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Observations from a 5-3 loss
It was ugly, no two ways about it.
Marty Turco was fantastic. The two goals where defensive coverage left players all alone in front? What do you do there? The other two? Meh. One was a sick deflection and one bounced in off of two Stars players before going in.
The Stars were out-shot in every period. 16-9 in the first when they should have learned their lesson from Washington and come out with their best period of the road trip. 15-5 in the second when a 3-3 game was up for grabs. 12-6 in the third when they should have been desperately trying to tie the game and reminding each other what they did inb Washington.
Ouch. That was 0-for-3 in reading the motivation of the situation.
Here's Steve Ott on what it was like to be Turco.
"I mean, if there's a 4-by-8 piece of plywood in there and you get that many shots on it, one or five are going to go through eventually," center Steve Ott said. "Marty played awesome. He's playing his heart out for us, and we have to be better."
Marc Crawford was disappointed that his skilled players were dangling too much. he said Jamie Benn and James Neal were playing a simple, straight forward game, but that veterans like Brad Richards and Mike Ribeiro were too hully-gully.
"They were careless with the puck," Crawford said. "We got all of our goals from simple plays and taking it to the net, but then, our skilled forwards tried to make complicated plays, they turned over pucks, and they really let us down. There was no reason for it."
Richards carried the puck in on a three-on-three and tried to send a blind behind-the-back pass from the wing into the slot, and that infuriated Crawford. Richards actually had pretty good numbers. He had an assist, was plus-1, was credited with one giveaway and won 10-of-14 faceoffs.
Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow each were minus-3.
Tyler Myers was fascinating for Buffalo. How a 6-8 kid can skate like that is amazing. How a 20-year-old can make those decisions on defense is incredible. he had a goal and three assists, and he was clearly the best player on the ice.
They said he has been in a slump the last 10 games, but the player we saw Wednesday is the best rookie in the league by a mile. We've seen a lot of Kings defenseman Drew Doughty, and he was better than any game we have seen Doughty play.
If you haven't read the story, he was born in Houston and moved to Calgary when he was 10. He got into hockey when he was 6 because his dad took him to a Houston Aeros game.
Anyway, back to the Stars carnage. They are now 1-4-0 since the Olympic Break and are five points out of eighth place in the West.
They play their next six at home, and they have to win most of them.
Here's Ott again:
"It's our season, quite frankly. There are 12 points there, huge points, so we either come out and we're strong at home and we continue to have a good push right to the end, or if we don't get the ship pointed in the right direction on this homestand, then we might as well call it a season."
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"If one guy breaks down, it all breaks down," said Steve Ott, who scored in the wacky first period. "I think that's what's it's been more of. The defensive responsibility of guys to commit to their position and to their play, I think that's where it's resulting in an awful lot of shots in the last little while. I think if there's a 4X8 foot piece of plywood in there, if they get that many shots on it, one of them is going to go through it eventually because it's going to break down. Marty's played awesome, and he's playing his heart out for us."
Jamie Benn:
"Both teams had their chances in the first period, and it was run-n-gun," Benn said. "They just took advantage of everything in the second. I don't think we tested (Miller) enough, but that's the way it goes sometimes."
Marty Turco:
"Every game is just so vital. We're not getting any farther behind, but we just have to win to stay afloat, and then we need a little bit of help from some other teams. But we still think our destiny is in our control if we win all our games. If we can't do that, we have to go to the next one."
Marc Crawford:
"We were guilty of turning over a few too many pucks and trying to make the game a little bit more complicated than it needed to be. You win games at this time by playing mentally tough and making sure that you don't over-complicate your game. We were guilty of not doing that."


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With tourism being the main industry within the Lake District National Park, it is up to the inhabitants and businesses to become more environmentally aware and no more so than the highly popular Windermere. This can be in the form of recycling all glass, paper, cardboard and hard plastics for example. Networks such as the Cumbria Business Environment Network can help a tourism business become more environmentally aware through advice, audits and the ability to work towards bronze, silver and gold awards for improving their environmental performance.
Apart from recycling and energy conservation, hotels in Windermere and the Lake District can play a large part in conservation of wildlife and the beautiful landscape. The Tourism and Conservation Partnership is another organisation. They support tourism businesses who wish to invest in the landscape and environment. With a membership of over 200 tourism businesses in Cumbria, The Tourism and Conservation Partnership are working together to ensure a sustainable further for Cumbria – The Lake District.
A project supported by the Tourism and Conservation Partnership in Cumbria is the Red Squirrel Conservation project in conjunction with Save Our Squirrels. Since the 19th Century, the red squirrel has been slowly edged out by the larger and more outgoing grey squirrel. In the Lake District, the native red has seen the same decline as in many other parts of the United Kingdom, since the introduction of its grey cousin from overseas. There are however, exceptions, such as Whinlatter Forest, where the red squirrels are fairly strong in numbers.
As a region, Cumbria-The Lake District has been at the forefront of trying to counteract this trend and various organisations have been proactive in taking this forward. The Forestry Commission and Save Our Squirrels, for example, will help these Lake District squirrels, through the opening of a site near Keswick which will allow us to view them in their natural habitat and therefore understand them better.
In Windermere there are various projects, funded by local organisations which will help favour the red squirrel. This is increasingly important as there are only around 21,000 remaining in the whole of the UK. Grey squirrels were only introduced into the UK around one hundred years ago.
While the grey squirrel does not directly attack the red, they tend to be less affected by breeding pressures, can more easily digest acorns and pass on a virus which is more likely to kill the red squirrel; all attributes which have assisted their population growth to the detriment of the native Red. As the grey squirrels are in larger numbers, they tend to get to the food before the red squirrel so it is harder for the red to find the food. There are certain places in the Lake District where it is more likely that a red squirrel will be viewed but as with many rare birds and animals, when one goes to specifically see an animal, it is almost guaranteed they won't make an appearance!
A variety of tourism businesses, including Lake District and Windermere hotels, raised almost £20,000 last year alone through donation boxes and fund raising events in the area.

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Last week's poll: renewing Trident
It will cost the UK some £100bn to renew the Trident nuclear deterrent. Do we still need Trident, or should the money be spent some other way?
The question of whether the UK needs nuclear weapons neveer fails to arouse opinion, and our poll last week attracted almost 800 respondents representing a wide spread of standpoints. The largest group, 31 per cent, opposed the renewal and indeed the Cold War concept of nuclear deterrent, as Britain no longer faces the type of threat that Trident was intended to counter. The next largest, perhaps inevitably, was pro-Trident, with 27 per cent saying that we simply don't know what sort of threats might emerge, so security demands that we renew the system. Another large group, 22 per cent, said that Trident was an expensive option and the UK should look for cheaper ways to deploy a nuclear deterrent. Smaller numbers went for the other options, with 8 per cent saying that Trident is still the best way of deterring nuclear attack, and that international prestige, rather than security, is the main reason for renewing Trident.
Even the great Jim Hacker had problems rationalising the reasons for renewing Trident, and relied on the impeccable logic of Sir Humphrey Appleby to explain it, as this clip from Yes, Prime Minister shows. And incredibly, this was transmitted in 1986.
Readers' comments (38)
Renewing Trident is not optional. Owing to the emergence of more countries obtaining nuclear weapons capability, renewing Trident is a necessity. Many of the new nuclear powers are based on unpredictable and unstable political structures and although at the moment things may appear quiet in the not too distant future that may not be the case. No matter how objectionable we must be prepared to defend ourselves.
