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Six men have been saved from drowning after their boat capsized as they were days away from entering the record books as the first crew to row across the Atlantic in a month.
Click here or on "View Gallery" to view the Sara G's journey in pictures
Mark Beaumont, 29, who had been blogging the voyage for The Independent, was among the crew aboard Sara G. The men spent several hours adrift in a life raft 520 miles short of their destination, the port of St Charles in Barbados. They began the 2,500-mile journey in Morocco on 2 January.
They crew was rescued by a Panamanian cargo ship, the Nord Taipei, in the early hours of this morning, after activating a electronic distress beacon that was picked up by Falmouth Coastguard. The Cornish station, working with authorities in Martinique, diverted the 32,000 ton container ship to rescue the men.
The skipper of the Sara G, Matt Craughwell described how the 11 metre-long craft took on water after being tossed, stern up, by two large waves.
"It happened so quickly. Three of us were inside the cabins when the boat went over. She was taking on water very very quickly," he told the BBC.
"All six crew members made it out and for the next fifteen minutes we battled to get the life rafts out and secured to the boats and set off one of the emergency evacuation signals... To be honest frightened is a word I wouldn't use. It was a flight or fight response from everybody."
A statement from the Atlantic Odyssey support team gave further details, explaining that a wave rotated Sara G by 180 degrees, "causing it to immediately take on water and capsize within ten seconds."
The statement continued: "In the next fifteen minutes the crew secured the life raft and attached it to the boat. They set-off their alerting alarms which led to a response from Falmouth Coast Guard.
"The crew did try to recover the vessel but due to the speed of the water retention, this proved unsuccessful.
"The crew spent approximately three hours recovering on the raft before Matthew Craughwell and Mark Beaumont returned to the vessel to recover equipment to aid the rescue attempt."
In his blog, Mr Beaumont has described a gruelling challenge. The men have been rowing in shifts of two hours on, two hours off, 24 hours a day. For nearly a month none of the crew members have slept for more than two hours at a time.
"This is, without comparison the toughest expedition of my life," wrote Mr Beaumont, who in 2008 cycled round the world in a record-breaking 194 days.
Although weather conditions had hampered progress, the crew was within reach of breaking the 30-day record, considered the "four minute mile" of ocean rowing.
However, Mr Craughwell said that it was "too early for disappointment" and that the crew were above all grateful to be alive.
The crew also included Ian Rowe, a 45-year-old father of four; Aodhan Kelly, 26, from Dublin, Ireland; Simon Brown, 37, a father of three from Wiltshire and father-of-two, Yaacov Mutnikas from Berkshire.
In December British rower Tom Fawcett and his Dutch-Russian companion Tom Sauer had to be rescued when their vessel was overturned by a wave.
Mr Craughwell paid tribute to the rescuers, saying that the co-ordination of the mission went "very well."
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Ayse Birsel To Herman Miller: 'I Am A Designer Of Life' [Video]
In the latest installment of the design studio's video series, the Turkish designer talks about how by deconstructing traditional concepts, she finds her personal values.
The third in a series of film installations by Herman Miller features Ayse Birsel, a designer based in New York City, who draws on the simultaneous dualities of the City, in its beauty and ugliness, the rich and the poor. She found the same dynamic in her home country, Turkey, and felt an inexplicably strong desire to move to the Big Apple.
Taking time out of each day to think without inhibition, Birsel finds that the process of deconstruction and reconstruction helps a person to find another point of view, extrapolating values and a new facet of identity. She, personally, uses concept maps, graphs, sketches, flow charts, and automatic writing, as seen in the video below.
"Design is imagination," she says, "and if you can imagine something, you can make it happen." It is this logic that leads Birsel to believe that if you can design your life, you can create coherence by aligning your values with your actions.
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Lessons from two decades of success from one of America's most prominent improv/comedy troupes, Four Day Weekend
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, currently exhibiting "Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolph Eichmann", recently hosted a speech by famed Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum
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Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak with the author of one of my all-time favorite series, Julia Dahl, regarding her third novel, Conviction (Minotaur Books, 2017), which comes out on March 28th, and which I have been looking...
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Printed Matter Presents LA Art Book Fair 2017 (LAABF2017) . Where over 40,000 attendees gather with an international art community of art book makers and art projects.
Author Ron Irwin is an occasional contributor to Splash Magazines Worldwide. A review of his recent book follows
Here's my book review of President Me: The America That's in My Head by Adam Carolla
Reviewing the amazing emotional rollercoaster that is "Aspects of Love" performance from Deeply Rooted Dance Theater. Hint: it is better than deep-dish pizza
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Re: MathPlayer???
If Wolfram research can make a deal with the likes of Dell/Compaq, etc... to
have the MathPlayer preinstalled in new PC's sold, then the problem with the
large size of the player will no longer exist.
I noticed that a new PC's from DELL nowadays, that it has adobe reader
already installed on the desktop.
It will be really nice if the same thing can be done with MathPlayer.
Meanwhile, the download size I think is not that big a problem, most people
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download, and it is a one time thing.
Does any one out there still use a dial-up modem to connect to the internet?
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My daughter would have turned 18 yesterday. I miss her so much. She got into a little trouble and thought her only way out was to take her own life. Teenagers don't always think straight and can act impulsive. She was not a depressed child and loved very very much.
Here is a picture of our fishing trip last summer and one her at the Washington fish market.
Thank you, lord for giving me the strength and courage to go on. Help me continue to look for and find the positives in such a tragic event. I am amazed by the love and support that have come from you through other people. Take care of my baby girl. I am sure she has you laughing and smiling.


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Rita Ora December 2012 British Vogue Feature
On the heels of releasing her debut album "Ora," Rita Ora scored herself a feature in the December 2012 issue of British Vogue magazine.
Sporting bright red lips, the 21-year-old singer posed for the stunning Scott Trindle shot spread while dishing about everything from having Beyoncé Knowles as a mentor to writing songs in the bathroom as a child.
A few highlights from Miss Ora's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to British Vogue!
On how lucky she is to have Beyonce as a mentor:
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On having to share a room with her sister growing up:
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On the possibility of her designing a clothing line:
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I don't think there is a repellent for burrs, so if your dog has longer hair, a nice skin friendly conditioner will help get them out.
Short coats usually don't have too much problems with burrs, a simple swipe or curry comb will do the trick.
The only way I know of to keep them off of your pet, is to avoid burr ridden areas.
I live in the country with lots of burrs and seeds. My late Samoyed would get in them. It was a night mare to get them out. All my current dogs are short haired so I don't have this problem with them.
When picking them off, don't forget to look in the ears. Tiny seeds can get in their ears and cause earache and infection. :o(
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In addition to the other responses, keep the fur trimmed between the toes. These can be super easy areas for burrs to get caught. Always a good idea to search the toes and ears after being outside for any burrs present.
