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Kerry Washington Speaks Out In Response To Recent Shootings: 'The Violence Must Stop'
After this week's tragic series of events, many celebrities are using their platform to spread positive messages to their fellow Americans.
Scandal star Kerry Washington now joins the growing list of individuals who are penning open letters in response to traumatizing violence that's ensued over the past 72 hours to her 2.9 million Instagram followers.
"There are no words that can encapsulate the pain of our bleeding hearts," she wrote on Friday (July 8) afternoon.
"Today, again, I am called to put my hand on my heart and affirm that: I matter. MY life matters. As a human, my life matters. As a woman, my life matters. As a Black person, my life matters. My life matters. And yours does too. Whoever you are."
Washington's words follow the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police officers and a deadly sniper shooting in Dallas, Texas, which left five police officers dead and seven injured.
"The violence must stop. We must do better," she concluded.
Tags:dallas, Kerry Washington, shooting, violence
Kerry Washington: I Was Fired Because I Wasn't "Hood" Enough
Kerry Washington is an open book these days. Last month, the Bronx native opened up about the "toxicity" that she experienced in her life prior to signing on to star in "Scandal". Apparently, some of that turmoil included being fired from two television pilots — but not for reasons you might think.
In an upcoming installment of "Variety Studios: Actors on Actors," the wife and mom revealed that she was dropped because she refused to conform to racial stereotypes.
"Before 'Scandal,' I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast," Washington explains in an upcoming installment of "Variety Studios: Actors on Actors". "For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more 'girlfriend, more like 'hood,' more 'urban.'"
Aziz Ansari, who interviewed Washington for the segment, agreed that this is a common experience for any actor who is not straight and white.
"Every person that's not a straight, white guy has their version of this," he chimed in. "A lot of other minority actors have told me, 'Oh, this so rings a bell' when you go into an audition room and you see a bunch of people that look like you and you just start feeling like, 'Oh I'm not here [because of who I am]. I'm here because I fit what looks like the person they want in here."
Both artists agreed that a constructive way to combat this issue is to create their own stories.
"I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself," Washington expressed.
"You can't wait for anybody to open doors for you," Ansari went on. "You've got to really create your own doors."
We would love to know which series Washington was fired from and which actresses were hired to replace her; however, we all know that Miss Kerry is too classy to name names.
H/t ABC News
Kerry Washington Says Her Life Was Toxic Before "Scandal"
Kerry Washington is radically tight-lipped about her personal life. She didn't tell us when she got married. She didn't tell us when she was expecting her first child. Hell, her baby girl just turned two and we have yet to see her. The actress' life beyond the big and small screens has been off limits to the public for quite some time now; however, in a rare discussion for Oprah Winfrey's "Super Soul Sessions," the wife and mom decided to open up.
According to the 39-year-old, prior to accepting her role on "Scandal," she wasn't the well-put-together woman you see before you today.
"There was a period before 'Scandal' when I went into the wilderness. And, for me, what that meant was there was a lot of toxicity in my life — people I needed to let go of in a personal way, in a business way. And, also, I felt like I had been living my career kind of on auto-pilot."
To gain some perspective, Washington says that she stepped back from the spotlight and accepted a role in a Broadway play. Her decision came with its own set of challenges, but in the end, she believes that it was all for the best.
"I took a break and did a Broadway play. I went back to my roots as an artist. Now, doing Broadway isn't going to make you rich. I actually think that it cost me money to do Broadway. But it was my return to my artistic essence—a conversation between audience and artist," she explained. "I let go of a lot of people and a lot of things. I experienced a lot of loss, professionally. I had, for example, companies that I was working with on an endorsement level that walked away from me because … not everybody thinks Broadway is 'sexy.'"
She continued:
"Going into the wilderness' really meant stripping myself of a lot of unnecessary weight in my life. The ritual of doing theater, I thought of it as going into a monastery, because you do the same thing eight times a week, in the same place, you say the same words with the same props. It is a ritual that you commit to. I just wanted to, in a monk-like way, commit to that ritual and let it teach me about myself and let myself unfold."
During this period, Washington shared that many things changed in her private life as well.
"My personal life changed a great deal," said the actress, who is reportedly expecting her second child. "I allowed myself to be open to change… I don't talk about my personal life very often, but that's true."
She concluded by saying that taking this break prepared her for "Scandal."
"Going into the wilderness made me ready — as an artist, as a person, as a businesswoman — to receive 'Scandal.'"
Watch a clip from Kerry's interview below.
H/t Huffington Post
Kerry Washington Hopes To Instill This Beauty Lesson In Her Daughter
When it comes to mother-daughter relationships, everyone is different, but there's no denying that many us of took small things from that bond and have used it in our own lives and even with our children.
Case in point, actress and beauty ambassador Kerry Washington shared with ESSENCE in an interview that the "one thing she took away from her childhood is her mother's attention to self-care." Although Washington didn't grow up with a silver spoon in her mouth and wasn't exactly the glamour girl we see on the red carpet today, weekly manicures with her mom made her feel both empowered and special.
"My mom is a retired professor who has a timeless elegance about her," Washington said. "She's not into trends, but she always looked great. Growing up she always received a weekly manicure, and when I got old enough we did it together."
So when it comes to her own daughter, Isabelle, Washington hopes that she'll pass on to her the beauty lesson of leading by example: "I hope I do what my mom did, she didn't instruct, she lived by example. Actions are more powerful that what you say. And, [watching my mom] gave me room to discover my own path. I want my daughter to find her own path, but what's more important is her relationship with self. Knowing that she feels good and deserves to take the time and invest in herself and not worry about other think about her is important to me."
We totally agree Kerry! And ladies, if you're still stumped on a Mother's Day gift, why not treat the lady who loves you most to a nice manicure/pedicure and some quality time?