Reasons for keeping a nuclear deterrent:
- Clinging to Great Britain's past when GB was still great.
- Keeping a permanent presence at the UN's security council.
- Trying to play with the big boys.
The problem about cheaper options is that it means cruise missile launched warheads that can be launched from any warship and that comes with 2 problems:-
1) All launch platforms apart from nuclear submarines are vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike.
2) Cruise missiles are vulnerable to being shot down whereas ballistic missiles are not vulnerable to being shot down.
As such the only credible deterrent is a ballistic missile launched from a Nuclear Submarine.
Unlike Cruise Missiles, a ballistic missile cannot be launched from a Hunter Killer Nuclear Submarine so they require a ballistic nuclear submarine like the current submarines.
My only query is why cant we have replacement trident missiles to replace the old ones and reuse the warheads and build new ballistic submarines.
I ask because replacement seems to be based upon old missiles and old submarines that need scrapping and not the effectiveness of the missile system or warheads. So why not new missiles to the existing design and new submarines with the latest technology to escape detection to have an effective ballistic submarine system slightly cheaper than new submarines with a new missile design.
We need Trident as R.Bebbington says but also because of the spin-off of jobs, research and prestige.
Russia continues to be anti-west with its views and Iran, North Korea and Pakistan unstable and threatening. Until these threats disappear we need to be vigilant and prepared.
I don't like it but see it as necessary. I don't like BAE being solely an armaments manufacturer and would like to see them use their skills to produce civil aircraft and ships.
I have worked in the nuclear industry for 3 decades now and reached a fairly senior position at Ameco. In my mind anybody arguing against nuclear use in civil or military applications is a socialist fascist. Would you rather squander billions on benefits or invest worldclass nuclear research?
The vast majority of the benefits budget goes on pensions; that's a highly controversial definition of 'squandering.'
As a Scot, I will be voting YES in the referendum. I can't wait to get rid of Westminster and kick the nuclear subs out of Scotland.
You might hurt your foot; they're pretty big.
The nuclear missle system is leased from the United States.
Do we have to maintain the pretence that this is ours alone, and sustain our extravagant doctrine of "continuous at-sea deterrence". Deterrence against what? Nazis? Aliens? Killer jellyfish? Our Trident missiles, due to be replaced and deployed at a cost of several tens of billions, have no visible strategic purpose. They are the reification of a fantasy: a fantasy that the United Kingdom is still a defining world power and that our enemies present an existential threat. As usual, the government is preparing for the last war, building a fantastical Maginot Line against the enemies of a previous century, the ghost armies that haunt the official imagination.
As Dan Plesch shows in his report on British weapons systems, we have no independent deterrent. Since 1943, when the UK joined the Manhattan Project, our nuclear weapons programme has relied on crumbs from the US table. The US has granted us a franchise on parts of its programme, which it has graciously allowed us to rebrand with the Union flag.
Our Trident missiles are currently leased from the US. The warheads they carry are based on an American design (the W-76) and manufactured at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire. Its factory is a copy of a nuclear plant at Los Alamos, and it is two-thirds owned by the American companies Lockheed Martin and Jacobs Engineering. The firing system is designed and built in the US; so is the missile guidance system. The missiles are aimed with the help of US satellites. The subs themselves are designed and built in the UK, but use American components and American reactor technology. There might be the odd shaving brush and plastic cup on board that was designed and manufactured entirely in the UK, but that's about the limit of our deterrent's independence. Any more questions?
Independence, you are having a laugh.
In 2003 the then UK defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, announced that he would restructure the armed forces to make them "inter-operable" with those of the US. The idea that our government, which has renounced sovereign control of its forces, could launch a nuclear attack without the blessing of – or instructions from – the US is ludicrous. Yet it will not contemplate even sharing patrols with France.
Both the government and the opposition assert their virility by rejecting offers of power-sharing from Europe, while accepting offers of subordination from the US. Never do they find themselves obliged to explain why. Those who most loudly proclaim themselves patriots are the first to demand that we prostrate ourselves before the US.
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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli speaks during a news conference earlier this year in Albany. / AP
A company run by Monroe Countys former financial officer, Stephen Gleason, received preferential treatment in the doling out of a $224 million county public safety contract, according to a draft of an audit conducted by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
In a rare move designed to blunt the potentially damaging effects of the audit during a politically sensitive season, the administration of County Executive Maggie Brooks released the draft late Friday afternoon along with prepared statement criticizing the audits findings as baseless and deeply flawed.
State auditors found that county officials shared their vision for the contract with future beneficiaries of the deal as early as 2006, and that Gleasons company, Navitech Services Corp., received a copy of the countys requirements for the contract three months before they were officially issued in a call for bids in February 2009.
As a result of the advance notice, according to the audit, Navitech was the only bidder to know of the countys preference that the contract be let through a local development corporation a private, nonprofit entity that can issue debt, borrow money and contract out work without traditional government oversight.
In this case, the county formed Monroe Security and Safety Systems Local Development Corp., also known as M3S.
Consequently, only Navitech, a vendor with both prior knowledge of the requirements and significant connections to current and former county officials, provided a proposal that included the use of an LDC (local development corporation), the audit read.
The audit went on to read, Our review of activities related to the (bidding) illustrates a seriously flawed process that provided an unfair advantage to the successful respondent, Navitech.
Gleason, who opened a consulting firm after leaving the countys employ in August 2008, is Navitechs chief operating officer. Messages left for him on his cellphone and at the Navitech offices late Friday were not returned.
The voicemail greeting on his cellphone stated, If this call pertains to Navitech business, I will be unavailable and unable to return your call until Tuesday, Sept. 4.
The audit is the third in the past year in which the comptroller harshly criticized the countys use of local development corporations to outsource public services.
The comptroller previously examined Upstate Telecommunications Corp., which was formed to upgrade the countys computer and telephone systems, and Monroe Newpower Corp., which was created to buy and manage a county-owned power plant in Brighton.
All three were conducted under the umbrella of a public integrity task force formed jointly last year by DiNapoli and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
The attorney general has ongoing investigations into Upstate Telecommunications and Monroe Security and Safety Systems, but he has issued no findings.
Although each of the audits has painted a portrait of a clubby county government that failed to do right by taxpayers, none have yielded any charges of criminal wrongdoing.
Consequently, county officials have mostly shrugged the audits off as the work of two high-profile Democrats using their offices to taint a Republican county executive with ambitions for higher political office. Brooks is running to unseat incumbent Rep. Louise Slaughter in the 25th Congressional District.
The Brooks administrations preemptive strike of issuing the draft audit to the media was surprising, particularly since the administration previously admonished the leaking of a draft of an earlier audit as compromising the integrity of the audit process.
The Slaughter campaign chided the move as a thinly veiled attempt to bury the news in the bustle of a holiday weekend.
Trying to dump yet another New York state comptroller audit on the Friday before a holiday weekend is a clear sign of how devastating this new scandal is to Maggie Brooks, said Slaughter campaign spokesman Eric Walker. Were going to be taking a long, hard look at this report.
Responding to the question of why the county released the audit, county spokesman Justin Feasel said, In the interest of transparency, we see no reason to not provide an immediate public response to the comptroller.
In its news release, the county quoted its chief financial officer, Scott Adair, criticizing the audit in ideological terms, saying it represented a fundamental difference of opinion about the size and cost of government.
