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Qualcomm has big plans to bring back ARM to Windows 10 PCs, and there is a chance that its Snapdragon 835 could support Windows Holographic for VR headsets.
Qualcomm has big plans to bring back ARM to Windows 10 PCs, and there is a chance that its Snapdragon 835 could support Windows Holographic for VR headsets.
Samsung has reportedly bought all initial inventory of Qualcomm's upcoming high-end chip.
A nasty spat between Apple and Qualcomm broke into public view on Friday when the smartphone maker accused the chip supplier of charging "exorbitant" licensing fees for its cellular technology.
ARM executives said other ARM licensees could follow Qualcomm's lead and emulate Intel's x86 instructions for Windows 10. For its part, ARM is busy with the connected car.
Qualcomm officially launches its next smartphone processor, which will begin appearing in products during the first half of 2017, and could offer about two additional hours of battery life.
A series of leaked slides appear to reveal the details of Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 835 smartphone processor, which will most likely be formally disclosed at CES.
Microsoft and Qualcomm have teamed up to bring Windows on ARM chips—again—to PCs, but with a powerful caveat: they've added support for traditional Win32 apps as well.
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@ben2worldLocale: So Cal
This has happened to me on a number of occasions…
As you know, BPL sends us an email whenever a member PM us — and we reply by clicking the link embedded within that email. But sometimes, when I do that, I get an error message — something to the effect that the sender is no longer a registered forum member! And when that happens, I have to look for the member's name here on the forum, click on it, and PM my reply.
Do you guys get this error message from time to time as well?
@back2basicsLocale: Southeast USA
I only get an error when I click "reply" instead of clicking the link. And yes, I do it more often than I should!
@ryan_hutchinsLocale: Somewhere out there
Yes, I just tried to reply to the PM email
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This is an automated message to notify you of a new PM from
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To Respond to this PM, visit the following URL:
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And the system asked if my compass was broken.
I may have had a PM that didn't get sent on like I thought it had been.
@viktorLocale: Northern California
I also had a problem with the PM system. The system seems to work at first and then it fails. I tried replying to an older BPL PM and it didn't get to the originator.
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One of the easiest and most effective ways to boost your CV is to volunteer. Giving up some of your time will not only speak volumes to prospective employers about the type of person you are, but you'll also develop skills, gain experience, make contacts and give something to the community.
Some of the opportunities available from the University and the Students' Guild are listed below, you can also search for opportunities in My Career Zone.
Don't forget that most voluntary work will count towards The Exeter Award - designed to give you recognition from the University of Exeter for the activities you are participating in outside of your degree studies to enhance your employability.
You can talk to our Volunteer Matchmakers about the opportunities available in Exeter and the local area. We'll be on Streatham Campus on a regular basis throughout the academic year to talk to you about where your interests lie and to try to match these to a suitable opportunity wherever possible. To book an appointment, get in touch with the Career Zone.
Sporting activities provide an ideal opportunity to demonstrate to employers skills in: team work, time management, responsibility, interpersonal skills, goal setting and communication. There are well over 50 active sports clubs, details of which can be accessed on the Athletic Union web pages for Exeter students and the FXU website for Cornwall students.
The scheme offers Exeter students, the opportunity to coach a sports of their choice in local primary and secondary schools and local sports clubs. The sessions are within easy commuting distance and take place during PE lessons, at lunchtime, during after school clubs or as one off events. For more information see the Sports Volunteering Scheme web pages or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
There are over 170 clubs and societies at Exeter. Students who volunteer with Societies are those who take their commitment one step further to volunteer their time to develop and run societies on behalf of others. The Students' Guild Activities & Volunteering department and the Societies Executive Committee support these volunteers with training in running events, managing their budgets and risk assessments. For more information on societies on Streatham campus visit the Student's Guild website and for societies on Tremough campus visit the FXU website.
Exeter Student Volunteers offers opportunities to volunteer in the local community or through student led projects at the University. All volunteers are inducted, trained and supported throughout their experience and made aware of the additional training opportunities available to them. For more information visit the Exeter Student Volunteers website or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
RAG offers you a different kind of volunteering opportunity, based around raising as much money as possible for local and national charities by providing entertainment for other students, raiding towns and cities across the country and organising fundraising events. For more information visit the RAG website or email: email@example.com.
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Voice is the student listening and information service which is completely student run and offers full training in a variety of skills. Students are trained to take calls from their peers and have the chance to develop strong communication skills including active listening. Students can also gain experience of organising and running the service, delivering training and producing marketing campaigns. If you would like any further information about the service, please contact the General Co-ordinators via email@example.com or sign up online via the Students' Guild website.
SSLC (Staff-Student Liaison Committee) Representatives exist to provide a voice for students. This representation is achieved through elected students attending SSLC meetings within departments on a termly basis, where decisions are made about the direction and structure of modules and students are able to provide direct feedback to their lecturers on their academic experience. There are elected student leaders in this area, called Subject Chairs (with one Chair existing for department), who co-ordinate the work of the SSLC Reps. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture contains both a public museum and an academic research centre, housing one of Britain's largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. Opportunities exist for students to volunteer both within the museum and the Special Collections archive. Students can get involved with putting together temporary display cases week on cataloguing and other museum activities. Students need to be able to demonstrate a commitment to the subject and the collections. For more information please contact the Curator, Phil Wickam for more details.
The University's Community Liaison Officer, Rory Cunningham, has been developing projects and campaigns to highlight the responsibilities of students living as residents in the city of Exeter. He is also keen to assist students who wish to engage with their local communities.
Rory maintains contact with local residents, community groups and other agencies working with communities throughout the city and is happy to discuss potential opportunities for volunteering as they arise. Feel free to visit the Community pages of the University website or contact Rory directly on 01392 263721 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I have always enjoyed voluntary work, and there are lots of opportunities at Exeter. I'm working with primary school children through the SAM project, and I also organised a Spring Tea Dance for elderly residents of Exeter. Keeping to a budget taught me to handle finances, and the project demanded effective time management, wheelchair and first aid training, delegation and leadership.
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Chapter 3 (Mr. Cruz)Mature
"So where are you from miss?" he asked after twenty minutes of driving.
I blinked as the cool night breeze engulfed me in a hug,I then pressed a button on the expensive Mercedes Benz that he drove. Was this car even in this 2009 generation???
"I'm from New York,Seattle to be exact." I answered. "Where are you from Mr.Cruz?" I asked with formality as he did. I mean its the least I could do in my situation anyway.
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I nearly choke on my water. He was what?
I looked at him and he was wearing a smile on his face,like if it was the most natural thing to say. What the hell?
