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The handy Apple Tracker site that allowed people to check Apple Store availability for new products has closed its doors after receiving a DMCA takedown notice from Apple.
I've decided to turn off the site. I'm not doing this because I want to, but rather because I received a DMCA takedown notice (you can see the full text below) from Apple. I'm not really interested in picking a fight with apple so … I guess it time to just say good bye …
The only explanation given is that the site contravened the terms of use for apple.com by scraping data:
You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site.
While it's true that the site broke this rule, it's hard to see why Apple would object to a tool designed to help customers hand over their cash to the company. It's not like Apple would need to be concerned about its bandwidth bill, and it seems hard to imagine usage could have been high enough to stress one of the world's most popular websites.
Another site using the same screen-scraping approach has also disappeared, so it seems Apple may have issued similar takedown notices to all the ones it could find. It seems a pity when such tools would likely have proven extremely handy when the Retina iPad mini goes on sale if those screen supply rumors are true …
Full text of the takedown notice below.
321 11th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Takedown Notice
Date: October 17, 2013
Dear Heroku Legal Agent:
I, the undersigned, state UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that:
[1] I am, a person injured, or an agent authorized to act on behalf of a person injured by unlawful web content published via and at heroku.com
[2] I May Be Contacted At:
Name of Injured Party : APPLE INC.
Name and Title: RYAN BRICKER, ASSOCIATE
Company: KILPATRICK TOWNSEND AND STOCKTON LLP
Address: TWO EMBARCADERO CENTER, 8TH FLOOR
City, State, and Zip: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111
Email address email@example.com
Telephone: 415-576-0200
Fax: 415-576-0300
[3] I have a good faith belief that the the website identified by URL below is unlawful because, among other things, the page scrapes and collects data from apple.com in violation of the apple.com Internet Service Terms of Use (see: http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.html) and Heroku Acceptable Use Policy, copied here:
Apple.com Terms of Use
Your Use of the Site. You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. Apple reserves the right to bar any such activity.
Heroku Acceptable Use Policy
2.2 Your use of the Heroku Services must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and ordinances, including any laws regarding the export of data or software.
[4] Reason:
Content Type / Violation: Automated scraping/copying/acquiring web app, operating in violation of the apple.com Internet Service Terms of Use
[5] Please act expeditiously to remove or otherwise disable the following website/web application:
[6] I have a good faith belief that the removal of copyright management information from the material listed above is not authorized by law; and
[7] The information in this notice is accurate.
Thank you for your kind assistance.
/Ryan Bricker/
Ryan Bricker
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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One thing that I can think of – Apple, being control freaks that they are, cannot guarantee the correct data being displayed on any site that has scraped information from their .com.
That's what happens when you suck at something, Apple. When you fail to execute and leave users searching for actual inventory of a product released more than a month ago, someone solves this problem for you. I wouldn't have my iPhone 5s without this tool, because I was stuck with Gray on launch day, and I planned to return it for gold. I found one 3 hours away, using the iphone-check site. If Tim Cook used his excellent supply chain management skills, we wouldn't be here. Worst Apple news in a week (it's coming more frequently).
so this means that also all the websites hosting ranking and stats for the iOS apps usage/download are violating the rules as well. Is that correct?
Does Ticketmaster vs tickets.com ring a bell ol Ry baby? Apparently, this "high powered" shill… err, lawyer doesn't even understand the basics of copyright law. If the data is put out there by Apple on their website then it's freely available for fair use under copyright law as in the second of these 3 paragraphs from newyorklawjournal dot com:
Copyright Infringement
Scraping inherently involves copying, and therefore one of the most obvious claims against scrapers is copyright infringement. However, such claims are often open to attack on several grounds. First, in order to have standing to bring a claim for copyright infringement, the owner (or exclusive licensee) of the website being scraped must also be the owner of the copyrightable content that is the subject of the claim.2 This can pose a barrier to bringing a lawsuit if, for example, the content at issue is user-generated (such as videos or reviews), and the rights in the content have not been transferred to the website owner.
Second, copyright law does not protect ideas, but rather only tangible expression.3 Thus, the scraping of general factual data does not give rise to a viable claim for copyright infringement. For example, in Ticketmaster v. Tickets.com, the court rejected an infringement claim because the material being extracted—factual information regarding concerts and URLs—was not copyrightable.4
Third, even if the information copied by the scraper is protectable under copyright law, the defendant may be able to rely upon the "fair use" defense. Under the Copyright Act, courts are to consider the following factors to determine if a use is a fair use: (1) the purpose and character of the use; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.5 For example, in Kelly v. Arriba Soft, the court held that the use of scraping software by a search engine to reproduce images in thumbnail form was not a sustainable basis for a claim of copyright infringement, because the thumbnail images created from the full-size scraped images were "transformative" and qualified as a fair use of the images.6
Thanks Phill, for the great find. As I suspected, Apple is being overly cautious and seemingly intimidating. Couldn't they first have contacted the site and asked (over the phone or via email) to take it down, instead of resorting immediately to lawyers e.t.c.
I understand that he wants to take the site down rather than fight Apple, because Apple have so many resources available to them, they will drag him through mud for years to come.
Simple solution, just don't have that kind of "sensitive" information on Apple.com.
Don't put it on the internet, if you don't want others to get a hold of it.
Asshole Apple in this regard (I otherwise like Apple very much and use their products – but this is just being an asshole)
"You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site"
Doesn't a "program" include a browser. Are we not allowed to browse the site?
Ha, nice find…according to Apple's TOS, we're not allowed to browse Apple.com on a "program"
How about moving the site to a non US site?
DMCA are not valid there.
C'mon Apple…this service was so useful and at the same so benign and innocuous that you could have left alone and not be jerks.


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What about animation?
ROFL wow....it was bad all around but her robotic "our ... anniversary .. is coming .. up" script reading was the best of the worst.
If they're that boring trying to sell something, just imagine what their love life must be like.:( haha
From the looks of it, she wanted to get the video over with and go back to her television.
Sharon was super into it. very monotoneAnd that halter dress was really really bad, but fred's tie was made from a couch
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ALBANY — The sequel to Albany's citywide ban on hydrofracking won't get a vote Monday night after all.
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Sexual Experiences I Had As A Child Were FunI had family members who were older girl cousins who took advantage
of my helpless ticklishness to do sexual things with me.
I used to be ashamed that even though at the time I would squeal
NO! STOP! I must confess it was fun & made me laugh. So I secretly wanted
it and liked how it felt when they would suck & stroke my little "popsicle" on
and on til they'd make me have dry "*******". It would "hurt" but it "hurt
good" so I wanted more.
I remember when they would get me down from the time I was 5 til age 9
or so. I was scared of their non-stop tickling but loved it when they tickled
my privates. My one cousin Linda was 12 and "went down" on me lots of
times when she and her 2 sisters Teesh & Cindy held me down in our
grandma's garage.
They would carry me into the garage in summer when I was wearing
shorts only & nobody was around, then pull my shorts & undies off & sit
on me. Then they'd have a blast tickling my bare feet, armpits, ribs and belly
til I went totally nuts, was out of breath and finally wet myself. I'll never forget
how it felt, being helpless and unable to do anything while they forced me
to laugh til I'd start crying and pee, but they made me laugh so hard I'd
just give up and try to endure whatever they would do to me. While I was
peeing the tickles weren't as horrible, so I peed as soon as I could.
Then they'd make my lil weenie get hard. Linda would kneel down over
my middle and suck & lick me like a lollipop while Cindy & Teesh held me.
Even as a kid my cousin Linda knew exactly how to get me. She'd have her
sisters, age 9 and 10, who were sitting on my outstretched arms and legs, tickle
my armpits and feet bottoms til I was "ready". I was out of pee so nothing
came out at that age but I remember feeling my belly and peepee "squeeze"
rhythmically just like a real ******, but they had to tickle & suck me a long
time to make it happen. I remember when they finally got it "squeezing" I would
beg "NO PLEASE! "OW!" "OW!" "OW!" "DON'T!" and struggle around, which made
my 2 younger girl cousins giggle & tickle me more. When my cousin Linda
sucked me so hard my peepee hurt they would force me to laugh alot, so it was
very weird. But in a strange way though I was thrashing around going "NOOHAHA
OWWW!HAHAHAHAHAHANOOO!HEEHEEHAHAHA!" It was still fun & I loved it.
