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Editor's Note: A previous version of this report identified Travelers as a "health insurer," the company is in fact a property and casualty insurer.
Travelers (NYSE:TRV) posted a second-quarter operating profit of $2.13 a share, easily beating expectations of $1.60 a share. Revenues of $6.67 billion also topped estimates of $5.97 billion. Shares of the blue-chip insurer jumped 3% in pre-market trading.
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All breast cancers are now tested for the estrogen and progesterone receptors. These receptors are molecules in the cancer cells that can accept hormones and influence the growth of the cancer. Breast cancers that are hormone receptor positive have two important characteristics. First, they tend to be less aggressive than the same type of breast cancer that is hormone receptor negative. They also are influenced by various hormone manipulations that generally decrease the level of estrogen in the body. The percent of patients that have positive estrogen receptor increases with age. The response to various hormone manipulations is proportional to the level of estrogen receptor meaning that patients with high levels of estrogen receptor are more responsive to various hormone manipulations.
Anti-hormonal drugs that have been developed during the past 20 or 30 years include:
Patients with invasive breast cancer who are shown to be estrogen receptor positive may benefit by additional antiestrogen therapy. In premenopausal patients, the usual recommendation for therapy is five years of tamoxifen, but there are a number of research studies looking at more aggressive anti-estrogen manipulation including LHRH agonist, followed by either tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor. The results of these studies are pending, but should be available in the next year or two. In postmenopausal patients, it has now been shown that the initial approach that yields the most benefit is to start with an aromatase inhibitor. This clearly decreases the chance of recurrence and increases the long-term disease free survival. Various research studies are now looking into whether more than five years of an aromatase inhibitor is beneficial and early indications are that 10 years of anti-estrogen therapy in some situations may be more effective than five years.
In situations in which breast cancer has recurred in distant sites and the tumor is estrogen receptor positive, hormone manipulation may control the tumor for many years. A sequence of hormone therapies can often keep the disease under control for many years before chemotherapy is needed. Hormone therapy is much easier and often has longer response rates than chemotherapy. Various hormone manipulations include tamoxifen in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women. In postmenopausal women, the aromatase inhibitors and Faslodex also play an important role in tumor control. If patients are responsive to these anti-hormone therapies, other hormone approaches might include Faslodex or Megace or high dose estrogen.

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Me and the Stone clan have been piling up on this comment thread for a very dumb letter. I thought I'd screencap this exchange for your amusement. This is how you respond to someone who claims that the separation of church and state isn't in the constitution.
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There's no doubt that Amazon is trying to become a strong competitor in the Android tablet game, and a big part of that is the success of its own Appstore. There's always been an issue with properly quantifying the success of Amazon's products though, as the company is intentionally vague about sales and usage numbers. As part of a press release about A/B testing in its Appstore today, however, it announced quite a few interesting statistics.
Amazon has seen a 500 percent increase in app downloads from its store in the past year, which is a huge number. Additionally, apps making use of its GameCircle (centralized gaming platform) have more than doubled. Developers making use of in-app purchases doubled in the third quarter of 2012 as well, and 23 of the top 25 grossing apps are now using them.
Those are impressive numbers indeed, and we hope Amazon continues to give some information as to how well its Appstore and Kindle Fire platforms are performing in the future. (Like maybe some actual numbers of how many it's sold.) The company will surely continue to push its version of Android for the foreseeable future.
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October 28, 2010
LOS ANGELES -- As part of UCLA Anderson's continuing efforts to expand global initiatives in all facets of programming, a series of on-campus meetings and discussions were recently held seeking ways in which students could help develop and strengthen home grown school feeding programs in developing nations. The meetings were co-sponsored by UCLA Anderson's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and Center for Global Management (CGM), and London-based Partnership for Child Development (PCD).
UCLA Anderson is looking for ways to more broadly utilize its Applied Management Research (AMR) program to provide opportunities for students to bring the business perspective to school feeding programs. As described by the Millennium Hunger Task Force, Home Grown School Feeding efforts are a "quick win" in the fight against hunger for children living in poverty. Highlighting the meeting was a presentation by Chinny Onwugbenu ('10), who, along with her teammates, worked on an AMR project in India for the Akshaya Patra Foundation. Onwugbenu's work was held up as a model of the types of projects future students might do around the world. Meeting attendees included Former Senator George McGovern and representatives from The World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Food Program, among others.
"More and more, we're being approached by students who want to do international AMR projects that make a lasting impact on local communities," said Professor George Abe, AMR faculty director and moderator of the meetings. "Going forward, we'll be looking for new opportunities and locations that meet both student desires and offer ways in which their projects can make a lasting impact and difference on our global society."


