And so begins life after Paul George. What had been a year or two in the making finally occurred over the summer, as George was sent to Oklahoma City Thunder for the uninspiring return of Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. Now, the Pacers look to recover, somehow avoiding a complete rebuild in the process. This probably isn’t going to be a fun year, but Indiana’s rebuild isn’t the most depressing in the Eastern Conference by a long shot. There are some things to like here, and this will be the season when they cultivate the beginning of the organization’s next chapter.
FIVE GUYS THINK…
Let’s start by admitting right out in the open that the Oklahoma City Thunder won the Paul George trade by a wide, wide margin, and then let’s use that as fodder to predict that the Pacers probably are due for a step back this season. Bringing Victor Oladipo back to Indiana is a fun narrative, and Myles Turner has the look of an All-Star, but outside of that it’s hard to know who the real players are on this team. I love Lance Stephenson, but it’s horrifying that he’ll be asked to play a leadership role on the team this year, and the rest of the roster is filled mostly with replacement-level guys. They will be worse than last year but perhaps better than many people expect. At least the new uniforms are fire, right?
4th Place — Central Division
— Joel Brigham
Everything for Indiana starts with the Paul George trade. Simply put, the Oklahoma City Thunder won that trade – regardless of the fact that George could walk away for nothing after this season. The Pacers took on Victor Oladipo’s bloated contract, did not get any draft picks and actually take on money in the deal. It’s one thing if the rest of the league made no offers on George. However, we know that there were other bids for George’s services, which makes this deal so puzzling. With a roster featuring Oladipo, young stud Myles Turner and a list of mostly replacement level players, it’s hard to see this team making much noise even in the weak Eastern Conference. There’s more that can be said about Indiana, but it’s hard to get much further than the lopsided deal that sent George to Oklahoma City.
4th Place — Central Division
— Jesse Blancarte
Much like their in-conference contemporary in Chicago, the Indiana Pacers lost most of their firepower from last season as well.
Heading into this year, the Pacers will be without Paul George and Jeff Teague, as both players made their trek into the Western Conference. As a result, Indiana has been left to switch immediately from postseason appearance to rebuild mode.
By securing Victor Oladipo, an Indiana State legend from his college time with the Hoosiers, in the George trade, the Pacers at least have some type of marketing ploy at their disposal. But past that and the continued emergence of young big man Myles Turner, next season looks pretty bleak for Indiana.
At least from the looks of it, the Pacers will have a decent draft pick in what projects to be a deep lottery crop next June.
4th place — Central Division
— Dennis Chambers
Life in the post-Paul George era certainly won’t be quite as exciting for the Pacers, at least not to get started. This team won’t be good enough to challenge for anything real in the East, and that’s put them in a slightly tough position: Their best team-building avenue might be to simply bottom out completely and shoot for a high draft pick, but they might have just enough talent on the roster to make this difficult. Guys like Victor Oladipo, Darren Collison, Cory Joseph and Thaddeus Young aren’t anyone’s idea of a contender, but they’re good enough to get you some wins in this awful conference. Combine that with some possible improvement from youngsters Myles Turner and Domantas Sabonis, and securing a high lottery slot might not be so easy. Turner remains key here – his development should take priority over virtually any standings-related questions this year. Beyond that, we’ll see whether this Pacers team is taking a shot at the eight seed come trade deadline time, or whether they’re considering a fire sale and a full tank.
4th place — Central Division
— Ben Dowsett
Now begins life without Paul George.
On paper, the Pacers are a team that is full of complementary pieces, but one that’s devoid of one that’s capable of leading the pack. I count eight players on the roster that I like as individual contributors, but aside from Myles Turner, I’m not sure who (if anyone) has the potential to be a truly impactful player on his own. Through the early years of his career, Victor Oladipo has had some high moments, but he’s already been traded twice. To me, that means he failed to convince two separate franchises that he has “it.”
In the end, I expect this coming season to be a very long one in Indianapolis. You simply don’t trade a superstar like Paul George and get any better for it, and you especially don’t become any better for it by trading him for Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. The Pacers simply become another example of life coming at you fast in the league, especially for small market teams. If you stumble across a superstar, you have a short window to build his team into a perennial contender. If you fail and he skates town, you start all over. Unfortunately, the Pacers ran into Miami’s dynasty and saw the clock strike midnight.
4th place — Central Division
— Moke Hamilton
TOP OF THE LIST
Top Offensive Player: Victor Oladipo
Let’s start by just pointing out the obvious here; Indiana lost a ton of scoring in their offseason overhaul. Between Paul George, Jeff Teague, Monta Ellis and C.J. Miles, Indiana is suddenly missing over 58 points per game which have not been replaced by the players they’ve brought in. Myles Turner, who averaged 14.5 points per game last season, should be a focus for the team offensively this year, but Oladipo is the player with best opportunity to average 20 points per game. He’s never done that, of course, but he’s come reasonably close. With years of experience and a bigger offensive role than he’s ever had, Oladipo appears to have the best opportunity to shine.
Top Defensive Player: Myles Turner
After averaging 2.1 blocks per game in just 31.4 minutes last year, Turner seems likely to be among the league leaders in that category this upcoming season as those minutes ultimately rise. Manning the middle last year, Turner allowed just 0.867 points per possession, which is a testament to just how effective he was as just a second-year player on a middling team. He’s quick for a guy his size, and his height, length and athleticism make him a nightmare for opposing players trying to score. In fact, opponents shot 8.4 percent below their season averages when he was the closest defender within six feet of the basket. He’s elite defensively, and should be even better (and stronger) this season.
Top Playmaker: Darren Collison
Collison has never averaged fewer than 10 points per game in his entire career, and only has failed to average four assists per game just once, making him the model of consistency on the offensive end in what will be his second stint with the Indiana Pacers this year. As the Jeff Teague replacement, he will be asked to do a lot of the same things (but for a lot less money), which will include splitting open defenses and finding open shooters. Even with fewer three-point marksmen on the roster this season, Indiana’s new starting point guard should still end up in the neighborhood of four to six assists per contest, easily the best of anybody on this Pacers team.
Top Clutch Player: Victor Oladipo
In April of last season, when Russell Westbrook had finally broken the triple-double record and took a night off ahead of the playoffs, the Thunder found themselves entrenched in a tight game with the Minnesota Timberwolves. With Westbrook out of the game, Oladipo took the go-ahead shot with just a few seconds left in the game, and he sank it to seal the victory for OKC. After the game, Billy Donovan said, “I think Victor’s proven in his time being a young player that he’s a guy who’s not afraid of taking a big shot,” and while he’s playing for a new coach, if any big shots come up this year, expect Oladipo to be the one who takes them.
The Unheralded Player: Glenn Robinson III
Last year’s Dunk Contest champ is a lot more than just a leaper, as he proved in inconsistent minutes last year, despite 27 starts. He was incredibly up-and-down offensively all season, but flashed some really interesting moments late in the season, including a game-winning shot and a 20-point outing. Defensively, he’s quite good at forcing turnovers and is a good rebounder at the three spot on the floor, and all of this should come into light as he contends for the starting small forward spot this season. Bojan Bogdanovic is a shiny new toy that flashed bigger stats in Brooklyn and Washington last season, but Robinson is quietly a slightly better all-around player. Hopefully he gets the consistent minutes to prove it this year.
Best New Addition: Victor Oladipo
He better be, anyway. He was the reason Indiana felt better about Oklahoma City’s trade offer than any offer that might have included a draft pick, so for better or worse, Oladipo is the future in Indiana, along with Myles Turner. If he ends up falling flat in this opportunity to get huge usage, the George trade will look worse than it already does.
— Joel Brigham
WHO WE LIKE
1. Lance Stephenson:
Something about Indianapolis brings out the best in Stephenson, who got his groove back to a certain extent after rejoining the team last season. The fans have embraced him—there’s even going to be a “Born Ready Crew” fan zone at the Fieldhouse this year, named after Stephenson’s rap moniker—and he’s talking like a leader already this summer. Indy will need some measure of leadership from him this season, so hopefully he’s got it in him. If nothing else, Stephenson is far and away the team’s most entertaining personality.
