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Despite adding a number of veterans this past offseason, the New York Knicks have started 2019-20 poorly. Drew Maresca purposes the framework of four trades the Knicks should explore.
Drew Maresca
The New York Knicks are playing better basketball of late. They're 3-3 under interim head coach Mike Miller and they've won three of their last four games. They also recently added former EuroLeague and Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt as a basketball operations consultant. That, naturally, is an improvement on the usual state of affairs, albeit marginally.
But on the whole, the Knicks have been pretty awful this season. They're 7-21, good for a .250 winning percentage and last season wasn't much better. In 2018-19, New York won just 17 games and they haven't fared much better in most of the previous 17 seasons either. Over that span, they've made the playoffs only five times, won a grand total of six playoff games and advanced beyond the first round once.
Clearly the organization must embrace wholesale changes before any real progress is made. Despite public support to clean house, the odds are much higher that any front office changes will wait until the offseason. There, the franchise would theoretically conduct a comprehensive search (and go through a complete courtship of Raptors' Masai Ujiri).
So it looks like there will be at least one more trade deadline for which Knicks fans must make do with team president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry. If not more, knowing the typical chain of command in Manhattan. Still, the pair could easily operate out of desperation, which should scare fans a little more than usual. But the pressure is fair: After all, they are responsible for many of the current players and they hired (and fired) David Fizdale.
On the bright side: The Knicks signed six veterans this past offseason, many of whom should garner some level of interest from contenders around the league. Simply put, New York should seriously explore moving all of them. As is, the current roster is unable to leverage their skill sets and are nowhere near competing for a playoff berth – let alone a championship. And with the trade deadline and February coming quickly down the road, the Knicks should be proactively reaching out to teams around the league.
But it's not just Marcus Morris who should interest contenders. There's also Bobby Portis, Taj Gibson, Wayne Ellington, Elfrid Payton and Reggie Bullock — all of whom are essentially on expiring deals thanks to 2020-21 team options attached to all of their contracts. Bullock might be the most challenging to move of the bunch since he has yet to suit up in 2019-20 due to a back injury. However, even Bullock is nearly set to return and features a very team-friendly contract at $4 million guaranteed in 2019-20 and a team option for next year.
Julius Randle is an even tougher sell since his contract is also guaranteed for 2020-21, with a team option for the following year — but more on that later.
The Knicks mustn't worry about hanging on to their veterans and winning a few extra games this year — and hopefully the front office operates with the team's best interest in mind instead of their own. Assuming they do, what might they get in return? Let's explore four plausible trades that would help the Knicks in the near future.
Marcus Morris to the Los Angeles Clippers for Maurice Harkless, Jerome Robinson and LAC 2020 1st rounder
This is an easy one since the framework of it was named as a jumping-off point by Zach Lowe earlier this week, essentially. Lowe suggested Morris in exchange for the Clippers' 2020 first-round pick, Harkless and Patrick Patterson. Possibly, the Knicks could do even better.
Knicks fans are torn on the idea of parting with their leading scorer. Here's why that's flawed logic: While he's publicly embraced the idea of playing in New York, who wouldn't put on a happy face when auditioning for a longer-term deal? Remember, Morris is an unrestricted free agent following this season. He can play nice, build up his credibility around the league and sign with whichever contender has the biggest need and fits best in 2020.
Further, even if Morris were to re-resign, how much would it cost and for how long? Morris is already 30 years old and likely that the Knicks won't be competitive until at least 2021-22 – when Morris will be 32.
But he fills a need now for the Clippers. Morris is a hard-nosed defender that is averaging 18.8 points per game and is shooting 47.7 percent on 5.9 three-point attempts per game.
However, Harkless – who is only 26 and expires after this season – and Robinson – 22 and the No, 13 overall pick in 2018 — combine for only 9.2 points over 36 minutes per game. They possess at least enough upside for the Knicks to make this deal, but Morris would help the Clippers far more than Robinson and Harkless currently do.
And to the Clippers supporters that would they're giving up too much: Remember that Morris' services will be highly sought after and Los Angeles's 2020 first-round pick will be a late first-rounder.
Wayne Ellington to Philadelphia for Zhaire Smith and salary filler
Philadelphia 76ers fans probably won't be thrilled with this idea, but it's practical for both teams.
When open, Ellington is a guaranteed bucket. Yes, he's shooting a career-low 30.4 percent on 3.8 attempts in 14.3 minutes per game — but much of that has to do with the fact that the Knicks rotations have been problematic and unpredictable. He's shot better than 36.8 percent on at least six three-point attempts per game in each of the last five seasons — plus he's a career 37 percent three-point shooter. Do you know what the 76ers need more of? You nailed it: Three-point shooting.
Giving up on the lottery-selected Zaire Smith so early in his career is definitely a gamble, but he hasn't even appeared in an NBA game yet this season. He has appeared in eight of the Delaware Bluecoat's 14 games (the 76ers' G-League affiliate) in 2019-20, where he is averaging 12.4 points on an eFG% of 54.9. He's also grabbing 4.1 rebounds and dishing 2.0 assists over 27.6 minutes per game — not bad stats, but not what you hope for from a lottery pick, and certainly not in the G League.
This one is made additionally complicated due to the fact that the 76ers are incredibly cash strapped but that works in the Knicks' favor. Since Philadelphia will struggle with the idea of reworking their cap to offer a rookie extension to someone that hasn't been able to crack the rotation, the Knicks can help. The 76ers are projected over the cap and the luxury tax line through at least 2022 and they must pick-up Smith's $4.9 million team option by October 2020 for 2021-2022.
What's more, rookie Matisse Thybulle has succeeded in the minutes that were previously thought to be Smith's — so, everybody wins.
The 76ers' championship window is currently open, and they should look to add players who will help them secure a championship. And unless they think they can re-add JJ Redick, Ellington fills a void for Philadelphia.
The Knicks would have to take on additional salary, but the framework of this trade is more important than a few extra bucks here or there.
Elfrid Payton and the Knicks' 2023 second-round pick to Miami for Dion Waiters and the HEAT's 2023 first-round pick
This one is mostly about the HEAT's desire to get out from under Dion Waiters' withering contract. Waiters has been suspended this season for ingesting marijuana-infused gummies and then calling out sick before posting a photo on Instagram depicting him on a boat — plus some detrimental conduct for good measure. Rumors have buzzed about Miami wanting him gone before he does any damage to a roster that has gelled more than anyone anticipated.
Yes, an unprotected first-rounder is a hefty price to pay – especially so far in the future, by which time anything could happen to the HEAT's roster — but that's the price they'll probably have to pay. Teams know the HEAT are desperate. And waiving him would carry a big cost since he's fully guaranteed this season ($12.1 million) and next season ($12.65 million). Instead, the HEAT and Knicks should swap Waiters for Miami's 2020 first-rounder and Elfird Payton.
Somehow, Payton could actually help the HEAT. The Knicks backcourt is jam-packed with Frank Ntilikina, Dennis Smith Jr. and Payton, which has prohibited the latter from getting more minutes. But don't be fooled, Payton still has some upside. He's still only 25 and — despite suffering a hamstring injury earlier this season — has posted a 16.6 PER, 8.4 points, 5.2 assists and 1.5 steals over 22.3 minutes per game. Further, he's secured 20 assists and zero turnovers in his last two games combined. He might not be a full-time starter, but he's more than capable of contributing to a championship-caliber team.
And the Knicks can afford to waive Waiters – or maybe give him another chance at rehabilitating his image – because they aren't going to contend before his contract expires anyway.
Julius Randle to Indiana for Myles Turner
While this could be a tough sell for Indiana, Turner has not blossomed the way many had hoped he would. He's averaged 12.8 points per game for his career — but only 11.3 in 30 minutes per game this season. Turner, too, has also underwhelmed on the glass (5.8 rebounds per game) and in the mid-range (shooting only 46.2 percent from three to ten feet and only 14.3 from 16 feet to the three-point line) this year.
And while Randle has disappointed this season, he's given fans hope of late. Last season, Randle set career highs in points (21.4) and three-point shooting (34.4 percent). Over the last four games, he's recaptured his 2018-19 mojo, posting 21.7 points, 10.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game on shooting 36.8 percent from three-point range.
Indiana benefits because they could finally unleash Domantas Sabonis at center while adding a versatile low-post scoring threat to help buoy the Pacers as Victor Oladipo continues rehabbing his quad. Ridding themselves of an extra two years of salary — Randle's deal has a team option following 2020-21, whereas Turner's doesn't expire until 2023 — is a plus too.
And for the Knicks, they return a still-highly regarded prospect who could fit nicely alongside their current center, Mitchell Robinson.
The bottom line is this: The Knicks shouldn't worry about fit yet. As of now, New York should focus on amassing as much talent as possible. If there are overlaps at certain positions, so be it. That was the attitude toward the point guard position last February when they brought in Smith Jr — and it forces the best player to earn his spot.
The Knicks could also decide to appease ticket holders and build a makeshift "winner." Naturally, they could mortgage their future for some combination of Chris Paul, Jrue Holiday and Kevin Love. They might even make a run at a playoff push — and they might be fairly competitive next year. But it's not sustainable and it doesn't answer any long-term problems.
Ultimately, with no front office moves on the horizon, the Knicks must be prudent and deliberate in every decision they make — even then, they need to make moves now before teams begin looking elsewhere.
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The Blazers had big expectations for Anfernee Simons this season. The sophomore guard hasn't lived up to them, calling into question both his long-term potential and Portland's ability for self-evaluation.
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Wide-eyed optimism runs notoriously rampant at all NBA media days.
Before training camp opens and the real games tip off, players, coaches and executives alike inevitably fall victim to the unmitigated promise provided by another season to prove themselves at the game's highest level. Even so, it's not hard to suss through the league-wide landscape and pinpoint teams whose hopes and beliefs espoused on media day are rooted far more in reality than the afterglow of summer.
The Portland Trail Blazers', though, existed somewhere in the middle of those extremes. Coming off a surprising trip to the Western Conference Finals, the Blazers exuded the sweeping confidence at media day that would be necessary for them to compensate for a major talent deficit compared to the Western Conference's true elite.
Hassan Whiteside predicted multiple triple-doubles while playing in Portland's dribble-handoff heavy attack. Mario Hezonja was féted by his new teammates and coaches as a game-changing point forward. Rodney Hood called his mindset "night and day" compared to last season, while Kent Bazemore admitted that he imagined himself being the Blazers' "missing piece" while watching last season's playoffs.
"This year," Damian Lillard said on Sep. 30, "Our focus is to win the championship."
Just over halfway through 2019-20, Portland's focus has shifted dramatically. At 20-27 and tenth-place in the West, with the league's 19th-best net rating, that much is clear. What's less obvious and will prove instrumental in charting the path forward is how realistic their goal of winning a title this season was in the first place.
Imagine a world in which Portland's offseason additions lived up to media-day hype and Jusuf Nurkic quickly regained the form that made him a two-way impact player upon returning from injury. Imagine Neil Olshey flipped Whiteside's expiring contract for a proven playoff performer on the wing or up in front.
Where would that leave Anfernee Simons?
The same place he is right now – as the Blazers' third guard. But instead of fading into the background of a lost season, Simons might be Portland's biggest question mark with the playoffs fast approaching.
Olshey, like the Blazers' players and coaches, forecasted much bigger things for his team this season than a fight for the last playoff spot in the conference. Among the rosier reasons why were his outlandish preseason expectations for Simons, a 20-year-old sophomore that notched just 141 minutes in the NBA last season after spending the previous year at prep powerhouse IMG Academy.
Gushing about Portland's revamped roster at media day, Olshey said Simons is "the best young guard in the league."
The Blazers had been hyping Simons for months, priming local and national media for a breakout campaign they made seem like a formality. Olshey is known for his unflinching and often outlandish optimism. No one realistic thought Simons would challenge for Sixth Man of the Year while backing up Damian Lillard or CJ McCollum, let alone match the prorated production of precocious guards from his draft class like Trae Young or Shae Gilgeous-Alexander.
Even outsiders less familiar with Simons' game, though, anticipated more than what he's given Portland over the season's first four months.
Simons is averaging 9.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 23.1 minutes per game. He's connecting on an ugly 31.7 percent of his spot-up tries from deep, and shooting just 42.0 percent on drives, per NBA.com. Lineups featuring Simons as the Blazers' lead guard, or situations without Lillard or McCollum next to him, possess a 90.3 offensive rating – over 13 points lower than the Golden State Warriors' league-worst mark.
Nearly as disheartening as the numbers is the eye test. A potential dunk-contest participant at All-Star Weekend with rare burst and fluidity, Simons' elite athletic profile has been manifested during games on fleeting occasions this season. Absent a head of steam in transition or ample space to rise for alley-oops in the halfcourt, you'd have no idea Simons has routinely been described by Portland as one of the best overall athletes in the NBA.
None of this is to suggest that Simons is doomed. This season is his first taste of real NBA basketball. His blend of raw, on-ball scoring ability and physical tools still tantalize.
It's not Simons that deserves criticism for underperforming expectations, but Olshey for slotting him in a role he's definitely not ready to play. Under head coach Terry Stotts, the Blazers have relied on consistent productivity from third guards as much as any team in the league save the Dallas Mavericks. If Olshey wasn't absolutely certain that Simons could come close to replicating the play of Seth Curry and Shabazz Napier over the years, while sprinkling in dashes of future stardom, earmarking such a crucial place in the rotation for him was always setting Simons up to disappoint.
In that vein, Portland's failure to live up to preseason title aspirations could be considered a blessing. Simons' development wouldn't be hastened by cutting his teeth as the Blazers' third guard while they chased a championship. The relative lack of pressure playing for a team whose dreams of playing in June have already vanished should make Simons' ongoing acclimation to NBA basketball a bit easier.
That's the only silver lining for Portland to glean from wasting a year of Lillard's prime. The belief in-house is that the Blazers will recover from a debilitating spate of injuries, re-tool on the edges of the rotation and enter next season with the same sense of championship promise as they did this one.
But as 2019-20 has made so abundantly clear, Olshey's capacity to accurately evaluate the strength of his roster will again loom large – and maybe, without the loftiest of expectations on his shoulders, Simons can still become the player Portland insists he will be.
Of Kobe Bryant's lengthy list of accomplishments and records, his 81-point game is the one that has no peer.
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Of Kobe Bryant's lengthy list of accolades, accomplishments and records, the most obvious of them may also be the most under-appreciated.
NBA fans can cite Kobe contemporaries that can match his five NBA championships. In addition to Tim Duncan and Steve Kerr, LeBron James is at No. 3 and still counting. And of course, James passed Kobe's 33,643 career points just this weekend, moving into third all-time.
Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother 💪🏾 #33644
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 26, 2020
Kobe's career-high 35.4 points per game in 2005-06 falls short of James Harden's current stretch, averaging 36.07 this season and 36.13 last year. In fact, Harden's career average of 24.97 points slots just behind Kobe's 24.99, both behind LeBron's 27.10 and Kevin Durant's 27.02.
But no modern player has come close to Kobe's legendary 81-point game during that 2006 season. Sure, Devin Booker tallied 70 three years ago and David Robinson got to 71 back in 1994, but neither were actually that close to Kobe's iconic torching of the Toronto Raptors.
When Booker poured in 70 against the Boston Celtics, he needed 40 field goal attempts to do it. At his shooting rates that March night, he would have needed to take another seven shots to reach Kobe's 81. If he didn't attempt more free throws, then that number ticks up to 10 more attempts.
Sticking to that math, Robinson's 71 would have needed six more hoists to beat Kobe to 81, a total of 47 hypothetical attempts.
By no means was Kobe the epitome of efficiency when he outscored everyone but Wilt Chamberlain by going 28-of-46 and 7-of-13 from deep – supplemented by an 18-of-20 performance at the free throw line. Nonetheless, he was hardly detrimental to the Los Angeles Lakers' offense.
In the last 40 years, only five players have come within 20 points of Kobe's singular feat while shooting at rates such that they could have theoretically gotten to 81 points on fewer than his 46 field goal attempts. Two of those, naturally, came from Kobe himself.
Player Date Points FGA Total FGA needed to reach 81
Michael Jordan 3/28/1990 69 37 44
Kobe Bryant 12/20/2005 62 31 41
LeBron James 3/3/2014 61 33 44
Kobe Bryant 2/2/2009 61 31 42
Karl Malone 1/27/1990 61 26 35
Klay Thompson 12/5/2016 60 33 45
For someone long-criticized for his shot volume, Kobe was the definition of an efficient mass scorer more often than anyone else, to such a degree he has essentially been without a peer for 30 years.
Aside from Thompson, the obvious nominee of who might match Kobe is a healthy Stephen Curry, even though he has never scored more than 54 points in a game. When Curry reached that mark at Madison Square Garden in 2013, he would have needed to take another 14 shots to have a genuine chance at 81, for a total of 42 attempts. His 53-point effort in 2015 would have also needed to get to 42 attempts to be on pace to match Kobe.
There is, however, another volume scorer to watch, one who came within 20 points of Kobe's best just last week. Damian Lillard's week warrants Kobe-esque notice.
Last Monday: 61 points on 17-of-37 shooting against the Warriors; would have need 50 shots to catch Kobe.
Thursday: 47 points on 16-of-28 shooting against the Mavericks; would have needed 49 shots to catch Kobe.
Sunday: 50 points on 14-of-23 shooting against the Pacers, would have needed 38 shots to catch Kobe.
To wit, take last night as an example: Lillard scored 50 points in an impeccably efficient matter, but if he had somehow not missed a single shot, he would have scored only 74 points.
Fittingly, a monomaniacal guard with a penchant for game-winning shots is the one scoring in bunches in ways that can be compared to only Kobe – yet the Portland Trail Blazers' guard remains far short of the 81-point standard.
But that just goes to show how amazing Kobe's night on Jan. 22, 2006 really was.
The five-time champion, first-ballot Hall of Famer achieved many things and left an imprint beyond our grasp this tragic week, but his one night of heaviest binge scoring may be the least likely piece of his career to ever be repeated.
It has no modern peer and even those the closest to matching it have tended to fall a dozen shots and 20 points short.
But that day? In today's modern NBA landscape, that's a great chance we'll never, ever see something quite like it again.
Kobe Bryant, a legend and icon in so, so many ways.
After winning the 2019 NBA Championship and losing Kawhi Leonard, the Toronto Raptors have defied the odds, winning 30 of their first 44 games this season — but Drew Maresca argues that conceding this season in hopes of building an even stronger future roster is the smarter long-term move.
The Raptors have overachieved in a ridiculous way in 2019-20. They were +700 to repeat as NBA champions prior to the 2019 free agency period, according to the Draft Kings.
Immediately after Kawhi Leonard fled West, the Raptors' odds grew to +2200 to repeat – tied with the Celtics, who just lost Kyrie Irving, and the Nets, whose best player was set to miss the entire year. And yet through 44 games, the Raptors are third in the Eastern Conference with a 31-14 record and only one-and-a-half games behind last year's pace (32-12).
But what's in a record? There's more to unpack than just wins and losses, especially when success has almost certainly been redefined in a city that just experienced its first NBA championship ever. So a logical test is how well you're playing against the crème de la crème. And in that regard, the Raptors haven't fared too well. Including their home win against Philadelphia on Wednesday night, the Raptors are still only 7-12 against winning teams with a net rating of minus-37 in those 19 games.
Very few teams would be terribly upset to be in a similar situation as the Raptors. In fact, most teams would be thrilled to be third overall in their conference. But the Raptors are barreling toward an interesting decision: embrace the opportunity to continue to gain playoff experience (and additional playoff revenue) or expedite a miniature rebuild. This writer's thoughts on the matter are well documented in our 2019-20 Toronto Raptors Season Preview and our recent Atlantic Division – buyers or sellers piece. But let's officially build a case supporting the Raptors trading some of their veterans in an attempt to add assets prior to the Feb. 6 trade deadline.
The Raptors' most valuable trade chip is also their longest-tenured player – starting point guard, Kyle Lowry. Lowry is 33 years old and experiencing a career resurgence after taking a back seat to Leonard last year. Lowry is averaging a near career-high 37.1 minutes per game, in which time he's scoring 20 points per game – more than he's scored since 2016-17 — and dishing out 7.5 assists.
But Lowry is probably the last guy the team wants to move. He's a fan favorite and has been with the team for eight consecutive seasons; Lowry is currently third overall for games played in franchise history. But if they chose to dangle Lowry on the trade market, they would certainly get a good amount of interest from teams like the Lakers, HEAT, 76ers and maybe even the Jazz and Nuggets. What interested parties would offer is an entirely different story, but it would have to be pretty aggressive to get the Raptors to part with their franchise player.
But there are other guys who make more sense in a trade.
There's Marc Gasol, their soon-to-be 35-year-old center. Unlike Lowry, Gasol is not experiencing a career renaissance. He's missed 12 of their 44 games, with down years in scoring (7.8 points per game compared to his 14.7 career average), two-point shooting (44% compared to his from 49.7% career average) and rebounds (6.4 rebounds compared to his 7.6. career average). But he still has a good amount of utility in him. After all, he leads the Raptors in defensive plus/minus, per Basketball Reference – something that he's prided himself on throughout his career and an attribute that would be a welcomed addition to most contenders.
There's also Serge Ibaka, their 30-year-old sometimes-starting, sometimes-backup big man. Ibaka is actually outpacing career averages in scoring (14.9), rebounds (8.4) and assists (1.3). Ibaka is still widely viewed as an above-average and versatile defender, and the fact that he's shooting 37% on three-pointers makes him all the more valuable to teams like the Boston Celtics – who lack a true big man who can stretch the floor.
Gasol and Ibaka's standing in Toronto is especially vulnerable since both will enter free agency this summer — whereas Lowry signed an extension last year that runs through 2020-21, when he'll make $30.5 million. The Raptors could choose to keep Gasol and/or Ibaka, but either or both could walk without returning any assets as soon as this July. Further, the team is unlikely to break the bank for either considering they'll have to make a generous offer to retain soon-to-be free agent guard Fred VanVleet – who is having a breakout season, averaging 18.7 points and 6.7 assists per game while shooting 38.8% on a career-high 6.9 three-point attempts per game. VanVleet is only 25 years old and fits alongside Pascal Siakam, OG Anunoby and the team's young role players like Norman Powell far better than Ibaka or Gasol.
As it stands, the Raptors have about $85 million in salary commitments for 2020-21 with $3.8 million in a player option (Stanley Johnson) and another $1.5 million in a team option (Terence Davis). The cap is projected at $116 million with the luxury tax kicking in at $141 million. They can (and should) invest between $20 and $25 million per year in VanVleet, which brings them up to about $110 million. If negotiations begin creeping north of $25 million per year, the Raptors will have to make concessions elsewhere if they hope to retain VanVleet – Ibaka would theoretically be among those concessions since he'll probably be looking for at least one more generous payday. It's unclear what Gasol would seek in a new contract.
All three of the aforementioned Raptors have at least one thing in common – they are the only three Raptors born before 1990. So whether they like it or not, the Raptors have turned their roster over quickly and effectively to the extent that they have a talented young core with the framework of a contender in the making.
All three veteran players can definitely continue contributing for at least the remainder of this season – and to varying degrees, well beyond it. But their impact will be more profound on a contender looking to add quality veterans. And despite what their record tells us, that's just not the Raptors right now.
Instead, the Raptors are a team in the very fortunate position of being able to reload relatively quickly around a blossoming young core. Yes, they're significantly better than average, but which would you prefer: a team that qualifies for the conference semifinals in 2019-20 or a team that loses in the first round of the 2019-20 playoffs, but adds additional assets — some of whom help the team remain competitive for years to come?
Granted, dislodging Lowry from Toronto requires a monster offer and would result in at least some backlash; but neglecting to trade Gasol and/or Ibaka is likely to result in one or both leaving to pursue more money and/or additional championships – neither of which can the Raptors offer. The Raptors and team president Masai Ujiri have made bold moves time and again. There is no reason to hold off on moving either Gasol and/or Ibaka before Feb. 6 – and if a sweetheart offer comes in for Lowry, then him, too.
Regardless, the Raptors are fairly well set up for the future, so it is unlikely that this move (or lack of it) is analyzed too aggressively in the future. And also, there is certainly a fine line between being opportunist and greedy. But trading one, both or all veterans allows the team to add additional assets to a cupboard that already looks pretty well stocked.
And it's probably one of the final opportunities to add talent before their core takes its final form — and if that form results in future championships is partially dependent on how the Raptors proceed before the 2020 trade deadline.
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You may have seen these bizarre-looking symbols on a store front or Realtor sign and wondered what it was. These are QR Codes—scannable bar codes that act like web hyperlinks. A cell phone users scans it and is directed to a website, video, or a URL on the Internet.
Users must first download a QR Reader app, which are available for both iPhone and Android smart phones. Once installed, the app uses the phone's camera to scan the QR Code.
Although QR Codes have been around since 1994, they have recently gain a boost in popularity over the past year. In fact, from January 2010 to January 2011, QR Code scanning increased by 4,549 percent in that one-year period.
Qr codes are impacting the print industry more than any other factor in recent years. It is allowing print to go interactive. Qr codes are being used by retailers on catalogs and printed ads. Cereal boxes and other packaging have also begun using qr codes. According to a recent Nielson study, by December of 2011, more than half of U.S. cellphones with have smart technology. There is a new wave of advertising in printed media and qr codes are leading the way.


