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Roots Music Festival offers impressive lineup at the Linda
The Roots Music Festival on Saturday at the Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio, will feature six bands including Railbird, celebrating the release its new EP. The festival begins at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.). It features the Leigh Gibson Band (bluegrass), Railbird (indie), Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers (gospel), Red Haired Strangers (country blues), […] [Read More]
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Caffe Lena will culminate its 50th-birthday celebration Sat., May 22, with a concert by Arlo Guthrie and Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. Tickets are $50 and available at the Caffe Lena Web site: http://www.caffelena.org/. For information call 583-0022. As the nation's oldest continuously operating coffeehouse, Caffe […] [Read More]
Sting returning to SPAC with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sting is returning to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at 8 p.m. Sat., July 31, concert promoter LiveNation announced today. Tickets are $72, $102 and $182 — pavilion only. If the pavilion sells out, then tickets on the lawn may be offered, said Donna Eichmeyer of LiveNation. Tickets go […] [Read More]
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Coming off 2006's raw, violence-prone and highly-acclaimed "Revenge" and 2008's ferocious and darkly tuneful "Vice" Brandon and his two younger brothers Zach (bass) and Adam (drums) – all formerly having paid dues as the core members of the cult punk-ska-soul group The Gadjits- as well as non-family member Keenan Nichols (guitar) reaffirmed their collective commitment to quality rock and roll and went for a new approach to the song cycle on The Hard Way. "Somewhere in the process of trying to breathe life into these characters and stories, the music and the lyrics just became more natural-sounding." Brandon says, "You can't detect quite as much carpentry on these songs."
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Wow! I got goosebumps! I'm checking your other stuff now, too. My one complaint is that it was short. Make this beautiful piece longer, please. =)
I'm not sure if I'll have time for lengthening this particular piece right now, but I'll try to post some longer stuff like it!
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i like it its relaxing
I like your comment its short
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Very nice, wish it was longer because I'm working on a 3D model late at night with random Newgrounds music in the background, and this was very soothing.
Ha, ya, this wasn't meant for that kinda activity I'll admit, but glad you liked it!
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Absolutely breath taking... I got chills at 00:48
Very simple, but amazing.
Great job! :)
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I really like this it's repetitiveness actually adds to it
reminds me of Spyro the dragon for some reason though
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In this week's instalment of 'Tuesdays with Lauri' we will talk about light, and how a reflector truly is a powerful weapon in a photographer's arsenal. If you have any questions or requests for future episodes, just leave a comment below, and I'll do my best to help you all out!
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Love it! Thanks for sharing! Any chance you could show before/after retouching? Also, if you don't mind me asking, what fog machine did you use? The one I have produces a blue-ish fog.
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Had to have some Thanksgiving crafts fun!
No elegant tablescape to share with you. There were eight of us for Thanksgiving, and we ate buffet style because my table is not really large. I did use my china and cloth napkins, but kept the centerpiece very low and simple so we could have as much room as possible.
I always try to put a little fun into everything mainly for my little six year old GD. I bought a plush turkey picture and crayons from Big Lots so she could color it while we all visited. She thought that was a neat thing to do, and she also took her chalk outside to the patio and wrote a Happy Thanksgiving message to each of us. We are quite impressed with her spelling now. ;o)
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These little turkeys cover a cookies and cream candy bar. (See OA, I made them! We had seen these at a crafts show recently.)
Had to make some TG covers for the water bottles too!
And this little frame was hung above the buffet table:
We had a wonderful day and several of us took a walk afterwards--however, even in sunny California, we had to wear our sweaters or jackets! LOL
What a fun table, luvs! I think it is very beautiful with your china & your turkey/pumpkin centerpc & accessories! Love all the "white" in your t'cloth, chairs & china! Love the paperbag turkeys for the dessert! I bet your DGD enjoyed your table alot! (& probably some Big Kids were smiling, too). Great table prepared with lots of love! TFS! Jeanne S.
Sounds like you had a lovely day Luvs.
Your table looks so festive with your cute turkey creations. How nice to be able to take a walk and just wear a light jacket or sweater...that's sounds like perfect weather to me...we had some rain mixed with sleet at the end of the day!
It's nice that you provide your DGD with fun things to do while she's with the grownups. I'm sure it's something she looks forward to when she visits.
I always keep a cabinet filled with Craft things for my DGkds..before they lived with us...they enjoyed finding something new ea time. I have fun shopping for new things for them too.
Thanks for looking and all your sweet comments. I actually think the grownups enjoyed the turkeys as much as little GD did--especially when they discovered there was candy inside! LOL
I want my GD to think it's fun to come to Gma's house. Jane, I need new ideas for little things to entertain her, she's already hooked on computer games and it's really hard to compete with that! LOL Luckily, I have two dogs she loves to play with and share her food with, so that helps keep her busy. ;o)
I have to tell all of you that while holidays are so fun and such special times with family--I was wiped out last night and today! And then I read Ms. Karen's post on how she's already getting all her Fall decorations put away! Can I just tell you how much I am dreading all that work???? Karen, would you wanna come do mine too? Oh, that's right, I'm supposed to be the energetic, healthy one! You sure do put me to shame, gal. LOL
Love you all.
