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Mercadito (on Grove and Avenue B) is introducing new tacos for summer with seasonal toppings. The langosta taco with lemon-poached lobster, grilled scallions, pea hash, jalapeño-butter emulsion, and crispy red onion sounds pretty damn good. [Grub Street]
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The kid is talented as hell, but he's frikkin' nuts if he thinks he's going to get as much as Thornton. Reportedly he's already been offered more than Heatley got, so I don't know why he's bringing that name in.
Ken Holland's not an idiot, he's not going to throw that money at him in a capped league, Wings fans will just have to hope no team with cap room to spare will decide to poach him (and continue to screw up the league's salary structure).
Datsyuk's Insane
Started by YzerFan19, Sep 05, 2005 07:36 PM
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Posted September 05, 2005 - 07:36 PM
Posted September 06, 2005 - 04:55 AM
I agree with you. I would hate to see the Wings lose him. He is a big key to the future. But if wants to be stupid, let him be it somewhere else.
Posted September 07, 2005 - 05:21 AM
The Freep gives us interesting reading this morning, as Drew Sharp tries to tell everyone that this is okay (he's as nuts as Dats is) and Helene St. James confirms that there is no out clause in the Russian contract.
"Right now, I'm operating under the assumption Pavel will be in Russia the entire season." - Ken Holland
"Right now, I'm operating under the assumption Pavel will be in Russia the entire season." - Ken Holland
Posted September 12, 2005 - 06:16 PM
Now Pavs needs another week to decide. My guess is that something weird is going on either between him and his agent or his agent and Holland. I keep thinking that if he wanted to play in Russia, he'd be playing already, so maybe he's being told to hold out while Greenstin screws around with Holland.
Posted September 12, 2005 - 06:55 PM
I read on one of the rumor sites out there that he had signed with a different team then the one he had played on last season, and that the original team thought they had the right to match the offer, and that he didn't want to play for them so if that was the options he'd rather be in Detroit. But I later read that the original team failed to file before the deadline earlier this year and that they had lost the right to match. But like I said it was on a rumor site.
Posted September 13, 2005 - 06:45 PM
His agent is the crazy one. He shouldn't mess with Holland. It isn't smart.
Posted September 19, 2005 - 08:08 PM
Looks like Datsyuk might be figuring out that it's best for him to come back to the NHL. With Russian teams fighting over him and possibly forcing him to play where he doesn't want to, Detroit doesn't look so bad.
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Loved this! I did however saute some chopped onion and garlic (I cooked the garlic until golden). It was very good, will definitely make again!
Pomodoro Pasta with White Beans & Olives
From EatingWell: EatingWell Serves Two
Capture the flavor of vine-ripened tomatoes with this elegant-yet-quick, fresh tomato sauce. Although it's an uncooked sauce, the beans are heated briefly in the olive oil and garlic to infuse them with flavor.
6 Reviews for Pomodoro Pasta with White Beans & Olives
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This is one of my favorite "go to" recipes. It's easy to remember all of the ingredients if (like me) you find yourself roaming around the aisle of the grocery store at the last minute wondering what you want to make for dinner. I like to use kalamata olives instead of oil-cured. I also throw in some capers. Fresh, ripe tomatoes is a must to truly get the most out of this dish. If you can't find fresh basil, I would recommend using basil infused olive oil if it is available.
I would add some red wine vinegar at the end. Gives it a bit more flavour,
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TreesGreenville was honored today as the Non-Profit Organization of the Year by the Environmental Education Association of South Carolina at the organization's annual summer conference, held this year at Seabrook Island.
EEASC works to support both formal and informal educators across the state in bringing environmental programming to students and communities. At their annual conference, awards are presented to Environmental Educator of the Year, Green Business of the Year, Non-profit Organization of the Year, Legislative Official of the Year, and Outstanding Youth. Past honorees include Upstate Forever, Naturalist Rudy Mancke, and Rick Huffman, founder of the South Carolina Native Plant Society.
TreesGreenville was selected as Non-Profit of the Year based on the organization's extensive education outreach, which includes a standards-based companion curriculum for use in elementary, middle and high school classrooms, the Play in the Shade program, and hands-on plantings at schools throughout Greenville County.
TreesGreenville has planted trees at more than 35 Greenville County schools, with the vast majority being educational tree plantings conducted during the school day with the help of students and parent volunteers who are taught the importance of trees and how to properly plant and care for them.
Tree gardens were installed at Fountain Inn Elementary, League Middle, Sevier Middle and JL Mann High School. These outdoor learning centers were designed to serve as models for schools throughout the district, region, and state interested in encouraging teachers to take their class outside.
"The more students are sitting in front of laptops and texting instead of talking, the more important it is to get students outdoors to learn the importance of good clean air and clean water and how man can easily upset the balance," says Mary Lou Jones, retired educator and founding board member of TreesGreenville. "We found that getting students outside and teaching them directly using the environment dramatically impacts the amount of learning that goes on. Students don't forget those lessons."
To further enhance the educational impact of these gardens, TreesGreenville developed a companion curriculum available to all teachers throughout the county seeking to incorporate the environment into their lesson plans while still adhering to state standards.
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Composed by Ray Noble. Arranged by Dianne Reeves and Kenwood Dennard.
Recorded: New York, April 1996
Rating: 90/100 (learn more)
This is not an easy song to sing, and indeed its most famous versions are by instrumentalists. But Dianne Reeves's voice tackles this difficult set of chords with such ease that one wonders why she doesn't have more competitors. A great vocal performance by one of the greatest stylists of our times, and an interesting arrangement too, which gives the song a funny Latin twist towards the end. Not to mention Bobby Watson's fiery alto solo, reminding us that, among instrumentalists at least, there definitely is strong competition when it comes to "Cherokee."
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Princeton senior Matija Pecotic, the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year, won the top flight in both singles and doubles Sunday to conclude the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational.
With Zack McCourt, the Tiger duo defeated Patrick Chase and John Huang of Yale 8-4 to win the doubles "A" flight, and Pecotic, ranked 67th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, defeated 95th-ranked Winston Lin of Columbia 7-6(2), 6-4 to win the Tiger Draw, the top singles flight.
"(Assistant coach) Ryan (Keckley) and I were very pleased with the overall performance for our first outing of the year," Princeton head coach Billy Pate said. "It was a great weekend in terms of facing strong competition and having the chance to compete against a variety of teams. We're very proud of Matija for winning both the top singles and doubles flights. Also, I think Zach McCourt improved immensely in doubles this weekend, so we're happy to see him garner success. We'll get back to work this week and get ready for another strong event at Flushing next weekend (at the USTA Invitational)."
Results from all of Princeton's matches for the weekend are below.
