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Music has always been a huge part of my life. My family is full of singers and instrumentalists, so I grew up listening to recitals, concerts, records, and radio. These days I get to write about turntables, stereo amps and preamps, speakers, and the fascinating world of commercial audio. It's challenging, rewarding, and fun!
When I went to college at the University of Kansas, I got a student job as a sound engineer and announcer at the on-campus radio station, and that got me hooked on great gear. I've continued to share great tunes with my local community, first as a professional, and then a volunteer radio announcer.
My job at Crutchfield has drawn all of my passions together into job I love. I started as an Advisor, which gave me a chance to learn more about home, car, and commercial audio. Directly helping customers choose the gear that makes them happy was an enlightening and enjoyable experience. Becoming a copywriter let me flex the writing chops I've been honing over the past couple of decades - it's a perfect fit.


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Medicines Access Programs (MAPs)
The Medicines Access Programs or MAPs are public health programs that aims to improve drug availability in public sector health facilities. The MAPs are initially implemented by the Pharmaceutical Division (formerly the National Center for Pharmaceutical Access and Management) pursuant to Cheaper Medicines Act of 2008. Also, the MAPs was enshrined in the Philippine Medicines Policy: "The DOH, PhilHealth and other relevant government agencies shall employ strategies that will provide free medicines to the poor or a population of patients that addresses priority diseases (e.g. TB, HIV, malaria, NCDs, cancers).
The MAPs occupies the 90% of the budget allocated for the Pharmaceutical Division budget for the procurement of essential medicines for priority diseases.
Goals and Objectives of Medicines Access Programs (MAPs)
- To improve access to essential medicines in the public sector through innovative strategies which include the following but not limited to:
a. Pooled procurement
b. Consignment
c. Price negotiation
d. Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)
e. Importation/parallel importation
f. Employing TRIPS flexibilities
g. Public-private partnerships
- To increase the percent availability of essential medicines addressing priority diseases in both the hospital and primary care setting
- To ensure the cost-effective and rational use of medicines and quality of care according to nationally accepted treatment guidelines
- To improve health outcomes of patients affected by priority diseases (i.e. MDGs, TB, HIV/AIDS, NCDs and other priority diseases of DOH)
Types of Medicines Access Program
- DOH Maintenance Medicines
- Childhood Cancer Medicines Access Program
- Breast Cancer Medicines Access Program
- DOH Insulin Access Program
- Mental Health Care Medicines Access Program
- Stroke Medicines Access Program
- Kawasaki Disease Medicines Access Program
- Thalassemia Medicines Access Program
Milestones of the Medicines Access Programs
In recent years, several access programs have thus been created under the DOH-NCPAM utilizing the Php 1 billion annual appropriation to target drugs poorly available in public health facilities and which pose a significant cost burden to patients. These drugs include basic essential drugs needed in primary care for both infectious and chronic conditions (i.e. ARI, pneumonia, UTI, hypertension, diabetes, asthma) procured in bulk and distributed in complete treatment regimens to all rural health units (RHUs) nationwide. Several access programs for in-patient and catastrophic care have also been created for breast and childhood cancers, mental health diseases and geriatric health.
With the launching of MAPs, drug availability in primary health care facilities were shown to have improved according to the monitoring and drug availability studies commissioned by the DOH. Mean drug availability in rural health units increased from 24.8% to 53.5% from 2010 to 2012. However, the percentage improvement in Level 2 to 4 hospitals was lower from 25.8% to 44.3% (See Table 11).
Mean availability of a basket of essential medicines in government health facilities
Facility Level
Mean availability
(Mean, 95% CI)
Mean availability
(Mean, 95% CI)
Mean availability
(Mean, 95% CI)
Rural Health Units, Health Centers and Level I Public Hospitals
24.8 %
(21.0-28.5 %)
Level II to IV Public Hospitals
(22.3 -29.4 %)
Drug Availability is defined as the percentage availability of a reduced list of essential drugs taken from the Philippine National Drug Formulary in samples of health facilities at the moment of the visit.
Dichosa, M.J., Sarol, J., Mabulay, A.S., & Domingo, D.P.(2010) Establishment of a Baseline for the Performance Indicators of Health Sector Policy Support Program Phase II – Final Report. Philippines.
Sarol, J. (2012) Survey on Drug Availability in Public Health Facilities in the Philippines 2011. Philippines.
Sarol, J. (2013) Survey on Drug Availability in Public Health Facilities in the Philippines 2012. Philippines.

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Restaurant Van Horne
Rating: 3 out of 4
1268 Van Horne Ave. (Outremont St.)
Phone: 514-508-0828
Website: www.vanhornerestaurant.com
Open: Tues.-Sat. 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Licensed: Yes
Credit cards: All major cards
Wheelchair access: No
Reservations: Essential
Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
Parking: easy on the street, with meters
Price range: Appetizers: $11-$15; main courses $20-$26; desserts $7-$8. Five-course tasting menu $58
MONTREAL - Every time I dine at Restaurant Van Horne, I ask myself whether co-owner Sylvie Lachance might just be the nicest person on the planet. A former actor and public relations and talent agent, Lachance has a manner that's subdued, friendly, humble and solicitous. And judging by the décor of her restaurant, this woman has terrific taste. The dining room is very small and very white, with a grouping of Roy Lichtenstein plates adorning one of the walls. There's also a magnificent totem pole (nicknamed "Bill") placed beside a bar fronting a semi-open kitchen. On the east side of the room, you can't miss the periwinkle blue doors that once graced the entrance to the Iranian pavilion at Expo 67. There's quality stemware and pretty patterned tablecloths covered in brown butcher's paper. Orange throw pillows adorn the banquettes. It's all so elegant, with a welcome feminine feel miles from the manly ambience of many Montreal restaurants.
Restaurant Van Horne made quite a splash when Lachance and her partner, Urs Jakob, opened in 2011, thanks to the elegant contemporary cuisine prepared by its talented young chef, Éloi Dion. Outremont is well known for its sharp restaurant scene. And yet avenues like Van Horne, Laurier and Bernard have slowly been losing gourmet ground in favour of neighbourhoods where diners are younger and rents are lower. Van Horne offered a glimmer of hope for turning things around, but then word came that Dion was retiring and had chosen a career as a culinary school instructor. Lachance was in dire need of a chef, and last spring she found a replacement in the form of a certain John Winter Russell, who had previously worked at Pastaga and La Salle à Manger.
Dion was a master of pretty plate presentations, and Russell has maintained that artistic approach. Menu options are limited to three starters and three mains, one of them being meat, the other fish and the other vegetarian. A five-course tasting menu for $58 is another option.
I recently returned to Van Horne on a busy Saturday night to sample Russell's dishes. Every seat was taken, and two waiters worked the floor along with Lachance. The plates whizzing by looked wonderful.
Now, this is probably a good time to point out that the food at Restaurant Van Horne will surely not be everyone's cup of tea. This is highfalutin foodie fare, yet not in the fussy school of sculpt that radish or moussify that scallop. It's more in line with the currently popular esoteric vein of haute cuisine that at times made me think I was in the restaurant equivalent of the movie Into the Wild — you know, the one where the kid shuns society, moves to Alaska and lives on wild meats and foraged food. Let's just say that if I were to take my dad here, he'd give me a look when the smoked melon with yogurt granité, trout roe and mint hit the table, whereas the more gourmet types in my entourage might find the delicate play of sweet, smoky and fishy exciting.
This style of innovative-verging-on-overintellectualized cooking turned out to be the theme of my dinner as well as at one enjoyed a week later. Some dishes were fabulous, while others were out there, way out there … too out there? One senses there is a deep thought process behind each plate, though sometimes I fear the results don't meet the intentions. That said, what works at Van Horne, really works.