Lovely table and beautiful china. The turkey covered candy bars are so cute and I love cookies and cream. You even made water labels, neat.
Your sign is wonderful. I was talking to DD today and I bought her a circut cutter a few years ago for Christmas. She said she would bring it up if I want to use it. I said "best not or I'll never get all the fall decorations down and Christmas up. I am excited to know I have one if I decide I'd like to play tho.
DGD stayed the night with us and I took her to work with me today. She wanted to put up our Christmas tree last night but like you, way to tired for that. I did get out a 4' tree and let her decorate it. GK are sooooo fun.
I took all my fall down tonight and will try to get it put away Sunday. I have to work tomorrow till 5 so it will be dark when I get home.
Your table looks very sharp. I love the items all set against the white tablecloth. Nothing like a white tablecloth to make you sit up straight in your chair at dinner.
Your candy bar turkeys are adorable. Remember the ones we saw that looked like someone was in a big hurry to make several hundred?
I just got a postcard in the mail today about another Craft Show. Will get in touch with you soon.


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Newcastle defender laments first ever five-match Premier League skid
Apr 20, 2014, 8:30 PM EDT
Newcastle United have been pitch poor in nearly every way for most of 2014, and one of their best players is speaking out after making his return in Saturday's 2-1 loss to Swansea City.
The Magpies have lost five-straight Premier League matches for the first time since the league began, and outside back Mathieu Debuchy's return to the lineup couldn't fix things.
Newcastle has lost those five games by a combined score of 13-1, and Debuchy's been forced to watch much of the abysmal stretch.
"I have never known five defeats in a row," Debuchy said. "It is something which isn't acceptable for a club like Newcastle United and a squad like ours. It is something we simply should not be doing.
"I watched every match while I was injured and it has been tough, very tough. I find it difficult because whether I am injured or suspended, I just want to be out there playing, helping my teammates and giving them everything I can."
The losses have been embarrassing, and it's easy to forget these players have been on elite teams their entire careers… and that a run of five straight losses may literally have never happened to Debuchy until now.
NUFC manager Alan Pardew had been under fire for the squad's performance even before he headbutted David Meyler – his suspension just ran its course this weekend — and now the club's stated goal of finishing in the Top Ten is in question.
With players like Debuchy saying their play is unacceptable and the team failing to achieve its goals, could the Premier League's second-longest tenured manager be out the door at season's end?
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What a year it's becoming for the thirty-something crowd at Wimbledon. Led by 31-year-old Serena Williams and 35-year-old Tommy Haas, nine of the 32 players remaining at the year's third Grand Slam are 30 or older. That's the most in the round of 16 at a Grand Slam since the 1977 Australian Open and ties the Wimbledon record in the open era, first set in 1975. All these stats follow the trend. The average age of the top 20 on the men's tour is 27 years, 260 days - more than 2 1/2 years older than it was 10 years ago, according to STATS Inc. And on the women's tour over the last 10 years, the average age has spiked by almost exactly two years - to 26 years, 213 days.
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October 05, 2013 4:31 AM
U.S. President Barack Obama says he expects Congress to increase the country's borrowing limit before a mid-October deadline, ensuring that the United States does not default on its financial obligations.
With the U.S. government in the fifth day of a partial shutdown, it also faces running out of money to pay its bills on October 17, including interest on government bonds held by China, Japan and other overseas investors.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press released Saturday, Obama said he expects Congress will increase the country's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling so the United States can borrow more money.
"America has never not paid its bills, and I've said repeatedly that that's not something anybody should be threatening," he said. "The potential default of the United States, where we are essentially deadbeats, that's never happened."
Obama, a Democrat in his fifth year at the White House, is locked in a political stalemate with Republican opponents in Congress over government spending policies and implementation of his signature legislative achievement: wide-ranging health care changes that are now taking effect.
Willing to negotiate
The president said he is willing to negotiate changes to the health law and reduce spending, but not until Congress agrees to end the shutdown and raises the debt ceiling without conditions. Republicans opposed to the health care reforms are trying to end funding for or delay that program, which is commonly known in the U.S. as "Obamacare."
Opposition Republicans have insisted that they will only approve a spending bill to reopen the government if Obama and Democratic leaders agree to negotiations on the separate issue of the health care plan.
With Congress deadlocked, a lack of funds has halted or sharply curtailed a wide variety of government services. All national parks, museums and the Library of Congress have been closed since Tuesday, and scientific research at the National Institutes of Health and the space agency, NASA, has been almost entirely suspended. These actions prompted government agencies to order about 800,000 federal workers on furlough status — sending them home without pay and barring them from remaining at their jobs, even voluntarily.
