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People are really counting on Kyle Kendrick this year.
Quite a change, huh?
Think back to last June. A relative unknown, the Phillies promote Kendrick from double-A Reading to replace Freddy Garcia (aka The $10 Million Bust) in the Phillies' rotation. Kendrick hadn't even been invited to big-league spring training a few months earlier, so the Phillies were just hoping Kendrick could hold the fort until maybe something better came along.
But not only does Kendrick replace Garcia, he goes 10-4 with a 3.87 ERA in 20 starts.
No Kendrick.
No playoffs.
Kendrick enters his first big-league camp -- not many pitchers make 20 starts and win 10 games before they enter their first big-league camp -- lined up as the team's No. 3 starter with Brett Myers starting Opening day and Cole Hamels following him. Naturally, people want to see if Kendrick is the Real Deal (apologies to J.D. "The Real Deal" Durbin.) He's confident he can prove to people 2007 wasn't a fluke. Charlie Manuel and Rich Dubee think Kendrick can do just that. They need it. Because like I explained in today's Inquirer, this rotation is filled with question marks. If Kendrick can replicate last season's success, it's one less thing Manuel and Dubee (and the front office) will have to worry about.
Two of the Phillies' top prospects -- Joe Savery and Josh Outman -- got knocked around in yesterday's 11-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Ryan Howard absolutely crushed a home run to right field yesterday. The ball cleared the ballpark.
It's probably still going.
The Phillies head to Bradenton today to play the Pirates. Durbin is starting the "A" game. Brett Myers and J.C. Romero are pitching in the "B" game.


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Low carbon development to drive economic growth in Ukraine
Ever since economic crises hit Ukraine in 2009, the economy has been facing severe challenges. Thirteen years back, it was the combination of high export demand for industrial products together with low energy prices that kick-started a period of almost ten years of strong economic growth. Today, a rapid revival of such export-driven growth looks highly unlikely. Demand for Ukrainian exports was driven by strong growth in emerging economies like China or – later – Turkey. Today, emerging markets are developing much less rapidly. Moreover, by building up own industrial production capacities, Ukraine's former customers have by now even turned into competitors on international markets. Finally, cheap energy has given Ukraine a considerable comparative advantage in production of energy-intensive products such as metals or chemistry. Since 2005, this advantage has gone with the price hikes for natural gas imports and the adjustment processes it has triggered. Even worse, exploding costs for gas imports have turned the country's current account as well as public budgets into deficit. Hence, the traditional model of economic growth driven by exports of energy-intensive products doesn't work any longer and there is an urgent need for a vision, by which Ukraine could be re-invented as an industrial economy, resting on an industrial basis that is competitive by international standards and including sustainably financed energy and utility supplies, a service sector that meets the different demands of commercial and private customers, and an agricultural sector with sufficient perspectives for economic development.
Today Ukraine is one of the most energy inefficient economies in the world. The energy intensity of the country's economy is 3.8 times higher than of the 27 EU countries. At the same time, economic growth is generally associated with high energy efficiency and there is an apparent need for a viable solution capable to improve energy efficiency or, more generally, resource productivity. Hence, improving the persistently low levels of energy efficiency along with all associated problems such as import dependency and greenhouse gas emissions is one of the key development challenges for Ukraine today.
"Capacity Building for Low Carbon Growth" project, implemented by UNDP and funded under the International Climate Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety engages leading national and international experts in this sphere to help Ukraine address this challenge.
Based on the results of a thorough economic analysis with a deep emphasis on macroeconomic relationships as well as on sector-specific details, the project experts are working on economic growth strategy that takes into account these factors and can be used by the Government of Ukraine to inform the formulation of its sectoral processes domestically, and internationally. As a first step the project expert team has completed the assessment of the costs and benefits of shifting towards a low-carbon development path, including the costs and benefits of the corresponding changes in technology, production and demand patterns. It was done based on detailed macroeconomic and sectoral data and was carried out with the help of modern computational tools. In this process, thanks to the project's work representatives from all key ministries (economic development and trade, finance, justice, infrastructure, energy and coal, industrial policy, agrarian policy and ecology) developed better understanding of sustainable development paradigm, and in particular that climate change, and low carbon development, are not just environmental issues. This allows for more holistic approach by government actors and prompts them to take into consideration every aspect of the sectoral policy, in particular energy strategy, and ensure economic growth supported by the greenhouse gases emission reduction.
In addition to ensuring low emission growth, the low-carbon growth strategy will also identify opportunities for attracting climate-friendly investment, incentivising low carbon businesses, and leveraging additional resources for realization of the government's emission reduction goals.
Implementation of a low carbon development strategy that will be developed by the end of 2014 is expected to significantly contribute to economic and social development of Ukraine by creating green jobs, promoting energy efficiency and energy security, and improving access to a variety of financial resources to stimulate the country's low carbon growth, including carbon markets and market-based mechanisms.


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SHOWstudio.com at The International Film Festival Rotterdam
Daar SHOWstudio.com kijkers! That means 'hello SHOWstudio.com viewers' in Dutch (at least according to a trusty Google translation engine) as I am currently in Rotterdam as part of the 40th International Film Festival for Out of Fashion, the fashion and film portion of the festival which examines the increasing interaction between independent filmmakers and fashion houses large and small. Alongside the film screenings are a series of talks titled 'The Perfect Cut', devised by Premsela, the Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, and a variety of screenings and lectures from fashion and film creatives, including director Dino Dinco of You Wear It Well, artist Zach Gold and esteemed Art Director Marc Ascoli, who has collaborated with designers Yohji Yamamoto and Martine Sitbon of Rue du Mail. Tonight, it is my turn to lecture - on the history of fashion film and SHOWstudio.com as a broadcasting platform, no less. I'm dotting my t's and crossing my i's (or something to that extent) in my hotel room at the moment, and will be lecturing at De Unie in Rotterdam this evening from 20:00-21:00 CET.


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Bradford City soccer legend Bobby Campbell and his wife are to appear in court after being charged with fraud.
Campbell, 57 – the club's all-time leading goalscorer – and Paula Campbell, 56, were charged yesterday after answering bail following allegations of fraud at the club where they worked.
The star, who scored a record 137 goals for the club, was arrested last year with his wife over allegations of fraud at the working men's club where he worked as a steward. The couple were released on bail for further inquiries to take place.
Their arrest followed a complaint of fraud at Lindley WMC in Huddersfield.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said yesterday: "A man and woman will appear before Kirklees Magistrates' Court later this month charged with fraud by abuse of position.
"Robert Campbell, 57, and Paula Campbell, 56, from Lindley, will appear before Kirklees magistrates on March 28 after being charged with three counts each of the offence.
"The charges relate to allegations of fraud at a Working Mens Club on Brian Street, Lindley."
Police were contacted in July last year by an individual at the club to report a potential fraud offence at the premises.
Following a meeting between the complainant and the police, during which officers took details of the allegations, a police spokesman said they were "treating the reported matter as an offence of fraud" and inquiries were ongoing.
Campbell is understood to have been dismissed by the club, where he had worked for 25 years, last June.
The former Northern Ireland international footballer previously described some of the allegations against him as petty and others as "blatant lies".
The big striker played for a clutch of clubs, including Aston Villa, Sheffield United and Huddersfield Town, before joining City in 1979. He was the leading scorer for City every season during two spells over seven years at Valley Parade, and his goals helped the club to two promotions, in 1982 and 1985, playing alongside other legends such as Stuart McCall and John Hendrie.
In 2012, more than 300 fans flocked to Valley Parade to pay tribute to Campbell at the launch of a book about his career, They Don't Make Them Like Him Any More, written by long-time City supporter Paul Firth.
He played twice for Northern Ireland, in the 1982 Home Internationals, and was selected for the international squad for that year's World Cup in Spain, but did not make an appearance.


