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Giants scuffle in losing series to Marlins
Pence snaps San Francisco's homer drought; Cain allows leadoff shot
SAN FRANCISCO -- Pablo Sandoval can't get back soon enough, as far as the Giants are concerned. The third baseman, who has completed his rehab assignment, sat on the San Francisco bench Sunday, but wasn't eligible to return until Monday, when the Giants will recall him for their series with the Dodgers.
All he could do was watch as the Giants' offense flailed to a 7-2 loss to the Marlins on Sunday afternoon.
"If you can [expect a player to stabilize the offense], it's him," Hunter Pence said. "He adds a lot of energy, so we're ready to get him back."
Another day presented another talented young Marlins starter, and this time Nathan Eovaldi stymied the Giants as they failed to score more than three runs for the fifth time in seven games.
"I don't know if they were pressing," manager Bruce Bochy said. "We saw a great arm today. ... Still, you've got to find a way to score runs."
They had ample opportunities to score the game-tying run down 3-2 in the late innings, but twice failed to score a runner from third base. In the eighth inning, Gregor Blanco reached third on a Marco Scutaro single to right field. Third baseman Ed Lucas threw out Scutaro when he tried to reach second base. The threat ended a play later when Buster Posey grounded out.
"It's totally [Scutaro's] read," Bochy said. "The third baseman made a heads-up play and made a perfect throw to second base."
Jean Machi allowed four runs in the ninth, including two homers, to put the game out of reach in his second straight poor outing. On Friday, he failed to record an out against three batters. It got worse Sunday. He surrendered a home run to Marcell Ozuna, an RBI double to Greg Dobbs and Justin Ruggiano's second blast of the game. In his last two outings, Machi allowed five runs on seven hits and two home runs in just two-thirds of an inning.
"I think the bullpen got worn down a bit [this series]," Bochy said. "I think Machi showed signs of it in the ninth. These were hard-fought, close games. This one got away from us."
Despite Machi's struggles, he was not the first Giant to struggle with Ozuna this series. The rookie was a thorn in San Francisco's side all series, as he recorded the go-ahead hits in Miami victories Thursday and Friday and doubled Logan Morrison home in the fourth inning Sunday off Giants starter Matt Cain.
"We made some awful pitches to him [this series] and he took advantage," Bochy said. "He's a young gifted athlete who came in struggling and killed us."
The Giants trailed from Cain's second pitch of the game, when Ruggiano clubbed the first of his two home runs. Morrison earned an RBI in the sixth when Brandon Belt committed a rare error that allowed Lucas to score. The miscue was not only uncharacteristic of Belt, but of the entire Giants defense lately. San Francisco entered the game with only nine errors in June to lead the National League after committing a Major League-high 25 in May.
The three runs were enough for Miami on an afternoon when Eovaldi was quite impressive, twirling the third quality start in four games for Miami. He allowed just two runs in six innings while striking out seven.
In all, Cain allowed three runs in six innings while striking out eight. The Giants had won eight of the last 10 Cain starts prior to Sunday's game, but couldn't generate enough offense to make up for the 3-0 deficit. The loss was his first at home since his nemesis, the Cardinals, knocked him around for nine runs in a brief start April 7. He entered Sunday with a 3-0 record and 2.68 ERA at home since that outing.
"I think I threw the ball well," Cain said. "I made some mistakes."
Cain said there's no need to push the panic button at this time, with the Giants 38-37 and headed on a 10-game road trip.
"I think it will be [fine] because we have the same core group of guys," he said. "It's not a group that gets in a panic."
The Giants did not mount much of a threat against an efficient Eovaldi until the sixth inning when pinch-hitter Tony Abreu lined a pitch to left field that Ruggiano dove for and missed. The ball rolled to the warning track, and Abreu settled into third with a triple. He scored two plays later when Scutaro grounded out to second base.
The Giants chased Eovaldi out of the game an inning later after Hunter Pence homered and Belt walked. Pence's long ball was the Giants' first since June 14, a drought that spanned eight homerless games.
San Francisco had not dropped a homestand since last August. Miami won three of four in this series and has won 10 of its last 11 games at AT&T Park.


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Crew Rookie Kevan George returned to Columbus on Wednesday after serving international duty for the Trinidad & Tobago U23 squad for CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying in Los Angeles. Though the U23 Soca Warriors failed to move on to the next round of qualifying in Kansas City, George's time with the T&T U23s provided valuable experience.
"It was a phenomenal experience overall," George said of his time with the Soca Warriors. "I learned to play with different players and adapt to different roles that the coaches wanted me to perform."
After going 90 minutes in all three of T&T's qualifying matches, the rookie midfielder is happy to be back with the Black & Gold.
"I missed being around the guys and training with the team I was drafted with. I'm just happy to be (in Columbus) again," George said Thursday.
With both a first team and a reserve match this weekend in Toronto, George could see minutes with the Crew in some capacity.

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Meet horror soundtrack composer and Marilyn Manson guitarist Paul Wiley and hear him talk about his career and how he uses Toontrack products in his creative process when writing for films. Happy Halloween!
Listen to the track Paul wrote for the video here.
Here are some of the products that Paul used to write the example in the video as well as some more – all perfect for writing scary scores and more.
Movie Scores – Horror EZkeys MIDI
Movie Scores – Action EZkeys MIDI
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EZkeys Grand Piano
EZkeys Mellotoon
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This is a healthy and easy dish adapted from New York's famous Shun Lee restaurant (who will arrange for kosher banquets by special request btw).
When I'm in the mood for Chinese food but don't want greasy take-out, I make this for dinner with cold ginger scallion noodles (recipe below), a lighter alternative to those gloppy peanut butter laden noodles.
Throw some frozen egg rolls into the mix and some seasonal stir-fried veggies and you've got your own Chinese feast at home.
Adapted from Shun Lee restaurant
Serves 4
- ½ pound boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into ¼ cubes
- 2 teaspoons egg white (beat the white until foamy, then measure)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar (or red wine vinegar)
- 1 tablespoon rice wine or dry sherry
- 1-2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon water
- 1/8 – ¼ tsp ground white pepper
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 4 celery ribs, finely diced (1 cup)
- 4 scallions, white and green parts, trimmed and minced (3/4 cup)
- 3 carrots, finely diced (1/2 cup)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dark sesame oil
- hoisin sauce (for serving)
- 1 head iceberg lettuce (for serving)
- 2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts
- 1-2 Tablespoons canola (or peanut) oil
1. Core the lettuce and separate into leaves. Pile on a platter and set aside. Prepare a small serving bowl with the hoisin sauce.
2. Place the diced chicken meat in a mixing bowl and add the egg white, salt and cornstarch. Blend well. Refrigerate 30 minutes or longer.
3. Combine the chopped celery, carrots, scallions and garlic. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, combine the soy sauce, vinegar, rice wine or sherry, sugar, water, white pepper and cornstarch and set aside.
5. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok or large non-stick skillet and when it is hot add the chicken; stir constantly to separate the cubes. Cook a few minutes until it turns white and is just cooked through. Remove from pan and set aside.
