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1: Beware the wounded Tiger:
This Ottawa Senators team was supposed to compete for a playoff seed in a very difficult Atlantic Division. Right now they are ranked tenth in the Eastern Conference, and are on the outside looking in for a playoff spot. This will be the eighth time in 12 games that they have played on the road, and they have lost three of their last four - including a home loss to the lowly Edmonton Oilers. Monday the team held a players only meeting and hashed a few things out among themselves. Last year they out-hustled, outhit and outworked a more talented team in the Montreal Canadiens, and upset them in the first-round in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. They will come out hungry, hard and fast, and you have to push back in the first 10 minutes of this hockey game.
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2: Keep the power play rolling:
Power play goals in five straight games now for the Blackhawks, coming on the heals of a 1-for-16 slide over their previous four games. The difference: they are shooting the puck a lot more. They're also winning a lot of faceoffs, and went 4-for-4 in the offensive zone with the man advantage during Monday's victory over the Wild. This Ottawa team is taking almost five minor penalties every game, so you're going to get some looks. They also know how to kill penalties as they rank fourth in the NHL in PK efficiency. If you can keep winning the special teams battle, chances are you'll end up winning the game.
3: Keep the D involved:
Nick Leddy and Sheldon Brookbank scored two very important goals for the Blackhawks against Minnesota. The second and third goals by these Hawks came three minutes apart, and they were both rockets from the point. Last night eight of the 16 shots during the first two periods came from defensemen, and when the other team collapses in front, chance are the points are open. Here's an interesting stat: with 31 points from the back end, the Hawks rank third overall in the NHL when it comes to defensemen scoring.


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We have entered the fun season with the sandy nickname, the one known for books impossible to put down. (For novelty's sake, no words rhyming with reach, teach or bleach will be used in the text of this review.) Whatever your taste, the publishing world has an offering for you, whether it's sci-fi populated by talking bees (Laline Paull's "The Bees") or the would-be Proustian Norwegian literary event of the season, "My Struggle," by Karl Ove Knausgaard. (Volume 3 comes out next week.) For those playing catch-up, Michael Lewis' "Flash Boys" is the most urgent nonfiction horror story of the year.
As for this summer's brand-new reading, if there's one overriding motif, it's this: the crazier, the better. The most curious work of gossip is William Stadiem's "Jet Set," a jumble of aeronautics history, high times from the 1950s and '60s, incredibly versatile name-dropping (from Mrs. John Jacob Astor to Christine Keeler of the Profumo scandal) and Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me" as a kind of theme song. If, by hook or by crook, it can be connected to the glamorous days of air travel, it's shoehorned in here.
The most curious international hit to land here, with a blurb invoking Stieg Larsson, is "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair." Written by Joel Dicker, who is Swiss but spent childhood summers in Maine, it is weirdly tone-deaf about American life. The narrator has written only one novel, but it is such a hit that he shows up on red carpets, has a VIP box in Madison Square Garden and gets "the right to make every man in New York jealous by dating Lydia Gloor, the star of the country's top-rated TV show."
Then there's Terry Hayes' "I Am Pilgrim," a first novel of dubious literary provenance, since Hayes' earlier writing credits include a couple of musty "Mad Max" movies. (These are not remembered for their dialogue.) From a distance, "I Am Pilgrim" looks like a movie treatment or another lurid, violent thriller with a case of ADD. It begins with a grisly New York crime scene in which the victim's 6-inch heels lead the main character, a forensics wizard, into a morbidly erotic daydream about exactly how she died. It is so much in keeping with current pop cultural cliches that it leaves him thinking, "Sex today sure isn't for sissies."
Sold? Maybe. Hayes is cashing in on exploitation but laughing at it, too. By the end of the next paragraph, he takes aim at the type of young women "who mistake People magazine for news and a Japanese symbol on their backs as a sign of rebellion." Then he leads the action to the basement of the building in which the woman was killed, has a plumber find a seven-digit number in a pipe and has Pilgrim - our forensics guy, and the hero of a great big projected trilogy - peg it as a Turkish area code, just like that.
By Page 50, this book has involved Detroit, Dubai, Red Square, the Black Hills of South Dakota, Santorini, Greenwich and a Nazi concentration camp; its plot has touched on the martial art Krav Maga and a secret code disguised as Shania Twain music. Hayes' globe-trotting book has more kicks, twists and winks than anything of its dusty genre has provided in a long time. You will be happily surprised to find a new thriller franchise with brains to match its brawn.
As a stellar new author, Hayes can't rival the man behind "The Closer," a warmhearted, charmingly frank baseball memoir. But Mariano Rivera, telling his story with Wayne Coffey, knows the value of understatement. At the start of this book, it is 1990, and Mariano has grown to the age of 20 in a sleepy Panamanian fishing village when a contract-toting man from the New York Yankees arrives, offering $2,000. For that, Mariano figures, he can buy shoes without holes and play a little baseball before settling into his chosen career, that of a mechanic. Babe Ruth? Hank Aaron? He's never heard of 'em.
