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What discounts are usually out in October?
Usually free dining and/or room only discount I know in the earlier part of October free dining is more possible usually.
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Last year FD was offered early in the month and then again starting the Friday after Columbus Day. Crowds are usually heavier Columbus Day wknd, so not as likely for discounts. We've booked Oct 18-27 and hoping for discounts, but looks like several rooms are already on hold/booked for that time period, so either conventions or maybe not a slow period this year? :S
Here is a link to a list of discounts Disney has released in the past, when they were released, and how the dates they were good for:
Of course, you can't count on the same discounts being released year to year, but at least this will give you some idea.
While you can't bank on FD or any specific discount, you can be confident that Disney will offer some type of discount for Oct. It is a "low season" and hurricane season, so they are going to try to fill as many rooms as possible.
we are going to Disney Oct 25-Nov 1 hoping for a discount too....
That's the exact time period we're going too
Normally discounts roll out in July or August and the wait kills me every time .
I book vacation i want hold it with 200 bucks make my adr start paying off the vacation in small amounts till i know the real total price..
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Geek gals: Can the Twin Cities lead in helping women take their place in high tech?
As Minnesota builds its technology sector and continues its path to becoming Silicon Prairie, one issue seems to stand out: There are still mostly men in all those software development seats.
Women hold a place at many companies and associations — most notably, Margaret Anderson Kelliher helms the Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) — but when it comes to sheer numbers, the gender imbalance can be stark.
"We've really tried to hire more women as software engineers, but we have a hard time finding them and bringing them in," says Shivani Khanna, a software development manager at St. Cloud-based W3i. "Unfortunately, in the seven years I've been here, there hasn't been much change, despite many efforts."
But, she adds, signs of a shift are beginning to show, at least somewhat. Through mentoring opportunities, more women-focused organizations, and even informal happy hours, there's optimism that the technology sector can be more appealing as a career choice to women.
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Trying to pin down the reasons for low numbers of women in technology is somewhat akin to looking at the issue of obesity in the United States. Opportunities abound for change, and many people are eager for wide-scale transformation, and yet the numbers remain stubbornly fixed. There are many theories as to why the situation exists, but also frustration over the lack of clear answers.
For some, there's a belief that enterprises, however well meaning, continue to foster the belief that men and women solve problems differently, and that the male-based approach is more advantageous for technology development. That pervasive opinion can make women feel intimidated, Khanna believes.
"When I was going to college to get my master's, I felt like people were thinking, 'What is a girl doing in our space?'" she says. "I don't know if that was actually the case, but I definitely felt like I had to constantly prove myself in a way that the men didn't. For many women, I can see how that would cause them to drop out, especially if that mindset continues throughout your career."
Often, women don't have as much credibility when they're on technology teams, adds Kate Agnew, managing director of the Twin Cities chapter of Girls in Tech, an organization working to bring more girls and women into technology.
That lack of clout can lead women to feel unaccepted, and eventually leave the field. That has a ripple effect, because it means fewer women are in the profession, and girls considering technology as a career might opt for a field with more gender balance.
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Despite the stacked deck for women in technology, there are significant efforts being made for change, and the Twin Cities is particularly committed to the issue. Numerous initiatives are giving hope that the future might be different here, if we can get some much-needed traction.
Recently, technology group Advance IT Minnesota unveiled a new award for girls in grades 9 through 12. The Minnesota Aspirations for Women in Computing Award is designed to encourage girls to consider technology career options, which could then lead to a more diverse talent pool here in the long run.
Another bright spot has been Girls in Tech, started two years ago. Agnew notes that there's been substantial growth in the organization, and as outreach efforts grow, so do the membership numbers. The group plans to focus more strongly on mentorship connections for girls as well as women already in technology careers. Agnew and others involved in Girls in Tech also visit local high schools to talk about why technology is cool and interesting.
"Even after all these years, there are still so few women in technology," she says. "It's going to take a major effort to change that, and we're putting in the hard work to make it happen."
Conferences are proving helpful as well. The Twin Cities recently hosted its third round of She's Geeky, an "unconference" where women shared thoughts about science and technology. Organized by local tech leaders Jacque Urick and Liz Tupper, the event continues to increase in attendance every year.
"We have a ways to go yet, but it felt like people are talking more, getting more involved, asking questions about why women-led companies aren't getting funded as much as they should," says Urick.
More conversation is likely to happen this year when the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference is held in Minneapolis, says Kelliher: "This is a major national conference, and it's exciting that they've chosen Minneapolis for this year. I think it'll highlight what we've been building here in terms of a technology field."
In addition to initiatives and conferences like these, the state is also seeing more women technology entrepreneurs. Although the evidence of that is anecdotal, it's tough to ignore the impact of business-boosting efforts like WomenVenture, and the creation of women-led startups like HappiMatch, PreciouStatus (which won this year's Minnesota Cup), Appmosphere, Code Poetry Software, and others.
Equal balance
As efforts like Girls in Tech and Advance IT find their footing, there's optimism that Minnesota can become a leader in changing the landscape when it comes to women in technology professions.
"At this point, I think a lot of things are moving in the right direction," says Urick. "Last year, it felt like people were looking at the issues more, and that's a good first step."
In other words, the Twin Cities may finally be seeing the beginning of the end of gender imbalance in technology. Although it's taken an enormous amount of effort just to get this level of change started, the momentum will be worth watching.
"The opportunities in technology for women are enormous here," says Kelliher. "We're excited about the number of efforts that are going on to create change."
This article is reprinted in partnership with The Line, an online chronicle of Twin Cities creativity in entrepreneurship, culture, retail, placemaking, the arts, and other elements of the new creative economy. Elizabeth Millard is the innovation and jobs editor of The Line.
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The DA – which helped with completing the house, half built at the time of the death of the children's parents – has accused the ANC of bullish behaviour.
Local DA leaders claim members of the ANC repainted the house in a cream-white colour just weeks after the DA had painted it in blue, the dominant party colour.
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The DA's KwaNyuswa branch chairman, Mfanutheni Ndlovu, said members of his party started building a house after the children's father was murdered in KwaNdengezi last year. Later in the same year their mother died after falling sick.
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This is said to have angered ANC members in the area.
During the handover of the house last month, ANC members gathered in the area and started pelting them with stones.
"We had to leave prematurely to avoid being hurt," said Davis. "It happened at a time when our provincial leader, Sizwe Mchunu, was delivering a speech. But this is not going to stop us, especially helping the poor. The area has a high level of poverty. It is our democratic right to be here."
Mchunu said the ANC had been intolerant.
"After the ANC failed to realise and assist a needy family, we decided to step in and help," he said. "Their (ANC's) lack of political tolerance has become a threat to democracy. Our cars were scratched and spat upon. I will be meeting the provincial leadership of the ANC to discuss these issues," said Mchunu.
However, the ANC provincial spokesman, Senzo Mkhize, advised Mchunu to focus on the DA instead of talking about the ANC.
"We do not know what happened that day. It has never been reported to us," he said. "We are against people using political expediency and publicity for cheap politics."
Davis said it was absurd for the ANC members to think the DA could use the orphans' misery to score political points.
Pointing to a crèche down the road, Davis said: "Look at that building, it was painted by our members using green and yellow paint. Was it disputed? No, because it looks like their (ANC's) colours. We bought the paint because it was cheap," he said.
He described the ANC's actions as undemocratic and unconstitutional.
"We were shocked by this cheap level of politics. Our concern was for the children to get a roof above their heads," Davis said. "The blue paint was on special and a beautiful colour for the house. We helped children who tragically lost their parents. They stayed in an unsafe falling mud house."
Ndlovu described the actions as disrespectful. "Had they had a problem with the colour they should have consulted us. People are still scared to join the DA," he said. "The orphans' aunt was given a job by the ANC to clean the road. She has been warned not to associate herself with the DA."
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Today, exactly a century after they were discovered on August 21, 1912, they are known as the National Showcaves Centre For Wales and are are among Wales' best known visitor attractions welcoming over 70,000 tourists a year.
Set in the stunning Brecon Beacons National Park, in 2005 the caves won a TV search for "Britain's finest natural wonder" beating off competition from the likes of the Cheddar Gorge and even the iconic White Cliffs of Dover.
