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Submitted: 01/12/2013
Story By Ryan Abney
- Northwoods Beer connoisseurs flocked to Minocqua this afternoon for a deal you can't beat.
All you can drink beer from 1 to 5 at the 15th annual Ice Cold Beerfest.
Minocqua's Campanile Center filled up quick, and people's mugs stayed full for 35-dollars.
It was a great opportunity for local breweries looking to show off their best draft choices.
"We're in the first hour right now and there's already more people than last year. We're expecting a record year. "Said Minocqua Breweries Brewmaster, Ryan White.
"We don't get a lot of events this time of year, and the nice thing about it, is it breaks up winter. It gets us out of the brew house and gives us a chance to connect with people." Red Eye's Head Brewer Kevin Eichelberger mentioned.
Visitors said the beer was great, but a certain event in San Francisco may have influenced some Packers fans to keep it low key.
"We'll I think everybody else will be pacing themselves and waiting and enjoying a little more beer during the game. But it's indoor tailgating in Minocqua."
Beerfest aimed to raise 5-thousand dollars to benefit local non-profit organizations.
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Home explosion in southern Wisconsin leaves a man critically injured
Submitted: 08/26/2016
- Investigators will try to figure out why a house exploded in southern Wisconsin.
The blast critically injured a man and caused damage to at least two dozen other homes in the neighborhood.
The 57-year-old man has significant injuries as a result of the explosion just before 7:00 p.m. Thursday night in Fitchburg.
Fire fighters say three nearby houses have major structural damage and 23 others have moderate to minor damage.
Debris from the explosion landed about a-half mile from the scene.
While the cause has not yet been determined, witnesses say there was a strong smell of gas.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and state investigators are assisting Fitchburg police.
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Snowmobile trails look well maintained thanks to volunteers and local businesses
Submitted: 08/25/2016
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- Soon snow will be falling. In fact, preparation for snowmobile season starts as soon as next month.
Cross Country Cruisers Snowmobile Club President David Assmann and his crew are just about ready to hit the trails, starting in September.
"We cut all the brush and everything that's low to the ground," said Assmann.
His crew spends a lot of volunteered time making sure 93 miles of trails near Arbor Vitae are ready and safe to use in the winter.
"We have at least five guys going out, sometimes twice a day. We do trails in the morning and then trails late at night," said Assmann.
Many people who live here use the Northwoods trails, but so do a lot of tourists during the winter months.
"We are able to go out, get these trails groomed so that the tourists that come up can go on our trails, can get to the different businesses in the area, and that helps the economy up here," said Assmann.
With so many miles of trails in Vilas County, one of the best parts is that there is equipment made to maintain those trails, right in St. Germain.
Arrowhead Groomers has been in Vilas County since 1976. The company builds equipment that levels out the trails.
"We manufacture the snow groomer drags primarily for snowmobile trails. Some of them end up getting used on cross country ski trails as well," said Walker Equipment owner Dave Walker.
Another local snowmobile club, Bo-Boen, uses the Arrowhead Groomers on their trails as well.
"I have 17 drivers on my staff that maintain 100 miles of trails here in St. Germain. We're very cognizant of the fact that we have to do a good job to bring those people here so they can spend their money and keep our economy going," said the trail boss for Bo-Boen snowmobile club Jim Wendt.
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Froelich's Sayner Lodge owner looks back at resort's history in Vilas County
Submitted: 08/25/2016
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- From its scenic lakes to pristine forests, people might know Vilas County best for its tourism. And with all the people coming there year round, that gives room for plenty of places to stay. Froelich's Sayner Lodge has been around for more than a century, and is still ready today for you to check in.
"It's my home. When we first got here, within the second day, I had all the cottages memorized, I knew where everything was," said Froelich's Sayner Lodge owner Carole Froelich. "I fell in love with it right away. So there was no going back."
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Aqualand Ale House pays homage to old animal park, offers wide variety of craft beer
Submitted: 08/25/2016
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- There's a lot of things you won't find at Aqualand Alehouse in Boulder Junction that you're probably used to seeing in the Northwoods.
You won't find a deep fryer in its kitchen, you won't find any Miller Lite on tap, and you won't find any fish fry on Friday night's.
But you might just find your new favorite pub.
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Jury convicts Fox Valley man of stealing from site of Oneida County double homicide
Submitted: 08/25/2016
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- Within a few hours, a jury found a Fox Valley man guilty of stealing things from the house where Ashlee Martinson killed Thomas and Jennifer Ayers Thursday.
The two-day trial for Mark Spietz, 39, of Kaukauna, finished up Thursday afternoon, following a morning of the defense arguing it was all part of Spietz's job.
Spietz was a contract worker for a company called TruAssets, which secures abandoned or foreclosed homes throughout the country. The company is based in Arizona.
On Thursday, Spietz testified that in September and October, he took ATVs, bows, a John Deere tractor, a trailer and Jennifer Ayers' purse from the house to try and secure it for his employer.
"My experience with the work order is that it is our job to make sure the property is secured," Spietz said. "Obviously if I can open the doors and get into it, anybody can open the doors and get into it. So I ended up removing the ATVs with the trailer and them bringing them back to Kaukauna to lock up in my storage facility where they would be under lock and key for the future for whatever the bank decided they wanted to do with their property."
In the criminal complaint, however, Spietz told investigators he took the purse because he thought his wife would like it.
But the state argued Thursday he technically didn't have permission from the company to be at the house after the first visit. Oneida County District Attorney Mike Schiek presented Spietz with the original work order form TruAssets assigned him. The document specifically stated not to remove any personal property from the house, and that contract workers should submit a bid for the property if they do take it from the house.
Schiek then argued Spietz specifically targeted the empty house because he knew its owners were dead.
"Looking back, what did you think you saw?" Schiek asked Spietz during his cross examination.
"Couple spots on the floor, large, dark spots," Spietz responded.
"Knowing what you know now, do you know what that was?" Schiek asked.
"To the best of my knowledge that's where they were killed," Spietz replied.
Spietz's attorney Brian Bennett said since Spietz is not from the area, he wouldn't have known the homicides happened at the house. He argued there was no sign saying no trespassing, nor had he had any knowledge the house was in probate.
"He used his best judgment based on his experience," Bennett said during his closing argument. "Which makes him quite possibly, if he's a burglar, the worst burglar in the world."
Bennett added Spietz gets little supervision from TruAssets, as Spietz testified he has never met a person from the company.
"It seems like a burden to have to come up here, pick up the stuff, store it, mess around with it, hold onto the titles, make sure it doesn't get stolen," Bennett said during his closing argument. "That's not a jackpot, that's a burden."
Spietz will be sentenced in October.
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UPDATE:Name released for man accused of shooting over police; found in the woods in Vilas County
Submitted: 08/25/2016
- The Vilas County Sheriff's Office says no one was hurt after a 48-year-old Mark Mayo of Eagle River threatened to hurt himself with a firearm near Eagle River Wednesday night.
Crews responded Wednesday evening near to the area near Deerskin Road north of Eagle River and south of Phelps to reports that a man wanted to hurt himself and was armed with a 9 mm handgun and two magazines. That report came in around 3:55 p.m.
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Oldenburg Group sold to private equity firm
Submitted: 08/25/2016
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Private Equity firm J.F. Lehman and Company will buy Oldenburg Group's defense and mining divisions.
