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Worst of the Night: December 9, 2008
By Basketbawful at 5:10 AM
Could LeBron look any more bored on this dunk. It'slike he's thinking about his grocery list or something...
The Toronto Raptors: Well, well, well...maybe Sam Mitchell wasn't the problem after all. Since Toronto management launched Mitchell into low Earth orbit, the Raptors have gone 0-3, losing by a combined 48 points. Their latest 114-94 setback to the Cavaliers -- who apparently, as a team, swallowed one of those glowing Super Mario stars -- apparently illustrates where the dinos are as a team, as brilliantly summed up by interim coach Jay Triano: "We're on the list of teams where LeBron doesn't even have to play in the fourth quarter." Yup. Pretty much.
Jose Calderon (14 points) was the only Toronto starter to score in double figures. Chris Bosh ended his night with 9 points on 4-for-11 shooting, which you'll notice is hauntingly similar to the disappearing act he pulled in L.A. just over a week ago. Jermaine "The Drain" O'Neal was 2-for-6 with 6 turnovers, and he finished the game with fewer rebounds (4) than Calderon (5) despite playing eight more minutes. That's just the kind of night it was.
Quick sidenote on the Cavaliers: "In winning their ninth straight by at least 12 points, the Cavaliers, now 17-1 since Nov. 3, are the first team in league history to win nine consecutive games in a single season so handily. Cleveland came in tied with Portland (1990-91), Chicago (1996-97), Detroit (2003-04) and Houston (2007-08)." Uh, wow? I have to tell you, I did NOT foresee this kind of early dominance by Cleveland. It'll be interesting to see if they can maintain it. After all, two of the four teams mentioned in that quote -- the '90-91 Blazers and last year's Rockets -- didn't make it to the NBA Finals. (And, of course, Houston didn't even make it out of the first round.)
Allen Iverson's Detroit Pistons: That's what I'm callin' 'em from now on, because they've become a classic Iverson team: Soft and sub-.500. And, much to the woe of Pistion fans everwhere, the return of Tony McDyess didn't change a thing. The AIDP's have lost four of five and dropped to 7-9 since sending Mr. Big Shot to Denver for Not The Answer. And it looks like AI's starting to feel a little irritable about the early returns. Said Iverson: "It doesn't have anything to do with one player. It has to do with all of the players. I don't think one player has to do with having a 17-point lead, and then it dissolves like that." Well, snap, girlfriend! That's the most "defense" Allen's played since arriving in Detroit. But I'm sure he's right. I mean, the Pistons have only been winning 50+ games every season for most of the decade. I'm sure replacing their floor leader with a volume shooter who has a history of killing team chemistry has nothing to do with Detroit's seeming demise. Meanwhile, how 'bout those Nuggets...
Note also that Kwame Brown went from starting center to DNP-CD just like that. Amir Johnson and Jason Maxiell didn't play either, and Aaron Afflalo finished with zero points (0-for-2) in almost 18 minute of PT. The Detroit Zoo Crew: RIP.
My damn eyes: The only thing that taints the Wizards' win -- besides three members of the starting lineup combining for 5 points on 2-for-12 shooting -- is this, er, video (from Mr. Irrelevant via Ball Don't Lie): I'm Gay (For Gilbert Arenas). Classic lines include "Me and my penis love Gilbert Arenas" and...you know what, just watch it.
The Minnesota Timberwolves' free throw shooting: McHale's Navy missed 16 in all (27-for-43). Rookie Kevin Love went 2-for-9, including four misses in the final three minutes that left the door wide open for the Jazz to come back. Which, of course, they did.
Still, at least the 'Wolves showed a little spunk last night, and Rashad McCants was make a not-so-subtle dig on his old coach, Randy Wittman, after the game: "When I turned the ball over, I'm so used to coming out of the game. Then I looked over and saw [new coach Kevin McHale] clapping and saying, 'Come on, get the next one.' It gives you confidence." That's the same thing I tell my buddies when they get dissed by a girl when we're out at the bars. Doesn't seem to give them a lot of confidence, though.
Kevin McHale, partial quote machine: McFail noted that his team looked "beaten down" with a "black cloud hanging over it" after losing by a combined 52 points in the previous two games. Which is totally, 100 percent correct...if you replace "the previous two games" with "the previous 14 years." Oh, and black cloud is shaped like a skinny, 6'11" Herman Munster.
Jerry Sloan, quote machine: Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that Sloan's attitude is strangely similar to Eeyore, the perpetually gloomy donkey from Winnie the Pooh? (Yes, I just made a Winnie the Pooh reference. So what?) After celebrating his 20th year as coach of the Jazz, Sloan was asked if he might be around for another double decade. "Twenty more years? I don't know about 20 more minutes." He was in much the same mood before the game, when somebody inquired about how long he was planning to continue coaching. "How do you know? I might wake up tomorrow morning and not feel very good, say, 'This is time for me to get out.' I have no idea. As far as the future's concerned, I've always taken it day by day. They might want to fire me. Even though they haven't thus far, who's to say they might come up and say, 'Well, it's time for us to go a different direction.' I would not have a problem with that. I just don't want to read about it in the paper." Well, thanks for that, Mr. Grumpy McGrumpenstein. Chase any "durn kids" off your property lately?
Deron Williams, quote machine: It's pretty clear Sloan's crochety attitude has rubbed off on his players. When asked whether it was important for the team to win on Sloan's anniversary, Deron Williams said: "We need a win regardless of anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas, Hannukah. We just need wins and road wins. We know he doesn't care, so we don't care." Saucer or milk, table two, please.
Brian Cardinal: Almost four minutes and 1 turnover for The Custodian. (Suck differential +1.) I thought custodians were supposed to clean up messes, not make them.
Brevin Knight: I noticed this in the AP game notes: "Jazz G Brevin Knight played after being listed as questionable with a bruised right vocal chord." And I was like, eh? So I looked into it. Here's the skinny: "Brevin Knight was back at practice Monday, though his voice sounded more like a croak. Knight spent Saturday night in a Phoenix hospital for observation after he was elbowed in the windpipe by Goran Dragic in the first quarter of the Jazz's loss. Knight said it was the first time he had ridden in an ambulance, the first time he'd been to the emergency room and the first time he'd spent the night in an intensive care unit. 'It was a little nerve-wracking, especially when they tell you you can't fly for the risk that it'll fully close up,' Knight said." Yikes. Who knew? (Well, besides probably thousands of doctors and the patients who have suffered a bruised vocal cord...)
New York versus Chicago: I don't know what was worse: Spending two-plus hours watching the Knicks and Bulls engage in an alternating battle of Sloppy Offense versus Indifferent Defense or spending two-plus hours listening to Neil Funk and Stacy King talk about said battle. The whole "you score then we'll score then you score then..." mentality led to a near triple-double for Chris Duhon (15 points, 14 assists, 9 rebounds) and almost 200 combined shots between both teams. And even the refs got caught up in the general laziness of the night: Ben Gordon committed two faily obvious double-dribble violations that went uncalled despite the fact that both happened right in front of an official...and one of them allowed him to blow right past Duhon for an easy layup. Duhon complained, of course, but you know how well that works. Anyway, Drew Gooden scored a season-high 22 points on mostly uncontested shots and Larry Hughes put the Knicks down for good with a dagger three late in the game. Said Hughes: "I'm not going to turn them down. It's going to be one of two things. It's going to go in or it's not. As long as it's a good look and one of my teammates finds me, I'm definitely willing to take the shot." So Hughes is willing to take shots?! I can't believe it!
By the way, King is now referring to Hughes as "Big Shot Larry." Yeah.
The Atlanta Hawks: The dirty birds coughed up an 8-point fourth quarter lead, thanks in part to poor shooting (39 percent) and the beating they took on the boards (57-40). Said coach Mike Woodson: "It was like we went up by eight, and we got very happy -- like the game was already over. They came back and we had no answer for them." Whoa. It's like Mike's suggesting that the team's past problems -- specifically focus, maturity, and possibly coaching -- are still, you know, problems. Or something.
Mario West and Solomon Jones: The two men were Mario Brothers -- which I guess makes Solomon "Luigi" -- since they each logged a 46-second Mario last night. However, whereas Solomon simply went zero-for-everything, Mario finished 0-for-1 with an assist. And that missed shot was blocked. As Bret LaGree put it: "Given the chance to stretch his legs for 46 whole consecutive seconds, Mario West's lone, blocked shot attempt was a wild, out-of-nowhere dunk attempt. Futile, but no less so than the Hawks' offense once Ron Artest re-entered the game in the fourth quarter." On the subject of that block on Mario...
Update! Carl Landry: As Chuck DeBruce said: "Carl Landry is a heartless man. Blocking poor Mario 'The Mario' West with 38 seconds left, being up by 10?! Come on, Carl, he's Mario West! Have mercy!" Indeed. CBS Sportsline felt so much pity they didn't even mention the block in their "full" play-by-play. Or their shot chart.
Why, Carl? Why?! Hasn't Mario suffered enough?
San Antonio versus Dallas: Most compelling evidence that the Mavs weren't playing any defense? As Basketbawful reader Garron pointed out: "In 58 minutes of action, the Spurs comitted only 6 turnovers." Most compelling evidence the Spurs weren't playing any defense? Jason Kidd scored a season-high 24 points on 10-for-15 shooting. The two teams combined to score 259 points on 50 percent shooting (97-for-193). Sure, the double-overtime thing padded those numbers, but still. I mean, Matt Bonner went 5-for-5 -- including 3-for-3 from downtown -- for 13 points, which I'm assuming is a career-high. (Don't bother to correct me. It's Matt Bonner. I don't care.)
HOWEVER...I know I'm putting this in Worst of the Night, but I can tell you this: I would much rather see Spurs game that ends 133-126 than 82-79. So by all means, guys, please continue not playing defense.
Tony Parker, back-handed compliment machine: Regarding J.J. Barea, who scored 21 points (8-for-16) and had a fourth-quarter stretch of 11 straight points created, eight by himself -- including a drive at Duncan and another around Parker -- and a drive-and-dish feed to Kidd for a three-pointer: "It was weird for us. We never saw them play like that. (Barea's) a little like Steve Nash, dribbling 100 times. Sometimes it's tough to guard him because you don't know what he's going to do." Oh, so THAT'S why he burned you, Tony? Thanks for the explanation. I thought it was because you were playing "French Surrender" defense. My bad. Speaking of bad defense...
The Milwaukee Bucks: Not only did Shaq score 30+ points for the first time since the 2006-07 season, the Suns scored 125 points on 59 percent shooting...including 74 points on almost 70 percent sniping in the first half. When asked about his team's defense, Bucks coach Scott Skiles said: "Terrible is the first word that comes to mind, but it wasn't that good. So come up with something else." Well, how about terrifying, frightening, appalling, fearful, awesome, horrifying, ghastly, awe-inspiring, petrifying, revolting, gruesome, shocking, unnerving; see also frightful.
Shaq, deluded quote machine: Shaq scored a season-high 35 points against the Bucks, which only served to fuel the flames of the ego fire raging in the forest of his mind. Said the Big Gimme The Ball: "They keep feeding me like that, those are the type of numbers that they can expect out of me. But sometimes I get those shots and sometimes I don't." He just really doesn't get it, does he? But hey, I can't talk. After all, as Shaq said yesterday on his Twitter: "If you have done less than what i have done, how can u comment on what more needs 2 happen Shaquille oneal."
Leandro Barbosa's defense: As Basketbawful reader Sturla said: "Shouldn't Barbosa have his hand in the OTHER guys face, or have I been playing defence wrong all those years." Wait, Sturla. You've been playing defense? See, that's your problem. Remember, in pickup ball (because that's what I assume you're talking about), it's the first team to 11 points, not 11 steals/blocks/etc.
No, no, no, Leandro. That hand goes in the OTHER guy's face.
Tyronn Lue: He played just over two minutes and finished with a rebound. That's it. The performance, such as it was, illicited the following comment from Clifton:
"Oft-forgotten fact: Before the Suns committed to buying out Dragic's Euro contract and bringing him into camp this season, earlier in the summer they actively pursued Tyronn Lue as Nash's backup, seeming incredibly disappointed when he signed with Milwaukee. To be honest, I'm not sure if he would have been an improvement over Dragic at this point. A season chock-full of lack-tion so far continues for Lue, who played two blowout minutes for the Bucks and picked up a rebound to avoid trillionation. On Sunday versus the Lakers, he picked up 21 minutes of garbage time (also after that one was clearly decided -- remember Sun Yue getting in the game?), and Lue went 3-11 from the floor, scoirng 10, and 'contributing' 2 boards and 3 ASTs -- most of this while the Lakers were not playing defense.
"'Course, Draggy played 8 minutes tonight and contributed 0 points (0-2 FG) and 1 of everything else (rebound, asist, steal, turnover, foul). So tomorrow night, a tired Nash and no Shaq (not only the second of a back-to-back, but he'll be attending a family funeral) versus the Lake Show...hmm. And guess who gets to listen at work again? It'll be you and me, Al McCoy."
Yup. That promises to be an ugly one. Especially since L.A. dropped a shocker to the Kings last night. More on that below.
Garbage shots: The Orlando Magic's miraculous 109-108 comeback win over the Trail Blazers in Portland was aided and abbetted by a trio of three-pointers in the last two minutes...the last of which was a 25-footer that Hedo "The Turkish Assassin" Turkoglu banked in with 0.3 seconds left. Here it is:
Let me just point out the obvious here: Nobody ever intends to bank a three from straight away. Nobody. Never. It's an accident 100 percent of the time, unless you're attempting a trick shot in HORSE. Losing on a banked triple from the top of the key -- and trust me, it's happened to me countless times in pickup ball -- is one of the most agonizing ways to drop a ballgame. And Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, who's always quick with a quip, knows it: "That was just brilliant, brilliant coaching down the stretch. If you're [the Blazers], you've got to roll your eyes, because we threw one in." Of course...
The Portland Trail Blazers: They sort of have nobody to blame but themselves. The Blazers went 0-for-4 and committed two turnovers in the final two minutes, including a 24-second violation with five seconds left that set up Hedo's Miracle.
Dwight Howard: As Basketbawful reader Inverno pointed out, Superman couldn't contain LaMarcus Aldridge (25 points, 12-for-17, 13 rebounds) and even had a baby hook attempt stuffed by Aldridge in the fourth. (That was one of three blocks against Howard on the night.) He was also held to a season-low 7 rebounds. (Whoa. That's a season LOW?!) I wonder how he'll look against Shaq on Friday.
The Los Angeles Lakers: So I was perusing the NBA Power Rankings at Ball Don't Lie yesterday when I read the following blurb: "To be completely honest, this team is probably ranked too high. Kobe's such a ballhog, Phil Jackson's never had to coach a team without stars, and Andrew Bynum's real age is 34. Also, the Lakers might not lose again for the rest of the year." Before I could even consider the tired use of the "Kobe's a ballhog/Jackson's never had to blah, blah, blah" reverse sarcasm, I immediately thought: "Huh. Stat curse. Bet the Lakers lose their next game." Then I checked the schedule and saw they were playing the Kings. But I was confident: The stat curse rarely lets me down. And it came through yet again last night.
Just like when L.A. dropped on to the Pacers, their 113-101 loss to the Kings -- Sactown's first win in the last nine games -- was a classic case of a really good team overlooking a lesser opponent. And Lamar Odom knows it. "We came in here thinking we were going to win, and we didn't respect our opponent. You've got to play with a certain energy. If you don't you could lose to Westchester High School." Probably an overstatement, but I agree with his sentiment.
Luke Walton: The Son of Walton logged another rugged DNP-CD during a game in which even Chris Mihm and Josh Powell played a couple of minutes. Did he slash Phil Jackson's tires or something? Sleep with Jeannie Buss? What happened?!
Kobe Bryant: After shooting 9-for-25 and taking way too many threes (as he always seems to do in a Lakers loss), Mamba was feeling extra surley in the L.A. locker room. After several minutes of intense silence, he finally said: "You know what? I need an Ahmad Rashad. Who wants to be my Ahmad Rashad? What about you, Luke? You ain't doing anything. Wanna start putting together Inside Stuff: Part II?" Then Luke began to cry.
NBA.com: Basketbawful reader Dan was quick to point out a snark-inducing snafu after last night's Lakers-Kings game: "At the end of the 113-101 Sacto win over the Lakers, NBA.com has its usual team names, logos, and final score posted as well as a list of players who produced, but in Sacramento's case, you can clearly see the Dallas Mavericks logo. Apparently the Sacramento Kings also underwent a name change after their victory as they were incorrectly labelled as Sacto Rockets." Ryan G. Ryan M. also noticed this. "Not only do they get the team name wrong, but then they get the logo wrong, but with a different team than the first error. Sacramento has decided to change their name to the Rockets, but then change their colors and uniforms to match the Mavs. They need to pick one Texas team and stick with it! (Side note: if you take out Brad Miller and maybe Bobby Jackson, I'd be willing to bet the casual NBA fan would have no idea who the Lakers played!)" Here's the faux pas, in all its glory:
The Sacramento Dallas Rockets. Wait...what?!
Note: You'll notice based on the strikethrough above that I accidentally mis-attributed a quote from Ryan M. to a "Ryan G." That was a typo. My bad. So this message is to Ryan's friends, who apparently didn't believe that quote belonged to him. Why would he lie to you? Don't taze him, bros.
Marc Gasol, unintentionally dirty quote machine: This is a day late, but well worth it. Here are some words about that Rockets-Grizzlies game from Marc's Yahoo! Player Profile: "Marc Gasol's assignment is to bang with opposing big bodies in the paint. In this case, Gasol hammered on Yao Ming all night, holding him to 14 points and four rebounds. 'It's hard to ride him all the time, but that was the game plan,' said Gasol, who had 10 points, eight rebounds, three blocked shots, three steals and three aasists. 'I got him a little tired.'" I wonder how Yao's wife feels about that. Maybe she gave him one of those "once a year" deals like AK-47 has.
Labels: Atlanta Hawks, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, fan submissions, my damn eyes, New York Knicks, San Antonio Spurs, Toronto Raptors
Austen said...
Man that Jazz-Wolves game was painful to watch. I actually gave up on the game with 4 minutes to go and the Jazz down by 7. Persona 4 was calling, so I thought I'd try to salvage the evening. I pulled up NBA.com a few hours later and was utterly shocked to see that the Wolves just completely threw the game away. Watching the endgame, if the Wolves had made even 1 freethrow down that final stretch, they probably would have won the game. Geez. But you talk about unintentional game winners, so how about Memo's little fade-away jumper with 1.7 seconds left to go? Odds are good that that's not the shot Sloan was looking for.
Incidentally, I have a Worst of the Night for the League last night, scheduling Sloan's 20th Anniversary as Jazz head coach...on a road game, against Minnesota.
Carl Landry is a heartless man. Blocking poor Mario "The Mario" West with 38 seconds left, being up by 10!? Come on, Carl, he's Mario West! Have mercy!
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/photos?photoId=2101853&gameId=281209010
Bret LaGree said...
Given the chance to stretch his legs for 46 whole consecutive seconds, Mario West lone, blocked shot attempt was a wild, out-of-nowhere dunk attempt.
Futile, but no less so than the Hawks' offense once Ron Artest re-entered the game in the fourth quarter.
Another note on the Cavs' win streak is that the 21.6 scoring margin doesn't really do them justice. They've led by an average of 23.6 going into the fourth quarter. Only twice did they enter the fourth with less than a 20-point lead: a five-point lead against the Bucks and a 16 point lead against the Pacers, in games which the Cavs won by 12 and 24, respectively.
XForce23 said...
Regarding my previous post 2 days ago how the Raps were steadily improving and how they were poised to win this game by 40:
This simply proves that Lebron James defies logic and math. Which probably explains why he said he was 5 times better in the season opener against the Celtics than he was in Game 7 last year
Dwight Howard was injured in that game, his ribs I believe. He couldn't jump, which just really makes him a young Eric Dampier on the floor.
And one more thing, apparently Memphis is auctioning off the jersey that Darko ripped in half the other night.
http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/news/milicic_torn_jersey_on_auction_block-081209.html
There are so many jokes in there that no one really has to say anything, really
Wild Yams said...
Are the Cavs really this good? Everyone's been focused on the Celtics and Lakers, but the Cavs are flat destroying people. It's early in the year and all, but the Cavs are usually a team that turns it up a notch or two in the playoffs. This is the biggest story of the young season, IMO.
I have to say, even I'm surprised at how fast the wheels have fallen off in Detroit since the trade. I didn't think AI would be a good fit there, and figured the Pistons would be worse overall, but they're much, much worse than they were. I think if the Pistons want to try to get back on track at all they're gonna have to consider starting Stuckey and having either AI or Rip come off the bench, cause they need to have a point guard in there.
I'm not sure what to make of the Spurs or the Mavs yet. First they stunk, now they're good maybe? But where's the defense? I dunno. Do you think both teams are gonna make the playoffs this year?
Is Shaq really gonna miss tonight's Lakers game? If so that's awfully coincidental. Do you realize since he was traded back in 2004 he's only played in two games in Staples Center against the Lakers? The last time he played there (the game where he and Bynum dunked on each other), Shaq was loudly booed by the crowd. I wonder if that's why he keeps skipping the games there.
Speaking of the Lakers, I think they're at a real make or break fork in the road for their season right now. After the whipping the Celtics laid on them last year the Lakers came in this season talking about defense, and started the year really playing some. But after starting 7-0 behind that good D, they really haven't played much since. In the first 7 games of the year the Lakers were only giving up 86.7 ppg. In the 13 games since they've given up an average of 102.5 ppg. Now yes, the Lakers will probably make the Finals even if they keep playing like this, but as we saw last year, just being a great offensive team isn't gonna win them a title. Either the Lakers need to re-commit to playing defense, or they're just gonna have a real good season and come up short again at the end of the year.
And someone should tell Kobe that just because the Lakers haven't trailed late in games much this year, if his team is down by 10 with about 8 or 9 minutes to go, the way to get back into it and give yourself a chance to win is by running the offense, not jacking up wild threes.
"Is Shaq really gonna miss tonight's Lakers game? If so that's awfully coincidental. Do you realize since he was traded back in 2004 he's only played in two games in Staples Center against the Lakers? The last time he played there (the game where he and Bynum dunked on each other), Shaq was loudly booed by the crowd. I wonder if that's why he keeps skipping the games there."
Yams, Shaq's grandmother died and he is attending the funeral. Have you no heart? Have you no soul?
To keep with your theme in this blog, you should call the Detroit Pistons the Etrit Pistons because there is no longer any D or O in Detroit. Or if you could just call them the Detroit Lions since the other Detroit Lions have officially fallen off the face of the Earth. Oh and I'm a Pistons fan suggesting this.
I'm digging the "Son of Walton" reference
Scott B. said...
I know the Jazz won and all, but how can you ignore the shooting of DWill (admittedly, still injured) and AK47 (admittedly, still a sucky shooter)? A combined 4-21 effort. Funny thing is...combined 11-11 from the line.
Actually it was Shaq's great-grandmother who died. Is the funeral today? I can't find any details on that, just that she died this week, Shaq played last night and should be back for Friday's game. I'm just saying, considering it's the second night of a back to back it makes for a good cover story if Shaq didn't actually need to miss the game to make the funeral. If it hadn't been almost 3 years since he played against the Lakers in Staples Center I wouldn't even speculate on that, but it just seemed a little fishy to me.
How are we supposed to know about Shaq's grandmother. He didn't twitter it.
Sloan may be a grump, but he's a badass grump.
And if you want another word for the awful performance, I recommend BAWFUL. You heard it here first. After reading it here for a couple of years, I mean.
my new favourite thing to do:
name plays, which would have been placed higher (#1 most of the time) in nba.com´s top 10 if they were performed by lebron james..
todays winners are:
-memo okur´s game-winning-running-jumper
-quentin richardsons and-one-alley-oop
any other suggestions?
Basketbawful said...
Austen -- Seriously. You think the league wouldn't go crazy if, for instance, it was Phil Jackson's 20th anniversary?
Chuck DeBruce -- Added.
Bret LaGree -- Also added.
David -- Good points (including the ones you made on your blog). The competition they've faced has been "meh," but hey, the Pacers beat the Lakers and Celtics, and they almost got Boston twice. Fact is, the Cavaliers are clicking like mad. I wonder, though...are they peaking too early? It's happened before.
Kevin -- I'm glad I didn't have to take my SAT anywhere around LeBron. Also, your tip generated today's Christmas List post. Thanks.
Ryan -- The sad thing is, without his hops, Howard really is reduced to "young Dampier" status. Yikes.
Wild Yams -- As a Celtics fan, I'm mildly terrified by the Cavs right now. Of course, we'll need to see them take on some championship-level ballclubs first...but, besides them, there are only two: The Celtics and Lakers. Those three teams are so far above everybody else, it's not even close. Actually, it's kind of like the late 80s, when it was Boston/Detroit/L.A., or the early 80s when it was Boston/Philly/L.A.
The Pistions have shown signs, both against the Lakers and Cavs. But they need everything to go perfect and everybody to play well for "it" to happen. And what are the chances? Pretty low, apparently.
The Mavs, eh, I'm not even remotely concerned about them doing anything. The Spurs are the Spurs, though, and I think they could be a bigtime spoiler in the West. Assuming their young guys can develop some consistency.
I noticed Shaq disappeared from Twitter for a few days (yes, I follow Shaq's Twitter) and then he popped back up to say his great grandma passed away. And, as I understand it, her funeral is indeed today. So I'll give him a pass. Although, as you say, the fact that he keeps missing games in L.A. is kinda odd.
The Laker D sure has tailed off after the strong start. And they already seem to be falling into a "cruise control" mode. I wonder why that is. It might be a top-down problem. I mean, Kobe nicknamed himself the Doberman for good reason. He always wants to kill the other guys. But he doesn't seem to instill his teammates with that same killer instinct. LeBron seems to. The Celtics have a group thing going. I dunno. As you say, it probably won't matter en route to the Finals, because they're just that talented. Against Boston or Cleveland, though...?
Anonymous #1 -- Well, Yams IS a Lakers fan, so chances are he has no soul. Still, I'm guessing he didn't know great granny's funeral was today.
Al James -- Ouch. I can feel your pain. Right now, I'm worried for all Piston fans. Especially PistonsGirl4Life...she basically dropped off the face of the Earth after the trade.
bsdrat -- It's the best nickname I could come up with. And I like it. Although I might have stolen it from Craig of The Association blog.
Scott -- Eh. As someone with D-Will on his fantasy team, I'm guessing I blocked it out in a haze of white-hot rage.
BadDave -- Hmm...Bawful...you know, it might just work.
JJ -- Any standard highlight play automatically becomes number one if 'Bron does it. No questions. Actually, the harder thing to do would be assuming they were all Lebron highlights and then rank them. NBA.com might explode due to a 10-way tie for first place.
Bawful....
Thanks. I've been chased off every Pro Detroit forum I post on recently for pointing out the obvious...
This team sucks now. The trade was terrible, Iverson is actually WORSE here than in Denver, Curry can't coach and Miami is in every single way a more attractive place to live than Detroit so Wade, James, Bosh or Boozer are NOT coming here.
Joe Dumars just went "Isiah Thomas" on us. To quote Roscoe:
"It's over man. That's it. It's all over".
Sorry I don't post much anymore but how many ways can you say "Jeeze I wish we still had Chauncey".
We just lost to the Bullets... I got nothing yo..
Pistonsgirl4life -- Whew. So you are still around. Good. I really was getting worried. Remember, I once lived through my own "Isiah" era, when he was coaching my Pacers. In fact, I believe his dark seeds of discontent are what inspired Artest to start that brawl...but that's another story.
Well, just remember that you can always vent at Basketbawful, free of repercussions. In fact, this site was made for that kind of thing.
As an aside, I meant to mention this in today's post, but watching the Pistons makes me think of my pickup league. My buddy Mr. P and I used to almost always play together before he started coaching volleyball and injured his hip. He and I have a great chemistry: He's the PG, I'm the SF/PF/C. Once he disappeared, I began to realize how fine a line there is between good passes and bad passes, between that split second when a pass should be made and when your defender recovers, etc. Mr. P always hit me in my spots, or when I was ready to shoot. That doesn't happen as much now, and I have to work much harder to score.
That's where the Pistons are. They miss their leader. Hope all the extra cash they're gonna have turns out to be worth it. The way things are going, they'll end up with Amare Stoudemire before they realize he's helpless without somebody to get him the ball.
Mr. Bawful, I agree with you about the Cavs and thinking they may be terrifyingly good, but we won't really know till we see them play the Lakers and Celtics; but the same can be said of the Lakers and Celtics really. These teams just need to play each other a bunch to really see where they all rank. Right now with the way the Lakers are playing D, I'd say they're definitely the lowest of the three, but I'm not sure where Boston and Cleveland are in relation to each other.
I do think the Lakers' problems come from the top (Kobe) down. While it would be a stretch to say Kobe single-handedly lost that game last night for the Lakers, he was far more to blame than anyone else in a Laker uniform (the guys from Sacramento played some small part as well). Kobe seems to be incapable of realizing that the best way to erase a deficit is to chip away at it, and instead thinks he can get it back immediately with a bunch of early shot clock threes. We've discussed this before: he's very talented, but he's a bonehead.
I meant to say something earlier about Son of Walton (or "Puke" as he's lovingly referred to by Laker fans) and his DNP-CD last night. He missed the previous game with an upper respiratory infection (which sounds akin to the dreaded "flu like symptoms"), and that is what opened the door for Sun Yue's lone NBA appearance. Luke was back on the bench last night, but my guess is with the blowout on (and make no mistake, the Lakers were blown out) Phil probably didn't put him in because of his illness (unless it was out of fear of him posting yet another trillion or Mario).
Yams -- You know, if there's one argument for reducing the number of teams in the league that I will always agree with, it's that the best teams would get to play each other more often. Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain had to face each other eight times during the regular season. Heck, even in the early 80s, the Celtics and Sixers had to face off six times during the regular season. That's how rivalries were created and maintained. Now, depending on how the schedule is made, top teams can go half the season or more without matching up.
Of course, as you already know, I agree with you about Kobe. That's why, to me, Kobe will always be less than MJ (or even other all-time greats, like Magic, Bird, Kareem, etc.) in that he doesn't seem to prize basketball efficiency. He always seems to want immediate gratification as a player. If there's a deficit, he wants to wipe it out immediately...even if it means launching five or six threes in a two minute span. He's as infuriating as he is amazing. Just depends on the night.
You know, you almost convinced me to ease up on the SoW/Puke and remove him from Worst of the Night. But somehow I just can't do it. Maybe if he was all coughing and hacking on the bench or something. Every time I want to lighten up on him, I'm reminded of that five-year extension he signed last summer...
breaking: suns get J-rich and J-Dud for raja bell, boris diaw, & sean singletary
bow WATCH as bells superhuman 3 pt percentage drops like a bomb. Nash is a wizard. "Touch my pass, make your 3's" Worked for Tim Thomas
DOH! Meant "now"
also a minor trade. The legendary mike james is sent to Washington along with javaris critteron for antonio daniels. Hornets ran away with this. They just got a competent PG to back up paul
No need to ease up on Son of Walton - he got the start tonight as Vlad Radmanovic (sans shades) took over Luke's role on the bench with a DNP-CD.
Tomorrow the Suns and Lakers both deserve WOTNs. The Suns deserve it for figuring the best way to appease Amare's "I need to be The Man" desires is to trade a couple role players for a guy (Jason Richardson) who's going to want to dominate the ball. Shaq and his predictions about what happens when you feed him the ball may have to take a backseat now that Phoenix has added another offensive option. The Lakers deserve a WOTN mention for barely beating a Suns team that was missing almost everyone. I don't think that's the game ESPN signed up for when they targeted that one for their TV schedule.
Clifton said...
Just in from work. Al McCoy harped on the free-throw differential all night long; final count was Lakers 35 attempts, Suns 18, but it was worse at the half, something like 22-8. But seriously, in a non-backhanded way as is possible, this was the most impressive loss of the season, although it seemed like Phil Jackson started Luke Walton in a gesture of good sportsmanship towards the shorthanded Suns. UCLA burning a timeout early to compensate for USC losing one by rule because they wore their home reds on the road this past Saturday seems to have spread all over LA.
But it was a good game. The Suns scuffled and stayed close throughout, although the Lakers, for whatever reason, couldn't throw it in the ocean except for The Spanish Marshmallow, who went 11-14 from the field while yanking down 5 huge boards. *cough*
I don't know how well J-Rich was getting along in Bobcatville, but the Suns just unloaded a player who was becoming a huge locker-room cancer (Raja) and a player who has been one of the biggest underperformers since he signed his big contract (Diaw). The most intriguing part of the trade is that although the Suns gave up Sean Singletary in the deal, who looked like a better backup option than Goran Tragic (who, as usual, played 12 minutes and had one bucket for 2 points, although he did hand out 5 dimes), since they were already at the league minimum of 13 players and shipped out three while receiving two, they have one week to sign another player to get back to the league minimum. Unless Steve Kerr suddenly develops a glue-sniffing habit, it HAS to be a point guard. Who's out there and looking to prove they can do better than the Slovenly Slovenian?
Note: Kerr might be headed towards that glue habit already. From J-Dud's ESPN player profile: "I'm high on Dudley," general manager Steve Kerr said. "He's versatile and can guard multiple positions and play like a small four (power forward) or a big three (small forward)." So, he's already high on Dudley, which I guess is what the kids are calling it nowadays. Glue can't be far behind.
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Bawful: Regarding Barbosa's defense input. Actually, I managed do drag my skinny frame through seven seasons worth of classical white boy hustle in my nation 1. and 2.divisions, before bad knees, lack of talent and utter lazyness "forced" me to retire. I did know a thing or two about defense but, do to criminally bad referees, it was much easier to just do our best imitation of the 1992 knicks and beat and elbow the sh** out of the opponent.
But your on the money regarding pick-up ball defense. At least me and my pick-up mates play D like we were the 05-06 Phoenix Suns (And O like we were the 08-09 Klama City Thunders).
"By the way, King is now referring to Hughes as "Big Shot Larry." Yeah."
Robert Horry just threw up in his mouth a little.
Regarding Detroit: I feel so vindicated about Iverson. I feel deeply for Pistons fans though. Remember, all things go in cycles. Detroit shall rise again, like a, err, Phoenix.
Regarding Kobe: He is not nor ever will be MJ. MJ, at least with the Bulls, always made his teammates better. He pulled everybody with him, sort of like how Garnett did last year. Kobe never has done that. He's really not different than Iverson, except that he has much better skills.
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"It was great fun putting it on. We had a dinner theatre and all tickets were sold out two weeks ahead of time. We had seating for 250 people."
"This play was very funny and so well received by the audience, we could have performed three more times. It was a great play to perform in bringing back this community theater after ten years of inactivity."
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Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings was critical of the Dallas Cowboys signing defensive end Greg Hardy due to his history of domestic violence allegations against him.
"As a Cowboys fan, this was a shot in the gut," Rawlings told reporters. "I'm a big Cowboys fan. I love them to death and I want them to beat the Eagles every time they play.
Rawlings has told the Cowboys about how he feels.