Mr. DiNapolis unnecessary reviews of successful public-private partnerships suggest that he is hostile to utilizing the efficiency and ingenuity of the private sector to protect taxpayers and reduce the size of government, Adair said. The LDC model was actually established to allow local governments to do exactly what Monroe County is doing right now take on important projects, while achieving savings for taxpayers.
Whether the use of local development corporations has saved county taxpayers money has been another fundamental difference between the comptroller and the Brooks administration.
When he released his audit of Upstate Telecommunications last year, DiNapoli accused the county of wasting at least $8 million.
The county retorted that it saved taxpayers $13 million.
In the draft audit that came to light Friday, auditors found that the county will pay at least $20.6 million more than it should for services received through the contract. In its news release, the county claimed it would show in its formal response to the audit that the contract would save taxpayers $10 million.
A spokesman for the comptroller declined to comment on the county issuing the draft.
Our audit is not final, said the spokesman, Brian Butry. Its still going through its process, and when we have completed the audit, we will issue a final report.
The draft was dated August 2012, but county officials said it was delivered this week and that it gave the Brooks administration 30 days to respond.
The Comptrollers Office typically publicly releases audits one to four weeks after it receives an official response. If that schedule is followed, the final audit could surface less than two weeks before the November election.


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Cud (band)
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Cud performing live in 2012
|Background information
|Leeds, England
|Indie rock
|Years active
|1987–95, 2006–Present
|Reception Records (1987–88)
Imaginary (1988 –91)
|Carl Puttnam
Mike Dunphy
William Potter
Gogs Byrn
|Past members
|Mick Dale
Felix Frey
Steve Goodwin
Cud are a British indie rock band formed in Leeds, England in 1987, consisting of vocalist Carl Puttnam (born Ilford, Essex), guitarist/keyboardist Mike Dunphy (b. Northumberland), bassist William Potter (b. Derby), and drummer Steve Goodwin (b. Croydon, Surrey).
The four-piece formed in Leeds in 1987, reportedly when they discovered a discarded drum kit in a skip.[citation needed] They recorded a Peel Session on the 16 June 1987 before they had released any records, John Peel being sufficiently impressed by the demo tape that they had sent him. The band signed to The Wedding Present's Reception label for their first single "You're The Boss",[1] with their second release being the Peel Sessions EP, released on Strange Fruit Records in February 1988 - this was notable for a cover version of Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing" which had already featured in the Festive 50 at number 20. After building up a strong local fanbase, their popularity grew more widely, and they were signed by Imaginary Records in 1989, who would release their first two albums, When in Rome, Kill Me and Leggy Mambo.
Cud beginning to make an impact on the UK Singles Chart, and they signed to the major label A&M in 1991, leaving Imaginary to disappear into insolvency. The greater spending power at A&M enabled Cud to make their first foray into the Top 40 in 1992, with "Rich and Strange" (#24) and "Purple Love Balloon" (#27), as well as reaching number 30 in the UK Albums Chart with fourth album Asquarius.[2] A further Top 40 hit single followed in 1994 with "Neurotica". However, their moderate success and cult status was short lived, after they failed to overcome musical differences, as well as major label A&M having a problem with the band's attitude.[citation needed] As a consequence of this, 1994's Showbiz would be their last album. Potter was replaced by Mick Dale, who would later join Embrace, shortly before the band split entirely in early 1995.
On 21 November 2001 Puttnam returned to the music scene with Donkey With a Fez On, an album of previously unreleased demo material originally intended for release after the Showbiz album. This was followed by a live performance at the 12 Bar Club in London. Puttnam was accompanied by Alaric Neville and David Lazenby on guitars, and Michael Hurst on melodeon and percussion. The performance was subsequently released on CD in 2002 as Chateau de Carles. Both Donkey With a Fez On and Chateau de Carles were not on general release, and could only be obtained by mail order from the mysterious Gabriel Tonka (almost universally believed to be Puttnam).[citation needed]
Cud reformed to support the release of a double album of their greatest hits entitled Rich and Strange - The Anthology which was released in August 2006 on Universal Records, alongside a brief UK tour to promote it. Dunphy was replaced by Felix Frey on guitar for the tour.
The same line-up again reformed for a short tour early in 2008 to support the expanded re-releases of Elvis Belt (now a double album entitled Elvis Belt/Elvis Handbag), Leggy Mambo and Showbiz. At Cud's gig at the Barfly in Liverpool on 6 March 2008 Puttnam suggested, contrary to suggestions on Cud's homepage, that the latest tour would be Cud's last. On 27 April 2008, Cud announced that their final ever gig (entitled "No more Cud!") would take place in Rios Leeds on 3 May 2008. To commemorate the event, a limited-edition CD single was sold, which was supposed to feature a new recording of "Punishment-Reward Relationship", along with live versions of "Now!", "Only", "Living in the Past" and "Strange Kind of Love". This was distributed as a blank printed CDR with the tracks to follow shortly afterwards. To date the songs have not been forthcoming.
Cud reformed again (with Puttnam, Goodwin, Potter & Frey once again) for two gigs (during March, 2010, held at the Hootananny Club in Brixton, London.[3]
In February 2012 BBC 6 Music announced Cud's 'Jubilee' tour in support of their album 'The Complete BBC Sessions' released by 3Loop Music. This tour was their first since 2010, and the first to feature original guitarist Mike Dunphy in almost 17 years. However, original drummer Steve Goodwin declined to participate so Gogs Byrn completed the lineup. During the tour the band performed live on Marc Riley's BBC 6 Music Show, rendering the new album's title slightly misleading. The band played further shows later in the year with The Wedding Present, Carter USM & Ned's Atomic Dustbin including a sell-out show at Brixton Academy.
Steve Lamacq premiers Cud's first new single in 17 years; a double A side titled 'Louise/Mexico'. The band tour in November together with Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
With the release of the single 'Victoria', Cud perform several support gigs across the UK in October. The two London gigs feature the band playing in full the running order of their first two studio albums - When in Rome, Kill Me and Leggy Mambo.
The band played several dates in the UK in September, and appeared at the 'Shiiine On Weekender' in Minehead on 8 November.
UK singles[edit]
- "Mind the Gap" (Reception 1987)
- "The Peel Sessions: Cud" (UK Strange Fruit 1988)
- "Under My Hat" (UK Ediesta 1988)
- "Slack Time" (UK Dug/Nightshift 1988)
- "Lola" (UK Imaginary MIRAGE 1989)
- "Only (A Prawn in Whitby)" (Imaginary MIRAGE 1989)
- "Hey! Wire" (UK Imaginary MIRAGE 1990)
- "Robinson Crusoe" (UK Imaginary MIRAGE 1990)
- "Backdoor Santa" (fanclub flexi-disc 1990)
- "Magic" (UK Imaginary MIRAGE 1991)
- "Oh No Won't Do" (UK A&M 1991)
- "Through the Roof" (UK A&M 1992)
- "Rich and Strange" (UK A&M 1992)
- "Purple Love Balloon" (UK A&M 1992)
- "Once Again" (UK A&M 1992)
- "Cud's Ode to Christmas Joy" (fanclub flexi-disc 1992)
- "Neurotica" (UK A&M 1994)
- "Sticks and Stones" (UK A&M (1994)
- "One Giant Love" (UK A&M 1994)
- "Louise/Mexico" (UK Tonka 2013) [2]
UK singles chart history[edit]
|Peak Chart Positions
|Oct 1990
|"Robinson Crusoe"
|Leggy Mambo
|Mar 1991
|Oct 1991
|"Oh No Won't Do"
|Mar 1992
|"Through The Roof"
|May 1992
|"Rich & Strange"
|Aug 1992
|"Purple Love Balloon"
|Oct 1992
|"Once Again"
|Feb 1994
|Apr 1994
|"Sticks and Stones"
|Sep 1994
|"One Giant Love"
UK albums[edit]
|Album details
|12 June 1989
|''When in Rome, Kill Me''
|18 June 1990
|''Elvis Belt''
|22 October 1990
|''Leggy Mambo''
|29 June 1992
|April 1994
|''Rich and Strange - The Anthology''
- ^ Dickson, Ian (1987) "From Leeds, with noise!", Underground, December 1987 (Issue 9), p. 28
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 129. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Cud back in 2010
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A large variety of items have been gathered for this year's annual Knoxville Chamber of Commerce Fall Fundraising Dinner and Auction. The evening will begin with social hour and silent auction at 5pm with dinner being served at 6:00 and the live auction at 7pm. Chamber of Commerce Executive Office Coordinator Jessie Wilson says there will be more than 150 items available including 3M, Iowa State Savings Bank, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Iowa Barnstormers and several hotels across central Iowa..