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Pine siskins, red-breasted nuthatches and purple finches have been widespread, and often are attracted to feeders, since the early stages of fall. Red crossbills offered a short-lived flurry, and more recently the apple of every feeder owner's eye, the evening grosbeak, has been showing itelf in numbers not seen in many years.
The most recent addition to this list in the white-winged crossbill.
Crossbills are not especially inclined to visit feeders, since their bizarre mandibles are designed specifically to exract seeds from evergreen cones. Birders have been finding them over the past week and a half by keeping an eye on pine, spruce and hemlock trees.
They've been occurring singly and in small flocks. They usually give a series of sharp calls while flying overhead, but they can by quiet and surprisingly inconspicuous while feeding high in a conifer.
There are still a few red crossbills around as well, but white-wingeds easily outnumber them at the moment.
Yet another irruptive boreal species, the common redpoll, has also begun to enter the mix. Reports are quite sparse so far, but a few can quickly turn into a deluge when these acrobatic little finches begin to move.
They'll join goldfinches and siskins at nyger seed feeders, but they also dote on birch catkins. If you've got ornamental birch trees in your yard or your neighborhood, they're a good place to keep a redpoll vigil.
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"I thought we did a great job in the second half," Pacific coach Lynne Roberts said. "We outrebounded them by 20 in the second half, and we dictated the tone a lot better. They have some great one-on-one players and they were able to get to the free-throw line a little more than we wanted. But to come in here and get a win, with everyone playing a lot of minutes, that was just a great team win."
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Yarn Profile: Noro Implession
First Impressions
In Implession, Noro has implemented its color concept through feltlike fibers spun in a zigzag manner with four dark, fine binder fibers running down the middle.
Besides holding the brushed fibers in place, the dark binder fibers act as a visual anchor to the ephemeral lighter-colored fluff.
Knitting Up
I encountered no snags or odd spots, but I did notice occasional variances in the yarn's thickness that produced a handspun effect in the knitted swatches.
The yarn's bulk and felted appearance make it easy to miss a dropped stitch for several rows. I advise giving your work a once-over every few rows to make sure everything's where it should be.
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The colors stayed true in cold water and bled only faintly in warm water. The water ran clear in the very first rinse.
My swatches dried quickly into nicely formed flat squares without any significant need for blocking. Once they were completely dry, I measured the damage.
Unwashed, my gauge averaged 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 stitches per inch (the yarn's varying thickness makes gauge measurement somewhat iffy). Washed, the gauge became an even 2 stitches per inch, expanding in width by a factor of 12.5 to 25 percent.
If Implession were used as an accent yarn, I suspect you'd be able to enjoy the yarn's bloom without worrying as much about expansion.
From a touchability perspective, Implession is lofty and soft, but not too soft. There's a subtle hint of brassiness from the brushed mohair, especially around more sensitive areas, such as the neck.
The yarn's vibrant colors appear to glow when held up to the light, thanks to the presence of silk and mohair.
When exposed to constant friction, my swatches performed surprisingly well. When the surface began to look matted, I simply tugged my swatches vertically and gave them a quick brushing with my hands.
The silk stayed perfectly blended with the rest of the fibers, and there was almost no pilling to be found. The swatches did gradually stretch out, so an Implession garment would benefit from periodic washing and reblocking.
At $9.95 per 52-yard skein, Implession definitely falls on the higher end of the price spectrum. Fortunately, you can still benefit from using it sparingly.
If cost isn't an issue, another interesting option would be to use two strands of yarn for your garment, Implession and a coordinating but single-colored brushed mohair.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- There was enough confusion in the cockpit of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that the control tower reported the 777 jetliner had crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport before the pilots did, the National Transportation Safety Board said while announcing that its on-site investigation of the deadly disaster was winding down.
At a Thursday news conference, NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman said the last contact between air-traffic control and ill-fated plane was 90 seconds before it crashed Saturday morning, and that the controllers called for rescue teams ahead of the flight crew.
It was among a smattering of details released in the last of a revelatory series of agency press briefings, signaling a significant draw-down of investigators who will be returning to Washington, D.C. Hersman said while crash investigations typically take between 12 and 18 months, her agency will aim to complete their work within a year.
"This is a significant event. There's a lot of interest in it. It's going to be a high priority for our agency," Hersman said. "We have put out a great deal of information, but this is just the tip of the iceberg."
Other revealed details included:
In the coming days, the scarred runway will begin to resemble its former self, as the shell-shocked passengers continued healing from their own scars, in part by taking another look at the fallen aircraft that inexorably changed their lives.
After nightfall on Thursday, an enormous crane could be seen at the crash site removing large portions of the 777 fuselage. SFO officials did not know when the cleanup would be completed, nor did they have an estimated reopening date for the runway.
The NTSB turned over custody of Runway 28L the night before so that airport crews can start clearing debris and begin repairs to the surface and seawall where the plane's tail sheared off, and crews were quick to begin work.
Earlier Thursday, officials said that federal authorities will transport, piece by piece, the wreckage to a secure housing area that is yet to be determined. Parts of investigatory "interest" have either already been shipped or are on their way to the agency's headquarters in Washington.
"We're still working on the plane and the plane is in the infield," Hersman said Thursday morning. "We're going to continue with our documentation of the plane and once we complete that we'll have to remove the 777 off the airport property piece by piece. It's a very large structure and it will take some time."
She added: "It's up to the airport to decide once the salvage operation is complete if repairs to the pavement and the safety lighting are made and if that runway is safe to open."
Hersman also said that overnight investigators talked again with the plane's "flying pilot" -- who was seated in the left-hand seat and was making his first landing at SFO in a Boeing 777 -- after he told South Korean authorities that he was hit with a "flash of light temporarily at 500 feet (elevation) that blinded him."
The chairwoman said "it was not a laser" and that the pilot "could see still," suggesting that it did not bother his vision enough to have affected his flying. The other two pilots did not report seeing the flash.
A trio of private buses accompanied by police escort arrived at the crash site at SFO around 7 p.m. Wednesday. About 40 to 50 crash survivors and family members observed the scene from an outlying road while a line of a dozen dark-clad figures stood off to one side, casting long shadows down the roadway in the setting sun. They asked the NTSB and relevant authorities for the opportunity, Hersman said.
"Sometimes in accidents people want to do a site visit and they want to go out and see either the location," she said. "Nothing can bring them closure because this is a very significant event, a very tragic event for them, certainly those who lost a loved one. We do want to be able to provide them what they need to continue with their grieving process."
Also on Wednesday night, frantic 911 calls made Saturday morning by crash survivors were released by the California Highway Patrol, which is the region's clearinghouse for emergency calls made via cell phone.
One is from a woman trying to tend to a female victim who she says appears to be in her mid 20s. They are not with the broken fuselage of the Boeing 777, but farther down the tarmac closer to where the plane initially hit the ground.
"There is a woman out here on the ... runway who is pretty much burned very severely on the head, and we don't know what to do. ... She is severely burned, and she will probably die soon if we don't get any help."
Other calls voiced exasperation with what they considered a lengthy ambulance response. Authorities said ambulances were initially held at bay partly out of fears that the aircraft might explode. Hersman said those recordings will be analyzed.
There was confusion among the three pilots in the cockpit about how fast the Boeing 777 was traveling during its landing approach. It was only seconds before the crash that the two main pilots -- a "flying pilot" and his instructor -- realized they were going far too slowly, bringing the plane to a near stall, and so low that they needed to try the landing again. It was too late.