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Midday Matinee
This afternoon, the Buffalo Bisons host the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the final game of a four-game series at Dunn Tire Park (1:05 p.m.). The Herd is in position for the sweep, having won the first three games of the set by a combined score of 25-7. The Bisons are 5-2 on the eight-game homestand that will conclude today. Taking the hill for the Herd is LHP John Halama. The southpaw allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings on Saturday against Pawtucket in a 1-0 victory. Lehigh Valley will counter with LHP J.A. Happ.
TODAY'S STARTER: John Halama
-Last Game: 8/16 vPAW: (W, 7.0IP, 2H, BB, K), Bisons' 1-0 win.
-2008 w/ Bisons: (8-4, 4.00)(13GS, 2CG, 87.2IP, 93H, 43R, 39ER, 13BB, 37K).
-2008 w/ So. Maryland (IND): (4-1, 1.88)(8GS, 56.2IP, 47H, 13R, 12ER, 8BB, 48K).
-2007 w/ Long Island (IND): (8-10, 4.14)(26GS, 167.1IP, 201H, 94R, 77ER, 44BB, 93K).
-Career 56-48 with a 4.65ERA in 262 Major League Games (911.0IP, 492K).
-Originally a 23rd round pick (640th overall) of Houston in 1994 amateur draft.
-Signed as a free agent on June 7, 2008.
ON HALAMA'S BACK: LHP John Halama has thrown five innings in all 13 of his starts with the team and has worked at least seven frames in six of his last seven performances. Last Saturday, he yielded just two singles in seven innings to defeat the PawSox for his team-leading eighth win of the season. Halama has been particularly tough at home with a 4-0 record, a 2.23ERA and two complete games in five starts at Dunn Tire Park.
REHAB UPDATES: C Victor Martinez will start today and is expected to catch all nine innings. The two-time American League All-Star went 1-2 with a walk and a pair of RBI on Tuesday night. DH Travis Hafner is not scheduled to play today. Pronk went 1-2 with two RBI last night and is now 3-5 with two doubles, two RBI and two walks in two games with Buffalo.
EVERYDAY ANDY: The Bisons can count on INF Andy Cannizaro to produce just about every game. Cannizaro has hit in 14 of 15 games since joining the Herd and has failed to reach base in a game just once. In his last three games, he has hit .417 (5-12) with five RBI. Overall with the Herd, Cannizaro is hitting .302 (16-53) with two home runs and 11RBI.
HOT HITTER: OF Todd Linden has hit in 10 of his last 11 games with a .366 (15-41) batting average since August 7. He has added six doubles, four home runs and eight RBI in those 11 games. Last night, Linden hit his team-leading 13th home run of the season. He also ranks second on the team with 47RBI, with 23 of them coming since the All-Star Break.


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Filmmaker Peter Jones' superb PBS documentary profiles the late-night-television icon who rose from Midwestern roots to become one of the most powerful and popular entertainers on the home screen.
Surprisingly, much of the late, famously private Carson's story is told in his own words, thanks to a bounty of archival clips. "Tonight Show" comrades Doc Severinsen and (also in earlier clips) Ed McMahon also comment, as do talk-show descendants David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien ... plus a number of comics whose careers Carson helped launch, including Steve Martin, Drew Carey, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres. **** (Not rated: P) (Also on Blu-ray)
Buy 'American Masters: Johnny Carson -- King of Late Night' on DVD.


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Bellator 122 Results: Koreshkov Batters McDonough, Halsey Submits Cooper, Parisyan Obliterates Baroni
Bellator's first event under Scott Coker's reign is over. Andrey Koreshkov blasted Adam McDonough en route to a unanimous decision victory and Brandon Halsey dominated Brett Cooper with a first round submission win.
The event was one of Bellator's better ones. We've recapped the entire card for you (and threw in some GIFs–which are all courtesy of Zombie Prophet/Fansided):
The Bellator 122 prelims were packed with action. Saad Awad pulled off one of the best TKOs from the bottom in recent memory against Joe Duarte. After getting blasted with a right hand, Awad crumbled to the mat. However, Duarte got over aggressive and Awad snagged him in a triangle. The ref called the fight about a billion elbows to Duarte's temple later. Check out the GIF.
Other significant prelim happenings: The unheralded Fernando Gonzalez upset Bellator mainstay Karl Amoussou via unanimous decision. Gonzalez was simply quicker and better conditioned. One has to wonder about Amoussou's future in Bellator.
Bellator put a light heavyweight tournament semifinal on the prelims. Kelly Anundson took on Luiz Philipe Lins, but the fight didn't last long. Lins collapsed to the canvas a few minutes into the first round with a knee injury. Anundson was therefore awarded with a TKO victory.
More prelim action: Wrestling standout Bubba Jenkins steamrolled over Poppies Martinez, taking him down and scoring a TKO via ground and pound (GIF) in the first frame.
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Painters create networks. The subject of the piece, even if it's a simple splotch of color, garners the most attention, but without a descriptive background or other kinds of supporting elements to contextualize the portion of the painting where the artist wants you to look, the intended focus is lost. The subject loses a certain clarity of interpretation in the absence of those elements.
Hanneke Meijer and her colleagues are trying to provide that sort of context to Homo floresiensis in this paper from the Journal of Biogeography, noting the importance of the natural history and evolutionary development of other vertebrates on the island of Flores and how this might inform and contextualize the life history of this tiny mystery.
Digging on Flores began in the 1950's with an archeologist named Theodoor Verhoeven, a Dutch Catholic priest and missionary on the island. He found stone artifacts with the remains of a Stegodon and a "large murid" in those early digs, leading him to conclude that Homo erectus had arrived in the southeast islands of the Sunda archipelago by the early Pleistocene, across Wallace's Line, which marks a transitional zone between Asia and Australia where organisms from both continents are thought to have mixed and created an area with high levels of endemism. Verhoeven, in his published report of Liang Bua (pictured above), a different site where he began digging in 1965 and found some neolithic remains and artifacts, said, "This cave is extra important." He was right. It was in this limestone cave that the curious story of Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbit, began many years later.
As excavations of Liang Bua and other sites progressed, a more complete picture of Flores faunal evolution, ecology and biogeography started to emerge. Though these data span almost a million years of history, there are commonalities, beginning with some of the more typical of other insular environments, a relatively poor diversity of taxa. The oldest records date to over 900,000 years ago, and thus far reveal a very few vertebrates: a tortoise of the Geochalone genus, now extinct, the Komodo dragon and the smallest known species of pygmy Stegodon, S. sondaari, which weighed in around 300 kg (just the tusks of a full grown African elephant can weigh up to 80 kg). Somewhere during the transition of the early to middle Pleistocene the tortoise went extinct, as did S. sondaari, but as the Pleistocene progressed, the proboscidean was replaced by another of the same genus, the larger S. florensis florensis, another immigrant to the island that probably evolved into the contemporary of H. floresiensis, S. florensis insularis. The giant rat Hooijeromys nusatenggera appears in the fossil record of this time as well as another monitor besides the Komodo, Varanus hooijeri, both of which the authors speculate were probably present in earlier time periods, but have smaller more delicate bones resistant to preservation. Alongside these remains stone artifacts from hominins have been found and of course, the very skeletal remains of H. floresiensis.
Based on this history, particularly evidence from the middle to late Pleistocene, the authors are trying to illustrate a Flores where the inhabitants are part of a highly endemic, phylogenetic continuum of species that underlines just how normal this kind of situation is for an isolated island community. S. florensis florensis was a rare vertebrate immigrant, but was filling a vacant niche and evolved into S. florensis insularis. This is supported by the general trend of island proboscideans displaying high levels of endemism and the fact that an entirely different species lived on Timor at the time. H. nusatenggera is very closely related to the extant giant rats on the island, and is probably ancestral to most of them.
As an island system, Flores certainly conforms to the so-called island rule (if such a thing can be said) home to giants rats and dwarf ungulates, adaptive responses to resource limitations, unique niche availability, absence of predators and the dynamics of decreased competition. Changes in body size are observed with other phenomena, such as the reduction of length and fusion of bones in the distal limbs for stability, increased hypsodonty in teeth for a changing diet or an often extreme reduction in brain size (the energetic requirements of nervous tissue is elevated).
But the first founding structure was determined by the geography of the island. Wilson and MacArthur's Theory of Island Biogeography links the extremity of isolation with the relative richness of species, and the "impoverished" state of Flores historically fits this notion. The oceanic barrier to dispersal is crossed by only the most capable: birds, bats, tortoises, proboscideans, humans, lizards and rodents, which accurately describes what the fossil record shows. Until recently, with the habits of Homo sapiens acting as a mass transit system of dispersal, immigration to the island was a rarity. The composition of insular communities like Flores are described as "disharmonious" because of the structural differences between island and mainland ecosystems, which maintain larger populations and top level, typically mammalian predators. It's important to note (and integral to the authors' argument) that while it's interesting to highlight the oddities of island ecology, Flores is a very normal island community considering its biogeography.
All of this leads up to the subject, the focus of the entire picture: that H. floresiensis, as a part of this community, was the result of the "insular dwarfing of Homo erectus":
Homo erectus is the prime candidate for the role of ancestor of H. floresiensis, as it was the only hominin present in Southeast Asia in the Pleistocene. Having reached Java by the Early Pleistocene (Swisher et al., 1994; van den Bergh et al., 1996), H. erectus was almost certainly present on Flores by the Middle Pleistocene (Sondaar et al., 1994; Morwood et al., 1998), as evidenced by the artefacts from the site of Mata Menge. Bromham & Cardillo (2007) showed that insular primates conform to the island rule and undergo shifts towards smaller body size in an insular environment. We therefore suggest that after its arrival on Flores, H. erectus followed the evolutionary path towards dwarfism and decreased in body size as a response to the absence of mammalian carnivores and the limited energy resources, as might any large-bodied mammal in an insular setting. Moreover, the observed size decrease in H. floresiensis when compared to H. erectus (c. 52% of H. erectus) falls within the range of other insular primates (Bromham & Cardillo, 2007).
This is largely in response to the cladistic analysis performed by Argue et al. in 2009, who...
...refuted the insular dwarfing hypothesis. However, the loss of derived features in insular evolution introduces a number of homoplasies, which in a cladistic analysis can easily be misconstrued for synplesiomorphies. This would lead to a more primitive position of the island form, exactly as was found by Argue et al. (2009). Given the small difference in tree length between the most parsimonious solution and the one in which H. floresiensis is derived from H. erectus, we find the cladistic analysis unconvincing. A careful evaluation of the characters, to see whether any homoplasies can indeed be attributed to typical insular developments, is needed to resolve this.
In case you're not up on your plasies, what Meijer et al. are saying is that some of the characteristics of H. floresiensis acquired through insular evolution (homoplasies), such as the "robustness" of their limbs, could be mistaken for more primitive features associated with earlier hominins (synplesiomorphies) and need to be better accounted for in future studies.
In Liang Bua, there are very distinct layers of volcanic ash between the Holocene and Pleistocene layers of sediment, and across that boundary, very different assemblages of organisms. Stegodon and H. floresiensis are thought to have gone extinct around the time of that eruption ~19,000 years ago and as all islands in the area, were eventually replaced by Homo sapiens and their selected companion/invader organisms.
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Meijer, H., Van Den Hoek Ostende, L., Van Den Bergh, G., & De Vos, J. (2010). The fellowship of the hobbit: the fauna surrounding Homo floresiensis Journal of Biogeography, 37 (6), 995-1006 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02308.x