My breathing raised more than a few octaves as he reached into his pants pocket. I'm freaking out right now. What if he kills me and dump my body in the forest?
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I tried to get my breathing under control as he took his phone out. He typed something and then his phone was in it's original place,in his pocket.
"I almost had a heart attack!" I laughed. He smiles apologetically.
"So tell me about yourself Mr.Cruz." I said hesitantly.
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I was confused.
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Suddenly his car was surrounded by black cars as he slammed on the brakes. He got out of the car and barked orders at men that approached the passenger side and pulled the door open. I was blindsided by all the lights that I didn't see a guy that stabbed a needle in my arm.
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US congressmen rebuff Irish anti-Lisbon links
US congress members have poured cold water on a European Parliament query about potential foreign funding for the anti-Lisbon treaty campaign in Ireland, in line with expectations.
"Our congressional colleagues drew our attention to a statement from US deputy secretary of state John Negroponte at Trinity College Dublin on 17 November, completely refuting the suggestion of any US dimension whatsoever," British conservative MEP Jonathan Evans told EUobserver on Wednesday (9 December), after returning from a European Parliament delegation to the US.
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"On the contrary, both Democrats and Republicans re-affirmed their keenness to work with a strong and coherent EU, comments recently accentuated by president-elect Obama," he added.
German socialist MEP Helmut Kuhne asked US lawmakers at the meeting in Miami if the US government had in any way supported Irish businessman Declan Ganley, whose Libertas organisation was among groups which campaigned for a No vote in the Irish referendum in June.
The query was made following informal instructions from the office of European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering, after German green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit in September suggested the Pentagon or the CIA may have helped Mr Ganley in order to weaken the EU.
Mr Cohn-Bendit continued in a similar vein last week at a meeting with Czech President Vaclav Klaus, saying Mr Klaus should not have met with Mr Ganley during a recent state visit to Dublin because of the "problematic" financing of the businessman's political activity.
When asked in Dublin last month if the US government had helped Libertas, Mr Negroponte said: "absolutely not. I say that on very good authority, not only being deputy secretary of state but also being a former director of national intelligence."
Mr Ganley's company, Rivada Networks, makes communications equipment for the US government. But he has denied any US link to Libertas and promised to take Irish politicians to court for "grossly defamatory" statements on the subject.
The Irish government is widely expected to run a second referendum on Lisbon in October 2009, after negotiating a package of sweeteners from EU states at this week's summit.
The package is set to include keeping an Irish commissioner and securing declarations to protect Irish neutrality, taxation and anti-abortion laws, which would later be given legal force by being lodged at the UN or tacked on to Croatia's EU accession treaty.
Mr Ganley is likely to remain a force in European politics for some time to come. Libertas opened an office in Brussels last month as part of his plans to run in European Parliament elections in June.
Czech delay
Meanwhile, the Czech parliament on Wednesday put off until 3 February a vote on Lisbon ratification as the ruling conservative ODS party tries to secure socialist support for hosting a US anti-missile shield first.
The move means the Czech EU presidency will start work in January as the only EU state not to have voted on the treaty.
President Klaus, along with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, have also promised not to sign off on Lisbon unless Ireland overturns its No vote.


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What with Morrissey, Janelle Monáe, and fiery-maned singer Elly Jackson (half of British electropop duo La Roux), we've come to believe that pompadours mean quality. Jackson makes brilliantly catchy, '80s-inspired tunes best described as dance music for smart people, and though "Bulletproof" became a surprise smash hit, she hasn't lost her androgynous æsthetic. The equally hot Far East Movement (the guys behind "Like a G6") get the night started.
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In common parlance, "guttural R" is the phenomenon whereby a rhotic consonant (an "R-like" sound) is produced in the back of the vocal tract (usually with the uvula) rather than in the front portion thereof and thus as a guttural consonant. Due to strong association with French, guttural R is sometimes thought of as "French R". Such terms are normally avoided in linguistic description in part due to their imprecision. Speakers of languages with guttural R typically regard guttural and coronal rhotics to be alternative pronunciations of the same phoneme, despite articulatory differences. Similar consonants are found in other parts of the world, but they often have little to no cultural association or interchangeability with coronal rhotics (such as pronounced as /r/, pronounced as /ɾ/, and pronounced as /ɹ/) and are (perhaps) not rhotics at all.
Guttural realization of a lone rhotic consonant is typical in most of what is now France, French-speaking Belgium, Germany, Denmark and the southernmost parts of Sweden and south - western parts of Norway; it is also frequent in the Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium and Switzerland. It also occurs as the normal pronunciation of one of two rhotic phonemes (usually replacing an older alveolar trill) in most of Portugal, various parts of Brazil, among minorities of other Portuguese-speaking regions, and in parts of Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
The French rhotic has a wide range of realizations: the uvular fricatives and (the first of the two also realized as an approximant), the uvular trill, the alveolar trill, and the alveolar tap . These are all recognized as the phoneme, but most of them (all except and) are considered dialectal. For example, was once typical of a working class Parisian accent, while is sometimes found in southern France, as well as increasingly less in North America.
Today in northern France, is commonly pronounced as a voiced or voiceless uvular fricative after a voiceless consonant by assimilation. is also the most common pronunciation in the French media. In much of southern France, this guttural R has replaced the traditional alveolar trill, which can now only be heard among the oldest speakers.
It is not known when the guttural rhotic entered the French language, but it may have become commonplace in the mid or late eighteenth century. Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, written in the seventeenth century, has a professor describe the sound of as an alveolar trill.
In Quebec French, speakers from rural areas and older generations traditionally use an alveolar trill, as was the pronunciation that was likely retained after the French colonists in Canada were isolated from France. However, most urban Quebeckers and the French-language broadcast media have adopted the modern guttural rhotic pronunciation of Paris, perhaps as the result of influence by modern French media from France.
Generally speaking, classical choral and operatic French pronunciation requires the use of an alveolar trill when singing, since an alveolar trill is easier to project than any guttural sound, be it a uvular trill or a uvular fricative.
Standard versions of Portuguese have two rhotic phonemes, which contrast only between vowels. In older Portuguese, these were the alveolar flap (written) and the alveolar trill (written). In other positions, only is written in Modern Portuguese, but it can stand for either sound, depending on the exact position. The distribution of these sounds is mostly the same as in other Iberian languages like Spanish, i.e.:
In the 19th century, the voiced uvular fricative penetrated the upper classes in the region of Lisbon in Portugal as the realization of the trill. By the late 20th century, it had replaced the alveolar trill in most of the country's urban areas. In the rural regions, the alveolar trill is still dominant, but most of the country's population currently lives in or near the cities. The uvular trill is also heard sometimes.
