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Kansas House the advocate
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Kansas House the advocate
Making Kansas the best place to do business has been the focus of Gov. Sam Brownback, the Kansas Legislature and typically the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. Imagine the surprise when the wind industry became the target of negative, intense lobbying by the chamber and misleading ads by Americans for Prosperity.
Pro business typically means encouraging investment and jobs in all business sectors. Wind developers have invested approximately $8 billion in Kansas and created nearly 13,000 jobs during their short history. What state or state chamber would not want this activity?
AFP blames the Renewable Portfolio Standard initiated by former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as the cause of 15 electric rate increases. According to AFP's misguided thinking, the RPS is bad policy. Here's the glitch: The RPS is not the cause. It's largely federal EPA mandates and other regulations that allow electric companies' costs to flow through to rate hikes for their customers.
The Kansas Senate chose to overlook this important point and voted to rescind the RPS policy. Fortunately, the Kansas House saved the day with a strong vote to support RPS as they recognized the value of this growing industry. The House, not the Kansas chamber, was the true pro-business advocate.
Karin Brownlee,
Kansans for Wind Energy


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At the end of the first act of "Tartuffe," Molière's dark comedy set in 17th-century France, the title character, who is the very essence of sanctimony, has been caught trying to seduce the wife of his benefactor, Orgon, whose gullibility is monumental. Because Orgon is so smitten with Tartuffe he refuses to believe the testimony of his own son, or, for that matter, his wife. Tartuffe knows just how to play his foolish host. Orgon disinherits his son and embraces Tartuffe warmly. He even tries to kiss him, which Tartuffe, somewhat startled, resists. This piece of business is not in the text, but it does at least provide one explanation for why Orgon is so deliberately blind and stupid. It is almost the only moment in the production, directed by Joe Dowling, that goes beyond the conventional. It is isolated not only in its originality, but also because there is no other hint of a sexual underpinning to the men's relationship. As a result, it stands out more as a gag than an insightful bit of business. In 1968, a troupe from Lyon, France, directed by Roger Planchon, presented "Tartuffe" at Lincoln Center. Instead of the standard roustabout farce approach, in which Tartuffe is a grotesque puritan, Planchon cast a handsome, hot actor whose understatedness brought a sexual tension to everything he did. For the first (and only) time, the play seemed almost frighteningly believable rather than an obvious satire of religious hypocrisy. Here, we always feel we are in the world of the theater. As Orgon, Brian Bedford has a plausible stiffness and prissiness, and he does make us believe Orgon's contrition. The play would work better, however, if we sensed more attachment to his family. Tartuffe is played by Henry Goodman, the English actor who created headlines last year when he was hired, then abruptly fired, as the successor to Nathan Lane in "The Producers."
He has had a fascinating career in London, but his work here is pretty obvious. He has a rich stage voice, which he uses subtly, but his double takes only heighten the ongoing sense of artificiality. J. Smith-Cameron is a suitably pert, sassy Dorine, the clever household maid, but her shrill voice is wearing. Kathryn Meisle is very sympathetic as Orgon's long-suffering wife and Rosaleen Linehan is strong as her meddling mother-in-law. The physical production seems distractingly overdone. The most attractive part of the evening is Richard Wilbur's brilliant translation, whose musicality reinforces the comedy in the verse. Wilbur's translations from the French have played a major role in the frequent revival of Molière's plays in recent years. One only wishes the productions had a comparable elegance and wit.
Hypocrisy will never go out of style, and so neither will Moliere's rambunctious comedy, "Tartuffe," particularly when it's rendered in that vividly idiomatic translation by Richard Wilbur.
Last night it returned to Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre in a good and solid Roundabout Theatre production staged by Joe Dowling.
The story of how Tartuffe - a sanctimonious and duplicitous religious caterpillar who worms his way into the simple-minded Orgon's affections and household before getting his comeuppance - is one of the great comic cautionary tales of the classic stage.
Told in suavely witty rhymed couplets - which Wilbur neatly changes while catching the upbeat Gallic rhythm - Moliere's tale of the trickster and the duped, the young lovers thwarted by age and a servant wiser than her master finds its roots in the traditional commedia d'ell arte.
But Moliere has an acute feel for the theater that is all his own.
What could be funnier than Orgon hiding under a table, upon which the lascivious Tartuffe is attempting to ravish the poor idiot's virtuous wife who only pretends compliance to expose the fraud? It's a masterpiece of stagecraft.
Tartuffe is played by the distinguished English actor Henry Goodman, whose last Broadway excursion was his abortive attempt to replace Nathan Lane in "The Producers." This trip is altogether a happier one.
Goodman plays Tartuffe with an almost compelling sincerity and a steely if unctuous viciousness.
But Tartuffe can only be as good as Orgon lets him be - and vice versa - since the two must play off one another with equal passion.
Happily, this Orgon is the magnificently baffled and confounded Brian Bedford, who on other occasions has made a wonderful Tartuffe.
To see Goodman and Bedford in tandem - one all smarmy ambition, the other all ingenuous devotion - is an absolute treat.
Dowling gets good, nicely unaffected performances from the rest of the cast, notably Kathryn Meisle as Orgon's common-sensical wife, Elmire; John Bedford Lloyd as a sonorous, unusually commanding Cleante, Orgon's brother; and J. Smith-Cameron as the pert maid, Dorine.
John Lee Beatty's settings are effective enough, helped by Brian MacDevitt's almost translucent light and Jane Greenwood's elaborately apt costumes.
But when all is said and done, the play is inevitably embedded in the battle between Tartuffe and Orgon, the role Moliere wrote for himself.
What is exceptional about this production is the evenness of the casting of the two, making this such a battle royal of acting that can cheerfully accept the unlikely royal intervention that terminates it.
The look of love beams like a laser from Brian Bedford's eyes in the handsome, absorbing new production of Molière's ''Tartuffe'' that opened last night at the American Airlines Theater. It's that glazed, honeyed gaze found among men who, having surprised themselves by falling in love in their autumn years, have also fallen into a dream. Mr. Bedford's character, a bourgeois gentilhomme named Orgon, looks so happily enchanted that it seems almost a shame that he has to be awakened.
