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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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'No business being on the field'
In a recent interview with FIFA.com, Hope Solo admitted for the first time that her shoulder was a wreck during the 2011 World Cup: where the the U.S. lost to Japan in the final. Kind of surprising, since she was named best goalkeeper and third best player overall in the tourney. What could have happened if she were at full strength?
Anyone who watched Solo?s outstanding performances at Germany 2011 would never have guessed she was still suffering from the after-effects of her shoulder operation throughout the tournament. ?I had no business being on the field at the World Cup really,? admitted the 30-year-old. ?I was in a lot of pain. I took a lot of medicine which helped me get through day-to-day training.?
Solo didn?t actually say that she was doped up during the games, although that would have been something, eh? Solo went on to a series of high-profile appearances (among them Dancing With the Stars, ESPN The Body nude photos) that make Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow look like wallflowers. Her adventurous spirit stems from a tumultuous upbringing, she said.
?I?ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life,? Solo revealed to FIFA.com in an exclusive interview. ?That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can. I think it?s my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships. I don?t fear them. I face them head-on and try to become a better person.?
Exactly what those things might be are shrouded in mystery ? unless she?s talking about things like being benched in 2007 and shoulder surgery in 2010, which I doubt she is.
Solo says she plans on going for her second gold medal in the London Olympics, and competing in the 2015 World Cup in Canada (when she?ll be 33).
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Searching For A House In Panama
The business sector has been quick to take advantage of the demand for real estate by foreigners who are moving to Panama. Projects to accommodate the influx are mushrooming in the form of high-rise condominiums in the city, spreading along the Pacific coast and appearing on islands, in rural settings and in the mountains.
The trend began in Bocas del Toro several years ago. Boquete then soared into the limelight with endorsements from U.S. retirement publications and the construction of the Valle Escondido complex.
Now the demand is spreading, not just to other areas of the Chiriqui highlands such as Volcan and Cerro Punta, but to Panama City and the mountains and beaches to the west of the city from Chorrera to San Carlos.
On the following paragraphs, we offer a resum? of some of the projects under way.
El Alc?zar de Coronado
Coronado Resort, on the beach 80 km west of Panama City, one of the best known, and longest-established developments in Panama, has launched a new residential complex, ?El Alc?zar?, designed for the growing community of foreign retirees and relocating families in Panama. Its most striking feature is a 21-story con-dominium overlooking Coronado?s superb golf course.
El Alc?zar offers 64 four-bedroom residences with ample balconies offering vistas of the Pacific Ocean and the forest-clad hills of the Continental Divide. There will be 24-hour security, a heliport, a modern emergency alarm system, connections for internet and cable TV and two central air conditioning units.
Residents of El Alc?zar will be entitled to free membership at Coronado?s golf, beach and equestrian clubs, in addition to the resort?s Full Wellness Spa (the therapists of which are trained in alternative medicine at the prestigious Uplledger Craneal Sacral Institute) and other facilities. Owners also will also have the right to rent their apartments to third parties.
Tucan Country Club
A haven for golf and nature afficionados, it is possible that golfers and residents will see not only toucans, but plenty of wildlife, at the Tucan Country Club since this magnificent course and residential development is bounded by virgin rainforest on one side and the Panama Canal on the other.
The Tucan Country Club and Resort is being developed on the old 180 acre Horoko Golf Club, used by the U.S. military during their occupation of the Canal area ( the name Horoko was an adaptation of the names of the forts of Howard, Rodman and Kobbe)
The old course, laid out in the 1940?s, has been redesigned as a superb par 72 championship course and will be the focus for a comprehensive development which will incorporate 500 homes, a hotel, clubhouse with indoor and outdoor dining facilities, meeting rooms, ballroom, men?s and women?s club bars and social areas for events.
The complex will include a full-service gym, spa and tennis club and a shopping arcade with services like bank, laundry, pharmacy, beauty salons, auto rental and gourmet mini-super.
This will be a gated community for members only. In fact a pre-requisite for purchasers of the villas, townhouses and terrace condos at Tucan Resort will be membership. Prices including lifetime membership range from 8,000 to over 0,000. Non-residents will be able to buy a lifetime membership for ,000.
Stupendous views of the canal, the canal basin and the city shimmering a mere 15 minutes away, can be enjoyed from the homes and from many points on the course.
Altos del Mar?a
One of the most successful and attractive real estate projects in Panama is Altos del Mar?a. Located in the highlands of Sor?, 96 km (60 miles) west of Panama City, Altos del Mar?a is a country-style residential project offering parcels with an altitude range between 550mts (1,800 feet) and 1,100mts (3,600 feet) above sea level. As a result of the altitude, the area enjoys year-round spring-like weather, with temperatures ranging between 20 and 16 degrees Celsius (61-68 F).
Well endowed with manicured forests, waterfalls, picnic areas and parks, Altos del Maria is ideal for retirees or families choosing seclusion but with easy access to the conveniences of modern life. The city of La Chorrera, the fastest growing settlement of the region, is only 45 minutes away, offering modern supermarkets, restaurants, cinemas and shopping centers.
Altos del Maria is also not far from the most popular stretch of Pacific-coast beaches in Panama ? an area featuring numerous recreational and sports facilities. Among them is Coronado Hotel & Resort, which boasts one of the best golf courses in Latin America, and the Royal Decameron Costa Blanca Hotel, the country?s most successful beach development. Altos del Mar?a is connected to the capital by means of a modern, four-lane highway.
San Marino Ocean Front
With a choice of two oceans, many people will prefer the Caribbean for its clear water and minimal tides.
If you fill into this category, it will be worth checking out San Marino Ocean Front, a development near Colon, 65 miles or 90 minutes from Panama City. It is on the beautiful coastline known as Costa Arriba not far from the ruins of the famous old Spanish fortified city of Portobelo.
The development consists of 108 lots facing the blue Caribbean and backed by green rainforest slopes.
San Marino Ocean Front has a Club House overlooking the ocean with swimming pool, gazebos, barbecue, bar area for any resident or private meeting. Another benefit is the marina with break water for safe usage of the boat ramp which enhances the entire development.