A common realization of the word-initial in the Lisbon accent is a voiced uvular trill fricative pronounced as /ʀ̝/.
The Setúbal dialect uses the voiced uvular fricative for all instances of "r" — word start, intervocalic, postconsonantal and syllable ending. This same pronunciation is attested in people with rhotacism and in non-native speakers of French origin.
In Africa, the classical alveolar trill is mostly still dominant, due to separate development from European Portuguese.
In Brazil, the normal pronunciation of is voiceless, either as a voiceless velar fricative, voiceless uvular fricative or a voiceless glottal fricative .[1] In many dialects, this voiceless sound not only replaces all occurrences of the traditional trill, but is also used for all that is not followed by a vowel (i.e. when at the end of a syllable, which uses a flap in other dialects). The resulting distribution can be described as:
In the three southernmost states, however, the alveolar trill remains frequent, and the distribution of trill and flap is as in Portugal. Some speakers use a guttural fricative instead of a trill, like the majority of Brazilians, but continue to use the flap before consonants (e.g. in quarto). Among others, this includes many speakers in the city of São Paulo and some neighboring cities, though an alveolar approximant is also common, not only in the city, but the approximant is the dominant articulation in São Paulo state, the most populous state in Brazil. The caipira dialect has the alveolar approximant in the same position.
In areas where at the end of a word would be a voiceless fricative, the tendency in colloquial speech is to pronounce this sound very lightly, or omit it entirely. Some speakers may omit it entirely in verb infinitives (amar "to love", comer "to eat", dormir "to sleep") but pronounce it lightly in some other words ending in (mar "sea", mulher "woman", amor "love"). This tendency also occurs in some African countries; but speakers in Rio often resist the tendency, pronouncing a strong fricative or at the end of such words.
The voiceless fricative may be partly or fully voiced if it occurs directly before a voiced sound, especially in its weakest form of, which is normally voiced to . For example, a speaker whose sounds like will often pronounce surdo "deaf" as or even, with a very slight epenthetic vowel that mimics the preceding vowel.
In most Spanish-speaking territories and regions, guttural or uvular realizations of are considered a speech defect. Generally the single flap, spelled r as in cara, undergoes no defective pronunciations, but the alveolar trill in rata or perro is one of the last sounds learned by children and uvularization is likely among individuals who fail to achieve the alveolar articulation. This said, back variants for (or) are widespread in rural Puerto Rican Spanish and in the variety of Ponce,[2] whereas they are heavily stigmatized in the variety of the capital.[3] To a lesser extent, velar variants of /r/ are found in some rural Cuban (Yatera, Guantánamo Province)[4] and Dominican vernaculars (El Cibao, eastern rural regions of the country)[5] In the Basque-speaking areas of Spain, the uvular articulation has a higher prevalence among bilinguals than among Spanish monolinguals.
Guttural realization of is mostly considered a speech defect in Italian (cf. rotacismo), but the so-called r moscia which is sometimes uvular is found in about 10% of speakers in some northern areas, such as Piemonte (Alessandria, Torino) and Emilia Romagna (Parma).[6]
The Breton language, spoken in Brittany (France), is a Celtic language rather than a Romance language, but is heavily influenced by French. It retains an alveolar trill in some dialects.
Many Low Franconian and Low Saxon varieties have adopted a uvular rhotic. Many Central German varieties have also adopted a uvular rhotic, whereas many of the Upper German varieties have maintained an alveolar trill . The development of uvular rhotics in these regions is not entirely understood, but a common theory is that these languages have done so because of French influence, though the reason for uvular rhotics in modern European French itself is not well understood (see above).
The Frisian languages usually retain an alveolar rhotic.
In modern Dutch, quite a few different rhotic sounds are used. In Flanders, the usual rhotic is an alveolar trill, but the uvular rhotic does occur, mostly in the province of Limburg, in Ghent and in Brussels. In the Netherlands, the uvular rhotic is the dominant rhotic in the southern provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, having become so in the early twentieth century. In the rest of the country, the situation is more complicated. The uvular rhotic is common, but not dominant, in the western agglomeration Randstad, including cities like Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht (the dialect of Amsterdam usually has an alveolar rhotic though, but the uvular is becoming increasingly more common). The uvular rhotic is also used in some major cities outside of the Randstad area, such as Zwolle, Almelo and Leeuwarden. Outside of these uvular rhotic core areas, the alveolar trill is common. People learning Dutch as a foreign language also tend to use the alveolar trill because it contrasts better with the voiceless velar fricative in Dutch. The Afrikaans language of South Africa also uses an alveolar trill for its rhotic, except in the non-urban rural regions around Cape Town where it is uvular (called a bry).
Most varieties of Standard German are spoken with a uvular rhotic, even though the first standardized pronunciation dictionary by Theodor Siebs prescribed an alveolar pronunciation. The alveolar pronunciation pronounced as /r/ ~ pronounced as /ɾ/]}} is used in some standard German varieties of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Non-standard varieties employ the alveolar trill more often.
The upper/lower distinction also historically influenced the development of upper and lower dialects of Yiddish, the historic vernacular language of Ashkenazi Jews. As these Jews migrated to Eastern Europe (and later America etc.), they brought their particular pronunciations with them.
Speakers of the traditional English dialect of Northumberland and northern County Durham used a uvular rhotic known as the "Northumbrian Burr".[7] [8] [9] However, this is no longer used by most contemporary speakers, who generally realize as an alveolar approximant,, in common with other varieties spoken in the Anglosphere.[10] [11]
The Hiberno-English of northeastern Leinster in Ireland also uses a uvular .
Alveolar rhotics predominate northern Scandinavia. Where they occur, they affect the succeeding alveolars, turning the clusters and,,, retroflex: . Thus the Norwegian word "norsk" is pronounced by speakers with an alveolar flap. This effect is rare in the speech of those using a uvular R .
The rhotic used in Denmark is a voiced uvular approximant, and the nearby Swedish regions of Skåne, Blekinge, southern Halland and southern Småland use a uvular trill or a uvular fricative.
To some extent in Östergötland and still quite commonly in Västergötland, a mixture of guttural and rolling rhotic consonants is used, with the pronunciation depending on the position in the word, the stress of the syllable and in some varieties depending on whether the consonant is geminated. The pronunciation remains if a word that is pronounced with a particular rhotic consonant is put into a compound word in a position where that realization would not otherwise occur if it were part of the same stem as the preceding sound. However, in Östergötland the pronunciation tends to gravitate more towards [w] and in Västergötland the realization is commonly voiced.