The caves have hosted music concerts and weddings and were used during World War 11 to hide art treasures in the event of a Nazi invasion.
And the attraction now also boasts one of the biggest full-scale model dinosaur parks in the world as well as a replica iron age hill farm, a Victorian farm, a museum, a collection of working shire horses and a millennium stone circle.
The discovery of the caves was down to present day owner Ashford Price's heroic relatives, local farming brothers Tommy and Jeff Morgan, who were the first to discover the caves in modern times on August 21, 1912.
It was the year of the Titanic disaster and of the ill fated Scott expedition, a time when movies were still silent and cars were rare.
The Morgan brothers were not initially looking for a vast cave system but were trying to find the source of water which was constantly pouring out from a cave entrance on their farm at Dan yr Ogof in the Upper Swansea Valley.
Not knowing what they would find underground, the intrepid brothers armed themselves with a revolver and took along ropes, candles and supplies of food.
The brothers' initial expedition was halted by a large lake so, using arrows marked in sand and earth to find their way back, they returned to the surface to get a coracle in which they crossed the "underground sea".
The pair discovered a wonderland of spectacular underground stalactites and stalagmites which dated back to the time of the dinosaurs.
They eventually crossed three more lakes in the same manner, but were stopped by a tight crawl.
Once the caves had been discovered the Morgan farmers took tourists on trips into the caves using candles to light their way.
Mr Price said: "Tourists in the early days of the attraction were expected to wade and swim through icy cold water, to climb underground cliffs and negotiate huge boulders covered in slimy mud."
A hundred years on the caves are still run by descendants of the original cave explorers and since the original discovery in 1912 more than eleven miles of caves have been discovered by caving experts using updated equipment.
As well as their current role as a tourist attraction, the caves also doubled as an arms and art store during World War II
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Water from the caves was also piped down to Swansea when the water mains were damaged by bombs during the infamous three-night blitz on the city.
In older times, the long usage of the caves dating back 3,000 years has been shown by the discovery of 42 human skeletons dating back over 3,000 years to the Bronze Age.
Items such as bone pins, pottery, coins, iron, bronze and silver rings have also been found in the cave, as well as relics dating to the time when Roman legions were stationed in the area.
In one of the most unusual ceremonies ever performed, the bones were returned underground and reburied in the Bone Cave.
Mr Price added: "To mark our 100th year the caves have installed a new hydro plant costing over £300,000.
"This plant makes the caves the first 'self sufficient' energy producing attraction in Britain.
"We have also installed an 'electrical hook-up point' to recharge electric cars.
"This is the first time a hydro plant has been used to provide the power to recharge electric vehicles.
"Finally, we have recently been planting over 80,000 broad leafed trees on the mountains surrounding the showcaves to record our 100th birthday."
In 2005, a competition run by TV channel Five asked readers of the Radio Times magazine to vote for their "finest natural wonder".
They chose the National Showcaves of Wales ahead of attractions including Giant's Causeway, the White Cliffs of Dover and Cheddar Gorge.
In 1953 members of the South Wales Caving Club blasted a way through boulders to discover the Cathedral Cave, decorated with thousands of delicate cave formations.
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Pixar Animation Studios has posted a full-length trailer for its thirteenth feature film "Brave", due in theaters on June 22nd, 2012.
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By C Miller
From: CA
Jan 28, 2006
|A great route that's more of a face climb at the crux (fixed pins are usually present); once past the crux the crack is no harder than 5.9 and opens up to wide fingers and then hands. The 2nd pitch is good as well, but most rap off (130') after the 1st.
By Adam Stackhouse
Feb 4, 2006
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|Outstanding climb that sux up nuts and small cams. Exiting P1, a 5.9+ move with shakey pro is encountered. Top notch.
By Chris Owen
From: Big Bear Lake
Feb 24, 2006
|A wonderful line. If the pins are good then it's well protected at the crux, although I wouldn't be surprised if the top pin has taken more than its share of shock loading.
By Adam Stackhouse
Mar 20, 2006
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|I indeed gave that top pin a load test....
By Bruce Diffenbaugh
From: Cheyenne,Wyoming
Feb 11, 2008
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|This is defiantly one of my favorite climbs on this side of the valley.A real gem!!
By Will S
From: Joshua Tree
Oct 28, 2008
|Fixed pins looked good on 10/26, so good that I whipped onto the 3rd one. Technical and a little tenuous, delicate not powerful. A 70m rope will put you about 15' off the ground in 3rd class terrain from top of p1.
By Tyler Logan
From: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Oct 3, 2009
|Both pitches can be combined into one with a 60m rope. The second pitch has an exciting move or two on so-so rock leading to secure jams, and then it joins the last ten feet of Flower of High Rank.
By Adam Stackhouse
Jul 5, 2011
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|Kinda interesting that this doesn't have more comments...
By Souljah
From: Northern NM
Aug 16, 2011
|The last time I did this gem was probably mid/late 80's. Same old pins as the first time , except that one was now bent (forget which) rendering the eye unclipable, but providing a good, medium wired placement between the rock & bent metal. Maybe there's another dinosaur out there that remembers this unorthodox placement ?
By JFK
From: San Diego, CA
Jan 8, 2012
|I've taken a handful of 15 footers on the pin below the crux in the last couple weeks. The final pin is higher now and hard to clip until you've cleared the crux now. 4 pins total. 1 before the 10a traverse down low, 2 below the crux and 1 after the crux
By Simon Hatfield
From: Oakland, CA
May 15, 2012
You can get down to 3rd class terrain by rapping climber's right with a 60m rope from the anchors atop p1, so don't worry if you don't have a 70.
Also, this route is equipped with those great rounded metolius hangars that you can thread your rope right through. Convenient!
By Ryan Kempf
From: Boulder, CO
Sep 18, 2012
|As of 9/16/12 there is only one remaining knife blade. It is mid crux above the traverse. There are pin scars where the old pins were that provide excellent pro (especially with C3's). Route is pure, with delicate moves on good rock.
By Richard Border
From: Boulder, CO
May 5, 2014
|As of May 2014 the pin at the beginning of the crux section is still there and healthy (I whipped on it repeatedly). As pointed out before, the old pin scars below make bomber micro-cam placements. G.
By johannsolo
From: So Cal
May 7, 2014
|I removed two of the three pins in the Summer of 2012 after confirming that bomber small cams can be placed.
By Phil Esra
Jun 30, 2014
|I chopped the bolt anchor after confirming that a gear anchor can be built next to it. No, just kidding. One pin @ bottom of crux 6/28/14.
By Tom Hore
Jan 2, 2015
|I filled the crack with cement after confirming that the there were bomber crimps on each side of the crack.
By Peter Lewis
From: Bridgton, Maine
Mar 18, 2015
|Love the comment thread just above here. So, who's going to chisel off the crimps and say the smearing is enough?
By dnaiscool
Mar 25, 2015
I went up wast week at midnight and wap-bolted it with Euro-style Gwoo-ins (14 total) so my winkie didn't get all bunched up, but it was still too skeh-wie, so I packed it wiff axle grease like dey did to my good buddy Todd (RIP) on Park Avenue...or whatevew it wuz kawed... back when meanie peoples wuz crimbing wocks...
Hardy Har Har!!
Anyway, with all due respect, I thought the second pitch was
shee-ite, and detracted serious from the stellar climbing below.(This is the only serious/truthful comment by me in this thread...just in case you did not realize it...)
My recommendation: Rap from those anchor bolts at the money ledge with the 80m, and leave the rope hanging so all the lil' dough-gies can have a run at her!!
Hell, put a "Tip Jar" on the TR and charge by the foot!
Make it "No Falls = Free" for motivation, but money up before chalking!
Spoiler Alert:
Oh...one last thing: make sure to use that small black knob for the right foot at the crux...just sayin'...
By Dave Chitjian
Jun 15, 2015
|Got on this route on Saturday 6/13/15 does anybody have any beta on gear placement after the first pin? I placed a small micro nut above the first and only pin and then a few moves later I took a fall, and pulled the micro nut out and whipped on the pin below.
By Patrick Heddins
Jul 24, 2015
|Chitjian, I remember placing a great Green Camalot C3 above the pin.