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We have some exciting news for you, our stationery design and letterpress loving friends! Over the next few weeks we will be releasing a bundle of new design customizations on our website! We love that we get to create new designs every day and we are excited to share some of the latest with you!
The main reason that we are beyond thrilled to share these new customizations is because these designs really illustrate exactly how far you can take your own wedding invitation suite. Through these new designs we will share how a few changes, changes that make a design uniquely yours, allow you to present your guests with a wedding invitation to an event that they just can't wait to attend. Yours!
There are so many options to consider and we know that sometimes too many options can be just that — too many options! With these new designs, we wanted to outline a short list of elements you may want to consider when personalizing your wedding wardrobe.
We collaborated with some of our {and your!} favorite wedding bloggers to debut their favorites from our new collection, so hopefully you have gotten a preview already! Our Citron customization was a favorite of the amazing duo over at Ritzy Bee Blog.
In our Custom Wedding Portfolio albums I and II, we have outlined the steps for transforming any design in our gallery into your custom suite. Here's the list of elements from our design team that make our new Citron design customization unique. You can use any of these details to customize your very own suite. Here are a few things to consider:
Paper Color: In the case of this Citron customization, the paper color was changed from our brilliant white letterpress stock to our natural white letterpress stock to warm up the overall look. Often couples choose their paper color based on the shade of the bride's dress.
Ink Palette: Changing the ink palette on any design is one of the most notable ways to personalize your suite. Simply choose colors from our letterpress inks that match the palette you are using in the rest of your decor and you're on your way to a suite that is uniquely yours. In the side-by-side visual above, you can see that we changed the espresso, leaf and buttercup combination in the original to apricot, celadon and charcoal to coordinate with the new orange motif and also soften the palette a little.
Motifs and Patterns: Here is where you can really start getting creative! You can see that with the Citron customization, swapping out the original lemon motif for the orange motif really changes the guests' expectations for each event. To keep what you love about any inspiration piece in-tact, it's always a good idea to choose a similar motif, like the lemon and orange, and use it in a similar way to make sure that your new design has the same amount of impact!
Fonts: Fonts and typefaces are a very personal choice. We have a large selection to choose from, so you can really have fun with this element. We have fonts that range from casual to very formal. Script fonts are often used for more formal events. We hear from brides and grooms all of the time that they often choose a font based on whether or not they like the way their {new!} initials appear in a certain font. So be sure you check out the entire alphabet!
The best part about all of the elements outlined above is that they are all complimentary with our Custom Wedding Portfolio program. You can change any of the details above and you will not see any additional charges since we feel that these are elements that every couple will want to change so we made sure that doing so doesn't impact your budget at all!
Beyond our custom elements, you can also add on any number of embellishments. You can see all of the details available in our online Design Library or in-person when you visit one of our Exclusive Retailers. We chose just a couple to dress up our new Citron design:
Painted Edges: Painted edges were a fun detail we added to the new design customization. That extra touch of color allows you to extend your color palette to the edge of the card. We have shades to match all of our letterpress ink colors!
Paper Weight: We chose our double-thick letterpress stock for the new design, which really highlights the edge painting. With the thicker card there's more surface area on the edge to showcase the added color.
We created our Custom Wedding Portfolio process with every unique couple in mind. We, ourselves, would expect to personalize our wedding invitation suite, so we wanted to create a process that allowed every bride and groom to do the same. It's also designed to be fun! We encourage you to scour our website {don't forget to check out our Search By Style feature} and meet with the experts at your local Dauphine Press retailer to get their guidance and input. Once you do, you'll be well on your way to creating your very own custom letterpress wedding invitations!