Most of Norway uses an alveolar flap, but about one third of the inhabitants of Norway are now using the uvular rhotic. In the western and southern part of South-Norway however, the uvular rhotic is still spreading. The origin was the city of Bergen.[12] Because retroflex consonants are mutations of and other alveolar or dental consonants, the use of a uvular rhotic means an absence of most retroflex consonants.
While the use of an alveolar trill or flap is generalized among speakers of Icelandic, a uvular rhotic is a fairly common pronunciation variant in the language, although it is usually frowned upon as defective pronunciation and compared to stammering and other similar speech disorders.[13]
In Slavic languages, the alveolar trill predominates, with the use of guttural rhotics generally seen as defective pronunciation. An exception are the languages of the Sorbian minority in Saxony, eastern Germany, which are typically spoken with a uvular trill due to German influence. The uvular rhotic may also be found in a small minority in Silesia and other German-influenced regions of Poland and also Slovenia, but is overall quite rare even in these regions. It can also be perceived as an ethnic marker of Jewishness, particularly in Russian where Eastern European Jews often carried the uvular rhotic from their native Yiddish into their pronunciation of Russian.
In Hebrew, the classical pronunciation associated with the consonant Hebrew: ר was tapped pronounced as /ɾ/, and was grammatically treated as an ungeminable phoneme of the language. In most dialects of Hebrew among the Jewish diaspora, it remained a tap pronounced as /ɾ/ or a trill pronounced as /r/. However, in some Ashkenazi dialects as preserved among Jews in northern Europe it was a uvular rhotic, either a trill pronounced as /ʀ/ or a fricative pronounced as /ʁ/. This was because many (but not all) native dialects of Yiddish were spoken that way, and their liturgical Hebrew carried the same pronunciation. Some Iraqi Jews also pronounce as a guttural pronounced as /ʀ/, reflecting their dialect of Arabic.
An apparently unrelated uvular rhotic is believed to have appeared in the Tiberian vocalization of Hebrew, where it is believed to have coexisted with additional non-guttural articulations of depending on circumstances.
Though an Ashkenazi Jew in Czarist Russia, the Zionist Eliezer ben Yehuda based his Standard Hebrew on the Sephardic dialect originally spoken in Spain, and therefore recommended an alveolar . But as the first waves of Jews to resettle in the Holy Land were northern Ashkenazi, they came to speak Standard Hebrew with their preferred uvular articulation as found in Yiddish or modern standard German, and it gradually became the most prestigious pronunciation for the language. The modern State of Israel has Jews whose ancestors came from all over the world, but nearly all of them today speak Hebrew with a uvular because of its modern prestige and historical elite status.
Many Jewish immigrants to Israel spoke a variety of Arabic in their countries of origin and pronounced the Hebrew rhotic as an alveolar tap pronounced as /ɾ/, similar to Arabic Arabic: [[ر]] . Gradually, many of them began pronouncing their Hebrew rhotic as a voiced uvular fricative pronounced as /ʁ/, somewhat similar to some Arabic dialects for pronouncing Arabic: [[غ]] . However, in modern Sephardic and Mizrahi poetry and folk music an alveolar rhotic continues to be used.
While most dialects of Arabic retain the classical pronunciation of Arabic: [[ر]] as an alveolar trill pronounced as /r/ or tap pronounced as /ɾ/, a few dialects use a uvular trill pronounced as /ʀ/. These include:
Although this guttural rhotic is rare in Arabic, uvular and velar sounds are common in this language. The uvular/velar fricative pronounced as /ʁ/~pronounced as /ɣ/ is a common standard pronunciation of the letter Arabic: [[غ]] , and the uvular plosive pronounced as /q/ is a standard pronunciation of the letter Arabic: [[ق]].
Guttural R exist among several Malay dialects. While standard Malay commonly uses coronal r (pronounced as /ɹ/,pronounced as /r/,pronounced as /ɾ/), the guttural fricative (pronounced as /ɣ/~pronounced as /ʁ/) are more prominently used in many dialects in Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia . These dialects include:
~ Perak Malay and Kedah Malay are the most notable
These dialects mainly uses guttural fricative (pronounced as /ɣ/~pronounced as /ʁ/) on both /r/ and /gh/. Standard Malay includes both coronal r (pronounced as /ɹ/,pronounced as /r/,pronounced as /ɾ/) and voiced guttural fricative /gh/ (pronounced as /ɣ/~pronounced as /ʁ/) as two different phonemes. To denotes the guttural r in the dialects, letter "r" often replaced by "gh" or "q" in informal writings . Standard Malay words with voiced velar fricative (pronounced as /ɣ/), such as loghat (Dialect) and ghaib (invisible, mystical) are mostly Arabic loanwords spelled with letter غ.
Standard Basque uses a trill for (written as r-, -rr-, -r), but most speakers of the Lapurdian and Low Navarrese dialects use a voiced uvular fricative as in French. In the Southern Basque Country, the uvular articulation is seen as a speech defect, but the prevalence is higher among bilinguals than among Spanish monolinguals. Recently, young speakers of Lapurdian and Low Navarrese are uvularizing the tap (-r-) as well, thus neutralizing both rhotics.[14]
Whereas standard Khmer uses an alveolar trill for, the colloquial Phnom Penh dialect uses a uvular pronunciation for the phoneme, which may be elided and leave behind a residual tonal or register contrast.[15]
Sesotho originally used an alveolar trill, which has shifted to uvular in modern times.
There are languages where certain indigenous guttural consonants came to be written with means used in other languages to represent rhotics, thereby giving the superficial appearance of a guttural R that may have never actually functioned as a true rhotic consonant.
The Inuit languages Greenlandic and Inuktitut either orthographize or transliterate their voiced uvular obstruent as . In Greenlandic, this phoneme is, while in Inuktitut it is . This spelling was convenient because these languages do not have non-lateral liquid consonants, and guttural realizations of have become common in various languages of European origin. But the Alaskan Inupiat language writes its phoneme instead as, reserving for its retroflex phoneme, which Greenlandic and Inuktitut do not have.


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Spacious apartment near the Champs Elysées
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Floor No.0
- 适合家庭/儿童
- 厨房
- 电视机
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|Rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris, 法国
The rate for the requested dates is 70 euros per night for a stay of 7 nights or more, 80 euros for a shorter stay.t for 1 to 4 people. This rate includes everything such as: power, hot & cold water, heating, lighting, and taxes. Please notice that the furniture and the equipment are brand new. The place is fully furnished included CD player, TV. The kitchen is fully equiped. Towels, linen and kitchenware are provided. There is one large bed 140 x 200cm and a sofa bed 140 x 200cm.