* = Friday matches; ^ = Saturday matches; # in parentheses = ITA national ranking
Tiger Draw
*Augie Bloom (Prin) def. Jonathan Ho (Wake), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
*(38) Vasko Mladenov (St. John's) def. Bloom (Prin), 6-2, 6-4
*(95) Winston Lin (Columbia) def. Zack McCourt (Prin), 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-1
*(67) Matija Pecotic (Prin) def. Arvis Berzins (FDU), 6-1, 6-3
*(67) Pecotic (Prin) def. Jeremy Court (Penn), 6-1, 6-1
^(67) Pecotic (Prin) def. Vusa Hove (Buffalo), 6-1, 6-3
^(67) Pecotic (Prin) def. (95) Winston Lin (Columbia), 7-6(2), 6-4
Jadwin Draw
*Dan Davies (Prin) def. Jason Simon (Buffalo), 6-2, 6-2
*Matt Siow (Prin) def. Klaus Puestow (BC) 6-3, 6-3
*Davies (Prin) def. Kyle Berman (Cornell), 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(5)
*Valentin Mihai (G'town) def. Siow (Prin), 6-3, 6-3
^Jason Brown (Yale) def. Davies (Prin), 6-0, 6-4
Lenz Draw
*Andy Dottino (G'town) def. Mohamed El Tonbari (Prin), 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
*Jonathan Carcione (Prin) def. Vim De Alwis (Penn), 6-1, 6-4
*Bert Vancura (Columbia) def. Carcione (Prin), 6-3, 6-4
*Sam Bloom (Wake) def. El Tonbari (Prin), 6-2, 6-0 (Cons)
Cordish Draw
*Matt Spindler (Prin) def. Phil Nelson (BC), 6-4, 6-2
*Spindler (Prin) def. (114) Daniel Hoffman (Yale), 1-6, 6-1, 6-1
*Dan Richardson (Prin) def. Yuri Gricheno (FDU), 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-4
*Ashok Narayana (Columbia) def. Richardson (Prin), 7-5, 6-3
^Matt Barry (Penn State) def. Spindler (Prin), 5-7, 7-6(3), 6-4
Pagoda Draw
*Michael Katz (Prin) def. Patrick Chase (Yale), 6-3, 6-4
*Katz (Prin) def. Matt Saiontz (Yale), 5-7, 6-1, 6-4
*Michael Lin (Prin) def. Elliot Hureau (Binghamton), 6-1, 6-2
*Daniel Morgan (Columbia) def. Lin (Prin), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
^Katz (Prin) def. M.J. Every (St. John's), 6-2, 4-0 (ret.)
Dan Morgan (Columbia) def. Katz (Prin), 6-3, 6-1
Nassau Draw
*Florin Radu (Prin) def. Casey DiStaso (G'town), 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3
*Radu (Prin) def. Zach Dean (Yale), 7-5, 6-3
^Hugo Morth (St. John's) def. Radu (Prin), 6-1, 6-1
*Akhil Mehta (Buffalo) def. Ben Quazzo (Prin), 6-4, 6-4
^Spencer Clark (Cornell) def. Quazzo (Prin), 6-3, 6-3 (Cons.)
Jersey Draw (Play-In)
*Zack McCourt (Prin) def. Charlie Caris (G'town), 6-3, 7-6(1)
*Michael Katz (Prin) def. Nick Sarles (Buffalo), 6-0, 6-0
New Jersey Draw (Cons.)
^Augie Bloom (Prin) def. Chris Young (Penn State), 6-4, 6-1
^Jonathan Carcione (Prin) def. Klaus Puestow (BC), 7-6(2), 6-1
^Ben Quazzo (Prin) def. Christian McKean (BC), 7-5, 6-4
^Matt Siow (Prin) def. Nick Sarles (Buffalo), 6-1, 6-0
^Jon Ho (Wake) def. Zack McCourt (Prin), 7-5, 4-6, (10-3)
(94) Danny Kreyman (Wake) def. Carcione (Prin), 6-4, 7-6(5), (10-4)
Martin Svenning (Yale) def. Matt Siow (Prin), 7-6(7), 7-5
Florin Radu (Prin) def. Sam Bloom (Wake), 7-6(6), 6-4
Austin Kaplan (Penn) def. Dan Richardson (Prin), 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
Justin Simon (Buffalo) def. Michael Lin (Prin), 7-6(4), 6-4
Augie Bloom (Prin) def. Matt Saiontz (Yale), 6-2, 6-3
Doubles "A"
*(36) Matt Siow-Matt Spindler (Prin) def. Arvis Berzins-Ibrahim Shams (FDU), 8-2
(36) Siow-Spindler (Prin) def. Jeremy Court-Zach Katz (Penn), 8-4
Patrick Chase-John Huang (Yale) def. (36) Siow-Spindler (Prin), 9-8(3)
*Zack McCourt-Matija Pecotic (Prin) def. Michael McGinnis-Phil Nelson (BC), 8-1
McCourt-Pecotic (Prin) def. Ashok Narayana-Max Schnur (Columbia), 8-5
McCourt-Pecotic (Prin) def. Vasko Mladenov-Hugo Morth (St. John's), wo/inj.
McCourt-Pecotic (Prin) def. Chase-Huang (Yale), 8-4
Doubles "B"
*Charlie Caris-Casey DiStaso (G'town) def. Augie Bloom-Ben Quazzo (Prin), 8-6
*Kyle Berman-Quoc Daniel Nguyen (Cornell) def. Jonathan Carcione-Dan Davies (Prin), 8-6
Doubles "C"
*Josh Katten-Kelly Morgue (Bucknell) def. Mohamed El Tonbari-Michael Lin (Prin), 8-4
*Spencer Clark-Brett Cromwell (Cornell) def. Florin Radu-Dan Richardson (Prin), 8-6


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The SMART 2020 global report has spawned two regional reports, one for Portugal (download) and one for the US (download) which both launched in the past 2 weeks.
The US report found up to 22% of 2020 emissions (more than the 15% the global report identified) could be reduced using ICT-enabled solutions, which would also reduce dependence on foreign oil. The methodology was very similar to the global report, so I'm fairly confident that those numbers are realistic.
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"One World Under Gog" - Part 4: "Out of Place"
Writer: Geoff Johns
Penciller: Dale Eaglesham
Inker: Nathan Massengill
Earth-2 Sequence: Jerry Ordway
Reviewed by: Neal Bailey
Mr. Terrific speaks with Starman about how his mission in the 31st century is jeopardized by Starman being sane.
Meanwhile, the JSA study Magog's power levels and try to figure out if he's a good guy or a bad guy.
Superman and Magog talk about the burden that comes with heavy doses of power, and Magog begins to see Gog as his God.
Black Adam sees flowers of the kind Isis would bring to life pointing west.
Gog starts heading for the middle east, and Alan Scott decides to stop him, given that Gog has killed men with guns, and also that heading to the middle east will lead to a disruption of peace on a massive scale.
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Story - 5: A sympathetic debate where you can't take sides, coupled with an alternate Earth finally getting its due and use, coupled with a villain whose sole goal is peace. It's complex, it's strong, and it's one of the best comics, if not the best comic on the stands despite the massive cast. As I've said before and as has come to pass, Johns is balancing this massive cast even though it seemed impossible. When they square off, you know exactly why each character chooses the side they do, and the fight is thereby that much more emotionally charged.
Johns just added a whole new JSA, and I'm still not worried. Heck, bring in both JLA groups, too. Heh.
From the conceit of Gog to the execution of a plot that is leading to Kingdom Come and perhaps a redemption for its Superman, this is one of the best comic runs I've ever read, still.
Art - 5: Ordway stuck out like a sore thumb, but intentionally, and in a way that emphasizes that they were on Earth-2, which actually served the story in a rad way. The double page splashes, the reveals, every character pops. This continues to be one of the best drawn books out there as well as the best written.
Cover Art (Hawkman [Yellow/Alex Ross]) - 4: Again an otherwise awesome issue is sullied by a strange light source. Still, enough of the original issue comes through that you can enjoy what's going on without having to squint your eyes, so it mostly survives this time.
Cover Art (Hawkman) - 3: Nothing too bad, nothing too great. It's a scene that didn't happen in the issue, but that doesn't hurt it too much. It's hurt by the fact that it's kind of a simple, bread and butter image with nothing stark or crazy about it, as covers are supposed to do to grab you. It's just a plain fight scene between characters that we're so familiar with you have to go the extra mile to make unique. That didn't happen here, though the image is well drawn.