The event takes place on Saturday October 23rd in Dyer-Hudson Hall on the Marion County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $7 per person or $12 per couple and are available at the Chamber of Commerce Office, Iowa State Savings Bank, Hy-Vee, Valley Bank or at the door the night of the event.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Authorities announced the arrest of the man suspected of robbing First Tennessee Bank late Wednesday morning.
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Officials said the suspect walked into the bank on Western Ave. around 2:45 p.m. on Monday and handed the teller a note demanding money. He then allegedly reached across the counter and took money from the teller area. He then fled the bank and left the scene in a mid-90's burgundy sedan.
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If you've ever received an email from your city's public works department during a snow emergency or from the IRS during tax season, chances are you didn't notice GovDelivery's logo in the bottom right-hand corner of the message.
But the St. Paul-based software company is getting harder to overlook.
GovDelivery's digital communications tools are used by more than 1,000 government entities in the U.S. -- from federal agencies all the way down to local municipalities -- and the U.K. to send emails, text messages, voicemails and social media updates to their citizens.
There are a handful of similar products on the market to serve businesses, like Constant Contact or ExactTarget, but GovDelivery CEO Scott Burns says his company has distinguished itself by tailoring its tools to the complexities of government.
"We have to serve a very broad range of needs," Burns said. "If you think about just the city of St. Paul, it's an entity that's as complicated as if you put Wells Fargo together with Allina together with Subway."
And while businesses all have the same goal -- to increase sales -- governments are trying to accomplish many different ends, such as reminding citizens to get flu shots or warning them of impending natural disasters.
Burns and GovDelivery co-founder Zach Stabenow, both Minnesota natives, have known each other since they were kids. In the late 1990s, Stabenow approached Burns with a concept for a web-based business. The two founded a company called GovDocs in 1999, during the heady days of the dotcom boom.
"Back then, everybody was trying to be everything on the internet," Stabenow said. "We took a different approach. We stayed very focused on doing one niche thing really, really well -- even when it was tempting to go off and do something else with a quicker return."
GovDocs' niche was labor law posters -- those sheets of employment legalese that hang on break room bulletin boards at businesses across the country. GovDocs made them available to employers online, either as a downloadable PDF or as a laminated hard copy they would ship directly.
After about a month of working out of Stabenow's basement apartment, the pair moved into office space above what is now the Bulldog bar in Lowertown. They also brought on a third employee, Dave Sommerness, as operations manager.
To help clients stay up to date with the frequent revisions to the federally mandated posters, Burns developed software designed to deliver an email alert when a new poster was published.
In early 2001, Sean Kershaw, special projects manager for then-St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman, visited the office and took an interest in Burns' new software.
Kershaw told the three entrepreneurs that the city had just undergone a complete overhaul of its website, but was having difficulty in getting up-to-date information into the hands of St. Paul residents.
Stabenow, Burns and Somerness saw an opportunity to turn their company's new software into a separate product -- one that would allow governments to communicate directly with citizens. Soon after, they launched GovDelivery.
"Whether it's labor law posters or snow emergencies, it's the same fundamental problem," Burns said. "You have government creating a lot of information and people wanting to stay up to date."
Over the following six months, while other tech companies were falling victim to the dotcom crash, GovDelivery signed up about 10,000 St. Paul residents for email updates from the mayor.
This attracted interest from other nearby government entities. Soon, Stearns County, the city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Health had signed on, encouraged by the company's work with Coleman's office.
Although the post-bubble skepticism of web-based business models proved to be a stumbling block for their new service, they doubled down, shifting resources away from GovDocs to support GovDelivery.
Once the fledgling company had a firm hold on the Minnesota market, it began expanding its territory into other states, and eventually began taking on clients at the federal level.
"If we couldn't prove it in our own state, we didn't think it was worth taking on the road," Stabenow said. Burns says Minnesota is still the company's fourth most productive market among the 50 states.
By 2003, the company's annual revenue reached $1 million for the first time. But by 2010, they realized they needed more cash if they intended to sustain their growth. Burns and Stabenow orchestrated the buyout of about 100 of their shareholders by Internet Capital Group, a Pennsylvania-based venture capital firm.
Following the buyout, Stabenow spun off the GovDocs business, which had been operating as a GovDelivery subsidiary, into a separate entity. He still operates the company, which is now headquartered in St. Paul's Energy Park.
The next year, GovDelivery's annual revenue hit $13 million. The company has not disclosed exact figures for 2012, but the company's roughly 30 percent growth would put last year's revenue in the $17 million range.
About 80 of the company's 120 employees work out of its 19,000 square foot headquarters in the Hamm building in downtown St. Paul, while the rest are spread out across the U.S. and at satellite offices in Washington, D.C. and in London.
"The whole philosophy of how we do things ... is small teams making fast decisions and communicating openly," Burns said. "As much as possible, we want to avoid 20 people sitting in a meeting deliberating. Even as we've grown, we've tried to avoid getting sucked into that bureaucratic mindset."
This structure helps them stay agile in a market where the demands are constantly changing, Burns said. And their clients can't afford to fall behind -- arguably more so than their private sector counterparts.
"We're sending you a message about a flood that's on its way to your house, rather than a coupon for a new Indian food restaurant," Burns said.
Their software handles an average of 10,466 of these messages every minute, with 1,358 new people signing up for updates every hour. Consequently, dependability ranks high on GovDelivery's list of priorities.
The company tests its software constantly, spending more on quality assurance -- making sure their products are working properly -- than many other communications software companies. And because their software is cloud-based, they can ship fixes faster than they would be able to if their clients were downloading it.
And they're adding new services all the time. In 2012, the company introduced one-to-one communications software, which allows their clients to send automated messages to individual citizens. They've also released a platform that handles inbound communications, allowing their clients to take questions from their constituents.
"We're doing the same thing we've always done, but we do it on a bigger and better scale, now," Burns said. "In technology, you've got to be growing, or you don't make sense as a stand-alone business."In his own words: Scott Burns
On working with government agencies as clients:
"Outcomes in the public sector are almost always subjective, whereas outcomes in business are almost always objective. If it's Best Buy and we helped them sell more stuff, they would value our service greatly. … But in the public sector, we have to make sure we translate reaching more people into something of value — say you want people to adopt more lost pets, get flu shots. Not just, 'How do you get the press release out?' but 'How do you move the needle on what really matters?'"
