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The Virtual Volunteer Guide provides essential information that will help you prepare for and perform your virtual volunteer assignment at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). As a virtual volunteer, you will be able to participate in opportunities such as guest speaking, coaching, judging, and hosting.
At NFTE, virtual volunteering means volunteer tasks completed, in whole, via the Internet from a home or work computer. Virtual volunteering allows our organization to expand the benefits of our traditional volunteer program, by allowing for more volunteers to participate, and by utilizing volunteers in new areas.
We recognize that many people actively search for volunteer opportunities they can complete via home or work computers, because of time constraints, personal preference, a disability or a home-based obligation that prevents them from volunteering on-site. Virtual volunteering enables our volunteers to contribute time and expertise to our students from his or her home or office.
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As a virtual business plan coach, you give students a greater understanding of how a business operates by sharing your insights and knowledge. Offer advice that not only aligns with the business plan model, but also nurtures the students' entrepreneurial spirit.
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As a virtual field trip host, you give students a greater understanding of how a business operates by acquainting them with the mission, structure, and operations of your company or business.
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Your role as a virtual business plan competition judgeis to evaluate the presentations of our student entrepreneurs as though you were a venture capitalist considering an actual investment.
Our Responsibility
NFTE staff will work with you beforehand to coordinate your virtual experience. Orientation and additional training will be provided to support you in your role. Details to work out include the date and time, number of students, length of the engagement, business concepts that the students have learned, and ideas on how to make the engagement valuable.


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Includes adjustment key.
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Of course, thank you for the vids. They are quite instructive.
BTW, as of now I'm leading the distance comp at just over 450'. (Pretty bad headwind we were throwing into.) I was about 25-30' further than anyone else. Plus, I'm not feeling too good today, so that held me back some as well as not practicing my form for a while as well.
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Felix dominates in 100th win as Seattle bats come alive
Ace has nine K's in six scoreless frames, backed by trio of homers
HOUSTON -- For Felix Hernandez, the fourth time was the charm Monday as the Mariners ace finally won his 100th career game with six scoreless innings in Seattle's 7-1 victory over the Astros at Minute Maid Park.
With some overdue help from his offense, Hernandez evened his record at 2-2 for the season. He is now 100-78 in his Mariners tenure after losing twice and getting a no-decision since recording win No. 99 on Opening Day.
"Finally. Finally," Hernandez said after emerging from a beer-shower celebration courtesy of his teammates. "It took too long. But it felt great. One hundred wins in the big leagues and hopefully I can get more and more. My teammates did a great job out there scoring runs. It felt good."
Manager Eric Wedge acknowledged the milestone was significant and had been weighing on everyone's minds as the wait lingered.
"I'm glad it's behind him," said Wedge."Obviously, it's something you can't not think about as a pitcher or player or even as manager or coach. I was really happy for him. He's accomplished so much, so quickly, for a young man. It's a great accomplishment."
Hernandez becomes the third pitcher in Mariners history to crack the 100-win mark, joining Jamie Moyer (145) and Randy Johnson (130).
"It's a great honor to be on that list," said Hernandez, who lowered his ERA to 2.08 while giving up just five hits and one walk with nine strikeouts.
Hernandez was removed after six innings at 93 pitches after feeling some tightness in his back, but both he and Wedge said that was just a precaution.
Hernandez can be excused for feeling the strain of trying to lift the team out of its recent doldrums. The Mariners snapped a three-game losing streak and boosted their offensive numbers a bit in the process after scoring just three runs total in their previous three-game series at Texas.
They had five runs by the fourth inning Monday en route to their highest-scoring game since a 16-9 loss to the Astros two weeks ago in Seattle.
"It was a great day offensively and even better to get Felix some runs early, so he could settle in and do what he does," said third baseman Kyle Seager, one of three Mariners with a home run.
The Mariners totaled just nine runs in Hernandez's first four starts, as he had the second-lowest run support of any American League starter coming in. But two-run homers by Seager in the third and Jesus Montero in the fourth turned the tide quickly against Seattle's new AL West rivals.
Kendrys Morales added a solo shot in the fifth and went 2-for-4, while Dustin Ackley was 3-for-4 and Justin Smoak 2-for-3 on a night that the Mariners racked up a dozen hits.
Seager continued his impressive recent run by going 2-for-5 with two RBIs and his second home run in as many days. The 25-year-old is hitting .381 (16-for-42) with eight RBIs during a career-high 11-game hitting streak, hiking his batting average from .147 to .276 in the process.
Montero mashed his first long ball of the season after Ackley doubled in the fourth, while Smoak doubled and scored on a Montero sacrifice fly an inning later. Montero had gone 33 games and 132 at-bats since his last home run in 2012, when he hit 15 as a rookie.
"I just feel happy, because I helped Felix to win," Montero said when asked about his 433-foot homer to left-center. "I feel good because he got that 100th win and thank God I hit a homer and helped give him a little more confidence. I was starting to worry. It's been like three weeks without a homer. What's going on? But we got the win and that's the most important thing."
It was a welcome night for all the struggling young Mariners hitters, and Hernandez took full advantage against an Astros team that is off to a 5-14 start, but scored its only series win of the season over Seattle earlier this month at Safeco Field.
"I know we've been struggling a little bit, but we're going to get hot," said Hernandez. "We're going to score runs. I believe in my teammates. They try hard, and we're going to score. It makes you feel good as a teammate and as a pitcher."
The Mariners raised their team batting average from .218 to .224 and Ackley jumped from .161 to .197 with his three-hit night.
"He' been getting better," said Wedge. "And Smoak put up some good at-bats, and Seager has been on the right path for a while now. It was nice to see Kendrys hit the ball the way he did and Montero, too. We saw some good things happen tonight that these guys should be able to build on."
After Hernandez's departure, the Astros got on the board with a home run by Rick Ankiel off Carter Capps in the seventh.
But the only real downside on the night for the Mariners was another injury to Franklin Gutierrez, who left the game in the fourth inning with a tight hamstring after making a diving attempt on a bloop single to shallow center by Chris Carter. He may go on the disabled list.
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Harang racks up six strikeouts in five-inning debut for Seattle
SEATTLE -- The Mariners are waiting for everything to fall into place. They're waiting for their young hitters to break out of their cold-weather slumps. They're waiting for their injured players to get healthy.
On Tuesday night at a chilly Safeco Field, their patience was tested once again in a 6-2 loss to the reigning American League champion Tigers.
For every positive sign, like a largely effective Seattle debut for the newest Mariners starter, right-hander Aaron Harang, and the successful return of Michael Morse (one RBI) from three days sidelined with a broken finger, the Mariners couldn't push enough runs across against a former teammate, Detroit righty Doug Fister, and the loss dropped them to 6-9 for the season.