6. Add 1 teaspoon of sesame oil to the pan and add the celery, carrot and scallion mixture. Cook, stirring, about a minute or two and then add back in the cooked chicken and the sauce, stirring, another minute until the chicken is hot. Add in the pine nuts and remove from heat.
7. Serve the chicken with the lettuce on the side. Let guests help themselves, adding a spoonful or so of the chicken mixture to a lettuce leaf with the hoisin sauce and folding it before eating.
Serve as a first course or part of meal. You can double the recipe for a larger group.
Adapted from The Best of Vietnamese and Thai Cooking, by Mai Pham
I love these noodles as a side dish with just scallions and the ginger dressing, but throw in broccoli and red pepper strips for a more complete dish if you wish. The noodles marinate in soy sauce, which give them depth and flavor.
• 1 pound dried chow-mein or lo-mein style noodles or thin whole-wheat spaghetti, cooked until just done, rinsed and drained
• ½ cup soy sauce
• 2-4 green onions, thinly sliced (or more to taste)
• 3 cups broccoli florets, blanched or microwaved (rinsed in cold water & drained)
• ½ red bell pepper, cut into thin strips
• fresh cilantro for garnish (optional)
• 2 tablespoons minced or grated fresh ginger
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
• ¼ – ½ tsp dried chili flakes or to taste (optional)
• 1/3 cup good-quality dark sesame oil
1. Combine the cooked noodles with the soy sauce in a mixing bowl. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
2. To make the dressing, place all of the ingredients except the sesame oil in a food processor and blend until creamy. With the motor running, slowly pour in the sesame oil and blend for about 20 seconds (do not overblend or the dressing will turn whitish)
3. To serve, gently toss the noodles with the dressing, adding 3 or 4 tablespoons at a time. The noodles should be evenly coated but not soggy. Add the broccoli, red pepper and green onions and gently toss. Garnish with cilantro if you wish.


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Well... I'll tell, but I won't tell you everything. Why? Because I don't know it. But it is exciting... very exciting. I should add that I have no direct connection to Hyperfish, other than I know the smart people behind it. I am not being paid for this post. It's just something pretty cool that I feel is going to have an major impact on companies who want to improve themselves. If you've seen any of my blog posts, they are all about building processes to improve your business. This will no doubt help with that.
The quick explanation, is that it's going to look at your directory, analyze it, find the missing bits and it will go and locate the information to fill those in. Thereby, making your directory more complete, more useful and as a result, improve your company. That is a very quick and dirty explanation, and I'm sure there's a lot more to it. If you want to know more, head over to the Hyperfish site. I'm just sharing what I understand from their site and from checking out the Beta they have.
Your Active Directory probably looks like this.. all dirty and missing bits:
With Hyperfish, it will look nice an clean, like this :
Now I've been blogging about Nintex for years and that will continue, well.... because Nintex rocks!!! and their software is awesome. Having said that, if you have Nintex Workflow and Forms, how would this tool benefit your company? The interesting thing is, Hyperfish will help all companies. But if you're wondering about Nintex specifically, think about this. You know those workflows that you build where you assign a task to the Manager of the Workflow Initiator? Where do you think the manager is coming from???? It's coming from Active Directory. What if it's not there? Well, the workflow will probably fail, unless you build some good checking in the workflow. Hyperfish will minimize this type of situation where you need to keep checking for this type of issue.
Lets say you have line of business systems that use information like email address, department, manager, phone number.. etc, and that data is missing from AD. That means your processes from those systems grow in complexity to handle this type of situation. With Hyperfish, the likelihood of this happening is reduced drastically. It will constantly look to improve your AD, looking into any number of sources to get the data it needs to make your systems complete. Your systems and process will therefore be more reliable and when designing the processes, you can focus on the process and less on worrying every little thing that could go wrong because data is not where it should be.
Ok enough blabbering from me....
It's actually not out yet. There is a beta program, so check that out as it gives you access to some of what Hyperfish has built. But the true release is aimed at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta. I just noticed that Hyperfish is a sponsor and will have a booth. Since I have no doubt you are coming to Ignite and will stop by the Nintex booth for a chat, make sure you stop by the Hyperfish booth too and check out some pretty amazing technology.
Take a look at the Hyperfish site - https://hyperfish.com/
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Man gets 12 years for striking joggers
Vincent Anderson pleaded guilty first-degree assault
An Arkansas man who admitted driving into a group of joggers in southeast Missouri has been given a 12-year prison term.
The Southeast Missourian reported Vincent Anderson, 19, of Little Rock, was sentenced Tuesday in Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court.
Anderson pleaded guilty last month to first-degree assault, admitting he drove directly at the joggers in downtown Cape Girardeau last Oct. 28 in a stolen car. Three people suffered minor injuries.
Anderson's passenger Marcus Jones, 27, of Cotton Plant, Ark., was sentenced earlier to 90 days in jail for two misdemeanors in connection with the case.
A prosecutor showed the judge at Tuesday's sentencing two videos taken from Jones's cellphone, in which a man is heard swearing and laughing as tires squeal in the background.
Anderson apologized Tuesday to the victims.


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Changes are coming in the Pacific Northwest. That much was clear in the aftermath of Seattle's 4-0 shellacking at the hands of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
After witnessing his team's uninspiring effort, Seattle coach Sigi Schmid made no secret of his disappointment in the post-match press conference. Which players find themselves in the coach's crosshairs, however, is open to interpretation.
"It's not time to panic, but time for some people to wake up and for character to step forward," Schmid said. "When you're down 2-0, 3-0, people have to step up and show their character and show what they're made of."
"Some guys we've asked repeatedly to do certain things, and it hasn't been coming, so there are some changes that will be made as a result of that."
Schmid expressed consternation at this team's lack of effort all over the field. Seattle's game plan was to play with a high tempo, but Schmid didn't think his players followed through on that. He called the defensive lapse that led to Los Angeles' third goal "inexcusable" but reserved his harshest criticism for the offensive end.
Schmid said he needs players who are willing to sacrifice their bodies to get on the end of crosses, not "six playmakers." The comment sounded like a thinly veiled shot at strikers Freddie Ljungberg and Fredy Montero. Could it be that one, or both, could lose their spots in the starting lineup when Seattle travel to New York next weekend?
It's possible. Although Ljungberg missed time last season due to injury only, Schmid benched Montero in 2009 in an attempt to refocus the talented Colombian. Neither played well today. Schmid seemed especially unhappy with Montero, yanking the striker in the 57th minute and saying the offense looked better with Brad Evans playing center forward.
"We compete for spots every week," Schmid said. "I've given some guys a longer leash than others. That leash just tore today."
Seattle were unable to deal with the Galaxy's offside trap and was whistled 10 times for that infraction, including eight times in the first half. Evans, Steve Zakuani, and Montero were each called offside three times.
"A couple times we got called because guys were lazy coming back," Schmid said. "A couple offsides weren't offsides [but] bad calls by the linesman."
Of all the teams in MLS, a loss to the Galaxy hurts the most. The connections between Seattle and Los Angeles are extensive. Sigi Schmid coached the Galaxy for a number of years before being forced out. Pete Vagenas played for Schmid in L.A., as did Tyrone Marshall.