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U.S. military forces have not been directly affected by furloughs, although the Department of Defense sent home 400,000 civilian employees before recalling them to return to work next week. Some federal agencies and programs, such as the Voice of America, have been ordered to continue their work even with a portion of their workforce on furlough. Air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and many food inspectors also are still working.
Despite the focus on the funding shortage resulting from the stalemate in Congress, it now appears that all furloughed workers will eventually be paid for the time they spent at home, thanks to separate action making its way through Congress. Repaying hundreds of millions of dollars to employees whose wages were interrupted, however, is a much smaller issue than the dispute over the debt ceiling.
The U.S., with the world's biggest economy, has never defaulted — failed to pay its bills, in effect. Most analysts do not expect that will happen this time, either, but the uncertainty that currently prevails could cause substantial turmoil in world financial markets. A protracted congressional debate in 2011 over increasing the borrowing limit did not shut off government services, but it roiled international financial markets and noticeably slowed economic growth in the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a news conference at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali island Oct. 5, 2013.
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Some fear that could occur again in the next two weeks. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday he does not think that will happen, but he warned that a "prolonged or repeated" political crisis in Washington could weaken the U.S. globally.
Speaking at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the island of Bali in Indonesia, Kerry described the current government shutdown as "a momentary episode." The risk, he said, lies in how long the stalemate persists.
On Capitol Hill, Republicans who control the House of Representatives have offered to approve funding for individual agencies, but the U.S. Senate, controlled by Democrats, has insisted there must be overall funding legislation to reopen the entire government. The Republicans say they will not consider an overall budget unless that includes changes in the health care law, which was previously approved by both houses of Congress and ruled constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order lunch at Taylor Gourmet sandwich shop near the White House in Washington, Oct. 4, 2013.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order lunch at Taylor Gourmet sandwich shop near the White House in Washington, Oct. 4, 2013.
Obama tried to highlight the impact on furloughed workers Friday by visiting a local sandwich shop that was offering discounts to out-of-work government employees. Before ordering lunch for himself and Vice President Joe Biden, Obama challenged House Speaker John Boehner to allow lawmakers to vote freely on a bill to reopen the government without conditions.
"This shutdown could be over today," he said. "We know there are the votes for it in the House of Representatives, and as I said [Thursday], if Speaker Boehner will simply allow that vote to take place, we can end this shutdown."
Democratic criticism has irked Boehner, who objected earlier Friday to a published report that framed the ongoing political struggle as a contest that one side or the other could win or lose.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, joined by members of the Republican Caucus, demands that the White House and congressional Democrats negotiate with congressional Republicans, Oct. 4, 2013.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, joined by members of the Republican Caucus, demands that the White House and congressional Democrats negotiate with congressional Republicans, Oct. 4, 2013.
"This isn't some damn game," Boehner said. "The American people don't want their government shut down, and neither do I. All we're asking for is to sit down and have a discussion and to bring fairness, reopen the government, and bring fairness to the American people under Obamacare."
Democrats in the House are considering using a parliamentary maneuver to try to force a vote on a funding bill to end the shutdown, but they can only succeed if some Republican representatives turn against their party leadership. Such a vote could not occur before October 14, three days before the U.S. must increase the borrowing limit.
Democrats in the House said they will use a parliamentary maneuver to try to force a vote on a funding bill to end the shutdown, but would need some Republican support to carry out the plan. Such a vote could not occur before October 14, three days before the U.S. must increase the borrowing limit.
Compromise urged
Furloughed federal workers protest outside the U.S. Capitol to demand an end to the lockout of federal workers caused by the government shutdown October 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Furloughed federal workers protest outside the U.S. Capitol to demand an end to the lockout of federal workers caused by the government shutdown October 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.
One analyst, University of Michigan business professor Erik Gordon, said he thinks both Obama and his Republican opponents will have to compromise on their policy goals if a default is to be avoided.
"I think at the last minute there will be some compromise, because neither side can afford to be seen by the public as being intransigent," he said. "So the Republicans will have to give up and say, 'Okay, we'll settle for fewer tax cuts than we asked for.' And the president is going to have to say, 'I'm going to make some bigger reductions [in spending] than I said I would make,' because neither side can afford to have the blame pinned on them. They will move together and learn to live with each other one more time."
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Ross Banick
October 08, 2013 3:43 AM
Congress is still playing its game while the Media loves to report on it, and the federal workers, meanwhile, get their paid furlough (they always do). It's all fun and games running around with scissors until someone gets their eye poked out.
The way the game works is that Congress tells the President how much to tax and spend, but, he can't borrow enough to cover the spending. This ridiculous situation is the game that Congress artificially plays. This upended math is what the "debt crisis" is all about.
Remember the California "Energy Crisis"? Well, it was a similar game. Remember how it ended? Yup. By the simple single stroke of a pen. Voila! No more energy crisis. They stopped the game.
Likewise, what Congress SHOULD do is just stop playing their silly game that they created, they play exclusively, and that only they can solve (by law). They instituted this game in 1917, and have played their hands 78 times since 1960 alone. If they didn't LOVE this game, they would have simply funded what they told the President to spend.