Report: Kerry Washington Is Pregnant With Her Second Child
It seemed that it was just a couple of days ago, rumors of a breakup between Kerry Washington and her husband Nnamdi Asomugha were swirling about the internet. And while Kerry said a part of her not speaking about her personal life also includes not addressing rumors, this latest bit of news might be all the confirmation we need.
Both E! News and U.S. Weekly have confirmed, through at least two sources, that Washington is expecting her second child.
There were several who felt that Washington's body this past weekend at the White House Correspondent's Dinner seemed to support today's report. Personally, she does look a bit fuller than usual; but if the news weren't out here today, I don't think I would have taken note.
U.S. Weekly who says they can confirm the news noticed signs of a baby bump even last week at a United Way of Greater Los Angeles Women's Summit red carpet.
This is baby number two for Asomugha, 34, and Washington, 39, after they welcomed their daughter
Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha into the world on April 21, 2014. As you know, the couple has managed to keep her out of the public eye for two years; an impressive feat, still, we're dying to see that little one.
Maybe she and Nnamdi will be a bit more lax with the second one. Lol. One can hope.
Either way, congratulations to Kerry and Nnamdi!
Kerry, Is That You? When Photoshopping Goes Too Far
Digital manipulation is so commonplace and pervasive these days that sometimes we don't even recognize when images have been altered. But that's not always the case, especially when it comes to women. Our bodies are constantly manipulated in order to achieve an impossible, so-called ideal, a standard of beauty that does more body image harm than publications realize. From lightening skin tones to minimizing the gap between thighs, the width of hips and fullness of curves, it's safe to say that retouching often goes too far. While it's nice to see more and more Black women represented on the cover of popular magazines, it's not so nice to see a distorted image of them. Stunning stars have their pictures altered in ways that make no sense, and when magazines are called out for it, they often apologize. Yet and still, this type of thing keeps happening over and over again. It's no wonder the following celebrity women and their fans have spoken out about their Photoshopped images in magazines.
Kerry Washington Announces New Neutrogena Foundation Shades In A Really Cool Way
As women of color, we all have fallen victim to the issue of beauty brands lacking shades for darker skin tones.
However, Neutrogena is diversifying their portfolio and listening to customer feedback when it comes to their popular line of foundations. In an effort to fill the void of lack of representation, the brand has decided to launch four new foundation shades to catering to all ethnicities and skin tones, melanin-filled complexions included.
And to announce its new arrival, Neutrogena called on celebrity brand ambassador and creative consultant, Kerry Washington to share the big news. But instead of your normal television commercial or print advertisement, the brand touched its customers directly. Via FaceTime, Washington told different ladies who were disappointed about Neutrogena's lack of color range the good news.
"I wanted to personally deliver the message of our expansion and how proud I am of it, and it really meant a lot to me in particular when people asked about why Neutrogena would bring me on if there wasn't foundation for women of color," Washington told a young lady named Ebony in the video. "I've been working really hard on expanding our foundations."
"When I first started out at Neutrogena, there was not a foundation for me, and there was actually some pushback about that online," Washington told Refinery 29. "I very purposefully did not address it [then], because I knew that I was about to engage in this labor of love."
Now, happily sharing the news one customer at a time, Kerry couldn't be happier. "Inclusivity is a value that is core to my beliefs and a passion of mine," she told PEOPLE. "So to be able to be hands on making this technology available to everybody and also coming up with lip colors that look good on everybody … There's no reason why women of all ethnicities should be like 'Oh, I love this technology but there is no color for me.'"
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"I Was Taken Aback By The Cover." Kerry Washington Addresses Strange ADWEEK Cover
We had no words when we saw the cover of the latest ADWEEK. Perhaps by now, you've seen it too. It features a picture of a woman the publication tells us is Kerry Washington.
Now, Kerry has been featured on many a cover. And while there have been some great hits, there have also been some misses, like the way InStyle lightened her skin or the way Lucky made her look unrecognizable. For the record, while Kerry seemed to like both the Lucky and InStyle covers; though with InStyle, she did agree that a conversation about camera lighting vs. digital skin lightening was an important one that needed to be had.
For one reason or another, Washington has one of those faces that some publications (read: mainstream publications) just don't know what to do with. And while there have generally been more hits than misses, this ADWEEK was too much to ignore.
Washington issued this very classy statement on her Instagram.
So…You know me. I'm not one to be quiet about a magazine cover. I always celebrate it when a respected publication invites me to grace their pages. It's an honor. And a privilege. And ADWEEK is no exception. I love ADWEEK. It's a publication I appreciate. And learn from. I've long followed them on Twitter. And when they invited me to do a cover, I was excited and thrilled. And the truth is, I'm still excited. I'm proud of the article. And I like some of the inside images a great deal. But, I have to be honest…I was taken aback by the cover. Look, I'm no stranger to Photoshopping. It happens a lot. In a way, we have become a society of picture adjusters – who doesn't love a filter?!? And I don't always take these adjustments to task but I have had the opportunity to address the impact of my altered image in the past and I think it's a valuable conversation. Yesterday, however, I just felt weary. It felt strange to look at a picture of myself that is so different from what I look like when I look in the mirror. It's an unfortunate feeling. That being said. You all have been very kind and supportive. Also, as I've said, I'm very proud of the article. There are a few things we discussed in the interview that were left out. Things that are important to me (like: the importance of strong professional support and my awesome professional team) and I've been thinking about how to discuss those things with anyone who is interested, in an alternate forum. But until then…Grab this week's ADWEEK. Read it. I hope you enjoy it. And thank you for being patient with me while I figured out how to post this in a way that felt both celebratory and honest. XOXOXOX
Like I said, she handled this beautifully. No shade to ADWEEK but someone has to know that this in unacceptable. And as she said, there were other images, inside the book that were quite beautiful and that looked, just like the Kerry we "know." There was praise with her slight reprimand. Hopefully, the discussion will influence the manipulation of images in the future.