"The Closer" describes such a devout, decent and admirable guy that "Happy Father's Day" might as well be its subtitle. It's as inspiring as it is exciting, and a tonic next to this summer's more risqui success stories. Compare (because no one ever will elsewhere) Rivera's uphill journey with that of Sophia Amoruso, the author of "?Girlboss," a book of advice for the budding young female chief executive. Never mind that the clothing empire Amoruso presides over is called Nasty Gal, and that it sells items like the Nasty Gal Uh Huh Honey Skirt ($52); never mind that her book describes Dumpster diving and shoplifting as early phases of her career. The fact is that in 2006 she started an eBay shop selling vintage clothing, and she now calls herself the head of a $100-million-plus business, dishing out maxims like "Money looks better in the bank than on your feet."
As a book meant to amuse and instruct young women, "?Girlboss" certainly has the edge on most of what passes for advice right now. Amoruso actually sounds interested in the success of persons other than herself. But if you were on that cliched desert island and could follow only one sage's advice, it would have to be Dave Barry's. When Barry stops delivering books funny enough to annoy the traveler sitting next to you, let's stop dropping his name.
That's not to say that his latest, "You Can Date Boys When You're Forty," is uniformly funny. There are a few pieces you might skip; his "Fifty Shades of Grey" parody isn't as drop-dead as his recent takeoff on the "Twilight" series. But his "Air Travelers' FAQ" is guaranteed to disturb other passengers.
And in a chapter called "How to Become a Professional Author," he warns that there is no easy way to achieve literary success. "No, you must roll up your sleeves, plant yourself in front of your computer and perform the difficult - and lonely - task of writing a letter to a successful author asking for free advice." Should such letters go unanswered for more than two weeks, it's wise to begin stalking those famous authors, be they living (James Patterson) or dead (Jane Austen). Speaking of Austen, he believes that if she were alive to read the "Fifty Shades of Grey" books, she would die all over again.
Barry's fans know who they are, and his book's fate is an absolutely sure thing. So is that of "Mr. Mercedes," the latest from Stephen King. King happens to be such a dependably strong storyteller that readers know exactly what to expect from him, except on those unmistakable occasions when, as with the breadth and ambition of "Under the Dome," he breaks the mold. This time, he's in reliably fine form with a taut, suspenseful race-against-time book about a retired cop who is pitted against a Mercedes-driving thrill killer. Since King delivers such cafeteria-style abundance and variety, a very different kind of King novel, "Revival," is only six months down the road.
Two more sure things: anything by Alan Furst, who has yet to write an unalluring spy novel and whose latest, "Midnight in Europe," has the novelty of beginning in New York in 1937. "You could do what you liked, nobody cared," he writes of an Irish bar in Murray Hill, because there's not a place in the world Furst can't make sound louche. Even his version of Christmas shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue sounds ominous and erotically charged. And anything by Liane Moriarty, if just circumstantially. Moriarty's "Big Little Lies" (not due out till July 29) comes after "The Husband's Secret," which was so popular that a follow-up with blank pages could rack up brisk sales.
"Big Little Lies" infuses a school community in Australia with a sinister aura, but the book to beat in that plot realm is "The Fever," by Megan Abbott, a hot new entrant in the "Is it the next 'Gone Girl'?" sweepstakes. The actual Gillian Flynn, who wrote "Gone Girl" and will keep selling copies of it until something better comes along, has expressed admiration for Abbott's haunted high school kids and the shivers they send. What has gotten into the girls in this book, sending them into seizures? Something occult? Chemical? Erotic? Psychosomatic? Abbott plants a strange phosphorescent lake in the region, attaches frightening symptoms to the girls' attacks and then keeps her readers scared and guessing. She's an adroit Edgar winner who knows how to play tricks.
Two of the summer's most entertaining novels come from previously well-praised but underwhelming sources. Anyone who failed to appreciate Joshua Ferris's "Then We Came to the End" and "The Unnamed" should be that much more delighted by the astringent wit of "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour," his caustic book with a deadpan dentist for a narrator and a surprising spiritual bent that struggles forth from the man's deadpan cynicism.
And the Emma Straub of "Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures," a benign but mannered Hollywood period piece, is nowhere to be found in "The Vacationers," a scrappy portrait of a family bringing its New York troubles to Mallorca for repair. The 20-year-old heroine is keenly observant enough to think that Cary Grant in "Charade" reminds her of her father: "high-waisted pants and a way of talking that was both flirtatious and belittling at the same time."
Another big surprise: "Factory Man," the first book by Beth Macy, who has found a terrifically rich subject for her investigative reporting. Macy zeroed in on a family-run Virginia furniture company that was being put out of business by cheap Chinese knockoffs, and happened to find an owner determined to fight back. Macy got to know the factory town, its workers, the facts behind offshoring and the tactics that might keep it at bay. Early warning: "Factory Man" (coming July 15) is an illuminating, deeply patriotic David vs. Goliath book. They give out awards for this kind of thing.