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Saturday, December 03, 2011
The Paper Looking Google Map
Iacopo Boccalari has created a very beautiful paper map styled Google Map.
On my first look at Google Maps - Realistic Look I imagined Iacopo must have put together some complicated css styles for the border and then created some z-index layers with different opacities to show the map.
However, if you look at the html, you will see that the page has been put together very elegantly and with minimal complication. The web page uses just one image file to mask the map (presumably with transparent sections where the Google Map can be viewed through the mask).
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Riu resorts in Punta Cana up their game
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — The delicious meal started with cream of pumpkin soup with ginger shrimp tempura, and ended with a triple chocolate dessert that included a mini Sacher torte, white-chocolate soup with Panko-crusted bananas and mini Grand Marnier souffle. In between were four additional courses that make my mouth water just recalling them.
Nope, I wasn't at a fancy restaurant in Europe, but at Krystal Restaurant at the Riu Hotels & Resorts complex in Punta Cana. All-inclusive dining has certainly risen to a new level there.
The group of hotels at Punta Cana consists of the new Riu Palace Bavaro (where I stayed), the renovated adults-only Riu Palace Macao, the renovated Riu Bambu, Riu Naiboa and the classic Spanish ambience of Riu Palace Punta Cana. With five properties on site, there really is something for everyone — from price point to style.
Each resort offers plenty of a la carte dining options included in the all-inclusive price. There's the modern Krystal Restaurant, the Geisha Restaurant (Japanese), the Italian cuisine at La Bambola and the grill steakhouse Taino. There's also the 24-hour sports bar and a coffee shop with great espresso and cappuccino (yeah!). These are in addition to the buffet restaurants, that in my opinion, offer a selection, quality and freshness a cut above many all-inclusive resorts I've stayed at in the Caribbean. The food was arranged imaginatively and invitingly. The only problem was it all looked so good I ate too much.
Riu has invested about $100 million on revving up its properties in Punta Cana, with $80 million of that spent on building the 610-room Riu Palace Bavaro, which opened at the end of 2011. It is modern, sleek and stylish. I just loved its colourful decor, including the fuchsia and purple pillows in my room.
The resort is situated on a seriously lovely stretch of beach. Really — is there anything but gorgeous beaches in the D.R.? These sandy strands are just made for long, long walks. There are also four swimming pools (two with whirlpools), a children's pool with mini club, a spa (good selection of treatments and friendly staff) and a gym (to work off all that food). As well as nightly live entertainment at each resort, the complex has a disco, a casino at Riu Palace Macau (open from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.) and shops along Caribbean Street.
A popular day trip from Punta Cana is a boat trip to Saona Island, named by Christopher Columbus, who stopped by in 1494. Located off the southeast tip of the island, it's a protected nature reserve. Access is via catamaran and motorboats, and a buffet lunch is served on the island. Although the beach is beautiful (how can it not be), don't expect a Robinson Crusoe-type experience. Many boat-loads of visitors arrive every day.
The best part for me was just getting out on the water because I love the ocean. The catamaran ride was fun, calm and steady, and while I passed on the plentiful drinks that started flowing at 10 a.m., the salsa dancing was fun.
We had a great group of people on board so there were plenty of laughs and chatting. There is also an opportunity for snorkelling and seeing the celebrated starfish indigenous to the area, but we only saw one.
Maybe if I had indulged in more cocktails, I would have seen more.
— In the Dominican Republic, Riu Hotels & Resorts has two more properties at Puerto Plata. Around the world, it has 35 hotels in locations such as Mexico, Jamaica, Aruba, Bahamas, the newly opened Riu Palace Costa Rica at Guanacaste, plus several in Europe. In Canada, all inclusive packages are sold exclusively through Sunwing. See sunwing.ca.
— The Dominican Republic is a popular wedding and honeymoon destination. For details on weddings at Riu hotels, see weddingsbyriu.com.
— For travel information on the Dominican Republic, see godominicanrepublic.com.


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Putin in Vienna on 2nd trip to West during Ukraine crisis; Austria, Russia sign gas deal
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VIENNA – Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Vienna Tuesday on only his second trip to the West since tensions spiraled over Russia's annexation of Crimea and its actions in eastern Ukraine.
Putin met with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, who has said that it is important to keep channels of communication open. He also was scheduled to meet other Austrian leaders, as well as the current chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, during the half-day visit.
Austria is a member of the European Union, which along with the United States has imposed visa bans and asset freezes for a number of Russian officials but so far has refrained from imposing broader economic sanctions.
The U.S. Embassy in Vienna noted in a brief statement that trans-Atlantic unity "has been essential in discouraging further Russian aggression and facilitating constructive talks."
"The Austrian government, economic leaders, and the Austrian people should consider carefully whether today's events contribute to that effort," it added.
Ahead of Putin's arrival, Austrian energy company OMV and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom signed a contract to build the Austrian section of a gas pipeline to supply Europe, bypassing Ukraine, the Austria Press Agency reported.
The South Stream pipeline will cross the Black Sea, Serbia and Hungary. OMV argues that it will bolster Europe's supply security.


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Chester man offers reward for stolen heirloomBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
November 04. 2013 9:58PM
CHESTER — A Chester man is offering a $1,000 reward for the return of a gold chain with a crucifix that once belonged to his late grandfather and was stolen in a burglary last week.
The chain was one of several items taken in a break-in at a house on Shepard Home Road.
The burglary was discovered by the homeowner over the weekend, but police believe it happened around the same time as another burglary last Tuesday on nearby Great Oak Drive during which a legally blind man was attacked.
Richard, the owner of the residence on Shepard Home Road who didn't want his last name printed, spent Monday hanging reward posters around town in hopes of finding the chain that he said was a family heirloom.
"This is really important to me. I was very sick in the hospital and I've been through a lot and this chain helped me through. It has sentimental value," he said.
The chain first belonged to Richard's grandfather, Ray Akins of Derry.
Akins, who died more than 20 years ago, was a heavy equipment expert who used to build roads to access gold mines, Richard said. The gold used for this chain came from a mine in South America where Akins had worked.
"This crucifix has been given down through the family ever since. I feel like I've let the family down," he said.
Richard said he discovered the house was broken into while he was away for a few days.
The chain was among other jewelry and a knife that were stolen.
Richard has asked anyone with information that could lead to the return of the gold chain to call him at 489-8059.
Burglars also swiped jewelry and money from a residence on Great Oak Drive where a 22-year-old legally blind man was home alone and attacked by the intruders.
The victim, who wants to be identified only by his first name, Joe, said Monday that doctors advised him to take it easy after suffering a concussion in the assault.
The bruising around his left eye caused by a punch to the face is fading as are the marks on his back left behind when one of the burglars struck him with an object.
The burglaries have prompted a warning from Police Chief William Burke, who urged residents to take steps to secure their homes, starting with locking their doors.
"It's amazing how many people don't lock their doors. It's sad that you can't trust people anymore," he said.
Any valuables should also be kept in a safe or hidden, he said.
"These people going into houses go directly to where they think these (valuables) will be," Burke said.
Burke said the burglars that hit Shepard Home Road came in through a window, but in the case of the Great Oak Drive burglary, Joe said the burglars broke in through a basement door with a dead bolt.
Anyone with information on the burglaries is asked to call the Chester Police Department at 887-2080.


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UPDATE: Feingold is speaking now. He's voting no.
"I found Judge Alito's answers on the death penalty chilling.... He analyzes death penalty cases as a series of procedural hurdles...YET MORE: Here's the transcript of Feingold's statement. Here's the full quote (which I transcribed somewhat inaccurately at the end, causing some commenters to misinterpret him as wanting the judge to be biased!):
He left me with no assurance that he would not analyze these cases with his finger on the scales of justice.Judge Alito left me with no assurance that he would be able to review these cases without a weight on the scale in favor of the government."
I found Judge Alito's answers to questions about the death penalty to be chilling. He focused almost entirely on procedures and deference to state courts, and didn't appear to recognize the extremely weighty constitutional and legal rights involved in any case where a person's life is at stake.
I was particularly troubled by his refusal to say that an individual who went through a procedurally perfect trial, but was later proven innocent, had a constitutional right not to be executed. The Constitution states that no one in this country will be deprived of life without due process of law. It is hard to even imagine how any process that would allow the execution of someone who is known to be innocent could satisfy that requirement of our Bill of Rights. I pressed Judge Alito on this topic but rather than answering the question directly or acknowledging how horrific the idea of executing an innocent person is, or even pointing to the House v. Bell case currently pending in the Supreme Court on a related issue, Judge Alito mechanically laid out the procedures a person would have to follow in state and federal court to raise an innocence claim, and the procedural barriers the person would have to surmount.
Judge Alito's record and response suggest that he analyzes death penalty appeals as a series of procedural hurdles that inmates must overcome, rather than as a critical backstop to prevent grave miscarriages of justice. The Supreme Court plays a very unique role in death penalty cases, and Judge Alito left me with no assurance that he would be able to review these cases without a weight on the scale in favor of the government.
ANOTHER UPDATE: In the comments, I set out the key interchange (with Sen. Leahy) from the hearings that is the basis for Feingold's comment. I regard the comment as quite unfair. When did Alito refuse to address a situation where a person was proven innocent? When did Alito say that it's constitutionally acceptable to execute a man we KNOW is innocent? Where did he endorse the "horrific the idea of executing an innocent person"? It didn't happen! True, Alito emphasized the procedures that are required before a man can be executed, but he was never asked what would happen if we actually knew a man was innocent and yet the governor refused to pardon him. At that point would there be a right of action in federal court? Alito was not asked. To assert that he refused to address that situation is plainly unfair. It is demogogery of the sort I believed Feingold was above.