Brisas de Los Lagos
Twenty five years ago, Ricardo Velasquez, a respected eye surgeon in Panama City, bought a cattle farm near Chorrera, between Panama City and the Pacific beaches. He named it Brisas de los Lagos (Breezy Lakes) and began to plant trees?teak, mahogany and pine. He set out to create, not only a re-forestation project but an ecological park.
Now, 57 well-chosen lots among the lakes and streams have been segregated from the wooded acres and are being offered for sale to form an exclusive residential enclave, in the country but within 40 minutes? drive from Panama City.
Hacienda Las Nubes
One of the most intriguing projects is Hacienda Las Nubes (Ranch in the Clouds) above Cerro Punta in the Chiriqui highlands which will be the highest residential project in the country and the closet to nature, situated in the cloud forest on the borders of the Baru and Amistad National Parks.
It is the brainchild of author, photographer and film-maker Ricardo de la Espriella. He has sub-divided a tract of his land on the slopes of the Talamanca mountain range, overlooking the town and fertile valley of Cerro Punta and with a magnificent and almost eye-level view of the peak of the extinct volcano Baru.
Lots of generous proportions (eg.half acre ,000) are on special offer as the project gets under way. A hotel with bars, restaurants and meeting rooms will add country club style to the project.
Valle Escondido
Valle Escondido translates as Hidden Valley, and its name is appropriate, since the magnificent valley of about 150 acres, although only a ten-minute walk from the town center of Boquete, is totally hidden and isolated.
A U.S. citizen, Mr. Sam Taliaferro, discovered the valley while out riding horseback. Although not a developer (his career up to the revelation of Valle Escondido had been in computer equipment) he envisioned a community in this idyllic place, and set out to buy the valley and build.
Built in Spanish colonial style, the complex is self-sufficient. It incorporates its own ?town center? with shops, an amphitheatre for music and cultural events, alternative health center and even a school. A very special feature is a multi denominational chapel with a magnificent ceiling and murals of allegorical paintings by Roger Valdez depicting the initial ferocity of the Baru Volcano and the fertility, which followed its eruption.
Valle Escondido has its own water supply from a pure spring, which gushes from the mountainside. A river runs right through the property, creating scenic hazards on the 9-hole golf course. Coffee, the original resource of the valley has been left largely intact and the working plantation?s profits are shared among home-owners.
Hacienda Los Molinos
Boquete is also the site of another residential development, Hacienda Los Molinos, offering the most exquisite scenery to be found on the mountain slopes. Lots are scattered around a 360-foot-deep canyon ? a beautiful gorge with the R?o Cochea running through it. A system of lakes also beautifies the area.
The project, designed by the Dutch architect and landscape specialist, Angrid Titanos, also offers views of the peak of Baru and the Pacific Ocean. Residents have access to trails through natural forests and past rivers and waterfalls.
The developers of Los Molinos also plan a clubhouse, restaurant, piano bar, library, pool, tennis courts and other facilities.
Monta?as de Caldera
This private residential community is aptly named for its magnificent 360 degree view of pure mountain scenery including the continental divide and the mountains of El Pe?on. The district of Caldera lies about two thirds of the way up the slope leading from Chiriqui?s capital city David up to Boquete just under the peak of Volcan Baru.
Monta?as de Caldera is the vision of John Richardson, a well-known property developer originally from the United Kingdom, who latterly lived in the Cayman Islands until he visited Panama in 2001 and discovered the mild climate and green beauty of Caldera. Associated companies of his family have been established since 1895.
The community is being developed on 460 acres ? plenty of room for nature trails (and the 954 species of birds, which also call it home) around the residential areas, which are being divided into 350 lots of between 1,500 m2 and 5,800 m2. The community will have its own plentiful supply of pure water from springs on the property, which borders the area?s principal river, Rio Caldera.
Amenities planned for the community include a country club and restaurant, coffee shop, bar, driving range, tennis courts, fitness center, equestrian center, doctor?s office, a store and even a church.
Brisas de Amador
The Amador Causeway, which joins three islands alongside the entrance to the Canal, is on the way to realizing its tourism potential.
On the island of Perico an ambitious project called Brisas de Amador is underway.
The first phase, Causeway Boulevard, a restaurant and shopping complex is already complete with a number of first class restaurants and bars building up their trade.
The promotors are now moving on to the provision of tourist accommodation? a marina, hotel and a cruise port, which will take four years and million.
Adjacent to Causeway Boulevard will be an apartment hotel with 180 rooms in ten separate buildings. The target market will be executives and professionals who need to stay in Panama for a while and who are looking for a place more ?intimate and personal? than a hotel and also more economical. Another type of guest would be passengers and crew of visiting yachts.
There should be plenty of business in this category since the planned marina will have 400 berths for luxury yachts, sailboats and other craft.
The cruise ship pier will have duty free shops and a cultural center featuring the seven ethnic Indian tribes on the isthmus. A five-star hotel and casino adjacent to the cruise pier will complete this tourist-oriented complex and really put the Amador Causeway on the map.
Punta Barco Village
For those seeking real estate on the beach, Punta Barco Village offers an attractive opportunity. The project is located at Punta Barco on a small bay with a private beach. The offering is varied; the choice is between 1000 m2 lots, ?garden apartments? and condos.
Prices of a lot with house start at 0,000. Three 3-story buildings round a pool contain the garden apartments which are from 5,000. The condos, each with 212 m2 in two 9-story buildings, start at 0,000.
Punta Barco, a gated community incorporating a driving range and tennis courts, is 48 miles to the west of Panama City and next door to the leisure community of Coronado with its supermarkets and restaurants. There are three golf courses within a 20-minute drive. Another charac-teristic of Punta Barco is the exclusive homes for which the area is renowned and the ranches of breeders of Peruvian paso horses who use the equestrian center at Coronado.
Costa Blanca Golf y Villas
The enormously successful Decameron resort at Farallon on the Pacific Coast west of Panama City has been quietly promoting an adjoining residential development called Costa Blanca Golf and Villas for the past three years and it is now a well-established community with 35 per cent Panamanians and 65 per cent foreigners of many nationalities? from Canada, U.S., Italy, France, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Japan and other countries. Sales of villas and townhouse are ongoing.
