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A frustrating loss Sunday, to be sure, but the results spurred the Mets into action. Truly, I didn't understand the Blaine Boyer acquisition this offseason- a pitcher with as many walks as strikeouts in 2010, perhaps the hope was that he had rediscovered the form that made him a strong prospect with the Braves.
Pretty clearly, he hadn't. So off he goes, and we'll see what Isringhausen and Igarashi can provide. This is how to build a bullpen, by the way. The same performance variations can be yours by paying big dollars and committing multiple years to relievers, only then you are stuck with them.
My primary question, and one I plan to ask Terry Collins the next time I see him, is why he seems to value left field defense so much more than right field defense. The first nine games have provided a window into his view of both. Of the nine games in right field so far, Carlos Beltran started six of them. On his three days off, Lucas Duda got the call each time. In left field, without Jason Bay around, Willie Harris started six times, Scott Hairston twice, and Lucas Duda once.
Now, I'm not just piling on after Duda's eighth-inning misplay yesterday. I don't know anyone who doesn't see both Harris and Hairston as better defensive options than Duda. And that isn't to suggest Duda should have been relegated to the bench- the whole point of having him in New York was that he'd see action.
But why right field instead of left? This wasn't a simple park issue: Duda got starts in right in Florida, Philadelphia and back at Citi Field. It isn't a particular pitcher issue: his starts came with Jonathon Niese, RA Dickey and Chris Young on the hill. His lone start in left came with Niese pitching as well.
With Duda back in Triple-A, it will be fascinating to see if Collins gives any outfield starts to Daniel Murphy (from this view, a massive mistake), or if Harris and Hairston will platoon in games Beltran plays, and provide the outfield corners when Beltran doesn't.
To be clear, I'm not saying Collins necessarily has this preference, and if he does, he may have reasons why. But the use of his defensive resources so far have favored left field over right field, an unorthodox choice. And yesterday, it helped cost the Mets an eighth-inning lead.


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Potbelly Sandwich Shop, the popular Chicago-based chain, just opened its doors on Nov.13 and occupies a 3,000 square-foot space beside Fuego CityScape along First Street. The restaurant company has built a passionate, loyal following of fans who spread the word about the fun, energetic atmosphere and great food. The unique Potbelly experience is defined by its combination of toasty warm sandwiches, hand-dipped shakes and friendly, lively people.
Brooklynn's opens on Black Friday, Nov. 23, and is a fashion forward men's and women's shoe boutique that offers the latest national and international shoe brands ranging in price from $50 to $250.
"At Brooklynn's, we pride ourselves on providing customers with the shoe no one else is wearing…yet!" said Rasheda Worthy. "We're a local shop that's all about being on the cutting edge of shoe fashion. When you stop in, you're sure to find the hottest brands at any price point that illuminate expression, individuality and style."
Opening in early December is BC Café, an outdoor café by The Breakfast Club, located directly in front of the popular breakfast and lunch hotspot. The Café will be an expansion of the restaurant offering their full menu and an additional 60-seat patio as well as providing a to-go counter for those looking for a grab-and-go dining option. BC Café will remain open through Happy Hour and into the evening offering an expanded cocktail and light bite menu.
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- Political blame flies as jobless rate rises
- Comment: Lax immigration policy hurting Australian job seekers
The bad news in the latest jobless statistics is not that it's the biggest monthly figure since the global financial crisis; or that Australia now has a higher unemployment rate than the United States.
Nor is it that Australia's rate is the highest in 12 years; or that Victoria's rate suddenly has a ''seven'' in front of it; or even that there are now more than 100,000 extra people looking for work than there were a year ago.
No, the most troubling news is the spike in the number of young people who cannot get jobs, even before the punitive measures in the May budget kick in to make them try even harder. More than one in five teenagers who are looking for work are simply unable to find it.
''What we've had really since the financial crisis is virtually no net new hiring and, almost by definition, if employers are going to stop new hiring, the burden of that is going to fall on new entrants to the labour force who, overwhelmingly, are young people,'' is how economist Saul Eslake puts it.
To reinforce the point, Eslake says that, compared with the September quarter of 2008, when the GFC started, employment of those under 25 has dropped by more than 6 per cent, while for people over 25 it has increased by 10 per cent. The result is bad news for a Victorian government preparing to go to the polls on the back of an election budget and a dramatic increase in pressure of the Abbott government.
The immediate pressure point is the May budget that failed to inject confidence because it was judged unfair, even by those who escaped the tougher measures, almost from the moment it was handed down.
Joe Hockey needs to break the Senate gridlock and do it fast or risk further tarnishing his Prime Minister's ''open for business'' mantra. Criticising business for not getting behind the budget won't cut it.
The numbers will also prompt stronger demands for labour market reform and add weight for the Business Council's call for a ''mindset change'' to boost competitiveness and innovation.
Numbers like these a few months ago could have been attributed to the stewardship of the mob thrown out in September, but not any more. To borrow a pre-election phrase from the PM, there are now no excuses.


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STOURBRIDGE B booked a Worcester Inter-League final place at the expense of their A team.