I think my cousin made me like those little boy "dry shots" because it hurt a bit at
first but then felt really good. A couple times my aunt, (their Mom), heard me
squealing & came in and "caught" us, but she just said: "Be sure you let him
get his breath so he don't pass out!" My cousins just hollered "OK, Mom, we
just havin' fun with him!" while they held their hand over my mouth til she left.
As for me I was laughing & struggling so hard I don't remember how many times
my aunt actually "caught us" but once she just padded in the garage barefoot over to
where they had me helpless sitting on me and said: "Ok, let's see how you tickle
him!" I wasn't naked yet that time so my cousins giggled and started tickling. I was
laughing & squealing but my aunt showed them how to really "get me". She had her
daughter Teesh sitting on my arms to stop digging her fingers into my pits and start
stroking me lightly with her nails. Then she showed her oldest, Linda, how to pull
my shorts down farther and stroke my belly & ribs. Finally she showed my cousin
Cindy who was sitting on my ankles how to pull my toes up, stroke my stretched bare
soles, then scratch under the balls of my feet with her fingernails. I was hollering
"OK OK! PLEASE AUNT LENA! NO MORE!" But my aunt said: "OK- ALL AT ONCE- ONE,
TWO, THREE- TICKLE!" My cousins followed their mom's instructions and I went
out of my mind screaming & struggling. I heard her say "Come on, tickle him... I want
to see you get him!", then like another minute and I peed myself soaking wet. My
aunt laughed & said: "Now you know how to really get boys!" After that it was my
cousins' favorite thing to do to me and with their mother's "permission", (the girls
assumed because their Mom had showed them how to really tickle me bad that it was
fine for them to do anything they pleased with me), they did. My Aunt peeked in a
few times when her tickle-maniac daughters had me nude doing their thing but it was
dark inside the garage and I suppose she thought they were still only tickling me
on non-private spots. But soon I wasn't to be so sure about that.
One hot Saturday afternoon the summer I was 8 my cousins had me down and that
day for some reason I was just howling my head off in ticklish agony. My fiendish
cousins had improved even more on their Mom's "advice" so I was laughing myself
silly and begging them to stop. I had just been in swimming, my shorts were off to
dry and my darkly tanned skin was super-soft. So were my pale white feet bottoms,
and Cindy had let her nails grow. My oldest cousin Linda was doing her "gitchy gitchy"
stuff on my bare belly & ribs and of course my little brown member was standing
up like a tiny flagpole. Linda was 14 by then and knew all about what to do to force me
to ******. She taught my cousin Teesh how tickling my little nipples got me hard so
she was doing them along with my tender armpits. I was completely helpless and
begging & squealing so loud we didn't even hear Aunt Lena sneak in on her bare feet.
My cousins had already made me pee so it was the usual time for Linda to "do me".
Linda was tickling my balls but she moved down on my bare thighs so she could lick me.
She started to lick my stiff lil brown **** and I was doing my usual wild, back-arching,
hopelessly struggling desperate attempts to escape, going nuts and yelling: "HAHAHA
NO, HAHAHA! C'MON PLEASE DON'T! HAHAHAHAHAHA! when in my thrashing I caught
a glimpse of Aunt Lena peeking at us from beside my Grandpa's old truck!
I was the only one that saw her because my cousins were hypnotized with torturing
me as they always were and Linda was totally absorbed in her licking and sucking.
I couldn't say anything because I was laughing so hard. My cousins' tactics were
always that Teesh and Cindy, (my younger cousins), would keep me howling with
laughter by tickling me non-stop the whole time Linda was sucking my peepee. It did
make me so weak lol that I couldn't struggle so hard, and also kept my tiny "manhood"
erect in all its 3 inch splendor. I shut my eyes and knew we were going to be killed,
but the laughter was forced out of me and there was nothing I could do. Aunt Lena
could see the "whole thing" her 3 girls were doing even though Linda had her back
to her, and every few seconds I peeked over and through tears saw my Aunt staring
at us with wide eyes and a strange smile. After like 15 minutes I knew she was waiting
to see what was going to happen. Meantime I was screaming & laughing NO! DON'T!
PLEASE! HAHAHA!!! I was scared that Aunt Lena was watching her daughters **** me.
About 10 minutes later the climax came while Linda was sucking me like a Tootsie
Pop she was trying to get to the center of. I felt it begin to hurt so I started my pitiful
pleading for mercy. I knew it never worked & that they wouldn't stop until they made
me "dry ***". They could tell when it happened because that's when it "hurt good",
and I would strain every muscle, pant, laugh and scream at the same time. The girls
loved that part because they had complete power over me. This time it was more
intense because Aunt Lena was watching us, but Linda forced me and I couldn't help it:
I was twisting around going nuts in my little dry ****** while the girls were laughing &
tickling, saying: "GEEZ, Kev, why you hollerin for MOM? She can't hear you!- heeheehee."
Teesh giggled: "You want me to get Mom to come watch us make you ***? Heeheehee!"
Linda was still sucking while I writhed, squirmed and begged. Guys will know how it is
if someone is giving you head and they keep sucking hard while you ***. Its AWFUL!
I was like: "AAAAAAAHHH ST- HAHAHAHA STOPP!!! HAHAHA OH GOD HAHAHAHA-
I recovered out of my agony, thinking our deaths were minutes away. I slowly opened
my eyes and peeked over where Aunt Lena had been hiding watching us, but SHE
WASN'T THERE! The girls had let me up and I stretched my neck to see if she was
behind the truck ready to pounce but she wasn't. Aunt Lena had gone. I never said
nothing to my cousins about their Mom watching us, but later when I snuck into the
house naked and had to pass Aunt Lena in the kitchen I was so scared I felt the blood
rushing in my temples. I was tip-toeing barefoot and just got to the hall when Aunt
Lena said: "Kevy, come here a minute." My heart was pounding when I went to the
sink and stood next to her. I gulped and looked at the floor. I knew she saw all of it.
She had to, and heard me going nuts and saw Linda go down on me & make me "***". But Aunt Lena
put her hand under my chin and lifted up my eyes so I'd look at her. To my relief she
was smiling her old Aunt Lena smile. She said: "Kevy, did you and the girls have fun
playing with each other in the garage?" I gulped again. "Yes, Maam." I whispered. Aunt
Lena leaned down and kissed me on the cheek. "Well honey, I know there are 3 of
them, and you're so ticklish and all- do you really LIKE the way they play with you, I
mean is it really fun for you?" I know beneath my tan my face was hot & red as a beet, and
I knew she was watching us do, well, what I learned a few weeks before was "*******", but
I gulped again and tried to grin, and answered "Yes'm Aunt Lena, they make me laugh
but I really like it!". She smiled at me and asked: "Honey they tickle you til you pee but
do they make you do something else, I mean with your shorts off?" I knew I could trust
Aunt Lena. After all she had changed my diapers often as a baby. She had bathed me,
seen me naked hundreds of times and tickled me a lot up til then, but for some reason I
just didn't want to talk about what her girls were really doing with me held down helpless
in the garage. I knew even then it was called "sex", so I said: "Not really, it just tickles a
lot and sometimes it hurts a little, but I like it, I swear!" Aunt Lena grabbed me up, wiggled
her thumbs in my armpits while she chewed on my neck, which always tickled me to
within an inch of death. "NOO!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!" I squealed & laughed while she kissed
me all over my chest, nipples and belly, then she said: "OK you little bare butt casanova, go
get ready for supper, and at least put some undies on!" She let me down and I took off on my little bare feet fast as I could go
upstairs. I never let on to Aunt Lena that I saw her watching us in the garage that day, and I
never told my 3 cousins that their Mom saw us. Its a secret I'll never tell.
My cousins did that to me til I got so big they had trouble dragging me in the garage
by themselves, so for another summer they got 2 brothers who were neighbors
to help carry me in and hold me down. They had a ball tickling me because
by that time I was 9 and could really struggle & holler to get away. That summer I
got tied up a lot with belts in the neighbors' "fort" out in the woods. My cousin Linda
was 15 by then and the neighbor boys were 12 or 13 so there was a lot of *******
around that year in the fort. I was still the youngest and most ticklish boy, though,
so I got "tortured" & sucked almost every day. It was my cousins' favorite thing to do.
It was also feeling better to me all the time and by then I loved having it done.