2. Bojan Bogdanovic:
It seemed like in every EuroBasket game Bogdanovic played this summer, he’d be Croatia’s top scorer with somewhere between 20-25 points per game. He’s not going to pour in numbers like that with the Pacers, but considering how much offensive firepower departed this roster in the offseason, he’ll get plenty of opportunities to be among the team’s leading scorers. Indiana lost a lot of three-point shooting over the summer, too, and that’s another area where Bogdanovic will be useful. In short, the Pacers needed someone exactly like him to fill out this roster, and it’s hard to imagine him not squeezing into the role set out for him.
3. Cory Joseph:
An ideal fit in Kevin Pritchard’s pseudo-rebuild, Joseph is coming off a strong year in Toronto in which he averaged 9.3 points and 3.3 assists, meaning he should slot nicely right behind Collison in the point guard rotation. He’s only 25 years old, so there could be even better years ahead. Between his time in San Antonio and Toronto, he’s got quite a bit of playoff experience for a kid his age, which should be a welcome addition to a team that doesn’t have a whole lot of that in its clubhouse.
4. Domantas Sabonis:
As the other piece in the Paul George trade, Sabonis’ development as a second-year player will speak volumes about how Pritchard did in moving his former team cornerstone. Last season Sabonis shot 46 percent from three, but his bread and butter typically comes in closer to the basket, where his post moves are slippery enough to get the better of bigger, bulkier fives. He should back up Turner and get more of an opportunity to succeed playing on the receiving end of pick-and-roll plays that don’t involve Russell Westbrook. His defense and fouling need to come down to earth, but offensively he’s got a bright future.
— Joel Brigham
SALARY CAP 101
The Pacers are under the NBA’s $99.1 million salary cap by as much as $7.6 million, even after signing Bojan Bogdanovic and Darren Collison (not to mention their blockbuster trade of Paul George to bring in Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis). Indiana also has their $4.3 million Room Exception.
Assuming the team picks up Sabonis’ team option for the 2018-19 season before November, the Pacers could have roughly $36 million in space next summer under a $102 million cap. That partially relies on Thaddeus Young ($13.8 million) and Cory Joseph ($7.9 million) opting out. Also, Al Jefferson, Bogdanovic and Collison each have partially-guaranteed deals for 2018-19; Lance Stephenson has a team option. The Pacers have valuable contract flexibility as the work through a rebuild in the post-George era.
— Eric Pincus
Nothing stands out. The team was top-ten defensively last year, but not only did they lose an elite perimeter defender in Paul George, they also added two brutal defensive players in Domantas Sabonis and Darren Collison. Turner anchoring the defense will help, but chances are pretty good that this team will be in the middle of the road pretty much across the board this year. They are relatively young and athletic, which is a good thing, but statistically it’s hard to envision them overachieving.
— Joel Brigham
Scoring is going to be the biggest problem this season. The Pacers were smack-dab in the middle of the league last season in terms of points scored per game, but that’s likely to take a hit with so many of the team’s top scorers gone in favor of lesser-scoring counterparts. It’s asking a lot for the offense to improve with worse offensive player, which places them squarely in the bottom half of the league in terms of scoring. Unless the defense is great, Indiana is going to get outscored a lot this season.
— Joel Brigham
THE BURNING QUESTION
What does life after Paul George look like, exactly?
From an aesthetic standpoint, we know it looks really, really different, thanks in large part to Nike’s radical redesign of the uniform sets. On the court, though, it’s hard to know how well (or perhaps how poorly) the team pops back up after the Paul George fiasco this summer. We expect a huge jump from Myles Turner, but we don’t yet know if he’s capable of shouldering a franchise. We expect Oladipo to make a leap, too, and if both players can do it, the playoffs are more than just a pipe dream for Indiana. If the Pacers underperform, though, they’ll wish they had gotten some draft picks in that George trade.
— Joel Brigham
NBA Daily: Quincy Pondexter Has Grown With New Orleans
Quincy Pondexter did two stints with New Orleans four years apart, both of which changed his life forever.
By the time the New Orleans Hornets traded for the draft rights to Quincy Pondexter in the summer of 2010, the city was just starting to see some real progress in the reconstruction efforts that followed the half decade after Hurricane Katrina.
In February of that year, the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl, a victory that the city badly needed, and Pondexter found himself dropped into the sports culture of the league’s most unique city.
Now with the Chicago Bulls, Pondexter would only play in New Orleans for his rookie year before getting dealt to Memphis and signing a multi-year extension, but in late 2014 he was traded back to New Orleans, who had rechristened themselves the Pelicans by that point. He couldn’t believe how much had changed in just four short years.
“You stopped seeing the spray paint on the houses, and the prices start going up on real estate. It was definitely a lot different coming back,” Pondexter told Basketball Insiders. “I remember I had a house there, when I first got there as a rookie, and it was very, very cheap. But when I came back, I had a place probably twice as small for almost double the price. The city had just grown and developed a lot more, especially the downtown areas where you could start seeing buildings being built. You’d start to see the city come back to form, come back to life, and I really, really got to enjoy it my second time.”
That sort of progress was slow to come by 2010, however. Despite five years having passed since the initial devastation of Katrina, New Orleans was finding slow progress toward physical and emotional healing. The team had just moved back to the city full-time a couple of seasons prior after having played a good number of games in Oklahoma City during Louisiana’s recovery, but Pondexter remembers the Hornets giving the people of the city something to root for, too.
“The Saints, when you win a championship, when you’ve been there for years, of course you’re going to be the favorite, but, when the Hornets were part of that, too,” he said. “When you win games, and I had the chance to go to the playoffs with two different stints with them, I think it’s embracing how much the city comes together once you make an achievement like that, and whether you’re at the grocery store, gas station, whatever, people are always going to talk to you about the game of basketball. They don’t talk to you like a fan in New Orleans; they talk to you like a family member. It was really cool to be in a city like that.”
He also admitted that it was exciting to play even a small role in helping New Orleans continue to heal.
“It was a unique experience because the city was rebuilding, and being able to be a part of helping put it back together, it was really special,” he said. “We had an unbelievable star in Chris Paul, and you just don’t realize how much people lean on sports to get through tough times. We bridged that gap, and it was a real unique community to help refurbish the city of New Orleans.”
Coming back four years later, Pondexter had grown up a lot, and while a lot of his next few years with the Pelicans would be plagued by a torrent of medical problems ranging from knee issues to a staph infection, he did get to spend a lot more time in the city after having been there for only a year as a rookie in 2010-2011. That’s when he really fell in love with New Orleans.
“The culture, the melting pot culture, the rich history, it’s so much different from anywhere else in the country,” he said. “I grew up in Fresno, California, went to school at the University of Washington, and New Orleans is just something unique, and I could always say I learned so much from a city like that, about our country, about life, about so many things. About music, about food, about everything in that city, you just really learn so much. It’s a city where you get to put your hair down, and just enjoy being alive.”
Time passes quickly in any NBA career, but playing two times for one team several years apart can’t help but give a person some perspective, which is what it has done for Quincy Pondexter.
“You grow up, you learn the game of basketball, you learn a lot about yourself, and you see what you want in life more,” he said. “I think that was a really big pivotal moment in my life, one I’ll never ever forget.”
The NBA’s Teams Should Fear How Good Spurs Will Be When Kawhi Leonard Returns
Even without Kawhi, the Spurs have been dominant. Imagine how good they’ll be when he returns.
Even a blind man couldn’t help but to see the irony.
On Friday night, the young-legged Boston Celtics were done in by an Argentinean geezer.
Manu Ginobili sunk the Celts in the closest thing to a early-season “must see” game as there is, connecting on a three-pointer that gave the Spurs a 105-102 lead with five seconds remaining in the game.
For the Spurs, in the grand scheme of things, the win itself doesn’t mean much, but it sure has to make you wonder how much better the team will be once Kawhi Leonard returns from injury this week.
Despite not having him since Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals last May, the Spurs have begun the season by going 19-8. That Gregg Popovich’s team enters play on December 10 as the third-ranked team in the Western Conference isn’t much of a surprise. That they’ve done it without their top gun in Leonard, though, is.
“Whoever is not there, is not there,” Popovich said before the Spurs took on the Celtics on Friday night.
“We don’t worry about him [Leonard] or think about it too much. We’ve got to take care of as much as the business as we can, just like Boston is doing,” he said.
So, of course, the Spurs went out and did exactly that.
What makes the team truly scary is their thriving without arguably the top two-way player in the game.
Aside from being a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, Leonard was named to the All-NBA First Team in 2016 and 2017. He’s raised his scoring average in each of his first six seasons, including a 25.5 point per game average over the course of last season.
