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OTTAWA - Pascal Leclaire's road back to the NHL will include a stop in Binghamton.
The Senators' injury-prone goalie -- out of action since pulling up lame with a hip/groin issue on Dec. 17 in the warmup against Colorado -- was sent to the club's AHL affiliate in Binghamton for a conditioning stint.
The 28-year-old is expected to start against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Wednesday in Binghamton.
Once he's ready to return, rookie Robin Lehner will be sent back to the Baby Sens.
Leclaire practised Monday without incident in Binghamton.
"He's going to practise for the next couple of days, we're looking at him playing Wednesday, but we'll see how that goes," said Ottawa coach Cory Clouston.
"We're looking at him playing at least two or three games. We'll wait and see how he is after practice and then we'll see how he is after practice (Tuesday) before determining if he plays Wednesday. It's a day-by-day situation with him."
Where Leclaire is concerned, the Senators don't want to get ahead of themselves. He's been hurt so much this season and suffered setbacks just when you thought he was ready to return.
Clouston was cautious in predicting when Leclaire could return to Ottawa.
"It just depends on how his injury responds," said Clouston. "I'm not going to put a number of days or anything on (the length of time). I'd like to put a specific number (on the stint) but I can't."
The decision to send down Leclaire is no surprise. He has to get his game together and hasn't had a chance to practise with the team in Ottawa.
Newly acquired goalie Craig Anderson will get the bulk of the work as the Senators audition the potential unrestricted agent following the trade with Colorado for Brian Elliott.
Leclaire, making $4.8 million in the final year of his contract, is trying to save his NHL career. A strong showing in Binghamton might convince a few teams to look at the looming UFA this summer.
As for Lehner, the Senators want to get him some starts in the AHL while Anderson takes the reins with Ottawa for the rest of the season.
The goaltending situation is starting to clear itself up.
"When you have three of your four goaltenders throughout the season injured, it doesn't help with anybody. You put people in situations where they're not supposed to be," said Clouston.
"It's no different than a forward or young defenceman. You don't throw a young defenceman to the wolves right off the bat. You want people in situations where they can have success or build confidence. We haven't been able to do that."
Now with Anderson on board and Leclaire close to getting healthy, Clouston said the situation should improve.
"We had Brian Elliott in a situation where he had to play 10 or 11 games in a row. We tried to bring Mike (Brodeur) up. He was hurt for the most part this season and he wasn't prepared for that, so he didn't have the success he had last year," said Clouston.
"Robin has been hurt at times. He's a young guy, so when we put him in, he wasn't as prepared as we would like him to have been.
"It's just that ripple effect that we haven't been able to slow down. Once Pascal gets healthy, we can put Robin where want him to be by playing lots and developing."


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MTV's Season Finale of '16 & Pregnant' Hit Series Highs Among Both P12-34 (1.9) and Total Viewers (2.1 Million) Thursday, Ranking as the Number One Primetime Cable Program
NEW YORK, July 20 /PRNewswire/ — Reflecting on teen pregnancy, one of the most controversial and thought provoking topics today, MTV's "16 & Pregnant" season finale hit series highs among both P12-34 (1.9) and total viewers (2.1 million) on Thursday, July 16, ranking as the number one primetime cable program among P12-34. Viewers can catch more of their favorite series with the "16 & Pregnant: Life After Labor" finale special, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, on Thursday, July 23 at 10pm ET/PT. Additionally, MTV will double up on the drama airing "16 & Pregnant: Unseen Moments, Hosted by Dr. Drew" Thursday, July 30 at 10pm ET/PT followed by a special episode of "True Life: I'm Having Twins" at 11pm ET/PT.
Thursday's finale capped off a season of strong ratings reaching a total audience of over 31 million viewers, consistently taking the #1 spot in its time period among F12-34 and #1 across all of television among F18-24. "16 & Pregnant" also found success online, with more than 9.1 million streams since premiering on June 11.
The "16 & Pregnant: Life After Labor" finale special, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, will be an issue-driven forum on teen pregnancy. All six of the teen mothers profiled on season one of the series will participate in this event. Dr. Drew will discuss each girl's episode, specific issues and challenges and update us on what's going on in their lives now. This open discussion will provide a platform to address the controversial topics that were shown in season one: birth control, adoption, abortion, marriage, religion, gossip, finances, high school graduation and employment. During the show, Dr. Drew will field questions by members of the live studio audience, as well as select emails from viewers.
Dr. Drew will return to MTV on Thursday, July 30 at 10pm ET/PT to host "16 & Pregnant: Unseen Moments, Hosted by Dr. Drew," a compelling hour-long compilation special of the most gripping stories that occurred beyond what audiences saw in the first season. The special highlights many of the challenges and struggles, as well as the funny moments that the girls faced during the filming of "16 & Pregnant." Topics covered will include dreams deferred, family tensions, moments of doubt and the challenges of being pregnant at a young age. Doubling up on the drama, a unique episode of True Life will follow with "True Life: I'm Having Twins" on Thursday, July 30 at 11pm ET/PT.
"True Life: I'm Having Twins" will chronicle two young women who are struggling to care for their newborn twins while balancing their families and their hectic lives at home. From surprise pregnancies to coping with the fear of being a single parent, this special will give viewers an inside look into their lives and how they handle becoming new mothers of twins.
"16 & Pregnant" follows the lives of teenage girls for 5-7 months as they navigate the unfamiliar territory and uncertainty of being pregnant. MTV captured every moment and reaction in real time, including several of the births and how the young mothers and fathers dealt with new parenthood. The series tackles a variety of issues including marriage, adoption, attending school and dealing with gossip. Cameras continued to follow the teens for a significant amount of time after they gave birth to document how they coped with taking care of their infants in addition to balancing adult responsibilities with teenage life.
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy is working with MTV to support "16 & Pregnant." In partnership with MTV, The National Campaign will continue to create viewing guides for each episode so educators, key organizations and individuals can use the show, which will be available rights free for distribution, as a platform to have an honest discussion around sexual health and pregnancy with teens. Additionally, The National Campaign launched an online resource supporting the show at http://www.stayteen.org to answer viewers' most commonly asked questions surrounding pregnancy and provide young people with the information they need to be fully informed on this topic.
"16 & Pregnant" is Executive Produced by Morgan J Freeman. Tony DiSanto is President of Programming for MTV. Dia Sokol is Co-Executive Producer. Liz Gateley and Lauren Dolgen are Executives in charge for MTV. Jessica Zalkind is Executive for MTV. Concept by Lauren Dolgen.
Executive Producer Morgan J. Freeman (MTV's Taking The Stage, Laguna Beach,) made a name for himself as the Sundance award-winning writer/director of Hurricane Streets, a film centered on the trails and tribulations of teenage life. Freeman's latest film is called Homecoming, a thriller starring Mischa Barton and Jessica Stroup (90210). The film was released July 17 and is currently in theaters.
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The most listened to doctor in America, Dr. Drew is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show "Loveline," where he has taken calls from listeners since 1982. Dr. Drew, who still runs a private practice, is also an internist who is board certified in addiction medicine and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine. Using media to deliver information, Dr. Drew often appears on television and radio programs to talk about sex, relationships, and addiction. Recently, Dr. Drew teamed up with MTV to help teens and parents get to the root of their problems surrounding the taboo topic of sex in the groundbreaking series, "Sex. . .with Mom and Dad." Additionally, Dr. Drew is the best-selling author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America.
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CHERRY HILL, N.J., March 10 (UPI) -- A woman who wanted to go shopping at the Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey on Saturday almost lost her finger during a fight about a parking spot.
Police responded to the mall parking lot after getting a call about a parking dispute between two drivers. Apparently victim Tonya Knight-Joseph pulled into a spot that two other women had been eyeing.
"As soon as I got out of the car she started calling me all types of B-words," Knight-Joseph told ABC 6. "She got this close to my face, her nose touched my nose. She was yelling and screaming then she hit me in the face.
When she put up her hands to defend herself, Knight-Joseph's finger suffered the consequences.
"All of a sudden, I must have been pushing the initial attacker away and she bit down on my finger and proceeded to chomp. By the time I looked at it, it was hanging off by a little piece of skin. I immediately picked up my cell, called 911 and followed her into the Nordstrom's," Knight-Joseph said.
The 911 dispatchers advised Knight-Joseph not to follow the woman into the store.
"This is a very big deal, beyond an assault. She went through to the bone, the bone is actually fractured, and the finger was nearly severed," said Lt. Amy Winters of the Cherry Hill Police. "This is an aggravated assault and it's something very serious. You're always concerned with bites, also with infections."