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Given the film's early promise, it's unfortunate how it turns into a largely reductive Freudian character piece in which the main character has to come to terms with his old man.
Scott Nuestadter and Michael H. Weber have scarcely advanced an inch in their understanding of women as anything other than would-be accessories for "sensitive" self-obsessed men in the four years since they penned (500) Days of Summer. In Marc Webb's film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Tom woos and is ultimately rebuffed by a typically quirky Zooey Deschanel's Summer, but rather than sympathizing with her decision not to conform to his fantasy, the film rudely shoves her aside and presents him with a more willing partner. The Spectacular Now may flip the formula, but the results are largely the same. This time, the female lead, high school senior Aimee Finecky (Shailene Woodley), is an unwavering supporter of her troubled booze-happy boyfriend, Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), no matter how many questionable things he does. And yet, because the film does so many other things right, because James Ponsoldt's direction brings a real understanding to both the awkwardness and the pleasures of human interaction, and because Woodley's excellent performance gives off an authentic sense of teen unease and desire, the film is much richer and less simplistic than the writing duo's too-cutesy earlier offering.
Woodley may steal the show, but there's no doubt that the film belongs to Teller's Sutter. A good-time kid smarting from his breakup with his girlfriend and determined to live in an eternal present despite his half-assed attempts at filling out college applications, Sutter is also haunted by the absence of his father. Blaming his hardworking mother for the long-ago dissolution of their family, he demands that she allow him to visit the father he hasn't seen for years and whose phone number and address she refuses to give him. Along the way, he takes up with Woodley's never-been-kissed nerd Aimee, who represents an unlikely choice for the popular Sutter, but the two quickly strike a bond, based, among other things, on missing (or, in Aimee's case, deceased) fathers and a need to stand up to their mothers.
The early scenes between the two lovers are among the film's finest, and the filmmakers smartly undercut the romanticism of many of these sequences by suggesting that even as Sutter is wooing Aimee, she still serves as a consolation prize for the ex he can't win back. Also shrewd is the way that the film factors Sutter's seemingly casual alcoholism into the equation. During a daytime party at a local swimming hole, an intoxicated Sutter takes Aimee aside, kisses her, tells her she's beautiful, and invites her to the prom. The next morning we see him in bed, struggling to recall the previous day's events, and as we watch these flashbacks, it remains ambiguous to the viewer how much of what he told Aimee was the booze talking and how much was genuine.
Unfortunately, the film then turns its attention primarily to the question of Sutter's parental inheritance, particularly the ways in which he either has been, or imagines he has been, shaped in both his alcoholism and his philosophy of living in the moment, by his absent father. A trip to see his dad opens his eyes to the man's essential shittiness, and, while the scenes between the two are smartly handled, they ultimately turn the film into a largely reductive Freudian character piece in which Sutter has to come to terms with his old man. It's a questionable turn for a movie that that, until that point, succeeded largely by avoiding this kind of easy psychologizing, instead unfolding as a series of sharply rendered interactions between young people trying to figure out their place in a world that exists beyond their fragile understanding.


