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According to WLRN.org, MARILYN MANSON co-founder and original guitarist Scott Putesky, a.k.a. Daisy Berkowitz, is two months into his six-month chemo treatment after being diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer.The 45-year-old musician found out he had cancer when he underwent a colonoscopy on August 14 after nearly six years of mysterious abdomen pains, some of which were severe enough to land him in the emergency room. A 12-band benefit concert to help Putesky raise funds for his treatment will be held on Saturday, November 16 at Churchill's Pub in Miami, Florida. Putesky will be unable to attend the event because he's receiving medical care in Philadelphia. For more information, go to this location. In 2004, Marilyn Manson settled a lawsuit against Putesky and Empire Musicwerks Records over the distribution of an album and DVD of material from Manson's early band THE SPOOKY KIDS. In the suit, Manson alleged that the album and DVD made unauthorized use of illustrations from Manson's book "The Long Hard Road Out of Hell" and the musicians' likenesses. The suit also alleged that the purported infringements constituted a breach of an October 1998 settlement agreement related to Putesky's exit from the band. In June 2004, Empire Musicwerks announced that it would remove all artwork with Manson's likeness from the album and DVD.
Former MARILYN MANSON Guitarist DAISY BERKOWITZ Battling Stage-Four Colon Cancer
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Karin Table Lamp
Beautiful, simple modern style comes alive in the Karin Table Lamp. This contemporary lamp has a clean look that works great in both modern and traditional settings. It looks great on an end table next to a contemporary sofa or on a nightstand in the bedroom. The Karin Table Lamp features a mesh fabric outer shade and a mylar inner shade. Its innermost shade is made from translucent acrylic. The Karin Table Lamp is perfectly complemented by a brushed aluminum stand and base.
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NOPD: Man caught on camera robbing Uptown Rite Aid
Call Crimestoppers with information: 504-822-1111
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An armed man was caught on video robbing an Uptown business Saturday.
The robbery happened about 8:04 a.m. at the Rite Aid at 3401 St. Charles Ave. Saturday.
Click here to view surveillance images.
Police said the suspect entered the business armed with a gun and ordered store employees to hand over the money.
Once the employees complied, police said the suspect fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash.
The incident was captured on surveillance video.
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Where does grass seed come from?
QuestionWhere does grass seed come from? I never see it on lawns.
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Name: James O'Brien
Qualification: Lazy at gardening
Answer: When you let your grass grow for a long time, you see a seed growing at the top. Usually, we mow the lawn before it gets to that length. It's the same with dandelions. If we mowed them too early, we'd never see the flower.
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Stargazing has become a popular pastime at the masters each year as celebrities show up at Augusta National to watch the year's first major.
This time around, patrons will get a two for one with a first-timer who bears a striking resemblance to another sports star.
If you've followed tennis in the last five years, you know Roger Federer, the most dominating player in the sport.
But you may not know who Johan Edfors is...and your first guess might be that he's Federer's twin brother.
"I've heard it once or twice, yeah," Edfors told News 12 Sports. "In the beginning when I wasn't used to it, it was getting kind of funny, but now it's getting kind of old."
Edfors is not related to Federer. The 31-year Swedish export is distinguishing himself in the world of golf though.
Last year, Edfors won three tournaments and had four top 10 finishes on the PGA European Tour just a year after graduating Q-school.
His play vaulted him into the top 50 in the world rankings and earned an invite to play the Masters on the one course he's said he would like to play once before he died.
"I've already played it, so I hope I don't die before I play the tournament," he joked.
That practice round aside, Edfors is still expecting nerves on the first tee of his opening round, but he's not necessarily worried about it.
"It's going to be nervous, but I kind of like that feeling," he said. "It's always nice to see how you handle it and how you perform when you're really nervous."
Of course, the pressure might be lessened a little if patrons think it's Roger Federer taking the first tee, and not Johan Edfors...
"It's happened a little too often, actually."
And while it may seem as if Edfors is a little tired of the mistaken identity, there is some evidence from fellow Swedish players on tour that Johan has embraced his look-alike status when mistaken for the world's top tennis player.
"I've heard he's signed autographs for him," one fellow player said.
"He's the best tennis player in the world, and probably the best there's ever been, so it should be a compliment to me to be looking like him...but I'd rather have his tennis game," Edfors said.
That may not happen, so for now, Edfors will have to settle for the being the best golfer who happens to look like Roger Federer in the world.


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As they should be. Adding more to a offenders original conviction, after the fact, violates the constitution against ex post facto laws. If the constitution means nothing, why have it? And if laws like this affect one group, they should do the same for all groups. Why aren't murderers, gang members, drug dealers/users, DUI offenders and all other criminals on a registry, and made to live by similar residency restrictions?
Those convicted before '94 may be removed
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indiana Supreme Court overturned last week a sex offender's conviction for failing to register. The court's decision could mean that hundreds will be removed from registries across the state.
The 1994 state law requires sex offenders to be listed on an official sex offender registry. Their names, description, addresses and pictures are available online for all to see. The law was later amended to require offenders to register no matter when they were convicted.
But defense attorney Kathleen Sweeney represented a sex offender who wanted his name removed from the registry because he was convicted before the sex offender registry law was passed in 1994. The Indiana Supreme Court ruled that offenders convicted before 1994 should not have to register.
The attorney general issued a statement that reads, "We believe the impact of this decision will be limited to a fairly narrow group of offenders."
But 24-Hour News 8 easily found offenders still listed on the Marion County's web site who were convicted before 1994. Sweeney believes the attorney general should recommend the sheriff's association remove these offenders from every list in the state.
"There are citizens of this state who are on that registry because of conduct that occurred before 1994 and deserve to have the protection of their attorney general," said Sweeney.
But a deputy attorney general said his initial interpretation of the law is that it is up to the offender to petition the court to remove his name.
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Pectus excavatum rarely causes symptoms in infants or children. Respiratory and cardiac function tests are usually normal, despite the presence of the defect. The main indication for surgical repair in childhood is cosmetic. The "minor" corrective operation is generally ineffective. The "major" operation is time-consuming but safe and effective.
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I created a windows forms application with Visual Studio 2010.
To form1, I added a Crystal Reports viewer (CRVS2010 is installed).
I added a Crystal Report to the project and set the Report Source of the viewer to this report.
A simple application.
Now I need to distribute this application.
I added an InstallShield LE project and set up the project.
Under Redistribuables I checked SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework 4
and the .NET Framework.
Compiled the project.
Now taking the Setup.exe and ISSetupPrerequisites folder to my test computer, the setup program
displays Error 1904.....failed to register crtslv.dll....-214010895.
How do I fix this?
I have created the project using .NET framework 3.5 and .NET framework 4. Both setup programs
display the same error message.
My test computer is running Windows XP SP3.
failed to register crtslv.dll
This tells me that there is a missing dependency that the crtslv needs. You should be able to ignore out of that message and let the install proceed. Once the install is completed, open the crtslv.dll in the [Depends|http://www.dependencywalker.com/] utility and see what's missing.
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Why does the MSI install and the MSM does not installl?
It appears like the MSM is dependent upon a version of C++ being installed ( I have not determined what version yet)
and the MSI is not dependent upon C++.
Is this correct?
So why not put a comment under the link to download the MSM stating that is requires C++ version ......?
What version is required for CRVS2010 MSM?
Good question. I'll pose that one to the Program management team...
Re what version of VC++. The latest you can find is always good. As far as I know, the one referenced in the blog I mentioned in my last post is it.
I have install Visual C++ 2005 SP1, 2008, 2008 SP1 and 2010.
Still the crystall dlls will not register.
Here is the response I got from Mandeep Jassal.
The VC80 runtime redist from the following 2 locations can be used to ensure you have the dependencies installed for CR.