This exclusive beach project is surrounded by a beautiful professional Golf Course ?Mantaraya?.
An 80-minute drive from Panama City, this residential resort has everything you could want, not just for living but also for investment.
The project itself has two models of houses: Townhouses: A comfortable two-story house with a backyard, terrace, barbecue and decorative pergolas. There is a spectacular view to the ?Mantaraya Golf Course? of which purchasers will automatically be members. The minimum size of the land is from approximately 726sq feet to 4,900 sq feet, with a construction area from 610sq feet. The ground floor has a spacious living/dining room, kitchen, laundry room, guest bathroom. The first floor includes two comfortable bedrooms, each with its private bathroom, balcony, terrace and independent entrances.
Villas: There are three models of three, four and five bedrooms, each with its private bathroom, and with a construction area from 802.59 sq feet. These excellent villas offer the alternative of choosing independent lands from 2,475sq. feet to 4,950 sq feet, each with a view to the golf course. On the main floor there is a powder room, ample living and dining room, domed ceilings and maid?s bedroom and bathroom that some owners use as an office or storage room. The laundry and kitchen is also on the main floor.
Owners of Costa Blanca Golf & Villas, and their families, will become members of the exclusive Mantaraya Golf and Beach Club offering a professional 18-hole course that surrounds the entire Costa Blanca development. The spectacular Beach Club is designed for the owners and their guests with a restaurant, swimming pool and what they claim is the best Pacific beach in Panama. There are nature trails, convention center, casino, spa, tennis court, water sports.
N?are Boquete
The developers of Nuare in Boquete have reached back into the culture of the indigenous people of the mountains for inspiration in the planning and construction of a new residential project. As their brochure points out, the Gnobe Indians of Chiriqui regarded Boquete as a special place ? a place of enchantment and magnetism. They have a word to describe it, ?Nuare?, which means something agreeable and enchanting.
The luxurious houses on offer are a far cry from a thatched hut, but the guiding principles are sound. The resulting concept is even better. The first phase consists of 35 lots along two streams and on the edge of a canyon through which flows the Caldera River.
The project, located on a superb site at Alto Boquete will incorporate a 24 hour security gate, spectacular club house, pool, spa gym, tennis courts, piano bar, reading room, billiards room, a shopping center and medical facility with ambulance. Nature trails are provided, throughout the property.
The Azuero Peninsula
One such emerging destination is the tip of Panama?s Azuero Peninsula.
Favorable articles in many publications as distinct as The New York Times and The Robb Report suggest this previously unheralded Pacific peninsula is about to join what The Times and many others are calling ?Panama?s land rush.?
The Azuero Peninsula is usually described in the guidebooks accurately enough, as being ?off the beaten track?. A charter flight from the skyscrapers of Panama City to the Azuero peninsula takes 40 minutes. By car, you travel, some 250 kilometers west on the Panamerican Highway before turning south for another hour. You pass through country sprinkled with roadside homes and Spanish-style towns to take brief respite in quaint central squares amidst friendly Panamanians and their folkloric festivals.
At the tip of this attractive peninsula are tan-sand beaches with surf, hills, and dales for campers, excellent fishing just off-shore. And everywhere, it seems, cowboys, horses and cattle share the road with modern automobiles.
The visionaries who have first seen the potential of this area are more concerned with restoring its ecology than maximizing human habitation. And for good reason: The wealthy or the well-known who have bought land here (the Robb Report lists such recognizable names as Mick Jagger, Bruce Willis and Tommy Lee Jones) tend to value both ecology and privacy.
Among advocates of responsible development, two of the most influential are Edwina von Gal, a New York landscape designer, and Gilles Saint-Gilles, an internationally known French designer of mansions for princes and other wealthy Europeans.
According to a two-page color spread in The Times, Ms. von Gal and her associates ?are pooling their funds to buy up old cattle ranches before developers buy the land for high-rise resorts, casinos and golf courses. They are reforesting eroded lands and planning to build with local wood and local labor.?
Saint-Gilles, who on 1,000 acres is accomplishing much of what Ms. Von Gal and others laudably hope to, coalesces his passion for Old World craftsmanship, exquisite design and environmental stewardship in ?Azueros?, a sustainable luxury community just outside of Pedasi. Enamored with the area?s Tuscany-like hills and cerulean ocean waters, Saint-Gilles chose a secluded stretch of the Pacific as the location for Azueros and has now commenced his ambitious vision? a balance of luxurious living and ecological restoration.
Azueros? work force is currently building masterfully crafted homes designed by Saint-Gilles on beachfront and ocean-view lots of up to 20 acres, some of which are surrounded by their own private nature reserve. Four years into the project, Villa Camilla accommodates prospective buyers seeking privacy and such recreations as fishing and horseback riding, but who want telephone and Internet access as well.
Ocean Park Tower
Ocean Park is a private and secure luxury residential complex located in Punta Pacifica, one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Panama City. Its towers offer panoramic views of Panama City and the Bay of Panama.
The Ocean Park lifestyle offers the advantage of living in the heart of the city within walking distance of shopping, hospitals, and entertain-ment, in a modern, luxury complex.
Ocean Park consists of two towers 42 stories high within 55,000 sq feet of land in Punta Pacifica, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Tower 1 is all sold, and Tower 2 has few units left.
Ocean Park Tower 2 has more than 6,000 square meters (64,583 square feet) of recreation and social areas, including two parks for children, controlled security access, and high-end luxury finishing.
Amenities include 24/7 security gate, large indoor pool and visitor parking.
Each building has two pools, fully equipped gym with sauna, basketball court, lounge, spectacular lobby, three high speed elevators, 24/7 concierge; full reserve power-plant, internet-ready and security surveillance system.
Isla Viveros
The wave of real-estate developments targeted at foreign expats and second-home buyers has now reached the beautiful islands of Las Perlas archipelago, more specifically to Isla Viveros -a little-known, but well-endowed tropical island approximately eight miles south of Contadora.
