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Get an overview of this hotelStately Edinburgh Georgian hotel on George Street
Popular property highlights
Near art gallery
Located amid the shops and restaurants of Edinburgh's fashionable George Street, this hotel is a block from Princes Street and a quarter-mile from the National Gallery.
Hotel bar
At The Principal Edinburgh George Street, interior architects have created a sense of restored grandeur by means of simple detailing and the use of rich materials. Printing Press has quickly become a destination restaurant in Edinburgh.
Satellite television
The 240 guestrooms of The Principal Edinburgh George Street offer digital television with premium channels, free WiFi, direct-dial phones with voice mail, hair dryers, and writing desks.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Onsite restaurant
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
The Principal Edinburgh George Street
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
This centrally located Edinburgh hotel is near the shops and restaurants of Edinburgh's fashionable George Street. A block from Princes Street and a quarter-mile from the National Gallery, The Principal Edinburgh George Street is within easy access to the train station, airport, and a convention center. Guests will enjoy the close proximity to museums, art galleries, and Scottish monuments.
The Principal Edinburgh George Street offers guests with many services and amenities, ensuring a comfortable stay. Amenities include banquet and exhibit facilities, wedding services, currency exchange, free WiFi, laundry facilities, and multilingual staff who can provide tour information and ticket assistance.
Business facilities include 9 meeting rooms with audiovisual equipment available, catering, and a business center. Parking is available nearby, at a discounted rate.
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 240
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 7
- Laundry facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Express check-in
- Luggage storage
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built 1775
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (24 hours)
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Where to Eat
Printing Press Bar & Kitchen - serves seasonal, Scottish produce throughout the day and night..
Burr & Co - offers coffees, cakes, pastries and sandwiches 7 days a week.
Room service is available 24 hours a day.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for GBP 30.00 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of GBP 30 per pet, per night
- 2 per room
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- No onsite parking is available.
- Deposit: GBP 50 per night
Optional extras
- Fee for full breakfast: GBP 15.95 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: GBP 30 per pet, per night
- Early check-in fee: GBP 10
- Late check-out fee: GBP 10
- Rollaway bed fee: GBP 30.00 per night
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
Hotel Name
- George Edinburgh
- Principal Edinburgh George Street Hotel
- George Hotel Edinburgh
- Principal George Street Hotel
- Principal Edinburgh George Street
- Principal George Street
- The George Hotel
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
National Rating
This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitScotland, the National Tourist Board for Scotland.


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In Tandem Theatre presents: 1959 Pink Thunderbird
In Tandem Theatre is thrilled to present James McLure's comic 1959
Pink Thunderbird at the Tenth
Street Theatre, 628 N. 10th Street, Milwaukee from April 25, 2014 – May 18, 2014.
Companion pieces Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star, collectively became the two acts of 1959 Pink Thunderbird. Laughter, tears and friendship abound in this pair of funny and insightful off-Broadway hits. McLure zeros in on the human comedy to provide a real slice of rural west Texas life just after the Vietnam War. In Laundry and Bourbon, we witness the hilarious town gossip and poignant life musings of three young women on the front porch one hot summer afternoon as liquor flows and tongues loosen. In Lone Star, two brothers are out back of a local bar the same hot summer evening. Ray, married to one of the women in Laundry and Bourbon and two years back from the war, vainly tries to recapture the glory days of his past with talk of girls, cars and candy bars alongside his younger brother, Roy.

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Ok. So this summer I'm going to Nepal, to India then over to Thailand. I have the intention of ordaining and I figure this trip of traveling alone and visiting different monasteries will give me a taste of what monastic life would be like. So the plan is to first go to California and go to Abhayagiri but now I'm thinking Wat Metta. What is the opinions surrounding these monasteries? I know Abhayagiri seems very strict concerning ordination and I don't know if they would accept another person. But even if I was accepted to either monastery I will still go to Asia first. Now I was thinking of spending alot of time in Thailand to find a Wat to go forth at.....but after browsing through this forum it seems like Sri Lanka could be a better choice?
1. What are the opinions about Abhayagiri and Wat Metta?
2. What are the thoughts concerning Thailand Vs. Sri Lanka in regards to ordaining?
Thank you all very very much!


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Kapugedara takes a super catch to dismiss Raina
Submitted by ROAR OF LANKA on June 29, 2012 - 15:49
Submitted by Pasanga Alwis (not verified) on June 30, 2012 - 01:43.
Now what Sujan? Mr ROL repost again??
Submitted by Yasantha Chamara on June 30, 2012 - 09:05.
Well done Kapu...Best fielder and a great batting talent for Sri Lanka..Eagerly waiting to see you playing again....


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Scheppers, Tateyama get back on mound in 'B' game
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Right-handed relief candidates Tanner Scheppers and Yoshinori Tateyama were back on the mound Wednesday after a lengthy layoff and both pitched a scoreless inning during the Rangers' 6-1 victory over the Cubs in a morning "B" game.
Scheppers has been dealing with a strained left hamstring and had not pitched in a game since Feb. 22. But he retired the side in order in the second inning on just 10 pitches and struck out one.
Tateyama was pitching in a game for the first time since Feb. 24. He has been sidelined with back stiffness, but he struck out two while walking one in the third inning.
Both Scheppers and Tateyama pitched for the Rangers in 2012. So did Wilmer Font, but his chances of winning a spot in the bullpen continue to wane because he has been dealing with biceps tendinitis. He threw in the bullpen on Wednesday but time is running short on him.
"I don't think we view on March 6 that anybody is out of time," assistant general manager Thad Levine said. "But there is a sense of urgency that he needs to continue to progress and not have any setbacks."
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Photos of some the goodies I brought back from Prague. I was lucky to hit an antique fair in Prague that happens twice a year - good timing! In the background of the photo above is the booklet from the Mucha museum I checked out in Prague.
The other photo has some amazing old chain links I found in a random box in an antique store. I turned them into some lovely necklaces!
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'SNL' a total rush for directorFebruary 1, 2014 9:50 PM
"Saturday Night Live" director Don Roy King's weekly live wild ride begins at 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
By midnight, he is running on pure adrenaline. But by 1:01 a.m., he kind of crashes.
The Pitcairn native orchestrating the 90-minute high-wire act embraces the challenge.
Don Roy King's 2013 Emmy Awards speech
Pittsburgh-area native Don Roy King delivers an acceptance speech at the 2013 Emmy Awards. This was his fourth consecutive Emmy for his work on "Saturday Night Live." (2/2/2014)
Justin Timberlake as Jimmy Fallon in 'SNL' skit
This "Saturday Night Live" skit, featuring Justim Timberlake as Jimmy Fallon, helped Pittsburgh native Don Roy King win another Emmy. (2/2/2014)
"The 'SNL' process is the most intense mountain climbing I've ever done, and it happens so quickly," said Mr. King, 66, who has won four consecutive Emmys in eight seasons with the venerable late-night sketch comedy show.
He'll discuss his frantic vocation at Wednesday's Steeltown Spotlight Series talk at the University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Building in Oakland. Tickets can be reserved at www.steeltown.org and are $15 general admission, $5 students. The program begins at 7 p.m.
His resume is dotted with live TV director/producer gigs, from ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS's "The Early Show" and "CBS This Morning" to daytime Winter Olympics coverage in France, Norway and Japan. On Jan. 25, he won his first Directors Guild of America award for "SNL's" Justin Timberlake episode.
But "Saturday Night Live" has made him, as he said during his Emmy acceptance speech in September, "kind of cool" in the eyes of his teenage daughter and her friends.