"We've got to get the offense going and loosen things up a little bit around here," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. "They're grinding, they're fighting through it, and Fister was pretty good tonight.
"He threw the ball well, and I thought Aaron threw the ball well. We didn't want to expand him past where he was. We just weren't really getting anything going offensively."
Harang got off to a rough beginning in his Seattle lid-lifter, giving up a leadoff triple to outfielder Austin Jackson and watching him score on a single by last year's AL Triple Crown winner, Miguel Cabrera. Harang bore down and got the next two outs and made it through another three scoreless innings, allowing the Mariners to take the lead in the bottom of the fourth.
With one out, Seattle third baseman Kyle Seager showed signs of life in the midst of a slow start to the season by doubling to center. Kendrys Morales followed with a double to the gap in right-center to tie the game, and Morse singled up the middle to score Morales and give the Mariners a 2-1 advantage.
Harang, who struck out six batters in his five innings, didn't hit a proverbial wall in his final frame -- he hit Cabrera. Or, rather, Cabrera hit him. After Torii Hunter punched a one-out single, Cabrera belted a two-run, go-ahead homer into the bleachers in center to put Detroit up for good.
Harang and Wedge both said after the game that the pitch Cabera hit was not a strike. In fact, Harang said he went back and looked at video and the pitch was "4 or 5 inches off the plate." Then again this is Miguel Cabrera, and he only had one homer in his team's first 12 games. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
"If it's down and inside, that's a good pitch for me, but down and away, that's where I like it to be," Cabrera said. "I can extend my arms. I've got more extension to the ball right there."
Harang said that piece of hitting simply proves how good Cabrera is.
"It's one of those things," Harang said. "Great hitter. He did a good job and he ended up basically single-handedly beating us."
Despite all that, Wedge said he was impressed with Harang, who had been traded from the Dodgers to the Rockies and on to the Mariners without making a regular-season start prior to Tuesday. That's why Harang was pulled after 95 pitches as he continues to work his conditioning into the season. Harang said he was pleased with his outing, particularly that he didn't walk a batter -- something he hadn't accomplished since May of last year.
The problem on this night was that Fister did a better job, and each time the Mariners see the big right-hander shutting down lineups, it reminds them that he once was theirs. Seattle sent Fister to Detroit at the Trade Deadline in 2011 in exchange for reliever Charlie Furbush, outfielder Casper Wells, pitcher Chance Ruffin and Minor Leaguer Francisco Martinez.
What the Mariners hitters saw, according to Seattle first baseman Justin Smoak, was a lot like what they saw while playing behind Fister a few years back.
"He was always good when he was here," Smoak said. "He's one of those guys who goes out there and competes."
The Tigers tacked on another run in the top of the seventh when Jackson singled, stole second base and scored on a single by Cabrera, who accounted for the first four of Detroit's RBIs.
Jackson worked a walk with the bases loaded in the top of the eighth to make it 5-2, and the Mariners then brought in reliever Yoervis Medina, who made his Major League debut and walked Hunter on four pitches to make it 6-2. Medina, a right-hander who was called up from Triple-A Tacoma to replace injured Stephen Pryor, threw another two consecutive balls to Cabrera before pumping a 95-mph fastball for a strike and ultimately getting out of the jam by freezing last year's league MVP with a fastball.
He then came out for the ninth, struck out Prince Fielder with a 96-mph fastball, and escaped another jam in a scoreless inning.
"He showed good stuff," Wedge said. "He was just a little erratic, which is to be expected, I think, for a first time in there, but settled down and threw the ball well."
Otherwise, it was a quiet night for a short-handed Mariners offense that doesn't have the presence of injured outfielder Michael Saunders near the top of the order and is waiting for others to heat up.
"We've got players here, once they settle in, we're going to be a pretty good offensive club," Wedge said. "I believe that. So it's early, and guys are working through some things, and we just have to keep playing."
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Misplays loom large in Dodgers' fifth straight loss
Capuano yields six runs in return as Los Angeles falls into last place
LOS ANGELES -- Maybe it's coincidence, but the Dodgers returned home Monday night and Gerry Hunsicker was there, too.
The Texas-based Hunsicker is senior advisor for baseball operations of the Dodgers. He was hired by club president Stan Kasten in the offseason, and he watched the Dodgers fall into last place in the National League West with an embarrassing 9-2 loss to the D-backs.
If he's got any advice on pulling a $230 million club out of this mess, the front office is all ears. The Dodgers, who had a six-game losing streak two weeks ago, have lost their last five, and in this one, they showed none of the late-inning character seen over the weekend in San Francisco. So if any major changes occur soon, this was the kind of game that would prompt them.
Carl Crawford's two outfield misplays overshadowed his solo home run and undermined Chris Capuano's return from the disabled list. New shortstop Dee Gordon double-clutched twice to keep the Dodgers from turning double-plays.
Hunsicker also saw a blatant baserunning mistake by Matt Kemp and a four-plus-inning start by Capuano, who allowed back-to-back homers to Paul Goldschmidt and former Dodger Cody Ross. Goldschmidt, who went 4-for-5 in the game, is 12-for-15 lifetime against Capuano.
Adrian Gonzalez, playing with neck pain, returned to the lineup with a pair of hits after missing all three starts in San Francisco. The Dodgers' offense still went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
In the 15 Dodgers games not started by Clayton Kershaw and Hyun-Jin Ryu, Los Angeles starters have just two wins. They've also failed to complete five innings six times.
The Dodgers are now 5-14 against division opponents and have lost 13 of the last 16 to the D-backs.
Los Angeles had one hit after the fourth inning, a one-out single in the eighth that Kemp tried, and failed, to stretch into a double -- while down by four runs.
"We didn't do enough to deserve to win the game," said manager Don Mattingly. "I feel good about my club, but I don't feel good about the game. The game stunk. You don't make that many mistakes in so many areas and feel good about it. You can't make that many mistakes and win."
Mattingly wouldn't even blame the umpires on a controversial call leading off the top of the fifth inning. Crawford, who had already misplayed opposing pitcher Trevor Cahill's second-inning sinking hit into a two-run triple, dropped Didi Gregorius' routine fly ball.
It was the kind of play that usually is ruled an out when the ball falls while being transferred from glove to throwing hand, but third-base umpire Bruce Dreckman ruled that Crawford never made the catch and the call was upheld after a meeting of the umps.
"I don't know what that was about," said Crawford. "He's got to get in better position to see that. I felt like I caught it. TV showed I caught it. I hope for instant replay to get here quick. I know people make mistakes, but that was a catch. I'm pretty sure the umpire will be upset about me saying that, but it is what it is."
Mattingly protested mildly at the time and insisted later that Crawford made the catch, but he didn't rant and rave afterward.