They tried something new later the summer I turned 10. They started stretching me out
nude by cuffing my wrists and ankles with old leather belts to the 4 corners of an old iron
bed Linda & her friends found for the fort. I had become even more ticklish than I had been
at age 5 and when they stretched & cuffed me to the bed I was completely helpless. Linda
had her sisters & 3 high school guys she knew gang up & tickle torture me til I peed as usual,
then they wiped me off & tickled me again til they got my **** hard. It tickled so much worse
since I was tied up with all those fingers after me they made me totally hysterical but HARD! I
was all skin and bones and my lil **** sprang up immediately. I could barely move then Linda
took off her bathing suit, straddled my middle & put my horny lil member up inside her. It felt
very warm & wet. Then the 6 of them tickled me all over til I had a dry ******. My cousin really
went nuts, though. She humped me up and down while I climaxed, so when I was going
"AAAAHHHH!! AAAUUUUGH!!! HAHAHAHAHA! she went "UHH UHH UHH OHH ****! AHHH!!
UHH UHH!" I was twisting in the straps under her and when her **** clamped down on me
I would beg & groan from it, and now I realize she was having some genuine female *******.
She had her younger sisters try my **** while the older guys tickled me but they didn't go as nuts
as Linda did. They liked it though, and "practiced" riding my dink for hours. It was no trouble
keeping me "hard" for all of them cause by that time I was such a little "hot rod" my 3 inch winkie
stood stiff as a board long as they kept on tickling. That summer had a lot of rainy days so we
spent lots of time in the fort. The 6 older kids tried every kind of "game" on me they could find.
The next summer when I was 11 my cousins had gone to stay with their Dad,
(my uncle), so I played with the high school boys. They were rough and I was still
their fave "victim", this time mostly tied down on an old mattress in their ba
They had fun tickling me til I peed but later on after I was nearly 12 they were
15 and 16 and the 15 year-old, "Kent", tickle tortured & went down on me, sucking me so
hard I screamed as I shot an incredible load in his mouth. It felt fantastic! Then the guys
tickled me while Kent jerked me off. The oldest guy Russell tickled my bare feet just as I
came and I was amazed at all the *** I shot everywhere!
As for Kent he & I became sort of "boyfriends" & took turns sucking each other all summer.
The older guy Russell was into tickle torture but never went as far as Kent to suck me.
So he would tickle my feet bottoms while Kent sucked me off. I was the most
"experienced" 12 year old in my school, and got lots of "offers" to "try me" from
boys AND girls up through high school.
Guess I must have been a dirty minded kid but I don't feel like it has affected
me too much. I'm not promiscuous, a freak or an axe-murderer, but all my life
I've LOVED sex and like to be tickled silly by people til I ******.
The old "feelings" still come back, and I still "pop" like I did in 6th grade.
kulshady 41-45, M 3 Responses 3 Sep 3, 2011
This story doesn't sound realistic at all.
I also had a lot of female cousins who were slightly older than me. They loved to use me as their "boy toy" to explore their sexuality. They did lots of things with me (but tickling wasn't one of them) - I'll write about it sometime. For me it never felt like I was being taken advantage of or abused, it was just playfulness and fun.
Okay, you know I am a fellow tickling-fanatic and so I get excited by these stories...can't say I had anything as intense as that happen when I was a kid! I sure would have liked to have had some tormentors taking regular advantage of my ticklishness. I'm glad you enjoyed it and it didn't leave any "scars."


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Sport in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations
The use of sport to advance peace in conflict situations must always take into account what is realistically achievable – not just through sport – but by any means. Basic security and self-preservation concerns, as well as difficulty in transport and communication, can make everyday activities near impossible in conflict zones. As a result, most sport-based peace-building initiatives are established in the post-conflict phase, where objectives can be more comprehensive and programs have a reasonable chance of being successful. However, examples of interventions during conflicts do exist. There are necessarily less ambitious and need to be considered in this lights.
In periods of short-term conflict, sport-based initiatives may be limited to providing people with temporary relief from the tension and concerns they are experiencing. During longer, more protracted conflicts, peace-building is more likely to succeed when conflicting communities have begun to re-establish positive contact while fighting is still underway. Sport-based initiatives can be one means of establishing and re-establishing relationships and nurturing points of communication that can eventually serve the peace process. Use of sport for more complex networking and peace-building efforts, however, is extremely difficult in high-intensity conflicts and generally cannot be undertaken until conflicts have subsided.
The SDP IWG Report, "Harnessing the Power of Sport for Development and Peace: Recommendations to Governments", made the following policy and programmatic recommendations which Member States, with SDP IWG support, are encouraged to implement:
- Observe the Olympic Truce.
Ensure an effective sport for peace program focus by first undertaking a context analysis that answer the following questions:
- What is this conflict not about?
- What needs to be stopped?
- What are the regional and international dimensions of this conflict?
- Understand how the sport for peace initiatives will contribute to broader conflict prevention and/or peace-building strategies for the community/region/country before it is launched.
- Consider whether it is appropriate or beneficial to coordinate with other peace partners before launching a program.
- Monitor all the variables of the program and be ready to change them to reduce possible negative impacts such as increased conflict.
- Respect the values of competition and build programs on the respect that competition can stimulate.
- Address conflict and peace-building at the socio-political level and the individual level.


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Discover 5 simple ways to represent timeline in PowerPoint slides. Get inspired to create a number of variations of your own.
A timeline is probably one of the most used diagrams in a business presentation. Whether you want to represent milestones of your organization's growth or year wise progress of your project, you can't do without a timeline chart.
Why create a ready to use template for timeline?
The answer is simple: to leverage your effort multiple times. Since every other presentation has timeline represented in some form or the other, it makes sense to create a set of good templates to show timeline. You can pick and stick the chart instantly to give a professional look to your slides.
Here are some basic ways you can create a timeline template:
Take a look at the following timeline template:
A common way to represent timeline is to use a series of repeat elements like chevrons or arrows. They are easy to create and easy to understand. You can enhance your message effectiveness with the following:
You can use any tool from auto shape to serve as repeat element, as long as the shape indicates forward movement.
Related: Tutorial to Create PowerPoint Roadmap
Take a look at the following slide:
This is a classic example of using a continuous element with separators. Pipe represents continuity while the beads represent milestones.
While separate chevrons used in the previous example give an indication of distinct phases in the lifecycle of a project, a connecting element in the above example indicates continuity.
Learn to create Glossy ball in PowerPoint and view more timelines here.
The power of this idea can be taken forward to engage your audience.
Here is…
I've seen a presenter use a knotted rope to demonstrate the hardships faced during new product development. As she moved from one knot to another she explained the different issues faced during the specific phases. She then untied each knot as she explained the way the team overcame the issue.
She finished her talk by inviting everyone from the audience to hold a part of the rope and form a circle to signify successful project completion
She translated the slide into a simple demonstration with a great result.
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Here is a variation of the previous idea:
Here we used a callout along the various points of the timeline. This gives an informal feel to the events instead of the usual 'corporate' or 'official' feel.
We've seen people use photos and captions inside the call outs to add variety.
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A marketing agency explained the history of a product brand by playing 'Ad jingles' over the years. Each milestone had an attached audio file.
The presenter darkened the room and invited the audience to close their eyes and listen to the audio Ads. The experience transported the audience to the past and made them feel the way the brand transformed over the years with changing culture and technology.
A simple way to represent a PowerPoint timeline is to use a calendar. This is especially useful when you want to showcase a schedule. For example, the following slide shows 'booked' and 'available'dates in a month:
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I've seen a project manager using a large calendar to get time commitments from the team for various key deliverables.
The signatures of team members and the list of deliverables on a large page with dates not only hold them accountable, but also show that the success of the project depends on teamwork and commitment.
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If a calendar looks too formal, you can use a symbolic representation of timeline. For example, take a look at the following slide:
Various months in a year are represented as hours in the clock. You can animate the segments to take the audience through the timeline in stages.
Sometimes, the tools you use to present your ideas are as critical as the ideas you represent. It is especially true in the case of representing a timeline.
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A burglarized law office building left four local attorneys missing $11,000 worth of office equipment last month, a Johnson City Police incident report said.
