March Madness. Frankly, I was in favor of piling-on even more, but I would like to think that we were screaming with our silence during that utterly unwatchable Final Four. In case I haven’t made it clear in the past, I have no problem with college ball per se. I love watching the early rounds of the tournament and cheering for outrageous upsets just as much as the next guy, but it frustrates me to no end when people feel the need to demean my dear Association in order to justify their preference of an obviously inferior brand of basketball. Chief among these myths is that college kids play harder than the pros. For proof of the immense effort exerted nightly in the L, one needs to look no further than last night’s Laker game, where “stoned-slacker” extraordinaire Lamar Odom hit the hardwood for a loose ball before going between Dunny’s legs to Kobe for a 360. And I defy anyone who watched UConn, a team supposedly stocked with talent, struggle against Albany, Kentucky, and Washington before succumbing to mighty George Mason, to tell me how much harder college kids play.

Unfortunately, however, there are some players in the league blessed with enough raw talent to excel without consistently giving the proverbial 100%. These players, despite being the exception and not the rule, provide obvious fodder for all Association haters. The two players in this mold that most readily spring to mind are Ray Allen and Vince Carter. Both are famous detractors of that pest known as the Rash, and I don’t see how this can be a coincidence. It seems that Bowen’s mere existence is an affront to Ray and Vince, and I imagine that their ability to get by on sheer talent is offensive to the forever-hustling Bowen.

(Apologies, Rick. Photo credit to John Loomis and the Fader Blog)

Recently, the Allen-Bowen feud reached a new level when Bowen kicked Allen after the two were tangled on the floor. We discussed this in great detail at the time, but in the days following that post it came to light that Allen personally called the NBA’s VP of basketball operations, Stu Jackson, to complain.

"When we landed in Memphis I called Stu and asked him if he saw the game. He
said he watched it that night, and he didn't think much of it. He said I'm going
to watch it again. I told him I was just sitting there and he kicked me in the
back and something more should have been done than him getting a technical foul.
Then he started watching it, and he thought I was on his ankle."

Obviously, you would never catch Melo placing such a call, but frankly, it offends me that NBA players have nothing better to do with their nights than call the league office to complain, ESPECIALLY after a game that they won. They should be hitting the clubs, recording albums or updating their MySpace page. Petty bitching should be left to people like me.

Walter Ray responded in the ultimate way by hitting a go-ahead 3 in the final seconds to get his team a W. Point taken. If, for some reason, that still wasn't enough for him he could have spoken to Stu Jackson through the media as Shaq recently did. Calling the league office is just a bitch move, and it's indicative of many of my problems with him as a player. Like, why does it take a Bowen kick to get him to play with passion? Why does Seattle go 52-30 during his contract year and 33-44 once he gets paid? (And before you come at me with any argument about Seattle being a different team this year recall that their main free agent losses were Antonio Daniels and Jerome “Big Snacks” James, and then look at what Gilbert has done in Hughes' absence). As much as I hate being the one to say this, if we're really serious about silencing all these erroneous anti-NBA stereotypes, I think we need to call out the guys who help perpetuate them every bit as much as we (deservedly) call out the Bowen's of the world for their cheap and boring brand of ball.

At 4/12/2006 12:20 PM, Anonymous White People Don't Know said...

reggie miller and ray allen were twins seperated at birth (miller=evil twin). I've never really liked either, but i do enjoy watching those old clips of reggie attacking kobe (and in the same situation FBP would have written somebody a disapproving letter). That's why the dooling-allen fight earlier this year was so odd. the cosmic balance was must have been upended with miller's retirement—a disturbance in the force.

At 4/12/2006 12:36 PM, Blogger Mirabeau Lamar said...

How true. While Bowen's kick was excessive, calling the League was the bitchiest move the Association has seen for a while. With his talent, his biggest liability is his own will power. He could be a much more dominant player, but he lacks the desire. Bowen shut him down last night in their rematch as he was completely taken out of the game, mentally.

At 4/12/2006 12:37 PM, Blogger Mirabeau Lamar said...