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Chillout Festival celebrates queer country pride (March) and sample the culinary and organic picks of the area at the Daylesford Macedon Produce Harvest Festival (April/May).
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BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) will hold a public hearing for a proposed project affecting portions of Turkey Creek and Bernard Bayou in Gulfport. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at the Good Deeds Community Center located at 15101 Madison St. in Gulfport.
Cavenham Forest Industries, LLC has filed an application with the MDMR requesting permission to construct environmental control and containment structures on its property adjacent to the confluence of Turkey Creek and Bernard Bayou in Gulfport. The applicant's request to construct the proposed structures is part of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated remediation project.
The proposal would entail the construction and installation of engineered subsurface barriers and earthen-fill caps for the containment of contaminants at the former wood treating facility. Two inlets, including approximately 0.85 acres of coastal wetlands, would also be filled along Turkey Creek to prevent migration of contaminants into the waterway. Approximately 925 linear feet of sheetpile bulkhead would be installed to retain the fill for the two inlets and to stabilize the shoreline along another section of Turkey Creek. Approximately 2.82 acres of non-tidal wetlands on the site would be impacted by control and containment measures.
The proposal also calls for excavation of existing uplands along Bernard Bayou and creation of water bottoms and emergent wetlands to compensate for the impact to coastal wetlands filled for the remediation project.
In addition, the applicant is requesting to construct a floodwater spillway in uplands above mean high water between Turkey Creek and Bernard Bayou to help alleviate loss of flood plain after construction. The concrete-lined spillway would only function during flood events and would be approximately 192 feet long, 84 feet wide and 3 feet deep. The applicant is required to request two variances to the Mississippi Coastal Program concerning adverse and cumulative environmental impacts of permanent filling of coastal wetlands and placement of vertical face structures.
In compliance with Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the applicant will request certification from the Office of Pollution Control that the above-mentioned activity will be in compliance with applicable provisions of the Act and appropriate requirements of the State Law.
The March 27 hearing will provide the opportunity for the community to submit comments concerning the proposed project. It is not a question-and-answer session; however, the applicant or a representative may make a brief presentation of the project at the opening of the hearing and will be available an hour prior to the meeting to answer questions regarding their proposed project. Additional information may be obtained by visiting the MDMR offices or Web site, www.dmr.ms.gov, or by calling 228-523-4109.
Any person wishing to make comments or objections to the proposed regulated activity must submit those comments in writing to the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources at 1141 Bayview Ave., Biloxi, MS 39530, and the Office of Pollution Control, P.O. Box 2261, Jackson, MS 39225-2261 before 1 p.m. March 27, 2012.
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So, since the topic this week is about Property Rights, what is your feedback from the readings for this week? Ask questions to each other, to me, and discuss what Property rights mean to you. What is the role of the US government, and particularly public policy in the context of property rights?


