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In just short of a month, Walt Disney Studios is set to release 'Tron: Legacy,' which is not only the latest film to use performance-capture to create virtual characters, but the first to actively try and create a character who looks and acts like someone audiences know. Whether or not the film ultimately conquers this considerable challenge remains to be seen, but the film's imminent arrival in theaters is a reminder that the technology used to accomplish its artistic goals is still in the earliest days of its existence. And while Jar Jar Binks and Gollum are certainly progenitors of this technique, it seemed more appropriate (not to mention timely) to instead focus on the first film that used entirely performance capture in order to create its cast: 'The Polar Express.'
At the time of its theatrical release, I thought Robert Zemeckis' film was weird and kind of creepy looking, and wondering why kids would have any interest in something that ostensibly seemed more like an artistic exercise than a piece of entertainment. And then I saw it. 3D was also a burgeoning phenomenon, but the combined sensory experience of seeing it leap off the screen and envelop me with the kind of enormity that only an IMAX theater can deliver, I truly loved it, thanks in no small part to my own sentimental attachments to the holiday season.
More recently, Warner Home Video released the film on Blu-ray as one of the first titles made available for 3D home exhibition; and even though I don't yet own an entertainment system that allows me to watch it in more than two dimensions, I was very curious to see whether 'The Polar Express' was still an engaging and involving opus or if it was a frigid reminder of how far performance-capture storytelling has since come.
The Facts: Originally released on November 10, 2004, 'The Polar Express' earned $181 million domestically, which is only slightly more than its $170 million budget, but it also grossed some $120 million in the rest of the world, putting it in the black and virtually ensuring that it will be shown at IMAX theaters and on TV during holiday seasons to come. The film earned three Academy Award nominations, including for Best Song, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing, and its centerpiece song, "Believe," was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Song. Meanwhile, the film maintains a decidedly underwhelming 56 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, owing (according to various critics) to its sentimentality, dead-eyed characters and overall theme-park-ride feel.
What Still Works: Although critics certainly have a point about the soulless eyes of many of the characters, the quality of the animation as a whole is stunning, and the movie looks absolutely gorgeous. Even still in its relative infancy, the performance capture, well, captures several moments that are virtually indistinguishable from the movement and weight of real-life people, and the textures and rhythms of reactions are consistently believable even if they aren't always real. For example, the sight of Hero Boy stumbling awkwardly through the snow truly evokes that feeling of uneven, unsteady ground, and on two or three occasions, wide shots of the Conductor look like the filmmakers either rotoscoped right over actual footage of Tom Hanks, or just shot him in costume and then gussied up the image with some CGI trickery.
Its technical merits notwithstanding, I do think there's something genuinely beautiful about a story whose message is believing in good things, and not subscribing to doubt or cynicism. Beyond even its immediate context of the plausibility of Santa Claus, the film's story applies to cinema itself – the idea that we can of course dissect and deconstruct technique and style and storytelling, and we're not wrong to do so, but that knowledge sometimes comes at the cost of our emotional engagement, and more specifically, our investment in the reality of what we're watching. There's something really powerful about Hero Boy's ongoing skepticism as a reminder of the cost of our own maturity, that loss of innocence and pure belief in something magical, and that it is paid off in a way that feels satisfying but also bittersweet.
What Doesn't Work: Structurally, the story is pretty featherweight, and indulges in a few spectacle-heavy sequences in order to pad out the running time rather than providing something more compelling. In particular, the film features at least three separate roller coaster-esque scenes, and after the first one, they feel really conspicuous as padding, but by the time the kids find themselves on a runaway train car at the heart of the North Pole, it feels like total overkill. Meanwhile, Zemeckis' cinematographic exercises, including swooping camera shots that zoom over, under and around the train, and sometimes literally move underneath the ground characters walk on, similarly feel excessive, even if technically-speaking they're kind of cool.
And finally, yeah, the characters' eyes feel dead. This is something that has sort of been resolved in more recent films, especially 'Avatar,' where the performance capture literally drove every aspect of the CGI characters the actors embodied, but as one of the first computer-animated films to try and create realistic human textures, it still suffers from that specific kind of one-dimensionality.
What's The Verdict: I really think that 'The Polar Express' holds up. It's not a movie I may want to watch every Christmas, and it doesn't necessarily have the timelessness of other holiday classics that always seem to draw audiences in. But if I'm in a particularly sentimental mood – as I was when I saw it recently – it defies all of iyts shortcomings and really works on all counts. Again, I feel like in an era where everything is so completely explained and explored and revealed and (especially) demystified, it is important to remind kids that there is value in believing in some things that are good and keep them hopeful and open-minded, just as it is important to remind adults that kids need their imaginations and their feelings nurtured.