On the benefits of producing cloud-based software:
"The old way of producing software was to build something for a long period of time, test it extensively, and then, ship it out. The new way — the way we've adopted —
is to build it and release it in smaller increments, testing it constantly along the way. Literally, every hour of every day."
On selling software as a service:
"Our revenue model is much more like a Life Time Fitness than a Microsoft. … We're much more oriented toward ongoing success than up-front sales. Our renewal rate is over
97 percent."
On the importance of growth in the technology industry:
"The difference between being an innovative growth company and being irrelevant is razor-thin. Even a Microsoft is going to be graded on how well they're able to drive future growth."
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I have just been sentenced to 10 years for dealing in methamphetamine. I'm not saying that what I did is not bad. There is an epidemic of meth in Muncie. What Judge Linda Ralu Wolf sentenced me to is standard for the Class B felony that I received.
But how is a child molester getting less time than what I got, like Chester Smith? What Judge John Feick did was slap him on the wrist. He should get all his time with none suspended. He took her innocence from her before she could even live her life.
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There's a fine line between headcase and immature. Andray Blatche has been pushing those limits for a while now.
He's gotten in fights, said dumb things and played lazy basketball. But now he's calling out his coach.
After the Wizards blew a massive lead to the Nets Monday night, coach Flip Saunders commented on a few things that Blatche took personally. So Blatche volleyed back.
"I said that I need the ball in the paint to be effective. You can't keep having me pick and pop and shooting jump shots. Give me the ball in the paint," Blatche told The Washington Post. "That's what I'm most effective at. I've been saying that since training camp -- I need the ball in the paint. I don't want to be the pick and pop guy that I used to be. Because it's not working for me. I'm not saying the offense has to flow through me, but I prefer to be in the paint."
He reaffirmed those thoughts on Twitter after the game too, tweeting, "I may have had a bad game but that's cause I need the ball in the post not taking jump shots all game."
He also then tried to defend himself and his comments: "Every body need to shut up I didn't call out my coach or team mates I said I had a bad game need it n the post instead of jump shots."
Blatche's opening night output: 11 points, eight rebounds. Kris Humphries, who Blatche was primarily assigned to, had 21 and 16.
It's been one game and Blatche is already spouting off to the media. I bet Flip Saunders is thankful this season is only 66 games.
Nick Young came to Blatche's defense, sort of, saying, "Dray's trying to be a leader this year, and sometimes he lets things get to him. You've got to let things bounce quick and get back in the game. I say he's going to learn from this game."
I think that's a nice way of saying, "I told Andray to zip it after the game."
As Michael Lee of the Washington Post ironically points out, Blatche was actually suspended for two games for complaining about having to play in the low block too much. Guy just doesn't know what he wants.
He also doesn't realize he's wasting a heap of talent. For a time, when he was looking for a new contract, Blatche showed off his ability. The last few months of 2010 he played like an All-Star. He's a good player when it all comes together.
But sometimes that doesn't matter when it's not all clicking between the ears. I think Blatche wants to be good. He wants to win. He just doesn't know how. The Wizards are a dysfunctional mess with raw talent and immature youngsters. Flip Saunders has his hands full.


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Jacksboro, Campbell County (WVLT) - Lafollette Mayor Cliff Jennings was one of four people sentenced in a Campbell County gambling sting Monday morning.
Mayor Jennings pleads no contest to the felony charge of aggravated gambling promotion.
Judge Sexton sentenced the 57-year-old to six months of unsupervised probation and a $4,500 fine.
If Jennings gets in trouble anytime during the probation period, he'll have to serve 75% of six months in jail.
Jennings was one of eight people charged after the TBI raided illegal video poker parlors in Campbell County.
Jennings was the landlord of the building.
The man renting the building from Jennings, Alan Baird, received the same sentence.
The other 14 in the sting will be sentenced at a later date.
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Dismissal from a novel start…I find my world in gray.
Empty hands- so grazed; so bruised- resist the urge to pray
For change, for revolution, to suit another's needs;
But however trapped in self-reassurance-the heart still bleeds.
Within myself I find the sin; the cause that build the wall.
Fixed in definition- still I close my eyes in hope, and call:
That time will pass and I might find a way to see past my demise…
If only, through another's eyes.
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I am planning to package webapp.war and ejbapp.jar in a single .ear file. Do I need to display both webapp.jar and ejbapp.jar in the deployment diagram in addition to .ear file OR displaying single .ear file is sufficient?
Kumar Amit wrote:Also, do I need to specify hardware profile i.e. CPU, RAM, disk configuration, network requirements of machines in deployment diagram? If yes, then how?
Does this mean that I don't need to show application components in the deployment diagram e.g. JSF/JSP and EJBs?
In chapter 9 of Mark cade's book, he has shown web and app server together in a single cluster. I am planning to show web server seperately from app server even though my web app and ejbs are deployed in a single .ear. Is this an overkill?
Also, do we need to show software profile in addition to hardware profile of the devices e.g. OS - Linux etc in the deployment diagram. Chapter 9 of Mark Cade's does not show software profile.
Sharma Ashutosh wrote:You can create process boundary or the box in the deployment diagram. Encapsulate your H/W, O/S within that box/boundary - show the upper boundary as firewall.
Thanks Ashutosh. So you mean keep all h/w and s/w of the presentation & business tier, web servers and load balancer in one box and DB cluster h/w and s/w in another box?
Kumar Amit wrote: Can you guide where to display the concrete vendor specific details (both software and hardware) e.g. type of Web server (e.g. IBM HTTP server/Apache), application server (IBM Webshere Application server / Oracle Weblogic) and database (Oracle/DB2)?
Ranganathan Kaliyur Mannar wrote:I am beginning to think about including JSPs in the class diagram - we can argue they are actually servlets and so they are classes and so can be included in the class diagram (and of course, am panicking and don't want to take risks!)...
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but, by specifying vendors, do we put ourselves at risk? for ex. what if I don't mention weblogic and oracle as vendors? will guys at Oracle not like it?


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to look a lot like Christmas
Who am I kidding?
it looks and feels nothing like Christmas
here in one-hundred-and-way-too-hot Arizona
But here is an inconvenient truth
Okay okay, so that seems like a long time and not all that inconvenient
but if you are planning to make your Christmas gifts this year
(which I highly recommend!)
right now is the perfect time to get started!
Before you totally freak out and go to the store and buy gifts.
Think of the relief when the holiday season rolls around
And you've made your list
and checked it twice!
And in that spirit, I have put all my holiday fabric on sale!
For the rest of August
Seriously…huge sale!
And if nothing else, my children's Christmas PJ's are done!
Sense the relief?
You could feel that way too!
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Fabric is from the line It's Snowing by Moda
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The 2010 Georgia Organics Barbara Petit Pollinator Award was awarded to Julie Shaffer on February 20 in front of more than 1,000 people at the Classic Center in Athens as part of the Georgia Organics 13th Annual Conference and Expo.
"If you could combine the image of a fast, buzzing, pollinator (say of a moth or hummingbird), with the image of slow, thoughtful, plodding snail, you might have a good picture of the work ethic of this year's award winner, Julie Shaffer," said Barbara Petit, who served as Georgia Organics board president for six years. "A movement can only move with anchors in our neighborhoods and communities across the country. Julie has served as a magnet to draw people to this cause, connecting farmers and consumers and people with the food they eat. Julie's roll-up your sleeves, committed, enthusiastic attitude has left an indelible mark in the growth of the good food movement in Georgia."