This update will install the VC80 merge modules and .msi package.
This link provides the redist package separately (in case VS2005 is not installed).
I found that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package that I was installing was version 8.0.56336.
It needs to be version 8.0.59193. Refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 973544.
Note: with older crystal report programs installed alongside new crystal report programs, under Add and Remove programs,
2 Visual C++ 2005 installs will be listed. One for each version.
This is now KBased;
1531409 - How to deploy the CRVS2010 runtime when using merge modules?
HI, i am still having problems when installing application thrue setup project.
I did add CRRuntime_13_0.msm as merge module into setup project. And i get error already mentioned in first post, and making changes described [ here|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_dev/sap%28bd1lbizjptawmq==%29/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333533333331333433303339%7D.do]
it still show same error.
I added Microsoft_VC100_ATL_x86.msm (it is for VS 2010 not 2005 like described in above post. But i dont think that is problem, my opinion is setup try to install Crystal merge module before C++ redistributable package in setup progress and you still getting same error.
I dont know is there way to force setup to install first C++ merge module then Crystal Report ... but if not i dont see how this can work.
Any help ?
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APR 11, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
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(AP) — A strong spring storm that socked the Midwest with ice and heavy, wet snow made its way east, raking the South with tornadoes Thursday, with three deaths blamed on the rough weather and thousands of people without power.
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Kenny Boy Mims – Ashitaka
I have decided to release some of my audio/video work under the moniker Kenny Boy Mims. This is the first. After being inspirited by the supremely talented Pogo I wanted to try my hand at what he does. There are many Pogo-tributes out there but I wanted to do something better.. or at least try.
I chose Princess Mononoke as it is one of my favorite animes, but I quickly discovered why Pogo chooses so many music movies as his source material. Princess Mononoke has no singing and very little isolated sounds, as there seems to be a river, crowd or other background noise in ever scene. Regardless, I samples and fixed all the sounds in Adobe Audition, then composed it in Ableton Live 9. It was my first experience with Ableton and I also wanted to learn that software, which I feel rather comfortable with now. I couldn't get any clean bass tones from the movie so I enlisted my friend Mike from Glass the Sky to lay down a nice bassline.
The video was composed in Adobe Premiere Pro and turned out really well I think. Please enjoy in 1080p!
Ashitaka – Kenny Boy Mims (Pogo Tribute) from Kenny Boy Mims on Vimeo.
Redesigning Mark Susters blog, Bothsidesofthetable.com
Mark Susters blog is one I've been reading for years and one of the very few I check daily. Being a designer by trade, I readily offer up my design critiques for free. I've already given Brad Feld my two cents and wanted to do the same for Mark. However Mark's blog was less in need of critique and more in need of a complete overhaul. I bugged Mark about it (in July) and he agreed to give it a go. Having worked with Mark before on creative projects I knew this was going to take a very long time. That's just the way it is with busy people (and free work).
You can see an archived image of Mark's site here. Large file warning! Thats what you get when your front page is 21,000 pixels in height.
There are two major problems with Mark's old design. The first is that it completely lacked personality. It was top blog in its category, from a technology investor, and it was using the most basic wordpress theme. The content deserved a better treatment. Something with an identity that was also modern in its implementation.
For a while I've been totally enthralled with the way Newsweek treats its feature magazine content online. Huge graphic headers. Really clever parallax cutaways to surface full width images. Carefully guttered content images. All legit. So I found a wordpress theme that had the right basic elements and was able to hack in what I wanted with the help of a fiverr coder. I am a huge fan of fiverr and have spent over $1,000 there in $5 increments. It's been an invaluable extension of my skill set. I don't code, I've tried, and while I am decent at hacking with html/css the intricacies of some of the more modern wordpress themes elude me. I took a chance on a Pakistani developer named Mudassar Ijaz and he's been indispensable.
The other indispensable person was Kyle Taylor who does "platform management" (whatever that is) at Mark's firm Upfront Ventures. On this project Kyle was Mark's liaison and also a second pair of design eyes and hacking hands. Working with Kyle (starting in November), rather than with Mark directly we were able to get this project done in record time. Well… three months.
So with the right blog theme and structure, I could focus on the lacking personality. I had this concept of doing a pixel art illustration of an old and young Mark sitting across a table. I am no pixel artist, but that is what fiverr is for. I found a guy, Eloy, and he is awesome at pixel characters. I did a little photoshopping and came up with the follow header for Mark's blog.
I thought this was just awesome. Humorous, light, and fits in with the tech audience. Kyle dug 'em, but Mark wasn't too jazzed. Too… gimmicky maybe. I went a few rounds to see if there was a way we could adjust and get them in there, but it wasn't happening. Back to both sides of the (drawing) table for this central element. Side note: I did work with Eloy on another outside-of-fiverr project that did really well. But the header was the main opportunity to inject some personality and customization. We tried a few different backgrounds of LA, but they felt too generic. Then while searching around for inspiration I came across this charcoal image of Mark, which he is using for his about.me page.
I am pretty sure the other guy is Brad Feld and this is from an episode of This Week in Venture Capital. I thought it could make a great background header but of course would require a lot of 'charcoal-shopping'. I went back to my young and old (er.. current) Mark idea and extended the table, 'shopped out Brad (sorry!) and added a younger Mark. It came out really well I think. Click for larger version.
I am all about details when designing, so for this 'shop I had the younger Mark be a bit more wide-eyed (literally) and optimistic (up-turned mouth) which I think fits well with Mark's blog and content. If you can't tell its been manipulated (without seeing the original) then I have succeeded.
There were 101 other smaller design decisions and Kyle did a stellar job turning many of Mark's post into really handsome works of content. The second major issue with Mark's blog is the organization and structure is a mess. He has so much evergreen content that it just impossible to find since, as many bloggers due, he abandoned useful post tagging and categorizing early in the blogs life. But we already have a really great solution for this in place, it's just not live yet.
The whole thing turned out really well and I think Mark's blog is certainly the dopest VC blog on the net right now, as always in function, but now in form too!
Edit: In case there are future design changes from my original, here is working version for posterity. http://byjess.net/bothsides/
Reddit /r/Photoshopbattles 98 entry (video)
Everyweek I'm shoppin' it. This for the /r/Photoshopbattles contest
Combining these two … (click for larger)
into this….
And here is how its done, sped up 10x.
Update: I won.
Movie Trilogies: Visual.ly + BYODesigner
In the unending quest for viral graphics I had the idea to compare movie ratings across trilogies. This is not a new idea, and has been done before, but it's a great idea, and worth exploring yet again with a different angle. IMDB is a goldmine of data and one angle I thought was interesting was the difference between the composite critics rating and the average user rating. Did viewers agree with critics? Where was the gulf the widest? A survey of the top movie trilogies would surely surface some insights. But that alone is not enough for virality, like I said, its been done before.
I wanted to bring a visual element to the graphic.. a custom touch. I had worked with a pixel artist, Eloy, before and knew his style would be perfect for what I envisioned. As I have many jobs to do as Creative Director at Visual.ly, I always 'dogfood' our own product as it saves time and headaches. I started a project in our marketplace and brought in a journalist who could collect the data. Normally on these marketing graphics we would source a designer from our own pool of certified talent but since I already had a designer on board, I only made use of Visual.ly's journalist talent and the efficiency of the project center itself to get this graphic to completion in record time.
I love the result. Eloy's characters are wonderful and I regret not being able to use them at full resolution. Below is the one trilogy I wasn't able to include in the graphic as there was no acceptable critics score available. Can you guess which trilogy it is?
The rest of the design, besides the characters, was done by myself, and my Visual.ly compatriot Drew came up with the title.
One of my all time favorites…
A 90′s classic for when you are too large and in charge for the Times. You are reading it now. The x-height says, "Damn right I am tall enough for this ride."