So, what won me over? The crisp pork rillettes with both raw and cooked radish and a blackberry sauce provided a fabulous array of textures (crisp, al-dente, soft, creamy), flavours (earthy, fruity, bitter, hot) and colours (red, brown, pink, magenta, white). It was a great dish, and I liked the way Russell transformed the usually weepy soft rillettes into sharp little tuiles. Another hit was the deer carpaccio served with fried lichen, cherry tomatoes, horseradish cream and baby greens. Again, what a great play of textures, and the thin slices of raw deer meat were just so lush.
A dish of grilled guinea hen with corn, ratte potatoes, chanterelles and peppers was drop-dead delicious. Using all the best seasonal ingredients, this delectable mix of late-summer flavours was tied together with a velvety pepper sauce. But the crowning glory of it all was the brilliant guinea hen meat, which was tender and succulent. Wow! And I simply swooned over a plate off the tasting menu that featured a rich slice of goose breast paired with baby turnips, dried mushrooms and a sabayon-like sauce. Every element popped with flavour, and how great to taste goose breast, such a rarity on Montreal menus.
In the category a notch below enthusiasm-wise came a dish of smoked mackerel. The fish itself was moist and luscious, but the accompanying pieces of grilled artichoke hearts and fennel were bitter and dull, though I did scoop up all the sweet 'n' silky cipollini onions alongside. Another stunning presentation of porcini mushrooms looked promising with its charred spring onions, melted cheese and dabs of mustard sauce. And yet the onions were undercooked and the mushrooms were practically tasteless. All looks, that dish.
And what was a complete miss? A starter featuring Arctic char tartare was marred by too much mayonnaise in the tartare and a side of marine plants and succulents that had very little flavour. When bits of dried fish skin are the only flavour providers on a plate, you know you're in trouble. And I just plain didn't like a plate of roasted celery root sandwiched between a cream made with anchovy and mackerel. I'm not a fishy fish person, and that dish contained one fishy fish too many.
Desserts are an absolute treat, though, and I inhaled both of the ones made with raspberry: the first with raspberry mousse, dried plums and honey sorbet, the other with raspberries, coconut cream, raspberry meringues and tarragon sorbet. I also adored the marshmallow-like blackberry cake surrounded by a pool of deep purple blackberry sauce. Yum!
I do have one other criticism, and that's with the wine list, which is both short and expensive. I wasn't thrilled to see a few bottles unavailable at my first visit and few options by the glass. Yet otherwise the service was polished (especially when provided by Mme. Lachance), and I gotta say, the background music, ranging from vintage Rolling Stones to cool jazz to French favourites, was good fun.
In this artistic environment, perhaps it is entirely fitting that some dishes wowed while others left wanting. And yet before leaving, Lachance surprised us with the most unexpected news. This winter she's thinking of serving raclette on Sundays, the chef's night off. Something more simple, she said. Hmm … more hearty food, then, and less food for thought?
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Since I've been spending my ACRL conference weekend taking care of my digital natives, rather than talking about them with colleagues, I decided to go back and read through Prensky's first digital native article from 2001.
Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5).
The pdf article and many others by Prensky are available on his website … here
The article itself reads like the first chapter out of Prensky 2006 book, Don't Bother Me Mom, but that's a good thing. The tone and content of his article still rings true today, over 5 years later. In fact, his message is even more important today because these are the students we are seeing at all levels of education. How Prensky describes these digital natives is not dramatically different than the published literature on "millennials." But I prefer the term "digital native" because it is not just about the current generation, the term and the learning strategies attached to it apply to all generations to come that have grown up with technology.
Digital natives (ie. Our students) prefer information that comes faster, is less step-by-step, and has random access points that provide choice and personalization. Prensky points out that this does not mean that we dumb down what we teach to make it more appealing, in fact the opposite is true, it makes the content less appealing. These strategies do not change the "what" – core content, critical thinking, but it does change the "how." Prensky encourages educators to get rid of teaching "slowly, step-by-step, one thing at a time, individually, and above all, seriously." Start thinking about those gaming strategies mentioned before and above and a more engaged classroom.


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Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic is a Vancouver native who is apparently hated by his hometown neighbors.
On the side of the St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church is large, black graffiti that reads "Fuck Lucic" and "Go Canuks (sic) Go," along with crudely drawn genitalia.
If there is one place you don't want crudely drawn genitalia it is on a church. This, sadly, is not the first time the typically mild mannered Vancouverans have lashed out at Lucic.
Over the summer, posters of the 23-year-old were defaced at a cultural community and his mere presence at a Greek festival was enough to incite a brawl. Lucic himself was not involved in the fight.
According to the Vancouver Sun (her account is protected), Lucic's girlfriend tweeted the picture above noting that "[p]unks did this to Milan beloved church! So disgusted!"
h/t Paul W.
Boston Bruins Milan Lucic church vandalized [Vancouver Sun]


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In the heyday of analog computing, Vladimir Lukyanov designed an advanced computer that used water as the storage media. Various tubes, tanks, valves, pumps and sluices churned out solutions for the user based on variables such as changing tax rates or increasing money supply. From the Russian magazine Science and Life:
Built in 1936, this machine was "the world's first computer for solving [partial] differential equations," which "for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics." Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex mathematical equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You "calculated" with plumbing.
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Benedict XVI tweaks conclave rules, makes last-minute appointments
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI is clearing the decks of his pontificate, tweaking the rules of the conclave, finessing the religious rites used to launch the next papacy and making some eyebrow-raising final appointments before he retires next week.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said in editions published late Friday that Benedict had signed a decree earlier in the week making some changes to the papal installation Mass, separating out the actual rite of installation from the liturgy itself.
He is also studying the text of a separate document governing the rules of the conclave, though it's not known if it will address the thorny issue of whether the election can begin earlier than March 15, by some interpretations the earliest the vote can start under the current rules.
And on Friday, the Vatican announced Benedict had transferred a top official in the secretariat of state, Monsignor Ettore Balestrero, to Colombia -- an appointment that came amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal.
Italian newspapers have been rife for days with unsourced reports about the contents of the secret dossier that three cardinals prepared for Benedict after investigating the origins of the leaks. The scandal erupted last year after papers taken from the pope's desk were published in a blockbuster book. The pope's butler was convicted in October of aggravated theft, and later pardoned.
The Vatican has refused to comment on the reports, which have claimed the contents of the dossier, delivered to Benedict in December, were a factor in his decision to resign. Benedict himself has said he simply no longer has the "strength of mind and body" to carry on.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has indicated that Benedict would meet with the three cardinals before stepping down Feb. 28, in one of his final private audiences.
Given the rivalries, turf battles and allegations of corruption exposed by the leaks themselves, there is some speculation that cardinals entering the conclave might want to know the contents of the dossier before choosing a new pope.
Balestrero was head of the Holy See's delegation to the Council of Europe's Moneyval committee, which evaluated the Vatican's anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing measures. He has had a hand in the efforts by the Vatican bank to be more transparent and is close to Benedict's No. 2, the Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
The Vatican submitted itself to Moneyval's evaluation in a bid to improve its reputation in the financial world.
The Vatican passed the test on the first try in August, and Moneyval said it had made great progress in a short amount of time. But the Holy See received poor or failing grades for its financial watchdog agency and its bank, long the source of some of the Vatican's more storied scandals.
Some of the documents leaked in the midst of the "Vatileaks" scandal concerned differences of opinion about the level of financial transparency the Holy See should provide about the bank, the Institute for Religious Works. However, Balestrero himself wasn't named in any significant way in the leaks.