"I could be wrong about that," he joked.
The show's executive producer, Lorne Michaels, surprised him with the job offer after a brief interview eight years ago.
"It's the ideal show for me at this particular time in my life, and I couldn't be happier," Mr. King said. "Growing up, my real love and interest was theater. So it kind of circled back around and came into play. Certainly, working with the performers on 'SNL' is all part of that nicely tied-together circle."
When he was an eighth-grader, he joined the Curtain Call Club at Monroeville Junior High. He tried out for a play and was hooked.
Later, he went on a school trip to New York City, where he, three Gateway High freshman girls and the club sponsor, Anne Boden, saw "The Sound of Music" and met star Mary Martin backstage.
"We saw 'The Miracle Worker' the next night and I just fell in love with theater and New York and had kind of a teenage crush on that world for the next few years."
But he was also obsessed with sports, which took up much of his free time in high school. At Penn State University in the late 1960s, he realized he was too small to play football and instead rekindled his passion for theater.
"I fell in love again with that whole process of putting on plays," he said. "But I didn't have the guts to tell my dad I wanted to be a theater major. So I got as close as I could by becoming a broadcasting major."
Taking a directing course as a senior at Penn State, he found himself for the first time in a television studio with multiple cameras.
"I said, 'Wow, this is just like being the quarterback of a football team.' I loved that adrenaline rush, that need to communicate quickly, to have one eye on the clock and one eye on the script, calling the shots as they happen."
His first job out of school was directing at Penn State's PBS affiliate station. This was followed by gigs that included 14 years at CBS News as director/senior producer for "The Early Show" and "CBS This Morning," Connie Chung and Bob Simon news specials, four live "Survivor" finales, concerts for A&E's "Private Sessions," "Day to Day With Rachael Ray," some "Barbara Walters Specials" and ABC's "The View," plus the network pool coverage of the first Sept. 11 memorial service at Ground Zero.
Mr. King also is the creative director for Broadway Worldwide, which films theatrical events for broadcast in theaters and through pay-per-view. He has directed Broadway Worldwide's first four ventures: "Memphis," "Putting It Together," "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and "Jekyll & Hyde."
A version of "Romeo and Juliet" with Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad will stream in theaters -- including Cinemark at Pittsburgh Mills in Frazer, Phoenix Chartiers Valley in Bridgeville and Wynnsong in Delmont -- during Valentine's Day weekend (details at www.fathomevents.com). Mr. King directed the process of filming the show during two Nov. 27 performances.
Putting together an episode of "SNL" is like the cartoon version of a snowball rolling down the hill, getting bigger and bigger and collecting people and things along the way. Writers do their thing early each week so that by 3 p.m. Wednesday, there are perhaps 40 sketches on hand for a table read.
Writers and staff act as the test audience, and Mr. Michaels chooses about a dozen sketches to mount. In the days and hours leading to air time, myriad changes and challenges will be met by the set design, hair, makeup, wardrobe, prop and special effects people.
Camera choreography will be worked out. Actors will, with luck, learn their lines. There is a dress rehearsal. And then, it's live, from New York.
"Even though it's only put together in two days and there are so many changes made along the way, including the gigantic changes between the dress rehearsal, which ends at 10:15, and the actual show, at 11:30. But the team is so smooth and well-oiled that we manage to pull it off almost every week," Mr. King said.
"Almost" sometimes depends on who's on stage.
Mr. King deals with actors who have improv skills -- but woe to anyone who breaks from the script.
"The overriding [rule] is that Lorne, as a writer himself, believes this is a writers' show, and what's written comes first. ...
"When an actor breaks character, it might be funny. It might even be funnier. But it undermines the purpose and the thread, the flow line of the sketch.
"Lorne is very strongly opposed to those moments and discourages anyone from breaking."
Still, there are exceptions.
"My favorite weeks are when an old cast member comes back to host because they know how it's done," he said. "They also bring back with them characters that we know and sketch premises and camera choreography that I've already worked out."
Jimmy Fallon, notorious for cracking up on camera when he was a cast member, hosted the Dec. 21 Christmas show. In a spoof of "Family Feud," he appeared as "The Big Bang Theory's" Sheldon, with musical guest Justin Timberlake doing the "Late Night" version of Jimmy Fallon.
Watching Timberlake-as-Fallon, the future "Tonight Show" host began to laugh as he ducked behind a prop.
Despite "SNL" policy not to point a camera at such an offense, the host's good-natured reputation for giggling allowed him to get away with it. Mr. King ordered a quick shot of the real Mr. Fallon, bent over with laughter.
There was also a practical aspect to his decision.
"If you're sitting at home and hear the audience laughing ... clearly laughing at Jimmy Fallon breaking up and sliding behind a lectern, then that's the time you've got to break away from the sketch and let the people at home in on what's happening in the room," he said. "It's based on my vision to put the home audience in the studio."
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Detailed accusations about Jimmy Savile's sex crimes were censored after viewers tried to post them on a BBC tribute web page.
The comments, which included one person who wrote: "One of my best friends in 1972 was molested by this creep Savile. He was never the same again. Killed himself in 1985. How's About That Then?", were stopped from being published by a team of moderators employed by the corporation.
The details were included in thousands of pages of evidence gathered during an inquiry by former journalist Nick Pollard into Newsnight's decision to drop its Savile investigation which have been published by the BBC.
A transcript of an interview between Mr Pollard and former director-general George Entwistle refers to examples of the comments, including one person who wrote: "He was a paedophile. You may not like the truth but he was. It will all tumble out now." Another wrote: "Sorry to rain on the parade of all the well-wishers, but he was infamous in Scarborough. I would not have been letting my son sit on his knee."
During his interview, Mr Entwistle said he thought moderators may have been affected by "anxiety" after details of a hoax, which claimed Savile had been challenged about his crimes on an episode of Have I Got News For You, were published online. He told Mr Pollard: "I have seen an email where moderators are put on alert about not publishing stuff that is to do with this hoax, I think that might be part of the story about the pre-conditioning of their minds about how to treat critical material."
Some 3,000 pages of emails, interviews and submissions from BBC executives and journalists, including Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman, were made available online in what the BBC said was a bid to be "open and transparent". The amount of traffic to the website crashed it shortly after publication. Acting director-general Tim Davie said : "The BBC has been open and transparent in its handling of this unhappy chapter in our history. It has not been an entirely comfortable process for us to go through but it is right that we did it this way. It is important that the BBC now moves forward with the lessons learned and continues to regain the public's trust."
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten pledged at the time of the report's publication that all the evidence would be released, apart from some redactions for "legal reasons". Legal teams are said to have been sorting through the evidence for several weeks, deciding what should be made public. The BBC said that roughly 3% had been redacted. Lord Patten said: "These documents paint a very unhappy picture, but the BBC needs to be open - more open than others would be - in confronting the facts that lie behind Nick Pollard's report. A limited amount of text has been blacked out for legal reasons, but no one could say that the effect has been to sanitise this material, which again puts a spotlight on some of our failings. We need to acknowledge these shortcomings and learn from them."
Mr Pollard - a former Sky News executive - was appointed to head the review late last year to look into whether management failings were behind the decision to cancel a six-week investigation into abuse claims against Savile in December 2011, weeks before a Christmas tribute was broadcast. The scandal last year claimed the scalp of Mr Entwistle little over 50 days into the job. A separate Newsnight investigation last summer led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly accused of child abuse.