Of course, you may be precisely the kid who most needs his or her imagination to be nurtured, but as an alternative to the more conventional-looking holiday films you can watch at the end of each year, 'The Polar Express' is something of a minor classic.
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Robust Predictions in Games with Incomplete Information
Dirk Bergemann
Yale University - Cowles Foundation - Department of Economics
Stephen Morris
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September 26, 2012
Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1821RR
We analyze games of incomplete information and offer equilibrium predictions which are valid for, and in this sense robust to, all possible private information structures that the agents may have. We completely characterize the set of Bayes correlated equilibria in a class of games with quadratic payoffs and normally distributed uncertainty in terms of restrictions on the first and second moments of the equilibrium action-state distribution. We derive exact bounds on how prior knowledge about the private information refines the set of equilibrium predictions.
We consider information sharing among firms under demand uncertainty and find newly optimal information policies via the Bayes correlated equilibria. Finally, we reverse the perspective and investigate the identification problem under concerns for robustness to private information. The presence of private information leads to set rather than point identification of the structural parameters of the game.
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A summer vacation, a romantic tryst, and a key business trip don't turn out the way the characters in these two stories expected.
In Shirley Jackson's "The Summer People," the "people" in question cross an invisible line when they decide to stay on in their summer cottage past Labor Day—with harrowing consequences. Jackson is best known for the eerie "The Lottery," and this little tale partakes of some of its sinister imaging of the hidden lives of small communities. The reader is the stage, screen and television actor Rene Auberjonois.
"Luggage tends to look alike," as a woman traveling to meet her lover, and a man plotting to bring down a business rival, discover when they wind up with each other's in Maeve Binchy's "The Wrong Suitcase." And that's not all that's wrong, as you'll hear in this lively read by Sex and the City alum Cynthia Nixon.
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Layer Cake Challenge!
Instead of a sketch this month, I thought I'd mix things up a little bit and give you a page map in a different format. So, in honor of Tea and Cupcakes, let's build a layer cake! All you have to do to play along is build a layout using the following layers as a guideline. I'm really excited to see how differently they will turn out.
Layer 1: Mist your page! (My sample uses Glimmer Mist in Pearl, so it's very subtle.)
Layer 2: Add some paint to your layout, either spattered or with a brush. It's up to you!
Layer 3: Glue down a little sparkle. (On mine, I spread on some Mod Podge then sprinkled glitter. I also glued on a few sequins.)
Layer 4: Some patterned paper.
Layer 5: A sticker on top of the paper.
Layer 6: A photo or 2 (or 3).
Layer 7: Add a bit of ribbon.
Layer 8: Stitches, either by machine or by hand.
Layer 9: A little stamping. (Mine's the date).
Layer 10: And a title. (I used the really tiny alpha from January's kit for mine.)
Here's the layout I built with this recipe.
You have until January 9th to participate in the challenge. Just make a layout, upload a picture to the gallery, and link to this post in the comments so I'll know you completed it. A winner will be announced shortly after the 9th and will receive a $10 voucher to the store. You do NOT need to use a Cocoa Daisy kit to participate in this challenge. Have fun! I can't wait to see your creations!
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Aliza on January 2, 2012 at 10:16 am
Love this challlenge! Thanks!
Denise on January 2, 2012 at 10:31 am
emily pitts on January 2, 2012 at 12:52 pm
looks like a lot of fun!
marianne b on January 2, 2012 at 1:21 pm
This is a yummy looking cake!
alissa on January 2, 2012 at 1:38 pm
love this idea! awesome page!
Marti Richards on January 2, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Fun challenge! Thank you for the inspiration!
Lisa on January 2, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Wow! Reading the recipe, I was totally surprised when I scrolled down to see your finished layout! I thought it would end up being very busy and 3 inches tall! Lol! I find your style so inspiring, Anja! Hoping to carve out some time this week to participate in a great challenge!
Suzie on January 2, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Love your layered LO! What a fun challenge this is; and, even though there are 10 "layers", I'm finding it really easy to put it all together-Yay! This has been a great way to spend a relaxing afternoon 🙂
Sherry C on January 2, 2012 at 8:30 pm
What a fun challenge, I cant' wait to play along!
Marja Seidemo on January 3, 2012 at 1:45 am
this one definately is for me;-)
DonnaB on January 8, 2012 at 9:24 am
Totally loved this challenge. Thank you.
