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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Sources: Knicks trade Melo to OKC

I literally just got off a cruise ship in Vancouver after a week long cruise in Alaska, turn on my phone for the first time in a week and that was quite good timing.

The New York Knicks have agreed to trade 10-time All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony to the Oklahoma City Thunder, league sources told ESPN on Saturday.

The Thunder will send center Enes Kanter, forward Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-round pick (via the Chicago Bulls) to New York, league sources said.

Anthony, 33, will waive his no-trade clause and his $8.1 million trade kicker to accommodate the deal, league sources told ESPN.

As a pure trade, it’s probably a C, as it is basically nothing for Melo but the benefit of getting rid of Melo and getting a second round pick. And that isn’t all that impressive-sounding.

However, from a psychological standpoint, it’s huge, so I’ll give the trade a B, maybe even a B+.

Never thought this day would happen. Good job getting something done, Perry! Phil wanted to buyout the guy, ya know? So just getting rid of him without buying him out or taking on toxic assets is an achievement of sorts.

Melo sharing the ball with Westbrook should be hilarious. With Paul George, too!!

119 comments on “ Sources: Knicks trade Melo to OKC

  1. yellowboy90

    So will KP and Melo guard each other opening night or will Roberson match up on KP?

    George/Lance or McDermott or Beasley
    Adams/ Willy or Kanter or Noah or Oquinn

  2. daaarn

    I hope we can finally flop in earnest and accrue assets thru the draft. Got about 2 years to do that before we can offload a bunch of shit contracts for a decent second option behind KP.

  3. The Glass Half Rebuilt

    If we get decent point guard play, I think Doug McDermott will be as good as Gerald Green was in 2014 for Hornacek.

  4. yellowboy90

    Edit: I forgot about the return of THjr. I guess he’ll start at the two and Lee at the 3 or vice versa

  5. Z-man

    Baker, kuz and Dotson are going to play a lot. I think Lee is the next to go. Might have to include a sweetener.

  6. The Glass Half Rebuilt

    The Knicks are going to win more games this year than they won last year. We need to let go of the idea that Melo was somehow worth 10-12 wins a year to our franchise.

  7. iserp

    The Knicks are going to win more games this year than they won last year. We need to let go of the idea that Melo was somehow worth 10-12 wins a year to our franchise.

    With the guards we have, either Ntilikina is a good playmaker from the very beginning, or the team is going to have a lot of trouble elaborating a passable offense. I think we will see lots of THJr and KP isos, and it’s not going to be pretty.

  8. johnnyhoops

    I hope that we can keep Kanter safe here in New York. The Turkish embassy seems to employ plenty of thugs.

  9. Cock Jowles, #1 Tanking Denialist

    Now we’re trying to convince ourselves that a secound round pick is really better than a first round pick???

    Ok we’ll go with that for now…. SMH

    The 31st pick is MUCH more valuable than the 30th pick. But you’re not very good with facts, as you’ve demonstrated in the past.

  10. johnnyhoops

    We’ve added Kanter, THJr, Sessions and Frank while losing only Rose and Melo. We should be much better.

  11. iserp

    The 31st pick is MUCH more valuable than the 30th pick. But you’re not very good with facts, as you’ve demonstrated in the past.

    It’s more valuable, but not by that much. And I’d rather have the 26th than the 31st.

  12. danvt

    There are a lot of people who post here that I’d like to hug right now. Obviously the big winner right now is that we’re free to develop a team concept.

    Kanter isn’t good, Brian? Best thing is the second rounder (and no 3rd year)?

  13. The Glass Half Rebuilt

    Enes Kanter is a more productive player than Carmelo Anthony and he has no problem coming off the bench. He was tearing us up last year when OKC visited the Garden. 27 points and 10 rebounds in 28 minutes.

  14. danvt

    Center: Wily, Kanter, Noah
    PF: KP, O’Quinn
    2: TH, Lee, Dotson
    1: FK, Jack, Sessions, Baker
    SF: Kuz, Lance,

    Starting 5: KP, Frank (sooner or later), Wily, TH, +?

    Either I have “superstar” withdrawal or the cupboard seems a bit bare. I guess I’m hoping we have some good development, a monster coming in the draft and then via FA once Noah, Enes sunset.

  15. johnnyhoops

    Can The Bease be as good (or bad) as Melo was?

    I’d still like to add a Harkless type as a young defender.

  16. JK47

    Finally the Amar’e/Melo era and the whole failed attempt to create an answer to the Miami Heat “Big 3″ is over. It was a long and mostly shitty era. This is the first time in a long while that the Knicks have felt like a normal NBA team and not some starfucking nightmare.

  17. Ntilakilla

    This trade is a fucking A grade. Perry inherited an almost impossible decision where a terrible deal was about to happen and extracted something of value from it. For those people who think Melo was worth more, think again. His NTC, the overpriced contract with an option year, his poorly aging game and refusal to play the team game are exactly the reasons why. The most important thing moving forward is the fact that this young team can develop without the specter of his shadow over it. And now we don’t have to spend hours upon hours obsessing over him and his influence on the team. Good riddance!

  18. stratomatic hates the Melo trade & is despondent again

    The problem with Kanter is not his statistics. It’s that if you play him at Center he can’t defend the paint and gets targeted with P&Rs. If you play him at PF, he can’t guard the perimeter and gets targeted with P&Rs.

    There was a game in last year’s playoffs where he got targeted and embarrassed defensively on two consecutive plays. The camera just happened to be on the coaches right after the second one. You could read Donovan’s lips. He said, “This guy is unplayable”. He took him out and didn’t play him much the rest of the game.

  19. Ntilakilla

    This is a European Union type team now. Latvia (KP), Spain (Willy), France (Frank), Turkey (Ines), Lithuania (Kuz). All we need is Doncic to give us Slovenia and our world domination shall be complete!

  20. DRed

    Yeah Melo can’t or wouldn’t have played any defense either. I wish we didn’t have Kanter, but we weren’t getting rid of Melo without taking something bad back. And we’re not going to have to worry about Enes Kanter’s playoff defense.

  21. Zanzibar

    Kanter has a WS48 of about .200 for the past three years. That’s not nothing.

    And OKC’s been worse all 3 of those years when Kanter’s been on the court in terms of both raw and adjusted plus/minus. That ain’t nuttin’ either. BPM/VORP and RPM do a better job incorporating defense than WS/48 and WP48. WS and WP are not appropriate metrics when evaluating players like Calderon and Kanter. My fear is that our front office will not appreciate that.

    reub (aka charley aka johnnyhoops), did you recommend that Vancouver cruise to Bryan? Also what do you think of Bron calling your favorite POTUS a “bum”?

  22. DRed

    Kanter could be situationaly useful-he does have some high level NBA skills, but I’d certainly rather give those minutes to Willy. I guess we just nail Noah to the bench a lot and hope we can trade Enes at some point?

  23. johnnyhoops

    Barkley is saying that he likes Kanter and the trade from the Knicks perspective. Kanter’s toughness is what Hornacek has been asking for. He’s averaged over 5 offensive rebounds per 36 over the past 3 seasons. Dennis Rodman averaged slightly less than 6 for his entire career.

  24. Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada

    I think we’ll be pretty activist about trading two of our bigs. Noah is untradeable, so that leaves KOQ and Kanter on the block. I wouldn’t be surprised if KOQ is gone before the season starts.

  25. DRed

    Enes Kanter isn’t a bad player. He’s a problematic mismatch, but he has value.

    I agree, but not as much on a team that already has Billy Hernangomez.

  26. stratomatic hates the Melo trade & is despondent again

    The only part of this trade that has any long term value is the Chicago 2nd round pick (If that’s what it really is. I haven’t seen hard details). That might be in the 30s. So there’s a chance we could pick up long term rotation player. As far as I am concerned we don’t need either of the other two. Both should be playing behind multiple players we already have. We should already be thinking about trying to move Kanter eventually (even though that will be really tough). McDermott is at least cheap and we don’t have to pick up his option unless he shows he can do more than shoot.

  27. stratomatic hates the Melo trade & is despondent again

    I agree, but not as much on a team that already has Billy Hernangomez.

    If Hernangomez develops even a little, he’ll be a better version of Kanter. We are overloaded with bigs. KOQ should be playing ahead of him. KP will get minutes at both 4 and 5. Even a healthy Noah will get minutes.

  28. Cock Jowles, #1 Tanking Denialist

    I’ll have nothing but fond memories of this six-season stretch of .434 win percentage basketball.

  29. JK47

    We subtracted a guy who takes fuckloads of shots, plays no defense and whose only value is as a scorer, and who had a .488 eFG% and .535 TS%. We replaced him with a guy who takes fuckloads of shots, plays no defense but who can rebound, and who had a .549 eFG% and .599 TS%. The guy who replaced him makes $10M less per year and is eight years younger, and does not have a no-trade clause. We got what is likely to be a high second-round pick as a throw-in. Dougie McBuckets is kind of an afterthought but the guy can at least shoot: he had a .536 eFG% last year.

    From what I can tell the Knicks did not get appreciably worse on defense, they stayed about the same, but they improved on offense. They got younger. They gained payroll flexibility, since they broke Melo’s onerous contract with the NTC into two smaller contracts without NTCs attached to them. I’m fucking psyched, and I’m basically Mr. Negativity around here.

  30. Ntilakilla

    I think Kanter and/or KOQ could next us a draft pick with the right team.

    Also, I find it interesting that we traded a mismatch problem in Melo for a younger more tradeable mismatch problem in Kanter. Like Kanter’s mismatch issues with certain types of 5s and 4s, Melo is a tweener who matches up well against certain types of 4s and 3s and matches up poorly against others. At least we’re not grossly overpaying for one who won’t run the plays the coaches tell him to.

  31. Ntilakilla

    Don’t forget we have more trade flexibility now, too. This trade was a major step in the right direction.