In one email headed "Jimmy Savile - paedophile", producer Meirion Jones, who was involved in establishing the axed Newsnight report, flagged up the idea of an investigation just hours after the presenter's death was announced. He proposed the suggestion, possibly for Panorama, because he said some of the girls who had been molested by Savile were ready to talk about their experiences. He wrote: "Some of the girls are now prepared to talk about this which might make a core to a film about what Jimmy Savile really got up to - and of course he's dead so he can't sue." His emails also contain vivid transcripts of the sexual activities in which girls at Duncroft approved school - where Savile was a regular visitor - were encouraged to take part. In another email, which had already been made public, BBC executive Nick Vaughan-Barratt said he felt uncomfortable about preparing a BBC obituary for Savile. He wrote: "I'd feel v queasy about obit. I saw the real truth."
Paxman told the inquiry "the important question" was how Savile had been allowed to rise to prominence within the BBC. He said: "What was the BBC doing promoting this absurd figure, this absurd and malign figure? And I think that has to do with the fact of the BBC having been aloof from popular culture for so long. Suddenly pirate radio comes along and all these people in metaphorical cardigans suddenly have to deal with an influx - once pirate radio, once pop radio is legalised, they suddenly have to deal with an influx of people from a very, very different culture and they never got control of them and I'm not sure even now they have."


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6300 RPH — By George L. Petrie — July 2001
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Rather than weigh down the 6300 with heavy insulation, Hatteras engineers eliminated noise and vibration at the source. For example, a major source of noise is vibration caused by the pressure pulses associated with propeller blade rotation. The way to fight this is to have the propeller rotate more slowly and to split the pressure over the greatest number of blades. The Hatteras 6300 turns a pair of big seven-blade Michigan wheels through ZF reduction gears with a whopping 3.56:1 ratio. What's more, deep tunnels at the stern are carefully tuned to further mitigate vibration, with the added benefit of reducing draft to just 5'6" fully loaded. Those are bonus points the Bostics are sure to appreciate as they pursue their ambitious cruising agenda.
Sea conditions on test day (one- to two-foot swells) precluded any meaningful assessment of seakeeping, but the 6300's smooth-water handling was responsive and predictable, well behaved through a series of zig-zag turns at WOT and tracking easily on a straight course. Nearly flat hull sections aft provide excellent dynamic stability underway, efficiently producing maximum lift with minimum drag. Deadrise increases to 18 degrees amidships to deliver a smooth ride, and convex hull sections in the bow reduce impact in a seaway, in keeping with Hatteras' belief that concave bow sections tend to trap water, producing higher impact loads.
Smooth Sturdy electronic single-lever engine controls and a 25-hp American bow thruster took the anxiety out of maneuvering in close quarters as we made our way back to the dock. The helm station layout worked well, with analog gauges arrayed symmetrically on the forward dash panel and an owner-specified Furuno eight-tone daylight display flush-mounted on the port side. To starboard, a semiwraparound panel puts switches, the Caterpillar digital engine readouts, and an owner-specified Nautical View data display close at hand.
Sight lines from the lower helm station were generally good, but I found the bulky windshield pillars and wiper arms distracting. Thanks to the open floor plan, large frameless side windows and a glass double door to the aft deck, visibility aft is more than adequate for docking and keeping tabs on traffic.
Recalling the Bostics' cruising ambitions, I could appreciate how they were attracted to the roomy country kitchen and open saloon made possible by the yacht's generous 18'3" beam. And ditto for the accommodations on the lower deck, especially the master suite, which not only runs full beam, but also offers close to seven feet of headroom beneath the raised pilothouse. Along the starboard side, the head is more spacious than many home bathrooms, offering about a 5' x 5' area for the VacuFlush MSD, sink, cabinets, and countertop, plus a nearly 4' x 5' shower and tub enclosure. And to store the requisite wardrobe for extensive cruising, there are two dressers, each with eight drawers, plus a five-foot-wide cedar-lined hanging locker along the aft bulkhead. But even with all that stowage, there'll still be laundry to do, so Hatteras has tucked a combination washer/dryer behind a panel in the stairwell up to the pilothouse.
Although stowage in the accommodation area was impressive, the real eye-popper was the cavernous volume under the aft deck. Descending through a large hatch, I found myself in a room that measured a generous 8' x 10' with nearly five-foot headroom. The owners had fitted shelves on the starboard side here, stashed full with filters and spare parts that might be needed during their lengthy trips, with space for dive bottles and related gear on the port side. As I was struck with the impression that the space was roomy enough to live in, it came as no surprise to learn that Hatteras will optionally outfit it as a crew stateroom.
The yacht's spaciousness even comes into play in the engine room, which offers close to six-foot headroom and a clear space more than two feet wide along the centerline for easy access to Racor separators, fuel filters, oil filters, dipsticks, and the like. And I was pleased to see equally generous clearances around all sides of the main engines, allowing even noncontortionists access to all auxiliary systems and equipment.
The main engines are founded on Ace isolation mounts that are drilled and tapped into hefty steel caps embedded in each of the longitudinal stringers, which are bonded to solid hand-laid fiberglass laminates up to 3/4 inch thick in the hull bottom. Above the lower chine, the hull sides are cored with closed-cell foam to reduce weight. The structural bulkheads and decks are also foam-cored and vacuum-bagged to achieve a better glass-to-resin ratio.
One of the few nit-picks I had was related to the rails along the side deck. While the deck itself was certainly wide enough for safe passage forward, the rail was a little low, just above knee-height on my 6'2" frame. With no handrail above, passage forward might be tenuous in a seaway.
Evening up the score, I found construction, fit, and finish to be first-rate throughout the yacht. Hatteras really does the trick, with impressive styling, space, and speed. There's nothing old hat about this new Hatteras.
Hatteras Yachts Phone: (252) 633-3101. Fax: (252) 634-4813. www.hatterasyachts.com.
George L. Petrie is a professor of naval architecture at Webb Institute and provides maritime consulting services. His Web site is www.maritimeanalysis.com.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Technology failed us in many ways during Superstorm Sandy: transport systems floundered, data centers flooded, cellphone reception disappeared, batteries died, and the electricity (even the backup generators) went out. The storm slammed those of us living on the East Coast with a simple truth: Nature is more powerful than people, and technology is no match. As many commentators have pointed out, this is the "new normal," and it's not always going to be pretty.
So yes, it's been mighty difficult to take anything positive from Sandy…. Yet as Thanksgiving rolls around, there are many moments for which we can be thankful. There have been numerous moving stories of heroic individuals behaving honorably and nobly to help their friends and neighbors in a time of desperation and danger. And one afternoon last week a hands-on dose of technology provided a moment of solace – and a look at a promising education model – for kids set to reap the natural effects of what previous generations have sown.
Manhattan-based littleBits, which makes an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets, hosted a workshop asking "Why Did The Lights Go Out?" The goal was simple: Engage kids in play-and-prototyping to help them answer the question.
The idea was to help the kids – who had all experienced to various degrees the what of Sandy – to understand the why and the how of the events. Oh, and to get them familiar with littleBits' product while they were at it. An opportunistic move, certainly, but a pretty ingenious one: get kids to use kits to learn through play. As MIT's Michael Schrage noted in an essay on kit culture in Make magazine, "talented amateurs don't just build kits; kits help build talented amateurs."
In this case, the talented amateurs ranged between five and ten years old. After all, it's never too early to start.
