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A police safety camera van recorded a British driver for thirty seconds driving on the highway with his hands behind his head. For that, he has been arrested.
The BBC reports that 36-year-old Richard Newton was recently found guilty of dangerous driving. Newton argued that he was in control of the vehicle.
According to the North Yorkshire Police, his punishment is a 12-month driving ban, 100 hours of community service, and a £625 ($1040) fine with a £60 ($98) surcharge.
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Gas Can Award
Thursday afternoon produced another sell out but the string of five consecutive record crowds was broken. Braves on Friday should be another sell out. That game will be televised by ESPN.
Offense looked more like slumber than lumber in loss to the Twins on Thursday.. But, it is still spring training. Five more games to go before the On-Deck Series next Tuesday and Wednesday against the Pirates at Citizens Bank Park.
Thursday was a busy media day. Mary Carillo from HBO Real Sports was set up on the half-field for interviews before, during and after the game. Dallas Green was interviewed about his granddaughter's tragic passing by an ESPN crew for Sportscenter. Marshall Harris and a crew from Comcast SportsNet arrived in Clearwater early in the morning and went right to work. The MLB Baseball Network is in camp today and Friday and Sirius XM Radio was at Bright House Field.
Gas Can Award
Has to go to Assistant GM Scott Proefrock. He was driving some Phillies executives, including David Montgomery, to Wednesday's game in Port Charlotte. Driving in the left lane of I-75, he ran out of gas.
AAA finally arrived and bailed them out. When they finally arrived in Port Charlotte, the game was half over.
On top of that, he asked his passengers for toll money as he didn't have an E-Z Pass.
Thursday morning, he presented Montgomery with a gas can for future trips.
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors say they will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces.
Maj. Ashden Fein said Tuesday that prosecutors had changed their minds about trying to convict Pfc. Bradley Manning with violating the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in connection with the release of a cable known as Reykjavik-13.
Wikileaks posted the cable in 2010 about a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, summarizing U.S. Embassy discussions with Icelandic officials about the country's financial troubles.
The cable was among more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents Manning acknowledged sending to the WikiLeaks site.
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One of two men charged here last year with possession of explosive devices, multiple weapons and a quantity of marijuana has been indicted in federal court while the other has been cleared.
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LAS VEGAS - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced it has settled a major race discrimination lawsuit against The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip for over $1 million. The EEOC's suit (Case No. CV S-02-1554 RLH - LRL), in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, charged the Mirage with discriminating against African- American and Hispanic applicants from January 1, 1996, until May 31, 1997 a time period prior to the acquisition of The Mirage by MGM Grand, Inc. (Now MGM Mirage) in 2000.
The Settlement Agreement, filed concurrently with the EEOC's lawsuit, provides for $840,000, in financial compensation for a class of African-American and Hispanic applicants, along with implementation of appropriate complaint procedures, anti-discrimination training, and record-keeping obligations to be monitored by the EEOC over the duration of the three-year term of the Agreement. The remaining money will be used to implement training programs.
"We commend the MGM Mirage for working cooperatively with us to reach this agreement," said EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez. "Unfortunately, almost 40 years after the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination against people of color is still all too common in our nation's workplaces. This settlement is another step toward making the promise of equal employment opportunity a reality."
Olophius Perry, Director of the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which has jurisdiction for Nevada, said: "In addition to providing a substantial amount of monetary relief to the victims, the settlement puts in place extensive mechanisms to help prevent discrimination in the future. By monitoring the employer for the next three years, the Commission will be in a position to act quickly should discrimination or retaliation occur again."
Debbie Thomas, Vice President of Human Resources for The Mirage, said: "Under this agreement, The Mirage will supplement its already extensive diversity training program, which is one of the principal elements of the commitment to diversity within our company."
Ms. Thomas continued: "In 2000, our parent company established the industry's first formal diversity program; we greatly value diversity in our workforce. More than 50% of our employees are of minority backgrounds. Additionally, we believe our parent company is the only company in the industry to have established a comprehensive vendor/supplier diversity program as well as a requirement that any contract of construction services include a minority component. We are proud of our record on diversity and look forward to supplementing our existing training efforts with those agreed to as part of this settlement."
Remarking on the cooperation between the EEOC and MGM Mirage in resolving the suit, Anna Y. Park, Regional Attorney of EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, said, "The Commission congratulates all concerned in reaching this settlement. We believe that The Mirage and its parent company are committed to a policy of non-discrimination. During the next three years, we will work with The Mirage to ensure that the procedures put in place by this Settlement Agreement will be administered properly."
In addition to enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment or pregnancy) or national origin and protects employees who complain about such offenses from retaliation, the EEOC enforces the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which protects workers age 40 and older from discrimination based on age; the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits gender-based wage discrimination; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits employment discrimination against people with disabilities in the federal sector; Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits employment discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector and state and local governments; and sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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Andak Stage Company's Dakin Matthews and Anne McNaughton present
LADYHOUSE BLUES by Kevin O'Morrison
Celebrating Women during Women's History Month
Since the early 1900's, International Women's Day has been observed in America and has now grown to become an official holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. In the United States, March is "Women's History Month."
Celebrating this tradition, a small professional theater In Los Angeles, Andak Stage Company, has launched a splendid production of Ladyhouse Blues by Kevin O'Morrison. This evocative drama stars five women (including Kitty Swink from the nationally recognized Antaeus Company) and is set in one of the 1919 St. Louis "ladyhouses," so-called while men were off fighting, and women almost exclusively occupied these tenements. Day-to-day life now so considerably different for these women, and it is clear that they sense more changes are just around the next corner. The decade from 1913-1923 brought new roles for women in family life, and in history... including the right to vote.
A working class mother and her four daughters deal with the tensions of a war-scarred nation in transition as they struggle to manage their own lives. While awaiting the return, from World War I, of the only surviving male member of their family, the social and psychological state of these women becomes tested.
Directed by Anne McNaughton and produced by Dakin Matthew (well-known actor from films such as Lincoln, True Grit, The Baker Boys, and TV series Desperate Housewives, The Mentalist, and The Good Wife), the intimate setting exquisitely exudes the ambience of the era. It was a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. It was during the challenge of world plagues, shortly before women obtained the right to vote, and a time when women's roles were changing rapidly with the outbreak of WWI. For the first time in history it was a decade that saw women uniting across Europe, holding rallies to campaign against the war and to express women's solidarity. This fascinating production goes beyond one family's story, and brings audiences to the brink of these monumental changes for women that defined their role in the 20th Century.
Andak Stage Company was founded in 2004, and has produced thirteen plays since then, including eight world premieres, among them three award-winning productions of new translations of Spanish classics, Anne McNaughton's crowd-pleasing Moliere adaptation San Fran Scapin, the Ted-Schmitt-Award-winning verse drama The Prince of L.A., and the award-winning original musical by Dakin Matthews and B.T. Ryback Liberty Inn. The Company also staged critically acclaimed productions of David Hare's The Bay at Nice, Harold Pinter's The Betrayal, the world premiere of John Lowell's The Letters, Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man, and Martin Crimp's modern adaptation of The Misanthrope.
So make a difference, think globally and act locally! Make every day International Women's Day/Women's History Month. Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, safe, equal, and rewarding. If you want to experience a bit of history and be entertained by a fine cast, this production continues during March.
LADYHOUSE BLUES runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2pm through March 24, 2013. NewPlace Studio Theatre is located at 10950 Peach Grove St. For reservations: Ovationtix (866) 811-4111 or www.Andak.org. Tickets are $25, with discounted $20 tickets for industry professionals, seniors, and students. Group discounts (10 or more) available by calling our direct line (818-506-8462).