Leading by seven points from the first leg, Stour B quickly put the result beyond doubt when Karl Ashmore and Callum Downing, with a break of 73, extended the advantage by a remarkable 218 points in the first two frames at Brandhall Labour Club.
They will now play Redditch in the two-legged final after they turned around a 31 point deficit against Worcester.
In the Worcester Inter-League over 40s final second leg, Stourbridge beat Evesham 32.
Stourbridge had established a 3-2 lead in the first leg at the Old Edwardians' Club and there was little to separate the teams in the second leg at Pershore Gentlemen's Club.
Gavin Sloan beat the 2013 county champion Carl Saidler, but Joe Cockerton levelled the tie at 1-1. The reliable David Oakes then put Stourbridge back on track but Kei Nishigaki made it 2-2 with a black ball success, despite leaving the cue-ball tantalisingly in the jaws of the same pocket.
As he has done so often before, however, Kev Franklin ensured that Stourbridge lifted the trophy for the fifth year in succession with a fine 73 break against Dean Powell in the final frame.
In the Worcester and Hereford County Singles Final, Stourbridge Institute hosted the final for the first time and Bewdley's 20-year-old Andy Smith, from Pockets SC, Kidderminster, defeated Evesham's Joe Cockerton 4-1 to become champion, deservedly so after being runner up in the last two finals. He made his highest break of the evening in the fifth frame, 55, to clinch victory.
Handicap Singles Finals: Hotshots Snooker Club's 21-year-old Callum Downing began a momentous week with a 3-1 victory in the handicap singles event against Kinver's Chris Randle at Kingswinford Cons Club.
Callum had to work hard, giving 48 points per frame, to take the first two frames before Chris, who had done well to reach his first final, hit back to take the third. Callum then made a break of 57 to take control and to lift the trophy for the first time.
Later in the week his 73 helped Stourbridge through to the inter-league final, and he then completed it in style with a 4-2 victory against Shifnal's Matt Davies to take the West Midland Individual title at Wednesfield Conservative club.
The last two finals were hosted by Amblecote Institute and produced two very even matches.
Wombourne's John Wooldridge won the Ray Billingham Memorial Cup 3-1 taking the over 65s title for the first time, giving 10 points to Stourbridge Institute's Don Oliver, now a sprightly 85 years old, who lifted the cup ten years ago. Both contestants deserve immense credit for their efforts.
On an adjacent table, Kinver Constitutional's Tony Kidd, the 2010 winner, won the cup named in memory of one of his former teammates at Stourbridge Cons, Eric Martin, giving 16 points start to Alan Cope of Stourbridge Institute, who had done well to reach his second final. He took the match 3-0 although all three frames were closely contested.


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Way back in October of 2009, I wrote that moving Nick Evans to catcher made a ton of sense for the New York Mets. After all, Evans had a plus bat, no clear on-field destination, and the Mets certainly needed depth at the position. Like many things concerning the Omar Minaya Mets, this was n apparently fleeting idea with no follow-through.
Two years later, it is hard to see how anything has changed concerning Evans, or how he could best help the Mets.
Evans certainly holds his own at first base- his 143 OPS+ this season is more than adequate for the position. Among catchers? It would make him a superstar, assuming he could merely hold his own behind the plate.
Now, I'm not assuming that he could. But I think it would be silly to assume that he couldn't. Come 2012, Evans won't be the first baseman- Ike Davis, thankfully recovering from his ankle injury at long last, should have that position locked down. With Jason Bay entrenched in left field, and Lucas Duda a good bet to start in right field, where should Nick Evans go?
Getting his bat into the lineup would be a useful thing for the Mets. Consider that both Duda and Bay have significant platoon splits- Bay has an .886 OPS against lefties this year, .592 against righties. Duda is at .855 against righties, .744 against lefties. Nick Evans, for what it's worth, has hit lefties and righties this season. Getting Evans out there with Duda against righties, and with Bay against lefties, can get him some at-bats. But really, Duda's production against lefties has probably earned him an everyday job, so the overall opportunities there are limited.
Where else can Evans play? He can give Ike Davis time off against tough lefties, which will add some additional games for him. But if he had catching skills, he could provide a huge upgrade over Josh Thole against lefties as well- in essence, a Ronny Paulino that is far more valuable elsewhere around the diamond.
An Evans who could start 50 games at catcher, another 50 in the outfield, 25 at first and 5-10 at third base could provide the Mets with a strong ninth regular player. I know people discuss Daniel Murphy as such a player, but the reality with Murphy is that 1) he can play second base, where they need someone full-time, and 2) there's actual evidence that Murphy can't play the outfield, while offering no platoon advantage over Ike Davis at first base.
Simply put, the place Murphy can help the Mets is at second base. The place Nick Evans can help them is virtually everywhere in their 2012 lineup.
Here's hoping the Mets belatedly embrace the chance to see what Evans can do behind the plate this winter.


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TAXPAYERS have had to fork out more than £1 million for outside consultants at Worcestershire County Council over the last year, it has emerged.
It is the third time in the last five years that fees on external advisers have smashed through the seven-figure barrier.