Seattle's majority owner Joe Roth lives in the Los Angeles area, and Sounders FC CEO Tod Leiweke's brother Tim is the chief executive of AEG, which owns the Galaxy. Add it all up, and it makes the loss even more embarrassing for Sounders FC.
"Once it was 3-0, they were—as the English would say—taking the piss," Schmid said.


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Provides an instance of Arrow for process pipelines. As described in the original paper on arrows, they can be used to represent stream processing, so CHP seemed like a possible fit for an arrow.
Whether this is actually an instance of Arrow depends on technicalities. This can be demonstrated with the arrow law arr id >>> f = f = f >>> arr id. Whether CHP satisfies this arrow law depends on the definition of equality.
The problem lies in the buffering inherent in arrows. Imagine if f is a single function. f is effectively a buffer of one. You can feed it a single value, but no more than that until you read its output. However, if you have arr id >>> f, that can accept two inputs (one held by the arr id process and one held by f) before you must accept the output.
I am fairly confident that the arrow laws are satisfied for the definition of equality that given the same single input, they will produce the same single output. If you don't worry too much about the behavioural difference, and just take arrows as another way to wire together a certain class of process network, you should do fine.
Added in version 1.0.2.
Given a ProcessPipeline (formed using its Arrow instance) and the channels to plug into the ends of the pipeline, returns the process representing the pipeline.
The pipeline will run forever (until poisoned) and you must run it in parallel to whatever is feeding it the inputs and reading off the outputs. Imagine that you want a process pipeline that takes in a pair of numbers, doubles the first and adds one to the second. You could encode this in an arrow using:
runPipeline (arr (*2) *** arr (+1))
Arrows are more useful where you already have processes written that process data and you want to easily wire them together. The arrow notation is probably easier for doing that than declaring all the channels yourself and composing everything in parallel.
Adds a wrapper that forms this process into the right data type to be part of an arrow.
Any process you apply this to should produce exactly one output per input, or else you will find odd behaviour resulting (including deadlock). So for example, don't use arrowProcess (Control.Concurrent.CHP.Common.filter ...) or arrowProcess Control.Concurrent.CHP.Common.stream inside any arrow combinators other than >>> and <<<.
Added in version 1.1.0
Like the arr function of the ProcessPipeline arrow instance, but fully evaluates the result before sending it. If you are building process pipelines with arrows to try and get some parallel speed-up, you should try this function instead of arr itself.
Added in version 1.3.2
|Like runPipeline but for ProcessPipelineLabel
|Like arrowProcess, but allows the process to be labelled. The same warnings as arrowProcess apply.
|Like arr for ProcessPipeline, but allows the process to be labelled.
|Like arrStrict, but allows the process to be labelled.
|The '(>>>)' arrow combinator, for ProcessPipelineLabel.
|The '(<<<)' arrow combinator, for ProcessPipelineLabel.
|The '(&&&)' arrow combinator, for ProcessPipelineLabel.
|The '(***)' arrow combinator, for ProcessPipelineLabel.
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With an eye toward emerging from bankruptcy in 2013 Kodak today said it sold its formidable patent portfolio for $525 million to a consortium that will ultimately license pieces of the collection to other companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook.
BACKGROUND: Kodak: A look at the icons of an icon
NEWS: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012
At one point in Kodak said it owned over 1,100 digital imaging patents worth some $2.6 billion.
Specifically Kodak said under the agreements, it will receive approximately $525 million, a portion of which will be paid by 12 intellectual property licensees organized by the consortium of Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation. The Los Angeles Times reports that group not only includes Apple and Google, but Microsoft, Research In Motion, Adobe, Samsung and Huawei.
The proposed transaction, which needs to be approved by the bankruptcy judge overseeing the case, achieves one of Kodak's key restructuring objectives, the company stated, and follows other recent major accomplishments that include an agreement for interim and exit financing for the company's emergence from its Chapter 11 restructuring, and resolution of U.S. retiree non-pension benefits liabilities.
Kodak's sale of intellectual property assets further builds on its momentum toward a successful emergence in the commercial imaging business in the first half of 2013, the firm stated.
Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in January and has cut about 4,000 employees since then - after slicing almost 50,000 since 2003.
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In the days after the unusual sentencing of former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, much has been written about the power of shame.
Shame, the thinking goes, offers a particularly galling way to humble the powerful. For people accustomed to striding the earth like giants, the story goes, a public shaming represents the worst punishment they can face.
Bollocks. Joan Orie Melvin should be behind bars.
On Feb. 21, Melvin was convicted of conspiracy, theft of services and misapplication of government funds in connection with the use of judicial and legislative staff for her 2003 and 2009 campaigns for a seat on the state's high court.
In other words, she stole public money to advance her career, a career in which she sat in judgment of others as an officer of the court, a position that's supposed to represent the highest ideals of ethics. Her actions represented a terminal betrayal of that trust, and undermined confidence in our judicial system.
And yet, Allegheny County Judge Lester Nauhaus used his discretion to disregard the recommendation of prosecutors for jail time, and sentenced her to three years of house arrest.
Three years of confinement to a half-million dollar, 3,655 square-foot, five-bedroom house. Except, of course, for the three days a week she's allowed out to work in a soup kitchen, and every time she wants to attend a church service.
The horror. How will she ever stand it? One can only watch so much cable, surf so much Internet.
Melvin also had to pose handcuffed and disheveled for a photo - already on the Internet - that was to be sent at her expense to every judge in the state. Hence the alleged shame and humiliation.
Given numerous judicial references to her arrogance and her plans to appeal her sentence, we'd hazard a guess that Melvin has not only failed to learn her lesson but also that she's fairly impervious to shame. Some people cannot be humiliated; they carry an unshakable faith in their superiority and steadfastly hold themselves above the opinions of mere commoners.
As things stand now, the worst Melvin has to fear from her punishment is boredom, and that represents a profound mismatch between crime and consequence.
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Illustration by David Wierzbicki
Illustration by David Wierzbicki
Illustration by David Wierzbicki
David is one of my friends on Twitter, and a fantastically talented artist. I personally really love his style and want to own all of the artwork that I have seen of his!
Age? 30
Where do you live? Brantford, Ontario. Small-ish city southwest of Toronto.
What is your favorite colour? I've never been able to answer this question. When I was in grade school I always thought there was something wrong with me because all the other kids could tick of their favourite colours immediately. That said, when I play RISK I'm always red.
What is your favorite website at the moment? Twitter. I really enjoy the blog at http://www.colourlovers.com/blog. There is great, creative conversation going on at http://missionaltribe.org. If you have any connection or attraction to Missional Church that is the place for you. (Artists especially) Overall, I think as of late I've been more intrigued by social networking projects such as twitter than by any one website.
What are the 3 things that you most like doing with your time? I've been reading more in the last couple years than I have in my whole lifetime. Drawing and sketching. If I have a surface within arm's reach it will be doodled upon. Relaxing with my wife, Amy.
When did you first start using your creativity for God, and how did that come about? It took me a long time to understand that God really did have a use for artists. It wasn't something that was explicit in my upbringing. Artists were generally seen as being on the outside, discontent with the respectable plan that God really had for their lives. When I went away to art college I began to see again the creative draw that God has and has put inside all of us as co-creators and imaginers. While in school I had the opportunity to illustrate a calendar for Wycliffe Bible Translators. That was the first time I had ever used my art in an expressly Christian avenue.