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Parenting in today's society comes with all kinds of challenges, but the internet provides a valuable resource for parents with children of all ages. It's not uncommon for parents to feel overwhelmed, both with the amount of work required to raise a child and with the amount of information and advice available to new parents. Read on to find some information that can get parents started on the right track.
Change Starts at Home
Today's children will be tomorrow's leaders, so it's important for parents to encourage children to be the change they want to see in the world. After all, change starts at home. When parents change the way they think, act, and interact with their children, it can encourage them to think about things in different ways and to make positive changes in their own lives.
All Children are Unique
Some parents seem to focus only on comparing their children's performance and behavior to others, but this is a mistake. Every child is unique; they have their own flaws and their own strengths, and good parenting requires that parents recognize these traits and help their children find ways to utilize them. It's a parent's job to give his or her child the tools they need to survive in today's society, and this starts with self-recognition and self-improvement.
There Are No Bad Children
Treating children as though they are inherently bad people is never a good way to interact. Instead, take the time to explain why problem behaviors might be an issue and try to determine whether the child has particular needs that are not being met by his or her parents. For instance, some children might throw temper-tantrums because they feel like they're not being listened to.
Communication is Key
It's important to teach children how to communicate openly with their parents. This helps them to feel more confident and allows them to ask for the support they need from them. Parents shouldn't remove all of their own boundaries, though; they don't need to be their children's best friends, they just need to offer them the support they need to learn and grow.
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Girl hospitalized after dog dragging incident
Officials say dog took off running, girl got dragged
A young girl was taken to a hospital Sunday night after an incident at an Owings Mills home in which witnesses said the girl was dragged by a dog.
Witnesses told 11 News that the 10-year-old victim with special needs was at a family friend's home in the back yard around 4:30 p.m. when the incident happened. Her injuries were so severe that she had to be flown to Johns Hopkins Children's Center for treatment.
Fire officials said the girl was at a home off Cotswold Court when the dog took off running and somehow dragged the girl from the back yard into the street.
Baltimore County police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said a little boy told paramedics the girl was walking the dog on a leash when the dog took off, and the girl ran smack into the curb. Armacost said when paramedics arrived, the child was conscious, but they felt she appeared seriously injured and so they called for a medevac chopper to transport her to Johns Hopkins.
It's currently unclear what type of dog was involved, but Baltimore County police clarified Monday that it was not the girl's service dog, as originally reported. Armacost said the child was not attacked by the dog.
Witness photos showed the little girl being flown to the hospital after the incident.
"We saw this helicopter circling around," said witness Lindsay Emmer.
She and Belinda Williams watched as the girl was flown from the neighborhood.
"They were working on her for 20 minutes prior to the helicopter coming, trying to stabilize her," Emmer said.
Investigators don't know how far the girl was dragged, but they said the incident caused serious injuries. Hospital officials have still not released the girl's condition.
The owner of the home where the incident happened told 11 News that the girl involved did not live at the home, and the dog wasn't his. It's currently unclear who owns the dog.
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Maine sled dog races under way; longest is 250 miles
FORT KENT, Maine (AP) � Dozens of sled dog teams are running through the wilds of northern Maine in the annual 21st Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Races.
More than 50 teams from as far away as Minnesota and Michigan were signed up for the three races, which began Saturday morning in Fort Kent.
The Can-Am 250, now in its 20th year, begins after the shorter 30- and 60-mile races get under way. The 250-mile race can take more than two days to complete including mandatory layovers, with sleds traversing trails in the wilds of northern Maine.
The race is an Iditarod qualifier that's billed as the longest and highest-caliber race in the eastern United States.
The 250-mile race has a purse of $20,000, with the winner not expected to cross the finish line in Fort Kent until Monday morning.