Grupo Viveros is currently marketing an ambitious residential project on the island. With mansions facing the crystal-clear waters of the Gulf of Panama, and a golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus.
Isla Viveros will be transformed into a secluded community of 550 residences built on 600 hectares (300 on the seafront and 250, facing the golf course.) The project also calls for two marinas with capacity for one hundred, 150-feet yachts, shopping centers, an air strip, medical facilities and three five-star hotels, featuring between 100-300 bedrooms. Lots, range between 0,000 and 0,000.
Clients will have the opportunity to choose from various house models, although the company can also build mansions for the most demanding tastes. The total price of the average property, land included, is approximately US0,000.00.
A small canal separates Isla Viveros from Isla del Rey, the largest and most populated of the Pearl Islands -an archipelago that gets its name from the abundance of pearls found there during the colonial period. The entire region is a paradise for anglers, divers and water-sport enthusiasts. The waters of the Pacific, are filled with Blue and Black Marlin, Wahoo, Sailfish, Red Snapper and many other species. The project is only a few minutes from the popular resorts of Contadora Island and not very far from Pi?as Bay, one of the world?s top sports fishing venues.
A service of regular, scheduled flights, which will soon include Isla Viveros, provides an easy access to and from Panama City (15-20 minutes).
Source: http://recreation-equestrian.chailit.com/searching-for-a-house-in-panama.html
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]By Eric Gneckow, Business Journal Staff Reporter · Print Friendly. The Internal Revenue Service has clarified a handful of provisions related to its form 990 in tax year 2011, the document used in tax filing for nonprofit ...
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Clarence Thomas for President?
With the Republican presidential nomination still up in the air, the possibility of a brokered convention is looking increasingly likely. Under the party?s rules, the delegates won by Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and the others in the primaries and caucuses are obligated to vote for their assigned candidate only on the first ballot. If no candidate wins the required number of votes, the delegates can throw their support to anyone. There?s speculation that party insiders, unhappy with the current field, might float the candidacy of someone not now in the race, like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas testifying before the House Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on March 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. , Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
While Christie and Bush might be fine candidates, perhaps the Republicans should consider a more inspired and game-changing pick: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Far-fetched?? Maybe. But a Thomas candidacy would energize Republicans in a way that few other Republicans can and would steal tremendous media attention from President Barack Obama.
Unlike the flip-flopping Mitt Romney, Thomas is a true conservative who could appeal to all of the segments of the Republican coalition. Tea Partiers would see Thomas as one of their own. Not only has he been a consistent voice to curtail the power of the federal government but his wife Ginni, a Tea Party activist herself, has been a leader in the fight to repeal Obama?s healthcare reform law. Wall Street Republicans would be buoyed by Thomas?s opposition to environmental regulation and his free market philosophy.? Blue-collar workers could embrace Thomas?s up-by-his-bootstraps story of rising from incredible poverty?until he was 7, his home had no indoor plumbing?and his votes to end affirmative action and preserve the Second Amendment. Evangelicals will like that he?s against abortion, gay rights, and limits on prayer in school.
Thomas is also very smart. When he first joined the Supreme Court, some people thought he would just mimic Justice Antonin Scalia, the intellectual leader of the Court?s conservative wing. Over the years, however, Thomas has become a powerful voice for his brand of constitutional conservatism and has proven himself a more devout believer in originalism than even Scalia. Today, it seems as if Scalia is more likely to follow Thomas.
Although known for his silence on the bench?he hasn?t asked a question during oral argument in several years?Thomas is outgoing and charming off the bench. When he was on tour promoting his autobiography, he easily engaged audiences with his wit, insight, and willingness to talk straight about his upbringing and the Court. About his refusal to ask questions, he?s drawn laughs by joking that his ?colleagues should shut up!?
While he lacks experience in international affairs and the economy, it would be hard for Democrats to portray Thomas as unqualified for the presidency. He?s worked at the highest levels of government for over two decades, far longer? the single-term junior senator from Illinois who currently occupies the White House. With considerably less experience than Thomas, Justice Charles Evans Hughes came just a handful of electoral votes away from being elected president in 1916. Despite Thomas?s long service on the Supreme Court, he could also reasonably cast himself as an outsider to Washington? politics unsullied by the partisan taint that comes from raising money and legislative logrolling.
Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect candidate. The media would surely bring up Anita Hill?s allegations of sexual harassment. Voters who looked past Barack Obama's and George W. Bush?s youthful drug use, however, might be similarly inclined to forgive Thomas for an indiscretion that occurred 30 years ago. It?s also hard to imagine the Democrats, who still embrace Bill Clinton, gaining much traction with Hill?s old accusations.
Democrats will find plenty of potentially controversial things in Thomas?s judicial opinions, but even here Thomas has a trump card. Those were not statements of his personal political positions, he can say, but merely interpretations of the law. As a judge, he was obligated to reach certain decisions. As president, he can more freely pursue his own policy agenda.
The idea of Thomas running for president was floated two years ago by two legal bloggers, David Lat and Kashmir Hill. They noted that when Thomas was first nominated to the bench, he expressed hesitation about the solitary, sedate environment that comes with the black robe. ?I can't see myself spending the rest of my life as a judge,? Thomas said.
Thomas has worked at the highest levels of government for over two decades, far longer than the single-term senator from Illinois who currently occupies the White House.
Yet one of the biggest downsides of Lat and Hill?s proposal?that Thomas would have to resign from the Court to run, thereby permitting President Obama to replace him with a more liberal justice?no longer applies with the same force. If drafted at the convention at the end of August, Thomas would still have to resign. Nevertheless, Republicans in the Senate could plausibly justify a filibuster of any Obama nominee on the ground that the seat should be filled by whoever wins the White House in November, two months later. And then they?d keep their fingers crossed that Thomas would be that person.
Yes, it is hard to believe that Clarence Thomas would ever be the Republican nominee. Then again, most people thought an inexperienced African-American often mistaken for a Muslim could never defeat presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, much less be elected president.
