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In my work I come across four types of clients: The first type is in the job for just their paycheck; the second, to do their job well; the third, they see it as a meaningful career and who want to grow in it; and finally, the rarest of them all, is the one in their job because they love what they do and those who find deep, purposeful existenceit gives them that purpose to do soulful work.
For this final type their focus is not so much on how much money they make or what title they hold in their job, but rather, how much fun they have in their job and how they impact others through their work. Inevitably, too, they are rewarded with a compensation that often is covetable! What I find among this last client class, too, is that they do not struggle with their work-life balance, work politics, or with the thought of getting laid-off or being jobless! In short, they lead a carefree, effortless, and blissful work life! Yet, in the process they give it all they got.
A good part of my own role as a career and life coach is to move my clients from the first type in the direction of making their jobs soulful by showing them how they can achieve that state of career nirvana. These four categories of work engagement are not quantized with rigid walls separating themthey form a continuum. Although I do not always succeed, but once my clients get on the track of pursuing this virtuous path they feel empowered to challenge themselves to move in the direction to lead a blissful life.
Enter Gallop:
The Gallop organization has been doing annual employee surveys across the globe and publishing their results of employee engagement. Over the years, as this research has been conducted, the distribution of employees among different categories of job engagement has not changed much. In its 2017 research Gallop captured data from 195,600 US employees with more than 31 million from its global client database. From the 100 million US workers in their jobs full-time (nearly 150 million are in the US workforce) Gallop has identified about a third of those as engaged in their work.
These are the employees that build something as they do their work and make a difference in all our lives. At the other end 16% of the employees are actively disengagedwalking zombieswho are miserable in the workplace and destroy what the most engaged employees build or create; they actually burden their other colleagues with their sloppy, incomplete, incompetent, or undone work. The remaining 51% are not engagedthey just show up to work and take orders (often without fully delivering what is required!). How do they get away without completing their work? They find bosses that are just like them who tolerate mediocrity!
Shifting from Paycheck to Purpose:
Although changing ones mindset from paycheck to purpose is very much in their own hands, how their company creates a culture that makes it easier for its employees to do this also matters. In this blog I am not going to focus on what a company must do to help enable this mindsetit can do a lot; rather I am going to focus on what YOU can do to move in the direction of purpose to help you engage yourself in more soulful work.
Here are the steps that I recommend on what you can do to bring purpose to your own work despite how the work is treating you:
- Audit your work: After you get in the groove of your job it is normal to get inured to it and just keep doing what has worked and going with the flow. When you reach this state of auto piloting your work, the work become soulless and gradually you start disengaging. So, to prevent from reaching this state in your everyday work it is best to do a periodic audit of what you do every day over a period of a month or longer to see what patterns you see in your schedule.
The best way to this is to keep a daily planner that is broken down to 30 minutes (even 15) and enter your daily activities either before you do them or at the end of the day (somewhat like your own timecard). Then go through these entries and highlight them Red, Yellow, and Green. All Red entries are time wasters and you must excise them from your routine and free up your time to do more Yellow and Green tasks. Typically they entail meetings, managing irrelevant emails, responding to busy emails, interruptions, and other non-value added work. If you make a list of these tasks and get them off your plate you can do much more productive work. Watch the embedded HBR video to see how this is done.
- Identify joyful work: In almost every job there are components of your job that bring out the best in you. You actually enjoy doing those parts and you deliver your best value-add in such tasks. Find out what they are and make a list of those as a part of the Green entries in your Planner. Often, employees are not able to do the Green tasks because they are too busy doing the Red and the Yellow tasks. So, once you reshuffle these priorities youd be doing more of what you enjoy doing.
- Structure your work: Once you divide your workload into the Red, Yellow, and Green areas see how you can structure your work so that you save your Green work to last. Doing the dreaded tasks first and saving the joyful parts for later motivates you to complete the stultifying parts with some motivation. The Green work is your dessert.