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OL, don't need it, if they remain healthy, they are a pretty good group of guys on paper *cough* where is the fag conditioning coach that never conditions them properly?
DL, well, we could go there but unless Mingo falls to us I don't see picking him
DT, well we could go here but McClendon is our guy for the future IMO so we can skip this.
cb, IF we resign lewis, we don't need
S, we need but nothing really in the first rounds that distinguish itself apart from rnds 2-3
QB lol, lets draft geno smith
WR, we may have a need here, I think so but again, I think we can grab a wide receiver in the later rounds, no crabtree or calvin johnson in round 1 here (coby hamilton anyone?)
olb, well Worilds is a 2nd rounder so we have to see him start, not fill in for deebo. I would bench harrison and see what worilds has this season before moving on.
RB: well dywer isn't the full load and mendenhall's getting the boot.
so I think RB is the biggest need, they were awful last year and although we have "flaws" all over the team, I think RB is the one we need to address.
So Yes I would pick Lacy at 17, before the Bengals, Broncos or Falcons can get him.
Or, maybe we trade with two of the three teams here for extra picks so they can grab a RB.
I also like Ellington.
Don't want Lattimore because of his injury neither jarvis jones. Another draft if we had a successful season yes but not when we see the rats win the super bowl


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LA Galaxy 1, Real Salt Lake 2
Sunday, September 30, 2012
The Home Depot Center – Carson, Calif.
Scoring Summary:
LA – Robbie Keane 15 (Juninho 4) 17'
RSL – Fabian Espindola 8 (Alvaro Saborio 3) 25'
RSL – Fabian Espindola 9 (Javier Morales 9) 28'
Misconduct Summary:
LA – Bryan Gaul (Yellow Card) 64'
RSL – Tony Beltran (Yellow Card) 71'
LA Galaxy: Josh Saunders; Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, Tommy Meyer (Christian Wilhelmsson 85'), Bryan Gaul; Marcelo Sarvas, Juninho, David Beckham, Mike Magee (Edson Buddle 61'); Landon Donovan© (Jose Villarreal 85'), Robbie Keane.
Subs Not Used: Brian Perk, David Junior Lopes, Bryan Jordan, Michael Stephens.
Real Salt Lake: Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran (Chris Schuler 84'), Jamison Olave, Nat Borchers, Chris Wingert; Kyle Beckerman©, Luis Gil, Jonny Steele (Yordany Alvarez 77'), Javier Morales (Paulo Jr. 92+); Fabian Espindola, Alvaro Saborio.
Subs Not Used: Kyle Reynish, Kenny Mansally, Sebastian Velasquez, Justin Braun.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo
Referee's Assistants: Ian Anderson and Fabio Tovar
4th Official: Alejandro Mariscal
- With the loss, the Galaxy are now 15-12-5 on the season for 50 points. They remain in third place in the Western Conference, but are now five points behind Real Salt Lake for second place with two games left to play. LA are still one point ahead of fourth place Seattle, who are in action on Sunday at home against Portland.
- The loss snaps LA's seven game unbeaten streak in the league and their 10 game unbeaten streak in all competitions. Prior to tonight, the Galaxy had not lost since August 5 and had not lost at home since July 4.
- Real Salt Lake become the first team ever to beat the Galaxy twice in the same season at The Home Depot Center.
- RSL won the season series over LA, going 2-1-0 in the three games with the home team losing all three.
- Additionally, the team that scored first in each game of the series lost as well.
- Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena made two changes to the team that drew 1-1 with Colorado last weekend with Bryan Gaul and Tommy Meyer each returning in defense in place of the injured A.J. DeLaGarza and Todd Dunivant. This was the first start for Meyer since May 5 against New York and for Gaul since August 5 at Seattle.
- This was the first time since August 5 that the Galaxy did not start a back four of Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J DeLaGarza and Todd Dunivant in front of Josh Saunders. In the seven games that those four played together, the Galaxy were 5-0-2. They are 10-12-3 in all other games.
- In addition to DeLaGarza, who suffered a left knee sprain against the Rapids and Dunivant, who suffered a hip pointer, the Galaxy were also without Leonardo and Kyle Nakazawa, who are each out for the rest of the season because of injury.
- Christian Wilhelmsson returned to the 18-man squad after missing Sunday's game in Colorado with a left calf strain.
- David Junior Lopes and Bryan Jordan were each in the 18-man squad as well with Lopes in the team for the first time since August 5 and Jordan in the team for the first time since August 15.
- The Galaxy took a 1-0 lead in the 17th minute when Robbie Keane finished a cross from Juninho for his 15th goal of the season.
- This was the sixth straight game in which LA had gone in front 1-0, though they missed out on scoring in the opening 15 minutes, something that they had done in each of their previous three games.
- Keane is the first Galaxy player to score 15 or more goals in a season since Edson Buddle had 17 in 2010 and the seventh in club history to do so.
- The Ireland international is now alone in fourth place in MLS in goals scored, behind only San Jose's Chris Wondolowski, RSL's Alvaro Saborio and New York's Kenny Cooper.
- He has a goal or an assist in 13 of the 17 league games that he has played since returning from the European Championships in June.
- This was just the second time that the Galaxy lost a game in which Robbie Keane scored.
- Juninho collected his fourth assist of the season on the goal and his first since July 21 against Chivas USA. He had nearly given the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the 6th minute, only to see his long range shot hit the crossbar.
- The Galaxy lead would last just eight minutes before Fabian Espindola equalized for RSL.
- The Galaxy have now conceded an equalizer inside ten minutes from their opening goal in each of their last two games.
- Espindola then put the visitors in front three minutes later, heading past Josh Saunders for his ninth goal of the season and second of the half.
- In three games against the Galaxy this season, Espindola has three goals and two assists. For his career, he has five goals in 11 games.
- In four games at The Home Depot Center this season against LA and Chivas USA, Espindola has five goals and three assists.
- The two goals allowed in three minutes were the fastest two goals that they had allowed in a game this season since conceding in the 10th and 13th minutes of a 3-1 home loss to New England on March 31.
- Landon Donovan was forced to leave the game in the 85th minute with a left knee injury that he suffered a few minutes earlier. He was replaced by Jose Villarreal, who was making his first appearance since September 1.
- Donovan has now not scored in any of his last six regular season games dating back to the 3-1 home win over Chivas USA on July 21 when he scored his ninth goal of the season.
- Christian Wilhelmsson also came on in the 85th minute, making the first substitute appearance of his Galaxy career.
- Bryan Gaul was the only Galaxy player to be booked in the game, collecting his third yellow card of the season.
- Sean Franklin played the 125th regular season game of his Galaxy career, moving him into a tie with Tyrone Marshall for the 10th most in club history.
- Omar Gonzalez made his 99th appearance for the club, leaving him one shy of becoming the 20th player in club history to play in 100 games.
- The Galaxy are now 2-6-0 in their first game of a month compared to 13-5-5 in all other games.
- The Galaxy outshot RSL 20-11 in the game, including 12-4 in the first half. This was the fourth time this season that the Galaxy had 20 or more shots in a game.
- However, the shots on target were just 6-5 in favor of the Galaxy, who also hit the crossbar early in the first half.
- This was the first league game in which the Galaxy did not score with a shot from outside the box since August 26 against FC Dallas, a 2-0 win.
- After allowing one or fewer goals in four straight home games from July 4-September 22, the Galaxy have now allowed two goals in each of their last two games at The Home Depot Center.
- The attendance for today's game was a sellout crowd of 27,000 at The Home Depot Center. This was the club's fifth sellout of the season.
- The Galaxy will now have more than two weeks off before they return to action on Sunday, October 21 against the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium.
- This will be the third and final meeting of the year between the two sides with San Jose winning 3-2 at The Home Depot Center on May 23 and then claiming a 4-3 win at Stanford Stadium on June 30. The Galaxy led by two goals in each of those games but were not able to earn a point from either.
- The game against San Jose will be LA's first-ever game on the new Time Warner Cable SportsNet, which debuted earlier this week. The game will also be available nationally in Spanish on Galavision.
Overall thoughts on the game:
"Their first goal came a little bit against the run of play, but we were sloppy defending in our penalty area, not real sharp with our attacking play in the other penalty area. We just weren't sharp enough for 90 minutes. In the early going we were okay. We played a sloppy game today."
On the changes to the backline:
"I wouldn't say the story of this game tonight is the fact that we're missing players on our backline. We weren't good enough for 90 minutes all over the field."
On Tommy Meyer and Bryan Gaul's performance:
"I thought they did fine"
On Edson Buddle's performance:
"No [I didn't get what I wanted from Buddle], because I wanted to get a goal. Our service wasn't good. We didn't get a whole lot of spark out of the changes we made. I just think over 90 minutes we didn't play well. They defended well. The play in the goal was quite good. I thought Josh Saunders did an excellent job in making some saves to keep us in the game toward the end. "