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El Campeonato Mundial de Dardos PDC 2023 (oficialmente el Campeonato Mundial de Dardos Cazoo 2022/23) fue un evento profesional de dardos que tuvo lugar en el Alexandra Palace de Londres del 15 de diciembre de 2022 al 3 de enero de 2023. Fue el 30° Campeonato Mundial de Dardos organizado por Professional Darts Corporation desde que se separó de la ahora desaparecida Organización Británica de Dardos .

Peter Wright era el campeón defensor, después de haber derrotado a Michael Smith 7-5 en la final del año anterior,  pero perdió 4-1 ante Kim Huybrechts en la tercera ronda.

Smith derrotó a Michael van Gerwen 7-4 en la final, ganando su primer título mundial y alcanzando el número uno mundial en la Orden del Mérito de PDC por primera vez. Smith acertó el único final de nueve dardos del torneo en la final, con el marcador 1-0 en sets para van Gerwen y 1-1 en piernas. Van Gerwen había lanzado ocho dardos en los triples y falló un dardo en el doble 12 para terminar él mismo con nueve dardos en la misma etapa.

Steve Beaton hizo una aparición consecutiva número 32 en el Campeonato del Mundo, pero perdió en la primera ronda ante Danny van Trijp. El holandés Raymond van Barneveld se convirtió en el segundo jugador en hacer 30 apariciones en el Campeonato Mundial.

