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CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The suspect in the Colorado movie theater killings returns to court this week for a hearing that might be the closest thing to a trial the victims and their families will get to see.
James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 by opening fire in a darkened theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora last July.
At a weeklong preliminary hearing starting Monday, prosecutors will outline their case against Holmes, the first official public disclosure of their evidence. The judge will then determine whether to send the case to trial.
Legal analysts say that evidence appears to be so strong that Holmes may well accept a plea agreement before trial. In such cases, the preliminary hearing can set the stage for a deal by letting each side assess the other's strengths and weaknesses, said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and now a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Preliminary hearings "are often the first step to resolving the case, a mini-trial so both sides can see the writing on the wall," Levenson said.
Judges rarely throw out a case at this stage because prosecutors must only meet a "probable cause" standard — much lower than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard for a guilty verdict at trial, said Mimi Wesson, a professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School.
Holmes, who faces more than 160 counts including first-degree murder and attempted murder, could have waived his right to a preliminary hearing, allowing lawyers on both sides to prepare for trial. But defense lawyers sometimes go through with the hearing because it gives them a clearer picture of prosecution evidence.
"In this case, I think it likely that the genuine purpose of the hearing would be information-gathering by the defense," Wesson said.
Court officials expect many survivors and family members of the dead to attend the preliminary hearing, along with scores of spectators and reporters. At least two overflow rooms are being prepared where the hearing can be observed by video and audio feeds.
District Judge William B. Sylvester has imposed a gag order on attorneys and investigators, and many court documents have been filed under seal, so little is known about Holmes' path from promising graduate student to suspect in a mass murder.
The few details that have been made public suggest a disturbing descent.
Holmes enrolled in the University of Colorado, Denver Ph.D. program in neuroscience in 2011. In the spring of 2012, authorities say, he began buying weapons, high-capacity magazines, ammunition, explosives and combat gear. At some point in the school year, he began seeing a university psychiatrist. He failed an oral exam on June 7 and withdrew from the university three days later.
He was arrested outside the theater shortly after the July 20 shootings. Federal authorities have said he entered the theater with a ticket and is believed to have propped open a door, slipped out to his car and returned with his weapons.
Hours later, investigators found his apartment booby-trapped with potentially deadly explosives, police said.
In previous hearings — many witnessed by victims and survivors — Holmes' appearance and behavior ranged from bizarre to unremarkable. On his first day in court, his hair was a shocking orange-red, his face was covered with stubble and he seemed to be in a daze.
By last week, his hair was a natural-looking brown and he wore a full beard. He sat quietly and seemed to be aware of the proceedings.
Holmes could get the death penalty or life in prison without parole if he goes to trial and is convicted of murder. He could avoid the death penalty if his lawyers argue he is mentally ill or innocent by reason of insanity.
Holmes' mental health is expected to be a major factor whether his case ends in a plea agreement or goes to trial.
His lawyers have told the judge that Holmes was mentally ill, and court records indicate they may call witnesses in the preliminary hearing to testify about his mental health. The defense team has not said whether Holmes would enter an insanity plea.
An insanity plea is different from the competency argument used for Jared Loughner, who pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona in 2011.
A judge ruled in May 2011 that Loughner was mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to undergo psychiatric treatment. After Loughner spent more than a year in treatment, the judge ruled he had become competent, and Loughner accepted a plea agreement that carried a sentence of life in prison without parole instead of execution.
The decision on whether to seek the death penalty will be up to the new district attorney for Arapahoe County, George Brauchler, who was elected in November and takes office Tuesday, after the preliminary hearing begins. Brauchler has not indicated what he will do.
A spokeswoman for outgoing District Attorney Carol Chambers, who oversaw the filing of charges against Holmes, declined to comment.
If prosecutors do not seek the death penalty, and if Holmes is convicted of or pleads guilty to first-degree murder charges, he would face a mandatory sentence of life without parole.
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Dealing with the mess in Af-Pak, especially Pakistani perfidy, will be quite a challenge for a re-elected Obama.
Barack Obama, we are told, had a quiet first day. He has a lot on his mind, not least how he will bring together a sharply divided polity. Conventional wisdom would suggest that a "clear and present danger" to America could work that particular miracle. The threat of the "fiscal cliff", maybe? Iran's nuclear ambitions or even Syria's civil war? Lets look further eastwards.
Obama is bringing his men back unceremoniously from a war gone bad in Afghanistan. Shorn of diplomatic jargon, it's a defeat for the US at the hands of a lethal cocktail of extremism, terrorism and nationalism. And also by Pakistan. Pakistan's jihad machine, armed and dangerous, and fully supported by the military-intelligence complex that runs the country, will pat themselves for having succeeded in their objective. Foreign troops will be out of Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban (the so-called 'good' Taliban) will be the pre-eminent force and Pakistan would have regained the strategic depth it had lost in the past decade. There is of course the minor matter of new Taliban groups threatening the Pakistani state, and Shias, Ahmadiyyas, women, etc also being killed for merely being who they are.
Meanwhile, Pakistan has been cranking out more nuclear weapons than any other country on earth, and the US is powerless to stop it from doing so, even through an FMCT. To add to it, Pakistan has miniaturised its nuclear weapons, so now they are not only small, but mobile. And hey, if one of them gets "truck-jacked" as they are being driven to the Indian border, we won't even know. And did we forget to mention that all this happens even as Pakistan gets unconscionable sums of aid from the US? No wonder a Pakistani TV "expert" this week declared that America should "behave" otherwise transit routes into Afghanistan could be cut off again.