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A big "Thank you!" to Steven Greydanus, one of my favorite film critics, for being so kind as to highlight Through a Screen Darkly in his latest batch of answers to inquiries at his Decent Films website.When someone asked for a recommendation of a book about Christian perspectives on film, Greydanus answered: Jeff doesn't just tell you whether or not he liked a movie. He offers you a seat next to him as the movie unfolds and he points out and reflects on the things that thrill, fascinate or … [Read more...]
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Saints quarterback Drew Brees has spent plenty of time composing e-mails to teammates of late. His most recent message, a copy of which we have obtained, suggests that full free agency could open as soon as Tuesday.
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"As has been the case with this entire process, it looks like the details and schedule has changed for training camp and free agency," Brees writes. "This is the latest although I cannot confirm anything at this point. I just want to make you aware as to what is being discussed so nothing catches you by surprise.


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Hollywood royalty ready for fighters to rumble
By Mark Lamport-Stokes
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - With security beefed up at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the rich and famous settled into their expensive seats shortly before the welterweight showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao began on Saturday.
Tickets for a hotly anticipated megabout dubbed the "Fight of the Century" have been coveted by A-listers and high-rollers, with no guarantee that prime front row spots would be granted for every request from the biggest names in show business.
Around 900 ringside seats were available for the celebrities, business tycoons and entertainment moguls who have converged on Las Vegas, and actors Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck were among those who secured the prized positions.
Tennis greats Andre Agassi and his wife, Steffi Graf, were also in the front rows, squeezed in alongside boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Hollywood stars Christian Bale and Michael Keating.
Other high-profile fans watching ringside, where seats have demanded up to $350,000 on the resale site StubHub, included former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield and retired NBA stars Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Reggie Miller.
Also making their way into the Arena via the red carpet were American actors Bradley Cooper, Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington and Claire Danes, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook and English musician Sting.
The atmosphere in the heavily secured 16,800-seat Garden Arena was electric as the two fighters prepared to make their way to the ring for a bout that is expected to be the biggest grossing of all time with a 'Who's Who' of society looking on.
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Our Test Kitchen's White Sauce enhances many kinds of veggies. In the photo on the opposite page, we topped cooked broccoli florets with the Lemon Chive Sauce variation.
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- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash pepper
- 3/4 cup milk
- In a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the flour, salt and pepper until smooth. Gradually add milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Yield: 2/3 cup.
Editor's Note: Cheese Sauce: Prepare as directed, omitting salt. Add 3/4 cup shredded cheddar, Swiss, American or Gruyere cheese; cook and stir over low heat until cheese is melted. Yield: 1 cup. Herb Garlic Sauce: Prepare as directed, except saute 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic in the melted butter for 1-2 minutes or until tender. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon herb of your choice (caraway seed, celery seed, dried basil, oregano or rubbed sage) with the flour. Yield: 3/4 cup. Lemon Chive Sauce: Prepare as directed. Stir in 1 tablespoon minced chives and 1/2 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel. Yield: 3/4 cup. Parmesan Sauce: Prepare as directed, omitting salt. Add 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese; cook and stir over low heat until cheese is melted. Yield: 2/3 cup.
Originally published as White Sauce in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2006, p128
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Frank Biondi, the former head of Universal Studios, has reinvented himself as a dot-com entertainment investor. There's a phrase for that in the New Hollywood: Good career move.
1999 was the year entertainment executives along the Malibu-Glendale corridor finally realized that the Internet would transform their industry. "Even if they couldn't see the writing on the wall," analyst Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications observes, "they could see the writing on the front page ofVariety every day." The concern many execs felt about the Internet devolved into sheer panic following the news of the AOL-Time Warner merger. Variety editor in chief Peter Bart quoted one major Hollywood executive confiding to his shrink that he felt "disoriented" and "whipsawed" by the dizzying pace of change.
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One Tinseltown veteran who claims he isn't feeling whipsawed is Frank Biondi. The former chair and CEO of HBO, and ex-president and CEO of Viacom, Biondi was booted from the top post at Universal Studios in November '98. But like ex-Disney president Michael Ovitz and former NBC Entertainment head Warren Littlefield, Biondi has ambitions of becoming a major player on LA's Digital Coast. Ovitz, who left Disney in early 1997 with $90 million in severance, later teamed up with former Disney Online head Richard Wolpert to put money into several Internet startups, including Beverly Hills-based Scour, a broadband entertainment-related search company. Littlefield invested in the online music business Launch Media.
As for Biondi, these days he's putting his fingerprints on all sorts of Net-related entertainment deals, investing in a diverse group of startups with the partners at his current outfit, WaterView Advisors. Biondi sits on the boards of eight companies that stream short and long films over the Web, aggregate broadband webcasts, hawk Pokémon figures and other licensed merchandise, and hatch big plans to serve the business-to-business needs of the global media community.
What it all will amount to is an open question – Hollywood hubbub doesn't automatically impress people in Silicon Valley, and the Biondi label counts for considerably less up north than down south. "I've never heard his name in any deals we've looked at," says one general partner at a major VC firm in the Valley. "My sense is that Biondi is not currently an integral part of the network of power players who are involved in tech-related companies."
Biondi sits on the boards of firms that stream films, aggregate webcasts, hawk Pokémon figures, and hatch plans to serve the global media community.
"Biondi is definitely well-connected and smart, but he does not know much about the Net or convergence," says an executive at an entertainment site in Silicon Valley. "He wants very much to be perceived as Hollywood's 'Internet Guy,' but right now he is not the guy you want repping your Internet company in the film community. They look at him as an operations guy with a lot of TV experience, and no Internet credibility beyond spending money."
Plenty of people disagree with that dismissive assessment, arguing that guys like Biondi are in a perfect position to capitalize on their relationships, networks of talent, and ability to manage entertainment or content businesses. Dana Ardi, a top industry recruiter who heads the media, Internet, and ecommerce practice for TMP Worldwide, says the current flux in entertainment represents "an amazing opportunity for people like Biondi, Ovitz, and Littlefield. They understand how to capture the consumer's attention and use celebrity to bring people in."
"Hollywood people realize that the Internet is the future of the entertainment business," says Jupiter Communications senior analyst Mark Mooradian. "They recognize a growth opportunity and are aggressively pursuing it. Stupid money is being thrown at every venture that's Web-based. How do you get the smart money? That's where Frank really brings something to the table. Not only does he give strategic legitimacy to these ventures, he gives a tinge of operational credibility."
That's undeniably true, but raises a more fundamental question about the power relationship between Hollywood and the Valley. The entertainment industry and the Web will continue to converge, but Hollywood is still struggling with the fact that it's not calling all the shots anymore.
"I've never met Biondi, and while I have no doubt that it's true that the web of relationships in the entertainment world is long-standing and thick, business isn't done that way on the Internet," says George Bell, president and CEO of Excite@Home. "Business is much more slack, less hierarchical, more open, and meritocracy-oriented, not hierarchy-oriented. It's the 'best idea wins' industry. And while there's no question that there's value in being able to penetrate that web of entertainment relationships, if you gave me a choice between having those relationships or understanding how business is done on the Web, I'd choose the latter. Yahoo! and Excite didn't come from the entertainment industry, and there isn't an executive in Hollywood who wouldn't take a meeting with us. It becomes easier to penetrate those entertainment relationships if you've first built a distribution platform organic to the Web that has some real clout."