En enero de 2022, se anunció que el minorista de automóviles en línea Cazoo se convertiría en el nuevo patrocinador principal en un contrato de varios años.   El acuerdo puso fin a 20 años del torneo patrocinado por casas de apuestas, con Ladbrokes patrocinando el evento de 2003 a 2014, antes de que William Hill patrocinó el evento al año siguiente.  El acuerdo fue el quinto título de patrocinio de Cazoo dentro del PDC, luego de los acuerdos para asegurar los derechos de denominación de la Copa Mundial de Dardos, el Campeonato Europeo, el Grand Slam de Dardos y la Premier League Darts.  La empresa japonesa Toyo Tires también patrocinó el evento, y los 96 jugadores usaron su logotipo en las mangas.

Como parte de una extensión de contrato de cuatro años firmada en 2021, el evento se llevó a cabo en el Alexandra Palace de Londres, como parte de una extensión de contrato de cuatro años firmada en 2021. El mismo lugar se ha utilizado desde el campeonato de 2008.  El tablero de dardos utilizado para el evento fue el Winmau Blade 6 Triple Core,   utilizado por primera vez en un Campeonato Mundial de PDC luego del final de la asociación de 25 años de PDC con el fabricante Unicorn en enero de 2022.

El holandés  Michael van Gerwen partía como favorito para alzarse con su cuarto campeonato, con los comentaristas de Sky Sports Wayne Mardle y Mark Webster apostando por él, mientras que su rival, el galés Gerwyn Price, lo consideraba "the one to beat". El propio Van Gerwen dijo que no tenía nada que demostrar, pero advirtió a sus rivales de que "there is only one more to come", aunque reconoció que al ser favorito era un "big target".Ladbrokes, que volvió a patrocinar el evento como "official betting partner", dio cuotas de 13/5 para Van Gerwen.

Los preparativos de Wright sufrieron un revés en noviembre, cuando su mujer tuvo que ser hospitalizada durante el Grand Slam, tras lo cual se retiró de las Finales del Campeonato de Jugadores, pero declaró a la revista Oche que volvería a tiempo para defender su título.

Dinero del premio
El premio en metálico del torneo se mantuvo en 2,5 millones de libras esterlinas en total por quinto año consecutivo, y la parte correspondiente al ganador ascendió a 500.000 libras esterlinas. Además, los patrocinadores del torneo, Selco, crearon un bote especial de 100.000 libras en caso de que un jugador acertara dos dianas de nueve dardos. El jugador recibiría 50.000 libras y el resto se dividiría entre Cancer Research UK y un miembro del público elegido al azar. Gerwyn Price lo describió como una "gran iniciativa", especialmente en medio de la crisis del coste de la vida en el Reino Unido. Además, el ganador del torneo recibe el Trofeo Sid Waddell, que lleva el nombre del antiguo comentarista fallecido en 2012.

Formato
Todos los partidos se jugaron como entrada simple, salida doble, lo que requirió que los jugadores anotaran 501 puntos para ganar una etapa, terminando en un doble o en la diana. Los partidos se jugaron en formato de set, siendo cada set al mejor de cinco tramos (primero a tres).

En todas las rondas excepto en la primera, el set decisivo debe ganarse por dos mangas claras, a menos que el marcador del set llegue a 5-5, en cuyo caso se jugará una manga de muerte súbita, sin lanzamiento para el toro en ninguna manga de muerte súbita.

Calificación
96 jugadores compitieron en el campeonato, con los treinta y dos jugadores mejor clasificados en la Orden de Mérito de PDC sembrados para la segunda ronda, y los siguientes treinta y dos jugadores mejor clasificados de la Orden de Mérito del PDC Pro Tour 2022 y treinta y dos jugadores de las distintas eliminatorias que pasan a la primera ronda.

semifinales

Las semifinales se llevaron a cabo el 2 de enero, con Clemens jugando contra Smith en la primera que se jugó. Los primeros cuatro sets se fueron a los últimos tramos, pero todos fueron agarres de tiro. Smith se llevó el quinto set 3-0, antes de lograr un final de 83 en la diana en el tramo decisivo del sexto set para romper el tiro de Clemens por primera vez. Smith se aferró al séptimo set en otro tramo decisivo para quedarse a un set de distancia. Un quiebre del lanzamiento de Clemens en el tercer tramo le dio a Smith la ventaja en el octavo set que mantuvo, para triunfar 6-2 y clasificarse para su tercera final mundial, y segunda consecutiva.

La segunda semifinal vio a Van den Bergh enfrentarse a Van Gerwen. Van den Bergh rompió el tiro en el primer set al lograr un resultado de 170 en el tercer tramo, pero Van Gerwen inmediatamente se recuperó y mantuvo el set, antes de quebrar a Van den Bergh dos veces en el segundo set para ganarlo 3-0. Van Gerwen anotó el segundo 170 final del partido en el partido de vuelta del tercer set para romper el tiro de Van den Bergh y completó el tercer set 3-0. Van den Bergh logró llevar el cuarto set a un tramo final, pero Van Gerwen rompió su lanzamiento una vez más para tomar una ventaja de 4-0. Van Gerwen obtuvo otra victoria por 3-0 en el quinto set y se llevó el sexto set por el mismo marcador para ganar 6-0 y llegar a su sexta final, habiendo perdido solo tres sets en el torneo hasta ese momento. El promedio de partidos de Van Gerwen de 108.28 es el más alto del torneo hasta el momento.

Final
La final entre Smith y van Gerwen, una repetición de la final del Campeonato Mundial de Dardos de la PDC de 2019, tuvo lugar el 3 de enero. Smith tiró primero en el set inicial, pero perdió su lanzamiento en la tercera manga tras fallar un dardo para una salida de 127, y Van Gerwen mantuvo el lanzamiento en la siguiente manga para llevarse el primer set. En la tercera manga del segundo set, Van Gerwen falló un doble 12 para un final perfecto de nueve dardos y Smith acertó inmediatamente la misma diana para una manga perfecta propia, antes de ganar la siguiente manga para igualar el marcador del set. Smith se llevó el tercer set por 3-2, pero Van Gerwen volvió a igualar la contienda con un 3-0 en el cuarto set. Van Gerwen ganó la manga decisiva en el siguiente set para recuperar la ventaja, pero una victoria por 3-1 de Smith restableció la igualdad. Parecía que Van Gerwen se iba a llevar el séptimo set tras ganar las dos primeras mangas, pero Smith contraatacó y logró ganar una manga decisiva para superar el ecuador del partido.

En el octavo set fue el turno de Smith de tomar una ventaja de dos mangas, y a diferencia del set anterior la ventaja no fue cedida, llevándose Smith el set por 3-1. Con Van Gerwen ahora bajo una enorme presión, Smith se llevó el noveno set por 3-0 y se colocó a uno del Campeonato. El décimo set se decidió en la última manga, que Van Gerwen logró ganar para mantener vivo el partido. Van Gerwen se llevó las dos primeras mangas del siguiente set, pero Smith remontó y estableció una manga decisiva para el Campeonato. Smith abrió la manga decisiva con dos 180 y cerró con un doble ocho para proclamarse Campeón del Mundo por primera vez. La victoria también colocó a Smith en lo más alto de la Orden de Mérito de la PDC por primera vez.

Derechos de retransmisión
En el Reino Unido y la República de Irlanda, el evento fue transmitido por Sky Sports como parte de un contrato de siete años firmado en 2017 con el PDC.  La cobertura de Sky Sports estuvo a cargo de Emma Paton, quien reemplazó a Laura Woods en el papel luego de su partida a ITV Sport a principios de 2022.  Los expertos del evento incluyeron a los ex campeones mundiales John Part y Mark Webster, además de Wayne Mardle y Laura Turner .  El campeonato fue el primero desde la muerte de los comentaristas de Sky Sports John Gwynne y Nigel Pearson .   Como parte de una extensión de contrato de dos años firmada en 2021,  el torneo también se transmitió a través de la estación de radio Talksport, con los exjugadores Paul Nicholson y Chris Mason entre el equipo de comentaristas.

En los Países Bajos, el torneo se transmitió en el servicio de transmisión por suscripción Viaplay .  La cobertura alemana se emitió en Sport1 y logró una audiencia récord de dardos en Alemania para la semifinal de Gabriel Clemens.

Referencias

Deporte en Reino Unido en 2023
Deporte en Reino Unido en 2022
Wikipedia:Páginas con traducciones sin revisar

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Q: Measurable and coordinate functions in terms of Borel sets
Let $X$ be a set, $F$ a $\sigma$-field of subsets of $X$, and $\mu$ a measure on $F$. A map $F=(f_1,\ldots,f_n)$ of $X$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ is said to be measurable if each of the coordinate functions, $f_i$, is measurable. Show that $f$ is measurable if and only if $f^{-1}(B)\in F$ for every Borel set $B\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$.

The function $f_i$ being measurable means that $f_i^{-1}(B)\in F$ for every Borel set $B\in\mathbb{R}$. Therefore, we must show that this is true for every $i=1,\ldots,n$ if and only if $f^{-1}(B)\in F$ for every Borel set $B\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$.
Borel sets are the smallest $\sigma$-ring containing the open sets. I can't see how to relate Borel sets in $\mathbb{R}$ and Borel sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

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Mahni Ghorashi, co-founder of Clear Labs, leads commercial activities at the company, including strategy, marketing and corporate development. After graduating from MIT and getting his MBA, Mahni was head of marketing at Bina Technologies. Mahni is also a concert pianist in his off hours and a tireless supporter of the arts.