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UBS Outlook Switzerland: Switzerland – a world leader in location competitiveness
Switzerland is rightly one of the world's most attractive locations for companies: This is the conclusion reached by UBS in the latest issue of UBS Outlook Switzerland. The publication examines Switzerland's competitiveness from various perspectives.
Zurich/Basel, 18 April 2013 – UBS dedicates its latest issue of UBS Outlook Switzerland to the special theme of Switzerland's competitiveness as an economic location. The authors examine this competitiveness at a company, industry, cantonal and country level. UBS concludes that Switzerland is extremely competitive because it encourages competition among the cantons and municipalities and, thanks to federal and directly democratic institutions, ensures that competition has a bearing on politics as well. "Switzerland is particularly remarkable thanks to its high level of innovation, its excellent education system and its dependable institutions, and is rightly considered one of the most attractive economic locations in the world. These success factors must also be ensured in the future," Lukas Gähwiler, CEO UBS Switzerland, states at a media event in Zurich.
The high level of competitiveness is also one reason why Switzerland's economy has been developing better than that of the Eurozone for many years. Over the last nine years, the Swiss economy has grown by an average of 1.1% more than that of the Eurozone. While the Eurozone's economy is likely to contract this year, UBS economists believe Switzerland will experience modest growth of 0.9%. Sustained immigration makes an essential contribution to this.
Although industry is continuing to struggle – more than the services sector – with economic difficulties, a brighter light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. The watchmaking industry, pharmaceuticals and precision instrument manufacturing are all very successful, and UBS analysts believe Switzerland has the greatest competitive advantages in all three industries. The service industries also remain relatively unscathed by the unfavorable international economic environment, with most companies claiming business is good.
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Hope you are all enjoying the new #DAYS!!! It just gets better and better. The new writers and producers just get the way DAYS used to be and it's such a joy to work on the show at this moment in time. All of the actors are putting in some exceptional performances. Any time I think I can wing this scene and go on auto pilot, because I don't have many lines, I then see one of my fellow actors doing some outstanding work and it pumps me up to do my best. Drake said " It's such an inspirational team at the moment, just like the baseball team I was watching last night". We all want the show to succeed. Just as the many fans of DAYS does...because the DAYS fans have always been the best in the soap world and it's nice that you all are finally being listened too!
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Led by Xhulio Uruci the University of Massachusetts Boston cross country placed 6th and 10th respectively at the 2011 Little East Conference and New England Alliance Championship meet Saturday afternoon at UMass Dartmouth.
Running his way to an individual title was Kevin Hoyt of Keene State College, whose time of 24:50 earned him the top spot in both championship meets. The University of Southern Maine went on to claim the both the Little East Conference and New England Alliance title.
On the afternoon, Uruci recorded a final time of 26:32 to finish in 14th place in the LEC championship and 20th place in the NE Alliance. Behind him was Jake Kerin who earned 29th and 48th place respectively with his final time of 27:46.
Grant Shackelford and Hamza Abdul-Kadir closed out Saturday's meet right next to each other, as Shackelford posted a 45/94th place finish with a time of 29:34. Abdul-Kadir earned a 46/95th place finish with his final time of 29:35.
Andrew Freda was next to cross the finish line for the Beacons as she recorded a 55th/123rd place finish with his time of 31:05. After that it was Ming Wang in 56/127th place with a time of 31:38.
Jeff Laurore (58/139 - 33:54), Christopher Chapman (59/141 - 34:38), and Norbert Simmons (62/147 - 35:28) closed out Saturday's championship meet for UMass.
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Running back Eric Brown(Sr, St. Paul) turned in a memorable last game for UW-Stout, rushing for 136 yards on 24 carries and catching two passes for 86 yards and a touchdown. Despite his strong effort, the Blue Devils' season came to an end as Stout fell to fifth-ranked UW-Oshkosh, 27-18 on Senior Day at Don and Nona Williams Stadium Saturday
The Blue Devils (3-7, 1-6) looked to be overmatched early on, falling behind in the first quarter. UW-Oshkosh (10-0, 7-0) had two drives of 60-plus yards that resulted in touchdowns, setting the Titans up with a 14-0 lead.
Quarteback Michael Blizel(Sr, Sturgeon Bay), faced a heavy pass rush the whole quarter and was hit on two throws that ended up being underthrown, resulting in interceptions for the Titans defense.
Oshkosh was unable to take advantage of either turnover, however. After the first pick, the Titans went three and out. Following the second interception, cornerback Billy Rosenthal (Jr, Forest Lake, Minn.) stepped in front of a pass thrown by Titan receiver Mitch Hintz and picked it off, getting the ball back for the Stout offense for the start of the second quarter.
Beginning the second quarter down 14-0, the Blue Devils came roaring back.
After Stout's first drive of the quarter ended in a Ricky Marteney(Jr, Greenfield) missed field goal from 46 yards out and the defense forced a punt, back-up quarterback Hank Kujak (So, Blair) sent Brown out of the back field in motion and then hit him on a slant over the middle. Brown did the rest himself, outrunning the defense for a 61-yard catch and run. Tyler Naatz (So, Menomonie) then took the direct snap and ran in for the two point conversion to make the score 14-8.
Another punt by the Titans set the Blue Devils up on their own 25 after a personal foul on the return. A few short runs and passes found Stout on their 46 yard line when Kujak dropped back to pass.
Facing a heavy rush, Kujak stepped up in the pocket and heaved a pass toward the endzone and Trevor Morning(Jr, Bloomer). Morning, who had to slow up and wait for the ball, caught it on the 4 yard line then lunged for the goal line, avoiding a tackle and putting it in for the score. Morning finished with four catches for 79 yards.
Marteney connected on the extra point to give Stout the lead, 15-14.
Stout's defense came up with another big stop, forcing the Titans to punt the ball away yet again, and Tanner Kuehn (So, Fairchild) took it back 36 yards to Oshkosh's 34. Two carries by Brown got Stout 20 more yards and Marteney came on to hit a field goal from 31 yards out to put the Blue Devils up 18-14 at the half.
The lead proved to be short lived, as Oshkosh promptly drove 80 yards, capping off the long drive with a Nate Wara touchdown run from one yard out, putting the Titans back up, 21-18.
A 43-yard run off tackle by Brown on the ensuing drive gave the Blue Devils an opportunity to tie the game, but Marteney was unable to hit from 49 yards out.
After a Titans field goal by Nate Ray, Stout put together a nice looking drive, getting deep into Oshkosh territory. Facing fourth down and four to go, Kujak was unable to connect with tight end Josh Peterson(Sr, Cedar Grove) and the Titans took over on offense.
Two plays later, the Blue Devils defense came up big again, as Naatz came up to make a tackle on Titan running back Cole Myhra, knocking the ball loose in the process. Defensive end Jake Johnson (Sr, Champlin, Minn.) fell on the ball to get it back for the offense in great starting field position.
After a 16 yard run, Brown was thrown for a four yard loss, bringing the third quarter to an end. On the first play of the fourth quarter, Kujak's throw was intercepted, giving the ball right back to the Titans offense.
Oshkosh took the ball back down the field, capping off an eight play, 63 yard drive with another Ray field goal, pushing the lead to what would be the final score of 27-18.
The teams then traded punts and Stout turned the ball over on downs , allowing Oshkosh to run out the rest of the clock and secure the victory.
Penalties played a big role in the fourth quarter, slowing the game way down, as both teams . On more than one occasion, multiple penalties were called on the same play, as the officials called a total of 10 penalties on the two teams in the fourth quarter alone.
Kujak finished 8-17 for 190 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
On defense, Rosenthal led the team in tackles with 11, seven solo. Naatz had 10, five solo, including half a sack. Spencer Adler (Jr, Little Chute) chipped in the other half sack, as he finished with seven tackles, one solo. Linebacker David Lindell(Jr, New Richland, Minn.) also had a strong game with eight tackles, four solo, as well as a sack.
Brown's big day can't lift UW-Stout over UW-Oshkosh
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Running back Eric Brown(Sr, St. Paul) turned in a memorable last game for UW-Stout, rushing for 136 yards on 24 carries and catching two passes for 86 yards and a touchdown. Despite his strong effort, the Blue Devils' season came to an end as Stout fell to fifth-ranked UW-Oshkosh, 27-18 on Senior Day at Don and Nona Williams Stadium Saturday


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Fats Domino - Walkin' Back to New Orleans
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This special chronicles music legend Fats Domino's triumphant return to the stage after Hurricane Katrina's devastation to his New Orleans hometown. Two years after a harrowing rescue from the storm, Domino headlined a 2007 benefit concert for the city, performing hits like "Blueberry Hill," and "Ain't That a Shame" to an adoring audience. Narrated by actor John Goodman, it captures the concert and provides an up-close, biographical look at Domino's storied career. It also includes rare interviews with Domino as well as singers Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Robert Plant and Randy Newman, who discuss how this legendary performer has inspired their careers.


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Russian blogger and photographer Lana Sator has taken urban exploring to its rather frightening apogee when she sneaked inside the NPO Energomash factory, which makes liquid-propellant rocket engines near the Khimki Forest outside Moscow, and made her way to the top and the bottom of the abandoned-looking facility.
It's a fascinating and very Sixties trip inside a giant and perplexing plant, made all the more poetic by Google's transformation of her Russian into English: "The territory of [NPO Energomash] is very impressive in different aspects. First, on her at night there is no soul. That's all anybody. And traces of human snow almost none."
No traces of human snow, indeed, but a wealth of photos showing all sorts of obscure rocket-making equipment. You can see all off Lana's photos in their trippy, high-ISO glory on her Livespace page.
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Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron announced he will return for his senior season Wednesday
TUSCALOOSA — Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron announced he will return for his senior season Wednesday, ending speculation about whether he would enter the NFL draft a year early.
"I had many goals for myself when I came to the University of Alabama," McCarron said. "I have been lucky enough to achieve some of those goals, but some are still ahead of me. There were many factors in my decision to return to Alabama for my senior year, but, after talking with my family and coaches, I knew it was the right choice for me."
McCarron will be a third-year starter for Alabama in 2013. According to a source close to McCarron, one of those factors included the deep pool of prospects at the quarterback position in the NFL Draft.
Although informal feedback from the NFL indicated McCarron would rate favorably in that group, the source said, the 2014 quarterback class is thinner and thus a better draft for McCarron.
Among those expected to be part of the 2013 quarterback class are Southern Cal's Matt Barkley, Arkansas' Tyler Wilson, Tennessee's Tyler Bray, Oklahoma's Landry Jones, Florida State's E.J. Manuel, North Carolina State's Mike Glennon and West Virginia's Geno Smith.
Meanwhile, a third season as Alabama's starting quarterback will provide McCarron with a platform to further refine his skills.
"The NFL has long been a dream, but I think another year at Alabama can only help my chances of being successful at the next level," McCarron added.
The Mobile native leads the nation in passing efficiency at 173.1 going into the Crimson Tide's BCS national championship game appearance against Notre Dame. He has passed for 2,669 yards and a single-season school record 26 touchdowns against only three interceptions. He is 24-2 as a starter for the Crimson Tide.
"We are pleased that AJ has decided to return for his senior year next season," Alabama coach Nick Saban said. "He's done a great job for us and has really grown, not only as a quarterback and a player, but as a leader of our team."
Like McCarron, right tackle D.J. Fluker released a similar statement in 2011 through the university's media relations to end NFL draft rumors in December.
This year, Fluker and cornerback Dee Milliner are among the Crimson Tide juniors expected to receive the highest draft grades for possible early NFL draft entry.