The Vatican is now working to comply with Moneyval's recommendations before the next round of evaluation. Lombardi said the lengthy Moneyval process would simply be handled by someone else now that Balestrero is leaving.
Lombardi said Balestrero's transfer had been months in the works, was a clear promotion and had nothing to do with what the Vatican considers baseless reporting.
Lombardi noted that the nunciature in Bogota is one of the most important in Latin America, with the headquarters for the Latin American bishops' conference as well as the regional organization for religious orders, and is usually headed by someone who has had experience as a nuncio in at least two other postings.
"The procedure for this nomination was started some time ago, as evidenced by the fact that the agreement (with Colombia) has already been reached," Lombardi told The Associated Press. "It was started well before the pope's resignation, so it's completely unfounded to link it to the news articles in recent days."
Asked if the transfer had anything to do with the broader Vatileaks investigation, Lombardi said he was declining comment in line with the Vatican's decision not to confirm or deny any specifics of the investigation.
Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, the Opus Dei canon lawyer who headed the cardinal's commission, has spoken in vague terms about the report and the well-known divisions within the Vatican Curia that were exposed by the leaks.
"Certainly, it has been said that this was a hypothesis behind the pope's resignation, but I think we need to respect his conscience," Herranz told Radio24 last week. "Certainly, there are divisions and there have always been divisions, as well as clashes along ideological lines. These aren't new, but yes, they have a weight."


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As part of our cigar review for this week's Happy Hour posts, we're going to highlight some friendly advice from our cigar reviewer Bob Hritsko. He and his friends had an interesting experience recently when partying down in Miami, and the story is worth sharing again.
Like every spring for the last seven years, I make a pilgrimage to South Florida to visit my brother for a long weekend. We hit the beach, smoke too many cigars, drink way too many beers (vodkas, rums, etc.), but it serves to decompress me and rejuvenate the soul. Well, this year, I decided to invite some old friends, some that I grew up with and others who I have become good friends with in my adult years. The prep and logistics for pulling this off proved to be a little work, but it was something I truly enjoyed planning and — in the end — pulling off! There were eight of us who traveled to the Miami area, and we had a number of folks, who were already in the area, join us. Needless to say, we all reverted back to our college days and the attitude of those days, and just had a blast! As I have said before in this column, Miami is certainly a venue fitting for this type of event and it is my favorite "party" city, partially due to its relative cigar-friendly nature.
However, I must warn those of you who might consider doing this sort of thing next year, especially if you who don't get around that much. In Miami, everything is not what it appears; I hope this is not a shocking revelation to most of you. If it is, you may want to take a spring break elsewhere. A phenomenon occurred this year that was new to me. One night, the whole group of us went out to one of the swankier bars in South Beach, a long-time favorite of mine. Not long after getting settled in, I sensed something a little unusual. A young, attractive 20-something woman smiled at me and would occasionally flash a glance my way, showing some clear interest. Twenty minutes later, the same thing happened – but a completely different girl this time. I had a few drinks in me already, (well, more than a few), but I knew that I wasn't hallucinating. Now don't get the wrong idea, for a 40-something guy I am no ogre (in my biased opinion). Back in the day, women who were in the same league as these two were fair game (naturally, before I got married), but all the booze in Miami was not going to get me to believe that these young ladies found my more "mature" looks that intriguing, especially with some of the younger gentlemen running around, who looked like they did nothing but hit the gym and tan on the beach all day.
Naturally, I had to share these events with the group. To my surprise, this same phenomenon was being experienced by a number of others in the group. My brother, a long-time resident of South Florida, shared his Miami wisdom: these "ladies" were likely Russian hookers looking for some "fat cats" with fat wallets to help drive some income for themselves in these tough economic times. It was now oh so clear to us, mostly guys with simple Midwestern roots. It was also a little humbling to learn the truth. But on the other hand it was also quite funny that we could be mistaken for "fat cats" loaded with money. In hindsight, there we were, in our new Tommy Bahama knock-off silk shirts, mine with a couple of seemingly expensive cigars tucked in the breast pocket, getting the VIP treatment due to the bottle service we opted for, because buying by the drink was determined to be more expensive. We did look and act like "fat cats" for one night, and we had some fun doing so.
With the vast majority us being classic family men, we would never consider buying what these girls were selling. In the end, the foolers were the ones who were fooled, although by accident. On the other hand, it made for some good conversation and laughs among the boys (which is all the fun we intended to buy on this trip anyway). So, enjoy an old-fashioned, college-like spring break next year. Dress the part, load your silk shirts with cigars, but be careful – don't allow yourself to get fooled.
The advice is simple – if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Also, you can always manipulate a situation in your favor, though it's a little harder to pull off when you're loaded on beer and vodka.
Check out the rest of Bob's article for his review of Oliva Serie O – Maduro.
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In pursuit of the Grand Slam
October 29, 2009
Mark Ella, David Campese and Andrew Slack celebrate Australia's 1984 Grand Slam at Murrayfield © Getty Images
After they've completed their Japanese adventure with a Test against the All Blacks on Saturday, Robbie Deans' Australia will arrive in the northern hemisphere in pursuit of a rare achievement: a Grand Slam tour.
Only one Wallabies side has completed a Test tour with victories over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales under their belts, and the other southern hemisphere giants have also found the task challenging. We take a look back at those great sides who were able to complete the clean sweep in our latest Scrum Seven.
Australia - 1984
The 2009 Wallabies have some way to go before they can lay claim to the feats completed by the class of '84. Winning is one thing, doing it in style is another. This was a Wallabies side brimming with attacking vigour.
Cutting their teeth on tour were future World Cup winners Nick Farr-Jones and Michael Lynagh, who played the tour in the No.12 jersey due to the presence of the mercurial Mark Ella at fly-half. On this tour, his last four caps, Ella was worth the price of admission alone and scored a try in each of their Test victories.
England lost 19-3 at Twickenham before Ireland were sunk 16-9 at Lansdowne Road. Australia conceded only one try on tour, to Wales' prodigiously talented scrum-half David Bishop. Bishop won his sole international cap in the 28-9 loss at the National Stadium. They rounded off their tour with a 37-12 win at Murrayfield, where Ella's final game was won with two tries to David Campese. Away from the Test arena the Wallabies fared less well, losing to Cardiff, Ulster, Llanelli and South of Scotland in midweek games.
New Zealand - 2005
The 2005 All Blacks set down in Europe on the crest of the sizable wave created by their 3-0 dismantling of Clive Woodward's bloated British & Irish Lions and the reclamation of the Tri-Nations from South Africa.
Their first opponents were reigning Six Nations champions Wales, who were swatted aside 41-3 by Dan Carter and Rico Gear in front of an expectant capacity crowd at the Millennium Stadium. Carter was majestic in scoring two tries as Gear bagged a hat-trick against their injury-ravaged hosts.
Ireland proved to be equally incapable of stopping the marauding All Blacks at Lansdowne Road, Eddie O'Sullivan's men dispatched 45-7 thanks to braces from Doug Howlett and Joe Rokocoko. England, following a miserable Six Nations, provided stern resistance at Twickenham but despite the tourists having three players sin-binned could not find the killer blow and lost 23-19.
The deed was sealed at Murrayfield, where Scotland failed to stop the tide of history as the All Blacks capped a perfect year with a 29-10 win.
South Africa - 1912-13
The second Springboks to tour Europe, Billy Millar's men were the first to complete a Grand Slam. In a gruelling tour that spanned 27 matches from October 1912 to January 1913, the Springboks arrived with a rock-solid defence in tow. Their first Grand Slam attempt had failed in 1906, when wins over Wales and Ireland were backed up by a loss to Scotland and a draw with England at Crystal Palace.