January 2008
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I feel like I set myself up for the fall...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
So I had a small binge episode tonight. I did manage to pull myself out of it before I did any real damage, which is a true sign of progress. As I look at my day today, I see that several small choices/influences came together, and I responded in my typical way -- stress eating! Here's what happened.
1. I am leaving town tomorrow to go attend and participate in a friend's wedding. I have 101 things to do and am feeling stressed.
2. I had to stay at work 3 hours late. More stress. I inhaled a Fiber One bar within seconds of my boss delivering this news.
3. I was trying to finish up a few random foods before leaving town, so I didn't really have lunch. I just had a few snacky things that did not leave me feeling satisfied.
4. Before I even got home from work, I decided that I needed a super quick dinner so I could get to packing. I felt I "deserved" a treat because it had been such a long day. So I brilliantly decided that I should have peanut butter and cool whip on a bagel. For dinner.
Now, all three of these foods are trigger foods for me. Why, oh why, would I think it was okay to eat trigger foods for dinner? This is a lesson I thought I had learned. I used to eat ice cream and cookies for dinner all the time. I thought calories were calories, and I didn't care where they came from. I have since learned that eating REAL food and REAL meals really helps me control my emotional eating.
So I ate my planned dinner treat, then promptly ate more, and some more. I ate 1,000 calories in less than 5 minutes. It was one of those frantic moments where I had to eat one bagel while the other was toasting because my need to eat was so intense that I could not wait one more minute.
But then, I stopped. I was sitting there on my kitchen floor with my spoon in the peanut butter jar, and I stopped. I thought about the great weekend I have coming up. I thought about how nice it would be to be able to have dessert and coffee with friends and not be feeling guilty about my binge earlier in the week. I thought about not having to worry about my bridesmaid's dress being to tight because I'm bloated. I thought about wanting to share pleasurable moments with people I love instead of sneaking and hiding and feeling guilty. So I stopped.
This is really big for me. I'm glad I'm getting on that plane tomorrow. There's nothing like a change of scenery to help me reset and get those pesky binge thoughts out of my head.
Until Monday...
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You did well to stop yourself. Somedays are so stressful, that food is the only comfort that is quick. You know you would of gotten out and run IF ONLY YOU HAD THE TIME. But that is what you didn't have lots of. Forget today is a new day, learn that you need to plan ahead better for these times - prepack or a packing list, to do list - you can start a few days before leaving.
Now enjoy the wedding this weekend. We will all be waiting for you.
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I'm so proud of you. Have a great weekend. You deserve it!
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Dude. Tell me about it.
I'm learning what causes me to fall, too, and every time I think I've got it figured out, I find new ways! (I had my own small binge episode tonight, and managed to escape under 1500 cal for the day, but just barely.)
Good for you, stopping in time to minimize the damage. I am increasingly convinced that this process is about staying aware and dancing on the edge without falling over. No matter how well I plan things, situations and triggers crop up, and then it's a matter of flying by the seat of my pants, to stay balanced and upright.
You managed that tonight, by interrupting the peanut butter with constructive thoughts. So good on you!!! :-)
And have a great time at the wedding.
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The Buzz, 3-6: Defending
Dance; Presenting Women
Dance/NYC Settles for Less Again; Mikko Nissenen's Man's Man's World
(This one goes out
to Edward Winer, the Youngest 65-year-old dad in Town.)
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2003 The Dance Insider
With the disappearance
from the scene of the late Stephanie Reinhart, longtime co-director
of the American Dance Festival, the cancellation by Dance Magazine
of Richard Philp's column, and the rumored departure within two
years of David White as director of Dance Theater Workshop, dance
advocacy is looking at a potential vacuum of the kind of fierce
defenders that it needs if it is to secure its piece of the funding
pie in increasingly lean times. This is not to say we don't have
other strong advocates. We do. But it means we need to speak up
when supposed dance advocates sell dance short.
Dance insiders will
recall that last August, just when the dance community -- lead most
visibly and courageously by White, who threatened a consumer boycott
-- appeared to be winning its campaign to have Tobi Tobias re-instated
as dance critic at New York magazine, Dance/NYC's Bob Yesselman,
self-appointed spokesperson for the dance community, and Ellen Jacobs,
a respected dance publicist, took it upon themselves to capitulate
on our behalf.
New York editor Caroline
Miller had initially attributed Tobias's firing to economic reasons
and said, "We believe that, for the time being, the best way to
provide ongoing coverage of dance is in other parts of the magazine."
With the resulting furor,
Miller shifted her story until, three weeks later, she announced
-- through Yesselman -- "I made the decision not to renew Tobi Tobias's
contract because I felt the column didn't appeal to enough of New
York magazine's readers. What we need to do is find new ways to
bring the dance scene alive in the pages of the magazine, not only
the established companies but new choreographers and dancers and
companies. And we need a new critical voice that can speak to a
broader audience.... We haven't abandoned our commitment to serious
culture; on the contrary, what we're doing is trying to change our
approach to respond to the reality that we seemed to be speaking
only to insiders and dance veterans, and not a broader audience.
That is, after all, what we are all looking to do." Miller promised
to bring on the "new critical voice" sometime in the fall.
Endorsing this transparent
turnabout, Yesselman beamed, "The future is bright....! We are delighted
with this result, and hope it can serve as a model for our field
to come together as a community, and to take effective joint action
to address issues of common concern."
Well, seven months later,
how many reviews by the "new" critical voice of (in truth, veteran)
dance writer Laura Shapiro has Ms. Miller published? According to
the magazine's web site...exactly five. And how many did it publish
in the seven months leading up to Tobias's firing? TEN. Let's see:
10 with Tobias, 5 in the new Yesselman-endorsed regime. And one
of Shapiro's new reviews was a boggling slam of a recent Martha
Graham Dance Company season acclaimed elsewhere by most other leading
critics, including Tobias (in the Philadelphia Inquirer), Anna Kisselgoff
in the New York Times, and our own Tom Patrick and Alicia Mosier.
Yup, Bob, that's pretty
effective lobbying!
But Yesselman, undaunted
by this defeat, continues to presume to negotiate on behalf of the
dance community -- and to offer an easy way out to those in the
media who disrespect it.
Earlier this year, straphangers
in New York, particularly dancers, were outraged by a billboard
campaign for the television sports network ESPN featuring a line
of Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders with the headline, "Without Sports,
They'd Just be Dancers."
Not to worry! Bob Yesselman
was on the job! And with the usual tepid results. After talking
with the network's vice president for marketing, he reported in
Dance/NYC's newsletter, he was "pleased to report the following
resolution. This phase of the ESPN campaign officially ends in four
days. Although it will probably take a few weeks for all the ads
to disappear" (No rush, Bob! Dance can wait!) "(due to the schedules
of the outdoor display companies that actually put the ads up),
the offending ads will soon be gone from the seven large cities
across the nation where they have been displayed."
Not to worry; Yesselman
was not satisfied with just ESPN's promise not to do it again. He
demanded "recompense"! "In recompense," he relayed, ESPN has "proposed
running a special ad in the N.Y. Times and in Dance Magazine showing
a football player leaping for a catch with the headline, 'Without
sports, you'd just see dance on the stage.' I find this an excellent
message and a wonderful way to get our awareness campaign some placement
we would not have had otherwise."
Um, awareness of what
exactly, Mr. Yesselman? That dance doesn't count if it's 'just'
seen on our many fine stages in New York and around the nation,
but is only validated by being seen on television?