Mind you, the creature who has so captivated Orgon is not your usual midlife-crisis-making bosomy blonde, but a bony brunette with stringy hair and a pasty complexion. This gold digger -- a fellow known as Tartuffe, by the way -- is portrayed with ghoulishly zestful appetite by Henry Goodman.
And while there have perhaps been odder couples in the history of Broadway, the most fascinatingly perverse sparks set off this season have to be those generated between Mr. Bedford and Mr. Goodman.
Before we proceed, let it be recorded that in the early 21st century Henry Goodman did indeed have the chance to play a flamboyant, fast-talking con man on Broadway and that he did so with flair, inventiveness and comic assurance. Mr. Goodman, you may recall, became the subject of last season's most dramatic theatrical imbroglio when he was dismissed from the comic role of another flamboyant con man.
The part was Max Bialystock, created for the musical ''The Producers'' by Nathan Lane, an audience-hijacking performer whose shoes no one should ever have to step into. But that was the task assigned to Mr. Goodman, a celebrated actor of the London stage, who jumped into the role and was summarily yanked from it after four weeks, before critics had a chance to review him.
Having now seen Mr. Goodman's charismatic, eely Tartuffe, who brings to mind John Barrymore being sinister in a silent movie, I have to say that I feel cheated by having missed his Max. But that, as they say, is another oil slick under the bridge. And it is New York's good fortune now to have Mr. Goodman strutting his stuff in high, nasty style in the title role of Molière's classic play about religious charlatanism.
Not that Mr. Goodman entirely owns this ''Tartuffe,'' which has been mounted with 17th-century savoir-faire by Joe Dowling, the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and the set designer John Lee Beatty. If Molière's spirited comic fable has more psychological credibility than usual in this production from the Roundabout Theater -- which also features J. Smith-Cameron and Kathryn Meisle -- it owes even more to Mr. Bedford's plump pigeon than it does to Mr. Goodman's sharp-beaked bird of prey.
The problem with most interpretations of ''Tartuffe'' lies in their failure to convince the audience that a blatant mountebank like the title character -- a man of pious poses, Jesuitical speech and conspicuous lust -- could deceive anyone, even such a fatuous fellow as Orgon, who has brought this serpent into the bosom of his family as a spiritual guide. After all, Tartuffe isn't loath to show his true, darker colors to almost everyone else in Orgon's household. Just how gullible can a gull be?
Still, anyone who has watched a man of, say, some 50 or 60 years -- with his children grown and the grave in his foreseeable future -- suddenly start clutching at signs of new life will recognize Mr. Bedford's Orgon. Some men buy red sports cars; some acquire new wives with silicone breasts. This Orgon brings the same desperately hopeful spirit, tinged with eroticism, to his pursuit of religious enlightenment.
The truly wondrous Mr. Bedford, who delivered another dazzling profile in fatuity in the Roundabout's ''London Assurance'' in 1997, turns Orgon into a beatific study in denial. Rather than the usual stuffy, tyrannical paterfamilias of most productions of ''Tartuffe,'' Mr. Bedford's Orgon has a malleable sweetness. (When you see him backing away from his aged mother, played with dragonlike fierceness by Rosaleen Linehan, you get a glimpse of what shaped him.)
It makes sense that this fellow, probably troubled by new thoughts of mortality and regrets about his past, would fall into the crafty hands of a poseur promising redemption. And Mr. Goodman, while guilty of a few instances of forced comic shtick, cannily plays Tartuffe as a Svengali who has by now so thoroughly hypnotized his victim that he knows exactly how much he can get away with.
In the one big scene the men share in the play's first half, there's an unsettling element of sexual teasing in Tartuffe's manipulation of the besotted Orgon. Mr. Goodman, who finds a criminal coldness and working-class resentment beneath his character's hair shirt, delivers a Tartuffe who knows all too well that physical and spiritual longings are not mutually exclusive.
At such moments, Orgon and Tartuffe might indeed have stepped straight from those incisive paintings of politicians and men of wealth by LeBrun, portraits that invariably inspire speculations on the scheming personalities of their subjects. This would appear to have been Mr. Dowling's overall intention with this ''Tartuffe,'' which is set firmly in the mid-17th century and has been given ravishingly detailed physical life.
Mr. Beatty, who created the knockout Deco-style sets for the current Lincoln Center production of ''Dinner at Eight,'' does similarly impressive duty here, rendering Orgon's Paris town house as a wood-paneled, ormolu-accented temple to haute bourgeois affluence, perfectly matched by Brian MacDevitt's painterly lighting and Jane Greenwood's frilled costumes.
Not everyone inhabits this environment -- or Richard Wilbur's standard rhymed translation -- with the same ease that Mr. Bedford does. There are those inevitable, numbing moments when the moralizing, singsong quality of recited poetry descends. But it's an agreeable supporting cast, and everyone has his or her moment to shine. It's a pleasure to see the throaty Ms. Smith-Cameron (of ''As Bees in Honey Drown'') back on stage, bringing genuine warmth to the somewhat tedious role of Dorine, the plucky, truth-speaking maid.
As Orgon's delectable wife, Ms. Meisle, who brings to mind the vulpine slyness of the young Annette Bening, does wonderfully by the famous seduction scene in which Tartuffe is entrapped. And Jeffrey Carlson, recently seen as the troubled son in ''The Goat,'' manages to find fresh ways of communicating adolescent angst through Baroque frippery as the suitor of Orgon's daughter, Mariane (the charming Bryce Dallas Howard).
But it's Mr. Goodman and Mr. Bedford who provide the surprises of emotional shading that make this more than just another attractively upholstered revival. Mr. Bedford, in particular, discovers an almost tragic pathos in this oft-revisited comedy.
When Orgon is finally delivered from evil (in a deus ex machina that is presented with a perfect balance of irony and wonder here), he doesn't look entirely happy. In fact, the last expression seen on Mr. Bedford's face is that of a man who has just been banished from paradise and can't figure out why.
I must offer both my congratulations and my condolences to Richard Wilbur, who translated Molière's nearly 340-year-old comedy Tartuffe for the revival that opened Thursday at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre.