Leonard also finished second in MVP voting to Stephen Curry in 2016 and third last year to Russell Westbrook and James Harden.
Despite his quiet nature, Leonard has become a transcendent superstar. Even without him, the Spurs enter play on December 10 with one of the league’s top defenses. They rank second in the NBA in points allowed (97.6) and third in points allowed per 100 possessions (103.5). The metrics aren’t nearly as good on the offensive side of the ball, but Leonard will help there—tremendously, at that.
With Popovich running the show, the possibilities are endless. His ability to connect with players of different personalities in unmatched. He’s humble enough to second-guess himself and take criticism from those around him, but enough of a taskmaster to extract the full potential from every talent that he gets his hands on.
Of the other top teams in the league—the Celtics, Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors—precisely none of them would be capable of winning two-thirds of their games without their top gun, much less without two of the team’s most important rotation players. Tony Parker, mind you, has played in just six of the Spurs’ first 27 games. The aforementioned Ginobili has missed five games, as well.
On Friday night, when Irving got off a clean look that would have answered Ginobili’s three and sent the game to overtime, everyone in the arena held their breath. When it rimmed out, the Celtics’ four-game win streak ended, and the team tasted defeat for just the third time in their past 25 games. It was the first time they’d lost to the Western Conference opponent all season, and it wasn’t for a lack of competition, mind you.
The Celtics had previously beaten the Spurs in Boston on October 30, won at the Thunder on November 3 and topped the defending champion Warriors on November 16.
So yes, they’re real—even without Leonard.
After the Celtics topped the Warriors in Boston, Stephen Curry made one of his more arrogant remarks, commenting that he was looking forward to experiencing the weather in Boston in June.
Word of advice to Curry: be more concerned with the spring in San Antonio.
Sure, it may have only been a partial game, but the Spurs badly outplayed the Warriors with Leonard in the lineup for the 24 minutes he played in Game 1 of last season’s Western Conference Finals. At the point where Leonard was forced to exit, the Spurs had built a 23-point lead on the Warriors. Obviously, this became a footnote since the Dubs erased the deficit and won the next three games in the series, but that short-lived dominance of the Warriors is something that the Spurs can hang their hat on, and it’s something that the rest of the NBA’s viewing public needs to be reminded of, even as the Rockets have surprisingly risen to the top of the Western Conference.
Make no mistake, James Harden, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, in some order, are the league’s Most Valuable Players to this point. But the MVP Award is a regular season one—Leonard, Popovich and the Spurs are more concerned with being the last men standing come June.
“[W]hen he gets there, he gets there,” Popovich said of Leonard and his impending return to the lineup.
“In the meantime, a lot of the guys are getting time,” he said.
“We’re playing a lot of different people, a lot of different combinations. Some nights it doesn’t work out really well. Other nights, it looks really good. But I think down the stretch it will help us.”
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When LaMarcus Aldridge walked into Popovich’s office before the season began, neither of the two probably knew what to expect. It was a poorly kept secret that Aldridge had grown somewhat unhappy with his role in San Antonio, and when a superstar-caliber player is unhappy, it’s difficult for itself to not manifest itself in his performance.
It was well-known that the Spurs had considered trading Aldridge over the summer—as the league saw an unprecedented amount of movement among the game’s elite class of players, as any front office would do, the Spurs looked for opportunities to keep up.
So when Aldridge and Popovich met behind closed doors, it came as a bit of a surprise that Aldridge emerged reinvigorated and the franchise decided to double down on their bet that the forward could be a part of their championship puzzle. When it was announced that the duo had agreed on a three-year, $72 million extension for Aldridge, many thought the move to be foolish on the part of the Spurs.
As usual, though, they are the ones laughing now.
Through 27 games without Leonard, the Spurs have gotten 22.7 points and 8.1 rebounds per game from the star forward. As Aldridge has come to resemble the player he was on the Portland Trail Blazers, it’s because he and Popovich figured out how he can excel playing for the coach, while Popovich has altered his team’s offensive attack to allow Aldridge more elbow and low-post scoring opportunities.
If you know anything about Popovich, the way he’s traditionally coached his teams has been less about one individual player and more about incorporating the skills and talents of his rotation pieces. Part of what has enabled that to work has been his teaching that no one player is bigger than the team. So when Leonard returns from injury, rest assured that the Spurs won’t simply go back to being the team they were before he went down. Believe it or not, while Leonard will be entrusted with being the team’s primary ball handler and play maker, it’s going to be incumbent on him to figure out how to fit back into the team that the Spurs have become since he last took the floor with them.
That’s what makes them a dangerous, dangerous team.
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Entering play on December 10, most NBA teams have played about 25 games. We finally have sample sizes big enough to make determinations about what we’ve seen—both in terms of individual players and teams.
And we know, for sure, that even without Kawhi Leonard, the Spurs are capable of being the third best team in the Western Conference and the fifth-best team in the NBA.
Now, sit back and think about that, and then imagine just how good they’ll be when he returns to the lineup.
Josh Jackson Isn’t Surprised By The NBA’s Learning Curve
While most rookies are taken back by the NBA’s game speed, Josh Jackson saw it coming.
In a league that is usually full of surprises, Josh Jackson hasn’t seen anything he didn’t expect so far in the NBA.
The fourth overall pick in last June’s draft, considered one of the centerpieces in the Phoenix Suns’ rebuild, Jackson has been ready for the twists and turns thrown his way during the first month and change of his rookie season.
Most rookies and first-year players harp on how the speed of the game is so drastically different in the Association. Especially for prospects that spend just a year in the college ranks, adjusting to playing at a faster pace against grown men presents a bit of a learning curve.
For Jackson though, that hasn’t been the case at all.
“It’s been going pretty good,” Jackson told Basketball Insiders about his rookie season. “Nothing that I didn’t expect. The game is actually a lot slower than I thought it would be coming in from college. You can really tell it’s a thinking game, just read and react. The smarter players are the best players. You just gotta think the game a little bit more.”
Coming out of the University of Kansas, Jackson was considered one of the top prospects in his class. As a Jayhawk, he showed a deft ability to find his way to the basket and possessed physical traits that projected he could be a solid defensive wing at the next level.
Despite being ready for the next level, Jackson hasn’t been perfect on the court. Few rookies ever are. In the small forward’s defense, the Suns’ struggles as a team certainly don’t help his case any either.
Through his first 27 games though, Jackson has registered 32 steals, and has been responsible for guarding a multitude of the league’s best players. In the ever-evolving NBA, defensive matchups are rarely just “small forward on small forward” — sometimes it’s much more complex than that.
In his early goings, Jackson’s been put in that position more than few times. Again, no surprise to him, though.
“When we played the Clippers I had to guard Blake Griffin,” Jackson said. “It was pretty tough. He’s real strong. He’s really improving on his game from this year to last year, I think. It just shows that guys are always in the gym and always working hard, trying to get better.
“I saw it coming,” Jackson said about his assignment. “The game’s definitely changing. Guys like myself are starting to starting to play the four. The NBA is starting to lean towards small-ball. I already knew coming in I was gonna have to guard a bunch of different positions.”
From guarding Griffin, a 6-foot-10 power forward, to guarding the likes of John Wall, a 6-foot-5 speedy point guard, to Ben Simmons, who is a 6-foot-10 weird mix of the two players just mentioned, Jackson’s done it all.
Coupled with the struggles of his team, and the rookie bumps that Jackson’s taken, his team’s record and statistics may not directly represent the defensive versatility and potential Jackon has displayed in the early part of this season. To him, it doesn’t matter how good the individual can be on that end of the court.
“Defense is always a team effort,” Jackson said. “You can have the best defender in the world on the worst defensive team, and you know, they wouldn’t be a good defensive team. Just trying to keep that energy up, just trying to be that guy who’s pressuring the ball, running off of steals. Stuff like that.”
With his defensive potential serving as a hallmark reason Jackson was drafted so high, his offensive game can be given somewhat of a buffer period to be developed. Having no trouble getting to the rim in college, Jackson did struggle, however, when it came to shooting jump shots. A particular hitch in his shooting motion handicapped Jackson from showing true signs of growth while at Kansas.