By GoBoy
Oct 26, 2015
|I plugged a grey & purple TCU in what looks like the 2nd removed pin scar/pod(?), standing up after the crux. They were a bit shallow, & the stem isn't perfectly down, but I think they're fine.
By Jan Tarculas
From: Riverside, Ca
Apr 3, 2016
as of 4/2/16 there is still 1 pin at top before the crux moves
route can be TRed with a 70M rope using the anchors on top of the 1st pitch, but very close, tie your knots
By Tradiban
May 29, 2016
|Awesome route, I felt a bit runout over the now single pin, there were placements between the pin and the rest but stopping would have taken more energy than it was worth!
By nathanael
From: Riverside, CA
Jul 17, 2016
There are Metolius Rap hangers at the top of P1. These are hangers that you can rap from without the need for quick links or rap rings. So to David that we met at the crag yesterday, you can stop installing quicklinks and complaining when they get pirated. But I do appreciate your efforts.
Also you can get down and TR with a 60m if you scramble up the low angle trough at the start of Flower.
By Adam Stackhouse
Jul 17, 2016
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|Bolted belay now?
By nathanael
From: Riverside, CA
Jul 18, 2016
|Yes there is a 2 bolt belay at the top of P1.. and based on the comments it's been there since 2012. Or maybe you're asking something else Adam?
By Adam Stackhouse
Jul 18, 2016
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
Didn't know about the bolted belay. Two/three nuts and a #1 friend is what I used BITD.
Will update the description. Thanks
By Fat Dad
From: Los Angeles, CA
Dec 7, 2016
|I think it's probably appropriate that (most of) the fixed pins were removed. We often clip them without the ability to test them and confirm whether they're good or not. Plus, they can be a magnet for people leaving tat when bailing. When I did this climb, someone had tied a fat piece of 1" webbing through the top pin, so I couldn't clip into the pin itself. I had to fire wondering whether the webbing (or the pin) would hold if I blew the crux. Great climb with wonderful movement.


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He was also arrested on a felony probation and parole warrant for a parole absconder.
Columbia Police say a man faces multiple charges after forcing his way into a home and terrorizing the people inside.
Police responded to a disturbance in the 500 block of Pear Tree Circle at 4:10 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Police say 45-year-old Joseph Bradford forced his way into the home. He previously lived there and had moved out a month earlier.
Bradford chased two women, one 24-years-old and the other 53-years-old, through the house and punched the 24-year-old.
Police say that woman was holding her one-year-old baby at the time, and Bradford hit the baby in the head with his elbow.
Police say Bradford then put the 24-year-old in a head lock on the floor while the baby was still in her arms. They say Bradford then got up and got two steak knives from the kitchen, but then put them down.
Bradford then allegedly went outside and came back into the home with a butcher knife.
Police say he chased the 24-year-old with a butcher knife, but she was able to lock herself inside a room.
Police say Bradford then walked outside, where officers told him to turn around and get on the ground. Bradford refused and told officers to shoot him.
Police say they told Bradford to get on the ground several times, and eventually tasered him to put handcuffs on.
The 24-year-old woman had scratches and bumps, the baby had a minor bump on the face and the 53-year-old woman was not injured.
Bradford was arrested for armed criminal action, first-degree burglary, second-degree domestic assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
He was also arrested on a felony probation and parole warrant for a parole absconder.
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|Jim Ames, Cindy Anderson, Carol Black, Holli Davenport, Debbie Epperly, Rita Hinchcliff, Janet Jobes, Reyna Meyers, Ramona Murtha, Leslie Wright and Heather Paetsch (guest)
Vice President Cindy Anderson called the meeting to order at 10:20.
|The minutes of the March meeting were approved as distributed.
|Treasurer's Report
Holli Davenport
May Awards Luncheon
Carol Black and
Heather Paetsch
Human Resources would like to combine the classified and administrative awards luncheons.
It had been suggested that awards be presented at the picnic, but Carol thought the events were too different in their purposes.
Sharon received positive responses to her email about the idea.
Recent attendance statistics for the two luncheons indicate that the Cat would be large enough for a combined luncheon, but there are alternatives at that time of the year if attendance gets too large (Goudy or Cone Fieldhouse).
Combining the two events would allow a larger budget.
Heather Paetsch has talked to the two "of the year" committees about the possibility. Responses from both were positive.
Council felt that this is a good idea and would like to try it.
Scholarship Fund
|Council discussed three options for a deposit from our account to the scholarship fund: $500, $1,000 or 50% of the ending balance. The preference (0 to 1 to 7) was 50% of the year-end balance.
Food Drive
Holli Davenport
|The campus raised 1,091 pounds of food and $338 (1,429 total) for the March food drive for Marion-Polk Food Share.
Student Scholarship
Recognition Day
Ramona Murtha
|Ramona distributed schedules and encouraged staff to try to attend.
April Luncheon
Jim Ames
Planning is going well.
The menu will be picnic foods (hamburgers, potato salad, chips, soda).
Grounds will bring plants for centerpieces and birdhouses and birdfeeders are being built for door prizes. Several of the vendors maintenance woks with are also donating door prizes.
Paper Reduction
|The following offices/areas have agreed to receive a single invitation to be routed: Grounds, Mail Center, Word Processing, UC 2nd floor, Law Library, Registrar, Campus Safety, Bishop Wellness Center and TIUA. Several individuals also asked to receive only email notification of luncheons.
2006-07 Luncheons
|The Council agreed on the dates for luncheons in 2006-07. Holli will make the reservations for the Cat Cavern. Decisions about which group plans which month will be determined at the May meeting when new representatives will also be at the meeting.
Safety Committee
Ramona Murtha
|CPR/AED training sessions will be held on April 27.
Fringe Benefits Committee
Carol Black
H.R. has re-ordered insurance cards for Pioneer participants who haven't yet received them.
Enrollment for AFLAC has been extended through April.
Campus Master Planning Committee
Holli Davenport
The committee discussed options for a location for a new academic building and possible short-term and long-term uses for the YWCA building after the Y vacates.
Grounds is going to install an equipment shed next to their building.
The Landscape Stewardship Committee is discussing plantings around Waller and on the southeast corner of campus (12th and Bellevue).
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What Do Birds Think Of Fireworks?
Every year around the Fourth of July people use our neighborhood park to try out illegal fireworks. (In Pennsylvania everything except sparklers, "novelties," and toycaps are illegal without a permit.)
Last Sunday we jumped out of our skins when someone exploded a minute's worth of "M-80" salutes across the street. After our hearts stopped racing and our cat emerged from under the bed I wondered...
What do birds think of fireworks?
I can guess based on our own reactions, but here are some scientific studies.
In the Netherlands where fireworks are popular on New Years' Eve, the University of Amsterdam uses weather radar to track birds' reactions when civilians celebrate at midnight. On the radar here you can see thousands of birds fleeing en masse for 45 minutes. The birds most affected are ducks and geese overwintering at quiet wetlands. I suspect they are doubly susceptible because they aren't habituated to human noise and they flee the sound of gunfire because they are hunted.
On the U.S. Pacific Coast a few towns have changed their fireworks venues to protect nesting seabird colonies. When fireworks are too close the adults flee the cliffs exposing their young to cold or predation, or the young jump off the cliffs before they can fly.
At Depoe Bay, Oregon the fireworks display used to be held a mile north of town in a state park on a high cliff overlooking the ocean. The site is part of Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and has a large nesting colony of Brandt's cormorants. After July 4, 2011 and years of fireworks-induced nest failure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began talking with municipal leaders about moving the venue. USFW did a study showing significant nest failure and provided an alternate seaside location only a seven minute drive from town. Most towns understand and accommodate. Depoe Bay became famous for canceling and complaining.
So what do birds do about fireworks? It depends. Some flee. Some hunker down. Others are tolerant if the noise isn't too close. In any case the disturbance is temporary.
It's pretty much our pets' reaction too.
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Major media events elevate 2014 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup
September 02, 2014, Official NASCAR release, NASCAR.com
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Sept. 2, 2014) – A bigger Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup -- in both size and stature -- awaits, and to help launch the brand new championship format, NASCAR announced today unprecedented media and fan activities throughout the sport's "playoffs."