Your Worcester News has obtained a spreadsheet breaking down all the consultancy spending in 2013/14, revealing:
- Bosses spent £4,525 on 'commercial mentoring' where staff went out to see how the private sector operates
- £18,060 went on asking a private firm to look into how Worcestershire can dispose of its household rubbish
- £259,000 was spent on getting advice on a blueprint aimed at saving money, known as Future Fit
- Consultants were handed £4,750 to collect data on the amount of traffic in Worcestershire
- A staggering £168,000 went on IT consultants
- £3,000 went on advising the council what to do with its property assets
- Among the massive variety of other topics where consultants were called upon was website design, planning advice, boosting tourism, car parking management, the quality of social services and for holding public focus groups
The total spend in 2013/14 was £1.07 million, of which £663,000 came from the council itself.
The rest was from a variety of other sources like Government or European grants, other public sector bodies like district councils, the NHS or school funds.
The council's opposition Labour group has labelled the figures "an insult", saying it comes at a time when around £20 million a year is being slashed from budgets and 1,500 in-house jobs are being axed by 2018.
But the Conservative leadership insists the spending can be justified, saying it does not have all the expertise in-house to do everything.
Councillor Peter McDonald, Labour group leader, said: "While thousands of workers are being sacked, services being cut to the bone or gone altogether the consultants are having a field day.
"It cannot be right or justified that at a time of severe cutbacks and thousands of employees being thrown on the dole queue that such a staggering amount of money should be spent on consultants."
The council spent just under £900,000 on consultants in 2012/13 and £1.1 million in 2011/12.
Councillor John Campion, cabinet member with responsibility for transformation and change, said: "We mustn't forget the council is like any other business and just like a multinational business in the private sector, it evaluates the most efficient ways in which to get service provision at the best possible cost.
"In most cases the quickest and most effective solution is to use external organisations, as training up internal staff is both lengthy and would cost more in the long run."
He said the tally was a small percentage of the yearly wages to staff and insisted the council has an "excellent" reputation for saving cash.


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First mosque, which is related to the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey, has been opened in Helsinki Finland.
Turkish citizens living in Finland as well as the representatives of non-governmental organizations and some businessmen participated in the opening ceremony. Mr. Volkan Vural, Turkish Undersecretary of Helsinki Embassy and Stockholm Religious Services Advisor Professor. Dr. Bulent Baloğlu inaugurated the mosque.


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Here's Miranda Kerr and a bunch of models whose names aren't important to me posing for famed photographer Terry Richardson for the 2010 Pirelli Calendar. They're pretty much all topless and/or naked, so this is probably the best thing that will happen to any of you all week. Let's not ruin it with words. Shh. Shh. Just emotions.
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This is a guest post from Bob Archer, a Development Lead in the Adobe Image Foundation team. I ofter see people doing a lot of extra math in their kernels when they could have simply done a matrix multiplication. This post won't explain linear algebra to you, but if you've been confused by Pixel Bender's column major order or aren't sure how it works, it should hopefully give you some pointers… [End of intro]
I thought this would be of interest to everyone – I finally have the definitive guide on how matrix math works within Pixel Bender.
Pixel Bender matrixes are in column-major order. This means that this line:
float3x3 m = float3x3( a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i );
Sets up a matrix that looks like this:
a d g b e h c f i
If I access a matrix using a single [] operator I get these results:
m[ 0 ] == float3( a, b, c ); m[ 1 ] == float3( d, e, f ); m[ 2 ] == float3( g, h, i );
If I set up a vector like this:
float3 v = float3( X, Y, Z );
and do some vector / matrix or matrix / vector multiplications I get these results:
v * m == float3( Xa+Yb+Zc, Xd+Ye+Zf, Xg+Yh+Zi ) m * v == float3( Xa+Yd+Zg, Xb+Ye+Zh, Xc+Yf+Zi )
i.e. v * m does this calculation:
( X Y Z ) * a d g b e h c f i
while m * v does this calculation:
a d g X b e h * Y c f i Z
If we are multiplying two matrices together:
float3x3 m1 = float3x3( a, c, b, d, e, f, g, h, i ); float3x3 m2 = float3x3( J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R );
m1 * m2 does this calculation:
a d g J M P aJ+dK+gL aM+dN+gO aP+dQ+gR b e h * K N Q == bJ+eK+hL bM+eN+hO bP+eQ+hR c f i L O R cJ+fK+iL cM+fN+iO cP+fQ+iR
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It was June 1968. It seemed as if the world had descended into violence.
Warhol, the platinum-haired Pop artist whose cheeky soup can paintings
rocked the art world, nearly died after being shot. Just two days later,
a prominent American family suffered another tragedy when Senator
Robert F. Kennedy was killed after claiming an important political
month's end, the Basque separatist group ETA had made its first killing
in the quest for freedom and bulldozers had mowed down a huge
encampment on the National Mall that had been occupied by protesters
wanting to bring attention to the poor.
it was striking French workers and students and their displeasure with
the policies of President Charles de Gaulle that inspired some American
youths to take a stand and express their desires for change.