You can read my @adweek cover story online here 🙏🏾 http://adweek.it/1UOhJce
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What do you make of the cover and Kerry's statement? Why is she so often the victim of these terrible photoshop jobs?
Tags:Kerry Washington, magazine covers, photoshop
Pop Mom: Kerry Washington Says Though She's In The Public Eye, Her Personal Life Is Not Your Business
During a recent panel discussion at the SXSW music and film conference called "The New Rules Of Social Stardom," actress Kerry Washington made it clear, again, that she doesn't talk about her personal life. That means keeping a tight lip, even when divorce rumors swirl, which they do; and get even louder during awards season when Kerry is often on the red carpet solo. Where is husband Nnamdi, everyone wants to know?
I find myself wondering too because I'm a fan of Scandal and sometimes I think about how her husband feels seeing his wife get it on with two men, white guys at that, each week. I mean, she toned down the sex with Jake, but at one point she had him and the President rotating. Maybe he brushes it off as a part of her job, but we don't know, and won't anytime soon.
"If I don't talk about my personal life, it means I don't talk about my personal life," she explained. "That means not only did I not tell you when I was getting married, it also means if somebody has rumors about what's going on in my marriage, I don't refute them, because I don't talk about my personal life."
Clearly, her rules of social stardom gear towards keeping her private life private, but it's the opposite of what a lot of today's celebrity couples are doing. Sooo when it comes to relationship, public or private?
On one hand, you have Chrissy Teigen and John Legend who let it all hang out. You're going to see them, the dog, the kitchen, everybody kissing. And not to be outdone, we have Ciara and Russell Wilson. I feel like we all knew about their engagement two minutes before it happened.
I was checking it out on instagram getting really caught up in the romance. It starts looking like success in love is all about public display, extreme PDA. But does it mean that it last?
Tags:#popmom, Erickka Sy Savane, Kerry Washington, privacy
When Should You Share Pictures Of Your Newborn Baby On Social Media?
I was thrilled when I learned Tyra Banks was welcoming a baby into her life. She's been talking about having children for so long and it just seems like she would step into the work of being a mother with a nurturing heart. When she made the announcement via Instagram, posting a picture of her son's baby cap, of course I wondered when we'd get a chance to see him.
Turns out, we wouldn't have to wait too long…kind of.
Yesterday, in celebration of Valentine's Day, she shared an image of she and her son York that featured his profile. We can see just enough to realize that he has his mother's skin complexion. As a nosy person, who still believes in protecting children, I appreciated the photo.
You know Tyra's not the only one to keep her baby's face under wraps for a while. There are times when I forget that Kim and Kanye have a second child because we just haven't seen li. There was that one picture of his hand grasping another but that's it.
Kerry Washington's daughter Isabelle is over a year old and all we've seen of her is a bit of her leg and hand as a caregiver was carrying her out of a hotel.
While Blue Ivy is starring in her mother's music videos now, there was a time when her parents attempted to keep her shielded from the media and the paparazzi and people were quite mad about it.
Perhaps the man most famous for shielding his child from the public view was Michael Jackson. His son, Prince, wasn't even known by his real name because people only referred to him as "Blanket," the accessory that he was never seen without.
But it isn't just celebrities.
Recently, a friend from college had a child not too long ago and for the first month, she didn't want to show anyone pictures of her child. Which was understandable. Her baby, her life, her choice. But what was particularly annoying was the shots she'd post of the baby's hands, blankets, toes, bibs. Perhaps I would have found that endearing except for the fact she sent out a nice-nasty message telling her family and close friends to stop asking for pictures of her child. It kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I mean, naturally people are excited to see your child. And if you weren't going to share pictures, why tease them with inanimate baby objects? I'm not a parent. So, I don't know how protective I'll feel about my child when he or she gets here. But if I don't feel comfortable sharing pictures of my actual child right away, I won't be uploading any taunting type images either.
But that's just me.
For the mothers out there, when you had children, how long did you wait to share and send pictures?


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"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It's about these other things that you don't say."
"I started thinking about imagery and the face and how any kind of input into the face- no matter how irrational or unpatterned- would still create something we can decipher, look at, and read and get some sort of message from. I'm using my face, but I don't really consider it a psychological self-portrait or anything like that. I can't make most of these faces myself."
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I'm trying to figure out why a simple query in LINQ is returning odd results.
I have a view defined in the database. It basically brings together several other tables and does some data munging. It really isn't anything special except for the fact that it deals with a large data set and can be a bit slow.
I want to query this view based on a long. Two sample queries below show different queries to this view.
var la = Runtime.OmsEntityContext.Positions.Where(p => p.AccountNumber == 12345678).ToList();
var deDa = Runtime.OmsEntityContext.Positions.Where(p => p.AccountNumber == 12345678).Select(p => new { p.AccountNumber, p.SecurityNumber, p.CUSIP }).ToList();
The first one should hand back a List. The second one will be a list of anonymous objects.
When I do these queries in entities framework the first one will hand me back a list of results where they're all exactly the same.
The second query will hand me back data where the account number is the one that I queried and the other values differ. This seems to do this on a per account number basis, ie if I were to query for one account number or another all the Position objects for one account would have the same value (the first one in the list of Positions for that account) and the second account would have a set of Position objects that all had the same value (again, the first one in it's list of Position objects).
I can write SQL that is in effect the same as either of the two EF queries. They both come back with results (say four) that show the correct data, one account number with different securities numbers.