Maybe, just maybe, Obama has seen through this fog. So yes, there will be a withdrawal in 2014. But as Bruce Riedel, who wrote Obama's first Af-Pak review says, "The President will transition US and NATO forces on schedule in Afghanistan leaving behind a residual force large enough to contain the Taliban and protect drone bases flying counter terrorism missions in Pakistan."
The drones into Pakistan will continue, because in their absence the world has no way of getting the Taliban or al-Qaeda leaders since they have virtually been integrated into Pakistani tribal society, or they hide in plain sight in urban centres like Karachi, but most of all they remain under the protection of Pakistan's official agencies. The Pakistanis will continue to rant about the debilitating effect of the drones, but further attacks are unlikely to stop.
What might be diluted, however, is US aid and, much more important for all concerned, US attention. There are many in Washington, some in the US Congress as well, who are arguing for an overhaul of America's Pakistan policy, taking a more hardline stand on issues like visa restrictions and anti-terror moves. That's unlikely to happen, because certainly until 2014, the US needs Pakistan a lot more. But post that date, things could begin to look very different for Pakistan.
Stephen Tankel, author of a definitive study of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, said, "Post-2014 a lot depends on Afghanistan, but counter-terrorism and counterproliferation will remain high on the agenda. Of course, people inside the beltway will probably begin paying less attention to Pakistan overall. This could be a good thing. Barring a civil war in Afghanistan, the post-2014 period could allow the US and Pakistan to get some distance from each other, while still maintaining a relationship. This would be more of an arms-length relationship that acknowledges the strategic divergence of the two countries. "
Obama probably knows better than to get America involved in another costly war in a Muslim country. Therefore, his instinct would be to find a way to directly negotiate with Iran. Similarly, Obama is unlikely to get into a face-to-face mess with Pakistan, but he is likely to keep the pressure with a robust counter-terrorism policy against Pakistan in the foreseeable future.
This could be an opportunity for India to normalise its relations with Pakistan. But more important, this could be an opportunity for Pakistan itself to think about what kind of a nation it wants to be going forward.
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Quick Bio – It's one thing to hear a song from a trailer that is already popular, but it's a whole other story to hear a song like 'This is Not The End' for the first time and immediately attempt to find out who is behind it (and no, Shazam will not recognize it). That's the essence of why I love this column and had to mention the work of one Johnny McDaid, the guy behind that song you hear when watching the trailer for the upcoming film "Edge of Tomorrow." What a tune and one that is eerily similar to Johann Johannsson's own 'The Sun's Gone Dim and The Sky's Turned Black,' which I featured in this very column a few years ago for the "Battle: Los Angeles" trailer. For McDaid, who comes from Northern Ireland, releasing a song like 'This is Not The End' showcases what I could call his "other passion" when not recording and touring with Snow Patrol; producing. It's doesn't ring the same as pianist, guitarist or backup vocalist does, but mixing and cutting unique tracks like this one is a talent. And McDaid has made "that" look easy the past few years underneath his 'Fieldwork Music' studio name. At least to this music fan, who actually liked his prior group Vega4 when they were still active.
I always find it interesting guys like McDaid can end one chapter and start another almost immediately, like he did after Vega4 disbanded. I mean, this guy had just come off of a pretty successful second album, You and Others, which featured the hit single "Life Is Beautiful." But, after the tour in 2007, the band split leaving McDaid to fall back on that other passion of his. And in 2009, he helped mix and produce one of the greatest "trance" music tracks ever, "Time of Our Lives" for Paul Van Dyk. This single was awarded Best Track at the 2009 Trance Awards and the "Reflections" album it was on also was quietly nominated for a Grammy. One fact about that album and song is how McDaid put the Vega4 name as the contributing artist, even though they had split months earlier. This connection to Paul Van Dyk is extra special to me, given my love for that type of music and PVD, who has been my favorite DJ for quite a while. But, McDaid doesn't just work with dance or pops music, as he also has worked with a number of singer songwriters like Ed Sheeran, Gary Go, Example and Ingrid Michaelson. So, while he may be seen and known for his ties to Snow Patrol, it's the work he does behind the scenes with songs like 'This is Not The End' that peeks my interest.
Good company – You know the saying, "It's all about the company you keep?" Well, in my mind, Johnny McDaid has taken that overused saying and is living it. Sure, all of us basically indirectly live with this "saying" floating invisibly above our head, but with McDaid, it seems to be on a whole other level. Talent can only get you so far though, so for McDaid to be able to fall back to producing and mixing music when Vega4 went south was brilliant. And it's not just about him working again; it's about who he is working with. And maybe out of all the artist's he has collaborated with, Ed Sheeran might be the one to put a star next to. Sure, the fact he is part of Snow Patrol, a band that has sold over 12 million albums worldwide, is nice. But, being good buddies with Sheeran is even better, given what that guy has been doing at such a young age. After breaking her 2013 Red Tour. And this summer, Sheeran is releasing his sophomore album "X," which McDaid actually helped write with specific credits for track(s) "Nina" and "Photograph." The other writer and producer for X was none other than Pharrell Williams, further supporting the fact that McDaid appears to be hanging out and working with the right people these days. ~ Historical content provided by Wikipedia.com
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Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
Pub. date: 2008 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963947
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Split-half designs are commonly used in survey research to experimentally determine the difference between two variations of survey protocol characteristics, such as the data collection mode, the survey recruitment protocol, or the survey instrument. Other common names for such experiments are split-sample, split-ballot , or randomized experiments . Researchers using split-half experiments are usually interested in determining the difference on outcomes such as survey statistics or other evaluative characteristics between the two groups. In this type of experimental design, the sample is randomly divided into two halves, and each half receives a different treatment. Random assignment of sample members to the different treatments is crucial to ensure the internal validity of the experiment by guaranteeing that, on average, any observed differences between the two groups can be attributed to treatment effects rather than to differences in subsam-ple composition. Split-half experiments have been successfully used in various survey settings to study ...