After a slight retooling of his mechanics, Jackson’s form is looking a lot smoother than it did just a year ago, even if the results haven’t translated just yet. Jackson is posting a true shooting percentage of 45.1 and is below 30 percent from beyond the arc. With tweaked form, at this point, it’s about getting reps for Jackson.
“I don’t really focus on it that much, I just go and shoot,” Jackson said. “It’s all about repetition and muscle memory. So, more shots, the better you’ll be at shooting.”
Being a Kansas product, Jackson joins a big fraternity of Jayhawks in the NBA, some of whom are star-level talents. While he was in Philadelphia on Monday night for the Suns’ matchup with the Sixers, Jackson got a chance to catch up with an old friend, Joel Embiid.
Embiid and Jackson are good friends, and spent time working out while Jackson was still in college. Known for his Twitter fingers and sharp tongue, Embiid has taken a different role with Jackson as the 20-year-old wing player takes on his rookie season.
“Not that big of a trash-talker to me, more of a teacher I think,” Jackson said of his relationship with Embiid. “He’s been a great guy. Just trying to tell me what to look out for in the league, struggles that he had in his rookie season, just trying to keep my head, and knowing that I need to get better.”
Along with Embiid, Andrew Wiggins and other past Kansas players have reached out to Jackson since he was drafted and offered their advice and support. The NBA season is a long road, and bumpy one at times for a rookie, no matter how gifted they are.
The word of advice from Kansas players to Jackson is mostly to just keep his head up no matter what, and focus on being a better player every day.
So far in his rookie season, Jackson is off to a good start in that regard.


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ummer Concerts Return To Burton Chace Park
July 6, 2022
Free summer concerts return to Burton Chace Park this Saturday, July 15. If you had been in the Park yesterday you would have enjoyed a beautiful evening with temperatures in the mid-60s. You would have seen the tent being set up. You would have heard the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony in rehearsal led by Maestro Steven Allen Fox. A few miles away, Chorus Director Marya Basaraba was preparing the 65-voice SoCAL Chorale.
We are looking forward to presenting a concert of exciting new music from an unexpected source – video game music. Today, some of the most talented composers are writing symphonic and vocal music for video games, just as they have long done for movie scores. Several of the composers will be at the concert.
Gamers will recognize many of the selections from popular games including World of Warcraft, God of War, Lair, Star Wars: Old Republic, Afrika, Civilization IV and VI, Journey, Medal of Honor: European Assault, Everquest II, Lineage and Call of Duty: Black Ops.
The concert will cap an afternoon-long celebration at the Park to kick off the new county initiative, MdR for All. Bring your picnic, a blanket, and a jacket (the ocean breeze can be quite cool once the sun goes down) and join us in the celebrations.
Admission to this concert is FREE - no tickets required
Seating is festival-style, available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Last fall we began to see major changes in the availability and delivery of healthcare in CA. In anticipation of these changes, we at TTMG have been consolidating resources and increasing our availability. We have expanded our operations in Truckee and Tahoe City to accommodate more patient visits and are now open 7 days per week at our Squaw Valley office during the winter months.
TTMG will no longer be seeing patients at the previous Northstar location. With the added appointments in our other offices, we expect to absorb this change and provide you the best access to care possible.
In addition, many of you have received our pre-recorded messages asking you to participate in a survey inquiring about your interest in concierge medical services. We would like to assure you that we are not planning to replace our general primary care practice with a concierge only medical practice. Rather, we are exploring ways to continue to provide quality affordable care, offer a wide spectrum of services at our offices and provide the best care possible for you and your family.
We appreciate your loyalty as we have transitioned to electronic medical records; an example of changes that improve our services to care for your family. Thank you for your continued patronage and we look forward to keeping you and your family healthy throughout this transition in local healthcare services
For more information about upcoming healthcare changes, please visit the following websites or your insurance carrier:
Please welcome our new providers: Scott Samelson, MD and Jane Newhard-Parks, FNP. We are grateful to add two high-quality providers to your choices at TTMG.

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- Visit BroadwayWorld.com's 2015 Tony SectionNominations, Coverage, News & More!
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The Type 99 is without a doubt the best sniper rifle for quickscoping in Call of Duty Vanguard right now when using the meta loadout.
Quickscoping has become a go-to for many snipers in Call of Duty, however, you need the right sniper rifle and attachments to do it.
In addition to a lot of skill, quickscoping requires a sniper rifle with a lightning-fast ADS speed. Luckily, you can build the Type 99 to make it faster than any other sniper in the game.
Alongside its speedy ADS time, the Type 99 also has the potential to kill with just one shot to the head or upper chest. This is impressive even if there is a powerful AR that also lets you kill enemies in one burst.
Although, you’ll want to find out the fastest way to level up your weapons in Vanguard as the best Type 99 build requires some high-level attachments.
How to Unlock Type 99 in Vanguard
You don’t have to do anything to unlock the Type 99 – you start the game with it available. However, you do have to reach level 4 to be able to make a custom class using it.
Best Call of Duty Vanguard Type 99 Loadout & Attachments
These are the best attachments to equip on your Type 99 to make the best quickscoping build.
- Muzzle: Mercury Silencer
- Underbarrel: Heavy Foregrip
- Magazine: 8MM Klauser 5 Round Mags
- Ammo Type: Lengthened
- Barrel: Shiraishi Short
- Optic: None
- Rear Grip: Taped Grip
- Stock: Sakura CVR Custom
- Proficiency: Vital
- Kit: Deep Breath
Also, if you want to take down enemies in style with the best Type 99 loadout, make sure to check out all of the camo unlock challenges in Vanguard.
To be the most accurate sniper you can be, you’ll need the right setup. Here’s the best settings for Call of Duty Vanguard.
However, you also need to be aware of your surroundings to be a good sniper. This is more difficult than it should be though as Vanguard has some major audio problems.


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Columbia’s Preservation Visionaries: Mabel Payne and Jennie Dreher
Friday, May 24th 2019
There’s no better way to finish Preservation Month than learning about two of Columbia’s key preservation advocates—Mabel Payne and Jennie Dreher—who were responsible for saving the Robert Mills House over 50 years ago.
Mabel Bradley Payne was born in Abbeville, SC, and lived in New York and Williamsburg before coming to Columbia in the late 1950s. She had a lifelong passion for history and loved to decorate old homes and refinish antiques. During her time in Virginia, she worked as a hostess, performing costumed interpretations of historic characters.
After her move to Columbia, Payne soon became a Community Relations Specialist with the city during a period of heavy demolition of historic sites in favor of urban renewal. Payne saw this destruction and became a pioneer of historic preservation, starting with the renewal of the Ainsley Hall House (today known as the Robert Mills House.) Her constant research generated a wealth of information in the form of handwritten notes and hundreds of photographs, many of which are the only surviving images of demolished buildings in downtown Columbia.
Jennie Dreher was born in Columbia and lived here all her life. As an outgoing young woman and active student at the University of South Carolina, Dreher eventually used her popularity and charms to gather everyone she could to help save the Ainsley Hall House. Dreher got to travel the country and eventually the world meeting people who had connections to South Carolina History or any kind of preservation effort. Her daughter remembers her fondly: “She was a smart, funny society girl who got bitten by the preservation bug. Since she couldn’t own a business or be a bank president and she certainly wasn’t going to be a stay at home mom, it is fortunate for all of us she found this passion.”
Header image: Jennie Dreher (at far right) and friends. Image courtesy of The State Photograph Collection, Richland Library
This article was originally published in The Columbia Star.
Discover Columbia's past through historic images and research from the Cultural Resources team by picking up a copy of Remembering Columbia by our own John Sherrer, available at the Gift Shop at Robert Mills.

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Small Rifle Primers In Stock
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Small rifle primers, which are approximately .120 inches tall and .175 inches in diameter
Small Rifle Primers: Small rifle primers are used in small to medium-sized rifle cartridges like the 223 Remington.
Small Rifle Magnum Primers: Small rifle magnum primers are ideal for magnum rifle cartridges, offering consistent ignition.
Small Rifle Primers For Sale
Can I use small rifle magnum primers instead of small rifle primers?
There are two sizes available: 0.175" for small pistol and rifle primers and 0.210" for large rifle primers. The diameter of small rifle magnum primers will therefore be the same as that of regular small rifle primers. The purpose remains the same regardless of the kind of primer you use.
Does 223 use small rifle primers?