In November 1912, the Scots were seen off 16-0 in Inverleith. Worse was to come for Ireland, who were thrashed 38-0 in front of 20,000 fans at Lansdowne Road. Their progress was slowed in Cardiff, where an inexperienced Wales side showing nine debutants were defeated 3-0 by a lone penalty from forward Dougie Morkel.
Christmas came and went before the Boks toasted the New Year with a 9-3 win over England. Remarkably, the tour was finished in Bordeaux a week later, where the tourists ran riot against France to win 38-5 and seal a full clean-sweep of the Five Nations.
New Zealand - 1978
Thoughts of New Zealand's 1978 tour usually end up in one place. Thomond Park, October 31. Christy Cantillon scored the try as Munster famously beat Graham Mourie's tourists 12-0 in one of the great upsets.
In the rarefied atmosphere of the Test matches, Mourie's men dug deep. The All Blacks' first Grand Slam, at the eighth attempt, was a close-run thing. Ireland fell 10-6 thanks to an injury-time try by hooker Andy Dalton, Wales, getting used to life without Gareth Edwards, Phil Bennett and Gerald Davies, lost 13-12 thanks to a last-gasp penalty from replacement fullback Brian McKechnie.
England came up short at Twickenham, 16-6, before Murrayfield hosted another thriller. Ian McGeechan's drop-goal was charged down and centre Bruce Robertson pounced for a long-range score to seal an 18-9 win that had been finely balanced at 12-9. Interestingly, in the All Blacks' second-row was Frank Oliver, whose son, Anton, would take part in the 2005 Grand Slam tour.
South Africa - 1931-32
Bennie Osler's Springboks were successful, if metronomic. A giant pack and a kicking fly-half, Osler, wound a merciless route through the northern hemisphere, suffocating all of their opponents along the way.
"No one could fail to admire his poise and technique - the tactics were another question," scowled a British critic, O.L Owen. Osler and his men were unapologetic. Wales were the first to go, 8-3 at St.Helen's, and the Boks left Wales unbeaten for the first time. Ireland lost by the same 8-3 scoreline in Dublin before England's resistance was crushed with a 7-0 clean sheet in front of 70,000 at Twickenham.
The final nail in the northern hemisphere coffin came at Murrayfield, where Osler and the great Danie Craven scored tries in a 6-3 win over Scotland.
New Zealand - 2008
The All Blacks of 2008 were driven by a desire to prove their doubters wrong. Having been shunted out of the 2007 Rugby World Cup at the quarter-final stage, New Zealand controversially stuck with the coaching team of Graham Henry, Steve Hansen and Wayne Smith.
A Tri-Nations title, in some style, followed before the squad embarked on their second Grand Slam attempt in four years. The young guns got a run against Scotland, winning 32-6 as Dan Carter and Richie McCaw warmed the bench. Ireland expected - Croke Park welcomed the All Blacks and their 100% record - and were disappointed by a clinical 22-3 dismantling.
On to the Millennium Stadium, and one of the great showdowns in recent history. Wales skipper Ryan Jones and his Grand Slam winners stared down the haka and refused to budge in a heart-pounding moment of theatre. They were overwhelmed eventually, with Ma'a Nonu and Jerome Kaino sealing a 29-9 win after a first-half scare. Twickenham saw less drama as Danny Cipriani's troubles continued - the All Blacks coasting to a 32-6 win as England had four players sin-binned.
South Africa - 1951-52
Craven stepped in to the coaching hotseat in 1949 following a distinguished playing career and moulded a Springbok side full of ambition. His men arrived in Europe having comprehensively defeated the All Blacks 4-0 in a home Test series and showed no signs of slowing down.
Scotland were obliterated 44-0 at Murrayfield before two tries from Basie van Wyk defeated Ireland 17-5 at Lansdowne Road. Cliff Morgan, in his first year as an international fly-half, turned out for Wales as they lost 6-3 in a game that the home side could well have won with a little more composure.
At Twickenham there was another close game, but Craven's irrepressible Boks overcame England 8-3 before hopping across the channel to round off an amazing effort by defeating France 25-3 at the Stade Yves du Manoir.
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Back in the summer, the NCAA piously announced it would no longer license video games, leaving it to members to decide whether they would continue to appear in EA Sports' college football series. The schools' biggest licensing agent and Electronic Arts chose to settle all claims brought by college players, leaving the NCAA as the only defendant. Naturally, the NCAA is now suing EA.
Whatever gamers think of EA Sports, vastly more people think vastly less of the NCAA, because of chickenshit legal ass-covering like this on one end and the high-handed enforcement of blitheringly stupid eligibility rules at the other, with the entire enterprise funded by contracts sold to televise ostensibly free performances. Now, after 15 years of being paid millions in pure profit just for putting its name and logo on a game—nothing more—the NCAA alleges that EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company dealt them dirt in making that grubby grubby videogame whose wink-and-nod treatment of real-life players—in a game the NCAA endorses on its cover—now threatens the entire plantation.
Why, the NCAA exclaims, we were unaware of what EA Sports and the CLC—the NCAA's own licensing agent—were really up to with this game. The suit the NCAA filed this week seeks to stop the $40 million settlement that EA will pay, per figures it provided to investors last month, to past and present college players who allege their likenesses were used without permission in the publisher's NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball series.
Moreover, if the NCAA—which has vowed to fight this thing all the way to the Supreme Court—is found liable for players' appearances in those games, its suit demands that Electronic Arts foot the bill for damages and legal fees.
News of the lawsuit was reported by USA Today on Wednesday. An Electronic Arts spokesman declined to comment to the newspaper, as did the NCAA. The CLC said it was "caught in the middle of a dispute between NCAA and EA which should not involve us."
College athletes are prohibited, under NCAA amateurism rules, from endorsing any product, which is why a hallmark of college sports video games—made by 2K Sports, too, until 2008—is rosters full of players named QB#02 and WR#89, players who mimic a team's real-life performers in nearly every facet while stripping out their real name. Users then collectively rename the game's entire roster, whose sharing online is facilitated by the game itself.
What the NCAA alleges, basically, is that the CLC was the supervisor in all this, and was asleep at the switch as EA Sports steered the series and the NCAA into this oblivion of legal exposure. That is bullshit on its face. In 2003, the NCAA's Director of Corporate Alliances himself, a man named Peter Davis, inquired of EA Sports whether it used current players names in its games. The reply: "We don't actually use player names but we do use all the attributes and jersey numbers of the players."
So the NCAA itself—not through an intermediary—knew for at least a decade what the practice was that got this series and the organization in such hot water. Moreover, a vice president of the NCAA argued in 2007 that the NCAA should adopt rules that permitted the use of real players' names in EA Sports' video games. Again, that's a corporate officer of the NCAA. This guy acknowledged that player likenesses were effectively already being used but "it's just that our membership doesn't benefit from it." Because that's the most important thing in the NCAA, whether the membership benefits, not the "student-athletes" in their employ.
The rest of the NCAA's claim says Electronic Arts did not maintain adequate liability insurance in the making of this product, and that it was required to indemnify the NCAA—that's a fancy legal term for take all of the blame if something goes wrong.
What's wrong here is the NCAA and a big business it created whose rules are entirely at odds with a modern, connected society saturated by entertainment products, memorabilia, and broadcasts of college football games on every day of the week. Electronic Arts, I have said repeatedly, played according to the NCAA's rules in this. The idea it was singularly responsible for screwing players out of money for their likeness, or colluded with either the NCAA or the CLC to do so, is ridiculous.