Here are a number of the initiatives announced today:
Chase Across North America
On Wednesday, Sept. 10, the 16 Challengers will participate in the Chase Across North America media tour. The multi-country media blitz will feature 16 different drivers across 16 different cities, with one driver visiting each of the following locations: every Chase track market, Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Antonio, Toronto, New York and ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.
For the first time, NASCAR will hit the international market during the annual pre-Chase media blitz, with two of the sport's biggest stars already locked in for their visits. Four-time champion Jeff Gordon will visit four iconic locations in Toronto -- signifying the four rounds of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup -- during his "Chase Across Toronto." Carl Edwards will take the excitement of the new Chase format to Mexico City when he visits some of the most internationally recognizable locations in one of the biggest cities in North America.
Chase Media Day
Chase Media Day will be held Thursday, Sept. 11, at The Murphy located at 50 E. Erie Street in the heart of downtown Chicago. The 16 Challengers will participate in media availability with national and local outlets representing broadcast, print and online media, just days before the 16-nation, 10-battle Chase begins at Chicagoland Speedway (Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. CT on ESPN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NASCAR.com).
Contender Media Day and Eliminator Media Day
Heading into the Contender and Eliminator rounds in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the remaining championship contending drivers -- the 12 Contenders and Eliminator 8 -- will participate in two media days that include a press conference, media rotation as well as a fan Q&A, where their driver nations will rally in support at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Championship Media Day
The Championship 4 and their team owners will participate in a press conference heading into the final battle -- Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The media day will take place the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Trump National Doral Miami.
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IFA heads to roll: Shock report condemns football chiefs
Kennedy and Martin facing exit after damning report
Top level resignations could rock the Irish FA after a 'damning' Government-ordered inquiry into the controversial sacking of former Chief Executive Howard Wells.
President Raymond Kennedy and his No2 David Martin are again in the firing line over the affair that cost the IFA £500,000 in settlement of Wells' unfair dismissal claim.
The Belfast Telegraph understands the Sport NI-compiled report condemns the IFA as 'not fit for purpose' and 'needing structural change.'
Those findings could now affect Government funding of the proposed new 20,000 all-seater rebuilt Windsor Park national stadium.
Government sources are believed to have told the IFA that they will not commit public money to the stadium project without fundamental changes in the running of the IFA at the top.
IFA Executive Board members, who studied the report in midweek, may now decide to exercise their power to demand resignations.
The report is sharply critical of the two top officials, holding them responsible for exposing the IFA to the half million loss in the Wells case by sacking him against legal advice. Both survived an attempt to censure and remove them when a threatened vote of no confidence failed to materialise.
More uplifting news for the IFA emerged last night when Linfield members gave their blessing to a draft agreement between the club and the football body regarding the future redevelopment of Windsor.
The agreement sees a £200,000 index linked rental payment paid to Linfield annually, the creation of a new stadium management company with up to 40 years of a lease on the new stadium, with Linfield retaining ownership of the land and the right to continue to play at the ground unencumbered by any maintenance costs.
Pressure mounts on Irish FA chiefs
By Jim Gracey
Irish FA President Raymond Kennedy and his No.2 David Martin were last night on the verge of being forced to resign from their posts as the top two rulers in Northern Ireland football.
They are under renewed pressure to go after Government paymasters made clear that desperately needed funding for a new Windsor Park national stadium could be withheld if they remain.
It follows a sharply critical Government-ordered inquiry into their roles into the controversial sacking of former IFA Chief Executive Howard Wells in October 2008.
That led to almost £500,000 going out of Northern Ireland football in settlement of an unfair dismissal claim by English-based Wells earlier this year.
The still to be made public report, compiled by Sport NI investigators, was this week put before members of the IFA's ruling Executive Board, finally forcing their hand on the issue.
An insider described its contents as 'damning' of the IFA and its administration, condemning the IFA as 'not fit for purpose' and 'needing structural change'.
Top level meetings were yesterday held on its contents by officials at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) who will be expected to provide majority funding for the planned new 20,000 all-seater Windsor national stadium.
DCAL asked for the report before committing public money to the Windsor project.
The report confirms what became clear in the aftermath of the Wells settlement — that the IFA President and vice-president acted beyond their powers in unilaterally removing Wells from his £105,000 a year job, with two years of his contract to run, and in contravention of legal opinion from the IFA's solicitors.
On doing so they exposed the IFA to that half million pounds loss, putting them in breach of the Association's own constitution.
That was known by IFA members when they quietly returned the two officials, unopposed, at their annual general meeting last month.
The two had earlier survived a rougher ride at a meeting of the IFA council, made up of 54 members from all levels of Northern Ireland football.
But a threatened vote of no confidence never materialised and, despite a welter of media criticism, the top men appeared confident of riding out the storm, especially when they sailed straight back into power two weeks ago.
But that was before the ticking time bomb of the Sport NI report exploded in the faces of the Executive Board this week.
That body has the power to demand resignations and it seems now they have.
They will have been prompted less by the top office bearers' actions over the Wells affair, having failed to previously censure them, and more by the fear of losing vital stadium funding with the dream finally coming close to reality.
Some may call it a threat and point to world football governing body FIFA's frowning upon perceived Government interference in the business of national associations.
But DCAL's position is clear in that they will not lavish taxpayers' money on a body so careless with its' own.
Were they to go, it would represent an upheaval of seismic proportions in Northern Ireland football.
In effect, it would be the un
precedented impeachment of the President and his No2, within two weeks of their re-election.
Their four-year reign, however, has been fraught with controversy since Kennedy's deposing of former President Jim Boyce in 2006.
That culminated in the sacking of Wells whose reforms of the antiquated IFA, originally backed by Kennedy, had come to be increasingly resented by the Windsor Avenue old guard whose perks and positions were under threat.
For proud President Kennedy, a North West football stalwart from Limavady, stepping down would be a powerful personal blow, having risen through the ranks of FIFA to serve on this World Cup's disciplinary committee.
He has been criticised for his globe-trotting, too, though, to places like Australia, Bermuda, Chile, the USA and South Africa twice in the last month.
Before that, he had opposed Boyce on the basis the former supremo was away too much and that the IFA needed a stay-at-home President to deal with here-at-home issues.
In the final analysis, though, the abiding impression is of a well-meaning individual, with football's interests at heart, caught up in a vortex of IFA politics that spun out of his control.
The real power behind the throne has always been his less-public No2 David Martin, from Dromore in Co Down, a man steeped in Amateur League football and a Co Antrim FA leading light.
His power base comes from the junior football ranks, who hold the biggest voting bloc at the IFA and who have solidly backed him. He would never be voted out and would have to step down voluntarily.
The pressure to do so is now increasing on the two men, with no obvious successors to fill their shoes at this critical time and funding and new stadium issues requiring urgent attention and steady and capable hands at the helm.
Elections for a new President and vice-president would have to come through the IFA Council. To stand for office, a candidate must be a member of council and be proposed and seconded by council members.
The IFA would have to set a date for the receipt of nominations and these would then go before a full council meeting to be voted on by secret ballot. Naturally, if there was only one nomination for each or both posts, those persons would be elected unopposed.
The IFA would want the posts filled quickly and certainly before the new season begins. Hence, it might require an emergency council meeting during July.
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The deadliest attack on Saturday was an ambush on a checkpoint manned by members of an armed Sunni group that has joined forces with the United States against al-Qaida in Iraq.
Gunmen opened fire on the checkpoint in the village of Ousoud, northeast of the Diyala provincial capital of Baqubah, killing three of the Sunni guards and wounding four, according to police at the regional security headquarters.
In Baghdad, a bomb attached to a police truck exploded near a popular vegetable market in a southern neighborhood, killing a Sunni tribal leader who was a member of a group that has joined forces with the Americans against al-Qaida, and his driver, police and hospital officials said.
A suicide bomber targeted police recruits near a checkpoint in the northern oil town of Kirkuk, killing at least one and wounding 14 other people, police Brig. Gen. Burhan Tayeb Taha said.
Acting on tips, Iraqi police found the remains of 27 people in two mass graves Saturday in separate areas.