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No major decisions were made at the monthly meeting of the Unit 5 School Board Monday, Nov. 26. The board took care of usual business before taking a look at the Tax Levy for 2013.
No major decisions were made at the monthly meeting of the Unit 5 School Board Monday, Nov. 26. The board took care of usual business before taking a look at the Tax Levy for 2013.
Superintendent Brad Lee provided the board with a prospective levy for 2012. He noted the levy is against the property values of 2012 and will be extended in the summer of 2013 and the board will spend money during the 2013-2014 school year beginning July 1, 2013. Lee also noted a number of the levys have rate caps, such as Education, Operation and Maintenance (Building), Transportation, Working Cash, Fire Prevention and Safety and Special Education. Lee also noted he had spoken with the County Clerk to get an estimate of the assessment for the tax year.
Lee provided the board with a copy of the district's recent EAV history in addition to its Rate History. The projected Bond Repayment Schedule through the end of the district's projected bond payments was also disbursed to board members.
As a result of the findings and information gathered by Lee, it was recommended to the board that they base their levy on the projected EAV of $107,138,270. Lee also said the final projected total tax rate of 4.3576 is slightly lower than the 2011 tax rate of 4.4307. The projected levy extension request is less than 105% of last year's extension. Therefore, it is not necessary to publish a Truth in Taxation advertisement. However, Lee did note this figure could change as more information comes in.
The board voted by voice for a levy hearing to be set for the regular December meeting for the board. James Cutchin served as acting secretary for all board minutes and details in the absence of Kevin Hammell, secretary of the board.
Earlier in the meeting, Lee went over the financials for Unit 5. The unit did cash in some investments to keep the budget balanced. Lee also pointed out the unit had received state and federal aid payments, but that the state still owns Unit 5 $505,399, pointing out, "That's how far we are behind already this year."
Lee also reported in his superintendent's notes the success of the recent parent/teacher conferences and the high rate of parents that take advantage of these sessions. Lee also talked about the recent Wabash and Ohio Valley Special Education District (WOVSED) meeting in which Keith Hoskins, board president, represented Carmi-White County Unit 5. Lee said in the meeting several items were discussed and approved, including the implementation of a new roof on the structure at a cost of around $250,000. Lee said that NCOE also wants to give the property to WOVSED, which should assist them to be in better shape for potential grants. WOVSED did note the downside is they would be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the structures, but the Village of Norris City has stepped in and said they would assist with any demolitions needed, if the property ever got to that point.
The board of WOVSED also discussed the recent tours that several legislators have taken of the facilities, seeing first hand the need for improvements. The board feels very optimistic about getting some of the necessary needs met. Finally, WOVSED has hired David Cator to succeed Mr. Allen upon his departure July 1, 2013.
Turning the attention back to Unit 5 business, Lee thanked the board members who attended the Triple I conferences in Chicago, pointing out several of the workshops, speakers and educational exhibits were very helpful.
Lee also thanked the Bulldog Booster Club and everyone involved for his or her recent work on the high school fall sports banquet. He also told the board of the three performances scheduled for this coming weekend for "Miracle on 34th Street." The drama department will present the play in the CWCHS auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 and Sat. Dec. 1 followed by a 2:30 p.m. matinee Sunday, Dec. 2. He noted the cast, crew and sponsors of the event have been working hard to get ready for the performances.
Lee also presented a list of Christmas programs set for the month of December. The high school program will kick off the series at 7 p.m. Dec. 12 followed by the Middle School program at 7 p.m. Dec. 13. Brownsville will hold their program at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 14 followed by Crossville at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 18. Kindergarten students will hold their Christmas program at the high school auditorium at 9 a.m. Dec. 19 with first grade students holding their program at 1 p.m. Dec. 19. Second graders will present their program at the high school auditorium at 9 a.m. Dec. 20 and third grade students will present their program at 1 p.m. Dec. 20.
Lee then called on Dr. Amy Dixon for an update on the school improvement and district improvement plans. Dr. Dixon noted she had mentioned at the September meeting she would have a comprehensive plan by November, but explained the state had changed the process, so no finalized plans are available at this time. She said the district administrators have started training on the new system known as Rising Star. This will become the system used for all districts and was implemented following the research of different indicators of effective practices. The indicators were narrowed down to specific ones and Rising Star will guide the districts along through the progress of both the systems and the students. Dr. Dixon noted that the process managers meet monthly and all instruction and input is processed on line, and it will be continual and on-going, giving a target to strive for. There are 38 total indicators for the district and 79 indicators for the schools.
"The teachers have a whole lot on their plate right now," said Dixon. "Behind the scenes, we are doing all the technology training. We aren't going to roll this out until we feel comfortable."
Lee also commented on the changes and implementation of the newest state mandated training and programs.
"The timing is not the best," said Lee. "Our teachers are doing an excellent job with all the new requirements. This is just one more change and it's just not the best time for more change."
The board dismissed into closed session at 7:35 p.m. and returned at 9:25 p.m.
During closed session, the board approved Whitney Smith as the sixth grade girls' basketball coach for the 2012-2013 school year to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Tracy Steed. Also, Erin Haley was approved as a volunteer sixth grade girls' assistant basketball coach for the 2012-2013 school year.
Hillary Gee was also approved as a volunteer assistant high school cheerleading coach for the 2012-2013 school year. The board also accepted the resignation of Amy Craig as the middle school assistant volleyball coach and accepted the resignation of Meredith Walker as a part-time custodian at Lincoln Attendance Center.