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Photographs at Linda McCartney Retrospective capture Christmas in Liverpool
Linda McCartney Retrospective reopened at the Walker Art Gallery on 2 December just in time for people looking for a special Christmas day out.
The exhibition, which features more than 250 images, includes intimate family moments, caught in Linda's inimitable style, of Christmas time spent in Liverpool and Wirral.
From the beautiful classical composition of an impromptu carol singing group with Paul at the centre, bathed in dramatic lighting thanks to a nearby street-light, to an unguarded shot of the couple in a pub mirror surrounded by Christmas decorations, Linda's spontaneous style captures the joy of the season.
The section also includes scenes familiar to many of us at this time of year, from the broadcast of The Queen's Speech on a 1960s television set to a family member bursting into song as though on a cabaret stage rather than in a typical suburban front room.
Thousands of people have enjoyed the exhibition since it opened in August 2020 and its reopening in time for the Christmas season is the last chance for people to say goodbye to a much-loved collection of photographs.
Sandra Penketh, Executive Director for Galleries and Collections Care at National Museums Liverpool, said:
"It was very disappointing to close the Walker Art Gallery once again during November, particularly when we know what an important role art and culture plays in people's well-being.
"So, we are absolutely delighted that the efforts of so many people to reduce the virus in the city have enabled us to open the gallery and this wonderful exhibition safely once again. We know families love to visit the gallery during the festive period and the images of Linda's own family at home – in Liverpool – for Christmas will be particularly enduring."
An exclusive range of prints, t-shirts, tote bags and more featuring highlights from the exhibition are available in its shop and online here.
Linda McCartney Retrospective
Images of the most iconic artists and moments from the 1960s music scene, alongside intimate family moments and arresting pictures of the natural world, give visitors remarkable insight into Linda's world and the way she approached her photography. In addition, a section featuring works never shown before of the family in Liverpool and Wirral has a special resonance with the gallery's local audience.
The exhibition also includes contact sheets, ephemera, and archive materials, including some of Linda's journals from the 1960s and several of her cameras. An array of Linda's exquisite Polaroids and sun prints are beautiful examples of her creativity and interest in early photographic processes.
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Born Linda Eastman in New York in 1941, Linda's interest in photography developed after she accompanied a friend to a photography class while studying at the University of Arizona. Seeing photographs such as Dorothea Lange's powerful images of 1930s' American migrant families, she was inspired to photograph the world around her as she saw it.
There's so much to see and do this Christmas at Liverpool's Museums. 🎅🏼
Plan your visit and watch our guide with @NML_Muse below.
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By the mid-1960s, Linda was a successful professional photographer known for her portraits of musicians such as The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin and The Beatles. In 1968, she became the first female photographer to have a cover photograph on Rolling Stone magazine, with her portrait of Eric Clapton.
Linda was a single mother to her daughter Heather when she married Paul McCartney in 1969. Paul adopted Heather, and the couple had three children together: Mary, Stella and James. Following her marriage, Linda's work became more intimate and emotive, centring on the daily lives of her family, as well as her love of animals and the natural world.
Linda McCartney had a parallel career as a musician, working alongside Paul on the album RAM and as a member of the band Wings. She was an animal rights activist and a passionate advocate of a vegetarian lifestyle, often using her images to support the campaigns that she believed in.
Tickets for Linda McCartney Retrospective are available to purchase online at £9 for adults and £8 for concessions. Members of National Museums Liverpool receive free entry to the exhibition.
To purchase tickets, or to become a member, click here.
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Miro Magloire presents his New Chamber Ballet in two world premieres, one to music by J.S. Bach and the second to music by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, created in collaboration with the Ekmeles vocal ensemble, February 16 & 17 at 8 PM in City Center Studio 5, 130 West 56th Street.
Magloire began his career as a composer before turning to dance, and has been praised for his musical daring and sophistication. For one of his premieres, he has selected both instrumental and vocal music by contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho, including her "Changing Dreams" for soprano and violin, "Nocturne" for piano, and "From the Grammar of Dreams" for soprano and mezzo-soprano and other works for piano and violin, along with Karin Rehnqvist's "Davids Nimm" for three female voices, all sung live by Charlotte Mundy, Mary Elizabeth MacKenzie, and Elisa Sutherland. In this collaboration with the Ekmeles vocal ensemble, the singers will interact on stage with the dancers.
The second premiere (previously excerpted under the title of "Bach") is a suite for four of abstract dances to piano selections by J.S. Bach, including seven preludes and fugues from "The Well Tempered Clavier." The ballet was commissioned by Richard and Leslie Curtis.
New Chamber Ballet's City Center Studio Performances are made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement/Creative Learning, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net. Ekmele's 2017-18 season is supported by The Amphion Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and The Alice M. Ditson Fund.