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Director: Cecil Howard
Company: Command Video
Cast: Ron Jeremy, Chelsea (Tigr) Manchester, Angel (X), Taija Rae, Jerry Butler, Tammy Lamb, Colleen Brennan, Marita Ekberg
Critical Rating: AAAA
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Star Angel is the most intense film that Cecil Howard has made to date. It's a real film with sex, definitely not just another adult feature. Howard knows how to get the most out of his actors in both the dramatic and the hard-driving sex scenes.
The story opens with the last hour in the life of Lola (Tigr), a Janis Joplin-type rock star who is destroying her and her manager/husband Jake's (Jerry Butler) lives by using drugs. She can't make her big concert because she's half out of it. She and Jake have a nasty, angry sex scene after which he lets her overdose.
Jake makes it without her and is now living with Kate (Colleen Breenan) who loves him although he is moody and suffers from nightmares. He sees Lola everywhere, especially in the young hitchhiker Terry (Angel) whom he takes in to live with Kate and himself. His nightmares become reality as Terry melds into Lola and he relives their final scene, but is saved from killing Terry by the long-suffering Kate.
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Tapirus bairdii
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|Tapirus bairdii
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|Endangered A2abcd+3bce ver 3.1
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|Castellanos, A., Foerester, C., Lizcano, D.J., Naranjo, E., Cruz-Aldan, E., Lira-Torres, I., Samudio, R., Matola, S., Schipper, J. & Gonzalez-Maya. J.
|Shoemaker, A. & Medici, P. (Tapir Specialist Red List Authority)
This species is listed as Endangered due to an ongoing and inferred future decline estimated from loss of habitat, fragmentation and hunting pressure. Population declines are estimated to be greater than 50% in the past 3 generation (33 years) and suspected to be greater than 50% decline in the next 3 generations (33 years). In addition there is evidence to suggest that infectious diseases may contribute to the decline of the species in the future as cases are now being found in the northern portion of the range where cattle are present. The current overall population estimate for this species is < 5,000 mature individuals. Range-wide habitat change is severely impacting and fragmenting populations of T. bairdii, which do not generally occupy human dominated or modified habitat types and suffers from persecution near human settlements. It is estimated that around 70% of Central American forest areas have been lost through deforestation and alteration over the last 40 years (Primack et al. 1997) – thus we infer that at least 50% of the habitat has been lost on the past 3 generations. The construction of a road through the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala and in other regions is likely to become a major problem for tapirs in that area. There do appear to be several strongholds for populations (i.e. La Amistad), however, increasing threats from hunting and the lack on enforcement in these areas will cause continuing declines and risk severe fragmentation of remaining mature individuals.
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|Tapirus bairdii is known to occur in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Republic of Panama, north-western Colombia, and historically in El Salvador. In southern Mexico (Oaxaca), tapirs are present in the following localities: Santa Maria Chimalapas (Los Chimalapas), the zone of the isthmus, Cordillera de Veinte Cerros and adjacent zone of the northern range of Oaxaca (Iván Lira-Torres pers. comm.). In Costa Rica is present in the three mountain ranges and main protected areas in lowlands, with substantially higher densities at higher elevations (J. Gonzalez-Maya pers. comm.). Recent range extensions of 377 km bring the Baird's tapir to a new northern limit; Tuza de Monroy, near the municipality of Santiago Jamiltepec in Oaxaca State, Mexico.
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Native:Belize; Colombia; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama
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|Populations of Baird's tapir are in a continuing decline. Recent (2006) means of evaluating habitat and population estimates by Naranjo, Cruz-Aldán and Lira-Torres (pers. comm.) suggest that there are only <5,500 individual Baird's tapir remaining in the wild, with populations in Mexico (>1,500), Guatemala (>1,000), Honduras (>500), Nicaragua (>500), Republic of Panama (>1,000), Costa Rica (>1000, Vaughan 1990) and Colombia (250).
The Mosquitia area of Honduras and Nicaragua is particularly important because of its large size and low human population density. There are recent sightings and reports from El Salvador (Sanchez-Nuñez et al. 2007) suggesting it still persists there at some level. Based on 2004 aerial surveys of available habitat in Honduras, the population is estimated to be 1,859 individuals. The relatively small Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica is thought to hold at least 300 tapirs (C. Foerster, unpublished data). Recent surveys in the Cordillera Talamanca found tapirs to be locally among the most abundant large vertebrate above 2,000 m elevation, where large populations still remain in areas where they are not hunted (J. Schipper and J. Gonzalez-Maya pers. comm.).
Recently, several individuals of this species have been observed along the Atlantic coast in the northern region of Colombia known as Chocó in the Tripogadi Serrania, outside Los Katios National Park. Reports of Baird's tapir presence near Jurado and the upper Salaque confirm its presence in northwestern Colombia's Darien region (D. J. Lizcano pers. comm.). If each adult tapir requires at least 500 hectares, a rough estimate is 450 animals although hunting, warfare and habitat destruction and fragmentation could impact this estimate.