The break-in happened at 128 E. Market St., where attorneys Don Spurrell, Jeff Johnson, Jim Bowman and Donna Bolton all have offices. According to the report, the break-in occurred sometime between 5 p.m. Sept. 27 and 8:30 a.m. Sept. 30. Police were called to the building after another person noticed someone had broken in.
Police said the suspect or suspects entered the building through an outdoor utility room, then climbed up and broke through the ceiling and out a side wall.
Items stolen included three laptop computers, computer accessories, an American Arms derringer, presidential dollar coins, a DVD player, two cameras, cash and liquor.
The report does not say if there are any known suspects at this time. Anyone with information about the burglary can call the police department at 434-6166.


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" To the squawker who said to quit complaining and apply for the DCSS Superintendent position: I did apply but I was No. 16, not No. 34 on the qualified list."
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Spike 3 years, 6 months ago
Unfortunately those proceedings were closed to the public so we'll never know who really applied besides Mr. Murfree.
coachjohnson42 3 years, 6 months ago
Who came up with that ranking system anyway? Was it a board member?
Shinedownfan 3 years, 6 months ago
If the board members came up with the ranking system, dont you think they would have put "bow tie" as #1???
waltspecht 3 years, 6 months ago
No Coach, I believe it was the way the Consulting firm rated the Applicants. Say, you being in the know. Was it true ASU wanted to get rid of Murfree because of conflict with Alumni over the athletic teams and his way of taking care of his job? I heard that from some folks that would be in a position to know, but would appreciate your take.
VSU 3 years, 6 months ago
Good going squawker! These people make me sick talking about applying for the position if you are not satisfied. What good does it do to apply if they pick among the least qualified candidate for the position?
Shinedownfan 3 years, 6 months ago
This squawker threw a pie in the face of the previous squawker! Wish I could see it! This DESERVES the "Squawk of the Day" status! Good going!
coachjohnson42 3 years, 6 months ago
Actually Walt....I don't know anything about Dr. Murfree at ASU. All I know is this DCSS is in big trouble and I don't know how they will ever repair their reputation. This is the worst shape this system has ever been in....
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Auckland's finest: Dayle's A6
It's not a common thing to see people pushing the boundaries with their fitment to this level here in New Zealand. Strict regulations against tyre stretch & ride height as well as the cost involved in achieving true hella fitment is usually enough to put most people off. So it's exciting to come across someone such as Dayle, who takes all this on board as a challenge, and his latest project really stands out from the rest because of it.
Before Dayle got his hands on this beautiful A6 however, he wanted to make sure he could find the right wheels for it. After searching around for a while he was put into contact with Bentley New Zealand who were able to source the 19″ wheels you see here from a Continental Flying Spur.
Riding on air allows them to have a fairly intimate relationship with the A6 fenders…
You can hear it too when it airs out, the gentle 'tap' as they touch.
Dayle tells me that his inspiration for this ride was to do something people in New Zealand hadn't seen before. "And I wanted to help show the world that New Zealand has classy, well-styled rides too", he explains. A VW & Euro fanatic, Dayle also has a slammed Jetta on BBS RS wheels and has previously owned a variety of European cars. He has also recently taken on a weekend drifter project (an FC RX-7) which he says we will definitely be seeing more of in the near future, once his wheels arrive from Japan (I already like the sound of this!)
Dayle's car is a great example of how only a few simple modifications done right can make such a huge difference to the overall appearance of a vehicle. Thanks Dayle for sharing it with us here on HF!
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O.M.G ! Absolutely epic, some FHD(1920×1080) wallpapers?
Nice ride, where did yoy get the rims??
Dude, why not read it, aswell as looking at the pretty pictures.
"After searching around for a while he was put into contact with Bentley New Zealand who were able to source the 19″ wheels you see here from a Continental Flying Spur."
This car is fresh! It reminds me of Mike Gilbert's I've seen cruisin the Seattle area!
debated getting those wheels for my c5. they look great!
[…] guys will remember the Audi A6 recently featured on here, well here is the owner Dayle's weekend warrior RX-7 looking very […]
So bad seen it in the pits at the drags , instantly wanted one
And a good fella that owns it too , stopped to have a chat to us on the way out while we were packing up
NZ strikes again. Very nice Audi mate.


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Maine women take concerns about chemicals to D.C.
PORTLAND — Concern over chemicals in products and foods prompted about two dozen Maine women to get on a bus recently and take their cause to Washington, D.C.
The bus left Maine the morning of May 21, collecting other women along the way in other New England states to join a "Safe Chemicals Brigade" on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol the next morning. They rallied to support the Safe Chemicals Act, which the U.S. Senate is considering.
"We were the biggest of any state," said Helen Anderson of Portland, an environmental advocate and grandmother who joined the group of mothers, educators and health-care workers. "Of all the 31 states (that participated), Maine was by far the biggest."
The group lobbied Maine's Congressional delegation and brought 2,500 messages of support, as well as a resolution by state Legislature urging action from Congress.
Lalla Carothers of Cumberland, one of the bus-going activists, serves on the board of the Environmental Health Strategy Center. That nonprofit organization, formed to try to block toxic chemicals from everyday products, is one of 50 organizations brought together by the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine. The alliance, which sponsored the trip to Washington, tries to find safer alternatives to dangerous chemicals.
"Chemicals have a purpose," Carothers acknowledged last week. "We're not asking anybody to ban all chemicals. I think it's to prove that they're safe before they go into a consumer market, and particularly things for children, and things for the vulnerable."
Carothers, who has also served on the Cumberland Congregational Church's "Green Team," called the trip inspiring. She said participants met with U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both R-Maine, as well as staff of U.S. Reps. Michael Michaud and Chellie Pingree, both D-Maine.
Carothers said she told them how some girls use lotions and nail polish containing chemicals that disrupt hormones, while another woman talked about her autistic son, and how she was exposed to toxic chemicals during pregnancy.
"Dangerous chemicals abound, from flame retardant in nursing pillows to BPA (bishphenol A) in epoxy sealants meant to protect our kids' teeth," she said after her trip. "We can't shop our way out of this. We must shift the burden or proof from assuming a chemical is safe until proven harmful to requiring evidence a chemical is safe before selling it to consumers."
According to the website of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011, the legislation is meant to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, which the site calls "an antiquated law that in its current form leaves the health of families and the environment at risk."
Carothers said "both of our senators and our representatives acknowledged that this is a broken law, that (the act) is not working. ... It doesn't have much weight. For example, asbestos, under (the act), you can't ban it."
Anderson, who volunteers with the Environmental Health Strategy Center, said only about 200 of 84,000 synthetic chemicals found in products people use daily have ever undergone safety tests by the EPA.
"Right now, they don't test chemicals," she said last week. "It's considered harmless, (and) you can put it on the market until proven otherwise. In other words, people start getting sick."
Anderson said after her trip that "passing the Safe Chemicals Act would ensure that many more chemicals are tested. It would help prevent asthma, cancer, birth defects and neurological disorders, and even help protect wildlife from contaminated lakes and streams."
She added that untested chemicals lurk "in things that we wear, touch, eat, breathe, and drink. They are in packaging. We cannot get away from them. This issue affects us all."
Carothers, whose parents succumbed to cancer in her 20s and early 30s, said "I wondered about why they got cancer ... so that's a big motivation for me, to kind of understand what can we do to keep us all healthier. ... When I got pregnant, (I wondered) 'what am I eating, how is it going to affect this growing baby?'"
Lautenberg's site says the act would provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with sufficient information to judge the safety of a chemical. Manufacturers would have to create and submit a "minimum data set" for every chemical they provide.
The act would also prioritize chemicals according to risk; require quick action to address those chemicals causing the highest risk; ensure that all chemicals on the market meet a safety threshold; allow for open access to reliable information on chemicals, and promote the development and innovation of safe chemical alternatives.
Tracy Gregoire of Topsham, another of the bus-riding group, coordinates the Maine Healthy Children's Project, which was formed in 2003 to address the links between learning disabilities and toxic chemicals in the environment.
"We focus on educating families about toxic chemicals in products, in the home and in the workplace," she said last week.
Gregoire called the trip "incredible," adding that "I would hop on a bus and do it all over again. ... It was an amazing group of women that were really engaged and passionate about this issue."


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Killed/missing animal story (particularly beloved pets) tends to tug at folks' heart-strings for the most part (except those who aren't moved by such stories). And THAT is why this story is on Oregonlive.