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At 4/12/2006 12:43 PM, Blogger Bethlehem Shoals said...

while i welcome the trashing of fbp--as i told you over email, the praise i heap upon him at this point has little to nothing to do with my actual feeling about him--i do feel obliged to stick up for him a little bit. at least vis a vis the vince comparison.

for all his shortcomings, and the contract year one is a glaring one, allen is the kind of player who you could a basketball aesthete without it necessarily discounting his effectiveness or heart. vince has clearly chosen/been forced into the role of basketball artiste, even in his current incarnation as the jersey dynamo. as in, you wait with vince not so much to see if he's going to score, but how he'll do it. his battle isn't against the defender (these days, he wins), but against his own high standards for embellishment.

what's always impressed me most about vince is how fluid (not smooth) he is, moves or no moves. that's kind of how i feel about allen--he's still a viable player out there, caught up in the struggle, but everything he does also comes off pretty as hell. there's an overall feel to his game that, while it may not help him OR create a new precedent for what it means for him to score, is obviously indicative of both ray ray the man and something he takes great pride in.

carter could've been this, and probably should be these days, but his past haunts him. and he can't help but dredge it up again at least once or twice a game, when he reminds us that he might be basketball's greatest showman ever. unfortunately, it's hard to ignore that when he can so easily make any drive into one of those plays. and of course, this brings in the requisite criticims of the "natural athlete." allen, though, has cultivated a game that happens to be as easy on the eye in its own way as carter's fireworks.

and for the ray-like aspect of vince. . . i'd argue that it's harder to sublimate limitless athletic power than give it free rein.

At 4/12/2006 1:04 PM, Blogger Brickowski said...

shoals, i'm not sure i understand what exactly you're defending. i love both of their games, and that's why i find them so frustrating. if we were playing the "what NBA body part would you most want" game i'd probably take Ray's wrist just behind Kirilenko's arms and Shaq's, uh, well let's leave that alone...

ray is without a doubt one of the smoothest human beings i've laid eyes on, but his whole demeanor just screams "military brat." for another example of "shit you just don't do that ray does," look to earlier this year when allen was quoted in the press saying he thought the sonics should trade flip murray for earl watson. earl probably is a better fit for that team than Flip, but you don't say that shit about a teammate in the press! ray is the leader of that team, and he undoubtedly has some say on what direction the team is going. he could just as easily say something like that in private to management. why dog Flip in public?

At 4/12/2006 1:53 PM, Blogger Brown Recluse, Esq. said...

i wonder if the flip dogging has to do with ray allen getting traded from the bucks when they realized his back up (michael redd) could fill his role pretty well for less money. not saying flip's on redd's level, but when he went on a tear with allen out last year, he must've started having nightmares.

At 4/12/2006 2:10 PM, Blogger Bethlehem Shoals said...

their ability to get by on sheer talent is offensive to the forever-hustling Bowen.

my outpouring was in response to this. i consider allen a highly aestheticized version of a classic model. he obviously tends to the look and feel of his game, but its ultimately about undiluted basketball. vince, however, is the foremost cautionary tale of how playing ball based on athleticism alone can lead one into a faustian detour from which one's rep might never recover.

At 4/12/2006 2:33 PM, Blogger Brickowski said...

gotcha. and i wasn't trying to say that allen's game is predicated on athleticism. a stroke that pure was inevitably honed at some point in his development through insane amounts of repetition. but he just seems to coast a lot of the time. for instance, at the time of “the kick” the spurs were up 11 and had controlled the game. from that point on he scored 23 points going 8-13 from the floor.

I realize that it’s not uncommon for athletes (and regular people) to get sparked by certain events. Gilbert exploded after the ASG slight, but when gilbert explodes he raises his game from great to amazing—40 instead of the nightly 30—with ray the difference is night and day. And I recognize that it’s a little unfair to use Gilbert against you like this (and also unfair to ray since no one compares to gilly) but it seems like the most appropriate comparison since they’re the two purest gunners around.

At 4/12/2006 2:37 PM, Blogger Bethlehem Shoals said...

i think that's the first time i've ever heard anyone called allen a "gunner."

At 4/12/2006 3:02 PM, Anonymous TZ said...

Is it time, then, for a discussion on underachieving "greatest-SGs-of-all-time" then?