On the team's current standing:
"I haven't really looked at the standings, I don't really care. We go out the next game and we play to win."
On Juninho's performance:
"I think Juninho played quite well for us tonight. If we had nine other players who played like Juninho tonight I think we would have won the game."
On the defense against Juninho:
"I'm not sure [they were pressing Juninho]. He got a little space when he hit that crossbar. I don't think that was an issue, but I think they did play well, they did defend well; they deserved to win the game."
On his injury:
"It didn't feel good. I landed on it. Just on the ground, I don't really remember, but there was a pretty good divot there so I'm not exactly sure."
Thoughts on how the loss impacts the playoff standings:
"I think we're just a little disappointed in the game in general. Not really worried about that part right now. That was a pretty good first half and we fell asleep for a few minutes and [Fabian] Espindola made two good plays. It was frustrating. I thought we had really good chances. They were scrambling a bit, made some kind of last ditch blocks and dodged the bullet. I give them credit, they scored the goals."
Overall thoughts on the game:
"I thought we played well, actually, in the first half. Second half they did a better job of containing us, we didn't have as many chances, but we've got to do better, myself included, and score some goals (when the opportunities come) and make it two or three-zero so the game's over. We weren't able to do that."
On the teams' goal to finish in the top three spots:
"There's no question, that's the goal, but that goal just got a lot more difficult so we're probably going to have to win both games and we'll see what happens. The goal is to be at least third. If you're fourth, obviously there's a disadvantage in playing an extra game, but we're a deep team and if we have to do that we have to do that."
On the result and the team's performance:
"I'm disappointed with the result like everybody else. It was a game, I think, the first 20 minutes when we got the goal we were controlling the game and then we gave two goals away in the space of two minutes probably. So, I think that killed us."
On what the Salt Lake defense was doing that made it tough for LA to score:
"Nothing, really. Because if you looked at the first 20 minutes we about (had) four or five chances, but after that, as soon as you concede two goals, they sit back and invite pressure on and put two banks of four (players) and obviously made it difficult."
On whether there are any positives moving forward from this game:
"When you lose a game it's important to bounce back and try to get a victory. We're playing against a good team when we come back after the break so, two big games coming up and then obviously the playoffs. It's always good to get confidence going into the playoffs."
On whether the team has discussed the importance of different playoff positions:
"Yeah, you want to finish as high up as possible. I don't think we need to be sitting down as a group and chatting that we need to finish third or second, we're certainly not sitting in here saying we want to finish fourth. So, of course you want to finish as high as possible and we'll be trying to do that in the next two games."
Overall thoughts on the game:
"I thought we started the game very well. I think we had a lot of chances in a short space of time, which unfortunately we didn't put away. When you play against a team like Salt Lake you have to be on it. I think we made a couple of mistakes leading up to the goals and it let them back in. They're a good team and when you give good teams a little chance then they capitalize on it."
On the team's standing heading into the playoffs:
"We've got two more games left, so, they're two tough games but I think at the end of the day we've made it into the playoffs. It's just down to where are we going to be placed now, but we need to finish the season strong."
On his fitness:
"Not perfect yet, but I'm getting there. Getting the 90 [minutes] in today was important for myself, but no, I'm not perfect yet. We're real disappointed."
On how the team will get past the loss:
"It's obviously down to us now, what happens. I think it's important that we just forget this game now, we'll talk about it Monday but we have to forget this now."
On what the Galaxy can do better in defense:
"I think we've just got to be tighter on them, we can't let them get so many entry balls because they were just collecting balls coming into them and we were just being too easy on them and that just can't happen. We've got to go from here and be a little bit more aggressive, make it harder for forwards to collect balls and then from there just be better on second balls."
On the performance with two new starters in the lineup:
"I don't really think it matters who you put in there, we've got to be better. That's it, we've got to put a better effort out there. We started the game off great and then we just shut off for a couple plays and they punished us."
On what positives they can take away from the loss:
"This game didn't go the way we wanted it, but we're still in the playoffs. I think we certainly want the wins, but now is the time to start get the little things right. Just like tonight we got punished on those plays, next game we can't make those mistake and we've got to be on the entire game. So even though we didn't get the win tonight, I think we can still take a lot from it and grow from it because there's two more games left in the season and then the true test comes. We're not going to win Supporters' Shield so that doesn't matter, now it's all about getting it right for the playoffs."
On how much the Galaxy are thinking about playoff positioning:
"We certainly don't want the play-in game. I think right now we're just trying to get in second or third and it's looking right now like it's kind of tough to be second so we're fighting for that third spot. I think Seattle plays Salt Lake next so hopefully they can help us out there, but we've just got to win out."
Overall thoughts on the game:
"It was just a fun game to be apart of. I was thinking all week how fun this game could be. What a great experience it is to play in front of this crowd, against a team that's such quality as the Galaxy. It was just a fun night."
On the result:
"They really put us under. They scored in the 17th minute and we were under all of those 17 minutes. I was really interested to see what our response would be. A lot of teams, even ourselves, in some patches of the season, and in prior years, would fold up shop and just succumb to more and more goals and more and more pressure. I think our guys handled it in the exact right way. They stayed calmed and realized that we would still get chances. And, what a fantastic play by the players involved on that first goal. I think it really changed the flow of the game."
On Fabian Espindola:
"I guess he likes this stadium. He was spectacular tonight. Obviously, the two goals were quite nice and special. He was good for us defensively and trying to find spots to help out the rest of his team on the other side of the ball. It was critical."
On his success at The Home Depot Center, where he has five goals and three assists in four games this year:
"I like to play against LA. This is a huge field, it's so difficult for defenders to mark and I think that's good for us. We're a team that's good with the ball so it works because the other teams get so tired when they don't get the ball in those spaces."
On what Saturday's win means for the team:
"The good thing is we came back from a 1-0 hole. [Teams that do that are] the kind of teams that can win the championship – when you're losing and you can comeback you're actually showing that you can go far in this league."
On the come-from-behind win:
"It's one of those things that I think we've been through before. We never quit; we never stopped. It's one of those things that we've been in that situation before and we know how to bounce back. When we play as a team we are able to do that, and tonight that's exactly what happened when we went down the goal."
On Espindola:
"He's been there for us. He wants to prove to his teammates and his team that he's here and he wants to play. He wants to prove to the league that he's one of the best forwards in this league. He's been putting forward that effort for a while now, but it's really starting to show."
On the win:
"It's huge. LA is right behind us in the playoff race. We need to finish second or third place so we can avoid that wild card spot. It's a big statement, but mostly it's good for ourselves. We want to keep this going. We've said that as far as we are considered the playoffs started weeks ago. We want to keep getting results week in and week out and get through October and November."
On going down a goal:
"Obviously, the Galaxy is a talented team and if you are going to give them attacking opportunities they have players that can finish – like tonight. But when the goal happened, we knew we were a good enough team where we can play soccer and we have dangerous players as well. We showed a lot of character coming back and holding the lead for the rest of the game."
On the team's performance:
"It was a good 90-minute performance. We didn't panic when we gave up the first goal. It's always a tough game when we play the Galaxy. They throw haymakers; we throw haymakers. And, it's a real battle out there. It was a good response from when they scored— Two great goals by Fabian. We didn't give them a ton of chances, which was an improvement from the last couple of games."
On playing the Galaxy:
"(When) we played this team it goes in waves. They'll get the ball and then it switches and we get the ball. We kind of know that from the experience of playing them so many times. So, we just follow them when they have the momentum and we just wait our team and then it turns and we have to finish the chances."