Biondi, 55, lives in a stately home with a brick facade in Brentwood, not far from where O.J. Simpson used to practice his golf swing in the moonlight. I drive up a gravel parkway past a reflecting pool, complete with small fountain, and a one-story building that contains the $2.3 million screening room Universal built for Biondi when he was still flying high at the studio. (Universal vowed to remove the theater, but it's still here.)
After a short wait in a sunroom adjoining the main foyer, Biondi appears, trim and compact, with neatly cut gray hair and eyes that seem frozen in a genial expression. These days he wears polo shirts and slacks as regularly as he used to wear suits and ties.
Biondi's transformation from unemployed "media god" – as one dot-com entrepreneur characterizes him – to éminence grise of the online entertainment world happened fast, a classic case of an old media player moving quickly to get with the digital program. The idea of setting up a fund came from Richard Reiss, a veteran Wall Street media investor and an old friend from Biondi's early career days in investment banking. Reiss already ran a group of funds called Georgica Advisors and wanted to create an equity fund for the private deals Georgica wasn't set up to handle. So Reiss, an investor in media, approached his old friend, a manager of media. Another partner, Gus Oliver, was brought on to help administer the fund.
Biondi and Reiss, both of whom had oceanfront homes on Martha's Vineyard, pored over a map of the island in search of a name for the fund. "Turns out," Biondi says, "there must be a lot of money managers on Martha's Vineyard – almost all the logical names were taken." They decided to go for the generic WaterView.
Biondi mainly works out of his Brentwood home, with regular trips to New York, where his partners are based. All the paperwork submitted to the fund by hopeful dot-commers lands on his desk, which, he allows, "puts a fair amount of reading stress on me." Far from having circles under his eyes, though, Biondi looks as if he's just come from three weeks of tennis at La Costa.
Ironically, WaterView wasn't supposed to be an Internet fund at all. Online investments were intended to be limited to a small slice of the fund – "about 10 percent," he says. That figure now looks more like 50 percent. While Biondi is clearly intrigued by the possibilities of the new medium, he's like a kid who won't own up to his crush on the girl next door. "It's just the deal flow," he says, explaining how the fund came to be dominated by Internet companies. The fund has somewhere between $190 and $210 million. "I'm not sure we understand the rules or metrics," he says. "Maybe nobody does," he adds.
Biondi slips out of the room for a moment and returns with what looks like an Excel spreadsheet, which he reads leaning forward in his seat. The fund has private investments in 23 companies. Top of the list is "Atom Corporation."
For Biondi, the Internet feels like a hits business, where you spread your bets and hope for aTitanic – in this case, a priceline.com – to cover the fund.
AtomFilms is an Internet company that streams short films and animation over the Web and is now branching out into producing shorts. (See "MyHollywood," Wired 7.10, page 214.) During January's Sundance Film Festival, the company outfitted a bus with video monitors so attendees could watch some of its three- to six-minute films while being shuttled around town. AtomFilms is probably WaterView's best-known investment; thanks to its big-name alliances with Sundance, HBO, and Warner Bros. Online, it's also as close to being a blue-chip company as any startup in the online entertainment space.
Overall, WaterView's portfolio covers content, distribution, ecommerce, business-to-business, licensed merchandising, and technology infrastructure. (See "The Upstarts," page 164.) Many of the CEOs have strong media backgrounds. For Biondi, the Internet feels like a "hits business" very similar to movie portfolio strategies, where you spread your bets and hope for aTitanic – or, in this case, a priceline.com – that will cover the whole fund.
In contrast to the unrestrained enthusiasm of other dot-com entrepreneurs, Biondi's vision of the Internet is as sober as a Monday-morning staff meeting. The term "interactive" seldom pops up. Biondi sees the Net as the latest development – albeit a radical one – in a 20-year trend in media that he sums up with the phrase "What I wanna see when I wanna see it."
Choice and convenience are the drivers. He recalls a time years ago at HBO when he and his colleagues were dumbstruck to discover that a large percentage of HBO customers were also subscribing to Showtime, "just to have four chances to see the same film in a week instead of two." The public will always gravitate toward what he describes as "the next best simulation of video-on-demand." Media in general, and entertainment in particular, will evolve into Internet distribution. HBO-on-demand. Movies-on-demand. And even TV-on-demand. "That stuff gets me kind of excited," he says. "It involves the old players and new players. And guess what? We know most of the old players and we're getting to know most of the new ones."
On the other hand, he and his partners are less sanguine now about content than they were some months ago. "The Web as a medium of its own is really premature," he says. "A lot of the content area is chasing theoretical revenue. There isn't a line out there in the cash community that says 'short films'; you have to create the demand for short films and convince advertisers in the Atom model. That's not always easy. Fortunately, the cost side is reasonable for Atom." Companies that provide what he calls "very specialized video-based entertainment" at costs ranging as high as $60,000 for eight minutes (he's alluding to the Santa Monica, California-based Digital Entertainment Network) will, he thinks, have a harder time of it. "You probably couldn't make money at NBC with those economics, let alone on the Net."
If Frank Biondi is more comfortable with technology than most Hollywood executives, it may be because his father was an engineer at Bell Labs. Frank Sr. moved the family from Manhattan to New Jersey when the labs relocated to Murray Hill. Early on, Frank Jr. demonstrated a talent for numbers and baseball. Biondi entered college thinking he'd be a math major. "What I found out is that I was an arithmetic major," he says, a talent that nonetheless has served him well in his career.
He attended Harvard Business School during the Vietnam era, then drifted into investment banking. He admits to having been "pretty good" at it, but he had to learn a new business every 30 days. "I didn't want to do that," he says. Instead, he took a position at the pioneering cable provider Teleprompter in 1972, where he met his future wife, Carol, and began a long involvement with the cable TV industry. Biondi likes to say that he began his career in new media and worked his way back into old media. He left Teleprompter for the Children's Television Workshop, best known for creatingSesame Street. In 1978 he moved over to a small cable company called Home Box Office.
Biondi says he spent much of his time in his early days there "worrying about intermissions," which were then filled mainly by short films and music videos. HBO eventually dropped both types of interludes in favor of promotional programming; to this day, he regrets that HBO didn't fill the gaps with music videos, and that it lost out on that business to MTV.
Biondi worked his way up to chair and CEO in 1984. What he liked about HBO was that "it was easy to be involved in everything." The company had about 15 big customers, five or six studios to deal with, and, as he puts it, "only 40 or 50 important moving parts." He liked that the issues were all strategic, and that he could keep it all inside his head. Talking to him, you get the impression that HBO may have been the most satisfying professional experience of his career.
Nevertheless, in 1985 he was lured to Coca-Cola as executive VP of its entertainment-business sector, the umbrella for such television-production companies as Merv Griffin Enterprises. He stayed there until July 1987, running Coke's TV division, where he may have acquired his famously hands-off management style.