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Terrible experience. Apartment was dirty when we arrived; dirty sheets and towels were laying on the floor. The beds were not made and the shower looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in weeks. There was no toilet paper either. We had to go out and buy towels and toilet paper for our stay as the office was already closed. There wasn't a phone in the apartment anyway. There was a note and the keys from the previous renters on the table. The note had many of the same complaints we had. Obviously since they were still on the table, nobody had come in to wash the bedding and make the beds. The Internet did not work and the t.v. did not work. There is NOT a couch as depicted in the pictures. The "view" of the eiffel tower requires one to step outside on the very small balcony and look to your far right and in the distance you can see it. As far as we're concerned, this apartment is full of misleadings and should be considered false advertisement. Save yourself a lot of headache and stay somewhere else.
Apartment was as described, in a good location and had everything we needed.
It was a nice stay in Paris for the hole family - 2 adults and 3 kids ind the age from 6-18 years. The appartment was bigger than we had thought from the pictures on the website.
Be aware of the parking prices if you come by car - as we did - and the traffic in Paris on a saterday night...
Very nice area, clean and quiet flat.
The place & price of the unit was great.
The condition of the unit not so great.
Black mold in shower, stove would only turn off at breaker box, mop in bathroom was so rancid could hardly take the smell.
To small for 4 adults , should have been told that when we booked.
2 rolls of toilet tissue for the week for 4 adults.
1 towel each for the entire week. We did get extra 4 towels but had to go to office to get them.
1 set of keys -had to go to office to get a second set.
no wifi available.
no broom or dust pan to sweep floor.
left a note saying what needs to be looked at.
We spent 3 days in this nice flat. When you visit Paris, want to stay close to the city and only need to sleep and have breakfast in your flat this flat is perfect. Our only negative comment is that we were missing some ventilation in the bathroom which had mold on the ceiling, but we have mentioned this to the owner of the flat.
Pernille, Denmark
About what I'd hoped for, neither better nor worse. Well equipped kitchen was a plus. However, while a sofa bed is never going to be ideal, the mattress on this one is barely an inch thick. My travelling companion had a bit of a rough time trying to sleep on it.
great localization and very nice apartment - which was fully equipped. We have some problems wit keys at our arrival, but they were solved in 15minuts! The only minus is for lack of blankets - there were only 2 for 3 separate bads. I believe it is not a problem during hot summer, but it was 14 Celsius degree when we were there.
The accomodation wasn't quite what the website said, the appartment wasn't as 'new' as promised. A lot of mildew in the shower, some light bulbs and TV out of order.
Good location instead.
The flat was in good condition, it was clean and we were provided with sheets, pillows, towels, cutlery, etc.
The bed was ok but the sofa bed was very noisy and uncomfortable, the toilet wasnt that great either but we survived, and the bathroom would have been fine if it wasnt for the mold on the ceiling.
The area is really good, with loads of bars and cafes, it seems like a young area with many transport links, Notre Dame and the Cemetery were only a few minutes walk, so it was convenient.
Overall it was good accomodation for the price that we paid.
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How long have I been down here?
My body has no cycles,
And so time does not exist.
I've been waiting for the rain
But I guess it's just too soft,
Too light for me to feel or hear
This far beneath the surface
Nothing out there reaches me
I only have my thoughts
That, and the occasional vibration
The faintest little rumble in the ground
From one direction...
I can only assume it's the gravediggers
Burrowing down into my world
Preparing a bed for my newest neighbor
Could it be another little girl?
I wonder if they all keep thinking,
Like me...
Or is it because I was murdered
That I am unable to sleep?
I don't know how long I've been down here
I just keep counting the graves
Seventeen so far
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Birch and hazel were least recognised - by just 4% - while holly was the most identified leaf - by 54% - in the survey of seven to 14-year-olds.
Just 14% said they spent free time with friends in woods or the countryside.
Some 76% were more likely to be outside shops or on waste ground, the Woodland Trust survey of 647 children found.
More than 40% of seven to 10-year-olds had never visited a wood, the poll found.
But given the choice, 57% of children surveyed said they would want to play in a park, 19% favoured a wood, 15% countryside, and just 11% waste land and open ground.
"But what's really encouraging is that there's a clear desire to spend more time in the great outdoors."
One fifth of children successfully identified the oak leaf, 17% the horse chestnut, 9% field maple, 6% ash and 5% beech.
Welsh children fared best, with 32% recognising horse chestnut and 22% identifying ash, while Scottish children were worst - 8% named horse chestnut, 7% oak.
The survey also found that just 36% of children had learned about destruction of the UK's natural habitat during school teaching on the environment.
Recycling was the most familiar topic, having featured in classes for 72% of children, while global warming (49%), endangered species (48%) and destruction of the rain forest (46%) were also taught widely.
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This organization has not appeared on the IRS Business Master File in a number of months. It may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.
This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted.
Shaping Youth, Inc.
Shaping Youth's mission is to shift negative influences of pop culture to a healthier worldview for kids. Our appearance-based, consumption-driven, behavioral cues are undermining children's emotional and physical health, so we're recruiting powerhouse thinkers, technologists, animators, film directors, educators and youth themselves to use the power of media for positive change via film, web, hands-on education, & enrichment programs. Our nonprofit, nonpartisan organization is implementing innovative fitness/obesity intervention and socio-emotional programs inside virtual worlds and social media using entertainment tactics to impart informal and participatory learning three ways:
• Embedding positive behavioral cues inside media itself
• Eliciting content accountability/change from industry producers
• Counter-marketing harmful messages with media literacy and awareness
Though our organization's programming primarily serves San Mateo County and S.F. Bay Area environs, our media reach is global, and our entertainment-based programs using counter-marketing and intervention tactics (on behalf of youth emotional-physical well-being) are currently being productized in 'train the trainer' format to scale nationally via open source digital download.
Amy Jussel
media literacy, obesity intervention, emotional health, K-12 lifeskills, media management, digital literacy, digital citizenship, social emotional learning
11-16-2014 Reiterate: We are SELF-FUNDED. 501c3 auto-revoked from 'under $10K need not file' rule change. Re-initiating paperwork for compliance in interim of model shift. Transcript of GuideStar chat/convo:
Amy: I've sent an email and camped on the phone line trying to get an answer on this, but here's the ref # to 10950 In essence, I'm SELF-FUNDED and not certain how to extricate myself from the bureaucracy of this model that doesn't seem suited to our needs...we took a vote and decided we should probably just 'dissolve' the nonprofit rather than refile this auto-revoke mess, which the CPA fouled up (2 digits off on our address for starters, so zero mail notices!) We let it go dormant due to self-funding and CPA had wrong info saying 'we don't need to file' since we had no income/out go for years...Have spent thousands of my OWN savings, and will continue to do so...BUT am not interested in paper pushing so am shifting the model, etc. What do I need to do to 'wrap up' in good standing ensure folks we're still around and expanding while continuing our morphing (we take ZERO funding from ANYone, and have been told we should shift to 'social enterprise' model, but I prefer to keep it self-funded til we decide our strategy for sustainability long term)
GuideStar/Chelsea: It appears your organization is not appearing on the public report page because it has been revoked and is not appearing on the IRS Business Master File or Publication 78, however, it will appear to Premium subscribers.