Sandy turned New York into a tale of many cities: some neighborhoods were decimated, while others got by entirely unscathed. littleBits founder Ayah Bdier described having to leave her home for a week and closing the company's 11th street office because of the power outage, and the children shared their stories too. Not all of them lived in Manhattan, and only half of them had lost electricity during the storm … but they all knew that Sandy had been BIG.
The kids proved more than adept at cutting, pasting, and coloring to construct a paper model of Manhattan. High-rise buildings gradually arose from the crafty tabletop. Each was "powered" in a host of inventive (and not entirely accurate) ways.
"How do you stick a feather to a motor shaft?" asked six-year-old Dexter. "Use lots of tape," came the helpful reply. And lo, a Con Edison substation emerged, topped by an orange, twirling feather. "Fire! Cannonball!" Dexter yelled excitedly. "Aim! Timber! Fire!"
Nearby, Marta, five, who had evacuated with her family from their home north of Manhattan for 10 days during the storm's aftermath, was carefully attaching a wire to her building.
"It's a string," she said. "Do you mean an electric wire?" we asked. "No. It's a string." Right then.
Then, it was time for Sandy to sweep on through. The facades of the paper buildings remained intact, but it was strangely affecting to see the glinting lights of the small-scale, fragile paper city power down.
Playing the role of a veteran television reporter, littleBits' industrial designer explained what was causing the outages. Two hard-hat-wearing colleagues posed as Con Ed workers. "There's an explosion at the 14th street substation!" they cried. "Greenwich Village is in the dark." And so they went, powering down the city, neighborhood by neighborhood.
When everything below 39th street lost its power, the kids – and the assembled adults – let out a collective "awww".
It was almost beautiful; Post-Traumatic Sandy Disorder be damned.
Of course, paper-Manhattan's power didn't stay off for weeks. It was back up almost as soon as it was down, and the kids helped turn the small littleBits switches to re-power the various neighborhoods, learning a little bit (sorry) about storm surges, substations, generators, and the dangerous combination of water and electricity along the way.
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Vogue China editor: China's young fashion designers need to take a larger step on the world stage
Published 20th March 2014
Vogue China editor: China's young fashion designers need to take a larger step on the world stage
Written by
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When I was launching
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nine years ago, one of the key elements I was determined to introduce was a regular column dedicated to promoting and supporting Chinese design talents. We were the first fashion magazine to do this on a regular basis, but it was not easy.
There really weren't many people whose designs could hold up alongside all the international brands we featured. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with design talent, both from emerging independent designers and from domestic Chinese fashion brands, and very often, we wish we had more space to feature more of them.
We started off lending a platform in the magazine for young local designers. But gradually, we started developing various initiatives beyond the magazine in order to promote their designs and widen their scope of influence.
For example, the Vogue Talents Corner in collaboration with
in December 2011 and the CFDA x Vogue Fashion Fund, launched in 2012, which allows Chinese designers to gain first-hand insight into the business and retail side of fashion in the New York offices of leading companies like Theory and Michael Kors.
Why Vogue China is more than fashion
Whilst we were mostly focusing on independent designers, gradually, I began noticing that many Chinese fashion brands were taking an increasingly international approach to the way they run their business.
They had long been power players in the retail market here, but perhaps lacked the industry know-how of how to operate like an international fashion house, without samples, appropriate PR and a streamlined brand image.
We started off by doing a feature on four major brands in our September 2011 issue and I was intrigued by the fascinating stories of their owners, who had all grown up in a society without fashion, but who were now relaying it to the masses with great commercial success. From then on, we have witnessed a growing maturity amongst these brands and their new season designs are often featured within the magazine.
See who else has been on Talk Asia
More recently, we are so proud to see those such as Uma Wang, Masha Ma and Huishan Zhang thriving on the international stage, as they show on schedule at Milan, Paris and London fashion week.
In terms of design style and business acumen, this new generation is possessed of incredible confidence and industry awareness, and are a lot less naïve than the earlier designers. Many of them were educated at design schools abroad, where they learnt to operate within the industry, both abroad and in China.
Their success is also an example of the seismic shift which is happening in the Chinese consumer market as people are moving beyond the logo-ed products, with a preference for more rarefied but discreet things. In this process, they are turning more and more towards Chinese designers, who they feel offer products more tailored to Chinese tastes and aesthetics than some of the international brands.
Compare the fashion choices of the first ladies of America and China
The growth of this market is witnessed by the rising number of buyer's boutiques who specialize in Chinese designers in Shanghai and Beijing, and increasingly spreading to other cities like Guangzhou, Chengdu and Changsha.
I don't think the 'made in China' label defines Chinese designers today. Many designers split their design and production between overseas and China. This is a natural process borne out of financial, quality and logistical considerations. Maybe a certain Italian fabric suits their design better, or maybe in some cases Chinese craftsmanship is better.
We live in a world which is getting smaller and smaller, and if for example, a German brand can produce in Italy without losing their identity, then I don't see how it is any different for Chinese designers. It is up to each designer to determine which production methods are best suited for them.
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Of course, these young designers, like young talents everywhere else in the world, are also facing many challenges. A major one is how to create a brand that is really unique and stands out among the countless other designers and brands that are crowding the markets around the world already.
They have to answer the question of "why does the world need another designer?" not just for one season but consistently throughout years. The internet, whilst making some things easier, is also posing other challenges. A new idea does not remain new for long in this digital age. Execution, delivery and efficiency are just as important as novel ideas.
Chinese designers need, like young designers all over the world, to learn to move beyond the derivative influence of previous designers and stand up for themselves. Despite these challenges, I have confidence that in this, as in everything else in China, change will come much faster than most people expect.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, Angelica Cheung.
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PROMOTER Eddie Hearn thinks Gavin Rees and Gary Buckland are 'crazy' to be competing in a rematch from their blistering fight in February, writes Michael Pearlman.
As revealed by Argus Sport, former world champion Rees against St Joseph's former British title holder Buckland will be a key feature of the May 17 bill at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena.
With no confirmation yet on opponents for headline acts Lee Selby and Nathan Cleverly, it is no surprise that Welsh fight fans are already abuzz with excitement for the rematch everyone wanted to see.
The pair competed in a fight of the year contender and if that wasn't enough, the contest finished controversially with Buckland winning by split decision despite many, or even most, ringside observers believing 'The Rock' to be victorious.
And Hearn believes the Welsh public will benefit from their machismo getting the better of them.
"As a friend of Gavin, I was thinking, 'oh man, do you really want to do this again? I have to admit that," he said.
"But Twitter was telling me, boxing fans were telling me, my broadcaster was telling me, we would love to see Rees versus Buckland II.
"You have to give people what they want and that is why I take my hat off to those two.
"They are giving the people what they want and that's great, but they are also giving you what they want.
"They are both mad enough to want to do it again, can you imagine wanting to do that again? All that punishment? What is the matter with these people!
"But that is why it is special, just the anticipation of how good it can be all over again. It will be great in the build-up."
Both fighters are thrilled to settle any debate about who is superior.
"I am happy to be on the show again, back in Cardiff amongst such incredible Welsh talent," Buckland explained.
"The fight with Gavin speaks for itself and hopefully I can put on a great show."
Rees admitted he'd wanted the rematch since about 36 hours after their initial clash.
"Gary Lockett my trainer rang me on the Monday and said 'what do you want to do?' and I said straight away I wanted the rematch," he said.
"I think I might have won the first fight by one or two rounds, but he won so credit to him but I want to give you lot a great display again and show we are both true warriors."


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We usually have at least one vegetarian sharing Thanksgiving with us, so I like to have a an interesting meatless main dish on the table along with some traditional side dishes – that way no one feels like they're missing anything.