Knight-Joseph is waiting to find out if part of her finger will have to be amputated.


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Travis DA: Perry wanted secret entrance to grand jury room
Updated 4:07 pm, Thursday, May 15, 2014
AUSTIN — Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said Thursday that a judge asked her staff whether there was a way for Gov. Rick Perry's aides to avoid a public entrance if they appear before a grand jury.
The grand jury is looking into whether Perry acted improperly by promising last year to kill funding for the public corruption division overseen by Lehmberg unless she resigned after a messy drunken-driving arrest.
She stayed and Perry carried out the threat. His staff said his veto was proper use of his power.
The inquiry about avoiding the public entrance came from Senior Judge Bert Richardson of San Antonio, who is presiding over the case, Lehmberg said. The question was posed "apparently at the request of" Perry attorney David Botsford, she said.
"I guess I don't understand why they feel the need to enter the grand jury room other than the way everybody else does — which is through the front door, and through the lobby, and into the grand jury room," Lehmberg said in an interview.
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Avoiding that public route — which typically is staked out by reporters — would involve taking a circuitous path through her own secure office, she said.
But Lehmberg said if the judge wants it to be handled that way, she would have one of her investigators facilitate it.
"The irony of course is that all of that — I don't own it, but it's all my offices," Lehmberg said of the non-public route.
Botsford didn't immediately return a telephone call. He was hired by Perry's office at state expense to ensure, his staff has said, that the facts were given to the special prosecutor in the case, San Antonio attorney Michael McCrum.
"We respect the longstanding legal principle of grand jury confidentiality and therefore it would be inappropriate to comment on the proceedings," Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said Thursday. "The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto power afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution, and we remain ready and willing to assist with this inquiry."
Richardson declined comment.
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Just entered myself to do this , never ridden inners before , what am I to expect rocky tyre puncture like surface or soft loamy surface ,
Just wondering if I should put my hans damph super gravitys on or stick with my normal n nick evo snake skins that I use at most trail centers
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Innerlethin day night enduro next wk end
Just entered myself to do this , never ridden inners before , what am I to expect rocky tyre puncture like surface or soft loamy surface ,
Hans on the front, NN on the back
not that rocky
but they'll be using loads of off piste stuff so will be loose as fook.
When I ride DH there I use Conti der baron front and der kaiser back
i'd have hans dampf front and back tbf.
I should be there myself once I've sorted some lights out...
I've done a couple of these before and whilst there are rocky and trail centre type sections, I'd say you want a tyre that works well on slippery roots and different types of mud.
The last time I rode there it was nice and dry, but as soon as night fell the dew point fell I guess and everything turned slippery. Every other time my bike has basically had what seems like half of Scotland's mud and forests on it afterwards! The gears have nearly seized up due to clingy think mud and the bike weighs about 10kg heavier! Hopefully, it will not be that bad, but prepare for the worst I guess and enjoy!!
No tyre is that good on slippy roots, its how u attack them that helps
Obv a better compound tyre helps, but you won't find a certain tyre that is good on roots
Spikes are obviously not great on roots, but everything else, they're all pretty much the same!
I usually go for IRC mudmad DH.
Just hope they don't have mince baby mince as a section because I've never made it down that in one piece.
Definitely get a tyre that destroys your fork and frames mud clearance. Loads of people did that last year and it was good fun looking at their confused faces when their wheels wouldn't turn anymore
I thought about entering this but looking at videos on youtube, they seem to use some of the DH trails, some of which are a bit beyond my ability in daylight nevermind the dark. Anyone done it before?
never done the day/night (can never find the motivation for that one) but done a few of the day ones. TBH, the DH runs tend to be the some of the easier parts
Mud, mud, glorious mud... I've no clue what the stages will be but I hear there'll be a new cut section, and they always turn into slippery death by race day. Conti Barons for me, something that works on hard stuff as well as mud. Might even stick a Der Baron on the front.
One of the other night races ended up with hard frost and ice patches on everything, that was... exciting.
Oops... @bigjim, yes they do generally use dh trails but not normally the hardest or scariest ones. You might reasonably expect that the day/night would have easier stages, but that's not been the case before! It's challenging stuff but not insane.
I'm not that great- I do OK but I'm never that fast on these things- so you don't have to be a crazy downhiller, but you do have to be reasonably competent and confident. But they are brilliant, always a great atmosphere, great riding. The night ones have a nice extra edge of silliness about them.
under normal conditions, Inners winter series Enduros are a mud fest. I'd be looking at Conti Barons at a minimum and maybe even a full on Mud DH tyre on the front depending on the sections chosen and preceding weather.
It's funny on the practice day seeing people changing tyres for the most mud friendly they have or turn up the next day having begged borrowed or stolen full on mud DH tyres. Also seeing locals selling mud tyres to the desperate
do a lot of people wear full face for this one?
I love the enduro trails at inners but the features and steepness of some of the DH is what I'm not so keen on.
kinda tempted though, just bought a baron for the front and all
some do, most dont. IME.
Take both if you can be ar*ed.
but a lot of the "enduro" trails are steeper than the dh ones. I is confused.
I'm confused too. if they are steeper than the DH stuff I don't think its for me. I've only ridden the 'popular' obvious endruo ones like alistair lees, mince, kitty, doggy etc though, which certainly aren't steep.
Classic gets to be fairly steep after the black (and the mud makes it feel steeper)
I'd say if you're comfortable on the ali lees etc you'll probably be fine to do this event, there might be spikes of harder stuff in small doses but not likely to be enough to spoil your day. But that's just my perception maybe, I find the dh stuff easier because of the more predictable surfaces, if you're better on slippy stuff than me then maybe that changes...
I'd agree with that. Alistair Lees is probably one of the roughest tracks there, especially when it's a good rock/slime covering on it.
Probably the hardest trail they've used (when I've raced) was Bart's Trail, and it was shit and totally ruined during the race so can't see that being used again.
Cool, I like some of the DH routes but I've come across some pretty steep bits and drops n stuff (matador?), which frankly I'm too much of a wuss for. A Lees trail is one of my faves though. I like steep, just not big stuff.
tbh We often ride the trails used in various Enduros on our night rides - so based my Hans front and NN rear thoughts on the fact that compared to my current Minion DHF front and worn-out Ardent you'll have enough grip.
Cool, I like some of the DH routes but I've come across some pretty steep bits and drops n stuff (matador?), which frankly I'm too much of a wuss for. A Lees trail is one of my faves though. I like steep, just not big stuff.
theres some decent sized drops on matador, but its not very steep, only the first chute into the top of the middle section is steep
the very end of lower gold and lower cresta are steep.
I really want to do this but none of me mates fancy it
I'll be riding some of them tomorrow, took my summer tyre off the back tonight but it was a close call. I'm hoping for some frozen mud.
barryboglips - just do it! It's quite friendly - I'm sure you could hook up with folk during the day.
I don't really mind riding by meself that much, more than happy to mingle, just cba with driving up by meself lol.
Well post up on here or on the FB site to share a lift?
I'm in again. expecting mud and more mud. Pack some goggles or glasses
I am on my own again which I like. Just chat away on the ups and get passed continuously on the downs.
did you all survive? It was sold out when I tried to book it, though i hear there were some spaces this morning.
Watched at the rooty bit near the bottom of the top section of stage 2, carnage is the only word I have some video I might manage to post some time.
Hated it !! It was more or less a full downhill rooty run , nothing like the uk gravity enduro rounds I've done ( although I didn't do inners) pushing back up 50 % of the hill after each run was a right ball ace ,
Two of my pals did it, the one on the 170mm FS was quick while I got the impression that the other one on a 29er 100mm HT 'survived'.
Mind you, the first is now 'resting' while the second is out all day with me
I did it. I've ridden that same kind of race before up there but I'd describe this one as the hardest day's biking I've ever done! I felt a bit under the weather which didn't help and I thought I was fit enough - I wasn't.
I've ridden sections of both trails before there, but they were pretty brutal. I even considered giving up after completing the day stages (including the practice runs). But I manned up, popped some pills and a can of red bull and did the night stages as well and I'm glad I did otherwise I'd have been kicking myself otherwise. Still freaking hard though and the second stage was completely knackering.
I have to admit I'd have preferred a steady fire road climb as opposed to the push up tracks, but hey ho.
In my opinion Inners has a humbling effect on you. I like to think I'm a pretty decent rider (and reasonably fit), but I always come away from there thinking how the hell did I just get through that?! It really does open your eyes up to how good you are and where you need to improve (if you're into that kind of thing).