The Thursday press conference did reveal that there actually two calls by different pilots for a "go around," after previous NTSB accounts only reported one. They were at three and 1.5 seconds before impact, respectively.
After the tail broke off on the sea wall, jettisoning two 16-year-old girls on a trip from China as well as three flight attendants who were strapped into their seats, the plane went into a counter-clockwise 360-degree spin before stopping and catching fire.
The so-called "short landing" is rare: According to an examination by this newspaper of Federal Aviation Administration data going back to 1973, only 20 short landings have been recorded. All but one of them was blamed on pilot error. Based on this data, the chances of being on a commercial airliner in which somebody dies in a short-landing in the U.S. were more than 400 million to 1.
In the confusion after the crash, the flight crew initially held off on an evacuation order of the plane and the decision was essentially made for them once fire started to overtake the cabin.
None of the pilots were screened for drugs or alcohol, which, while standard for U.S. pilots involved in a crash, is not required in South Korea, where Asiana Airlines is based. Authorities defer to the home country's policies. Hersman was vague about whether recommending a uniform policy should be something borne out of the investigation.
"There's certainly a complex international framework and structure," Hersman said Thursday. "We need to understand what the company policies are, what the country's policies are and how the FAA requires operators that come into the U.S. to comply with different safety rules."
The two teen girls were the lone fatalities of the crash that injured dozens more, many critically.
As of Thursday, 11 people remain at Bay Area hospitals: Seven are at San Francisco General Hospital, including three in critical condition, one of them a child. Two are at Stanford Hospital, including one that was upgraded overnight from critical to stable condition, and one each at Saint Mary's Medical Center and Saint Francis Hospital. Among them are the three flight attendants who were also ejected from the plane but miraculously survived. The NTSB said one of the three other injured flight attendants was released Wednesday night.
The San Mateo County Coroner's Office identified the Chinese teenager who may have been struck by a rescue vehicle racing to the crash site of Ye Mengyuan. Whether that possible collision happened before or after she died remains under investigation by both federal and local authorities.
Thursday night in Los Angeles, West Valley Christian School held a vigil to honor the victims of the crash.
The 16-year-old girls killed were among about 35 students who were scheduled to attend a 3-week academic summer camp based at the West Hills school. The camp, which was scheduled to start last Monday, was cancelled in light of the crash.
The ceremony included speeches and songs, while wreaths were laid out and students wrote condolences on large banners.
"Our general purpose is to show love and compassion for the Chinese group that came, even though they never came to us and the two that died, to show the human side of Americans as we relate to the Chinese people -- that we truly have a love and compassion for those families, the children that were in the plane crash and those that died," said West Vally Christian Church's Rev. Glenn Kirby by telephone from a national church conference in Kentucky.
Staff writers David DeBolt, Natalie Neysa Alund, Eric Kurhi, Katie Nelson, and the Los Angeles News Group contributed to this report. Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.


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LOL... Yes... I would think a night race to start out would be ideal... not too much light...just enough to see where you're running.... You know... things always look better in dim light...
I know, start the race in the early morning, say 25 min before sunrise time, giving an incentive to run faster! LOL Now what about the post race party!?
C25K: July 27 - September 26, 2009
First 5k race October 10, 2009
You won't get any complaints from me. Did I just think that or actually post it?
Fitness and workout tips from experience, not textbook facts
You rarely regret the runs you do; you almost always regret the runs you skip
coolcin, I think you are getting a kick out of the reactions you are getting out of the posters . Whenever the word 'naked' is combined with the word 'running' many visuals pop to mind.
There are a lot of people (nudist) who feel perfectly at home unclothed so a naked run is just another run for them. It is all of us who are not totally comfortable with being undressed in public that get a little uneasy at the thought. For me I think you should go with what feels right for you but be careful if you have kids, elderly relatives, etc who might get the shock of their lives seeing pictures of you running au natural.
As for the bras and jock straps, I say if you are going to do the run, do it ALL THE WAY...no half stepping!
"Get to livin' before you're dead because you soon will find if you're not pushing straight ahead, you're being left behind."
Haha...one word.
*Ben P. You got it.
Its a guy thing.
"Get to livin' before you're dead because you soon will find if you're not pushing straight ahead, you're being left behind."
Although looking at some from behind may be just what keeps you going to the end !
Oooh! I ain't into that body piercing! Just write the race number on your belly with a magic marker.
But seriously, if you're comfortable with it, do it! As long as you have a safe and legal environment to do it in. I don't see anything wrong with it, but I don't think it's for me. There are a lot of people in this world that look good naked, and a whole lot more that don't.
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Yes, that sounds like the way to go. But maybe a 10k trail race...not a road race.... you want to be in nature not on a road... where would you pin your race number
You'd have to write the number with a marker. Or, have someone write it on for you! lol
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Perhaps you are already familiar with the website Daytrotter but if not you are in for a treat. Daytrotter is the website for a recording studio in Rock Island, Illinois called Horseshack. There, up and coming indie artists stop between gigs to record short and intimate sets. Those sets are then put up for download on the website. With its music savvy and supportive listening community the website has been a launchpad for many a new artist. For the listener, Daytrotter is an amazing resource for discovering new artists and learning a little more about old favorites.
I'm saying all this because this week I recommend you check out the first track off Cataldo's newly released Daytrotter Session, "Black and Milds." Cataldo is a Seattle based band, a shifting group of musicians rotating around the front-man Eric Anderson. Anderson's songs, of the indie acoustic variety, are musically quite simple, but his lyrics are thoughtful and very compelling. Cataldo is an excellent example of a little known artist, signed to a tiny label, to whom Daytrotter gives a well deserved platform. I regret to inform you that music on Daytrotter is no longer free. That being said, no other music source can provide you with the intimate listening experience of a Daytrotter session (often with cool covers and unreleased tracks) so I promise the $2 monthly membership fee is worth it.


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We are looking for a DEDICATED pitcher with a "00 or 01" birth year that is looking for innings, including fielding play as well.
We will have open tryouts Friday August 10th @ 6:30pm & Saturday August 11th @ 10:00am at Northgate Park FIELD 1 in Dyer Indiana on Calumet Ave, 1 block South of Main Street on Calumet Avenue.
Please arrive 1/2 hour early for registration.
However if you would like a private/personal tryout, please contact Jeff Elbaor at 219-805-3185 or email@example.com
Dyer Fire has four fields we can practice on, including our indoor practice facility.
Plenty of fundraisers to offset costs.
We are playing a strong NSA/ASA schedule including a Winter tournament every month until April, then we will push for a great finish in the World Series and/or ASA Nationals. To help us reach our goals, we are looking to add a dedicated, strong pitcher to our rotation.
We practice two/three days a week during the winter. Our first practice is at our indoor facility where every girl works on hitting for a solid hour, including pitching and catching. The second practice is for infielders/outfielders to work on infield/outfield drills. The third is for our pitchers/catchers and more hitting. Each girl receives a 1/2 hour of private hitting, fielding or pitching time at our indoor facility which can be used seven days a week. If you are a DEDICATED pitcher looking for innings along with playing time in the field, please contact Coach Jeff.
For a personal tryout please contact Jeff at (219)805-3185 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Perspective wrote: They are the same futuristxen. .