What inspires you? When I start a piece I often just let my pencil move. As it creates I draw from that energy and begin listening to where I'm heading. In addition: conversation, dreams, music, long drives in the car, smells, sounds, hot showers, good drink, good food, the river…
Who are some of your favorite artists? Much like the colour question, I have don't have a really solid answer for this.
I could say Egon Schiele for the incredible life and linework of his figures.
And Gustav Klimt for inspiring Schiele.
Ralph Steadman's influence on the world of illustration is hard to deny.
Also, my friend Ben Weeks (benweeks.ca) is a massive inspiration for the life of his lines and the freshness of his approach and our conversations on art and faith while in school.
What is the most amazing thing that you have seen God do? I'm amazed at how he sprouts faith in the dirtiest corners of our neighborhood streets. The places where faith, hope and love have no business being are the places where they seem to be most often found. I don't thank God enough for the times when he makes that apparent to me. I don't know. The most amazing thing I've seen God do might be the way he has used the smile of a poor child to change the atmosphere of an entire room.
Do you have any particular projects going on at the moment? The biggest project I have going on right now is my work toward a theology degree. Other than that, I'm working on a variety of ideas and projects with friends; ranging from book covers to animated shorts.
What can we expect to see from you in future? I'm fascinated with the idea of creating a space for creativity, art, interaction, conversation, community, help, prayer, danger, safety, disagreement, and agreement. Oh… and firstly, LOVE.
A group of friends and I are currently dreaming of a church community that emerges out of the neighbourhood garden that surrounds it. Creativity and neighborliness are our number one motivators. Church is Art.
What would you most like to see come out of the Christian Creative scene in the next few years? Connected to our dreams of a church plant is the concept of being deeply local.
I have a real hope for a more radical localization of Christianity. While the past couple decades have seen incredible bursts of creativity from Christianity in everything from music to film it has also been a time of cultural homogeneity and borrowing.
We have been losing our locally unique characteristics as we have been told that we have use such and such music and such and such presentation software and such and such graphic appearances etc… I would love to see our church communities really embrace their local-ness and encourage the creatives among them to develop and design art and creativity that is unique to them; and not just so they can farm that talent out to entire continents.
If we can stop leaning on the creativity of a few "professionals" and start recognizing the deep pools immediately around us we could see beauty and art re-engaged by the Church.
Where can we find more of your work? My main online hub is found at http://davidwierzbicki.com. My twitter account (twitter.com/diecast), art portfolio, blog and more are all linked from there.
Anything else you would like to say? …Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.


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By Jill Dougherty, reporting from London
John Kerry's first international trip as secretary of state is right out of diplomatic "central casting" - at least the first half, designed to avoid diplomatic pitfalls. But that may end up being impossible.
The 11-day, nine-country sojourn - to England, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - begins with a warm embrace for America's traditional European allies.
Four years ago, his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, headed east, as part of the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia." Kerry will reassure Europe that it still matters to Washington. What's more, the administration needs Europe's help on the heavy-lifting issues of stopping Iran's nuclear program and for any next steps to help the Syrian opposition.
But even before he departs Washington, there's trouble. On Saturday, the Syrian Opposition Coalition, angered about what it called international inaction on Syrian government attacks against Aleppo, announced it was boycotting an international meeting in Rome where its representatives were expected to meet Kerry.
Shortly afterward, the U.S. State Department condemned the attacks "in the strongest possible terms."
Another wildcard on this trip is Egypt, where anti-government protests continue as the nation's economy struggles. But the State Department says don't expect Kerry to chart any new policy on this trip. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters: "He's characterizing this first trip more broadly as a listening tour."
Just days before his trip, in his first major foreign policy address, Kerry made the case to an American audience why the stakes for U.S. global engagement are so high.
"In today's global world, there is no longer anything foreign about foreign policy," he said. "More than ever before, the decisions that we make from the safety of our shores don't just ripple outward, they also create a current right here in America."
Former high-level diplomats say the eyes of the world will be on Kerry during this trip - and on where he flies. Nicholas Burns, former under-secretary of state for political affairs, tells CNN: "The first trips by American secretaries of state are watched very closely. There is a lot of symbolism attached to them. People look for clues as to which region is most important to the United States."
Inevitably, Kerry will be compared with Clinton, who had sky-high popularity around the world.
"Nobody is the rock star Hillary Clinton is," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.
But Kerry, who, as a 12-year-old boy, lived in Berlin, brings his own credentials. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he got to know many world leaders. He served as President Barack Obama's personal envoy for delicate political missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Albright says Kerry is more than ready to take the lead as America's top diplomat to the world.
"I have known him a very long time and, as somebody who comes from the Foreign Relations Committee, he has clearly dealt with all the issues and understands their background and depth - and the kind of the unintended consequences of various decisions."
That last phrase may be crucial. Most of this first trip is designed to be diplomatically safe. But plans made in Washington are one thing. The reality on the road, especially in Syria and the rest of the Middle East, is another.
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Gore did not win because he failed to run on Clinton's record. He was too good to do that. But Clinton was/is a winner.
soon usa taxpayers will gift Pakistan 100s of billions for helping usa in afghan.
we are true friends and allieds
kerry is welcome in Pak for visit anytime, with check in hand, of course, no matter how much amerikans cry and complain, don listen to these childish complaners
Majav, what on earth are you going on about? UK owns Australia? US base in Perth WA? Fruit loop.
Hey, I heard he called the leader of the Syrian resistance and invited him to London for a meeting. I guess we are going to surrender to the "muslim Brotherhood Arm" of the Syrian rebels....amazing how quickly he was able to accomplish this surrender. Much better than Hillery
Only North Korea and Iran stands up.
Did he surrender to Iran and North Korea yet? I really believe that is the mission the President sent him out to
I like Kerry. I always have. It is such a tragedy that Gore didn't win and Kerry could be el Presidente now.
He lends professionalism, instead of celebrity, to politics. It is most welcome.
Good Luck Mr Kerry, peace on earth and goodwill toward all. Not too difficult conceptually, at least.
Well, he doesn't look like that he has left his belongings.
He's not going to Israel so liberals can heave sigh of relief. All Hail Sharia.
Believe it or not the world would have seize to exist if America failed in its duty to police it. We should begin to acknowledge this fact even though as Americans we have become so blind and seared to see and appreciate facts. I am an African, Nigerian to be precise, I understand the fact that America's foreign policies does not favour everyone especially the so called revolutionists (Iran and co), but you can be in the good list if you wish, CHOICE is the most valued gift nature offers us humans. On Gods on country we will queue...Long live America, Long live Israel
Hogwash. China and India are ancient civilizations and will surpass on in a couple of decades. You sound so British Empire and Palestinian Mandate. America will find her place, I just hope it isn't as a has-been war mongerer like long forgotten Prussia. Not even the Turks were so foolish.
The 11-day, nine-country sojourn – to England, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar – begins with a warm embrace for America's traditional European allies.