Why does this happen??? Is there something that I could be doing wrong so that if I had four results for the first query above that the first record's data also appears in the 2-4th's objects???
I cannot fathom what would/could be causing this. I've searched Google for all kinds of keywords and haven't seen anyone with this issue. We partial class out the Positions class for added functionality (smart object) and some smart properties. There are even some constructors that provide some view model type support. None of this is invoked in the request (I'm 99% sure of this). However, we do this same pattern all over the app.
The only thing I can think of is that the mapping in the EDMX is screwy. Is there a way that this would happen if the "primary keys" in the EDMX were not in fact unique given the way the view is constructed? I'm thinking that the dev who imported this model into the EDMX let the designer auto select what would be unique.
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Ya know, a whole lot of the time … most of the time, I feel there really just isn't anywhere that I truly "belong".
Just sayin'. Nothin' new. Nothin' to see here, move along, move along.
Ya know, a whole lot of the time … most of the time, I feel there really just isn't anywhere that I truly "belong".
Just sayin'. Nothin' new. Nothin' to see here, move along, move along.
Egad, yuck, what a negative experience.
Here, folks, a set of examples of how not to run a business public web site – at least not if one wants to be successful and set a good impression.
All these examples from twoo.com within the last 12 hours (and very little interaction with the site to encounter all these issues and problems):
Can we guess your age? … based on how well you can distinguish between colors
I got:
"Wow, your color age is 17! Are you really 17 years old?"
Color Blindness Test
"Color Blindness Test Result
Normal Color Vision
You were able to see the hidden shape in all or nearly all of the test conditions. This indicates a high probability of having normal color vision."
Online Color Challenge
"Online ColorIQ Challenge Results
You have perfect color vision!"
Quote I ran across and quite like, this some from a perhaps somewhat unlikely source – _The Blacklist_ – episode: "The Djinn"
Raymond Redington: Honestly, is it just me, or is the human race, armed with religion, poisoned by prejudice and absolutely frantic with hatred and fear, galloping pell-mell back to the dark ages. Who on Earth is hurt by a little girl going to school or a child being gay?
Don't have a reference source, not even sure I remember correctly exactly what the scenario was, but, supposedly something like this …
Man and woman in elevator together – they don't know each other, one of 'em just also stepped into the elevator.
So … 80% of the time (or 80% of men) are going to think/believe the woman is interested in and/or attracted to the man.
(whereas that's only the case about 20% of the time – or something like that?).
Well, guess I'm not 80%. :-/ Most of the time I'll presume the woman has no interested in nor attraction to me, unless I manage to notice evidence to the contrary (e.g. she explicitly states or expresses such interest). And, … I almost never notice such – really has to be quite blatant over-the-top for me to be highly probable to notice (e.g. if she's pressing herself and rubbing to me, now that, I will notice) – but in general, I won't notice – even if I'm trying to notice or look for such indications.
So, … something like about 0.000000…..1% of women are interested in me. But alas, that can't be correct either. That's just those I notice seem to have an interest – which I generally quite fail to notice at all. No idea how many or what percentage are actually interested – or even more-or-less potentially so – but if I can't determine which are, and aren't, may not make much practical difference anyway.
And, yeah, I quite suck at approaching/asking/interacting, so that doesn't exactly help the situation.
Guess I'm not 80% of men – or whatever.
"Oh well" – and so it goes.
Yet another "test"/quiz: Are you ready for a relationship?
I got:
You are
100% ready for a relationship!
You really are so ready for a relationship that it would a complete waste if you waited any longer. You know exactly what it means to be committed to someone and may even have someone in mind – we really don't know why you're still single!
Uhm, I read it on The Internet so it must be true! Uhm, … yeah, right. Whatever.
tonedeaf test, I got:
83.3% Correct
It also indicates "The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct." …
Above 90%: Exceptional performance
Above 80%: Very good performance
Above 70%: Normal performance
Above 60%: Low-normal performance
Below 55%: Possible pitch perception or memory deficit
I'll also note it's a relatively difficult test – though also checks for tonedeafness, it's also highly dependent upon short term musical memory and working space thereof.
I also might've scored slightly to moderately better if the test had better introduction – samples, examples, examples of what they're expecting folks to notice as the same, or not, etc. Going into it totally cold, I wasn't even sure at first what they were asking, given some of the terminology they used.


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MIAMI -- He's the perfect cure for the 6-month-old nightmare that won't go away.
He's a dose of amnesia for a team that's trying to perfect the art of forgetfulness.
He's the great Johan Santana. And when he walked to the mound Monday for the first Opening Day start of his life as a New York Met, he made the events of September 2007 feel about as irrelevant as the Peloponnesian War.
After all, who can think about a topic as ancient as the Greatest September Collapse of Modern Times when you have Cy Young doing his thing, huh?
"Yeah, instead of having to answer 10 million questions about last year," laughed David Wright after Santana's Mets debut, "we've only had to answer 5 million.
But with every astonishing pitch that came out of Santana's hand Monday, those messy September headlines seemed to gravitate a little closer to the nearest recycling bin -- because when Johan Santana is pitching, his new teammates dream only of what's possible, not of what's behind them.
Santana whooshed through seven dazzling innings Monday in the Mets' 7-2 scrunching of the Marlins. If anyone else had been out there, you'd have called it dominating. But when it's Santana out there, this was just another day on the old Cy Young assembly line.
Three hits. Eight punchouts. A no-hitter for the first 3 2/3 innings of his Mets career. And about 11 swings by assorted Marlins in which the bat went thisaway and the ball went thataway -- about two feet thataway.
"If that's not dominating," said his new catcher, Brian Schneider, "it's going to be a great year."