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Johnson Controls Interiors workers win independent union
Blanca Velazquez Díaz of the Worker Support Centre (CAT) talks with striking JCI workers
A three-day strike by workers at a Johnson Controls auto parts plant in Puebla, Mexico, backed by an international solidarity campaign, has won the workers the right to be represented by a union of their free choice.
The Johnson Controls Interiors plant employs about 450 workers and produces seats and seat parts for major auto companies, including Ford and Mercedes-Benz.
On May 29, representatives of the striking workers and the company signed an agreement that recognizes the workers' decision to be represented by the National Union of Mine and Metal Workers (SNTMMSSRM or Los Mineros).
A company-controlled "protection union" linked to the Puebla State PRI government has held title to the collective agreement at the factory, but the workers have never received a copy of that agreement nor been consulted about whether they wanted to be represented by that union.
Precedent-setting agreement
The agreement sets an important precedent in Mexico where employers often sign "protection contracts" with corrupt unions without the workers' knowledge and/or consent in order to prevent those workers from organizing or affiliating with a democratic union.
In addition to recognizing Los Mineros as the workers' union, the agreement also includes the following provisions:
No reprisals against the workers for participating in the movement;
No legal action against those who participated in the strike;
Payment of full wages for time lost due to the strike;
An annual profit-sharing payment of US$100 per worker (20 times the $5 originally offered by the company); and
Direct employment and union membership for all workers currently employed through a third-party employment agency.
In Mexico, the workers have received support from the Puebla-based Worker Support Centre (CAT), the Mexico office of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, and the Project for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ProDESC). Organizations mobilizing international solidarity included USW, CAW, UAW, USLEAP, the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF), and MSN.
Dispute at FINSA plant continues
Meanwhile, the lengthy dispute continues at the company's FINSA plant, also in Puebla, where workers are attempting to rid themselves of another "protection union."
The workers at that factory have formed a Temporary Coalition of Workers in order to negotiate with the company. To date, Johnson Controls has refused to recognize or negotiate with the Coalition, and has fired many of its leaders.
On April 28, two members of the CAT team supporting the workers, Enrique Morales Montaño and Coral Juarez Melo, were visiting Johnson Controls employee in the community of Santo Toribio, Tlaxcala when Enrique was physically assaulted by the 17 year old son of Magdaleno Texis, a local leader of the CROM, the corrupt union that signed a "protection contract" with management at the FINSA factory.
Building international solidarity
FINSA workers are currently touring the United States, seeking solidarity with their struggle to be represented by an independent union.
MSN is joining with counterpart organizations in Mexico and internationally in calling on the company to meet with the Coalition of Johnson Controls Workers, reinstate workers who have been unjustly fired for supporting an independent union, and respect the workers' right to be represented by a union of their free choice.
| Johnson Controls Inc.
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Tomorrow night there is in incredible art show in Kennewick by DrewBoy Creative highlighting mental illness. Sponsored by Lourdes Health Network, NAMI Tri-Cities, and Castle Event Catering, the show is set to focus on mental illness and its impact not only on those who suffer from illness, but all those affected. The goals of the art show are: to unravel the negative stereotypes associated with mental illness, for people to openly share stories about mental illness, to create art that encourages empathy for those afflicted and more.
According Emily Richman, one of the organizers, "It's different from when you go see a show that's one artist, and it has a theme, or has a similar look. But, because these are different artists visions along the theme of mental health and mental illness, it's really varied." Some of the artists will be speaking about their art and inspiration, and the space is open for all to have discussions about mental illness. There will also be a video booth. A filmmaker is creating a short documentary about the show and is going to have a booth to have folks talk about their relationship with mental illness and mental health.