Unfortunately, their demonstrations were soon marred by violence.
the night of June 28, 1968, students had gathered in front of one of
Berkeley's most recognized landmarks to show their solidarity with their
French counterparts. More than 2000 people gathered at the University
of California at Berkeley to stage a protest of their own.
to a June 29 article in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first clash
came when police chief William Beales told protesters their
demonstration was illegal. More than a dozen officers began to walk down
Telegraph Ave. coaxing those seated in the street to get up and on the
sidewalk. When that move failed, hundreds of police armed with
nightsticks began to march, only to be greeted with bottles and garbage
raining down from apartment windows.
Soon, sticks were replaced with canisters and tear gas enveloped retreating protesters in thick noxious clouds.
the battle wasn't over. A short while later, hundreds of students
erected a massive barricade made of trash cans, bike racks and other
objects in front of the university's famed Sather Gate. Minutes after it
went up, more tear gas was launched and a bonfire blazed in the
flared again the next evening but this time the crowds were bigger and
better prepared. Many donned helmets and gas masks when their peaceful
demonstration devolved into chaos.
night's end, fires had broken out over several blocks. A furniture
store was in flames. Molotov cocktails flew, windows were smashed and
police continued to use chemical weapons.
A month that had started with violence unfortunately ended with violence; June had left America in shock.


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MONTGOMERY COUNTY - The family of Robert Middleton, a Montgomery County boy who was attacked and horribly burned in 1998, is pleased that murder charges have finally been filed against the man they believe caused the little boy's death.
In 1998, in an assault that horrified the Houston area, and much of the nation, Robert Middleton was attacked, doused with gasoline, and set on fire, inflicting burns on over 99 percent of his body.
It happened in the woods in Splendora in Montgomery County on Robert's eighth birthday. After more than 100 painful surgeries over 13 years, Robert succumbed to cancer that medical experts saID resulted from the attack.
"I think about him first thing I wake up in the morning, all day long," said Robert's mother, Colleen. "Not an hour goes by that I don't think about him."
Don Collins, then 13 years old and a next door neighbor of the Middleton's in 1998, was named a suspect in the attack. He admitted he was there, but claimed others were involved.
Charges were never filed and the attack was handed to Montgomery County's Cold Case Division. The case was reopened in 2012 and detectives said they discovered previously unknown witnesses, and through their investigation handed over 50,000 pages of documents incriminating Collins who is now 28 years old.
For Colleen Middleton, the charges are bringing some relief for her and her family. But even if Collins is convicted, it will never give them the thing they want the most.
"We're happy that we're going to get closure, but we also know that we're not going to ever get justice," said Colleen. "We want Robert back, that's what we want. We want our son."
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Here's a healthy post of a cook I did last week (?). Maybe this weekend I'll slip something bad in. Took about a pound of shrimp and brined them for about 20 minutes, rinsed them off and skewered them up before throwing them on the Egg.
•2 cups water
•2 cups of ice
•1/4 cup Kosher salt
•1/4 cup sugar
•1/4 cup Zatarain's Extra Spicy Crawfish, Shrimp and Crab Boil (not the liquid one, the solid one)
Coupla minutes later they were done. Deshelled them and mixed them in with some salad and some home made type dressing that was 1/4 cup Duke's light mayo, 2tbsp lemon juice, 1 tbsp water and 1/2 tsp of Dizzy Pigs Swamp Venom.
For a salad, it wasn't half bad. Actually, it was pretty good. The dressing was tangy and refreshing. Gonna be a great meal option for when it gets hot this summer and we want something light and refreshing and cool to eat.


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Representatives of six Catholic schools attended an inaugural mass of dedication to celebrate the forming of a new trust.
More than 300 students from St Mary's School, Menston, St Joseph's in Otley, Ss Peter and Paul, Yeadon, Sacred Heart, Ilkley, St Mary's, Horsforth, and St Joseph's, Pudsey, took part in the mass at St Anne's Cathedral in Leeds.
Many staff, past and present, governors, guests from the Diocese of Leeds and parents also attended the mass, held to celebrate the forming of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust.
The theme for the mass was "In Truth and Love", the motto contained on the Bishop Wheeler Episcopal Coat of Arms.
The Mass was concelebrated by Mgr John Wilson, Mgr Michael McQuinn, Mgr Keiran Heskin, Canon Lawrie Hulme, Fr Anthony Jackson, Fr Billy Steele, Fr Malachy Larkin and Mgr Paul Owens.
Following the blessing of the Trust Candles, promises were presented by the Trust Headteachers, Diane Todd of Ss Peter and Paul, Yeadon, Alixina Lubomski of Sacred Heart, Ilkley, Alison Ashworth of St Joseph's, Pudsey, Cecilia Knight from St Joseph's, Otley, Peter Hughes from St Mary's, Horsforth, and Thomas Rothwell from St Mary's, Menston.
Acting Headteacher at St Mary's Menston, Thomas Rothwell, said: "This was a wonderful service that showed how co-ordinated the work of all the schools in the trust has become in such a short period of time. The children were a credit to their schools."