Surely it was no easy task to turn a play written in the French verse style of 12-syllable Alexandrines into a relatively folksy iambic pentameter. The good news is that Wilbur came up with rhyming dialogue that is both stylish and accessible; it is well served by the generally naturalistic delivery of the fine cast assembled for this Roundabout Theatre Company production, which is nimbly directed by Joe Dowling.
So I guess I have no one but Molière to blame for my having yawned through a sizable chunk of the matinee I attended. The playwright's bemused attack on religious hypocrisy may have elicited great controversy back in 1664, but from where I was sitting last week, Tartuffe seemed pretty toothless.
It's not that the tale of a scam artist who charms and swindles a distinguished man using unctuous demonstrations of fake piety has lost its fundamental relevance. If anything, with cable TV news networks duking it out 24 hours a day, the smarmy and superficial moral concern of self-styled leaders has become more visible than ever.
But the context in which Molière presented this pretense now seems more like the stuff of lame sitcoms. Young lovers alternately pine for each other and push each other away in contrived fits of jealous whimsy. A woman tries to entrap a leering admirer by flirting with him, but things get out of hand when her husband doesn't catch his preordained cue to cut short her staged seduction. Even more shockingly, a female servant emerges as more sharp-witted than her buffoonish male employer.
Credit must be given where it is deserved, though, specifically to a cast that finesses such trite roles and dilemmas with pluck and grace. Brian Bedford could scarcely be better as the noble but dim Orgon, Tartuffe's dupe, while Henry Goodman conveys with relish the title character's bid to deprive Orgon of his fortune, not to mention his wife and daughter.
Kathryn Meisle wears her haughtiness convincingly — though not too prudishly — as the wife, while as the daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard makes a fetching and, despite her predicament, not-too-whiny ingénue. But both women are handily upstaged by J. Smith-Cameron and Rosaleen Linehan, whose wily performances as the girl's maid and grandmother provide a welcome blast of sass.
Praise is also due John Lee Beatty's set design and Jane Greenwood's costumes, which reflect all too fittingly the handsome but worn quality of this production. There's only so much that even a pro can do with dated material, no matter how impressive its label.
A touching "Tartuffe"? Moliere's satire of religious fanaticism isn't usually celebrated for its ability to tug at the heartstrings, but the Roundabout Theater Co.'s subdued but rewarding new production finds some dark and intriguing new colors in this mainstay of the theatrical canon. Director Joe Dowling takes the high road here, approaching Moliere's comedy not as a rip-roaring farce -- the easy way out, too often chosen -- but as a gently humorous drama of diseased psychology, a tale of romantic obsession and its dangerous consequences. With a pair of consummately skilled actors, Brian Bedford and Henry Goodman, playing the victim and the object of that obsession, the production also becomes a master class in the kind of effortlessly graceful classical acting too rarely seen on Broadway.
Goodman's Tartuffe, the hair-shirt-wearing confidence man, is not, of course, the play's central character. The pivotal role is that of Orgon (Bedford), the rich bourgeois whose fascination with this fraudulent holy man upends his household and nearly bankrupts him. In Bedford's piercing performance, Orgon's thrall is rendered respectfully: While remaining rational, the man gently seems to enter a parallel world of beatific bemusement whenever the beloved's name is mentioned. Bedford's Orgon is foolish, perhaps, but never ridiculous -- the actor insists upon the truth, and even the honorability, of Orgon's feeling; it's in the bestowing of it upon an unworthy object that Orgon's misfortune lies. (Hints of homoeroticism are treated gently.) It's impossible not to be moved by the spectacle of a man so totally at the mercy of misguided affection.
Bedford, who nabbed a Tony back in 1971 for his performance in another Moliere play, "The School for Wives," may well be the foremost interpreter of this repertoire onstage today. His performance here reminds us why: He intuitively finds the pulse of Richard Wilbur's peerless verse translation, revealing simultaneously the sense, the beauty and the wit of the language -- but without turning his speeches into showpieces of clever verbiage. Most crucially, he underscores the pitiful humor in Orgon's plight without losing sight of the character's essential humanity. He understands that it is by penetrating to the eternal psychological truth of Moliere's characters that his plays can be made to thrive onstage today.
Goodman, too, is an actor with an impressive list of classical credits to his name. (His Shylock was the finest this critic ever expects to see.) The British actor is perhaps best known in New York, alas, as the axed Max of Broadway's "Producers." There are a few moments -- an anachronistic gesture of victory when Tartuffe narrowly escapes exposure, for example -- when Goodman seems to succumb to a wayward impulse to prove how funny he can be. The answer is: quite funny enough -- and no need to protest so much. Goodman is particularly fine in the scene that finds Tartuffe, exposed by Orgon's son, Damis (T.R. Knight), for the lascivious impostor he is, backpedaling hilariously, insisting so intensely upon his own sinfulness that he convinces Orgon of the very opposite.
But what is most commendable about Goodman's performance is just what might have made him an uncomfortable fit for Mr. Bialystock: Goodman, too, is an actor who instinctively goes for psychological truth rather than theatrical effect; his Tartuffe is frighteningly convincing in his rapaciousness, a formidable foe rather than a mere comic construct. Max Bialystock, by contrast, is nothing but a big butterball of shtick -- and all the more glorious for it.
It is probably clear by now that Dowling's "Tartuffe" is not a gut-buster. Performed on a zealously naturalistic series of sets by John Lee Beatty, with hazy lighting by Brian MacDevitt that emphasizes their faux-Old Master qualities, the production often comes across more as a brooding, dark-hued moral drama -- Arthur Miller in wigs and pantaloons -- than a scintillating comedy. It inspires a measure of wry smiles, but few guffaws, and there are times when some of the actors' offhand way with the verse leads to serious longueurs.
Pleasingly light-fingered peformances from J. Smith-Cameron as the conniving maid, Dorine, and Rosaleen Linehan as Madame Pernelle are in keeping with the production's subtle tones, even if Jane Greenwood's painstakingly accurate period costumes aren't always (the unfortunate Jeffrey Carlson, playing Valere, the young suitor for Orgon's daughter's hand, is all but upstaged by his outlandish attire: He appears to be wearing a Persian rug that a feral cat has got the better of).