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In my previous post, I noted that the mark of a mature, professional designer is the ability to be productively and efficiently creative without being dependent on inspiration.
That raises a whole host of questions though, doesn't it? Setting aside for a moment the issue of "how?", we need to address a more fundamental question first: What is Creativity in the first place?
That's not an easy question to answer, at least not the way most people mean it. Look up "creativity" in the dictionary, and you'll find a self-referential tautology that looks a bit like this: Creativity > Quality of being Creative > Displaying Creativity > Creative > etc. Authoritative as it may be, that's not terribly useful. However, like Justice Stewart contemplating obscenities, we generally know it when we see it.
Delving into specialist research on the subject in psychology and elsewhere, we start to find definitions that are a little more helpful, but not much. For instance:
That's better, but still frustratingly ambiguous. Not only are there two competing categorical definitions here, they leave out quite a bit that we know informally about human creative activity when we do see it (e.g. it is teleological). We know from example that creativity manifests in personality, process, products, and places. We also know that it possesses some essential attributes: it's goal-directed, value-oriented, generative, and heuristic.
So we can refine this definition into something that is technically accurate and general enough to describe what we know ostensively like this:
As clinical and abstruse as that sounds, it tells us more clearly what creativity is (and isn't), but it doesn't really tell us what we want to know, which is: How does it work?
What we're really looking for are the instrumentalities by which human beings display creative behavior. After all, "inspiration" is simply a word we use to describe our experience of the transition of a subconscious mental state in the act of creative ideation. Knowing with a bit more precision what creativity is gives us some clues as to how it operates, presumably so we can use its tools more intentionally and effectively.
In particular, I'm going to focus on "origination and relation" in a mental context. The really mysterious part of creativity is what we can't ordinarily see, and that's what is happening inside the skull of the creator. There are two general approaches to this problem, which in this case illustrate and reinforce one another: philosophy and cognitive psychology.
Philosophically (or, more precisely, epistemologically), when we talk about "mental entities," what we are really discussing are two general categories of knowledge: perceptual and conceptual. Percepts are what we experience directly through our extended sensorium: both externally and internally. I will discuss perceptual cognition in much more detail in a future series on Practical Neuro-Aesthetics for Designers, but for now the most important aspect we need to consider is that perceptual experience and knowledge is gained directly and subconsciously in all cases. Perceptual cognition occurs entirely below the level of conscious awareness.
Conceptual cognition occurs as a mental process by which perceptual experiences (and other concepts) are aggregated, inter-related, and abstracted in the mind. Concepts are more conventionally what we refer to when we talk about "ideas." Conceptual knowledge and understanding can be generated both by a process of conscious thought (rationally rigourous or otherwise) and by a subconscious processes. We'll come back to this in much more detail in a couple of posts when we dig deeply into creative instrumentalities.
Cognitive science seeks to develop theories of mind according to empirical observations of behavior and brain activity, in which we consider mental processes such as learning and knowledge formation in terms of attention and affect, and the results according to neural correlates. This is a relatively new approach to the study of human cognition, but has yielded very interesting results within the last 20 years.
Following this approach, we understand that the human mind has multiplicitous faculties for collecting and filtering information. Most of these occur at a level below our conscious awareness, either unconscious or preconscious. The unconscious is fully automatic, and is not available for introspection. The preconscious is more a form of background processing, much in the same way that multi-threaded computers process multiple programs and streams of information simultaneously, while the user may only be focusing on the foreground program (a poor analogy, but good enough for our purposes here). As this information is cognitively processed, it may rise to the level of conscious attention due to intentional or subliminal raising of importance. This tells us something about our experience of inspiration as a mental phenomenon: the moment of "inspiration" occurs when we've been thinking preconsciously about something and come to some important conclusion via processing or inclusion of new information, which is then bumped to the top of the atttention ranking. This has an affect on our state of mind: EUREKA!
What we get out of this is that there are two instrumentalities of cognitive creativity that we should be paying particular attention to:
Intuition - which is the sum of the unconscious and preconscious perceptual and conceptual processing our brains are doing all the time, even though we may not be aware of it directly.
Imagination - which is a specific way in which our brains are collecting, categorizing, re-ordering, and generating new ideas in the pursuit of solving some problem or obtaining some goal.
I think it's safe to say that these are two critical characteristics that we ascribe to any highly-creative individual or behavior: intuitive and imaginative.
In my next installment, I'll be discussing intuition as an instrument of creative thinking, how it can be developed as finely-honed tool. Following that, I'll describe exactly what the faculty of imagination is and how it works cognitively. From this, we can then draw some interesting conclusions about how to intentionally develop creative habits of mind and be productively and efficiently creative on purpose, whenever we want to.
"The unconscious is fully automatic, and is not available for introspection."
i would put forward that there are some philosophies or practices that would have another perspective on that idea of the limits of the unconscious.
Nam, what you're describing is the preconscious, not unconscious. The unconscious really is not open to introspection, while the preconscious can be under certain circumstances. This difference is why cognitive psychology makes the distinction between the two instead of using the blanket term "subconscious" (which covers both of them).
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Prozac Pollution Making Shrimp Reckless
There's no happy ending for shrimp exposed to the mood-booster Prozac, according to a new study.
Remnants of antidepressant drugs flushed into waterways worldwide are altering shrimp behavior and making them easier prey, experts say.
(See "Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water.")
To mimic conditions in the wild, scientists exposed the estuary-dwelling shrimp Echinogammarus marinus to the antidepressant fluoxetine at levels detected in average sewage-treatment waste. Fluoxetine is the key ingredient in the drugs Prozac and Sarafem.
Shrimp normally gravitate toward safe, dark corners. But when exposed to fluoxetine, the animals were five times more likely to swim toward a bright region of water, the team discovered.
"This behavior makes them much more likely to be eaten by a predator, such as a fish or bird," said study co-author Alex Ford, a biologist at U.K.'s University of Portsmouth.
The fluoxetine likely makes shrimp's nerves more sensitive to serotonin, a brain chemical known to alter moods and sleep patterns, according to the study, recently published in the journal Aquatic Toxicology. Full Story
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Shrimp on Prozac are killing themselves
A study shows that drug traces in our waste can affect marine life behavior, but can crustaceans have feelings?
I have friends who are always talking about happy pigs and happy chickens — left to roam freely, eating real food instead of weird commercial food pellets, given the occasional backrub. But pity the poor shrimp! No one is raising happy shrimp … on purpose anyway. But all the Prozac we've been taking may be doing the work for us, and marine biologists at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. have found that enough of the drug passes through our bodies directly into the wastewater to seriously change the behavior of shrimp who swim in it: They're killing themselves. But do shrimp even have emotions?
Shrimp are a shy and retiring lot, living in shadows and dark crevices to hide from predators (and nurse their psychic scars?). But when they're swimming in concentrations of Prozac (or, more specifically, the chemical fluoxetine) as those found in the water around some urban areas, they become five times as likely to swim toward light, making them easy prey. And sadly, pollutants from urban runoff are in highest concentration in river estuaries and right near the coast … which is where shrimp tend to live. Aside from the tragic irony, if shrimp populations start to collapse, it could have a serious effect on the established balance of the food chain. And most wastewater treatment plants aren't geared toward removing residual drugs from the water. (A few years ago, scientists found fish changing sexes because of contraceptives and other chemicals in runoff.) Full Story