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Kenny Chesney Shirtless
This picture of Kenny Chesney shirtless leaves more to the imagination than one might notice at first glance. One wonders if being without a shirt is all that the 'Come Over' singer is guilty of in this party pic. Images of Chesney sans-shirt on aren't rare, as he frequently shows off his well-sculpted arms and chest in music videos.


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Brash predictions of victory are the stuff of sports legend.
You have
Babe Ruth's called home run, Joe Namath's guaranteed Super Bowl win and
now, there's Denny Hamlin's promised victory in last Sunday's Sylvania 300 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
"There are many people that called their shot with championships ahead of me," said Hamlin on his bold statements. "I'm just a small, small little bug on the windshield."
After dominating the previous event in New Hampshire before a miscue in the closing laps resulted in a second place finish, Hamlin knew he had a good setup for the 1-mile oval. A victory would be sweet redemption and return his team to contender status in the 2012 Chase for the Nextel Cup.
"No track owes you anything," said Hamlin after his win. "You've got to go out there and you have to perform and you have to do it yourself."
Starting from the back of the field, Hamlin had to pass a lot of cars to get to the front of the pack. However, when you have a fast car, all it takes is patience.
"Darian obviously gave me a lightning-fast car today," explained Hamlin. "For me, my job was relatively easy. Just make sure that I didn't make any enemies on the way to the front."
Now Cup Series drivers are a prideful group and don't enjoy being shown up. Especially when a competitor is so bold as to predict victory days before the event began.
"You can't just call your shot and they are going to pull over and give the race to you," commented Hamlin on his fellow competitors. "They are going to drive harder knowing that you've said something like that."
With laps winding down and a commanding lead, Hamlin had things pretty much in hand until a late caution bunched the field. It was there where the young driver used his prediction as motivation to close the deal.
"For me that was the most nerve-wracking part," continued Hamlin. "Let's not find a way to lose, because I knew we had the fastest car today. You know, I've obviously got a great knack for this racetrack, it was extra motivation in my mind to prove myself right."
Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon tried to steal the win but just didn't have the car to compete with Hamlin's No. 11 team on the restart.
"He had a lot of speed in his car and seemed to be able to go when he needed to and wanted to," said Johnson on Hamlin's domination.
Johnson did move into the point lead with his second place finish but Hamlin is close behind in third place.
While the Joe Gibbs Racing driver can relish this week in making his prediction come true, he knows that there is a lot of racing left to go before we get to Homestead. If he can keep his team from feeling the pressure as in previous seasons, he might just make my pre-Chase prediction come true and capture his first NASCAR Cup Series title.
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Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination
Janice Anne Fiamengo
University of Ottawa Press, 2007 - Literary Collections - 363 pages
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co-inhabitants of this harsh, beautiful land. From the realistic animal tales of Charles G. D. Roberts and Ernest Thompson Seton, to the urban animals of Marshall Saunders and Dennis Lee, to the lyrical observations of bird enthusiasts John James Audubon, Thomas McIlwraith, and Don McKay, animals have occupied a key place in Canadian literature, focusing central aspects of our environmental consciousness and cultural symbolism. Other Selves explores how and what the animals in this country have meant through all genres and periods of Canadian writing, focusing sometimes on individual texts and at other times on broader issues. Tackling more than a century of writing, from 19th-century narrative of women travellers, to the "natural" conversion of Grey Owl, to the award-winning novels of Farley Mowat, Marian Engel, Timothy Findley, Barbara Gowdy, and Yann Martel, these essays engage the reader in this widely-acknowledged but inadequately-explored aspect of Canadian literature.
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Adweek has a an article up : How AT&T Got Kids to Make Some of the Year's Best Ads where they talk about BBDO's "comic gold" campai
Eva's cleavage was revealed in 1994 for Wonderbra, and was recently voted the most iconic ad image of all time. The ad myth has it that this billboard caused several car accidents too, just like the Anna Nicole H&M lingerie ads did in Norway a year prior, but like most press myths this is most likely hype. This billboard was right outside my advertising school in Vauxhall (above D&AD) at the time, and the only one us students weren't trying to deface to make it better.
There's been a lot of talk about the silly condiments spanking the people as revenge campaign all over the interwebz. No doubt you've seen it. We've posted about it, too. We've had questions for Milan advertising agency Alch1m1a.
Questions that no one else has asked. So we will be the first:
Question: did this shit even run, since it's nowhere to be found on your website?
Question: (which comes from a hat tip): Since Kami Tora is a very prominent manga/hentai artist, did it ever cross your mind to I don't know, maybe not make it so obvious you traced the image (minus nut sack) of the same dude gettin' his butt spanked?
The other day, a non ad person (I presume) and upstanding human being had a brilliant idea and tweeted it.
So it seems the same actor who plays The Zesty Guy in Kraft Salad dressing's new campaign is also making it with Sauza tequila in the exact same way.
Yo Daddy's , an ice-cream shop and winebar (what?) in Greensboro, North Carolina is as focused with their advertising efforts as their business establishment concept, and they put the old "angry wife announces she caught cheating husband on billboard" idea on a digital billboard to attract some PR, buzz and customers. We've seen the cheating wife spends large chunk of money on billboard before several times, and one advertised court TV which actually makes sense. Selling a frozen ice-cream slash wine-bar shop with this idea, a little less logical.