If you're looking for challenging steep technical riding, then I'd say you can't beat it. I certainly struggle to find anything close to it within a 2hr drive from Hull.
Looking forward to the next one!
Had a stupid crash in stage 2 and smashed up my hand so had to dnf Thought it was maybe broken but just very dinged up luckily. Fell off on the horrible pedal along the old xc climb (which is mysteriously a horrible climb no matter which direction you do it in), still no idea how considering all the tricky riding we did! Really enjoyed it up til that point though.
The climb being largely a push up was a wee bit off I thought, it's not a dh race, but then the descent stages made some of the other options impossible. And the timing- the big queue for dibbers meant a late start, so we ended up doing our second "daytime" run in the dark. Chap behind me came down with no lights and must have been riding by supersonic sonar radar.
Still, these are fantastic events. Love that they can take a classic enduro descent like the alistair lees, absolutely perfect for the job, and still think "Let's mess with it", put in a new (and bloody awkward) handcut section, then suddenly plonk you on a totally different bit of hill than you expected. Mind you I kind of wish it had ended in the quarry like usual, I do hate that pedal.
Oh and the BARREL OF FIRE! All winter races should have one.
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Canada's nuclear watchdog declared the controversial nuclear facility at Chalk River, Ont., safe and authorized its restart after more than a year of repairs.
The announcement came Wednesday after Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. appeared before the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission earlier in the week.
Officials expect the reactor will resume medical-isotope production by the end of the month.
The 53-year-old reactor has been offline for more than a year for repair of a radioactive water leak.
Before the shutdown, the National Research Universal reactor supplied one-third of the world's medical isotopes, used to diagnose cancer and heart ailments.
The commission set aside normal hearing rules to deal with what it called a priority case.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information said last month that medical tests using technetium (Tc-99m) isotopes fell 22 per cent in October compared with the previous year - about 12,000 fewer exams.
On Monday, AECL told the commission that detailed inspections of the repair by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority found the reactor fit for service.
"The commission concludes that AECL is qualified to carry out the activities that will be permitted under its current operating licence," the authority said in a release.
The commission said AECL will make "adequate provision for the protection of the environment, the health and safety of persons, and the maintenance of national security and measures required to implement international obligations to which Canada has agreed."
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A partner in the group proposing a desalination plant in Mexico that the Otay Water District hopes will supply a majority of its future water needs is having trouble securing the land to build the plant.
According to its most recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Cayman Islands-based Consolidated Water said that NSC Agua, the project developer, was not able to complete a purchase of two key parcels before the Dec. 11 closing date and now expects it will lose the $400,000 deposit it put down for the land.
The land in question is two 25-acre parcels where the plant would be situated.
"It's where the project is going to be, so of course it's key," said Gough Thompson, one of NSC Agua's principal investors.
NSC Agua is composed of Consolidated Water, which is a publicly traded water utilities company, and a group of Mexican and American investors that call themselves Norte Sur Agua. The proposal calls for a $500 million plant, which would produce up to 100 million gallons of water per day, next to a power plant in Rosarito Beach.
Otay plans on being one of the plant's primary customers and hopes to get more than three-fourths of its future water needs from the plant.
Officials with the Spring Valley-based water district are waiting to see what happens to the partnership before moving forward with more work on its end of the desalination project, including installing a pipeline to bring the water from the border to its system.
Otay has hired a host of consultants — including lobbyists, lawyers, engineers and advisers – to assist with the project, but the work has been ratcheted back as the project has been in limbo in recent months.
"It's really at a de minimis level," General Manager Mark Watton said.
NSC Agua, according to Consolidated's filing, is negotiating with the sellers to extend the closing date for the land sale.
Consolidated announced in November that it would be pulling out of the project, citing significant regulatory and funding challenges. The company gave an unnamed third party related to one of NSC Agua's partners a chance to purchase its shares, but the option was not picked up before a Nov. 21 deadline.
Consolidated, according to its filings, is still evaluating other options, including looking for other buyers, obtaining a controlling interest or restructuring NSC — or ceasing the partnership altogether.
Consolidated's Chief Executive Officer Rick McTaggart did not return emails and calls for comment.
Thompson, a Rancho Santa Fe resident and principal in EWG Water, said he believes that Consolidated is overstating the problem with the land.
Thompson said the difficulty with the sale is due to a complex process involving the privatization of property owned by an ejido, or a communal landholding group. Ejidos own much of the land in Rosarito Beach and throughout Mexico. In Mexico, land held by an ejido can be sold to private developers, but only after it goes through the privatization process.
Thompson said the process is nearing completion, and all that remains is for NSC officials to review the sale documents. He expects NSC will receive an extension to close the land purchase.
"The process has been difficult and has taken longer than we expected, a real pain in the rear end, but it's working its way out," Thompson said. "I'm quite optimistic."
Thompson also said he believes that Consolidated will ultimately choose to remain part of the partnership rather than pull out.
"Consolidated has a tendency to put stuff with the SEC before they know where it is at," Thompson said. "But they are doing that so that they don't have problems with the SEC, so they usually lean toward the negative. I think we'll move forward with the existing partnership."


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If you've ever sat down for a lunch with a group of marketers, you know how often the topic of "digital" comes up. Have you hired that entry-level employee to manage your global Facebook page? You HAVE a global Facebook page? What CRM vendor are you using for e-mail newsletters? You HAVE e-mail newsletters?
These are all common questions being tossed around, but the have-nots are apparently outnumber their more digitally savvy counterparts.
In a survey conducted by the CMO Council, only 9% of 200 global marketers surveyed consider their companies as having a highly evolved, integrated marketing model with a clear and proven path. Only 44% see their digital strategies as still being at as exploration level.
So what does this mean for a new generation of marketers eagerly looking social media platforms and authentic, on-target brand communication? We're always looking at the industry at large here at Altitude and are also always looking to evolve our mix. We know that radio means many things to people.
Check out some of our case studies for some examples of this. For Bank of America, we leveraged our on-air talent to create custom TV spots. And working with Allstate, we created custom traffic reports.
But it's not all grey skies: Forty-two percent of marketers reported that they have strong interest and active support at the line-of-business (LOB) level, 20% said they have a mandate and a budget to execute, and 18% said that this is an agenda item they have to address with their CEOs, CIOs and CFOs. However, 23% said that management is still trying to understand where digital marketing fits within their overall businesses.
More importantly, how can digitally-minded marketers push these initiatives through their organization? According to the CMO Council's findings, focus on ROI and digital's overall ability to increase marketing performance – nearly two-thirds of respondents stated this is where management's interests lie.


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Crystal Antlers: Tentacles
This Long Beach band is ready to hit it big with a squall of uncategorizable sound and attitude.
Crystal Antlers
TentaclesLabel: Touch and Go
US Release Date: 2009-04-07
UK Release Date: 2009-04-06
In the hyper-hyped, blog-buzzed world of modern indie rock, bands can't be content to strike only while the iron is hot -- they have to thwack that ballyhoo while it's just warming up, too. Take it from Crystal Antlers.
The Long Beach, California, sextet started building a locust-sized buzz even with only a self-released EP to its name. They toured incessantly, criss-crossing the country in their veggie-powered schoolbus on the F Yeah Tour with the likes of Dan Deacon, Matt & Kim, and Monotonix. They spun heads with their spazzed-out, stage-antic-stuffed live shows, and they rendered listeners blissfully confused with their strange concoction of psychedelic-garage-drone-prog rock -- a self-possessed tsunami of sound that was sorted and tamed by Mars Volta producer Ikie Owens. By the time Touch and Go Records re-released their self-titled EP last October, Crystal Antlers had already sold 5,000 records -- just by word of mouth. The iron was closer to hot, the buzz was closer to a 17-year cicada swarm, and the blogs were already speculating about their full-length.
Now, a mere six months later, Crystal Antlers have 13 new songs and an express-delivered debut long-player, ready to capitalize on their crescendoing hype. As quick as the band recorded and released the album, though, Tentacles doesn't sound the least bit rushed. If anything, the album sounds more confident and controlled than the EP, even when the songs run off the rails -- which they often do. Frenetically drum-filled, feedback-drenched songs like "Dust", "Time Erased", and "Your Spears" careen around time signatures and ricochet between algorhythmic math rock and arpeggio-heavy prog, while staying as cool, calm, and collected as a pilot crash-landing a plane into the Hudson. The title track, amidst screeching psych-saturated guitars, whiplash drums, and frenzied pleas from the singer, sounds surprisingly self-assured even as it tries to shed some of its screamo skin. And on a song like "Memorized", as hyperactive drum patterns punctuate each measure and the singer sandpapers his voice across a quasi-chorus, the group's signature Farfisa organ descends down a spiral staircase of arpeggios, seemingly aimless yet more peripatetic than lost.