Web Summit infographic
Infographic for Web Summit, completed in 48 hours.
Logo exploration: BR
Logo flexing on the BR letter combination.
It doesn't work so well as light-on-dark because it flips the light direction and becomes less legible Although it still looks handsome, it feels more 'baseball' than 'bevel'.
Bartering design services (for the post-apocalypse)
My son Forest is 6 and enjoys archery lessons from a local coach in town. While talking to his coach I mentioned I was a graphic designer and he mentioned that he needed a logo and some apparel created. It just so happened that Forest needed a new recurve bow so a straight up trade was a made. One logo for one recurve bow. The bow was $150 and this is NOT what I would charge normal clients for a logo but factor in the local discount and I was up for the challenge. I had never bartered design services for a physical item before so I wanted to experience that. In case.., you know… the monetary system collapses and I have put my design skills to use in the post-apoaclypse, I wanted to see what they were worth.
I also wanted an excuse to test out Hunie.co, a design feedback community, founded by my Visual.ly colleague, Damain.
I like my logos to pack a lot of meaning and depth. I already had the idea to use the rings of a tree cross-section to represent an archery target, and an bullseyed arrow could be pointing "north". Actually visualizing the name is the best you can hope for in a logo. Here was my first attempt.
I submitted it to hunie.co and got some quality and actionable feedback from several people.
I made the recommended changes and uploaded another version for round two. The circle icons below are where on the graphic people have left feedback, a super handy feature for getting at those details.
At this point I considered the design final and decided to use my 3rd and final revision to get feed back on some colorways.
I received another three comments on the colorways and presented the finals to the client who was quiet pleased. While I normally would not do a logo for $150 I wanted the opportunity to work with(for) someone so far outside of my design startup circle. Forest's archery coach did not even know how to use a computer and request the file on "tape", not joking. The whole process only took a few hours and it felt good not having to pay money for something for a change. Thanks to ol daddy's design skills, Forest is hitting more bullseyes.


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Definition of unthinking in English:
Expressed, done, or acting without proper consideration of the consequences: she was at pains to correct unthinking prejudices
More example sentences
- Whether you agree with him or not, his motives for acting are clearly not unthinking loyalty to the US or sycophancy to a superpower.
- There would have been much to astonish a young Ligurian at that time, many opportunities for outrage, defensive bigotry or unthinking prejudice.
- When it comes to blind and unthinking prejudice masquerading as nationalism you can always rely on the lunar right to see eye to eye with the loopy left.
thoughtless, inconsiderate, uncaring, heedless, unmindful, regardless, insensitive, injudicious, blundering, uncharitable, unkind;
tactless, undiplomatic, indiscreet, careless, selfish, impolite, rude
absent-minded, heedless, thoughtless, unmindful, careless, injudicious, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, unwise, foolish, silly, stupid, reckless, rash, precipitate, negligent, neglectful, remiss;
involuntary, inadvertent, unintentional, unintended, mechanical, automatic, reflex, spontaneous, instinctive, impulsive, intuitive, unpremeditated, unconscious
- Example sentences
- Controlled and coerced by authority and media, the individual either accepts the message blindly and unthinkingly, or reacts creatively and critically because he understands dominance.
- You're so happy with the friendly and attentive service you've received that you unthinkingly tip 20%, or more, and search for the eye of your waiter and exchange with them a hearty goodbye.
- A particularly good chapter on Asia rebukes anyone who unthinkingly assigns to China the role once played by the Soviet Union as the natural antagonist of the U.S.
unthinkingness noun
- Example sentences
- Please put it down to momentary unthinkingness.
- In this unthinkingness, in this damned egoistic impressionism, lurks a sinister bureaucracy of thought suppressing all healthy, deviant impulses - namely, congruency between image and sound.
- But there is an art to this, and it is the antithesis of the unthinkingness that propagates the clichés in the first place.
Words that rhyme with unthinkingfreethinking, shrinking, sinking, unblinking, unwinking
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Simon Jordan's autobiography hit shelves today and, as you would expect, he pulls no punches.
Throughout his time as Crystal Palace's owner, and when he made his millions with the PocketPhone Shop, Jordan was never shy of controversy and he has not shirked it again in 'Be Careful What You Wish For'.
Ron Noades, Steve Coppell, Jamie Pollock, Craig Foster, Gordon Taylor, Terry Venables, Iain Dowie, Richard Murray, Agilo's Milos Brajovic, Eagles' chief executive Phil Alexander and current chairman Steve Parish are just a few people that come under fire - while agents and players are vilified throughout.
At times, Jordan comes across as a media-loving bully determined to do things his way and cause a storm and, particularly around the Dowie years, everyone else is blamed but him and you find yourself struggling to believe many of his claims.
But there are times when you feel sorry for him, especially at the beginning and end of his tenure, when he does admit mistakes in his eagerness first of all to please and later not to lose.
The book begins with a short section on his childhood - when he broke into Selhurst Park on Sundays - and his father's legal battle against then Palace chairman Noades' attempt to build a car park at the end of their garden.
Jordan's determination to succeed soon comes to the forefront as he rises to the top in the computer contractor industry, loses it all and then gets it all back again as he turns a business conceived in a Chinese restaurant in Finchley Road into a £78m fortune that gave him the funds to rescue Palace from administration in 2000.
But there is a stark contrast between the Jordan that ran PocketPhone Shop with a control bordering on OCD, not minding who he trampled over to get his way, and the one portrayed in his early years at Palace - where he was ultimately too naive and too trusting in people that let him down.
He spent £1m on Julian Gray and Tommy Black in the first week of his tenure in a desperate attempt to please manager Coppell and, later £2.25m on flop Ade Akinbiyi on the insistence of then manager Trevor Francis.
But many Palace fans will turn first to the latter chapters surrounding the events of 2009 that led to Agilo putting the club into administration in January, 2010.
Jordan presents himself as having tried everything to avoid administration, including meeting with now disgraced former Croydon Athletic owner Mazhar Majeed, but was let down by others - those behind the Hero Fund (a basket into which he effectively put all his and Palace's eggs and lost them), the people at the Agilo hedge fund, who back-tracked on their promises to him, and even people at the club, who he claims stabbed him in the back.
The most telling line comes at the end, when he writes: "At least I would have no more to do with people like the destructive Brajovic, disingenuous Parish, disappointing Guilfoyle and ultimately disloyal Phil Alexander."
The book does border on being one long rant at times and some things you do have to take with a pinch of salt, but it is a good read and provides a great insight into a world many only imagine entering.
Jordan will be signing copies of 'Be Careful What You Wish For' at Waterstones in Leadenhall Market at 12.30pm on Friday, June 8.


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Coke Honored For Global Women's Initiative
Initiatives from The Coca-Cola Company, Alcoa Inc., and Unilever are the recipients of the 2013 Catalyst Award, the prestigious annual award honoring exceptional initiatives that expand opportunities for women and business.
"This year's Catalyst Award-winning initiatives demonstrate that global gender diversity strategies at multinational corporations can be designed and implemented in ways that successfully meet the needs of local regions and businesses," said Ilene H. Lang, President & CEO, Catalyst. "And they are all championed by male CEOs who understand the strong business case for including women in top leadership and have made women's advancement an organization-wide priority from day one."
Since 1987, Catalyst has recognized exceptional business initiatives that advance women in the workplace with the Catalyst Award, which embodies Catalyst's vision of "Changing workplaces, Changing lives." This year's Award-winning global initiatives include:
• Alcoa Inc.'s Building Opportunities for Women in a "Hard Hat" Company breaks down barriers in a male-dominated industry and achieves greater gender representation through an aggressive diversity agenda, with accountability tied to executive compensation and innovative talent management programs that Alcoa's business units can customize to develop women supervisors and leaders in Alcoa's refineries, smelters, and factories worldwide.