Big Al's Creative Emporium, created these ads that were promptly banned on the grounds that they had breached the CAP code and were "misleading" and lacking in "substantiation". The ASA ruled the ads must not appear in their current form and told JTI not to claim the Government had rejected the policy of plan packaging and not state or imply it had not been introduced because of a lack of evidence.
Text in one of the ads stated: "This same policy was rejected in 2008 because there was no credible evidence."
Welcome to the latest funny-har-har on the intarwebs which is the domain-joke GuysAmericanKitchenAndBar that developer Bryan Mytko bought because GuysAmerican did not. Then they proceeded to fill the menu with tres funny jokes poking fun at Guy's style of cooking. Example:
Deep fried snake with a printed out picture of David Lee Roth stapled on it and a sparkler sticking out of each eye. Served with a side of Bud Light you have to wring out of a Hawaiian shirt.
This was announced on twitter and people applauded, laughed, and sent virtual high-fives to Bryan.
I know everyone's going gaga about the Richard's Group's "God Made a Farmer" ad for Dodge because it cut through the clutter and was quiet and beautiful in an otherwise lackluster year of super bowl spots. And this is true.
Red Tettemer wants you to know they have a Super Bowl Bingo game. If you play along the right way, one person will win a 32" flat screen TV.
That kinda reminds me of, Super Bowl Ad Bingo. Created by Adland. In 2011.
Oh sure you have the fancy tv giveaway, but so what. In the Super Bowl of Super Bowl-themed games, we beat ya. Neener Neener. More importantly, you've seen all the spots in advance, so you've stacked the deck. it's a lot harder to do what we did and create stereotypes to watch out for. Seriously, you should make it a bit more sporting next time.
In 2010, David & Goliath made a cute spot for Kia that aired during the Super Bowl called "Joyride Dream". Oversized stuffed animals, including "Sock Monkey", Muno, Mr.
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The Agency Pronunciation Guide.
"Dro-five-uh. Dro-five-uh. Dro-five-uh never returned my calls."
You don't say? Is it because taking an existing meme which parodies a unintentionally funny but started as serious youtube channel isn't very original?
I see you called it Volume 1, suggesting there might be a volume 2. Let's not and say we did. This is as DOA as another Shit Blank Says video.
Enamored with that Southern Comfort commercial where the man who has 'gotta be me' struts his stuff along the beach in a bathing suit and leather shoes, a a group of students from the University of Sheffield suddenly had the bright idea to do their own version when Pete sort of volunteered to recreate it, as long as some money got raised for the local children's hospital (and he got a bottle of Southern Comfort).
What happened here? Well, Hot Wheels zoomed in on cute cars in parking lots and proceeded to package them like toy cars - and rumour has it that this actually happened to people who just popped in to the mall for a quick errand.
Amnesty.nl are currently protesting the imprisonment of Nasrin Sotoudeh in Iran and Ales Bialiatski in Belarus. Their street guerilla action is to hang images of them, with hands, on all the bars they can find in Amsterdam. That is on gates around peoples houses, parks and train stations. Private property, city property, definitely not Amnesty or a media property. Yes, ad creep is a peeve of mine if it means the city has to clean it up. Inexpensive ingenuity when it comes to media is how Amnesty gets attention since their media budget isn't large.


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The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman offers undergraduate majors in mathematics, computer science, and computer information systems, and (in collaboration with the Art Department) computer graphics and imaging. The Department also offers minors in mathematics, computer science, computer applications, and computer graphics and imaging. The graduate degree programs offered by the Department are as follows: Master of Arts in Mathematics, Master of Science in Computer Science, and Master of Arts for Secondary School Teachers of Mathematics. The Department also offers courses in the Program in Mathematics Education for Intermediate School Teachers. Advisers are available to help students select the program most appropriate for them.
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With about 360 species of birds, Timbavati is an exceptional destination for twitchers.
There are some places in the world that vigorously resist human development. Timbavati Private Nature Reserve is one of these.
Pressed up against the belly of the Kruger National Park, it has experienced almost nothing in the way of farming or other encroachment, even before being conserved.
In fact, when parts of the land that would become the Timbavati were cleared for crops and cattle in the 1950s, it became apparent (and this in a decade that wasn't particularly conservation-minded) that farming here was a serious mistake. So a few dozen forward-thinking people worked together, bought up the land and dedicated it back to wildlife.
And so it has remained ever since.
Timbavati's 53 000ha were named after the river that flows through them. Its riverine forest attracts elephants, as it has done for centuries.
Timbavati was in the news in the 1970s, when the first white lions were spotted on the reserve. Suddenly Timbavati became a household name around the world and the lions in question (along with their discoverer, Chris McBride) became famous.
Every now and then white lions are still born here or on neighbouring reserves. Every white lion in the world owes its genes to something mysterious and recessive in the DNA of Timbavati big cats. White lions are extremely rare.
In 1993, the fence dividing Timbavati from the Kruger National Park was dropped, allowing the free flow of wild animals.