In the Republic of Panama, reports received since 2000 suggest that Baird's tapirs are distributed continuously along the forests of the Caribbean slope. Their range extends from Bocas del Toro in western Panama throughout the Panama Canal watershed to the Kuna Yala Comarca (R. Samudio pers. comm.). These reports also confirm the presence along the Cordillera Central in western Panama, including prime habitat above 3,000 m, as well as in the Darien region near the Colombian border. The qualitative estimations are based on sightings and tracks considered to be from tapirs, suggesting that the species is common in the Panamanian portio of the La Amistad International Peace Park as well as the Darien and Chagres National Parks and the Rio Caimito private reserve. Gonzalez Maya (2008) reports a high density (3.03 individuals/km²) around the 2,600 meters and a comparative much higher relative abundance in mid elevations (2000-3000) on a 800-3500 meters elevation gradient in the Costa Rican portion of La Amistad - Cordillera Talamanca.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|T. bairdii is generally found in humid habitats, from sea level to 3,600 m. The species is strongly associated with water and is found in marsh and swamp areas, mangroves, wet tropical rainforest, riparian woodland, monsoon deciduous forest, dry deciduous forest, montane cloud forest and paramo (Matola et al. 1997, Gonzalez-Maya pers. comm.).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Use and Trade:
|This species is hunted locally for food. It is also hunted for sport in Costa Rica.
|Major Threat(s):
Baird's tapir is threatened primarily by habitat destruction, and localized hunting. Tapirs have a low reproductive rate, after a 13 month gestation period, the single offspring will usually spend up to two years with its mother. This low recruitment rate, coupled with hunting threats and habitat loss, is a serious factor contributing to population decline (Matola et al. 1997).
In Costa Rica, sport hunting is a threat for tapir in the Cordillera Talamanca, including within La Amistad Bionational Park (J. Schipper pers. comm.). In a recent survey of tapir in the Cordillera Talamanca, Gonzalez-Maya (pers. comm.) reports high hunting pressure of tapirs in mountain ecosystems around 2500 meters, with hunting clubs, and hunting dedicated only to this species, where it was reported as one of the most common hunted species in certain protected areas (La Amistad International Park). The effect of hunting is notable as it is common where not hunted in the Talamancas and nearly absent where hunting pressure is high – suggesting density estimated based strictly on remaining habitat are misleading where hunting occurs (J. Schipper pers. comm.).
Lira-Torres and Naranjo (pers. comm.) have detected a number of infectious diseases and parasites in Baird's tapirs of southern Mexico that originated from cattle and horses. In addition, several dead adult tapirs have been found in Chimalpas near livestock raising zones that are thought to have died from infectious diseases.
In Belize, continual fragmentation of the Selva Maya are threatening Baird's tapir populations in northern Central America. This is particularly the case in the area where the Chalillo Dam is being built and tapirs are being illegally hunted to feed construction workers (S. Matola pers. comm.). In Panama, major threats seem to be hunting and habitat loss.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species occurs in a number of protected areas throughout its range. Six large Biosphere Reserves in Campeche, Chiapas and Quintana Roo were thought to hold numerous tapirs. In Guatemala, the Maya Biosphere Reserve could hold several hundred more, as should each of the other small parks in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Republic of Panama. Protected nationally throughout its range, however, these laws are often not enforced in many areas (Matola et al. 1997). In Costa Rica tapirs are present in numerous protected areas, are protected under the wildlife conservation law No. 7317 from 1992, and its considered under CITES Appendix I (Gonzalez-Maya pers. comm.). Further research is needed to determine the rates of decline in the species due to hunting and effects of increasingly fragmented populations on the species.
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Brooks, D. M., Bodmer, R. E. and Matola, S. 1997. Tapirs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Carrillo, E., Wong, G. and Cuarón, A. 2000. Monitoring mammal populations in Costa Rican protected areas under different hunting restrictions. Conservation Biology 14: 1580-1591.
Eisenberg, J.F. 1989. Mammals of the Neotropics. The Northern Neotropics. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA and London, UK.
Escamilla, A., Sanvicente, M., Sosa, M. and Galindo-Leal, C. 2000. Habitat mosaic, wildlife availability, and hunting in the tropical forest of Calakmul, Mexico.
Reid, F. 2009. A field guide to the mammals of Central America and southeast Mexico. Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. 2005. Mammal Species of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.
|Castellanos, A., Foerester, C., Lizcano, D.J., Naranjo, E., Cruz-Aldan, E., Lira-Torres, I., Samudio, R., Matola, S., Schipper, J. & Gonzalez-Maya. J. 2008. Tapirus bairdii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T21471A9284327. . Downloaded on 26 June 2016.
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When MaryAnne White, my Landscape Architect and I were discussing the decorative fencing and gate for the side entrance to the backyard, she sent over this picture with a note that said "Your gate should look like this".
And of course, that's just what I installed.
Here's the before with the endless amounts of concrete we inherited last year when we bought this house.
And here's the after with the decorative fencing, flagstone, trellis for the climbing Hydrangea, Dogwood tree, Boxwood and gate installed. I planted some Mums earlier this month as most of the Perennials won't be installed next Spring.
I didn't like any of the hinges that were available at the local hardware stores so I went shopping on-line to find it and had a very interesting experience.
This is the hinge I wanted. The first site I found it was $124 from Home Depot. After searching for other options, I was prepared to buy it.
They would NOT ship to Canada and wouldn't even ship it to my PO box at the border (we're only 20 minutes from the Sumas, WA border), because then the shipping address would be different from the billing address.
So I kept searching and found it again for around $75. I thought, 'Great, even better'. They did not have any in stock.
I kept looking and found the exact same set of hinges for $35 from Amazon.
Who knew that kind of deal could be found with just a few more clicks.
My Terreeia is back from Italy, I'm trying to talk her into writing a guest post about her trip! That would be fun. She said it was everything she thought it would be and much more.