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Political Op-Eds Social Commentary
Time to wake up to shocking toll of TB
By Eric Goosby
Updated 4:25 PM EDT, Wed October 28, 2015
Six-year-old Bukenya Hethiri, began coughing at the age of two. It took three years to diagnose him with tuberculosis (TB), due to the challenges of diagnosing TB in children.
Meera Senthilingam/CNN
There are more than 1,000 private healthcare clinics in Kampala, which are the first port of call for more than 50% of the population. But until now, they had limited skills and resources to diagnose TB.
© Will Boase/The Union
The urban slums of Kampala, Uganda have high rates of TB, with confined environments and poor ventilation helping to spread the disease. Healthcare services often fail to diagnose children with TB.
Hethiri and his mother live in a small room in a slum in the Kawempe division of Kampala. He was finally diagnosed with TB thanks to the help of a local village health worker who was part of the city's SPARK-TB program.
Children are estimated to contribute to between 12-20% of the 60,000 total TB cases notified each year in Uganda. SPARK-TB has provided private clinics with the skills and services to more readily spot and diagnose TB first in adults, and now children.
More than 200 clinics in Kampala and its surrounding districts are supported by SPARK TBPlus, including the Doctors medicare clinic, where sputum induction machines have been provided to collect higher quality samples from children.
Sputum induction involves the use of a nebulizer and tubing to stimulate sputum production within a child's larynx to then suck it up for sampling.
The main method of diagnosing TB is by testing samples of mucus -- known as sputum -- coughed up by patients suspected to be infected. Even when children are able to produce samples, detection of TB bacteria within the sample remains difficult due to low numbers present in the sample.
As part of the SPARK TB program there are monthly health camps in each of the city's administrative divisions, often located within public spaces such as markets.
Village health teams help spread information about the signs and symptoms of TB for to help people come forward for testing. Those who do come forward are logged to ensure they received their test results.
The hunt for childhood tuberculosis
Editor's Note: Dr. Eric Goosby is the United Nations special envoy on tuberculosis and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. From 2009 to 2013, he was the U.S. global AIDS coordinator. The views expressed are his own.
Eric Goosby: Average of 4,400 people die from tuberculosis each day
43 million lives have been saved since 2000 with effective diagnosis and treatment, he says
The news that tuberculosis – a treatable and curable disease – now ranks alongside HIV as the leading infectious disease killer worldwide should be a wake-up call to us all.
Having worked as a physician focusing on HIV/AIDS for decades, and as the U.S. global AIDS coordinator under President Barack Obama, I have seen what it takes to ramp up the AIDS response. Unfortunately, the TB response has historically lagged far behind. Indeed, it's clear that the political backing and momentum to make the bold strides needed to drive down the epidemic just do not yet exist, though we know that path is possible.
It is unacceptable that 4,400 people continue to die from TB each day when we can diagnose and cure nearly every person with TB. Yet as the latest World Health Organization report on the global TB epidemic released this week states, there are serious detection and treatment gaps that are keeping people from being cured.
Eric Goosby
Of the 9.6 million people estimated to have fallen ill with TB last year, over 3 million people were not diagnosed with TB and, therefore, were not accessing quality care.
Detection and treatment gaps are especially serious among people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, which has emerged as a public health crisis. The major reason for these gaps is a shortfall in funding. The TB response remains under-resourced. There is currently a funding gap of $ 1.4 billion to fully implement TB prevention and control interventions and an additional gap of $1.3 billion for research.
Yet, WHO's report shows how TB investments have yielded truly impressive results, with 43 million lives saved since 2000 with effective diagnosis and treatment. And many governments worldwide are setting up large-scale and sustainable programs that provide basic TB care in their primary health services, saving millions of lives each year.
Countries with high TB and HIV burdens are also mounting a solid response to the joint epidemics with prevention and care being scaled up, although not yet with full coverage. Many countries have shown they can adopt new tools, strengthen delivery, reach more patients and contain drug-resistant TB at low levels if they have the necessary funding. The United States should be applauded for being at the forefront of the fight against both TB and HIV/AIDS.
Let's learn from the successful AIDS response. We know that community engagement and civil society support are key to fighting the epidemic. Given that more than 70% of TB patients in Africa are HIV-positive, there is no excuse to leave them behind.
TB care and treatment must be integrated into existing health services. And we must give a voice to those with TB who are currently voiceless. TB is predominately found in low-income communities, where resources to mobilize a response are nonexistent. The truth is that if we want to drive down TB deaths, a larger injection of funding is needed – at a level befitting such a global threat.
With new tests that can rapidly detect TB and drug-resistant TB, new medicines to treat the disease, an effective vaccine and universal access to care, the world will be one step closer to ending the epidemic once and for all.
WHO's new End TB Strategy, which aims to end the TB epidemic by 2030, is now part of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal agenda, a plan for global prosperity. As we look beyond 2015, we have the shared responsibility of ridding the world of preventable and curable diseases like TB, and creating a world free of poverty and inequality. We want the most vulnerable communities worldwide to gain first, not last, in our efforts.
As the United Nations special envoy on tuberculosis, I am committed to mobilizing greater political commitment across the globe to fight TB and ensure that those most vulnerable have access to quality care.
More than 4,000 deaths a day is a shocking figure. Let's not be immune to that shock.

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A Mexican Heritage at Night
A Mexican Heritage a...
Long exposure of stars rotating around the north celestial pole from an equatorial latitude of southern Mexico. The foreground is the Palace at Mitla. The World Heritage Site of Mitla is the second most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca and was inhabited perhaps from as early as 900 BC. It began as a fortified village on the outer edge of the valley and later became the main religious center for the area. Mitla is one of the pre-Columbian sites that represent the Mesoamerican belief that death was the most consequential part of life after birth. It was built as a gateway between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
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Location: Central America | Mexico | Oaxaca
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Drupella is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Soorten
 Drupella cornus (Röding, 1798)
 Drupella eburnea (Küster, 1862)
 Drupella fragum (Blainville, 1832)
 Drupella margariticola (Broderip, 1833)
 Drupella minuta Fujioka, 1984
 Drupella rugosa (Born, 1778)

Muricidae


24MX Stars: Kevin Strijbos. Why #22 chooses 24MX.
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MXGP star Kevin Strijbos is using 24MX a lot as he prepares for his assault on the 2019 FIM Motocross World Championship. What attracts him to the store? What products does he really enjoy using? Strijbos explains it all in the quote below, as well as the video. Do you have any 24MX-related questions for the former Grand Prix winner? Contact us via social media and we will pass them along.
"24MX is a big company. I checked their website and they have a lot, like bags, backpacks and socks. I also use their socks, because of the long socks with my knee braces. Yeah, basically, they have everything that you need to start riding. That is cool. It is such a good company and easy to work with. If I need something I email them, then four days later it is at my house. It is great."


This staff portrait was taken at BDO Canada in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. BDO Canada provides assurance, accounting, tax, and advisory services to clients in Canada.
It was a pleasure to do a photo shoot at the BDO building because it has a really interesting architecture and it provided plenty of different areas to take photos.
Company headshot days are convenient, economical, and also a great staff bonding event. See our on-location headshots here.
Companies we've worked with loved how fast the process went, allowing them to be in and out within a couple of minutes and get on with the rest of their busy day.
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/* Contributed by Nicola Pero - Fri Mar  9 21:35:47 CET 2001 */

#include <stdlib.h>
#include "../../objc-obj-c++-shared/TestsuiteObject.m"

/* Test defining two protocol, a class adopting both of them,
   and using an object of type `id <Protocol1, Protocol2>' */

@protocol Enabling
- (BOOL) isEnabled;
- (void) setEnabled: (BOOL)flag;
@end

@protocol Evaluating
- (int) importance;
@end

@interface Feature : TestsuiteObject <Enabling, Evaluating>
{
  const char *name;
  BOOL isEnabled;
}
@end

@implementation Feature
- (BOOL) isEnabled
{
  return isEnabled;
}
- (void) setEnabled: (BOOL)flag
{
  isEnabled = flag;
}
- (int) importance
{
  return 1000;
}
@end

int main (void)
{
  id <Enabling, Evaluating> object;

  object = [Feature new];

  [object setEnabled: YES];
  if (![object isEnabled])
    {
      abort ();
    }

  if ([object importance] != 1000)
    {
      abort ();
    }

  return 0;
}

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Chalk bag is the easiest part of climbing gear to choose. But still, we should pay attention to details of any product. In this article you will read how to choose a chalk bag for bouldering and rock climbing.
Chalk bag is the a very simple item in climbing equipment. You can buy it without thinking too much. There are only several things you should consider.
Small size bags work best when you don't need large amounts of chalk. Like bouldering and indoor climbing. They are also good for people who have smaller hands.
Standard size bags are the most common. They work well in nearly all conditions.
Larger bags (pots) are for shared chalk. This kind of bag is usually on the floor near the climbing wall instead of mounting on the waist.
When it comes to shape, there are two main categories - cylindrical and tapered. Some people consider tapered ones more comfortable but it's up to your personal preference.
This is very important feature. Bag should have a cord to close the bag. This prevents chalk from spilling when you're not using the bag.
Makes it easy to use the chalk by keeping the bag open.
Fleece lining helps you to distribute chalk evenly on your hands and keeps chalk inside the bag.
You can directly mount the bag on your climbing harness, but when you're climbing without harness (bouldering) you can use the waist belt to keep the bag with you.
This is a small loop where you can put a brush for cleaning the holds.