And finally, here's a sure way to tell when the summer reading season is ending. The last hurrah will arrive Sept. 2. It's "The Secret Place," by Tana French, and there are some things we bet on. Leaves will change color. And French's next one will be good.
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I knew becoming the father of twin boys would impact the amount of time I had to play video games. I didn't realize it would also affect the way I perceive them. As I played through the early hours of Namco Bandai's Tales of Graces F I came to a startling realization: I'm not merely 'me with kids'; I'm a father now. »
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I used to work as a project manager for a company that installed software in ice rinks and multi-sports facilities. It was a small company so we all wore many hats. On occasion I would travel to client sites to help with installations and training.
I traveled to Pittsburgh, PA to do a training class at an ice rink that was owned by Mario Lemieux and the training facility to the Pittsburgh Penguins. I am a huge hockey (Flyers) fan, (part of the reason I took the job) and loved being in that environment, even if it was to train people how to use the cash registers in the concession stand. On this particular trip, I held a training class for the facility managers and office folks who were responsible for scheduling ice time, leagues, private lessons, parties, etc… so it was a pretty large group.
During the first day of training, we broke for lunch and it suddenly dawned on me that one of the guys in the classroom was a celebrity. I can't believe I didn't realize it earlier because this man was in a movie that was, in my opinion, the greatest sports movie ever...Slapshot. I'm not a violent girl, but for me there is nothing better than seeing two goons throw down the gloves so when I figured out that Dave Hanson was the GM of the facility and in my classroom, I couldn't quite contain my excitement. I immediately went up to him to have a chat. It just so happened that Slapshot II was being filmed at the time so I wanted the scoop! When exactly was the movie coming out? How many times were the Hanson Brothers going to take off the gloves? How many bloody, broken noses should I expect? I was a chick, a fan, and I asked all the right questions….I was in like Flynn!
Upon returning to the office, Dave (we were on a first name basis) would call me directly with any questions rather than call customer service. I didn't mind. Months later, I was working at another facility and my cell phone rang – it was Dave and his call was not work-related. No no, nothing like that! The movie had come out and he wanted to know what I thought of it. I couldn't believe that he actually cared about my opinion! Of course I lied and told him it was fabulous. I mean, let's face it, that's not going to be on anybody's "Movie Sequels that are Better than the Originals" list. Still, if it's a movie about hockey, I'll watch it…and I'll probably enjoy it....and I did enjoy seeing my new friend doing what he does best.
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Monthly update from the IUCN Oceania Regional Office in Suva, Fiji.
The Government of Papua New Guinea through the Department of Environment and Conservation has signed a new partnership with IUCN.
Griffith University and IUCN Oceania have signed an agreement to cooperate in activities relating to climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental law, governance and natural resource management.
IUCN Oceania is working with partners to undertake economic assessments of marine and coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Islands. The 6th International Ecosystems Services Partnership Conference held this month proved to be an important forum for forging partnerships and linking activities.
Environmental law is a critical component of natural resource management. In Papua New Guinea, IUCN Oceania is aiming to establish an environmental law association and this month the first step to achieve this was taken.
Call for proposals for the East Melanesian Islands hotspot is still open. Proposals are invited from civil society groups in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and PNG, including community groups, non-government organizations, academic institutions, private companies and other civil society organizations.
Mr Waqaliva, a Fiji national, joins us as the Human Resource Officer. Prior to joining IUCN, he worked for the Biosecurity Authority of Fiji.
Maria is passionate about nature's cause and joins us as Environmental Legal Officer. She helped to set up Fiji's Environmental Law Association in 2010 and worked for Howards Lawyers prior to IUCN.
Held in Suva, Fiji. This conference is the premier event for nature conservation and protected areas work in the Pacific region, the outcomes of which will shape the direction of this work for the next 5 years.
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1Then Moses and Bnei-Yisrael sang this song to Adonai: I will sing to Adonai, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.
2Adonai is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will glorify Him, my fathers God, and I will exalt Him.
3Adonai is a warriorAdonai is His Name!
4Pharaohs chariots and his army He has hurled into the sea, and his chosen captains have sunk into the Sea of Reeds.
5The deeps cover them. They sank to the depths like a stone.
6Your right hand, Adonai, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Adonai, dashes the enemy to pieces.
7In the greatness of Your excellency You overthrow those who resist You. You send forth Your wrath it consumes them as stubble.
8With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps became firm ground in the heart of the sea.
9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall gorge on them! I will draw my sword my hand will destroy them.
10You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11Who is like You, Adonai, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?
12You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13You in Your lovingkindness led the people You have redeemed. You guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.
14When the peoples hear, they will trembleanguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.
15Then the chiefs of Edom are terrified. Trembling grips Moabs mighty men. All of Canaans inhabitants will melt away.