"For me, that's an out, but I can't really blame the game on that," Mattingly said. "It was a sloppy game. To say that was the turning point in the game, I have trouble putting it on that and blaming the umpire. But if they look at it, common sense says it's a catch."
Again, maybe coincidence, but after the disputed play, Capuano served up the back-to-back homers. He was lifted after going 2-0 to Miguel Montero and then took out his frustrations on a water cooler on his way to the clubhouse.
Capuano said he felt fine physically in his first game back since suffering a calf strain April 16. Capuano said the home runs were not a sign he was rattled by the preceding controversy. "You can't let calls or things like that change your approach out there," he said. "Maybe I was pressing a little bit. As much as you tell yourself not to press, you put more on your shoulders and get tight." Capuano said his anger came from leaving five more innings for the bullpen to eat. Paco Rodriguez had two scoreless innings, Matt Guerrier one while Javy Guerra allowed three runs in two innings.
Crawford said his misjudged dive that led to the three-run second inning was all on him.
"I tried to make something happen and flat-out missed that ball," he said. "I took a chance and probably shouldn't have and paid the price for it.
"Everybody is just trying to do too much. Me, trying to do too much. I probably should have played it off the hop. We all just want to do good. Everybody is trying too hard and stuff like tonight happens. We've got to relax and go out and play our game. We've got high expectations and we're definitely not playing up to what we're capable of."
"I saw it and I was wanting it to get down," Cahill said of his hit. "I saw him dive. I thought he blocked it or something, and then I saw him running towards the wall and I figured it was time to run a little bit harder."
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Full disclosure: The first name yours truly scribbled atop my Hart Trophy ballot before submitting it late last month -- and it was done without a nanosecond of hesitation -- was Jonathan Toews.
Full disclosure, part deux: When the National Hockey League announced last Friday its three finalists for the Hart -- awarded to the player "adjudged to be the most valuable to his team" -- and the Chicago Blackhawks' captain wasn't among them, the first reaction from this corner went something like:
'What the...?!'
Now, this isn't to suggest that Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin and John Tavares are not worthy. It's just that "Captain Serious" has come to represent everything that makes the Blackhawks championship-calibre: He has that coveted combo of skill and will, and the fact he was overlooked borders on criminal.
Here's evidence of what we think makes Toews worthy of the Hart and wearing the Blackhawks' "C": When the finalists were announced last week, he was naturally approached by the media, who were seeking some sort of reaction to being snubbed.
"There's another guy across the room that deserves it just as much, probably more," Toews, referencing Patrick Kane, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "To have two guys in the talks like that, it always shows that you have a great supporting cast. It's nice. It's an honour. But you don't get to that point if your team doesn't have success the way we did this year. So huge credit to those guys."
That's the kind of leadership -- with a nod toward their depth -- that helped the Blackhawks to a five-game, first-round decision over the Minnesota Wild. It's also why it says here that Chicago, not Pittsburgh, has been the best club in the NHL through the regular season and remains so as the second round is about to begin.
With that in mind, here's a closer look at the two Western Conference semifinals, which begin tonight in Los Angeles with three of the top four seeds -- Anaheim, Vancouver and St. Louis -- already having exited in Round 1:
Chicago Blackhawks (1) vs. Detroit Red Wings (7)
Game 1: Wednesday, 7 p.m., United Center, Chicago
Head to head: The Blackhawks went 4-0 vs. the Red Wings this year, winning twice in a shootout and once in overtime.
Why the Blackhawks will win: Chicago breezed by the Wild without a goal from either Toews or Kane but with production from their other stars such as Patrick Sharp (five goals) and Marian Hossa (three goals) and their assortment of foot soldiers like Bryan Bickell (three goals) and Michael Frolik (two). A stat worth noting that highlights the Hawks' depth: In their five-game series against Minny, 11 of the 13 forwards who dressed registered at least one point.
But the Hawks don't get it done by overwhelming their opponents with one barrage after another from their offensive firepower like the Penguins. Their deep defence, led by Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and goaltender Corey Crawford, allowed only seven goals in five games and completely shut down the Wild power play, which was an anemic 0-for-17 in the series. That commitment to defending, plus the expectation that Toews and Kane will start producing offensively in the second round -- and, in the process, perhaps breathe life into a moribund power play (two-for-13 vs. the Wild) -- leaves the distinct impression the Hawks, as good as they've been, can still find another gear or two.
Why the Red Wings will win: Detroit scrapped and clawed just to get into the post-season, winning four straight down the stretch to clinch their 22nd consecutive playoff berth, and that desperation was still in their game against the Ducks. Even with all the talk this winter about how the Wings would manage without Niklas Lidstrom, there remains considerable star power with the likes of Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg and solid secondary scoring from Justin Abdelkader, Johan Franzen, Valtteri Filppula and Daniel Cleary.
What fuelled Detroit's first-round upset of the Ducks was the work of some of their young and emerging stars, including goaltender Jamie Howard, Damien Brunner, Gustav Nyquist and Joakim Andersson. There is a solid mix of young and old, skill and brawn all being exceptionally deployed by one of the best coaches in the biz in Mike Babcock.
Tim Campbell picks: Chicago in five.
Gary Lawless picks: Chicago in seven.
Ed Tait picks: Chicago in five.
Los Angeles Kings (5) vs. San Jose Sharks (6)
Game 1: Tonight, 9 p.m., Staples Center, Los Angeles.
Head to head: The Kings were 2-1-1 vs. the Sharks this season.
Why the Kings will win: They are the defending champs and, in dispatching a solid St. Louis squad in the opening round, showcased just why they are built to repeat. They are big, deep, skilled and backed by a superb netminder in Jonathan Quick. The Kings, like the Blackhawks, were able to advance past the Blues -- who won the first two games of the series -- without real production from their top line. L.A.'s top trio of Anze Kopitar centring Justin Williams and Dustin Brown got stronger as the series progressed, but it was the Mike Richards line, featuring Jeff Carter and Dwight King, that was especially effective. Winkler's Dustin Penner is also coming alive, having scored twice in the series -- including the Game 6 clincher.
The Kings' already deep defensive corps has been bolstered by the addition of Robyn Regehr, who is paired with Drew Doughty, while Slava Voynov might be one of the most unheralded players in the entire NHL.
This is a team that knows how to win and, after rolling into the post-season as the fifth seed in the West, seems to be finding its spring mojo again.
Why the Sharks will win: Lost in all the hand-wringing in Vancouver about San Jose's sweep of the Canucks was the solid work of the men in teal and black. The Sharks might just be undergoing a bit of a metamorphosis, transforming from a team long dominated by players like Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Dan Boyle to one now led by Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture, among others. The move of Brent Burns from defence to wing gives the forward crew more oomph, while the trade-deadline acquisition of Raffi Torres has offered another element of speed, grit and depth. The Sharks were scary-good at home, going 17-2-5 in the regular season and reeling off two more against the Canucks in the opening round.