Part of the reason for Crystal Antlers' poise and effortless control of chaos might simply be the amazing chemistry they possess as a band -- six musicians with six instruments from six different musical backgrounds playing what occasionally sounds like six different songs at the same time not only seems like the devil's setup, but also a recipe for a muddy and muddled-up disaster. Yet the Antlers are able to channel all those ideas and influences into a caulk-tight, mongrel sound that stays on its leash and never sounds congested. But perhaps the main reason the Antlers display such mystifying composure is that the group produced Tentacles themselves. And from the psych-blues-soul of "Andrew" to the seven-minute free jazz sound collage of "Several Tongues", you can hear the care in every strangled note, crucified chord, and schizophrenic time signature… all painstakingly laid out in a squall of uncategorizable sound and attitude. It's safe to say Crystal Antlers have struck the iron while it's hot, and while there's no one else out there who sounds even remotely like them.


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Santi Cazorla says Arsenal must adapt their game in Premier League and sometimes place results above performances to be successful.
The Gunners were top of the table over Christmas but slipped out of the title race in the second half of the campaign in typical fashion.
Cazorla says the criticism that has come their way in the past few months is to be expected and acknowledges that "something needs to change" in order for them to be able to compete for the top prize again.
Cazorla told Sky Sports: "Certainly we need to change something, because if we want to win we need to change. We will see what we have to do, but I think we need to be more regular, regulars every time.
"This year we lost at home to Swansea, drew at home to Crystal Palace, and this is the difference if you want to win the league. For example against Crystal Palace when we were winning 1-0, we need to think about defending sometimes.
"It's true we have a great mentality and great philosophy, because we always want to attack and always want to score, but sometimes we need to be clever, and if we are winning 1-0 we need to protect this result and win the three points."
He added: "We had a great opportunity [to win the title], we know that and we were disappointed. But this is football, and we only look to the future."


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The League has decided that Tottenham will play Aston Villa in the third round of the Capital One Cup on Tuesday, just two days after the north London club face Cardiff in the Barclays Premier League.
With Spurs playing Tromso in the Europa League on Thursday night, Villas-Boas's squad face three games in seven days.
The Portuguese understands the need to schedule the Cardiff game on Sunday, but he is perplexed why his squad will have to play at Villa Park 48 hours later, especially when some Capital One Cup fixtures are taking place on Wednesday.
Although he has a big squad, Villas-Boas fears some of his players could suffer serious injury because of the proximity between the Cardiff and Villa games.
"After this game we have not only the Sunday game but the Tuesday game, which I found as an incredible surprise. How can a game be scheduled immediately after two days? It's putting the players' careers at risk," he said.
"I find it absolutely incredible that we have to risk injuries to our players in a game that they play on that Tuesday. The second day of recovery is the most dangerous day for a player to pick up an injury. If this is not taken into account I think it's bad.
"Tottenham was chosen to play on Tuesday, with only the Monday to recover from the last match, and that puts us in a very difficult position."
The Football League defended its scheduling of the Capital One Cup, pointing out that it would be unsafe to move Spurs' game to Wednesday, when West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham are also playing in the Capital One Cup.
Both of those clubs are also playing teams (Arsenal and Swansea) who are in action on Sunday as well.
"There is a fixture congestion issue caused by three Midlands clubs being at home to sides playing on Sunday in the Premier League," a Football League spokesman said. "In an ideal world all three games would be played on the Wednesday night, but for crowd safety reasons it is not possible."
Meanwhile, Villas-Boas believes David Cameron's comments regarding chants including the word 'Yid' will be music to the ears of Tottenham fans.
The Prime Minister joined the debate surrounding chanting of the word on Tuesday, telling the Jewish Chronicle that Spurs supporters should not be prosecuted by the police, so long as they are not motivated by hate.
"There's a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult," Cameron said. "You have to be motivated by hate. Hate speech should be prosecuted – but only when it's motivated by hate."
Tottenham fans have called themselves "Yids" "Yiddos" or the "Yid Army" for many years as an act of defiance towards those who ridicule the club's links with the Jewish community.
The Football Association warned that such chanting could lead to a banning order or criminal prosecution, but the issue is muddied by the fact that police would have to prove the person chanting the Y-word did so with the idea of causing offence.
Tottenham insist there is no malice intended by the chanting, although they are planning to distribute a questionnaire to season ticket holders asking them if they think it is time to stop the chants.
Villas-Boas said he did not object to Cameron's involvement in the matter. "He can get involved anywhere, he is the Prime Minister," Villas-Boas said.
"I think his intervention was probably what Spurs fans would want to hear. It was straightforward in what he came out with and it was clear."


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TORONTO - Will the long arm of the NHL law grip David Clarkson yet again?
The Leafs forward will have to answer for his actions in a phone hearing Saturday morning with NHL disciplinarian chief, Brendan Shanahan.
The league is reviewing a hit Clarkson made on Blues winger Vladimir Sobotka during the second period of the Leafs 6-3 loss Thursday in St. Louis. Clarkson was assessed a two-minute minor for an illegal check to the head of Sobotka, who did not leave the game.
Clarkson, of course, had a troubling start to his career with the Leafs as he missed the first 10 games of the season because of a suspension handed out in the pre-season.


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AMD will not chase Intel making "needlessly powerful" CPUs
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | May 19, 2012 - 04:52 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: ultrabook, trinity, cloud computing, cloud, amd
Bloomberg Businessweek reports AMD CEO Rory Read claims that his company will produce chips which are suited for consumer needs and not to crunch larger and larger bundles of information. They also like eating Intel's bacon -- the question: is it from a pig or a turkey?
Read believes there is "enough processing power on every laptop on the planet today".
I disagree.
The argument revolves around the shift to the cloud, as usual. It is very alluring to shift focus from the instrument to the data itself. More enticing: discussing how the instruments change to suit that need; this is especially true if you develop instruments and yearn to shift anyway.
Don't question the bacon…
AMD has been trusting that their processors will be good enough and their products will differentiate in other ways such as with graphics capabilities which they claim will be more important for cloud services. AMD hopes that their newer laptops will steal some bacon from Intel and their ultrabook initiative.
The main problem with the cloud is that it is mostly something that people feel that they want rather than actually do. They believe they want their content controlled by a company for them until it becomes inaccessible temporarily or permanently. They believe they want their information accessible in online services but then freak out about the privacy implications of it.
The public appeal of the cloud is that it lets you feel as though you can focus on the content rather than the medium. The problem is that you do not have fewer distractions from your content -- just different ones -- and they rear their head once or twice in isolation of each other. You experience a privacy concern here and an incompatibility or licensing issue there. For some problems and for some people it makes more sense to control your own data. It will continue to be important to serve that market.
And if crunching ends up being necessary for the future it looks like Intel will be a little lonely at the top.
"needlessly powerful" in normal persons terms, "we can't complete with power of an intel cpu so we won't even try
The problem here is that people like me do _not_ want AMD nor Intel to tell us what is "needlessly powerful", we prefer to decide that _ourselves_.
I love AMD.
But no one's asking for their opinion on what amount of CPU power a consumer needs, and this quote will go down on the same list "640K should be enough for anybody" is on.
I am starting to think they are doing this on purpose so that they can go to the FTC some time later and get more money from Intel. Intel pretty much put up a token fight oo that last suit and just gave AMD 2.0Bs to stop whining. Not really but it would be funny if it turns out to be true.
AMD has the engineers and the minds, they just need someone that's not a complete moron to get the groups working together. And in my opinion spinning off their foundries was a stupid idea, that's is just my opinion though.
Considering how many consumers are flocking like turkeys to tablets and phones, AMD's probably running away from the hard fight with Intel because they see easy money elsewhere, specifically consoles.
To be honest, my Athlon II x4 build from two years ago will be the last AMD-based computer I buy.
"AMD CEO Rory Read claims that his company will produce chips which are suited for consumer needs and not to crunch larger and larger bundles of information."
What do they think they're doing? To me it seems like they refuse to design an architechure that isn't convoluted and will keep throwing revisions at their current mess that is bulldozer/trinity. The hilarious thing is that Intel's integrated graphics (HD4000) are catching up to AMD's, making the purchase of a trinity netbook more than mildly pointless. Not everyone wants a sub-par CPU tied in with mid-level GPU's. If AMD isn't going to innovate, then they don't deserve my money. If they want to go after the thoughtless consumers rather than spend time developing an architechure that isn't a constant hack-job so they can ACTUALLY COMPETE.