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MLB Notebook: Kershaw bringing dead-ball era back
Since 1893, there have been eight pitchers who have had at least 100 starts from their age-23 through age-26 seasons and recorded an ERA as low as 2.16.
Chronologically, seven of the eight hurlers organize themselves in the following manner: Doc White (1902-05), Noodles Hahn ('02-05), Addie Joss ('03-06), Christy Mathewson ('04-07), Ed Reulbach ('06-09), Walter Johnson ('11-14) and Ernie Shore ('14-1917).
Since 1893, there have been eight pitchers who have had at least 100 starts from their age-23 through age-26 seasons and recorded an ERA as low as 2.16.
Chronologically, seven of the eight hurlers organize themselves in the following manner: Doc White (1902-05), Noodles Hahn ('02-05), Addie Joss ('03-06), Christy Mathewson ('04-07), Ed Reulbach ('06-09), Walter Johnson ('11-14) and Ernie Shore ('14-1917).
Notice a pattern? All were dead-ball era moundsmen.
The arc jumps decades, however, with the eighth member of the group, for Clayton Kershaw -- thanks in part to the extraordinary first half he has put together and owing much more to the even more extraordinary run he has been on since the start of the 2011 season -- holds a (insert chosen superlative here) 2.16 ERA, better (at the moment) than any live-ball era pitcher has compiled under these criteria involving stats and age.
Kershaw still has a half-season to go, of course, and we all get to watch and see if he can stay below Hal Newhouser's 2.20 from 1944-47, Tom Seaver's 2.25 from '68-71 and Jim Palmer's 2.47 from '69-72.
A new streak begins
A solo homer from Chase Headley with two outs in the sixth inning ended Kershaw's scoreless-innings streak at 41, but the Dodgers left-hander allowed only two other hits, fanned 11 and came away with a complete-game victory in Los Angeles' 2-1 win over San Diego.
Clayton's amazing first half
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|Lowest mark
|Gibson: 1.06, 1968
|Martinez: 0.774, 2000
|Johnson: 13.70, 2001
|Lee: 15.17, 2010
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|Gibson: .459, 1968
With his streak concluding with 41 scoreless innings, Kershaw claims a comfortable third spot for the longest by a Dodgers pitcher since the club moved to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. Orel Hershiser's 59-inning streak in '88 leads, and Don Drysdale's 58-inning run in '68 was the all-time MLB record until Hershiser's streak topped it. Kershaw also produced the longest streak since the D-backs' Brandon Webb authored a 42-inning run in 2007. In addition to Hershiser, Drysdale and Webb, there have been 10 other pitchers who have authored streaks of at least 42 scoreless innings.
Kershaw has gone at least eight innings and allowed no more than three hits in his past two starts. The only Dodgers pitcher since 1914 to have three consecutive starts with this combination: Sandy Koufax, in July 1963.
Kershaw has also picked up a win and fanned at least seven batters in each of his past eight outings. He is the third pitcher since 1914 to be able to make such a claim about his work within the frame of a single season, joining Koufax in '66 and Juan Marichal in '67. In 1999-2000, Randy Johnson put together nine straight appearances of this kind, with two coming at the tail end of 1999 before he opened with seven in a row in 2000.
Kazmir wraps up impressive half
Athletics southpaw Scott Kazmir allowed three hits in seven scoreless innings, added nine K's with one walk and improved to 11-3 as Oakland won a 6-1 decision over San Francisco.
In addition to his 11 wins (tied for second most in the American League), Kazmir also owns a 2.38 ERA (third), a 0.980 WHIP (third), a .577 OPS against (fourth) and has allowed 6.75 hits per nine (tied for fourth).
Among A's pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched by the All-Star break, his 2.38 ERA is tied for 10th lowest, his 0.980 WHIP is the fifth lowest, his 6.75 hits per nine is tied for the 11th lowest and his .577 OPS against is the ninth lowest.
Among all pitchers with at least 100 innings by the All-Star break, Kazmir is one of 34 to have an ERA below 2.40, a WHIP below 1.00 and a K/9 rate of at least 8.00 (Kazmir is at 8.28 per nine).
• Kazmir is one of three pitchers this year who currently have those numbers, joining Felix Hernandez and Johnny Cueto.
• Vida Blue is the only other Athletics pitcher to be among the 34. In the first half of the 1971 season, Blue compiled a 1.42 ERA, a 0.922 WHIP and 9.18 K's per nine in 184 1/3 innings.
• In addition to Blue and Kazmir, five left-handers make an appearance among the 34: Koufax (in every year from 1962-66), Johnson (2000), Cole Hamels ('11), Chris Sale ('12) and Kershaw ('13).
Lester enjoying home cooking
In registering his 20th career double-digit strikeout game, Red Sox southpaw Jon Lester fanned 12 with no walks in Boston's 4-3 win over Cleveland.
Since 1914, Bruce Hurst (14 strikeouts on May 16, 1986) was the only other Boston left-hander to have a game with at least 12 K's and no walks. Lester has had three games with at least 12 strikeouts this season, with all three coming at Fenway Park. He's the third pitcher since 1914 to have at least three such games in a season at Fenway, joining Pedro Martinez (five in '99; three each in 2000 and '01) and Roger Clemens (three each in '87 and '88).
Since 1914, Koufax's 10 such outings at Dodger Stadium in '65 are the most for any pitcher in his home ballpark in one year.
Trout leads Angels' rout of Rangers
With the Angels' Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton combining for nine hits and eight RBIs, Los Angeles romped to a 15-6 victory over Texas.
Trout led the way with four hits (including a home run), four RBIs and three runs scored. Catching up with his current standing for all players in history through their age-22 seasons, Trout is tied with Johnny Bench for the 31st most with 502 hits, tied with Joe Kelley for 15th most with 321 runs, ranked 13th with 83 home runs, ranked 11th with 201 extra-base hits, ranked seventh with 238 walks, ranked fourth among those with at least 1,500 plate appearances with a .950 OPS and ranked second with a 169 OPS+.
In the Angels' victory, leadoff hitter Kole Calhoun went 4-for-5 with four runs scored and fell a homer shy of the cycle. Calhoun owns a 1.009 OPS in his 183 plate appearances batting leadoff this year. That figure is the highest for any player with at least 150 plate appearances in the leadoff spot in 2014. Carlos Gomez ranks second (.933), followed by Ian Kinsler (.863), Coco Crisp (.833) and Jose Altuve (.828).
Roger Schlueter is senior researcher for MLB Productions.


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Lindsay Lohan's ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson suffered "panic attacks" and severe weight loss during her relationship with the actress due to the pressure of dating a celebrity.
The actress hit headlines when she struck up the same-sex romance in 2008 and they quickly became one of the most photographed couples in Hollywood, as the turbulent relationship played out in the gossip columns.
Ronson admits the union, which ended in 2009, was filled with drama and it began to affect her health.
In an interview with actress Joy Bryant as part of her "Across the Board" series, Ronson says, "I had panic attacks all the time and I lost so much weight, had so much anxiety, it just made it whack (bad)…"
She adds of the photographers who followed the couple, "Even the paparazzi guys would laugh. They'd seen me for years going in and out of the same clubs, smoking cigarettes, talking [blep]… and they're like 'I'm so sorry'… (but) this is what (the media) wants'… It was crazy… They'd be the same ones outside my house every day and they weren't there for me…"


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Every so often, if we're really lucky, somebody comes into our life whose positive energy shines on us like sunshine. Last year, Jessica was the new girl in my office; we were matched up as partners at work who shared a territory, working closely. It didn't take long for us to click and begin a friendship. Right out of the gate, we laughed at the same things, held the same values and beliefs in our hearts and felt comfortable confiding in one another. The fact that we made one hell of a team was clear from day one. As the year has gone on, we have only become tighter. Last winter, we both took up snowboarding and did many a road trip up the sea to sky highway together for weekends full of riding at Whistler. This summer, we learned to surf together at the Roxy Camp in Tofino. Party nights, movie nights, days at the beach, dinners, shopping, you name it. Lately we've been big on our Monday night trash tv fests with Aero Caramels and battling laptops. We are who they are talking about when they say "BFF's"...
Jessica is one of those people who lights up the room with her bright smile and positive energy. Her laugh (and trademark snort) define her spirit, which warms the hearts of those around her with kindness, compassion and integrity. She is such an absolutely beautiful soul, inside and out.
On Tuesday, Jessica is embarking upon a grand adventure; a six month long backpacking adventure beginning in Los Angeles and taking her all through South East Asia and Central America. It's going to be an absolutely mind blowing and eye opening experience for her. I can't even tell you how proud I am of her for following her heart, and going off to explore the world and live out her dreams. To me, her courage in doing this is such an amazing inspiration.
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
Words can not express the amount of love and support that Jess has given me over the last year. There is no doubt in my mind that the friendship we have built will last a lifetime. No matter where we live or what we're doing, our connection will always be there.
So on this, her last day of work in the cubicle beside mine, I wish to tell her that she has indeed left footprints on my heart.
Bon Voyage, Smith! Please know that you will most definitely be missed.


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MORAGA, Calif. - The women's tennis team dropped its second consecutive match on Sunday, losing to the No. 70 Saint Mary's Gaels 7-0 in Moraga. Santa Clara could not break through for a win in any of the doubles matches and lost in straight sets in all of the singles matches.
With Stephanie Galainena out with an injury, the Broncos slotted Meghan Madden in alongside Lindsay McBride at No. 2 doubles. However, the newly formed duo could not overcome Stef Ordoveza and Femke Strijbis and fell 8-2. Casey Knutson and Erika Barnes also lost by the same 8-2 score, while Kim Daniel and Myra Davoudi dropped an 8-3 decision to Erin Young and Marah Calvo.
The singles matches also proved difficult for SCU as no one could grab a victory against the highly-touted Gaels, who are 13-1 this season. Daniel moved up to the No. 3 spot, but she fell to Strijbis 6-3, 6-1, while McBride moved to the fourth position and lost to Marah Calvo 6-1, 6-0. Madden, playing her second singles match in a dual, fell to Ordoveza 6-2, 6-0 at No. 6.
At No. 1 and No. 2, Knutson and Davoudi fell by 6-4, 6-2 and 6-1, 6-1 scores respectively.
The Broncos return to action with a rematch against the San Francisco Dons on Sunday, April 1. The match begins at 11:00 a.m. PT in San Francisco. Santa Clara won the first meeting 4-3 in dramatic fashion.
No. 70 Saint Mary's def. Santa Clara 7-0
1. SMC Aude Lambert/Jessica Hoath def. SCU Erika Barnes/Casey Knutson 8-2
2. SMC Stef Ordoveza/Femke Strijbis def. SCU Meghan Madden/Lindsay McBride def. 8-2
3. SMC Marah Calvo/Erin Young def. SCU Kim Daniel/Myra Davoudi 8-3
1. SMC Aude Lambert def. SCU Casey Knutson 6-3, 6-2
2. SMC Jessica Hoath def. SCU Myra Davoudi 6-1, 6-1
3. SMC Femke Strijbis def. SCU Kim Daniel 6-1, 6-1
4. SMC Marah Calvo def. SCU Lindsay McBride 6-1, 6-0
5. SMC Erin Young def. SCU Erika Barnes 6-2, 6-4
6. SMC Stef Ordoveza def. SCU Meghan Madden 6-2, 6-0