Amy: I've talked to IRS/state who are encouraging to 'just refile' but frankly the bureaucracy doesn't suit me at all, so I'd rather dissolve and shift models. So that's my Q! It comes up in search terms on Google, and that's a reputation mgmt issue, which I don't want to deal with, so I want to update/resolve in accordance w/proper guidelines...It's 'easier' to keep it going I I suppose by refiling, but the model is so broken/distasteful to me for the small entity that we are that I'd prefer to shift/pivot dissolve NP status altogether...
GuideStar: We are unable to provide an advice on this matter, we do apologize for any inconvenience. We may recommend contacting an attorney familiar with nonprofit law and they may be able to assist you with more specific questions regarding your nonprofit.
Amy: ugh. This is the problem...I don't have $$ for more paperwork/attorneys, the whole process of initiating and feeding the paper pushing has sucked up the few funds I had. Do you have a list of local nonprofit attorneys in the Bay Area w/specialization in this type of red tape for facilitation? TechSoup? ANY?
GuideStar: Unfortunately, we do not have any of this information available on GuideStar. I do greatly apologize.
Amy: Thx, LOVE what Guidestar is trying to do for transparency, but I need to get out of this paper process/continue to just DO THE WORK...there needs to be a better "system" to comply &/or extricate from "the system" ;)
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Main Address
698 Port Drive % ELIZABETH CAROLINE MAYTA
San Mateo, CA 94404 USA
Youth Development Programs (O50)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (B01)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (E01)
IRS Filing Requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
How does this organization make a difference?
Self-reported by organization
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program 1
Dare to Compare: Wellness DVD Pilot Project
The purpose of our pilot program was to provide nutrition education to 4th/5th graders in a Title One school, one day per week for eight weeks and for distribution to school staff and parent groups.
We aimed to educate kids about nutrition, additives, processed foods and the corollary between MEDIA, MIND, and BODY pertaining to CONSUMPTION and to promote healthy food choice alternatives/raise awareness of the 'junk in junk out' influence of food marketing and media
This was yet another refinement of our successful hands-on games/pilot program to assess outcomes of our Dare to Compare game prior to productization into a 'train the trainer' open source digital download format...(which we're still seeking funding to achieve)
For this wellness pilot:
We engaged a high risk audience for obesity (52% Hispanic, 27% Caucasian, 16% Pacific Islander, African American or other minority) with close to half in the free/reduce lunch program for low income kids.
After witnessing their lunchtime habits, we tailored the program to the 'hotspots' noticing heavy intake of processed food, pouch drinks, empty nutrient junk foods, using intervention via hands-on games instilling nutrition education.
We used advertising tactics and counter-marketing motivators as behavioral interrupters in the form of concepts like ThreeP (precedent, persuasion, peer perpetuation) customizing our core content within the sat fat/transfat/sodium section to Mexican food specifically. (it can be customized within other categories as well to address cultural competency and regional/ethnic intake, e.g. Chinese food-high sodium/MSG issues, etc.)
For 8 weeks (and on the dvd trainer demo) 5 core areas were covered via units in sugar, sodium, fat, produce, organics, additives, supplements and fiber in a fun 'reality show' entertainment riff on Fear Factor which we call 'Dare to Compare: A Gross Out Game for Good Nutrition'
In the course of the program, students "dissected" popular snacks and beverages, used blindfolded taste-tests comparing highly processed food to fresh and organic alts, learned about 'liquid candy' (sodas, pouch drinks, HFCS substitutions, etc.) and learned what excess fat, sugar and salt intake does to the body.
Students plugged into the marketing and media machine to chop up advertising, packaging, label lingo, and celebrity "pitch pythons' to stir up excitement about eating a healthier diet.
Program long term success
Long Term Success/Potential? Reversing the childhood obesity pandemic, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease risks and causal links to preventive lifestyle cancers that are bankrupting our health care system.
Program success monitored by
See above: pre/post test quizzes, hands-on evaluation of lunchtime, teacher observations throughout the year, parent feedback, community tabletop tradeshow wellness reverb, and educator/peer discussions on the impact of cyclebreaking.
Program success examples
See our spreadsheets, excel statistics and outcomes per request (this platform won't let me upload them for some reason?)
Youth Development
Population(s) Served
Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Ethnic/Racial Minorities -- Other Specified Group
Program 2
Shaping Youth Blog Forum
Shaping Youth's research intensive educational blog draws from many years of my own industry experience in journalism, reporting, and as a writer/producer/creative director, and is aimed at leveraging mass media itself to mobilize youth and the media/marketing industry to reverse toxic trends.
The articles and topics covered over the last two years in the youth media and marketing sphere have gained a global audience and attracted massive educator interest in the humanities sphere skyrocketing from a virtual unknown, to one of the 'Top 20 most influential youth marketing' forums as voted by Mobile Youth.org in the U.K., widely read by parents, wellness educators and health community outreach professionals, youth themselves and media/marketing brand specialists.
Mass media has amplified (and enabled exportation of) unhealthy practices globally (consumption-driven waste, junk food/malnutrition, appearance-based behaviorally cues that are creating unparalleled health costs and decreased life expectancy for the next generation of kids and the planet as a whole. So we use our blog to trumpet the need for economic incentives for marketing healthier goods, using media literacy for life skills, and holding industry accountable for placing profit over public health.
The economic driver of these ramifications worldwide (including morbid obesity that's tripled in the last few short decades, increased Type 2 diabetes/heart risk and a plethora of health and agricultural related issues from indigenous farmers shut out of their crop replaced by multinational processed offerings) needs altered fast...so by reporting on the end-user impact (kids AND parents/the planet as a whole!) we're able to snip economic pursestrings and influence purchase power to guide the pop culture zeitgeist away from harmful cues toward positive change and benign commerce, along with countless others creating this wave of change.
Program long term success
Policy parameters, tax credits for healthier choices and pointing out
the long term financial costs to kids, healthcare and the environment
can help shift societal thinking toward the need for sustainability...Whether that means kids' emotional-physical wellbeing, replenishing
natural resources, or creating an end-user backlash over consumption
cycles for economic growth toward a more holistic, balanced
intervention on behalf of youth AND the planet's future generations.