It affords visitors to the park's 12 famous luxury game lodges – including Tanda Tula, King's Camp, Ngala, Motswari, Umlani and Leadwood – an incredible wildlife experience.
The owners of Timbavati are about to take another step that will further protect its wilderness: there are plans to proclaim Timbavati as part of the Kruger National Park.
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There are three regional airports in proximity to the Timbavati.
Hoedspruit's airport is closest, only 30 minutes away. Phalaborwa is 90 minutes away, while Kruger Park International Airport (KPIA) at Mbombela (Nelspruit) is about three hours' drive. Your lodge will usually organise transfers; some of the lodges have their own airstrips.
If you're driving from Johannesburg or Pretoria, it will take roughly six hours. Individual lodges will supply detailed directions.
Best time to visit
Summer (October to March) is rainy and can be very hot. Autumn and Spring are far more temperate.
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Once at your bush lodge, you'll be transported in game-viewing vehicles.
Length of stay
Two nights would be the absolute minimum to see most or all of the Big Five. Squeeze in another night if you can.
What to pack
If you're travelling in the South African winter, don't forget to bring warm clothes for night time, when temperatures can drop suddenly.
What to eat
The lodges often include traditional South African food and venison in their offerings – including biltong (cured meat), sosaties and boerewors (South African sausages).
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Before you reach for dietary supplements marketed as "testosterone boosters," consider this: They probably won't produce the results you're looking for, and while some of the ingredients in these products might not be cause for concern, others might put your health and career at risk. To learn more about the safety and effectiveness these types of supplements, visit the Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQ about testosterone boosters. However, if you're concerned about your testosterone levels or if you're experiencing related symptoms such as low sex drive, insomnia, or depression, talk to your healthcare provider.
Another ingredient that has been showing up in dietary supplement products recently is Acadia rigidula. FDA recently declared that it is not acceptable in such products because it falls in the class known as a "new dietary ingredient." A. rigidula is just the latest in a series of ingredients FDA has disallowed for this reason. Others include DMAA, DMBA, BMPEA, and aegeline. Visit the Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQ about Acacia rigidula to learn more, and explore the OPSS FAQs about ingredients to learn about others not permitted in dietary supplement products. especially BMPEA, which has been associated with A. rigidula.
Military training and pregnancy increase women's nutritional needs, specifically for vitamin D, calcium, iron, folate, and iodine. While HPRC always recommends choosing whole foods first, sometimes it can be difficult to get enough of those nutrients through food alone. When nutrient needs are higher than normal or when nutrient-rich foods aren't available, vitamin and mineral supplements can help women to restore nutrient levels in their bodies. Just remember that you don't need supplements unless you have known nutrient deficiencies, so talk to your healthcare provider before taking any supplement. Read more...
If you've searched recently for dietary supplements to enhance your performance, you may have come across products marketed as "ketone supplements." Before you consider taking any of these products, read the new Operation Supplement Safety FAQ about ketone supplements. Learn what ketone supplements are and if they're worth the often-hefty price tag.
If you're curious about other supplements marketed for performance, check out the OPSS Performance FAQs. Can't find the answers you're looking for? Send us a question using our Ask the Expert feature.
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced that methylsynephrine (also known as oxilofrine) "does not meet the statutory definition of a dietary supplement ingredient." So what does this mean? Products containing methylsynephrine are adulterated and can't be marketed legally as dietary supplements. Methylsynephrine is also prohibited in sport because it's a pharmaceutical drug (not currently approved in the U.S) and a stimulant that increases blood pressure and affects heart rate. What's more, some supplements have been found to contain methylsynephrine in amounts equal to or greater than pharmaceutical doses.
The consequences of taking methylsynephrine in large amounts or in combination with other stimulants aren't entirely known, but one product containing this ingredient and other stimulants has been linked to nausea, vomiting, agitation, increased heart rate, chest pain, and cardiac arrest. If you're considering taking a dietary supplement with methylsynephrine or oxilofrine on the label, you might want to think twice. For more from FDA, please see "Methylsynephrine in Dietary Supplements."
SARMs (selective androgen receptor modulators) are unapproved, experimental drugs sometimes illegally marketed and sold as dietary supplement products. They're also available on the Internet in other forms, but their use in sport is prohibited. Use of SARMs can affect military performance and readiness.
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If a dietary supplement product contains something called a "new dietary ingredient," manufacturers or distributors must notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before marketing any product that contains the ingredient. Aside from this, FDA doesn't review or approve dietary supplements before they're marketed. So what's a "new dietary ingredient," what makes it different from other ingredients, and what has to be done before one can be used in dietary supplements? Find out in the OPSS FAQ about new dietary ingredients.
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Chia (Salvia hispanica) seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and fiber. As such, they have become a popular food item, and you can also find chia (seeds and oil) in many dietary supplements marketed to support heart and digestive health. On its own, chia will not produce a positive drug test. However, when you look at ingredient lists on product labels, don't confuse Salvia hispanica (chia) with Salvia divinorum (Diviner's sage), which is banned by some services. There are many types of salvia, so please read the OPSS FAQ about salvia for more information. If you're interested in learning more about chia seeds, visit this webpage from MedlinePlus.