On Wednesday I surveyed VCDL's inventory of signs from previous events, but found that I didn't have any applicable signs here in Richmond for the Bloomberg Tyranny Tour (BTT). I got in my car and began my drive up to Roanoke for my talk at the Roanoke City Republican Committee meeting. On the ride up I called EM John Wilburn in Blacksburg to ask him if he could help me with signs for Friday.
John jumped into action with member Sheila Rigney and they produced an excellent set of signs, all mounted on sticks. The sticks made the signs easier to hold and had another side benefit (more on that shortly). On Thursday, as I headed from Roanoke to Staunton for my talk to the Shenandoah Valley Tea Party, I breathed a sigh of relief as I learned that the signs were ready!
Friday morning we had around 30 VCDL members at the BTT event in Blacksburg. At least six of which were women and we had quite a few young adults as well.
The BTT started their press conference at 9:30 AM. There were around 5 different members of the media present, and I was interviewed by all of them (articles with video are below).
I was extremely proud of our group. We stood quietly holding our signs as the press conference, and the later reading of names, continued. It's not easy to do when the other side is spewing misinformation, such as the infamous 40% of guns are sold without a background check statistic and that universal background checks won't lead to registration.
A few of the angrier antis tried to get a reaction from us, clearly hoping for a confrontation, but not a single VCDL member took the bait.
Once the press conference was over, they started reading names of those "killed with a gun." The names included criminals killed by police, criminals killed by other criminals, suicides, and accidents, to swell the number of names. The reading of the names droned on: "John Doe, age 34, Duluth, Minnesota, killed with a gun." Sometimes they didn't know the person's name or age: "Name unknown, age unknown, Chicago, Illinois, killed with a gun." No mention of all the names of those who are alive today because they had a gun to protect themselves. No mention of the fact that the list they were reading from might have been shorter if some of the victims had had a gun.
THE ANTIS UNINTENTIONALLY PROVIDE HILARIOUS COMEDY RELIEF!
One of the antis we had crossed paths with before at a previous VCDL protest at Virginia Tech ("No Guns, No Funds"). He was there with all his malevolence. He was holding up his little "No more names" signs, one in each hand, and glaring at us in a defiant manner, praying for a confrontation. He was summarily ignored.
EM Dave Hicks had taken his sign ("Defend Liberty, Oppose Bloomberg") and stood behind all the antis and behind the podium. Because Dave is tall and the signs were on sticks, Dave got his sign way up in the air, well above the antis and virtually guaranteed to be in the background of photos and videos of the event's speakers. ;-) No one could complain, as he was not blocking their signs at all, he was simply towering over them from behind.
Typical of our opponents, there were a few of them who were determined that our signs would not be seen (hey, they don't like free speech either - unless it is THEIR free speech, of course).
Here's where it really started to be fun.
First, there was a young woman who was determined to block out Dave's sign. So she stood in front of Dave on her tippy-toes and held up her sign as high as she could. Unfortunately for her, she was not able to match the height of Dave's sign. Out of frustration she started to jump up in the air, holding her sign as high up over her head as she could.
Well, for a split second her sign did cover the very bottom edge of Dave's sign and then Mean-Ole-Mister-Gravity pulled her back down. ;-) So she just kept hopping up and down for a while, determined to get her way. I was grinning ear-to-ear.
A little while later Dave was standing a little to the side with his sign in front of him, with the stick resting on the ground. Two antis then stood directly in front of him to block his sign. So Dave lifted his sign up in the air and the two antis did the same and held their signs high to block his. And then Dave lowered his sign and they lowered theirs.
I swear I saw a twinkle in Dave's eyes at that point and I thought to myself, "uh, oh."
Dave raised his sign. They raised theirs. Dave lowered his sign. They lowered theirs. Dave raised his sign. They raised theirs. Dave lowered his sign. They lowered theirs. Dave raised his sign. They raised theirs. Dave lowered his sign. They lowered theirs.
Dave had created a miniature "wave" event! And all of this without a single word being said. I had to turn away to wipe the tears of laughter flowing down my face. ;-) I'm giggling and teared up as I'm writing this, a day later!
The wave motion even disturbed the current speaker as she was trying to figure out what the heck was going on in her peripheral vision.
Finally the antis realized that they looked like marionettes with Dave pulling their strings!
One of the speakers was Mr. Neil Heslin, who had lost his 6-year-old son, Jesse, in the Sandy Hook massacre. Neil is a soft-spoken man who had suffered an unimaginable loss. I noticed he was talking to several of our members later in the morning, so I decided to go over and talk to him as well. I shook his hand and offered my personal condolences. It turns out that he is a gun owner and started shooting as a very young man in upstate New York and Connecticut many years ago. He was a person that you couldn't help but like. He carried no malice, but was simply trying to find some way to keep others from going through what he has gone through.
Toward the end of our rather lengthy and pleasant conversation, Neil took out his cell phone and said he wanted to show me some photos of his son. I immediately recognized one of the photos from an article in a newspaper back in December. A beautiful little boy with a beaming grin. It was taken on a day when they had gone fishing together. I told Neil that looking at that photo it was crystal clear that Jesse was crazy about his dad.
As Neil walked away, I vowed silently to redouble my efforts to get rid of those damned gun-free-slaughter-zones that allowed a monster to kill that sweet little boy.
After the event was over, one of the Bloomberg security team members told one of our members that of all the groups that he had dealt with before, VCDL was the most well-mannered of them all.
One of the Blacksburg police officers also told one of our members that he greatly appreciated our conduct.
Finally, Andrew Goddard came over, shook my hand, and sincerely thanked me for our group acting so respectfully during the event. That was nice of him and, as I said earlier, our members were indeed a class act. We are not angry disrupters. We are good natured, but fair, firm, and relentless in fighting for our beliefs.
Outstanding. If we can ever figure out when they'll be in NV we'll try to put a crowd together. Unless of course they show in Vegas which is full (?) of supporters. Maybe. Thanks for the update.
How the CDC succumbed to the Gun "Epidemic"
Will the brainlessness ever end?


When you spend multiple days on end listening to a great band for a review, I must tell you: it's hard not to get personally invested and attached to the music. This is especially true when it's as layered and listenable as Cold Capital's newly released debut LP "Frozen Assets", and even more so when the entire album is filled with endless earworms.
Cold Capital categorize themselves as "blues rock with a roots rock feel", and while I completely agree with that assessment, that short description fails to convey how truly catchy and cohesive their music really is. They demonstrate a great balance between their faster numbers and mellower tracks, all while managing to make even their slower tunes super catchy – no easy feat. Clearly well thought out, with a change in tempo from one song to the next, the album always keeps you guessing and yet fully entranced throughout its nine tracks. Their way of making an entire album with multiple genres, while still keeping a familiar and identifiable sound to their music, is truly masterful.
Full of fun riffs and you'll be singing along before you know it: for only $7 for the entire album, it's really a steal – head over to their bandcamp and get yourself a copy. Also, be sure to follow the band on Facebook to keep an eye out for the latest news and upcoming shows.
Cold Capital will be doing an upcoming mini tour to support their new release, heading the way of Kingston, Toronto and Peterborough, so spread the word to friends in those cities and let them in on the good times. Mark your calendars now: they'll be playing a show at Irene's on June 10th. We'll see you there!


Ahhhhhh, you've taken a blog post off me!!!! Thanks so much for the one you gave me for my birthday. It's a great way of storing those odds and ends which lurk round tatting corners!!!!
Fun post and cute storing ideas!
Your tatting supplies look very neat in there! There seems to be a lot of cutting and tying in those older patterns. Perhaps you could update them?
The round doily has some very pretty flower bits in that one round. Not something I remember seeing before. The square doily has an interesting center and corners.


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Kewarra Beach är en strand i Australien. Den ligger i kommunen Cairns och delstaten Queensland, omkring  kilometer nordväst om delstatshuvudstaden Brisbane.

Omgivningarna runt Kewarra Beach är en mosaik av jordbruksmark och naturlig växtlighet. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är mars, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är september, med  mm nederbörd.

Källor

Stränder i Queensland
Kontrollbehov inkommande wikilänkar


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Юлиус Петер Кристиан Петерсен (; 16 июня 1839, Сорё, о. Зеландия — 5 августа 1910 , Копенгаген) — датский .

Биография
Обучался в Датском техническом университете, позже изучал математику в Копенгагенском университете. В 1866 году получил степень магистра математики в альма матер, а в 1871 — доктора философии в области математики.

Весной 1908 года Петерсен перенес инсульт. К концу жизни утратил возможность работать. Умер в августе 1910 г.

Похоронен на Западном кладбище Копенгагена.

Научная деятельность
Многие из ранних работ Ю. Петерсена, в основном, были сосредоточены в области геометрии. В 1860- х годах им написаны пять учебников по геометрии. Одной из самых замечательных работ Ю. Петерсена была книга «Методы и теории» (Methods and Theories) . Первое издание этой книги вышло на датском языке, но в 1879 издание было переведено на восемь языков, включая английский, французский и испанский языки, что принесло ему международную репутацию больше, чем в любой другой области его работ.

Научные интересы Петерсена в математике многообразны: геометрия, комплексный анализ, теория функций, теория чисел, математическая физика, математическая экономика, криптография и теория графов).

Его знаменитая работа «Die Theorie der regulären graph» («Теория регулярных графов») внесла фундаментальный вклад в современную теорию графов. В 1898 году опубликовал свои замечания к теории узлов П. Тэта, в настоящее время известные, как «граф Петерсена». В его честь также названа Теорема Петерсена и .

Внёс большой вклад в развитие дискретной математики, криптографии и математической экономики.

Избранные труды
 Die Theorie der regulären graphs. 1891
 Методы и теории для решения геометрических задач на построение. Типография Э. Лисснера и Ю. Романа. — М.: 1892.

См. также
 Граф Петерсена

Примечания

Ссылки
  Julius Petersen (1839—1910)- Matematikeren og Mennesket

Персоналии:Копенгагенский университет
Математики XIX века
Математики XX века
Математики по алфавиту
Математики Дании
Доктора философии по математике
Геометры
Авторы учебников
Математики в теории графов
Похороненные на Западном кладбище (Копенгаген)


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\section{Introduction}

The potential of gravitational lenses to increase our knowledge
concerning the amount and nature of dark matter, constrain key
cosmological parameters and offer uniquely detailed views of faint
distant objects is well known (Blandford and Narayan 1992). The
development over the last decade of the field of ``weak lensing'' in
which statistical studies of many sources, only slightly perturbed by
the effects of lensing, are made has produced important new results
concerning the distribution of mass in galaxy clusters and very large
scale structures. However, the assembly of examples of systems
multiply imaged by individual galaxies has proved extremely hard.