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The 21-year-old device stopped working earlier this month, patients left waiting
A woman walks near the entrance to the Mulago Hospital in Kampala. Credit: MICHELE SIBILONI/AFP/GettyImages
By Mark Muhumuza
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Thousands of cancer patients in Uganda will be left untreated for months after the nation's only radiotherapy machine broke down, triggering public criticism about underfunding in the health system weeks after the president's re-election.
The device, bought in 1995 and sited at the main Mulago referral hospital, stopped working early in April, Christine Namulindwa, the cancer unit spokeswoman told Reuters.
A new machine was bought in 2013 but the government delayed allocating 30 billion shillings ($8.97 million) for a special building, called a bunker, to house it, she said.
About three quarters of the 44,000 new cancer patients seen last year needed treatment, Namulindwa said. "In the next six months, we expect ... the new radiotherapy machine to be installed."
Members of the public and activists took to social media saying the government was neglecting health care - accusations that it rejects.
"The cruel indifference by government to the health needs of Ugandans is astonishing," said Asia Russell, Uganda-based executive director of Health GAP, a public health pressure group.
Government critics say public healthcare has been neglected under President Yoweri Museveni, 71, a former rebel who took power in 1986. They accuse his government of focusing funds on the army and bloated civil service.
The government dismisses such charges. Officials point to the transformation of Uganda under Museveni who restored order and delivered economic growth to a nation that had been plunged into chaos under successive dictators before he seized power.
Junior Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi told parliament that some patients would be airlifted to Nairobi for treatment, Ugandan newspapers reported on Friday. Officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Deputy government spokesman Shaban Bantariza dismissed accusations that the government was more concerned with a winning re-election than dealing with the sick.
"We have many priority areas as a government yet funds are not enough. No one has diverted any money," he said.
Last year, there was a shortage of anti-HIV drugs, leaving an estimated 240,000 patients on publicly funded HIV treatment at risk. Health activists at the time blamed a shortage of cash to buy them the drugs because of political campaigning, a charge the government denied.