Small rifle primers for Remington 6 1/2 usually function best in bolt. 223 with a semi-auto. 223/ 5.56 firearms. All of the small standard primer types (pistol, pistol magnum, rifle, and rifle magnum) will fit in the CCI #41, which is a Mil Spec primer that is quite similar to their #400.
What's the difference between small rifle primers and small rifle magnum primers?
Although it's unlikely to have a significant impact, magnum primers burn a bit hotter and longer than slower powders, which is possibly why you are hearing differing suggestions. An additional crucial factor to be taken into account is the thickness of the cup and its resistance to increased case pressure.
Can you substitute small rifle primers?
Apart than that, it's rather simple to replace SP with SR. It may be a little difficult to get the SRP to fire in your pistol if the brand you are switching to has a harder cup (some rifle primers are harder). Reverse 10% of your load if you're worried about pressure, and keep an eye out for pressure indicators.


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We are excited to share that at this years CIPP Annual Excellence Awards we won Payroll Provider of the Year!
Two members of our Sales Team Andrew Parsons and Adam Cutts were in attendance at the Awards Show on the 6th October 2022 and they accepted the award for the business.
We also received some of the feedback from the judges on why they selected us for this award and it is great to hear.
- A well-thought-out submission that was clear to follow and considered each submission point carefully.
- Quarterly reviews support appraisal and development processes.
- Services provided were outlined clearly and impressively, and it was great to see that despite the already impressive feedback scores and accuracy rates.
- In the service overview, there is clear evidence of providing information to customers and keeping customers updates individually and through user groups and users conference.
Once again we’d just like that thank CIPP for this award and we’d like to congratulate everyone who won an award, and all of the nominees!

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“You are one of the forces of nature.”
Jules Michelet, quoted in the comic “Mutts”
The other day I inadvertently stepped on one, thus proving that X-bugs are more mortal than X-Men. Every spring the boxelder beetles swarm out from the two boxelder trees at the back of the yard, coating various surfaces with their red and black X-ed bodies. They seems to linger all summer at a lower density that makes them easier to avoid.
I’m not sure exactly what it is they do. As near as I can tell, they don’t seem to be destructive to the trees or any plants. Unlike the wasps or bees, they don’t bite and seem completely unconcerned with my presence. No specific predators show up when the X-bugs do, and the birds don’t seem to bother them.
Years ago when I volunteered for a historic museum housed in a 1860’s hotel, the curator became completely obsessed with the X-bugs that crept into the structure through leaky upstairs windows next to the ancient apple tree at the back of the house. Bug sprays and sweeping frenzies seemed ineffective against the spring X-Bug onslaught, and we had to override the curator’s plan to cut down the huge tree just to get rid of the bugs.
As with the X-bugs, there seem to be a huge array of critters that exist in parallel with us, neither of us interacting with the other except incidentally. In thinking about the community that includes my yard and house, I know the niche for many critters, but believe there is just a whole lot going on that I don’t know about.
I have tried to utilize native and legacy plants wherever it makes sense. The chokecherries and lilacs have been tended in place or replanted along the fence to build a screen. I’ve planted currant, sand cherry and butterfly bush whose flowers smell nice and look pretty. The fir, crab apple, oak and linden trees we planted compliment the existing boxelder, green ash and pear and provide shade. In addition to the vegetable and flower gardens, we’ve added a variety of herbs that smell nice, can be used herbally, and/or look pretty.
Most of these plants also provide something for the birds and sometimes, squirrels. Obviously, the fruit is eaten, usually in the late summer or fall; the nectar provides sustenance for hummers and all kinds of insects, which in turn get eaten by other insects and birds. The bird feeders provide directly for some birds and indirectly for the squirrels and other critters (mice, bugs, worms?) that scavenge the ground underneath. The flicker, nuthatch and downy woodpecker scour the branches for bugs, and squirrels and some birds use the trees for nesting. In bad winters, the squirrels have eaten bark off of the dying apple tree. The small birds haunt the shrubs, and the flickers, doves, grackles and, sometimes, ravens work the lawn for insects and miscellaneous goodies.
My compost pile is relatively untended, receives my and a neighbor’s food scraps and yard waste, and is taken apart every couple of years to feed the vegetable gardens. It is a home to large numbers of worms and bugs and a family of mice, and draws squirrels, birds and the occasional fox or raccoon. Garter snakes inhabit various bunches of vegetation and the pile of rocks from an earlier excavation that provide protection from the neighborhood cats and lawnmowers. They thrive, I believe, on the various bugs that inhabit the yard, and presumably the worms in the garden. Raccoons troll the neighborhood at night, visiting likely food and water sources, and creating havoc if given the opportunity.
Our contribution to this community seems to be tending the plants, keeping the feeders and water pan full, mowing not-too-frequently, and avoiding the use of harmful chemicals. We enjoy immensely being able to watch the birds, following the antics of the squirrels and the squirrel-cat interactions, and bathe in the sights and smells of the yard and garden. We try to avoid disrupting the other creatures’ activities, but sometimes have to deal with a poorly-located (from our point of view) plant (a weed is a plant in the wrong place), nest or burrow. Aphids and ants have a continuous battle among the roses and snowball bush, so we generally let them be.
But, occasionally we stumble upon something we don’t really know, like the X-bugs. We’ve found nematodes and slugs in the garden soil. I think nematodes are good, but the slugs get tossed onto pavement as a treat for the birds or ants. There have been several kinds of ant colonies springing up from nowhere that get left alone unless they interfere with something else. The bear scat in the alley was full of chokecherry seeds and put the neighborhood on full alert, but the bear was not sighted. The noises in the attic led us to find a wood rat that we trapped and released at the nearby creek. There are strange webs and small mud nests in the eaves, and the (probably hundred year-old) trumpet vine crawls its way up the brick walls and onto the roof, clogging the gutters. I don’t know how the earwigs get into the birdseed on the feeder, but they seems to attract the flickers that normally don’t eat the birdseed. Small green caterpillars and tiny black seeds fall off the green ash and land on the patio and the table, chairs and guests on it. The tree seems okay either because of or in spite of them, so we just flick the small crawlers away and sweep up the seeds.
Other yards in the neighborhood are more closely tended with regular borders, well-cropped lawns and shrubs, and orderly flower and garden beds. Sometimes neighbors use pesticides or weed killer (a grape vine on an adjoining fence was eradicated by drifting spray), but mostly things here are chemical-minimal, if not -free. We’re upwind, so the puffs of dandelion seeds infiltrate better-kept lawns, but so far everybody seems not to get too perturbed about it.
The community extends across property lines, and dandelion seeds and nature honor no human boundaries. In fact, we are a part of nature; we co-exist with the plants and bugs and birds and other critters. However, we have big feet, and have to be careful where we step, or we’ll lose all the things that make up our wonderful community.
Just ask that ex-X-bug I stepped on.
Hi Steve, we had that annual invasion of x bugs in Maryland, associated with boxelder trees also, so we called them boxelder bugs. Unfortunately our treehouse was in one of the boxelder trees. I remember they smelled bad when squished. Sometimes we used them as a component of stink bombs to throw in other kids tree forts. 😝 Elizabeth
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From:”Writes of Nature” Date:Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:35 AM Subject:[New post] X-Bugs and X-Men
stevetarlton posted: ” “You are one of the forces of nature.” Jules Michelet, quoted in the comic “Mutts” The other day I inadvertently stepped on one, thus proving that X-bugs are more mortal than X-Men. Every spring the boxelder beetles swarm out from the two boxelder trees “

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Metabolism doesn’t just affect your weight and how fast you burn calories; it also affects your mood and the way you interact with the world around you. Mood and metabolism are interrelated in very complex ways. The balance and function of your metabolism can have a serious impact on your mood, the way you experience your environment, and thus the way you experience life.
Metabolism is the cell’s use of energy. Catabolic metabolism is the breakdown of substances; anabolic metabolism is the synthesis of substances. These are fundamental and complex processes that require environmental equilibrium both in and around the cell. The importance of metabolism is simply that without the energy provided to the cells and the ability to utilize that energy, there would be no function and therefore no life. You cannot eat, drink, sleep, breathe, think, or feel without the complex and coordinated effort of your 100 trillion individual cells.