That the media eats this up is a given, as the number of potential stories as this unfolds is unending. And, the blame. Oh the blame! It's WONDERFUL how one side blames the other for doing what they did just scant years ago themselves. But, that's how the game is played.
One side withholds something of no intrinsic value (their vote, which, in the end, they'll always give up anyway); while the other side has to give in on something of value (remember the MX Missile?). Neither side would cave in were there not these delicately described massive consequences (which, after all, Congress added to the game just so that the game would work - because - otherwise - nobody would take them seriously).
So, in the end, we have a game played only by Congress which was created by Congress which only Congress can solve. Popcorn please ...
Stevens Point, WI
October 07, 2013 1:41 PM
It speaks a lot about this country that the article has to mention that Obama is a Democrat in his fifth year in the White House.
October 06, 2013 11:10 PM
The VOA has stooped to the level of the political-haters who sneeringly began calling the Affordable Care Act by another name. Perhaps we readers can expect no better from news media workers. Yet at least the NMWs could name the medical care reform law before using the term of contempt for it.
October 06, 2013 6:36 PM
I do not have/use credit cards, I just paid off my car, I make sure I meet all my bills and mortgage by the time they are due (or I make arrangements to pay them in a timely fashion), so I do not fully understand the workings of finance and debt....now, having said that, I will tell what I DO know about it, perhaps from a naïve perspective.
Obama says raising the debt ceiling will not create more debt, but if you raise the limit on your credit card (allowing you to spend more), the natural reaction is...to spend more, thus increasing your debt. You are still spending more than you earn, and that is debt.
I think it is irresponsibility and immaturity from ALL political leaders to not sit down and discuss this crisis, and if they were employed in the private sector, every single one of them would be fired over this. Why do they not understand that it is hurting this country, they way they are acting and behaving...?
I cannot say that I am a Democrat, or a Republican, I do not feel that I can participate in either political party, and if I could venture the idea that I am a Constitutionalist. The Constitution is the cornerstone, the foundation and the framework all at once of what the government SHOULD be doing, not what they are doing now. The very single most important document even penned, and they do not abide by it at all, not the way Congress is acting right now. They shame us, and they shame this country.
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October 07, 2013 12:22 AM
Boehner- "Mr. President, can we burn down the White House?"
Obama- "NO!"
Boehner ="Can we just burn down the south rooms?"
Obama- "NO!"
Boehenr -" Can we burn down down just the front door and the gardens then?"
Obama- "NO!"
Boehner - "SEE Obama just won't negotiate. It's all his fault!"
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October 06, 2013 11:21 PM
Spending more than you make results in a deficit.
You then have an obligation that requires borrowing to pay for the deficit, leading to debt.
The overspending takes place first. The deficit comes second. And the debt comes third.
You have to borrow to pay the debt incurred already.
The US finds itself in that situation now, by act of Congress approving the overspending causing the deficit that now requires borrowing for the resulting debt.
chas holman
October 06, 2013 12:05 PM
Votes against the Affordable Care Act 42 times on any given day knowing he doesn't have the votes, yet can't quite seem to bring a vote to the floor to keep the nation running and not taking the economy further because he says we need to trust him that no one would vote for it. .
Makes you wonder who's pockets he is so deep into, that he is willing to pander to the lowest common denominator in this self inflicted, GOP economic wound to what was a recovering economy.
Mr Speaker, have you no sense of decency left? Why are you so determined to sell your mortal soul, your parties soul and the Nations soul along with it? What is so important to you personally, that you would destroy any chance at economic recovery?
October 06, 2013 10:49 AM
Banksters and lobbies want to scare people claiming it would be a catastrophe and the sky will fall.It's a lie,they did the same in 2008.By scaring us they always get what they want,bail outs,federal funds,military projects,debt raise,dollar printing and so on.The US is ruled by Wall Street and military lobbies.Why do we need $670 billion in military expenses every year?It's 7 times what other nations spend.The GDP recovery of the last 2 years went to 2% of the US population.We should not raise the debt anymore.NO DEBT RAISE
Fort Washington, MD
October 05, 2013 6:35 PM
I measure the President by the standards set by George Washington, one who delegated a good portion of responsibilities and more importantly hovered above petty politics concerning provincial (internal or external) matters and keeping news media at a distance on sensitive world affairs.
When I moved to the United States in 1994, being used to observing the strongest accumulates the most power, for the first time I recognized the meaning of an _unassuming giant_. Exuding the _unassuming giant_ quality that the United States above average embodies needs to be personified to earnestly encourage cohesiveness around the world. Else, we are just another Rodeo participant.
October 05, 2013 5:52 PM
End welfare not health care
Hawkeye Davis
October 05, 2013 3:01 PM
The debt ceiling crisis is all hype. Obama is a very smart man. Do you really believe he would risk the whole world economy just to keep from delaying ObamaCare?