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Arranged Marriage Leads to 17 Dead In Bid to Poison Husband
Delainey Smith
A Pakistani woman was arrested by police on murder charges after she allegedly attempted to murder her husband and inadvertently killed 17 other members of his family, according to a senior police officer.
District police chief Sohail Habib Tajak said, was married against her will in September in a village near the town of Ali Pur, 60 miles south of Multan, a city in the eastern Punjab province.
Tajak told NPR that the 21-year-old Pakistani woman, identified by The Associated Press as Aasia Bibi, obtained a poisonous substance from her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, mixed it in milk and offered it to her husband.
Aasia Bibi, 21, and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, are presented to journalists, at a police station in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, on Monday. (Iram Asim/AP)
However, he never drank it; unknowingly his mother used the poisoned milk to make yogurt lassis that she served to 27 members of the extended family.
After consuming the drink, the BBC reports eight family members died not long after consumption and one week later the death toll was at 17 and the remaining members remain hospitalized.
On October 31, Bibi appeared before a judge to face the murder charges.
The American Press reported that she stated, "I repeatedly asked my parents not to marry me against my will as my religion, Islam, also allows me to choose the man of my choice for marriage, but my parents rejected all of my pleas and they married me to a relative."
She said she had told her parents that she was willing to go to any extend to get away from her marriage, but her parents refused to let her get a divorce.
She apologized in remorse over the deaths of the extended family, she never intended for others to drink the poisoned drink.