Program success monitored by
Our blog analytics measure traction on a regional, national and global sphere. We're able to assess impact by topic and pertinence, content and concern, as well as links, pingbacks/trackbacks, new readers and queries, as well as industry interest and solicitation of our platform (which is obviously nonprofit and not for sale!)
Google analytics and iGoogle tracking monitors as well as Alexa, Technorati, blog aggregators and journalistic news feeds ping me every time our content is picked up, shared, blogged about or forwarded, and the growth as surged remarkably using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter, helping to promote the need for solution-based programs like ours and others...(inc. media literacy, critical thinking skills, innovation for education etc.) .
Program success examples
Numbers available upon request showing analytics, blog traffic and expansion of reach...(changes daily based on topic, so placing stats here is irrelevant) For example, we're one of 20 nonprofits that will be featured on the the Facebook Marketplace homepage to "sell for a cause" (like a virtual garage sale) so we're hoping to get a chunk of those 1.5 million Facebook users and raise our visibility as we begin to grow...and enable us to receive an infusion of funds without adding to the consumption cycle or 'dollar-driven' donor ask. It just launched yesterday so 'program success' is 'tbd'...but there's no doubt in my mind that social media is part of the wave of nonprofit technology that will point us all toward sustainability and collective knowledge, toward healthier worldviews for youth!
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
General Public/Unspecified
Program 3
M-power hands-on media literacy games
Series of pop culture/entertainment based games that flip unhealthy messages with 'lift and reveal' critical thinking 'aha' moments on a variety of subjects. (from stereotypes and bullying to food/beverage and toy/gender marketing)
Program long term success
Not available
Program success monitored by
Not available
Program success examples
See 'about us' section of site/outcomes. Approaching new ways to scale hand-on games currently, inc media lit mobile apps, charaters in kidlit/children's books
Youth Development, General/Other
Population(s) Served
Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Though our organization's programming primarily serves San Mateo County and S.F. Bay Area environs, our media reach is global, and our entertainment-based programs using counter-marketing and intervention tactics (on behalf of youth emotional-physical well-being) are currently being productized in 'train the trainer' format to scale nationally via open source digital download.
Social Media
Funding Needs
Numerous...seed funding, angel investors, reimbursement for programs underway. Will fill this in later...
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Amy Jussel
Shaping Youth, Inc.
Term: Sept 2007 -
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Spigit Closes Series E Financing Led by Warburg PincusCompany Raises Additional $15.2 Million: Infusion of Capital to Accelerate Already Rapid Market Adoption of Spigit's Crowd Innovation Software (March 21, 2012)
PLEASANTON, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/21/12 -- Spigit, the leader in social innovation software and services, announced today that it has secured $15.2 million in a Series E financing, led by global private equity firm Warburg Pincus, bringing total amount raised since Company inception to $41.2 million.
"Warburg Pincus has been a long-term partner that shares our passion and vision for the future of innovation," said Paul Pluschkell, CEO and founder, Spigit. "With this round of financing, we will continue to develop the leadership position of our core products and will release a new revolutionary crowd innovation platform. The capital will allow us to expand how we serve our growing customer base as more organizations turn to Spigit's solutions to solve top business challenges."
With the enterprise social software market growing 15 percent per year and predicted by Gartner to top $1 billion through 2012, Spigit plans to use the funding to continue building a world-class product portfolio that accelerates organizational innovation, to grow its partner ecosystem and to capitalize on the momentum of both to launch its new platform. The growth capital will also be used to build the Company's employee base, which will allow it to take advantage of the market opportunity and to continue leading the social innovation space.
The five-year-old Company has seen significant success bolstered by a rapidly growing customer base, with milestones in 2011 including:
- 133 percent bookings growth year-over-year
- 1,885 percent revenue growth from 2008 to 2010
- $41.2 million funding to date
- Adding nearly 100 new brand name clients in 2011, almost doubling client base over 2010
- Used by over 5 million customers' employees, including 25 percent of Fortune 100 companies
"When we first invested in Spigit, Paul and the management team had pioneered the field of social intelligence, enabling organizations to utilize the explosion of social interactions to derive actionable insights and understand who their internal experts are," said Vishnu Menon, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. "The company's vision has resulted in a continued tremendous response from customers and their emergence as the industry standard for innovation management, which is why we are investing yet again."
Spigit is a social software that helps large enterprises, government organizations and companies in any industry address their most pressing business challenges by tapping into the collective intelligence of their crowds. Through Warburg Pincus' investment, the Company will continue its position as the global leader in social innovation solutions while expanding this space.
To sign up for priority access to Spigit's new platform, go to http://icon.spigit.com.
To tweet about Spigit's funding news, go to http://clicktotweet.me/kvHc196m.
About Spigit:
Diversity of insight is often the source of the most innovative solutions. Spigit is a platform that enables organizations to tap into the collective intelligence of employees, customers, partners and fans to help tackle business objectives.
By incorporating game mechanics, Spigit first engages your people at scale. Using social algorithms Spigit then leverages this crowd to do the heavy lifting and surface and vet the most promising ideas through collaboration. Finally, with big data analytics Spigit pinpoints actionable and predictive information that drives results.
The largest and most innovative companies in the world use Spigit including Overstock.com, AAA, US Bank, City of New York, Estee Lauder and Capgemini. For more information about how you can enable crowd innovation for your enterprise, visit www.Spigit.com, email email@example.com or call 1-855-SPIGIT1.
About Warburg Pincus:
Warburg Pincus LLC is a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing. The firm has more than $30 billion in assets under management. Its active portfolio of more than 125 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector and geography. Warburg Pincus is a growth investor and an experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 13 private equity funds which have invested more than $40 billion in over 650 companies in more than 30 countries. Warburg Pincus is focused on investing in growth opportunities across the Consumer, Industrial and Services (CIS), Energy, Healthcare, Financial Services and Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) sectors. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Mumbai, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com.
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As the Toronto Maple Leafs try to end one major drought that dates to before the NHL lockout, they can address another run of futility that has lasted just as long.
It won't be easy, however, for the Leafs to enter a hostile atmosphere Saturday and snap a nine-game losing streak to the Vancouver Canucks, who haven't lost in regulation in more than a month.
Toronto (29-23-6) hasn't reached the playoffs since 2004, but coach Ron Wilson's club has a chance to finally bring postseason hockey back to Canada's largest city as it clings to eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
The hockey-crazed nation's most successful franchise lately has been Vancouver, which has showed in this matchup. The Canucks have outscored Toronto 38-19 while winning each meeting since a 2-1 road defeat Nov. 24, 2003.