  32. danvt

    If we’re top 5 pick bad I’ll be unhappy because it’ll mean there’s no one here. That’s why I’m torn on tanking. I think I’d rather be at 35 wins and feel good about some of our players. Tanking is like throwing four cards down in 5 card stud. Can you be a twenty win team and one player away?

  33. JK47

    The Knicks had the #18 offense and #26 defense last year, and they finished exactly at their Pythag projection, 31-51. My guess is that the offense improves a bit and the defense stays about the same. So something like the #12-15 offense, and the #25-28 defense. I’d expect the team to improve slightly after this trade and the development of some of the young players. It’s a 35-win team right now.

  34. mase

    Here’s my rotation, call me crazy

    C.. Kanter/Noah/kornet
    Sf…kp/ lance / kuz/ McDermott
    Sg… Thjr/Lee/Dotson

    Why not play kp at 3 , he and Thjr probably our best 3pt shooters… probably tallest starting 5 in the league…if kp gets beat on the perimeter there’s two bigs down low to protect.

  35. Ntilakilla

    The bigger problem isn’t that KP will get beat off the dribble by smaller, quicker 3s on defense even though that will happen with your lineup. The real problem is that he’s bound to get himself into major foul trouble guarding NBA 3s overcompensating for his slower feet by using his hands more to keep them in check as they move right by him.

  36. danvt

    I always saw Melo as somewhat similar to Eli Manning. Not as good as Brady but a guy with some elite ability who in the right situation could help bring it home. Too bad it didn’t work out. He just never played to his cap number and the organization never put players around him to maximize his strengths and hide his weaknesses. Ultimately I’ll always like him and root for him. Maybe not against GSW who I actually really like but you know. He was one of us and I wish him the best.

  37. Boriqua3

    YEA-ESSSSSsssssssss!!!! It’s over! He’s gone!
    Now, at least, when the Knicks are dropping games, I can rationalize “Youth” and not “iso, jab-stepping, chucks”.

  38. chrisk06811

    So I guess now we try to break the log jam of mediocrity.
    Don’t trade: KP, Willie, Frank, THJr
    Nobody wants: Noah, maybe Thomas
    trade ANYONE else for whatever picks it may bring. even if it’s a boat load of 2nds.

  39. Scorpio Dragon

    I’m strictly in the this is a C trade, at best, camp. Which I guess could be considered the best of a bad situation grade.

    Any trades that happen after the Dec 15 trade restriction date will be more telling. No way I think the Knicks are done dealing with the way the roster is currently constructed.

  40. Bruno Almeida

    I really don’t care much for Kanter inability on the defensive end. The Knicks we’re 26th in the league in defense, we have subtracted Melo and Rose, two of the worst offenders, he cant possibly be this incredibly terrible on D to be a relevant net negative.

    And yes he’ll take minutes away from Hernangomez or KP, but do we even know if they’re ready to play 35 minutes per game? Kanter is obviously not here for the long term, he’s only staying is he improves (which is possible since he’s 25) and if he doesn’t, good riddance, he doesn’t have a damn NTC.

  41. johnnyhoops

    We obviously need a center in the 2018 draft so please stop talking about Doncic, who isn’t tall enough.

  42. Totes McGoats Makes 18mil For 14ppg

    I think with McBuckets strengths on offense, he fits better as a starter. It actually would be nice to see him start and improve on both ends enough to hold that job. Unfortunately, he’s gonna hafta go Hoodie McBuckets to hold off Beasley or Lance for that starting SF spot. Either way, we need a PG who penetrates well enough to take advantage of McBuckets’ presence- whether he starts or not. Still, I’m excited he’s on the roster. I loved him in college. I hope he takes the next step or 2 with our Knicks

  43. mase

    Everyone is moveable except Noah now but at least we have better trade chips…
    Thjr, kp, McDermott, frank, Lee, Beas, kuz… New bomb squad! Lol

  44. JK47

    Depth Chart
    C: Willy H/Kanter/Noah
    PF: Porzingis/KOQ
    SF: Hardaway/McDermott/Kuz/Lance/Beasley
    SG: Lee/Baker/Dotson
    PG: Sessions/Ntilikina/Jack

  45. Bruno Almeida

    The good thing is also that the team is in the hands of Porzingis now. He’s the featured star, #1 option unquestionably and it’s sink or swim. And for the first time in a long time for the Knicks it does look promising and the team is well suited if he develops into a true #1, or if it sinks and we have to look to the Draft for another player… finally some direction and focus on young players instead of mindlessly chasing useless wins.

  46. Jack Bauer

    @11 “The 31st pick is MUCH more valuable than the 30th pick. But you’re not very good with facts, as you’ve demonstrated in the past.”

    Oh Jowles someday I’ll be as smart as you and as adept at personal attacks. It depends who’s on the fucking draft board at 30 or 31. I guess under your “facts” the 31st pick is better than the 26th or 25th pick too because you can see into the future as to who will be available. You know that the OKC pick will be the 30 or 31 right? How about if our genius GM got a first round pick a few years out after Russ, George and Melo are gone, that would have been the plan – but I’m sure you’re so much better at he “facts” that your advanced stats research tells you otherwise. You are a seriously troubled person that you have to attack so many other posters on a site where we are all in theory rooting for the same team.

  47. Bruno Almeida

    I think forcing THJr to guard 3s won’t end well in the long run, as there are far more strong 3s in the NBA then scary 2s. I would let him loose on the offensive end and use Lee / Thomas to check the opponents best wing and we get to see what he can do. That means he would be fixed as the starting 2 and the 3 position becomes a revolving door between Lee, Thomas, Walking Bucket and McBuckets, whoever is playing better.

  48. Bruno Almeida

    Honestly you’re reading too much into it. The 31st pick is better than the 30th literally because the 31st pick does not demand a guaranteed contract due to being in the 2nd round, while the difference in quality is generally not big between players in that region. That’s it. Of course if the 30th pick is Jimmy Butler and the 31st is Bojan Bogdanovic it makes a difference, but that’s by far the exception and not the rule.

  49. d-mar

    From what I can tell the Knicks did not get appreciably worse on defense, they stayed about the same, but they improved on offense. They got younger. They gained payroll flexibility, since they broke Melo’s onerous contract with the NTC into two smaller contracts without NTCs attached to them. I’m fucking psyched, and I’m basically Mr. Negativity around here.

    JK, you made my day. Yes, you are Mr. Negativity, but you tell it like it is and don’t sugarcoat.

    I’m fucking psyched too, this off season we got rid of a GM who didn’t really want to be here and sucked at his job, a PG who doesn’t pass (Rose) and a “star” who can’t shoot (Melo)

    It’s the dawn of a new era.

  50. Jack Bauer

    @63 I thought the main idea behind the draft is trying to find the best player available. I could be wrong ( I’m supposedly “not very good with facts”) but the chances of drafting a better player likely go up the earlier you pick. I get the guaranteed contract issue, but if you get the better player that would seem more important than the cap issue of the guaranteed contract. Given the state of affairs with the Knicks (Noah, THJR, etc..), guaranteed contracts and the cap don’t seem to be high on the list of priorities.

  51. mase

    Thjr is starting at sg…
    Kanter is the real deal, willy now backup… Doesn’t make us better because kp should start at center but this move puts us closer to putting our team together…. No mo melo

  52. mase

    Addition by subtraction…. Presti that star fucker has $ in mind not winning if he thinks this makes them contend with gsw

  53. Bruno Almeida

    I’m obviously not saying you’re wrong, the goal of the Draft is to give yourself the best chance at getting rb best player (higher picks mean obviously better chances). But how many good players are in each draft? 15 max? 12? What are the odds that going from the 30th to the 31st will be a major difference in talent acquired?

    On the other hand, a young player on an unguaranteed contract is always 100% better for the team than having to pay guaranteed money to a dude who’s unlikely to even be a rotation player. It’s not much money, but it’s more significant than the skill gap between 30th and 31st.

  54. Bruno Almeida

    The fawning over Presti’s “incredible” trading abilities is starting to get tiresome already. Dude traded James freaking Harden for Kevin Martin + Jeremy Lamb and now he’s a damn trading genius for landing George (when Indiana made a gigantic mistake) and Melo, who’s washed up and might not even mesh well with their core. It’ll be very fun to watch this team not being capable to best the top dogs in the west.

  55. mase

    If melo knew jack shit he would’ve said sas or bust after Houston was a no go!
    Play next to Kwahi and let pop take you to the promise land

  56. Z-man

    There is no telling who will play and how many minutes. The only sure-fire big minutes player on the roster is KP. The rest is totally up in the air. There will be open competition for minutes at every position. That’s my guess. And that will be a beautiful thing!

  57. Z-man

    Obviously Lance and Lee are available for a bag of balls, I wonder if any team would be willing to take them off of our hands…

  58. rrude

    Wait, the Knicks only have one washed up ‘star’ (Noah) and a bunch of young guys…it’s safe to be a fan again?

  59. Z-man

    They are probably going to go with lots of different lineups early on and boil down to a 10 man rotation after a couple of weeks. Not sure the minimum salary guys (Beasley, Sessions, Jack) or the older guys (Noah, Lee). Are suited for that. O’Quinn is probably on his way out.

  60. Scorpio Dragon

    Without Duncan or Robinson to make up for defensive shortcomings, I’m not sure Melo’s willing to take the type of approach Pop is going to employ. Aldridge’s already looking at the door because of what Pop expects from him. So I don’t think Pop’s willing to trade his current headache for Melodrama (will he stay or won’t he? Will he be willing to play 2nd fiddle to Kahwi? etc).

  61. Bruno Almeida

    I think he would accept Kawhi is a bigger star today, but the Pop Melo combination would be impossible to work out to be honest. Pop would flip out the first time he watched a guy drive by him without contest and I don’t think Melo wants a field sergeant as his coach lol.