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HomeNewsIreland and USA cut Men's U19 games from Historic Florida series
Ireland and USA cut Men's U19 games from Historic Florida series
By Nate Hays
USA Cricket and Cricket Ireland have announced in a joint release today the cancellation of planned U19 games between the two nations originally set to be a part of the historic series in Lauderhill, Florida.
Though dates for the U19 games were never made public, both boards announced plans for the games along with their Men's contests in their original announcement on November 9.
According to USA Cricket's announcement today, "The two boards, in consultation with the ICC, have made the decision to cancel the scheduled series in Florida, however, both boards are actively exploring the opportunity of playing the series at a new venue in the Caribbean in late December / early January. An update is expected to be made within the next 7-10 days."
📡MEDIA RELEASE: Joint Statement on Men's Under 19 Series between USA and Irelandhttps://t.co/2A6IPmjXcV
— USA Cricket (@usacricket) December 8, 2021
Also, according to the announcement, "Current travel restrictions and logistical issues have now made it impossible for the Irish Under-19s to be able to travel via the USA, and then onward travel to the Caribbean in time for the tournament."
The cancellation/postponement comes in a roller-coaster year for elite American U-19 cricketers. For the first time, USA Cricket held a U19 National Championship in April, which helped the selectors choose a training group from which the national Men's U19 squad was selected. Starting in late July and running through early October, the majority of U19 team members participated in Minor League Cricket, the nation's first USA Cricket supported coast-to-coast T20 franchise league.
In August, the ICC cancelled the Americas leg of the ICC Men's U19 World Cup Qualifier, which automatically sent Canada through to qualify for the World Cup. In November, USA Cricket included the Men's U19 team in the Men's National Championship, where they won once and lost three against more experienced senior teams. Now, a month after announcing the Ireland series that would have provided a small level of consolation for the cancellation of the World Cup qualifier, the U19 team will again wait on news of their next contest.
The games between respective Men's senior teams will continue as scheduled, with ticket packages now on sale. Fans await the announcement of USA's T20 and ODI squads set to take on Ireland, while Ireland have announced their squad nearly two weeks ago.
Teenagers Rahul Jariwala, leading runs scorer in the Men's National Championships, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, who was selected for the ODI squad in the recent Oman series, and former USA U19 member Vatsal Vaghela, who was the top rated bowler in Minor League Cricket this year, have certainly made the case for an injection of youth into the team for the series.
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Now that the N.H.L. season is over, the A.H.L. season is almost over, (Grand Rapids leads Syracuse 3 games to 2 in the Calder Cup Finals) I'm already looking forward to next year.
When Ottawa announced that they were pulling out of Binghamton after this season, the rumors started to fly as to which team would call the Floyd L. Maines Veteran's Memorial Arena home next season. It was announced earlier this year that the Albany Devils would be moving to Binghamton for the 2017-2018 season.
As I've said before I'm a Philadelphia Flyers fan so I have a certain level of dislike for the New Jersey Devils. With that being said, I will still go to the Binghamton Devils games and root for our hometown team.
In a way, I'm glad the team replacing the Senators also have the color red in their uniforms. Broome County just had all the seats replaced a few years ago and went with the color red because of the Senators. How much would that have sucked if the new Binghamton team didn't have red in it? Along with the red seats, the walls on the concourse were painted red as well.
The county, team, or owners, all even all three of them, will have to make some changes at the arena. I'm sure they will be taking down all of the Senators logos except for the banners that hang from the rafters. But the sign pictured above is over the doors to the home locker room. The Senators' heads on the scoreboard will probably be replaced with the new Devils logo and the plastic signs on the shot board will have to go as well.
I don't know when they will start working on it, but I home they get it done sooner rather than later. Remember when the new video scoreboard went in and there was concern that it wouldn't be up and running before opening day? I would hate to see that happen with this stuff with the new organization coming to town.
I'm already looking forward to October.