But the evening's turning point -- in which Orgon witnesses Tartuffe's perfidy while hiding underneath a table -- works up a generous comic froth, thanks in particular to the deliciously witty playing of Kathryn Meisle, as Orgon's wife, Elmire. This charming actress is becoming something of a classical specialist herself; she is the rare young stage actor who is at ease with the challenges of Shakespearean verse. Elmire's coy efforts to expose Tartuffe's lustful designs, followed by her desperate attempts to delay their consummation and draw her idle husband from his hiding place, serve to bring the play to a ripe comic climax.
It then subsides into the somewhat labored exposition of the family's near-destruction and ultimate savior by the benevolent hand of the prince (read Louis XIV). But Dowling concludes with a lovely touch: As the vanquished Tartuffe is dragged off to jail and the family files back into Orgon's mansion, the proprietor himself remains outside, unable to take his eyes off the sorry spectacle. A look of strange wonder plays across Orgon's face, an expression in which relief and triumph play only a minor part. The depth and richness of Bedford's peformance are distilled into this final image, of a man watching an emotional storm that has shaken him to the core slowly recede. He's thankful that it is over, but he seems smaller and sadder standing in its wake.

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We're looking for reusable gardening materials for our Nature Center at Camp Berachah in Auburn, WA where we have a petting farm, edible gardens, & activities for school age children attending our before/after school & summer camp programs. Since the ice storm damaged our cyclone fencing for the petting farm, so we're using the opportunity to rebuild & expand our program.
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Corrine, I can bring several egg cartons to the GE. You might want to post this on the 'Garden Exchange' post, too. On the 'Exchanges and Trading' page where the 'Pacific Northwest' link is at the bottom of the left column, the 'Garden Exchange' link is at the top of the right column. That's the place where you can post all non-plant garden exchanges, and from the looks of it, it has some current traffic (unlike some pages where the last post was in 2009). Not sure if there are any local people on it, though. Tammy |
I noticed the following ad posted on Craigslist Seattle. Poster is in Roy. |
Hi Corrine, I have several things on your list that I'd like to donate...are you near enough to Seattle to pick them up? ~Lisa |
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Corrine - will you be at the Olympia trade? I have quite a bit of older seed that I'd love to donate. I have good success with getting older stuff to sprout but it can be hit and miss. Maybe a good lesson on testing seed viability? Anyway..let me know and I'll bring some tomorrow Susan |
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I'll be at the Green Elephant Sat. Nov. 3rd to collect any unwanted gardening supplies or plants that are deer resistant. Either in white Suburban or maroon mini van with white Camp Berachah lettering on the side. |
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Alaska is already in the throes of a widespread outbreak of influenza, while most states are only reporting sporadic cases, state epidemiologist Dr. Joseph McLaughlin said Tuesday.
"It's possible we may be the only state to be widespread" this early, McLaughlin said.
The intensity of the seasonal outbreak is still low, though there are cases in many parts of the state, said Donna Fearey, a state nurse epidemiologist who co-ordinates flu information.
The state virology laboratory confirmed 91 cases over the past month, most of them from the Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough areas and Interior Alaska, the state health officials said.
The Anchorage School District nursing director could not be reached to say how the outbreak has been affecting local schools.
Last year the flu arrived pretty late in Alaska, in February or March, McLaughlin said. But the outbreak's seasonal start varies from year to year. In 2009, when there was a worldwide pandemic of swine-flu virus, the number of cases in Alaska began rising in October.
This year the strains circulating -- mostly Influenza A so far, wih some Influenza B - are well-matched to the vaccine, he said.
McLaughlin urged those who have not yet been vaccinated for flu and another serious respiratory illness -- pertussis, otherwise known as whooping cough -- to get it done.
Flu vaccine, available in pharmacies as well as clinics, can be given to everyone six months of age and older.
Young children get a series of five vaccines against pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus. Children who are 11 years old or older and adults need a one-time booster vaccine for those diseases.
Both flu and whooping cough are potentially serious diseases, McLaughlin said.
"Many people get hospitalized and die from influenza every year," he said.
Getting vaccinated not only protects a person, but it helps prevent the spread of flu in a community, he said.
While there were fewer than 60 whooping cough cases in Alaska each of the last couple of years, this year there have already been 204 cases, McLaughlin said.
"You can be sick for months, with a hacking cough, a fever. You really feel crummy."
Reach Rosemary Shinohara at email@example.com or 257-4340.
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The updated Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay FAQ is now online |
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | Published 21 February 2011 |
The light of the two moons shines down, revealing several twisted paths before you. You have been here before, and you feel Chaos growing nearer. Question rage in your mind, and the unnatural baying from behind tells you there is little time for answers.
The beasts of the Old World will not answer your questions. Fortunately, the updated Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay FAQ (pdf, 1.5 MB) will. Also, two cards containing errata information from The Creature Vault have been added to the support page to coincide with the information from The Creature Guide.
Head on over to the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay support page and continue your fight against Chaos.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a roleplaying game that sets unlikely heroes on the road to perilous adventure, in the grim setting of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy world. Players will venture into the dark corners of the Empire, guided by luck and Fate, and challenge the threats that others cannot or will not face.
I started a thread on that very subject a few days ago. Enjoy.
Big projects are going to inevitably have bugs in them requiring errata and FAQ for printed material like the rule books. However, FFG really has an opportunity here to show why the component system for WFRP 3e is great. They can easily patch the game. They already have the art work for the updated cards complete (see the support section). All they need to do is release a patch for the game in the form of a boxed set of official corrections, fixes, and updated components. It'd be great if those folks that have purchased everything so far could just send in their bugged components and receive the boxed set for free. But let's face it, printing stuff up costs money. I'd actually be willing to pay for a boxed set of corrected components. I see that could potentially set a dangerous precedent for paying for sloppy work and then paying again for the fixes. However, if they aren't going to give it away, would you pay for fixed components?
Why aren't they error-free? As a proof reader, I want to know why. It is the job of a proof reader - and presumably Fantasy Flight has at least one - to make sure that the product is error-free before it is printed.