16Terror and dread will fall on them. By the greatness of Your arm they become still as a stone, till Your people cross over, Adonai, till the people whom You purchased cross over.
17You bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place, Adonai, that You have made for Yourself to dwell in the Sanctuary, Adonai, which Your hands have prepared.
18Adonai will reign forever and ever!
19For Pharaohs horses with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, but Adonai brought the waters of the sea back over them. Yet Bnei-Yisrael walked in the midst of the sea on dry ground.
20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aarons sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing,
21as Miriam sang to them: Sing to Adonai, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!
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22Then Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of Reeds. They went out into the wilderness of Shur. But they travelled three days in the wilderness and found no water.
23When they came to Marah, they could not drink from the waters because they were bitter. On account of this it was called Marah.
24So the people complained to Moses saying, What are we going to drink?
25So he cried out to Adonai, and Adonai showed him a tree. When he threw it into the waters, they were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them.
26He said, If you diligently listen to the voice of Adonai your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His mitzvot, and keep all His decrees, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians. For I am Adonai who heals you.
27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. So they camped there by the waters.
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In 1969 London called. Blue Horizon Records had signed him to a recording contract. He liked the London scene but his unique song-writing style didn't gel with the arranger the record company assigned to the project. Frustrated, Taylor returned to Colorado. His next project "T&O Short Line," was a combo with the legendary Tommy Bolin of Deep Purple.
In 1977 Taylor retired from the music business, and for the next two decades ran a successful antiques dealership in Colorado. Taylor often jammed with friends and family, but did not perform in public.
After years of prodding from his musical mentor Kenny Pasarelli (Elton John, Stephen Stills, Joe Walsh), Taylor finally returned to performance in 1995. In an intimate room in Boulder Colorado, he was joined onstage by Pasarelli and ace guitarist Eddie Turner. This trio would go on to perform as the Otis Taylor Band for the next 6 years. A magazine writer on hand reported: "The combination was magic, Taylor's unique singing style blended perfectly with Pasarelli's rock steady virtuosity Turner's rock-roll tinged riffs." Subsequent independent releases Blue Eyed Monster and When Negroes Walked The Earth turned heads in the blues scene and won Taylor critical acclaim.
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Xidi Village (1.5 hours): Xidi (the World Cultural Heritage site) is located at the foot of Mt. Huangshan. It's 54 kilometers away from Huangshan City. First built 900 years ago in the Song Dynasty , its traditional architecture is well preserved. The buildings and the street patterns, reflect the socio-economic structure of an enduring period of Chinese history. Don't miss the magnificent memorial archway.
Hongcun Village (1.5 hours): An ancient village over 800 years old leaning against Mt. Huangshan, it is folded in the fog of the Mt Huangshan, which makes it look like a natural landscape painting.Various halls, dwellings and an old school are open to visitors.
Leigang villa: Located on the top of the Leigang hill, Leigang Villa restaurant serves local style Chinese food. Lunch is served in a beautiful environment with pleasant scenery, as the restaurant is surrounded by a forest of bamboo and peach trees. The restaurant has a bird's eye view of Hongcun village.
The Yellow Mountains (6 hours): Located in the south of Anhui Province, with an area of about 1,200 square kilometers, known as "the loveliest mountain in China", famous for magnificent scenery whatever the season: granite peaks piercing the clouds, strangely shaped rocks and gnarled trees, hot springs, waterfalls, wonderful outlooks and over 1500 plant species.
Yungu Cable Car (10 minutes): You can enjoy the scenery along the way as you ascend or descend the Yellow Mountain by cable car.
Tunxi Ancient Street (1 hour): It's located in the center of the old city of Tunxi,there are hundreds of old but well preserved rows of shops, evoking a bygone era in buildings that are simple and elegant. It is a commercial street that is only for pedestrians.
Huizhou Culture Museum: Located at the south side of Tunxi aiport Yingbin Avenue and adjacent to Hui-hang high way entrance, Huizhou culture museum covers a land area of 10.4 hectares and an architecture area of 1.4 hectares. With more than 100000 historical relics varying from ancient ceramics and pottery, ink stone, Huizhou ink stick ,paintings ,calligraphy, carvings in stone ,brick and wood, bronze ware, jade and old local books and documents to some others, Huizhou culture museum fully bring forth the feature of local culture.
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Shexian Tangyue Memorial Arches (1 hour): Known as the "Town of Arches", Shexian is a must see for fine examples of residential architecture and memorial arches from Ming and Qing dynasties. The Chinese name "Paifang" is given to an arch usually made of fine wood or stone, as memorial and decoration. Shexian has thousands of arches. It is a great place to explore the social culture in China's feudal society.
The Bao Family Garden is near the Tangyue Memorial Arch Group. This private garden once owned by successful businessman Bao was as famous as the Humble Administrators Garden in Suzhou. Built as a Bonsai garden, it showcases the best works of Bonsai from different schools of this art. It blends perfectly with the Tangyue Memorial Arch Group, and is a fascinating way to spend a few hours.