Haven on January 9, 2012 at 1:28 am
I loved this challenge. I loved that by following the recipe I did not have to lay out my whole page and products before hand, I just followed the recipe and was done before I knew it. Thanks Anja!
Suzie on January 9, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Well, I commented previously but forgot to link to my page I created; so here it is mytickledfancy.blogspot.com. This was fun!


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After coming off a knee injury in January, Gardnerville resident Alicia Powers recently won the overall Female Masters Novice Pro-Am Swing event in Denver.
The Colorado Country Classic competition took place June 22 through 24 with country dancers of all ages competing.
"The knee's been doing really well. My confidence was good even though I'm always a bit insecure when I'm in front of everybody," the 67-year-old said. "All in all I exceeded whatever expectations I had going in."
The event consisted of west coast swing, hustle, night club two-step, and Salsa.
"I love them all. I probably had more fun with the Salsa. I just relaxed and enjoyed it," Powers said. "Masters Novice means it was for us oldies but goodies who are new at the dances, but I was thrilled with my scores and can hope to move up to intermediate soon."
Powers also made finals in the Jack & Jill country two-step event where participants are paired randomly during two rounds of dances.
"The guy I got paired with the first time went on to win the event," she said. "The second guy's skill level was lower, but he was fun and we had a great time."
To round out the competition, Powers also did well in the all ages country events of Waltz (wearing boots with a ball gown), west coast swing and country two-step.
"I placed first in several dances, but did not enter enough dances to qualify for overall placement," she said.
Powers drives to Reno and Carson City three days a week rehearsing for a ballroom dance competition in Florida this September.
With the help of dance teachers, Jeffrey Munson and Tim Renner Powers feels confident in her abilities.
"The best thing is the exercise and keeping me in shape," Powers said about competing. "I won't drive five minutes to a gym, but I'll drive an hour to Reno for a lesson."


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Darius Rucker may forever be tagged as the deep-voiced lead singer of the chart-topping Carolina pop/rock group Hootie & the Blowfish, but his now-established career as a country music singer-songwriter has earned him acclaim and respect, as well.
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With the release of his third solo country album, True Believers on the horizon, Rucker tends to shrug off his phenomenal crossover from 90s alternative rock to the contemporary country music realm with a laid-back approach.
To him, penning a strong song is more important than scoring the next big hit.
I really believe that a great song can be played in any way, Rucker said. Thats important when you write songs. Its one thing to specifically write a country song, but I usually ask myself, Well, how is this going to sound with just me and a guitar? I think you can make a good song sound good in any genre.
In 2008, Rucker surprised loyal Hootie followers and many in the rock n roll world when he released a countrified solo album titled Learn to Live on Capitol Records.
The platinum-selling collection connected with new, young fans, and it earned Rucker a best new artist award from the Country Music Association in 2009.
Ruckers 2010 follow-up album, Charleston, SC 1966, made a big splash, too, going gold with the hit singles Come Back Song and This.
Ruckers new adventure as a modern country singer doesnt seem to be a temporary jaunt.
His crossover success as a reinvented songwriter continues to rise at a steady, determined pace. If Ruckers initial success might have seemed like a short-term stroke of luck to some, his formal induction into Nashville, Tenn.s Grand Ole Opry in October might have dissolved any doubt of his bona-fide country status.
Im definitely a country artist now, Rucker boasts. The Grand Ole Opry thing went a long way towards that, but really, getting to meet everybody over the last five years has been the main thing. From getting to go to my first Country Music Awards to whats happening now, I really feel like lm a part of it. And I like that feeling.
Ruckers South Carolina story
Rucker, 46, grew up in Charleston within a musical family.
He attended Middleton High School (now closed) before heading to the University of South Carolina.
While in college, he formed Hootie & the Blowfish with three dorm mates: guitarist Mark Bryan, drummer Jim Soni Sonefeld and bassist Dean Felber.
The band started out as a bar band handling covers and keg-party tunes, but they quickly got serious about writing songs and recording material.
Hootie played the Southeastern college circuit for a few years before signing with Atlantic Records, releasing its major label debut, Cracked Rear View, in 1994.
The catchy collection of hook-laden pop-rock tunes went on to sell more than 16 million copies.
In 1996, Cracked Rear View won Grammy Awards for best new artist and song of the year (Let Her Cry).
Between 1997 and 2006, Rucker and the rest of the Blowfish guys toured heavily. They recorded a handful of albums for Atlantic, but nothing quite topped the massive success of Cracked Rear View.