The list of men who have started on Opening Day for the Mets includes Tom Seaver, Pedro Martinez, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Mike Hampton and Al Leiter. We're guessing you've heard of them.
Who'd have believed that none of them ever pitched seven innings or more in an opener and allowed that few hits? (Previous record: four hits, in a '93 complete-game shutout by Gooden.)
"What's impressive to me," Wright said, "is just, with all the hype that surrounds him and being under the microscope, for him to go out there and be as calm as he was."
Maybe if Santana had been making his first start for the Cardinals or the Reds or the Indians on Monday, his teammates might not have noticed that calmness quite as vividly. But this isn't St. Louis or Cincinnati or Cleveland. Is it?
In New York, when a player like this arrives in a town like this, what's the first question we always ask? It's always the same: Can he handle it?
Will he get swallowed up, like Randy Johnson, by the questions and the second-guesses and the demand for nothing short of nonstop greatness?
Or will he be like Martinez and remember to inhale and exhale -- in that order? And will he not just do his thing but use the energy of a unique city as his own personal brand of premium unleaded?
If Monday was any indication, we might already know how Santana will answer those questions.
When he was asked whether he was nervous at all, even a little, Santana smiled, as if he couldn't tell the difference between Opening Day as a Met and Opening Day in the Metrodome.
"Nervous? Butterflies? Whatever you want to call it? It's part of the game," he said. "It's just about you being able to control it. It's not about letting the emotions take hold. It's how you control your emotions and how you control the game, and not letting any situation control you.
"That's just the way I am," he said. "I wasn't trying to do anything different, anything crazy. Just being myself."
And being yourself, when you're Johan Santana, is better theater than "The Phantom of the Opera."
He's 1-0 as a Met. But he's already 50 games over .500 (94-44) in his career -- giving him the No. 1 winning percentage (.681) of any active left-hander in the sport (among pitchers with that many decisions).
And this might have been the first time he had spun one of those seven-inning three-hitters as a Met. But it's the 25th time he has done that in his career -- in not much more than 4½ full seasons as a starting pitcher. No pitcher alive has cranked out more games like that since the middle of 2003.
So imagine what it's like when a pitcher like this heads for the mound on Opening Day -- and he's pitching for your team. You think maybe it's a slightly better feeling than being a Marlin, when your guy pitching Opening Day (Mark Hendrickson) got released in August?
"I've been thinking about this all spring," Wright said. "I know today it finally happened. But all spring, I was sitting there saying, 'I can't believe we'll be running this guy out there every fifth day.' "
You know, I know it was just Game 1. But let me tell you. I'll be glad to take 35 more of
--Mets right fielder Ryan Church on Johan Santana
They know, of course, that all those days won't be quite as sweat-free as this day. They know Santana won't kick off every game the way he kicked off this one, with three hitless innings against a team with a starting rotation that won 24 games combined last season -- fewer than Santana has won by himself in just his past 48 starts.
But when the rest of the cast does what it did Monday -- throwing a six-run inning up there for Santana early -- life in uniform can't possibly get much more fun than this: Stuff a six-run lead in your ace's back pocket. Then lean back and enjoy the view.
"I was out there thinking, 'All these right-handed hitters, if they do put the bat on the ball, it's either going to wind up in the dugout or it's going to be a soft fly ball,'" said right fielder Ryan Church. "And 90 percent of the time, it's in the dugout because everything's off the end of the bat. So you're out there thinking, 'No way this ball is coming out here.' And I'll tell you what. It's a good feeling."
If you're on the other end, though, standing 60 feet away from this man, it's not such a good feeling -- knowing those killer changeups are coming and still finding yourself missing them by three feet.
"I've taken some of those hacks," said Wright, a respectable 1-for-4 lifetime against Santana. "So I know how ugly they can be. I remember him almost breaking my thumbs one day in an All-Star Game. And I remember facing him last year in Shea Stadium. So I know firsthand how nasty he is. Will I miss that? Yeah, right. Not at all."
Santana launched exactly 100 pitches Monday. And precisely one of them got hit hard. That was the first hit he allowed all day -- a two-run homer by Josh Willingham off a hanging first-pitch changeup. (The other two hits were an infield single by Luis Gonzalez and a ground ball to left by Jorge Cantu.)
But even Willingham sounded like a grateful man afterward -- glad that he'd gotten one of those changeups as opposed to the standard dive-bomb special that starts out at the waist and ends up around the anklebone.
"The ball I hit, I was thinking changeup," Willingham said, "just because pitchers go to their best pitch with runners in scoring position, and that's by far his best pitch. But if it had been down, even if I'd been looking for it, I probably wouldn't have hit it."
Except for that one swing of the bat, it wasn't a pretty day for the team Willingham played for. Then again, maybe you'd expect that when you consider this eye-popping stat:
Dollars that will be paid to all 25 Marlins players this season: $21 million.
Dollars that will be paid to Santana this season: $19 million.
But just because this might have looked like a mismatch to most of America doesn't mean the Marlins weren't amped up for it themselves. And not merely because it was Opening Day, they were still undefeated and there were 38,308 actual paying customers in the stands (several of whom weren't even Mets fans).
No, sir. The fact that it was The Great Santana on the hill made this an event for the Marlins, too.
"I was looking forward to it -- for a while," Willingham chuckled. "I just envisioned it going a little better than it did today."
But the rest of the National League had better get used to it because there are going to be a lot of days like this when Santana is throwing the baseball.
"You know, I know it was just Game 1," Church said. "But let me tell you. I'll be glad to take 35 more of those."
Jayson Stark is a senior writer for ESPN.com. His book, "The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History," was published by Triumph Books and is available in bookstores. Click here to order a copy.