Chengkan Village (1.5 hours): Located near Huangshan city, Chengkan is an ancient village with a long history of more than 1800 years. It now still has kept the former layout of the village and water network set in Ming Dynasty which was designed to the theory of the Book of Changes and formed a village of the mysterious Eight Diagrams. The Baolun Hall in the village built during the Ming dynasty is a representative collection of typical Huizhou architecture.It is also the most magnificent ancestral temple in Huangshan city today.
The Qian Kou ancient Residence House (1 hour): The Qian Kou Residence typical of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). These ten old buildings include three ancestral temples, four residences, one stone memorial arch, one arch bridge and one pavilion. The various buildings have been situated to compliment their surroundings and Mt. Zixia. They form a garden-style residence and are in harmony even though each of the components has a different background and history.
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The primaries have spurred state-based online ad buying by the presidential campaigns, and Obama for America has led the pack.
As TV ad sellers know, primary season is prime time for local political advertising. Although we are bound to see online ads geo-targeted to voters in swing states or important districts leading to the general election, the primaries have spurred state-based online ad buying by the campaigns.
Sure, they buy direct on newspaper and TV sites. However, much of their local advertising this cycle is done by targeting Web users in key states and regions through ad networks like AOL's Advertising.com and large portals such as Yahoo.
Specific formats range from geo-targeted display ads to keyword-based search ads aimed at specific locales to video ads. When it comes to the latter, in addition to placing their television spots on YouTube and their own sites at little to no cost, some of the candidates have run TV ads in pre-roll slots online.
Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign has aimed search ads to voters in primary states such as Pennsylvania, and targeted specific landing pages to residents of certain states. Senator John McCain's camp has been a prolific online advertiser. Still, his near-guaranteed Republican nominee status heading into his party's convention means his campaign doesn't have to focus much on targeting voters in primary states.
Even early on in the primary season, some candidate campaigns were believers in geographically targeting online. "We're primarily very focused on geo-targeting," Mitt Romney's e-strategy director Mindy Finn told ClickZ News before the Republican ended his presidential bid. "We want to own, so to speak, the inventory for a certain state." The campaign targeted ads through networks including Advertising.com to people in early primary and caucus states like South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, and Florida.
Buckeye and Lone Star News Sites Score Big
Of the three main primary contenders, Senator Barack Obama's campaign seems to have done the most local online advertising, some of it especially innovative. A more compelling local Web effort involved big multimedia ad buys on local news homepages.
Before the contentious Texas and Ohio Democratic primaries, Obama grabbed the attention of voters in those states with large expandable video ads on sites like Ohio's CantonRep.com, DallasNews.com, and MySanAntonio.com. In all, the ads were seen on 22 homepages for about a week before the March 4 primaries. Through local Web media firm Centro, the campaign bought on four Ohio and 12 Texas sites in WorldNow's ad network, along with 10 newspaper sites.
Ads on Waco Tribune-Herald's WacoTrib.com and The Akron Beacon Journal's Ohio.com were stamped with the slogan, "Change We Can Believe In." Users were enticed to expand the Flash billboard to reveal a video message from the candidate, viewable in the ad itself.
WorldNow Chief Revenue Officer Adam Gordon stressed the significance of the network effect in facilitating the campaign's broad regional media buy. "It speaks to the need for aggregation," he said. "That's why you see a big trend in the industry moving towards partnerships to scale.... Aggregation empowers advertisers to work with local stations the same way they partner with a national URL site."
The ads localized the grassroots-driven approach taken by the Obama camp throughout the lengthy primary season. All along, the campaign has run Web ads to collect e-mail addresses and other contact information of supporters, the goal being to get them to volunteer, attend local events, or donate cash.
In this case, because Ohio and Texas both support early primary voting, the ads prodded people to vote before primary day, and find the closest early voting location. "Have you tried the convenience of early voting? Find your early-vote location," urged the ad.
Not only did the campaign create specific messaging centered on Ohio's early voting and the more involved "Texas Two-Step" process; it used a variety of embedded TV spots. A Texas-aimed video focused on losing jobs overseas, the "misguided" Iraq war and the chance for "a nation healed, an America that believes again." Video in an Ohio-targeted creative touched on affordable healthcare, Iraq, ending tax breaks for companies moving jobs overseas, and tax cuts for the middle class.
Early voting in the Lone Star and Buckeye states ended before the ad run, so the ads required a mid-campaign alteration. Once early voting closed, ad copy simply asked people to vote and click-through to find their local polling place.
Additional ads, most likely targeted to Texas voters through online ad networks like Advertising.com, Valueclick or Google's AdSense, complemented Obama's multimedia homepage effort. The campaign aimed millions of standard display units at Texas voters promoting early voting in February. Nielsen Online's AdRelevance caught ads for the Illinois Senator on local sites including Austin's Statesman.com and ToledoBlade.com. Despite the efforts, Obama lost to Clinton in both states.