MorallyBass wrote: Sick of Waging war will always be my favorite, for me a really solid sequel to Personal Journals - great tracks like Narcissist, Come Come Now, Makeshift Patriot, Mermaids are Sea-sluts, etc.
Sickyl Business comes a close second, Stuck, Garden Gnomes, My Head are all amazing Sage tracks and the guest spots are awesome (Jared's Jesus in a Bowl of Germs, Bernard's piece, the George McKibben piece, etc).
Stumbleweed wrote: Huh -- I never knew that. I expected to hear poetry or something, I guess. Didn't think that Mr. Robotic Voice/"good year for the war buffs" was something that Bernard put together.
Learn something every day.
Shika wrote: Go with "still sickly business", it does an excellent job summing up the best parts. Its all meat, no filler.
I own the whole sick of series and end up skipping the freestyles. No matter how dope a freestyle is I can't see listening to it more than a handful of times.


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AUSTIN (January 10, 2013)--A bill filed in the Texas House would prohibit state elected officials from "double-dipping," or officially retiring to collect their pensions while still drawing a salary.
Gov. Rick Perry caused a stir in 2011 when financial disclosures he filed while running for president showed he was collecting his $133,000 state salary and a $92,000 pension simultaneously.
Perry, 62, counted his five years in the Air Force and more than 20 years in public service in Texas.
Other state officials, including members of the Legislature, can also do so, but many remain anonymous because state law doesn't require them to divulge it.
The bill filed by state Rep. Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie, would ban double dipping by future state officials, but would not outlaw the practice for those already engaging in it.


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When John Doerr, Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capitalist, early this year faced a room full of investors wanting answers about his firm's recent slide, he had more at his defense than a track record backing Google (GOOG) and Amazon. He also had Ted Schlein.
In a valley where top venture capitalists are treated as rock stars, Schlein -- small, balding and bespectacled -- is far from a household name. But for the past seven years, he has quietly helped Doerr run Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. And now, the two hope to pull off a turnaround after an annus horribilis that has included a headline-grabbing sex discrimination lawsuit and questions about the firm's billion-dollar bet on green technology.
Doerr, who at 62 is more than a dozen years Schlein's senior, calls him "my better brother. We've got each other's backs." Jim Goetz, a partner at rival Sequoia Capital, credits Schlein for tough personnel decisions that in the past 18 months have seen some older Kleiner partners step aside and young talent recruited from the likes of Twitter and Square.
Schlein -- who seldom grants interviews -- told this newspaper he's well aware of the whispers that Kleiner Perkins has lost its mojo.
"If we're not No. 1 or No. 2, it's uncomfortable," he admitted during a two-hour interview in the firm's San Francisco offices, dedicated last fall in hopes of wooing the latest generation of tech entrepreneurs.
"People in the industry will say what they're going to say," he continued. "Until we prove them otherwise."
Schlein joined the firm in 1996 after a decade helping build Symantec from startup to security powerhouse. He has carved out a niche investing in enterprise software, but it's in his role as the firm's operations guru that his impact is most felt.
Since he began sharing the reins with Doerr in 2006, Kleiner Perkins has grown from a staff of about 20 to more than 50. The firm now manages more than $7 billion, part of it in new specialized funds that target particular kinds of tech companies. Kleiner also has built a sizable operation in China.
Yet of late, Kleiner has suffered public stumbles. A junior partner, Ellen Pao, filed suit last year claiming the firm, including Doerr and Schlein, retaliated after she complained that a co-worker had pressured her into sex.
Kleiner Perkins missed out on Facebook and LinkedIn, two of the biggest deals in recent venture history. And the firm's $1 billion cleantech fund has seen few hits and several notable meltdowns, including carmaker Fisker Automotive.
Schlein and Doerr won't discuss the February investor meeting, at which the two men reportedly promised better returns for the pension funds and university endowments that trust Kleiner with their money.
What Schlein does acknowledge is that the criticisms are painful. "I take it very personally," he said. "Venture capital is about your commitment to your partners, to your investors. You want to deliver for them."
Schlein's passion for the venture business was sparked in high school. His father, Phil, was running Macy's western division when he was approached by a young Steve Jobs, who was seeking a retail partner for his fledgling Apple Computer (AAPL). The elder Schlein eventually joined Apple's board, which also included venture legend Arthur Rock.
"He told me, 'You get to create something out of nothing,' " Schlein recalled of Rock. The conversation remained with him for decades -- in fact, long before his father himself became a venture capitalist.
Another future VC, Heidi Roizen, was key to Schlein's introduction to Symantec. While earning his bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Schlein interned one summer at Roizen's first startup; when her friend Tom Byers in 1986 came looking for help with marketing at the small software company he'd joined, she recommended Schlein.
Symantec at the time had just a few dozen employees and was nearly out of money. But new CEO Gordon Eubanks indulged the young economics graduate's interest in finding new technologies on which to bet.
One of Schlein's earliest ideas was developing the first commercial anti-virus software. "He probably saved the company," Eubanks says now.
After a decade of similar hits, Symantec's revenues topped $500 million, and startups were courting Schlein with CEO jobs. Instead, he decided to scratch his venture itch and throw in with Doerr, who had been on Symantec's board. (It also helped that Kleiner Perkins co-founder Brook Byers was the brother of the man who'd hired Schlein at Symantec.)
Doerr calls Schlein, a former high school wrestler, "an amazing player-coach. There's no more competitive, aggressive, determined, effective and reliable partner to have in the venture business."
While Doerr is a billionaire who consorts with presidents, Schlein avoids the spotlight. He guards details about his wife of 20 years and two children, and uses a sailboat metaphor to describe his relationship with Doerr: "If John's the mainsail," he said, "I'm the keel. I make sure we stay balanced while John's out there in front."
Colleagues say that even keel steadied the firm through the turmoil of the still-pending Pao lawsuit. Last month, Kleiner lost a bid in the California Court of Appeal in San Francisco to force Pao to move her sex-discrimination claims to arbitration, which would have spared the firm a potentially embarrassing public trial. Of the suit, Schlein will say only: "It's unfortunate. It's also completely meritless."
He holds forth more freely on those who carp about investments Kleiner has lost to other firms.
"We missed Facebook; guess what, most of the venture firms in Silicon Valley didn't do Facebook," he said. "But we did Flipboard, we did Chegg, we did Waze. All you can do is control what you can control, which is make great investments and build great companies."
The firm also hired former Internet analyst Mary Meeker two years ago to run a $1 billion "growth fund" that lets Kleiner buy into late-stage startups. Some outsiders question the approach, noting that late investors in a private company pay a much higher price than those in the early rounds.
But Schlein is confident it will pay off.
"We wrote our single biggest check in the history of the partnership to Twitter, and we're going to make a good return," he said. "Would we have made a bigger return had we done the Series A or B? Sure. We're not going to get them all."
Like many venture firms, Kleiner also has narrowed its cleantech strategy, which it had initially seen as a new source of home-run deals like those it scored in the dot-com era. "We learned the hard way," Schlein said. Now the firm is eschewing capital-intensive green industries such as solar power.
Sequoia's Goetz said Schlein has no illusions about the challenges facing Kleiner. And he believes the recent personnel changes his friend and rival has helped usher in are already paying dividends.
"There's star power usually associated with Kleiner," Goetz said. "Now they're leaning aggressively toward youth, toward ambition. They've fielded their strongest digital team, in my view, in a decade."