Along the way, they formed the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation as a private nonprofit to assist children of South Carolina through educational and musical programs. Their annual Homegrown Concerts at the Family Circle Cup Stadium continue to draw capacity crowds.
Although Rucker took a stab at going solo in 2002 with the release of Back to Then, a soul/R&B-based collection of originals, it wasnt until Hootie & the Blowfish went on an amicable hiatus in 2008 that Rucker started working on Learn to Live for the Capitol Records Nashville label.
Charleston, SC 1966 was a biographical set of strummy country rockers, pop-tinged Americana rockers and melancholic ballads.
It did very well commercially, too. Critics praised the smooth blend of rock, soul and twang. Fans connected with Ruckers hometown sentiment, easy-going spirit and warm-toned croon.
I think Charleston always plays into my music because its such a big part of my life, Rucker said. A lot of guys come down to Charleston to write music with me. Im always happy when its someone new, because we get out in the Lowcountry and they always want to come back.
Making True Believers
Rucker spent much of the past year partnering with friends and colleagues at concerts, special events, fundraisers and recording sessions, but hes eager to hit the road and tour behind his forthcoming album, True Believers.
The disc is due out Jan. 22.
Rucker wrote and arranged dozens of new tunes over the past two years, and he collaborated with a handful of friends from the contemporary and traditional side of the country scene on dozens more.
Producer Frank Rogers (Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley, Josh Turner), a longtime Rucker studio cohort, oversaw the True Believers sessions in Nashville and at Mount Pleasants Charleston Sound studio.
The title track is a melodic country/power-pop mix with a storyteller vibe. Ruckers lyrics tell the tape of a young couple dealing with lifes roadblocks and opportunities.
Singing uplifting verses about relationships and loved ones comes naturally to Rucker. Hes a husband and father juggling a demanding musical career and family life, so his personal experiences tend to make their way into his lyrics with ease, he said.
The toughest part of doing what I do is just being away from the family, he said. But I love to play, I still love going out and playing shows and seeing crowds. I adore that. But being away from the kids when there are football or volleyball games is pretty tough.
Between the lyrical moods and themes and the sturdy, guitar-based musical arrangements, theres probably almost as much Lowcountry/Carolina flavor in True Believers as his previous two releases.
I dont think there was a theme in mind when we started making True Believers, Rucker said. However, like most records, a theme started to take shape as the sessions progressed and things came together.
I think the title connects to the music and you weave through the songs, and Im glad I went with that. I just make records, you know? I wish I was smart enough to make a proper concept record, but I never do. I just write songs, and then I look at the songs and see what Ive got. I write a bunch, and the best ones make the record.
A few special guests appear on the album. The set features collaborations between Rucker and singer Sheryl Crow and members of Lady Antebellum. Rucker pulls them in for a rendition of Americana/bluegrass band Old Crow Medicine Shows popular Wagon Wheel, too.
I love the Old Crow version of Wagon Wheel, but we realized before we even started doing it that we couldnt do a bluegrass version like that, Rucker said. So we decided to take it and just make it a big, old-fashioned country song. We added a full band and some big voices, and we tried to make it sound big. I think people will see what we were trying to do.
Rucker in-the-round
On Tuesday evening, Rucker will return home, bringing with him fellow country artists Rodney Atkins and Josh Turner as they perform at WEZL 103.5s Evening With the Stars.
The concert at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center will feature an in-the-round format, with all three co-headliners situated at the front of the stage with a backing band behind them.
Well all just play together, like a carpool, Rucker said of Atkins and Turner. Itll be really cool. We can play whatever we want.
Im a big fan of both of those guys, so Im looking forward to it. Ive done this with Rodney before on the road, but Ive never done this with Josh before. Josh says hes excited to trash-talk me a little bit, since hes a big Clemson fan and Im a Carolina fan.
Turner a is double-platinum-selling singer-songwriter and one of the youngest members of the Grand Ole Opry. His latest album, an 11-song bluegrass-tinged collection of country and Americana titled Punching Bag, is his fifth for the MCA Nashville label. His recent concert album, Live Across America, was the latest in Cracker Barrels exclusive music program.
A well-seasoned veteran on the country circuit with a strong reputation for delivering energetic performances, Atkins recently earned great success with the release of Take a Back Road.
The easy-going, summer-themed title track became the sixth No. 1 single of his career.
Rucker and Atkins have worked together on benefit concerts and special fundraisers before, including Ruckers annual Darius and Friends concerts, auction and golf tournament in Nashville benefiting St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
In February, Rucker donned a tuxedo and sang Frank Sinatra standards backed by a full orchestra at a special concert at the Performing Arts Center as part of a benefit for the Medical University of South Carolina Childrens Hospital.