Searches for individual examples of strong lensing have relied on the
examination of a sample of objects, such as quasars or flat--spectrum
radio--sources, where a large fraction of the sample lie at high
redshift. Thus, towards each object there is a significant
path--length over which an intervening deflector may interpose itself
close to the line--of--sight. The lens search proceeds through the
identification of sources whose morphology, multiple images or
extended arcs for example, is consistent with the effects of
lensing. Further imaging, at different wavelengths, and spectroscopy
is then necessary to establish the source as a bona--fide lens and to
obtain redshifts for the source and the deflecting galaxy. In practice,
obtaining the redshifts is very difficult, particularly for
radio--selected objects, and in the compilation of Kochanek et al
(1999: {\it http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/castles}) only 19 of the 45
lensed systems possess both deflector and source redshifts.

An alternative search strategy is to examine optimal lines--of--sight
by identifying a population of very effective deflectors, where it
is known that any source lying behind the deflector will be
significantly lensed, and then to examine the spectra of the deflectors
for evidence of lensed background sources. Miralda--Escud\'{e} and
Leh\'{a}r (1992) pointed out that provided the surface density of
faint, small, galaxies at high redshift is large, significant numbers
of galaxy--galaxy lenses should exist. Subsequent observational
developments have shown that the surface density of high--redshift,
star--forming objects is indeed large (e.g., Steidel et al. 1996, Hu,
Cowie and McMahon 1998).  Provided a suitable sample of deflectors can
be identified the optimal line--of--sight search strategy offers
significant advantages, including i) high efficiency, the probability a
lens will be seen along a line--of--sight is significant, ii) the
deflector and source redshifts may be readily acquired, allowing the
full lensing geometry to be defined, iii) the small, but extended,
star--forming objects lead to resolved gravitational lenses, not unlike
the radio--rings arising from morphologically extended radio emission,
which provide much greater constraints on the deflector masses than the
more familiar two-- or four--image lenses of unresolved quasars.

Using APM measures of United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope $B_JRI$ plates
it is possible to identify the ideal population of deflectors
\---\ massive, bulge--dominated, galaxies at redshift $z\sim 0.4$,
essentially half-way between ourselves and any high redshift source.
Specifically, locating the population of relatively bright, $m_R\le
20$, red, $B_J-R \ge 2.2$, galaxies with redshifts $0.25 \le z \le 0.6$
is straightforward (Warren et al.  1996).  The galaxy population has a
surface density of $\sim 50\,$deg$^{-2}$ and associated with each
galaxy there is an area of sky, $\sim 1\,$arcsec$^2$, in which any
distant source will be multiply imaged, with an associated increase in
brightness of a factor $\ga 10$. These early--type galaxies represent
essentially optimal lines--of--sight to search for examples of strong
lensing.

The presence of a lens is revealed by the detection of an anomalous
emission line in the spectrum of one of the target distant early-type
galaxies, so obtaining spectra of a large sample of the deflector
galaxies represents the first stage in the lens survey.  Examination
of intermediate--resolution optical spectra of an initial sample of
160 colour--selected early--type galaxies revealed the presence of an
emission line at $5589$\AA \ in a galaxy with redshift
$z=0.485$. Follow--up spectroscopy (Warren et al.  1998) and imaging
(Warren et al. 1999) have confirmed the B0047--2808 system as an
optical Einstein ring with the source, a star--forming galaxy at
$z=3.595$, the first confirmed example of a normal galaxy lensing
another normal galaxy and a demonstration of the viability of the
optimal line--of--sight survey strategy.

\section{The Spectroscopic Survey}

With an efficient method for acquiring spectra along many optimal
lines--of--sight there is the prospect of obtaining a large sample,
10--20 objects, of spatially resolved gravitationally lensed systems.
The low--surface density of the galaxies on the sky means the
Anglo--Australian Telescope's 2dF multifibre instrument, with a
$3\,{\rm deg}^2$ field, is ideally suited to the initial spectroscopy.
Total exposure times of $\sim 8000\,$s produce galaxy spectra for
which the completeness of redshift measurement is $95\%$ and in which
anomalous emission lines of fluxes $\sim 5\times 10^{-17}\,$erg
s$^{-1}$cm$^{-2}$ may be reliably detected i.e. fluxes comparable to
those seen in high--redshift galaxy samples (e.g., Hu et al. 1998) can
be reached. The unlensed fluxes are a factor $\sim 10$ fainter.
Example spectra of galaxies from 2dF are shown in
Figure~\ref{fig-1}. Two fields, producing $\sim 250$ galaxy spectra,
can be observed per night.

\begin{figure}
\plotone{Hewett-Fig1.eps}
\caption{Observed--frame spectra of 403 distant early-type galaxies,
redshifts $0.3<z<0.6$, arranged by increasing redshift. A number of
prominent night--sky features are visible as vertical lines while
features present in the galaxies, such as Calcium H+K and the G--band
move to longer wavelength with increasing redshift.} \label{fig-1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\plotfiddle{Hewett-Fig2.eps}{6.0cm}{270}{40}{40}{-150}{+220}
\caption{Number--redshift histogram for the 485 galaxies observed over
two--nights at the AAT in 1998 September using the 2dF instrument.} \label{fig-2}
\end{figure}
Figure~\ref{fig-2}
shows the number--redshift distribution for all 485 galaxies observed
in a two--night 2dF run. The median redshift is $z_{med}=0.391$ and the
sample consists of luminous, relatively high--redshift objects that
barely feature in wide--angle, bright surveys (e.g. Colless 1998) or
narrow--angle, deep surveys (e.g. Cohen et al. 1999; Figure~1b).

\section{Tunable Filter Imaging}

Follow--up of an emission line detection in the discovery spectra
would, until recently, have involved the acquisition of a second
slit--spectrum to confirm the line. Subsequent narrow--band ($\sim
30$\AA) imaging, at an essentially random wavelength, to investigate
the morphology of the emission, necessitates the fabrication of a
custom filter, which is both time consuming and costly. However, the
availability of tunable Fabry--Perot imaging, specifically the Taurus
Tunable Filter (TTF) instruments at the AAT and William Herschel
Telescope, enable monochromatic images to be obtained for emission
lines at wavelengths covering virtually the whole optical spectrum.
A resolving power of up to $\sim 1000$ allows the signal--to--noise ratio to
be maximised by using narrow bandpasses, $\sim 10$\AA, well matched to
the narrow emission features. Observing efficiency has been further
improved with the recently commissioned broad--narrow shuffle mode,
that allows a comparison broadband image to be obtained during the
observation with only a small increase in the total exposure time.  The
sensitivity of the TTF system is such that confirmation of emission at
the target wavelength can be achieved as quickly as with a slit
spectrum. Indeed, the imaging  is superior in that even with a
relatively wide slit it is possible to exclude prominent emission
components, which may lie anywhere on a ring up to 3 arcsec in
diameter. Thus, spectroscopic follow--up may be dispensed with entirely
and confirmation and narrow--band imaging achieved using the TTF.

Figure~\ref{fig-3}
illustrates the effectiveness of the TTF. The image is a composite of a
broad--band $J$ exposure, from UKIRT, and an $1800\,$s TTF exposure
from the AAT. The candidate lens system is the double image seen at
top--centre. The lower of the two components is the core of a galaxy,
redshift $z=0.519$, magnitude $m_R=18.8$, coordinates 00$^h$ 42$^m$
49.5$^s$ -27$^\circ$ 52$^\prime$ 17$^{\prime\prime}$ (Equinox B1950.0).
The spectrum is that of a normal early--type galaxy with the addition
of a weak emission line at $5800$\AA. The upper of the components
visible in Figure~\ref{fig-3}, separated by $\sim 2\,$arcsec from the
centre of the galaxy, is visible only in the TTF exposure, which
covered a $\sim 10$\AA \ bandpass centred at $5800$\AA. The detection
of the component in the narrow--band image is unambiguous. Combining
the image with two additional TTF exposures produces an image where
some evidence of extended emission may be present but much deeper TTF
observations are required to confirm any lower surface brightness
extended structure or the presence of fainter lensed images.
\begin{figure}
\plotfiddle{Hewett-Fig3.eps}{7.0cm}{0}{80}{80}{-250}{-220}
\caption{Greyscale image of a $37 \times 37\,$arcsec region containing
the gravitational lens candidate B0042--2752 \---\ the double image visible towards the top. North is up and East to the left.}\label{fig-3}
\end{figure}

The most probable identification of the emission is with Ly$\alpha$
$1216$\AA \ from a star--forming galaxy at redshift $z=3.77$. With this
identification B0042--2752 is a very similar system to B0047--2808, the
first lens discovered in the survey. The deflector and source in
B0042--2752 are at slightly higher redshifts and the observed emission
line flux is a factor $\sim 5$ lower, $f_{\lambda} \sim 1 \times
10^{-16}\,{\rm erg}\,{\rm cm}^{-2}\,{\rm s}^{-1}$.  However, without
confirmation of the source redshift, via identification of a second
emission line in the infrared ([O {\footnotesize III}] 5007 would
appear at $2.388\,\mu$), or evidence for a morphology unambiguously
that of a lens, B0042-2752 remains only a lens candidate. Alternative
explanations are certainly not particularly attractive. If the emission
at $5800$\AA \ is [O {\footnotesize II}] 3727 the velocity of the
line--producing region relative to the galaxy is $\sim +11,000\,{\rm
km\,s}^{-1}$, ruling out any plausible physical association, even within
a rich cluster of galaxies. Chance projection of a faint
H\,{\footnotesize II} galaxy is possible, with $z_{em}=0.556$ if the
line is [O\,{\footnotesize II}] 3727, or $z_{em}=0.158$ if the line is
[O\,{\footnotesize III}] 5007.  There is no indication of any continuum
emission from broad--band imaging data, or the TTF off--band images,
and the putative H\,{\footnotesize II} galaxy must possess a large line
equivalent--width, with an intrinsically faint continuum. The object
would, for example, lie in the sparsely populated upper portion of
Figure~2 of Hogg et al. (1998).