"Venture firms, to have longevity, have to always be thinking about generational transition," Schlein said, crediting that to Kleiner's 40-year tenure.
"There are some firms that might be 'in' now, and then they're not," he added. "You'll be back 'in' as soon as you have your next hit."
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.
Because his father was an Apple board member, Schlein showed up for college in 1982 with a state-of-the-art Apple II and laser printer. He started a business offering other students word-processing and printing services.
He's involved with a group, Students Matter, that's suing California in hopes of improving public education.
With his father and sister, he owns an organic Napa vineyard whose winemaker previously ran Francis Ford Coppola's winery.
A cybersecurity expert, he's a board trustee of In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm.
His biggest investment wins include Fortify Software, which Schlein conceived of and incubated within Kleiner Perkins and which Hewlett-Packard bought for $300 million. His biggest miss was Wineshopper.com, an online retailer into which Kleiner poured millions of dollars before it went bankrupt.


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Angel Orrantia's had what they call a peripatetic career. Armed with an electrical engineering degree from Stanford and a law degree from Notre Dame, he's been an engineer at Intel (INTC), intellectual property lawyer at Fenwick & West and global product manager for Applied Materials.
Now he heads business development at SKTA Innopartners, a Sunnyvale accelerator and seed fund for hardware startups. It's backed by South Korea's SK Telecom, one of Asia's biggest mobile carriers.
In this week's Elevator Pitch, we asked Orrantia about the slow but noticeable uptick in hardware investing -- and about what Silicon Valley can learn from Asia's burgeoning mobile computing scene.
Q How'd you get into this racket?
A Luck. Where luck is defined as the intersection of preparation and opportunity.
I have a diverse background in terms of both education and experience. It just so happens that this position requires me to wear multiple hats all day, every day. It's really quite invigorating!
Q What do you like about venture capital?
A I'm not quite sure I would categorize myself as a VC. Given that this investment model is so new and that I'm not as motivated by or measured by financial returns, but rather by the number of startups that successfully exit the Innovation Center, I believe it's more appropriate to consider our organization a startup, one whose products are innovative startups.
The ultimate mission of this organization is to reinvigorate the funding ecosystem for core technologies.
Q What kinds of pitches are you looking for now?
A Simply stated, we are looking for core technologies in semiconductors, data centers, telecom and health care diagnostic devices. We don't do apps, and we're required to wear shoes to the office.
Q What's the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make?
A One issue that repeats within startups is the grip exerted by the founders. It's crucial that entrepreneurs understand where they bring value to the company, what the company needs and how to source the talent to fill unmet needs.
For example, it's expected that founders would be highly technical. Maybe even the world's foremost expert on a particular subject. However, that means nothing if there isn't another team member that has a world-class understanding of the market segment, business model and go-to-market strategy for the product they develop.
Q What's the next big thing going to be?
A In the near future, I expect to see the continued migration of higher computing power in a smartphone transform the device to a full-blown computer. When you get to work, you'll dock your device to use your keyboard and monitor. When you get home, you'll dock your computer to your TV and stream content. On holidays, you'll have video conferences with your family in high resolution.
All this means that the amount of data and processing required in the cloud is at its infancy and will grow explosively as new enabling technologies come online.
Q You've talked about "putting the silicon back into Silicon Valley." Why aren't more venture capitalists investing in semiconductors?
A Quite simply, because the VC model for semiconductors is broken. Venture capitalists make their money on exits. The IPO market for semiconductors has been nonexistent for about a decade. The consolidation in the semiconductor industry has led to only a handful of large companies that are capable of acquiring startups.
If IPOs and M&A are not occurring at a reasonable pace, VCs can't invest in that domain. This is where we have a sweet spot in the funding ecosystem. We're looking for semiconductor and core technology startups so we can accelerate their development by matching them with industry leaders and providing them with up to $1 million in working capital, professional services and space.
That's almost completely the opposite model of most other VCs and incubators, who are currently only looking at software startups.
Q Your firm's a subsidiary of a Korean mobile-phone heavyweight. What mobile technology trends do you see in Asia -- and what will they mean for the valley?
A Korea has already rolled out (next generation) LTE everywhere. Similarly, more and more services are being offered by the carriers. We're seeing a rise in personal health care devices (e.g. heart monitors, sleep disorder detection) that automatically send data to the patient's doctor via a smartphone connection. I suspect that in Asia, and elsewhere, this trend will continue, if not accelerate.
Additionally, video is going to play an increasing role in the growth of the computing and storage required in the cloud. Netflix (NFLX) and YouTube already account for 50 percent of Internet traffic. As mobile devices offload both their data and computations to the cloud, the infrastructure to support this transition will need to constantly be refreshed.
On one hand, if we're able to put silicon back into Silicon Valley, then these changes will lead to a resurgence in semiconductors from both investors and entrepreneurs. On the other hand, if domestic investors and entrepreneurs fail to act, those opportunities will be seized overseas.
In a very real sense, we Americans control our own destiny -- and the destiny of the Silicon Valley.
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.


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Ceramicist Kate Nelson's exhibit "it was a small country everyone was famous" will show in the University Gallery March 27 thru May 2, 2014. The artist will deliver a public lecture on Thursday, March 27 at 4:00pm in Room 103 of Porter Hall, with a reception to follow.
Creating dual vessels, paired together to both complete and complement each other, Nelson explores the complex nature of relationships and interactions.
Abstracting the human form, simplified to the point of unrecognition, Nelson imparts aspects of the body at ease into the structure and hand of the vessels. The forms interact in a demure manner typical of first and chance encounters. Through reduction fire, and use of waxes, sands, and sandblasting, Nelson grafts the visual and physical texture of skin completing the human allusion.
Nelson Received her BS in Liberal Arts from Southern Illinois University, and her MFA in Ceramics from the Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. She is currently the Studio Arts Technician at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX.


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Final Draft
At a Glance
The release of Final Draft 10 is just around the corner, but that doesn't mean you have to put your writing projects on hold for the next month! When you purchase Final Draft 9 from The Writers Store, we'll include a complimentary copy of Final Draft 10 when it's released. Now's the time put your new web series, TV pilot, or screenplay on the page, and when Final Draft 10 arrives, your copy will be waiting for you.
Get your copy of Final Draft® from The Writers Store, the Industry's #1 screenwriting software source for over 30 years, and you'll receive the latest version, our exclusive Screenwriting Starter Package ($100 value), extended access to your download and serial number, free installation support and peace of mind knowing your purchase is backed by our unmatched 30-day money-back guarantee.
When you're ready to write a screenplay, you want only the best screenwriting software to help you get to from initial concept to FADE OUT. That's why you need the all-new Final Draft 9 program, the number-one selling tool designed specifically to write scripts for film, television and theater. Final Draft automatically formats and paginates your script to Industry standards with just two simple keystrokes.
Final Draft 9 retains all of its studio-tested features used by Hollywood giants like Tom Hanks, J.J. Abrams, James Cameron, and Aaron Sorkin, while setting new benchmarks in performance and ease of use. With Final Draft 9, you'll enjoy over 30 new and improved features, plus a fresh look and feel for both Mac and Windows users.
New and Improved Features
New Navigator Features
Organizing your story has never been easier with the Final Draft 9 Navigator. No longer just a Scene Navigator, the new Navigator also displays ScriptNotes and Characters arcs. Run a filtered search by keyword, create ScriptNotes and General Notes or construct a character's arc via individual Character Beats attached to particular scenes.