Don't worry, though,
dance insiders! Mr. Yesselman is listening. In a later e-mail, he
updated us, "I am pleased to report that ESPN has further refined
the headline for the special ads they have agreed to run in the
N.Y. Times and other publications in response to our concerns about
the cheerleader ads. The word 'just,' to which many in the community
have taken exception, has been eliminated. The new headline is placed
over a photo of a football player in a mid-air catch and reads:
'Without sports, we'd only see dance on stage.'
He just doesn't get
it. Why not, instead, insist on this tag-line for the photo: "Without
dance, they'd just be men fighting over a weird-shaped little ball"?
I am not the only one,
dance insider, who does not find this an 'excellent' outcome. In
an e-mail sent out to the list of Eva Dean Dance last month, board
member Stephen Doody explained:
"We believe that ESPN's
response is inadequate. We acknowledge Dance/NYC's efforts with
ESPN, however, we do not agree with what they negotiated. ESPN's
proposed retraction advertisement which shows a football player
leaping for a catch with the headline, 'without sports you'd only
see dance on stage' does not relate to the offense given. ESPN refuses
to apologize (Dance/NYC acknowledged this in a telephone discussion),
they have allowed the ad campaign to run to completion, and they
have taken no affirmative step to accelerate removal of the offending
"We have found that
ESPN has not been the least bit cooperative. The person who we are
informed is handling this matter is Leeann Daly. She has not returned
any of the several calls left for her, nor any of the emails we
have sent. Dance/NYC informed us that they did not forward any messages
that disagree with what they negotiated with ESPN to Ms. Daly. Following
our telephone discussion with Dance/NYC they did forward an email
message from this organization. Just as with the several email messages
we sent to her, no response has been received from ESPN. It appears
that Ms. Daly is content to avoid communication with anyone but
Dance/NYC. This gives us the impression that ESPN hopes that this
advertising campaign will recede from memory and that we will simply
go away."
Mr. Doody, while not
necessarily endorsing my opinions here, hits on exactly why the
tepid 'advocacy' of Dance/NYC and Yesselman is an issue that now
needs to be addressed by the dance community. The problem is not
Yesselman's tactics, his opinions, or even his approach. I recognize
that everyone has his own manner of negotiating. The problem is
that by presuming to act on behalf of not just himself, but the
dance community, Mr. Yesselman, in the cases of New York magazine
and ESPN anyway, has, far from successfully making dance's case,
simply allowed these two bad actors (in these cases) an easy way
out. (Mr. White, by contrast, in the case of New York magazine,
held out the prospect of a consumer boycott if it did not restore
dance criticism to its pages. This tactic would have born fruit,
I believe, had not it been derailed by Mr. Yesselman.) To be clear:
I am not saying dance does not have strong advocates elsewhere.
It does. But Mr. Yesselman and his organization are not among them,
at least judging by these two incidents -- and they're the ones
that are paid to advocate for dance!
It's safe to say that if the only dance one saw was that performed
by the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, one would get a less than complete
representation of the range of female dancers...and choreographers.
And if one were to view the repertory of Boston Ballet, at least
as planned next year by director Mikko Nissenen, one would get absolutely
no idea of the depth of talented woman ballet choreographers. Yup,
you guessed it -- at Boston under Mr. Nissenen, as indicated by
his just announced rep for next season, it's a man's, man's world
once again. NO FEMALE CHOREOGRAPHERS.
Such as who, you might
ask? Here are 12 choreographers who have or are still creating in
the ballet idiom, Mr. Nissenen:
Martha Graham
Agnes de Mille
Ninette de Valois
Bronislava Nijinska
Ruthanna Borris
Pina Bausch
Dominique Dumais
Julia Adam
Didy Veldman
Lila York
Diane Coburn Bruning
Saeko Ichinohe
Speaking of Ichinohe,
who has set ballets on the Louisville Ballet, among others, you
can check her latest work, "Homage to Shiko Munakata," tonight at
8 p.m. at the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York. Munakata,
according to the nice publicist Audrey Ross, was a pioneer of Japanese
contemporary woodblock print art, and would be 100 this year.
If you're looking for
a nice publicist for your upcoming concert, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you'd like to drop
Mr. Nissenen an e-mail with suggestions of female choreographers
worthy of the Boston Ballet repertoire, you can drop him a line
at firstname.lastname@example.com.
And, of course, you
can always buzz the Buzz at email@example.com.
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Sept. 5, 2011
UW Weekly Game Notes
Trufant, Folk Named Pac-12 Player Of The Week
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
SEATTLE - The best result from Washington's opening escape past Eastern Washington may prove to be the one that came just after lunchtime Monday.
That's when coach Steve Sarkisian was direct and forceful with his players in a team meeting. He told the Dawgs to bring far more bite to Saturday's game against pitch-and-catch Hawaii at Husky Stadium (12:30 p.m. on ROOT Sports television, the Washington IMG College radio network and here on GoHuskies.com with the live in-game chat and audio stream) than they did in their opener two days earlier.
He saw them as too tentative when 16 Dawgs played their first major college game -- a 30-27 victory over Eastern Washington sealed by Desmond Trufant's end-zone interception with 29 seconds remaining.
"I really feel like we played not to lose. And that's disappointing to me," Sarkisian said about an hour before the meeting that set a clear tone for this Huskies' week and, they hope, the rest of their season.
"We played much too cautiously."
Sarkisian cited himself, for not keeping the game plan wide open for quarterback Keith Price once the sophomore sprained his knee in Saturday's first half and put on a brace. He cited the offensive line, starting a redshirt freshman at left guard and an all-sophomore right side, for not firing off the ball to the standard the blockers set in UW's victorious finish to 2010.
The coach also cited Huskies' pass rushers that sped in free toward Eastern Washington quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell - but then hesitated as if not trusting the call or the great opportunity before them. That allowed Mitchell to complete 39 passes in 69 tries for 473 yards, with just one sack.
"I thought we lacked energy. I thought we lacked enthusiasm. I didn't think we were physical at all, especially on the offensive side of the ball," Sarkisian said. "So ultimately that stuff has to start with me. I need to coach better. I need to motivate better. We need to be better prepared than we were Saturday, from an emotional standpoint for sure."
And to think, Washington is 1-0 for the first time in his three years as coach and just the third time in 10 seasons. The Huskies also have a five-game winning streak for the first time since the end of 2000 and start of the `01 season.
It sounds like they will be some reinforcements in key spots to aid in Sarkisian's buck up.
Quarterback Keith Price, who sprained his knee banging it on the turf in the first half against EWU and played the rest of the game in a brace that curtailed his mobility, was much better Monday. The sophomore did early drills in practice before yielding team work to backup Nick Montana. Sarkisian said Price may be limited in practices early this week "but we expect him to play."
Price was efficient in the opener - three touchdowns and no turnovers - doing exactly what the Huskies will ask of him all season. He took care of the ball with short, smart passes and led the offense out of bad plays, and did it while playing the final 2½ quarters on the sprained knee and with the brace. He will only get healthier, and better.
"We need to play with more tempo in the huddle, getting in getting out ... and that starts with me," Price said. "We are going to get better."
Price will likely have senior co-captain Jermaine Kearse to use more than he did in the opener. UW's 1,000-yard receiver last season missed the final three quarters of the Eastern game with a sprained ankle, but he practiced Monday.
Senior cornerback Quinton Richardson, a leader in the secondary that had a third-stringer in during the final, decisive moments of the opener, also practiced Monday and Sarkisian said he will play against Hawaii. Richardson sustained a high ankle sprain Aug. 13.
"He's definitely going to have an impact (returning)," Trufant said.
And Sarkisian said Chris Polk's knee is fine following his 125-yard rushing day against Eastern, which came two weeks and two days after arthroscopic surgery.