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(Audrey is at Sundance, courting exhaustion and eye strain. See Take One, Take Two, and Take Three.)
First up Wednesday morning was 3 Backyards–more like 3 Boredyards. In this film by Eric Mendelsohn, absolutely nothing happens. And the nothing happens verrrrrrry slowly.
On a typical day in suburban New York, neighbors are going about their day-to-day lives. A couple fights before the husband leaves on a business trip, a little girl wears her mother's bracelet to school and drops it along the way, a lost dog tries to make its way back home, and a very excitable housewife is beside herself at the thought of driving the movie star next door to the ferry. Despite the presence of Edie Falco, Elias Koteas, and Embeth Davidtz, you don't find yourself caring about these characters–and by the end of the film, nothing has changed for any of them.
After watching well-off white people dealing with their inconsequential "problems" for ninety minutes, I decided to see a film with *whisper* black people. I know, I was scared too. Night Catches Us takes place in 1976 Philadelphia. Carter is running for President, and Marcus, a former Black Panther–played by The Hurt Locker's Anthony Mackie, looking more than ever like a young Will Smith–returns home for his father's funeral. There he encounters myriad people from his past, including his now-Muslim brother, his problem cousin, some more ex-Panthers, and the widow (Kerry Washington) and child of his best friend, a Panther who was killed in a police shout-out, for which Marcus has been blamed.
The story arc is predictable enough, but first-time writer-director Tanya Hamilton keeps it interesting by weaving in some archival footage, along with a little animation. Plus, there's The Wire connection: Jamie Hector (aka Marlo Stanfield) plays a two-bit businessman with a grudge (after all, his name is his name), and Clay Davis makes an appearance too, as a cop who thinks the ends justify the means. Sheeeeeeeeeeeit.
Abel is actor Diego Luna's first stab at the director's chair. I'll admit it–I fell asleep for part of this film–such is the price of non-stop filmery. But it wasn't the movie's fault. Abel is a cute enough film about a cute enough little boy with some psychological issues. As the film opens, his mother is picking him up from the local mental institution, which can no longer care for him. The family is going to see if they can take care of Abel themselves; if not, he'll be sent to the children's hospital all the way in Mexico City.
When he first comes home, he's withdrawn, but then Abel comes out of his shell–with his new self-appointed role as man of the house. And no one is to point out that he's not actually his father, for fear of triggering an anxiety attack. Alright, so that's a drawn-out version of the film's conceit, but it's cute to see a six-year-old act like an adult (he thinks he's people!), chastising his siblings for getting bad grades, interrogating his sister's boyfriend, engaging adults in bullshit small talk, and so on and so forth.
Meanwhile, on a less heartwarming front, Louis C.K.: Hilarious more than lives up to its name.
In eighty-three minutes of stand-up–clad in his standard issue comedy uniform of a black t-shirt, jeans, and a lot of sweat–Louis rants about everything from "white people problems" (complaining about ATMs, cellphones, and airline travel) to the obesity and stupidity of the general American public to childrearing practices (don't hit your children, and also don't tell them that one day the sun will engulf the earth).
As always, he's delightfully offensive, and if you don't get the joke, that's your problem. Towards the end of his act, he did an extended bit on getting into an argument with his three-year-old daughter that made me laugh until I cried. God bless you, Louis C.K.


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Westmoreland Fair patrons line up to feast on fried foods
For fans of fried food, the annual Westmoreland Fair offers a veritable feast of all things battered.
Starting with breakfast, fairgoers can pick up fried concoctions for every meal with snacks in between.
Starting with breakfast at Becky's Funnel Cakes, visitors can pick up raspberry and strawberry Pop-Tarts dipped in funnel cake batter and fried in hot oil.
"People love them. They line up," employee Susan Masters said Saturday. "You can get an entire day's worth of calories here with one dish."
For lunch, patrons can try a popular item at Wings 'n Things: a basket of fried zucchini, cauliflower, mushrooms and onion rings with cheese or ranch dipping sauce. French fries and blooming onions are also best-sellers, said Jackie Kromka, whose mother owns the Greensburg-based food stand.
Those looking for a midafternoon snack will find fried pickles, marshmallows and other sweets.
Mark Zebley Sr., owner of Uniontown-based Red's Funnel Cake, fries up Oreo cookies, Twinkies and Snickers candy bars.
Oreos are his top seller here, but he said West Virginians love the Snickers, which are put on a stick, frozen, then battered and fried.
"It's like eating a pie," Zebley said.
As the sun goes down and the fair's grandstand arena lights up, fairgoers can try deep-fried hot dogs at Aunt Dee Dee's Monster Funnel Cakes.
"Everything's better deep-fried," said owner Diana DeMase, who has sold a variety of foods at the fair since 1977.
DeMase offers a variety of dessert options, too, from birthday cake-fried Oreos with colorful sprinkles inside to a funnel cake with Oreo cookies crumbled on top, drizzled with chocolate sauce and topped with whipped cream.
Fried dessert enthusiasts can try bite-sized, deep-fried triangles of cheesecake at Beck Concessions, owned by Ryan Beck of Perryopolis.
Patrons looking for lighter fare will find a number of options. Beck's booth serves grilled fresh pineapple and real fruit smoothies.
Fresh oceanic fish is on the menu at the Mt. Pleasant Lions Club food stand, Terry Jackson said. The fresh filets, from the Eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia, are sold as a sandwich or a platter, he said.
"We don't like processed (food). We do quality here," Jackson said.
And at DJ's Concessions, visitors can get a fresh vegetable basket, a fruit cup or pizza rolls — all new to the menu.
Owner DJ Overly of Latrobe said that after traveling from fair to fair, vendors often crave something beyond traditional fair food, so her kitchen cooks up a different hot meal each night, including dishes such as stuffed peppers or mashed potatoes.
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GORDON, JOHN FLETCHER (1828–1898). John Fletcher Gordon, pioneer and local official, was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, on January 29, 1828. In 1848 he and his brother, William H. Gordon, moved to Seguin, Texas. In 1856 John Gordon married Polly Newell Sanders of Virginia. They had nine children. Gordon was the first district clerk of Guadalupe County and for twelve consecutive years after the Civil War was sheriff of the county. Later he was deputy collector of customs at the port of Indianola and subsequently held the same position at Eagle Pass. He served a four-year term as postmaster in Seguin during the administration of Benjamin Harrison, after which he retired. On July 26, 1898, he died suddenly from a heart attack.
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At the going rates... I wish we found a way to keep Gio. Maybe 5M was bit high, but really, in comparison to the rest of the league, he just might be worth it. He is fast. He has great hands. He goes to the net. He has his heart in the game.... I really wish we could have kept him, and have no doubt he willl do VERY well in Montreal. Brian, all the best and good luck (unless you play NJ in the playoffs, then go to hell, better yet, let us send you there!).
I wish Gio the best as well but gotta move on. We've always wanted youth to get a chance, so here it is! i'm looking forward to it.
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Posted 01 July 2009 - 09:14 PM
The 48-goal season was fun, but the last two seasons COMBINED saw him net far less than that, and like others have noted I won't miss all of the missed scoring opportunities. I think this group needs some new blood anyway...I have some good memories regarding both Gio and Madden, but it's time for some change.