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October 07, 2013 12:08 AM
I believe Obama likes getting his way like so many dictators and will go to the extreme to get it.....I think we are seeing the real Obama and it is scary! No Obama care as it stands, the American people are being deceived about what it contains and what the long term effect will be!
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Hannah Lee
October 06, 2013 10:16 PM
Obama is a smart man,but I don't understand why Obama government always TAKE SIDES WITH JAPANESE GOVERNMENT!
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None of your business!
October 05, 2013 11:59 AM
In a speech at the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington, D.C., Obama dismissed concerns about raising the debt ceiling by noting that it'd been done so many times in the past:
"Now, this debt ceiling — I just want to remind people in case you haven't been keeping up – raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy. All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you've already racked up, Congress. It's a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved."
Obama went on to suggest that "the average person" mistakenly thinks that raising the debt ceiling means the U.S. is racking up more debt:
"It's always a tough vote because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we're running up our debt, so people don't like to vote on it, and, typically, there's some gamesmanship in terms of making the President's party shoulder the burden of raising the — taking the vote."
But, the FACT that the U.S. has hit its debt ceiling "over a hundred times" – and, thus, has had to keep raising it – proof that raising the limit does, in FACT, lead to increased debt!
In the mean time this WARMONGER needs to STFU!
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No. 10 Colorado State 3, Air Force 0
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- CSU won its 25th consecutive match, tying a Mountain West record. Utah also won 25 straight matches in 2006. CSU's previous high was 23, set in 2003.
- The 25-match winning streak is the second-longest active streak in the nation, trailing only Missouri (30).
- CSU has won 21 consecutive matches at Moby Arena, tied for second-best in program history and the third-longest active streak in the NCAA. Since the start of the 2011 season, CSU is 39-2 at home, the second-best winning percentage in the nation.
- With the victory, CSU clinched a share of the Mountain West title, the Rams' fifth consecutive championship. The only other time a MW team has won five consecutive regular-season championships was from 2000-04 (CSU). The Rams have won 11 of the MW's 14 regular-season titles. They can win the conference outright with a win Thursday at San Jose State or a Fresno State loss at Utah State Saturday.
- The Rams haven't lost a regular season match since Oct. 25, 2012, a span of 33 straight contests. The streak is a program record and is the NCAA's active leader.
Friday's win also extends CSU's program and Mountain West record for victories to start a season. CSU's previous best start was 20-0, set in 2001.
- The victory is CSU's 16th straight to begin Mountain West play, extending on a program record. The previous high was 14, when the 2003 squad went a perfect 14-0.
CSU is one of two undefeated teams in the nation. No. 7 Missouri is currently 30-0 after beating No. 5 Florida in Gainesville Friday night.
- The Rams are 41-1 all-time against Air Force. CSU dropped the initial meeting in 1982, but has since won 41 straight (38-0 under Hilbert), which is believed to be the third-longest active series win streak in the country.
- CSU has won 58 consecutive sets against Air Force, sweeping the Falcons each of the last 19 meetings dating back to 2005, and 31 of the last 32.
- Sophomore libero recorded 23 digs, the fifth-most in CSU history for a three-set match. For her career, Colaizzi has recorded 20 or more digs six times (all this seas), which ranks fifth in Rams history.
- Junior setter Deedra Foss tallied a career-high five service aces – including four during a 9-0 Set-2 run. Her previous best was four against Albany in 2011. Foss also added 44 assists and a match-high-tying four blocks.
- The Rams out-hit Air Force, .333 to .198. Samantha Peters had 12 kills on .476 hitting. Also in double figures for kills was Marlee Reynolds (match-high 13) and Michelle Lawrence (11).
- Set 1: Featuring 10 ties in the early going, CSU used a 4-0 run to break a 12-12 tie and give CSU its largest lead of the set at the time. The Rams would lead by at least two, and as many as six, for the remainder of the set. CSU hit .310, led by Samantha Peters' five kills and three blocks.
- Set 2: Air Force jumped out to a 7-1 advantage, but CSU chipped away and took its first lead of the set by recording nine straight points. The run, which was the second-longest of the season, gave CSU a 14-10 advantage, which they held for the remainder of the set. Setter Deedra Foss had four aces during the run, and in the set, Michelle Lawrence had seven kills on nine swings (.778), as CSU hit .395 as a team.
- Set 3: Trailing 16-13, CSU used a 5-0 run, capped with a Jaime Colaizzi ace, to take an 18-16 advantage. It was CSU's first lead since 2-1, and the Rams stayed in front for the remainder of the set.
- Initiated by the players, CSU recognized Air Force prior to the match in honor of Veteran's Day by giving the team balloons, a cake and homemade cards.
- CSU will return to the court Thursday, making its final road trip of the regular season. The Rams will face San Jose State (Thursday) and second-place Fresno State (Saturday).