- Audit your environment: Much of how things get done in a work group is driven by the environment that surrounds that work group. If the environment is noisy, highly interrupt-prone, and distracting, productivity takes a nosedive. So, evaluate how you can do what needs to get done so that you are able to focus on your task with minimal influence of these outside forces.
This is where what a company can do to improve productivity counts, but in this blog my focus is what you can do to improve your own contributions of purpose. If the work unit is noisy or crowded with traffic that distracts from what you do, ask your boss if you can work remotely or can telecommute on days when value-added work is required. Make an argument not so much to benefit you, but to benefit the boss and the company.
- Make nice with the boss: In my coaching practice the biggest single factor for which prospects approach me is their dealings with the immediate boss, and sometimes their higher ups. Most common reason for unhappiness in a job is a persons relationships with all those who work with them: the central among them is the boss, then their peers, followed by others in their working ecosystem. The reason a strong working relationship with your immediate boss is important is because it can make the biggest difference in how you are treated in your workgroup. As a part of #4, above, auditing the environment is important, but without making your boss a centerpiece of that audit can lead to constant struggles with your everyday existence and joy you derive from your work.
So, if you have differences of views with your boss make a serious and concerted effort to reconcile that difference without compromising your values. In most cases my advice to clients who come to me with a boss problem is often the same: get a meeting to discuss your differences and make that discussion outside of your scheduled transactional meetings that happen every week or month. Write down your talking points, take with you facts to support your view and see how far you can bring your boss closer to your point of view. In my practice I find that nearly 70-80% of these relationships improve and some even repair completely when my client is able to have these Crucial Conversations (read the book by this title before you take this on). A mended relationship with your boss can make a big difference in how you view your job and how much joy you derive from it.
Remember, one meeting to reconcile your differences is just a start. You need to learn to make this a constant effort to ratchet-up your relationship with your boss once you make it to that turning point. If you are not able to mend your relationship with your boss it is best to consider finding yourself another.
Also, some are tempted to complain to their HR representative about their boss. This is not a good idea. A word of caution: the HR rep may sincerely come across and convince you as if they have your interest at heart; dont fall for this pretense. This is why direct meeting with your boss is much more effective. Besides, youll learn how to have these crucial conversations in the future. Remember, when the Gallop survey indicates that 67% of employees are disengaged it also includes your boss and their higher-ups in that employee pool. In my own view, the manager class belongs in the 80th percentile of disengagement. What this means is that it is much harder to run away from bad managers.
- Review your rsum: Most do not look at their rsum to serve them as a roadmap of how they want it to look in the future; they work on their rsum retrospectively when looking for a job or when they want to get out from their current tyranny. If you audit your rsum entries and see what is missing on it for you to move up in your next job youd have a chance to plan what is required to make your rsum deliver a message that already showcases your leadership at the next level. So, plan and carefully chart what next assignments your need to put a shine on your rsum before you take on that task that comes your way willy-nilly.
- Take on a new initiative: No matter where you work there is always something that can be done within your group (or even working with adjacent groups) to make things better for you team, your customer, or someone who is the beneficiary of what your work group does. So, if you see something that excites you to take on frame it with the proper context to make your boss look good and to contribute something positively to how your group delivers its mission. Get your boss to support you and show that you can deliver on it in addition to your regular assignments. Nothing will boost your standing more than an initiative your propose and then delivering that on target. This is something you can add to your rsum with great impact.
- Make a change: Nothing changes unless you change something. Change is hard for most people but a quote that makes change a more palatable prescription is the one by Tom Peters: If you think change is hard, try becoming irrelevant! So, after going through the list of above recommendations see what things need changing and start making a change plan to drive yourself towards your purpose.
- Journal your gratitude: We are all grateful for something that is making our life worth living. Every day we encounter something for which we are grateful. Journaling these thoughts makes it easy to see the positive that is in your life and helps you get on a virtuous cycle. If something good happens on a day write it down and be grateful for that happenstance. On a down day it may energize you to read your past entries and see how good things happen for you.