Right, traditional allies like Saudi Arabia – that country that exports islamic terrorists like Osama Bin Laden and all of his gang of criminals that attacked the WTC. That's some list of allies Kerry. Are you going to kneel down and kiss their king's boots like Obama.
When that trip is done Kerry, are you going to visit our traditional enemies like Canada and tell them how your don't want their dirty oil pipeline, and how clean oil from your beloved friends in Islam tastes so much better.
Kerry, you are a dangerous hypocrite. Maybe you can promise to transfer new bomb technology to Saudi Arabia while you are at it, and declare a trade embargo against our enemy Canada.
so what part of "begins with a warm embrace" do you find difficult to understand?
America has been UK's ally for years yet America didn't say squat about Irish Americans funding the IRA's bombing campaign against Britain. So much for ethics eh?
So, Kerry is flying to many countries bringing promises he cannot keep! Hillary flew everywhere already, what results did she achieve? NOTHING. Let's start this "sequester" by grounding the Sec. of State, Any foreign country that wants our support should come here and make their case. Of course, Israel is a big exception! Israel controls our Congress!!! No need for Kerry to visit Israel!
Hillary got a US funded and manned military base in Perth Australia and not one word of it in the USA despite that the UK "owns" Australia and the Queen can fund her own defense. This all while Benghazi was going down.


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Du Jour, the digital and print media company headed by Jason Binn, will debut its luxury magazine this month with 110 ad pages and an estimated $4 million in booked advertising right out of the gate.
The quarterly magazine, supplemented with a monthly digital version, qualifies as one of the larger launches of the 2012-13 season, if not the largest.
The digital version will go live on Aug. 20 to about 3.5 million high-net-worth individuals culled from its strategic partner, the Gilt Groupe. Gilt is not putting money into the mix, however.
The following day, the printed version will be mailed to 250,000 high-end readers in top-tier cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.
Binn's financial partner in the deal is James Cohen, who sold his Hudson News to the Swiss-based duty-free chain Dufry but continues to run the newsstand retailer as its chief.
"I'm creating a new category and new business model," said Binn, who spent two years researching the idea before officially announcing it in February. He did not finish assembling his staff until July — just two months before the launch.
One twistthat he used to attract top-notch talent was to offer a slice of the equity. Binn said 10 percent of the equity was assigned to a group of key editors and executives.
Alan Katz, former publisher of New York and Vanity Fair, is chief revenue officer; Cindy Lewis, former publisher of Hearst's Shop Etc., Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar, is vice president of sales; and Gayle Perry Sobel, once a European fashion director for Condé Nast, is executive director.
Max MacDonald, the former CEO of the recently sold digital magazine Lonny, is product development officer and was Du Jour's first employee.
Binn also took the gamble of assigning co-editors and giving them equity holdings as well. Former In Style Senior Editor Nicole Vecchiarelli and Keith Pollock, the former editorial director of Elle.com, will split duties as co-editors.
Binn is the controlling shareholder but wouldn't reveal the exact split in equity between the partners in the company.
Binn believes his venture will work because he is not trying to add digital as an afterthought to print. "It's a full-fledged, multi-platform seamlessly integrated business model talking to luxury goods consumers," he said.
He added that readers must pass five of seven filter checks. Among them is an average income over $250,000, net worth of more than $5 million and a house valued at over $1.5 million.
While many advertisers tend to avoid startups, Binn seems to have hit a chord.
"I think it is exciting, it's a new model," said Shenan Reed, chief marketing officer of Morpheus Media, which represents LVMH and Richemont. "They're where we can find a high concentration of luxury consumers I don't find that anywhere else."
And while the magazine media world has not recovered from its post-2008 slump, luxury seems to have rebounded.
Trent Frazier, a vice president at Don Perignon, jumped on the Du Jour, bandwagon, adding, "I think the luxury market will continue to expand."
But that also means lots of others are in the hunt. Next month the Fashion Media Group at Condé will unveil a new high-end men's fashion magazine, M.
Condé's Fairchild division already publishes a magazine version of Style.com twice a year as a companion to the website, which pulls in between 2 million and 3 million unique visitors a month.
Best Life, the high-end men's mag that folded in 2009, is being relaunched as a special publication spun out of Rodale.
Bloomberg Businessweek is also putting out the second issue of Pursuits to readers of Bloomberg Markets next month and is considering taking it monthly in 2013. It just signed John Birmingham, former editor of DNR at Fairchild, as a contributing fashion editor.
Worth, now owned by Sandow Media, is reporting booming ad sales. And Departures, which goes to American Express platinum card holders, doesn't seem to have lost any momentum.
Departures' September issue will carry 117 ad pages, a 20 percent jump from a year ago. It is up double digits year-to-date.
"I think established brands like Departures will continue to thrive and be a trusted resource for luxury brands," said Publisher Steve DeLuca. "Only time will tell if the category can absorb these new entrants," he said.
It's electric!
Vibe is expanding beyond its hip- hop roots to cover the electronic dance craze. In January, the company was taken over by Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. in a joint venture with Magic Johnson and merged with BlackBook and Access Network.
The August/September issue, which hits Aug. 28, will feature Diplo and Azelia Banks on its cover, marking the first time an electronic dance music DJ has graced the cover.
Editor-In-Chief Jermaine Hall said it's part of a strategy to expand into other musical genres. "DJs are the new rock stars," he said.
Sarah Polonsky, former managing editor of Elektro magazine, is a new senior editor.
Dylan book bash
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, whose book "Forget About Today: Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers and Creating a Pesonal Revolution," hit this week and was toasted at a party held at Vibrant Media's Fifth Avenue terrace and hosted by Ed Adler, the former head p.r. man for Time Warner who is now with RLM Finsbury.
The book from Penguin jumped about 25,000 places on the Amazon.com chart to around 5,000 after Friedman's appearance on the Don Imus radio talk show on Monday.
Dylan was as taciturn as ever and did not grant the author access. But unlike the controversy that dogged another recent Dylan book, Friedman says none of his quotes are made up.
Marketwatch is owned by News Corp., which also owns The Post.


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Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment
In this episode, Sam Zaiss and Dan Dole of the Visual Studio User Experience team join us to talk about simplification and reduction in the Visual Studio 11 development environment. They show how much easier it is to navigate both within code and within the IDE, and also that the complexity of the IDE has been reduced. Here's a quick episode guide:
- Searching in the Solution Explorer [03:50]
- Using the Preview Tab [05:00]
- Viewing the classes contained in code files and the class members while in the Solution Explorer [12:00]
- Viewing the relationships between classes while in the Solution Explorer [12:45]
- Using multiple Solution Explorers at the same time [13:00]
- Navigation history [15:30]
- Viewing the relationships between methods while in the Solution Explorer [19:00]
- Using Quick Launch to find and execute commands [22:30]
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Bring back the color icons! Its difficult to differentiate anything with gray/black icons!
Bring back the color icons! Its difficult to differentiate anything with gray/black icons!
agree! This sucks completely. Hopefully I can select a VS2008 theme (icons + colors).
if (Reduction == boring_and_depresive && Simplification == ugly)
What everyone who is complaing does not understand is the MS has a responsibility too all kinds of programmers - I am sure color blind programmers will be extremely happy with the changes!
You've "jumped the shark". Just unbelievable.