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The 2012 Year End Awards for Wrestling:
Hello out there to all wrestling fans from around the world and a Happy Early New Year. Another year of Professional Wrestling has come and gone. What a year it was. We had incredible matches, mark-out moment returns, and moments that absolutely took our breath away. With that being said, we now have to ask ourselves, what were THE Best moments of 2012?
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The biggest issue for the underground construction industry as year 2010 unfolds is not just whether Congress and the President Obama administration will unveil a second round of infrastructure spending, but whether that second helping of federal funds for sewers and drinking water systems will find its way into city and country financial bloodstreams a lot faster than the first injection did.
A second stimulus bill is already on the move. House Democrat leaders passed a bill on Dec. 17 (H.R. 2847) called the Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010. It contains $37.3 billion for transportation programs and $2 billion for water infrastructure. That is far short of the $20 billion infusion groups such as the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and the Water Infrastructure Network are pushing for. The bill passed by a narrow vote of 217-212, with all Republicans and 38 Democrats, worried about increased federal deficits, voting against the bill. Those "no" votes raise questions about whether the bill can pass the Senate which will take the bill up sometime this year. The House bill also contains $715 million and $100 million in new construction funding for the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation respectively.
While the president and at least the House Democratic leadership is eager to pass an ARRA-II, they face a not insignificant hurdle in terms of finding the money to pay for the total $150 billion cost of H.R. 2847, which includes an extension of unemployment benefits, aid to local governments and other expenditures in addition to the $40 billion in total infrastructure spending. The House bill pays for the new spending — the bill weighs in at $75 billion — by taking that sum out of the $200 billion in unspent funds previously appropriated for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, the bank bailout program Congress passed last fall.
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The jobs bill is a highly visible reflection of Washington's interest in spurring infrastructure spending. But there will be other, much less highly publicized federal spurs to underground construction in 2010. While not labeled as an infrastructure initiative, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) distribution integrity management program (DIMP) final rule issued in December certainly will require a considerable amount of underground construction by municipal gas utilities. The American Gas Association called it "the most significant rulemaking affecting natural gas distribution operators since the inception of the federal pipeline safety code."
The key mandate in the final rule published by the PHMSA is that distribution companies install excess flow valves (EFVs) on new and replaced residential service lines, subject to feasibility criteria outlined in the rule. The DIMP covers nearly 10,000 natural gas operators (about 200 of them the predominant local companies) with a combined total of 1,138,000 miles of mains. EFVs will not have to be installed on branch service lines. Up until now local gas utilities simply had to notify customers that an EFV was available when repair work was done on their home gas line. If the customer wanted the EFV, he or she paid for it.
That now changes. The company must install EFVs when putting in a new line or repairing an old one and the company must foot the construction bill, too. This final DIMP rule provides important details on EFV installation which will dictate the extent of construction. Citing the expense of excavation work, PHMSA clarified that it expects companies to install EFVs only when repair work is done near the main. But it made clear that it also expects EFVs to go in if repair work is only around the main; in other words the entire line does not have to be repaired for an EFV to be installed.
The EFV requirement goes into effect on Feb. 10, 2010. The exceptions to the EFV installation mandate are: 1) where an operator has prior experience with contaminants in the gas stream which could pose problems for the EFV operation, 2) the service line does not operate at a pressure of 10 psig or greater throughout the year, 3) the EFV could interfere with the necessary operation or maintenance activities, such a blowing liquids from the system, or 4) if an EFV is not commercially available.
EFV installation will kick up some dust, literally, which brings up the topic of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) possible revision of its Clean Air standard for particular matter (PM) which affects construction where dirt and soil are dislodged. Beth Hassett-Sipple, an EPA spokeswoman, says the agency currently expects to publish a proposed rule revising the PM standard in November 2010 and a final rule the next summer. The current PM standard is twofold: there is a standard for fine particles (PM 2.5) and another for coarse particles (PM 10). In the later case, the EPA revoked its annual coarse standard in 2006 but kept its 24-hour PM10 standard. It also made changes in some of the elements in the fine PM2.5 standard in 2006, although both the 24-hour and annual standards were retained. Both these standards are now up for review, and the chatter in the business community is that the EPA may tighten up the PM10 standard, which could have an impact on construction companies, who are affected when a state has to draw up what is called a State Implementation Plan showing the EPA how it will meet any new standard. The SIP could contain measures affecting just some or all activities where PM10 (or PM2.5) particles are thrown up into the atmosphere whether from a smokestack or a "dig." An interesting sidelight — or a troubling one — to any new EPA PM 2.5/10 standard is that the agency does not have to consider the costs to any sector when establishing a new standard.
The EPA was relatively active under the George W. Bush administration and keeps on percolating under the Barack Obama administration. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), on the other hand, essentially disappeared during the eight years of the Bush reign and has been slow to re-emerge. OSHA still does not have an administrator a year after Obama gained the White House. It remains a backwater. However, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis (OSHA is part of the Labor Department) says OSHA will finally, after years of delay, propose a first-time standard for silica dislodged during construction in the summer of 2010. Currently, OSHA has a permissible exposure limit (PEL) for silica which underground construction companies have to adhere to. But because it is based on particle-counting technology, it is considered obsolete. OSHA will propose replacing that PEL with a broader silica standard which will include an updated PEL plus a bevy of other requirements which come along with any standard, such as employee training, medical monitoring, recordkeeping and the like. Compliance won't be cheap.


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Raleigh, N.C. — Pet owners need to prepare.
Fleas and ticks could be a big problem this year, mainly because of the very mild winter. That means you need to protect your pets, but some common treatments can cause serious problems when they're not used correctly.
A 5 on Your Side Investigation last fall found the potential dangers of popular spot-on flea and tick treatments.
Millions of pet owners use them, because they're easy and effective. But used improperly, they can cause cats and dogs to vomit, have seizures and in extreme cases, they might not survive.
"I thought I had poisoned him," said Sarah Biddle, of her normally playful cat, Uno.
Biddle says she followed the directions to apply an over-the-counter treatment, but she says within hours, Uno "was under the bed and howling and crying and meowing."
"I instantly knew that whatever I had done last night, or I had put on him, was making him sick," Biddle added.
5 on Your Side searched the Internet and found multiple posts showing animals with similar reactions – cats shaking and dogs with skin burns.
Improper use of flea treatments can be dangerous
Dr. Diane Deresienski is a veterinarian at Bowman Animal Clinic in Raleigh. She says that she's never seen any complications firsthand but knows it can happen – typically when pet owners use the wrong product.
For example, they use dog products on cats and vice-versa. But the pesticides are not interchangeable, and they must be applied carefully, according to the directions.
"You want to try to apply it so that you get it down to the skin itself," Dr. Deresienski said.
On dogs, the recommended spot to apply the treatment is down the skin between the shoulder blades. For cats, she recommends the back of the head.
"Cats are pretty good at turning and licking things," Deresienski said. "So, if you get it up high enough they can't actually lick it off of them."
Be careful about how much you use.
Strictly follow the weight guidelines on the package so that you don't overdose. Make sure you apply the treatment every month, without fail.
Dr. Deresienski said that if you have young kids in the house, apply the treatment at night, so the kids won't accidentally touch the area before it dries.
As for Biddle's cat, Uno, he eventually recovered.
Deresienski's advice: Although spot-on flea and tick treatments help protect the pets and humans in your family, you have to be careful with how you use them.


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"At the time, I mentioned that I had a Season 10 coming at some point"
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By: dan12.29.2012 @ 6:14 AM
Fixed… Thanks!
By: Rich12.29.2012 @ 6:37 AM
Chalk it up to "your opinion vs. mine" but especially after reading your second top ten and the honorable mentions, I cannot believe that you find The Newsroom to be not only worse than some of these mildly entertaining shows, but one of the worst of the year!? I appreciate someone apeaking their mind, but your support for that decision is totally weak. Not only that but to not appreciate the show enough to leave it off the worst list is just wrong.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 6:42 AM
Rich – Sorry, Rich, but I've expressed my opinion on "Newroom" in four or five podcasts, as well as in my Worst of Gallery. I've supported that opinion in GREAT depth. If you feel that my support was "totally weak" in that one paragraph in the gallery, that's fine. If you feel that the support of that opinion over the course of a year in multiple media is "totally weak," you're wrong. You are MORE than welcome to disagree. Many flavors of opinion make the debate go 'round. And obviously many people agree with you [and some with me]. But my support for my opinions about "Newroom" has been quite thorough.