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Experiencing Sutherland Falls
Describing a walk to Sutherland Falls for the first time
Experiencing Sutherland Falls
Words/photo by Gerard Hindmarsh
Heavy overnight rain followed by sunny days makes for the perfect conditions to walk the Milford Track in Fiordland National Park. Recharged waterfalls thunder from majestic mountain ramparts. You keep feeling obliged to stop and arch your neck back to fully appreciate the grandeur of it all. After two nights spent at Clinton and Mintaro Huts, plus the McKinnon Pass under our belts, we arrive at Quintin Hut in time for a hurried bite. This is no time to loiter, for we know from a tantalising glimpse earlier that the Sutherland Falls are fully pumping. We head off up the 40 minute sidetrack to witness what was for a whole century acknowledged as the world's very highest waterfall.
The Falls appears first as a sparkling glimpse through the trees. As we approach, a low rumble turns into a roar until at last we are confronted by its full height as it falls in three stages in leaps of 249.4m, 228.9m, and finally 103m into the huge pool at its base. A sign just over half a kilometre from the Falls informs us that we are now as close to them as they are high, yet we already feel they are about to engulf us with their presence. The last hundred metres up to the rim of the boulder-strewn pool at the waterfall's base is like entering a domain of sheer power. It looks nothing like the genteel tourist photos I have seen of this place, in comparison the waterfall on my visit is probably surging with 10 times its normal flow. The penetrating mist is driven towards me by a lashing wind, my raincoat a pitiful defense against the relentless moisture. I attempt to take photos but the lens becomes opaque the moment I take off the cap. You cannot talk to your buddy, the noise at this spot is louder than a 747 taking off. I watch other hikers come and go, awestruck but unable to withstand more than a minute under this mantle of pounding energy. They shriek and run back down the track. I attempt a few close up photos before finally joining them.
You cannot leave here without wondering where the water originates from. Looking from underneath, it appears to originate in the very mountaintops. An energetic young surveyor on the Milford Track, William Quill, was the first to find out when he climbed the Sutherland Falls alone on Sunday, 9 March, 1890. Setting out up the eastern (or true right) side, he climbed past the first leap to find himself caught up in thick tangles of scrub on the increasingly vertical slope and had to spend hours painstakingly hauling his way up. At the second leap he rested on the grassy shelf and anticipated what lay ahead, a sheer vertical assent up the smooth granite rock to the top. He later wrote; "A steady hand and a strong nerve were all that kept me from slipping down the perpendicular rock to be dashed to pieces below." The last three and a half hours of the climb inclined upwards as he worked his way around a precipice at the top before standing on the 'highest waterfall in the world'. On a subsequent visit, Quill jumped across the narrow chasm of the 100m-long outlet and planted a flag on the other side. "The water rushes with through this chasm with great force and swiftness, making a terrible noise – and about ten yards from the end strikes a face of rock to make a pretty curved leap in the air to disappear over the edge of the cliff." The reservoir lake at the top which he discovered would later be named Lake Quill after the young thrill seeker, who just one year later would loose his life in another exploratory foray to find a route over the Gertrude Saddle.
It is with humility that I contemplate his efforts, but as I retreat out of the spray zone, I begin to appreciate that I am soaked to the bone and that the best way to get my clothes dry is just keep wearing them in a welcome bout of sunshine. Back down the track, some hikers on their way up pass me on the rock staircase. "I hope this is worth it!" says one to the other. I don't bother reassuring them. They will find out soon enough.