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Hint: Easy goals:
Hold Speedburst when going in on a breakaway.
Use the Right Analog-stick to aim your shot. Aim it on
the ice any side of the net.
Press Start when the other team has the puck and go to
"Change Teams". Go to the other team's side, press Triangle
then select "Pull Goalie".
Hint: Easy face-off wins:
Press Circle several times. Your player will
move farther into the circle. When the referee drops the puck,
try to win the face-off. Your player will either take the puck
by himself or he will tie up the other center and one of your
other players can come and take the puck. This works about 75%
of the time. The more times you press Circle, the more
often it will work and vice versa.
James Dyck.
Hint: Spin Deke:
Hold L and press Triangle then move the
Analog-stick Up or Down for the direction
to spin to.
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Hint: High draft pick:
This trick can get you one first round, thirty second
round, thirty third round, thirty forth round and thirty fifth
round draft picks. Just trade a your first for their first and
2, 3, 4, 5 round.
Bernard Ng.
Hint: Dynasty mode: Easy Draft picks:
During the regular season there will be some good teams
putting players on waivers for other teams to claim. If you find
a good player but have a lot of other good players on your team,
acquire him and trade him for a first, second, third, or fourth
round pick. If the player is very good you might get a first round
draft pick. Only trade players for draft picks if the other team
leads the league in losses. There is a good chance that team will
get a first round draft pick at the end of the year. If you trade
a player for their pick, you will get their first round pick at
the end of the year. This means you will probably get a superstar
Daniel Coutts.
A few days before the trade deadline, identify the worst teams
in the NHL. Select one of them and trade your first and third
round for their first and fifth round picks. This will almost
always work. If it does not, switch trade with another team. Then,
finish the season and you should have a top five pick (unless
the team somehow got good at the end). After you select "Move
To Offseason" save the game. Then, go to the draft and pick
whomever desired. After the draft is complete, go back to every
round and check which players you want to draft. Restart the system
and reload the game. Then, draft again and get the desired players.
Hint: Recommended players:
When playing in Dynasty mode, start with any team.
After the first year, when in free agents, choose a player named
S. Whitaker. He is 16 years old and has 99 potential. He starts
off with 82 overall, but by the time he is 18, he will be a superstar
with 99 overall.
In Dynasty mode, go to the free agents. Sign all the top free
agents, then select any players you do not want on your team with
a high salary and go shopping for cheap players, such as Ovechkin,
Crosby, Malkin, Staal, Cheechoo, Pominville, Vanek, Afinogenov,
Tucker, Gionta, and Cambell. Look for young players with a salary
under $800,000 that are signed for more than one year. The best
value in the game are Ovechkin and Crosby, but it might be impossible
to get these players unless you trade your franchise player or
start with their respected teams.
Mikael Doucet.
Start with the Toronto Maple Leafs in Dynasty mode, then hit the
free agent market. Pick up every over 80 overall player, then
hit the trade market. First sign Tucker to a long term deal, along
with White, Colaiacovo, Steen, Wellwood, and Peca. Trade away
Sundin, Oneill, Kilger for Ovechkin, and a under 60 overall player.
Trade Raycroft, and two 80+ rated free agents for Martin Broduer
and two 70 rated overall fourth line players. Trade Newbury, Battaglia,
Stajan for Pominville, Vanek, Trade Gill and Kubina for either
Neidermeyer, or Pronger (what ever you prefer) Trade a free agent
rated 80+ overall for F Kaberle. You now have some very good top
forwards who are young, fast and cheap, along with four solid
defenseman. Your team should look like this: G Broduer, Aubin
F Ovechkin, Steen, Wellwood, Pominville, Vanek, Tucker, Peca,
plus free agents and farm players (D. Mccabe, Neidermeyer or Pronger;
or T. Kaberle and F. Kaberle; or Colaiacovo and White). The game
uses a three line strategy, so your fourth line can be filled
with below average players.
Mikael Doucet.
The following players are recommended for Dynasty mode. They do
not have large salaries.
Staal C (CAR)
Gionta RW (NJ)
Miller G (BUF)
Wellwood C (TOR)
Steen C (TOR)
Michalek D (PHX)
Bergeron C (BOS)
Aucoin RW (CAR)
Gove LW (CAR)
Schaefer LW (OTT)
Datsyuk C (DET)
Campbell D (BUF)
Tallinder D (BUF)
Liles D (COL)
Daley D (DAL)
Pominville RW (BUF)
Paille LW (BUF)
Spezza C (OTT)
Gonchar D (PIT)
Kostitsyn LW (MTL)
Couture C (Free Agency)
Glitch: Get championship banner at start:
Instead playing through an entire Dynasty Mode for
a whole season, you can have your favorite NHL team's championship
banner raised before your first game. First, go to the creation
zone and create a team including the team name and which arena
they will play in. However, it is recommended that you chose an
NHL-based arena. If you chose a non-NHL arena, such as the EA
Sports Arena, your banner will be blank. Also, make sure to make
a team roster that does not exceed the salary cap. Save your rosters.
Then, go the Dynasty mode and set up any kind of options or rules
desired. When it is time to pick a NHL team, chose either the
Carolina Hurricanes or the Edmonton Oilers. Sub that team for
your custom team. Then, bypass all of the other options and play
your first game. If you subbed the Hurricanes, your banner will
be the Stanley Cup Championship Banner. If you subbed the Edmonton
Oilers, it will either be the Eastern Conference or Western Conference
Championship Banner depending on the NHL arena you selected in
the "Create A Team" options. If you subbed Carolina,
you will play Buffalo in your first game, and if you subbed Edmonton,
you will host the Calgary Flames. Do not save your franchise as
it will lock your NHL arena choice to the created team that you
made. This is because once you save, your franchise will not be
able to change NHL arenas. Also, the PA announcer will not announce
your team name because it is a custom team and the PA is only
set to NHL teams. Finally, some of the banner raising are different.