- Ignite your passion: Everyone needs some outlet outside of our everyday work. Find something that stirs you passions and embrace it for no other reason than to merely provide you an avenue of joy. It could be a hobby, listening to music you like, reading a good book, or building something just to prove to yourself that you can do it. Just as in # 3, where you save the joyful tasks in your job for later go back to your hobby or passion at the end of the day or week to recharge your batteries.
- Mentoring: Finding someone to mentor to help them grow is one of the easiest ways to not only influence someone deserving in a positive way, it also energizes you because you learn something in return from this process. Most mentors admit to getting more out of mentoring relationship than they end up giving in it.
The reverse of this for you is to find yourself a mentor. This is yet another way for you to grow in your profession. Although finding a good mentor is sometimes a challenge, finding several mentors and leveraging their wisdom can be a great way to sustain your professional growth and to get access to resources that are otherwise difficult to get.
Transforming your everyday, humdrum work existence into a purpose-driven life is not as out of reach as it may sound. If you follow these suggestions it would be much easier to start on that journey and to start moving to the area where your work is no longer something that you dread, but something that you jump out of bed to go do!
Good luck!
|About Author
Dilip has distinguished himself as LinkedIn's #1 career coach from among a global pool of over 1,000 peers ever since LinkedIn started ranking them professionally (LinkedIn selected 23 categories of professionals for this ranking and published this ranking from 2006 until 2012). Having worked with over 6,000 clients from all walks of professions and having worked with nearly the entire spectrum of age groups—from high-school graduates about to enter college to those in their 70s, not knowing what to do with their retirement—Dilip has developed a unique approach to bringing meaning to their professional and personal lives. Dilip's professional success lies in his ability to codify what he has learned in his own varied life (he has changed careers four times and is currently in his fifth) and from those of his clients, and to apply the essence of that learning to each coaching situation.
After getting his B.Tech. (Honors) from IIT-Bombay and Master's in electrical engineering(MSEE) from Stanford University, Dilip worked at various organizations, starting as an individual contributor and then progressing to head an engineering organization of a division of a high-tech company, with $2B in sales, in California's Silicon Valley. His current interest in coaching resulted from his career experiences spanning nearly four decades, at four very diverse organizations–and industries, including a major conglomerate in India, and from what it takes to re-invent oneself time and again, especially after a lay-off and with constraints that are beyond your control.
During the 45-plus years since his graduation, Dilip has reinvented himself time and again to explore new career horizons. When he left the corporate world, as head of engineering of a technology company, he started his own technology consulting business, helping high-tech and biotech companies streamline their product development processes. Dilip's third career was working as a marketing consultant helping Fortune-500 companies dramatically improve their sales, based on a novel concept. It is during this work that Dilip realized that the greatest challenge most corporations face is available leadership resources and effectiveness; too many followers looking up to rudderless leadership.
Dilip then decided to work with corporations helping them understand the leadership process and how to increase leadership effectiveness at every level. Soon afterwards, when the job-market tanked in Silicon Valley in 2001, Dilip changed his career track yet again and decided to work initially with many high-tech refugees, who wanted expert guidance in their reinvention and reemployment. Quickly, Dilip expanded his practice to help professionals from all walks of life.
Now in his fifth career, Dilip works with professionals in the Silicon Valley and around the world helping with reinvention to get their dream jobs or vocations. As a career counselor and life coach, Dilip's focus has been career transitions for professionals at all levels and engaging them in a purposeful pursuit. Working with them, he has developed many groundbreaking approaches to career transition that are now published in five books, his weekly blogs, and hundreds of articles. He has worked with those looking for a change in their careers–re-invention–and jobs at levels ranging from CEOs to hospital orderlies. He has developed numerous seminars and workshops to complement his individual coaching for helping others with making career and life transitions.
Dilip's central theme in his practice is to help clients discover their latent genius and then build a value proposition around it to articulate a strong verbal brand.