And I find "Newroom" worse than ALL of these "mildly entertaining shows."
By: V12.29.2012 @ 9:34 AM
Danial I TOTALLY support you "20 honorable shows" for REEL however I would be very disappointed if you've ignored the most ROMANTIC show EVER "Scandel" or as I call "FORBIDEN LOVE"! Thanks Dan for your opinion so much appreciated! I selute you Man ^_• two thumbs UP
By: a12.29.2012 @ 3:47 PM
Dan-Not to be totally judgemental or to come of as an ass, but is the pedigree of the Newsroom the reason for the show coming in your worst 10? Is it that we expected more from Sorkin than other writers/showrunners and the Newsroom failed to deliver or is the show really that bad???
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:34 PM
V – Scandal's in my "honorable mention" field. I contemplated combining it with "Grey's Anatomy" to cheat and put it in the Top 20, but I decided not to.
A – "Newroom" is in my Worst 10 because no show on TV annoys and frustrates me more and leaves me yelling at my TV with the same level of irritation.
By: Kyle12.29.2012 @ 9:52 AM
I hope you're way behind on sons of anarchy or idk how u got your job.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:35 PM
Kyle – Nope. Totally caught up. That's why it was in my "Most Improved" section.
By: Alex_B12.29.2012 @ 11:18 AM
Is American Horror Story THAT bad to most of people? I think it was the best of the season and the most improved this season. It really grabbed my attention. I wished it was the same to everybody.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:36 PM
Alex_B – "AHS" is absolutely improved this season. I still don't like it very much. But I also hate it less. It was in my Bottom 10 last year and this year it's just somewhere in the middle…
By: Jon12.29.2012 @ 1:39 PM
Vampire Diaries ahead of Sherlock and Walking Dead. This list is a joke.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:36 PM
Jon- No it's not.
By: Rob12.29.2012 @ 2:19 PM
Are you sure this is the right list? I'm pretty sure this is the most overrated TV shows. 30 rock, Vampire Diaries? Might as well put Real Housewives on this list.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:37 PM
Rob – You obviously haven't been watching "30 Rock" this season. And you obviously don't watch "Vampire Diaries." And the equating of "Real Housewives" with those two makes me wonder what you think "overrated" means.
By: troopermsu12.30.2012 @ 6:19 AM
I don't get how anybody can call '30 Rock' overrated. One episode contains more jokes and laughs than the entire run of 'Two And A Half Men', for example. Or pretty much any other current CBS show….
By: iva12.29.2012 @ 2:40 PM
I love that you've included TVD. I've just recently binged on it and.. frankly I've never seen anything better on CW (not counting the 3rd season of Veronica Mars with their "great" input)
By: Cousin Larry Appleton12.29.2012 @ 3:52 PM
I have every episode of this most recent season of Fringe backing up on my DVR. Would you say it has been better, worse or equal to last season? Fringe was my favorite drama on network TV for a stretch, but last season didn't really work for me, and I've been hesitant to jump back in.
Nice to see some love for Ben & Kate and Suburgatory, two comedies which seem to go largely ignored. Am I crazy for thinking Ben & Kate was the best new (network) show this year?
By: pog12.29.2012 @ 5:17 PM
In my opinion, this season of Fringe has been the best so far. Freed from the constraints of having to either make episodes that stand alone or need to chase ratings, I think it's been one of the more daring science fiction plots seen on TV. I think there's only been one genuinely "Average" episode, and one plotline was resolved a little too neatly, but honestly, I'd love to sit and watch the whole thing as a marathon. You should get on it.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:38 PM
Cousin Larry – "Fringe" has definitely been better this year. I'd say that if you watched up to this season, you really ought to watch these last 13, just to close things off…
By: FringeS5Crap12.30.2012 @ 8:09 PM
Fringe season 5 is hrrible:
Bad cliche setting, the men rule the world, the women are to be used.
Cliche nazi etc.
And season 5 has made me hate Fringe compeltely,
especially for how they erased Olivia, every little iconic thing she had went to Walter or Peter,
all the writing went to Peter and Walter, and bedieds the Robot acting of Josh Jackson
we got the Overacting of John Npble in full force.
Anna Torv , best actress on tv, gets no storyline, has to be the emotional aprt without getting any writing.
Season 4 was a far better season, especially the Over There episodes and the double acting of foremost Anna Torv, second Seth Gabel and Jasika Nicole.
The bad part of season 4 was with Olivia being sacrificed for Peters homecoming thing. where Anna Torv had to do all the hard work for Jackosn with playing 2 blonde Olivias at once,
and the last part of the season was rewritten for Noble, so instead of olivias arc, we got another round of whining selfpity Walter.
The end was the worst possible, but not one critic complained about that, as it was Olivia that was used:
switching on Olivia (who used to be a hero) and killing her like an animal by Walter.
By: FringeS5Crap12.30.2012 @ 8:32 PM
Season 5 is a horrible, sexist badly written , badly balanced, cliched crap.
No one would watch it if it would be called Observer and had other actors.
Stay away from it as far as possible, the recontextualizing will make you hate everything you loved about Fringe in the first seasons,
Wyman has proven himself to be a first class Male Chauvinistic Pig,
especially when it comes to the treatment of Olivia Dunham and Anna Torv.
Olivia Dunham in the pilot and until middle season 3:
Hero, fighter, chosen one, special , independent and strong, FBI agent,
Olivia since middle season 3 more and more reduced to peters wife but still the FBI agent and part of the story potential,
Olivia season 5:
Peters wife, treated by Peter as dirt, and getting 4 episodes in a row these lines:
I love you, I need you, I do not ant to lose you,
Wyman spent all his time writing for his favorite
boys Josh Jackson and John Noble.
and Anna Torv has been asked to show all aspects of Olivia with non-verbal acting, at the service of Jackson and Noble.
she does it brilliantly, but gets no credit,
nothing from Wyman.
If Wyman would do this to Noble or Jackson all would be outraged,
but hey it is only Anna Torv, who cares ???
So where is the tv media with their criticism, or does a female lead not deserve at least 5% of the
material overload especially Noble gets all the time?
I guess you had some presents from Fox/Warner Brothers/Wyman as well?
In return the media has to praise this season and praise Noble, as he seems to be the only actor on Fringe that gets the material for needing his Emmy.
Every other showrunner would love to have Anna Torv as the lead, and would give her all the material possible to get her the credit she deserves.
So many people are hating season 5 of Fringe, they just watch because it is nearing the end,
and especially Olivia fans are totally disgusted with what Wyman has done to Olivia.
POG clearly is one of those sent by Wyman to manipulate, they are at other palces as well.
Season 5 of Fringe is horrible, cliche, sexist,
every bad B-C nazi movie is better than this crap.
By: zero12.31.2012 @ 2:05 PM
Agree on the killing of Olivia. A total 180 turn around. As always, characters like her are assassinated in the end. I stopped watching it after the second-third episode of S5 because I couldn't handle it. I watched the latest episode aired and it was a sappy, cheesy mess. Don't get me started on cheesy Olivia which is not Olivia at all. Why people think that women are all cheesy needy creatures who always say "I love you, I miss you, I need you"?
By: tigger50012.29.2012 @ 4:35 PM
Totally agree about the sire bond storyline. I loathe it.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:42 PM
Tigger500 – It could get better! I have faith!
By: Sareeta12.29.2012 @ 4:40 PM
Nice list. There has been a lot written/discussed lately about the level of violence on TV's best dramas, so it is nice to be reminded of some of the great dramas with little to no violence at all (Bunheads is a good example).