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I've been meaning to address this topic for a while now, and after getting a specific request from a reader last week I figure why not get it done.
Shorting BBRY stock is the topic in question. I'll start with a quick explanation of what shorting is and then explain how people can combine shorting with illegal stock market mechanics to make money. Hopefully you'll walk away with a better understanding of the whole topic.
First off, what exactly is shorting? It's the colloquial phrase for "short selling". Short selling means to sell stock that you don't own. Technically this means you are borrowing stock in order to sell it. Being "short" means you owe shares back to whoever you borrowed them from. If you borrow stock at one price and buy it back, later, at another price, your profit is the difference. It's the reverse of the normal buying today and selling sometime in the future.
As an FYI, owning stock is called being long. Selling stock you don't own is called being short. Pretty simple, eh?
People short stocks for two reasons. They either do it because they think the price will drop, or they do it to hedge (remove risk from) another investment. For example, say we take a drive down memory lane to when BlackBerry stock (then RIM stock) was $40 per share. Say you were an employee with options that would vest soon with an exercise price of $10. You might want to lock in your profit by shorting the stock at $40 and being sure that you'd make a clear profit of $30 per share once your stock options vested. This kind of thing happens all the time and it's perfectly legal.
Now let's talk about hedge funds. The term "hedge fund" is supposed to mean an investment firm who hedges positions by being long some investments and short others in order to hedge the downside risk of a collapsing market. The reality, though, is that hedge funds these days are just labels for privately run money managers who can do whatever they like. They can short stock whereas most mutual funds and pension funds are not permitted to do so. Their mandate doesn't allow for it.
Say you run your own hedge fund and you believe BlackBerry 10 is totally doomed. The way to make money from this is to short the stock, just as someone with the opposite view would try to make money by going long. It's just a bet. If you're right, you make money. If you're wrong, you lose.
Shorting stock in this manner is perfectly legitimate. And while I can't prove it, I would say most stock that is shorted is shorted in legitimate ways.
If people get really bearish on a stock, the number of shares short can climb quite high.
If people get really bearish on a stock, the number of shares short can climb quite high. People often use the term "days short" to equate the number of shares sold short to the market's average daily trading volume. If the average trading volume is 10 million shares and there are 100 million shares sold short, then theoretically it would take 10 days for the shorts to "cover" their position(meaning to buy enough stock to close out their short position). Keep in mind very few days are average days in the market, so it's just a model and it is not reality.
But the point is ... the more shares sold short the more volatility there will be around events. If there is a ton of stock sold short and good news comes out, the shorts scramble to cover so they don't lose too much money. Hedge funds tend to have very short term measurement periods. Measuring monthly results (and getting a bonus dependent upon them) is fairly common in hedge fund land. So analysts at hedge funds care a LOT about being right in the very short term. This perpetuates volatility.
If there is a ton of stock sold short and good news comes out, the shorts scramble to cover so they don't lose too much money.
And this leads us into the sinister stuff. Shorting is perfectly legal. But passing on rumors that you know to be false, based on an expectation that they'll move the stock price, is completely illegal. Unfortunately it's also very hard to prosecute against, so it happens a lot.
If you were short BlackBerry and wanted to make sure there was negative news flow to hammer the stock down, you might find a way to manufacture negative news. Outside of the investing scene, a fellow named Ryan Holiday wrote a book called "Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator". In Holiday's industry (not the stock market), there's nothing illegal about this (at least I don't think there is).
But in the stock market you'll find manipulators who execute the exact same strategies of planting false stories at small media outlets and growing them until the giant financial news sites are compelled to write about them because of the force of social proof. If so many smaller outlets have written up the story it has to be true! Not. Anyway, if shorts do this to drive a stock price down, they are breaking the law.
Given the short term focus of hedge funds, this all makes sense, doesn't it? Planting negative news on a large public company is not so hard. But making it stick over a long period of time IS hard to do.
Since I'm writing about shorting, I think it only makes sense to also discuss how sell side analysts can get involved in this stuff. As a reminder, the "sell side" are the investment banker shops. JP Morgan, Goldman, RBC, etc. Their equity research teams write reports on stocks, and those analysts are called sell side analysts. Money management firms are called the buy side. The buy side uses the sell side for research and to execute trades. Long, short, sell side, buy side ... pretty easy so far right?
Among amateur investors (and observers who don't know much), there tends to be this belief that analysts issue recommendations simply so their firm can profit by tricking the general public into taking on action while their trading desks do the exact opposite. "Hey, BlackBerry is doomed! Tell everyone it's doing great while we dump our stock!"
Sorry ... no, it doesn't work that way.
Sell side shops are not in the business of making investments in the stocks their analysts write research on. They trade on behalf of their buy side clients. They may go long or short at points in time only to help a client do a trade. For example if a big client wants to sell a million shares and they can only find a buyer for 800,000 shares, they may take on the other 200,000 shares as what is called a "liability trade" (meaning the firm is taking liability for these shares). They dump the shares as quickly as they can when this happens. They don't want the risk. Most of the time the analyst publishing research wouldn't even know about this liability position. And even if the analyst were entirely unethical there wouldn't be enough time to craft a fake story and publish a fake report. In other words, all of this stuff is a bunch of crap that uneducated investors spew without a proper understanding of how the market works.
Finally, I think it makes sense to point out that making up fake bad news to go along with a short position is the same thing as making up fake good news to go along with a long position. This stuff happens too. It just isn't talked about nearly as much. And it's just as illegal.
So in closing, shorting is primarily used to bet against a stock. It can be done totally legally and ethically. In this industry I've made good cash shorting Nokia, for example ( I have no position in Nokia now). But if people short stock and then manufacture fake bad news to hurt the share price, they're breaking the law. Good luck catching them, though. It's tough.


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Parks and Rec Let Patton Oswalt Ramble On for Eight Minutes Straight About Whatever and the Result Is Pure Magic
One of the two Parks and Recreation episodes airing tomorrow features a cameo by the inimitable Patton Oswalt who demonstrates at length what makes him so inimitable.
Oswalt, playing an aggrieved Pawnee resident, invokes a local bylaw allowing for a citizen filibuster to prevent a city council vote from taking place.
For the scene, the show's producers asked Oswalt to "ramble a bit about whatever subject he wanted."
And so he did.
For eight magical minutes, Oswalt completely improvises a glorious rant about the Walt Disney Company's upcoming J. J. Abrams-helmed Star Wars sequel and the crossover possibilities that stem from Disney's ownership of Marvel Entertainment.
As the AV Club says: "Patton Oswalt's improvised Parks And Recreation filibuster will make you wish [he] was writing Star Wars: Episode VII."