One in particular is the Pittsburgh Penguins. If your want the
Eastern Conference Banner it will say Wales Conference. This
is because the Penguins last Stanley Cup appearance was in 1992,
and the conference was named the Wales Conference at that time.
Also, there is no logo on the banner, but the Stanley Cup Banner
has the 1995 Penguins logo. Another difference is the Buffalo
Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs. If you win the conference it have
their current logos. If you win the Stanley Cup it will have
the old logos from the 1970's for Buffalo and the 1930's for Toronto.
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Strategies for Global Beauty Players to Extend Presence in Emerging Markets
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- Region: Global
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With future growth opportunities to come from emerging markets, companies are working towards global expansion, but mostly relying on the urban markets, where the expanding middle class is now opting for Western brands. There is, however, a large untapped market amongst the low-income group in these countries, whose sheer size could provide a major growth impetus. To attract these consumers, companies need to adapt to more innovative marketing and product development.
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I stumbled across Pucker Powder recently in New York City at the annual Toy Fairshow. I've seen their powder booths in many large candy stores before, but have never tried them as I'm not really into sour or powder candy. Curious to try something new tho, as I always am, I took some of the free samples they were handing out at the booth and tucked them into my pocket to take home and photograph to review.
One things I have to say is that the graphic design of the packet of the Pucker pieces is really nice. It is vibrant and fun, and really strikes me as something kids would be drawn to. I get a vibe of "fun" from it, and that's a big part of what people look for in a candy I think, even if it's subconscious.
The main way you see Pucker Powder is in bins of colorful powder that you pour and layer into portable the tubes. With these tubes you can mix and match flavors as you'd like. I have to say that I think the top of the tubes is really well designed. It allows you to open and close the tube without much effort, and it doesn't accidentally open and spill everywhere. So I was able to eat a little, and save the rest for later. I made a small tube of it mixed with flavors I thought I'd like:
Root Beer: It's sweet, with a nice cola flavor to it, but it lacks the wintergreen spice I associate with the drink.
Orange: Has a nice citrus flavor to it, with a good sourness to it that I really enjoyed. It has a nice hint of cotton candy to it.
Strawberry: Fruity with a nice tart edge to it, like a Sour Patch Kid. It has notes of berries and bubblegum.
Pucker Pieces are the newcomer to the Pucker Powder line. They're little tablets that are bigger than a round Advil, yet smaller than a dime. They're fun to roll around and they make a nice sound like dominoes in my hand.
Yellow: A banana flavor, it has a nice starchy flavor and sweet like bananas. It's not sour, but does a nice job of capturing the flavor.
Blue: This one is tart! It's a berry flavor, the sourness is nice and it's really enjoyable.
Purple: This one is also tart, and it's grape. Despite me not liking sour candies and grape candies, but I really liked this. It's reminiscent of grape soda, in the best way possible.
Light Pink: This is strawberry lemonade and the flavor is really spot on. So refreshing!
Dark Pink: The flavor is tart and berry like, I'm guessing it's strawberry again cause there's a strong note of bubblegum like the powder did.
Orange: Extremely tart and tastes of citrus. Intense, but yummy.
Color me impressed! I was really pleased with the flavors and sour levels of these candies. I'd definitely search these out again if I ever get a sour candy craving, and I highly recommend trying these if you're a sour candy lover.
Rating: Will Buy Again
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The Maine men's basketball team heads down the home stretch for its second-to-last road contest on Saturday afternoon, as the squad heads to Albany, N.Y. to take on the Great Danes. The game is scheduled for 2 p.m. and will be the final game on the Black Bears schedule that will be featured on ESPN3.
Freshman Garet Beal set a new career-high in points, as he posted an impressive second half, but it wasn't enough as the Hartford Hawks downed the Maine men's basketball team, 91-79 at the Cross Insurance Center, Wednesday night. The loss drops Maine to 5-19 and 3-9 in conference meanwhile Hartford improved to 12-14 and 6-5 in America East play.
Beal scored 16 second-half points after tallying two in the first frame, shooting 4-of-6 in the second half. Beal played in just two minutes in the opening stanza but the first-year player took control in the contest, playing nearly the entire second half.
Beal finished the day with 18 points, five rebounds and two assists. The Beal's Island native paced the Black Bears offense while Zarko Valjarevic chipped in 16 points with Xavier Pollard and Till Gloger adding 12 apiece.
As a team the Black Bears shot over 50 percent, recording a 52-percent mark from the field and outrebounded Hartford 31-23. However turnovers and allowing long-range baskets plagued the Black Bears, turning it over 18 times for the game while allowing the Hawks to shoot 54 percent from beyond the arc.
Two players paced the Hawks as Evan Cooper and Taylor Dyson both had 16 points. Hartford had three other players register double-figure points as Mark Nwakamma had 15, Wes Cole had 12 and Nate Sikma poured in 10.
The Great Danes enter the contest this weekend looking to snap a two-game losing streak after falling to both Hartford on Feb. 8 (67-54) and UMBC on Feb. 12 (71-69). Albany has had mixed success in conference so far this year posting a 6-6 record and, like the Black Bears, haven't posted back-to-back wins more than once this season.