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As reported by Fairfax Media on Saturday night, Connelly will be given the task of turning the Kings' season around after Damian Cotter, whose last 19 games at the helm resulted in three wins, was sacked on Saturday evening by the club.
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During the past 48 hours, Kings management has discussed the position with "appropriate stakeholders to formulate an all-encompassing plan".
Head of basketball operations Tim Hudson said the decision made by the club's directors was not an easy one.
"It was essentially Joe's genuine qualities, interpersonal skills and coaching experience that led the club to offer Joe the interim head coach position," Hudson said.
Connelly spent three seasons as an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards while also working closely with NBA stars Carmelo Anthony and John Wall.
"More than anything I'm excited to come into the current situation because of the calibre of players we have on this team," Connelly said in a statement. "Already it's clear that they are on board and ready to work. Life is all about embracing challenges and we believe the play-offs are still within reach so this is the perfect situation for us to do something special.
"It's going to take a collective effort to get over the hump but the guys are open-minded about moving in a new direction and committed to turning this season around."
Assistant coaches Jacob Jackomas and Ben Knight will remain in their current positions.
There has been substantial disapproval from basketball fans and commentators about Cotter's axing, including Andrew Gaze who said he was disappointed Cotter had been moved on.
Connelly was signed by the Kings two weeks ago as the team's specialist assistant coach. The Kings were at pains to say when they signed Connelly that he was not brought in to replace Cotter, who had fallen out of favour with the board.
When asked about the appointment of Connelly, Cotter said two weeks ago he was glad to have an extra helping hand at the club.
"Joe's good, Joe's a really good bloke," Cotter said after the Kings' last home game against the New Zealand Breakers. "His brother came over last year so I know the family pretty well. He's been really, really good."
Connelly has a tough assignment ahead of him – the Kings travel to Cairns for a clash with the Taipans on Friday night, are away to the New Zealand Breakers seven days later before playing the club's last match at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 13 before the switch to Homebush.


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Welcome to the Attention Economy. If yesterday was the age of information, today is the age of trying to attract or employ the attention necessary to use that information. Indeed, leaders and managers in the business world face this problem daily, constantly seeking to gain the attention of their customers and employees while managing an effective distribution of their own limited supply. "Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success," the authors declare as they examine what attention actually is, how it can be measured, how it is being technologically constructed and protected, and so on. The book contains numerous suggestions on how leaders can manage their own attention and that of their employees more effectively (and how to avoid and treat "info-stress"), but always with an eye on the ultimate goal: affecting the type and amount of attention your customers give you. Already, more money is usually spent on attracting attention to a product than is spent on the product itself. And as our information environment gets increasingly saturated, holding a person's attention becomes an ever more difficult proposition; as the authors suggest, actually paying for someone to receive your information is a realistic prospect in the not-too-distant future. Indeed, the book's final chapter is devoted to what the authors predict will affect attention in the future, and how attention can and will be acquired, monitored and distributed.
The Attention Economy is peppered with anecdotal pull-outs and "overheard" comments--and though intriguing in a random-factoid and zippy-little-quote way, this sideline information doesn't always tie in well with the authors' points and often seems distracting. The book is well written, though, and the authors, both of whom work at the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change, take an informed and well-balanced look at what is perhaps our society's most priceless, ephemeral commodity. --S Ketchum --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The most significant problem in today's business world is not competition, lack of skilled employees or an uncertain economy, but an attention deficit, declare two consultants affiliated with the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Put simply, with all the noise from meetings, faxes, voice mail and e-mail, it's hard to get consumers', employees', stockholders' or executives' undivided attention anymore. The companies that will succeed in the future, the authors state, will focus their efforts on this problem, instead of on conventional approaches to time management. Using research from such fields as television programming, Davenport (a distinguished scholar in residence at Babson College and author of Mission Critical) and Beck (a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management) explain how to attack "organizational ADD" on both an individual and corporate level. In one example, the authors point to an executive who postponed certain technological initiatives, noting that there were already too many demands on the company's attention. Though some of the writing is pedantic, the authors accurately describe corporate life and deliver a worthy message, along with short, practical sidebars. (June)Forecast: The authors' fresh message and an attention-getting jacket along with a $100,000 advertising campaign (including ads in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week and PW), 20-city radio satellite tour and author speaking engagements will help this book capture the business world's attention.
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The initial bad direction comes in the form of a broken definition of attention: the authors claim attention is a narrowing of perception (sensory input), followed by an action decision. The latter part of this is completely bogus from a psychological perspective, and only there to support the marketing/advertising-oriented slant of the book. Yes, attention does involve a focus on a subset of sensory input, but no decision making needs to be attached. Think of watching a movie: it has your full attention; you're blocking out surrounding stimuli to some extent. But when the movie is effective, you're along for the ride, not making decisions. Furthermore, the authors *claim* that attention-management is different from time-management, but are very sloppy in distinguishing between attention, time, mind share, effort, persuasion, and a variety of other measures. It's maddening.
An example of the contradictory nature of the authors' advice is that they both advise managers to be creative in seeking their employees' attention (including multimedia messages, clowning in meetings, and other nonsense) AND advise that companies deploy "attention guards" to keep employees focused. Well, which is it? Distractions or focus? The sheer enthusiasm with which the authors endorse the arms race for attention (more and more baroque packaging of messages (ads) to get your attention) is disturbing.Read more ›
I turned down more pages than usual in this volume. I marked all sorts of things to share with others and to go back to. I even wrote notes on some of the pages, which I don't usually do when reading a book like this. The authors explain that "attention is the real currency of business and individuals...In post-industrial societies, attention has become a more valuable currency than the kind you store in bank accounts."