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Samsung Unveils Android 2.3 Phone With Integrated Projector
Samsung Galaxy Beam. Image: Samsung
It?s not an Ice Cream Sandwich-laden smartphone. It doesn?t support LTE for super-fast data speeds. And its processor is relatively underpowered in this day of quad-core chips running well in excess of 1GHz. But the Samsung Galaxy Beam, unveiled Sunday at Mobile World Congress, nonetheless packs an integrated projector whose brightness is rated at an impressive 15 lumens, and can cast a 50-inch image on any bare wall you have handy.
At 12.5mm thick, the Beam is exceedingly thin and compact for a phone with an integrated projector. And, yes, there?s definite utility in having a smartphone that can project spreadsheets and other business documents in the board room Monday through Friday, and then family photos on the living room wall during the weekends.
But will hardcore mobile enthusiasts be able to resolve all of the Beam?s hardware compromises? In the specs department, this phone is lacking.
The Beam?s OS is Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread. This is a problem, as Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is the new Android standard, and we just can?t see buying any Android phone without Google latest OS. The Beam?s processor is a 1GHz dual-core chip, which lags far behind the current state-of-the-art, namely quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processors running at 1.5GHz.
The Beam?s display is spec?d at 4 inches with a 480?800 resolution, but doesn?t use Samsung?s spectacularly bright and brilliant Super AMOLED technology. There?s also no LTE support, so for your fastest data speeds, you?ll be relying on HSPA networks. In total, the Beam is a curious device, but it?s squarely aimed at users who need integrated projectors, and that?s a rarefied group.
But we sure do like the pretty yellow chassis!
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/samsung-unveils-android-2-3-phone-with-integrated-projector/
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Girl, 11, fights classmate, dies hours later (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - After getting her nose bloodied in a fight with another girl near their Southern California elementary school, 11-year-old Joanna Ramos told her mother on the way home she felt sick. Hours later, she was dead.
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Oscars 2012: How 'The Help' Got To The Academy Awards
Movie's success proves that powerful audience support can buck Oscar stereotypes.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Emma Stone in "The Help"
Photo: DreamWorks
Of the nine films nominated for Best Picture at this Sunday's Academy Awards, the only two that came out before the fall movie season, where Oscar bait runs rampant, are probably the most unlikely nominees.
The inclusion of "The Tree of Life" on the short list, despite its loose structure, makes sense because of the prestige of its director, Terrence Malick. "The Help," on the other hand, found Oscar success with an untested director and a racially charged subject matter.
Before "The Help" was a nominated film, it was a best-selling novel by writer Kathryn Stockett. While looking to sell the novel, Stockett queried 60 agents, all of whom rejected her request for representation. When the novel finally did find a home with an agent and eventually a publisher, it became a best-seller soon afterward.
But the before the novel found a wide audience, Stockett's childhood friend and former roommate Tate Taylor agreed with the author to pen the screen adaptation and direct the eventual film. Despite pressure from DreamWorks, Stockett insisted that Taylor direct the film of her book.
The connection between Stockett and Taylor was not the only one on set. Taylor and Best Supporting Actress nominee Octavia Spencer met while working as production assistants on "A Time to Kill."
As with all high-profile novel adaptations, "The Help" had a built-in audience going into its August release, but it wasn't until strong reviews and an A+ CinemaScore that people began to realize the potential for Oscar nominations.
Two of the film's actresses, Spencer and Best Actress nominee Viola Davis, received the earliest and most unanimous accolades after the film's release and rode that praise to Oscar nominations. They were both favorites in their respective categories, and as we head into Oscar night, they remain so.
The story of the movie's road to the Oscars demonstrates that the power of the audience can buck old Oscar stereotypes and push a loved film to the forefront of the competition. "The Help" won audiences over and in doing so, secured a big night at the Academy Awards.
The MTV Movies team has the 2012 Oscars covered! Stick with us for everything you need to know leading up to the awards show, and head to Next Movie for a printable Oscar ballot. On Sunday, tune into MTV.com at 5 p.m. ET for our two-and-a-half-hour red-carpet live stream and updates on the night's big winners. To join the live conversation, tweet @MTVNews with the hashtag #Oscars.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Dennis Santiago: FDIC Bank Failures on Feb. 24 Include Rare "No Acquirer" Event
It doesn't happen very often, but this week one of the two banks closed by the FDIC failed to find a buyer. Such failures have been rare events to date as the regulator resolves troubled institutions. The preferred strategy is to sell the failing bank to a stronger acquiring institution, close it at the end of the day on Friday and re-open the bank as part of the new owner on Monday. For unlucky FDIC Certificate Holder 29178 Home Savings of America on 35 East Broadway in Little Falls, Minnesota, that scenario was not to be. The $440M asset bank tumbled on capital adequacy in September 2011. A forensic report by IRA on the bank can be seen here:
http://us1.irabankratings.com/pub/failedbank.asp?cert=29178
The FDIC also closed the Central Bank of Georgia, a member of holding company MIDDLE GEORGIA CORPORATION today. The $276M asset institution on 285 South Broad Street in Ellaville, Georgia will re-open as part of Ameris Bank next week. The forensics report on Central Bank of Georgia is here:
http://us1.irabankratings.com/pub/failedbank.asp?cert=5687
This is an informational story filed on Fridays whenever the FDIC shutters institutions. Forensic reports are made public after confirming FDIC press released by IRA as part of an ongoing effort to help make banking more transparent to consumers and researchers. The press releases from the FDIC on these events are made public here:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?
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GENEVA/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong - but now the lab behind it says the result could have been caused by a loose cable.
Physicists at the CERN research institute near Geneva appeared to contradict Albert Einstein's 1905 Special Theory of Relativity last year when they reported that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos could travel fractions of a second faster than light.
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which underpins the current view of how the universe works, says that nothing can travel faster than light, and doing so would be like traveling back in time.
James Gillies, a spokesman for European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said on Wednesday the lab's startling result was now in doubt.
Earlier on Wednesday, ScienceInsider, a website run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, reported that the surprising result was down to a loose fibre optic cable linking a Global Positioning System satellite receiver to a computer.
Gillies confirmed that a flaw in the GPS system was now suspected as a possible cause for the surprising reading. Further testing was needed before any definite conclusions could be reached, he added.