"Coke," he says, "ran the business by getting great people, giving them great instructions and the tools to do it right, and setting them loose."
Biondi tried to apply those principles when he became president and CEO of Viacom in 1987. Some of the top executives he recruited are still there, like Viacom Entertainment Group chair Jonathan Dolgen and Paramount Pictures chair and CEO Sherry Lansing. Biondi says Viacom gave him the opportunity to apply his financial skills to an interesting mix of businesses – film and television (Paramount), music videos (MTV, VH1), and children's programming (Nickelodeon), among others. But in early 1996, Sumner Redstone caused industry jaws to drop when he gave Biondi the pink slip. He walked with a $15 million settlement.
When it comes to explaining why new media deals dominate his fund, Biondi is like a kid who won't own up to his crush on the girl next door.
Not everyone in the entertainment business shares Biondi's philosophy about delegating authority. Unfortunately, one of those who begged to differ was his next boss: Seagram president and CEO Edgar Bronfman, who recruited Biondi for the top job at Universal in April 1996. From the outset Biondi was at a disadvantage. He couldn't hire his own management team, since Bronfman had already filled most of the key positions with his own hires. Bronfman then transferred Universal's television business to Barry Diller's USA Networks without consulting Biondi beforehand. Once that happened, Biondi began living on borrowed time. A string of costly flops in the company's motion picture division – rememberMeet Joe Black? – presaged Biondi's dismissal in November 1998. This time he picked up a $30 million settlement.
"Frank has had some high-profile firings," says longtime friend Michael Fuchs. "He's maintained his confidence. He picks himself back up." Fuchs ran both HBO and Warner Music Group until he was fired in 1995; now he, too, is playing in the Internet sandbox – he's chair of Autobytel.com and an investor in Internet startups including WhatsHotNow.com (a WaterView property) and Wink Communications. "There's life after what many people think of as death," he told one interviewer recently.
Fuchs was head of special programming at HBO in the mid-'70s. At one point he asked Biondi, who was still at the Children's Television Workshop, for his opinion on HBO's business model. "He gave me a perfect capsule analysis of HBO," Fuchs recalls. "He said it had a classic middleman dynamic. That's HBO's cross to bear – and its uniqueness." He brought Biondi in as a director of coproductions.
About six months after hiring him, Fuchs – an effusive character compared with his cool-headed friend – dropped by Biondi's office: "Frank, isn't this the greatest? Aren't you having a ball?"
"I've been trained my whole life to be an analyst," Biondi told Fuchs. "This is so subjective. There aren't any real answers."
"Analysis is Frank's strength," Fuchs says. "Some of the interconnections in the new media space are extraordinary. I honestly believe this is what Frank does best – complicated decisionmaking and investing." This analytical style sets Biondi apart from many of his freewheeling peers in the media business. "I like to do homework," Biondi tells me, describing himself as an intellectually hands-on person who attempts to interrelate whatever media business he is in with others in his experience.
Biondi's moves in the Internet world inevitably are seen as emblems of tensions between Northern California's techies and Hollywood's dealmakers. The perception, quickly turned cliché, is that these are two tribes with a barely disguised distaste for each other. "There's this cross talk that's so dismissive," says Allen DeBevoise, CEO of Creative Planet, a WaterView-funded company. "LA and New York media people say, 'Those Silicon Valley people are so soulless. All they ever talk about is the efficiency of the market.' The members of the tech crowd up north are saying, 'Those Hollywood people are at theseparties … this whole Hollywood thing.'"
In this scenario, dragging a rust belt industry like the entertainment business out of its sitcom past and into a sun-filled digital future is a daunting task – a task uniquely suited to old-guardmachers like Biondi, Ovitz, and Littlefield. Venture capitalists up north may have an idea of how movies and TV shows get made, Biondi says, "but they don't know all the tissues, nerves, who-knows-who, who-hates-who – which you need to know at some level if you're going to be dealing with the content world."
It plays well in Hollywood, but not everybody buys it. "Frank is assuming that knowing all the tissues is the key to success in digital media," counters the decidedly tech-oriented Stewart Alsop, a general partner in the VC firm New Enterprise Associates. He sits on the board of TiVo and is an investor in three Internet audio companies, including the Los Angeles-based Hiwire (formerly RocketRadio). "So far," Alsop asserts, "knowing the tissues has been a liability."
"There's probably a group of venture capitalists that hopes you can somehow create content robotically," Biondi responds. "That's probably not going to happen." Hollywood is all about personal relationships, he asserts. Directors, producers, and writers will be a lot more comfortable talking to people they've worked with than to a venture capitalist. "We get most of our really good sources of deals from friends," Biondi maintains. "These are people you've dealt with over the years. You can shake hands with them and you've got a deal."
One person who understands the deal dynamic in the New Hollywood is Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, a senior partner in the Century City entertainment law firm Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca & Fischer. In addition to a full load of traditional industry clients (Sandra Bullock, Eddie Murphy), Gilbert-Lurie also prowls the Internet world. He was instrumental in bringing together DreamWorks, Imagine Entertainment, and $50 million of Paul Allen's money to form Pop.com. "When I do San Francisco meetings," he says, "the tech crowd always tells me that 'those guys in Hollywood are all dead dinosaurs.' They have it backward. People don't watch the pipes. And George Lucas is Hollywood, even if he doesn't live there."
What's his take on the drift of Hollywood execs into the Internet space? "Two motivations are driving it," he says. "There are people who are genuinely fascinated by the Internet and see its possibilities. This typifies some high rollers." More important, Hollywood is also populated by people who are intensely competitive and status-conscious. "These people love the money and the power. Now they see the spotlight shifting to someone else – these kids making multiples in Northern California." Convergence is a simple concept for these types, he concludes; it boils down to: "How do we make the spotlight beam wide enough to include us?"
Biondi admits that the money being made by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs has Hollywood executives spinning. "There are guys and gals who by any measure are incredibly successful in conventional media," who are suddenly "dumbfounded by the amount of money people who were in college four years ago are worth on paper."
Convergence is a simple concept for Hollywood types. It boils down to: How do we make the spotlight wide enough to include us?
It's a frigid and clear Monday morning in Marina Del Rey, site of the headquarters for WhatsHotNow.com. The office is strewn with licensed merchandise the 3-year-old company sells on its site. Pokémon and South Park dolls peek out from cubicles. Outside the main conference room where a board meeting will soon come to order, a table has been laid with sliced kiwi, bagels and cream cheese, and other goodies alongside elegant coffee dispensers. Caterers dressed in white stand unobtrusively to the sides.
Biondi arrives in a dark green polo shirt, tan slacks, and navy blue sport coat. WhatsHotNow.com's execs and board members are mingling; nearly everyone is dressed in dark pinstripes and ties. Biondi's eyebrows rise. "What's with all the suits?" he asks, arms extended. Obviously, dress code is one of those convergence issues that hasn't been worked out between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. A couple of months earlier, Biondi showed up in a gray suit and tie to a board meeting at San Francisco-based CNX Media. All the other members wore casual clothes. Virtual CEO Randy Komisar wore a neck-to-ankle jumpsuit.