Throughout this journey, Dilip has come up with many groundbreaking practices such as an Inductive Résumé and the Genius Extraction Tool. Dilip owns two patents, has two publications in the Harvard Business Review and has led a CEO roundtable for Chief Executive on Customer Loyalty. Both Amazon and B&N list numerous reviews on his five books. Dilip is also listed in Who's Who, has appeared several times on CNN Headline News/Comcast Local Edition, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle in its career columns. Dilip is a contributing writer to several publications. Dilip is a sought-after speaker at public and private forums on jobs, careers, leadership challenges, and how to be an effective leader.
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Londonderry man denied variance to house horseBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
January 17. 2013 9:56PM
LONDONDERRY - A Londonderry man will need to find a new place to house his horse after the town's zoning board denied his variance request to keep livestock at his Wiley Hill Road property.
Jay Barrett, 107 Wiley Hill Road, appeared before the board Wednesday in hopes of keeping the horse he'd recently inherited.
Barrett said he built a stall and paddock area on his property last year after a friend's daughter was injured in a car accident. He'd initially planned to house the horse there temporarily while the young woman recovered. After she died from her injuries, Barrett decided he wanted to keep the animal permanently.
A single father of two grown children, Barrett's 18-year-old son, Jacob, suffers from cerebral palsy and has endured a grueling round of back surgeries. Barrett said his son has enjoyed having the horse on the premises for the therapeutic riding benefits. Barrett's home, which abuts 35 acres of conservation land, is situated on a 1.6-acre lot.
The town requires residents who keep livestock on their properties to have a lot of two acres or more. Barrett said the situation was brought to the town's attention last spring when Building Inspector Richard Canuel saw the horse during a home visit on an unrelated matter - a variance to allow Barrett to add a caregiver's apartment to the house for Jacob's live-in nurse.
Barrett said he was denied a permit for the apartment and feels like he's been harassed by the town ever since.
During Wednesday's public hearing, zoning board member Neil Dunn read a letter written by Brendan Burns, one of Barrett's neighbors.
Burns, who wasn't present at the meeting, wrote that he'd initially been supportive of Barrett's situation, but after a full summer of having the horse nearby, the manure odor became unbearable. "There were summer nights we were unable to sit outside and open our windows. We can't go through another fall with this odor," Burns wrote. He also noted that the horse had broken free from its enclosure on several occasions and urinated on his lawn.
Burns wrote that he realizes the animal offers therapeutic benefits for Barrett's son, and he doesn't mind having the horse come and visit from time to time. "But not full time," he wrote, "though we have no problem having (the horse stay) there until other suitable arrangements can be made."
Barrett's adult daughter, Jillian, a college student who lives with her father and brother, said she didn't feel the horse presented any problems. "There are numerous stables in the neighborhood. I'm just seeking this variance for one horse," she said.
As an animal science student, Jillian said she knows many people who'd appreciate the manure for their gardens as a way of removing the source of the manure odor.
Jay Barrett said he felt it would be too expensive to board the animal, as the family is already financially strapped. He said he took personal issue with Canuel, the building inspector, notifying his neighbors of the public hearing in person rather than by certified letter.
"I'm kind of confused as to why he did that. (The neighbors) were fine about it until Richard went and talked to them," Barrett said.
Zoning board member Larry Callahan said the town's two-acre livestock rule is there for a reason. "We're very specific about this because there's the health of the animal and the health and well-being of the neighbors to consider," he said.
Neighbor Michael Carroll said he "had no problems with the horse living next door," but he admitted he had some concerns "about safety and smell."
"We love the horse; it's a beautiful horse," he added. "And we don't want anything to happen to it."
"I'd feel much more comfortable with this if no one had complained about the odors," Dunn said. "I hate these cases like this because you can't win either way."
After lengthy debate, the zoning members voted unanimously to deny Barrett's variance request.
Canuel said he's willing to work with Barrett and allow him "adequate time" to find new lodging for the horse.
"There needs to be a reasonable effort made to find a solution. If warmer weather gets here and there's no efforts made, then we've got a problem," board member James Smith said. "So we want to see you put up a good-faith effort to find a solution."

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JACKSONVILLE, Ill.-- The GC Men's Track and Field team traveled to Illinois College to participate in the True Blue Meet and came in 2nd place out of the 24 teams that competed.