There is a typo on the Cloak of Dragonscales care, conservative side. During is written 'Durning'
Sanjay made an excellent point, and I feel it's worth repeating:
Errors in components are a much bigger deal than errors in a book. I'm from the UK and selling this game to the tabletop community here has been hard enough (considering the new direction) but though I can counter any arguments like "it's just a boardgame", and "it's just like WoW" I have no way to disagree when people mention the amount of errors cropping up.
Perhaps the developers/publishers could have a little transparency and explain to us the process in which these products are written, edited, and ultimately published - I know that in the process of getting a fiction book out there are usually multiple editors and many proof-readers - is this the same for these products? I wonder how many WFRP fans, like myself, have seen an error and thought "how on earth did they miss this?"
This line of products has immense potential - once people have played it they fall in love. Not a person I have convinced to try it hasn't gone on to purchase more products. What we need is more proselytisers to go out and spread the word - which we will have if the developers/publishers keep strong links between the community, establish transparency, and move quickly to correct any errors - out of respect for the fanbase - who ultimately, are the source of FFG's income.
*Just a note. I am a big fan of FFG (owning several of their boardgames and much of the WFRP line), but it's a frustrating experience knowing that although I can look past some unfortunate errors/issues there are those who won't - and ultimately I can't buy enough products to make this line profitable!
I agree, the ammount of errors in guides is hard to belive.
But the hardest thing to get over are missing/errated cards.
well said Sanjay..... very well said
In the traditional pen and paper RPGs that I have encountered, erratas are the norm. It is IMPOSSIBLE to make a game of such complexity as an RPG and print it perfect the first time out. Especially when the customers are, for the most part, OCD regarding wording and exact definitions of rules.
That being said, I don't think FFG thought out what the effects of making changes and corrections to a "non-traditional" RPG would be. When a publisher is just editing what was printed in a core rules book, or even two or three main books like D&D, and where there are no components in play that require editing, the changes do not have much of an effect on actual game play. Everyone adds them to their books in the margins and the game proceeds seemlessly. After playing the game enough, it isn't necessary to reference the books much anyway. In WFRP3, the pretty components ARE the game. At least that is the way it was originally marketed and sold.
Such being the case, FFG should feel obligated to come up with a way to provide free updated components to those who purchased the game. This method of providing the corrected cards as printable pdfs is a cop out by FFG. It is not possible to reproduce the quality and feel of the official cards with a consumer quality printer. I think I speak for everyone who buys products from FFG when I say, "We buy their products because the production quality of the components is top-notch."
It is also true that the number of errors in the guide books is truly unacceptable. As stated in previous remarks, FFG should have put out a nearly perfect product given that the books were specifically marketed as being updated and corrected. Unfortunately, time and time again, FFG fails to produce well edited books.
I will also not be purchasing any more products from FFG for this reason. Half-ass doesn't cut it in this market.
l am another one who will not be buying anymore FFG products until they sort out all the errors in most of their games. It annoys me no end that l have spent a small fortune on FFG products which are error ridden, l am sure FFG do not give a fig about loosing a few people because they can not be bothered reprinting games that are full of errors.
Agreed it is the best RPG ever in my opinion and agreed they should be giveing fixed cards for free.
I will be honest - I love this game, it's the best RPG ever in my opinion and I'm buying every thing that FFG releases but the fact that I can't get the missed cards or the misprinted card for free in the next suplement is annoying me.
In my opinion FFG should give as those cards as a free bonus to Omens Of War.
HAH!! FFG and error free!?! You kidding me. This is the same company that produced a board game with errated pieces in Runewars and STIILL had misprinted components and let's not forget a 90 page book with 10 pages of errata worth of errors in a Quest Compendium.
I understand they have to reserve a spot for the printers over seas months to a year in advanced, but shouldn't that mean errors could be fixed and tested while awaiting the printers...? Just saying...
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Awww. What a sweet-looking baby. It was so good of you to take him and find a home for him. I'd like to keep them all, too. Why is it that some of the decisions we make - that really are for the best - are the ones that hurt so much? |
Sue , you are a hero for taking that little pup in,tending to his injuries and finding him a good home ... I have tears in my eyes reading this , it also reminds me of a puppy my son and I found wandering a busy road in Jacksonville, FL near a little corner store close to our house , this was many years ago, 1999, she was a young boxer pup, maybe 4 months old, we put up signs all over the neighborhood , a week later noone had claimed " Sally Southpaw " , we named her that cause she shook hands with her left paw , well we already had 2 cats and with everyone working full time and my son in middle school at the time we decided we couldn't keep her, I put her in for adoption at Petsmart , half hoping nobody would adopt her ... when we went to Petsmart later that day to pick her up we found out she had indeed been adopted by a young couple with another young boxer who needed a canine companion ... boy did we cry all the way home missing our " Sally Southpaw " ~Iris |
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Sue, all your little babies are so sweet, and you are such an amazing and inspiring person that you take in all these strays and find such loving homes for them. God bless you |
Sue, What a story. He is so cute. He looks just like a miniature version of my Creton who died over a year ago. I can see why you miss him. Sorry, I haven't written you back. I was in Florida visiting my father and I've been so busy ever since. Things are finally calming down a bit. Remy |
I'll be brief (can you believe that?) I was in an awful funk last week (cried), missing Buddy and worrying about him since his new Mom didn't reply to my emails or return my calls. Well I found out this AM that Buddy's new Mom can't keep him and she is bringing him back at noon today. I honestly had tears of joy, while talking to her and making arrangements for him to come back here. All is well with him, she just found out that he much prefers to be outside and she doesn't have the time to give him the attention he needs. I've changed my mind about not being able to keep him, plus BF also said he would have loved to have had him and that I should have never let him go. Whoo-Hoo...I've got all the time in the world to give him as we 'play' outside all day everyday. Will post new pics later today. I'm just so happy, happy, happy! Sue |
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Awww Sue! Good for you (and Buddy!) I like that this story has a happy ending!! Hugs, |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 19, 10 at 10:53
hehehe very cute little guy. What kind of dog do you think he is? My daughter brought home a "stray dog" last spring and the longer I spent looking for his owner, the more I was kind of hoping nobody would claim him because I was getting attached. He had such a lovable personality. We already had two dogs though. I posted ads, took him to the vet to have him checked for a chip and spent hours looking on the internet to see if anyone was looking for him since he turned up right after a bad thunderstorm and I really thought he might be a runaway. |