• The Coca-Cola Company's Global Women's Initiative: Women as the Real Drivers of the 21st Century is a strategic, internal and external initiative focused on fueling the advancement of women into leadership roles across the company's organization, and on economically empowering women entrepreneurs throughout the system value chain—accelerating women as dynamic leaders within the business and within communities across the globe.
• Unilever's Global Reach With Local Roots: Creating a Gender-Balanced Workforce in Different Cultural Contexts accelerates the advancement of high-potential women across different regions by leveraging the company's strong foundation of cultural diversity and multinational expertise to promote a culture of inclusion and by creating flexible "anytime, anywhere" work-life programs.
Alcoa Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, and Unilever will present in-depth discussions on their initiatives at the 2013 Catalyst Awards Conference at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York on March 19, 2013. The Conference, which is sponsored by Wal-Mart, will feature keynote speaker Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation.
In the evening, the 2013 Catalyst Awards Dinner, sponsored by RBC and Shell Oil Company, will be chaired by Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer of Campbell Soup Company. Close to 100 CEOs of major multinational corporations and firms are expected to attend, along with nearly 1,600 guests, including leaders of major corporations, firms, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations.


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Seven-goal striker Hanson wasted a glorious opportunity to give the Bantams victory when he weakly sent a close-range free header straight at Shrimps stopper Barry Roche 10 minutes from time.
Parkinson said: "It was the one great chance of the game and I'm sure he will still be wondering how he hasn't scored.
"It is the sort of chance you need to put away in games like this, it's as simple as that. But he hasn't and we will move on and a point away from home against a side enjoying a good run at home is not a disaster.
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Here's why you should keep track of hacks and breaches and not re-use passwords: because even the king of the modern internet isn't immune from account takeovers… and if he's not, you're not either. [More]
Even Mark Zuckerberg Isn't Impervious To Recycling Passwords, Having Accounts Hacked
No, Mark Zuckerberg Is Not Giving Away Millions In Facebook Stock To People Who Copy, Paste Something
Have you ever heard of someone who was rewarded with millions of dollars just for copying and pasting text? It sounds like a hard job to get, because it is — it doesn't exist. That's why no one is going to get free shares of Facebook stock simply by slapping a chunk of text into a status message and posting it. You will, however, get more people to realize how gullible you are. [More]
Mark Zuckerberg Wants World's 5 Billion Without Internet To Get Connected (And On Facebook?)
Forget trying to buy the world a Coke — Mark Zuckerberg would like to connect the five billion people on the planet who don't have Internet with the rest of the online world. And while yes, of course, since he's the founder and CEO of Facebook, one might assume that the more of those people who have access to the World Wide Web, the more there'll be on Facebook. But he says it's really about connecting people. On Facebook. Okay, really — just about connecting. [More]
Could Facebook's Mysterious Invitation Mean It's Finally Launching A Phone?
That whirring sound you hear is the rumor mill kicking into high gear, probably splashing water everywhere (it is a mill) while it gets to spinning: Facebook has issued a mysterious invitation for the media to come hang out on its campus in Menlo Park, Calif. next Tuesday and of course, now everyone's all abuzz as to what it is the social network has to share with us. Could it be a phone? A new superhero? A fancy haircut for Mark Zuckerberg? [More]
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Renewable Energy World Prepares to Kick Off Busy Conference Season
March 4, 2009
Spring is quickly approaching, and that means that the conference season is about to take off, starting this year with the Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 10-12. Billed as renewable energy's leading conference, the event, formerly called POWER-GEN Renewable Energy & Fuels, is expected to feature 300 exhibitors, drawing a crowd of about 5,000 renewable energy professionals. Next up is the National Hydrogen Association Conference and Hydrogen Expo, running from March 30-April 3 in Columbia, South Carolina, followed by the Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference + Expo on April 19-22 in Orlando, Florida. And how about springtime in Paris? Energy efficiency experts will be gathering in the City of Lights for discussions about subjects like energy efficient lighting, as EE Global 2009 takes place there on April 27-29.
In May, it's time for a trip to the Windy City, as Chicago, Illinois, hosts WINDPOWER 2009 Conference and Exposition on May 4-7. The largest annual wind energy conference and exhibition in the world is expected to draw more than 13,000 attendees and about 900 exhibitors. After that, shuffle off to Buffalo, New York, to catch SOLAR 2009, the blissfully briefly named solar conference held on May 11-16. In June, the Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards, and Trade Show comes to Atlanta, Georgia, on June 3-5. And it all wraps up in mid-summer, as Plug-In 2009 comes to Long Beach, California, on August 10-13 with the latest news on plug-in hybrid vehicles. The inaugural event, held last year, drew more than 650 attendees and 35 exhibiting companies.


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"Bawheidbob wrote:Well curiosity got the better of me when I killed merv, easily i might add, and proceeded into a corrupted area when going through the Forest. The boss at the end was too eager to be my friend and killed me by mistake.
Going to start up again now, slightly annoyed i reeped a 11% flameblast but it was always going to happen :)
Very nice guide.
Sorry to hear that. Yes, invaders can be super tough. To the point I feel like when I'm entering new area, now where's the little nasty thing and let's hope I see him first and recognise him before he does anything nasty. I was in lunaris 2, and up to this point it was the "Oooh Kole" zone, now it was... "Oooh let's hope invader isn't with Kole", when I saw Kole on his own it was a relief then I just murdered poor guy, fella and procceded with the "in horror game" feeling. XD
Shame about that flameblast. If you need any help with anything, say so! Take care and have fun!
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Skip to comments.Sarah Palin Is Wrong on Replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton (She has 'em all lathered up!)
Posted on 08/16/2012 9:54:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What is this fixation with replacing Vice President Joe Biden on the presidential ticket with Hillary Clinton?
Sarah Palin became the latest to make the suggestion, which is a pretty good indicator that it would be a bad ideaor at least, a bad idea for the Democrats. Palin, responding to Biden's remarks in Virginia that GOP contender Mitt Romney's plans for Wall Street would "put y'all back in chains," had the following advice, according to Fox News:
"If that's not the nail in the coffin, really, the strategists there in the Obama campaign have got to look at a diplomatic way of replacing Joe Biden on the ticket with Hillary. And I don't want to throw out that suggestion and have them actually accept the suggestion because then an Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket would have a darn good chance of winning."
True, Biden's comments had an unfortunate, although almost certainly inadvertent, racial underpinning to them, especially since his audience had a good share of African-Americans. But then, Romney's recent ad accusing President Obama of gutting welfare reforma charge that has been widely discredited by independent fact-checkershas a racial component as well. And telling Obama to "go back to Chicago," a city with a substantial African-American population, could arguably be cast as derisive towards urban America.
But the Clinton talkwhich never comes from the White House, but more commonly, from Republicans or some Clinton die-hards who still can't accept that Clinton wasn't the nomineeis still baffling. Biden is an asset, even when he tends to say things without first editing them inside his head (in fact, there's something rather refreshing about that tendency). The vice president is one of the most substantive people in Washington, especially on foreign affairs and budget issues he dealt with for years on the Hill. His relationships with senators on both sides of the aisle help ease the brutally partisan environment in Washington that has kept the two branches from working together.
And while Clinton has done a stellar job as secretary of state, there's no evidence that she would enhance the ticket from an electoral standpoint. There's not only a disturbing degree of racism out there (the determined view that Obama is "other" is sadly proven by the number of people who still don't think he was born in the United States), but there's a strong backlash against female power as well. You think it's hard getting a woman or an African-American elected to high office? Try putting both of them on the same ticket.
Palin, of course, has a right to her opinion. But if she says a Biden-Clinton sub would have been good for the Democratic ticket, you can be well-assured it's not.