The settlement EA has proposed amounts to a per-player payout of roughly $300—which is far less than the value of the swag bags players get for appearing in the Poulan-Weedeater Piece of Shit Bowl brought to you by Capital Whatever three days after Christmas. EA Sports has proposed a $40 million payout for the lifespan of its two college sports series; in 2011, it paid $30 million to the NFL Players Association for one edition of Madden NFL.
EA Sports could cut a $300 check annually to every college player on 125 teams with change from the couch cushions in Redwood Shores, and reap a fortune in sales. It wanted real players in this game, and argued for that vehemently. The NCAA denied it, holding fast to the idea that college football is still some quaint extra-curricular activity, and it will nobly bear the responsibility of pocketing and managing that sinful money in this complicated grownup business, rather than have a single dirty dollar corrupt these virginal "student-athletes."
The NCAA could have taken a more progressive posture; it could have compensated—equally and at a pittance—college football players who meaningfully appear in video games, as well as highlight DVDs and in three-hour advertisements for credit card companies and steakhouse chains during the holiday season. But one dollar was a bridge too far. That meant the death of the NCAA Football series. Let it mean the death—the uglier and less dignified, the better—of the NCAA, too.
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|Roky Erickson
Erickson performing at Austin Music Awards (2008)
|Background information
|Roger Kynard Erickson
|July 15, 1947
|Austin, Texas, US
|Rock, psychedelic rock, garage rock, acid rock
|Musician, singer-songwriter
|Guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano
|Columbia, CBS, Restless, Pink Dust, Five Hours Back, Fan Club, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Triple X, Emperor Jones, Norton, New Rose, Swordfish
|The 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, The Explosives, Okkervil River, The Black Angels, The Spades
Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (born July 15, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of The 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre.[1]
Erickson was interested in music from his youth: he played piano from age 5 and took up guitar at 10. He attended school in Austin and dropped out of Travis High School in 1965, one month before graduating, rather than cut his hair to conform to the school dress code.[2] His first notable group was The Spades, who scored a regional hit with Erickson's "We Sell Soul"; the song is included as an unlisted bonus track on Erickson's 1995 All That May Do My Rhyme CD and was adapted as "Don't Fall Down" by the 13th Floor Elevators for their first album. The Spades' original version of "You're Gonna Miss Me", later a hit for 13th Floor Elevators, was featured on the compilation album The Best of Pebbles Volume 1.
Erickson co-founded the 13th Floor Elevators in late 1965.[] He and bandmate Tommy Hall were the main songwriters. Early in her career, singer Janis Joplin considered joining the Elevators, but Family Dog's Chet Helms persuaded her to go to San Francisco instead, where she found major fame.
In 1966 (Erickson was 19 years old) the band released their debut album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. The album had the band's only charting single, Erickson's "You're Gonna Miss Me". A stinging breakup song, the single remains probably Erickson's best-known work: it was a major hit on local charts in the U.S. southwest, and appeared at lower positions on national singles charts as well. Critic Mark Deming writes that "If Roky Erickson had vanished from the face of the earth after The 13th Floor Elevators released their epochal debut single, "You're Gonna Miss Me", in early 1966, in all likelihood he'd still be regarded as a legend among garage rock fanatics for his primal vocal wailing and feral harmonica work."[3]
In 1967, the band followed up with Easter Everywhere, perhaps the band's most focused effort, featuring "Slip Inside This House", and a noted cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".
The album Live was put out in 1968 by International Artists. It featured audience applause dubbed over studio recordings of cover versions, alternate takes, and older material, and it had little to no input from the band.
Bull of the Woods, released in 1969, was the 13th Floor Elevators' last released album on which they worked as a group and was largely the work of Stacy Sutherland. Erickson--due to health and legal problems--and Tommy Hall were only involved with a few tracks, including "Livin' On" and "May the Circle Remain Unbroken".
In 1968, while performing at HemisFair, Erickson began speaking gibberish. He was soon diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital, where he involuntarily received electroconvulsive therapy.[2]
The Elevators were vocal proponents of LSD, mescaline, DMT[] and marijuana use,[] and were subject to extra attention from law enforcement agencies. In 1969, Erickson was arrested for possession of a single marijuana joint in Austin. Facing a potential ten-year incarceration, Erickson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison. He was first sent to the Austin State Hospital. After several escapes, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital in Rusk, Texas, where he was subjected to more electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments, ultimately remaining in custody until 1972. Six tracks from the 1999 Erickson collection Never Say Goodbye were recorded during his time there.
In 1974, after having been released from state hospital, Erickson formed a new band which he called "Bleib alien", Bleib being an anagram of Bible and/or German for "stay," and "Alien" being a pun on the German word allein ("alone") - the phrase in German therefore being "remain alone." His new band exchanged the psychedelic sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators for a more hard rock sound that featured lyrics on old horror film and science fiction themes. "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)" (produced by The Sir Douglas Quintet's Doug Sahm and inspired by Vladimir Demikhov's 1950s head transplant experiments) was released as a single.
The new band was renamed Roky Erickson and the Aliens. In 1979, after playing with the Reversible Cords on May Day at Raul's, Erickson recorded 15 new songs with producer Stu Cook, former bass player of Creedence Clearwater Revival. These efforts were released in two "overlapping" LPs - "I Think of Demons" (CBS UK, 1980) and "The Evil One" (415 Records, 1981). Cook played bass on two tracks, "Sputnik" and "Bloody Hammer." Roky performed with The Nervebreakers as his backup band at The Palladium in Dallas in July 1979. A recording was issued on the French label New Rose and was recently re-issued elsewhere.
The Austin-based band the Explosives served as Roky's most frequent back-up band during the early Raul's Club era, between 1978 and the early 1980s. Billed as Roky Erickson and the Explosives, they were regulars at Raul's, the Continental Club, and other Austin venues. It was this incarnation that contributed two live tracks to the first "Live at Raul's" LP, released in 1980, with other Raul's top bands: The Skunks, Terminal Mind, The Next, Standing Waves, and The Explosives (without Roky Erickson). The Roky Erickson tracks ("Red Temple Prayer" and "Don't Shake Me Lucifer") were not included on the initial release for contractual reasons, but were included on a later release.[4] In 1982, Erickson asserted that a Martian had inhabited his body. He came to feel that, due to his being alien, human beings were attacking him psychically. A concerned friend enlisted a Notary Public to witness an official statement by Erickson that he was an alien; he hoped by declaring so publicly he would be in line with any "international laws" he might have been breaking. Erickson claimed the attacks then indeed stopped.
Beginning in the 1980s, Erickson developed a years-long obsession with the mail, often spending hours poring over random junk mail, writing to solicitors and celebrities (dead or living). He was arrested in 1989 on charges of mail theft. Erickson had picked up mail from neighbors who had moved and taped it to the walls of his room. He insisted that he never opened any of the mail, and the charges were ultimately dropped.
Several live albums of his older material have been released since then, and in 1990 Sire Records/Warner Bros. Records released a tribute album, Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, produced by WB executive Bill Bentley. It featured versions of Erickson's songs performed by The Jesus and Mary Chain, R.E.M., ZZ Top, Poi Dog Pondering, Julian Cope, Butthole Surfers, Bongwater, John Wesley Harding, Doug Sahm, and Primal Scream, among others. According to the liner notes, the title of the album came from a remark Erickson made to a friend who asked him to define psychedelic music, to which Erickson reportedly replied "It's where the pyramid meets the eye, man," an apparent reference to the Eye of Providence and the Great Seal of the United States.