The faster-than-light finding was recorded when 15,000 neutrino beams were pumped over three years from CERN to an underground Italian laboratory at Gran Sasso near Rome.
"A possible explanation has been found. But we won't know until we have tested it out with a new beam to Gran Sasso," Gillies told Reuters in Geneva.
Physicists on the experiment, called OPERA, said when they reported it last September that they had checked and rechecked over many months anything that could have produced a misreading before announcing what they had found.
A second test whose results were announced in November appeared to provide further evidence that neutrinos were travelling faster than light. But many experts remained skeptical of a result that would have overturned one of the fundamental principles of modern physics.
Edward Blucher, chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago, said the original finding would have been breathtaking if it had been true. As it was, the research inspired many spirited discussions, if few believers.
"I don't think I met anyone who said I bet it's going to be true. I think the people on the experiment worked as carefully as they could and I think they ran out of ideas of what could be wrong and they decided to present it," he said.
"Maybe they should have waited a few more months," he added.
Gillies said CERN would be issuing a full statement early on Thursday.
(Additional reporting by Kate Kelland in London; Editing by Peter Graff and Eric Beech)
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Razer Blade review
Typically, when a company wants to meet, you expect more of the same -- not a change in strategy, nor a decision to enter an entirely new product category. So when Razer wanted to meet us one bright, oddly cold San Franciscan morning last August, we certainly weren't expecting to meet its CEO, Tan Min-Liang, and we definitely weren't prepared to find a 17-inch prototype laptop, henceforth known as the Blade.
Shaving puns aside, we listened to Liang proudly wax on about the results of nearly three years of development, much of which involved recruiting a bevy of talent from the now-defunct OQO. What they'd accomplished, according to Liang, was the "world's first true gaming portable." An audacious statement, sure, especially considering the Blade was to be Razer's foray into the PC market. No matter. Liang's impetus was clear: the outfit would cater to gamers who'd been left in a vacuum after formerly gaming-obsessed companies sold out, leaving the segment to languish. His angle, however, would be different. The Blade wasn't going to be a gaudy, gargantuan, no-holds barred device with outright performance in mind. No, instead the 0.8-inch thick aluminum beaut would attempt to straddle the worlds of portability with performance, seeking to hit a perfectly balanced middle ground.
That sounded reasonable, but judging by reactions from most of you, the decision to stuff this $2,799 rig with a mid-range GeForce GT 555M card wasn't. Nor was the call to kit it with a paltry 320GB of rotational storage. Razer would rectify the latter in December, promising 256GB SSDs for all -- a concession that would push shipments back, well, until now. Still, even after toying with it briefly at CES, our impressions were ultimately shallow, as we couldn't get much of a feel for it in that controlled environment. Which brings us to the present day, and with Razer graciously airdropping a Blade onto our doorstep, does this experimental laptop stand up to its maker's gutsy claims? Or will those who've shelled just shy of three grand be sorely disappointed with its execution? Well, there's only one way to find out, and that's to join us past the break.
Shaving puns aside, we listened to Liang proudly wax on about the results of nearly three years of development, much of which involved recruiting a bevy of talent from the now-defunct OQO. What they'd accomplished, according to Liang, was the "world's first true gaming portable." An audacious statement, sure, especially considering the Blade was to be Razer's foray into the PC market. No matter. Liang's impetus was clear: the outfit would cater to gamers who'd been left in a vacuum after formerly gaming-obsessed companies sold out, leaving the segment to languish. His angle, however, would be different. The Blade wasn't going to be a gaudy, gargantuan, no-holds barred device with outright performance in mind. No, instead the 0.8-inch thick aluminum beaut would attempt to straddle the worlds of portability with performance, seeking to hit a perfectly balanced middle ground.
That sounded reasonable, but judging by reactions from most of you, the decision to stuff this $2,799 rig with a mid-range GeForce GT 555M card wasn't. Nor was the call to kit it with a paltry 320GB of rotational storage. Razer would rectify the latter in December, promising 256GB SSDs for all -- a concession that would push shipments back, well, until now. Still, even after toying with it briefly at CES, our impressions were ultimately shallow, as we couldn't get much of a feel for it in that controlled environment. Which brings us to the present day, and with Razer graciously airdropping a Blade onto our doorstep, does this experimental laptop stand up to its maker's gutsy claims? Or will those who've shelled just shy of three grand be sorely disappointed with its execution? Well, there's only one way to find out, and that's to join us past the break.
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NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - A federal jury of eight men and four women is set to begin hearing graphic testimony in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Scientists unlock evolutionary secret of blood vessels
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The ability to form closed systems of blood vessels is one of the hallmarks of vertebrate development. Without it, humans would be closer to invertebrates (think mollusks) in design, where blood simply washes through an open system to nourish internal organs. But vertebrates evolved closed circulation systems designed to more effectively carry blood to organs and tissues.
Precisely how that happened has remained a clouded issue. But now, a team of scientists from the California and Florida campuses of The Scripps Research Institute have shed light on the topic in a study published February 21, 2012, in the journal Nature Communications.
The process of building a closed circulation system is complicated biologically and, from an evolutionary perspective, time-consuming?involving billions of years. During this lengthy process, new domains (parts of a protein that can evolve and function independently of each other) have been added progressively to key molecules.
The scientists focused on one specific domain known as UNE-S. UNE-S is part of SerRS, a type of tRNA synthetase in species with closed circulatory systems; tRNA synthesases are enzymes that help charge tRNA with the right amino acid to correctly translate genetic information from DNA to proteins.
The scientists found that UNE-S is essential for proper development of an embryo, containing a specific sequence or "nuclear localization signal" that directs SerRS to the cell nucleus. There, it affects the expression of a key regulator of new blood vessel growth.
"I think a lot happened during this evolutionary transition to a closed system and the appearance of this domain on this specific synthetase is one of them," said Xiang-Lei Yang, a Scripps Research associate professor who led the collaborative study. "Because this synthetase plays such an essential role in vascular development, it must have had a role in the transition to a closed system."