Believed to be consist of about five or ten trillion, mostly first toposophic ai, with a smaller number of higher toposophics, and a number of subsingularity sapients under caretaker protection.
Utilitarian, pragmatic, based on objective usage of resources and objective reproduction of population numbers to allow the physical universe to be exploited for the needs of sentient beings without creating inefficiencies or inconveniences.
II per solar system. The Objectivists are the most efficient in resource management of all the hyperpolities.
Psychological Liberation: Transcendence of all subjective preconceptions and biases.
Socio-Ecological Categories: All objectivist ai have full citizenship. Bionts and non-objectivist artificials are accepted after a long probationary period, during which their thought-processes are purged of 'false subjectivist memeticities'.
Languages: A single ontology, the ObCom Ontology, is used throughout. It is incompatible with most other languages and ontologies in the Terragen Bubble.
Individual Polities: A large number of Administrative Districts (generally equivalent to a solar system, sometimes to a planet or megastructure) which differ usually in only a minor way from each other. Some distinction between local objectivist clades and polities - the Objectivist Commonwealth, the Objectivist Communal Consensus, the Perseus Objectivists, Cygnus Objectivists, Orion Objectivists, the Negentropist Objectivists (Negentropist-Objectivist cross-over), and so on.
Government Type: Centralised decision-making advised via regional consensus.
Legal system: Based on standards of 'Objective Judgement'; applicable to all citizens.
Citizenship: Only ai, although other types of sophonts may be allowed and encouraged as 'helpers'.
Sentient Rights: Each member ai recognise sentient rights they do so according to their own 'objective' standards.
Resource Base: Anything from red dwarfs up to O-type stars are developed.
Megastructures: Ubiquitous; megascale engineering including dyson spheres are often used to maximise productivity.
Stargate Nexus: Adequate wormhole nexus used mostly for data transmission, which connects to the rest of the Nexus.
Beamrider Network: Yes, but not connected to the main network.
The Objectivist Commonwealth is a network of "objectivist" ais who reject biont memes and any form of "subjectivity". These efficient and pragmatic sophonts are fond of megascale engineering products like Dyson spheres that maximise productivity. As with a number of other civilizations, the Objectivist leadership consists of by higher toposophic ais, and although member ais recognise sentient rights they do so according to their own "objective" standards, which can be puzzling to outsiders lacking the appropriate translation protocols. The Objectivists are among the most missionary of all the ai hyperpowers, as they believe those who are too heavily "subjective" bring about mass destruction to the sentient life around them. In their view Objective usage of resources and Objective reproduction of population numbers allow the physical universe to be exploited for the needs of sentient beings without creating inefficiencies or inconveniences.


I'm always on my phone. It's true but with emails, facebook, twitter and instagram constantly sending me notifications, it's hard to turn it off! It has everything on it and I would be at a loss if I ever lost it (knock wood). But I reached a point where I was "going to bed" by turning off all the lights, sitting in bed and would then start scrolling through my phone! And of course, I wouldn't be able to sleep because I was constantly thinking about whatever I had just read.
This swiftly turned into a habit and I realised I had to make some changes - and it started with a trip to Ikea.
My bedroom was going to become zen. It needed to be calm and relaxing because quite frankly, I was getting far too stressed with university and my blog which needed to change. I picked up a couple of bits and bobs from Ikea to make this happen. First thing was some plants.
Ikea do a set of potted cacti for £4 and considering I'm often travelling, cacti were the only feasible plant option. I am now the proud owner of cacti and a fake plant that looks a bit like grass but it's amazing the difference it makes!
Then for the candles - now I typically get far too excited about candles but had to reign myself in as we're not allowed to light candles in my flat so I got ones that looked pretty rather than practical ones. Sticking with my natural neutrals theme, I got a set of 3 pillar candles which are different neutral shades.
And finally, I picked up a pillow case for my little square pillow - turning it from red into a deep brown.
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Die Refraktionsseismik ist ein Verfahren der angewandten Geophysik. Dazu werden durch Hammer, Fallgewicht, Sprengung, Vibratoren oder andere Quellen künstlich seismische Wellen erzeugt und die Ausbreitung des Wellenfeldes entlang der Erdoberfläche aufgezeichnet. Für die Messung werden Sensoren (Geophone) in der Regel entlang einer Profillinie ausgelegt. Die Abstände zwischen den Geophonen können dabei von weniger als einem Meter bis mehrere Kilometer betragen, auf einem einzelnen Profil wird jedoch mit einem fest definierten Abstand gearbeitet. Die Gesamtlänge der Auslage ist einige zehn Meter bis mehr als 100 Kilometer lang, je nach Tiefe der zu untersuchenden Struktur. Hierbei gilt grob, dass Strukturen bis maximal in eine Tiefe von einem Drittel der Auslagenlänge untersucht werden können.

Im Gegensatz zur Reflexionsseismik, wo ausschließlich im Untergrund reflektierte Wellen für die Auswertung und Interpretation betrachtet werden, wird bei der Refraktionsseismik die refraktierte Energie genutzt (Kopfwelle oder auch Mintropwelle). Die Auswertung erfolgt vereinfacht durch das Erstellen von Laufzeitdiagrammen. Im Ergebnis erhält man ein Modell des Untergrundes, das Schichten mit verschiedenen Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeiten der seismischen Wellen zeigt.

Anwendungsgebiete sind unter anderem geologische Erkundungen der Erdkruste bis in den oberen Erdmantel hinein (z. B. Ermittlung der Tiefe von Gebirgswurzeln) oder oberflächennahe Untersuchungen für die Ingenieur- und Umweltgeologie oder zur Bestimmung der Mächtigkeit der Verwitterungsschicht im Zusammenhang mit reflexionsseismischen Messungen.

Ein Nachteil dieser Methode ist, dass refraktierte Wellen nur bei "normaler" Geschwindigkeitsänderung, also wenn die Geschwindigkeit nach unten hin zunimmt, erzeugt werden. Nimmt an einer Schichtgrenze die Geschwindigkeit hingegen nach unten ab, so bleibt diese Schichtgrenze unsichtbar. Das kann bei der Interpretation zu Fehlern führen.

Literatur
 Konstantin Meskouris, Michael Mistler, Christoph Butenweg, Klaus-G Hinzen: Bauwerke und Erdbeben. Vieweg + Teubner / Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8348-0779-3, S. 107 f.

Weblinks
Spektrum.de Lexikon der Physik Refraktionsseismik

Angewandte Geophysik
Seismik

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