Polk, who also practiced Monday, said he may have been at only 70 percent of his full effectiveness against the Eagles. His knee didn't bother him, but rust in reading and setting up the blocks of his offensive line did.
The current, unsatisfied tone reflects the elevated standards the Huskies created for themselves with last winter's four-game winning streak and Holiday Bowl victory. And it reflects the heightened expectations of Huskies fans, ones the championship-seeking Sarkisian doesn't discourage but embraces.
Yet Saturday's narrow win and resulting learning experience was just the first game of a long, 12- (or UW expects, 13) game season. Drawing concrete solutions about any team after it has played 60 of a minimum of 720 minutes this season is far from fool-proof.
"This one football game is not going to define the 2011 Washington Huskies football team," Sarkisian said.
He then mentioned how Virginia Tech lost in 2010 to James Madison, like Eastern Washington a Football Championship Subdivision school, and began 0-2, having lost to Boise State in week one. Yet those Hokies responded and finished by playing in the Orange Bowl against Stanford.
Sarkisian spoke Monday in much the same way he spoke a year ago to the week, following a narrow loss at BYU in the 2010 opener the Huskies thought they would have won had they played with more fire. The following week, Washington handled Syracuse.
"I think the biggest carryover to any season is from Game 1 to Game 2," Huskies senior middle linebacker Cort Dennison said.
He is one of the team's captains. So he takes Sarkisian's challenge personally.
"Yeah," Dennison said. "I am going to make sure that we are all into the game."
He will have plenty else to do Saturday - namely trying to stop Hawaii quarterback Bryant Moniz.
New Pac-12 member Colorado couldn't do that last weekend. Taking off of spread formations similar to what Eastern stayed in most of Saturday against Washington, Moniz ran 14 times for 121 yards and threw for another 178 yards against the Buffaloes. He would have rushed for 151 yards except for losses taken in sacks.
Mouse Davis, the famed guru of the wide-open, run-and-shoot offense in college and professional football, is in his second season on Hawaii's coaching staff as a wide receivers coach. The tangible effect for Washington this week is its defense can expect the same shotgun snaps, quick throws and quick routes that Eastern Washington used. The Eagles' attacked stymied the Huskies' pass rush to gain chunks of yardage against a secondary that Sarkisian thought played too far off receivers.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, these first two ball games we play we're going to see 140 pass attempts in two weeks," Sarkisian said after the win over EWU. "So we better get ready for it."
Last season, Moniz led the Football Bowl Subdivision with over 5,000 yards passing and completed 65 percent of his throws.
"We've definitely got to get better," Trufant said. "We aren't satisfied at all."
And that's OK with Price, since it's still so early.
"As crazy as it sounds, I'm glad the game was that close. It's a wakeup call," Washington's new quarterback said.
"We know we are better than that. We are going to come out ready. Trust me."


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Starbucks Japan Releasing Espresso-Lemon Lattes
Sure, sometimes espressos are served with lemon rind. This is taking things too far.
When life gives Starbucks of Japan lemons, they concoct some transgressive kind of beverage called "Creamy Vanilla Frappuccino With Lemony Swirl," apparently. The hot version does not come with a healthy shot of the lemon-curd sauce like the one twirled inside the frappuccino, but it is built on a base of espresso and includes vanilla sauce and steamed milk. Lemon peel, lemon-flavored white chocolate, and lemon syrup are the garnishes, perhaps because nothing is as fun as the combination of hot milk, tart lemons, and espresso. The drink is available at the chain's stores in Japan from March 19 to April 15, and barring the official taste tests, reaction to the Creamy Vanilla Frappuccino With Lemony Swirl has been mixed. "[I]t's f--king annoying to say in Japanese," one Reddit user writes. [Starbucks Japan via Reddit]


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I would be extremely mad at Donnie if he cuts Ewing or Roberson, and doesn't cut James. He's gonna play the same amount of minutes whether we cut him or not, so why can't we have a roster spot for young kid with potential.
Look I know Donnie is against cutting a player a check to let him go. I know the idea of having a player on your payroll who is not playing is pretty damn stupid. But news flash....Jerome James is on our team's payroll and guess what....he is not playing! If Donnie really believes that Robertson and Ewing have a place on this team then that is more than what could be said for Jerome! Yes in essance it's like getting Ewing and Robertson for 14 million (their salaries, plus what is still owed to Jerome) but if they each play in 4 games this season they will have given more production than Jerome would've for sure. Now the only benefit in keeping Snacks is that next season Jerome represents a expiring contract which is a trading chip, but since Walsh's mission is to get under cap the season after next I doubt he utilizes any expiring contract next year.
Bottom line....Regardless if we cut Jerome James or not either way we are paying for absolutley nothing!
Just imagine if Ewing gets cut after an outing like Friday just to watch Jerome on the bench for another season.
I would be extremely mad at Donnie if he cuts Ewing or Roberson, and doesn't cut James. He's gonna play the same amount of minutes whether we cut him or not, so why can't we have a roster spot for young kid with potential.
^ agreed donnie should just cut Jerome James....im pretty sure Ewing earned a spot on the team after his preformance on friday he provided a spark off the bench and got us going and we almost came back...another thing about Jerome James he definetly wont play this year if Curry isnt going to play till he gets into shape and he is in better shape than James so Jerome will never see the bench let alone the court
Projected stats for the three players
Jerome James:
1.9 ppg 1.3 rebs. .4 blks .400 fg% 4 games played (at best)
3.5 ppg 2.3 rebs .8 blks .420 fg% 26 games played
3.3 ppg. 1.1 ast .380 3pct. .430 fg% 19 games played
Look Donnie needs to not worry about money in this case and focus on who is going to help the team the most of the three. Imagine how pissed Pat Sr. will be to see his son get cut over the worst player in franchise history...and I mean that literally, I think Jerome James is the worst player in franchise history
Why did the Knicks bother signing Roberson in the first place? Everything he could do.... any guard on the Knicks could do better.
A big man is a need and if James can't get his fat ass in shape...then send him home and give some minutes to guys that have worked for it. (Ewing and Roberson)


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2 arrested in July 4th explosion that injured 4 in west Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Kern County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad and the Kern County Fire Department Arson Unit served two search warrants and an arrest warrant in relation to an investigation into an explosion involving an explosive device that occurred on July 4th.
Deputies served the search warrants at a home in the 6600 block of Starbright Drive in southwest Bakersfield and a home in the 19000 block of Stockdale Highway in west Bakersfield.
Kern County Sheriff's Office public information officer Ray Pruitt said that the deputies have arrested 2 men who were wanted in connection with the explosion.
Deputies arrested Julian Elizondo and Jim Trino.
Elizondo was arrested on charges of manufacturing and possession of a destructive device, detonating a destructive device causing great bodily injury, conspiracy.
Trino was arrested on charges of manufacturing and possession of a destructive device, detonating a destructive device causing great bodily injury, conspiracy.
Trino's bail has been set at $1,755,000 and Elizondo's bail has been set at $1,592,500.
The investigation into this case only happened due to the investigation done by 23ABC News anchor Mike Hart .
Hart uncovered the story into the explosion and exposed what took place on the night that four people were injured with an improvised explosive device.
One of the victims was taken to the Grossman Burn Center at San Joaquin Community Hospital, while two others were transported to the Fresno Burn unit. A fourth person was treated and released.
23ABC has been uncovering details of the incident over the past few weeks.
The incident happened at a wedding reception being held on July 4th for Jim and Lisa Trino.
Trino tells 23ABC that the improvised explosive device had been set off several times that night without a problem. The celebration was held at a home on 40 acres of open land west of Bakersfield.
Trino said he has been setting off legal and illegal fireworks for more than 30 years, including the Acetylene bomb.