The author obviously has not been reading our exchanges here on this subject this morning.
Visible PDS, on the part of the author. Stopped reading right there. ;)
I think she said it to rub salt into the wound of the Hilary follower when he sticks with Biden.
Sarah is enjoying the catbird seat these days.
She gets to stir the anthill and watch 'em scramble and run into each other.
She is also probably inoculating AGAINST hilary VP by the very fact the dims would be loath to be seen "obeying" her.
I love it.
I think the author is wrong...but I hope obama heeds her advice. I think adding Hillary would help obama a LOT. On the other hand, I think Biden really really helps the GOP.
I hope he stays.
Oh Sarah gets in their heads and haunts their dreams.
Sarah Palin...(...all lathered up!)
I'm kinda distracted by that headline.
The author SWINGS AND MISSES.
Hmmm, what to do, Dear Leader? Stick with Biden? Gaffes galore until election day? Or take the advice of Sarah Palin? That would indicate she was actually pretty politically savvy, right? Not the dumb bimbo you've been trying to portray her as?
I would actually wade Into DU to read the meltdown if that were to happen!
Palin is clearly living rent-free in this author's head!
She knew exactly what she was saying and I'm glad she said it.
The Dems would be loathe to take her advice. It was a very shrewd move.
I've got three lib sisters who'd love it if Obama dumped Biden and replaced him with Hillary. One of my sisters doesn't much like Obama, but she hates Republicans worse. She was not happy when Obama beat out Hillary for the nomination.
"Visible PDS, on the part of the author."
What does PDS stand for?
Governor Palin lives rent free in their heads.
There is no doubt that Biden is a senile racist.
I believe Hillary will take the bait.
I thought we got rid of her!!!
It's also true they won't jump in if they think Bambi is going to lose. She couldn't handle being the losing VP candidate and the potential scapegoat. If they think he has a good chance of winning, I think they might jump on the bandwagon if they can get her close to the presidency (hint, hint: impeachment, arkancide, etc).
I too don't see how Hillary could think such a move would help her. So I'm hoping that that logic would carry the day.
Of course...if you are right that she wouldn't help that much...and obama were still to lose, then, that would be truly awesome. Sort of a two-fer, whereas beating Biden is sort of non-consequential.
So....we shall see where all this lands in a few weeks.
Psy-ops? Hopefully so. Sarah knows the liberal media HATE her and by her going out and positing this publicly, she's poisoning the idea. What? Sarah Palin has politics smarts enough to suggest 0bama will dump Biden for Hillary, and he DOES IT?????!!!!!!!!
I never really thought of Palin as a strategist. But on this one, I suspect the same thing. She may be suggesting Obama replace Biden with Hillary simply knowing that her suggesting it will absolutely forbid the narcisist in charge from doing exactly as she suggests.
Obama would look week by following the direction of Sara Palin. Therefore, Biden stays where he is.
I have begun to think Palin is suggesting it as "reverse psycology." BTW, that only works in idiots so we'll see.
Palin Derrangement Syndrome
"Please don't through me in the briar patch!"
"And while Clinton has done a stellar job as secretary of state"
I about busted a gut laughing over that one. Bwahahahahaha, snort, snort, snicker, snicker, hehehehehehehehehehe.
You have got to be kidding me! Really?!? Lets look at the results shall we.
Biden is good on budget issues.The budget, if there was one, is out of control.
Foreign affairs? Laughable! Even the bumbling dems know better than to send this moron to a foreign country. They send Michelle instead.
Partisan environment? Worse that anytime in history with exception to maybe the Civil War.
Clinton's stellar job as SOS? The only thing she has "accomplished" is to divide the Mid East against Israel, setting the region up for future bloodshed.
Its no wonder that no one reads these rags anymore.
I'm pondering how we could make that an attractive idea to BJ Clinton..........
Gee Susan Milligan, Kennedy biographer, Y'all think so?
FOX talked at least 10 minutes this morning about this being a suggestion made by McCain. Some of the FOX commentators have such a difficult time acknowledging anything Palin that it's getting ridiculous. McCain's suggestion was just an echo of Palin's.
Beat me to it, darn it.
Let's see if Biden is now made to read a prepared speech from a teleprompter like the Big Guy!"
If so, they will need to make sure that no word has more than two syllables in length. Knowing Joe though,he might read the speech and then say something like, "Now, what we really mean is...." Joe appears to be either off his meds or on new ones that aren't working and he simply isn't able to stay on task, much to our amusement.
My dear Freepers....
Palin's suggestion is the fresh version of Limbaugh's famed OPERATION CHAOS.
Yeah, I've long noticed that too. Instances where Palin either gave a big speech that's widely quoted, or a Facebook posting that makes some big waves, and they wind up getting covered on CNN, NBC and such... yet only silence from FoxNews. Really noticeable. Especially over the past two years. And considering she's a bloomin' contributor for Fox, all the more bizarre. I generally came to the conclusion that it was all part of the Rove/GOP-E stranglehold on the network, which immediately started snubbing (if not outright disparaging) the whole Tea Party/Palin wing after the conclusion of the 2010 mid-terms.
Also, what's been all over the news lately?
Hillary's girlfriend, Huma Abedin, has been planted in the State Dept by the Musloid Brotherhood.
Shrillary was the anointed one until the anointed one put her in chains.
Funny stuff.
Psy-ops? Hopefully so. Sarah knows the liberal media HATE her and by her going out and positing this publicly, shes poisoning the idea. What? Sarah Palin has politics smarts enough to suggest 0bama will dump Biden for Hillary, and he DOES IT?????!!!!!!!!I agree.
Plus, it recalls the Obama campaign's despicable treatment of Hillary in 2008, in case any PUMAs are paying attention.
Win, win.
How'd that work out for us?
All Liberals, including Obama, will instinctively shy away from ANY idea if Sarah had anything to do with it.
At the same time it points out the abject hypocrisy of Obama claiming to be the "pro woman" candidate.
Fox's corporate stand on Governor Palin changed after she rejected the Roger Ailes advice to hunker down during the aftermath of the Gabby Giffords shooting.
When she made her "blood libel" statement, it seemed to cause Ailes to turn against her.
How did this work out for us?
Red on Drudge, Carney slams McCain for suggesting Hillary. Says he wouldn't take advice from him regarding VP selection (yes a slam on Palin), but I think it was Palin who forced their hand. Talk all over the internet about bring in Hillary and it has been going on for a while. THAT would not have been good, but Palin coming out and giving advice killed the idea (for now). The switch Hilliary for Biden became more of a possibility with Biden's latest hoof in mouth comments. She spoke up and THAT made if more difficult for them to take the Hillary route. They are only using McCain as an excuse, but Palin was the one who 'messed things up' for them, IMO.
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My husband, toddler and I were cuddling in our bed one day when our son stood up—something we don't encourage as he can easily fall over the bed. "No, no… sit back down. We don't stand on the bed," I immediately reprimanded him. To which my husband reminded me, "'Honor the impulse,' remember?"
I've long since been a fan of "honoring the impulse," a term coined by Laura Davis in her book, Becoming the Parent You Want To Be. Rather than simply jumping to conclusions or doling out discipline, honoring the impulse encourages parents to first determine and acknowledge the motivation behind their kids' actions.
In my case, when we paused to see what it was that my toddler was trying to do, we learned that he wasn't standing up to be a butt or to rebel, but that he was curious about a book on a bedside table and wanted to get a better look. If I were to re-do that scene, I would have first pulled him down to safety and said, "Are you trying to see the book on daddy's bedside table? We don't stand on the bed though because you could fall. Maybe we could bring the book closer so you can see it."