This time around, hell stick with his repertoire of country tunes and Hootie & the Blowfish hits. The event is another by Rucker benefiting Childrens Hospital, as well as the Childrens Miracle Network.
WEZL has always been cool to me and my friends, so this show is going to be a really fun thing, Rucker said. I live here in the Lowcountry, and it can be so easy to do things to help people. Thats one thing Ive learned. There are a lot of people who need help, so when you get a chance to perform a show and help out, thats great.


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Seminole County School Board members are expected to fire a teacher allegedly linked to a local brothel.
Christopher Dalland is a chemistry teacher at Lake Brantley High School. He was removed from the classroom last month, after the district found out he was allegedly connected to the brothel.
Dalland is accused of using his school computer to surf websites for sex.
District officials say they will ask tonight that Dalland be terminated.
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'Just a straight Yes or No'
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This is the transcript supplied to political correspondents by TV3 from last night's interview with the Irish Labour Party leader on The Political Party, now broadcast on Friday nights at 11 pm. Ursula Halligan is a very good interviewer and so is RTÉ's Seán O'Rourke who also recently tried to pin Eamon Gilmore down on this issue of coalition with Fianna Fáil.
Ursula Halligan: "If you look at the opinion polls at the moment and if they're half right, it would look like Labour after the next election will hold the balance of power and it looks like it would be very unlikely that Fianna Fáil could ever get back into power without Labour – is that something you're ruling out? Just a straight Yes or No – are you ruling that out?"
Eamon Gilmore: "No, now let's look at the opinion polls because your question is based on the opinion polls."
Ursula Halligan: "But it looks like you will hold the balance of power."
Eamon Gilmore: "Based on the last couple of opinion polls, there would be a change in Government and Fianna Fáil would be out of office."
Ursula Halligan: "So you would be in Government with Fine Gael?"
Eamon Gilmore: "Based on the last, if you look at the MRBI poll, you look at the RedC poll and I think we've had a succession of three of them now, the conclusion from all of those polls, all of those polls, if they replicated in a general election, would produce, in all probability, a Labour/ Fine Gael Government. That's what would be the result."
Ursula Halligan: "But it could also produce a Labour/ Fianna Fail Government?"
Eamon Gilmore: "No, it wouldn't actually because if you look at – the numbers wouldn't stack up …"
Ursula Halligan: "I'm just asking a very simple question and then we can move on from this – I'm just asking, are you ruling out a Labour/ Fianna Fáil Government the next time round? Can you just say that you're ruling it out?"
Eamon Gilmore: "I can't predict the outcome of the next general election."
Ursula Halligan: "So you're leaving it open?"
Eamon Gilmore: "No, what I am saying because the premise in that question and I want to deal with this very definitely, the premise in that question, is that politics in this country is always a two-horse race between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. I don't see it like that at all. There is a third option and the third option is Labour …"
Ursula Halligan: "But you can't do it on your own. You do need Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil. Let's be realistic about this."
Eamon Gilmore: "I don't go for this argument, that you can't do (it). I mean, 12 months ago …"
Ursula Halligan: "You don't have the numbers."
Eamon Gilmore: "But, sure lookit, 12 months ago, people 12 months ago were predicting that the two candidates for the American presidential election were going to be Hilary Clinton and Mitt Romney. Barack Obama was 25% behind."
Ursula Halligan: "Sorry, are you saying that Labour are going to get an overall majority in the next election?"
Eamon Gilmore: "No, I'm not saying that but what I am saying, what I am refusing to do, is I am refusing to consign Labour as the also-rans of politics."
Ursula Halligan: "Okay, but you're also refusing to rule out a Labour/ Fianna Fáil Government?"
Eamon Gilmore: "No, I am not going to go down this idea that there is only, that politics in this country is only going to be about a two-horse race."


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Steve Yzerman named TB's new GM
Posted 25 May 2010 - 09:52 AM
Posted 25 May 2010 - 09:52 AM
haha, I'm pretty sure that would land him in jail, but it's a nice thought
Don't worry guys. Stevie is just going there so he can trade Stamkos for Meech and then will step down as GM and come back to Detroit. Book it.
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All I have to say about Holland and our off-season:
and finally
Holland is a damn good GM. period.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 09:57 AM
works every time
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:02 AM
That's about as a positive spin as you could put on Stevie's departure.