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Hi there, I have a little pit mix pup I took in the beginning of December, when she was only 5 wks old. Her name is Luna, my friend I swear cursed her when she jokingly said I should name the pup "Wallet". She was loaded with parasites, had breathing issues and a heart murmur secondary to anemia, had an odd lump on her face that looked suspicious of puppy strangles or an abscess, and was covered with fleas. The person who "found" her four days prior was going to euthanize, but I took her instead.
She received her blood from my friends dog, was dewormed, and a week later her heart murmur and breathing issues resolves. After a second antibiotic the mass on her face busted (it ended up being an abscess despite the pup never having a fever, and the first antibiotic never helped), and never gave her any other problems. At this time she had a few spots that popped up as ringworm as well. The weird thing about that was no one who had handled her broke with ringworm, nor my three cats or the other three dogs whom she was around.
At a little over four months old, despite me being super careful about where she went and who's dogs she played with, 3 days after her final vaccine booster Luna had stopped eating and became lethargic, having yellow diarrhea and was nauseated. The next day she started vomiting and her diarrhea turned bloody; Turns out Luna contracted Parvo and was in the hospital for 5 days after that. Poor pup has been through a lot.
Luna is now a very active, playful, almost 5 month old pup. We're still not sure how big she'll get, or what her ears are going to do!
Luna lives with her pit/hound/shepherd mix sister, Rin, whom I adopted as an adult from a shelter four years ago. Rin is also very active and outgoing, and loves playing with other dogs- but is very nervous in a public setting (petstores, ect) and has seperation anxiety, but is a lot better after working with her tirelessly.
Both dogs often visit my moms house, who has two dogs- a 14yr old chowxlab and a 10yr jack Russell mix that I grew up with.
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Colorlines has helpfully provided a list of "Seven Racist Costumes to Avoid This Halloween," so that's a start (though oddly, their list doesn't include any Native American/Pocahontas-type costumes, which I think are extremely common). You can also check out Resist Racism's "The annual Halloween post." Then, of course, there are the oh-so-many "sexy" versions of costumes. Like "sexy Big Bird," which should never ever ever have been made. Ever.
In other news:
- Village Voice: "Dustin Dominiak: The Guy Who Sleazed Christine O'Donnell, Says Friend (Updated)." I'm not going to link to the Gawker article in question; you can find it easily enough if you want to read it. But I will link to this article outing the author of the Gawker article. Also check out this Politico article: "Christine O'Donnell camp rips Gawker 'slander,'" and this article: "NOW Defends O'Donnell After One Night Stand Story." I posted my thoughts about this on Tumblr. In short, I'm with O'Donnell on this.
- AlterNet: "Covered up: More than 1/3 of American woman soldiers raped." This deals with some documents recently made public by WikiLeaks.
- Jezebel: "How To Rape A Woman And Get Away With It." Major trigger warning here.
- The Curvature: "Media Employ Tabloid Tactics to Report on Rape Allegations Against Candidate."
- Transmeditations's Blog: "Bob Jensen, Lierre Keith et al.: The Rabid, Transphobic Hate-Mongering of the Anti-Pornography Movement."
- The Independent: "US-style anti-abortion protesters target clinics in Britain." Sigh.
- Los Angeles Times: "For women, ideology trumps the gender card: Female voters are judging Whitman and Fiorina more harshly than men, Times/USC poll finds."
- The Guardian: "Sarah Palin's 'mamas': more grisly than grizzly." If you're looking for a good, ranty article about "conservative feminists," click on this one. Love this line: "'Conservative feminism' has nothing to do with empowering women in general, and everything to do with empowering these women in particular."
- Raspberry Mousse: "October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day. Learn the facts." Yes, this was earlier in the week, but still good information!
- Change.org: "Arkansas School Board Member Says Gay Students Should "Get AIDS and Die.'" Including this in case you didn't hear about it. The guy has since resigned and issued a standard non-apology apology.
- Change.org: "Gold's Gym Takes Your Membership Fees and Gives Them to Anti-Gay Politicians."
- Change.org: "Is Your Amazon Cruise All-Inclusive of Child Rape?"
- The Curvature: "Justice Department Report on Sexual Assault in Juvenile Detention Minimizes Violence."
- The Guardian: "'Fat' blog aesthetics: The Marie Claire blogger who wrote about being 'grossed out' by fat people created a huge backlash, but I know she's not alone."
- New York Times: "4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case." Yep. A 4-year-old.
- Al Jazeera: "BP dispersants 'causing sickness': Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast."
- The Age: "Feminism curbing Third World women." This is such an important point.
- Womanist Musings: "I'm Sorry Whiteness, You Can't have Everything."
- Swiss Info: "Swiss stage world's first antifeminism event." File this under "things I don't want to know but need to know."
- New York Times: "Why Can't Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair?" I love this article, probably because I am in my 30s and have very long hair and intend to keep it until I'm 80.
Popular Culture:
- Making Of: "Indie Darling Lena Dunham talks 'Tiny Furniture.'" I really want to see this movie.
- Twitch: "Uwe Boll's BLUBBERELLA Will Kick Major Ass. With Her Major Ass." Not sure what to make of this.
- Bitch: "Horror Show: Faux-feminism and Horror Films." I would offer up "The Descent" as a possible feminist horror film. Thoughts?
- Entertainment Weekly: "Ron Howard says 'gay' joke will stay in 'The Dilemma'; GLAAD criticizes decision." You can read the background about this joke here.


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The third generation Apple TV is the exact same size with the same exact ports as the second gen, but it's got some big upgrades under the hood. As usual, iFixit's given it the full teardown treatment.
The biggest difference is obviously the ability to play 1080p video, but other hardware deviations from last generation an extra antenna for better signal strength and distance and the thermal pad going missing. Check out the full teardown over at iFixit. [iFixit]


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Hartford's Lozada Park Receives Maintenance and New Plantings Thanks to Pratt & Whitney Green Power Grant
Lozada Park in Hartford's north end received a major facelift recently, thanks to a $5,000 grant and volunteer manpower - both provided by Pratt & Whitney. KNOX Parks Foundation, a Hartford-based environmental, non-profit organization, received the Green Power Grant and used the funds to purchase a number of mums, 19 trees plus mulch for the 2.8-acre park.
Lozada Park, located at the corner of Seyms and East streets in the Clay Hill neighborhood, was named after Julio Cesar Lozada, a then 12-year-old boy who lost his life on May 16, 1979 while playing with three friends in an abandoned 10-car garage that collapsed. Three boys escaped, but Lozada was trapped and died under the rubble. Language barrier was cited as a contributing factor to Lozada's death since none of the firefighters at the scene spoke Spanish, as neighbors tried to tell them of Lozada's presence under the collapse. His tragic death transformed public safety in the city of Hartford. Hartford's current fire chief, Edward Casares, Jr., was one of the first Latino firefighters hired as a result of the city's efforts to address the concerns raised following Lozada's death.
Hartford Mayor Pedro E. Segarra and members of the Common Council Court not only proclaimed June 1, 2013 as "Fire Chief Edward Casares, Jr. and Julio Cesar Lozada Day," but they also attended the Oct. 18, 2013 revitalization event at the park. The event, which included volunteer manpower efforts from KNOX and the Pratt & Whitney Group Quality and EH&S organizations, was also attended by Pratt & Whitney's Operations Leadership Program (OLP) lead Nicole LaPointe; Mary Anne Cannon, vice president of Quality & Environment, Health and Safety; Graham Morast, director of Quality; Dave Smith, director of Global EH&S, and several employee volunteers from Group Quality and EH&S. Several members of the OLP team were also on hand, as well as KNOX Community Outreach Director Charmaine Craig.
"We are so excited to see Pratt & Whitney give back to the city of Hartford where their employees live and work," said KNOX Executive Director Ron Pitz prior to the event. "One of KNOX's main goals is to empower people to give back, and we do that through regular volunteer events with local corporations."
"I want to thank all the volunteers. What you've done today is to do something that shows that you care; that you care about Hartford, that you care about our community," Mayor Segarra said. "I think that's what this park represents. It's about caring ... what you've done here is invaluable."
In a playful speech that concluded the day's event, Charmaine Craig added, "Many, many thanks. This Green Power Grant has started a new tradition, and my fantasy is that Pratt & Whitney will adopt this park. Word!" Following a round of laughter and applause, the guests, which included Lozada family members, mingled, posed for photos and thanked the volunteers for their hard work.
Launched in 2008, Pratt & Whitney's Green Power Grant Program provides grant money to U.S. employee volunteers for clean-up, habitat restoration and environmental education programs. For more information about Lozada Park, visit www.juliolozada.com. For information about the KNOX Parks Foundation and their programs, visit www.knoxparks.org.
"Pratt & Whitney's Green Power Grant program was the tool that helped our UTC Operations Leadership Program (OLP) team create a sustainability project that will beautify the environment in Hartford for years to come. As OLP members, we are always looking for ways to give back to the communities in which we work and live," said Nicole LaPointe, UTC OLP associate and P&W Green Power Grant recipient.