We don't have to back down and say standing on the bed is allowed, but we should have acknowledged what he was trying to do instead of disregarding his intentions completely. I would bet that most kids misbehave without intending to do so—fewer are the cases when they blatantly defy us to elicit a response, express anger or assert their control. More often than not, they just don't know that some behaviors aren't okay, or they may have forgotten the rules amidst their excitement and curiosity.
I honor the impulse because doing so reminds me the reason behind my toddler's actions and misbehavior. I'm better able to see his true motivation instead of assuming he's just acting out; and in doing so, I'm better able to address the issue. In my example, he just wanted to look at a book. Addressing that issue first could easily avoid a flare up (thankfully one that didn't ensue that day).
Acknowledging their intentions also helps kids feel less attacked. If we're constantly told not to do something, that we're not obeying or that we're acting improperly, patience is bound to wear thin. And in most cases, they don't even think they're doing anything wrong. A kid who decides to color on the table could have just wanted to see if the table would be any different than paper, not that he was purposefully disobeying mom. No wonder kids have blow ups and tantrums—they're probably exhausted from being told not to do something when they don't even feel like they're doing anything wrong.
And lastly, honoring their impulses helps them feel more respected. When we empathize and let them know that we acknowledge kids' motives, they're likely to feel like we're not just out to get them and that we truly do respect their curiosity and excitement. We just don't want them to express them in certain ways, such as standing up on a bed.
Clearly some misdeeds are more serious and will elicit a strong "no" from us, and sometimes kids just do strange things that make it difficult for adults to pause and acknowledge their motives first. I remember when I caught my then-18-month-old nephew swirling his arm around the (clean) water in a toilet bowl; my first reaction was to screech, "No!" You can imagine his reaction to that:he cried hysterically. But I was just so shocked and grossed out to see his arm in a toilet bowl that I couldn't stay calm (plus I was also only 15 years old!).
Otherwise, it's often a good idea to honor the impulse and realize that kids aren't always trying to drive us bonkers. They're exploring the world and discovering their surroundings in ways they know how.
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I'm in the NYC Tri and I have to say the idea of swimming in the Hudson river (the main river that flows through NYC, and New Jersey before that…need I say more) is making me nervous right now and the event isn't even till July does any one know something kind of cleanser that I could pop open and poor all over my self at the T1. I didn't care how it looks to the others! When their at mile 12 of the bike ride and there....everything starts to itch they will wish they had cleaned up as well.
I'm totally open to any suggestions that make sense don't compromise my T1 times too severely.
I saw that and had the same response...But others have survived before you. Pray for rain during the race but not before it. How hard was it getting the registration and qualifying times
I just read they have a psychologist at the start and he/she kicks your butt in the water. The current will help too
There is the NYC 28 mile marathon swim, and those people come out alright, cough! Should be alright, and good luck with the triathlon. In the end you can always use these, http://www.aftasport.com/ Best way to describe it as a shower towel.
'I just read they have a psychologist at the start and he/she kicks your butt in the water."
LOL there are going to be some of the toughest most grizzled athletes in the world participating in this event. That Psych Doc better be plenty strong (if he's a man) or plenty beautiful (if she's a woman) to get in every one in that water with out a second thought.
I was talking to some one and they suggested hydrogen peroxide…My hair was brown when I started the race when I'm done it will be white/blond I guess I will have story to tell the grandkids….
lol, you are afraid of jumping into river but i am sure they'll throw you in if you hesitate for even a second.
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Did that race in 2008. Had a school (flock? pod? swarm?) of jellyfish hit the course at exactly the wrong time and dozens of folks swam through and got stung. Some even inside the mouth. Yuk. I emerged unscathed, but it wasn't like swimming in Lake Huron, that's for sure. My advice: practice breathing that restricts taking ANY water into your mouth. Put a bit of extra roll into it.
That race is very, very difficult. It's a LOT more hilly than you'd think when considering Manhattan and the area. The bike has several decent grinding climbs and the run in Central Park is all up and down. 2008 was HOT. Like 95+. I hear last year was cooler, but rainy. Look at the results history and you'll see it is a race with "slow" times compared to other Oly distances. Reset your goals appropriately.
Also, I don't know if it was a joke or not, but there is no psychologist pushing folks in the water. You jump in, hold a rope to keep from going down the river with the current, the gun goes off, and you go.
Good luck.
Another good reason to have one (or more) clean water bottles at transition along with a chamois or towel. Dump on head and rinse out the mouth. I'm not keen on ocean swims for the same reason (salt water...blech!).
Did the race last year. I wouldn't worry about the water. Just be careful when you get near the finish and don't "stand down", rather swim up to the exit ramp. I did this and had no issues at all.
Expect a long T-1, the run from the swim exit to your bike is a solid 1/2 mile run.
Also, depending on your wave, you may experience a long wait. If I recall, there are over 2 hours of wave start times.
"Expect a long T-1, the run from the swim exit to your bike is a solid 1/2 mile run."
LoL J*sus that a long way to run wearing a Speedo! I hope my junk doesn't pop-out!
I'm not too worried about the running out of steam I usually do the IM-70s so an Olympic doesn't seem too intimidating, other then its in NYC, I hope I don't get hit by a cab .
I've got my "I'm walken here!" (Heavy Jersey Accent) all loaded up!
This is great keep the inside info about the race coming brothers! The insights about the bike course were especially helpful. I live in Mi so its hard to get a training course that is hilly so little things like that will make a lot of difference come race day.
Thx for all the so far and keep the info coming plz
Well, for an out of towner, The host hotel is in Mid-town. Its not close to the race start. Consider finding a hotel close to the start. (I don't have a suggestion). Last year it took a long time to get over to the start. Traffic was a b_tch. You drop your stuff off in T-1 race morning (except your bike that gets dropped off the day before) and have to walk well over a mile and a half to the swim start. Not a big deal if you have a late wave, but if you have an early wave, it can be an issue if you don't plan for the traffic.
The bike is rolling hills on the West Side Highway - very cool for people that commute on the road, I did not find it difficult (compared to Rev3 and Toughman as examples of much harder courses). The big issue is the roads are full of pot holes. Keep an eye out for them - lots of flats last year. I had an early start, (men's elite), but the faster groups with later starts had to fight through a lot of slower people.
The run was great. Lots of cheering and support.
July in NYC is HUMID.
Logistics are the hardest part of the race. Between the host hotel in Mid-town, T-1 & T-2 (same place) over a mile from the race start, the finish line in central park, and the mass of people that are at NYC for an "event" rather than a race, its a do it once race.
Glad I did it, but I did not sign up this year.
Sweet thx for the feed back!
Quick question kind of have a un-related question about gear I was told when buying a tri suit you should opt to buy one a size smaller then you think you need.
My measurements are: 32 waist and 39 chest
I've been thinking about picking up this tri-suit:
And by the way I'm open to suggestion on good tri-suits.
Here is the size chart:
You think I should go with a Medium or a Small?
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With a super hot visiting Dallas Stars team, the Winnipeg Jets had their hands full tonight, but were up for the challenge and hungry for points.
Nik Antropov opened the scoring picking up that important first goal, just over two minutes into the game. The home team added four more in the second period and took a 5-2 final over the Stars in the MTS Centre Wednesday night.
Evander Kane and Eric Fehr each scored one while captain Andrew Ladd added a pair on the night. Loui Eriksson tallied both Stars goals.
Ondrej Pavelec stopped 28 of the 30 shots he saw while Richard Bachman stopped 23 of 28.
The Jets are back in action Friday night against the Washtington Capitals in another crucial tilt. Catch that game at 7:30pm on TSN Jets.
Nik Antropov got the Jets on the board just 2:21 into the first period on the third shot of the game. Antti Miettinen dug the puck out of the corner and sent a nice pass onto the tape of Antropov waiting inside the circle. He released a quick wrist shot that flew over the shoulder of Bachman stick-side. Grant Clitsome picked up his second point as a Jet picking up an assist on the goal. 1-0 Jets early.