Finally, but not to be forgotten, the Sharks are getting world-class goaltending from Antti Niemi who was outstanding against the Canucks and will be even busier against the Kings
Tim Campbell picks: San Jose in seven.
Gary Lawless picks: Los Angeles in seven.
Ed Tait picks: Los Angeles in six.
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Donna Karan Spring 2014
Were some alternative version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary ever to be dreamt up, one for the fashion crowd, if you thumbed your way to odyssey, you'd likely find Donna Karan's name. Most if not every collection for Karan starts with a journey—actual, emotional, metaphysical, spiritual. Indeed, she may have been on her way to her next travels right after her spring 2014 show; she appeared from the wings after the models took their lap of honor carrying a burnished brown leather fretwork tote, as if directly en route to the airport to some new clime, some fresh adventure. What was entirely evident from this show though was that the latest odyssey Karan has been on involved the Indian subcontinent, with the collection's woodblocked prints, its colors at once both peaceful and calm (myriad blues, conjuring up sky and ocean) and warm and earthy (various vegetable-dyed shades of brown and tan that she dubbed spice, musk, and patchouli), and in the appliqued leathers that conjured up cut-out wooden screens in some dusty palace in Jaipur.
Yet the real starting point for Karan was something closer to home: a scarf, and the 101—or in this case, 37—ways that you could twist, wrap, drape, and tie it to wear it in a jauntily urban manner. There were crossover dresses, soft coats and pajama pants in indigo, plain or patterned in hand-drawn loose geometrics, the fabric falling across the body, the look punctuated with oversize leather talismans at the neck and heavy weathered leather belts slung onto the hips. The shirt, often white, morphed into a tunic to be worn tucked/untucked into handkerchief-hem skirts whose hems fell into points. And evening, which often shows Karan at her most sensuous, was no different here, with a series of one shouldered dresses in silk georgette and charmeuse that lapped the body as they fell to the floor.
All this caught a mood that has been flickering in and out of the spring 2014 collections these past few days. One hesitates to call it that dread term ethnic which just seems wrong in this day and age, given its insensitivity (or ignorance, if you'd rather) to specific national and regional cultures. Yet let's say there have been elements of non-Western dress at work in these shows, through the use of folding, draping, and wrapping, the handcrafted graphic prints, the touches of scarf fringing, and the Southern Asian and North African color palettes. Indeed, given that so many of these motifs have been used by Karan over the years, the past few days have had quite a few shows that felt like they bore her imprimatur. So here at least consider Karan's odyssey with the scarf as a kind of homecoming.


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Michaels is a graduate of Williams College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and Yale Law School, where he served as articles editor for the Yale Law Journal. Michaels clerked first for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Immediately prior to his appointment at UCLA, Michaels worked as an associate in Arnold & Porter's National Security Law and Public Policy Group in Washington, D.C.
Michaels' principal scholarly interests lie at the intersection of administrative law, national security law, and separation of powers. His current research examines innovative private-public collaborations and considers the legal and normative challenges such collaborations pose.
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It took a few minutes after the debut of Season 2 ended to figure out what seemed off about it. It was the same thing I noticed about the premiere when reviewing the first season: too much, too many people. Ugly Betty's best episodes are the ones with the most focus on one or two elements; tonight was about catching up with everything. Now that everything's in motion it should get better.
I hope so, anyway. One reason, say, Betty and Henry's romance worked because it took its time to develop (well, relatively speaking--took its time for a nighttime soap with a dozen plot strands). That's probably why the most effective parts of Ep 1 were the intimate scenes between Santos and Hilda. My girlfriend, who's watched a lot more of this kind of TV than I have, said, "He's dead and it's all a hallucination," about five second before it was revealed, and I'm sure more people figured it out a lot earlier. Still, it ended things effectively, especially paired with Henry getting off the bus in the middle of Times Square (you know, where Greyhounds let everyone off).
Overall, though, the tone was shriller than it needed to be, even for a show as deliberately over-the-top as Betty is; a new viewer is probably wondering what the hell is going on. I have a hard time thinking Amanda's newfound parentage is going to enhance things any. There's already enough drama with the Meades is one convolution too many, and a few good one-liners ("Dadford," "Your father has lethargic sperm") aren't enough of a return. Ditto Alexis's (groan) "amnesia," and Claire's escaped-prisoner status, though her confrontation with Wilhelmina ("You have about three minutes." "I only need one.") was the point where the show felt like it found its feet again, as was its cutting back-and-forth with Mark meeting Yoga.
I am looking forward to Justin as full-time "fashion elf" for Wilhelmina, though--the more opportunities for Marc and Wilhelmina to interact the better, especially with a third party to bounce off of--and to Betty-Henry developments. Becki Newton is still my favorite broad reactor, even in an unconvincing fat suit. Ilena Douglas's character is promising but needs better lines. And the final word goes to my girlfriend: "The Victoria's Secret product placement seems a little tiresome."
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HOUSTON - Well, she's tried to do it every week, and I gotta hand it to her, she really made it happen. From her finger-staining-fake red hair, to those terrifying laser beams she calls eyes, to the less physical but no less obnoxious characteristics, like her shameless self-promotion, her clear annunciation of made-up words and that to-the-camera backstabbery of Debbie Gibson we've come to know and love so well, it was simply time. Let it be known that on Sunday, March 25, 2012, Aubrey O'Day finally got her moment in the sun on an episode of The Celebrity Apprentice I will lovingly entitle, "The Day of Aubrey," with some very memorable guest appearances by Clay Aiken.
But first, some logistics.
Each team's task this week was to throw a launch party for one of Crystal Light's two new "mocktail" flavors, Pomtini and Peach Bellini. The project managers for this challenge were Clay Aiken for the men and yes, you guessed it, Miss Aubrey O'Day herself for the ladies. The women opted for the Pomtini and the men had the Peach Bellini, since, you know, Clay's family grows peaches down in Georgia, thus making him an expert on all things peach related. Clay had some feelings on going up against Madame O'Day on this particular challenge and shared them with the camera, thus winning a place in my heart for all eternity. The following is a direct quote from Clay Aiken that NBC was kind enough not to edit out:
"Aubrey has an advantage because Aubrey is a clubber. Just look at that hair. Aubrey popped right outta her mama's chotch (giggle giggle) and started grabbing onto the stripper pole."
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I kid you not, people. This aired on national television. And I could not have been more grateful. Also, Clay Aiken's giggle is simultaneously adorable and terrifying, much like that neighbor's child you suspect might be the anti-Christ… but that's a path down which we really mustn't stray. She might hear us.