Bruce Gray had an impressive meet for the Panthers, coming in first place in the 100m Dash and in 2nd place in the 200m Dash. His 100m Dash time was 10.80, earning 10 points for the Panthers. He added another 8 points after finishing the 200m in 21.67.
Josh Kuusisto also earned Greenville some points when he took 1st in the Hammer Throw. Kuusisto threw the hammer 61.17m to break Greenville's school record and add 10 points to GC's total.
Josh Dees was another Panther to come in 1st and earn 10 more points for GC. Dees finished the 15000m Run in 4:02.75 to put himself in the 2nd place spot. Coree Woltering was just behind Dees in the event, finishing in 3rd with a time of 4:06.71.
Treyvon Manning earned himself a 2nd place finish in the 400m Hurdles, crossing the finish line at 55.63. He earned GC 11 total points in the meet.
Ben Barber had an impressive 2nd place finish in the Steeplechase. His time of 10:25.46 earned 8 points for the Panthers.
Bryant Simpson also did well Saturday, coming in 3rd place in the 800m Run with a time of 1:58.96.
Bryan Waugh, Anthony Everett, Alex Staton, Ross Baker, Branden Niehaus, Adam Kammler, and the 4x100 and 4x400 relays teams also earned points for Greenville. This brought the Panthers to a combined total of 99 points, which put them in 2nd place overall.
The team will compete again on Thursday, May 2, in the NCCAA National Championships.


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Torre ready to manage Team USA in World Classic
PHOENIX (AP) — The game is supposed to be America's national pastime, but the United States has not fared well in the World Baseball Classic.
Joe Torre is putting his manager's uniform back on to lead Team USA in this year's competition, but he cautions that there are reasons the U.S. has not won, or even made it to the title game, in the first two editions of the worldwide competition.
Torre, speaking Monday at a news conference in Phoenix, said players usually use spring training to get ready physically for the long major league season, slowly working in the mental edge along the way. But with the World Baseball Classic, they are asked to get that competitive edge in a hurry against countries that take this competition very seriously.
"I think a big part of it is the mental preparation for a postseason type of atmosphere," Torre said.
Japan won the first two championships, beating Cuba in the finale in 2006 and South Korea in 2009.
There is more than a little grumbling among managers who lose players for two or three weeks at a crucial time when they are supposed to be putting together a cohesive team for the coming big league season. But, officially, MLB is a big supporter of this event, so that mutes the criticism. Those players don't just go to Team USA, but to Venezuela, Mexico, Japan, Canada, even The Netherlands.
The team hit the hardest this year is the Milwaukee Brewers, who will lose 14 players during spring training, 11 of them from their 40-man roster.
"I get why a player would want to do it. I understand that," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "And we're fine with them going and doing that, but it just happens that we're getting hit with a lot of guys. We're missing both catchers. It's really important to us. We'll just have to deal with it."
Torre said he had the same reaction back in 2006 when the first World Baseball Classic was held.
"I'm manager of the Yankees and I'm saying, 'Oh my goodness, what is this all about?' Because they're taking our players away."
Now, he steps away from his duties as executive vice president of baseball operations in the commissioner's office to try to build a winning team while at the same time giving the players, especially the pitchers, the same amount of work they'd get if they stayed in spring training. Torre has enlisted retired pitching great Greg Maddux to help him.
"Greg has talked to each and every one of them to get their ideas about what they want to get accomplished," Torre said.
Team USA will have a workout on March 4 in Scottsdale, followed by exhibition games against the Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies before beginning round-robin play March 8 against Mexico. Canada and Italy are the other two teams in the group. Team USA's round-robin games are at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The second round will be held in Miami, with the semifinals and finals set for AT&T Park in San Francisco.
Torre said he has spoken to every player involved with the team.
"I wanted to gauge not only the interest but the excitement of playing with 'USA' across your chest," he said.
He said every player, including a few who wound up bowing out, said that was the greatest enticement to participate.