Your metabolism is easily influenced by the air, water, food, and sunlight that you’re exposed to through your external environment. The quality of your metabolism affects your ability to respond to any environmental challenge, all the way down to the cell level. Your mental and emotional perception of your encounters moment to moment are just as dependent upon your metabolism as any other bodily function. What you take in from your environment—the nutrients that enter your body through breathing, drinking, eating, and skin absorption—affect the way you feel toward your environment, as well as your ability to handle new experiences and stressors.
The environment’s influence over metabolism and metabolism’s ability to aid in effective response to the environment is an essential relationship; it has tremendous influence over every aspect of life, including digestion, sleep, cognitive function, and emotional temperament.
Mood and Metabolism
The balance of the brain’s metabolic activity is one of the primary relationships regarding mood and brain function.1 If metabolic processes are functioning poorly due to stress or improper nutrition, the interaction between mood and metabolism can be negative and harmful.2 There are several studies linking poor metabolic function to mental illness and mood disorders such as depression.3-5 On the other hand, if metabolic processes are functioning appropriately, the relationship between mood and metabolism can be positive and protective.6,7 Achieving optimal metabolism will boost your mood and help you feel inspired, motivated, and ready to explore and experience new things.8,9
The most effective way to support your metabolism and influence your environmental exposure is through regulating your diet. In my next post, we will explore the importance of eating well when you’re feeling stressed out. In the meantime, sign up for my newsletter to receive more information and advice on health and well-being.
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- Hage MP, Azar ST. The link between thyroid function and depression. J Thyroid Res 2012 (2012): 590–648. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246784
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Pictured in Cornwall, 1984
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Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism.”
Wilson was born and raised in Leicester, England. His father worked in a shoe factory. Wilson left school at 16. He worked in a wool warehouse (a job he hated), and read in his spare time. He then returned to school to work briefly as a lab assistant, but found that he had lost his passion for science. He then worked as a civil servant. He was then called up for national service, spending six months working as a clerk for the Royal Air Force; he managed to get thrown out by falsely claiming that he was a homosexual. Wilson then moved to London attempting to establish himself as a writer. For a time he lived in a sleeping bag on Hampstead Heath.
Gollancz published the then 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956. The work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works by various key literary and cultural figures – such as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent van Gogh – and discusses Wilson's perception of social alienation in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularise existentialism in Britain.
The inside cover of a late-1990s edition reads:
The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published over thirty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual.
Life and works after The Outsider
Wilson became associated with the "Angry Young Men" of British literature. He contributed to Declaration, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the movement, and was also anthologised in a popular paperback sampler, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. Some viewed Wilson and his friends Bill Hopkins and Stuart Holroyd as a sub-group of the "Angries", more concerned with "religious values" than with liberal or socialist politics. Critics on the left swiftly labeled them as fascist; commentator Kenneth Allsop called them "the law givers".
After the initial success of Wilson's first work, critics universally panned Religion and the Rebel (1957). Time magazine published a review, headlined "Scrambled Egghead", that pilloried the book. By the late 1960s Wilson had become increasingly interested in metaphysical and occult themes. In 1971, he published The Occult: A History, featuring interpretations on Aleister Crowley, George Gurdjieff, Helena Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home, and Paracelsus (among others). He also wrote a markedly unsympathetic biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, and has written biographies on other spiritual and psychological visionaries, including Gurdjieff, Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rudolf Steiner, and P. D. Ouspensky.
Originally, Wilson focused on the cultivation of what he called "Faculty X", which he saw as leading to an increased sense of meaning, and on abilities such as telepathy and the awareness of other energies. In his later work he suggests the possibility of life after death and the existence of spirits, which he personally analyzes as an active member of the Ghost Club.
He has also written non-fiction books on crime, ranging from encyclopedias to studies of serial killing. He had an ongoing interest in the life and times of Jack the Ripper and in sex crime in general.
Like his non-fiction work, much of Wilson's fictional output from Ritual in the Dark (1960) onwards has concerned itself with the psychology of murder—especially that of serial killing. However, he has also written science fiction of a philosophical bent, including the Spider-World series.
In The Strength to Dream (1961) Wilson attacked H. P. Lovecraft as "sick" and as "a bad writer" who had "rejected reality"—but he grudgingly praised Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Out of Time" as capable science-fiction. August Derleth, incensed by Wilson's treatment of Lovecraft in The Strength to Dream, then dared Wilson to write what became The Mind Parasites—to expound his philosophical ideas in the guise of fiction. In the preface to The Mind Parasites, Wilson concedes that Lovecraft, "[f]ar more than Hemingway or Faulkner, or even Kafka, is a symbol of the outsider-artist in the 20th century" and asks: "what would have happened if Lovecraft had possessed a private income—enough, say, to allow him to spend his winters in Italy and his summers in Greece or Switzerland?" answering that in his [Wilson's] opinion "[h]e would undoubtedly have produced less, but what he did produce would have been highly polished, without the pulp magazine cliches that disfigure so much of his work. And he would have given free rein to his love of curious and remote erudition, so that his work would have been, in some respect, closer to that of Anatole France or the contemporary Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges". Wilson also discusses Lovecraft in Order of Assassins (1972) and in the prefatory note to The Philosopher's Stone (1969). His short novel The Return of the Lloigor (1969/1974) also has roots in the Cthulhu Mythos - its central character works on the real book the Voynich Manuscript, but discovers it to be a mediaeval Arabic version of the Necronomicon - as does his 2002 novel The Tomb of the Old Ones.
Tobe Hooper directed the film Lifeforce, based on Wilson's novel The Space Vampires. After its release, Colin Wilson recalled that author John Fowles regarded the film adaptation of Fowles' own novel The Magus as the worst film adaptation of a novel ever. Wilson told Fowles there was now a worse one, the film adaptation of Lifeforce.
Illness and death
Science writer Martin Gardner has written Wilson was an intelligent writer but had been duped by paranormal claims "Colin brought it all. With unparalleled egotism and scientific ignorance he believed almost everything he read about the paranormal, no matter how outrageous." Gardner described Wilson's book The Geller Phenomenon as "the most gullible book ever written about the Israeli charlatan." Gardner concluded that Wilson had decayed into an "occult eccentric" writing books for the lunatic fringe.
Benjamin Radford has written Wilson had a "bias toward mystery-mongering" and ignored scientific and skeptical arguments on some of the topics he wrote about. Radford wrote Wilson's book The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved is "riddled with errors and obfuscating omissions, betraying a bizarre disregard for accuracy".
- The Outsider (1956)
- Religion and the Rebel (1957)
- "The Frenchman" (short story, Evening Standard 22 August 1957)
- The Age of Defeat (US title The Stature of Man) (1959)
- Ritual in the Dark (Victor Gollancz, 1960) (Reprinted, Ronin Publishing Visions Series, 1993)
- Encyclopedia of Murder (with Patricia Pitman, 1961)
- Adrift in Soho (1961)
- "Watching the Bird" (short story, Evening News 12 September 1961)
- "Uncle Tom and the Police Constable" (short story, Evening News 23 October 1961)
- "He Could not Fail" (short story, Evening News 29 December 1961)
- The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1962)
- "Uncle and the Lion" (short story, Evening News 28 September 1962)
- "Hidden Bruise" (short story, Evening News 3 December 1962)
- Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
- The World of Violence (US title The Violent World of Hugh Greene) (1963)
- Man Without a Shadow (US title The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme) (1963)
- "The Wooden Cubes" (short story, Evening News 27 June 1963)
- Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)
- Brandy of the Damned (1964; later expanded and reprinted as Chords and Discords/Colin Wilson On Music)
- Necessary Doubt (1964)
- Beyond the Outsider (1965)
- Eagle and Earwig (1965)
- Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966)
- Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)
- The Glass Cage (1966)
- The Mind Parasites (1967)
- Voyage to a Beginning (1969)
- A Casebook of Murder (1969)
- Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)
- The Philosopher's Stone (1969) ISBN 978-0-213-17790-4
- The Return of the Lloigor (first published 1969 in the anthology Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; revised separate edition, Village Press, London, 1974).