The official definition: "Attention is focused mental engagement on a particular item of information. Items come into our awareness, we attend to a particular item, and then we decide whether to act." There's more, but I don't want to spoil this delicious read for you. You'll gain valuable insight into the role of attention in all aspects of our lives, how the ability to manage our attention is all-powerful . . . and how we struggle with our own personal challenge of managing the tremendous volume of information and other stimulants that bombard our senses. Part of the attention process is filtering and sorting, which is difficult for some people and can be overwhelming. There is so much in this book that I have no hesitation in giving it very high marks. Have your highlighter ready!Read more ›
I suspect however that anyone reading the book is already well aware of the problem and is looking for solutions. The book offers few that are particularly new or useful. The book itself looks new. It has a 'weby' feel in that chunks of text and 'factoids' are scattered around the pages. No doubt this was intended to be attention-getting but in book format I found it distracting.
Given the ever-increasing demand for our attention, it seems more important than ever to get to the point quickly and avoid tangents. This book violates that principle by squandering the readers' attention on ideas that are old (e.g.: Maslow's Hierarchy), of questionable relevance to this topic (e.g.: mergers and acquisitions) or dealt with more comprehensively elsewhere (e.g.: how to structure documents to maximize attention)
The authors provide an extremely useful tool named AttentionScape that measures where attention is being directed. It could be used to find were management, employee, customer and supplier attention is being focused. The book provides several examples of companies using (or ignoring to their determent) the AttentionScape information. The ideas the AttentionScape tool bring to fore make it worth the price of the book!
As a knowledge worker the book highlights the importance of realizing attention is a key resource in completing any task and as such it should be protected and leveraged to get important task complete. As with management it also indicates the need for clear communication. The book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity might be a good way to explore practical techniques for focusing and managing attention.
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A book which is not only well paced and well written, but most importantly, has something to say which does not echo the 'me too' mantra of most recent management books. Read morePublished on Oct. 27 2002 by Amazon Customer
The war for eyeballs and attention can only grow fiercer over the next few years. In the Information Economy we all suffer from overload and the need to multitask through the day. Read morePublished on Sept. 25 2001 by Naomi Moneypenny
They could have written a repport with the material. It is good, has good insights, but far extensive than necessary.Published on Sept. 12 2001
This is a fascinating subject: ADD in the business world. Almost everyone continues to experience information overload. Read morePublished on Aug. 3 2001 by Robert Morris
I rank this book as easily one of the top 25 books on information fundamentals, and quite possibly in the top 10. Read morePublished on July 25 2001 by Robert David STEELE Vivas
This book contained a lot of preliminary material describing attention and providing one measurement technique developed at the author's workplace, Accenture. Read morePublished on June 20 2001
As a marketing executive, Davenport's and Beck's findings on how to get the attention of your customers is practical advice I now make use of in my marketing programs:... Read morePublished on June 12 2001
The idea of the book is great : let's look at information overload (to much supply) from the human side as "attention deficit" (not enough time and focus on every... Read morePublished on June 2 2001


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I've been trying to get Multilingual capability into mondrian/jpivot on a Data level. I have a captionColumn for Levels working great, which allows the members of a Level to have the caption values (to be displayed) to come from a different column in the table than that from which the member's "names" come from. Added to a dynamicSchemaProcessor, and it allows the use of captionColumn="%{level.captionColumn}", where the variable is replaced at run time from a properties file (at the mondrian level). This all works fine since jpivot was already set up to check for captions, and if existing, display them instead. The goal was to internationalize the displayed data without changing the underlying MDX (still uses the "name").
I am, however running into problems with the Level properties... The problem seems to be that the caption overrides the name.. which is all good, but I also need to be able to have a valueCaption.. ie. define a column that the values of which will be displayed instead of the values in the specifies property "column". So basically a Property need 2 kinds of captions, one for the name, and one for the value, (whereas a level only has one for itself, and one for the members). I am trying to implement a valueCaption for the Property, but am having problems with it... probably mostly my fault (the structure of the mondrianProperty is complex..for me)
.. any suggestions? :)
In any case... I also found the following:
in MondrianMemberProperties.java we have:
if (label != null)
name = label;
props[i] = new MemberPropertyMeta(name, name, scope);
should that not be:
if (label==null)
props[i] = new MemberPropertyMeta(label, name, scope);
Also... can the wcf forms be multilingualized using a property file..(like via jsf) or is the only way to have multiple versions of each form?


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Use the Power of Exercise to Reverse Aging and Stay Strong, Fit, and SexyThe definitive exercise book that the one-million-plus readers of the Younger Next Year® series have been waiting for—and the exercise book that takes the intimidation out of starting a workout routine. Based on the science that shows how we can turn back our biological clocks by a combination of aerobics and strength fitness, it's a guide that will show every reader how to live with newfound
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The Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of TimeCameron Diaz follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, The Body Book, with a personal, practical, and authoritative guide that examines the art and science of growing older and offers concrete steps women can take to create abundant health and resilience as they age.Cameron Diaz wrote The Body Book to help educate young women about how their bodies function, empowering them to make better
Dignifying Dementia: A Caregiver's StruggleDiagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. Dignifying Dementia is both a love story and an attempt to reach out to others who are living through or who will live through a similar tragedy. It is written in the hope that others might benefit from what I learned as the caregiver of
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The Seven-Step Program for a Younger, Healthier YouMedical director of the world-famous Canyon Ranch Health Resorts, Dr. Mark Liponis presents his extraordinary new idea: that aging and aging-related diseases---including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes---are autoimmune problems, and that a well-managed immune system is the key to healthy aging. Cutting-edge research makes UltraLongevity the first and only book to explore aging within the
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TNT is your home for Martin Luther King Day basketball. The traditional annual tripleheader never disappoints, and this year the Memphis Grizzlies, who are always on because of King's history in Memphis, Tennessee, actually won, a rarity for the holiday games. I said that they would not make the post-season, but I may have to eat crow on that one.