    I hope the Melo trade also means a vote of confidence in Hornacek. He was successful before making good work with flawed rosters in Phoenix and I hope he buys into the youth movement and really experiments with the lineups with not much pressure.

  62. er

    ” I doubt they even crack the top 4 in the west”

    ….yo don’t let your hate blind you. They were a 6th seed with no Melo OR George. They traded junk to get them. Lol. And the 4 and 5 seeds may have gotten worse. This site is gonna be fun to read this year

  63. er

    Super happy Melo is on a competent team for the first time in years. I’m excited to watch Okc.

    Is nothing to sneeze at. They will also get a chance to” run” the team in the second unit because the bench is so weak. So one of the three will always be on the court.

    As for the bockers. They need to at least get a high 2 for O’Quinn

    Noah is a good mentor for our bigs so he should stay.

  64. mase

    They now have traded guys who compliment Russ for one guy who needs his touches and pg who doesn’t… it’s a wash

  65. mase

    Presti won the trade with pg but he still gambled… with melo he doubled down in my opinion.

    He has a racehorse in Russ and complimentary pieces but it didn’t work… now what, miracle trade to get pg! Bang he should’ve stopped there. He’s a star fucker and perry knew that.

    I think we won the deal contrary to reports online but it remains to be seen what moves we compliment this deal with. Either way we changed course.

  66. danvt

    Wow. What a day. Long time coming, fellas. Serious high fives all around.

    I think addition by subtraction is maybe too much to ask. I think Frank is the X factor along with the possibility of KP and Wily taking big steps forward. Most likely this roster as presently constructed does not get us to the playoffs or beyond.

    However, it does seem that we’re becoming a normal functioning system. We have our picks going forward. As contracts sunset we can potentially upgrade those positions and maybe we can even win a trade or two.

    Maybe in the next few seasons we’ll become a fun team to watch and we’ll get treated to some good playoff battles like back in the old days.

    If so we’ll look back on this day as a big step toward that outcome.

    Beer’s on me guys. Happy to read what you write. Congrats. Thanks for sharing this obsession with me.

  67. danvt

    Danvt resident shrinkn in this nut house !

    Don’t quite know what that means but I’ll take it. I’m happy right now. I was so fucking tired of watching reruns of that same movie.

    Mase, did you used to post on the lohud blog knickknacks?

  68. KnickfaninNJ

    Two things I notice about this trade that haven’t been mentioned. One, we have a really tall team. Two, our second unit may not defend well, but it’s likely to be really good on offense.

  69. er

    @ 86

    Are u fucking kidding me??? How is this even a convo?

    FOH. How sway

  70. Totes McGoats Makes 18mil For 14ppg

    If no one else goes after Randle, I think a rotaion could work if it looked like this(but Hornacek’s gonna hafta go 10-11 deep somehow):
    C- Willy, Kanter, Noah, KP.
    PF- KP, KOQ, Beasley, Thomas
    SF- McBuckets, Beasley, Kuz, Thomas.
    SG- TH2, Lee, Dotson, Baker
    PG- Jack, Baker, Ntilikina, Sessions (if Jack is healthy. If not, then that helps the backcourt rotation clear up alot)

    We have a deep roster..some guys are gonna really have to check their egos because there’s gonna be a few deserving of minutes but not getting any.

  71. wetbandit

    I see us as a better overall team that will still lose more games than last year. Big change in personnel, big change in coaching, new point guards, lots of very young players, and basically our wins hinge on guys like KP, Hardaway, and Frank. Don’t see it.

    And I like it. If we are losing a lot of games by early next year, shutting down a couple of key players will be disastrous :)

  72. stratomatic hates the Melo trade & is despondent again

    After the initial shock of getting Kanter back, I took a deep breath and gave this trade some more thought. I’ve concluded that it’s actually a good trade for NY.

    We’ve basically swapped a bad Melo contract (with 1 year and a player option) for a bad Kanter contract (with 1 year and a player option), but the Melo contract is for more money than Kanter and McDermott and the Knicks are in control of McDermott. They don’t have to offer the qualifying amount after his year unless we actually want him back.

    So depending on what else happens, it appears this deal could actually buy us a little extra cap space and net a decent 2nd round pick without hurting anything.

    I still think Kanter and McDermott are duplicative and won’t help move the chain at all for our team the way adding someone like Harkless might have, but I’m OK with this deal.

  73. heavencent35

    The battle for starting sf is interesting.
    Westbrook, Melo, pg vs durant, curry and dray.
    We also hoped melo, amare, Chandler could match lbj, wade, and bosh.
    So some are really optimistic

  74. stratomatic hates the Melo trade & is despondent again

    Are u fucking kidding me??? How is this even a convo?

    If the Thunder can figure it all out, they are probably the 2nd best team in the NBA. They have several elite defenders and now they have 3 scorers. The only weak link on defense is Melo. You can get away with 1 weak defender when he’s surrounded by some high level ones.

  75. geo

    my initial reaction was that was a pretty week trade – then I read post #40, jk47…

    I feel much better now…the focus was and should have been moving on – without it costing a bunch short or long term…

    so yeah, mcdermott or kanter didn’t thrill me – but, yeah the thought that this year we won’t have phil, rose or melo associated with the team is pretty freaking cool…

  76. Bruno Almeida

    That’s actually a pretty apt comparison.

    The Thunder will be that 4 seed that will take 2 games out of the Warriors in a series that leads ‘Writers’ to use terms like “Melo turned back time!” or “Westbrook, a real alpha dog” or “Is Paul George the Durant stopper?” and then they’re off to the Lakers or getting older together in what should be a clusterfuck of drama. It’s a mess I can’t wait to see.

  77. stratomatic's love hate relationship with The Knicks because of Melo is over

    I hope Vegas is as pessimistic about the Thunder as some people around here because I think they could be dynamite. They could easily be a top 5 defense in the NBA with the addition of George and Patterson to go along with Roberson, Adams and Westbrook and their scorers are Westbrook, George and Melo. Maybe they don’t have a long shelf life because Melo is declining and George could leave, but Melo is now only 3rd option and doesn’t have to play as many minutes & I have a funny feeling George could hang around after he sees how good this team is gong to be.

  78. KnickfaninNJ

    I’m ok with the trade. I think it works for both teams. Not that the Knicks are wonderfully better, but they traded an unhappy player somewhere he wanted to go, which should help team chemistry, and they got some future flexibility. They do have too many centers, but they werent going to be good this year anyway, and it’s good to have competition at that spot.

    On a different note, since Noah is suspended, does anyone know if he can attend training camp? I hope so. The Knicks need to see what he has left in the tank

  79. Nick C.

    @103 the issue will be, is Melo going to be cool with being a third option. Will he be Olympic Melo in the NBA or grow discontented with standing in the corner waiting for the ball like he did with D’Antoni. Anyway, he is gone and KP gets the chance to show that (if) he is worthy of having a team built around him.

  80. Bruno Almeida

    The Thunder could definitely succeed, I have no doubt about it… Paul George is definitely better than what they traded him for.

    However, this team got 4-1 by the Rockers last year. The possibility of them beating a team like the Rockets this time around relies on if Melo + Paul George are more impactful than Chris Paul, and have enough of an impact to sway the matchup a lot towards the Thunder. If you wanna bet on that, be my guest, I just definitely wouldn’t.

    I think its much more likely Vegas or other predictors will overrate their stars as usual and they’ll go under.

  81. The Glass Half Rebuilt

    Melo to OKC makes a ton of sense, but Billy Donovan isn’t much of a coach. The Knicks replaced a 33 year old scorer with two 25 year old scorers that are more efficient and one that is an offensive rebounding stud. I like the trade for both teams. McBuckets should start and hopefully he replaces Ron Baker as the lovable white American.

  82. ClashFan

    I’m still at a B for this trade, for now.

    The second round pick is a decent asset, esp. given that it is highly likely to be at or near the top of the round. Kanter might be, too, if he can be flipped for something. He can score and rebound, but not play D. He seems to have been very well liked in OKC, too. McD is just an expiring in there to make the contracts work.

    Even if the Knicks can’t deal Kanter, there’s the chance that he opts out after this year, and the Knicks gain about $18m more in cap space for next summer. Now, this past season they overpaid a couple of guys, but maybe the new GM will use cap space wisely. If he doesn’t opt out, there’s still the chance that, as an expiring, he could yield something.

    Here’s a Woj article from about 2 hours ago:

    Looks like Cleveland may have offered basically Shump, Frye plus a couple cheap garbage contracts and their own 1st rounder (likely will be in the upper 20s). I’m guessing that the Knicks think that they can get something for decent for Kanter. We’ll see.

    Melo appears to have waived his trade kicker to make the OKC deal go down.

  83. Bruno Almeida

    That’s one thing I didn’t realize about the trade, now the Knicks have pretty much a monopoly on lovable, scrappy white american dudes! How can this team not succeed?

    We also might hold first place in most nationalities in a team, with 8 (counting Noah and Ntilikina both as French). USA, Canada, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Spain and Serbia!

  84. ess-dog

    I mean, I’m not fond of the idea of Shumpert, but is the #26-28 pick better than the #34? I guess they valued Kanter more than that difference. Kanter is overpaid, but a serviceable player. I actually think we could have a super solid big rotation with Willy and KP starting, backed by O’Quinn and Kanter. We might as well stretch or buy out Noah.
    That being said, we should be in tank mode. There are no real solutions at pg and sf, and we already have an overpaid, mediocre sg. We are one draft and one free agent stud away from having any real shot at contention.

  85. stratomatic's love hate relationship with The Knicks because of Melo is over

    However, this team got 4-1 by the Rockers last year. The possibility of them beating a team like the Rockets this time around relies on if Melo + Paul George are more impactful than Chris Paul, and have enough of an impact to sway the matchup a lot towards the Thunder. If you wanna bet on that, be my guest, I just definitely wouldn’t.