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Lubatti is a skincare and bath/body range. The line was launched by facialist, Tracey Malone (Jo Malone's sister).
The Lubatti image seems to be similar to that of Jo Malone, I'd say its one that is elegant and quite luxurious, yet with a simplicity of products not making unattainable claims.
As I really like the white cleansing cream (I'm on my second bottle) I'd thought I buy some more items.
The Gorgeous Day Moisturiser Honey & Almond (£30) is meant to be "deeply nourishing and provides the perfect 'pick me up' for tired and dehydrated skin". From this description I was expecting quite a heavy-duty cream but it was surprising light in feel and sank in almost immediately, the finish was very smooth and silky. The reason this is not something I continued to use is it was not quite moisturising enough (I have dry skin) and whilst it was great on no makeup days if I tried to put on foundation it balled up every time, in the end I tried patting on my foundation and that seemed OK but it just didn't seem worse the hassle.
The other item I bought was the Sparkling Eye Gel with Green Tea Extract & Aloe Vera (£28). The gel is very light, and did feel nice and soothing on. I think it did help with the puffiness I had but its not a re-buy for me as it did not moisturise the area which made putting on concealer troublesome.
I'm not writing the brand off, as I do really like their cleanser and their bath oils look really nice. I think the mere fact that the cream did not break me out is impressive (in over 6 years I have only found about 3 moisturiser that don't break me out or cause a reaction)
The Lubatti Collection is available from SpaceNK and they also have their own website you can order from if your in the UK, http://www.lubatti.co.uk/
Just to mention that with skincare I use it for a while before reviewing so at to hopefully give you a more true reflection of the product (in this case it was about a month and a half)
Friday, 12 February 2010
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It can be a complete pain to find skincare that works for reactive skin. Have you tried Stem Organics moisturiser? I find that really reliable.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the review - it is particularly helpful when the reviewer has used it for a while.
Hi Grace,ReplyDelete
I've just ordered some Snowberry skincare but if that doesn't work for me I'll buy the Stem Organics one as I had a look at the site and it does look promising, thanks :)
Oh, I'm interested in how you find the Snowberry, will watch out for that.ReplyDelete
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In Which We Focus On Building A Persona
This Year's Model
by ALICE BOLIN
The theatrical poster for the 1995 fashion documentary Unzipped shows designer Isaac Mizrahi, his head adorned with a wreath of laurels, with supermodels Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell flanking him, the three of them framed by a v-shaped opening that has been "unzipped" in a wall of white fabric. Evangelista and Campbell, along with fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss, get top billing with Mizrahi on the poster, above the film's title. Much of the attention surrounding Unzipped since its release has focused on the remarkable presence in the film of every major supermodel of the mid-1990s — included in the parade of celebrity models that makes its way through the film are Shalom Harlow, Amber Valletta, Niki Taylor, Veronica Webb and Carla Bruni.
This preoccupation with Campbell, Evangelista, and their cohort is understandable: the supermodels in Unzipped are conspicuous and easy to talk about, filling their role as the most accessible part of the fashion industry. But to paint them as the stars of the film is totally misleading. Unzipped, directed by Mizrahi's then boyfriend, Douglas Keeve, and documenting the creation of Isaac Mizrahi New York's fall 1994 collection, has only one star, Mizrahi. He is so compelling that he renders the most beautiful women in the world merely set dressing.
In fact, the supermodels contribute to a tension at the heart of Unzipped: that the film performs a kind of timelessness while chronicling the mid-90s fashion zeitgeist. The film is shot primarily in black and white, and the picture is at times so grainy that it recalls a silent film. Mizrahi himself could be from another time, with his loose pleated pants and two-tone shoes straight out of an old movie — and most of the references he draws from, films like Call of the Wild and Nanook of the North, The Red Shoes, Valley of the Dolls, even That Girl! and Mary Tyler Moore, are classic, nostalgic. The models appear halfway through the film, and it seems they play their part — with their celebrity, with their skill at wearing and displaying clothes — only after the collection is already designed. Mizrahi's true muses are a world away from Cindy Crawford.
Mizrahi's fashion spirit guides are depicted in Unzipped as wholesome and idiosyncratic women, odd American icons like legendary sex kitten Eartha Kitt, who makes a memorable cameo in the film. "Because I'm American. And I'm not a stone. That's why I like Mary Tyler Moore," Mizrahi says, and he is constantly singing the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Mizrahi's mother, Sarah Mizrahi, appears in the film, and she was one of his earliest fashion inspirations. He describes how she would alter and adorn her store-bought clothes, by, for instance, affixing cloth daisies to a pair of plain mules. "And who knew that he was looking at them," Sarah says of the mules. "I mean, he was four years old." "Who knew that I was obsessed with them," Mizrahi says.
These totems of Mizrahi's mythology, the objects of his fancy, swirl through Unzipped, forming the scaffolding that eventually supports the fashion show that is the film's finale — a crucial part of the project here is documenting the process of inspiration. "Here's my process," Mizrahi announces to the camera early in the film. "I get inspired somehow, somewhere — from the ballet, from dance, from a movie, from something — I get this gesture in my head. And I think, is this worthy of doing a whole collection? Usually it is, because it's the only thing I can think of. And from there I just do all these millions of sketches about this one gesture."
For the collection he's designing in Unzipped, Mizrahi has become infatuated with an arctic motif involving lots of colorful faux furs. He is shown watching the 1922 film Nanook of the North, sketching, and talking on the phone — he says he wishes he could design a pair of fur pants, but he knows he can't. "It's about women not wanting to look like cows, I guess," he says. "When in fact there's something very charming about cows."
His other main reference is the 1935 film Call of the Wild, starring Clark Gable. He is shown repeatedly describing a scene where the film's starlet is found almost dead of exposure on the tundra — "She's nearly dead," he says, "and her makeup is perfect, dewy skin, perfect eyebrows, lip liner." The dissonances of these pop culture depictions of life in the frozen north are what Mizrahi ultimately finds so inspiring. "I don't need go to Australia or to India in order to do collections about those places," he says. "I can do them from my imagination or from having seen, you know, the Flintstones episode that is set in Australia."
Unzipped collects these sources of inspiration like a scrapbook. Keeve makes frequent use of other footage — Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby," a portion of The Mary Tyler Moore Show opening credits, scenes from Call of the Wild — so that collage is critical to the aesthetic of the film. And Mizrahi does endless impressions, channeling Bette Davis, Boris Lermontov from The Red Shoes, and his old drawing teacher at Parsons. Often these impressions are cut with footage from what he is recreating: after Mizrahi says, "There's only one star in a Helen Lawson production, and that's me, remember?" we see Helen Lawson, the washed-up diva from Valley of the Dolls, say the same line.
Mizrahi recounts his meeting with Eartha Kitt and then there is footage from the encounter — "Will you make me gowns?" Mizrahi says in Kitt's signature purr, then we cut to Kitt asking the same question. "I have to be able to move around!" Mizrahi mimics, and then we see both Mizrahi and Kitt contorting their bodies bizarrely. Unzipped features incredible cameos — even disregarding the supermodels, there are appearances by Sandra Bernhardt, Roseanne, Ellen Barkin, Richard Gere, André Leon Talley, and fashion legend Polly Mellon — and it becomes even more densely populated with the legendary figures who live in his memory.
Mizrahi is a performer, and as he ventriloquizes his show business role models, we glimpse a defining aspect of his identity: that he is interested in, and good at, staging a show, and this talent is separate from his talent at designing clothes. In Unzipped, Mizrahi is fixated on his idea for the fashion show of using a theatrical scrim for a backdrop that, when backlit, would become transparent, exposing the chaos backstage. His business partner Nina Santisi is skeptical, but it turns out to be a visionary concept, presenting the show's viewers with the finished product and then, with a change of lighting, giving them access to all the work and workers who created it, disrupting the fantasy.
Particularly after his Isaac Mizrahi New York line folded in 1998, Mizrahi seemed to be exploring more fully his interests in theatre and performance. He made frequent collaborations with director and choreographer Mark Morris, who appears in Unzipped, including costuming Morris's productions for New York's Metropolitan Opera. He performed a one-man show off-Broadway called Les Mizrahi and had television shows on the Oxygen and Style networks, in addition to appearing on Bravo's fashion competition show The Fashion Show. But Mizrahi's flair for the theatrical was also blamed for the ultimate failure of his line. "Mizrahi was such a great showman that his runway extravaganzas sometimes overwhelmed the clothes they were meant to be selling," New York magazine reported on Isaac Mizrahi New York's closing.
New York spoke of Mizrahi's celebrity eclipsing the poor sales of his clothes. In his final showdown with Chanel, who owned a majority of Isaac Mizrahi New York, the brand reportedly refused to pay for another one of Mizrahi's extravagant fashion shows. "But I'm showbiz," Mizrahi is rumored to have replied. Mizrahi's public personality may have helped hide his line's business problems, but Unzipped steadfastly rejects the notion that Mizrahi's focus was on "showbiz" at the expense of designing clothes. "Isaac Mizrahi really knows how to put on a show," he reads aloud from Women's Wear Daily at the end of the film, on the day after his fashion show. But this is precisely what he talks about as his main headache.
"That's when it gets kind of grating on my nerves," he says of the work that happens after the clothes are designed. "Because it's no longer about creating a look, it's about creating a show." There is an incredible shot of an exasperated Mizrahi in a closet full of garments covered in plastic, his arms spread wide. "Everything is frustrating," he says. "Every single thing is frustrating. Except designing clothes. That's not frustrating. That's really liberating and beautiful."
It's hard to know which of these contrasting pictures — of the Mizrahi whose "primary goal was not making money but building a persona" (as New York quoted from fashion critic Bernadine Morris) and the one who finds everything except designing clothes to be frustrating — to look to. The only solution is to hold them both in the mind at once. Mizrahi has often been likened to an old fashioned dandy, described by Time as "a kind of Seventh Avenue Oscar Wilde." According to the ethic of dandyism, wit and style must suffuse not only dress but every aspect of the dandy's life, making, in Michel Foucault's conception, an art of life, rather than a life of art. Or, as Wilde put it, "One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art."
Mizrahi's art of life, his outsized self, provides one answer to the question of Unzipped's simultaneous datedness and timelessness — how it remains a supremely stylish film while chronicling the creation of clothing that is no longer remotely stylish. When the fashion show begins, the film switches abruptly from black and white to color, as if signaling a move into the glaring, undeniable present — there is no way this portion could have been shot at any time but in 1994.
The clothes in this collection are by now truly ridiculous. There are tailored looks made of a soviet gray flannel, medieval-inspired corsets with full skirts, sequined mini-dresses, and of course the day-glo furs, some of them accenting Technicolor vinyl raincoats. House music pulses as Cindy Crawford walks down the runway and one cannot help but think that it's all so nineties. Fashion is arbitrary: it is a cyclical, mass change in taste required by the dictates of capitalism so that the public is continually keeping up with the joneses. As much as one can try to opt out of fashion, it infests the eye — styles that are "out" look simply, inexplicably wrong.
And nothing jars the eye like the "wrong" color, or the wrong colors used together. Mizrahi has always been known for his use of color, and in Unzipped, color serves as synecdoche for all of the changing whims of fashion — when, during the show, the picture moves momentarily from garish full color to black and white, the clothes look immediately more stylish. Ultimately, Unzipped might be about the limitations of fashion, or how style picks up where fashion leaves off. In 2010, while speaking about Unzipped at the Costume Institute at the Met, Mizrahi discussed how he used both "real people" and models for his campaigns for Liz Claiborne. "Sometimes the model isn't in the foreground," Mizrahi said. "Sometimes the model is the worst part of the picture."
Alice Bolin is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in Missoula. She last wrote in these pages about Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade. She tumbls here and twitters here. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here.
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Mountain Biking the Okuti Valley
I love putting a Saturday aside and spending a day in the Okuti Valley. It's so close to Christchurch, and the views are out of this world.
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The Okuti Valley is one of Banks Peninsula's true gems, offering up an unbelieveable panoramic outlook across Lake Forsyth to the Pacific Ocean, and into the peninsula's lush green landscape of hills and native bush.
There are people who have lived all their lives in Christchurch and still have never heard of Okuti Valley. This is only one more reason to pump the fat tyres, mark this valley on your map and put a date on your calendar.
Where: The Okuti Valley is part of Canterbury's Banks Peninsula, accessible from Little River.
Highlights: The views. It's a 360 degree panorama, and nothing will prepare you for how memorable it is.
Who will enjoy this ride: Everyone who enjoys mountain biking. It's a road ride for fat tyres, being gravel road 90% of the way. The uphill is a challenge and the downhill is nothing but fun.
What you should know before going: There's a climb (this is the first hour). What goes up must come down - that's your Okuti Valley motto.
How to get there: From Christchurch, take SH75 to Little River. It's only a 45-minute drive, and you can park your car at the Little River General Store.
Alternatively, drive to Motukarara and cycle along (off-road) the Little River Rail Trail, park your car and head into the Okuti Valley.
In a nutshell: This is a great "Girls Weekend" ride. (Some will disagree).
It's an off-road (peaceful) ride on gravel road, requiring no technical experience (little concentration) - the only danger being that it's so incredibly peaceful, you can easily forget you're on an open road. Plus - the birdsong has been known to drown out the sound of oncoming vehicles.
Being so peaceful, there's plenty of opportunity for a bit of goss, and generous stops for photos, picnics and "peninsula gazing." Frequent comments include 'Can you believe this is less than an hour from town??'
We still can't believe it - that's why we keep going back.
The frequent stops are inspired not only by the views, but also by the gradient. It's a bit tougher than 'undulating' - but the switchbacks do provide relief and for anyone who's done their time at Bottle Lake, this is your next step.
When you come to Christchurch and Canterbury, if you love the outdoors, then come with two wheels. If you don't bring your own, there are plenty of cycle tours, cycle hire and locals to help you find your way.
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- David Altucher
"Seven Reasons to Say 'No College' to Your Kids"
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Daily Finance features the "Seven Reasons to Say 'No College' to Your Kids" with a 3 minute interview video below with author David Altucher. Now be forewarned, his conclusions are drawn from a more linear cost/benefit analysis and essentially excluding the other benefits of college beyond economics. He does, however, also raise some great points such as the value of entrepreneurial and/or job experience, self-directed learning, travel and volunteering - which are critical whether one goes to college or not.
With that being said, Altucher is an extremist in his views about the value of college and isn't exactly an "endearing" presenter . . . you'll see what we mean (just see a few comments!). But, if college for you is about economics, you may want to think twice and we highly recommend this clip below. Otherwise, still do check it out - here are two of the seven reasons to get you started:
If you missed our previous M.I.A. post #7, with link here, The New York Times featured the same topic with certainly less vitriol than the Altucher version, albeit with a very similar message: "The idea that four years of higher education will translate into a better job, higher earnings and a happier life - a refrain sure to be repeated this month at graduation ceremonies across the country - has been pounded into the heads of schoolchildren, parents and educators."" 1. More than 60% of people entering college take more than four years to graduate. So whatever you think your kids are going to cost you to go to college, add 20% to 100%.
2. The cost of the average college tuition has gone up nine-fold since 1976 versus seven-fold for health care and three-fold for inflation."
The List: No College or College Dropout
See The List Grow: Those who dropped out or never entered . . . you may be surprised. Previous M.I.A.s featured by The Daily Riff:
Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle
Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer
Barry Diller, founder of Fox and IAC Media
Rachel Ray, Food Network star and author
David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records and Dreamworks
Steve Wozniak (Co-founder Apple)
Anna Wintour (Editor-in-Chief Vogue)
Bob Pittman (Co-founder MTV)
Barbara Streisand
J.D. Salinger
Frank Lloyd Wright
Walter Cronkite
John D. Rockefeller
Coco Chanel
Ted Turner
Woody Allen
Peter Jennings
Bill Gates
Jack Nicholson
John Glenn
Steve Jobs
President Harry S. Truman
Can you help us add to this list?
(Ed. Note: This is not to disparage a college education. Point being with these posts is that not everyone is cut out for college for various reasons and should not necessarily be labeled as "not smart enough", as you can see from this list. Hopefully, we will be more open to different routes people take in their lives. Additionally, online learning opportunities may provide access to more people eliminating some of the constraints for furthering education (i.e. time, cost, pacing), including after college. Personally, I loved college and thought it was important academically among other things. High school? Now that was another subject - don't get me started on that one. . . -- C.J.)
Read full article here from Daily Finance. VIDEO BELOW
Related articles from The Daily Riff,
"Tom Friedman: Getting American Kids Excited About Innovation and Entrepreneurship Again", with link HERE,
"The New Reality: Disconnected From School?", with link HERE.
H/t to The Huffington Post. Related articles here, "The Best Job Training Is A Job", and "Why College Is Still Worth It" with link here.