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hey guys, recently opened a java book and started coding, it was fun
having problem with this password checker that i tried my hand at
it prints output twice
import java.util.*; public class SimplePassword { public static void main(String[] args) { //variables Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(System.in); String password = "swordfish"; String userinput; //runs once and then repeatedly while the password check returns false do{ System.out.println("Write password "); userinput = myScanner.next(); checkPW(password, userinput); }while(checkPW(password, userinput) == false); } //end main //comparison method public static boolean checkPW(String password, String userinput){ if(password.equals(userinput)){ System.out.println("Access granted"); return true; } else { System.out.println("Access denied."); return false; } } //end checkPW }// end class
example output:
Write password monkeys Access denied. Access denied. Write password swordfish Access granted Access granted
Can you explain why it does this to me please?


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Fospropofol is used to make a person relax or sleep (be unconscious) before and during surgery or procedures. This medicine is a strong sedative.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of fospropofol in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of fospropofol in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related heart disease, which may require an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving fospropofol.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are receiving this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
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CARSON, Calif. (Friday, September 14, 2012) – The LA Galaxy U-16's and U-18's kicked off their U.S. Soccer Development Academy seasons earlier this month, each hosting a pair of games at The Home Depot Center.
The U-16's, playing with a mostly new generation of players, earned two draws in their first Development Academy games on the 2012-13 season. With only a handful of players returning from last year's team, the squad was able to come from behind to claim a 2-2 draw with Seattle Sounders FC in their first game of the season, with Adrian Vera and Jonathan Ramirez each getting on the score sheet. Vera gave LA a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute, only for Seattle to score midway through the first half and then early in the second half to take a 2-1 lead. Ramirez then earned a point for LA, scoring in the 63rd minute to give his side a 2-2 draw.
They were back in action the following day and took a 1-0 lead late in the first half through Steve Martinez. Portland equalized midway through the second half to claim a 1-1 draw.
PHOTOS: U-16 & U-18 Season Openers
The U-18's, who feature an experienced squad that includes Jack McBean, Drew Murphy, Willie Raygoza and Sebastian Velasquez from last year's squad that won the SoCal Division championship also opened their season at The Home Depot Center, taking four of a possible six points on the weekend. LA opened the season with an entertaining 3-3 draw with Seattle that saw Justin Dhillon, Jack McBean and Bryan Ramirez all score for LA. Dhillon and McBean tallied in the 16th and 28th minutes respectively, cancelling out a pair of Sounders goals to send the game into halftime tied at 2-2. Just eight minutes after the restart, Ramirez struck to give the Galaxy their first lead of the game at 3-2. However, the Sounders equalized with 16 minutes left in the game and the two sides settled for a share of the points.
There would be no draw for the Galaxy U-18's the following day as they eased to a 2-0 win over the Portland Timbers. Willie Raygoza opened the scoring just before halftime and Aaron Lombardi added a 62nd minute strike while Daniil Slepukhin earned his first clean sheet of the season in goal as the Galaxy improved to 1-0-1 on the season.
Both sides will be back in action on Saturday when they hit the road for the first time this year, traveling to Riverside, Calif. to take on Arsenal FC. The U-18's will start the day at 11 a.m., with the U-16's following at 1:30 p.m. Both games will be played at Riverside Community College. U16 Schedule | U18 Schedule