    I think you are underrating how good their defense is going to be this year.

    They were a top 10 defense last year. They added George and Patterson (2 top defenders) to go along with an elite defender like Roberson and a very good defender like Adams. They also got rid of several weak/very weak defenders. They are likely to have a top 5 defense to go along with 3 legitimate scorers instead of 1 guy doing everything. They are a lot better on both sides of the ball. Even if they don’t quite pass Houston, the gap between them and everyone else at the top is minimal.

  86. Bruno Almeida

    It probably is, even if slightly so, but Kanter is much better and much younger than Frye… I dont think Shump is terrible but he’s also very redundant with Hardaway and Lee, so I don’t know. Kanter is good value at least and all the contracts will be gone either way in two seasons worst case scenario.

  87. JK47

    There’s nothing wrong with a trade that benefits both teams. OKC is obviously on a different trajectory than us as far as win curve, of course they should make win-now moves. Honestly I don’t think Melo is a huge needle-mover for them at this stage of his career simply because he’s not very good anymore, but they were a good team before the trade and they’ll make some noise in the West.

  88. Bruno Almeida

    My issue is that they 100% have to play Melo at the 4, right? They might get away with having him on bench units at the 3 with Patterson coming in, but in the starting lineup he’s playing the 4.

    George obviously replaces Oladipo’s defensive value, while they get noticeably worse at the 4 position with Melo instead of Gibson (seeing as George, Melo, Roberson and Patterson can’t possibly all be on the court at the same time), so I don’t buy into them being 100% better defensively than last year.

    They also have a gaping hole at backup center (Collison is the closest they have to an adequate backup) and their bench overall could be really terrible unless Abrines and or Ferguson steps up massively.

    The Spurs also beat the Rockets pretty well last year and they are the same team. Is OKC better than the Spurs now? Maybe, but Kawhi is still the best player in both teams. You could be right, but I’m not about to assume 33 year old Melo will be a huge addition to a team before I see it on the court. Ive watched too much Melo in the last couple of years to just assume he’ll score more efficiently just because he changed teams.

  89. Ntilakilla

    We’re so much better. Is there any question of this? Who cares about how this fits together? We’re just beginning our rebuild and have yet to see what’s what. We’ll decide the specifics as the season progresses and we have more data to gauge about this team.

  90. Ben R

    I think Carmelo helps OKC more than people think. He is not a great player anymore and is not even close to the star people think he is, but he is still capable of huge games, games where he will be the best player on the floor for OKC, he will also have games where he is a liability defensively and will force shots and be a drain on the team. OKC is good enough that they can weather his bad games, even if they vastly outnumber his good ones, and hope he pulls out a couple of gems in the playoffs and helps them win a series or two they couldn’t without him. Melo gives them a punchers chance against better teams and with PG and Russ they don’t even need him against poorer ones.

  91. Ntilakilla

    I don’t think people are really contemplating how poorly a plodding, high usage player like Melo fits within a team identity where 1.) his star teammate leads the league USG% per game, which 2.) relies a great deal on its full-court offense (third in the league in transition frequency) and 3.) was fifth in the league in FGA per game. Does anyone think he’s going to be able to a.) easily defer to Russell Westbrook as the team’s top usage rate player or b.) function well within their high pace, full-court offense pressing the action for a full NBA season? I don’t. Everyone talks about the “Olympic Melo” who plays in the summer. But when the NBA season comes around and he has to play serious minutes in an 82 game schedule + playoffs what you see is “Hold onto the ball, freeze the offense, jab step, and Iso-Melo.”

  92. stratomatic's love hate relationship with The Knicks because of Melo is over

    Haralabos Voulgaris?Verified account @haralabob 10h10 hours ago
    Sam Presti has killed this off season. Ridiculously good haul

  93. Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada

    I’m just so, so glad the Melo era is over in New York. The trade could’ve been a straight up Kanter Melo swap (which wouldn’t have been possible but you get the idea) and I’d still be happy about it. He needed to go and now we can start relatively anew with all of our picks, KP, Willy, and hopefully Frank to build around.

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Saturday, December 31, 2005

Happy New Year!!!

Have a Happy New Year everybody! Drive carefully - have a designated driver, walk, call a cab, crash where you are, whatever! Have fun tonight doing whatever it is you choose to do. Go out, party, stay home, knit, watch movies...

Happy knitting!

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Kinda Cute

Came across this today. It's kinda cute if you have odd ends of eyelash yarn.

The other girl at work is going to try one of these, I think. I like it, but that's an awful lot of stitches to keep track of!

Hope everyone is recovering well from the holiday dinners! I posted some pics and had them in the order I wanted them, but Hello! decided to rearrange some of them.

Happy Knitting!

Monday, December 26, 2005

Darren with some of his new Transformers. Posted by Picasa

Ahh.. the moment we were all waiting for -- Christmas morning! Posted by Picasa

Yeah! It's time to open gifts! Posted by Picasa

Logan with his very-hard-to-get Mega Air Jumper. Darren also got the Grave Digger one. Posted by Picasa

Some of the aftermath. Posted by Picasa

My candleholder from the boys. Posted by Picasa

My necklace from the guys. Posted by Picasa

They each got a Spongebob shaving set from Santa for Christmas. Posted by Picasa

Before! Posted by Picasa

After! Posted by Picasa

They each get to open one gift of Christmas eve. Posted by Picasa

All is quiet in the house on Christmas Eve... Posted by Picasa

Christmas loot! Posted by Picasa

Darren opened up a Transformer for his one present on Christmas eve. Posted by Picasa

Logan opening his one present that he is allowed to on Christmas eve. It was a fire truck and tool box of tools. You can take the whole thing apart, toolbox and all. Posted by Picasa

This was Christmas eve before the cats' gift was molested. You can see the start of some mishchief, can't you! Posted by Picasa

This is what the cats' gift looked like Christmas morning. I head them at it all through the night. Posted by Picasa

Pumba and the cats' present on Christmas morning. Posted by Picasa

Work sock I made for Dad for Christmas. I wrapped this one and put an IOU in it for the other one. I didn't have time to finish it. I should get it done today, tomorrow at the latest. I also made a pair for my step-father-in-law. Posted by Picasa

The other day Logan and Simba watched the Teletubbies together. Simba watched the entire show. He's always liked TV. Posted by Picasa

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Merry Christmas everyone!

I have just about all of the mess cleaned up. The boys are probably playing with ten toys at once - they keep bouncing from one thing to another non-stop. I think they got everything they wanted. They seem happy, at least. I will have some pictures posted, but probably not today.

I got a really nice gold necklace from the guys with a "#1 Mom" pendant. I will try to take a up-close pic of it. The only thing knitting-related I got was a set of bamboo needles in a case. I think I will go open it up and take a look. It's still sealed in the plastic right now. Ma and Pa did give me money, and I am going to order three books and some sock yarn from Knitty for myself. I got a robe with matching slippers, a hanging metal and stained glass tea light holder, Yankee candle tarts, and some odds and ends in my sock. I also got an LL Bean jacket from Ma and Pa, and a really nice cake holder from the in-laws. The boys got way too much, as usual. I bought hubby the whole DVD set of The Trailer Park Boys, which of course was out of stock, so I had to write it in a card for now. I also only finished one of Dad's work socks, so I wrapped it up with an IOU for the other one. I should have that finished by tomorrow.

Later today we are off to my parents' for supper. Tomorrow we are going to the in-laws for the night (provided the boys behave and I don't get aggravated and come home). Going to take some basic knitting with me - probably UFOs. I want to get everything finished up before I start anything new. Got a bunch of stuff for the store as well as two pairs of socks for myself on the go.

Happy knitting and have a wonderful Christmas Day everyone!

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Merry Christmas Eve

Have a Merry Christmas Eve everyone! Hope Santa finds you all!

Happy knitting!

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Almost Ready

I'm almost ready for Santa. I have one pair of work socks left to make, and I should be finishing up a scarf either tonight or tomorrow morning. All of the things I "had" to make for Christmas gifts will be done. After Christmas I am going to concentrate on finishing up my UFOs before starting any new projects.

As for non-knit gifts, Santa only has a few stocking stuffers to get, and I have a few things to pick up tomorrow afternoon. Then voila -- all that's left is some wrapping. Most of it is done, but there's still a few things left. I will probably do them up tomorrow night after the kids go to sleep. I have to work tomorrow afternoon, Friday from 2-8pm, and all of us work Saturday from 9am-4pm. That's always a crazy day, but there's always some "Christmas cheer" later in the afternoon, if you get my drift. (Although we've been known to hide it in the darkroom and sneak it a whole lot earlier than what we're supposed to! Problem is they usually don't have anything I like.)

Well, must go try to finish up the scarf and catch the last bit of Trading Spouses.

Happy Knitting and Happy Holidays!