WhatsHotNow.com chair Rob Fried arrives a little late and walks up to shake Biondi's hand. A boyish 40, the bearded Fried is beaming. "It took me an hour to fix this," he tells Biondi, pointing to what has to be the most perfectly knotted tie I've ever seen.
Fried ran Savoy Pictures in the mid-'90s and still has his own movie-production company, which madeWinchell, for HBO, andSo I Married an Axe Murderer, starring Mike Myers and Fried's wife, Nancy Travis. Before long, he has Biondi in tow and is headed for his office, saying, "I've got an email I want to show you."
It remains to be seen whether Biondi and Fried can approach the new medium unencumbered by old media ways of thinking. Between 1995 and 1998, AOL and Microsoft lost millions in attempts to build an audience for online entertainment programming. Intel and CAA-backed American Cybercast, which had ambitions of becoming the NBC of cyberspace, filed for Chapter 11 in January '97 – and in the process soured the investment community on Internet content. Web entertainment was done in by lack of bandwidth, inadequate authoring tools, and an indifferent audience.
Then, in 1999, more bandwidth became available and audiences got larger and more sophisticated. Streaming-video technology edged up from awful to mediocre. Tools like Macromedia's Flash made it possible to deliver fairly compelling animation over slow Internet connections. The digital coast became a hot destination for investment dollars, and Internet entertainment startups began popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain.
Still, much of the failure of earlier online entertainment ventures like American Cybercast can be attributed to the influx of cable and television executives who tried to transfer what worked on those formats to the Internet.
"There is a new medium – emphasis on new – that requires crossover ability, that is focused more on the properties of the new medium than the properties of either computing or entertainment," says New Enterprise Associates' Stewart Alsop. "The new medium is real-time, interactive, fast-changing. The new media investor knows to value these three properties above anything learned in a previous medium."
Then there's the vision thing. Biondi and his ilk are "known for visibility, strategic thinking, and running mature businesses," observes Montana Artists Agency's Carl Bressler, "not for creating industries." Despite Biondi's important contribution to the growth of the cable industry, he's much better known as a manager and a financial whiz than as a visionary. "He has much more of an operational reputation than an entrepreneurial one," says Jupiter's Mooradian, "given the size and scope of the companies he's run in recent years."
Biondi understands this and is savvy enough to leave the task of building startups to others. His talents may be better suited to figuring out how these startups can be scaled or bundled together into major companies, says TMP Worldwide's Dana Ardi: "Traditional players in entertainment, like Frank Biondi, understand they can become great aggregators."
In fact, if Biondi succeeds, it may be by finally putting to rest the tired notion of north-south tribal warfare.
Creative Planet's Allen DeBevoise thinks that top media executives like Biondi can build bridges between Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
"There's a need for a combination of what Silicon Valley does best and what Hollywood does best," DeBevoise says. "The John Doerrs and Mike Moritzes are unquestionably geniuses at creating shareholder value and building companies with 2,000 employees in 18 months. Nobody in the entertainment industry knows anything about that." Silicon Valley investors, on the other hand, hit a brick wall in dealing with the talent side of the equation and the world of agents. "If you take a Silicon Valley investor and go to a creative talent like a director or writer, the agent will get in the middle and say, 'Pay us $2 million.' That's not the way the typical venture capitalist wants to build their company."
DeBevoise thinks Biondi can help smooth the way for deals that fit the Internet's still-modest scale. "Frank Biondi has been an executive in a true business with shareholders," he says, "and he understands the talent side." Biondi's familiarity with the latter aspect of the business takes on added importance now that talent agencies are getting involved in the content game; the Endeavor Agency's deal last February to create Web-based programming with Orange County's Broadband Interactive Group was likely the first of many similar arrangements.
For the time being, Frank Biondi is having fun. "He likes his life," says Atom's Mika Salmi. Biondi is doing what he does best: dispensing advice, doing due diligence on deals, making friends, collecting favors, expanding his knowledge base. Some day – next month, next year, or whenever the convergence dust has settled – he will have completed his homework and prepared himself to assume a top management post in a Yahoo!-Disney or some other Internet-media-entertainment aggregation. As Scott Sander, CEO of distribution site SightSound.com – a prime WaterView holding – puts it, "Frank Biondi is tan, rested, and ready."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Teachers File Lawsuit
The State Supreme Court ruled religous school vouchers unconstitutional in 2006.
An amendment to provide state funding for kids in failing schools to go to private and religious institutions is slated for the November ballot.
The Taxation and Budget Reform Commission resurrected the issue in the form of two constitutional amendments headed to the November ballot. A Lawyer for the Florida Education Association filed a suit Friday asking the Secretary of State to keep amendment 7 and 9 off the ballot. Attorney Ron Meyer says the amendments are deceptive.
"They're hiding the ball," said Meyer. "They're trying to confuse the public, this is purposeful, because the public won't support school vouchers."
The voucher program is tied to a popular school spending requirement mandating 65 percent of education funds be spent in the classroom. Florida Education Association President Andy Ford says schools are already spending at least 65 percent in the classroom. Ford says if the amendments pass schools would have to compete for students.
"What it could be setting up is a system where the state would assign a dollar amount per student and then disperse check individually to parents and let the go shopping for their own school," said Ford.
The Florida Catholic Coalition wrote the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission in support of the amendments.
The statement says the Catholic Church has a long history of educating people regardless of their faith, and they'd welcome state funding.
If the lawsuit fails the issue will be left up to voters who will have to approve the amendments by 60 percent.
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Separate trips by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East were meant to demonstrate the administration's diplomatic prowess but backfired when the Americans met with Arab leaders who were panicked, distraught and vocal.
Los Angeles Times:
... Instead of flaunting stronger ties and steadfast American influence, the president's journey found friends both old and new near a state of panic. Mideast leaders expressed soaring concern over upheavals across the region that the United States helped ignite through its invasion of Iraq and push for democracy—and fear that the Bush administration may make things worse.
President Bush's summit in Jordan with the Iraqi prime minister proved an awkward encounter that deepened doubts about the relationship. Vice President Cheney's stop in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, yielded a blunt warning from the kingdom's leaders. And Secretary of State Rice's swing through the West Bank and Israel, intended to build Arab support by showing a new U.S. push for peace, found little to work with.
In all, visits designed to show the American team in charge ended instead in diplomatic embarrassment and disappointment, with U.S. leaders rebuked and lectured by Arab counterparts. The trips demonstrated that U.S. allies in the region were struggling to understand what to make of the difficult relationship, and to figure whether, with a new Democratic majority taking over Congress, Bush even had control over his nation's Mideast policy.
Arabs are "trying to figure out what the Americans are going to do, and trying develop their own plans," said Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), one of his party's point men on Iraq. "They're trying to figure out their Plan B."


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6 Teens Charged For Alleged Hazing Incidents At Napa High SchoolSix juveniles were charged Friday for alleged criminal actions, but no charges were filed against a coach, in connection with alleged football team hazing incidents at Napa High School in the 2015-16 school year.