Farewell AMD, hopefully someone can save your company before your ATI acuisition doesn't keep your terrible choices afloat
I hope you are just whining in the hope that there is a compeditor to Intel so you don't get raped at the cash register. Amd is doing nothing but innovating.
There are reasons AMD has fallen behind and it has nothing to do with design. Bulldozer is the future if you want to see faster and faster CPUs. They have some tweaks to make to a "NEW" product to get the performance on par with Intel. Bulldozer actually needs the software community to catch up to and to make use of the design (Windows 8 for starters). As the number 2 retailer of desktop CPU's it is going to be hard to get software designers to take advantage of AMD's core strength.
Ultimately it will be marketing and business people trying to squeeze a every dollar out of this train wreck that will bring AMD company down. At first I wanted to bash your narrow sighted view of this situation and the current innovation as well as big risks that is Bulldozer but the point of your post is exactly right. The company needs to innovate or they won't see my money in the future as well. I just hope we all don't get held hostage by Intel. I see powerful desktop ARM processors in near the future.
Bulldozer is a fish out of water (more like a beached shark)
While I'm sure the statement comes from AMD's inability to compete, but that doesn't make it wrong. The enthusiast market is a small market. If ignoring this market helps bring well balanced mid range and low end products, then that's the way to go.
Unfortunately it looks to me like Intel is getting good enough on the graphics front that AMD will have a real problem competing at any level. If a Core i3 Haswell can reach AMD performance level in all games and surpass it in some, while offering better CPU power, then AMD will have little to offer.
Striking too is the fact that this was -not- the tone they used while launching the new FX series CPUs, but that this is their tone after they have been benchmarked.
AMD FX-8150 ! Because anything more powerful is needless !
Benchmarked? More like "benched." :-) But seriously now...I see what you mean though. I was all set to buy an FX-8150 for my next system, until I started reading the tests vs Sandy Bridge Core. The FX was better at certain workloads, sometimes dramatically better. But those were only just a few. More often than not, an i5 did almost as well, or in some cases, better. That, and power draw was significantly more. And now with Ivy being released, and power consumption even more miserly, AMD may or may not have the ooomph with Piledriver to take on Core.
What if we start using the GPU as the main source for all the calculations Like a all in one chip.
We do math and everything else in a GPU
It not a complete thought... but CPU seem to be changing how everything is coded.
You can not win against Intel so try to do what they are not capable of doing, and go against their weakness.
People want the Cloud to be like google doc`s and youtube. just always there.
Well the idea of Amazon silk and NetFlix I think for latency issues you need SSD and GPU`s to crunch those numbers. i just hope internet throttling and the speeds uploading and downloading increase a lot more and prices drop etc.
Abandoning the segments of the market that they have been competing in does seem to be a poor, shortsighted tactic. Soon this tactic may find them without a segment of the market to compete in at all. AMD may be marginalizing themselves regardless of how the market may shift in the future.
I'd ask AMD following questions:
Who came in second and third after Michael Phelps at the Olympics in Beijing ?
Follow up question,…..who cares who comes in second and third even if its by a fraction of a second?
Suck it up already and get back in the game.
First I have a question for the author of this article: this article is about cloud computing and the problems that it raises ( "The main problem with the cloud...") ? because half of the article is about cloud computing and "The public appeal of the cloud..." => you missed the title then. But I think you did this on purpose to put AMD decisions in a bad light; "AMD" is too stupid to make the right decisions ( obviously intel is involved here), correct me if I am wrong.
Second in the source you cited its talking about laptops processing power not desktops or servers ( the information is too vague about them). What I understand from your source is that AMD's main focus will be to "tailor chips more directly to specific customer needs" like now for ultrathins => less power consumption and better user experience... and then to bring high end chips, they never said they wouldn't just priorities are different now. And hey we are the customers and if AMD will see that the high end segment is more profitable ( will have more customers) then i guess that they will be forced to bring high end chips, otherwise go and buy intel chips if you need more power.
And now everyone is talking that ivy hd 4000 performance is getting closer to trinity gpu but if you look here at LegitReviews will see that hd 4000 is just under or ( in some games) above Llano gpu, because you must don't forget that i7 3720qm is a quad core, 8 threads, 45W chip. Trinity gpu is the king here and its doing all this consuming less power than intel and llano. So I don't think that hd 4000 can compete with trinity gpu at same power consumtion ( not at same TDP).
If someone had looked at intel slides for haswell laptops would have seen that there are 2 interesting words : notebook reinvented. And I think they refer to power consumption and better gpu. If they manage to achieve this than they will be in the position where is AMD today, bringing a less powerful cpu + a better gpu. If you look at trinity die you will see that half of the chip is taken by gpu and if you want less power consumption you have to cut somewhere. Of course when intel will do that it will be called "notebook reinvented" but now when AMD achieved this it is nothing worth attention.
For this last opinion we will have to wait till 2013 to see if I am right or not, till then its just my opinion.
But for now I would like to see an intel chip that uses the same amount of power like trinity and manages to beat it in gpu and I mean not TDP but power consumed from the wall.
And if it is true that AMD would no more compete in high end segment ( for this will have to wait and see) appears an interesting situation, till now nobody cared about their cpus ( they are worthless/not good as intel's...) and now when they are trying to move to an segment where they are good and can compete to earn some money ( they lost a lot in the last years) suddenly its a wrong decision...
We are the consumers and we can decide what to buy and what not. If you don't like AMD products ( they are worthless/weaker/not good...) then nobody forces you to by it ! But I doubt that at least for this generation intel can be better in price/performance in mainstream notebook and ultrabooks/ultrathins.
intel's ivy bridge cpu's are more expensive compare to Amd. Personally i dont mind CPU performance since i just want a performance that can do msimple multi tasking and AMD trinity is a good apu if im going to buy a notebook compare to ivy bridge since it is more expensive while amd gpu is more good but i wish that the gpu will be more powerful.
Both companies offerings right now are a joke that seems to play around with what people want without offering it. For Intel you can't decode their CPUs performance and features without a chart and their most compelling price performance options are found in Xeons like the E3-1230 V2. For AMD you've got a couple chips that eat too much juice for their performance profile and their Fusion APUs which make sense for one purpose - laptops that can play games. So basically all nonsense.
If you can't make a decent desktop high-end processor, it might not be easy to compete with Intel in server space. Intel has been scaling down their server chip for desktop part for years. So even if AMD achieves what it intends, rival Intel with APU on consumer devices, the cloud will be "powered by Intel". Then, you say the future is cloud, which kinda shoots yourself in foot.
I don't think AMD is done with CPU. They have to push harder and catch up.
If AMD fails to keep up, expect the next generation of INTEL CPUs to double in price.
A stupid statement taken out of context.
A classic case of "Foot In Mouth" disease.
AMD is a dead. Clearly just life support now. Things are so bad that now they make RAM. AMD has lost on all fronts to either Nvidia or Intel. It is really only their x86 and x64 licenses that keep them alive. Of course those are licensed by Intel. I really like competition but may the best company win and clearly AMD has failed and failed and failed and...
So glad I do not rely on any AMD part in my build. DO not trust. Buyer Beware. This is the company who's new chips are slower and hotter than their old chips time and again. If their products were priced according to performance they would go out of business.
"This is the company who's new chips are slower and hotter than their old chips time and again." did you saw benchmarcs between llano and trinity? intel troll...
Well....sort of. To try to catch Sandy Bridge, the FX-8150 gets wicked fast clocking, therefore gets hotter. But the buzz is all now that Ivy Bridge runs hotter than Sandy Bridge, so in that aspect, Intel is becoming subject to heating. But this I hear is due to using thermal paste to couple the die to the heat spreader, which I guess they used to use solder.
My next Laptop will definetly be a trinity apu powered machine, but after such a coment, that cpu power is ok already i wont upgrade my Intel core 2 duo to a Amd desctop.
I render 3D visualaisations so a half baked cpu isn't an option for me.
I'm sure after a while i will render my images on a Gpu, porbably AMD one, but it will take quite a few years when it (program support) gets there...
First I have to say Scott's summary of the cloud is dead-on and echoes what I have been saying about it also. As far as AMD goes I think this is a case of a company that can no longer compete with some their products so they're taking a "good enough" stance. The fact is that if AMD had competitive processors then that statement wouldn't have been made.
About the only thing keeping the company together are its GPUs. I still think at some point in the near future AMD will go belly up and Intel will get its graphics division while Nvidia grabs its CPU division.