Sadly, it only takes one to ruin your attitude, whether it be a bicycle rider, motorcycle rider, or vehicle driver.
The interesting thing is; these folks are in the minority of drivers/riders. The majority of folks obey the laws and give others the right-of-way. Unfortunately, it's these scofflaws who cause the rest of us to see red and call them names and wish to do them bodily harm for the trouble they cause.
The question arises, what should be done? Some folks say bicyclists should have license plates on their bikes. That's one solution. More cops would be another, but who's going to pay for them? Every time something comes up to add more police or more money, taxpayers invariably cover their wallets and scream "No more!" Calling 911 to report them? Only if you can get a good solid description and know where you are and what direction they're going at the time of the call.
So far, the license plate is the best idea yet, IMHO. However, will that mean that bicyclists will have to take a written and practical exam as well? And where will the money come from for that? Who will administer the tests? DMV workers already have a lot on their plates. Are we to add to that? Why not have bicycle shops administer the tests (and get paid X number of dollars per test).
Just some ideas.
What time does she usually drive her route? I want to get on her bus and disobey her rules and generally tell her off.
It's all a matter of point of view, isn't it?
To Ms. Chapman, the child was making hardly any noise. To the bus driver, the child was screaming and crying. Unless there are sound recordings of what occurred or if someone overheard the conversation between the the mother and the driver, it's going to be a "she said/she said" thing.
Route #57 must be a hellacious route; I remember years ago (before Beaverton Transit Center existed) dealing with a driver who simply projected an extremely negative attitude and if she was late, the look she'd give you was "I dare you to say something"
While I understand the driver's frustration, that doesn't excuse dropping a mother and child off in the dark anywhere.
Children under 5 make noise; they simply do not how to express themselves in understandable terms. Crying, yelling, etc. That's their way of saying, "I'm uncomfortable! Feed me/change me/help me sleep!" From what I'm gathering from Ms. Chapman, the child wasn't making that much noise. But then, we weren't there; unless we see a vid, we can't really offer an opinion, can we?
Sorry, I disagree. I ride a motorcycle and there have been too many times I've had close calls with idiots talking on cell phones. If I hadn't been as cautious as a cat in a dog show, I'd have been nailed. Sorry, it's not just a monkey maker for state governments, it's also a way to keep idiots from doing stupid things on the road. Keep at it, Portland!
Personally, I'd like to see the email sent by Ms. du Toit (apologies for misspelling) and I'd like to see the email response sent by Mr. Ferrioli. Right now what we've got is hearsay as reported by The Oregonian.
I'm inclined to be one of those that would like to see Mr. Ferrioli hung out on the laundry by his nose, but still think that seeing both initial email and response would be the best way to draw proper conclusions.
Hey why grumble? We've got a 10% unemployment rate in Oregon right now; why not hire some folks to guard the herds at night? Either shoot at the wolves to scare them off or shoot them to kill'em if that doesn't work.
Now before certain parties try to take a lighter to my tootsies, let me just say that wolves are beautiful animals and I'd love to see them in the wild. I think someone mentioned that wolves don't recognize political boundaries and that's true. We need to let them know they're not welcome in certain areas so they can hunt things like elk,deer, and bison, something that's not such easy prey.
You want to know what's going on in the news? Read The Oregonian or Oregonlive.com (or any other newspaper) instead of watching the one-eyed monster and its droning talking heads.
I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for folks missing their TV at work. Read a book or take a walk. All the news does is increase your tension.
This is absolutely freaking stupid. The guy is dead and now "Father X" is alleging he was sexually abused by this guy? He must be hoping for a quick settlement and retirement in Bermuda or something. I'm all for making sure abusers are taken care of, but this should have been done while the guy was alive, when he could defend himself.
If you'd go back and re-read the article, you'll see that she was only an assistant manager, not a CEO. I sincerely doubt she got any kind of severance package.
I'm constantly surprised by the amount of greed folks display when placed in financial positions of trust. They've got a decent job (in these difficult times) and they still get all grabby. I guess I don't get it. I'll understand intellectually, but never emotionally.
daveb; it's been a while since I drove I-84 into or out of downtown Portland and I don't think they exist anymore (If I'm wrong, someone please correct me). There is a stretch on I-5 northbound out of Portland and southbound into Portland that's used as your HOV lanes, but they're not as prevalent as L.A and around Seattle.
Mostly, I think it's jealousy on the part of those in cages that riders can slip by without being stuck in congestion. You know, and I know, we're helping, but those that have never ridden, don't get it.
We had a similar issue not that long ago with bicycle riders trying to share the road as well. Unfortunately, a few boneheads decided to do stupid things like disobey traffic lights, stop signs and the like, so the blood pressure on the average Portland driver is still gonna be high. I'm not saying drivers in cages were any better, but this is what I observed.
I do ride and fortunately, I've been lucky enough to avoid rush hour traffic. Lane splitting is not something I'd use or agree with as our weather and the roads tend to be rather disagreeable in the winter. But that's me. If the law were passed, if other riders want to split lanes, they can go right ahead. Me, I'll stay where I am or find an alternate route (and after living here 40 years or so, I'm pretty good at that). Personally, I'd rather see a separate lane for riders (and carpoolers) reinstated completely throughout the Portland-Metro area freeways. Be nice to see something like that established on the main streets in the cities, but that may be too much. :-)
First; there is currently no proof that Terri Moulton Horman had anything to do with the disappearance of Kyron. Last I heard, we are in the U.S. where a person is considered innocent until proven guilty.
Second, yes, Terri should get her visits with her kid. Supervised, of course, but nothing more than that. Even if she was under arrest, she would be allowed to visit in a supervised setting.
Sorry, but I've got no sympathy for the drivers or mechanics here; they're hardly mistreated and they get a pretty decent wage for what they do. Time for them to ante up and help pay for bennies. I've yet to see unions truly do anything meaningful in years and from my own personal experiences with unions, they're about as needful as a chicken with lips.
While I understand that Kaine wants Terri out of the house (and she *has* agreed to it), even those who are being evicted are given 30 days notice.
And considering she's (in)famous, she's still human and needs time to find a place that's relatively secure.
Hey Ted,
Are you including your salary and the salaries of the various Representatives and Senators in that 9% cut?
Here's an interesting article I found on Yahoo showing what people outside Portland think about the Blazers and the situation with Kevin Pritchard: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AnP1ZJ5BT7hLiG7RMxgmZjm8vLYF?slug=aw-trailblazers032210
Whether this is a power play by Vulcan to get rid of a GM who's a maverick or a means to get rid of someone who's an embarassment to the team, we may or may not find out.
I find it rather amusing to hear people jump to one conclusion or another "Oh he's a bad father" or "Oh the driver was a total jerk". The fact of the matter is, we really don't know. We can draw some basic conclusions from the video and the story reported by Mr. Rose. But it's so easy to scream "Off With Their Head!" with either the father or Tri-Met.
The one thing that the story may have missed is what, if anything, the father has done to get Tri-Met to hold itself accountable for what occurred.
Personally, I think was a bit extreme in firing the MAX driver, but again, we don't know his prior record with the company.
My guess is is that Tri-Met refused to hold itself accountable financially (the father asked for money as compensation for mental stress or something) and the father felt there was no choice but to sue. Same thing if Tri-Met never admitted accountability (which is standard for Big Business) at all. The father is simply trying to get Tri-Met to accept some responsibility.
Again, my cynical guess is that Tri-Met and the father will settle out of court and that will be the end of it and we won't hear anything about accountability.
Me, I think it's both their faults; both Tri-Met and the father need to accept culpability and move on.
My guess is if the WES had run - from the start - 7 days a week and a 12 hour day (6am-9pm), there would be a lot more riders, but because of the conservative schedule (M-F rush hour only), there isn't the interest or the customer demographic necessary. Yes, if the train was available on my weekends, I'd be happy to grab it, take it to Beaverton, then switch over to MAX to get to PDX.
I'd rather it didn't get shut down, but that just may happen.
Why was Jesse Jackson even here, other than to stir up a pot that's ready to boil over? He doesn't even live here and really should mind his own business.
It is very tragic for what happened and even the grand jury was disgusted by what happened based on the letter that they sent out.
Calm minds and calm attitudes are what needs to prevail.