High School Football Hazing Scandal Rocks Central Valley TownDos Palos police chief Barry Mann said Thursday he called on the local district attorney to help his department of seven officers investigate the widening scandal.
Stanford Band Banned From Road Trips Next Season For Alcohol Abuse, Hazing And Sexual HarassmentDrugs, booze and hazing has gotten the Stanford marching band into some trouble, so much that now they'll be banned from performing at away games for the 2015-16 season.
Miss America Addresses Sorority Hazing AllegationsKira Kazantsev admits she was removed from her sorority but denies she was involved in aggressively hazing fellow students...
Teenage High School Football Players Arrested For Hazing Fellow Livermore StudentTwo teenage football players at a Livermore high school were arrested after an alleged hazing incident involving another boy.
Daily Madden: More Facts Needed In Incognito-Martin CaseThe NFL has hired lawyer Ted Wells to investigate the alleged harassment of Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin by teammate Richie Incognito.
Vallejo Football Coach Fired After Whistleblowing Sues For Wrongful TerminationA Catholic high school football coach who was fired in connection with a hazing incident has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school and the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento.
Daily Madden: NY Giants Incident Hazing Or Horseplay?New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin called it inappropriate - the training camp dunking of second year defensive back Prince Amukamara in a tub of ice water. John Madden agreed.
Brentwood High School Football Players Suspended For HazingFive football players from a Brentwood high school have been suspended for a hazing incident at a summer camp in Sacramento.
Fraternity Pledge Sues UC Davis Over HazingA University of California, Davis graduate is suing the university for ignoring his complaints of hazing and sexual abuse while pledging a fraternity.
Martinez Police Investigate High School Hazing IncidentPolice in Martinez are investigating a high school hazing incident in which a group of football players allegedly beat up a 15-year-old teammate in a locker room.


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Cincinnati, Using Social Networking
Social networking websites are being used by Cincinnati, to post emergency information, and provide a way for the city to connect with different neighborhoods.
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory recently announced a partnership with San Francisco-based Nextdoor, a free, private website that will reportedly will help the city talk about neighborhood issues, with people in separate neighborhoods.
According to the website At least 40 of the 70 websites that Nextdoor considers part of Cincinnati have signed up.
Interim Cincinnati Police Chief Paul Humphries says the partnership will allow police to report information about crimes directly to the affected community. Police and some departments will be able to post emergency notifications and other information on individual Nextdoor sites within the city.
Residents only have access to the page for their neighborhood and can post information about local events, safety and other issues.


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T-Bird Men Host League-Leading Wildcats
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Southern Utah's men's basketball team begins a four-game homestand Thursday when the Thunderbirds host in-state rival and Big Sky leader Weber State at 7:05 in the Centrum.
With the game the Thunderbirds (1-20/0-12 Big Sky) begin a regular-season ending stretch of games which includes six at home and just two on the road. The Thunderbirds, who are coming off a 68-56 road loss at Sacramento State on Monday night, lost a 65-59 decision to the Wildcats the last time the teams met, on Jan. 18 in Ogden.
Weber State (13-7/10-2 Big Sky) has gone 7-1 since the meeting with SUU in Ogden and has moved from fourth place to the top of the Big Sky standings. The only hiccup along the road for the Wildcats in the last nine games (they won at North Dakota prior to the win over SUU) was a 78-75 overtime loss at Sacramento State that took Dylan Garrity's 75-foot buzzer beater to settle.
The Game: Weber State (13-7/10-2) at Southern Utah (1-19/0-11) Thursday at 7:05 p.m. (MST) in the Centrum Arena (5,300), Cedar City, Utah.
Practice Schedule: While at home the Thunderbirds work out daily, beginning at 3:00 p.m. with occasional adjustments due to travel and class schedules. Practices are held in the Centrum Arena. All practices are open to the public.
Media Availability: Players and coaches are made available for interviews on Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m., with occasional adjustments because of travel and class schedules.
Radio: All SUU men's basketball games are broadcast live by Power 91 KSUU (91.1 FM) as well as on the internet at www.power91radio.com. Art Challis is in his 40th season as the Thunderbirds' basketball play-by-play voice. Dr. Challis is joined on home and selected road broadcasts by former SUU standout Dean O'Driscoll.
On The Internet: All of Southern Utah's home games and Big Sky road games will be available on Watch Big Sky, at www.bigskytv.org. Audio of SUU home and road games is available at the Thunderbirds' website at www.suutbirds.com or at www.power91radio.com.
Live Stats: Live stats of all of SUU's home games and selected road contests will be available at www.suutbirds.com.
Video Highlights: Video highlights of the Thunderbirds' home games will be available to accredited media outlets via SUU's FTP site. For information on obtaining those highlights contact SUU Director of Athletic Media Relations Neil Gardner.
The Series: Weber State holds a 25-6 edge in the series with the Thunderbirds and has won eight straight after the 65-59 win in Ogden earlier this season. The Wildcats hold a 7-4 edge over the T-Birds in games played in Cedar City, including victories in the last three played in the Centrum. Southern Utah's last win against the 'Cats was a 75-63 home triumph during the 2006-07 season.
The Coaches:
SUU Head Coach Nick Robinson (Stanford '05), a 2013 finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award which honors the top first-year coach in the nation, has a record of 12-40 in his second season at SUU and his second season overall as a head coach. In his first year at SUU Coach Robinson led the Thunderbirds to a sixth-place finish in the Big Sky Conference, earning a BSC tournament berth in the school's first season in the league. SUU posted an 11-20 overall record, including an 8-12 mark in Big Sky games last year, when two Thunderbirds, seniors Jackson Stevenett and Damon Heuir, earned all-conference honors. Coach Robinson came to Southern Utah from LSU, where he spent three seasons on the staff. Prior to his time at LSU, Robinson spent a season at William Jewell College and two on the staff at his alma mater, Stanford. During his time as an assistant coach, Robinson helped guide his teams to a combined record of 87-47 and four post-season appearances, including two NCAA, one NIT and one NAIA Division I national tournaments. Coach Robinson is 0-3 vs. the Wildcats.
Robinson is assisted by Todd Okeson (Nevada '05), Chad Bell (Nevada '06), and Drew Allen (Southern Utah '10). Yahosh Bonner (Northern Colorado '10) serves as Director of Basketball Operations. Okeson and Allen were with the Thunderbirds last season while Bell and Bonner are in their first seasons with the program.
Weber State is coached by Randy Rahe (Buena Vista '82). Coach Rahe, who is in his seventh season at Weber State, brings an overall and WSU record of 163-82 into the game. Coach Rahe is 8-1 vs. the Thunderbirds.
Captains: This year's captains are seniors Jayson Cheesman and Jaren Jeffery and junior Chris Nsenki.