In 1995, Erickson released All That May Do My Rhyme on Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey's label Trance Syndicate Records. Produced by Texas Tornados bassist Speedy Sparks, Austin recording legend Stuart Sullivan, and Texas Music Office director Casey Monahan, the release coincided with the publication of Openers II, a complete collection of Erickson's lyrics. Published by Henry Rollins's 2.13.61 Publications, it was compiled and edited by Casey Monahan with assistance from Rollins and Erickson's youngest brother Sumner Erickson, a classical tuba player.
Sumner was granted legal custody of Roky in 2001, and established a legal trust to aid his brother. As a result, Roky received some of the most effective medical and legal aid of his life, the latter useful in helping sort out the complicated tangle of contracts that had reduced royalty payments to all but nothing for his recorded works. He also started taking medication to control his schizophrenia.
A documentary film on the life of Roky Erickson titled You're Gonna Miss Me was made by director Keven McAlester and screened at the 2005 SXSW film festival. In September of the same year, Erickson performed his first full-length concert in 20 years at the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival with The Explosives with special guest and longtime associate Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.
In the December 30, 2005 issue of the Austin Chronicle, an alternative weekly newspaper in Austin, Texas, Margaret Moser chronicled Erickson's recovery, saying Erickson had weaned himself off his medication, played at 11 gigs in Austin that year, obtained a driver's license, bought a car (a Volvo), and voted.
In 2007, Erickson played his first ever gigs in New York City at Southpaw in Brooklyn, NY, as well as California's Coachella Festival and made a debut performance in England to a capacity audience at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Roky continued to play in Europe, performing for the first time in Finland at Ruisrock festival. According to the article in Helsingin Sanomat June 8, 2007, the performance was widely considered the highlight of the festival day.[5]
On September 8, 2008, Scottish post-rock band Mogwai released the Batcat EP. Erickson is featured on one of the tracks, "Devil Rides".[6] Erickson performed alongside Austin-based indie rock band Okkervil River at the Austin Music Awards in 2008 and then again at the 2009 South by Southwest music festival.[7]
Erickson returned to the stage in 2008 to perform songs from the 13th Floor Elevators catalog that had not been performed in decades with fellow Austinites The Black Angels as his backing band. After months of practices and time recording in an Austin studio, they performed a show in Dallas followed by a West Coast tour. The Black Angels played a regular set and then backed Erickson as his rhythm section, playing 13th Floor Elevators songs as well as songs from Erickson's solo albums.
On April 20, 2010, Erickson released True Love Cast Out All Evil, his first album of new material in 14 years. Okkervil River serves as Erickson's backing band on the album.[8]
In March 2012 Roky Toured New Zealand and Australia for the first time headlining Golden Plains Sixxx Festival in Meredeth as well as playing soldout side shows in Sydney and Melbourne.
On May 10, 2015, Roky performed with the reunited 13th Floor Elevators at LEVITATION (formerly Austin Psych Fest, the event was renamed "Levitation" after the song of the same title). The band consisted of original band members Erickson, Tommy Hall, John Ike Walton, and Ronnie Leatherman, joined by Roky's son Jegar Erickson, and guitarist Fred Mitchim.[9]
See 13th Floor Elevators Discography


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Yet the health and safety (H&S) processes are not always clear-cut, with the transition and handover between stages being particularly challenging.
The industry is now recognising that to operate as safely as possible, developers and project owners must clarify the processes according to the stages - development, construction, operations and maintenance (O&M) and retrofitting/repowering.
Heavy burden
Construction is seen as the most complicated and possibly the most dangerous stage for offshore wind because of the heavy lifting. Indeed, heavy lifting is the key concern of the G9 Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association, founded last year by nine European utilities involved in offshore wind. Construction can also involve many sub-contractors with different H&S cultures and languages and hundreds of vessels, according to Jon Cowlan, a senior health and safety manager at international law firm Pinsent Masons. Onshore, conditions are somewhat more predictable, simply because marine conditions are not a factor.
In contrast, maintenance tends to include more repetitive tasks, so technicians become more familiar with them, and personnel may change less frequently. "The (risks during) O&M are much more controllable," he adds. The key risks during O&M procedures are interacting with electricity and working in confined spaces, he notes. And the transition from one lifecycle stage to the next can be problematic because of communication needs and changing contractual arrangements, says Cowlan.
Some argue that construction is riskier than O&M because of the tight time frame. During construction, many activities are concertinaed into a short time, points out Claus Rose, head of health, safety and environment (HSE) at Siemens Wind Power and chairman of the Global Wind Organisation (GWO), founded in 2009 by manufacturers Vestas, Siemens, Suzlon and Repower, and offshore developer Dong to promote an injury-free workplace.
Small maintenance teams
Scheduled maintenance is less problematic than unplanned work, says Rose. "Unscheduled maintenance can involve a few people in a very remote location - you have to have the proper rescue set-up."
Peter Hodgetts, H&S champion at the Crown Estate, which manages the UK seabed, agrees that rescue all-important during O&M. Although the work tends to be scheduled, teams are smaller and supervision is less, he says. Project owners must ensure that each person is highly trained in medical response, as you do not know who might be injured, he adds. As well as electrical issues, O&M often involves work at heights, says Michele Myers Mihelic, manager of labour, health & safety policy at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).
The transition from construction to the O&M stage poses its own challenges, according to Anne Marit Hansen, HSE manager for wind at energy company Statoil. "The difference is the size - you're going from XXL to XS," she says. During the peak of construction, 500 people may have been working at Statoil's 317MW Sheringham Shoal UK offshore project, whereas there may be no more than 50 during maintenance.
Retrofitting challenges
Replacing major components and decommissioning carries similar risk as the construction phase, although taking apart components offshore is not usually as smooth a process as construction because of, for example, salt corrosion, says Robin Stowell, H&S consultant at Conversulting. Equipment seized up by corrosion is more difficult to take apart for repair, decommissioning or retrofit, he says.
"There are just different challenges during each phase," says Hodgetts. The offshore construction phase can be a two-edged sword, he says, with the more obvious dangers, but there will also be more people nearby to respond to an accident and large vessels with a small hospital and even a helipad.
Silo mentality
In the past, the offshore wind industry has been described as having a "silo mentality", seeing each lifecycle phase as separate, says Hodgett. But now the industry tends to look at a project throughout its lifecycle and collaborate more. With a focus on lifecycle, utility-owners are more inclined to appoint one head of offshore wind who oversees all phases and whose responsibilities include H&S. That also allows more learning to be passed from one phase to another, he says.
AWEA's Myers Mihelic sees each of the phases as such a "different ball game" that it is hard to compare them. But much of wind H&S is not particular to the industry - lifting during onshore construction is similar to lifting in other sorts of construction, she argues, even if the wind-farm site might be windier and the issue of public safety less pervasive than for a high-rise in a dense city.
Even so, the goal of implementing H&S procedures and awareness into all aspects of work for everyone is similar during the different phases, even if the dimension and complexity is not, says Hansen. Her advice for coping with the transition from construction to O&M is using the opportunity of having overlapping phases for training the new teams so there is no gap.
Decisions taken during one phase greatly influence other phases, stresses Chris Streatfeild, H&S director at trade body RenewableUK. Therefore designing of H&S into projects is most important, he says. The wind turbine manufacturing community is becoming more cognisant of "safety by design". He agrees that there is more collaboration between financers and developers nowadays so that costs and risks are shared. After all, such a safety by design point of view helped the UK Olympics construction projects maintain an exemplary record with few accidents and no fatalities, he says.