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As the Pennsylvania primary edged closer in mid-April, Obama for America aimed issue-based ads to news site visitors in the state. Purely focused on persuasion, the ads marked a first for the Obama campaign when it comes to Web advertising.
Ads on PA television sites and newspaper sites like Trib Total Media's PittsburghLive.com and Philadelphia Media Holdings' Philly.com inquired, "Which presidential candidate refuses money from oil company PACs and their Washington lobbyists?" The campaign aimed to reach voters feeling the pinch of high gas prices. Think lower and middle income people, blue collar workers, and older demographics prone to visiting hometown newspaper and TV station sites.
Until then, the Obama camp had steered away from persuasion-based online ads, focusing instead on a specific call to action. For instance, complementary display ads targeted to Pennsylvania Web users pushed them to update their voter registration to ensure they were eligible to vote in the Keystone State's Democratic primary.
Clinton ran only some text search ads targeted to Pennsylvanians, yet she won the state's Democratic primary.
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Considering estimates for all online political ad spending could be as low as $20 million in 2008, that doesn't leave much of a pie to carve up at the local level.
Why are the presidential campaigns spending so little on local Web media? It's still all about television. According to one online political consultant, campaigns are so concerned with keeping up when it comes to TV spending, the Web -- be it local or not -- gets short shrift.
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Main dining room at Damon's in Glendale
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Large family restaurant in Glendale, with a bar in the rear. This is Damon's second location; the original was opened in 1937, and this location opened in 1980. A short list of tropical drinks is offered, and food sticks to old-school, meaty classics. The food quality improved a bit with the arrival of a new owner and chef in 2004. The decor is more on the elegant end of Polynesian Pop, with lots of bamboo and beautiful painted murals, and lighting comes from a number of different styles of traditional Poly-Pop light fixtures. In 2014, Bamboo Ben was brought in to do a "tune-up" of the decor, with some fresh thatch, tapa cloth, and bamboo and rope repair work. In the past, it has been targeted by the city of Glendale for an "update" of its facade, but that danger seems to have passed.
There's a parking lot behind Damon's, but it's metered, as is the neighborhood street parking. There is free parking for 90 minutes in the parking structure nearby at California & Orange.
June 11, 2010, 12:15 PM
Damon's is a GREAT little gem tucked away up north in Glendale. I always seem to end up here on weekends and I love the food here! The Mai Tais + Chi Chi's are pretty tasty and they're not anything fantastic, but they WORK. The Steaks are tasty and the twice baked potato is to DIE for.
Definitely give this place a shot, and you'll be pleasantly surprised at it's TIKI-ness.
carlosrossi is a regular at Damon's, and is usually there Weekends.
June 27, 2011, 12:32 PM
Damon's sold in 2011 so far I see no noticeable changes.
HipHiPaHulA! is a semi-regular at Damon's.
April 2, 2012, 10:31 AM
I took my wife to Damon's and it was tiki-licious! Chi Chi's & May Tais were off the hook and the char filet & thick cut tenderloin was on point! Our waitresses was awesome
July 22, 2013, 11:00 AM
Damon's Hawaiian Decor is incredible. Made a visit last weekend and it all remains the same. I loved going in there and just checking it out.
forgotten tikiman has visited Damon's.
June 27, 2015, 12:52 AM
just had dinner with family, definitely one of the best tiki places in the country. 70 years must mean something is being done right and it shows
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New adventures in indexing
A 1984 Suntour ARX pre-index shifting rear mech. A 7 speed Shimano SIS freewheel. An 8 speed Shimano Ultegra bar end shifter. These things are not fated for a happy menage a trois when drivetrains are concerned. And yet I have today discovered that they work. And pretty darned well.
Back in 1984 – apart from Shimano's ill-fated Positron indexing system, SIS gears were the stuff of whimsy and friction shifting ruled.
Suntour's patented slant parallelogram derailleurs were still the sweetest shifting mechs on the block but Shimano was making rapid progress.
The ARX was at the tipping point, designed as a response to Shimano's 600AX futurism – and to replace the ageing yet brilliant VX range. However it was still a fine piece of kit, especially for a mid range derailleur.
I've wanted to have the option of indexing for a while, having ridden for a few years on a positively ascetic friction-only setup.
Furtive searching of Sheldon Brown's site confirmed that 8 speed shifters will work across a 7 speed block because the difference in cog spacing is minimal (4.8mm for 8 speed and 5mm for 7 speed according to the mighty SB).
The question was, would my achingly lovely Suntour ARX generate the correct amount of mech movement for a given amount of shifter cable movement? This was a question that Sheldon and a host of bike forum-o-nauts couldn't readily answer.
There was only one thing for it – to get the bike in the stand and see if it worked.
It was with much trepidation that I snugged up the 4mm Allen bolt holding the cable and tentatively spun the pedals and worked the bar end shifter. Especially as the setup currently has no barrel adjuster to finesse the cable tension.