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LETTER FROM SILICON VALLEY about Sun Microsystems C.E.O. Scott McNealy and his battle with Microsoft. When Sun Microsystems C.E.O. Scott McNealy joined Microsoft head Bill Gates to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Microsoft last Tuesday, they acted more like old friends than mortal enemies. But McNealy has gained a reputation as Microsoft's most relentless and extravagant critic. He has long been one of the computer industry's most respected executives and his new role as the anti-Microsoft faction's front man has turned him into a kind of corporate statesman–his constituency being Silicon Valley, or, more precisely, a loose federation of companies that collaborate on new technologies known as NOIS, after its 4 leading members–Netscape, Oracle, I.B.M., and Sun. This group represents a shift in computing away from the P.C. and towards the Internet. McNealy's new role owes much to Java, an Internet-friendly computer language that allows programmers to create software capable of running on any operating system. Since Sun unveiled Java 3 years ago, McNealy has made it one of the technology's best-known brands, a unifying force in a fractious Valley, and, together with the rise of the Internet, the most acute threat that Microsoft has yet faced. At the same time, he has worked the political process–lobbying the Justice Department and other agencies, cajoling Congress to take Gates on, and speaking out against Microsoft at public forums. He claims that Microsoft's main goal is to destroy Sun. Five years ago, Sun was a profitable but fairly obscure niche player making workstations for engineers; today, Sun has tripled in size, moving into the first rank of computer companies. Many believe this transformation is due to McNealy's success in exploiting the Valley's fear and loathing of Gates to rally support for Java and Sun. A graduate of Harvard and of Stanford business school, McNealy comes across, at first, as a superannuated fraternity president. He has a boyish face, the build of an aging jock, and, despite a net worth of $400 million, tastes that are decidedly pedestrian. What most sets McNealy apart from the techno elite is his passion for manufacturing. In 1982, McNealy created Sun with a friend from Stanford and two years later, after his friend departed, he was given the title of C.E.O.; today, McNealy is one of the longest-serving C.E.O.s in the Valley. Sun is now a leading provider of networking software and "server" computers with sales approaching $10 billion. In the '90s, as P.C.s and Microsoft's Windows program began to threaten Sun's core market, McNealy began his campaign against Microsoft. With the introduction of Java in 1995, Sun created a new weapon which might possibly render Windows irrelevant someday. In March of 1996, Microsoft signed a deal to license Java from Sun in an effort to catch up with Internet technology. Since then, relations between the two companies have been hostile, with McNealy accusing Microsoft of violating its license by trying to undercut the language's write-once, run-anywhere promise. Last October, in a stunning first for Silicon Valley, Sun sued Microsoft for trademark infringement, false advertising, breach of contract, and unfair competition. (Microsoft countersued.) Two weeks later, the Justice Department made its move against Microsoft. But it is too soon to know what effect these attacks will have on Microsoft. Meanwhile, Sun is facing a number of dangers and uncertainties of its own, from the Windows juggernaut to the recent mega-merger between Compaq and D.E.C. And there are those in the Valley who believe that it is McNealy himself who is endangering Sun's position most; his critics accuse him of hubris and a destructive obsession with Microsoft. But it is McNealy, as much as anyone, who is setting today's agenda in computing and forcing even Bill Gates to follow.Continue reading»
LETTER FROM SILICON VALLEY about Interval Research, founded seven years ago, by Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft and modelled on Xerox's famous PARC. Allen asked David Liddle, 53, who was a well-respected figure in the Valley, to run his think tank. A gifted scientist, Liddle had been a researcher at PARC and had then gone on to head his own software company, Metaphor… Allen pledged to invest a hundred million dollars in the lab over ten years. Allen and Liddle's lab occupies several buildings on some of Silicon Valley's sweetest real estate, not far from the foothills on the western edge of Palo Alto… Yet in many respects Interval bears little resemblance to the PARC of the seventies. …Interval's researchers foresee a world in which computing is ubiquitous and the purpose of it is no longer just to enhance productivity. Writer meets Michael Naimark, 45,a "media artist." Describes his demo of the Magic Morphin' Mirror… Making technology more intimate—and more commonplace—is a central concern at Interval… As more and more of Interval's work becomes public, either through further spinoffs or just through a more open policy, the skepticism about it is bound to fade. Much (if not all) of the research and development going on there is firmly in synch with commercial reality—so much so, in fact, that many of its ideas are likely to encounter furious competition in the marketplace. At Microsoft, Allen's old partner Bill Gates has assembled a research squad twice the size of Interval's with much the same aim. And Xerox itself is forging ahead; it has, for example, come up with a ''hyperbolic browser," which lets you navigate the Internet through a system of branches rather than overlapping windows. Allen says, ''I'd like to see Interval have an ongoing experience beyond 2002, but you make judgments as you go along,.. You know, paradigm-shifting ideas don't grow on trees.''Continue reading»