Pre-Conference Schedule: The Thunderbirds' non-conference schedule was one of the toughest in the nation, as SUU's strength of schedule to this point ranked 46th in Division I and second in the Big Sky after their nine non-conference games. The Thunderbirds' 2013-14 SOS has been as high as 34th. The non-conference schedule was heavy with road contests as the team scheduled just three official games in the Centrum before the conference opener. The Thunderbirds went 1-2, with a win over Arizona Christian and losses to UC Riverside and UNLV, at home in the pre-season and 0-6 on the road. The road slate included games at No. 23 San Diego State, California, Utah State, San Diego, Portland and Cal State Northridge.
SUU by the Numbers: In Big Sky games the Thunderbirds are averaging 56.5 points per game on 42.6 percent shooting (.318 threes) while knocking down 67.7 percent of their free throws. SUU has allowed conference opponents an average of 70 points on .469 shooting (.367 threes) and has been out-rebounded by an average of 34.1-26.8 caroms per game. Freshman point guard Trey Kennedy leads the team in scoring and assists with 9.3 points and 2.7 dimes per game, while sophomore wing A.J. Hess is second in scoring at 9.2 ppg and in assists with 1.8 per game. Sophomore forward Casey Oliverson leads the team in rebounding with 4.8 caroms per Big Sky game while senior forward Jaren Jeffery is second on the squad with 3.8 and Hess averages 3.5. Freshman guard John Marshall is tied for second on the squad in assists with 1.8 per game and leads the team with 10 steals, an average of 0.9 per game, while senior Jayson Cheesman averages a team-best 0.75 blocks per outing.
Scouting Weber State:
The Wildcats have played six of their last eight at home where they have an 11-1 record, with the only loss coming at the hands of Utah State in the home-opener. They have not fared as well on the road, however, with a 2-6 mark in games played away from the Dee Events Center. In Big Sky play they are 2-2 on the road, with wins at North Dakota and Northern Arizona and losses at Northern Colorado and Sacramento State.
Senior wing Davion Berry (6-4, 185), a first-team all-Big Sky and all-District performer last season, leads three Wildcats with double-figure scoring averages at 19.0 points per game. Freshman guard Jeremy Senglin (6-2, 185) averages 11.2 ppg while senior center Kyle Tresnak (6-10, 240), a second-team all-Big Sky honoree in 2012-13, connects on 56.1 percent of his shots to add 11.0 ppg. Berry also leads the team with 3.8 assists per game. Sophomore forward Joel Bolomboy (6-9, 225), the fourth-leading scorer on the squad at 8.9 points per game, leads the team and the Big Sky with 11.2 rebounds per game, Tresnak corrals 5.2 rpg and Berry averages 4.5.
As a team the Wildcats average 72.8 ppg on 47.1 percent shooting (.377 threes) while allowing opponents 65.5 ppg on 41.1 percent shooting (.333 threes). The Wildcats have hit 72.3 percent of their free throws and have out-rebounded their opponents by an average of 35.6 to 32.5 caroms per game.
Young T-Birds: Southern Utah is one of the youngest teams in America, with just 10 combined seasons of collegiate experience heading into the 2013-14 campaign. SUU has five true freshmen (not including walk-ons) on the roster and three of the five have played in every game. Freshman point guard Trey Kennedy has started all but one game while guard John Marshall has started 13 games and wing Juwan Major has started four. Wing McKay Anderson has had one start – alongside Kennedy, Major and Marshall – at Cal State Northridge. Wing Race Parsons hasn't had a start but he has appeared in all but one game. In addition to the freshmen, forward Casey Oliverson, a sophomore in his first season with the Thunderbirds, has started 13 games.
Thunderbird Notes:
• Jaren Jeffery led the T-Birds with a career-high 21 points at Sacramento State, while Juwan Major added 11, his second-highest total and most since he had 12 in the season-opener. Neither player started and the 'Birds wound up with 45 points off the bench.
• Jeffery hit 9-of-11 shots and Major converted 5-of-8 vs. the Hornets. In the last five games Jeffery has hit 25-of-38 shots (.658) and has not been below 50 percent.
• Race Parsons dished out a team- and career-high four assists at Sacramento State and the team finished with 16, a season-high.
• Jeffery also led the team with two blocks, his most since he rejected a pair vs. UNLV back on Dec. 14.
• Sacramento State held SUU's two leading scorers, Trey Kennedy and A.J. Hess, scoreless. It was just the second scoreless game this season for both players.
• The Sacramento State game was definitely a tale of two halves. SUU hit 33 percent of its first-half shots but improved to 52 in the second while the Hornets knocked down 63 percent in the first frame and 38 in the second. SUU also had eight turnovers before halftime but just five after the break.


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Printers Row: Phil Caputo, July 24
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (CDT)
Philip Caputo, an award-winning novelist, journalist and screenwriter set out in his truck in 2011 on a transcontinental adventure that took him from Key West, Fla., to Dead Horse, Alaska. Joined by his wife, two dogs and a trailer, Caputo sought to uncover the common things that unite a nation as expansive and diverse as the United States, as well as the forces that still divide it. In his new memoir "The Longest Road," Caputo thoughtfully discusses what he discovered along the way. Join Caputo at this Printers Row author event as he shares his experiences in conversation with Tribune literary editor Elizabeth Taylor.
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Literary Editor Elizabeth Taylor loves books, writers and ideas. She speaks nationally about literary culture, books in society and the business of books, and is frequently asked to guest-host book groups. She is the co-author of the landmark "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation" and continues to talk about Chicago history and politics. She was a national correspondent for Time Magazine before joining the Tribune, got the Tribune to assume responsibility for the Printers Row Book Fair (now Lit Fest) and is a passionate champion of Chicago literature. She conceived most of the Tribune's literary prizes and oversees them today. Former president of the National Book Critics Circle, she continues to serve on its board of directors.
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DYSL Forms & Policies
AYSC Use Policy - rules on use and care of the Antioch Youth Sports Complex.
DYSL Refund Policy - policy on getting a refund on your league registration fee.
DYSL Website How to Guide - how to guide for coaches and referees on how to use the website features.
CYSA Team Official Registration (online CYSA 1650) - coaches/assistant coaches complete the online form for the 2013/14 season. Print
the confirmation, which includes your confirmation numbers and bring to the draft.
CYSA Player Application (CYSA 1601) -
complete the application form, print it off and bring to
CYSA Team Roster Changes (CYSA 1606) -
complete the form when adding, dropping or transfering a player.
US Club Player Registration Form - registration form for US Club (competition players only)
Youth Sport Case Report (CYSA 6208) - Coaches need to complete this form for every injury and turn them into the registrar within
90 days of the incident.
Capital Live Scan Request - DSYL coaches, assistent coaches and trainers must complete this form and bring to finger printing time.
DYSL Check Request Form - complete form for checks.
CYSA Game Card Sticker - This opens up a Word document with four (4) game card rosters. Type in player information and print this on the Avery 5168 stickers to use on each game card.


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The Red Scare Index: 40
It seems one can't turn on cable news these days without hearing the terms Communist, Socialist or Marxist thrown around. Day and night, conservatives in the media have attempted to link President Obama and progressives to these terms. Keep in mind, the right has been doing this with progressive health care reform (the "socialized medicine" smear [1]) for more than 75 years.