So one can imagine my surprise and delight when the chain sprang willingly from one cog to another and back again with very little complaint.
For me this experience is potential proof of a number of things:
- There may indeed be a benevolent and omnipotent God
- I may be a mechanical genius
- The strict laws of product compatibility may not be all that
Here endeth the lesson. Happy shifting and amen.
I had my own lane. I had my own traffic lights. Motorists gave way to me when I crossed a t junction.
Everyone around me on the bike lane was wearing normal clothes. I didn't see a helmeted cyclist until I got to the Omnisport Arena, Apeldoorn where I was live blogging for British Cycling and the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships.
The event was great. Great for me and great for the team who came away with seven world titles.
But for me it was my humble ride to and from the team hotel that will stick in the mind.
I found myself quite emotional when I handed back my Gazelle hire bike yesterday evening.
She had become a faithful friend over the previous few days. 7 easy gears. Brakes that worked no matter what the conditions. No danger of an oily trouser cuff. Or a stiff neck or sore wrists. Kind of like I would expect if I was driving a car.
But driving didn't seem so appealing. Even in the wind and rain that lashed the Low Countries over the weekend and blew Geriant Thomas off the road at Gent Wevelgem.
A kilometre long queue crawled impatiently out of town as I rode home one night. But there was no gridlock on the bike paths. Just steady, stately progress.
Nobody was in a rush because nobody needed to be. Why? Because journey times on a bike are utterly predictable especially when the beefy tyres on your Dutch bike seem as impregnable to punctures as car tyres.
My last view of Apeldoorn was the railway station with its double decker trains and double decker bike park, housing hundreds of commuters' bikes.
Coming back to the UK I'm going to have to readjust, recalibrate my radar and remind myself not to ride on the pavement.
As a colleague said to me over breakfast one morning, "Cyclists here are like sacred cows in India. They are allowed to wander where they please".
Wide, flared and handsome – I'm a little smitten with the Velo Orange Grand Cru Randonneur Handlebar
The big problem, for me, with standard drop handlebars, is setting a handlebar angle that is at the same time comfortable on the drops and behind the brake levers.
This is because in my opinion, somewhere along the way, the DNA of drop handlebar design was fundamentally altered, and because its development was driven by going fast/looking fast rather than going comfy, nobody noticed.
Racing and touring bikes back in the day had comfortable drop bars with an elegant, constant radius curve and parallel drops and tops. Then someone came along and broke it all.
But happily, of late, there's been a resurgence in handlebars that don't torture the wrist and demand a vice-like grip. The Nitto Noodle, championed by Rivendell is one and the Velo Orange Grand Cru Randonneur is another.
The latter I chose to buy for my sympathetically restored Raleigh Clubman, which, one day I will itemise fully on this blog.
The Grand Cru Randonneur is a handlebar in the classic constructeur style. Wide, flared and with the critically important parallel drop and top. Why is this so darned important?
Well, it allows the drop bar to be so angled that the tops are level with the ground, along with the drops and the brakes within easy reach from either position. This all results in a relaxed wrist and hand, opening up a whole new world of drop bar comfort.
It is rare that ergonomics and aesthetics go hand in hand to such a degree, but I'm sure you'll agree that there's a certain Georgian rightness about these bars that's hard to dislike.
Sunshine and showers
When I acquired my Raleigh Clubman it came with an affliction common to many sports tourers of its era, namely fenders that are too narrow for the tyre.
The delightful ESGE 35mm gold fenders that came stock with the bike in 1983 wore their 31 years well but with 27 x 1 1/4 tyres beneath (i.e. 32-630) they weren't exactly roomy.
The problem was exacerbated when I swapped the stock Raleigh tyres for a set of Panaracer Paselas, which, aside from being wonderful, are the fattest 27 x 1 1/4 hoops in all of Christendom. So portly are they that they forced a period of fender abstinence.
Now this was fine during the hot, dry spell that has shocked and stunned the UK for the past week but, as any proud Stark would say, 'winter is coming' so a fender solution was sought.
So to cut to be chase I ordered a set of SKS Longboard fenders in the 45mm width in 'beige'. Now don't be put off by that word. Antique cream would be more accurate. They look fine against the metallic claret of the Clubman's frame and pick out the decals nicely.
But the coverage… My oh my, I went out and wilfully sought out puddles in the country park and lo, my be-sandalled feet are clean and dry.
In short this is a hearty recommendation for the longboard. And a review of sorts.
As with all proper fenders, monkish levels of patience are required in order to fit them. There's a knack too, which I've developed over a decade plus of fendering bicycles.
Rivendell have a great video on how to do it on YouTube. Seek it out. Me? I'm waiting for it to start raining so I can test them out some more.
I bought mine for £23 minus 10% plus £3.95 express delivery from ProBikeKit. They came well packed, on time and with a free bottle of Lipton ice tea, which my son quickly swigged. Very civilised.