(Improved) Scene Navigator
Manage the pace and flow of your story and keep track of every scene's information with this sortable, customizable floating palette. New in Final Draft 9 is the ability to filter by keyword, allowing you to see important scene details whenever you need them.
(New) ScriptNotes Navigator
One of the most useful Final Draft features is back with a brand-new look and enhanced functionality. You are able to view, sort and filter the ScriptNotes and general notes while you organize by name, type and color. The color-coded anchored ScriptNote markers now appear in the right margin (not in the text) so they won't affect the script pagination.
(New) Characters Navigator
Keep track of all of your characters' arcs via individual Character Beats assigned to particular scenes. Non-speaking characters can be added to or deleted from any scene, helping you keep track of everyone even if they have no lines in a certain scene.
(New) Replace Character Names globally
No longer do you have to "find and replace" to change a character name – Final Draft will globally change a character's name in script elements like dialogue and action and will retain the proper casing. It will also change the name in all metadata, such as SmartType lists and the Navigator.
(New) Character Highlighting
Planning a table read of your screenplay? Character Highlighting will come in handy to easily distinguish all characters' dialogue. It's also a great feature for tracking a character's dialogue to see if he is being too verbose or too shy.
(New) Colored Revised Pages
Final Draft is going green, giving you the ability to distribute your script electronically with the colored revised production pages. When you export to PDF, revised pages are a solid Blue, Pink, Yellow, Green, etc. When you're working in an FDX file, the revised page will have the revision set's color on the left and right borders only. Writing in clean white is easy on the eyes but there will be no doubt as to which revision set you're working in.
(New) Watermarking in Printing or PDF
Protect your script by identifying the recipient via a customizable watermark that displays in PDF and on the printed pages.
(New) Standardized Paper size
Each FDX file maintains its own correct paper size (either A4 or US Letter) no matter where it's opened.
(Improved) Spell Checking
Checking your work has never been easier – SmartType list words are automatically integrated in the spell-checker that features more than 300 new words. Additionally, the thesaurus is now in the context menu, so a right-click will give you alternative words to help make your description as vivid as possible.
(New and Improved) Mac Enhancements
Mac users will benefit from the convenience of distraction-free writing in full-screen mode, as well as Retina display compatibility. Additionally, Mac's built-in dictation feature works with Final Draft, allowing for hands-free writing that's as fast as your ideas.
(New and Improved) Windows Enhancements
The Final Draft 9 user interface is updated to the new Windows ribbon look with new buttons, backgrounds and menus, but longtime users can have the same experience they've come to love by switching back to Classic mode.
Standard Features
Tab and Enter functions
You can install and start using Final Draft in minutes due to the easy-to-use Tab and Enter functionality that formats the script's elements to Industry standards.
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
If you prefer keyboard shortcuts and macros you're already used to, Final Draft allows you to customize your workflow for your writing needs.
Final Draft Courier Font
Production companies and studios need consistent page counts when they're budgeting a script. Final Draft uses its own Courier font to ensure identical pagination on Windows, Macintosh and the iPad.
In addition to the standard templates that are included in the software package, the Final Draft Template Library is updated regularly and allows registered users to download over 100 classic and current television shows, screenplay, stageplay and graphic novel templates.
Format Assistant
This writing tool checks your script for common formatting errors such as missing dialogue, extra spaces, carriage returns and blank elements. You can set it to run every time you print or only when you want it to.
Text to Speech
Have Final Draft read your script read back to you. You can even assign different voices to your characters! It's like having a live script reading in your computer.
The Panels System
Like most writers, you probably need to keep a lot of ideas at the front of your mind while you're writing. With the Panels system, you can split your screen into separate panels and view your script pages in one panel while you view another section of the script or your Index Cards or Scene View in the other panel. A double-click on any scene will keep the panels in sync.
Writing Management
Use the Statistics report to check how much content you've completed in a writing session to help you reach your writing goals. You can also track things such how often Character A interacts with Character B.
Remember Workspace
If you're working with multiple drafts, it's important to make sure you're editing the correct one. With the Workspace preference, you can have Final Draft open all the files you had open in your last session, in the correct order.
Scene View
Scene View gives you a high-altitude look at your script so you can move scenes around to further refine your story. Insert new scenes easily and hide or show information important to you such as the scene's action, title and summary. Assign colors to each scene by any criteria, such as storyline, character, location, time of day and more. Print your scene view or just view it alongside the script. With a double-click you can sync the script to instantly go to any scene you've selected.
Index Cards
Final Draft has double-sided cards that display the script's scene on one side and the summary on the other. The summary view allows you to enter text directly into the index card – plot points, notes, sequence or act markers, comments, locations, blocking – anything you need to build and organize your story. These notes sync with the Scene Navigator, so any information you add there will automatically appear on the corresponding card. Select and rearrange multiple cards at once if you need to reorder your scenes. Print your index cards directly on 3x5 or 4x6 cards for use in the "traditional" way if you want to visualize and organize scenes outside of the application. Double-clicking on a card in split-panel view will automatically sync the scene selected with your script page.
Page Count Management
Final Draft offers several ways to manipulate the page count, if necessary: paragraph leading, global line spacing adjustment, global and local indent adjustments and page margin settings.
The Choice of Professionals
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Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III, Lost (TV), Alias (TV)
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"The intuitive ease of Final Draft allows the writer to focus on what's truly important - story."
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Gallery of Irish Canadian dancer model Coco Rocha. Click here
She looks, if possible, even more modelesque in person, although this might have something to do with the high-heeled lace-up Balenciaga boots she's wearing (along with an Urban Outfitters top, Marni belt, vintage gold lamé purse and a skirt that once belonged to her mother).
When I sit down with Irish Canadian Coco Rocha, who has taken the fashion world by storm before turning twenty-one with an unforgettable face, modish look and vivid persona, I'm struck by her openness and eloquence.
Discovered at the young age of fourteen by agent Charles Stuart, Coco (born Mikhaila Rocha on September 10, 1988) had never considered modeling or fashion as particular interests before Stuart approached her after seeing her perform in an Irish dance competition.
She initially told him that she wasn't interested, but Stuart, whose daughter also did Irish dance, persisted. "He would come to every competition, or he would have some lady come up to me and say, you know, 'He is legit, try it!' So a year later I decided to do it, see what it was like — and now here I am today. If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling."
Coco can attribute both her dancing, which she practiced for twelve years, and her looks to her Irish ancestry. "My mom's half Irish and my dad's half Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales." Her grandparents later moved their family to Canada.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Coco grew up in Richmond, British Columbia. She has two siblings, and her parents are both in the airline industry. Coco says her parents are supportive of her career, if a bit out of touch. "For the longest time my dad didn't quite understand. He's like, 'So what are you doing? Are you known?' I'm like, 'Yes, I'm modeling now, people know what I do.' He's still a little bit, 'What's going on?' My mom, though, she's here a lot so she sees it all firsthand."
Her lack of fluency in high-end designers before modeling has helped Coco to create a unique personal style, especially indebted to a great love of vintage clothes. "I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores so … vintage was like a step up. You can always find one thing that no one else has, which is nice. To wear things from the 1800s to the 20s and 30s is kind of amazing."