To help elucidate the role of UNE-S, the researchers turned to zebrafish as a model organism. Shuji Kishi, an assistant professor on the Scripps Florida campus who worked on the new study, noted that zebrafish have emerged over the past decade as a powerful system to study both aging and development. "Zebrafish offer a number of advantages for study because embryonic development is external to the mother and the embryos are transparent, making them an ideal model for developmental biology," he said.
To find clues to SerRS function, the team examined SerRS mutants, which are linked to abnormal blood vessel formation and defective blood circulation. In their experiments, the scientists used a variety of techniques, including crystal structure, biochemical analysis, and cell biology experiments.
Interestingly, the findings show that SerRS mutants often delete the nuclear signal or keep it hidden in an alternative conformation?like locking someone in a closet under an assumed name?rendering it ineffective. "We were astonished by what we found," said Yang. "Sequestering is a very interesting property."
The scientists were able to design a second mutation to release the sequestered nuclear signal and to restored normal blood vessel development.
In addition to suggesting that acquisition of UNE-S has a role in the establishment of the closed circulatory systems of vertebrates, these results are the first to show an essential role for a tRNA synthetase-associated appended domain for an organism.
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'Select' PS Vita apps hit the US PlayStation Store: Netflix, LiveTweet and Flickr (Update: video hands-on)
Update: We've added gallery below and a brief video hands-on just past the break to let you grab a taste of each app before downloading them for yourself.
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Cultural Cuisines cooking classes at Buford Highway Farmers ...
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For the next couple of weeks, the Buford Highway Farmers Market (BHFM) is offering ?Cultural Cuisines? cooking classes starting this evening with Chef Joe Truex of Watershed restaurant. (Watershed shuttered its Decatur location last year, but will be reopening in a new Buckhead venue sometime this spring.)
Tonight, February 21 at 7 p.m., Truex will be demonstrating how to make dishes from his native Louisiana such as stuffed eggplant with smoked sausage and shrimp, and red snapper en papillote (in parchment).
This Cajun-inspired class is $45 per person and should be reserved by contacting Bill Schroeder at Bill@aofwc.com, or call 678-873-7447. The class fee includes the lesson, a $10 gift card for the farmers market and of course, samples prepared during the lesson.
Truex will also return to the market this Saturday, February 25, to demonstrate global culinary techniques with dishes like curried winter squash soup and a souffl? cheesecake with exotic fruit compote. (Class fee is $45.)
BHFM teaching regular, Sean Higashida, will offer a health-centric class this Thursday, February 23 from noon to 2 p.m., using Japanese techniques and ingredients.
Higashida will prepare a Harusame salad with noodles, shiitake mushrooms and a creamy, sesame dressing, as well as a dish made with shirataki (yam)?noodles that Higashida calls ?vegetarian idol.? (Class fee is $20.)
Next Tuesday, February 28 at 7 p.m., Chef Tim Dondero, of Dondero?s Kitchen in Athens, will demonstrate how to prepare Mediterranean meze (small dishes).
Among a few other dishes, Dondero plans to make hummus bi tahini (chickpeas with sesame paste) with pickled radish, apricot-stuffed meatballs, roasted cauliflower with tahini lemon sauce and Greek salad. (Class fee is $35.)
If you are interested in learning more about India?s street food culture, Gulshan Singh will be at the market next Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m., to demonstrate how to make samosas, pani puri, and two types of chaat (snacks) ? papadi (?crispies?) and fruit. (Class fee is $30.)
All classes include a $10 BHFM gift card. Contact Bill Schroeder at Bill@aofwc.com, or call 678-873-7447 to reserve a class spot. Reservations take in order of receipt. For other upcoming classes, please inquire with the market.
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Syria's Assad is hitting Homs with the heaviest mortars in the world (video)
A Human Rights Watch researcher says video evidence from Homs indicates Syria's Bashar al-Assad is using a Russian-made weapons system against the city.
Reports coming out of Homs, which has been pounded for weeks now by Bashar al-Assad's military, indicate one of the worst days of shelling against a Syrian city since the war started there.
Skip to next paragraphThe Syria Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 16 civilians were killed in Homs' Baba Amr neighborhood, three of them children. The BBC reports at least 30 dead in Homs, which has emerged as a stronghold for both armed and peaceful resistance to Mr. Assad's continued rule. Among the dead in Baba Amr was Rami al-Sayyed, a young Syrian who'd devoted himself since July to filming fighting and protest marches. As Syriapioneer on Youtube, he uploaded 831 videos between then and earlier today.
The next to last video on the account posted early today, too graphic to share here, was of Mr. Sayyed sitting beside a man in tracksuit who'd been mutilated beyond recognition. Sayyed was cut down by an infantrymen a few hours later, and the final video on the account is of his body being prepared for burial, uploaded by his brother.?
From Peter Bouckaert, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, comes an indication why the death toll has been steadily climbing in Homs. He says a video from Homs that shows the fragments of a mortar the struck a building there is proof that Assad has deployed the Russian-made "Tulip" weapons system against the town, which fires the largest mortar round in any military's arsenal. The tank-like vehicle that serves as the firing platform can lob 240mm mortar rounds up to 20 kilometers away, and they carry over 70 pounds of explosives. The largest mortar used by the US, in contrast, is 160mm.
Syria has another Russian-made system for firing rounds that size, the towed M240, and it's possible that's being used to fire the rounds instead of the Tulip.
The Tulip was designed for use against dug in positions from a standoff distance. But its lethality has been used in the past to bring devastation to civilian neighborhoods, most famously by the Russians during the siege of the Chechen capital of Grozny over a decade ago, where thousands of civilians were killed and hundreds of buildings reduced to rubble. The use of such weapons in dense urban environments is a war crime.
The are ongoing international efforts to convince Assad to stand down. But the increasing lethality of the weapons used by his army, and the mounting civilian death toll, paint the picture of a man who has determined to win this fight whatever the cost in lives.
The first video below is of the 240mm fragments that hit Homs, and the second is a Russian video showing how the weapons system works.