"The Leafs have always been a team I hated as a kid," Vancouver's Alexandre Burrows said after scoring the game-winner in a 5-3 victory at Toronto on Dec. 17. "I know a lot of fans in Vancouver don't like this team. ... It just makes it extra special."
The Canucks (36-15-6) haven't discriminated - they've been tough on every opponent for the last several weeks, going 8-0-3 in their last 11. Seven of those games have gone to shootouts, but they finally escaped with a regulation win Wednesday over Colorado.
David Booth scored for the third straight game and Jannik Hansen broke a tie with a third-period tally before Burrows' empty-netter sealed the 3-1 victory.
"We get off a little earlier than normal," Hansen said. "It's nice to only have to play 60 (minutes)."
The Leafs needed more than that Wednesday in Edmonton, but they were simply happy to get a 4-3 victory and snap a four-game losing streak.
Tim Connolly scored 1:39 into overtime - his first goal in 18 games - as Toronto won despite squandering a 2-0 lead it had built 1:38 into the first period.
"We've been in a little bit of a rut," Connolly said, "and to come out and battle in a game like that where it's going back and forth, and really grind it out and get the win is a huge two points for us."
Wilson, however, is wary because the Leafs' previous win also came against the Oilers, 6-3 at home Feb. 6. The coach said Edmonton's uptempo style may have been partly responsible for getting Toronto, which was outscored 16-5 during its slide, out of whack.
"That's the way Edmonton plays. It actually set us off on this little losing skid, I think," Wilson said. "You get into a flow that's going back and forth, and sometimes when you get some free looks like we were getting, you forget about playing in your own end."
The Leafs will certainly have to be sharp defensively against one of the league's most prolific clubs, and their impressive run of success on the penalty kill might be tested.
Opponents have scored once in 34 power-play chances over 20 games since the start of 2012 after a dreadful start to the season for the unit. Vancouver, though, leads the league at 22.1 percent with the man advantage despite its current 2-for-23 stretch.
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Fifty years after Hitler's downfall, Arthur Miller wrote this oblique but penetrating drama about a 1930s Brooklyn Jewish couple whose marriage falters in the long shadow of Kristallnacht. Tara Fitzgerald now joins Antony Sher in Iqbal Khan's superbly acted production, first seen at the Tricycle Theatre, now furnishing the West End with a beautifully refurbished American classic.
Sher does a wonderful job with Miller's protagonist Philip Gellburg: he brings a twang of real awfulness as well as deep sympathy to this prejudiced, buttoned-up company man, who forecloses mortgages and cringes before his Wasp boss like a timorous two-bit Brooklyn Shylock. Fitzgerald is a revelation as his poised and lonely wife, Sylvia, who loses the use of her legs after she becomes obsessed by the news from Germany.
The shattering question of Sylvia's paralysis is the play's main trajectory. Is it physical or psychological? Either way, it cracks the windows of several glass houses: conventional marriage, emigrant complacency, and that fragile edifice of history and parochial vanity which comprises cultural identity.
Fitzgerald's Sylvia is touchingly, comically desperate for sexual fulfilment, draping herself transparently in silk when the doctor calls. Stanley Townsend's straying would-be-Freudian GP is a splendidly middle-aged cross between Bill Clinton and Marlon Brando, a ladies' man whose battered charisma springs from warm intelligent curiosity. He is the opposite of Sher's Gellburg, whose overwhelming love for his frustrated wife is his only visible generous impulse.
Khan's production is oddly framed by a scratched Perspex backdrop but the naturalism and insight of the performances are nearly flawless. Miller's writing, as so often, registers the seismic political events that set the beat of individual disappointment and desire. But this fine ensemble makes the characters unforgettable, as they strive to slough off the skin of their small existence and become large enough to love each other candidly.
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Chief steward Kim Kelly has denied he has led any extraordinary 'crackdown' in judicial affairs, despite an abrupt end to Mark du Plessis' stint yesterday after he became the fifth jockey punished under the 'reasonable and permissible measures' rule.
For his ride on Fun Heroes in the final race at Sha Tin last Sunday, Du Plessis was handed a seven-day ban and what amounts to three fines of HK$25,000 each in lieu of three further riding days, since there are only eight meetings left and Du Plessis will finish up at tomorrow's meeting.
In the previous 10 seasons, stewards punished 15 rides under rule 99, the various parts of which require jockeys to take all reasonable and permissible measures to win or achieve the best possible placing.
'It is an unusually high number of offences under this rule, but every case is considered on its own merits and I can assure you it isn't part of some particular crackdown,' Kelly said. 'Between last season, my first as chief steward, and this season there has been no change to the judging standards used and I have been comfortable with the level of riding overall. There just happens to have been an increased application of this rule in what has been a busy season for us in many respects.'
Stewards found fault with Zimbabwe-born Du Plessis (pictured) over his riding in the early stages on Fun Heroes, who led for the first time in his career and overraced before wilting to run 11th to Real Specialist.
The report from yesterday's inquiry marked the 'start of the race to the 1,300 metres' as the area of concern, stating that Du Plessis rode the horse 'vigorously' to lead, contrary to its usual pattern and contrary to instructions from trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai to position the horse in midfield. As a result, the stewards concluded Fun Heroes 'was required to run at an unreasonably fast tempo between the start of the race and the 1,200m in or with the lead and then travelling strongly between the 1,200m and the 800m, when continuing to race in or with the lead.'
Du Plessis said he shouldered the blame for the ride and would not appeal the penalty.
'I'm a bit disappointed in myself. I made an error of judgment - I'm human - but I did so thinking I was doing the best thing for the horse,' he said. 'He stumbled out of the gates and Ricky had warned me that prior to his previous win, he had been getting too far out of his races, so I didn't want that to happen and rode him up and then he wouldn't relax.
'It was the first time I rode him in a race but I had ridden him in work and, from how he behaves on the track, you would not think he would take off like that. I have applied to come back next season and I hope I can.'
Adding piquancy to the case was the huge betting support for Real Specialist (backed from HK$36 to HK$17) and the fact that Lau Ip-keung, a part-owner of both Fun Heroes and the winner, gave evidence before yesterday's hearing.
'Mark du Plessis still has his appeal rights, so I don't want to say much about the case that isn't in our report, but I would say that betting support for Real Specialist was not a major factor,' Kelly said.
'Betting is always something we look at as part of our job, naturally, but in this case it was seeing Fun Heroes ridden to the lead, compared to his previous racing tactics, which caught our attention.'
The penalty is in line with other recent cases, with Jeff Lloyd, Terry Wong Chi-wai, Matthew Chadwick and Ben So Tik-hung all receiving bans of between nine and 11 days.
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