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Christmas slippers. This is the first pair like this I've ever made. I haven't made slippers since I was a teen - and I never used this pattern, either. I also made a man's pair in grey and black and am in the process of making another pair just like these ones. I have enough yarn left over to make the boys each a pair as well. It was a hard pattern to find. Shelly at work knew how to make them, so she told me what to do. She did find the pattern on a website, but about a week later Phentex was taken off their lists of yarns, and the pattern page disappeared. I didn't use Phentex slipper yarn - hateful stuff. We marked it all down when we took over the Ball n Skein and got rid of it. I did use cheapy old Phentex Dynasty, but it knits up nice. Good enough for slippers, and the recipients of all three pairs couldn't care less what I use. Posted by Picasa

Twin buttonhole bags I made pre-felting. One is at the store, one is a Christmas gift. I used Briggs & Little Atlantic wool. I like the green. I think after Christmas I may make one this color for myself. Mine is light blue and green, more spring/summery. I forgot to take an after pic. Posted by Picasa

Darren with Santa at the fire hall kid's Christmas party today. All the kids get a treat bag with an apple, an orange, chips, chocolate bar, candies, and candy canes. They had fire truck rides, coloring pages, cookies to decorate, and hot dogs & milk or pop. Posted by Picasa

This is as close to Santa as what Logan would get. Face buried in Daddy's neck, "I don't like Santa! I want Mommy!" He got a treat bag anyways. Posted by Picasa

Darren gets to put the star on top. He's getting too big, so we soon may have to get a ladder and help him get to it that way. Although he did say next year Logan can do the star, and he'll do the first ornament, but things may change by then! Posted by Picasa

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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

On a roll

Here's a shot of the pillow I made for DH. He's going to take it camping for a month so I opted for a "dirt" color. It's incredibly fuzzy. I made it with Lambs Pride Bulky, which I have used for felted objects before. I have never had a felted item shed so much though. Every time you handle it your hand is covered in white-ish fuzz. Any ideas on how to get this to calm down would be greatly appreciated. Should I shave it? How do you shave a pillow without damaging the fabric beneath the fuzz?

I started over on Clapotis last night. I never realized how simple the pattern was. Because I was making it so difficult I had made several mistakes that I was sure would become more apparent when it was time to drop the stitches. Still, even after ripping and restarting I'm back to where I was before I ripped. I think I'll have to finish this before I start the next Christmas gift.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The internet has been blamed for the illness that has been spreading like wildfire. The crafty opportunities are endless. Can't wait to finish this.

Kelli looks smashing, yes? This poster is not done, but was created using Rasterbator, something I saw on Not Martha. You can make HUGE posters out of these little dots or big dots, your choosing.

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Sunday, October 05, 2014

Shrinky Dinkin

Double sided. I actually prefer the feel and thickness the no 6 plastic to go container buttons. But you can't photo on those.

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I love the charms and I'm sure the Munchkin does, too! Isn't it amazing that you can make such wonderful things at home.


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Health summit’s goal is to transform health care. York University October 27th, 2011

The challenge in health care today is to shift the emphasis toward prevention and health promotion, while creating accessible and sustainable health services for all. It’s this kind of transformation that is at the heart of discussion at a by-invitation-only Rethinking Health Summit: A Roadmap for Integrated Systems in the GTA/York Region today at Black Creek Pioneer Village.

A critical component of this health-care transformation is the move toward people-centred health that can be powerfully enabled by eHealth information and communication technology (ICT). As Canada faces a looming health-care crisis, today’s Faculty of Health summit is all about integrating health and health care to ensure accessible and sustainable health services for all.

Roberto Nuño Solinís, director of the Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, talked about the problems and solutions of transformation in health care in the Basque Country, Spain. University of Toronto Professor Alex Jadad, chief innovator and founder of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, brought a global perspective to the discussion, while Daniele Zanotti, chief executive officer of the United Way of York Region, brought the York Region perspective.

Harvey Skinner, dean of the Faculty of Health, co-chair of the summit with Jadad and Vaughan Glover, who is president of the Canadian Association of People-Centred Health. Skinner talked about the mission to design and test ways to dramatically improve the capacity to keep more people and their communities healthier, longer.

To do that, he says, it is important to go beyond traditional boundaries in medicine and health care and to work together to create an integrated health system. That means addressing the social determinants of health, prevention and health promotion, as well as providing accessible, quality treatment and rehabilitation when needed.

The summit provided an opportunity for participants to share key learning about what works and what doesn’t in integrated health systems and an innovative network was explored for linking academic, clinical, public health, community and private sector partners with potential chronic disease/injury initiatives.

In the second half of the summit, participants had the opportunity to co-create a roadmap for accelerating innovation in chronic disease prevention and management that will support the design, testing and implementation of integrated systems in the culturally diverse community of the GTA, including York Region.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Peter Piper Picked a Peck

Well, the heatwave we've been having here in Southwest Missouri (its supposed to be 103 today -- without the heat index) has not affected Eric's pepper plants in the least!  So, I needed to figure out what to do with all these:

These are ripe and unripe halapenos, and the long ones are called "Holy Mole."  I have no idea what they taste like -- I just bought the plants 'cause I liked the name.  I tasted one today, and its hot, similar to a halapeno, but not quite as intense.  Close, though.

This morning I harvested about 3 lbs.  I'm going to pickle them.  With onions.  After that, I have no idea what to do with them.  There's plenty more growing, so if anyone has any ideas, I'm open.

For 3 lbs of peppers, you will need:

10 cups plain 5% vinegar
2 cups water
4 Tablespoons sugar
8 Tablespoons pickling salt
whole, peeled garlic cloves, 1 for each jar (2 if they're small)

My yield was 11 pints.

Sterlize your jars, lids & rings.

While they're sterilizing, make your brine by combining the vinegar, water, salt & sugar.  Bring to boil to allow everything to dissolve and get happy.

Slice up your peppers & onions.  (Wear gloves!)  Don't rub your eyes. The peppers, after slicing, came to 2.75 lbs.  I added 3 onions, quartered & sliced, to add up to about 4 lbs. total.  (I suppose I could have used the mandoline for this, but after almost losing the tip of my thumb with the ginger, I thought better of it.)

Mix them all up and pack into sterilized jars.  Add one clove of garlic to each jar (2 if they're small).  Make sure there's at least a 1/2 inch clearance at the top of the jar.

Add brine to 1/2 inch from top.

Add lids, screw in rings finger tight.  Process in water bath for 15 minutes.

Let them sit around in the pantry for about 3 weeks to fully develop their flavor.

Aren't they pretty?  Just like Christmas!

My sweet peppers are going to ripen at the end of the week.  I think this would be a good way to preserve those, too.  Matthew loves pickled sweet peppers.

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  1. You could dry some of them and then grate them for pepper flakes.

    ~I'm going to find my recipe for Green Pork Chili, I haven't made it in eons but it's REALLY good!


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I had a good workshop yesterday when I attended a writing workwhop with the personal millionaire trainer by the name of Azizi Ali who had written a few book such as 'The Millionaire in Me', "How to be a Property Millionaire" and "xMe!". The seminar was titled "How to Write A Bestseller in 88 Days". I am more interested in going there due to this idea that I have which I wish (how many time in life can you say that?) to publish. I intend to ask him whether this idea can fly and even if his company is thinking of doing it. When I got there I actually hated the first few minutes. Hosted by Azizi's wife by the name of Azlyn Azizi (a new phenomena in Malaysian life, where the wife uses the husband name to show connectivity and greater understanding for the foreigner who are uinitiated in Malay names) she expoect us to greet the person within our vicinity, exchange business cards and basically get to know our fellow participants. I hate this because it is such a waste of business card which I know will never be any benefit to anyone at all. Then, Azizi Ali came in, tell us he never carries business cards because he uses his book as his calling card. Doesn't this just seem contrary to what had happened? Then he asked us to stand up and massage the back of the person on our side. There was a few ackward moment as a few of the women declined the offer. Anyway, he started the seminar telling his story of self-publishing his first book and the hell that he has to go through. It was quite a good seminar overall but I tend to get that he did not connect with his audience too much because he is a realist in which at the end of the day only the one that he thinks has potential he will keep in touch with. When I get to know that he is a pilot and is still flying long haul aircraft, I am impressed. He may be not that interested with new people except those who gets to be admitted into his circle of business associate, which I can relate to, being choosy in admitting new friend into my life, but he is sincere in dispensing advices that relates to money. I did manage to ask him of my idea on writing a book for the man on the street on how to choose a lawyer for property transaction especially in relation with property transaction. He seems to be genuinely interested and ask me to talk with his publishing team. After exchanging card I manage to talk to his wife and it seems they are currently looking for office space to turn into storage for their published books and manuscript. Azizi did say that having 10 titles has turn his office into a store which he thought was enough for them. It seems that it takes more than 3000 square feet for such venture. So, as I have received the endorsement that I needed and a genuine publisher who is willing to see a draft of my manuscripot, now comes the real work. The writing...
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Lex council wants to improve unpaid utility rate

The Lexington City Council approved removing a little over $23,000 in unpaid utility bills to the City, some dating as far back as 2011. City Manager Joe Pepplitsch says about $20,000 to $30,000 in unpaid utility bills are written off the books annually after all efforts have been made to collect on them, include turning some over to a collections agency. City Finance Director Barb Hodges says unpaid utilities could include electricity, water, sanitation, sewer and the taxes associated with them. Hodges says her department also makes efforts to contact past due accounts by phone.

Mayor John Fagot said it costs the City time and money send disconnect notices. One of the Council Members suggested imposing a penalty on a past due customers before the disconnect notice. Council Member Jeremy Roberts said he didn’t think that would deter procrastinators but, felt it could at least recoup some costs. The City Administration and council members intend to look into possible options for keeping customers more current with their utility payments.

The Council approved a request to seek new proposals for entities to administer the City Owner-Occupied Housing Rehabilitation grant. Dawson Area Development had previously held the contract but, was unable to continue the service due to change in personnel. Following the meeting, Pepplitsch estimated there were about a half-dozen housing rehabilitation projects completed or in the process. The Council also approved requesting the State of Nebraska to grant a one year extension of the current grant program.

The Council set a work session for August 26th.

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Tijuana Homicides Increase, Despite Cartels' Alleged Calls For Quiet

Apr 29, 2013

The number of homicides in Tijuana is spiking.

On Friday, the number totaled 192 homicides in Tijuana, and 61 of these deaths — or 31 percent — occurred in April.

The U-T San Diego reports these crimes are a consequence of small-scale drug dealers battling in the city’s eastern working-class neighborhoods.