I could see them cutting desktop CPU support, and focusing on mobile chips like we see in current notebooks. I also think they'll strengthen their presents in the low power sector for consoles, tablets, and smartphone devices. I don't think they will go under. If VIA can carve out a market for itself AMD will be able to as well.
I can't imagine nVidia making CPUs in direct competition with Intel in any market.
" did you saw benchmarcs between llano and trinity? intel troll..."
You have to be kidding me.
Did you see Bulldozer vs Thuban?
Their Flagship long awaited "killer cpu" isn't as good as the old 6core 1100T, it uses more power and needs a beef OC just to compete in even SuperPI.
LULZ @ Llano vs Trinity.
Don't give a hoot about bargain chips sorry. Clearly AMD is having a huge problem improving upon previous generations but time and time again intel improves. Am I wrong? They keep getting more efficient, colder and faster. Something I am missing here? Why is AMD making ram and diversifying so much if they are successful in their current scheme? Hint: They aren't.
from where do you get your informations? just read a little. Trinity uses pilldriver core for cpu which is bulldozer enhanced/corrected/tuned. Don't mix the informations. Just read some reviews and don't speak if you have things confused.
AMD still makes good stuff for a decent price, you have to fork over 1,000 just for a really fast intel chip.
no thanks.
why is it that just cause you don't make the fastest chip on the market your company is suddenly doomed. c'mon guys get a grip.
As a performance PC enthusiast, I don't like the direction that AMD is heading to by only covering mobile users, servers, game consoles, and low-end desktops. During the days of the K7 (Athlon, Duron, Athlon XP) and K8 (Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, Opteron, Sempron), we had stiff competition between Intel and AMD as both companies traded blows year after year during that time period. The competition between Intel and AMD kept things exciting for enthusiasts, provided customers more choices, and finally kept prices reasonable. AMD never had the money or resources like Intel during their 40+ time in the industry, but during the K6, K7, and K8 years, AMD made the best with what little they had and delivered with amazing products that were high quality and delivered lots for the money.
Since Intel released the Core2 way back in mid-2006, it has been a one-sided race with Intel leaving AMD in the dust year after year. Everything has gone all downhill for AMD since they bought out ATI in 2006, overall a HUGE MISTAKE! And since then, AMD has made bad decision after bad decision, and no different to your typical politician, has broken plenty of promises.
I have lost just about all respect for AMD in the last few years as instead of fixing the problems that are troubling the company, they are making them worse. AMD, that once energetic, innovative Thoroughbred champion during the K7 and K8 years is now an ailing horse that needs to be shot out of its misery. I hope a company that has strong resources, lots of money, strong leadership, solid marketing skills BUYS out AMD and continues producing CPU's, APU's, and GPU's to provide competition to Intel and NVIDIA on all levels. My $0.02
In 2020 I will still have my Phenom II BE in my box.
Fuck Intel.
And yes I do hope another company buys or even bails AMD out to preserve and stabilize a great company that presented the world with technology.
AMD all the bloody way!
"Needlessly powerful"... if we lived by that logic we all would still be rockin the Atari.
To push for more and better is what makes us the present... to learn from our mistakes is to look to our past, and to have a gaming system that I can directly plug into my head is our future.
So in short... keep striving for better you nerds! When I'm in a retirement home I want a system I love so I'll request to be buried next to it instead of my wife.
It would be awesome if AMD came out with a retraction, stating that they lost their way, become overwhelmed with hopelessness, and that the previous press release was a product of their own apprehension of the future; however, they realized their mistake, have been filled with renewed hope, and intend to make the best processors at the most competitive prices until the sun explodes.
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A 20-year-old man from Perham with two criminal sexual conduct convictions allegedly made inappropriate comments and touched a 17-year-old girl he was dancing with, all in violation of his probation.
Gregory Michael Keppers was spotted with the 17-year-old and a girl who was 16 at the time of the street dance in Nimrod on Sept. 6. Keppers was not supposed to be in the company of any female under 18 as conditions of his release from third-degree criminal sexual conduct convictions from October 2009 and November 2009.
The 17-year-old told investigators Keppers had touched her in the thigh near her genital area and made references to oral sex acts while dancing.
When authorities talked to Keppers, he denied having contact with anyone under the age of "37-40" that night. He also denied drinking alcohol, court records said, but he had a can of beer in his hand when police spotted him and he gave a breath sample that registered 0.054 blood alcohol content.
He was charged Sept. 14 with lewd and lascivious conduct, a gross misdemeanor.


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Melbourne's Robert Smerdon has set his sights on a Sydney Cup 2014 campaign this coming autumn for his soon-to-return stayer Cooldini.
The Bernardini four-year-old hasn't raced since early July but is nearing a comeback prep which will see them target the classic Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m) at Royal Randwick on April 26, worth $1 million thanks to a prize money boost this year.
One of the few true Cup races left on the Australian racing calendar being run over the two miles, the Sydney Cup looks an ambitious aim for the gelding who has had just the one run in black type company.
It was a disastrous effort too with Cooldini finishing 10th behind Escado in the Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) as a three-year-old last May.
They have however won five of their 13 starts with their longest distanced win being over 2520m at Flemington back in June.
At their latest start they contested the $100,000 Banjo Paterson Series Final (2600m) but could only manage to finish six and a half lengths away third behind De Fine Lago and Outback Joe as the beaten odds-on favourite.
They've trialed once since when third over 1000m at Pakenham in early December and return to racing this Saturday at Flemington in the $120,000 Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m).
One of 13 gallopers nominated for the 2014 Chester Manifold, Cooldini could face a tough field first-up including the Darren Weir-trained Anlon coming off a win at the track and distance from New Year's Day, the Peter Moody-trained Christmas Stakes third placed mare Kneeling, Peter Snowden's Villiers Stakes runner-up Limes and Chris Waller's 2012 Randwick Guineas second placegetter Said Com.
"He's capable of running a cheeky race fresh but he'll be better suited as the races get longer," Smerdon told AAP.
While 2600m is as far as they've been stretched to date, Smerdon is sure Cooldini has what it takes to develop into a genuine two miler this season.
"He gives me every indication that he may well run the distance," he said.
"He hasn't raced for six months so he has to work his way up there with a few lead-in runs."
There's also a chance Smerdon will give them a shot at a jumps career having given them some teachings in the hurdle world last year.
"He's qualified as a jumper but his flat form was good enough to pursue a decent staying race," Smerdon said.
"Some horses mix it up – they can do both – and that's an option for him."
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- Corus Quay TorontoCorus Entertainment, one of the biggest and most powerful media companies in Canada, has a new home in downtown Toronto - and it's one of the most sustainable new buildings in the city. The Corus Quay building features several cutting-edge sustainable building strategies (including a green roof and a gray water recycling system), but the most striking aspect is easily the five-story, dual-sided living green wall that adds some aesthetically pleasing foliage to the new office building while acting as a biofilter, purifying the air. Oh, and did we mention there's a three-story slide cutting through the middle of the headquarters too?1
- Corus Quay TorontoThe building, which was completed in 2010, was one of the first buildings to be completed on Toronto's massive new waterfront development, and it serves more than 1,000 employees.2
- Corus Quay TorontoThe boxy, 500,000-square-foot building was designed by Designed by Toronto-based design firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, and it's expected to earn LEED Gold certification.3
- Corus Quay TorontoThere are plenty of reasons we'd love to work at the Corus Quay building, and here's another big one: right next to that massive green wall there is a three-story indoor slide, which twists and turns, whisking workers from a third-story lounge area down to ground level.4
- Corus Quay TorontoThe vegetated wall, which was designed by Nedlaw Living Walls, is located in a large, five-story atrium, which floods offices throughout the building with natural lighting.5
- Corus Quay TorontoThe wall and the atrium area also provide an inviting place for workers to take a break, with reclining Adirondack chairs that look out on dramatic views of Lake Ontario.6
- Corus Quay TorontoTo add to the already-inviting work environment, the building features three public art installations by UK artists Troika and wood paneling in the atrium area that was made using reclaimed hemlock from a 1910 ferry terminal wharf in Toronto.7


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You got that right. I'm a fan of Derek's. His fans are voting for him, and not because of Joanna, although I don't have anything against her.Originally Posted by cousin_oliver;3715092;
You got that right. I'm a fan of Derek's. His fans are voting for him, and not because of Joanna, although I don't have anything against her.Originally Posted by cousin_oliver;3715092;
Not only are his fans evidently voting for him, but I think the judges are voting for him as well. Derek is a fantastic choreographer and dancer, and it was he who was doing by far the lion's share of the dancing in that routine last night. He looked great! However, this is not supposed to be about Derek - it is supposed to be more about Joanna.Originally Posted by BerryCrazy;3716057;
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have.