- Site construction Heavy lifting presents major risks onshore as well as added complexities at offshore sites
- Operations and maintenance Working with electricity in confined spaces, work at height, unplanned maintenance in remote locations requires a rescue plan, small teams
- Retrofitting Heavy lifting issues as in construction; relatively little experience in offshore sector so far
- Overall Transition between phases risks poor communication between teams, gaps in overlapping processes and training and poor handover procedures.


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The agency views the effort as critical not only to improving the prospects of unemployed citizens but also to positioning Germany to address an ongoing and major shortage of skilled labor.
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BCG's pilot in Frankfurt has started successfully, enabling the agency to better serve the unique needs of the individuals it serves. Under the program, customers are segmented into four groups—restarters, observers, ready to go, and go-getters—and served through four tailored approaches. This classification enables the agency to focus first on the approximately 25% of go-getter candidates who are both highly skilled and highly motivated. It can prioritize its time and resources to match these most promising candidates to suitable employment opportunities. Simultaneously, it can provide effective programs to the other customer segments, encouraging those customers to enhance their abilities, motivation, and employability.
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Back to the drawing board for SKC against Chivas
Kansas City, KS – Sporting Kansas City will be eager for the arrival of Chivas USA at Sporting Park on Sunday as the club attempts to bring a halt to its two-game slide.
Sporting reeled off three successive wins to climb to the top of the Eastern Conference, but losses to Los Angeles and Portland in the past two weeks have given the club plenty of motivation ahead of the arrival of the Goats.
Kansas City's 3-2 defeat to Portland at home last time out was particularly disappointing considering the club twice took a lead in the game, but failed to hold it.
Sporting had won all four of its previous games this season when scoring first, but the club knows it helped aid Portland in its comeback.
"We kind of shot ourselves in the foot, especially in the first half," said Sporting midfielder Graham Zusi. "We let them have a lot of the ball. We let them have too much possession. We knew they were a counter attacking team, and two of their goals resulted from us giving it away in bad spots."
Chance Myers had a career game for Sporting as he scored his first two goals in MLS, but he was more concerned with his team's poor defensive display than his own exploits.
"There's no excuse. We've just got to be better," said Myers. "We gave up a goal on a set piece, which we usually don't do, and we got caught on the counter at home, which we usually don't do. So there's no excuses. We've just got to go back to the drawing board."
Sporting is unbeaten in its last four meetings with Chivas, but the Goats are a different side from the one that Kansas City is used to seeing.
Under new head coach Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, Chivas has shown a different mentality, which was evident in last weekend's 2-2 draw with San Jose.
Chivas went behind to a goal from Chris Wondolowski late in the first half, but rallied to take a 2-1 lead with a second-half surge courtesy of goals from Mario De Luna and Tristan Bowen.
"I told them what we needed; we were searching for that moment of inspiration and when we got that moment, we were able to score two goals," Sanchez Sola said of what he told his team during halftime. "The team never stops searching for those moments, but just because we look for it, doesn't mean we're going to get it. It's a constant search."
Chivas allowed a goal in the final 15 minutes against the Earthquakes to settle for a draw, but after back-to-back 1-0 defeats, Sanchez Sola was pleased with the effort.
"I'm very proud of the entire squad because they all get the idea we want; at the end of the day, 11 players are on the field, and I'm very proud of all of them who give their all and believe me, they feel let down," the coach said. "They don't like the point that they've earned."


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Screenplay by Kim Su-hyun (김수현)SBS | Airing dates : 2007/04/02~2007/06/19
24 episodes
Alternative title : "My Husband's Woman"
I love you Ill love you with no regrets. And then Ill die
The tale of their forbidden love begins.
A woman who became evil like Aphrodite in Greek Mythology
A man who cant distinguish fantasy from reality
And a mans wife whose life has become nothing but a maze
Hwa-young (actress Kim Hee-ae) has a realistic, rational personality. After graduating from college, she worked in a hotel and met a Korean-American man who she later married. She moved and lived in the US afterwards. Due to her husbands physical problems, the two were not able to have children, even after trying artificial insemination. Due to the failure of his business, her husband falls deep into depression and commits suicide. After becoming a widow, Hwa-young returns to Korea
With the help of her good friend, Ji-soo (actress Bae Jong-oak), Hwa-young starts her life in Korea again after ten years. She then meets Joon-pyo (actor Kim Sang-joong) who is married to Ji-soo and lives a stable life but has a loveless marriage. Hwa-young falls madly in love with Joon-pyo and even moves into the same neighborhood as the couple to be closer to him.
Ji-soo met Joon-pyo during their freshmen year in college. After seven years of dating, she was finally able to gain the approval of his family but was never welcomed in his household as a daughter-in-law. For these reasons, Ji-soo suffers from her own personal pressures to be a perfect wife and help her husband become successful in his life and career. But her emotions turn to anger and hatred when she learns of the betrayal of her husband and good friend. The drama unfolds at this point in their lives...
Producer: Jung Eul-young (Precious Family KBS, Love as Fireworks SBS)
Script: Kim Soo-hyun (Love And Ambition SBS, Precious Family KBS)
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9. Sudden Attack
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12. Too Much Or Too Little
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16. Dance With Me
17. Waltz In D Minor
18. 내 남자의 여자 (Acodion Ver.)
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Gone are the thoughts of the Pearl 8220 being a low-cost entry into the world of BlackBerry. We pretty much knew that notion was out the door the moment we saw Rogers pricing of the 8220 leak and now T-Mobile USA pricing has surfaced which further confirms it. Via the CrackBerry Forums and TmoNews:
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- New Activation 2 Year Contract $149.99 (after $50 MIR)
- New Activation 1 Year Contract $199.99 (after $50 MIR)
- Full Upgrade 2 Year Contract $167.99 (after $50 MIR)
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- Partial Upgrade: TBD
- Retail Price: $349.99
Keep in mind Rogers will be selling the 8220 for $149.99 on a 3 year contract. Hopefully some big promos will accompany the sale of this device to help get the price down further. I'm excited for the Pearl 8220 as it's going to attract a whole lot of new users to BlackBerry Nation, but can't help but be a little bit disappointed. I can't help but think back to those early marketing picks of the T-Mobile KickStart which showed the device as being all young and hip, with a multitude of funky colors to choose from (with the option for funky "future graphic prints" on the battery door). And let's not forget those $50 on-contract rumors either. We went from an altogether divergent, edgy move from RIM to the standard BlackBerry play, but in a new form factor. Still exciting, just not quite as exciting as a lot of us hoped.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip should be hitting stores sooooon. Word dropped on the PinStack forums that we may see the Pearl Flip on T-Mobile as early as October 15th and the BoyGenius just yesterday posted some leaked photos taken from a Best Buy terminal showing that the Pearl 8220 (in red) should be in stock by October 26th. When it comes to Rogers we're now hearing the Pearl flip has been delayed to the third week of October (after the sloppy code the Bold launched with, they're going to be sure to have it solid on the Pearl 8220 at launch).
While talk about the AT&T Bold's launch delays are rampant, not too much has been said about the delays we have seen in the Pearl Flip go to market. Think back to this Rogers September Back to School Pearl 8220 promo that was supposed to run but never did and a leaked T-Mobile roadmap that put the KickStart as launching by August 1st and it's fairly obvious things are a little bit behind schedule. But a launch is imminent now, so better a little late than never. No harm though... in reality it's only us hardcore BlackBerry Addicts that are likely aware of these delays, unlike with the AT&T Bold where the masses are beginning to wonder where the heck it is (RIM/AT&T should really just do a joint press release and let us officially know what the scoop is there!).
The Pearl 8220 will be rolling out on a lot of carriers around the world, so as saw with the Bold we can likely expect to see a slightly staggered launch as it hits the market. In this case those, it should be available in North America first (or maybe second or third! LOL).