After twenty minutes of play, the Jets led 1-0 and were up 10-9 on the shot clock. The Jets also led in the faceoff circle by a 59%-41% margin, as well as in the hits column, 15-13.
The Jets got off to a great start in the second period as Evander Kane scored his 28th of the season 1:19 in. Kyle Wellwood started the play sending a nice feed to Alexander Burmistrov breaking up the right wing into the Dallas zone. Burmistrov blasted a shot from the top of the circle that Bachman blocked but he sent a huge rebound out to the left circle where Kane was waiting to bury the rebound. 2-0 Jets.
Dallas took the game's first penalty of the night as Vernon Fiddler was caught for tripping. The Jets had a couple of good scoring chances but weren't able to convert on the man advantage.
Eric Fehr added to the Jets lead at 8:28 as Eric Fehr blasted a slap shot from the top of the circle on a partial breakaway. He pinched out his defender allong the boards and squeezed past him to set himself up with a great shot.
The Jets kept pushing as Andrew Ladd added a fourth goal to the board under a minute later. With a ton of pressure down low around the Stars net, Dustin Byfuglien took a shot that Bachman kicked aside. Blake Wheeler then found the loose puck and got it to Ladd down low to lift the puck up and into the net. 4-0 Jets.
Ladd added a power play marker at 16:12 of the middle frame as he redirected Dustin Byfuglien's fluttering shot from the point as it was making it's way through traffic. It hit Bachman but he didn't quite have a hold of it as it fell to the ice and trickled through his legs and across the line. Ladd's 100th franchise point had the Jets up 5-0.
The Stars answered back 17 seconds later as they marched the puck down the length of the ice. Mike Ribeiro walked right in and fired a shot on Pavelec that was turned aside but Loui Eriksson was there to tap in the rebound. 5-1 Jets.
After five goals were scored in the second period, time finally expired with the Jets on top 5-1, and leading 23-22 in shots on net.
The pace slowed considerably through the first half of the final period but the Jets by no means were sitting back on their heals. Both teams had a number of scoring chances but just couldn't find the finishing touch. Through 13 minutes, the Jets still held a 5-1 lead on the Stars.
Eriksson inched the Stars a little closer as he tallied his second of the game at 16:16. Michael Ryder leaped and caught a flying puck down low beside Pavelec. He quickly threw the puck in front and found Eriksson to put the puck past Pavelec. 5-2 Jets.
Moments later, tempers began to flare after one of the Stars gave Pavelec a shove in his crease. A handful of Jets stood up for their goaltender and dropped the gloves. As penalties were being handed out, Adam Burish took Tanner Glass' glove and launched it into the crowd earning him an extra two minutes and a game misconduct. Glass in return got a 10 minute misconduct for fighting back. Vernon Fiddler also picked up a 10 minute miscondict on the play.
That's how this one would end as the Jets walk away with a 5-2 win and a valuable two points. They will enjoy tomorrow and prepare to welcome another big opponent, the Washington Capitals, Friday night.


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50 years ago
Harry Barengo and Dick McBane are co-chairmen for the Marietta Jaycees' annual March of Dimes radio auction. The event gives people a chance to phone in bids on a variety of items donated by local merchants, while the three-hour auction's progress is broadcast on radio.
100 years ago
Miss Willia D. Cotton, librarian, announced in her annual report to the trustees of the Public Library association that Andrew Carnegie will give $30,000 to erect a new building. It is hoped that a site will soon be selected and additional money raised to support this purpose.
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LITTLE HOCKING - A fire believed to have been caused by heat lamps intended to keep animals warm destroyed a barn Tuesday, killing all 18 goats inside.
The fire on the Gantsville Road property of Little Hocking residents Dan and Terry Mason was reported shortly after 2 p.m., said Little Hocking Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mike Chevalier.
The cause of the fire is officially undetermined because there wasn't much left to investigate, Chevalier said. However, he believes the heat lamps were the source. Whether there was a short or a device was knocked over is unknown.
"That was about the only source of heat in the barn, so I'm pretty confident that's what caused it, but I don't know what triggered it," Chevalier said.
The blaze is not considered suspicious.
The value of the barn was estimated at $25,000. In addition to the goats that died, bales of hay, a four-wheeler and a tractor were lost.
Fourteen Little Hocking firefighters responded to the scene and had the fire under control in about 15 minutes, Chevalier said. The Coolville Volunteer Fire Department was contacted for mutual aid, but it was determined the additional manpower wasn't needed, Assistant Chief Dale Wootton said.
"Smoke was the biggest problem we had," he said. "Visibility was nothing."
Thick smoke and steam from the fire blew into the faces of firefighters, forcing them to add length to their hoses and attack it from the west, Wootton said. They were able to keep an attached utility shed largely intact and protected from the flames.
"They did a great job (in) miserable weather," Dan Mason said.
As he displayed his frozen gloves, Wootton said the frigid conditions gripping the area Tuesday presented additional challenges. Firefighters couldn't completely shut off the hoses or the lines would have frozen.
It wastes some water, Wootton said, but "if you don't waste water, you're not going to be able to fight a fire anyway."


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He captured tenement infernos, car crashes, and gangland executions. He found washed-up lounge singers and teenage murder suspects in paddy wagons and photographed them at their most vulnerable -- or, as he put it, their most human. He caught couples kissing on their beach blankets on Coney Island and the late-night voyeurs on lifeguard stands watching them. And everywhere he went, he snatched images of people sleeping: drunks on park benches, whole families on Lower East Side fire escapes, men and women snoring in movie theaters. He was the supreme chronicler of the city at night.
Born Usher Fellig in what is now the Ukraine, Weegee moved to New York's Lower East Side in 1910 at the age of eleven. By fifteen he had left home, supporting himself through odd jobs and sleeping wherever he could find a place: the benches of Penn Station and Bryant Park (to which he would later return, camera in hand), or the Bowery's flophouses. He became a street photographer's assistant and later a roaming photographer himself, snapping pictures of children to sell to their poor but proud parents. During the 1920s he worked and often lived in the darkrooms of the New York Times and Acme Newspictures, and soon he was filling in for photographers when they couldn't make their late shift. By the thirties, his intimate chronicles of disasters both natural and man-made were being featured in PM, Life, Popular Photography, and all of the New York dailies. He went on to become one of the most prolific and famous news photographers of the century. His first book, Naked City, which helped established his fame and is still in print today, was published in 1945.
Today Weegee is credited with ushering in the age of tabloid culture, while at the same time being revered for elevating the sordid side of human life to that of high art. Here is a rare interview with Weegee, recently discovered at the Recorded Sound division at the Library of Congress. It was conducted in July, 1945, by nationally-syndicated talk show host Mary Margaret McBride on WEAF in New York, soon after the publication of Naked City.
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Janáček in Chicago
Káťa Kabanová has a lot in common with the more popular Jenůfa--nice but flawed girl vs. provincial assholes in two-bit town--though it is decidedly the less 'feel-good' of the two. That said, the heroines are really quite different. Where Jenůfa is simple and naive, a creature of the village who, through hardship, reveals great moral depths within herself, Káťa is doomed to never reconcile herself to the hypocrisy and deceit of the village. She is cursed with an artistic soul in a universe devoid of true and pure sentiment, and it destroys her.
The fit of Karita Mattila's voice to the music of these two characters is surely one of the more exquisite things one can experience in an opera house right now. In Káťa's long monologue in the first act, telling of the cherished internal life being crushed under the heel of her married life, Mattila creates moments of such jaw dropping beauty and intensity you almost can't believe your ears. Mattila's Káťa is a woman driven to frenzy by a problem she can't figure out--how she can live, and be expected to live, in the world without any real feeling. Mattila draws you deep into Káťa's terrible dilemma, her voice pealing out of the nervous mass of Janáček's score to reflect the sunlight for a moment before it is consumed again. Chicago people: four shows left. No excuses.