What everyone who is complaing does not understand is the MS has a responsibility too all kinds of programmers - I am sure color blind programmers will be extremely happy with the changes!
Wrong. Just because I can't differentiate certain colours very well, doesn't mean they are useless. Not happy about it at all. It's not just the colours removed ... most of the icons have changed in appeareance and have no more 3D texture and definition.
I love the new features but the new "improved" theme has to go. Not only is it depressing but the lack of colors and lines makes it harder to select things.
This isn't a case of change resistance. Almost no one complained with the change from VS2008 to VS2010 yet I haven't met a single developer who doesn't think the VS11 UI isn't ugly, depressing, and counter productive.
I agree ... I do like the new navigation and searching functionality. The Preview window is very useful. But, at the risk of beating a dead horse, I have to say that the grayscale minimalist icons are not useful.
We value all of your feedback. Beyond filing a Connect bug, there are two channels that we are monitoring regularly to improve the product. Any feedback, both positive or negative, is welcome on the Visual Studio blog or on Visual Studio Uservoice. Thanks!
First, ditto on the obscurification via gray buttons.
And, on the plus side:
1. The temporarily open preview tabs will help me reduce "tab clutter".
2. Including powertools natively is great no-brainer...especially Solution Explorer.
3. VS now being single-instance/multiple-context is useful (yes, I've opened 3 copies of VS at once).
In the too-soon-to-tell category, debug navigation in the solution explorer could be more intuitive as long as it's really as flexible as I imagine it to be.
Overall, I like the emphasis on "keyboard centric" vs "mouse centric" use of VS tooling.
Why is VS not Metro style?
Colors, REMOVE CAPS, etc ... I think you heard all the complaints by now over and over.
I'm only curious what you will do with this feedback.
I liked the search and history navigation . These are definitely going to improve productivity.
Is there any enhancement to preview the properties without getting to Properties window.
All gray look is just dull, plus large size capital names are not really adding much value here.
@Pritesh Ostwal:Preview properties without going to the Properties window? What would you want that to look like? How would it work?
"I'm only curious what you will do with this feedback"
My guess is that they'll spin it so it doesn't look like such a flop. They'll probably say something like "We never intended this to be the final look of the application, we put it out there to get your feedback."
I actually don't mind the monochrome look. But some of the text areas and lists are a little too gray. It makes them look disabled. For example, the solution explorer and all of the debugging windows should be white since they tend to have a lot of text in them that you'll interact with.
And I do agree about the all caps issue. It's purely an aesthetic thing but the headers of all the windows/tabs being all caps does look funny, especially in that font.
You asked about browser like favorites at 16:50. The Favorite Documents extension gives you this functionality (free, developed by me).
There are positive and negative things about Visual Studio 11 in my humble opinion. First off, I like the inclusion of Visual Studio Productivity Toolkit in the next release of Visual Studio. I use this productivity toolkit already today, with Visual Studio 2010. In addition, I like the smart toolbar a lot in Visual Studio Productivity Toolkit.
On the other hand, the user interface looks just too dull and little inspiring. The color scheme is too gray and colorless, buttons are styled in a way that looks very 2D and flat, which makes it hard for the eye to identify them at first hand. Caps locked labels looks a bit screaming and unnatural, in addition the tabstrip panes are also looking very flat and 2D. More experienced users want to access a lot more functionality than this. Continue the good work, I hope you will make Visual Studio 11 look a lot like Visual Studio 2010 and keep the functional new parts, but avoid this monochrome gray look and feel. Most developers just want to navigate the code, if buttons looks a bit 3D and there are more colors on the screen I think it will actually aid the user in his or her daily work. At least make it possible to select a more familiar theme easily!
I've been using VS11 beta since it came out and, although my initial reaction to the new theme was to recoil, I've gotten used to it after a day or two. I wouldn't say it's better than 2010 but it's good enough. I do think that icons are more difficult to recognize, but I make a point of minimizing mouse usage anyways. There's also a consistency problem when you have extensions and they provide colorful icon, but I guess that's unavoidable.
So yeah, I don't understand why the change was made, but it's okay and I'm not complaining. I think that the various IDE improvements outweight the minor discomfort caused by the theme change.
- I thought Ribbon was coming to this version of VS, Is it not a good idea?! It has found its way to Windows Explorer, why not VS?
- I'd really like to see an "Organize References > Remove Unused References" feature exactly like the one we have for the Usings!
- I wish there was a much better/straightforward theme support. I like to change all colors in the VS (both fonts & Colors and the VS chrome) to a dark, expression-like one but still there are some inconsistencies.
- This new UI sucks! Its utterly ugly. Metro is an idea suitable for tablets and still very immature. I don't get it why you people are sacrificing everything for it? Metro needs a lot of work. Why would you try and transform a 100% desktop app like VS to an ugly 2D app?! :|
- Now that you have transformed the UI to a 2D one, why are the scroll bars still 3D?! This is really awful! They don't go with the rest of the design. They must be much much more subtle than they are right now. I'd say get rid of them altogether! Take a look at iOS!
- Wouldn't it be nice to offer an alternative way of saving/loading solution files to/from a big, single file like Office?
- While VS 2010's icon was one of the all-time best looking icons, IMHO, VS 11's icon is simple the most horrible! Hope it sticks only to the beta version!
I don't need those colors, seriously. But it's too gray and too many shades of it. There's also still too much clutter, you should go even more the typography path.
I am happy to see changes but don't like to use it anymore. I thing it's good then you use Window classic's color as w98.
I thing PS have same scheme but they are better then you.Do you have take a look that how PS have good UI in itself.
in VS11 biggest problem is found a icon you need.Their is no text or thing to find right things.
Hey where's the famous Ribbon in place of the toolbar?!?!? It's a desktop app after all. At least you'd be more consistent rather than this half-donkeyed thing that some fools think is in a metro style. I'm sure the decision makers on this are all just saying "people just don't like change" but c'mon really? This is metro? You should be ashamed.
One thing I can't check now because I'm on a computer without VS11 is if the Enhanced Scrollbar from the productivity tools was integrated. That would be a welcome option (seeing as someone commented about the toolbars).
To sum up, great work with the new features. VS keeps getting better and better, BUT THE ONE THING I WOULD CHANGE IS THE CAPS.
Don't waste your time complaining. Microsoft isn't going to fix anything. Just like it took them 4 years to fix the blurry text in WPF. They are ignorant and always will be. People have posted on connect about the issue of how horribly ugly vs 11 is and it got marked as "deferred". In essence, Microsoft wasted a bunch of time and money on the interface and they like it, so it's not going to get fixed. Metro is such crap anyway. NO SEPARATION OF CONTENT. Typography is not enough. Everything just runs together. Good UI design is combination of BOTH aesthetics and usability. Visual Studio 11 has neither and certainly not aesthetics.
@Levi, you clearly are a troll. If you don't like Metro, VS, WPF and any MS product, then wdh you are doing on Channel 9? Lemme guess.. Whining?
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The High Court has brushed aside a Greenpeace challenge to the way the Environmental Protection Authority treated Texan oil company Anadarko's application to drill exploration wells in deep water off Taranaki and South Canterbury.