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Our Next Generation provides quality academic support and life skills programming to hundreds of urban children and youth from pre-K to high school. Since its formation in the early 1990s, Our Next Generation has helped thousands of children benefit from the one-on-one tutoring and guidance provided by its caring and concerned volunteers.
Courtesy of the players' charitable foundation, the children will receive round-trip transportation to the game, meet the players, and receive free tickets, food, beverages and souvenirs.
This season, Buses for Baseball will provide transportation and personal greetings for more than 1,500 underprivileged children attending Major League Baseball games as invited guests of their big league heroes. Buses for Baseball will provide many of the children with their first chance to attend a Major League Baseball game.
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Escape from "special"
Fantagraphics, 2006 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 176 pages
A moving debut graphic novel about the pain of childhood.Fantagraphics Books is proud to follow up our launch of rising star R. Kikuo Johnson (author of the acclaimed Night Fisher) by showcasing Miss Lasko-Gross in her graphic- novel debut. Escape from "Special" is the coming-of-age story of Melissa, who we first meet as a small child and depart from at the end of the book just before she enters high school. Willful, funny, and perceptive, Melissa unsentimentally questions religion, identity formation, and treacherous female "friendships" as she tours with her parent's band, battles with her therapist, and bounces from school to school. Subjected to the whims of her bemused parents and, as the years pass, rejected by her peers, the opinionated Melissa copes by watching horror movies, psychosomatically vomiting to get out of temple, and making comics.Escape from "Special" recalls a not-too- distant time when girls flaunted their knock-off Esprit and shared best-friends necklaces broken in half. The semi-autobiographical story unfolds in a series of brief anecdotes, expressionistically dredged as if from memory, without self-regarding exposition and uncorrupted by a nostalgic haze. Drawn in black and white and washed in moody blues and full spectrum grays, Lasko-Gross's art, with its detailed backgrounds and expressive, clean-line characters, exquisitely conveys the story's blend of humor (sometimes of the gross-out variety) and keenly observed insights. Miss Lasko-Gross, who has the sensibility of a love child of Linda Barry and David B. midwifed by Judy Blume, has created a graphic novel that should appeal not only to the growing readers of graphic novels, but to teens grappling with similar unresolved questions.
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In the June Atlantic, Joshua Green has a terrific piece called "The Tragedy of Sarah Palin" that gets at the maddening aspect of Palin's gifts and strengths as a politician better than any single article has with the exception of Yuval Levin's COMMENTARY piece two years ago. What really excited John McCain about Palin, and what made her a potentially major political figure, is the exceptional talent she displayed as an insurgent politician in Alaska and in her first two years as governor. Coming out of nowhere, she showed a kind of fearlessness against entrenched interests and a gift for rallying support in pursuit of rather starkly non-ideological governance goals. Of course, what made her an immediate sensation and then a lightning rod was the astonishing poise and rhetorical power she showed in that maiden appearance as McCain's running mate in that gym in Ohio in August 2008—maybe the most impressive debut on the national stage in American history.
Alas, as Levin suggested might happen and as Green says has happened, Palin came almost immediately to inhabit a different role in the American body politic—not the "maverick" she was chosen to be by the self-proclaimed maverick McCain, but rather as a populist villain-victim (depending on which side you were on). The fault here lay not with her attackers but within her. She embarrassed herself in two interviews, and decided the blame lay not with her own ill-preparedness but with the media that had come after her. Understandably enraged by the misogynistic and practically psychotic attacks on her, she came to embrace her status as a kind of martyr for the social-conservative views that had not been the truly distinguishing features of her meteoric political career up to that moment. She found herself in Harry Truman's kitchen, and she couldn't take the heat.
In some ways, the story of Palin is a story of temptation. Rather than sticking to her guns and deepening her political credentials and her knowledge base, she embraced her celebrity instead. And in doing so, she didn't defeat her critics and enemies; she capitulated to them. Listen, it's her life and her fortune and she is free to do what she wishes with it. And there's no telling what the future holds for anyone in America. But she had and has more raw political talent than anyone I've ever seen, and, alas, as phenoms go, it looks like she is headed for a Darryl Strawberry-like playing career.