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Hi friends, This is Rituparna from India.
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The World of Guitar According to Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney seems to have found another gear. Last year he undertook his record-breaking "On the Run" tour, staged several memorable one-off appearances (including a stunning Olympics Opening Ceremony concert) and released a terrific new album, Kisses on the Bottom. 2013 is shaping up to be just as busy. A few days ago, the legendary former Beatle announced that a new world tour – dubbed "Out There!" – will kick off June 22 in Poland. Plus, a new studio album is in the works. With this swirl of activity simmering, we decided to gather some choice commentary from Sir Paul on a range of topics. Below, he talks about his love of guitars, his approach to bass playing, and why "nicking" great riffs is not a bad thing to do.
On getting his first guitar, as told to Guitar Player (1990):
I bought a right-handed guitar, a Zenith, an old acoustic which I've still got. I sat down at home with a little chord book and started trying to work it out. It didn't feel good at all … very awkward. It was only when I saw a picture of Slim Whitman in a magazine, holding his guitar the "wrong" way, that I thought, "Oh, he must have turned his strings around." So I started on that problem, which is always the nut. I used to actually take matchsticks and build up the bass nut. It was only later that I was able to buy a left-handed guitar.
On his favorite guitar part as a Beatle, as told to Guitar Player (1990):
I like "Taxman" just because of what it was. I was very inspired by Jimi Hendrix. It was really my first voyage into feedback. It was just before George was into that. In fact, I don't really think George got too heavily into that kind of thing. George was generally a little more restrained in his guitar playing. He wasn't into heavy feedback.
On how he and Lennon wrote songs together, as told to Drowned in Sound (2012):
We had a kind of system, which was: you just sat with a pad of paper and a pencil, and you sat at your guitar or your piano, and you make a song, and within about three hours, you should have finished the song. That's how we always did it.
On his love of the Epiphone Casino, as told to Drowned in Sound (2012):
I got that while I was with The Beatles, basically because I love Hendrix. I went into [a guitar shop] and said to the guy that I wanted something that would really feedback, and he said, "Well, this one will." It had a hollow body and that was the reason I got it originally. I used it for the "Taxman" solo and for "Paperback Writer" because … through a Vox amp, it just gave a nice little dirty noise. I use that on stage now.
On "nicking" great guitar riffs, as told to Guitar Player (1990):
I'm always taking a little of this and a little of that. It's called being influenced … either that or stealing. What do they say? A good artist borrows; a great artist steals--or something like that. That makes us great artists then, because we stole a lot of stuff. If anyone ever said to us, "Wow! Where's that from?" we'd say, "Well, Chuck Berry," or that the "I Saw Her Standing There" riff is from [Berry's] "I'm Talking about You." We took a lot of stuff, but in blues, anyway, you do: People lift licks.
On how The Beatles emphasized variety, as told to Bass Player (1995):
We were very keen that every track sounded different. We thought in terms of singles. Our albums, right up to Sgt. Pepper's, were albums of singles. We felt The Supremes were a bit boring; it always sounded like the same song, or very near. They were trying to keep that Motown-Supremes sound. Well, we weren't trying to keep the Beatles sound; we were always trying to move on. We were always trying to get a new sound on every single thing that we did.
On his affection for the bass, as told to Bass Player (1995)
Funnily enough, I'd always liked bass. My Dad was a musician, and I remember him giving me little lessons --not actual sit-down lessons but maybe there'd be something on the radio and he'd say, "Hear that low stuff? That's the bass." Then I started listening to other bass players -- mainly Motown. [Motown's] James Jamerson became my hero. Jamerson and later Brian Wilson were my two biggest influences: James because he was so good and melodic, and Brian because he went to very unusual places.
Oh how "Michelle" marked a turning point in his bass playing, as told to Bass Player (1995):
That [introductory bass line] was actually thought up on the spot. I remember that opening six-note phrase against the descending chords was a great moment in my life. I think I had enough musical experience after years of playing, so it was just in me. I realized I could do that. It's quite a well-known trick --I'm sure jazz players have done that against a descending sequence--but wherever I got it from something in the back of my brain said "Do that. It's a bit more clever for the arrangement, and it'll really sound good on those descending chords."
On his love of Les Pauls, as told to CNN (2010):
The thing about Les Paul guitars is that they're beautiful guitars. That's due to Les's knowledge of the instrument and due to his technical knowledge. So he, together with Gibson, developed this amazing guitar. For me, it's just beautiful to play. It's a classic. One of the ones I have is 50 years old, so it's a great antique as well as being a classic. It plays great, and I think that's due to Les's expertise. When you pick it up you fall in love with it.
On the pleasures of working alone, as told to Pitchfork (2007):
It's something I've done throughout my career, to describe it loosely. When I left The Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding things, putting this on and moving the microphone. It was very homemade … a good sort of bedroom experience. It's just quicker that way, you know?
For Further Reading:
Maybe We're Amazed: Paul McCartney's Sensational Guitarists


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The Dutch own speed skating. Over the weekend, Ireen Wust won gold in the women's 3,000, they swept the podium in the men's 5,000 and today they swept the 500. This was a particularly tense set of races because identical twin brothers were jockeying for position. This is a split-screen video of the two Mulder brothers, Michel and Ronald, on their final runs of the event. Audio is from Michel's winning race, which is on the right.
Older (by 10 minutes) brother Ronald looked to be in position to win gold with a final time of 1:09:46 but Michel edged him out on his final run to finish with a time of 1:09:312. Michel was just barely able to hang on thanks to countryman Jan Smeekens's final run. His time was so close, he thought he won the event and Michel Mulder thought he had been edged out.
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- sugars9g
- fibre6g
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SHIVER book Review!Jun 4th, 2009 | By Alex | Category: Book News, Fandom, Featured Articles, Site News
Shiver is a wonderful book that capures your imagination, and heart! Shiver follows a teenage girl named Grace, who has always been in love with the wolves in the woods behind her house. One in particular, a wolf with unique yellow eyes! The wolf is named Sam, and he waits in the woods, with his pack all winter long until he can see his summer girl, Grace. He can only visit her in the summer because that is when he is human! I thought that Shiver has a wonderful plot that has twist that not even I could have seen coming! This book is a great wonderful read! Pick this up when it is released August 1!


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There are three major signs that a person may have glaucoma:
Dilated Eye Exam
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Your eye doctor will check your eyes using some of these tests:
The doctor will place a few drops in your eye to open or dilate the pupil. This allows the doctor a clearer view to inspect the optic nerve at the back of the eye.
Photography or Optic Nerve and Retinal Imaging or laser scanning may be used to show the appearance of the optic nerve inside your eye. This may also involve dilating your eye.
Tonometry measures pressure in the eye. Medicine drops are used to numb the eye. An instrument gently presses on the outside of your eye. Pressure is shown as a number followed by the abbreviation "mm Hg." This stands for "millimeters of mercury," a standard measure for pressure. An average pressure is about 16 mm Hg. Still, a higher than average number doesn't always mean you have glaucoma. Since the thickness of the cornea (the front window of the eye) may affect the pressure reading and the risk of glaucoma progression, your doctor may measure this as well. Pressure can also be measured by non-contact tonometry, also known as the air puff test.
Perimetry evaluates your visual field. This tests your vision all around your field of view to see if any areas are missing. It usually involves staring straight ahead at a light and trying to see lights that appear around the sides of your view. This is generally done with a computerized system.
Gonioscopy After numbing the eye, the doctor gently places a special lens on the surface to examine the area in the front of the eye that drains fluid. Gonioscopy allows a more accurate diagnosis of the type of glaucoma.
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Filmmakers who've worked on tropical locations caution that crews tend to observe "island time," as if the overabundance of sun, surf, palm trees and umbrella-topped drinks has literally slowed their metabolism. Things happen when they happen, and those who try to push it will be met with indifference.
But when production designer Charisse Cardenas traveled to Puerto Rico last summer to make "Runner, Runner," starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, she found the opposite to be true.
"Across the board, everyone just jumped in and did it," Cardenas says. "No matter what the request was, it just happened."
The crew base in Puerto Rico is bilingual, but it is only about four productions deep. However, producer Justin Kanew says that worked to their advantage on the low-budget comedy "Welcome to the Jungle,"starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, which shot there in early 2012.
"They're a pretty tight-knit group down there, so they take pride in what they do," Kanew observes. "I've made a couple of things where you're just one product on the conveyor belt, but in Puerto Rico it felt like everyone had ownership of the project and cared, and when you're trying to do a lot for a little, that's really important."
Puerto Rico has no soundstage facilities, but what it lacks infrastructure it makes up for in photogenic locations, including a wealth of beaches and rainforests, capital city San Juan's modern urban landscape, well preserved colonial Old San Juan, neighborhoods that can double for the suburban U.S. and verdant mountain ranges that look like they could be in Colombia, Ecuador or Peru.
In "Runner, Runner," Puerto Rico subs for Costa Rica. In recent years it has stood in for locales ranging from Brazil in "Fast Five" and Mexico in the second season of HBO's "Eastbound & Down" to the Iraqi desert in "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and India, Bolivia, Chile, and the U.S. in "The Losers."
All told, Puerto Rico has hosted some 90 shoots since 1999, including episodes of TV series such as "The Big C" and "White Collar" and the recent BBC adaptation of "Treasure Island," but Cardenas believes filmmakers have yet to take advantage of all it has to offer visually.
"You typically see the same few things — the rainforest, the beach and Old San Juan," Cardenas says. "But there are a lot of interesting neighborhoods that haven't been touched or shot yet that look like they're right out of a movie."
As examples, Cardenas cites two locales she used for "Runner, Runner" — Fort San Felipe del Morro (aka Morro Castle), a 16th-century citadel on the northwestern tip of San Juan, and La Perla, a slum on the northeastern wall of Old San Juan that is home international drug traders, arms dealers and narcotics distributors.
Director John Stockwell is planning to take advantage of the latter locale for his Cargo Entertainment feature "In the Blood," which is scheduled to begin shooting Puerto Rico this month.
"You don't go in there unless you have the permission of the local people, and our location scout knew enough people that we could at least scout it safely," Stockwell says. "Everyone seemed very friendly and open to us filming there, so hopefully everything will come together."
The good news: if they run into any trouble, they can call for help on their smartphones.
"The best part is your phone works there," Kanew says, "so you don't have to get an international cell phone."
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Beading and Jewelry Making
The word jewelry is derived from the Latin word for "plaything." Use these guides to create stunning personal playthings to adorn every part of the body, from hairpins to toe rings! Jewelry can be made from an incredibly wide range of materials, including gemstones, precious metals, beads, shells, wire, fabric and polymer clay. Beadwork is used as a creative hobby to enhance jewelry, clothing, accessories and more. Beads come in many different designs, sizes, colors and materials, allowing wonderful variation in beading projects.