Beginning today, County Fair will bring you the daily Red Scare Index -- our search of CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and CNBC for uses of the following terms: Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communistic, Marxism and Marxist.
Here are the numbers for yesterday, Tuesday, March 10, 2009:
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 20
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 15
Marxism/Marxist: 5
By Network:
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 0
CNN Headline News: 2
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 2
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Fox News Channel: 24
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 11
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 9
Marxism/Marxist: 4
Fox Business Network: 4
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 4
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 0
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 4
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 1
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 2
Marxism/Marxist: 0
The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.
- Network/Outlet
- Fox News Channel [2], CNBC [3], MSNBC [4], CNN [5], NPR [6], CNN Headline News [7], Fox Business [8]
- Stories/Interests
- Propaganda/Noise Machine [9]


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Fight The Cylons In The New 'Battlestar Galactica Online' Video Game
I'm caught up on "Caprica," and while I didn't love it at first, it's really starting to grow on me with each subsequent episode. Still, I can't help but miss "Battlestar Galactica." Good little Willy Adama is a nice enough kid, but I want more time with Admiral William Adama. I'm not done with those adventures, even if Ron Moore is.
If you feel the same way, I've got some good news to share – "Galactica" lovers will have the chance to go up against the Cylons in Bigpoint and developer Artplant's upcoming "Battlestar Galactica Online," a massively multiplayer online game based on the Syfy series.
An official press release reports: "Players will be able to choose to play as cylons or humans in a constant struggle to control the universe or just survive its perils. A blend of tactical space combat, exploration, and mission-based gameplay will provide a diverse experience. The dramatic missions will define the game's overall storyline, enabling the player to delve into mysteries of the Battlestar universe."
The game can be played directly in an Internet browser of your choosing, so it's not like you'll need to go out and buy a console to play – you just need a computer, and since you're reading this, you probably already have that covered. If you're a "Battlestar" fan, you're going to want to keep this game on your DRADIS.[Link via Deadline]


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The question: Should MLS and the Galaxy fulfill his wish?
The answer: Not just yet.
Donovan's been with Bayern Munich for about a month, trained with the team through its winter break, and played 13 minutes as a substitute in a 1-0 loss to Hamburg as the second half of the season got underway. He'll play maybe a half-dozen more games before he's due to come back in early March.
He's yet to truly experience what it means to play for this powerful club, the New York Yankees of German soccer who have fans in every city yet are the most despised club by everyone else. All he's known so far is the praise of Coach Juergen Klinsmann and some approving comments from general manager Uli Hoeness, but that is likely to change unless Bayern storms through its final 16 matches unbeaten.
Donovan's yet to get ripped in the voracious German press for missing a few chances, or to hear whistles and jeers when he flubs a trap. By losing to Hamburg, Bayern dropped to fourth in the Bundesliga, and with the European transfer window set to close Monday, only through domestic loans or signing free agents can a team alter is roster until the end of the season.
Thus the scrutiny for big clubs like Bayern will fall upon those January changes and how much those players have helped. Donovan is clearly capable of contributing and Klinsmann will certainly give him his opportunities, but only time - and results - will tell how he handles coming off the bench to replace forwards Luca Toni or Miroslav Klose. Playing all three of them has also been suggested; that would heap more pressure on his shoulders but also free him to get a lot of starts. He replaced midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger against Hamburg.
Donovan's also yet to jet back and forth across the Atlantic to play qualifiers, starting - presumably - next week for the USA-Mexico chill-thrill in Columbus, and the March 28-April 1 double-dip that follows. He cares deeply about playing for his country and by his own admission doesn't always travel well. Those trips back to the USA could refresh and invigorate him, or brutally grind him down. The only way to find out about the double-dip is to extend the loan.
MLS officials, of course, are panicked by the possibility of losing both Beckham and Donovan from a team that desperately needs star power. But in the case of Donovan, their best bet, or rather their most hopeful hedge, would be to extend his loan, let Bayern keep him until its season ends in May, give him a few days off, then dispatch him to join the U.S. team for its qualifiers in early June and preparations for the Confederations Cup.
He'd miss MLS action during those phases anyway, and by the time he'd returned from the Confederations Cup, the U.S. transfer window would have re-opened and, again presumably, he'd have a much clearer idea - as would Bayern - if they still fancied each other.
True, he'd miss the first two months of the MLS season by staying with Bayern, and there's no getting around the hardship that would be for Coach Bruce Arena and the Galaxy. But if by midsummer the Bayern-Donovan relationship had yet to fizzle out, MLS would either have to drag him back to the Galaxy, or initiate serious negotiations for a transfer. It doesn't seem ready to do so at this point and could use a few more months to address losing Donovan.
Extending the loan, despite its complexities, is the fairest thing MLS can do for Donovan, who has to be commended for leaving behind his LA dream life and toughing it out in Europe.


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When John Banks uttered the words "I don't recall" his credibility evaporated.
OPINION: The words are recognised the world over as a fraying safety net for the guilty. Banks insisted, "nothing to fear, nothing to hide".
But he did. And it came tumbling out in a thick file of police witness statements, this week.
The statements show that Banks' memory was working just fine in February. In an act of self-preservation (which perversely prompted vengeance from a snubbed Kim Dotcom), he told the jailed millionaire's lawyer that it wouldn't look good to publicly help him out because of "support" given to Banks' mayoralty bid.
Weeks later, his memory failed him. "I don't know who gave me money, I can't remember now," he said of campaign donations.
He couldn't recall a helicopter ride or lunches chez Dotcom. Mona Dotcom was "the most beautiful woman" he'd met - but even that didn't jog his memory.
In January, after a police raid that made headlines worldwide, Banks told reporters he hardly knew Dotcom. He must have forgotten that a few weeks earlier he'd enjoyed Dotcom's "hospitality" on a Hong Kong holiday.
Banks' synapses also failed to fire over another donation. Despite attending a meeting with Sky City's chief executive Nigel Morrison, and accepting a Sky City-branded envelope, Banks didn't make the connection between that and a $15,000 gift (a donation his campaign later supplied a receipt for).
Now, for a 65-year-old with a memory problem, those local electoral laws could be a bit confusing. Banks this week said he was a victim of poorly drafted legislation.
But the former police minister understood enough to manipulate those laws. He kept financial transactions "at arm's length". His treasurer stressed to police Banks "asked not to know". "He would tell us off if we ever mentioned donations."
Banks clearly understood enough about this "unclear . . . unworkable" law to know how he could solicit donations and not publicly declare them.
Ministerial office requires not just adherence with the law. It demands the highest ethical standards. Nick Smith learned that when he got bumped this year.
Banks, however, clings on to office because Key needs his vote. But there are signs he is tiring of ACT, especially as internal polls put them at a big fat zero. The Government last month shelved the Budget spending cap - a cornerstone of its coalition deal with ACT.
The party has made no progress in rejuvenating its brand since the election. A quick kill and a neat by-election would maintain Key's majority. And any loyalties to Banks can be quickly forgotten.
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