Aubrey, in true slore fashion, chose yet another sexually inspired theme (something like "temptation," "forbidden fruit," "deepest desire…" because she's the hot/pretty one, remember?!) for her launch party, while Clay went with "Life's a Peach/Beach!" for his theme. The parties were fine, blah blah blah, although I must say, Lisa Lampanelli has really ratcheted up the camp-counselor-from-hell thing and taken it to a whole new level. She's big. She's mean. AND SHE WAS AN EDITOR FOR ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE FOR PETE'S SAKE.
But the Aubrey Show really hit its stride in the boardroom. Aubrey came in, confident as can be because, hey, she was the project manager, and as the brains behind the women's team, how could they lose?!?!??!?!?! How indeed. After much industrial foreplay from D Trump, it was revealed that the men won and the women lost the challenge.
Commence water work extravaganzaaaaa.
Aubrey did not stop crying throughout the rest of the episode, which is a feat considering the weight of those fake eyelashes (another point to Clay for calling that out!). At one point, King Trump threw $10,000 at Aubrey's charity just to get her to shut the hell up. This set Lisa Lampanelli crying (SO MANY MASCARA-LADEN TEARS.) which was awkward and disconcerting because I thought the woman was supposed to be made of grit and sarcasm, not cotton candy and feelings. Aubrey was crying so hard that her face matched the color of her hair and for a brief moment I thought she might spontaneously combust. Unfortunately, she did not. Aubrey ended up bringing Dayana Mendoza (pretty girl just CANNOT catch a break with all these bitter, old hags) and Patricia Velasquez back to the boardroom to face elimination, and once again, despite the evidence from the team and from past challenges and really any and all logic, Trump took the game into his own hands and fired Patricia. This show is really just an elaborate way for Donald Trump to assert his authority over people who were maybe famous once, and also serves as a lesson to his demon spawn on how to utterly disregard anyone else's thoughts or opinions and be a TRUMP.
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NEW YORK CITY - The University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team tied Columbia, 0-0, Saturday night at the CU Soccer Stadium.
Penn's best chances in Saturday's match came in the extra sessions. With just one minute left in the first one, Alex Murphy fired a shot that rang off the post and out of harm's way. In the second extra period, a hard Columbia tackle in the box left the referee awarding the Quakers a penalty kick. However, Austin Kinn's shot was saved by Kyle Jackson
Penn (4-6-1, 1-0-1 Ivy League) held the play for most of the game, outshooting the Lions 19-11 and forcing Jackson to make six saves. Columbia moved to 5-2-2 overall, 0-0-2 in Ivy play.
In the Quaker goal, Tyler Kinn had four saves to earn the shutout -- his third of the season and first career Ivy League clean sheet. After a stretch of six consecutive losses, Penn has gone three matches without a loss, and has yet to give up a goal in Ivy League play this season.
The Red and Blue sit in a tie for second place in the Ivy League after two weeks of conference play with their 1-0-1 record. The Quakers are joined by Princeton at four points in the League, slated behind table-leading Yale, which is 2-0-0.
Penn returns to action next Saturday, hosting Dartmouth at Rhodes Field at 7:30 p.m. That match will be the second half of a doubleheader, as the Penn women will host the Big Green at 5 p.m.
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NYPL notes: Aplin arrives with authority
ValleyCats outfielder opens pro career swinging a hot bat
By Brian Moynahan / Special to MLB.com | July 6, 2012 6:15 AM ET
As a freshman at Arizona State in 2010, he hit .337 with a .468 on-base percentage in 89 at-bats for a Sun Devils team that reached the College World Series.
This season, he arrived in Troy, N.Y., as the Houston Astros' fifth-round pick and announced his presence with authority, hitting .391 with 14 runs scored in his first 15 games. The ValleyCats have also been hot: the team had an 11-game winning streak that ended Wednesday, but still found itself tied with Brooklyn for the league's best record at 13-4.
"I like to win. I hate losing," said Aplin. "It means nothing to have a good day if we don't come out and win."
On Tuesday, Aplin played a large role in extending Tri-City's winning streak to 11 games. With the team trailing, 2-0, entering the ninth inning, he was hit by a pitch and came in to score the first run. After the ValleyCats batted around, he found himself at the plate again, driving in the inning's seventh run with a single to left.
Aplin followed that base hit with two stolen bases before being stranded when the inning ended. The thefts, his 10th and 11th of the season in 12 attempts, signaled a continued evolution in the approach of a player who swiped 18 bags in 27 attempts in 146 collegiate games.
"Being a center fielder, being in pro ball, you have to have a little bit of ability to steal bases, get on base," said Aplin. "So coming here, I just decided I was going to do that. Plus at Arizona State, I had first-rounder Deven Marrero, I had a lot of bats behind me, so they could kind of knock me in here and there. Coming here I had to make that decision."
In addition to his newfound success on the basepaths, Aplin brings defensive aptitude to the Astros organization. Despite handling the ball extensively in college, recording 290 putouts and 14 assists, he was charged with just one error in his three seasons at Arizona State, a "little miscommunication" with the right fielder in a game against Oregon midway through his junior season.
He has recorded three outfield assists in his first 15 games as a professional.
"I think just slowing the game down, not trying to do too much," he said of the approach that so drastically limits his miscues. "As an outfielder, you just have to get the ball in as fast as you can and as accurate as you can. Try not to give up those extra bases here and there from throwing and missing cutoffs."
With things going well in the team win column and his individual stat line, Aplin has continued to focus on the really tough stuff: adjusting to the lifestyle of a professional baseball player.
"Just always baseball, baseball, baseball. It's a job now instead of just going out there having fun playing. It's more of a career now," he said. "You don't have school to focus on, so it's pretty much baseball all the time. That's what you have to focus on. That's your job."
Power's back on: The State College Spikes did not hit a home run until Samuel Gonzalez went deep against Batavia on Tuesday in the 16th game of the season. After three more home runs at Tri-City on Wednesday, State College is now on pace for 18 home runs this season. Since the team entered the league in 2006, the fewest round-trippers by an NYPL team is Williamsport's 17 the same year. Current Pirates outfielder Alex Presley tied for the lead on that team with three home runs.
Let's play two: Batavia beat Jamestown on Saturday, 5-4, in 17 innings. It was the league's longest game since Vermont topped Lowell by an identical 5-4 score in 18 innings on July 28, 2008. In that game, current Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks batted ninth for the Spinners, finishing 1-for-7 with three strikeouts. Athletics catcher Derek Norris, then a Nationals prospect, hit fourth for the Lake Monsters and went 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs and five walks.
Staying together: With more than 3,000 miles between them, the Oakland Athletics and Vermont Lake Monsters are farther apart geographically than any other parent club and affiliate, but that didn't stop the teams from extending their Player Development Contract for two more years, through the end of the 2014 season.