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Feb 13, 2013 Comments Off on Obama Agenda Announced At SOTU Seen As Dead In Water By Republicans Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Bloomberg: President Barack Obama last night called for a higher minimum wage and stricter gun laws, proposed making preschool available to all 4-year-olds, and asked Congress to rewrite U.S. immigration law.
Today Republicans in Congress made clear that little of it will happen.
House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and rank-and-file Republicans opposed many of the details Obama set out in his second-term agenda in his State of the Union address to Congress. They signaled that the political fights of the past aren't over yet.
Boehner dismissed the president's proposal to raise the federal minimum wage. Republicans also gave a negative response to Obama's call for new legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that scientists say drives global warming.
"When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it," Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told reporters at a news conference today in Washington. "Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?"
In his speech last night to a joint session of Congress, Obama proposed raising the hourly federal minimum wage to its highest inflation-adjusted value since 1981, under President Ronald Reagan, according to a White House fact sheet.
Obama's speech was a "go-through-the motions laundry list of things" he'd "like to do," said South Dakota Senator John Thune, a member of the chamber's Republican leadership.
'Won't Pass'
"Minimum wage won't pass the House, climate-change won't pass the House," Thune said. "Those are things he would probably have a hard time getting a lot of Democrats to vote for."
The same is true for Obama's call for guaranteeing pre- school programs for all 4-year-olds, he said. "How do you pay for it?" he said. By saying the programs wouldn't "add a single dime to the deficit" Obama is expecting Congress to raise taxes "to finance all these new programs," he said.
Senate Democrats seeking re-election next year in states that supported Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 "are going to be hard pressed to vote for" new tax revenue beyond increases that have been passed, Thune said.
The president also urged Congress to pass immigration legislation and stricter gun-control measures and asked for $50 billion in infrastructure spending.
'Liberal Boilerplate'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today called Obama's speech a "liberal boilerplate that any Democratic lawmaker could have given at any time in recent memory."
"He advocated tax reform, but mostly as a way to increase the size of government, not as a way to increase our competitiveness," McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in a floor speech. "He spoke of workers' minimum wages, instead of their maximum potential."
The speaker's comments on Obama's proposal to raise the hourly minimum wage to $9 from $7.25 by the end of 2015 reflected a longstanding Republican argument that such increases only depress employment among young and low-skilled workers.
The last federal minimum-wage increase was in 2009, the first year of Obama's presidency, though it came out of a 2007 law signed by President George W. Bush. A new increase would affect an estimated 15 million people. Obama also suggested making the minimum wage rise with the cost of living.
Boehner signaled an increase had little prospect of passing the Republican-controlled House.
'Climb' Ladder
"A lot of people who are being paid the minimum wage are being paid that because they come to the workforce with no skills and this makes it harder for them to acquire the skills they need in order to climb that ladder successfully," Boehner said.
Representative Jack Kingston, Georgia Republican, said a minimum-wage measure would "have a chance" if it is accompanied by 'a 'business package of tax credits and expensing'' rules to help small businesses. Obama needs to make "a good argument of here's how we can grow jobs and help small business," he said in an interview.
On immigration, Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who was his party's 2012 vice presidential nominee, said on CNN that Obama's statements were "pretty productive."
The president said he wanted strong border security and "a responsible pathway to earned citizenship," including paying taxes and a "meaningful penalty" and getting in line behind others seeking to enter the country legally.
'Right Words'
Obama "used the right words, the right tone, which tells me he actually doesn't want to politicize" immigration, Ryan told reporters in the Capitol. That is "conducive" to reaching a bipartisan agreement, he said.
Obama's call for new legislation to slow climate change isn't "'an issue that's going to resonate in a very sluggish economy," said Pennsylvania Republican Representative Charlie Dent. "Raising energy prices is probably not going to stimulate economic growth."
Dent, who represents one of the nation's top coal-producing states, said climate legislation "is going to have some very negative impacts on consumers, manufacturers and farmers. I don't see that getting anywhere."
Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said Obama "mentioned a number of new items on spending; I didn't hear how we are going to pay for them."


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DURHAM, N.H. -- Jamie DePetris (Radnor, Pa.) and Laura Puccia (Fairpoint, N.Y.) of the University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team received Academic Honor Roll distinction from the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) for the 2013-14 academic year, announced by the organization Tuesday.
The IWLCA honored 233 student-athletes from 79 different institutions with inclusion in the 2014 IWLCA Division I Academic Honor Roll. All student-athletes were nominated by their schools and have achieved at least junior status academically and a cumulative academic grade point average of 3.50 or greater.
DePetris, a four-year member of the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll and two-time mention on the conference All-Academic Team (2011 & 2012), was named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll for the first time in her career after graduating from UNH in May with a double major in Accounting and Business Administration. The America East First Team All-Conference defender started in all 15 games in 2014 to lead the Wildcats in ground balls (27) and caused turnovers (13). DePetris recorded at least one GB every game with a season-high four in the season-opener against Hofstra University on Feb. 15. This past spring, DePetris was inducted into the National College Athletic Honor Society, Chi Sigma Alpha.
A neuroscience major, Puccia made her first career appearance on the honor roll as well. The America East Fans' Choice Player of the Year for women's lacrosse, Puccia started all 16 games in which she played. An all-conference Second Team mention, the rising senior midfielder tallied 41 goals and six assists for 47 points to lead the Wildcats in goals and rank second in points. Inducted into the National College Athletic Honor Society, Chi Sigma Alpha this past spring, the three-time America East Commissioner's Honor Roll recipient also paced the squad in shots (77) and draw controls (61). With those statistics, her America East conference rankings include tied for fourth in goals per game (2.56), ninth in points per game (2.94) and third in draw controls per game (3.81).
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Good grief, it's not even Halloween and I have to think about the first DC comics of 2011? Even trying to pronounce that number makes my tongue stumble — I keep wanting to say "twenty-eleven" and it sounds like something made-up. Worse, I keep wanting to say twenty-leven, like a common hillbilly.
Nevertheless, I do like DC's cover gimmick for January Two Thousand Eleven. The white backgrounds and big logos remind me of Superman #701's minimalist cover, and that isn't a bad thing. The cumulative effect of the style's uniformity is also more effective than the last time DC emphasized the logos, back in (cover-date) February 2002. The light, open design is also a lot more cheery than January 2009's black-background "Faces Of Evil."
Still, we're more interested in what's between the covers, are we not?
Right off I am pretty impressed with the selection of one-shots at the top of the solicits. The Starman/Congorilla special sounds very fun, especially with Rex the Wonder Dog involved. I'm curious to see what the Shazam! special does with Billy and Mary Batson, and I'm always glad for new John Henry Irons stories. The Wonder Girl special doesn't interest me that much, but it doesn't seem entirely about her anyway. Although most of these specials appear to tie into regular books (Justice League, Titans, and Teen Titans), they sound good enough on their own merits.
If you've ever dreamed of working at LexCorp, Stark Industries or even Acme Labs, here's the first step to making that dream come true — business cards. Fro Design Co. has created a print featuring business cards for Wayne Enterprises, Duff Breweries, Sterling Cooper, the Dharma Initiative and several other fictional companies.
Wow. I knew Lee Bermejo could draw some steely-lookin' bad guys, but I didn't know he could also channel Bill Watterson so well I'd have a hard time telling the two apart. Behold "Joker and Lex," Bermejo and writer Brian Azzarello's Calvin and Hobbes-esque contribution to the Superman/Batman all-star 75th-issue spectacular. I don't even wanna think about what the rules of Jokerball would be in the alternate universe where this strip is a universally beloved classic — let alone what kind of "Joker peeing" stickers it might have spawned.
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DC's The Source blog announced today that writer Paul Cornell has signed an exclusive contract with the publisher. I guess this means I can finally take down my "Bring back Captain Britain and MI13" petition page, heavy sigh.
Cornell was named the writer of Action Comics back in April, and in yesterday's interview with CBR, Dan Didio said "…even though he's not new to comics but new to DC, Paul Cornell is a guy who we see an expanded role for in the DCU as well." So it's probably no surprise that he's signed on with them for two years.
"…I'm a couple of issues into one title you haven't heard about yet," Cornell said on his blog. "I couldn't be happier, or feel more welcomed, in my new playground."
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Good Wednesday morning. Gov. Palin heads to Alaska, where Nicolle Wallace and others will join her for 9/11 remarks, her son's Army deployment and the Charlie Gibson interviews.