The survey spectroscopic observations are sensitive to the presence of
an emission line object in an area of $\sim 5\,$arcsec$^2$ per galaxy,
giving a surveyed area of $\sim 800\,$arcsec$^2$ for the sample of 160
galaxies. Assuming, rather optimistically, that [O\,{\footnotesize II}]
or [O\,{\footnotesize III}] emission from a star--forming galaxy would
be detected in our spectra over the redshift range $0.1 \le z \le 0.8$
gives a total volume of $\sim 22\,h^{-3}\,{\rm Mpc}^3$
($H_0=100\,h\,{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$, $q_0=0.5$, $\Lambda=0$) in which an
H\,{\footnotesize II} galaxy may be found. Therefore, the space density
of H\,{\footnotesize II} galaxies, with properties consistent with the
constraints outlined above, must be $\ga 0.01 h^3\,{\rm Mpc}^{-3}$ for
the {\it a priori} probability of finding such an object to be
significant. Such a space density is substantially above that found in
emission--line surveys to comparable line fluxes (e.g., Thompson,
Djorgovski and Trauger 1995).

Further observations will determine whether B0042-2752 is the second
lensed high--redshift galaxy to be identified in the survey.
Irrespective of the outcome the combination of the AAT 2dF instrument
and TTF imaging offers the prospect of compiling a well--defined
sample of resolved gravitational lenses with a homogeneous deflector
population. Investigation of the sample will provide unique
information on the mass--to--light ratio in field elliptical galaxies
and the morphology, emission line properties and masses of
high--redshift star--forming objects currently too faint to be studied
by any other means.

\acknowledgments

Bahram Mobasher kindly obtained the $J$--band image used to generate
Figure~\ref{fig-3}. GFL acknowledges support from the Pacific Institute
for Mathematical Sciences (1998-1999). The authors acknowledge the data
and analysis facilities provided by the Starlink Project which is run
by CCLRC on behalf of PPARC.

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Maybe it's from all the old movies I've seen where whenever someone's having a bad night and just need a cigarette and to be left alone with their thoughts, they're always escaping to the fire escape. Although these old buildings with fire escapes appear all over the world, New York is infamous for them. That's why whenever I'm there staying in an Airbnb, I am always super excited when I find the fire escape.
I've dreamt of having my own red brick or brown stone apartment with a fire escape ever since I was small. And although my current apartment is the opposite of all of those requirements, I love it nonetheless. But there's just something about the thought of being able to crawl on to the fire escape on a warm summer night with a throw blanket, a candle, and maybe a book… is just SUCH an appealing and relaxing thought.
This is my "I'm Serena Vanderwoodsen visiting Dan Humphrey in Brooklyn and hanging out on his windowsill" outfit—fitting right? Low key does anyone relate most things in New York to Gossip Girl still? I really love how this cropped black turtleneck from Urban Outfitters looks with my wool Hopper skirt from Aritzia. Definitely gives the outfit a "preppy" feel which I actually really enjoy sporting.
I wanted to embody my inner "chill girl" vibe with this outfit. It's what I imagine I would wear on a regular day if I lived in New York. As if I just ran out to the bodega on the corner for the some breakfast, ran some errands, and now I'm hanging out on my fire escape in the Lower East Side. Goals. Both my top and my shorts were purchased at Aritzia, and my shoes are the Nike Low Top AF 1s.
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Микель Рико Морено (; 4 ноября 1984 года, Басаури) — испанский футболист, центральный полузащитник «Картахены».

Карьера
Рико родился в Басаури, Бискайя, и большую часть своей игровой молодости провел в клубах низших лиг испанского футбола. Исключением стал сезон 2006/07, который он провел за «Полидепортиво» в Сегунде, — команда завершила тот сезон на 11-м месте. В эти годы Рико также отметился играми за «Басконию», «Конкенсе» и «Уэску».

Летом 2009 года Рико вернулся в «Уэску», вышедшую в Сегунду. 19 июня 2010 года он забил один из своих пяти голов сезона, принеся победу 1-0 в игре против «Сельты», чем спас команду от вылета.

31 августа 2010 года Рико перебрался клуб Сегунды «Гранада» за 600 тысяч евро. В первом сезоне он провел на поле 40 матчей и забил в них 2 гола (почти 3500 игровых минут), а его команда вернулась в Примеру после более чем трех десятилетий отсутствия в элите испанского футбола. Рико в том сезоне показал себя как яркий универсал, выходя на поле на нескольких различных позициях.

Рико дебютировал в Примере 27 августа 2011 года в 27 лет, отыграв все 90 минут в проигранном 0-1 домашнем матче против клуба «Реал Бетис». Свой первый гол в турнире он забил 31 октября, принеся на 90-й минуте победу 2-1 над «Севильей». В том сезоне Рико играл на позиции как центрального, так и опорного полузащитника.

В конце августа 2013 года Рико вернулся в родной «Атлетик Бильбао», подписав с ним трехлетний контракт. За басков он дебютировал 1 сентября, отыграв первый тайм проигранного 1-3 матча против «Реала Мадрид».

Достижения
 Атлетик Бильбао
 Суперкубок Испании: 2015

Примечания

Футболисты Испании
Игроки ФК «Баскония»
Игроки ФК «Конкенсе»
Игроки ФК «Полидепортиво»
Игроки ФК «Уэска»
Игроки ФК «Гранада»
Игроки ФК «Атлетик Бильбао»


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7 Jun, 2021 16:13
Trans propaganda has no place in our schools, fortunately parents and the government in the UK are waking up to this brainwashing
By Joanna Williams, the founder of the think tank Cieo. She is the author of Women vs Feminism, Why We All Need Liberating From the Gender Wars and is a regular columnist for Spiked. Follow her on Twitter @jowilliams293
The transgender pride flag © Reuters
Top UK girls schools have been having guest speakers singing the praises of transgenderism and breast-binding without parents' knowledge. Now groups like Stonewall and Mermaids are falling from grace, we must put a stop to this.
Stonewall, the LGBTQ equality charity, is haemorrhaging support. A number of high profile institutions, including the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Channel 4 television, Ofsted and the DVLA, have withdrawn from its diversity champions programme. The government's Equalities Minister Liz Truss has urged Whitehall departments to cut ties with Stonewall and stop paying the lobby group money each year. Some of Stonewall's founders, including Matthew Parris, have publicly criticised the organisation they helped establish. Parris argued that Stonewall should stick to LGB rights and steer clear of the transgender debate.
Good. Stonewall's deliberate over-interpretation of equality laws has had a hugely detrimental impact on the workings of government departments, the Crown Prosecution Service, local councils, police forces and NHS trusts. Talks by feminist professors scheduled to take place at the University of Essex were cancelled following erroneous guidance from Stonewall, a recent investigation concluded. Stonewall's insistence upon bizarre gender neutral language, such as replacing the word 'mother' with 'parent who has given birth', as well as edicts against single-sex spaces, are an undemocratic and elitist attempt to impose social change from on high.
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Mermaids, a charity designed to support transgender children, fell from grace some time ago. It was dropped by the BBC's Advice Line service last year. When High Court judges ruled that children under 16 were not able to give informed consent to treatment with puberty-blocking drugs, Mermaids faced scrutiny and criticism.
Anyone who believes in women's rights, free speech, safeguarding and protecting children from unnecessary medical interventions, should welcome this growing awareness of the damage wrought by Stonewall and Mermaids.
But we still have a problem. Transgenderism is still very much with us. Institutions may be withdrawing from Stonewall but the woke view that gender identity is in our brains not our genitals and that sex is not something we are born with but must discover, now runs far deeper than Stonewall, Mermaids and all the other LGBTQ campaigning organisations with their rainbow flags and diversity champion schemes.
St Paul's Girls' School in London recently invited researchers from Princeton University's human diversity lab to talk to pupils about changing sex. The speakers at the elite private school presented research suggesting there are positive outcomes for young girls who choose to live as boys. They talked to pupils about the 'trans youth project', a study of 300 boys and girls aged 3 to 12-years-old who 'socially transitioned', that is, they changed their names, pronouns, dress and hairstyles in order to live as the opposite sex. It has been reported that several pupils at St Paul's wear boys' clothes and have asked teachers to call them boys' names.
According to the Sunday Times, the school sent a newsletter to parents proudly highlighting the talk which had been organised by senior pupils in the school's Science Society and Spectrum, the LGBTQ+ Society. It said that Princeton's research showing positive mental health outcomes for children who transition was particularly important in light of the recent bans on hormone therapy for under-18s.
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This is not research but propaganda. It is a one-sided and dangerous narrative that runs counter to other studies that have highlighted mental health difficulties experienced by children seeking to change sex. One study conducted at the NHS's Tavistock clinic found an increase in suicidal tendencies among under-16s receiving puberty-blocking treatment. And a former practitioner at Tavistock has gone on the record to argue that 'trans-identified children' need therapy, not just affirmation and drugs.
The event at St Paul's comes off the back of another leading girls' school having circulated a newsletter promoting breast binding and offering guidance on how best to engage in the practice. The LGBT society at Nonsuch High School for Girls in Surrey produced the newsletter which was distributed to pupils as young as 11.
Breast-binding can cause long term damage to young women. The NHS warns that breast-binding should only be a temporary measure because, "binders may strain the back and distort breast tissue, making surgical reconstruction less successful." In a recent survey of transgender adults, over 97% of respondents claimed they had experienced negative effects from breast-binding. Almost three-quarters said the practice caused them pain, with some reporting rib fractures and shortness of breath.
But the Nonsuch High School newsletter ignored all of this and instead offered young girls advice on how to bind their breasts 'safely'. This included links to websites explaining that if binding proved painful, surgical procedures that remove breast tissue could be an option to create a "more masculine" appearance.
At both St Paul's and Nonsuch High School, it is pupils who are members of their school's LGBTQ+ societies who have taken the initiative to invite speakers or compile newsletters raising awareness about gender-transitioning. This begs the question: where are the adults?
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Why, in neither school, did a teacher not have the confidence to say this material is simply not appropriate for young girls who may be impressionable and confused about their identity. It seems that a fear of being accused of transphobia still stands in the way of child protection.
It is great that Stonewall and Mermaids are, at long last, getting their comeuppance. But sadly we still have a long way to go before transgenderism is kicked out of public life altogether.
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