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From Baltimore: (Travel time approx. 1 hour.) Take Route 97 to Route 3 south. Route 3 will cross Route 50 and become Route 301 south. Follow Route 301 to Upper Marlboro. The State Park is located approximately 4 miles south of Upper Marlboro. The park entrance is on the right.
From the Washington Beltway I-495/95: (Travel time approx. 1/2 hour.) Take exit #11, Route 4 east. Follow Route 4 to Upper Marlboro. Exit on Route 301 south for approximately 4 miles. The park entrance is on the right.


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Seeing yellow: Fall foliage hikes in the Colorado Rockies
It's the most colorful time of the year. Across the Colorado Rockies, clumps of trees in the pine forests are turning yellow, yellow, yellow. That's because our Front Range deciduous stands are aspen, aspen and aspen. If you want something that looks a bit more like New England, try Steamboat Springs. It's the only place I've seen in Colorado that really sprouts a variety of colors in autumn.
All the same, hiking through our yellow woods can be a gorgeous experience. My favorite autumn trails near Denver crisscross the aptly named Golden Gate Canyon State Park. Last fall a ranger there recommended a hike to Frazer Meadow, where the modest metal home of John Frazer, a one-legged homesteader, still rusts in an open field encircled by aspens. I hiked there via Ralston Roost, a relatively strenuous approach that crests with a great view of the Rockies from the roost's craggy summit. Dude's Fishing Hole, a pond in the aspens, is another good place to take a sandwich and a camera in Golden Gate Canyon.