German Marshall Fund study out today, per Politico's Alexander Burns: "By significant margins, Europeans have high hopes for a potential Obama administration, according to a Transatlantic Trends poll of 12 European countries. Forty-seven percent of Europeans believe an Obama victory in November would lead to a better relationship between the United States and Europe, compared with just 5 percent who think Obama would weaken the trans-Atlantic relationship."
In the new Politico experiment "The Arena," refereed by Fred Barbash, top minds in public life suggest questions for Gibson.
This afternoon, Senator Obama tapes "Letterman," for airing tonight.
ZEITGEIST — Bloomberg News, "McCain Poll Surge, Fundraising Give Democrats Election Jitters," by Heidi Przybyla: "Democrats are beginning to worry about losing the presidential election. After months of leading in voter enthusiasm, fundraising and most surveys, Barack Obama lost momentum to John McCain after the Republican convention last week. McCain has gotten a boost from his pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate and has surged ahead of Obama in some national polls, while running even in others. Arizona Senator McCain, 72, is drawing larger crowds to his rallies than ever before. Illinois Senator Obama's campaign, meanwhile, may struggle to keep up the record fundraising pace it has maintained all year. The campaign's 'novelty has worn off,' said Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat. The Obama campaign 'seems to have lost its speed, its response time.'"
JUST SAYIN' — CBS's Mark Knoller points out that Torie Clarke's 2006 book is called, "Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No Spin-Era By Someone Who Knows The Game."
N.Y. Daily News: "LIPSTICK BUNGLE." N.Y. Post: "BOAR WAR."
***DRIVING THE CONVERSATION — NBC's Chuck Todd says on "Today": "John McCain has now put his entire campaign on Sarah Palin's shoulders. … He doesn't get crowds without her. She was already supposed to be in Alaska getting ready to send her son off to war, getting sort of her house in order to start campaigning solo. Now there's a lot of question: Does McCain even bother campaigning solo, or are they campaigning in a tandem because they can get the real crowds. … McCain-Palin events look like Obama events a month ago."
THE NARRATIVE: At Politico, Drs. VandeHei and Allen diagnose: Sarah Palin's "sustained and surprising central role in this race is upending Obama's strategy and often overshadowing McCain. … [I]t is very unusual, if not unprecedented, for a vice presidential pick to dominate a campaign in a sustained manner the way Palin has."
CBS's Jeff Greenfield says NOT SO FAST in "The Experience Paradox": "In choosing Sarah Palin, John McCain appears to have made the same calculation as Nixon did in 1968, and as Mondale did in 1984: 'my credentials on the national stage are so clear that I can afford to pick someone the public doesn't know.' As a political calculation, that may work. The problem will come when and if voters cease to see McCain-Palin as a team, and ask themselves if they are comfortable with the idea of Palin as a potential commander-in-chief; a role five vice-presidents in the last century had to assume suddenly. If that question moves front and center, voters may decide … that experience does count."
AP News Analysis, "Obama is back on defense," by Nedra Pickler in Riverside, Ohio, the Dayton suburb where Obama did his education speech yesterday: "Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has found himself in a position he hasn't been in during many long months of campaigning — on defense against Republican rival John McCain. With just over seven weeks left in the race, the candidates are running even in most polls, money and, it seems, even rank-and-file enthusiasm — all fronts where Obama had led for months.
"At the same time, Iraq, the issue that anti-war Obama successfully used during the primaries, has faded to the background. The economy is voters' primary concern but, on that topic, too, McCain has made gains to start leveling the playing field. … With voters craving change and Obama offering it, McCain has started pushing hard to reclaim the reformer mantle he owned eight years ago. … That's left Obama, the change candidate of the primaries, spending much of his time explaining to voters why McCain and Palin don't deserve the label."
THE BIG IDEA — New York Observer cover, "Femocracy in America: Hillary, Sarah, Michelle, Cindy: Has 2008 Campaign Fried Feminism? Sisterhood Is Powerful, But McCain Running-Mate Sarah Palin Has Fried the Circuits of Post-Clinton New York Feminists."
TOP STORY — AP's Nedra Pickler: "Palin referred to lipstick as she accepted the Republican nomination for vice president, saying that it's the only thing that separates a hockey mom like her from a pit bull. Obama … brought up lipstick on Tuesday in comparing the policies of McCain, his Republican rival for the White House, to those of President Bush. 'You can put lipstick on a pig,' Obama said during a campaign stop. 'It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years.'"
A top Obama aide e-mails that it's "crazy" to think the lipstick remark was a reference to Palin. In video played on morning shows, McCain used the same expression to refer to Senator Clinton's health care plan.
The McCain campaign posts a Web ad playing the Obama clip, calling it sexist and suggesting cheekily it's a "smear."
Karl Rove to Fox's Greta Van Susteren: "He's getting in a bad place in his campaign. And when you get nervous and when you get sort of under pressure and you start to lose it, this is the kind of stuff you start to say."
Obama campaign senior adviser Anita Dunn issues a statement: "Enough is enough. The McCain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy — the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run."
On Tuesday night, "The Page" at Time.com went Drudgy: "GOING NUCLEAR: FIGHT OVER MCCAIN'S HONOR LEADS TO ANGRIEST, MOST PERSONAL STATEMENTS SO FAR. New McCain ad on education produces angry back-and-forth statements. … Developing… hard and fast."
Drudge himself went with a banner, "OBAMA: 'LIPSTICK ON A PIG, STILL A PIG'."
CHATTER: Where DO you get a nickname like "Pepper Boy"?
SPORTS BLINK — AP, Lance "Armstrong coming out of retirement for Tour": "The 36-year-old Armstrong is breaking out of his three-year retirement and aiming to win yet another Tour de France in 2009, a move sure to shake up things across the Atlantic and give a boost to a sport that has missed its biggest star. In a formal statement Tuesday, Armstrong called his comeback an attempt to raise global awareness in his fight against cancer. Just as likely, it's also about his relentless desire to compete and win, especially at the Tour, which he won a record seven times from 1999-2005. Citing the slow pace of last year's Tour and the rush from last month's Leadville 100 race, Armstrong decided it was time to return. … After he retired Armstrong took on cancer as a political issue, lobbying federal and state lawmakers and co-hosting televised forums with presidential candidates. He was instrumental in persuading the 2007 Texas Legislature to pass a $3 billion fund for cancer research."
DESSERT — Hollywood Reporter, "NBC shows return to iTunes after yearlong feud: Apple Inc. and NBC Universal have ended a yearlong disagreement over pricing that had been keeping NBC TV shows off the iTunes Store. Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the occasion of the company's 'Let's Rock' event in San Francisco to announce that, beginning immediately, NBC shows including 'Heroes' and 'The Office' are available via iTunes for $1.99 per episode or $2.99 for high-definition (HD) versions. Library titles will sell for 99 cents, and NBC will have the ability to group shows — like Tina Fey's six favorite episodes of '30 Rock,' for example — at prices yet to be determined. In September, NBC was the top seller of video content on iTunes, but the network pulled its shows off the service when Apple refused to let NBC fiddle with pricing. Apple claimed then that NBC was angling to raise the price of some shows from $1.99 to $4.99 per episode, while NBC denied that it sought such a dramatic price hike."
Palin charged Alaska tax payers to stay at her home.... also $49,000 for her kids to travel!
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.
The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.
Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.
The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.
Yeah, so what. What is your point. That she did something legal, allowed, and pro forma for the position and did it at 1/4 of the cost of her predecessor?
You do realize that Wasilla to Juneau is roughly the same distance as traveling from DC to Chicago? Did not think so.
Schmidt, Rove and Davis are attacking the Pig Wearing Lipstick? Because they branded Governor Sarah Palin as their Pit bull wearing Lip stick? What is the difference between a Pig and a Pit bull?
Pigs, also called hogs or swine, are ungulates which have been domesticated as sources of food, leather, and similar products since ancient times. From Wikipedia
Pit Bull is a term commonly used to describe several breeds of dog in the Molosser family that were historically used for dog fighting. From Wikipedia
Proof that they are attempting to steal the fashion vote and the pet vote.
Democrats courting all Republican and Independent voters who love Lipstick and Fashion Lipstick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Fashion show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Democrats are courting all Republican and Independent Pet owners and their family! You heard right! Their Pets are their Family too!