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Is the subspace of $\mathbb C^2$ of those vectors with real coordinates a complex submanifold?
Call that subspace $X$. Then the composition of the inclusion $X\to \mathbb C^2$ with the first projection $\mathbb C^2\to\mathbb C$ is an holomorphic map defined on a $1$-dimensional complex manifold which takes only real values. Such a function is necessarily constant. Now do the same for the second projection. What can you conclude?


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26-Year-Old Man Shot and Killed in Greeley Home Saturday
A 26-year-old Greeley man was shot several times at a home at 909 C Street in Greeley Saturday morning. Police are still working on the identity of the suspect.
A 26-year-old Greeley man was shot several times at a home at 909 C Street in Greeley Saturday morning. Police are still working on the identity of the suspect.
Demonstrators took to the streets in Dallas Texas tonight in protest over the recent officer involved shootings that have taken the lives of two African American men in less than a week...
An arrest was made after the Saturday night shooting that went down in Loveland as a result of a disagreement.
You might see increased police activity at Loveland High School on Tuesday.
The company that owns the movie theater in Aurora where ten people were shot dead in 2012 has made a decision that has struck a chord with many victims' families.
Shooting victims and their families are in the dark as to where the Aurora theater shooter is located, and it looks like they won't find out where he is anytime soon.
Identities of the shooter and victims in the shooting that occurred Wednesday afternoon in west Fort Collins have been released.
Police are searching for shooting suspects after 2 victims showed up in an urgent care unit.
Northern Colorado Pride will hold a vigil tonight at 8 near the stage in Old Town Fort Collins following the mass shooting in Orlando over the weekend.
The Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force has released new video of a new vehicle of interest.
Denver Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib was involved in a shooting at a Dallas nightclub early Sunday morning.
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Did the transfer easily. I had an issue with products, but as soon as I read the comments, the answer was there. Great job.
If you have a lot of users or products, be prepared for a long wait, and make sure you have plenty of memory/execution time in your php.ini script. I ran it on a WAMP server (localhost) so I was able to bump it up a bit. It seemed to import around 500 to 1000 users per 120 second limit (until I wised up and increased the execution time).
When I ran it, it did not import the images, but it may be because I only hooked up the OScommerce database locally, not the full site, since it was text data I was mostly concerned with. Also I have a very old version of OScommerce with CREloaded circa 2003! It also missed the Information Pages completely, but that I would attribute to simply being an older version of OSCommerce.
I'd love to see it import Links, but again, this may be something unique to my old version of OScommerce.
Awesome plug-in that works well. Some folks might need to tweak it and bump up sever memory if they have a large amount of orders.
Huge time saver! Couldn't do what I needed to do my hand.
Only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that it could really use staggering, for those with alot of data to import. Also, couldn't get a reply from the author recently.
Would be even better if it imported digital products data. But OSC wasn't really meant for it, so not a deal breaker.
Love it. Thanks to the author!
The only other options can be expensive. From $99+ plugin's to migration services that would have cost me over $500.
Thanks to the author for this plugin, you just saved me hours of work. Only wish was that it also imported product pictures as well, but the bulk of the work was handled.
Worked for me, however required a few tweaks to the database
Sorry for this comment from "google translation"
This plugin is not too bad actually, and especially it has the merit to exist.
I tried to adapt to the e-commerce solution Zencart (OsCommerce fork).
- It is very very slow for consistent data bases (several consecutive timeouts) -> more than 10 products migrated each script
- There is an error on the stock (I feel that the treatment combines quantities when a product is linked to multiple categories)
I'll try to see if there is no rapid improvement possible.
Very nice plugin. Reduced my work so much. Imported all oscommerce products in one click. Thanks a lot for making this plugin.
Sorry for this comment from "google translation"
This plugin is very well built and understandable.
If your products are not imported, remove the
pd.language = 1 in the first query after the comment "Import the products."
And if the application will stop every 30 seconds, do not forget this line:
ini_set ('max_execution_time', time in seconds)
I have used this plugin for migrating from oscommerce. It works out of the box without any issues. The only change I did was to not use Remote MySQL. Instead I just copied over the tables to a database on the localhost.
The products, categories and customers were imported successfully without any hiccups.
Great work. Saved me a lot of time on coding up something that would have been used only once.
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Does This Hospital-Themed Restaurant Go Too Far?
Broken News Daily•15 August 2013
ospitalis is a hospital-themed restaurant in Riga, Latvia where the waitresses dress like nurses, drinks are served in test tubes, and the utensils are all actual surgical tools.If that's not weird enough for you, all of the food is shaped to look like body parts and served on stainless steel platters. Diners can eat in themed areas like dentist office, operating theater, and gynecologist's exam room, and if you sign an agreement to be a "patient" they'll put you in a straight jacket and a nurse will feed you. It's just as weird as it sounds!


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WARREN, MICH. (Dec. 12, 1:15 p.m. ET) — New software startup Tool Stats aims to help toolmakers, molders and their customers streamline production by maintaining a central database of mold data. Warren-based Tool Stats provides cloud-based storage of key mold production information, which then allows multiple users to access that information anywhere at any time.
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Advertising Agency: Wunderman Y&R, Zurich, Switzerland
Creative Director: Christian Erni
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fractalreneJan 05, 2008 - 11:53
a) This version of Windows comes full of excitement,
a) This version of Windows comes full of excitement,
is just too much to handle
b) Windows users are dummies
c) Both of above
d) None of above
These look too cold, I know you were through a lotta work (location, props, illustration), but they don't feel a bit emotional. Sorry.