Big night with the bats: The Aberdeen IronBirds set four franchise records in a 21-7 rout of the Staten Island Yankees on Tuesday: most hits in a game (20), most runs in a game (21), most runs in an inning (11) and most total runs scored in a game (28). The 6,904 fans who saw the game at Ripken Stadium were also a team record.
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DELAND, Fla. - The Florida Highway Patrol says a woman has been arrested in connection to a deadly hit-and-run crash during Biketoberfest 2011.
Troopers tell Local 6 20-year-old Rita Carter of DeLand turned herself in on Monday. According to jail records, she faces two counts of DUI manslaughter and one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.
Troopers say Carter hit a motorcycle from behind on Interstate 4 near DeLand in October 2011.
The crash caused the two people on the motorcycle to be thrown onto the interstate. Troopers say the two victims -- 34-year-old Javier Remonsanzol and 32-year-old Allison Sellers -- were run over by three other vehicles after Carter caused them to crash.
Carter was released from jail on Tuesday after posting bond.
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LYE Town boss Martin Thomas says his players are fully focused on their promotion goal.
After last weekend's away game against Bewdley Town was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, Thomas has been busy on the training pitch with his squad.
Ahead of this Saturday's home game against Smethwick Rangers (3pm ko), he said: "I can see how well the players are focused at the moment. They have put in a some really good training sessions recently."
Lye showed their determination when overcoming Shifnal Town in their previous game last Wednesday .
A second half blitz from Town saw them win 7-1 away despite the fact that the sides went in 0-0 at the break.
In the first period Shifnal worked very hard to close down the space. However, a second half changed of shape opened the door to victory for the visitors.
Lye broke the deadlock on 49 minutes when Ricky Anslow beat his man out wide to cross for James Spray to fired high into the net.
From that point on the goals started to flow. Goals from James Spray bagged a brace, Steve Weaver netted a hat-trick and Damian Whitcombe and Simon Williams added to others. Lye have bolstered their squad with the arrival of central midfielder Lewis Clarke, who has been brought in after an injury to Nicky Pugh.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Fighting for a spot in the Sunshine State Conference Tournament, Lions' freshman defender Matt Campbell came up clutch as he broke a scoreless game with a goal in the 90th minute to give Saint Leo a 1-0 victory over Nova Southeastern, Saturday night from University Soccer Field.
The goal was Campbell's first of his career, and gave Saint Leo the fifth seed in the SSC Tournament where they will take on Eckerd College Tuesday night. The win also snaps a four-match losing streak.
With both teams playing for their postseason lives, NSU and Saint Leo partook in a physical, scoreless first half. The physicality was evident in the two's teams combining 16 fouls, in addition to one yellow caution and a disqualification.
The second half was a mirror image of the first as the two teams continued to play tough, timely defense. Highlighting the Lions' defensive efforts was a 60th minute bicycle kick save by Daniel Valdez to keep the match scoreless.
Still, NSU, playing with the man advantage, began to find chances. It did not deter Lions' goalkeeper Manuel Schoenhuber, however, as he posted multiple key saves en route to the clean sheet.
With Saint Leo playing defense for the majority of the second half, the Lions reversed momentum over the course of the final moments. After being fouled outside the box, Saint Leo forward Edgar Herrera set up one of the Lions few set piece chances. From the left edge Herrera sent a precision delivery across the box to the back post where it met the leaping head of Campbell who smashed home the eventual game-winner.
Schoenhuber finished the night with four saves, registering his first clean sheet since a September 19 win over Tampa. It is his fifth shutout of the season.
In total, the two teams combined for 29 fouls, while NSU held a 5-1 advantage in corners and outshot Saint Leo 18-9.
The Lions will now travel to St. Petersburg, Fla. to challenge the Eckerd College Tritons. Kickoff for the rematch is set for Tuesday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m. from the Turley Athletic Complex. Eckerd won the first meeting of the year 1-0 in overtime.
For more on the men's soccer program, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'follow' the Lions on Twitter at Twitter.com/SaintLeoLions, and 'Like' the Lions on Facebook at Facebook.com/SaintLeoLions.
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Clary sage is a very special plant essence that many women have found indispensable as it tempers their hormonal balance which tends to run unchecked during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. During labor it can be applied with a gently warmed cloth to the area just above the pubic hair; scores of women have remarked that they neither wanted nor needed any pain medication thereafter.
— Marie Miczak, excerpted from "Precious Essences," Wisdom of the Midwives, Tricks of the Trade, Vol. II, a Midwifery Today book
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Labor Encouragement with Essential Oils
Many midwives are familiar with herbs that encourage labor, such as blue and black cohosh. Not many midwives, however, know that essential oils are estimated to be up to 70 times more powerful than herbs. According to Dr. David Hill, a world-renowned essential oil expert, "Essential oils are powerful medicinal agents. Their chemical profile is diverse and concentrated, making them many times more potent, more biologically active, than other forms of plant medicine" (Hill, personal communication). Some essential oils enhance uterine action and can be used to encourage labor contractions. These same oils can be used to accelerate labor once it is established. Surprisingly, some of these oils also induce a sedative effect, producing stronger contractions while decreasing the perception of pain. (Care should be taken not to use these oils near pregnant women who are not yet full term, as they could theoretically initiate preterm labor. They should not be opened or diffused in your office if you will also be seeing other pregnant clients the same day.)
Lavender is popular amongst many midwives and doulas because of its varied uses in labor. It calms the entire birth team, lowers tensions and blood pressure and facilitates labor's energy flow. Lavender oil contains a small amount of the ketone camphor, which can be emmenagogic, so some authorities recommend it be used with caution in early pregnancy. However, because it is a weak emmenagogue, it is unlikely to initiate uterine contractions in a healthy pregnancy. Many authorities see no reason to place restrictions on its use in pregnancy (Tiran 2000). When attempting to encourage contractions, consider the following essential oils that encourage uterine contractions: clary sage, jasmine, Solace™ and Whisper™ (doTERRA® blends).
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Q: For moms, was aromatherapy helpful to you in labor? For doulas and midwives, what are your thoughts on aromatherapy for pregnancy and labor?
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A: I used lavender, frankincense and clary sage for my own birth last December. The relief the frankincense brought was amazing. I remember my boyfriend dropping some in the pool. I inhaled deeply and felt truly like I was in a den. I need a small, dark space when I'm in labor. It was mid-morning and the sun was streaming in the window of our small spare bedroom. After the frankincense, I went within myself and the room felt much darker. I focused all my energy on my son instead of my pain. He was born within minutes. I use it with my clients at every birth and I've gotten a lot of positive feedback.
I used lavender even in early labor with my third birth (I had a lot of tension and anxiety over previous births) and it helped me relax and let go. Clary sage…ah…it smells like birth. It brings clarity of mind in addition to helping increase/regulate contractions.