“The forms have changed,” said Victor Clark, a human rights activist and longtime observer of organized crime in Tijuana. “This is not the scandalous violence of 2008,” he said. Still, the increase “is of concern, because it speaks to the fragile equilibrium” of criminal groups operating in the region, Clark said.

In 2008, murders jumped to 844, a violent plateau where bodies were more of messages by cartels, with some hanging from bridges.

As reported by the Tijuana weekly paper Zeta, such increased violence is something that the Sinaloa cartel wants to avoid. The original article was extrapolated by In Sight Crime:

One of the Sinaloa Cartel's top leaders, Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias "El Mayo," issued a warning to at least eight sub-commanders responsible for overseeing drug trafficking operations in Baja California to "stop heating up the plaza" – that is, clamp down on homicides that could be disrupting the international drug trade and attracting too much of the government's attention.

But the calls to make Tijuana, a high smuggling corridor, more quiet might be hard to follow. The warning was reportedly issued to eight leaders who are in hideouts across the country.

As a result their Tijuana operations are being run by “more undisciplined and inexperienced family members, who are more prone to using violence as a way to resolve disputes.”

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Angelo Bocchino was recently arrested for disorderly conduct at a club, put in handcuffs and shoved in the back of a cop car. Standard stuff and pretty boring. What happens next is the real kicker -- dude went nuts. Like, hanging out with a chihuahua in his crotch nuts. Bocchino started head-butting the front seat and flipping out toddler-style, in between crying for his mommy, infant-style. The dude also spit everywhere and broke one of the cop's noses with a sturdy kick to the face.

The rampage went on for a full 30 minutes, and even tasing the guy didn't do much to stop him from flipping. We're not entirely sure what went down after the arrest, but we're pretty certain he's OK, so there's that good news. Bad news: all his frat bros saw him on the six o'clock news crying for mommy.


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Skirball Fire Was Sparked by Illegal Cooking Flame at Hillside Encampment: LAFD

Famous Rappers Help Pay for Funeral of Shooting Victim Tiana Ricks

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

Two famous artists from the music world agreed to help pay for the funeral of six-year-old shooting victim Tiana Ricks, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Tiana Ricks

Tiana Ricks

Rapper-turned-reggae artist Snoop Lion donated an undisclosed amount to Ricks’ family, representatives for the musician told the Times.

Compton native The Game already donated $10,000 to help cover funeral expenses, according to reps for the musician.

Tiana and her father, 26-year-old Tyrell Ricks Jr., were among the party guests Sunday at a house in the 25000 block of Harker Lane in Moreno Valley, witnesses said.

The victims and others were reportedly standing in the driveway about 9:45 p.m. when two men walked up to them, asked a question and then opened fire.

Tiana was transported to Riverside County Regional Medical Center, where she later succumbed to her injuries.

Tyrell Ricks of Victorville, was also hospitalized and had been listed in stable condition.

A motive in the shooting was not immediately known, police said, and the gunmen remained on the loose.

Snoop Lion

Snoop Lion

Anyone with information regarding the case was urged to contact the Riverside County Sheriff’s Homicide Unit at (951) 955-2777, or the sheriff’s Moreno Valley Station at (951) 486-6700.

The Game (Credit: Twitter)

Tiana’s funeral was held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Long Beach.

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    Kudos to them for doi.n.g this. Hope others get on board. Bet contributions to a reward fund would do some good and get the subhumans that did this off the street.


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Congress Investigating Another Possible Meeting Between Sessions, Russian Ambassador During Trump Campaign: Sources

Congressional investigators are examining whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions had an additional private meeting with Russia’s ambassador during the presidential campaign, according to Republican and Democratic Hill sources and intelligence officials briefed on the investigation.

Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, left, and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak are both seen at the Mayflower Hotel April 27, 2016, in Washington, D.C., where then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was giving a foreign policy speech. (Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Investigators on the Hill are requesting additional information, including schedules from Sessions, a source with knowledge tells CNN. They are focusing on whether such a meeting took place April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, where then-candidate Donald Trump was delivering his first major foreign policy address. Prior to the speech, then-Sen. Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak attended a small VIP reception with organizers, diplomats and others.

In addition to congressional investigators, the FBI is seeking to determine the extent of interactions the Trump campaign team may have had with Russia’s ambassador during the event as part of its broader counterintelligence investigation of Russian interference in the election. The FBI is looking into whether there was an additional private meeting at the Mayflower the same day, sources said. Neither Hill nor FBI investigators have yet concluded whether a private meeting took place — and acknowledge that it is possible any additional meeting was incidental.

“The Department of Justice appointed special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,” Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement to CNN. “We will allow him to do his job. It is unfortunate that anonymous sources whose credibility will never face public scrutiny are continuously trying to hinder that process by peddling false stories to the mainstream media. The facts haven’t changed; the then-Senator did not have any private or side conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.”

Sessions has previously failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials. During his confirmation hearing on January 10, Sessions testified that he “did not have any communications with the Russians” during the campaign. He also said in a written statement submitted to the Senate judiciary committee that he was not in contact with anyone linked to the Russian government during the election.

Those answers became problematic for Sessions when reports emerged in March that he did have two meetings with Kislyak during the campaign — one at the Republican National Convention in July and one in his Senate office in September. Sessions conceded that the meetings happened but insisted they were part of his Senate duties and had nothing to do with the campaign. Nonetheless, Sessions was forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

Asked at a news conference on March 2 whether there were any other meetings with Russians besides those two, Sessions told reporters, “I don’t believe so — you know, we meet a lot of people — I don’t believe so.”

Later that week, when Sessions updated his sworn testimony to the Senate judiciary committee, he acknowledged the two meetings with Kislyak but did not mention any encounter at the Mayflower Hotel.

“I do not recall any discussions with the Russian ambassador, or any other representative of the Russian government, regarding the political campaign on these occasions or any other occasion,” Sessions wrote.

CNN reported last week that Sessions didn’t list the two Kislyak meetings that he disclosed in March on the security forms he submitted this year. Flores said the FBI employee who helped Sessions fill out the forms instructed him to exclude foreign meetings that he considered to be part of his official Senate duties.

Russia was already trying to help Trump before the Mayflower Hotel speech, according to a US intelligence community assessment released in January. The report concluded that by March 2016, Kremlin-backed news outlets began supporting Trump and Russian military intelligence had kicked off its election-related cyber operations.

One day before the speech, Trump won commanding primary victories in five Northeast states, cementing his front-runner status and putting him on a track to secure the bitterly contested Republican nomination.

In the speech, Trump stressed his “America first” message and talked about the fight against terrorism. He offered an olive branch to the Kremlin in line with his comments throughout the campaign — but out of step with much of the US foreign policy establishment and all of his fellow presidential hopefuls.

“We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China,” Trump said in his remarks. “We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes. But we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based on shared interests. Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of Islamic terrorism. I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia — from a position of strength — is possible.”

Kislyak listened to the speech from the front row.


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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Crafted to last

Crafted to last

Article in The Star newspaper

April 2010

Sunday April 11, 2010

Crafted to last

A pen-maker combines technology and aesthetics to produce creations that one dreams of owning.

FANCY a Swiss company that started out making pencils producing a pen that costs 1mil (RM4.3mil).

The Caran d’Ache 1010 Diamonds has 850 of those precious stones individually cut and set into the pen’s body by master jewellers to maximise brilliant light reflections.

What about the 1010?

Shukor Yahya with one of his Arabic Kufi paintings entitled 24. AlThalak: 2-3, a Quranic verse.

“All advertisements for watches always show the time at 10 minutes past 10. That’s why we have different 1010 collections,” explains Angelo Ponzetta, Asia Pacific president at Caran d’Ache’s Japanese subsidiary.

And that’s precisely the convergence the company is touting – fine watch-making, fine jewellery and fine writing as part of Swiss craftsmanship. Even the decorative theme of gear wheels on the 1010 Collection alludes to watches.

Amidst all the sparkle and dazzle, it can almost be forgotten that the 1010 Diamonds is actually a fountain pen with a piston pump made from white gold and a nib in 18-carat rhodium-plated gold. It was showcased at BaselWorld 2010, a renowned annual international watchmaking and jewellery show in Basel, Switzerland, recently.

Humble roots

In 1924, Arnold Schweitzer established the Caran d’Ache Swiss Pencil Factory, taking its name from the French caricaturist and comics creator Emmanuel Poiré, who signed his work Caran d’Ache, a French transliteration of “karandash” (Russian word for pencil).

The ¤1mil pen: The 1010 Diamonds is embedded with 850 diamonds.

“Everybody in Switzerland knows our name because as schoolchildren, we all used Caran d’Ache colour pencils,” Philippe de Korodi, the newly appointed company CEO says over a meaty Swiss-German dinner in Basel.

According to the website (, the company launched the world’s first water soluble colour pencils in the early 1930s, then diversified into ballpoint pens in 1953. Its first fountain pen, the Madison, was launched in 1970.

It claims to be “the world’s only Swiss manufacturer of pencils, fine arts products and writing instruments”, all designed, developed and manufactured in Thonex, near Geneva, and sold worldwide.

While it may not have a great deal of historical pedigree in pen-making, Caran d’Ache has witnessed a swift rise in this area in recent years.

“We are producing works by hand and these are fixed (high) costs,” Ponzetta explains. “If we were to make plastic pens we could not compete with Asian manufacturers. So 15 years ago, we decided to go into the luxury market, focussing on fine craftsmanship.”

He estimates that Mont Blanc has about 48% of the pen market, and the rest is shared among other luxury names, including Caran d’Ache. “It’s taken time to build our brand, but our strategy is very clear, to be the top exclusive brand in pens.”

Drawing analogies from the watch market, he likens Mont Blanc pens to Rolex, and sees his brand as the Patek Phillippe of pens. “Not everybody can afford one but it should be a dream to own one,” he says.