Peter Hooley, who averages 14.8 points, paces Albany, while three others Great Danes average double-figure points as Rowley averages 11.4, Gary Johnson 10.9 and DJ Evans posts 10.8 per contest. Rowley is the primary rebounder for the team; averaging 6.7 boards per contest while Hooley and Evans dish out the ball at a near-even pace with 66 assists and 68 assists, respectively.
Great Danes average 65 points per game while allowing opponents just over that, at 65.5 points per contest.
These two teams get ready for the 17th meeting between these two squads. Albany leads 14-12 in the series while having won seven of the last 11 games. In their last meeting at Memorial Gym this season Gary Johnson and Peter Hooley paced the Great Danes offense scoring 28 and 19 points, respectively. Voorheesville, N.Y. native, Ethan Mackey had a career game as well posting 24 points and seven rebounds as the Black Bears fell 85-78.
The Black Bears snapped a four-game losing skid against the Great Danes on Feb. 9, 2013 in Orono, Maine, defeating Albany, 66-52.
RANKING THE BLACK BEARS (As of Feb. 9)
NCAA Rankings
• Shaun Lawton is now ranked 52nd in the nation in steals per game with a 1.97 mark.
• Lawton is ranked 66th in the country in total steals with 43.
• Lawton is also ranked 116th in assists per game averaging 4.3.
• Zarko Valjarevic is nationally ranked in most 3-point categories:
• 3-pointers per game – 78st (2.48)
• Total 3-pointers made – 83rd (57)
• Maine is now 47th in the country in steals per game with 7.6 per contest.
• Maine is 69th in the country in the assists per game category with 14.4.
• Black Bears are 67th in Division I basketball in total steals with 175.
America East Rankings
• Maine is the No. 1 in scoring offense in the conference with 72.7 points per game.
• Lawton is both 2nd in the AE in assists per game (4.3) and first in steals per contest (1.9).
• Valjarevic is the conference's deadliest 3-point shooter ranking second in 3-pointers per game, and 3-pointers made.
Team Quick Hit Rankings:
• 1st in assists per game (14.4)
• 1st in total assists (331)
• 2nd in steals per game (7.6)
• 2nd in total steals (175)
• 3rd 3-point field goals per game (6.7)
• 3rd in assist turnover ratio (0.98)
The Black Bears will be featured on ESPN3 for a national broadcast versus Albany on Saturday. The game starts at 2 p.m. and can be viewed on the Internet at ESPN3.com. Maine is 0-1 when playing on ESPN3 this season with its only other national broadcast coming against the UCONN Huskies on Dec. 6 in Hartford, Conn.
Black Bear fans should keep their eyes on Ethan Mackey on Saturday afternoon. Mackey has worked his way into the starting line up and should have some added motivation for the team's second-contest against the Great Danes. Mackey, a Voorheesville, N.Y., native grew up less than a half hour away from Albany and will have a myriad of friends and family coming to support him. Earlier in the year Mackey posted a career-high 24 points against the team he used to watch, while he added seven rebounds in the contest.
While junior Xavier Pollard reached the 500 point plateau earlier this year, Zarko Valjarevic, Maine's deadliest 3-point shooter, is just 25 away from 500 career points with four games remaining. Valjarevic currently averages 11.5 points per game so if he stays healthy he has a shot to hit that mark this year. So far he has scored a career-high.


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Blue is the Warmest Color is one of the most realistic films of the last few years. The way it is shot, the way it is acted, the way it psychologically feels—all realistic. Most importantly, the way the two characters meet, love and mature is honest in its directness. The film is based on a French graphic novel by Julie Maroh and has become the first film to win the Palme d'Or award based on comic book material. This French production has become one of the best foreign films of 2013 and it is certainly a daring one. This is a film about relationships, plain and simple. All the tiny human details are spelled out in each scene. Every feeling that is associated with a couple can be felt over this entire cinematic experience. Director Abdellatif Kechiche has painted a fascinating timeline where every brushstroke feels like a thousand different emotions.
The central point of view of this story comes from Adele. The audience is first introduced to her as a high school 11th grade student. She is a good student by all means in spite of her judgmental friends. A big fan of literature and learning, she is starting to feel an emptiness in her heart that yearns for more. Adele meets a senior boy that she rushes to sleep with in order to curb the peer pressure pushed on her by friends. None of this seems to pan out well for her and she continues searching for something more. Upon a chance encounter, she catches a glimpse of a girl. Intense blue-dyed locks of hair on a girl named Emma just strolling down a street. They have not even formally met, and Adele is already intrigued and fixated by the aura of this lady. She begins to have sexual dreams involving this blue-haired femme salutaire and hopes that they will meet. Adele goes out with friends, and either by coincidence or fate, she does bump into Emma and there is an immediate connection. Rather realistically, we see how they have chemistry through their discussions and likes and dislikes of academia. Adele likes reading. Emma likes philosophy. Adele likes art in generalized way. Emma likes to sketch. Since Adele is very curious to explore this feeling and attraction she has for Emma, the slow process of getting to know one another makes for a completely believable friendship and romance to follow. The sparks only start to fly once Emma becomes courageous enough to touch and kiss Emma. Everything after this moment is the stuff of blissful love and maturing through mistake. The eroticism of the film is intense too, give or take.