And personally, while I like trying a new turkey preparation every year – whether it's brining, stuffing or not stuffing, oven-roasting or grilling, my enthusiasm for the bird wanes when it lands on the table. I'd much rather fill up on the colorful array of vegetables instead.
Plus, everyone knows that all Thanksgiving fixings taste better the next day, so having a pot of chili on hand is a good thing, vegetarian or not. There's nothing wrong with some tasty chili in bowl, with a gravy-drenched turkey leg on top.
Sweet Potato-Black Bean Chili with Goat Cheese
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium red onion, sliced
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon each ground cumin, coriander, smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon each ground black pepper and ground chipotle
- 4 cups peeled and diced sweet potato (about 2 large)
- Vegetable stock or water
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 (14-ounce) can black beans
- 1 (14-0unce) can pinto beans
- 1/4 cup crumbled goat cheese
- Warm tortillas
- Heat the oil in a large (6-quart) pan or stockpot. Add the onion and cook until softened and just beginning to brown; stir in the salt and garlic and cook about 1 minute or until the garlic smells good.
- Sprinkle in the spices and ground black and chipotle pepper, stirring to dissolve in the oil. Add the sweet potatoes and pour over enough stock or water just to cover them. Cover the pot and cook over medium heat until tender (not mushy), about 20 minutes.
- Add the mustard, maple syrup and beans (including their liquid) to the pot. Bring to a simmer and cook uncovered another 10 minutes or so to blend the flavors. If you like your chili more soupy, add more stock.
- Serve in bowls topped with some cheese with warm tortillas alongside.
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Copying generic Summary phrases from other resumes is one of the worst sins you can commit, because it's a sure way to tell employers that you're identical to everyone else.
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Despite a tumultuous career and personal life, actor James Caan stays true to his ideals—and his friends.
For those pop culture enthusiasts who believe that the phrase bada bing was created by the people behind the HBO series "The Sopranos," think again. The expression has been around for decades, perhaps even before actor James Caan uttered it, unscripted, in his role as Sonny Corleone in the 1972 Francis Ford Coppola epic The Godfather.
Coppola has joked that Caan should earn royalties on the phrase and when asked where he originally learned it, Caan just shrugs and claims to not remember. Perhaps from his pals from Sunnyside, Queens. The ones who still call him by the childhood nicknames Shoulders and Killer Caan.
Regardless, the Oxford English Dictionary has finally made an honest word out of bada bing, adding it to its latest edition and defining it as "an exclamation, a word spoken to emphasize that something will happen effortlessly and predictably." Ironically, there is little about James "Please, call me Jimmy…or your Holiness" Caan, the man, or James Caan, the actor, that's either effortless or predictable. He can, in the space of an interview, expose humor and disdain, poke fun at himself or tear down someone else and answer questions with a disconcerting mix of open playfulness or sudden wariness. He is as chameleon-like in his facial expressions, body language and moods as he is in the roles that he's chosen to play in his 40-plus years in the business.
At 63, Jimmy Caan is a strong man, one who's comfortable confiding that he's always pushed himself a bit too hard but who will, seconds later, argue that if you're not hard, you're not worth a dime on the streets of New York. He'll confess to crying in front of his sons but argue vehemently that he wouldn't have minded seeing his sons grow up in his old neighborhood in order to experience the "code" of loyalty and respect. He'll poke fun and tell jokes and one-liners about his trials and tribulations while expressing complete disdain for what he considers to be rumors and media myths about past transgressions.
But the transgressions, while real, come later in the story. At least the adult ones.
James Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in the Bronx and raised by working-class German-Jewish parents in Sunnyside, Queens. The neighborhood, a mix of Italian, Irish and Jewish families, was where he and his younger brother, Ronnie, and sister, Barbara, learned life skills, and for James that meant learning how to be a tough guy. That skill, Caan says, is a major part of who he is today.
"There were great lessons to be learned, you know, when I was a kid. You develop a sixth sense [because] you meet so many kids that you learn how to win and you learn how to lose very quickly.
"You get this sixth sense [where] after a while I'd shake someone's hand and say hello and I could tell you if this person was, you know, someone I was going to like or be a friend of or whatever. It becomes just like the jungle," Caan muses, "and you can smell it."
One of the intangible skills that Caan claims was learned on the streets at an early age was how to smell respect…and a rat. "You're not a quitter, you're not a rat," Caan says with finality. "My son [actor Scott Caan] grew up here in L.A. but he's got a New York morality. Now that sounds like a pompous friggin' thing to say, but there is such a thing as a New York morality, although today these guys are ratting on each other like, you know, it's going out of style. I mean, it's terrible. There are more rats in jail than thieves."
Having been tossed out of multiple public high schools by age 14, Caan found himself a niche in a private high school where he was elected class president. It didn't please the student adviser at the school, Caan recalls with a grin, because "I had my boys. I was a clown but I was also capable. Nobody messed with me."
Of course, we're talking about a kid who developed two distinct nicknames as a young teen. "Shoulders was given to me by one of the guys and it caught on. I had these little skinny legs and I weighed about 25 pounds [with] this big square top and these little legs that stuck out…looked like they had a message tied around them. They also called me Killer Caan 'cause I boxed. You know, we boxed in a ring…sometimes it wasn't in a ring," he laughs. "But I was a tough and that was the neighborhood."
At 16, Caan enrolled at Michigan State University, taking classes in economics and playing football. Or, as the lean, 5-foot 10-inch Caan puts it, "mostly holding bags and being the tackling dummy." After a year at Michigan State, he became homesick and headed back to New York to attend Hofstra University and unload hindquarters of beef at 5:30 in the morning alongside his relatives at the meat markets.
Caan talks easily about his old Sunnyside neighborhood and about playing three-on-three basketball on concrete courts and softball on playing fields. Although he's lived on the West Coast for 40 years, his accent is sheer New Yawk and his sentences are peppered with the words "you know."
One thing Caan was clearly coming to know was that life as a meatpacker -- or as a waiter or a worker at the Continental Can Co. -- wasn't for him. A small project done at a local children's theater prompted him to think about acting and, almost on a whim, he applied to the Neighborhood Playhouse and was accepted. Rumor has it that when he learned he'd have to apply and interview three times in a single year just like every other applicant, he simply camped out until he persuaded the Playhouse folks to reconsider. At 18 and less than two weeks later, he had his first on-stage role there.
"There's so much luck involved in what I do, especially when you start. I studied, I knew I had to do it by studying, and I got the first four parts that I auditioned for," remembers Caan.
Caan's luck and opportunities continued and, by age 24, he had enough experience and film credits to head west to Hollywood. By that time he'd already married his first wife, Dee Jay Mattis, and had a daughter, Tara.
A split not long after from Mattis, a year or two living part-time at the Playboy Mansion, and success at landing parts in television and big-screen productions such as Rabbit, Run; The Rain People; The Godfather and Brian's Song led to his marriage in 1976 to Shelia Ryan. By the time his first son, Scott, was walking, Caan had made films such as Rollerball, The Gambler and Funny Lady, and would soon make A Bridge Too Far.
The marriage to Ryan ended badly in 1977, due in part to Caan's increasingly erratic behavior. By 1982, Caan admits, all hell had broken loose in both his personal and professional life.
Caan had always been pretty open about his use of recreational drugs while living and working in Los Angeles -- he's claimed to have tried marijuana for the first time when he moved to Hollywood, and in later years used quaaludes and cocaine -- but by 1982, devastated by the loss of his beloved sister, Barbara, to leukemia, Caan was out of control.