"I feel pretty comfortable with the team we've put together," Torre said, "based on the fact, ability for one, and the fact that I think they're going to be ready to do this when we need to."
The U.S. roster includes outfielders Ryan Braun, Adam Jones, Giancarlo Stanton, Shane Victorino and Ben Zobrist; infielders Willie Bloomquist, Brandon Phillips, Jimmy Rollins, Mark Teixeira and David Wright; and catchers J.P. Arencibia, Jonathan Lucroy and Joe Mauer.
The pitchers are, alphabetically, Jeremy Affeldt, Heath Bell, Mitchell Boggs, Steve Cishek, Tim Collins, R.A. Dickey, Luke Gregerson, Derek Holland, Craig Kimbrel, Kris Medlen, Chris Perez, Glen Perkins, Vinnie Pestano and Ryan Vogelsong.
Gio Gonzalez had intended to come along, but announced he is staying with the Washington Nationals, at least for now. He might be added should Team USA make it to the second round in Florida, where the Nationals conduct their spring training.
Torre hasn't managed since he retired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2010. He has no interest in the grind of another major league season in that job, but he gladly will accept a three-week chore of running Team USA, jokingly comparing it to the role of a grandparent who after spoiling the kids gives them back to their parents.
On a serious note, though, he recalled how he felt as New York Yankees manager in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"It was at that time I realized that baseball represented more than just entertainment on the field, that we meant a lot to a lot of people," Torre said, "and our responsibility was far beyond just playing the game. It really struck me and I said to my players in our first meeting 'This NY on my cap represents more than the Yankees. It's the game and people need this game to hide out from their problems.'
"This is going to be a similar emotion, but certainly not the sadness that was part of that," he said. "But I think emotionally, once you put that uniform on, it's responsibility. It's not necessarily the winning part of it, I think it's just the way you carry yourself and the way you go about it. The one thing I've preached to my players is you represent yourself and in this case you represent your country. And you certainly want to leave everybody a good taste in their mouth."
The team to beat will be Japan.
Torre said that not only their ability, but the "discipline, the motivation, the whole nine yards, the way they go about it" makes the Japanese so good.
"The fact they rarely make mistakes," he said. "Whatever sport you're looking at it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success."
Yes, he said, "Japan's been the boss here the first two times, but in a short series, and I'm fortunate to have had the experience on the winning end and the losing end, anything can happen."
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Roger Simon: If only Bob Filner were a movie starROGER SIMON
August 24. 2013 1:57AM
SAN DIEGO Mayor Bob Filner, who is accused of being a serial groper of women, has a problem that goes beyond his behavior.
In a state where celebrities are often worshipped, Filner does not resemble a celebrity.
He has a smile like a Halloween pumpkin and a forehead with enough wrinkles to resemble an electrocardiogram. He does not have the lean and hungry look of, say, Anthony Weiner, a fellow Democrat with whom he once served in the U.S. Congress.
But it is unlikely that Filner, 70, has ever emailed pictures of his abs to anyone. Filner's body bears an unfortunate resemblance to a sack of doorknobs.
No, Filner is not the sexting type. He is the groping, grabbing, sticking his hand down the bra, licking the face, sticking his tongue down the throat type. Allegedly. Allegedly in allegations made by 18 women.
One of his most recent accusers is a 67-year-old grandmother, who worked part-time for the city to supplement her Social Security income. She says Filner once kissed her on the mouth and on another occasion "came by my desk and asked me if I thought he could go eight hours in one night."
Another woman claims Filner started "jamming his tongue" down her throat, and another says he reached inside her bra. Another says Filner told her she could do a better job "without your panties on."
Filner admits he "failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me," but has refused to resign.
Those demanding his resignation include House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and U.S Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and all nine members of the San Diego City Council.
Also, a San Diego Hooters has posted a sign on its door saying Filner is not welcome inside.
Back in 2003, gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was accused by 15 women of groping them or otherwise touching them sexually against their will.