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Options are financial instruments that enable you to profit by predicting currency exchange rates. This is called trading, and a person who trades is called a trader. Traders make bets whether the price will rise or fall over a certain period of time. If the prediction is correct, the trader gets a profit of up to 90% of the trade amount.
Options do not require that a trader perform an in-depth financial market analysis. However, you cannot rely on mere luck either.
To trade successfully, a beginning trader should explore the features of the trading platform and learn a few popular trading strategies.
Use the Japanese Candlestick chart, which shows the price change over a certain time, e.g., 5 minutes. The red candle means that the price was falling, while the green one shows that the price was rising.
If you monitor the chart for some time, you'll notice that candles of the same color come in groups. This means the next candle will probably be of the same color.
Switch to the 5-minute time frame. Candles show the asset price change:
Ared candle means that the price is falling, while agreen one means that it's rising.
Every candle becomes inactive after 5 minutes, that is, it "closes." Once it closes, a new candle starts forming. This is the best time to open atrade.
if the previous candle was green — open an UP trade.
if the previous candle was red — open a DOWN trade.
Once the 5 minutes has passed, your trade is closed.
If your prediction is incorrect , double the trade amount – after you've won, it will cover all your losses during previous stages.
If it's correct , set your initial investment amount.
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Carla Lois, a native of Argentina, is fluent in Spanish, French, and English and has a good reading knowledge of Portuguese and Italian. She is one of the leading promoters of the study of map history in Latin America, via the annual Simpósio Ibero-Americano de Historía da Cartografia, and was a member of the organizing group for the new International Society for the History of the Map. Dr. Lois's own research currently addresses the modern mapping of Argentina and the visual epistemology of cartography. She teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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Git hooks are a simple solution to an ongoing problem — sometimes we push ugly, breaking code. Sometimes we get wrapped up in the problem we're solving and forget that other humans are going to have to read and understand this in the future. Our fellow developers are nice people, they shouldn't be subjected to our forgetfulness.
Often our solutions to this problem are overtly complex. We could set up our test suite to run every time we save a file, but that would get out of hand fairly quickly. We could let our editors paint code red as we type expressions our linter finds unsatisfactory, but do we really want our editor to yell at us? We could set up elaborate events to trigger on some automation server that runs the test suite and lints the code — but why should we catch this problem only after our code has been committed to history and deployed?
Git hooks aim to automate this problem. Hooks are just scripts to be triggered when important events occur. When a specific
command is issued, a check is made to determine if there is an associated script to run. Hooks can be written for the client or the server, but we're going to focus on the client here.
Let's say we're writing a
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hook to be triggered everytime someone on our team issues
git commit
If you're hazy on your shell scripting, don't worry — there's very little going on here. First, we grab the user's name from their
git config
. A small alert is printed, and we tell our linter to run. Finally, in
we determine if the linter exited successfully via
. If it exited with errors — a non-zero status — our script shares in the disappointment and returns a general error status of
to the calling shell.
The important thing to note here is that when the linter exited gracefully, we followed suit. We only exit with an error if the linter did. This is how virtually all git hooks operate. The
hook is fired before the user even types a commit message. It has full access to the snapshot of the repository at that moment. Exiting from this hook with a non-zero status will
abort the commit
— effectively preventing the user from commiting their changes.
This can be frustrating, so it's important to alert the user that something went wrong. We also write all of the linter's output to
so the errors can be easily detected.
leaves the staging area unchanged, so any errors can be fixed and another commit can be issued in quick succession.
As some of you may have heard, the Ionic View app was removed from the app store by Apple last week and is still unavailable in the store as of today (it is still available on Android, of course). In the interest of transparency, I want to update the community on what is going on and our thoughts on how we move forward.
The story starts two weeks ago when we received an Apple App Store rejection for our Ionic View app, an app that helps developers test their Ionic apps as they build them.
Initially, the rejection was for the use of a QR code to allow developers and testers to quickly load an app. We removed the QR code and disabled public app testing, and resubmitted. A week later, our app was rejected again and removed from the store by Apple due to something we missed as we fixed the QR code issue. We fixed that mistake and resubmitted but at that point the app was already out of the store.
After over two years of no problems, this was a surprise to us!
We have been in contact with other cross-platform tooling companies, even those not based on Cordova or WebViews, and they have received similar rejections or threats of rejection from Apple. This indicates that Apple is changing their policy against developer testing apps in general, and if that is the case, we expect that all cross-platform tooling companies will have their testing apps removed from the app store soon.
To be clear, this issue mean that Apple is rejecting hybrid or JavaScript apps. Rather, it is isolated to developer testing apps. Any claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate and we have received reports from the Ionic community that their apps are being rejected.
We are working with Apple to find a solution. In the meantime, we are working on a way forward that lets us achieve the main goal of View to make it easier for developers to build apps quickly, while being compliant with App Store guidelines.
Thank you for your understanding, and stay tuned for updates as we receive them from Apple.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols is leaving to work for CNN and Turner Sports.
The companies announced Thursday that Nichols will anchor a new weekend CNN sports program beginning later this year, and will report on a wide range of sports.
Nichols' hiring comes as new CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker puts his stamp on the struggling U.S. news channel, which he's promised to make more "vibrant and exciting."
Nichols will be an important part of expanding CNN's programming, the former NBC Universal chief said Thursday.
Nichols, who worked at ESPN for nine years, said she "couldn't be more excited" about working for CNN and Turner Sports. Both are divisions of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Her first assignment will be the Feb. 3 Super Bowl in New Orleans.


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Rise of Persia features four Barbarian and Nomadic factions. On the steppes dwell the Massagetes, or Mazaka, and the Skudata (Skythians). In south-eastern Europe one may find the realms of the Illyrian Autariatai and the Thrakian Bessoi.


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Top-rated acquisitions "Modern Family" and "NCIS: Los Angeles" kick off the week of Sept. 23; "White Collar" and "Covert Affairs" return Thursday, Oct. 17; "It Takes A Choir," a holiday reality series event, begins Sunday, Nov. 3
USA Network has announced a powerful fall programming lineup, including new series acquisition "Modern Family," one of the top comedies in all of television, debuting on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. The first four seasons of this multi-Emmy Award-winning series, which takes a modern and hilarious look at the complications that come with being a family today, will air five nights a week. The series stars Ed O'Neill, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould and Rico Rodriguez.
Ratings juggernaut drama "NCIS: Los Angeles" begins Monday, Sept. 23, and airs four nights a week. The high-stakes drama, starring Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J, centers on the pressured world of a NCIS division charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals who pose a threat to the nation's security.
Two of the network's hit original dramas return on Thursday, Oct. 17, beginning with the fifth season premiere of sexy, sophisticated series "White Collar" at 9 p.m. and the nail-biting final six episodes of "Covert Affairs" season four at 10pm.
"White Collar" picks up after the shocking arrest of FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) on murder charges. Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) must make a deal with the devil to help clear his name. The series also stars Willie Garson, Tiffani Thiessen, Marsha Thomason and Sharif Atkins. Garson makes his television directorial debut this season and DeKay returns to direct another episode.
In season 4.5 of "Covert Affairs" the hunt is on. As the people closest to Annie (Golden Globe-nominee Piper Perabo) suffer in the aftermath of Henry Wilcox's (guest star Gregory Itzin) bitter revenge plot, Annie makes her biggest sacrifice, pushing herself farther than ever in order to face off against a devious puppet master. The series also stars Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Peter Gallagher and Hill Harper.
In full festive spirit, USA will air a special holiday season reality series event, "It Takes A Choir" (formerly known as "The Choir"), on Sundays at 8 p.m., beginning Nov. 3. Based on the hit UK series, this show follows the distinct and charming choirmaster Gareth Malone, who unites an unexpected mix of characters through the spellbinding power of music. A true fish out of water, in both his environment and teaching style, Malone finds himself in the craziest situations with some of the biggest characters. Each episode culminates in a unified and powerful public performance from the choir in front of their family, friends and community.
Rounding out the holiday programming slate is "Psych: The Musical," an unprecedented two-hour special event on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 9 p.m. Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) dive into a world that's equal parts mystery and melody to track down an escaped playwright mad man, Z (Anthony Rapp, "Rent"), who, six years earlier, was deemed criminally insane after locking a critic in a back room of the theater that he burnt to the ground. The holiday event also stars Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson, Timothy Omundson and Corbin Bernsen.
Emmy Award-winning journalist Cat Greenleaf, USA's new host of daytime TV, will make her debut on the network in tandem with the "Modern Family" launch, kicking off with behind-the-scenes interviews with "Modern Family's" Steve Levitan, Hyland, Winter, Gould and Rodriguez. Her segments, airing between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, will feature one-on-one interviews with actors, personalities and tastemakers from her iconic stoop.


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What, no pants? Late last Saturday, a panicked visitor from Arlington, Va. ran into a La Jolla clothing store. Sweating profusely, Kyle Missbach explained that he and his wife were here for a friend's wedding. When he had removed the dry cleaner bag from his black suit at his nearby hotel, he discovered his pants missing, and the wedding was to start in 25 minutes.
Ascot Shop salesman Andrew White was able to find a pair of black slacks that matched, but they were unhemmed and the store's tailor had left. So White marked the length and his aunt and co-worker, Suzy Foster, hemmed them while the visitor got dressed in the store. Missbach wrote about his predicament applauded the San Diego store's resourceful staff this week on Yelp.com.


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