"In the late 1970s I was number one at the box office. I was way on top; everything came my way. Of course," Caan says with a laugh, "I took care of that. I just took about six years off and…quit.
I went through some bad times, some very self-destructive stuff, you know, when I was on top. I'd got involved in partying and doing all that and I lost my sister and, basically, I got all screwed up in my head. She was like my best friend and I lost her to leukemia and I was just a mess. I had a lot of money because I'd worked a lot and saved it. I had it in a pension plan and then I lost all my money. My accountant. I just woke up one morning and I didn't have a dime. We're talking about tons…I mean, a lot of money, and I was flat broke."
Actually, things got worse. He wound up losing his home, and the Internal Revenue Service informed him that he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. Caan felt he'd lost the passion to work and wanted simply to check out of life for a while.
Caan's old friend Francis Ford Coppola had also suffered a death, that of his eldest son, Gian-Carlo, in a boating tragedy in 1986. Still grieving, the duo completed their third film together, Gardens of Stone, in 1987. With the exception of Gardens of Stone, Caan had pretty much dropped out and turned, instead, to coaching boys baseball for the next six years. It was an experience that the natural athlete in him loved, he says, and it became the "high point of my low point. I love kids 'cause they're not full of shit, you know? People would say, 'What about your creative needs?' and I'd say, 'What are you talking about?' I take a kid who couldn't believe that he could do something, who walked on the [plate] like a little pussycat, who was afraid, who was embarrassed, and I worked with him and pretty soon he did something he didn't think he could do. He hits a home run and all of a sudden he's a little bantam rooster, right before my eyes. If he's capable and I coach properly, I could change a kid's life right in front of me. I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music into it or edit it. That was the great part." His son Scott also played baseball as well as basketball and soccer, on teams that his dad coached, but it was his skill with a bat that had his father thinking major leagues and, a few years later, thinking about cocaine rehab.
"I thought I was fooling my son. I was so stupid," Caan says. "I mean, you're never consciously hurting people, but when you look back, you go, 'Oh my God.' I didn't think he knew what was going on, you know; you think that kids aren't bright enough. But that's what woke me up, pretty much. Scott went after some guy -- Scott was 15, 16 -- with a baseball bat. He was going to kill him. A dope dealer. My son! It's like crying out of one eye and smiling out of the other, you know? That was like the rude awakening. It was over." Friends interceded and offered help, including an old-time friend from New York, Andrew Russo. A cousin to reported crime figure Carmine "The Snake" Persico, Russo researched rehabilitation centers for Caan and actually studied the hows and whys of cocaine addiction from research materials.
"When I was doing cocaine -- which was like having to tell him I was gay or something; it was that awful because it's just not part of his world -- he called me and said, 'Jim, do you think I'd humiliate you for a second?' He'd spent I don't know how many weeks reading books and books and books investigating addiction and cocaine. He'd investigated the best rehab places in the country." When questioned about why Russo would go to so much trouble for Caan, who by that time had been living on another coast for 20 years, Caan gets angry. "I'm talking about friendship. I'm trying to tell you about the kind of guy he was as opposed to what many people would misconstrue as a, uh, a guy who walks around with a baseball bat and cracks people's heads. It's just so far removed. I'm close to his wife, his grandchildren…I call him once a week to see how he is. There are a ton of assholes out here who'd just as soon see me get swallowed up into the gutter. So in a sense it was a single guy intervention."
During this time, there were multiple, well-publicized tries at recovery, as well as a third failed marriage, to Ingrid Hajek, which produced son Alex. Castle Rock Studios and an old friend, director Rob Reiner, gave Caan another chance with two movies, the thriller Misery with Kathy Bates and the comedy Honeymoon in Vegas opposite Nicolas Cage, but Caan's personal life was crumbling once again.
Caan insists that much of what was in the news about violence in his life was either overblown or fabricated. "For a time there were questions about 'how long have you been sober,' you know…there was a lot of talk about that. There was a lot of talk, you know, about this fight or that, or supposedly they wrote something like I'd pulled a gun or nonsense like that…which was, you know, baloney."
Baloney, maybe, but if so, Caan had enough of it in his life to fill a deli counter. In 1993, Caan was questioned about an odd death involving a young actor named Mark Alan Schwartz, who fell from a Los Angeles high-rise apartment building. In 1994, he was the subject of two criminal investigations, one involving a physical attack on a woman with whom he was reportedly in a relationship and one in which he allegedly flashed a gun in front of rapper Derek Lee in a parking lot. Caan was never charged with any of the crimes, but he found his way back into rehab and laid low for a while. In 1996, he completed rehab again, met and married his fourth wife, Linda Stokes, and subsequently became the father to two more boys, Jimmy and Jake.
To focus more on health and a healthy family, Caan moved to a cabin near Park City, Utah, for two years with his family, but, as Caan puts it, ultimately found out that "absence does not make the heart grow fonder. They just think you're dead!" when it comes to casting directors in the movie industry.
After moving back to Los Angeles, he landed four movie roles in quick succession and, last fall, a leading role in the NBC drama "Las Vegas." Playing a former CIA operative who's now head of security and surveillance for a posh desert casino, Caan films alternately in Southern California and Las Vegas, and it's the concept of the Strip and its stories that seems to energize him.
"It's unpredictability that keeps you from getting a popcorn or going to the bathroom or going to the refrigerator," says Caan, "and this show has that ability. When you're in Vegas there are no boundaries. I mean, kings come, queens come, gangsters come, senators come, vagrants, degenerates…it's very true to life. Listen, I've known people there for many years. You go to any one hotel and go to their security office or the bosses' office or their surveillance room and there's nine thousand stories…It's there…Vegas is a zoo, man…it's a zoo."
If Caan gets off on the unpredictability of Las Vegas, the city, the people behind "Las Vegas," the show, say that selecting Caan to play Big Ed Deline was nearly inevitable.
"Personally, I think Jimmy's one of the greatest actors out there, and when we first thought of a 'hard as nails' guy who didn't take [crap] off of anybody and who was capable of running security in a top casino, we immediately thought of Jimmy," says Scott Steindorff, the co-executive producer and co-creator of "Las Vegas."
Steindorff, whose production credits include the recent Nicole Kidman feature The Human Stain, also admits that the potential inclusion of guest stars in the television feature may be easier with Caan on board. "One of the things about Las Vegas as a town is that it draws top-name talent and we've left room to include some folks into future episodes. Having Jimmy there makes sense to them."
Apparently, trying his hand at a television series also made sense to Caan. He says that doing a series means more time at home with his children, something that he'd not done in the past and had subsequently regretted. When it comes to his children, Caan is unabashedly gooey. When his two youngest burst into the hotel suite to announce that they're going swimming, they do so only after tumbling onto their dad's lap and spending 15 minutes confidently throwing questions at the interviewer and wanting to play with the tape recorder. When conversation turns to eldest son Scott, Caan says, simply, "he's the apple of my eye" and brags about Scott having won a prize at the 2003 Las Vegas Film Festival for his feature Dallas 362.
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WASHINGTON — The Grocery Manufacturers Association has promoted Sean McBride to EVP communications and membership services, effective Jan. 1. The announcement was made by GMA president and CEO Pamela Bailey. McBride previously served as senior vice president of communications and marketing.
"Since joining GMA, Sean had taken on increasing responsibility, always executing with excellence," said Bailey. "He has provided a high level of leadership, strategic direction and tactical execution that makes him the logical choice to serve in this new role and to advance the association's member-driven agenda."