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[Mark Messier]: A big, bald attention whore with a stupid Easter Island-lookin face. - from who else? DaneykoIsGod!
Even when Marty comes back maybe Larry should put Clemmensen to be on the goal during the shootouts.
Can the coach do that ? Switch the goalies 5 seconds to go in overtime? - Most priceless quote ever posted on a message board.
Martin Brodeur: THE MOST ALL-TIME WINS!, 12 straight seasons of 30+ wins, 3 Stanley Cups, 4 Vezina Trophies, and zero respect from too many so-called Devils "fans" who are either too young or too bandwagon to remember the much darker days of Sean Burke, Craig Billington, Bob Sauve, Alain Chevrier, and the talented but overwhelmed Chico Resch, among many others.
It's easy to support a great player when he's playing at his very best. It takes a true fan to support that same player during those rare moments and stretches when he's not. Babe Ruth went 0-4 some games, and sometimes Wayne Gretzky was held pointless. There may be such a thing as greatness, but no such thing as absolute perfection every single night.
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Good Luck.
Lou remaking the team.
Thanks for the EGG memories.
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"Quite frankly, all the players are getting paid too much and all the contracts are too long," general manager Lou Lamoriello said. "But if you want to compete in this market and you want to win, there are some things you have to do."
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LOL AT HABS FIRST LINE Gio (5m) Gomez (7.5m) Camalleri (6m)
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 12:10 AM
I don't care about Madden being let go, he should've been in the AHL last season with the way he was playing. I do find it humorous that Gainey believes or "hopes" Gio can have a 75-80 point season.
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 01:51 AM
I hope Brian knows what he is getting himself in to. This could get ugly.
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"It goes to the captain and then there are handoffs during a skate around the ice" Mike Emrick as Scott Stevens is being presented the Stanley Cup.
Posted 02 July 2009 - 02:33 AM
Wow, I love Gio as much as the next guy but this is beyond ridiculous. $25 million for a guy that's only broken 25 goals once in his career?! I guess Gainey and Sather are competing for the worst GM of the league award.
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I'm really happy that I never have to see him come in and take a sh!tty shot from a long horrible angle anymore.
...while a free patrik elias awaited a pass that never came.
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 12:43 PM
I hope Brian knows what he is getting himself in to. This could get ugly.
A much higher tax bracket?
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With Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo out, the Celtics fall to the Cavaliers, 97-91, on Friday night.
In the span of five days this week, they were forced to play two games without Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo.
Even against a pair of sub-.500 opponents, the Celtics were unable to overcome all of those absences.
They lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night without the Garnett-Pierce-Rondo trio, and they were unable to get past the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night at the TD Garden.
The shorthanded Celtics struggled with their offense in the second half and were handed a 97-91 setback by the Cavaliers, who snapped a 10-game losing streak.
It marked the second time in less than a month that a team with 10 straight losses defeated the Celtics. The Charlotte Bobcats halted their skid with an easy win over the Celtics on March 12.
Garnett remained out with an inflamed left ankle, missing his eighth straight game, though he could be back on Sunday night. Pierce sat out with a swollen ankle while Rondo is done for the season after knee surgery in February.
That left the Celtics with a starting lineup of Jeff Green (23 points, nine rebounds), Brandon Bass (14 points, seven rebounds), Chris Wilcox, Courtney Lee and Avery Bradley (10 points before leaving with a minor collarbone injury).
The bench consisted of Shavlik Randolph (career-high 16 points and seven rebounds before fouling out in 13:02), Terrence Williams (nine points, six rebounds), Jason Terry (3-for-10) and Jordan Crawford (3-for-14).
As was the case against the Timberwolves earlier in the week, the Celtics had too many key players out to pick up a win.
"You're asking guys to play more minutes than they should. I get that," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers after his team fell to 39-37. "But that's basketball. You've just got to step up and do it.
"I told our guys I thought when we played Minnesota, we didn't have an expectation to win the game. I thought tonight we had that. I really felt that before the Minnesota game, our guys thought, 'Let's show up and see what happens and maybe we can win.'
"I felt at least tonight with all those guys out, they believed they can win. They were disappointed tonight, so that was good."
The Celtics were ahead, 28-26, after one quarter when they shot 62 percent, but the game was even, 52-52, by halftime when Tristan Thompson (29 points, 17 rebounds) had 21 points.
After building a seven-point lead early in the third quarter, the Celtics managed just two field goals in the final eight minutes, enduring a drought of more than five minutes. That enabled the Cavaliers to take a 74-68 lead into the final quarter, and the margin got as high as 14 points.
The Celtics cut the deficit to 91-87 with 2:09 left on a three-point play by Green, but that was as close as they could get.
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"He killed us, 29 and 17," said Rivers of Thompson. "You think you're going to win a game when Kyrie goes 4-for-20. I thought our guys played overall pretty hard. I thought we made a lot of mistakes."
Despite the loss, the Celtics remain 2 games ahead of the eighth-place Milwaukee Bucks with six games to go. Staying in the seventh position would mean avoiding the Miami Heat in the first round.
"I know we're in the seventh spot. I know we want to stay out of the eighth spot," said Rivers. "I'm not that dumb. I'm not the brightest guy, but c'mon. Of course, we would (like to avoid the Heat), but if we play them, we'll be ready.
"No matter who we play, we're going to play a tough team, New York, Indiana or Miami. There's going to be no cakewalk. It's going to be hard."
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The Immersion office has been buzzing about a new feature in Samsung's Galaxy S III handset, which uses our technology to create a more engaging experience in entertainment apps. The Auto-Haptic feature produces touch feedback from bass sound effects in games and media using the phone's internal hardware. You can control this feature at the app level, making some apps all the more engaging.
Here are some of the best experiences I've had using the Auto-Haptic feature on the Galaxy S III. And if you have fun playing with haptics, be sure to check out the great feature on the Galaxy S III that lets you create your own vibration ringtones.
Angry Birds Space
Angry Birds Space (Free, $0.99). With Auto-Haptic, you can feel the visceral gratification of crushing pigs and smashing towers in the palm of your hand. It's also awesome to feel the stars slam in place after you complete a level. I would expect that Auto-Haptic would work well with any of the Angry Birds games.
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Cut the Rope (Free, $0.99). Auto-Haptic makes physics effects in this addictive puzzle game come alive. Feel the rope getting cut, candy swinging and dropping, and the Om Nom eating his treats. I also really like how the button clicks feel real as you go to the next level.
VPlayer (Free 7 day trial, $1.99). VPlayer works with Auto-Haptic to give you a surround sound feel. Watch your favorite movie trailers and action TV shows and feel the drama onscreen – explosions, crashes, and action become realistic. You can also experience your music on a whole new sensory level by playing it with Auto-Haptic augmentation. Electronic music, breaks, and dubstep work especially well. Pretty much anything with an interesting bassline!
Drum Kit. (Free) This simple music app becomes much more interesting with Auto-Haptic turned on. Suddenly you can feel the instruments in the drum kit – and subtle differences between them – cymbals, snare drum, and cowbell. You can even record and play back a drum solo!
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Raging Thunder. ($1.99) In flying and racing games, Auto-Haptic turns your phone into a rumble pack. Any number of driving games work with Auto-Haptic, but this one does especially well. You feel car crashes, collisions, gearshifts, engine revs, and when you hit the barricades on the track. The touch feedback adds another layer to the immersiveness to keep you engaged in gameplay.