Acetylene is a highly flammable, unstable gas used predominantly in welding. In Trino's explosives, he said he pumps the gas into balloons, which he hangs from a metal pole in the middle of a field, before setting it off with some type of ignition source.
Trino was hanging a balloon when three of them exploded. Also injured in the blast were Russel Lester, Kris Brode and Bryan Walls.
Tuesday night, 23ABC learned that Lester and Walls are planning to take legal action against Trino. Attorney David K. Cohn is representing both men.
Officials: Erskine Fire started at archery site
Cal Fire officials have confirmed with 23ABC that the Erskine Fire originated from Kern River Archers in Lake Isabella.
Animal shelter to offer free microchips for pets
The City of Bakersfield Animal Care Center will offer free microchips for pets on Friday, July 1st, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
KCFD rescues elderly man who fell into ravine
The Kern County Fire Department rescued an elderly man who had fallen off a cliff near his residence in Hart Flat.


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Search Engine Optimisation is the discipline of removing technical barriers within your site so search engines can index, categorise and return that relevant content for their users.
Simplified it means understanding what users want from our products and services. To do that we need to understand the many different journey's a user can take when they are looking for what we offer.


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New Smarter Spiders - by Kath Blackwell
Sound like pure Sci-fi, something that couldn't happen in the near future? Researchers say these spiders might be crawling your site very soon. The technology to make these theories into a possibility is available now and only a few "bugs" remain to be figured out in order to make it a reality. In fact, the research report that was released by SPI Dynamics proves just how possible it would be for these covert crawlers to be crawling the Web today.
The Pros… and the Cons
The technology for these covert crawlers was intensively researched and presented by one of the engineers at SPI Dynamics (www.spidynamics.com) as a way to ferret out problems and online theft such as click-fraud, check out site-load dynamics – even get a thorough peek at competitors' sites. According to the report, covert crawling "has all the pros of regular automated crawling" such as exhaustive search and the ability to automatically save resources to be used later for analysis. Certain tricks are employed, however, to make it look as if it multiple users from various IPs were browsing the website instead of a spider.
That's a fairly awesome concept when you think about all of the positive applications of a technology that can surf unnoticed and scan every single page on a site. Imagine the possibilities! The technology developed by SPI Dynamics is not intended to attack a site – it was created to help developers get the most out of their Web projects. However, because of its techniques and its virtual invisibility on hosting logs and statistics, it could be used to locate the best possible group of pages to attack, store the information and later be used to launch attacks. SPI Dynamics warns the development community that this technology can and will be used for ulterior motives in the near future.
Other negative affects of this technology could affect those who work heavily in the search engine optimization fields. Because today's Web crawlers view sites differently than human beings, the tricks and methods used by SEOs are designed to work in a way that those crawlers will appreciate most in order to earn the highest ranked listings. However, a site that is crawled with one of these super spiders in the future would have to have a different game plan, and would likely have to tweak their entire approach.
Other developers that would be affected are those who create crawler-only content in order to boost search engine rankings. While this is a con to those folks, it would actually become a benefit to honest developers who would do well being ranked upon their site's true content and data that may have previously had poor rankings in competition with these SE-cheaters.
What to Do Today
Web developers need to take notice of the impending days of the covert crawler. Action needs to be taken to avoid potential attacks due to the recognizance work that can and will be done by competitors and hackers alike. Action needs to be taken to avoid loss of search engine ranking due to tricks and cheats currently enacted within your web project's structure.
- Evaluate your site's security. If you haven't had your site professionally checked by an expert to locate potential vulnerabilities and ways that hackers could attack your site, this should be priority number one. Your server set-up, site structure, firewalls – everything needs to be analyzed and evaluated in order to ensure that even with a covert crawler, your competition or potential hackers would be unable to excise any damage. Remember – because these spiders can crawl your entire site undetected, you will not be able to rely upon your logs for a warning against potential doom.
- Consider adding more security – or even changing hosts. After you've analyzed your set-up, you should definitely consider adding additional security measures to your site structure or should consider changing hosts if the analyst determines that you are at-risk due to set-up or security on the host level. Always choose your hosting company based upon reputation, reliability and ability by the site's support staff to meet all of your hosting needs. Choosing a host based solely upon price is a disaster in the making.
- Re-evaluate your current SEO set-up. Make sure that your site's ranking does not depend solely upon crawler-tricks and cheats. View your site via a browser and take a look at how your site measures up from a human's point of view to ensure that your site's value and ranking would not be diminished by the change from a drone crawler to a super smart spider in the future. If you are using crawler-only content, you will want to re-think your strategy and make sure that you have the true site content to support your target keywords.
Preparing for the spiders of tomorrow today will help eliminate potential problems, loss of income and downtime of your site in the future. These covert crawlers are definitely coming – it's only a question of when.
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Business Students Qualify for Phi Beta Lambda Nationals
Six months after the formation of Sterling College's chapter of Phi Beta Lambda, three of its members will make their way the PBL National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas, in June, where students from across the country will compete by putting their business knowledge to the test.
Phi Beta Lambda is the collegiate division of Future Business Leaders of America.
Sterling College sent six students to the PBL Spring State Leadership Conference on March 2-3 at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kan. To earn their places at the national competition, junior Emily Messick of Lyons, Kan., finished third place on the accounting principles test, junior Sened Tesfay of Chicago, Ill., took second on the international business test, followed by senior Chelsy Troyer of Glade, Kan., in third place.
"I am very pleased with the participation and engagement of the students," said Timothy Thorpe, assistant professor of business and Sterling's PBL advisor. "If anything, this is a reflection of their self-motivation. We hope to grow and build on the success of these students."
The purpose of PBL is to develop future business leaders through training and education. Earlier in the academic year, the students participated in two other PBL events. They traveled to Little Rock, Ark. to participate in the National Fall Leadership Conference, which helps prepare chapters for the coming academic year by providing workshops on how to build a stronger chapter, and the Fall State Leadership Conference in Emporia, Kan. Messick, Tesfay and Troyer were joined at each conference by senior Lauren Brown, of Sterling, Kan., senior Caitlin Magee, of San Leandro, Calif., and freshman Erica Wilt, of Hutchinson, Kan. SC competed in accounting principles, international business, marketing concepts, management concepts, word processing and business decision making.
"PBL is a great way to network and provides an opportunity to bring recognition to the department. It allows us to add to our resumes and personal accomplishments while we represent the school. Nationals will only build on that," said Tesfay.
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I purchased the dress in 2012 from a bridal store in Cincinnati, OH. It was the third dress I tried on and I fell in love with the soft, feminine details, the sweetheart neckline/a-line style that is flattering on so many body types, and the delicate lace accents. It was worn for 1 day: pictures, ceremony, and reception- approximately 10 hours total.
- Alterations: The dress tag states the dress is a size 8, but it was altered to fit me: At the time of wearing it, I was 5'4 (it reached the floor when wearing 2" heels), 130 pounds, with the approximate measurements of 34B bust, 28/29" waist, and 36" hips. Additionally, buttons for bustling were added. The beaded sash and veil are separate pieces from the dress and will be sold for an additional $300 total (for both).
- Preservation Method: It was worn one time and then immediately dry cleaned by professionals and sealed for preservation in a 100% acid-free box and stored in an indoor closet. It has remained untouched until yesterday (03/10), when I opened the box to double check the designer name and size, and then it was resealed.
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Android Tablets Accomplish What Apple's iPhone 5C Couldn't
Mike Schuster
Outpacing annual iPad sales for the first time, Android tablets succeed in cornering the low-end market.