In his new role, McBride will provide strategic leadership of the GMA communications and marketing function, the association's membership development and services platform, and all GMA and joint industry conferences and events. He will also continue to direct the GMA Industry Affairs and Collaboration function on an interim basis, as he has done since July 2012.
McBride joined GMA in 2006. He has served in leadership positions at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform and the American Beverage Association. He also served as regional political director of the Republican National Committee and on the campaign staffs of George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Kay Bailey Hutchison.


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"Survivor" is back and the twists start early. As the show starts, the 10 pairs of players are introduced and it is quickly revealed to the viewers that the survivors won't be playing together, but against each other. They don't know it yet and they spend time in front of the camera talking about how great it is to play the game together. It's so cruel it's delicious.
At each beach spot they read notes telling them they will spend their first night together in the jungle, all alone. Marissa asks Uncle Gervase what to do and he doesn't know. Colton asks his boyfriend, Caleb, if he needs him to do something and Caleb says no. Rupert bellows. Yep, pretty much like always.
The next morning the pairs come together and Jeff Probst breaks the news that they'll be competing against each other. There are gasps and sad faces, yet when Probst asks if anyone is looking forward to duking it out with their loved ones, more than half raise their hands. There are some shocked faces.
They are separated into the two tribes — returning players, Galang, and newbies, Tadhana. Then Probst drops a big bomb, telling them they each have to vote one person off, immediately.
Newbies vote, and the first three votes are for Laura B., Rupert's wife. It doesn't get any better. She's voted off as a perceived attack against Rupert.
Returning players are more divided, but Candice ends up getting the boot. Except they aren't, exactly. They are going to Redemption Island. Probst explains how it will work — the loved one can take the other's place and the formerly voted off player will replace them on the tribe. Rupert can't stand his wife being in danger like that, so he takes her place and Laura goes to Galang. Galang is not happy because they were counting on Rupert to build the shelter and feed them.
Candice's husband, John, says he's confidant his wife can beat Rupert and make it back into the game. He later fights back tears and says how much it killed him to do that. Yeah, right.
With Rupert and Candice off to exile, the tribes get busy building shelters, starting fires and setting up alliances. Monica played with Colton in a previous season and she doesn't like him, but she approaches him and makes a deal.
At Camp Newbie, they're all busy but none of them really know what they're doing. Brad, the former NFL player, is worried because earlier he had confessed that he might not play as hard as he could if it meant that winning would deprive his wife of something she could use. The others were stunned and he quickly realized he had made a huge blunder. When his tribe is together building the shelter he takes the opportunity to say hey, that silly talk about throwing a challenge? He didn't really mean it. Heh heh.
Brad approaches the other men on the tribe. He wants to have an all-male locker room and he's making deals left and right, except none of the guys are serious about keeping their word to him. They're just trying to shut him up. Then Brad demonstrates why he played tackle and not quarterback as he tries to demonstrate for the camera his plan of action using hand signals. He gets so confused he has to think really hard and do it twice.
Meanwhile, Camp Newbie is struggling to make fire. Ciera spills her life story about being a teen mom and butting heads with her mom. Vytas then confesses that he was a teenage heroin addict because his brother was the golden boy and it was difficult for him. He ended up spending a year in jail, and he and his brother still aren't on the best of terms.
Lots of chatting but no fire. As the sun sets on Camp Newbie, Vytas talks about how he thinks his tribe won't think bad of him because he's an ex-convict.
Over at Camp Super Ego, Colton has his tribe in stitches. Then he starts dissing the South, where he's from, saying that no one in his state understands or accepts gay people. He feels like some people in his family don't love him and he starts crying. He misses Caleb. Everyone comforts him.
Colton tells the camera he has changed from the mean person he was. Monica hopes he has.
We pay a visit to Redemption Island where we find Candice chopping up the people who voted against her, symbolically anyway. She recites their names as she hacks at a coconut with a machete. She's also upset with Rupert, who either sleeps or hunkers down in the water like a giant snow monkey, without the snow. Candice is gathering wood, watching the fire, collecting water, doing everything.
Turns out that Rupert has changed how he plays. No more is he going to kill himself around camp and then be too exhausted to win challenges. If Candice wants to do that, fine, but after losing three previous times, he's in it to win it.
Immunity challenge
As the tribes gather, everyone is looking lovingly at their loved ones, which is only appropriate. Probst asks Galang how it's going. They say great, they've got fire. Tadhana lies that they've got fire. They've got plenty of fire. Fire to spare. So much fire they don't know what to do with it. Honest.
The challenge involves players from each team swimming an obstacle course concerning nets, a rolling log and three crates on a raft. Then they have to untie knots, release a boat and row a crate of puzzle pieces back to shore, where three members must solve a puzzle. Newbies take an early lead, in part because Gervase can't swim well.
Once the knots are untied, everyone gets on the boat and paddles back. Somehow, Galang catches up but can't seem to paddle the boat.
Tadhana gets the puzzle pieces back and are working on the puzzle before Galang comes ashore. It's a tough puzzle, but Galang makes quick work of it and wins immunity.
Galang seems to forget the tribe it just beat is made up of people they supposedly love. Colton doesn't forget, though. He starts sobbing and Laura M. voices his concern that they all feel bad that they've just sent their loved ones to tribal council, where they could be voted off.
Brad complains to the camera that Gervase was acting like a jerk. It could be his niece they vote off, and something tells us that Brad would be up for getting rid of Marissa to teach Gervase a lesson.
Back at Camp Newbie, Brad gave a little pep talk to the team, uh, the tribe. Yeah, they lost but at least they know their loved ones have fire. That bit of news goes over like a lead balloon. The daughters and niece on the tribe are steaming about how their mothers showed them up and an uncle celebrated their loss. Brad suggests that if they ever win a challenge, they shouldn't gloat.
The Locker Room Alliance gets together to discuss who goes. Brad wants Marissa, but others talk about Katie. So Vytas, saying he wants to stay in good with the women, does the honorable thing and tells Katie they are voting off Marissa, and tells Marissa they are voting off Katie. It doesn't really matter he says. One of them is going.
Tribal council
Snakes and mood lighting greet the sad tribe. Probst asks Hayden what the toughest thing is and he says not having fire. You lied to Probst? Yeah, they did. They complain about being hungry and thirsty.
Probst asks John if he's feeling guilty for letting his wife go to Redemption Island and John fights tears, saying yes, he's worried that Candice is sitting there feeling like he's deserted her.
Brad brings up how Gervase celebrated, and Marissa says she was expecting them to handle a win with grace. Does it make it more dangerous for the loved one? Vytas says yes. Marissa says she shouldn't be judged by her uncle's actions.
Katie says she might be voted off because she was part of the puzzle solving team that fell behind.
Votes are cast and Marissa gets the ax. Thanks, Uncle Gervase. Something tells us Thanksgiving dinner is going to be very awkward this year.
She turns and glares at them as her torch is snuffed and everyone quickly finds something else to look at. Probst sends her to Redemption Island and gives the tribe his usual parting insult, this one about how their family members had taught them nothing. But hey, good news, here's some flint. Go make fire.
Next time: Colton reverts to his old ways and the first battle of Redemption Island is waged.


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And his teammates will always say no one was better at being that bad guy than Boucher. Some of them will even smile while saying it, while the rest use words much harsher than ``bad guy.''