We will not concede Talking Dog fans! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
We will not concede Funny Cat fans! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
The real change team for the last 19 months Change we can believe in!
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Hey partisan-bicker-douche:
I think I've read this pathetic post on another blog.
Schmidt, Rove and Davis are attacking the Pig Wearing Lipstick? Because they branded Governor Sarah Palin as their Pit bull wearing Lip stick? What is the difference between a Pig and a Pit bull?
You can call yourself anything, moron. Barack can call himself the n-word if he wants and that's OK.
It is when you call someone else a name other than their actual one that you people define it as "hate speech"
Now, to the actual post....
I'm not saying she's like Jesus or even the Virgin Mary, but "have saint will travel" should be McCain's new motto.
The old sailor is on a roll of epic proportions.
It's looking like the coat tails are beginning to come into play in this one.
Well look like Obama has done it yet again......every time he opens his mouth, he inserts his foot.
The hole he is digging is getting deeper and deeper with no way out.
Oh and lets not forget the fish thing.....He so much as called McCain a stinking fish.
How looooow can you go, Obama
He was much more brave when he let O'Reilly splatter him all over my TV set.
Keep up the good work, Barry!
I think the media is missing the points that the voters are seeing. We need change in Washington. Obama proposes change through the introduction of many new programs. McCain wants to bring in change by fixing old programs. Neither candidate has a snowball's chance without reforms. Washington is broken and both parties are equally at fault. For example, each elected official has a campaign fund, Some are large and many funds employ the elected official's' family members or close friends. These funds receive large sums from special interests. the special interest reps never have to talk to the elected official to get their point across; the info comes from the campaign fund staff. Earmarks essentially represent "taxpayer funded campaigns". Before new programs are authorized or old programs are restructured ethical and procedural reforms must take place. It seems that our choice of candidates probably should be based upon who we believe can best bring about such needed reforms. Don't expect this to originate on Capital Hill. The elected President will have to go over the heads of these people and go to the public to apply pressure. Do we need a young warrior or an old war horse???
Obama's camp is still struggling with the problem of how to go 'gently' negative against Palin/McCain. 'It's like trying to diss Dopey and Dumbo', one top aide admitted, 'And how do you attack McCain's character, since he has none?'
Looks like the Gopers theory has legs, nominate a couple of inanities, PR th cr*p out of them, lie your a**es of, and count on the uncritical, uneducated, uninformed 'great American public. Make the only 'issues' 'Fear', 'POW', 'Lipstick', and 'Moose', forget 'Bush', 'Morality', 'Amoral War', 'Health Care', 'Economic Disaster', 'Poverty', and above all. 'Education', for 'Education' would render the Gopers extinct.
From a blog on mybarackobama.com. Looks like a smoking gun to me. Two days before Barack's "innocent" one-liner. Am I to believe that his staff doesn't monitor his own fauning websites? Looks to me like someone in the campaign saw this and decided to massage it into his speech. Very subtle. Must've seemed like a good idea at the time.
Lipstick on a Pig By Lynnie Gal Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm EDT
It is appropriate that Palin refers to herself as a pitbull--an ugly, snarling, threatening animal. But we all know that the lipstick she talks about isn't on a pitbull. She is lipstick on a pig, the pig being the Republican party in general, John McBush in particular.
We've all heard the joke that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. I get that. But we need to push back on the cynicism that McSame is pushing, knowing that signing on a sexy grandma will get white men to vote for him because they want to sleep with her. You know it's true!
Let's send out a steady stream of Democratic women on the news show circuit NOW, and capitalize on the fact that they can't send Palin out there because she KNOWS NOTHING. The repuklicans know that the hard questions the press will ask her are going to destroy her, and that's why they have to keep her locked in her dressing room All we will see are the sound bites from the solitary speech she gave that was written for her by a Bush speech writer, and the press will have to play them over and over and over ad nauceum until it gets drilled into the head of the common folk that she really is lipstick on a pig.
Either the Republican Party is full of idiots or is a Party for idiots.
Let's not pretend that Dick Cheney did not use the same reference, during his 2004 campaign, in hitting at John Kerry to distorytKerry's Vietnam War Service .
Let's not pretend that John McCain did not se the same reference, in October, 2007, to hit at Hillary Clinton's Health Care Plan.
Pbama has NO REASON TO APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE for using the same reference. ONLY IDIOTS DON'T REALIZE that IT'S A COMMON REFERENCE USED DOWN SOUTH. The CNN and FOX NEWS HONKERS and the MCCAIN WOMEN ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE IDIOTS, ASSOCIATING A COMMON REFERENCE TO SEXISM. What PHONIES AND LIARS!
Hey, is McCain's cancer beginning to re-appear on his right-side temple? Notice the darker patch on his face that seems not to be hidden from his botox treatment?
Um, I don't think that's lipstick, guys. Word from Wasilla: TATTOOED LIPS
Palin is unfit to serve our great country. She has no idea what she's doing. She's strikes me as a clueless but cute lady who is more at home in the hockey rink than the White House.
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Yeah I think for us drummers its best to try what we like and play what we want. I think all too often people get caught up in marketing hype and so forth. For the younger players or those hard working musicians I feel bad because often time the gear does not live up to the hype.
Thanks for the well wishes; I had to play another gig tonight and I am feeling better. I still played it safe though and not go crazy. Really cozy gig with no monitors so it was strange not having some feedback of my kick or any of my lead singers vocals for a reference. I am also very congested still as confirmed by the visit to my Doctor this morning. Good news in about a week I should be sorted.
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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 31, 1998 This summer, the NATO-led stabilization mission in Bosnia known as SFOR enters a new, open-ended phase.
In May, NATO authorities extended the SFOR mission indefinitely. The original 18-month SFOR mission named Operation Joint Guard ended June 20, and a new operation dubbed Joint Forge began. The stabilization force itself will still be called SFOR, according to NATO officials.
Operation Joint Endeavor, NATO's initial, year-long mission, involved a peace implementation force, IFOR, of about 60,000 multinational troops, including 20,000 Americans. When IFOR changed to SFOR, the force dropped to about 33,000 multinational troops, including about 8,500 Americans.
At a July seminar in Sarajevo, Bosnia, NATO officials highlighted what aspects of the stabilization force will remain the same and what will change in the new phase.
The overall number of multinational troops will remain at about 33,000 troops (including 3,000 in Croatia), but the number of Americans is slated to drop to about 6,900. As part of an effort to spread the Bosnia mission load beyond U.S. units in Europe, 1st Cavalry Division units from Fort Hood, Texas, will replace Germany-based 1st Armored Division units this fall.
NATO's 16 nations will continue contributing to the operation along with 17 Partnership for Peace nations and five non-NATO nations -- Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco and Ireland. U.S. Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki remains in command, and his mission mandate stays the same: SFOR will continue to provide a secure environment so civil peace implementation efforts can proceed.
While the military tasks outlined in the Dayton accord have been accomplished, much work remains in the civilian arena, said Gregory L. Schulte, director of NATO's Bosnia Task Force. "SFOR's priorities will include support for refugee returns and for this September's elections," he said.
SFOR's ranks will now include two new multinational specialized police battalions, Schulte noted. These troops, specially trained and equipped to deal with violent demonstrations, will be based in Sarajevo and be able to deploy rapidly throughout Bosnia, he said.
"By introducing such a capability into SFOR, we hope to prevent civil disturbances," Schulte said. "We also hope to counter those who use thugs and criminals to undercut the peace, to intimidate those trying to return to their homes and to block the installation of democratically elected officials."
NATO officials aim to promote public security, Schulte said, but not by supplanting local police authorities. "SFOR, with this new specialized unit, will continue to work closely with the U.N. International Police Task Force to reform and restructure the local police and help them assume their proper role in protecting civil society," he said.
Although there is no set end date for Operation Joint Forge, Schulte said, plans call for a progressive reduction in the size, role and profile of the force. Reductions will be consistent with developments in the political and security situation and progress in civil implementation, he said.
Following the September elections, NATO officials will review force levels and tasks at regular intervals, Schulte said. "The end state we seek is a peace that can last and provide the basis for [Bosnia's] continued reconstruction without the continued presence of a NATO-led force," he said.
NATO has no desire to establish a permanent military presence in Bosnia, he stressed. "In the end, it is the people of Bosnia and their elected leaders who must make the peace work."