Dan, have you been following the final season of Fringe and are you or Alan going to discuss the finale in a couple weeks? I feel like it has been an interesting final season, but that it is probably best reviewed after the whole thing is over.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:40 PM
Sareeta – I've been following "Fringe" to the end. Alan checked out fairly long ago. I must confess, though, that part of why I've been enjoying this season is not needing to over-invest in it or think too heavily about things. The show frustrates me when I think too hard on it. So I'm probably gonna resist writing anything about the finale unless it's AWESOME or HORRIBLE. Anything else and I'll just try to enjoy it casually…
By: PC 2.012.29.2012 @ 4:44 PM
So happy to see Shameless at #12! It's so well done and the cast chemistry is perfect, and the writing is fearless and Emmy Rossum is a delight.
By: Morrie12.29.2012 @ 4:56 PM
I haven't kept up on Sons of Anarchy the last couple years, but is it on most improved because it actually had a bad season last year? Also I watch every show 11-20 except Luck and love them.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:42 PM
Morrie – Last "SOA" season was a huge less. This season was more narratively focused, even with some bloated 90 minute episodes, so I enjoyed it much more. Personally.
By: CC12.29.2012 @ 5:01 PM
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 5:41 PM
CC – This particular list that you're looking at contains a listing of at least 36 things I'm watching on TV that I just happen to prefer to "The Big Bang Theory," "Elementary" and "Vegas," all shows I happen to watch (and often enjoy) regularly.
No need to shout!
By: Andrew S12.29.2012 @ 5:53 PM
I know it's a little off topic, but the way FX deals with on demand completely baffles me. Are they trying to push people to buy the episodes on iTunes or other services, or are they just completely incompetent in this regard?
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 6:03 PM
Andrew – I think they're trying to push people to iTunes and also to the FX website, which I *think* has episodes available more conveniently? It's irksome, as is the entirely unrelated FX cutback on screeners to critics…
It annoys me, because I love those comedies, but if I fall a handful of episodes behind, it becomes really, really hard to catch up.
By: GarySF01.02.2013 @ 7:08 PM
Last time I checked, shows don't appear any faster on the FX site than on On Demand. Which means when I missed an episode of SOA, I basically fell one week behind for the rest of the season. Which means I didn't watch the season finale until 8 days after it aired. Not that I was missing too much.
By: nym12.29.2012 @ 8:08 PM
Dan, can you expand on ranking Sherlock at #21? It's in my personal top 10, so I'm curious about your feelings on the show. I get the feeling that critics give it less consideration than other shows because of the 3 episode seasons.
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 8:14 PM
NYM – I like "Sherlock" a lot. I do suspect that my consideration for it is *slightly* diminished by the reduced output, but in terms of time, "Sherlock" didn't have significantly less output than "The Hour," which made my Top 10. I thought two of the three "Sherlock" installments this year/season were terrific and I liked the Baskervilles just fine. "Sherlock" was comfortably in my Second 10 and then I kept remembering other shows that I'd forgotten that I wanted to be there more and so it got bumped and bumped and bumped and then I had 11 shows in my Second 20. I mentioned earlier in the comments that I thought about combining "Scandal"/"Grey's Anatomy" as a Shonda Rhimes double. Well, I also thought about combining "Dowton"/"Sherlock" in a PBS/"Masterpiece" double. But when I decided not to cheat, that's where "Sherlock" ended up…
By: Harry12.29.2012 @ 9:01 PM
"And y'all know I give bonus points for casting Phoebe Tonkin."
Oh please, that was so unnecessary. She's not all that. That was no need to mention her in there and I don't buy that she has anything to do with TVD being in that place in that list. I actually expected this in the 11-14 slots.
Also, Survivor makes the honeorable mention list, but not Big Brother? BB was great TV this summer!
By: dan12.29.2012 @ 9:06 PM
Harry – Twas a joke. Phoebe Tonkin has nothing to do with where "TVD" is on my list, but she's a nice bonus.
As good as "Big Brother" can sometimes be — and this was ABSOLUTELY a good "Big Brother" season — I'm incapable of forgiving the amount of time that the show makes me waste for those good moments. Did "Big Brother" had a half-dozen tremendous moments this past summer? Totally. Was it worth three freakin' hours every week? Nothing is, really… When there was legitimately nothing on TV in the summer, three hours of "Big Brother" was a fine way of twiddling my thumbs waiting for something better to come along. Now, it's an imposition. The filler-to-awesome ratio is just too biased towards the former.
For me…
By: Harry12.29.2012 @ 9:30 PM
Fair enough, Dan.
By: Lana12.29.2012 @ 9:42 PM
I really like both your top 10 list (except that I don't know those documentaries and i'm not a fan of sports) and your 11-20 list. I like that you didn't feel obligated to place Breaking Bad at the top of the list, this past season was a minor letdown for sure. I'm very happy with the Shameless placing. It pleases me when that show gets recognition, I really love it and can't wait for season 3. Maybe i'm a little surprised you didn't honorable mention Nashville, and maybe even Arrow, though that might be a reach. Also A+ for your photo choices, those are three hot people right there.
Well done, Dan! (Do you prefer to be called Daniel? I noticed you sign Daniel, but everyone calls you Dan – or maybe it's just Alan on the podcast and I made that up)
By: dan12.30.2012 @ 12:27 AM
Lana – There's no logic to when I'm "Dan" and when I'm "Daniel." I've always been "Daniel" in writing, but I seem to be "Dan" on the podcast.
"Arrow" came closer than "Nashville" to making honorable mention…If I'd gone to *30* honorable mentions, "Arrow" definitely would have made it. But come on… 30 honorable mentions? That's just crazy!!! :-)
By: Joyeful12.30.2012 @ 12:43 AM
Really? Arrow over Nashville? That surprises me. I love both shows, but I thought Nashville was the critics' darling this year.
By: dan12.30.2012 @ 12:59 AM
Joyeful – I'm my own man, darnit! Ultimately, "Arrow" comes much closer to achieving its weekly goals than "Nashville" does, even if I like elements of "Nashville" a fair amount.
By: Bailey12.29.2012 @ 10:18 PM
So happy to see LA Complex on this list! Now please send this to the CW and demand that they renew it!!!
By: Alana12.29.2012 @ 10:51 PM
Uh, where's Castle?
By: dan12.30.2012 @ 12:28 AM
Alana – "Castle" is one of many shows that I watch and enjoy every week that just didn't make it. But I say nice things about it periodically!
By: Joyeful12.30.2012 @ 12:42 AM
I LOVE Castle, but I wouldn't put it above any of the shows on this list. Though I will say it has improved from its last season. It's way more fun than season 4.
By: mitt romney12.29.2012 @ 11:53 PM
How is MTV's "Teen Mom 2" not on this list?!!?
By: Joyeful12.30.2012 @ 12:39 AM
One of the most improved shows this year – I think – is Grimm. Apart from one really slow (and irritating) character and storyline, the show has started better utilizing its characters, the lead actor seems WAY more comfortable, and the stories are even more compelling and complex. How I wish someone would review it here!
By: dan12.30.2012 @ 12:46 AM
Joyeful – Sepinwall and I revisited it this fall on a podcast and yeah, it's better. It still just doesn't have enough to hook me. I place a lot of the blame on David Giuntoli. He's just too bland for me. I really like Silas Weir Mitchell. I'd watch a show about him!
By: Joyeful12.30.2012 @ 1:30 AM
Fair enough. I can see your point…Giuntoli was extremely wooden in the first half of the first season. I remember reading a post Sepinwall wrote mentioning that. I kept watching because of Silas Weir Mitchell and Sasha Roiz. Not so much so now….Giuntoli is so much better than he was before.
He reminds me of Anna Torv from the first season of Fringe – I found her incredibly bland then. Wished I had given her more of a chance…found out afterwards how great she was.
By: troopermsu12.30.2012 @ 6:26 AM
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see 'The Simpsons.' Has it simply gotten too familiar to be considered outstanding any longer?
By: dan12.30.2012 @ 6:41 AM
TrooperMSU – If I'd gone to a next tier or 10 or even 5, "The Simpsons" would have been there easily. I remembered it after I'd finished the Honorable Mention 20 and I went back and couldn't find anything I wanted to pull. Sorry, "Simpsons"!!!
By: troopermsu12.30.2012 @ 7:05 AM
I think it would be cool if you had a category called something like, 'Shows I like to watch but don't merit distinction' or something like that. Maybe that's overkill. But, I'd find it interesting. It might also help illustrate your point about number of good shows available these days (a point with which I agree completely.)