As for the 8210, the 8220's sibling that will feature GPS vs. the 8220's WiFi, we're hearing that's been pushed back on the AT&T pipeline until early 2009. Stay tuned... will update as we learn more.
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In Canada, the Rogers Pearl 8220 launch parties are now almost over (the last one is tonight in Calgary). BlackBerryCool posted some photos taken from an earlier Pearl 8220 launch party that are worth checking out!
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Urban Outfitters holiday catalog gets naughty
- The edgy apparel seller features products with ultra-spicy language
For Urban Outfitters, the choice of being naughty or nice in its 2012 Christmas holiday catalog was easy: naughty wins.
The edgy apparel seller has shipped out a holiday catalog that's chock-full of naughtiness, including a $16 "It was f---ing awesome" photo album and a block candle that boldly spells out the f-word in wax. There's even an $18 "Let's f---ing reminisce" book.
Just a few years ago, Urban Outfitters might have received some serious, verbal raps on the knuckles from parents and protesters angered by the ultra-spicy language. But in today's social-media environment, along with those verbal raps, it's also receiving some surprising kudos from brand and marketing gurus.
"It's brilliant, explosive, short-term marketing that generates buzz," says Marian Salzman, a national trend-spotter and CEO of Havas PR. "It's the right voice for the teen market."
Over the years, many of the most successful fashion brands -- from Calvin Klein to Benetton to Abercrombie & Fitch -- have relied upon racy imagery in their ads and catalogs to generate buzz, PR and sales. In a social-media age, however, such efforts appear to be emboldened.
"Shocking imagery sells," says Kim Friday, senior fashion editor at Women's Wear Daily. "On Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook, this is a way to get buzz."
Not everyone is impressed.
"It's all about getting up on Instagram or someone's Facebook page," brand guru Peter Madden says. "But this kind of marketing really isn't so rebellious. It's just kind of stupid."
Worse than that, says Monica Cole, director of the activist Christian group One Million Moms, "it's tasteless and vulgar." Her organization, which is affiliated with the American Family Association, isn't calling for a boycott but is asking its members to think hard before purchasing any Urban Outfitter products. "They'll be losing business from conservative families," she says.
Executives from Urban Outfitters declined to return phone calls or respond to e-mails for this story. But one catalog guru says the company clearly knows its audience.
"Good marketing requires that you communicate with your customers on their same wavelength," says Jim Padgitt, president of Direct Marketing Insights, a catalog consulting firm. "They're speaking the language of their customers."
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A local mayor on the spanish island of Majorca has opened an investigation after a video of a woman performing oral sex on over 20 men in a bar surfaced online earlier today. The woman, believed to be a British tourist, fellated the men for the prize of a bottle of Cava, which is estimated to be worth three euros.
The cava, according to reports, isn't really the point of what was going on in the video. Instead, the video appears to be related to "mamading" parties, or parties that have to do with oral sex. I can't help but think of rainbow parties as I type this, but there are no rewards (besides experience, I guess?) where rainbow parties are concerned and here the winner gets a bottle of cheap liquor.
While the act seen on the video (here, NSFW) appear to be voluntary, the mayor does not want Majorca or the resort town of Magaluf to be seen as a place where this type of public indecency is considered ok. Residents have long complained about the amount of bad behavior that goes on in Magaluf (drunk tourists everywhere) and the mayor has stated that any bar that participated in events like the ones depicted in the video will face closure.
The video has caused outrage on Twitter and other social media sites. The mayor's investigation is likely an attempt to change the reputation of the area, which has long been causing controversy with the out of control partying that occurs there.


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I would say, don't sweat it. Just use what you use - and I say that for a few reasons...
Oh My Gawed!
Oh for doG sakes!
Kryspy Kreme's nailed to a cross!
Mary mother of Joseph's bastard!
Holey cow! (leaking milk)
Holey Scripture! (full of holes)
Holey Nipple Twister, Batman!
The traditional cultural 'swear words' should remain the same or change as the opportunity for change arises. In many cultures, derogatory words that are the equivalent of swearing in English arise based on unfavorable descriptions of acts, attitudes, objects, or especially sexual organs. For example, in Thai, there is a childish swear word ("eup") to describe sexual coitus (and literally, a childish word: a child would use this word to describe two dogs having sex in the street, for example), there is a grammatical description of using sex to get ahead ("chai dtao dtai" instead of "chai dtai dtao", or roughly translated: "using your tits to get ahead" instead of "getting ahead by your hard work"), many objects, especially fish and mollusks, are used as sexual euphemisms (such as the word for 'oyster' being synonymous with the word for vagina, to the extent that, in intimate conversation, saying you want oyster sauce can prompt the question: "what kind?"), and my last two examples- and personal favorites- are the words "Ka-Ji-aow" (meaning, literally, "Little boy penis") and "Ma-kheua-phaow" (technically a breed of long green egg plant: in euphemism, an old man's penis that can no longer achieve an erection).
It's been my experience in many languages that acts done privately or which otherwise have the potential for embarrassment, or otherwise words that insult lineage or the outcome of your family, are the basis for most words of this genre. Even words in English like "damn" describe an unfavorable outcome (damnation). So with this in mind, I'd bypass the search for religious contexts to put atheist insults into altogether and, in the spirit of this topic, go for the balls.
By the four balls of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
"Jesus FUCKING Christ" usually provokes a salutary response aswell.
Personally, I like quoting Jake Blues, as he stood in the back of that revivalist church (full quote):
"The band! The Band!!! Jesus. H. Tap-dancing. Christ!! THE BAND!!"
Gets me every time.
A personal favorite of mine is to loudly proclaim "Science! What have you DONE?"
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When President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, the Iranian nuclear weapons program will top the agenda. Israel, which perceives a nuclear-armed Iran as an existential threat, has had a tumultuous relationship with the Obama Administration. However, this is an opportunity for President Obama to repair relations.
A major challenge will be reconciling the two sides perceptions on Irans nuclear program. With time dwindling until Iran achieves nuclear capabilities, Israel is pressing the Obama Administration to take decisive action. Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speculated that Israel would soon launch a preventive strike against Irans nuclear sites. So far, the Administration hasnt taken any options off the table, but it has failed to deter Iran from its present course.
Rather, the Administrations open diplomacy with Iran, combined with delayed crippling sanctions and multilateral talks, have yielded little progress. Heritages Peter Brookes writes that until now, Team Obamas Iran policy has been a hodge-podge of well-intentioned but ineffective diplomatic and economic initiatives aimed at getting Tehran to alter course on its burgeoning nuclear program. All the while, Iran is increasing production of 20 percent enriched uranium, which is beyond what is needed to fuel a power reactor and much closer to the 90 percent enrichment level used in a nuclear bomb.
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Comparing Mobile Phone Price Estimators in the IranMarket: Hedonic Regression and Artificial Neural Network
The purpose of this paper is to develop two price estimator functions and compare the performance and accurateness of them.After gathering mobile phone features from their manufacturers' websites and their prices from "Donyaye-Eqtesad" newspaper, Hedonic regression and Artificial Neural Network models developed.The most effective feature of mobile phones in their prices are theirs brand, being touch screen, camera quality in mega pixel, battery life in calling and wireless network connectivity, and Also ANN model is better estimator than hedonic regression function.Because all of the mobile phones in the Iran market are imported from other countries, importers can import mobile phones that have those features that have more value to customers and reach a higher market share.The major contribution of this paper is specifying the most important determinants of mobile phone prices in the Iran market and comparing the two price estimator functions. This paper is of value to mobile phone importers, mobile phone manufactures, advertisers and pricing researchers.
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