The breakthrough moment of her career took place during Jean Paul Gaultier's fall 2007 show inspired by the Scottish Highlands, which Coco opened and closed by Irish dancing down the runway. Vogue called it the "Coco moment," and suggested that it marked her status as a genuine supermodel. "It was exciting. When you usually dance, you dance in front of a crowd that has no clue who you are, so you can mess up, fall down, be exhausted and no one will really know in the end what you did. But [at the Gaultier show,] I was really nervous because everyone knew what my name was, and if I fell over and everyone was laughing, it definitely would have hit everyone's radar. … I don't think I'll ever have a peak like that in a show. My grandma went nuts. I mean, at shows usually, all you have to do is walk, so I don't get nervous, but that was a bit maddening."
Besides setting herself apart through fashion and Irish dance, Coco has earned a reputation as an outspoken model that isn't afraid to let her personality shine underneath the clothes. "In the industry now, models are [expected] to be seen and not heard, and I think there's a few of us that are kind of wanting to push the envelope a little bit more and trying to get models back to what they used to be. We want to be out there so people know models are also role models too. It's not just the singers, the actresses, the dancers, et cetera. Models can be people too. But the only way to do that is to kind of step up and keep doing new things that no one has thought of, from new websites to new blogs, a newscast, doing speeches, talking to kids, it kind of opens a new headline every time: 'Oh, a model hasn't done this before, a model hasn't done that before.' So I think it's always being the new fresh person, which is hard because everything's been done before. It's just redoing it in a different way."
Lately Coco has been speaking at schools about issues including body image and self-esteem, and is making a trip to Canada to help with a cousin's cancer charity. In the past, parents and teachers have been wary of spokesmodels who seem to preach self-esteem in empty language without addressing the consequences of their industry's focus on physical appearance, but it's obvious that this is an issue genuinely important to Coco. "I think models have that huge say on self-esteem, because we were the girls that were nobodies in school and now have become the models. I think that every girl has a really sad story: nobody liked her, everybody hated her, and then once you do become a model, how things change."


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What do you Think of Brendan Rodgers?
Brendan has once again shown is lack of man management. What are your thoughts?
interesting article this http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/early-doors/brendan-rodgers-unacceptable-090226538.htmlSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Redfin - just how is Brendan's man management proven to be rubbish here? I reckon he will have said to Suarez behind closed doors early on the season 'stop diving!' - I know this because Suarez stays o his feet a lot more now. Once he admitted it publicly - it became a moot point and Brendan had no choice but to condemn it. I would be more happy if I was manager that he admitted to diving than the diving itself - which I find unacceptable anyway. How difficult is it going to be for him to get decisions now?
Anyway, on to your absurd point, read between the lines, or do we have yet another on here with a petit pois for a brain?
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 19, 2013 14:51 Flag
So what's Brendan gonna do in terms of punishing Suarez?
Probably nothing!!
In days of old a manager would dump a player in the reserves until they bucked their ideas up and behaved properly..
I suspect Rodgers won't as he's a weak manager.
Loki I am assuming your post is meant towards me.
BR management IS bad because he tends to come out to the media and pick on individuals so that he can criticise them, this seems to me a manager who is very insecure and therefore keeps trying to justify his position by pointing the finger at others. Do you know what this can do to the confidence of an individual?
This does not refer to football management but all management. All he had to say was " LFC have been made aware of the interview and it is something Suarez and I will discuss" then any thing he had to say would remain behind closed doors.
Maybe I am a simpleton but having spent last 20 years in higher management I know how important it is keep moral up amongst the staff in order to get the best from them.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 19, 2013 00:25 Flag
I think Rodgers is out of his depth at LFC.. He has no business being here, as he's not the man to take us forward..
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Jan 18, 2013 14:22 Flag
Does anyone have a link to the actual interview or press conference this was said in, because while I've read this story a number of times in different articles, and it is troubling, I just not sure I understand the context, and nor does it seem the journalists do either, although each seems to make different assumptions.
Is it unacceptable to dive, or unacceptable to admit to diving, or is it unacceptable to go and talk to the press on your own?
I'm not sure which one is unacceptable to BR, other than he obviously does not want to talk about it in the press, but wants to handle this internally.
So I think I agree with Robert here. It seems to me either BR should not have commented at all, or if he did want to comment he should have made it clearer what he was commenting on, and for me that is a sign of an inexperienced manager who has not got his press relations worked out yet. Maybe he should take a lesson from others and just ban any of those pesky Fleet Street types who ask inconvenient questions.
I think the article is a bit harsh, but it's quite sharp and he did come over in the Being: Liverpool programmes as a bit of a David Brent, perhaps unfairly.
I don't know how good he is as a football technician, but in presentational terms I think the Liverpool job was probably about five years too soon for him.
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Hi Rob & Robert
I thought the article was spot on. It's what I've been going on about for a long time now - everybody cheats so why is this admission "unacceptable".
To be fair to BR, I haven't seen the interview where he said this and the media do have a way of cherry picking quotes which don't reflect what was being said.
Either that or BR is forcing Suarez out of Liverpool because FSG want to cash in on him (and we've never been to the moon, and Hoover had JFK shot). Obviously I'm joking. Hopefully.


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The severity of this year's flu season prompted Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Saturday to declare a public health emergency for New York state, clearing the way for vaccinations to reach children more easily.
Cuomo's emergency declaration came as the state Health Department reported that the number of patients admitted to hospitals statewide with confirmed cases of the flu continues to rise, with a 55 percent increase in the past week.
Two children have died in New York state so far during the outbreak, and at least 10 New York City adults have died from flu-related illness. Statewide adult deaths aren't tracked.
The executive order permits pharmacists to give flu vaccinations to people between 6 months and 18 years of age; State Education law normally limits the authority of pharmacists to give immunizing agents to those 18 years of age or older.
Cuomo said he has directed his administration, the New York State Health Department and others to use all resources necessary to deal with the problem and to "remove all barriers to ensure that all New Yorkers – children and adults alike – have access to critically needed flu vaccines."
Flu is widespread in most states this year, and at least 20 children have died nationally.
In declaring the health emergency, Cuomo cited the worst flu season in at least four years, with all 57 counties statewide and all five boroughs of New York City counting among 19,128 cases reported so far.
That's more than four times the 4,404 positive cases reported in last year's flu season.
A promotional campaign has been launched to encourage anyone who has not gotten a flu shot to get one, along with the message that it is not too late to receive a shot, the governor said in a news release.
Health professionals say the vaccine will prevent about 62 percent of people who receive it from getting the flu, while the rest – if they do get the flu – will likely have a milder case. A vaccine takes two weeks to fully kick in.
Flu season generally peaks in January and February and can linger through March.
This year's severe flu season follows the mildest-ever recorded last year.
On Saturday, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio joined health professionals and parents at a news conference calling for immediate passage of paid sick-leave legislation stalled in the City Council. He said more than a million New Yorkers lack even a single paid sick day, forcing them to either go to work sick and spread the flu, or stay home and lose a day's pay.
Hospitals in the mid-Hudson region have reported an increase in emergency room visits. At Orange Regional Medical Center, more than 200 patients have been visiting the emergency room daily, up from an average of 180. At the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley, which includes Kingston, Benedictine and Margaretville hospitals, emergency troom traffic was up by 15 percent.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Suddenly, the unthinkable has entered the realm of possibility.
America's Cup defender Oracle Team USA is within striking distance of challenger Emirates Team New Zealand after two impressive victories on a beautiful Sunday on San Francisco Bay.