Tablet computers weren't anything new when
(NASDAQ:AAPL) first-generation iPad debuted in April 2010. But nobody could deny that Apple hit the ground running and effectively created the tablet market with a sleek and powerful device. At that point, and for a while following its launch, the iPad became the
tablet to own -- to the point where "iPad" became synonymous with "tablet" in the same way "Band-Aid" came to mean "every adhesive bandage."
But the iPad, being an Apple device, commanded a premium price. And although it took some time, competitors tinkered and advanced their own offerings at a cheaper price, so now the sensible options in the marketplace aren't just limited to one.
Last year, because of this, Apple's sales dominance fell to its chief opponent:
According to a recent Gartner report
, Android tablets commanded a whopping 61.9% of worldwide tablet sales in 2013, with an incredible 120.9 million units sold. Comparatively, iPad sales numbered just over 70 million and took 36% of global sales. Although nearly quadrupling its sales numbers from 2012,
(NASDAQ:MSFT) came in at a distant third with 2.1% of sales, or slightly over 4 million sold. This marks the first time since the iPad's debut that Apple wasn't the leader in global market share, although the writing was on the wall in 2012 when the company took 52.8% of the market and Android had 45.8%.
Gartner points to Android's massive success in low-end markets and with first-time tablet buyers for its exponential gains. Ironically, last year's iPhone 5C attempted to break into that same demographic but met disappointing results. Recently, former Apple marketing guru Ken Segall explained that in addition to the device's far-from-cheap price tag, the iPhone 5C's "unapologetically plastic" design ran counter to the public image that Steve Jobs had cultivated on his watch as CEO. "Apple is a company that doesn't do 'cheap,'" Segall wrote. (See:
Former Apple Inc. Exec Explains Why the iPhone 5C Flopped
But solid devices at a decent price isn't necessarily enough to win a loyal fan base, according to Gartner research director Roberta Cozza. "In 2013, tablets became a mainstream phenomenon, with a vast choice of Android-based tablets being within the budget of mainstream consumers while still offering adequate specifications," Cozza said in a statement. "As the Android tablet market becomes highly commoditized, in 2014 it will be critical for vendors to focus on device experience and meaningful technology and ecosystem value -- beyond just hardware and cost -- to ensure brand loyalty and improved margins."
In other words, both Google and Apple have some things they can learn from one another.
Related stories:
Tablet Demand Slows During Alleged Mobile Device Boom
Good News for Apple and Samsung: Tablets Will Overtake PCs This Year
Apple's iPhone 5C Fiasco Is Not the End of the World
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The Arkansas Crime Information Centers UCR, Summary, and NIBRS crime data has been used to compile rankings of individual jurisdictions and institutions of higher learning. These crude and/or incomplete analyses have often created misleading perceptions which adversely affect geographic entities and their residents. The FBI has a longstanding policy against ranking cities, counties, states and universities/colleges on the basis of crime data alone.
Locales should not be ranked because there are many factors that cause the nature and type of crime to vary from place to place. The ACIC UCR statistics include only jurisdictional figures along with reported crime, clearance or arrest data. Rankings ignore the uniqueness of each locale.
All jurisdictions are affected in some degree by:
The attitudes of a jurisdiction's citizenry toward crime and the crime reporting practices of its residents are known to have an effect on the number of crimes coming to the attention of law enforcement.
Because of concerns regarding the proper use of the ACIC UCR data, the ACIC has the following policies:


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The New York Times has today joined in the debate about cats. A new study in The Journal of Ornithology on the mortality of baby gray catbirds in the Washington suburbs.
Killer number 1 of the birds? Cats . Yep, your friendly neighborhood moggie . 80% of the birds were killed by predators and cats were responsible for 47% of the deaths.
The New York Times adds "Cats are way up there in terms of threats to birds — they are a formidable force in driving out native species," said Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, one of the authors of the study.
The American Bird Conservancy estimates that up to 500 million birds are killed each year by cats — about half by pets and half by feral felines. "I hope we can now stop minimizing and trivializing the impacts that outdoor cats have on the environment and start addressing the serious problem of cat predation," said Darin Schroeder, the group's vice president for conservation advocacy."
Meanwhile the debate in New Zealand is about to go ballistic. Well known Gareth Morgan has raised the topic a while back and every cat lover in the country seems to have replied. Tonight he has added fuel to the fire on television by getting stuck into the SPCA"s policy of Trap, Neuter and Return .
As defined by the San Francisco SPCA's website :
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the humane way to manage feral and free roaming cats, preventing the breeding that leads to even more feral cats.
With TNR, cats are caught with humane box traps, spayed/neutered and vaccinated, and then returned where they were found to live out their lives under the eye of a watchful human caretaker who provides food, water and shelter as necessary. Cats that have been "TNRed" have their left ear tipped, meaning that the tip of one ear is clipped while the cat is under anesthesia. A tipped ear identifies a cat as part of a managed TNR program, and will safeguard him if ever re-trapped.
Morgan argues that this means that the cats are free to keep hunting and that birds and New Zealand wildlife doesnt stand a chance against this policy.
Guaranteed that it will spark a very healthy debate ...
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Press Releases
News from the Diocese of Southwark
Consecration & Commissioning of the The Venerable Richard Cheetham as 11th Bishop of Kingston
15 Oct 2002
On Thursday 17 October, at Southwark Cathedral the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt Rev Dr George Carey, will consecrate the The Venerable Richard Cheetham, the Archdeacon of St Albans, as Bishop of Kingston. It will be the Archbishop's last consecration before he retires later this month. The Area Bishop of Kingston in the Diocese of Southwark assists the Diocesan Bishop in the oversight and pastoral care of parishes in south-west London.
Two other bishops will also be consecrated at this service. Canon David Hawkins, currently Rector of St George's Church in Leeds, is to be Bishop of Barking in the Diocese of Chelmsford, and Canon David Hamid, Director of Ecumenical Affairs and Studies for the Anglican Consultative Council since 1996, is to be the next Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese in Europe.
On Sunday 27 October the newly consecrated Bishop of Kingston will be installed at Southwark Cathedral, in the presence of local mayors and community leaders.
Then on 31 October Bishop Richard will be welcomed to his new Area at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham. This service will provide an opportunity for clergy and lay from the parishes to welcome and meet their new Bishop. In addition local MPs, the heads of church schools will be there to greet him at the start of his new ministry.
The Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Rev Tom Butler, says: 'ÄúIt is good to have Bishop Richard joining the team here in Southwark. The churches of the Kingston Area and the whole Diocese will benefit greatly from his wisdom and pastoral experience.'Äů
Biographical Notes
Born 1955.
Brought up in Surbiton, where his parents still live.
Attended Kingston Grammar School between 1966 and 1974.
Open Exhibition to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Graduated in 1977, with a Joint Honours degree in Physics and Philosophy. Oxford Hockey Blue and an under 19 player for England.
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Taught science at a large comprehensive school in Richmond, North Yorkshire, (1978-1980).
Assistant Physics Master at Eton College, Windsor (1980-1983).
Investment analyst in London.
1985 Ripon College, Cuddesdon Certificate in Theology.
1987 he was ordained deacon, served title at Holy Cross Church, Newcastle. Ordained priest in 1988.
1990 Vicar of St Augustine of Canterbury, Limbury, Luton in the Diocese of St Albans.
Rural Dean of Luton from 1995 'Äě1998.
1999 PhD from King's College London ('The nature and status of religious belief in contemporary Britain [with particular reference to the concept of 'truth'] as reflected by acts of collective worship in a sample of Luton schools since the 1988 Education Reform Act'.)
February 1999 Archdeacon of St Albans.