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Five Questions: Blue Jackets' Davidson on stretch runby Dan Rosen
NHL.com's weekly Q&A feature called "Five Questions With …" runs every Tuesday. We talk to key figures in the game today and ask them questions to gain insight into their lives, careers and the latest news.
The latest edition features Columbus Blue Jackets president of hockey operations John Davidson:
John Davidson didn't need to hear the end of the question before he started answering in the affirmative.
"It's our biggest game of the year," Davidson, the Columbus Blue Jackets president of hockey operations, told NHL.com on Monday.
He's talking about Columbus' home game Tuesday against the Detroit Red Wings (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2), and there's no arguing with him on this one.
The Blue Jackets have lost two in a row and three out of four to fall out of playoff position in the ever-fluctuating Eastern Conference for the time being. However, they have a chance to jump back into one of the two wild-card spots with a win against the Red Wings, who currently occupy the first wild-card spot.
The top three teams in each division qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs; the wild-card teams are determined by the next two highest-placed finishers based on regular-season points and regardless of division.
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Washington Capitals are also in the mix for the wild-card spots right now and both are in action Tuesday, but they have played more games than the Blue Jackets. Columbus also has more regulation/overtime (ROW) wins than the Red Wings, Maple Leafs and Capitals; it has the same ROW number as the New Jersey Devils, who are five points out of the wild-card race and don't play again until Thursday.
ROW is the first tiebreaker considered after games played.
"It's obviously getting to the point where this is the one game that is most important now," Davidson said of facing the Red Wings. "I just want our guys to be ready, prepared and to play our hockey. We're playing against a Detroit team that is very well-coached, that just battles. They play hard. Considering all of their adversity this year they've stayed in the hunt, so this is a big one for both our teams."
However, the game against Detroit isn't all that's on Davidson's mind nowadays. He talked to NHL.com about why the Blue Jackets have struggled in recent games, the big move the team made at the NHL Trade Deadline, what he hopes is the team's bright future, and more in this week's Q&A.
Here are Five Questions with … John Davidson:
The team has lost two in a row and three of four to fall out of playoff position. What has to change to get it back motoring in the right direction?
"I think we have to finish. We've had lots of scoring chances, we're not finishing. Our power play has been a part of that. It's gone dry right now, and as I speak I'm watching our club working on the ice with it. That's got to get better for us. Even if you don't score, that has to get better because it gives you positive momentum. We're not giving up a whole lot, but we need to get the puck in the net."
You bring up scoring, which is interesting because you had Marian Gaborik, who is obviously known as a goal scorer, and you traded him away to the Los Angeles Kings. Why didn't Gaborik fit in Columbus?
"He had a rough time with injuries mostly. The knee went early. He got back, but the first game back he got hit hard and fractured his collarbone and was out for quite some time. We were looking at it going forward and didn't see a fit for next season, so we decided just to make that change. He wanted to stay. He's a good person. It just seemed like a square peg in a round hole for our club. We just play a different game and it just wasn't a fit. He's a good person, a good player and he'll do well in Los Angeles."
Is it that he wants to play more of an east-west game and you guys want to go north-south?
"I don't know if that's the right way of saying it. It just didn't seem to work. We're a young team and we're going to be able to grow together here. We're a very young team. We are looking at now, trying to look at the future, figure out how we're going to do things, and we just felt it wasn't a fit.
"Listen, Marian has been a world-class scorer, but we also scored quite a bit when he wasn't playing for us. I don't look at it with Marian not being here, that's the reason we're not scoring. He didn't play a whole lot for us this season and we won a lot of hockey games, did a pretty good job scoring compared to a year ago. We've had some players that have come a long way like [Ryan] Johansen and others, but right now it's hard to score, our power play has not been good, and these are the same players that we had earlier in the season when it was going better. We just have to work our way through this thing."
You may have seen this, but when Rick Nash returned to Columbus last week he was asked who he thinks has replaced him as the face of the Blue Jackets right now, and he basically said that while he doesn't watch a lot of games, from everything he has heard the new face of the franchise is Ryan Johansen. Is Johansen already that guy in Columbus?
"I'd say Ryan Johansen has a chance to be that guy, but I think he's got a long way to go. I think he's really made great strides this season with improvement to being a legitimate player in this League. His upside is very high, but he's got to continue to work on a lot of different things to get to that level, and he's still a very young player. I mean, you look at the great centers that have played in this League in the past two decades, not too many become great centers in their first two or three years. It takes time for this stuff to happen, for people like [Ryan] Getzlaf and [Joe] Thornton and a lot of those type players to get there. 'Jo' is a player that has that upside for sure, but there's a lot that goes into this. It's confidence. It's momentum. It's conditioning. It's off-ice workouts during the offseason. All these things go together toward building a player who can be the best that he can be. He certainly has the tools. He is certainly on his way. And I can hardly wait to see the finished product.
"The other thing too, to be honest with you, is on our club we have a very good young player on the blue line in Ryan Murray. I don't know if many people in this League know how good this kid is or how good he's going to be, but he's a very, very, very good young player."
When you got to Columbus after your tenure in St. Louis you talked about culture, changing the culture, building a winner. Other than being in the playoff race and also having a chance at the end of last season, what else do you see that suggests to you the plan you have for the Blue Jackets is in motion and it's working?
"No matter where our club goes with results this season, we have to see marked improvement with the future of our hockey club. When I see [Dalton] Prout, [David] Savard and Murray, those are three young defensemen that have all come up the ladder during this season. When I see a player like Johansen doing what he's doing -- I'm seeing young players that are really developing before our eyes. That's what we have to see. We have a young goaltender in [Sergei] Bobrovsky. We all know he won the Vezina Trophy last season, but he's still young. And some of our veteran players, they continue to help us to battle and play Blue Jackets hockey, which is a hard-working brand and we can't let anybody off the hook with lack of passion or lack of hard work. We have to have that because that's what we are, that's what our reputation is. When we slip in that area we don't win games. I thought on the Island the other day that slipped a little bit. The Islanders worked harder than us. They had had four days off and we had played a ton of games in very few nights, but still we have to find ways to win those games.
"So whatever happens, as long as I see marked improvement, especially with the future of our club, then I know we're going in the right direction. And it's more than just what is on the ice here; it's also with what's on the ice around the world with our future players and how they're improving, where they're playing, what they're doing. We've seen a lot of upside. A lot of guys are having good seasons."


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By Daryl G. Kimball
(Note: this post was updated on Jan. 27)
Today, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta issued a whitepaper outlining the budgetary implications of the Obama administration's new defense strategic guidance and Congressionally-mandated deficit reduction measures, including the effect on some U.S. nuclear weapons strategic delivery systems.
The Jan. 5 strategic guidance review correctly states that: "It is possible that our deterrence goals can be achieved with a smaller nuclear force, which would reduce the number of nuclear weapons in our inventory as well as their role in U.S. national security strategy."
However, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter noted that: "there are no cuts made to the nuclear force in this budget," in large part because the White House is still making decisions about "the size and the shape of the arsenal in the future."
The Pentagon whitepaper only calls for delaying procurement of a new, proposed Ohio-class replacement nuclear-armed submarine by two years, which could (according to earlier Pentagon figures) save some $6-7 billion in the next ten years, but would not reduce the overall cost of the program, which the Pentagon puts at an estimated $350 billion or more over its 50-year lifespan.
The delay in the new strategic submarine program is a step in the right direction, but falls short of the more significant savings that can be achieved by rightsizing U.S. nuclear forces to reflect the realities of the new century.
For more significant savings, the Pentagon must reduce the total number of new subs it plans to buy in the coming years. By delaying procurement of new replacement subs by two years as now planned, and by reducing the current Trident nuclear-armed sub fleet from 14 to eight or fewer boats, and building no more than eight new nuclear-armed subs, the United States could save roughly $20 billion over 10 years, and $120 billion over the 50-year lifespan of the program.
The delay does mean that long-range budget decisions on the new strategic sub and other strategic nuclear weapons systems will be determined by updated Presidential nuclear weapons policy guidance, not the other way around.
The additional time should also allow the Pentagon to evaluate other options for the nuclear-armed sub force that can more substantially reduce costs while maintaining a formidable nuclear force.
Carter also emphasized that the Pentagon has chosen to move forward on schedule with its proposed new long-range heavy bomber program.
This represents a missed opportunity to break with outdated thinking. Work on a new strategic bomber should be delayed. There is no rush to field a fleet of new bombers given the Pentagon's plan to retain 60 of its existing nuclear-capable, long-range B-2 and B-52 bombers into the 2040s. Delaying work on the new bomber program would save $18 billion over the next decade, according to the Pentagon.
In April 2009, President Obama promised to "put an end to Cold War thinking" by "reduc[ing] the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy."
It is now up to President Obama to follow-through and make long-overdue changes to outdated U.S. nuclear weapons policy, which can lead to further budget savings.
Today, more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals still exceed what is reasonably necessary to deter nuclear attack. The United States deploys 1,790 strategic warheads, while Russia deploys 1,560 strategic warheads. Each side possesses thousands more warheads in storage.
No other nuclear-armed country deploys more than 300 strategic warheads; China has no more than 40 to 50 warheads on intercontinental-range missiles. Just one US nuclear-armed submarine could devastate an entire nation and kill millions.
Rather than maintaining obsolete arsenals that they neither need nor can afford, leaders in Washington and Moscow could pursue further, reciprocal reductions in their overall strategic nuclear forces – to 1,000 warheads or fewer each – and still retain more than enough megatonnage to deter nuclear attack by any current or future adversary.
For more a more in-depth discussion of these issues see "The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal," an Arms Control Association briefing held on January 20.


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