This piece and the subsequent analysis was fantastic, by the way.

At 4/12/2006 3:17 PM, Anonymous Aaron said...

How the hell can you say that calling the league office to complain is bitchier than taking it to the media?

I mean, I'm sure the media wants you to think that complaining to them is within the accepted norms of behavior. They make their money on televised controversy. But surely calling the man in charge of discipline and discussing the situation with him personally is less bitchy than taking it to the media and making a public issue out of it?

At 4/12/2006 4:00 PM, Blogger T. said...

on underachieving "greatest-SGs-of-all-time" then?

Doesn't this category begin and end with Billy Owens? Or is my obsession with him bordering on Shoals-Arenas levels?

At 4/12/2006 4:30 PM, Blogger Pooh said...

Doesn't this category begin and end with Billy Owens?

Shooting guard. He can't be considered since he could never really shoot. For my money, this category starts, middles and finishes with Isiah-Junior-J.R.-Easy Rider, though Kendall Gill might get a mention. Mark Macon?

At 4/12/2006 5:13 PM, Blogger T. said...

Actually, I went to basketball-reference and did a similarity score for JR Rider's career.

#1 most similar at age 22? Harold Minor.

I'm done.

At 4/12/2006 5:18 PM, Blogger Brickowski said...

Aaron, players generally have to answer questions from the press. If Ray was frustrated he could have vented in a post game interview like players commonly do. But he waited until he got off the plane then personally called Stu. How is that not beneath an NBA player? Have you ever heard of another player calling the league to plead for another player to be fined? That's some shit younger siblings pull.

At 4/13/2006 6:42 AM, Anonymous Kaifa said...

Anyone else had a deja vu on the far above mentioned Odom-Kobe play? If only Kobe could have worn thick-rimmed glasses on his 360...

At 4/13/2006 7:21 AM, Anonymous French contra said...

those guys (who lack the "desire") make me sick . Ray Allen will never be a great player, he is nothing else than a big sissy. fuck him

At 4/13/2006 8:58 AM, Blogger c-los said...

Ray Allen will never be a Great Player?????? Are you serious man....Don't let the smoothness fool you...Jesus is a great player...did he make a bitch move by calling Stu Jackson...maybe.. but im sure he's not the only one who has called Stu Jackson...y does Seattle go 33-44 this year....umm...they also lost Nate McMillan..Rashard Lewis has missed some time this year. Their big men sucked this year and their swingmen had incredible seasons in 04-05....look at what they're doin with Wilcox in the middle....they beat San An, Memphis, and Phx in the past 2 weeks

At 4/13/2006 3:19 PM, Anonymous French contra said...

Ok I meant Great player kobe-like or iverson-like or lebron-like

He had all the tools to be a Great. No kidding everyday that's the same thing "Ray Allen shot extremely well , complained about his defender's defense and the sonics either won or lose" . If he doesn't change (gets tougher or gets traded), he'll do that until the end of his career. Ok he will end up as a perennial all-star and everything but once he is retired he is going to be forgotten by nearly everyone .

His evil twin Reggie Miller is one of my favorite players . Ray Allen is a great shooter, that's all. His teamate Rashard "plays SOMETIMES like he is possessed" Lewis is much more interesting. Ray Allen is just boring.

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Albert Halprin has specialized in domestic and international telecommunications law matters. In addition, he has served in several senior roles in federal and state government. As Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, he oversaw comprehensive regulatory reforms that underpinned the transition of United States communications from a monopoly structure to the competitive marketplace of today. For this accomplishment, he was awarded the agency’s highest award, the Chairman’s Gold Medal for Distinguished Service.

Subsequent to government service Mr. Halprin was a Partner, leading the communications practice, at the Dewey Ballantine law firm and founding Halprin, Temple, Goodman, Sugrue and Maher.
Mr. Halprin also served as an adjunct professor of international telecommunications law at Georgetown University Law Center for fifteen years. He also was a lead regulatory advisor to the International Telecommunications Union’s Regulators’ Symposium.

In addition to his telecommunications experience, Mr. Halprin invests in real estate. He is a graduate of The Harvard Law School (1974) and of Western Washington State College (1971).