My doula bag is minimal. I don't bring a lot of bells and whistles. What I do bring is my essential oils and some sunflower oil to use as a carrier oil (locally sourced and organic).
— Chelsie Towns
A: I was very sensitive to smells during my labor (as most women are) and I really enjoyed having lavender and eucalyptus oil. During labor I also feel comforted by familiar things; I wanted only music that I had heard many times (in my case it was a "Dead Can Dance" album) and as lavender and eucalyptus are oils that I regularly use, some part of my brain associates them with safety and comfort.
— Jenna Simons
A: I think aromatherapy has many benefits! I carry a few common oils for labor as a doula and when I'm apprenticing as a midwife; they come in extremely handy for organizing a labor pattern, relieving back labor, relaxing a mama, livening up a sleepy room, etc. Of course it's always wise to check for sensitivities in the mom and care providers before labor or at least prior to using anything. The oils smell so much better than a lot of birth smells and hospital smells! Does anyone enjoy the hospital soap smell? I know I don't!
— Angela Lowell
A: For a slowing labour, burning clary sage oil is fantastic for improving the effectiveness of the contractions.
— Melissa Jacobs
A: I find using clary sage on clients' ankles, as they approach active labor really helps kick things in motion. Additionally I use myrrh as a mom approaches second stage, and things seem to go quite smoothly. Of course this isn't with every client, just those who are open to using the oils and also when it just feels right. Frankincense also works well during the end of labor.
— Yvonne Alexander Novak
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Greetings, everyone! I hope this fall is going splendidly for all of you so far. This week I thought I would open up the floor, so to speak, and ask for your feedback on our conferences. At the end of every conference we pass out paper forms in which you all so graciously write down your feelings and experiences—we read them all and take every comment to heart. If you have any other feedback that never made it onto our paper forms, I encourage you to send them to me now at email@example.com. We try our best to take your feedback and use it to improve our conferences. One such improvement we've added to our Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, conference in April 2014 is to have more after-hours networking events. We've added on a Friday night dinner to the program, in addition to our Saturday cabaret show. We hope you enjoy this latest addition, and thank you for suggesting it!
Both our October conference in Blankenberge, Belgium, and our conference next April in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will include an amazing class called "Comfort Techniques for Midwives and Doulas" taught by Debra Pascali-Bonaro. In it you can learn a variety of techniques for soothing women in labor, including aromatherapy techniques. Other topics, such as positions for facilitating rotation and second stage positions, will be taught in this class as well. We hope you can join us at either or both conferences for this very special class.
To learn more about this class and the other classes that will be at our upcoming conferences, please visit our website.
— Andrea Goldman, conference coordinator
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SAINT LEO, Fla. - The No. 18-ranked Saint Leo men's tennis team (0-1) fell in its season opener to the No. 3-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State University Pirates (1-0), 9-0, Thursday afternoon from the Saint Leo Tennis Center.
Despite falling 3-0 in a trio contested doubles contests, the Lions tested the Pirates singles skills before dropping their match with the perennial national contender in straight sets.
In a hotly contested doubles showdown, each of the three matches featured at least four points. Unfortunately for the Lions, the Pirates pulled out narrow victories in each, including an 8-6 win by Mikk Irdoja and Daniel Regan over Jake Fleischer and Aloua Adjenak.
On the singles side, the Lions tested the national contenders as three opponents tallied at least three points in the second set. Highlighting the singles portion was the No.6 slot of Jose Morales as he battled back from a 6-1 first set defeat only to be nipped by the No.23 ranked Jean-Michel Blouin, 6-5.
On the match, Head Coach James Bryce stated, "We fought hard throughout the entire match and I am proud of their effort. I feel this kind of competition will only help us as we continue our season."
The Lions will return to action on Saturday, February 4, when they host regional foe Palm Beach Atlantic University. First serve is set for 1 p.m. from the Saint Leo Tennis Center.
For more information on the men's tennis program, please visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Week Two
Week two of a COP conference is when the advance teams and assistants give way to world leaders, who lock the doors behind them and work out the deals that become a protocol. So far the prospects look dim for COP15: African and island state delegations boycotted the talks yesterday, arguing that developed nations needed to commit to deeper emissions cuts than had been offered. The U.S. and China have been trading accusations since the U.S. demanded that China submit to independent verification of its emissions.
So there may be a feeling of pessimism that this conference will produce anything solid, anything that will effect positive change. I see it a different way. I see progress coming from the periphery of this conference. My hunch is that countries will come to embrace emissions reductions and alternatives to oil as a matter of domestic policy rather than as a means of compliance with international treaties. A China, for instance, might choose to stop investing its plentiful cash in U.S. bonds but instead put it into its own infrastructure. The global downturn could provide the breather the country needs to stop building coal-fired power plants at a weekly rate and raise the profile of wind and solar in its energy portfolio.
I see hope in the kinds of things that people ask questions about here at Bella Center. I'm thinking of the Kenyan researcher interested in the links between ocean acidification as a threat to tourism as coral reefs dissolve and die, becoming uninteresting to sport divers. No need to convince him that it pays to go green.
The issues that our scientists brought to COP15 — from the need to verify emissions to make carbon markets work to the rising threat of ocean acidification— gained traction among the media and high-ranking delegates. During COP15, NOAA Adminstrator Jane Lubchenco and London's Sunday Times used the same term — "climate change's evil twin" — to describe ocean acidification. Fresh from his time at COP15, our Veerabhadran Ramanathan attended the annual American Geophyscial Union meeting in San Francisco. His description of his Project Surya drew a packed audience.
Today, Tuesday, most of the Scripps delegation left town. The departed were fortunate to avoid a confusing United Nations scheme to address overcrowding that will progressively scale back the numbers of NGO members allowed at Bella Center. They are doing this to deal with an apparently unforeseen onslaught of press and delegates Even holders of the prized "secondary passes" issued this past weekend had to spend hours in bitter cold in queues outside the building before being separated from those awaiting basic credentialing. That was really the only downside of the event. Terrible planning.
But as the science is winding down, the conference and Copenhagen itself are gearing up for a final act that will involve most of the world's heads of state. Climate change events and demonstrations continue and the city is draped in advocacy-group slogans. One gets the impression, though, that only a portion of this activism is for the conference. Copenhagen seems like a city that lives green all the time, not just when the world is watching. The public transportation is advanced, everyone rides a bicycle (naturally the people are all the fitter for it), the country gets 21 percent of its power from wind. Somehow these people are happy even without using foreign oil. Mystifying.
The beautiful city's remarkable commitment has made it a model during the conference. Can other cities be like this?
Of course — though I think Mexico City has its work cut out for it before it hosts the next Conference of the Parties.
Signing off from Copenhagen.