He may still. There's no way he was going to get the GM job in Detroit until Kenny moves on/retires. At that point, Yzerman should be plenty experienced in his new role and may fit in nicely in Detroit. As much as its sucks to see him work for another team, look at the bright-side: He'll get a little wet behind the ears and make rookie mistakes on another teams' watch. Then he can GM in Detroit once Kenny is finished.
Best of luck Stevie
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:09 AM
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Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:13 AM
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Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:17 AM
Of course I'm a little sad to see him go, but I'm very happy for him, this really is a great opportunity for him. Honestly, I think I'd rather have that job than be the new Wings GM. You can learn and make mistakes in Tampa that will go mostly unnoticed, not so in Detroit.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:18 AM
No, there's nothing to think about if you're a Red Wings fan!
I think Yzerman's position (Vice President?) was created merely to keep him around, and because Ilitch likes him, but when Ilitch tried to get Holland to move "up" to president, and Holland refused, Yzerman figured he had to jump at the chance of being a GM now.
Congratulations to Holland for standing his ground and congratulations to Yzerman for pursuing his dream.
Sometimes there's very little sentiment in sport, both by the teams and by the players. that's the name of the game.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:18 AM
ooohhhh... that would be a tough pill to swallow...
What if he takes Maclean with him to be the HC?
All I have to say about Holland and our off-season:
and finally
Holland is a damn good GM. period.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:28 AM
I would've liked for him to be the GM for the Wings but as long as Kenny is around, we should really just appreciate that. Besides, I'm sure Yzerman would love to be GM for the Red Wings if he were ever given the chance, who knows that the future holds
Anyways, best of luck to Stevie!
Edited by Namingway, 25 May 2010 - 10:28 AM.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:28 AM
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:32 AM
ugh stevie just bolted
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:37 AM
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:40 AM
"All done? Five bucks." - Pavel Datsyuk after an interview
"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings." - Steve Yzerman
Be sure and check out my writing on Detroit Sports Nation
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:43 AM
Edited by acidroach420, 25 May 2010 - 10:44 AM.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:50 AM
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Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:52 AM
I know who I'm rooting for in the East now.
Posted 25 May 2010 - 10:54 AM
There has to be meaning behind the quotation marks.
"He will probably never become a good GM in this league."
I'll bite....Tampa sucks and shouldn't be in the NHL?
Posted 25 May 2010 - 11:00 AM
On a somewhat related note, isn't it ironic that he went to the Lightning? The Wings are red/white, the Lightning are blue/black (the exact opposite colors). His best player has the same first name (except he's called Steven, not Steve or Stevie) and has the same two numbers, except in reverse (91). Its like Yzerman went to the bizarro Wings.
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The NHL tweeted my son and I at the 2012 NHL Draft!
Posted 25 May 2010 - 11:12 AM
At least he went to a team that we don't hate. I can root for Tampa Bay now in the Eastern Conference.
Edited by GoWings1905, 25 May 2010 - 11:15 AM.
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Walking in support of premature babies is a team sport.
At least it is for the family of little Marcy Priest, who died Feb. 17, 2005. "Team Marcy" will participate in WalkAmerica 2007 today at Thompson Park. The event raises money for March of Dimes, both for local needs and national research.
Marcy, infant daughter of Melissa and Alex Priest, was born July 22, 2004, 17
weeks before the appointed time, and died after contracting respiratory syncytial virus and suffering accidental suffocation.
Marcy spent 3 months in the neonatal intensive care unit at Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital. At birth, she weighed 3 pounds 7 ounces and was 14 inches long. She made it to 13 pounds before her death. No one knows why Melissa Priest delivered so early.
Marcy's family has formed "Team Marcy" to celebrate her short life, to help themselves grieve properly for her and assist other families whose children are born early.
"We've been walking as a family for two years. Instead of buying Christmas presents and birthday presents as we normally would have done, we donate it," Melissa Priest said.
Gift money goes into a bucket during the year. When April comes, "We walk in Marcy's memory," she said.
This year, "Team Marcy" is themed "From Afghanistan to Amarillo," highlighting the fact that people will walk in the infant's honor in various cities.
"They couldn't be in Amarillo, but they're going to be walking the same time we are here," Priest said.
However, the Afghanistan-based member of the team unexpectedly arrived in town. Michael Cole of Dalhart is Melissa Priest's twin brother. He works in security for Oberon Associates in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
This trip was planned for at least two months to surprise Priest and his mother, Cole said.
"I knew this was really important to my sister, to my entire family really, to participate. It just worked out good where I was able to get away to come home," he said.
Priest had expected Cole to do his marching far, far away because he was not expected home until July or August, Priest said.