Adele and Emma are played by Adèle Exarchopoulos (having the same first name is not a mistake as all the B roll footage of the actress featured actors calling her by her real name, so it stuck for the character) and Léa Seydoux with her Marlon Brando/James Dean approach to showing a masculine woman with a confidence and expressiveness. The filmmaker put the two actresses through a record of 100 takes for some scenes in order to make them so exhausted that they would come off as real in their quiet delivery as possible. According to the director, the two actresses only read the original script once. Once on set, they were encouraged to improvise a lot of the dialogue, so that everything again would feel absolutely authentic. The love scenes are impressively believable with an inciting passion that the audience can easily imagine that they are in the room with them and possibly joining them. Since a lot of the film is shot in close-ups, there is a very poignant psychological quality to the presentation of this story. You feel like you are Adele, walking her steps, taking in the same air she breathes and snoozing with her as she sleeps (this reviewer would not be surprised if the shots where she is sleeping are truly shots of her in actual sleep). The director does an excellent job capturing the fear of being unaccepted by your parents and friends as well as the strong disconnection to the public when you no longer care about what others think.
The story moves into a very difficult latter chapter for Adele and Emma's relationship, and in the third hour of the 3 hour picture, the story ventures toward a period of maturing for the characters. The timeline for this film is unclear, but it can be hypothesized that each act in the narrative is separated by two or three years (Meaning, we meet high school Adele, then two years later when Adele is a teacher, then probably another three years when Adele has matured into a woman who can take care of herself). She is unable to forget someone like Emma easily--wearing blue dresses when ever she sees her in effort to gain her attention again. It all wraps up with an overall appreciation of one's maturity and the usual questions over an individual's future. Bottom line, this well-executed and masterfully photographed chronicle about two ladies' relationship is an enduring testament to young lovers and the overpowering desire for passion. Despite things that make and break a deal, Emma has a very affectionate and practical attitude toward Adele: "I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will."
Suggested Links
- Blue is the Warmest Color when it comes to the first love in your life.
- Blue is the Warmest Color actress and director spat is not Hollywood
- Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) Adele Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux.
- Lea Seydoux sparkles in Miu Miu for photocall in London
- 'Blue is the Warmest Color' is an erotically charged and passionate love story


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I sometimes am weird, due to my mood swing. I usually sit at a corner and don't talk much, I guess you can call that "shy". Just to warn you, I can be really loud and cheery and bubbly and crazy at times, and I do things I don't normally have the courage to do. (no dirty-minded thoughts here, okay? I'm still a child). I'm smart, that's what my friends and some teacher says, and I swear I'm not showing off or anything of that sort. I know, I sometimes speak like a know-it-all, and I definitely hate that side of myself.
I'm kind of nerdy to my friends, but that doesn't mean I enjoy studying. To be exact, I absolutely loath school teachers except for my homeroom teacher who is a nice woman. School is only a nice place because I have great friends there.
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Mitt Romney used campaign stops in Jacksonville on Thursday to criticize President Barack Obama's attempts at "character assassination" amid reports Republicans were readying an attack ad aimed at the Democratic incumbent.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on the second day of a swing through Florida, continued to say he could right a U.S. economy Obama steered wrong. Knowing his First Coast audience, Romney also said he support the military better than Obama has.
The primary owner of a Ponte Vedra Beach prisoner medical services and analytics provider embroiled in a multimillion-dollar legal battle with one of the largest banks in the U.S. has added another firm to his lawsuit.
Richard Willich, who with his wife, Nancy, owns a 54 percent stake in MDI Holdings, named Focus Management Group USA last week in his suit against Wells Fargo. MDI took out $30 million in loans, according to the bank. Wells Fargo put Focus in charge of MDI while it sought to investors.
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MDI Holdings and Wells Fargo have filed suit against each other in the past week.
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Two controversial, failed bills that would have allowed Florida charter schools to grab a good chunk of public school construction money and, potentially, some public schools themselves likely will re-emerge next year.
GREEN COVE SPRINGS — A private clash became public Wednesday when Clay Clerk of the Court James Jett accused U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns of plotting to buy him out of this fall's Republican congressional primary. Stearns' office turned the table, calling Jett's actions a "contemptuous" ploy to solicit compensation.
Jett said the FBI wiretapped his phone and recorded conversations about offers to withdraw.
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The time frame for transplanting a heart is short, according to a national organization that manages lists of organ donors and potential recipients.
GREEN COVE SPRINGS — Katherine Baker's dog, Pepsi, doesn't usually bark at other canines or squirrels, both common in the neighborhood.
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The State Attorney's Office in St. Johns County has launched a criminal probe into a 2009 divorce filing in the county that experts call unusual.
Investigators are tight-lipped with details of their involvement in the civil case, citing the ongoing investigation. But the inquiry landed a woman in a North Carolina jail on a perjury charge for which she's been extradited, which could lead to her being brought to trial in Florida.
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Diets are a dime a dozen these days. You can find them in bookstores, on the internet, and every downtown seems to have a diet "center," but which are the cream of the crop, with proven success, and that provide a healthy balance of food that allows you to drop the pounds you need?
U.S. News can tell you, as they checked the nutritional completeness and safety of 20 different weight-loss systems and came up with a ranking that can help you make an informed decision.
The popular news magazine assembled a panel of 22 experts in both nutrition and diet and developed seven categories of criteria to judge their overall health quotient. While we will give you the "skinny" on them here, you might want to head over and check out the detailed results of all twenty.
Each diet was given a healthiness score, with the top score being a 5. Additional emphasis was given to the safety of the diet, because, let's face it folks, a diet of lemon, water and honey may allow you to take off the pounds quickly, but you will suffer for it in the long run.
The panel gave high marks to the DASH Diet, TLC, Mediterranean, Mayo Clinic, Volumetrics and Weight Watchers. On the other end of the spectrum, with scores lower than a 3, were the Paleo Diet, Raw Food Diet and the Atkins Diet, all due to the fact that they are very restrictive in nature and make it difficult to get an adequate amount of all daily required nutrients.
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