Mattila was well paired with the very exciting Brandon Jovanovich as Boris. I've never seen him before, but looked up him up after Will mentioned him in comments the other week, and was pleased to hear him fulfill all the promises of those youtube videos. Warm and passionate voice and way loud. Can't wait for more of him.
Supporting cast is uniformly strong--can't get quite as excited about the Kabanicha as the Kostelnicka, but Judith Forst was shrill and suffocating and all that good stuff. Special props to the rich-voiced Tichon of Jason Collins.
Great work in the pit from the Lyric orchestra and conductor Markus Stenz--if Jenůfa is more lyrical, the KK score evokes a more varied landscape for its play, at times sensuous, weary, and cruel, and packed with fascinating detail. The production, an early 90s show from the Met, is basically on target. The sorta faux hinted perspective thing with little buildings at the back of a severely raked stage looks like crap from the balcony, but it provides the kind of simple, neutral platform on which Janáček seems to work best, so fine.


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For 'The Good Wife', Shooting New York and Faking Chicago
Brooke Kennedy has spent the better part of her career dressing one city to look like another. For her most recent project, Kennedy serves as a location scout and executive producer for the CBS television show, "The Good Wife." The series stars Julianna Margulies as a woman who joins an old friend's law firm after her husband leaves his District Attorney post after being caught up in a political scandal. Although it is shot in New York, the show takes place in Chicago. For Kennedy that means trying to make New York look like anything but.
Speakeasy talked with Kennedy about the challenges of finding new and exciting – yet unrecognizable – places in the city.
Even though you shoot in New York how do you ensure that the city is not seen in your location shots?
I work very hard. There are no buses, as best I can control it. We don't shoot the avenues. We have Chicago cabs and police cars that we use. You paint your pictures, you layer them accordingly. The architecture looks close enough. If you put in Chicago cab and change the color of the street sign, people will start to hopefully go with you.
But it takes more than a few substitutions to construct Chicago from New York, no?
The things you can't control, you avoid those. There are only a couple of waterways I can shoot here, so you have to avoid all that big stuff that is clearly not Chicago. Then there's a question of what I can control. I can change the street signs, there are those physical elements. Their parking signs are different, it'll be a color of a fire hydrant. There are other small things in the public utility fields that are different from other cities and you can start to paint all that in. Then I can change license plates, I can put in a little weather with what people are wearing. If I really wanted to get crazy I'd bring in a wind machine and do the windy city but I don't want to get that crazy.
Are there any benefits to shooting in New York?
People stayed away from New York for so long because it was so costly for the studios and the networks. And then like a pendulum it swung back in our favor. Remember, filmmaking starts here and it swings to the West Coast as the economics change and the talent changes. Now the economics have changed again and it has brought a lot of actors back here. So our theaters are thriving. There's just enormous amount of talent which is very attractive for a show like this that uses so many stage and theater people.
How much time do you have to scout, shoot and produce an episode?
It takes seven days to prep a show and eight to nine to shoot a show and we never stop shooting. So we are always prepping, shooting and editing. After we complete a show, when we are in rhythm, it will take 28 days to get on air from the day it's completed. Right now we are in a wonky time and the episodes will get to air 10-15 days after shooting. We spend 15 hours a day together, and we do that 10 months out of the year.


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1.0 OverviewThink of this as just another day hike, a walk in the wood, but with a twist. We will be give situations where we need to be resourceful and use our scout skills. We will most certainly use map and compass, but there are also challenges which our trail guide will spring upon us as we hike.
But treat it like any day hike.
2.0 Concept
2.1 DescriptionWe will start at the end of Elm Street in Norwich, where the Appalachian Trail comes out of the wood. Meet at the trail head. We will hike through the wood, often off trail and come out at the end of Happy Hill Road four hours later. The hike will be about five miles total.
The area is gentle hills and woods with stream, ponds, marshland, etc.
2.2 Schedule of EventsSunday, 17 May 09
1300 -- Meet at trailhead - AT & Elm St., Norwich (see map)
2.3 Expected Conditions and DifficultyIt is a five mile hike, much of it off trail. We will be bushwhacking. We might be in mud. 30% chance of showers on Sunday.
2.4 Special RequirementsOpen to all scouts, scouters, and parents.
There are no skills prerequisites for this outing.
3.0 Administration and Logistics
3.1 Announcement Date: 6 May 09
3.2 Roster Closing Date: 16 May 09
3.3 CostsNone
3.4 Equipment
3.4.1 Individual Equipment
3.4.2 Patrol Equipment
3.4.3 Troop Equipment
3.5 Transportation PlanDrop-off Point: AT and Elm St., Norwich
Drop-off Time: 1300 Sun 17 May
Pick-up Point: Happy Hill Rd Trailhead (end of road)
Pick-up Time: 1700 Same day
Driving Directions: See map.
4.0 Leadership
4.1 Planning Committee
4.2 Adult Leaders
Approved TPS 15May09


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Tempt yourselves with Tenerife
The jewel in the crown of the Canary Islands, you can expect fresh summer breezes, ever-present sunshine and a wealth to get involved with as you wander over the delicate and vast landscapes of nature's greatest creation. Hideaway villages and the not so hidden Mount Teide will be the showpiece for many holidays to Tenerife, although that doesn't mean those wishing to be more active will be without a huge amount of fun. Families will enjoy outstanding water parks and adventures, while groups of mates will dance until dawn in the party regions of the south – there's not a lot you can't do here.
Sun-splashed coastlines
When deciding where to stay on your Tenerife holidays you'll be spoilt for choice, whether you head to the north or south, you'll be well-suited by the extensive variety on show in both areas. Sun, sea and swimming can be found just about anywhere, but Playa de las Americas will leave you footsteps from the beach as well as providing numerous resorts with glorious swimming pools. The Canary Islands are well-known for tranquillity and peace in combination with fun and adventure, although if it is a relaxing getaway you're in search of, Costa del Silencio is the obvious choice and not just because of its name. Expect a peaceful silence among the picturesque gardens before making your way to the glistening ocean, only a stone's throw away. Couples and families would undoubtedly make use of the first-class facilities in the resort town of Costa Adeje, whereas the little ones will fall in love with the popular Los Cristianos with its range of family attractions.
Beauty in nature's landscapes
Coastal paths, mountain climbs and forest hikes are just a sample of what you can expect from Tenerife holidays. While there is an array of attraction in the form of traditional tourist ventures such as water parks, luxurious spas and a range of restaurants, there's nothing quite like exploring the vast landscapes the island showcases in resorts such as Costa Adeje. Bold mountains in Mount Teide National Park are perhaps the most prominent view you will find when settling down within its close proximity, although being the highest point in Spain it's certainly worth taking the opportunity for a trek.
Among the many things to do on holidays in Tenerife, make sure you set aside some time for a visit to a theme park or two. The best to be found are Loro Parque and Jungle Park Las Aguillas, although once you're done here you may want to try dolphin watching in the surrounding seas. Catch a boat and voyage out into the waters surrounding the island and you may just be lucky enough to spot a squadron of dolphins or a pack of whales – the ultimate reward for a well-timed journey.
Golf lovers will rejoice among some of Spain's best golf courses across the island, and while the beaches of Tenerife are world-renowned, these courses present sand pits you won't want to get stuck into! Gold Del Sur merits a visit if you are looking to improve your game while away, and the rest of the family can entertain themselves with relaxing views overlooking the coasts of Playa de las Americas or Los Cristianos – perfect!


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