But Justice Alan Mackenzie describes the decision as being made on narrow grounds. Anadarko would have faced greater public and regulatory scrutiny but for the fact that it gained its drilling consents under a transitional regime applying to deep-sea drilling, which expires next June.
Delivered this afternoon, the judgment draws on precedents in which decisions of environmental regulators were expected by law to be no more than "wholly administrative in nature" and "essentially mechanical".
Such decisions were "not readily susceptible to the sort of error which may justify judicial review," the judge said.
EPA chief executive Rob Forlong welcomed the result, the first such challenge to decision-making under a new legal regime relating to economic activity in New Zealand's vast Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends out to 200 kilometres from shore and the limits of the country's undersea continental shelf. Activity in the EEZ has previously been unregulated.
"Under the transitional provisions applying in this instance, our role is to ensure industry meets its obligation to provide information in accordance with the legal requirements," said Forlong. "The EPA was satisfied that Anadarko provided sufficient information in its impact assessment on the measures that it intended to take to avoid, remedy or mitigate any adverse effects on the environment."
When the transitional regulatory regime expires after June 28 next year, such applications will require a full marine resource consent process.
"This will enable the EPA to take into account information from other sources, and consider the nature and effect of the roles of other regulators in deciding whether to allow activities such as oil exploration and production to take place. In doing this the EPA will base its decisions on the best available information," said Forlong.
A key issue for the court was whether the EPA had taken sufficient account of a discharge management plan for dealing with a catastrophic oil spill from an exploration well - an extremely unlikely event.
Justice Mackenzie found that, under the transitional EEZ regime, the EPA's job is "essentially administrative." The EPA could reject an environmental impact assessment and associated application documents on the grounds that it was incomplete.
But its role "does not involve any assessment of the merits of the content of the impact assessment."
"Its role is limited to assessing whether the application contains information about the required matters," said Justice Mackenzie. "The purpose of that preliminary evaluation of the content is to ensure that when (in a case when the Act is fully operational), the next stage of public notification and consideration of the application by EPA is reached, the public and EPA will have sufficient information to ensure meaningful participation in the hearing and evaluation processes."
The judgment also outlines how engineering firm SKM recommended to the EPA twice against the plan's acceptance as complete. The EPA accepted that advice on the first occasion, in July, but determined on the second occasion, in September, that the information provided was complete and met its legislative requirements.
Among Greenpeace's claims was that the EPA should both have vetted and published the whole of the oil spill "discharge management plan" submitted to Maritime New Zealand, the government agency with responsibility for cleaning up major oil spills.
However, Justice Mackenzie found that it would be "a triumph of form over substance to direct that the impact assessment be resubmitted in a form which duplicates the material which has been supplied to Maritime NZ in the discharge management plan."
"Because the case is within the transitional provisions and will not proceed to a consent application, the duplication of the annexes is not necessary to ensure that persons who may become part of the consent process have the necessary material available to them," the judgment says.
The EPA published Anadarko's 150 page environmental impact assessment along with title pages for the oil spill management plans, on its website, but none of its detail.
Maritime NZ released that detail, running to several hundred pages, late last week, after receiving numerous requests for it under the Official Information Act.


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The federal budget deficit is expected to grow as the $1.5 trillion tax cut begins to kick in this year, but it got a running start this past fall, before the tax bill had taken effect.
According to Bloomberg, "The U.S. budget gap rose 7 percent to $225 billion in the first quarter of the government's fiscal year from a year earlier, the Treasury Department reported on Thursday. Spending rose at a slightly higher pace than revenue, increasing 5 percent to $994.5 billion between October and December. Receipts gained 4 percent to $769.5 billion."
The widening gap was driven by increased spending on defense, Social Security and hurricane relief, according to the Congressional Budget Office.


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Saw my breath for the first time last night. That's how you know it's football season.
I also saw an Immaculata team that is simply dominant in the trenches. As a few members of the Spartan entourage pointed out to me afterward, it's time to get these guys in the Gannett Top 20.
Also, if you haven't seen Immaculata tailback Theo Riddick, make it a priority. This kid is a sophomore and has the moves of a big-time collegian. Trust me: Catch him now. It'll be a nice conversation piece someday.
Other results of note:
If there were any lingering doubters about Somerville, the Pioneers showed them the door by picking up a nice win on Voorhees Mountain. Mason Robinson, who is taking a long, hard look at Michigan State, put up 250 yards from scrimmage.
The best stat line of the day comes from Piscataway's win over East Brunswick. Speed burner Terrence Fox rushed for 166 yards on seven carries. That's 23.7 yards per carry. Memo to our good friend Larry Lester, who's the Chiefs' play-calling guru: Can we figure out a way to get this guy the ball a little bit more?
Great win for Hunterdon Central, which outlasted Watchung Hills 33-28. Check this out: the Red Devils returned two kickoffs 80-plus yards and also blocked two punts. Wow. Kudos to Central coach Matt Perotti, a true renaissance man.
Lastly, Bound Brook (last playoff appearance: 1978) and Manville (last playoff appearance: never) both improved to 4-0. One more win and they're postseason-bound.
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Columbus Crew 2, Houston Dynamo 0 | MLS Match Recap
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Crew didn't just make Brian Bliss a winner in his head-coaching debut, they may have rescued their playoff hopes. Justin Meram and rookie Ryan Finley both scored as Columbus defeated the Houston Dynamo 2-0 at Crew Stadium on Wednesday night.
Finley scored his first professional goal right out of halftime and Meram added an insurance tally with 16 minutes to go to snap a two-game losing streak for the Crew in their first match after Robert Warzycha was relieved of his coaching duties on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Dynamo dropped their third game in their last five and missed a chance to surge back into the playoff picture. Houston should've seized the advantage from the get-go, but Will Bruin missed three chances in the first 11 minutes to put the visitors on the board.
Just a minute in, the Dynamo forward leapt into a wide open breakaway past Columbus defender Eric Gehrig and cut to his right past Crew goalkeeper Matt Lampson. Bruin had less time than he thought, however, and his light shot was saved off the line by a sliding Chad Barson to keep the game scoreless.
Bruin then missed two more one-on-one opportunities with Lampson in the next 10 minutes while abusing Gehrig, leaving Columbus fortunate to stay level.
But Columbus surged into the driver's seat immediately in the second half, putting Houston on their heels despite losing holding midfielder Wil Trapp to a knee injury. In the 47th minute, Bernardo Añor found Meram with a beautiful diagonal pass, and the third-year man unselfishly played a ball across the six-yard box for Finley to tuck away.
Moments later, the Crew squandered a chance to take a 2-0 lead, when they were awarded a penalty kick for Bobby Boswell's tug of Dominic Oduro's shirt as the speedster surged into the box. But Finley put his ensuing spot kick directly at Dynamo 'keeper Tally Hall.
The Crew made up for the blown opportunity in the 74th minute, when Meram found himself with the ball on the outside of the box after Finley appeared to misplay a shot opportunity off Oduro's cross from the right wing. Meram faked to his right, and cut back to his unfavored left foot, and slid a low shot past Hall to the far post, giving the Crew a 2-0 lead that they did not relinquish.