Updated after posting to include information on the M240.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Three Puzzles of Non-Religion in Britain | Secular News Daily
Britain, like many countries in the West, has been undergoing a decline in the numbers of religious believers. The patterns of change, however, throw up some curious anomalies. Three of these puzzles have recently been investigated by David Voas, a demographer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex ? all quite different, each of them quirky, and all of them shedding a little fascinating insight into the trends and patterns of non-belief in the UK.
First off, why are baby girls more likely to be religious than baby boys? If that question at first sounds nonsensical, it?s because the UK census asks parents to state the religious affiliation of their children. The result is a small sex difference ? one or two extra girls out of every hundred are labelled as being ?Christian? compared with boys.
The reason, Voas found, is probably because dads are less likely to be religious than mums. The child is given the religious affiliation that matches their same-sex parent. And so the gender gap is the biggest for families with a non-religious dad and a religious mum.
For the second puzzle, just take a look at this graph. It shows the change in religious affiliation since 1915 among graduates and non-graduates.
Affiliation has declined in both groups, but it?s been much faster among the non-graduates. As a result, although non-graduates were more religious than graduates at the start of the last century, now they are actually less religious!
It seems that this is probably because graduates are much more passionate about their beliefs ? either religious or non-religious. Non-graduates are more likely to be in the fuzzy middle ? nominally religious but not really devout.
Now, both nominal and devout religious will put themselves down on the census as ?Christian?. However, as society as a whole becomes less religious, those who were formally nominally religious will now be completely non-religious. Those who once would have been strongly religious (many of whom are graduates) will now more likely be nominally religious ? but still list themselves as Christian.
In other words, this is another artefact of the crude measure of religion used in the UK census. Because it only records broad affiliation, it misses the subtleties.
The last puzzle surrounds the patchiness of religious affiliation in Britain. If you look at a very fine level (at the level of individual local council wards), the percentage of people saying that they don?t identify with a religion ranges from 1.9% all the way up to a most godless 42.4% (this godless epicentre is actually a place in Brighton, just down the road from where I live).
Voas found that this variation can only partly be explained by factors such as average age and professional status. An additional major factor was the number of religious people in neighbouring wards.
So it seems that religion and non-religion tends to aggregate into clusters, although what causes this aggregation is hard to say, but Voas suspects that factors like social history and local economic factors probably play a large role.
On top of this, some areas have a strong local culture. Brighton, for example, has a long tradition as venue for a bit of escapism from the moral straitjacket of London soceity ? as a result, the place is now full of counter-cultural Bohemians of all types! (And me?)
Voas, D., & McAndrew, S. (2012). Three Puzzles of Non-religion in Britain Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27 (1), 29-48 DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2012.642725
Related articles:
- Who thinks Britain should be a Christian country?
- What is the future of religion in Britain?
- Does Britain really have faith in religion? ? NSS quoted
- Irish Times: Dawkins claims poll shows religion is largely irrelevant in Britain
- Majority of people in Britain now say they are non-religious
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Kobe lets Lakers management have it over Gasol
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant brings the ball up during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant drives as Phoenix Suns' Grant Hill hits a screen set by Lakers' Pau Gasol during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Phoenix. The Suns won 102-90. (AP Photo/Matt York)
PHOENIX (AP) ? The Los Angeles Lakers' worst performance of the season set the stage for Kobe Bryant to take aim at his team's management, a clear signal that all is not well for the perennial power out West.
The issue that surfaced after the Lakers lost to the Phoenix Suns 102-90 on Sunday night was teammate Pau Gasol, and whether he is about to be traded.
Bryant, who brought up the subject himself without any prompting, used a couple of profanities to emphasize how strongly he feels.
"It's just tough for a player to give his all when you don't know if you're going to be here tomorrow," Bryant said. "So I'd rather them not trade him at all. If they were going to do something, I wish they would just ... do it. If they're not going to do it, come out and say you're not going to do it."
The Lakers trailed 63-40 at the half and were down by as many as 27 early in the third quarter Sunday. Bryant, who scored 32, tried to bring the Lakers back. They cut it to 10 late in the fourth quarter but got no closer. Gasol finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds.
Bryant was just 1 of 8 on 3-pointers and committed 10 turnovers. He said afterward that it's tough for players to get emotionally up for games every night. That led to his comments about Gasol.
"It's hard for Pau because of all this trade talk and stuff," Bryant said. "It's hard for him to kind of invest himself completely or immerse himself completely into games when he's hearing trade talk every other day."
Things have not gone smoothly for the Lakers since they were swept out of the playoffs by eventual NBA champion Dallas last season. Coach Phil Jackson retired, and Mike Brown replaced him. The triangle offense was gone and the Lakers were re-designed as a defense-oriented team.
Then just before the season, the Lakers pulled the trigger on a three-team trade that would have sent Gasol to New Orleans and Chris Paul to Los Angeles. But NBA Commissioner David Stern nixed the deal, and in another trade, Paul wound up with the other Los Angeles team, the Clippers.
Bryant, though, said he believes the Lakers have the makings for another title run.
"I'm sure we'll make some tweaks here and there but the foundation is here," he said. "It obviously starts with myself and Pau and the emergency of Andrew (Bynum), but you can't have one of our pillars not knowing if he's going to be here or not. Do something. One way or another, do something. If they trade him at least you have some type of closure, at least he gets some type of closure."
Los Angeles had won three in a row before stumbling at Phoenix. But the Lakers don't even have the best record in their own city. At 18-13, they are two games behind the first-place Clippers in the Pacific Division and fifth in the Western Conference, just a half-game ahead of Memphis and Houston.
Still, Bryant leads the NBA in scoring at just under 29 points a game and the team turned to him to get back into Sunday night's game.
"He was scoring and making plays for us," Brown said, "and we tried to get the ball in his hands. Is that something he can do? Yeah. But that's a lot of pressure on one guy to make plays for everybody and then try to score the basketball, too."
Gasol had already spoken to reporters before Bryant's rant.
"We thought we could maybe get away with playing through the motions and win," Gasol said of the Lakers' performance, "and in the end you can't."
Bryant said he and Gasol just want to know what the future holds.
"You just want security and a little clarity," he said. "I think that would help him out a lot, help us out a lot."
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