Sue, That's great news!!! Remy |
- Posted by mrs.b_in_wy 5a WY (My Page) on Sat, Mar 20, 10 at 16:52
I have a dopey smile on my face from reading your post. I'm so glad to hear how it worked out :) |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (email@example.com) on Mon, Mar 22, 10 at 10:47
Sounds like you were supposed to be his Mommy after all : ) |
awww Buddy & Ellie are so cute! Im glad you got Buddy back.:) |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, May 13, 10 at 10:44
Buddy looks very happy in his forever home. I'm so glad to hear that Ellie's back home. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that someone had Ellie but they might not have done it for devious reasons. Some people, especially kids, see an animal and just bring it home not considering that it might be someone's pet. Maybe they didn't hear about your search for her. |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Thu, May 13, 10 at 11:45
You're so lucky to get Ellie back. Don't you wish she could tell you what happened! I would watch her very closely for awhile in case they come back to get her again. |
So sweet. We donate to Cat welfare and go pet the sad cats. Can you imagine throwing a cat toy and 30 cats taking off after that. I have two cats myself. I found out the other day that my ex told my parents that if it was between him and that cats, the cats would win. Well, he got one thing right. My three grown kids have been brought up to love animals and love the cats. |
Wow Sue you got lucky getting Ellie back.they look so cute with there toys :) LOL bakemom thats so funny! my ex use to say that about my dog rocky! haha. yea he was right too! |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (email@example.com) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 10:03
When I first started dating my now DH he wasn't a big animal lover. We decided to move in together and I made it quite clear that my cat and I were a package deal. My sweet kitty lived for 29 years and DH grew to love her. Not only that but we have what would probably be considered a menagerie now with cats, dog, bird, rat, hamsters, sugar gliders, chinchillas, tree frogs, geckos, rabbits and fish. I can't say that he loves them all as much as I do but he tolerates them. lol |
Hi Sue, I got a Buddy this week and revisited your post. I was really surprised to see your pics (didn't remember them) and that you had gotten him back. Anyway, my Buddy came from our local shelter and he's about 7 months old, probably mostly English Springer Spaniel. He was neutered last week, but it didn't slow him down any. Here's two pics if I can figure out how to post. |
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In April, a few hours after a major cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo was announced, a decree suspending him for "serious wrongdoing" was read on national radio and television. Guinea's ailing president, Lansana Conté, gave no further information and the post of prime minister was abolished by decree in May.
Excessive use of force
On at least three occasions in February and in June, the security forces used excessive force against demonstrators and students. The security forces reportedly used tear gas, beat students with police batons and fired live ammunition. No independent investigation was launched into the resulting deaths.
In February, at least two people were killed and several injured in Gueckedou, in the southeast, when police clashed with demonstrators protesting at the appointment of a mayor belonging to the Progress and Unity Party (Parti de l'unité et du progrès, PUP), the ruling party. Opposition parties accused officials of fraud during the December local elections.
In June, unarmed students demonstrated in major cities including Labé and Conakry after learning that their exams would not be supervised because of a nationwide strike over price rises for basic commodities. In clashes with security forces, more than 10 students were killed. The Minister of Internal Affairs put the official death toll at 11. According to hospital sources, 18 people were killed and more than 80 injured.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the African Union President Alpha Oumar Konaré expressed concern that the security forces had used excessive force against unarmed demonstrators. However, despite national and international pressure, no independent inquiry appeared to have been opened.
Torture and ill-treatment
There were consistent reports of beatings and other ill-treatment of demonstrators during the protest marches in February and June. Dozens of demonstrators were injured during attempts by the security forces to disperse them.
A military officer arrested in 2005 was tortured and ill-treated on Kassa Island. He was locked in a tiny cell nicknamed "Vietnam", less than a cubic metre in size. Unable to stand or extend his legs, he was forced to crouch for 72 hours and given nothing but breadcrumbs to eat. He was later taken aboard a small inflatable boat, bound, thrown into the water and dragged by his hands at speed for half an hour.
Detention without trial
Seven soldiers and military officers, including Naroumba Kante, Djan Foula Kamara and Mamady Condé, held since 2003 on suspicion of plotting to overthrow President Conté, were still detained in Conakry Central Prison. They had not been charged by the end of 2006. The detainees' families wrote to the authorities requesting visitation rights and a prompt, fair trial. They received no reply.
Releases of military officers
Between March and July, four military officers, including Mamy Pé and Kabinet Kaba, were released without charge. They had been arrested following an attempt to assassinate President Conté in January 2005. They were held on Kassa Island, where access to detainees is extremely difficult.
Death penalty
In September, the Assize court sentenced nine people to death for the murder of a local politician in May. No executions were reported.


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Council halts 54W light request
DOT wants time to install new signal management system
A proposal to add a new traffic light on Ga. Highway 54 West for a new shopping center ran into a logjam of its own Thursday night, as the Peachtree City Council voted unanimously to table the request indefinitely.
The Georgia Department of Transportation asked for the delay so it would have time to install a new traffic signal management system on the highway, according to City Manager Jim Pennington.
The new system will use information from highway sensors to gauge when traffic is really congested, triggering an automatic switchover to one of several customized signal timing patterns to improve traffic flow. It is expected to take about three months to complete, though work is already underway. The $133,000 project is being funded by a grant from the Atlanta Regional Commission.
"Their concern is making sure traffic improves at a better rate or at least keeps from going down to bad," Pennington said.
The delay will also allow for completion of a corridor study requested by council that is expected to offer potential solutions for the recurring traffic problems on Hwy. 54 West.
Trinity Development asked the city to approve a permit request for the new light at Line Creek Drive where Trinity wants to build a 81,000 sq. ft. shopping center with a grocery store and other national retailers. Though council could approve or reject the request, the final say rests with the Georgia Department of Transportation.
Council also tabled indefinitely a second request from Trinity: to allow a road connection from the shopping center to Planterra Way. Residents of the Planterra Ridge and Cardiff Park subdivisions have opposed this link, arguing that it would make traffic worse on Planterra Way.