"My heart was broken he wasn't going to be here.
"He surprised us and showed up literally on my front door step," she said.
Cole believes premature births can be prevented.
"It's not at the stage right now that it can be, but in the future it will be organizations like the March of Dimes that lead the way for finding the causes and cures," he said.
Also on the team are Priest's sons, John Woolley, who is 6 today, and 7-year old Benjamin Woolley. They will walk for "Team Marcy" before John's birthday party.
When a baby is born prematurely, Priest said, one is helpless.
She knew that Marcy might be born a little early, but not 17 weeks early. She had good prenatal care and followed her doctor's every instruction.
"My job was to stay home and nurture my pregnancy. She was ready and there was no going back," Priest said.
Though Marcy lived only a few months, the family appreciates what the March of Dimes did for them when she was so tiny.
"This is part of the grief process for us. This is something we need to do to get us where we can accept it more," Priest said.
March of Dimes funds medical research into the cause and prevention of premature birth, said Barbara Scheller, community coordinator for the local chapter.
Locally, money goes to the Baby's Coming Shop, which lets expectant women earn rewards of new baby equipment for getting good prenatal care, Scheller said.
March of Dimes also funds the Mom Mobile, which assists women with transportation to and from doctor's appointments, she said.
A scrap booking club helps parents focus on the positives in their baby's progress, she said.
When a baby dies, the scrapbook provides a good memory and way to memorialize the child, Scheller said.
"Though we can save about 70 percent of the babies now, we lose about 30 percent," she said.
A premature baby is one who is born at or prior to 37 weeks' gestation, Scheller said.
More and more babies are being born early, with the rate of premature births rising 27 percent since 1982, she said.
Scheller said the walk usually draws about 2,000 people. People may sign up for the run or walk at the park today.
"To honor babies that have died, we will have a Memory Mile, where one mile of the walk is dedicated to the babies who did not survive prematurity," Scheller said. "That will bring awareness to the fact that though we celebrate the successes, we can't lose sight of the fact that not every baby has a healthy birth outcome."
If You Go
Who: March of Dimes
What: WalkAmerica 2007
When: 9 a.m. for 5K run, 10:30 a.m. for 3.2 mile walk today
Where: Thompson Park, 24th Avenue and Highway 287
How much: $25 registration fee for runners; March of Dimes suggests a $10 donation for the walk. People may pay on site.
Information: (806) 374-5783
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March of Dimes has a Web site where parents may share information and experiences about premature birth. www.marchofdimes.com/share
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Messiah College scored three goals in the last 15 minutes to defeat Lebanon Valley 4-1 in Commonwealth Conference field hockey on Tuesday night in Grantham.
The Falcons (14-0, 3-0), ranked No. 1 among Division III schools, got two of those late goals from Boiling Springs graduate Kourtney Ehly. She has a team-high 18 goals this season.
Ehly tipped a shot sent in by Elizabeth Ziegler into the goal cage for a 2-1 lead with 13:41 remaining in the game.
Then, with 10:50 to play, Ehly took a crossing pass from Emily Hursh at the left post and directed it in for a 3-1 advantage.
"I just have to give credit to Emily Hursh," Ehly said. "She came in and distributed the ball to the right people."
Hursh, a reserve freshman forward, was rewarded for her generosity later in the game. She took a pass from Katie Love and scored the game's final goal with 10:01 on the clock.
Love's assist was her ninth of the season, which leads the Falcons.
"We started off watching how our opponent played their game and didn't play our game," Ehly said. "That changed in the second half."
The No. 7 Flying Dutchmen (13-2, 3-1) controlled play in the opening 10 minutes. Messiah goalie Ashley Mowrey was forced to make three of her five saves in that opening sequence, including a stop of Caitlin Vasey's shot close in on the right post.
"It's difficult to tell [how important and early lead would have been]," Martin said. "The importance of when you get the go-ahead goal against a top team like Messiah can't be underestimated."
Ehly made her way through LVC's defense for a breakaway upfield 10 minutes into the game, and forced Lebanon Valley goalie Caitlin Baro to come out of the goal mouth. Baro did not officially make a save, but did for Ehly outside enough that her shot went wide left.
However, just that the Falcons were starting to make quick transitions from defense to offense was a bad sign for LVC.
"Coming into the game we knew their strength was their transition to their forward line," LVC head coach Laurel Martin said. "We worked to take it away...but then we started to give them space."
Messiah broke through for the first goal of the game when Love scored off of a pass from Ehly with 12:45 left to go in the first half.