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That could have worked had it not been in the public eye, but even the Comedian only killed when had had a reason too. If it had been that darker version of the Thunderbolts under the control of Norman Osborne, were everyone thought that Normie was a good guy & not a loony toon, an all the murder was kept under wraps, it could have worked too (if they'd been a secondary not important team).Stigger wrote: I'd be more surprised if there wasn't a somewhat psychotic member of any given national team who also dabbled in a more covert world when required. Kinda like the Comedian from Watchmen.
It wouldn't be so bad had it been the savage wolverine of the 90's thing when it was "holding back a brutal killing instinct, heart of gold" style character, because such a character can be compelling, interesting & just the right sort of moral ambiguity.
Even the "willing to kill" character can be interesting in the right game, but once its graduated to "kills as a matter of course" & that's turned into a complication (which means its now a mechanical system), I think one has crossed the line for any non wet-works game, especially in a straight up silver age campaign setting. It has to fit the campaign setting & a character who murders people because "why not" just doesn't seem to fit the intended setting tone.
Of all the things I mentioned in my mini review, I honestly thought this would be the last thing people would think was an important talking point worth discussing. I was sure people were going to take umbrage with my point about the laziness of the costume designs.


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Barclay's sure thinks so
Last week, British investment bank Barclays Capital released an annual report and analysis known unassumingly as the 'Skyscraper Index.'
The report stated that their index "continues to show an unhealthy correlation between construction of the next world's tallest building and an impending financial crises," citing statistics from New York in 1930, Chicago in 1974, Kuala Lumpur in 1997 and Dubai in 2010. As AFP summed up, the world's tallest buildings have often been the culminations of countrywide building booms, which are conspicuous signs of the misallocation of capital and ultimately the omens of economic bust.
The report was particularly weary of the building activity in China, where 53 percent of the 124 skyscrapers under construction are slated to complete construction within the next six years. India, too, is a country eager to play catch-up, packing its cityscapes with towering steel edifices, including one that is expected to take the title of second tallest building in the world.
But Asia is not alone; Europe's tallest tower, The Shard, is set for completion this year. So, while building the tallest skyscraper in the world might earn your city a stint in a Mission Impossible movie, let us all not forget about the long term here.
This post originally appeared on Architizer, an Atlantic partner site.


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Abreu has 3 hits, Beckham homers to pace White Sox
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) John Danks pitched four-hit ball for five innings and Jose Abreu went 3 for 3 with two RBIs, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 7-6 win over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday.
Danks, making his second start of the spring, struck out one and walked three as he continued his buildup to the regular season. He excited his surgically repaired shoulder feels strong.
"I feel like I can go after guys a little more aggressively," Danks said. "Got some movement on the fastball and the cutter's sharp. I'm like a kid in the clubhouse now and I'm excited to contribute."
Gordon Beckham hit a solo home run in support of Danks.
Paul Konerko and Dayan Viciedo each had an RBI as the White Sox got 12 hits, six off Rangers starter Joe Saunders.
Saunders, signed last week to compete for a spot in the Texas starting rotation, gave up three runs and six hits in three innings, striking out four. Tommy Hanson, another starting rotation candidate, pitched the next four innings.
Adam Rosales drove in a run with a sacrifice fly off Sox reliever Mitchell Boggs in the eighth as the Rangers rallied for five runs to take the lead.
"We have some more time down here for him to work it out," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said of Boggs.
Texas: Saunders had a blister on the instep of his left foot but pitched through it.
"I had to get through three innings so just gutted it out," Saunders said. "I made a couple of mistakes they hurt me on but other than that, felt my arm was good. The ball was coming out well. I was throwing strikes."
Chicago: Danks had his cut fastball working and got some defensive help behind him.
"That's probably what I'm most pleased about," Danks said of his cutter. "My location wasn't where I wanted to be but it is spring training. Certainly something I'll work on."
Rangers right fielder Mitch Moreland dropped a fly ball off the bat of Alexei Ramirez that should have ended the first inning. In the top of the second, Moreland was doubled off first base on a fly out by teammate Engel Beltre, though it was on a hit-and-run call. In the fourth, Moreland was doubled off at first again on a lineout to shortstop.
White Sox center fielder Adam Eaton displayed a strong throwing arm in throwing out Moreland and also doubled in the first inning and scored. Danks said they appreciate Eaton's "dirtbag" playing style.
"You can't change anything," Eaton said. "You have to continue to work on what you work on. At the end of the day you put it all out there and that's what you're going to get."
The Rangers' Robinson Chirinos reached base three times and drove in a run, and is now 7 for 15 in spring training.
"Right now he's the hottest hitter in the Cactus League," Rangers manager Ron Washington said of Chirinos. "That says it all. Seven for his last seven getting on base. He's seeing the ball well."
White Sox third baseman Matt Davidson hit a solo home run to tie the game at 6 in the bottom of the eighth inning in his only at-bat of the game.
Rangers: Infielder Kensuke Tanaka cracked three teeth playing second base and taking a pickoff throw in Monday's game. Tanaka was scheduled to see a dentist Tuesday in nearby Mesa. … Infielder Brent Lillibridge returned from a thumb injury and was a late-inning replacement Tuesday, collecting two hits. … Outfielder Alex Rios is day to day with a strained ribcage. … Pitcher Derek Holland is throwing 60 feet as he recovers from knee surgery. … Infielder Jurickson Profar has yet to take the field but was used at designated hitter Tuesday. Profar is taking infield and throwing from 120 feet in workouts as he deals with shoulder soreness. He went 1 for 3.
White Sox: Pitcher Matt Lindstrom is day to day with an oblique injury and is back to playing catch.
Rangers: Right-hander Alexi Ogando is set to take on the Los Angeles Angels Wednesday in Surprise, Ariz.
White Sox: Right-hander Felipe Paulino is scheduled to start against the San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Wednesday.


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French Farce: Hadopi's First And Only Suspension Has Been Suspended
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Back in June we wrote about Hadopi's first and only successful disconnection case. As we also noted then, in the wake of its abject failure, Hadopi was being dramatically curtailed. In particular, disconnection is no longer available as a punishment for those alleged to have downloaded files without authorization.
That turns out to have a lucky consequence for the otherwise unlucky person sentenced to 15 days disconnection earlier this year. As the French Web site PC Inpact explains (original in French), before the disconnection could be carried out, the French law changed. And it is apparently an established principle in France that when milder measures are brought in for a given offense, those generally apply retroactively to anyone convicted under the previous, harsher regime. In this case, that means the suspension has been suspended.
So it looks like even that single, 15-day disconnection -- the only fruit of Sarkozy's beloved and costly "three strikes and you're out" idea -- will never happen. What a truly fitting end to a farcical experiment. The big question now is: what comes next?
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