In the afternoon drive time, cars back up in the left hand turn lane approaching the highway, going as far back as the entrance to the city's tennis center, and council has seen the proof in photos submitted by a Planterra resident two weeks ago. Navigating that mess takes about 10 minutes or more to get through, residents have said.
Several city council members have said they will work on fixing the issue with cut-through traffic.
Residents have also decried how a road link to the Shoppes at MacDuff shopping center further west was removed from the site plan, since it would allow vehicles at Trinity's proposed shopping center to reach the existing traffic light on MacDuff Parkway.
Pennington told council that all of those traffic issues would be examined in the city's traffic study, which was approved by council Jan. 16 at a cost of $70,000.
"The Planterra connection, the MacDuff connection and the traffic light, all those things have to be included," Pennington said, adding that the study will also look at the entire area. "... That is already in the works."
Traffic on Hwy. 54 West during afternoon drive times can get so congested that it often backs up beyond the traffic light on Willowbend Road at City Hall.
Though the new traffic signal management system is expected to improve traffic on Hwy. 54 West somewhat, it will not add more capacity to deal with the growing amount of vehicles on the highway. Some Wilksmoor Village residents have said that traffic will turn sour on the artery at other times of day instead of just during the afternoon commute.
"The last three or four years we try to avoid that intersection like the plague between 4 and 6 and even during the weekends," Planterra resident Stephen Gleason told council Thursday night. "We'll drive all the way back to Kelly Drive sometimes to get out or come home."
Just sat at the 54/74 light for 7 cycles and the light at Market Place Blvd and 54W for 3 cycles. On Sunday afternoon! No more approval for construction or lights in that area until they fix the existing problems. That stretch of road is awful. Congrats on postponing a decision indefinitely.
I was out too, noticed the traffic as we went from Spyglass Sub to The Avenue, then on to Home Depot and Pikes...good times...ZERO red light cycles. :)
on a golf cart? I've used the tunnel and Clover Reach to get to Starbucks, but couldn't cross 54 to go north.
If that's workable, I will be taking one car off the road on Saturday and just use my golf cart all day. Home Depot and haircut is the only reason I have to go over there.
I go to the Peachtree City Barber Shop underneath Big Daddy's.
Just as mentioned below, two tunnels in that area, on each side of the RR TRACKS. One from Avenue to Ethan Allen, the other from the mulch guys across from Golf Rider to Best Buy, Home Depot etc...the cart bridge north of 54 connects it all together.
at Books A Million over to the path off that side parking lot, go thru the tunnel under 54 and hang an immediate right as you come out of the tunnel, staying on the path on the north side of 54 (at Ethan Allen) and go over the path bridge to Best Buy, Petsmart, Home Depot, WalMart, etc. Another wondrous journey ala PTC.
If you really want to avoid Avenue car traffic, cart in the service alley behind the shopping center and you will come out behind Books A Million and the path and tunnel are straight ahead across their side parking lot.
Wasn't this section of highway 54 designed for a third lane in each direction when it was built? Just asking..
Wasn't this section of highway 54 designed for a third lane in each direction when it was built? Just asking..
Here's our GDOT cash working hard. Just got home from the logjam on Hwy 54.
Traffic backed up, westbound, from past Flat Creek/Willowbend as far as I could see, which included 54/74.
Here we are, Saturday afternoon, PAY DAY for the masses who collect SS and a twice a month paycheck. And any other government allotment you can get your hands on.
So, of course, I turned off onto the 2nd Willowbend left turn, just following the Coweta plates in front on me who were trying to go south on 74 but just couldn't wait to get up to 54/74 to make that left turn, either.
I will be submitting my invoice to GDOT for reimbursement, and to city council for reimbursement, for the 130K and 70K waste of money that is doing NOTHING to alleviate the traffic there. Stick a GDOT GPS on my vehicle, have some $10. per hour state worker (sorry attempt at humor, more like $10. per minute) follow me on a computer screen and I will only charge about a grand per trip. There, that's my traffic response system.
Almost don't want to jump too high or yell too loudly because this almost sounds like common sense here ...especially coming from a government entity.
Maybe not the "end all" solution to a very self-induced (at the hand of PTC) situation but certainly a step in the right direction.


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1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. | 1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. |
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. | 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. |
3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. | 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. |
4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. | 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. |
5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. | 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. |
6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you. | 6 You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you. |
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. | 7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. |
8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. | 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. |
9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. | 9 Don't grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! |
10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. | 10 Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. |
11 Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. | 11 As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. |
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment. | 12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear--not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Let your "Yes" be yes, and your "No," no, or you will be condemned. |
13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise. | 13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. |
14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: | 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. |
15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. | 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. |
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. | 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. |
17 Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. | 17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. |
18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. | 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. |
19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; | 19 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, |
20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. | 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins. |
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12/17/142015 Economic ForecastThe University of Georgia's Terry College of Business unveiled the 2015 Economic Outlook Friday, Dec. 12, at a luncheon at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. Douglas Handler, chief U.S. economist for IHS Global Insights, spoke about the national outlook, and Benjamin Ayers, dean of the Terry College, presented the Georgia forecast. In a break from recent tradition, there was pretty good news all the way around. Handler not only offered a fairly upbeat national forecast, he made the audience laugh out loud – an unexpected treat! Here are a few of the highlights on the countrywide front. 2015 will be a noticeably better year than 2014, but still won't be a really good year. The federal deficit is under control, a good thing, Handler says, but it... |
12/12/14The Power is YoursThe Captain Planet Foundation threw a star-studded 2014 Benefit Gala Dec. 5 honoring renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall as well as Georgians Dr. Marshall Shepherd, director of the University of Georgia's Atmospheric Sciences Program, and 12-year-old Carter Ries and his sister Olivia, 10, founders of One More Generation (OMG). Other stars attending included Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, Larry King and CNN Anchor and Event Co-Chair Natalie Allen. Captain Planet Foundation Executive Director Leesa Carter described the environmental organization's success with reaching children, including the expansion of the Project Learning Garden program, which, in partnership with Pratt Industries, is now available to any school in the country for just $1,000; and... |
12/09/14Spotted in Georgia, El Taco, Virginia HighlandsThe Virginia Highland website: "Historic Virginia Highland is Atlanta's most popular neighborhood for shopping, dining and nightlife. Developed in the early 1900's, it consists of seven distinct commercial "villages" alternating with short, walkable blocks of charming bungalow homes. The neighborhood's name derives from the intersection of Virginia and Highland Avenues. Locals and tourists alike mingle for brunch at charming sidewalk cafes, cocktails at lively night spots, and innovative cuisine at progressive restaurants and bistros. Discovering the unexpected is part of the attraction where you may find world- famous musical entertainment at a tiny nightclub, an opening-night party at an art gallery or a gathering of... |
12/05/14MAC's Annual MeetingA big helping of optimism was served up along with lunch at Tuesday's (Dec. 2) annual meeting of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Transportation may be the chamber's No. 1 issue for 2015, but outgoing chair Richard Anderson, Delta's CEO, cautioned against too much negativity. "Let's level-set where we are," he said in a pre-meeting press availability. "Atlanta competes with Houston, Dallas – and Charlotte, to a lesser degree. I'll match our traffic against traffic in Houston and Dallas any day. I'm a Texan, so I can say that. We have work that we have to do. … But let's understand where we are in the context of overall infrastructure. We compete very well in the competitive set of Southeastern... |
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BOSTON — The Bruins made it official Thursday morning: Gregory Campbell's season is over.