By winning Races 14 and 15, the U.S. team has a four-race win streak and closed the gap to 8-5 in the best-of-17 series.
"The team is getting stronger every day," Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill said. "We made a couple of more changes to the boat last night, and it made a significant difference in terms of performance. It felt really quick. And we're not done. There are still a couple of things we'd like to get to. It was a fantastic job by the entire team."
New Zealand led this series 8-1 after winning Race 11 on Wednesday and still needs that elusive ninth victory to win the Cup for the third time.
After the first week of the 34th America's Cup, the notion of New Zealand losing four consecutive races would have been absurd. After Race 7, when New Zealand officially held a 6-0 lead (Oracle was actually at minus-1 because of a two-point cheating penalty issued before the America's Cup), Spithill tried to put the pressure on the Kiwis.
"Imagine if these guys lost from here, what an upset that would be," Spithill said at the time. "That would be one hell of a story, one hell of a comeback, and that's what I'd like to be a part of."
Now with Oracle in serious contention, Spithill is brimming with confidence and believing in his comeback dream.
"I'm not the only one," he said. "Everyone on the boat wants to be a part of it. The entire team around us wants to be a part of it. And now we've got the city and the nation behind us. People are really starting to tune in. A lot of support and messages. And just the energy down here (at Piers 27/29) is having a big impact on the guys. It's hard to put a value on that, but it makes a difference."
Sunday's races weren't exactly carbon copies of each other, but they were similar with Oracle gaining a slight upper hand at the starts and then stretching out good-sized margins on Leg 2, the first downwind leg.
"We let ourselves down on both first downwinds," New Zealand skipper Dean Barker said. "We gave up too much distance."
New Zealand would gain a bit on the upwind third leg, but Leg 4, another downwind, was tricky in both races. Wind shifts made the tacticians' jobs difficult, but Oracle's Ben Ainslie -- aided by strategist Tom Slingsby -- made better decisions and kept the Americans in front while the Kiwis ran into "holes" in the wind.
"The breeze was moving around a lot today," Ainslie said. "There were a lot of holes. The crew did a fantastic job sailing the boat and keeping it fast even in light spots. That was critical."
Oracle won Race 14 by 23 seconds and Race 15 by 37 seconds.
After losing six of the first seven races and falling behind by seven points, Oracle has rallied to win six of eight. On the scoreboard, the tally is 8-5. But in actual races, New Zealand only leads Oracle 8-7 in what is becoming the greatest America's Cup in the 162-year history of the event.
On Monday, the teams will go at it again on Day 17. That will break the all-time record for America's Cup longevity, exceeding the 16-day regatta held in New Zealand in 2003. For the Kiwis, who have been sitting on match point for four excruciating days, Monday's task is simple.
"We have to win a race," Barker said.
For Oracle, the uphill battle continues. The Americans have dealt with the loss of their No. 1 boat (which capsized in October), the two-point cheating penalty and suspension of wing sail trimmer Dirk de Ridder.
"This is a team that has gone through a lot in this campaign," Spithill said. "It was one thing after the other. But what did the team do? Didn't wave a white flag or use excuses. They've stuck with it and worked hard. It has made the team stronger.
"And now with the energy we've got and the changes we've made to the boat -- the boat is so much quicker than when we started this competition -- we believe we can win this. We believe we have the boat to do it, we have the team and we've got a wave of momentum that gets bigger every day."
Emirates Team New Zealand 8 points,
Oracle Team USA 5 points
Best-of-17 series or first team to 9 points
Monday: Races 16 and 17*, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. 1 p.m. on NBC Sports Network
Tuesday: Races 18* and 19*, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. 1 p.m. on NBC Sports Network
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NOTE: Because of penalties, Oracle Team USA began the America's Cup with minus-2 points, meaning it would need to win 11 races to retain the Cup. New Zealand needs to win nine.


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8 Real Facial Treatments That Are Crazy and Terrifying
At the MTV Movie Awards, the singer/actress dazzled in smokey eyes, peachy lips, and a righteous medieval princess braid (very Princess Leia chained to Jabba the Hut). Smoking hot. Truly.
With her flushed pink cheeks, rosy gloss, and just-messy-enough blowout, Gwynnie (here, at her book launch) proves just how sexy a barely-there look can be.
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Losing the Taste For McDonald's
By Julie Jargon
Analysts and franchisees aren't lovin' McDonald's very much these days.
Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Kelter says McDonald's appears to be losing customers, based on a survey of 2,000 consumers. "It has not had strong innovation for the past few years, it is losing advertising share of voice and it is the restaurant consumers are least likely to recommend to their friends/family," he said in a note to investors.
The burger giant has been struggling as customers have cut back on restaurant visits and as rivals have improved operations. Other fast-food chains have been increasing their ad spending at a faster rate than McDonald's, Mr. Kelter notes, thus diminishing McDonald's "voice" in a crowded, hyper-competitive market.
McDonald's ranked last in a list of 23 fast-food chains in terms of food quality, healthfulness and customers' willingness to pay more for the food than is currently charged, according to the Goldman survey.
The company didn't respond to a request for comment. Its shares were down about 1% Tuesday at $93.65 and are up just 6% on the year, a third of the gain of the S&P 500.
McDonald's menu has become crowded with new products, which has slowed service.
When McDonald's reports its third-quarter results on Monday, analysts are expecting relatively flat same-store sales in the U.S. and globally.
Franchisees are concerned, too, according to a survey Janney Capital Markets analyst Mark Kalinowski conducted of 29 U.S. McDonald's operators representing 183 stores. "More products lead to SLOWER SERVICE TIMES. You CANNOT have 150+ products and give 60-90 second service," one franchisee commented in the survey, which withholds the operators' identities.
Many of the franchisees remarked that the chain's new Mighty Wings promotion is costly and at approximately $1 per wing, priced too high for many consumers.
"Mighty Wings are proving once again that we can't sell premium items in large numbers because we still have the Dollar Menu," another franchisee said.
Another said, "I think McDonald's has reached its apex."


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Open Terminal Here
The Terminal Here plugin provides a Contextual Menu Module for the Finder in OS X. This CMM provides a popup menu item when right clicking on a directory or file with the option to 'Open Terminal Here'. When used on a file, it acts as if you used it on the directory the file is in.
When selected, Terminal.app will be launched if it is not already running, and a new window will be opened and a cd command issued to switch to the appropriate directory.
This is primarily intended for those who do a lot of UNIX style work and really need the Terminal.app to do it.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: terminal , context , menu , finder , plugin
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I use the same command, but from within OnMyCommand, which is a free multi-purpose context-menu.
If you want to install different context-menu items for different tasks, I recommend OnMyCommand as a central, one-stop-shop hub for all of them. As opposed to install separate cm products.
@Anyone interested in this app:
Try the link beej posted 3 posts down. Quick & useful (drag to toolbar, click to open a terminal window, and you can also drop folders onto it), and there's a lot of other interesting stuff on his page.
I made a page for an Intel version of this here
Try this app, very easy to use and a nice readme
intel mac users can use the Open Terminal Here Toolbar Script available from http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/welcome.html
I've added install instructions to the dmg:
Copy TerminalHerePlugin.plugin to ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ (for current user only) or /Library/Contextual Menu Items/ (for all users)
How do you install it? The readme doesn't say, and apparently his site is emptied...
New download link added.
It seems this doesn't work on Intel Macs?


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