Talk story about antitrust lawyer Gary Reback's fight against Microsoft. The Justice Department's trust busters were celebrating after last week's preliminary ruling against Microsoft, but they weren't the only ones. Gary Reback, a member of the Palo Alto law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is a man who gets paid to complain about Bill Gates. For several years, Reback, an antitrust specialist, has represented a collection of high-tech companies in their efforts to persuade the federal government to take action against Microsoft. In waging this campaign, he has been called a crusader, a grandstander, an intellectual, a zealot, a quote machine, and, on a recent cover of "Wired," "Bill Gate's Worst Nightmare." Judging Reback's true nightmarishness has always been a little tricky, since his clients prefer to remain anonymous and he declines to talk specifically about the lobbying he is doing. Not long ago, however, senior executives at 2 of Reback's client firms told me that in the past year and a half the lawyer had sent to the Justice Department 4 confidential white papers that laid out a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft. The petition that the department filed, in October, was, by comparison, quite modest; yet the arguments that it put forward strongly echoed those made by Reback. When I asked Reback recently about the white papers, he expressed surprise that I knew about them, and then refused to confirm their existence. In them, Reback and his co-author, Susan Creighton, also of Wilson Sonsini, advance what they call a "monopoly maintenance" theory: that Microsoft, in order to preserve its monopoly over P.C. operating systems with Windows, engages in an array of predatory and exclusionary business practices. (Microsoft denies all antitrust claims.) Reback has been down this road before. Three years ago, when Microsoft announced its intention to take over the personal-finance-software maker Intuit, for $1.5 billion, the Justice Department asked Reback to draft a white paper laying out objections to the merger… In the end, the antitrust division moved to block the merger, and, rather than wage a costly fight, Microsoft abandoned the idea. Reback is a 48-year-old Tennessean with a lean frame and hair that is starting the shift from pepper to salt, and his demeanor when he is talking about Microsoft–which is pretty much always–is fretfulness punctuated with blind outrage. His voice teeters on the edge of whine. Still, he is clearly having a ball. Reback was the first speaker at last month's Ralph Nader anti-Microsoft event in Washington, and he demonstrated how, after Microsoft bought the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia and turned it into the P.C. product Encarta in 1993, the entry on Bill Gates became more positive. If the Justice Department is relying on Reback's white papers, the current case may be, as he puts it, "a wonderful start, but only the first shoe to drop." He told me, "The only thing the robber barons did that Bill Gates hasn't done is use dynamite against their competitors." Reback insists that he has nothing against Gates personally. When I asked him what question he would put to Gates if he had the chance, Reback replied, "Why do I want to ask him a question? I already know what he's thinking. I mean, I've been writing books on him."Continue reading»
Talk story about the sudden departure of many White House senior officials from the Clinton Administration. . . .The customary time for setting off after fame and riches is the period right after reelection. Instead, many on the White House staff stuck around, only to find themselves now, a year later, colliding as they head for the door. Rahm Emanuel and John Hilley, senior advisers; Erskine Bowles, the chief of staff; Mike McCurry, the press secretary; Doug Sosnik, the counsellor to the President; and Michael Waldman, the chief speech writer–all either have declared that they are going or are widely rumored to be going.Continue reading»
"Everything at Apple is as much about perception as about reality," the company's former C.E.O. John Sculley said to me a few days after his old partner and rival, Steve Jobs, unveiled the alliance he had engineered with Microsoft. Since Sculley was deposed, in 1993, after running Apple for ten years, he has rarely spoken about the firm or about Jobs, and his tone was one of cynicism tinged with grudging respect. "The deal is good for Apple," he said. "But it has nothing to do with technology or business and everything to do with what Steve is a master of—perception."Continue reading»
LETTER FROM SILICON VALLEY about high-tech venture capitalist L. John Doerr… Writer watches him on the morning of July 11th, on the trading floor of Morgan Stanley, during the stock-market debut of At Home, an internet startup that promises to deliver blazingly fast access to the Net over cable-TV wires… The personal-computer industry's new firms grew from next to nothing to a hundred billion dollars in both revenues and market value. Thanks in large part to Doerr, companies backed by his Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers accounted for fully a third of those totals. In Silicon Valley, venture capitalists have long played a crucial role in bank-rolling start-ups, but Doerr is after something grander. He is often characterized as a stealthy challenger to Bill Gates–as the ringleader of a coalition of Silicon Valley firms that are out to thwart Microsoft's quest for global hegemony. As Doerr explains it what he and his nine partners at Kleiner are trying to do is to build not merely "new companies but whole new industries." …Today, in what he calls Silicon Valley's "post-garage stage," the scarce resource is no longer money or ideas but talent–technical talent, management talem–and no one is better connected to talent than Doerr. Doerr uses the Kleiner network tirelessly to scout the industry's most skillful managers and technical wizards. "The Valley is full of money right now, and John's is no better than anyone else's," Marc Andreessen, Netscape's twenty-six year-old software guru and co-founder, told me. What makes Doerr so successful, Andreessen said, is his acumen in attracting "superstar" engineers and executives. Describes how he helped make an I.P.O. for Netscape, which valued the firm at more than two billion dollars. His days are filled with a procession