~ Author unknown
The judges are in love with Derek, and I'm inclined to believe (like with Mya/Dmitry) that Joanna may not be doing well with the fan voting, so they fluff their scores up and sing praises to her to try and keep them alive. Seriously, Joanna just looks like she has a blank look on her face and has no idea where she is. Len would have nailed anyone else for swinging from a rope in the entrance. These two are just boring to watch, or rather she's just boring to watch.Originally Posted by Bloomers;3719908;
Am I the only one who didn't think their dance was that hot, sexy, steamy, and sultry? Derek whips his shirt off, Joanna gropes the judges, Len wants them to do the encore tomorrow, they babble on and on about how hot and steamy the dance is and hope the kids were in bed and that kept them satisfied for 6 months. I think they had their mind made up 2 seconds in they were going to give them good scores. But I'd hate to burst Joanna's bubble, but I think most of the praise and cheers go to Derek, not her. She's a good dancer, but she's done practically the same style dances and the routines all seem similar. I would have rather seen her, like Mya, get the two step this week.
Joanna said she wants a 10, so next week she'll probably get it. Last season Chuck whined about wanting a 9 and finally he got one (maybe it was 3, I can't remember). And not that I'm against a PSA for adopting animals (it's the only way I've gotten my pets ) but why did Joanna/Derek get that bit that had nothing to do with their dance routine?
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I'm a huge animal lover but I thought the trip to the pound had absolutely nothing to do with anything - except that Joanna probably has a likability index somewhere between Leona Helmsley and Joey Buttafucco's girlfriend, so I'm guessing the idea was to humanize her.
It didn't work. She'll be around for a while because Derek is very good, but she has no chance of winning.
I think it was both a PSA (TPTB must be animal lovers.....me too!) and decided to kill 2 birds with one stone and give it to Joanna, as SDL said, to humanize her. She does have this blank look on her all the time!Originally Posted by sdl;3726327;
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Do you think of these things as you are typing or do you have to ponder it for a moment? Cracks me up!
I have to agree with you. she's boring and not very personable. I didn't see the show that everyone is talking about where she was a royal bitch, but I see glimpses of it here and there. She's really sweet to everyone but her words and actions often don't match her expression. She always has a look on her face like she just sucked on a lemon.
I'm not real impressed with her dancing, either. She's too loose and not controlled. She also watches Derek a lot, like she doesn't quite remember the dance. All the other stars eventually get called on that so when's her turn?
I hate when the cops throw me in the back of the squad car ....like they didnt hear me call shotgun.
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Originally Posted by karalott;3726305;
This dance is about sex - I tried to tastefully allude to this last week when I went online and watched those clips and came back and reported. Len said it all when he said: "I want to see "raunch". Nobody delivered, and I really didn't think the producers would let them, nor did I want them to actually. I was appalled at some of the clips that I saw online.
However, I understood that Derek was symbolically trying to set the pace when he came out with his shirt off and when he said the dance was about "bumping and grinding" which they did do.
Personally, although I like the subtle suggestiveness of the rumba more than the "in your face" directness of the Lambada, I was more impressed with Derek and Joanna's than Dimitry's and Mya's.
Why? At least with Derek you had one professional who did the choreography teaching a model against two professionals doing the choreography teaching each other. That to me is more in keeping with what I thought was the premise of this show.
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have.
~ Author unknown
All I can say is that Joanna is very lucky to be teamed with Derek. He always makes his partners look good. She's certainly not the worst dancer the show has ever had, but I don't agree at all with the praise the judges heap on her.
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Originally Posted by karalott;3726305;
I didn't think it was at all hot or steamy or anything at all like that. It came off too fake, like pretty much everything this girl does. I don't think she is very pretty either, she has such a sour look on her face most of the time. She's a model? For what? Surely not head shots.


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Van Cliburn Memorial concert
On Thursday, Feb. 27, the Cliburn hosted the Van Cliburn Memorial Concert from the Sundance Square plaza in Fort Worth, Texas. This special event paid tribute to Van Cliburn on the one year anniversary of his passing.
Eight past Cliburn Competition award winners performed in the concert, which can be viewed in the video below.
Sergei Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36
Yakov Kasman, 1997 silver medalist
John Williams: Suite from Lincoln
Franz Liszt: Funerailles
Simone Pedroni, 1993 gold medalist
Claude Debussy: Menuet and Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque
Felix Mendelssohn: Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28
Steven Lin, 2013 jury discretionary award winner
Robert Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 11
Maxim Philippov, 2001 silver medalist
Franz Liszt: Apres une lecture du Dante
Alexey Koltakov, 2005 finalist
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Jose Feghali, 1985 gold medalist
Franz Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B Minor
Francis Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour
Franz Liszt: Paraphrase on Verdi's Ernani
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, 2001 silver medalist
Peter Tchaikovsky: Selections from The Seasons, Op. 37b
Alexander Kobrin, 2005 gold medalist


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The Challenges of Financial Liberalisation for Emerging Market Economies
In this speech to the staff of the Reserve Bank of India delivered on May 14, 2007 at the RBI, Central Office, Mumbai, the author offers some comments on the challenges posed by financial liberalisation drawing a comparison with France. The lessons that can be drawn from a comparison with the French experience may seem limited since, in the 1980s, France was facing capital outflows, whereas emerging economies are now often facing speculative capital inflows. However, while the challenge has become more demanding, successful financial liberalisation for EMEs still rests on the same two key conditions that applied to France: Building a resilient domestic financial system while or before opening the capital account; and shaping appropriate institutions and policies.
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Phil Knight Discusses State Of College Basketball Coppolella Banned As Part Of Braves' Penalties Jones Won't Sue NFL Owners Over Goodell Dish/CBS Dispute Likely To Affect Thanksgiving NFL MillerCoors, NASCAR Yet To Reach Extension Ruppe Is UA's Latest Exec Departure Sellout Crowd Turns Out For Crew Playoffs FC Cincinnati Owners Sign Option To Buy Stadium Site Duracell, SoFi Buying Six-Second Ads On Fox NBC's Preschlack Says Chicago Cuts Part Of Evolution
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Magic Johnson Joins Ownership Group Interested In Purchasing Dodgers
Basketball HOFer Magic Johnson announced Friday that he has joined forces with Guggenheim Baseball Management "in hopes of buying the Dodgers," according to Bill Plaschke of the L.A. TIMES. Johnson will serve "as the point man for a group that will be backed by the prestigious Guggenheim brand and led by respected veteran baseball executive Stan Kasten." Plaschke noted the complete list of bidders "hasn't emerged, but at this early point it would be difficult to find a group with a stronger combination of deep pockets, a deep Los Angeles connection, and deep affection for the Dodgers." Johnson said Friday, "The Dodgers have been so important to this community for so many years, for so many reasons. I've lived through it all like everyone else and I want to make them great again." Plaschke noted in searching for the "right fit for his Dodgers dreams, Johnson researched six prospective bidders," but when he "met Mark Walter, Guggenheim's CEO, he was convinced." Johnson said, "Listening to Walter talk about winning, it was like listening to Jerry Buss. He told me three times, all I want to do is get to the World Series. I know great owners, and this guy can be a great owner." Johnson's decision "was clinched by the presence of Kasten" (L.A. TIMES, 12/3). Johnson said that the group's "ownership of the Dodgers -- if it happens -- would work this way: Walter would write the big checks; Kasten would oversee the baseball operations; and Johnson ... would work as a president or vice president on both the business side and in recruiting players, when needed." ESPN.com's Buster Olney noted the sale process for the Dodgers "could begin as soon as next week, when financial details of the team will be released to prospective buyers." The Lakers "would love to see Johnson with a large ownership role in the Dodgers." Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak "regularly speaks with Johnson, who has said he'll never leave his influential role behind the scenes with the Lakers and the Buss family." Johnson said that he "intends to reach out to baseball commissioner Bud Selig sometime after the winter meetings" (ESPN.com, 12/2).
MAGIC TOUCH: In DC, Adam Kilgore noted it "became something of an open secret in the sport that Kasten would bid to buy the Dodgers." Kasten this year "sold his ownership stake in the Nationals, formally allowing himself to pursue other opportunities." The cost to buy the Dodgers "could reach as high as $1 billion, but an individual close to Kasten said he is confident the astronomical asking price will not be an issue for the group" (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 12/2). But in L.A., Tom Hoffarth wrote Johnson's decision to join the ownership group "makes as much sense as Sandy Koufax deciding he needs to take over the Lakers." The "fact that Magic says he's sifted through the applications of six potential ownership groups ... shows only that he's been doing some wise political networking." Hoffarth noted as the list "grows by the hour of credible businessmen who are apt to step up and lend their names and wallets toward ownership of the Dodgers, Magic Johnson can't be taking himself seriously." Hoffarth: "Go ahead and be part of some kind of ownership group that's trying to bring the NFL back to L.A. Start something new. Just don't be thinking blue" (L.A. DAILY NEWS, 12/3).