Good job with these end-of-year lists. And I think this has been your strongest year as a writer. I've really enjoyed your work in 2012.
By: dan12.30.2012 @ 7:11 AM
TrooperMSU – That would be the "Everything I Watch And Kinda Like" and "Everything i Watch But Kinda Don't Like" categories. Those lists might expose me as a full-on lunatic, I fear.
And thank you!
By: troopermsu12.30.2012 @ 10:59 PM
Daniel, I'm afraid that horse has left the barn. :)
By: Peter D Wilson12.30.2012 @ 3:33 PM
I can't wait to see your rankings of every show on tv next year! (I cant seem to read the words in the parentheses).
By: Jamie12.31.2012 @ 12:03 AM
Where is Pretty Little Liars? I LOVE THE SHOW. IT IS PERFECT!
By: tvgirlnet12.31.2012 @ 8:44 AM
I'm surprised that Breaking Bad is #6, when it's one of the best shows in television history and just keeps getting better. Mad Men didn't even have its strongest season. It's a disappointment that you can't separate the comedies from dramas, because I just can't even compare a show like 'Girls' to 'Mad Men.' Not sure what you see in The Vampire Diaries. I watched the first season and it was terrible. I know not everyone is in love with 'Boss,' but not even an honorable mention for Grammer's amazing performance? If Grey's Anatomy gets a shout-out, I think Boss at least deserves one…
By: tvgirlnet12.31.2012 @ 8:54 AM
I love this list though (although The Vampire Diaries puzzles me – did it get better after the first season?), and you made me want to watch a couple shows as well. I'm really glad you included Treme. It is so underrated and David Simon is just genius. Parks and Rec, another great one for the top 10 that constantly gets overlooked. I also think Homeland is vastly overrated this season and it's finally nice to NOT see it in someone's top 5 shows. Justified is another vastly underrated show….I'm so glad to see some of the underrated shows on a list! :) Also, I love Downton, but agree that is was a downgrade from season one, unfortunately. Thanks so much for sharing!
By: tvgirlnet12.31.2012 @ 9:15 AM
Off to watch Shameless now….I've heard so many negative things about it that I've stayed away, but this got my attention.
By: GarySF01.02.2013 @ 7:04 PM
Thought Sons of Anarchy became ridiculous and much of the time boring this season. Not on my honorable mentions.
By: Mitch01.03.2013 @ 5:25 AM
I respect your opinion, but out of all this i think "Psych" should be number one, with "Doctor Who" and "Sherlock" following behind in that order.


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LeBron James -- er, Venus Williams -- advances at Dubai Championships
Venus Williams needed only 56 minutes to dismiss No. 12 Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the Dubai Championships on Wednesday.
With her best victory of the season, the 44th-ranked Williams avenged a three-set loss to Ivanovic in the ASB Classic final last month. In fact, setting aside a victory over then-No. 2 Victoria Azarenka at the Pan Pacific Open last September (Azarenka was shockingly bad in that match), this was Williams' biggest win since defeating 10th-ranked Sara Errani at the Western & Southern Open in August 2012.
So how good was Venus on Tuesday? So good that the Dubai tournament Twitter feed mistook her for four-time NBA MVP LeBron James.
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In this past year I've become acutely aware of the mounting stress that has been rising in our work culture. More than ever we've become a round-the-clock operation. Now, in a slumping economy, we are hounded with external pressures, overwhelmed with information overload, asked to deliver more with less, work longer hours, and have less personal time for renewal activities. What are the results I'm seeing from people in this past year?
Exhaustion, lack of focus, reduced health and burnout. This leads to lower job satisfaction, morale and productivity. Hardly the results we want when we want to get the economy moving.
There is plenty of evidence that suggests that work stress is a major factor in workplace turnover. [1] In addition, it has been estimated that corporations lose over $300 billion annually because of work-related stress! What's going on here?
In recent years, corporate America has started to take action, with companies like Google, Apple, Aetna, Intel, Twitter, Facebook and many others leading the way integrating mindfulness into the workplace as a means to reduce stress and re-empower people to get connected to what matters.
Smartphone applications have come out to help us take advantage of technology to integrate more of this into our daily lives.
For example, if you have an iPhone, you can get many mindfulness apps that are available to integrate mindfulness into your life. The Mindful Solutions at Work Program just got released that introduces simple practices to integrate into your day, keeps track of your practices and even sends email reminders of how you're doing to help you stay on the path.
Here's a fun two-minute video that shows you how this works in daily life.
One of the major reasons that corporate America is grabbing onto this is because the science is there that backs it up.
We have evidence that intentionally paying attention with mindfulness is connected to areas of the brain responsible for attention, memory, learning, awareness, empathy and compassion. We've seen reduction in activities in areas of the brain associated with stress and fear.
These are all critical in operating optimally in the current business climate.
See if you can put your judgments aside and let your experience be your best teacher in this new year.
As always, please share your thoughts, stories and questions below. Your interactions create a living wisdom for us all to benefit from.
[1] "Stress at Work." U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Number 99-101. 1999.


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Diego closes in on Wolfsburg move
Wolfsburg have agreed a €16 million fee for Juventus midfielder Diego, according to Bild.
Diego, 25, became a leading star in the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen after joining from Porto in 2006, but he has failed to live up to expectations in Italy following his reported €24.5 million move last summer.
Wolfsburg and Juve are said to have been in talks since Monday and it is claimed the player is now discussing personal terms.
FIFA agent Giacomo Petralito, an intermediary in the deal, has said developments are expected shortly.
"There should be some news in the next two days," he told Tuttomercatoweb. "It is beyond doubt that Wolfsburg like the player and there is interest, but in a couple of days we should have developments on a transfer."
Juventus are attempting to reshape the squad after a disappointing season in which they finished seventh in Serie A, and reports suggest they are looking to raise cash to fund a bid for Lyon star Michel Bastos.
Schalke are also said to be keen on taking Diego back to Germany.
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President Barack Obama took to the road to promote his fiscal agenda, repeating his support for increased taxes on the wealthy. While Democrats in Washington supported the president's proposals, Congressional Republicans warned a deadlock is forming around bipartisan efforts to reach a deficit deal. Margaret Warner reports. Continue reading


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Flat Earth Founder and DreamWorks Animator Form HimAnl ProductionsVisual effects design and production company
HimAnI Productions will specialize in the creation of original visual effects for feature films, television projects, and home entertainment releases. At present, the company employs over a dozen visual effects artists and producers.
Kutchaver was most recently President and Founder of Hollywood visual effects house Flat Earth Productions, best known for its work on the TV series Hercules and Xena, and on the feature films Blade, Mortal Kombat II, and Dungeons and Dragons.
Zielinski has been a Supervising Animator with DreamWorks Animation since 1996, and will remain in that position. She will serve HimAnI as Designer and Co-creator for in-house projects. During her years with DreamWorks, she has animated characters appearing in such films as The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, and the upcoming Spirit of the Cimmaron. Prior to DreamWorks, she was an animator for 13 years with the Walt Disney Studios, working on such films as The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Aladdin, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The first project for HimAnI Productions was the design, creation and production of over 100 visual effects shots for the film Tremors 3, being released by Universal Home Video. That film was produced by Stampede Entertainment and Nancy Roberts, with Brent Maddock directing.
Co-founded in l995 by Kutchaver, Flat Earth Productions, Inc., was one of Hollywood's most successful visual effects boutique companies. The company provided all of the effects work for the international smash hit TV series Hercules from 1993-99 and for Xena from 1994 to 2000. Flat Earth also contributed over 80 shots to the hit Wesley Snipes feature film Blade, over 60 shots to Mortal Kombat II, and over 300 shots for Dungeons and Dragons.
Kutchaver, with over 20 years' experience in the visual effects industry, has worked on the design, creation and production of visual effects for over 150 feature films and television projects. These include: Return of the Jedi, Ghostbusters II, Beetlejuice, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Addams Family I and II, the RoboCop films, and Big Trouble in Little China. He also animated and composited digital effects for the critically acclaimed television series Babylon 5.
For more information, visit the HimAnI website at www.himaniproductions.com.
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