Thank you Sheldon
Everyone would like to leave a legacy. Children, a fine building, a neatly wrought song.
But Sheldon Brown has left an online legacy that bicycle mechanics the world over tap into every day.
My latest thank you Sheldon moment came a few days ago.
An old Suntour 2 prong freewheel refused to budge, 30 years of hard pedalling and corrosion had stuck it on tight. My two prong remover had sheared right off and become a totally useless one prong remover.
I thought I was looking at a new wheel, forced to say goodbye to my lovely weinmann 27 x 1 1/4 and Maillard hub.
After a minute or so of pondering the answer came with a question. "What would Sheldon have done?"
A quick google and I had the answer.
I knocked the sprocket lock ring loose with a screwdriver and hammer. Off came the bearing adjuster ring with it.
Off slid the cluster accompanied with a shower of tiny ball bearings, to reveal the pawls and freewheel body.
I found the biggest mole grips I could muster and clamped them onto the remains of the freewheel. A 3 foot bar over the end of the mole grips and some firm pressure anticlockwise and bingo, the old freewheel body spun away.
The new freewheel spun on nicely, with some grease on the threads to aid future removal. A new chain and all is slick again.
Thank you Sheldon.
The Falcon rises, reForged…
A few weeks ago I blogged about my acquisition of a nice, 1980s Falcon touring bike. A garage find, it polished up nice, needed no new parts, just TLC. So I went about the application of said TLC and got it to a reasonable level. But I knew I could take it a step further.
Late night perursal of RAL colour charts and researching local powdercoaters quickly ensued. I would transform the Falcon and it would rise, like a, erm, falcon from the ashes of it's grey charcoal paint, to become the first bike from my new quasi-business venture/labour of love, 'Mill and Forge' – rejuvinating old bikes and forging them anew, like Aragorn's sword, only a lot more useful.
So without further ado, I give you Mill and Forge #1, the Falcon Westminster.
This blue-green beauty started life as a charcoal grey Falcon Westminster women's touring bike, built in the early to mid-1980s; at its heart lies a hand-built, lugged Reynolds 531 frame and a lugged cromo Tange fork.
When we first saw her in a garage in deepest Cheshire, we knew she had been loved and deserved a second life. The bike oozed quality – the components, the frame, though definitely old-skool, have an elegance and quality that you just don't get any more.
So we brought it back to the Mill and Forge workshop and began to strip away a few decades of dust and dirt, to reveal a bike in fine mechanical fettle, apart from the paintwork, which had definitely seen better days.
So it was off to the power-coaters for a media-blast and a nice durable coat of 'Bianchi celeste' – a lustrous pastel bluey-green, or greeny-blue , if you will.
Back from the painter a few days later and the bike was lovingly put back together. Every component has been cleaned and polished for that 'better than new' look.
We also supplied brand new Michelin World Tour tyres and tubes and new cables throughout. The headset and bottom bracket have been re-greased and all bearings have been adjusted to perfection.
The results are, as we're sure you'll agree, pretty special.
We offer this stunning, 'fully-reForged', ready to ride bike for just £170, local pickup only from Liverpool or Manchester. She's too lovely to post, we're afraid.
Look for a comparable new bike (e.g. the Cooper Aintree) and you'll be parting with around £900, for a bike with none of this old girl's charm.
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- Frame: Reynolds 531 lugged and handbuilt in Britain – fully media blasted and powder-coated
- Fork: Tange chromoly lugged crown with double eyelets
- Size: 21inch (54cm) – would suit rider from 5ft 5in to 5ft 8ins approx
- Colour: blue/green powder-coat
- Headset: Tange threaded chrome plated.
- Stem: SR Sakae quill type – hand polished
- Bars: SR Sakae Road champion vintage with original bar foam
- Brake levers: Weinmann short reach (good for smaller hands) with extension levers. Black hoods.
- Brakes: Weinmann 730 sidepull – hand polished
- Crankset: original SR Sakae Custom 52/42 teeth with built-in chainguard – hand polished
- Pedals: Lyotard alloy rat-trap style
- Bottom Bracket: Original Tange full adjustable cup and cone – rebuilt and re-greased
- Chain – Sedis 5 speed
- Freewheel – 5 Speed
- Gear levers – Shimano Altus LT in polished aluminium (old skool friction shift – very low maintenance)
- Front derailleur – Shimano Altus LT original spec
- Rear derailleur – Shimano Altus LT original spec – polished aluminium
- Hubs – Maillard of France, nutted axles front and rear
- Spokes – rustless
- Rims: Rigida polished aluminium (better braking than cheaper chrome steel rims and lighter too)
- Tyres: Michelin World Tour 27 x 1 ¼ brand new with new tubes
- Seat pin: Fluted aluminium
- Saddle: Original Selle San Marco Anatomica in suede/split leather
- Mudguards: Bluemels style chromoplastic in chrome/black with front flap and rear reflector
- Rear rack: Chrome steel vintage 'randonneur' style
- Price: £170
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