BACK TO REALITY: FSN late Friday filed deposition notices for Selig, MLB Exec VP/Labor Relations & HR Rob Manfred and Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt, continuing its ongoing battle with the club over media rights. The deposition notices arrive in advance of a key hearing beginning Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., which may decide the future of the rights. McCourt, as part of ongoing efforts to sell the club by April, wants an accelerated auction for the rights beginning immediately. FSN is aiming to protect its existing contract, stipulating for an exclusive renegotiation period not beginning until late next year. But the deposition notices, also served to Dodgers CFO Peter Wilhelm and Assistant Treasurer Jeffrey Ingram, are believed to be connected to a separate FSN legal push to have the club dismissed from bankruptcy, which is scheduled to have its own hearing Dec. 27. It is not yet certain whether the MLB or Dodgers execs served will fight the depositions sought by FSN. But given the league's stated neutrality on the Dodgers-FSN fight, and the club's obvious opposition, voluntary cooperation is not likely (Eric Fisher, SportsBusiness Journal). In N.Y., Richard Sandomir noted the FSN-Dodgers television contract indicates that "Fox Sports West 2 -- Prime Ticket's official name -- paid the team $14.7 million in 2002 and $15.4 million in 2003 to show 80 games each year." The rest of the games "were carried on a local broadcast station." By '04, the deal "required showing 100 telecasts on Fox/Prime." For that, the rights fee in '04 "rose to $25 million." Payments then rose "about 5 percent annually, hitting $30.4 million in 2008." In '13, the "last year of the contract, the Dodgers are to receive $38.8 million." Sandomir noted when a new deal "is done -- and approved by the team's new owner -- the Dodgers will receive far more money from their local cable TV deal than they have been receiving" (N.Y. TIMES, 12/4).
CRITICAL MISTAKES? The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Ashby Jones notes thanks to the "high-profile nature of the McCourts' divorce proceedings, the dispute involving the law firm, Bingham McCutchen LLP, and Mr. McCourt has gone public." At the "heart of conflict is whether Mr. McCourt suffered any harm as a result of what he alleges was a mistake on Bingham's part, and if so, how much" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/5).
Marlins Show They Are Serious, Sign Jose Reyes To Six-Year Deal Worth More Than $100M
The Marlins and SS Jose Reyes "agreed to terms on a six-year deal that will reportedly pay him $102 million, the largest contract the Marlins have ever given to a player," according to Clark Spencer of the MIAMI HERALD. The Mets were reportedly "willing to give Reyes no more than [a] five-year deal worth $75 to $80 million" (MIAMI HERALD, 12/5). The Reyes signing comes after the Marlins last week signed P Heath Bell to a three-year, $27M contract, and the WALL STREET JOURNAL's Brian Costa notes it appears the Marlins, who have "long been among baseball's thriftiest teams, have the cash to back up their recruiting efforts" this offseason. Marlins President David Samson said last week, "Clearly, with the new ballpark opening in 2012, we have an opportunity to capture more revenue, and we're putting that directly into payroll. We're able to talk to players that in the past we wouldn't have an opportunity to speak with." But Costa notes for the Mets, losing Reyes "represents a dramatic role reversal" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/5). MLB Network's John Hart said the Marlins are "projecting their revenue." Hart: "It's going to be interesting for fans to come out and get their arms around it. There's going to be a lot more people coming in, corporate sales, there's going to be merchandising sales, signage, all of that is going to be revenue that they're projecting. And what they're doing, they're taking that revenue and they're going to put this into players." MLB Network's Harold Reynolds said, "To have a dome stadium, all of a sudden now you can plan the game will be played, and you can sell that. … They're not all coming from Miami, people are driving from all over Florida to come to a ball game and if you plan it you're saying, 'We don't know if it's going to rain or not,' why are you going? … The game will be played and that's important" ("Hot Stove," MLB Network, 12/2).
THE LOST BOYS: In New Jersey, Bob Klapisch writes the loss of Reyes "is an indictment of [Mets Owners] the Wilpons' collapsing empire." Klapisch: "Is there any remaining doubt the Wilpons are too broke to operate a major-market team?" (Bergen RECORD, 12/5). ESPN N.Y.'s Rob Parker writes the Mets' "below-market offer of $90 million for six years wasn't going to get it done and fell way short." The Mets can "act surprised when they see Reyes holding up that Marlins jersey at a news conference." They can "try to convince Mets fans that they did their best to hold onto what many thought would be a piece of their winning puzzle for a long time." But "none of it is true." The Mets "now need a new plan." If management "was serious about trying to build a team to win another championship, it should have started the process by dealing Reyes." Parker: "Instead, they lost him. Just terrible. Just the Mets" (ESPNNY.com, 12/5). The N.Y. Post's Bart Hubbuch wrote on his Twitter feed, "I covered a Marlins game in '09 where we literally counted 326 people in the stands. For Mets to be outbid by that team is beyond absurd."
Suns Reportedly First To Launch New Ad Campaign After Labor Agreement
The Suns on Friday were expected to start launch "one of the league's first localized ad campaigns, if ... not the first one," since a tentative agreement to end the lockout was reached, according to Paul Coro of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC. The team was to begin running "Time to Rise" ads in print and radio commercials voiced by team announcer Al McCoy. City billboards are "coming too with the back image of Steve Nash with arms extended inside the flame wings of the Phoenix bird." Nash "remains the face of the franchise for everyone who doubted he would continue to be this season." Suns President Brad Casper said, "It's a call to get on with it and elevate our game. We all had this emotional, visceral reaction to it (the slogan 'Time to Rise'). It's harkening back to Rocky Balboa days. There's something about someone with their hands in the air." Casper said that the Suns staff "is aware it has to win some Suns fans and this soft multimedia approach is just the beginning, especially with some leaguewide ventures that will be coming out too" (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 12/2).
THINKING BIG: The Bobcats took out a full-page ad in yesterday's Charlotte Observer touting the team's Open House event on Thursday. The ad included the copy, "Big things are coming!" The tag is part of the NBA's leaguewide ad campaign that will run across all NBA broadcast and social media platforms (THE DAILY).
MLB Franchise Notes: Tom Ricketts Comes Out In Support Of Crane Kenney
ESPN CHICAGO's Bruce Levine reported Cubs Chair Tom Ricketts "came out in strong support of his president of business operations Crane Kenney on Saturday, to the point that he said the team is working on a contract extension for the at times maligned executive." Ricketts said of Kenney Saturday on ESPN Radio 1000 Chicago, "He's considered one of the best presidents in baseball. Since we started working together, I've been consistently impressed with his ability to handle all the issues of the team, and still keep his eyes on the horizon of what we can do to get better." In addition to "leading the Cubs' efforts to refurbish Wrigley Field, Kenney has been the team's front man on putting in a new spring training facility in Mesa, Ariz., as well as working with other front-office staff to build and develop a complex in the Dominican Republic" (ESPNCHICAGO.com, 12/3).
BUILDING THE FARM: In Dallas, Evan Grant notes heading into this week's winter meetings, Rangers front office execs will "try to get a better handle on how deeply new rules in the collective bargaining agreement with players will impact their international and amateur scouting program." After using a "haul of draft picks in 2007 to accelerate a rebuilding process that continually has slid them lower and lower in the draft pecking order, the Rangers have turned increasingly to international scouting to supplement their talent pool." Rangers GM Jon Daniels said he thinks the new rules "might impact a team's ability to accelerate the building process" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 12/5).
TAX EVASION: In N.Y., Joel Sherman noted the Yankees have said that they "are driven to have a payroll of $189 million or less in 2014 when that becomes the luxury tax threshold" because the "incentives that come via the new CBA are just too great for them to ignore." Under the new agreement, if the Yankees "are at $189 million or less for the three seasons from 2014-16, they not only avoid paying one cent in luxury tax, which would rise to 50 percent for them as repeat offenders, but they also would get roughly $40 million in savings via the to-be-implemented market disqualification revenue sharing program." Even if they "just went under $189 million for 2014 before going over again in 2015," they would get "about $10 million in the revenue sharing disqualification program" (N.Y. POST, 12/4).