of board meetings, phone calls, vain attempts to cope with endless E-mails, trips to industry conferences to engage in what he calls "extreme networking," and the occasional breakfast with a hopeful entrepreneur at Buck's, a Western-kitsch diner in Woodside that serves as the Valley's Four Seasons… He has developed elaborate formulas for evaluating a proposal's worthiness… He is fully aware that his mystique has become a formidable asset… Describes his participation in Amazon.com, despite the fact that his firm offered a low bid… Indications that Doerr is pursuing an anti-Microsoft strategy are not especially hard to find. He is on the board of two of Microsoft's fiercest rivals, Netscape and Sun, and last summer he was behind a hundred-million-dollar Kleiner fund to finance start-ups of Internet software companies that use a Sun programming language called Java, which, because it creates programs that can run on virtually all computer operating systems, and not just Windows, is seen as a particular threat to Microsoft… Describes how Microsoft adapted to the Internet very quickly… Tells how Gates is known to be annoyed that he has been shut out of the At Home action… Last fall, Doerr played a key part in defeating a California ballot initiative, Proposition 211, that would have made it easier to sue high-tech firms for dips in their stock prices. In recent months, he has been devoting more and more of his networking to politics… Meanwhile, he has long been tempted by the idea of being a C.E.O… He has thought about both options and rejected them…Continue reading»
Talk story about colloquialisms in Washington, D.C. Washington is a city with a language all its own–a jargon-studed dialect that contributes mightily to the view of most Americans that their capital is a foreign country, if not another planet. In Washington, "appropriate" is used mainly as a verb; "baselines" have nothing to do with basketball; "cola" refers not to Coke or Pepsi but to a cost-of-living adjustment; and terms like "recission" and "sequestration" are tossed around lightly, even though nobody is sure what they mean. Among the political class, speaking this tongue usually goes smoothly enough, but every now and then English intrudes. Not long ago, a group of White House staff people began holding regular brainstorming sessions about what President Clinton might say, in a June 14th commencement speech at the University of California at San Diego, about healing racial divisions (or, to use a different but no less grating form of jargon, "repair the breach") in this country. The deep-think sessions, which were held in the Roosevelt Room, were advertised inside the White House as "reconciliation meetings"–and that is where the trouble started. In the argot of Capitol Hill, "reconciliation" is a term of art for those catch-all economic packages which Congress sometimes passes when it's pretending to put the nation's fiscal house in order (packages that can be achieved only after a series of legislative "crosswalks," which means…never mind). And so it was that many Clintonites naturally assumed that the reconciliation at issue in the Roosevelt Room wasn't between blacks and whites but between taxing and spending. In short order, the sessions were rechristened "reconciliation-slash-unity" meetings–thus putting an end to an episode suggesting that, however the President fares at bringing the races together and balancing the budget, one breach that he's plainly failed to repair is the one between Washington and Webster's.Continue reading»
ANNALS OF ADVERTISING about European ad campaigns… In a corner office in Leo Burnett's European headquarters, in London, sits Helena Rubinstein, a cheerful, darkhaired Englishwoman (no relation to the late cosmetics magnate) who is the mother of a technique that has become a central part of the way Burnett tackles pan-European assignments. What Rubinstein does, in her words, is "deconstruct brands," and if you visit her she can show you a breathtaking array of charts and diagrams that illustrate how she hacks a product's image down to its irreducible core–to what she calls "the DNA of the brand." As she explains it, "In regional projects, you always get the same response: That's all very well, but it's different in my country.' So the question is what elements are common to the brand that can be applied everywhere." To figure this out, Rubinstein guides the client's marketing officials and the admen through a two-day workshop, using reams of qualitative and quantitative research to identify in detail various aspects of the brand–its "personality," its "functions," is "differentiators," and its "source of authority"–and arrive at a concise statement of what the brand should stand for in market after market. The statement can boil down to two or three words. It is, in Burnett parlance, the brand's "essence."… Tells about a July, 1995, meeting in Paris by various European Burnett agencies, to distill the essence of McDonald's there… Led by Helena Rubinstein, the group parsed McDonald's positive qualities: its appeal as a "family place," its appeal to kids, its speed of service, its "tasty food," and the McDonald's "magic," as well as the negative qualities… Thorn Kettle, McDonald's vice-president for international marketing, told writer flatly, "We've never commissioned a pan-European ad, and we probably never will."… For McDonald's, marketing in Europe is a function of its history. Unlike most multinationals, which expanded across Europe in a more or less orderly fashion, McDonald's sprouted like Topsy. The company has been in England for twenty-two years, but in France there was no McDonald's organization–only a scattered set of franchisees–until 1981, and as recently as a year ago there were just thirty-eight of its restaurants in the whole of Italy. With its businesses in Europe at such disparate stages of development, and contending with different competitors and eating habits, Kettle explained, it seemed natural to the executives at McDonald's headquarters, in Oak Brook, Illinois, to let those businesses decide about their own advertising…Continue reading»