- Poetry and Mysticism (1969; subsequently significantly expanded in 1970)
- "The Return of the Lloigor" (short story in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by August Derleth, 1969; later revised and published as a separate book)
- L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)
- The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (with E. H. Visiak and J. B. Pick, 1970)
- Strindberg (1970)
- The God of the Labyrinth (US title The Hedonists) (1970)
- The Killer (US title Lingard) (1970)
- The Occult: A History (1971)
- The Black Room (1971)
- Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)
- New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972)
- Strange Powers (1973)
- "Tree" by Tolkien (1973)
- Hermann Hesse (1974)
- Wilhelm Reich (1974)
- Jorge Luis Borges (1974)
- Hesse-Reich-Borges: Three Essays (1974)
- Ken Russell: A Director in Search of a Hero (1974)
- A Book of Booze (1974)
- The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974)
- The Unexplained (1975)
- Mysterious Powers (US title They Had Strange Powers) (1975)
- The Craft of the Novel (1975)
- Enigmas and Mysteries (1975)
- The Geller Phenomenon (1975), ISBN 0-7172-8105-1
- The Space Vampires (1976)
- Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (US title Dark Dimensions) (with various authors, 1977)
- Mysteries (1978)
- Mysteries of the Mind (with Stuart Holroyd, 1978)
- The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1979)
- "Timeslip" (short story in Aries I, edited by John Grant, 1979)
- Science Fiction as Existentialism (1980)
- Starseekers (1980)
- Frankenstein's Castle: the Right Brain-Door to Wisdom (1980)
- The Book of Time, edited by John Grant and Colin Wilson (1980)
- The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980)
- The Directory of Possibilities, edited by Colin Wilson and John Grant (1981)
- Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981)
- Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981)
- The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1981)
- The Goblin Universe (with Ted Holiday, 1982)
- Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)
- Encyclopedia of Modern Murder, 1962-82 (1983)
- "A Novelization of Events in the Life and Death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin," in Tales of the Uncanny (Reader's Digest Association, 1983; an abbreviated version of the later The Magician from Siberia)
- The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)
- A Criminal History of Mankind (1984), revised and updated (2005)
- Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984)
- The Janus Murder Case (1984)
- The Bicameral Critic (1985)
- The Essential Colin Wilson (1985)
- Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)
- Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence of Life After Death (1985)
- The Personality Surgeon (1985)
- An Encyclopedia of Scandal. Edited by Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman (1986)
- The Book of Great Mysteries. Edited by Colin Wilson and Dr. Christopher Evans (1986), ISBN 0948164263
- An Essay on the 'New' Existentialism (1988)
- The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)
- Spider World: The Tower (1987)
- Spider World: The Delta (1987)
- Marx Refuted – The Verdict of History, edited by Colin Wilson (with contributions also) and Ronald Duncan, Bath, (UK), (1987), ISBN 0-906798-71-X
- Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987)
- The Musician as 'Outsider'. (1987)
- The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1987)
- Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (with Robin Odell, 1987)
- Autobiographical Reflections (1988)
- The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988)
- Beyond the Occult (1988)
- The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)
- The Magician from Siberia (1988)
- The Decline and Fall of Leftism (1989)
- Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989)
- Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1989)
- Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990)
- Spider World: The Magician (1992)
- Mozart's Journey to Prague (1992)
- The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky (1993)
- Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1993)
- Outline of the Female Outsider (1994)
- A Plague of Murder (1995)
- From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996)
- An Extraordinary Man in the Age of Pigmies: Colin Wilson on Henry Miller (1996)
- The Unexplained Mysteries of the Universe (1997) ISBN 0-7513-5983-1
- The Atlas of Sacred Places (1997)
- Below the Iceberg: Anti-Sartre and Other Essays (reissue with essays on postmodernism, 1998)
- The Corpse Garden (1998)
- The Books in My Life (1998)
- Alien Dawn (1999)
- The Devil's Party (US title Rogue Messiahs) (2000)
- The Atlantis Blueprint (with Rand Flem-Ath, 2000)
- Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic History (2002)
- The Tomb of the Old Ones (novella published as half of a double volume alongside a novella by John Grant, 2002)
- Spider World: Shadowlands (2002)
- Dreaming To Some Purpose (2004) - autobiography
- World Famous UFOs (2005)
- Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals (2006)
- Crimes of Passion: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2006)
- The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (2007)
- Manhunters: Criminal Profilers & Their Search for the World's Most Wanted Serial Killers (2007)
- The Death of God' and other plays (edited by Colin Stanley) (2008)
- Super Consciousness (2009)
- Existential Criticism: selected book reviews (edited by Colin Stanley) (2009)
- Comments on Boredom ' and 'Evolutionary Humanism and the New Psychology (2013)
- Introduction to 'The Faces of Evil': an unpublished book (2013)
- Unpublished works
- The Anatomy of Human Greatness (non-fiction, written 1964; Maurice Bassett plans to publish this work electronically)
- Metamorphosis of the Vampire (fiction, written 1992-94)
- Williamson, Marcus (8 December 2013). "Colin Wilson: Author (Obituary)". The Independent. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- "Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82" BBC News, 13th December 2013. Retrieved 15th December 2013.
- Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966), p.9
- Quote from Philosophy Now, Obituary of Colin Wilson, here (link), accessed March 2014.
- Colin Wilson, Dreaming to Some Purpose (Arrow, 2005)
- Desert Island Discs Archive: 1976-1980
- Kenneth Allsop, The Angry Decade; A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen Fifties. London: Peter Owen Ltd.
- Maschler, Tom (editor) (1957). Declaration. London: MacGibbon and Kee.
- Feldman, Gene and Gartneberg, Max (editors) (1958). Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. New York: Citadel Press.
- Allsop, Kenneth (1958). The Angry Decade; A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen Fifties. London: Peter Owen Ltd.
- Holroyd, Stuart (1975). Contraries: A Personal Progression. London: The Bodley Head Ltd.
- Colin Wilson, The Angry Years Robson Books, 2007
- Wilson, Colin (2005). The Mind Parasites (original preface). Monkfish. p. xvii.
- Wilson, Colin (1975). The Mind Parasites. Oneiric Press. p. 112.
- Mitchell, Charles P. (2001). A guide to apocalyptic cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 112.
- Wilson, Colin (2005). Dreaming to Some Purpose. Monkfish. p. chapter 20.
- "The Quietus – Anthony Reynolds Discusses Colin Wilson". Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- Gardner, Martin (1984). Order and Surprise. Oxford University Press. pp. 361-364. ISBN 0-19-286051-8
- Rowe, Dorothy (1981). Men of mystery. New Scientist. 26 Jan. pp. 231-232
- Radford, Benjamin (2013). "Colin Wilson: A Case Study in Mystery Mongering". Center for Inquiry. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
- This bibliography, while extensive, does not list all of Wilson's work. For a complete bibliography see Colin Stanley's The Colin Wilson Bibliography, 1956-2010. Nottingham, UK: Paupers' Press, 2011 (ISBN 0-946650-64-0)
- Bendau, Clifford P. Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond (1979), San Bernardino: Borgo Press ISBN 0-89370-229-3
- Campion, Sidney R. The Sound Barrier: a study of the ideas of Colin Wilson (2011), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-81-0
- Dalgleish, Tim The Guerilla Philosopher: Colin Wilson and Existentialism (1993), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-47-0
- Dossor, Howard F. Colin Wilson: the bicameral critic: selected shorter writings (1985), Salem: Salem House ISBN 0-88162-047-5
- Dossor, Howard F. Colin Wilson: the man and his mind (1990) Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books ISBN 1-85230-176-7
- Dossor, Howard F. The Philosophy of Colin Wilson: three perspectives (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-58-6
- Greenwell, Tom. Chepstow Road: a literary comedy in two acts (2002) Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-78-0
- Lachman, Gary. Two essays on Colin Wilson (1994), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-52-7
- Moorhouse, John & Newman, Paul. Colin Wilson, two essays (1988), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-11-X
- Newman, Paul. Murder as an Antidote for Boredom: the novels of Laura Del Rivo, Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-57-8
- Robertson, Vaughan. Wilson as Mystic(2001), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-74-8
- Salwak, Dale (ed). Interviews with Britain's Angry Young Men (1984) San Bernardino: Borgo Press ISBN 0-89370-259-5
- Shand, John & Lachman, Gary. Colin Wilson as Philosopher (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-59-4
- Smalldon, Jeffrey. Human Nature Stained: Colin Wilson and the existential study of modern murder (1991) Nottingham: Paupers'Press ISBN 0-946650-28-4
- Spurgeon, Brad. Colin Wilson: philosopher of optimism, (2006), Manchester: Michael Butterworth ISBN 0-9552672-0-X
- Stanley, Colin (ed). Around the Outsider: essays presented to Colin Wilson on the occasion of his 80th birthday, (2011), Winchester: O-Books ISBN 978-1-84694-668-4
- Stanley, Colin (ed). Colin Wilson, a celebration: essays and recollections (1988), London: Cecil Woolf ISBN 0-900821-91-4
- Stanley, Colin. The Colin Wilson Bibliography 1956-2010 (2011) Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-64-0
- Stanley, Colin. Colin Wilson's Existential Literary Criticism: a guide for students (2014). Nottingham: Paupers' Press. ISBN 9780956866349
- Stanley, Colin. Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': a guide for students (2013). Alresford: Axis Mundi Books. ISBN 9781846947063
- Stanley, Colin. Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': a guide for students (2009). Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-96-9
- Stanley, Colin. The Nature of Freedom' and other essays (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-17-9
- Tredell, Nicolas. The Novels of Colin Wilson (1982) London: Vision Press ISBN 0-85478-035-1
- Trowell, Michael. Colin Wilson, the positive approach (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-25-X
- Weigel, John A. Colin Wilson (1975) Boston: Twayne Publishers ISBN 0-8057-1575-4
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- Colin Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
- Colin Wilson Papers (2 document boxes) housed at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy of the University of California, Riverside Libraries. Includes correspondence by Wilson, galley proofs and manuscripts of Wilson's works in the science fiction genre, material regarding Uri_Geller, press clippings, and interviews with Wilson.