Married to Felicity one daughter and one son.
He still plays hockey and squash regularly. His other interests include cinema and walking.


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STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford wrestling coach Jason Borrelli did his best to discourage Donovan Halpin from trying out for the team, but the walk-on from Petaluma, Calif., was determined to compete. Four years later, Halpin is one of four Cardinal captains and has made a lasting impression on his coach and teammates.
"He's kind of like the Energizer Bunny – go, go, go," Borrelli said. "He has incredible work ethic. I couldn't think of too many guys that have been in our program for the last six years that I could say are any better."
The 5-foot-9 Halpin, who wrestles at 149 pounds, was a four-year letterman and three-time captain at Casa Grande High School, but didn't even place in the state meet. Borrelli heard about him from a friend who coached near Halpin's school, but never gave him much thought until Halpin introduced himself at an event.
"I remember him telling me that he had gotten into Stanford," said Borrelli. "We kind of looked up his results and we weren't that high on him. I tried to talk him out of it at first. Make it sound so horrible that I'm going to scare him away. So that tells you something about his mind. He's an incredible kid."
Halpin was so grateful to be admitted to Stanford, he decided to shoot for the moon.
"I'd been rejected from Cal Poly and it looked like UCLA was where I was going to be headed," he said. "And UCLA doesn't even have a wrestling program."
Halpin will never forget the day he received the good news from Stanford.
"I saw the email and didn't want to open it at first," said Halpin. "I was going to Taekwondo practice (he holds a third-degree black belt) and was like, 'I'll open it later.' I was kind of assuming it was, 'Thanks for the application, we can't admit you.' My mom was like, "No. no. Open it anyway.' So I open it and it says, 'Congratulations.' I sat up and jumped. And my mom said, 'You aren't messing with me, right?' I was ecstatic."
How did Halpin make such a good impression on admissions?
"I think it was because of my work ethic," he said. "In high school, I was very regimented and very broad. I did a lot of outside activities and that kind of mentality carried over to college and onto the wrestling mat. I approached every day like I have to put in as much work as I can."
Two weeks before orientation, Halpin broke his ankle wrestling at a local junior college.
"So the odds were kind of stacked even more against me," said Halpin. "But I really had a passion for it. I just said, 'If it doesn't turn out to be my thing, no problem.' "
It didn't take long for Halpin to impress Borrelli.
"We just started watching him on the sideline and saw the things he was doing: the lifting regiment he was going through, the discipline, the way he was interacting with other injured athletes and putting them through workouts," Borrelli said. "We were just like, 'Maybe we're on to something special here.' ''
Halpin figured as long as he was rehabbing, he might as well push his injured teammates as well.
"He was just running them through the ringer," said Borrelli. "Having them do pull-ups, pushups, curls and bear crawls. If he wasn't doing that, they would probably just be sitting on the sidelines watching practice."
Teammate Dan Scherer, who lived in the same freshman dorm as Halpin and has roomed with him the last three years, figured he wouldn't last long.
"A couple weeks, he'll be gone," Scherer remembers thinking. "That's what a lot of other walk-ins in the past have done."
Not Halpin. After two months of rehab, he worked his way into the lineup. Wrestling mostly at 141 pounds, he posted a 4-5 record and placed fourth in the California Collegiate Open. He scored his first dual win against Carlos Castro of Arizona State, earning a 14-3 major decision.
"That little taste of getting into the varsity lineup made me love it and brought me back the next year," Halpin said. "From there, I knew it was going to be a minimum of a four-year commitment."
Scherer said Halpin quickly gained respect from the rest of the team.
"He caught up quickly," he said. "This guy is no joke. He's going to be here for the long run."
That came as no surprise to Isaac Raya, his high school coach.
"Not at all," he said. "I knew he could walk on the team based on his work ethic. It's a daily thing for Donovan."
Halpin saw spot duty as a sophomore and junior. Twice, the product design major earned Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team honors.
Admittedly, Halpin isn't the most athletically-gifted wrestler on the mat. He didn't take up the sport until eighth grade and has competed without a scholarship. But he's a quick study, has toughness and heart, and realized that hard work is a great equalizer, using that mentality to beat some of the nation's Top 20 recruits.
"That's really what it came down to for me," he said. "I'll work hard and grind guys."
Raya recalled a match against rival Healdsburg when Halpin was a senior.
"He got injured in the first 30 seconds," he said. "I wanted to pull him, but he wouldn't come out. That's what wrestling is all about … when you keep going. I'm so proud of him."
Halpin is a wrestling junkie.
"He loves everything about the sport," said Scherer. "I always see him watching wrestling on the internet. He wants to learn about everything. There's rarely a time when he's not talking about it."
Prior to the season, Borrelli asked his team to send in three nominations for captain. Two-time All-American Ryan Mango emailed one name: Halpin.
"That was unreal to me," said Halpin.
Not to Borrelli.
"He is so grateful to be a part of the team and cherishes everything that he gets," he said. "He's a coaches dream."
Added Scherer, also a team captain, "He has a great attitude all the time. That's kind of contagious."
Maintaining weight can be a struggle for many wrestlers. Halpin's vices are donuts and bacon.
"Once you get out of the groove of eating unhealthy, it's not that difficult to stay on a healthy track," he said. "You feel better when you eat better."
Halpin will complete his degree this spring and has applied for a co-term next year in management science and engineering. He has embraced his Stanford experience and wants to stick around another year to watch and help the younger wrestlers on the team.
"Just the start-up culture at Stanford is so cool to be around," he said. "And the energy of innovation and creating new technology makes this a fun place to hang out."
His major advisor is professor David M. Kelley, founder, chairman and managing partner of IDEO, whose company's many accomplishments was creating the first mouse for Apple.
"It's fun just talking to him – he has open office hours," said Halpin. "He has so many good ideas."
While Halpin is tight with his teammates, he also remains close to his freshman dorm mates.
"That's one thing Stanford has done really well is integrate student-athletes with people who don't participate in athletics," said Halpin. "You get a real sense of community your freshman year."
Friday night's dual against Simpson is Senior Night. Halpin knows it will be emotional.
"Most definitely," said Halpin. "Honestly, this has always been my dream school. In the eighth grade, I wrote a letter in class and said I wanted to go to Stanford. It really is just like a dream. It will be full of emotion because everything that I wanted came true."


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I have a really nice looking crystal material using cycles applied to my object; it's pretty fast and very simple - Just one glass node. Is there any way to convert this into an HLSL shader for use wihthin Unity? My understanding is that cycles materials are left out when Blender files are used in Unity.
I don't think that is possible, at least the results will look different. Cycles uses a completely different rendering system than what realtime graphics applications like Unity use.
The Cycles Renderer is a ray tracer and has full knowledge of the whole scene all the time. It can model shadows, reflections, refractions and indirect lighting pretty easily, but they cost a lot of computation power.
Unity on the other hand uses OpenGL and Direct3D for rendering. Both APIs are optimized for realtime graphics, but during rendering only single objects are known. Reflections and shadows have to be faked by rendering the scene multiple times from different angles. To get performant global illumination it is precalculated and refractions are usually faked by distorting the final image.
You could approach this in a way that I have found relatively decent although it doesn't necessarily achieve the complete result of a cycles material. What you could do is:
What this will accomplish is a model with a diffuse material, but a baked "texture" (UV mapped) version of your material.
If you have a complex or semi translucent material then this becomes a bit problematic. As others have mentioned, the raytracing render method that blender uses is far different from the realtime materials used in unity. You have to fake things like reflections and translucency when you bake textures in blender and then transfer them to unity.
But if you want a basic texture based off your material, you can accomplish that with the method above.