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Frontline Commando. (Free) In this first person shooter game, you can feel gunshots, hits, and the click of the gun when you reload. Though I'm not exactly the target demographic for military FPS games, I can say that the touch feedback makes it more absorbing and realistic. (And as close to a war zone as I'd ever like to get.)
I think the best part about the Auto-Haptic feature is experimenting with it! It's fun to discover new things about your favorite music, videos and games as you experience them with touch effects. If you have a Galaxy SIII and want to experience Auto-Haptic on your phone, here's instruction on how to turn auto haptic off and on.


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Forbes has published the transcript from an online questions and answers session with Forbes technology correspondent Arik Hesseldahl on the "past, present and future of Apple's Macintosh computer." Hesseldahl says, " I think Apple has long recognized that it's never going to beat Microsoft and the Wintel combination, but there are still people who want a high-quality computing alternative [...] It does a lot of the things that a Wintel box can do, it just does them with a certain flair that a certain kind of person appreciates and is willing to pay for and use to the exclusion of more conventional computing products."
Marci O'Kelly, a former employee of Apple, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on charges that she defrauded her former employer, and engaged in interstate shipment of stolen property, as reported by The San Jose Business Journal. According to grand jury, when Ms. O'Kelly was a graphics design budget coordinator for Apple in 2002 and 2003, During that time, she ordered approximately $120,000 of digital photography equipment from vendors on Apple's account without authorization, then resold the equipment for her personal benefit on eBay.
A new Apple Web site that showcases the company's involvement in science and education went live today, according to the company. The site features Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster supercomputer very prominently, which is ranked third most powerful in the world. "For 25 years, Apple has provided powerful tools to enable scientific discovery," the company boasts, "With the world's first 64-bit desktop computer, robust cluster, and storage solutions, and thousands of scientific applications, scientists everywhere are moving to Mac -- and with good reason."
A MacNN reader notes that Wal-Mart's recently launched 88-cent music service is compatible with Macs, despite warnings to the contrary on the company's website: "As an Apple user for many years I've learned to ignore (especially on the internet) any download that says "For Windows only; will not work on Apple Macintosh Computers.' Wal-Mart's new music service states the same. So I did what I always do if I'm interested, I downloaded the test song onto my old Mac and low and behold it played perfectly. Not that I would buy from Walmart-just tired of seeing that quote."
Cyon Research today announced a white paper that examines the AEC CAD market for Macintosh users based on the results of a survey conducted to determine the demand for AutoCAD on the Mac. Prepared in association with Architosh, the paper can be purchased for $200 (with a $100 discount for subscribers to A-E-C Automation Newsletter): "It addresses not only the need for and prospect of an OS X AutoCAD, but also the question of what CAD is available for Mac-using architectural professionals. Recommended for AEC practitioners who are committed to, or considering, the Macintosh for use in their practice."
REAL Software today announced REAL World 2004, its new REALbasic User Conference, which will be held March 24-26, 2004 in Austin, Texas. The conference agenda is geared toward the large and growing community of REALbasic experts and novices and will include a keynote by REAL founder Geoff Perlman, two full days of sessions, presentations by REAL Software experts, and announcement of the winners of the REALbasic Design Awards (formerly known as the "Cubies"). Accommodations are $100 per night, while the conference pass is $400.
Native Instruments has released an update to Kompakt, which brings the powerful sampler to Mac OS X. It now fully supports the modern technologies and interfaces of OS X, including AudioUnits, RTAS, VST and standalone operation with CoreMIDI and CoreAudio. Kompakt ships with a comprehensive library and can import the most common sample formats. It is immediately available to all registered users as a free download.
Artly There Software has released Compositor 2.6, an update to its full featured image editing and image to art application, offering 165 filters and channel effects, complete painting and editing tools, the ability to save/replay filter actions, slide show functions, a 'Quick Palette' for storing commonly used actions, and other advanced functions. Version 2.6 adds Motion Blur, Twirl, Ripple Waves, Spheroid, and Spherize Distort Filters as well as two new painting tools, Motion Brush and Media Brush. The $35 application runs on Mac OS X only.
Smiley Happy Software's QuickMix 1.1 is a $20 video-editing application that specializes in multi-track movies. Tracks can be viewed and edited independently of each other and can be temporarily combined to be previewed or exported as a movie file. It can edit any QuickTime file, allows users to specify track offsets, can speed up/slow down video clips, can combine and split tracks, and offers unlimited undo/redo. Version 1.1 adds full Panther compatibility, full-screen playback, looping options, and trim and playback rate options. It requires Mac OS X 10.2 and QuickTime 6.
Early morning tech: RealNetworks Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., alleging that MIcrosoft has illegally used its power as a monopoly to control the digital media market; Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a bare-bones Web site Thursday to test its new 88-cents-per-song online music service; Microsoft and New York's attorney general filed several lawsuits against a New York-based spamming ring allegedly responsible for sending billions of illegal and deceptive e-mail messages.
In the last few days, Team MacNN has surpassed the 1 million point barrier in the Folding@Home distributed computing project: "Now that we have passed this important milestone, our sights are set on loftier targets. Join us in our quest, and make it your own goal to reach the elusive top 10 ranking on the team. To join, simply download the Folding@Home client and install it with the team ID of 16. If you have any questions, visit our forum."
The Austin American-Statesman reports that Dell Inc. stopped reselling Apple's iPods in mid-November, about two weeks after the company launched its own competing MP3 player and says it has no plans to resume sales of the No. 1 MP3 player. The article notes that both Apple and Dell declined to explain why the two companies scrapped their reselling agreement, however, it speculates that Apple's pricing policies may have conflicted with Dell aggressive discounting and promotions.
NewsFactor's The Hidden Costs of Mac Ownership talk about Apple's annual OS licensing policy, the need for Microsoft Office, lack of professional support, availability of Mac-compatible products, and other considerations when looking at the cost of owning a Mac vs. a PC: "Apple's tiny market share is not a reflection on the quality of its OS, , experts agree. But its niche market share -- currently about three percent -- means that Mac users exist in a small minority group. This itself causes extra burdens."
Steve Jobs is among CBS MarketWatch's Winners of 2003: "At a time when legit music downloads were catching on about as quickly as, well, Apple computers, Steve Jobs came along and did it right with ITunes. Still, the most successful online music-seller isn't profitable, but its intent has always been to drive sales of IPod music players. With nearly 20 million songs sold since its April launch, not only has the cult of Apple concept has also sent competitors like Dell and Microsoft scurrying to get their own music services up and running."
Glucose has released WeatherPop 2.0 Preview, an update to its desktop weather utility. It now includes a new screensaver, called WeatherPop Sky, which will "create a virtual reality-like landscape of what it looks like to be outside. Depending on the time of day, cloud cover, and current precipitation, WeatherPop Sky can portray a beautiful sunrise or the most treacherous winter snowstorm." The final version of the $8 shareware is due in February 2004 with new weather alerts and other enhancements.
MyKeynoteThemes has released the Nativity theme Set. Part of The Twelve Themes of Christmas, it provides unique backgrounds, frames and photos to help tell the story behind the real meaning of Christmas. Three regal themes of the Three Kings, with velvet presented in red, green and blue bordered by silk cords, a simpler theme representing the Shepherds with plainer cloth and simpler borders, and the Oxen theme of animal hide and rope. It also includes many specially made semi-transparent photos of the three wise men, shepherds, Mary and Joseph and the Baby jesus. It is available for $25.
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