- The Colin Wilson Collection at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom - This is Wilson's bibliographer Colin Stanley's collection of books, articles, manuscripts, letters, photographs and assorted ephemera now at the University of Nottingham. Regularly updated by Stanley.
- Colin Wilson World - admirer-run site with some Wilson contributions
- The Colin Wilson Page - This was the first Colin Wilson site, first set up in 1996. It is no longer available, but is still archived by the Wayback Machine.[dead link]
- Abraxas - Wilson-related journal[dead link]
- 'Suddenly Awakened', for Poetic Mind.
- The Phenomenology of Excess A multimedia Colin Wilson site, approved by its subject
- Audio Interview by William H. Kennedy Sphinx Radio, 9/28/08
- Interview by Gary Lachman, Fortean Times, October 2004
- Colin Wilson's August 2005 interview @ The New York Times
- Creel Commission Interview with Colin Wilson.
- Harry Ritchie, 'Look back in wonder', The Guardian (Review section) (Saturday, 12 August 2006)
- Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia by Colin Stanley
- Colin Wilson interviewed on poetry and the peak experience
- Colin Wilson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Paupers' Press (the home of Colin Wilson Studies).
- An article by Colin Stanley on Wilson's debut novel, 'Ritual in the Dark, posted on the London Fictions website
- Colin Stanley on Wilson's 'Adrift in Soho' on the London Fictions website

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- Good source of Omega-3 Fatty Acids.Thus reduces the risk of Cardiovascular diseases and protects heart.Also Omega-3 fatty acids prevent a type of Cancer.
- Good source of Iron.
- Good source of B vitamins
- Bones provide Calcium.
- Small Sardine's are healthier since they don't have much accumulated toxins in it.
So,lets make a crispy fish fry with a special masala mix.
Kashmiri Red Chilly-8-10 nos(you can use normal dry red chilly/Chilli powder also,but Kashmiri chilly gives a real fire red color and also less spicy)
Shallots -4 no
Garlic-2 big cloves
Curry Leaves-4-5 no
Method Of Preparation
1.Fry Dry chilly s and Shallots in oil.
2.Grind together all ingredients except the fish.
3.Marinate fish in this masala.keep aside for at least 1/2 hour.
4.On a non stick pan,or grill pan,fry marinated Sardines in 2 tsp oil.
We are using only very little oil,so cooking method also prevents the accumulation of unhealthy fats.
Try this mouth watering fish fry .
EAT HEALTHY---LIVE HEALTHY.

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Electrochemical determination of hydrazine using a ZrO2 nanoparticles-modified carbon paste electrode
In the present paper, the use of a carbon paste electrode modified by 3-(4′-amino-3′-hydroxy-biphenyl-4-yl)-acrylic acid (3,4′AA) and ZrO2 nanoparticles prepared by a simple and rapid method was described. The heterogeneous electron transfer properties of (3,4′AA) coupled to ZrO2 nanoparticles at the carbon paste electrode were investigated using cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, and square wave voltammetry in aqueous buffer solutions. Under the optimized conditions, the square wave voltammetric peak currents of hydrazine increased linearly with hydrazine concentrations in the range of 2.5 × 10−8 to 5.0 × 10−5 M, and detection limit of 14 nM was obtained for hydrazine. Finally, this modified electrode was used for the determination of hydrazine in water samples, using standard addition method.
KeywordsHydrazine ZrO2 nanoparticles Chemically modified electrodes Carbon paste electrode
The authors wish to thank Payame Noor University for support of this work.
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American Idol went with a major overhaul this past year. With three new judges added to the mix, anything really was possible. And it seems that the clash of the Divas has already started.
TMZ is reporting that new judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj were verbally going at it during Sunday’s taping in New York City. TMZ is saying the two continually tried to talk over one another during critiques of some of the contestants.
Some might have suspected this after TMZ reported that when Mariah was informed by producers that Minaj would be joining her as a judge, she hung up on them.
We’ll wait to see if these kinds of altercations make it to the small screen for season 12.


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Title: Spider’s Trap
Author: Jennifer Estep
Series: Elemental Assassin, book 13
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Pocket Books (July 28th)
Source: Review copy from publisher
Keep your friends close but your enemies within stabbing distance.
One important lesson I’ve learned in the assassination business is that to be the best you have to roll with the punches. Now that I’m queen of Ashland’s underworld—by default, not by choice—a lot more punches are being thrown my way. But I suppose that’s the price of victory for taking down some of the underworld’s top dogs. Good thing I have my Ice and Stone magic to help me survive my volatile new position. Just when I think things are finally settling down, someone tries to murder me during a hush-hush underworld meeting. But the real surprise is how strangely familiar my shadowy assailant seems to be.
My job is to maintain order among killers, crooks, and thieves, and soon I’m embroiled in a bloody game where the ability to keep secrets could be the greatest superpower of all. My enemies have all sharpened their knives and laid their traps, waiting for me to fall. But this Spider weaves her own webs of death…
This is going to be one of those hard-to-write reviews, because I think the problems I had with this book were a case of “it’s me, not you” issues.
I have enjoyed this series since the moment I discovered Spider’s Bite (first book). Of course, I have enjoyed some books more than others, but in general this has been one of my favorite UF series.
I was worried about the direction this series was going to go after Gin killed Mab Monroe, but was pleasantly surprised with the books that followed that installment, but here comes a big but; I’m kind of tired of reading the same formula with a different villain/magic. I’m tired of seeing Gin not remembering important details of her life and only remembering them after having a flashback dream. I’m tired of Gin getting seriously injured and needing to rely on Jo-Jo to fix her. I’m tired of seeing her almost losing her last fight with the villain only to remember at last moment that she can do more with her own magic and win the fight. What I’m not tired is of seeing Gin mature and know she can rely on her supporting group for help. I’m also not tired of seeing her relationship with Owen blossom. I’m also not tired of seeing her interact with her friends and family. And even more, I’m not tired of seeing her cook delicious food even though it makes me hungry to read about it.
Now, after finishing Spider’s Trap, I don’t know what to think or what to do. Why? Because although I enjoyed reading Spider’s Trap and it finished with a bang, I’m not sure what to think about the new player in the game, it sounds a bit too farfetched and convenient for that person to show up now but, interesting and scary enough to intrigue me. The problem is, I don’t know if to continue with this series or not. One thing I know if that I have said this more than once and when a new book comes out I always run to read it. So I’ll have to wait and see. One thing I want to be clear is that after reading some reviews by some of my blogger friends, it looks like I’m the only one who had problems with Spider's Trap. So, the best thing you can do is not to listen to me and read this book and decide for yourself what to think and what to do, and if you haven’t read this series can I ask you what are you waiting for? The Elemental Assassin series is one of the best UF series in the market, one that after “many” installments is still going strong. I recommend you to read these books in order to better understand where Gin comes from.
My Verdict: 3 ½ Paws
Other books in the series
Web of Lies
By A Thread
Spider’s Trap (July 28th)
Bitter Bite (February 23rd, 2016)
Other reviews Goodreads


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