The Flying Dutchmen tied the score 1-1 with 3:25 to go before halftime, when Vasey played the ball into the circle where Jocelyn Novak took the shot. Novak leads LVC with 19 goals and 42 points.
Although the score remained even for much of the second half, Messiah began to assert itself more as time went on.
"They just smelled it," Messiah head coach Jan Trapp said. "They were playing so tentatively early on, then they turned it on."
Ehly almost had another goal, just before the Falcons had their late offensive outburst. She slid to tip a ball that had been passed in from dozens of yards away, but her redirection went wide of the cage. Two minutes later, Ehly scored the go-ahead goal.
Trapp said that it was a good thing in the long run that the Falcons were pushed in the first 50 minutes of the game by another ranked team.
"The problem is that we had not as difficult games in the last couple of weeks," Trapp said. "Your skills erode a little bit, the ball ticks off of your stick and things you don't want to do."
The loss ended a 12-game winning streak for the Flying Dutchmen.
Baro made seven saves.
Messiah outshot LVC 11-6. The Flying Dutchmen had a 3-2 advantage in corners.


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For the 17 teams that played in the 2010 event, they had a chance to get ready for their seasons with a well-run preseason tournament against teams from throughout Greater Springfield.
For the three local high school baseball players who received scholarship awards, it gave them a pat on the back and some financial support with college on the near horizon.
And most importantly, the tournament served as a platform to push Baba Tranghese's beliefs: honestly, integrity and sincerity.
"These gentlemen run it the way he would want," said Tranghese's son, Al, referring to tournament directors Bill Bathel and Mark DiFranco. "My dad was huge on everybody plays, everybody plays hard, and the sportsmanship. He believed in keeping the parents out of it."
The ninth-year tournament for the 12-14 age group was hosted at East Longmeadow High School and played throughout the region. There was an A and B bracket, and each team received a minimum of four games.
Baba Tranghese died in 2005. The life-long East Longmeadow resident coached baseball and football in town for 60 years. He also helped found the Suburban Amateur Football League.
"He loved the town, but it was the kids he did it for," Al Tranghese said.
With Tranghese's passing, Bathel and DiFranco carried on the tournament with the local youth legend as their focal point.
"It's all about trying to get the kids, right off the bat at the start of the year, to see how important sportsmanship is," Bathel said. "And we bring the scholarship winners right out in front of them, and they aren't getting awards primarily because of their baseball talents but the other things they do."
Al Tranghese said his dad felt sportsmanship was the most important aspect of youth sports, saying "Today, that's something we lack. We really need to just play hard and between the lines. He used to say, 'Play as hard as you can between the lines, shake hands every, and you had a great day'. That was his philosophy."
East Longmeadow High School seniors Rob Mack and Mike Ahmed were honored with Baba Tranghese Scholarships. Mack will play baseball at Catholic University in Washington D.C., while Ahmed will head for Holy Cross.
"I'm really excited," said Mack, East Longmeadow's designated hitter. "This is a big deal for an East Longmeadow High School baseball player. My dad (Rob) is big into this, too, so I feel like I'm representing him and representing the town."
Chicopee High School's Dan Asselin was awarded the Al Gorfin Scholarship, which is in memory the long-time umpire from Chicopee.
"It's a huge honor to get this award," said Asselin, who's all set to play baseball at American International College next season. "I'm happy to be recognized not only as a good player, but a good teammate and leader. I take a lot of pride in that."
Out of respect to Gorfin, the tournament's umpires give up part of their pay, which goes toward the scholarship.
"Al Gorfin trained me," said umpire Charlie Park, of Palmer. "He was respectful to me. He helped me with my uniform because I didn't have enough money at the time. He treated everyone with the utmost respect. I do this for him. They can pay me whatever they want."


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The other big report came from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) , which said revenue fell 5% to $12.8 billion in the second quarter and net income fell 29% from a year ago to $2 billion. That's a big drop-off, and it owes almost entirely to falling PC sales. Intel has to increase its presence in the mobile market or risk the continued deterioration of its business, because there's no bottom in sight for PCs right now.
That's the bad news, but the upside is that we may be at the bottom of the trough for Intel. Revenue was up 2% from last quarter, and gross margin climbed to 58.3% from 56.2%. The company also recently signed up Galaxy's Tab 3 and has a new line of 14-nanometer chips coming out next year. If those chips catch on, the company will be back to growth in 2014. That said, there are lots of reasons to be cautious about Intel, considering the fall of the PC, and it needs to prove in coming quarters that it can gain share in future mobile devices.