With the win, Columbus improve to 9-13-5, their 32 points now five behind Houston and the New England Revolution, who are tied for the final playoff spot. The Crew next travel to face Sporting Kansas City on Saturday.
Houston drop to 10-9-7, and head home for a crucial Eastern Conference clash with New York on Sunday.
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|Justin Meram
|Classy performance from third-year man, with unselfish dish on the opener and a sweet finish for the capper.
|Bernardo Añor
|Venezuelan midfielder created the first goal with pretty flick, then pulled strings for the rest of the evening.
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A guy by the name of Confucius once said that it is a delight to have friends coming from afar (有朋自遠方來不亦樂乎). In Taiwan, there seems to be a lot of friends from afar coming to these shores and settling for both the short and long-term. Yet, one key complaint that some make is that it is very difficult to interact and makes friends with locals.
This is nothing unique to Taiwan, expats and immigrants from and in every country have issues of interacting and befriending locals. This is blog post is simply addressing some of the issues that pertain to Taiwan.
I have heard every reason why possibly foreign nationals in Taiwan don't interact with locals beyond the courteous "nihao" and maybe the odd conversation. Some people have told me Western and Eastern cultures are simply incompatible; a statement that had been ironically made by someone that chose to live in Taiwan.
I don't think cultural barriers are the reason behind why many foreigners feel it is difficult to make a circle of Taiwanese friends. It might be an element but it isn't the sole reason. Similarly, some people like to use the excuse that it was cultural differences that ended their relationships with locals, when in reality, it was a myriad of many reasons. Sticking to "cultural differences" is a crutch that prevents people from exploring the other reasons.
From my understanding and experience, the reason why it can be difficult to make friends with locals in Taiwan are as follows:
1. The language barrier is the major issue, not the cultural one
I don't think I can put a percentage on the number of foreigners in Taiwan that can speak a decent amount of Mandarin, but I would be confident in saying it isn't overly high. A lot of people who live here don't speak much more than "zhe ge/這個" and a "bu hao yisi/不好意思". That isn't me passing judgment, but it is the reality for most foreigners living here. I have already written on why Mandarin isn't worth your time unless you are committed to living in Taiwan or have a reason other than "it can help me with my job prospects" and having an Asian fetish.
Should it be much of a shock that many Taiwanese don't want to interact with people who don't speak their native tongue? For some Taiwanese, they might get embarrassed if their English isn't up to scratch, and it is easier to avoid conversing in English. Most foreigners Taiwanese interact with don't speak Mandarin very well, so I think it is more than fair for them to expect most foreigners to not have a good level of Mandarin.
Think about it, you are on a night out and you want to enjoy yourself. Do you really want to speak a foreign language that you don't speak well to someone you just met for the entire night? There are a lot of Taiwanese who do that and speak English better than a lot of native speakers, but for the majority, it is easier to have a good time by staying in a homogeneous group of people who speak Mandarin and I can't blame them for that.
The same can be said for many foreigners who would rather stay in a homogeneous group where English is a common language. Even if a foreign national can speak good Mandarin, it can still be difficult to keep up with conversations.
Fortunately for me, I can make conversation, but I always run into a brick wall which is:
2. Sooner or later I can't follow the conversation with groups
Even with a good level of Mandarin, I sometimes get really lost in group conversations. One on one talks are fine and even with two people, but add a group dynamic and I'm screwed. I can't follow the conversation or the pop culture references being said, and let's face it, it isn't fun having to explain these references to someone like me all the time.
It might be fun to explain a few things now and again to a friend who is in the dark, but when you are constantly asking what is this and what is that, you kind of stunt the conversation and become more of a hindrance. Eventually, you might just end of being silent and pretend to know what is going on. Both locals and foreigners have been in the these situations and it can be intimidating.
If i'm being honest, sometimes I would hijack conversations in groups in order to keep the topic on something I could follow. It was selfish, but it was also the only way I could follow what was going on.
I know a lot of Taiwanese who would agree that once they get into a group conversation, they find it hard to keep up with the pop culture references and the banter.
Other conversations I find hard to follow are also telephone calls. I don't know what it is, but if I can't visualize someone speaking a foreign language to me, I find it hard to understand what they are saying. Hence why I failed a lot of listening comprehension exams in my Mandarin classes.
3. You have more in common with other foreigners than you do with locals.
It doesn't matter where you are from and where you decide to live, as a foreigner national, you are more likely to mingle with other foreign nationals than you are with locals in any country.
I know this from experience and from conversations with foreign nationals in Ireland. Although it isn't always true, it is still common.
Foreigners in Taiwan are from a wide range of countries that can have many and few things in common, culturally and linguistically. Yet, when put into the situation of being a foreign national in Taiwan, many foreigners will congregate together, despite being from so many different backgrounds.
Taking the example of exchange students, they are more likely to interact with other exchange students than they are with locals. Think about it, they are all in a new country, learning a new language, with the same challenges and issues.
It is very hard to explain and discuss visa problems and cultural issues to someone who doesn't know anything about that, i.e a local. When they are in the company of other foreigners, they are able to discuss these challenges and in some way, they feel a sense of comradery.
As an exchange student in China and a Master's student in Taiwan, I genuinely feel that I am able to voice my own challenges and sense of disconnection with other foreign students than I am with locals who don't understand it.
The funny thing is, you probably would be more likely to make friends with Taiwanese if you met them outside of Taiwan. If you are both in the same boat as exchange students, expats or on a holiday work visa, you will have more in common.
4. Not hanging with the right people
Sometimes, the people that are immediate to us aren't always the people we should spend time with. Classmates, work colleagues, neighbours and friends of friends are all easier to make acquaintances with, but if you have nothing in common or have different expectations for what fun is, you are not going to get along very well.
For some people, having fun is KTV and a small bit of alcohol. For others, it is getting wasted drunk in a dive bar. For me, it is Revolver, Speakeasy, On Tap or BeerGeek with friends and strangers enjoying the banter.
If you want to hang out with people, make sure you have something in common with them besides working, studying or living together. That might sound like common sense, but when it is convenient to make plans with people close to you, you might only ever try to hang out with people like this, and not people who might have the same interests with you.
You should check out events going on in your city on Facebook and look up what is happening on meetup.com. You are far more likely to make friends with people that share a hobby or interest. I have met most of my local friends doing things that I like doing. From live music, second hand markets (I know, very hipster) to joining in meetups and events, you will find a myriad of opportunities to meet like-minded people and not depend on people that are closest to you, but share nothing in common with you.
One trap I fell into was having language exchanges with people I had nothing in common with. The most effective way to have a language exchange is with people on a topic you are both interested in. It is not enough to simply want to learn the other person's language, you need to have a common ground for wanting to meet up besides language, because frankly, language exchange is always one-sided anyway.
5. Closing Thought
For some of you reading this, you might be saying "I have a circle of Taiwanese friends" and what I am saying is flawed. I am not here to suggest it is impossible to befriend locals, but that there is at least some reasoning behind why it isn't always easy to mingle with a crowd of locals on a night out or in your workplace or university.
From linguistic barriers, mingling with other foreign nationals who are experiencing the same transition to Taiwan, to not looking in the right places for friends, there are many reasons why people don't make friends with locals in Taiwan.
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