``It's easy to replace a jerk,'' new finemaster Kaleigh Schrock said. `` Bouch is a jerk, so I automatically come in as a good guy. Actually, Nick is a great finemaster, and I probably donated more than anybody last year because he was all over me.''
See, a finemaster must be feared and respected. Schrock could be the perfect finemaster because he's already broken most of the rules during his four-year career. He's also great at nagging teammates to turn their money in.
``At first I was kind of nervous about it, but now it's fun,'' Schrock said. ``It kind of gives me a reason to get under somebody's skin, which is good. Usually I don't even need a reason.''
Some of the violations include being late for a game, practice, bus departure, doctor's appointment or team appearance; dress code violations; using cellphones during team meetings or in the locker room before games; throwing a jersey on the floor; or forgetting equipment.
Injured players must arrive at the rink by 8:30 a.m. for treatment. There are also fines for missed practices, missed weigh-ins and for taking selfish penalties during a game such as unsportsmanlike or misconducts.
A few of the more unique ones include shaving chest hair in the shower, using profanity around children and a few others pertaining to bodily functions, which are among the most costly fines. Fines cost from $5 for a missed weigh-in to as much as $100 for a missed practice.
Most fines cost $10 — at least to start. After Schrock has posted a fine on the locker room board, players have three days to pay the fine before another $10 is added. If the new total is not paid within a week, the sum will be taken out of a player's next paycheck.
``We have a fine list and it's pretty much black-or-white,'' Schrock said. ``If you make a mistake or don't live up to what you are supposed to be doing, you're going to get fined for it. You come to your workplace every day you want to keep it clean, and having a fine list is one way to keep that in order.
``It provides some structure in the locker room. It's not like your everyday office job. The morning meetings I have at Northwestern Mutual (where he works part time) are a lot different than the dialogue in the locker room.''
If a player wants to appeal a fine, the team will hold a kangaroo court session after Monday's practice. A player can speak for himself, or he can ask a teammate to serve as his attorney. Brent Henley will serve as judge this year if anyone is brave enough to give the system a try.
``That's where it gets fun, and that's what being around the boys is all about,'' Schrock said. ``It hasn't happened this year, but it will happen.''
Though he's the finemaster, Schrock can be fined as well. Because he wore a baseball cap to the Komets' recent season-ticket-holders party, he had to pay $10.
Boucher would also fine himself, saying once you become the finemaster you can't break the rules. He'd make sure his teammates saw him adding to the fine envelop. He also tried to include a $1 million fine for scoring on him during warm-ups.
``When we practiced at McMillen, it was bad because the freight train would come trough right at a key time,'' Boucher said. ``If you were cutting it close you'd hit the train every time, but if you were late or early you'd miss it every time. That was something I learned my first year when Terry Marchant was the finemaster.''
Coaches, equipment managers and trainers can also be fined. Trainer Shawn Dundon was once fined for sending a player to a medical appointment on the wrong day. Both coaches last year were fined for forgetting their game-day suits on road trips. Rookies can be fined for just about anything because, well, they are rookies.
Usually, about one-third of the team can go through the entire season without being fined, Boucher said.
The money for the fines goes into a team pot that is used for team parties such as Halloween, Super Bowl and the end-of-the season blowout. This year's account money was used for Sunday night's rookie party.
``Last year I didn't enforce a lot of the stuff like I did in the past,'' Boucher said. ``I got to the point where the bad stuff I'd fine and the little stuff I let go. We didn't have as much money at the end of the year.''
That won't be much of a problem this season, Schrock insists.
`I'm not as strict as Nick is, but one thing is for sure, when the money is due, Schrocky is coming.''
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Bold prediction: Andrew Luck will make biggest jump in Year 2
Andrew Luck, touted as a can't-miss NFL quarterback prospect before the Colts drafted him No. 1 overall, turned out to be as good as advertised as a rookie. Overcoming a lack of consistent help around him, Luck stepped into the leadership void left by Peyton Manning and carried the Colts into the playoffs.
But when you compare him to Washington's Robert Griffin III and Seattle's Russell Wilson, Luck had the most rookie-like numbers. He had 23 turnovers to go with his 28 total touchdowns, was sacked 41 times and completed just 54.1 of his pass attempts.
Luck's trademark, however, was making up for his mistakes and shaky protection with a high rate of big pass plays in Bruce Arians' offense. He averaged more than 12 yards per completion, and had a unique mastery over third-and-long situations.
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As good as Arians' influence was on Luck, it didn't come with the consistent comfort of checkdowns. It was reminiscent of Arians' old pupil, Ben Roethlisberger, hanging in there as a mobile passer, taking a lot of hits and delivering on deep balls.
Arians took the head coaching job in Arizona, leaving someone most familiar to Luck as the Colts' new offensive coordinator, Pep Hamilton. Hamilton, who held the same position for Luck at Stanford, will help Luck in the next stage of development in the right way—keeping many of the concepts that made Luck thrive under Arians but also making him a more efficient passer.
Luck, at 6-4 and 239 pounds, is a big, strong kid, but even all those licks can catch up to him—see Roethlsiberger now. Hamilton's West Coast stylings will lead to Luck getting the ball out more quickly in the short passing game, without losing the aggressiveness for the deep passing game.
Luck needed to do a lot to lift his supporting cast last season. Now their upgraded personnel is ready to return the favor. Former Giant Ahmad Bradshaw not only gives the Colts an established power runner to complement Luck, but also a valuable third-down back. Former Raider Darrius Heyward-Bey replaces Donnie Avery as the speedy deep threat, playing outside as either a No. 2 or No. 3 wide receiver.
The connection that Luck had with reliable Reggie Wayne and dynamic second-year player T.Y. Hilton will continue to grow, and those two figure to remain his popular targets. The receivers who could be bigger factors, however, are second-year tight ends Dwayne Allen and Coby Fleener.
Allen showed flashes of becoming a premier all-around player, with soft hands and good blocking skills. Fleener didn't really get going as a rookie because of injury, but he will be the non-Luck skill player who'll benefit most from Hamilton's presence.
At Stanford, Hamilton oversaw Luck and Fleener's great chemistry. Knowing teams will need to respect Hilton and Heyward-Bey stretching the field, look for Hamilton to get creative with packages designed for Allen and Fleener to take advantage of mismatches on underneath routes.
It was a no-brainer for the Colts to take Luck No. 1 in 2012, but they also were mindful of revamping everything around him at the same time. It should be fun watching him take the so-called next step toward becoming the elite passer he was meant to be.


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In Order To Prepare For The National Championship Game, Meet Notre Dame Football's Hottest Players
Welcome to your weekly dose of sports world knowledge. This week's topic: college football. More specifically, the storied team that once again sits atop the college football world: Notre Dame's Fighting Irish.
Last night, Notre Dame closed out an undefeated regular season by grinding out a 22-13 victory over rival University of Southern California. As a traditional favorite ND T shirt reads, "Trojans break when the Irish come." If you watched the game last night or have personally experienced said mishap (my sincerest apologies), you know it rings true.
If you're friends with a single Notre Dame fan on Facebook or follow any on Twitter, you've gotten a sense of how huge this is. Personally, my Facebook feed was full of Will Smith rapping about the city where the heat is on, because Notre Dame is going to Miami. On January 7. For the National Championship.
And for the casual observer, there is no better way to prepare for that fateful day then checking out the best ND has to offer. And by that I obviously mean their hottest players — who also happen to be phenomenal athletes and the majority of whom will graduate with a degree from the No. 1 business school in the country. Yuuuup. Hop on it.
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