Korodi underlines that the great Swiss manufacturing tradition is about working with passion and rigour.

“The combination of technology and aesthetic appeal has reaffirmed Caran d’Ache’s positioning as Maison de Haute Ecriture (House of High Writing),” he says.

Its brand-building lifted off in the 1990s with various high-end collections, including the Modernista Diamants, which entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1999 as the most expensive fountain pen in the world. It was selling at “merely” RM968,719 then – a figure now more than quadrupled with the 1010 Diamonds (which, by the way, is still available).

The Kufi Art Limited Edition pen.

A little more down-to-earth is what Angelo calls the company’s first pen created for the Islamic market, the Kufi Art Limited Edition, which retails at a (relatively) modest 2,000 (RM8,500). This is inscribed with square Arabic Kufi script designed by Malaysian artist Shukor Yahya.

“There are seven major types of Arabic scripts but Kufi was the one used to transcribe the Prophet Muhammad’s divine revelations,” says the artist.

There are many variations of Kufi. Shukor’s manager, Richard Abas, explains that the square form of Kufi emerged in the 13th and 14th centuries (during the Mongol era) when the Muslim world had more contact with China, which had the square seal script (a square chop used on documents).

Emblazoned in golden lacquer on the pen’s hexagonal body (made of solid, black ebony wood) are what look like square patterns, but are actually Arabic lines which declare:

Art is the ultimate expression of the human soul.

It tells of tales long past and dreams yet to be realised.

Shukor worked in graphic design and branding for 21 years in the Malaysian advertising industry. He was the former art director at Ted Bates before leaving in 1998 to become a painter as he was “tired of being treated like a slave” to people who tried to dictate to him.

“In advertising agencies, we used to party a lot,” he recalls. “Then I was showered with divine light in 1997. Nowadays I only go for art show openings. I also travel overseas regularly, for both business and missionary work.”

On his part, Abas is keen to emphasise the possibilities of Kufi and shows me what looks like a maze of different colours.

“It’s actually the Negaraku,” he says, smiling. “Kufi writing does not have to be Islamic, it can also be used, say, for a company logo, a Chinese New Year card or to write Satu Malaysia.”

For the Chinese market, another pen unveiled at BaselWorld is the Phoenix Limited Edition, which is graced with symbols of the mythological bird and topped with a citrine gemstone to usher in positive energies. (The solid gold version retails for 35,000 or RM150,000.)

The Phoenix and Kufi Art editions should be available in Malaysia soon.

Ponzetta says that Caran d’Ache remains a relatively small family-owned company. “We prefer to expand step by step.”

Hence the company has been opening boutiques in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia only in recent years.

“These will reinforce our after-sales service as we provide a lifetime guarantee on our writing instruments,” Korodi says.

He adds that the KL boutique, opened three years ago, was chosen to be the first in South-East Asia due to the “expounding growth” of connoisseurs and collectors in Malaysia. “We believe there are many wealthy people in South-East Asia who are interested in our pens,” says Ponzetta.

“Three years ago, we introduced a Limited Edition 1010 rhodium series, of which there were 10 pieces in solid gold. It was over 200,000 Swiss Francs (RM595,000). Three were sold in Hong Kong and one, Malaysia.”

Caran d’Ache also produces custom-made pens. “One was ordered by the fourth wife of Macao casino billionaire Stanley Ho for his 70th birthday.”

Ponzetta stresses that Caran d’Ache pens are meant for a lifetime. Or even lifetimes.

“It’s not like a plastic pen which you use and throw. It’s something to be given as an heirloom to sons and daughters.

“Our pens are unique. It’s about expressing yourself personally. Even if kings had the same pen, your writing would still be different. It’s not just a pen, it’s a piece of art.”

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Cool Article About C.R

Gue baru aja ng-browse internet gak penting gitu deh. nah ketemu salah satu artikel soal sejarah hidup Carine Roitfeld, si Pemimpin Redaksi Majalah VOGUE Paris. nice article to read though. Sneek peak aja deh kayak gini...:

'I have more fun doing my magazine. We French, we small! We can smoke on the cover, we can show tits, we can do crazy calendar; we have a lot of freedom that they don't have in America. I think I would be very frustrated not to be able to do all my craziness that I'm able to do here in France.'

more article is here dan simak aja deh..!!!

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pesto is 6 months old lab

mere ko  bath tub main nahana hai

watching movie on laptop

pesto guarding a car while veeni went for shopping at city center 2

day dreaming

more photos of pesto in my facebook profile

Special "K"

Veeni's fav

notice the secret ingredient - cheese

indian food with american bread

learning how to make aam ka aachar from the inet

step one cut the mangoes

step two mix the mangoes with some spices

final step forget about them and just go and buy a bottle of achaar (pickles)  from the super market

dahi k kabab @ orkos
very very sweet
not good

punjabi chicken with some hyderabadi dum biryani

My grand father Chowdhary Ram Swarup Garhwal, Kagdanvi, Freedom Fighter passed away on 6 May 2011. May his soul rest in peace. He was born on 6th July 1918. He was 93 years old. He was freedom fighter. He was a part of the Azad Hind Fauz founded by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. I'm proud of him.

Last nite my wife celebrated my bday after a month from my actual bday. Thank you dear for a wonderful time.


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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Will India Never Learn?

For the umpteenth time, Pakistan committed cross-border violation by ambushing an Indian Army Patrol deep inside Indian territory resulting in the death of five troopers. The question is will India ever learn from the lessons that Pakistan continues to teach or will it continue to pursue a foolhardy policy of "peace talks" at any cost?

Pakistani troops attacked an Indian post along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir late on the night of August 5, killing five Indian soldiers.

According to defence sources the Pakistani soldiers intruded into the Indian territory well past midnight on August 5 and ambushed the Sarla post on the Indian side of the LoC. Five Indian soldiers were killed in the attack which took place at around 2 am, deep inside the Indian side of the LoC. According to army sources, “The ambush was carried out by the Border Action Team (BAT) of the Pakistan army, which comprises commandos of 801 Mujahideen, three ISI officials besides the dreaded terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit. The attack was carried out by 801 Mujahid regiment of Pakistan army.”

They said, “One of the terrorists involved in this ambush has been identified as Mohammed Anwar, who was also involved in beheading of Indian soldiers in Poonch area on January 8, 2013. Mohammed Anwar is believed to be specialist in such operations and executing such strategies. The BAT operation was chalked out and carried out by 801 Mujahideen with technical support of Lashkar-e-Taiba.”

According to sources, the ambush was carried out at Narol area between Cheta and Hathi posts in Chakkan-Da-Bagh area in Poonch sector along the Line of Control (LoC).

They said that intelligence agencies had given inputs earlier that Mohammed Anwar was on the job to execute a BAT action in Poonch district in the month of Ramzan but they had specified target as Sawjian area.

Army said, “A group of six jawans was patrolling between Cheta and Hathi posts in Naol area along LoC near Chakkan Da Bagh at around 1.30 AM near forward post No l. Entering 450 to 500 metres inside Indian territory, a heavily armed ambush party of Border Action Team (BAT) of 801 Mujahideen and few dreaded militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba, total around 18-20 in number, were waiting for patrolling party guarding our fence. When they reached near post No l, BAT teams opened indiscriminate fire on them causing death of five Indian troops while a trooper of 21 Bihar was injured in the firing.”

“Every jawan had 10–30 bullet injuries which caused on the spot death of all five troops. After getting information, the injured troop and dead bodies were immediately shifted to Military Hospital Poonch where autopsy of the bodies were conducted,” they informed.

After carrying out the attack the BAT team went back unchallenged inside the Pak territory while some media reports claimed that the group of heavily armed militants might have infiltrated inside the Indian territory.

Pakistan Army denied that there was any cease fire violation by their troops and also any involvement in the killing of five Indian soldiers at the Line of Control in the Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir.

The incident could cast a shadow on the resumption of the Indo-Pak dialogue process expected later this month. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif are slated to meet in New York next month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.

The incident came hours after a BSF jawan was injured in firing from across Indo-Pak border in Samba district of J&K.

"There was sniper firing from some persons at around 15:55 hours from Pakistan side along the international border (IB) at Narainpur border out post (BOP) area in Ramgarh sector," a senior BSF officer said.

On July 27, another BSF jawan was injured when Pakistani troops violated ceasefire twice in the space of 10 hours by targeting Indian posts along the Indo-Pak border in Poonch and Kathua districts.

The Pakistani troops had used mortars, RPGs and heavy machine guns leading to heavy firing exchanges.

On July 3, Pakistan violated ceasefire when it fired on cops, who had gone to LoC in Sabzian, Poonch to collect the body of a Pakistani intruder killed in an IED blast on July 1.

Pakistani troops fired on troops trying to evacuate injured porters after two were killed in IED attack by Pakistani militants along LoC in Poonch on July 8.

On July 12, Pakistani Rangers fired on Indian forward posts in Pindi belt along international border (IB) in Jammu district.

Pakistani troops opened small arms firing on Indian posts in forward area along LoC in Poonch district on the night of July 22.

The increase in cease fire violations by the Pakistanis seems to be following a pattern. The unprovoked Pakistani attacks must not be viewed in isolation; it must be seen in the context of incursions carried out by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army troops in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control. There appears to be some kind of understanding between the two all-weather friends on Kashmir. Since April 2013, it must be noted that the personnel of the PLA have repeatedly intruded across the LAC stepping up pressure on India and the Indian Army. Strangely, though these eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations have not resulted in a firefight till date, it is anybody’s guess whether this restraint will continue. In the past few months, China and its generals both by words and action have been provoking India. On the Western front, the perennial delinquent Pakistan has been in the habit of violating the cease fire across the Line of Control for the past more than eight months with considerable regularity.  Pakistan’s obsession in wresting Kashmir by force since 1947 has ended in failure every time. The axis of evil (China and Pakistan) seems to have embarked on a concerted plan to achieve their independent objectives, namely, to alter the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and of taking Kashmir by optimal use of force. This is a likely scenario considering the fact that Pakistan’s infiltration of terrorists into Kashmir have not succeeded and China is wary of India rapidly developing infrastructure facilities along the LAC and the raising of a Mountain Strike Corps.