Campbell, Boston's reliable fourth-line center, was the talk of the sports world and beyond on Thursday for continuing to play with a broken right fibula after he blocked a shot by Evgeni Malkin in Game Three.
"That's the kind of player he is. He's a real dedicated individual to his work and to his game, from off ice, to on ice, to taking care of himself, demeanor, everything else," said Boston coach Claude Julien.
"What he did yesterday surprised a lot of people but it didn't surprise us because that's just who he is — stay in there and make sure he finishes his shift. As a coach, you probably wish he would have stayed down, but that's not his job."
Julien didn't tip his hand on Campbell's replacement. "We've got lots of options," he said.
Kaspars Daugavins, Jay Pandolfo and Carl Soderberg are Boston's extra forwards. The team also has black aces up from Providence that could be called upon: Jordan Caron, Carter Camper and Chris Bourque.
Penguins shooting
The Penguins are improving at putting more shots on net. They just need to put more into the net.
And they're running out of time.
Pittsburgh forced Boston goalie Tuukka Rask to make 53 saves, but the Bruins won 2-1 in double overtime Wednesday night for a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.
Sidney Crosby doesn't have a point in the series, but Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma says his team can't rely on just its best offensive players. The Penguins led the NHL in scoring this season but have been outscored 11-2 by the Bruins. Crosby, Malkin and Kris Letang have been held without a point in this series.
Neither team has scored a power-play goal. Pittsburgh is 0-for 12; Boston is 0-for-10.
Pittsburgh has not led at any time during the first three games.
How it stacks up
Game Three was Boston's 20th multiple-overtime game. It was the seventh-longest game in team history.
The Bruins are 18-1 in their history when ahead 3-0 in a best-of-seven series. They are 13-6 in game fours when leading 3-0 in a best-of-seven series.
Bylsma on thin ice
Not surprisingly, there are rumblings that Pittsburgh's Bylsma Dan Bylsma could be fired if his team goes on to lose against the Bruins.
If Bylsma is let go, expect to hear the name of Toll Gate High School grad John Hynes mentioned as a possible successor.
Hynes, who coached the Pens' Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club to a comeback win over the Providence Bruins in the Calder Cup playoffs, is one of the brightest young coaches in the game.
Hynes is with the Penguins for the Boston series, putting Pittsburgh's extra players through their paces in practice.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report
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Lorin DeMordaunt is a managing director with Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (DCF). Lorin leads DCF's Consumer and Retail group. Prior to joining DCF, Lorin served as a managing director and co-founding partner at McColl Partners. There he served as the head of the firm's Consumer and Retail group. His transaction experience includes buy-side and sell-side assignments within numerous sectors of the consumer, retail and restaurant industries, including food and beverage, health and beauty, recreation, direct sales, pet, restaurant, and specialty retail.
Previously, he was at a nationally recognized investment bank. Lorin also served as an attorney at a New York-based law firm, where he practiced in the corporate department.
- Advised Flavor 1st on its recapitalization with Sun Capital
- Advised Enray, Inc. in its sale to The J.M. Smucker Company
- Advised Dymatize on the acquisition of Supreme Protein*
- Advised eSmartloan.com on the sale to Capital One*
- Advised Petri Baking Products, Inc. on the sale to Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.*
- Advised American Importing Company, Inc. on its recapitalization with Gryphon Investors, Inc.*
- Advised Fehr Foods on its sale to Grupo Nacional de Chocolates.*
- Advised Specialty Bakers, Inc. on its recapitalization with StoneBridge Partners.*
- Advised National Frozen Foods Corp. on its sale to Endeavor Capital.*
- Advised Goldsboro Milling Company on its recapitalization of Butterball, LLC with Seaboard Corp.*
- Advised Royal Pet Supplies on its sale to Quarry Capital Management and subsequent sale to Phillips Pet Food and Supplies.*
- Advised Cutters Glove on its sale to Shock Doctor. *
- Advised Ogio on its recapitalization.*
- Advised Bushwacker, Inc. on its acquisition of Kalot Industries, Inc. d/b/a Stampede Products.*
- Advised Bio-Engineered Supplements on its sale to Glanbia/Optium Nutrition.*
- Advised Dymatize Enterprises on its recapitalization with TA Associates.*
- Advised Klein-Becker d/b/a USA on its sale of Strivectin to Catterton Partners.*
- Advised Hooters of America on its sale to H.I.G. and Karp Reilly.*
- Advised HyCite Enterprises, a direct-selling cookware business, on its recapitalization with Palladium Equity Partners.*
- Advised D.N.K. Management, a specialty retailer, on its recapitalization with Golden Gate Capital.*
- Advised Neways International on its sale to Golden Gate Capital.*
Education & Certifications
- New York University: J.D.
- Brigham Young University: BA, English
* References an engagement that was performed by personnel of McColl Partners, LLC prior to the acquisition by DCF of substantially all of the assets of McColl Partners, LLC.