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Robinsons inspired by Chicago's LLWS run
Jackie Robinson West's U.S. title furthers goals of RBI program
When you're the daughter of baseball's most celebrated pioneer, it's easy to see that wins and losses will never be more important than the bigger picture. Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson, couldn't help feeling a swell of pride as she watched the Little League World Series.
There, on the field, she saw the Jackie Robinson West boys from Chicago, who rode an impressive wave of victories to the championship game. And though they may have fallen short of the title, Robinson couldn't help but think about all the people they touched along the way.
"They had already won," said Robinson after Sunday's championship game. "They won our hearts."
Indeed, it's hard to quantify just how far the boys from Chicago had come in such a short period of time. Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, had proclaimed the team the pride of the city, and it played with skill, pride and unyielding desire en route to an 8-4 loss to South Korea on Sunday.
Jackie Robinson West was the first team from Chicago to reach the title game and the second team from Little League's Urban Initiative to make it to the World Series, and there's a hope that its thrilling ride will inspire countless other children in urban areas to pick up the game of baseball again.
Robinson, an author who works as an educational consultant for Major League Baseball, said she has known the organizers of the Jackie Robinson West League for decades. Her mother, Rachel Robinson, approved the name when the league first began and ardently watched their run to the title game.
Rachel Robinson sent letters to each of the players in advance of the Little League World Series, and mother and daughter watched the triumphant semifinal game together on Saturday.
"It made us extremely proud. It does carry on his name," said Sharon Robinson of watching the Chicago youngsters play their hearts out. "My father was very devoted to young people and would've cheered them on from the stands if he'd been alive. I'm sure he's smiling down on us right now."
For David James, director of Major League Baseball's RBI program, the connection is no less personal. RBI, which stands for Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, is devoted to expanding the game among urban and underprivileged kids around the country, and James has helped it grow exponentially.
RBI, which just celebrated its own World Series earlier this summer, impacts more than 230,000 kids around the country. James previously worked for Little League baseball and was the first director of the Urban Initiative, and he was in attendance at Williamsport Saturday for the U.S. championship game.
For James, this team wasn't an aberration as much as a sign of a rising tide. The team from Philadelphia also was a breakout star at the Little League World Series, and James said that the runaway success of RBI and the Urban Youth Academies is only a sign of things to come.
"Across all of baseball, there's been a concern about the rising cost of play and how does it impact underserved kids and underserved communities," he said. "We have the RBI leagues and the Urban Youth Academies thanks to Commissioner [Bud] Selig's commitment to making sure that everybody has an opportunity to play, and it's really neat to see that those efforts are coming to fruition.
"I absolutely agree with what a lot of other people are saying. The success of the team in Philadelphia and Jackie Robinson West will hopefully be one of the first big steps in encouraging these kids to come back and to see baseball -- and softball, for that matter -- as a viable option for them to play."
James noted that Little League baseball has a long history of diversity and tolerance, dating all the way back to the controversy over the 1955 Cannon Street Little League team from South Carolina. That team, consisting of 14 African-American kids from Charleston, was invited to the Little League World Series after several other teams refused to play against it in a qualifying tournament.
Little League revoked the charters of several youth leagues for their actions, and though they didn't play in the World Series, the Cannon Street team was later recognized as state champion.
Nearly 60 years later, the Jackie Robinson West team came along and gained the attention of the nation. James said it was great that a few big leaguers started following Jackie Robinson West's run, and he lauded players for contributing money to allow the team's families to travel to Williamsport.
"The support we've gotten from current Major League players has been key, because those guys have played the game as a youth and they understand the opportunities it provides," said James.
"I'm feeling really good about this issue right now. It's working and these kids are coming out now. We can't control the amount of kids that are going to make it to the Major Leagues, but the argument that they're not playing at all is not true. And with these couple weeks, between the Jackie Robinson team and the Philadelphia team, it's really going to speed up the process of getting more kids back involved in the game. And it's good for the game in cultivating the next generation of fans."
Another team named for Jackie Robinson -- this one from Jersey City, N.J. -- won the senior division of the 2014 RBI World Series, and RBI has impacted more than 2 million kids since its inception in 1989. More than 200 kids have gone on to be drafted after playing in RBI leagues, but that's never really been the point. RBI -- and other leagues like it -- just hope to increase African-American participation in the game, and to impart life lessons about determination and persistence to a willing audience.
And with that goal in mind, there's been nothing like the last two weeks for an inspiration.
"We had the Jackie Robinson youth league which won the RBI World Series as well. It's been a wonderful summer not just for youth baseball but also for urban initiatives and teams paying tribute to my father," said Robinson. "It's not just this one team. They were holding up kids across the country, across the world and we were all watching them. I know they've inspired many, many young people and hopefully they continue to increase the interest in baseball with black children."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. Meggie Zahneis contributed to this report. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Gilded Byzantine romance gets a swingy '60s update courtesy of designer Karl Lagerfeld
"I listen to music when I work, read, and sleep," says Lagerfeld. "I've been playing James Blake and Florence and the Machine." At left: Talitha Getty, queen of the boho-riche look, in Marrakech, 1970; a Chanel runway look.
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