The other possibility is the K – Plan of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. According to reports, as soon as Nawaz Sharif became the Pakistan Prime Minister, he asked his most trusted intelligence agency, ISI, to devise a plan for the troubled Indian state of Kashmir. The recent attack on Indian posts in Poonch are said to be a small part of this devious plan, named- K-Plan or Kashmir-Plan.

It should also be noted that there has been unprecedented rise in violence in Kashmir Valley and numerous incidents of infiltrations and cross-border fire on LoC, since Nawaz Sharif came to power after the elections held in May, this year. So much so, the new PM wants a special cell of the plan to be situated inside his office. As per the report, cell will try to implement the Pakistan’s Kashmir-policy with renewed vigour.

ISI has been asked to instruct militants to re-group and revive its proxy war in Kashmir. The aim is to bring Kashmir back on international radar, while Pakistan denies its role completely.

The second and the most important part of this plan is 'high voltage propaganda'. ISI has already activated its propaganda cells in Kashmir, Brussels, London, Washington, Toronto and New York. According to the plan these cell will not be operated by High Commissions, diplomatic missions or even the Pakistani intelligence agencies. They will be looked after by Non Governmental Organisations (staffed probably with ISI officials) and support groups based across the globe that support secession of Kashmir from India.

Given the above scenario, apart from political bickering among the political parties in India there does not seem to exist a coherent policy vis-à-vis Pakistan and China. The Indian foreign policy establishment apparently suffers from policy paralysis. After every act of cease fire violation by Pakistan and/or incursions across the LAC by China, the political class of this country adopts the Standard Operating Procedure of condemnation and issuing of strong verbal messages that these attacks or incursions would not be tolerated and followed importantly by total inaction on the ground. The political dispensation in Delhi by its inaction is sending a message not only to the two delinquent neighbours but to the international community as a whole that India lacks the political will to take concrete action in the form of reprisals. The framers of Indian foreign policy, if at all a policy exists, need to be told that one of the important determinants of foreign policy is public opinion; today the public mood certainly does not favour any talks with the two all-weather friends given the nature of their recurring acts of violence and transgressions. Again infinite rounds of talks with these two countries have yielded nothing till date – one keeps the LoC hot and the other keeps pushing the LAC. Talks at any cost or talks for the sake of talks satisfy only the fringe elements of our polity who reiterate on having uninterrupted and uninterruptable dialogue with the rogue states like Pakistan. Noted Strategic Affairs expert Dr. Subhash Kapila has very aptly put it thus: “This is the classic degenerated ‘peace at any cost’ dictum which is being bandied around by US-apologists in India and India’s ‘bleeding hearts’ who advocate the Pakistan-India peace process should ‘not be interrupted or be interruptible’ without reference to the situation on the Pakistan-India borders and proxy disruptive activities inflicted on India.”

Another basic but important aspect is for India to have a foreign minister trained in the art of diplomacy unlike the present incumbent who suffers from a foot-in-the mouth disease. Given below are some of the statements given in an interview to a news channel.

“We are vigilant. We are awake. We are conscious. We are watchful,”

 “We have a categorical commitment from Pakistan that they will not allow their territory to be used for attacks on India,” Khurshid said. “We expect them to deliver on this commitment.”

“Neighbours have to find a way of talking to each other,”

“We can’t proceed as if nothing has happened. We have taken some steps. Let’s see what the response to those are.”

These are standard lines of this Minister, not to forget his ‘acne comment’ made in the context of the Chinese army incursion in Ladakh in April 2013. One needs to ask the minister how many times in the past, have the Pakistanis given such categorical commitments and violated them without any compunction. The minister alone may be able to explain what he meant by “neighbours have to find a way of talking to each other”. This can be interpreted to mean that India is more than keen on having a dialogue with Pakistan. And what “steps” does he refer to having been taken by India for which he is awaiting a response. Pakistan has denied the incident and warned India against making baseless allegations which could undermine the ‘peace process’. The Minister must be reminded that short of being declared as a terrorist state by the international community, Pakistan for all practical purposes is an international pariah.

The options for India have always been very limited. The harsh reality for India is that neither can it wish its two neighbours away being a geographical reality nor can it expect them to mend their ways through mere talks and agreements. Agreements for the dragon in the north and the rogue in the west are meant to be observed in the breach. The Pakistanis and Chinese have scant regard or respect for agreements.  The Panchsheel and Shimla Agreements were probably consigned to the dust bins even before the ink had dried. The harsher reality is that for them power flows out of the barrel of a gun. If at all then if India needs to talk, then it needs to do so at the local level, at a functional level; not at the level of Heads of State or Government. India while talking to its two perennial foes must rapidly develop its military capability, a capability that will enable it to engage effectively two nuclear neighbours. Only and only if India works and develops its hard power capabilities as opposed to soft power can it force the two delinquents to behave in a civilized manner.

In conclusion, it must be emphasized that irrespective of the fact that whether the political class, particularly the party in power wants talks or not with Pakistan, the public perception is that the government has been too weak in dealing with threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity from across the border and the only message by which a country like Pakistan can be made to see reason is through the language of force. The peaceniks in the Indian establishment have undermined the nation's interests for far too long. It is time to give the hawks a chance. Israel could enter into a peace treaty with Egypt (Camp David Accords) largely due to the hawkish Prime Minister Menachem Begin's leadership backed by Israel's superior military power and capabilities.  There is no reason why India cannot emulate the Jewish State with a hawkish leader at its helm.

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 Eleven Face Rudraksha

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Eleven Face Rudraksha (seed of Elaeocarpus ganitrus tree mainly find in India & Nepal) is considered as a symbol of the Lord Hanuman. It gives the ability to the holder to make the right decisions. It offers strength and wisdom and makes body solid and healthy. It is also very effective in meditation and industriousness. For those wishing to be settled in abroad, holding of this Rudraksha is beneficial. The holder of this Rudraksha does not have fear of untimely demise. Knowledge and devotion is achieved by holding this. For those, perpetual conflict persist in their lives, take the wrong decision because of impatience, always trouble persist in their brain for which they feel humiliation and insult for themselves or often incur insult for any reason, all these people must hold Eleven Face Rudraksha. It is extremely auspicious Rudraksha in husband's safety, his longevity, advancement and achievement of good fortune. Eleven Face Rudraksha is very effective in meditation of asthma and respiratory related illnesses, in making of body healthy and strong, in cure of neurological disorders and to destroy infectious diseases. Eleven Face Rudraksha should be hold by chanting the mantra ‘Om Hin Hem Namah’.


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Despite Late Surge of Money, James Comer’s Governor Bid Came up Short

Campaign finance records filed last week reveal a late burst of six-figure donations to James Comer in his unsuccessful bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. These latest records shed light on so-called “unauthorized campaign committees,” which can raise and spend money to support or oppose candidates — without the authorization of candidates themselves.


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Monday, 3 August 2009

A Photo a Day in August - 3

These shells live in our bathroom. They have been collected from Coochie beaches as well as Stradbroke. I've cropped the picture to hide the bottle of mouth wash behing the sink! *blush*

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Megan.K. said...

Lovely shells!
And no need to blush, I think doesn't mouthwash is supposed to live near the bathroom sink isn't it!!


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Institution: University of Rochester School of Medicine, USA

Top Collaborators: Katz PR, Karuza J, Lima J, Cai S, Thomas K, Rahman M, Kruse RL, Petroski GF, Mehr DR, Banaszak-holl J, Dosa D, Gidmark S

Research Interests: Nursing, Nursing Home, Nursing Homes, Medical Staff, Organization, Certification, Obesity, Population, Populations, Pressure, Pressure Ulcers, Prevalence, Survey, Ulcers, Activities Of Daily Living, Hospital, Elderly, Health, Set, Veterans


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Lachatterie and friends ... Cora

This are some items I made for Cora by order. A beige with pink tulle tutu and a blouse with big organza sleeves .

Lachatterie and friends ... Raluca

Soooo the skirt with taffeta motifs went to Raluca , and Raluca went with it in a pretty fancy club :) The tutu is detachable from the skirt .

Lachatterie and friends ...

Handmade dress , made by order for Oana .

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

New fair sunday 31 dec at LaScena !

Duminica, 31 ianuarie va avea loc a doua editie a targului bilunar de La Scena, care va gazdui haine si accesorii vintage, handmade si ale unor designeri. Nu ratati o noua intalnire cu lucrurile de calitate, vintage lovers, stilul nonconformist, chilipirurile, cei mai talentati artisti ai momentului si preparatele delicioase ale localului! Va asteptam!
Program: 11:00 - 18:00
Adresa: La Scena, Calea Calarasi, nr 55
Participanti: About Vintage, Acajou Boutique, Cheap&Chic, Dulapul bunicii, Duo Galaxy, Fe[male],, Hypnotic Parade, Italian Vintage, Le fabuleux Magasin de Mireille, Marilena Burcea, Multe mandarine, Nicoll Design, Omul Petic, Sin Colours, Valeria Mihai, Vintage Division&altii

Also last fair at LaScena on 17 dec. Lachatterie was captured on camera by Antena1 . Take a look ...

Lachatterie necklace in BeauMonde ...

Ecoleather necklace with taffeta and small chains .
Available by order

New handmade belts in store - also available by order !

Price on request .

New tricot dress in store - also available by order !

Brocart + tutu + sweet girl Gabi

Special delivery for Gabi yesterday : brocart skirt with a detachable tutu .