–Robert Monroe, Scripps public information officer and editor of explorations


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MSNBC and Alec Baldwin have decided to part ways, ending the short run of Mr. Baldwin's show "Up Late," which was suspended earlier this month after a video clip surfaced showing Mr. Baldwin threatening a photographer.
"We are jointly confirming that 'Up Late' will not continue on MSNBC,' said a joint statement from MSNBC and Matthew Hiltzik, a representative for Mr. Baldwin. MSNBC added: "This is a mutual parting and we wish Alec all the best."
MSNBC suspended Mr. Baldwin for two weeks beginning on Nov. 15th, after the website TMZ posted a video of Mr. Baldwin threatening a photographer and, it claimed, calling the photographer anti-gay slurs. In a blog post on the Huffington Post the next day, Mr. Baldwin denies using some of the language allegedly used in the video, adding "I can assure you, with complete confidence, that a direct homophobic slur (or indirect one for that matter) is not spoken."
In the same post, Mr. Baldwin signaled that his show's long-term future was in doubt. "The show is no doubt a work in progress," he wrote. The show, which aired on Fridays at 10 p.m., had dropped considerably in the ratings since its mid-October debut, but had managed to keep MSNBC ahead of CNN in its slot.


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This article was published 6/5/2013 (1570 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Let's be honest. When it comes to reaping rewards from first-year head coaches, the local football team has been about as successful as their attempts at grooming their own rookie pivots.
Not very.
Yet, if there was ever a year when both of these things might change, 2013 could be the season when the improbable becomes probable.
We have already heard rave reviews on how quarterbacks Max Hall and Chase Clement performed in rookie camp, and some people saw enough in a glimpse of Goltz last season to anoint him the second coming of Colin Kaepernick.
Of course, nobody ever got two points in the regular season for looking good in mini-camp, but so far so good. Which brings us to the other part of the equation -- the head coach.
In the last 17 years, the Bombers have had exactly one head coach with previous, professional, head coaching experience -- Dave Ritchie.
Well that's not entirely true. Jim Daley was a head coach in Saskatchewan for a couple of years, but his appointments were six years apart, and he didn't exactly fare any better than the other first-year charges that have since come and gone.
Since Jeff Reinebold took over from Cal Murphy in 1997, Tim Burke is now the fifth head coach to take control of this roster and cut his baby teeth on it.
Call it a coincidence, or call it causation, but the Bombers also haven't won a Grey Cup for any of those 17 years, plus the five before that, and the closest they came was under the guidance of Ritchie.
I've never experienced the jump from being a co-ordinator or assistant head coach to the leader of a team, but I imagine it isn't much easier than the transition from college to the professional ranks -- which is undisputedly the hardest thing you experience in pro ball.
The average tenure of these rookie head coaches in Winnipeg the last 17 seasons has been just more than two years, which is far shorter than even the average career of a player.
I'm not saying the dismissals of any of those coaches that have come and gone were necessarily premature, or that any of them were on the brink of leading us to the promised land, but two years isn't exactly tapping out anyone's full potential.
So why might Tim Burke be the exception to the rule, and escape the same fate as his freshman brethren? For no other reason than the fact he is a lot like Ritchie and fits the identity and culture of this football team.
Out of all the new head coaches in the last 17 years, save for Reinebold whom I never worked under, they were all offensive-minded guys.
If we examine Winnipeg's successes as a football club, historically, it's been as a tough, physical, defensive-minded club -- just like the people that support it.
I still remember when Doug Berry took over this team and kicked the defence out of all the premier meeting rooms and stuffed us in the leaking dungeon in the bowel of the stadium. It just didn't feel right.
The personality of this team has been offensive -- both literally and figuratively -- since 2006, and this will be the first full season of the return to a snot bubbling attitude for close to a decade.
It has been written in these inches that Ritchie was the author of the three most successful seasons this club had in the last 17 years because of his ability to be a tyrant, a tough guy and tender all at once. He spoke in riddles and foreign tongues, which only endeared people to him more. He was one of those coaches that you wanted to make proud of on the football field, because he appreciated it like no other.
Burke is a lot like Ritchie in the sense his players have immense respect for him, and he suffers no fools.
He is a blue-collar guy that brings his lunch box to work everyday, and is twice as physical as he is finesse. He doesn't make excuses, and he holds himself accountable for his mistakes.
Ritchie and Burke are both genuine people whose personalities don't clash with the culture of the organization, the media, or the community, and people want to see them succeed.
The 2013 season just might be the year where for the first time in a long time, one of them actually does.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and game days in the Free Press.
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2 arrests for drugs, drunkenness, weapon
October 12, 2012
What started as a routine hit-and-run investigation in downtown Nevada City ended with the discovery of several bags of methamphetamine and ecstasy and a felony-level pair of weaponized gloves.
In the course of investigating a late-Friday night vehicular hit-and-run incident, officers with the Nevada City Police Department were questioning Patrick Davis, 26, early Saturday morning just before the bars closed, said Officer Tucker Huey.
During their interrogation, Davis, a Nevada City resident, allegedly attempted to discard some bags from his pockets — an action noticed by the questioning officers, Huey said.
Concurrently, an allegedly highly intoxicated Camptonville man interjected into the proceedings, Huey said.
When Michael Williams, 27, reportedly would not cease his involvement in Davis' questioning, officers arrested Williams for public intoxication, Huey said.
Meanwhile, officers discovered that the bags that were reportedly ditched from Davis' pockets contained various kinds and amounts of controlled substances, Huey said.
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In all, Davis is charged with possession of six bags containing controlled substances — four holding methamphetamines and two containing ecstasy, the largest of which contained 30 pills of the phenethylamine and amphetamine drug, Huey said.
Davis was charged with three felonies — possession of a controlled substance, possession with the intent to sell and bringing alcohol or drugs into jail. He was booked in to the Nevada County Jail Saturday morning and posted $35,000 bail and was released over the weekend.
In addition to his misdemeanor charge of public intoxication, Williams was charged with two felonies. One was for allegedly bringing alcohol or drugs to jail, as well as possession of a felonious weapon.
When officers searched him, Huey said Williams was allegedly found to be in the possession of sap gloves, which are leather gloves with pouches in the knuckles for powdered lead or steel. Possession of the gloves is a felony. Williams was booked into the county jail Saturday and posted $10,750 bail and was released over the weekend.
The investigation into the hit and run is ongoing, Huey said.
To contact Staff Writer Christopher Rosacker, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (530) 477-4236.
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Killin' It 015: XEX Magazine Issue 2 Release Party
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 10:56PM
Sunday I attended the fabulous XEX Magazine issue 2 release party with Mike Ruiz and Blue Michael cosmetics. I adored every minute of it and love XEX to the fullest. I will post more pics as they come my way.
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