Schwarzenegger apologized to anybody he might have "offended" but refused to drop out of the race. He was running in a special election that would simultaneously recall the unpopular incumbent Gov. Gray Davis and choose his successor.
Schwarzenegger's poll numbers dipped after the accusations, but he had something going for him: He was a huge celebrity with celebrity friends.
Before the election, Jay Leno said in one of his monologues, "You've got Arnold, who groped a few women, or Davis, who screwed the whole state."
It got a big laugh. And Gray Davis could foresee his doom. "This is California," he said. "Celebrities are a big deal here."
Then Oprah had both Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, on her show, and Shriver told everyone to ignore the accusations against her husband. "I know the man I'm married to," she told Oprah.
Davis was dumped, and Schwarzenegger was elected and re-elected without ever answering the charges those 15 women made against him. Nobody seemed to care.
In 2011, after finding out Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the family housekeeper, Shriver took off her wedding ring, gathered up her children, left her home and filed for divorce.
But Schwarzenegger is still a celebrity. Next year he is scheduled to appear once again as "Conan the Barbarian" and later do another "Terminator" movie.
This is the kind of celebrity status that Bob Filner lacks. And it must bother him. He says he is misunderstood. "I'm a hugger," he says.
Life is so unfair. Schwarzenegger can walk down the red carpet anywhere in the state. Filner can't even walk into the local Hooters.
Roger Simon is Politico's chief political columnist.


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The readers have spoken. We'll do this Win, Place Show style:
The winner of the "Be Dan Shaughnessy" contest is Chris Kyle for his Touching 'Em All column submission. Chris took home nearly 1/3 of the couple hundred votes.
A strong second was "The Return of Pedro" by Brad Danielson.
Coming in third is Selective Memory for Returning Diva submitted by James Sanders. (Not the Patriots safety)
Many of the other entries were outstanding as well, with some getting off some killer Shaughnessy-like lines. Thanks to all who contributed entries as well as those who voted. This was a fun contest and I'll be trying to incorporate more of this type of stuff in the future.
Pedro vs Roger, revisited.
This week was dominated by the return of Pedro Martinez to Fenway Park. It was quite different from the return of Roger Clemens, who for many years was treated like the Antichrist by fans and media alike here in Boston. (I include myself in that grouping.)
Why such different receptions for all time greats who both left the Red Sox to sign elsewhere?
There's a few reasons, one of which has to be the fact that Pedro won a World Series here in Boston. The biggest difference in my mind has to be how each pitcher acted after leaving Boston. I don't think either player wanted to leave Boston, but when Roger left, it seemed that Boston was dead to him. He never acknowledged the fans that had supported him for so many years, he didn't seem to want to talk about his time with the Red Sox, other than to take (perhaps deserved) shots at Dan Duquette and Red Sox management. After having a few sub-par seasons in the Won-Loss department for the Red Sox during which he was more injury prone than he had ever been, suddenly in Toronto, Clemens was once again the durable, dominant pitcher that he had been earlier in his career. Then he engineered a trade to the Yankees. All of this seemed like slap after slap to the face of the Boston fans. It took until his final season with the Yankees, when it appeared he might retire, that he seemed to soften ever so slightly and talked fondly about Boston, Fenway Park and the Red Sox fans.
Pedro, on the other hand, did also take a few shots at the Boston front office, but always attempted to keep the fans on his side. He talked glowingly about them. He talked about his heart being in Boston. We also got the sense that we had seen the best of Pedro while he was here in Boston, and that this New York Mets version was truly on the downside of his career. Pedro didn't really have a giant resurgence with the Mets. He's doing just fine in the National League, but he's not the dominant Pedro of 1998-2000. Regardless of his performance, Pedro did the smart thing by attempting to reach out to the fans of Boston and ensure them that he was appreciative of their support during his time there. Had Clemens just made a similar gesture, I believe he would've been treated much differently…at least until he became a Yankee.
After just having written all of that, is there a more ponderous topic for sports radio than the "Will (insert name of former Boston athlete here) be booed or cheered when he comes back to Boston?"
It's the Boston sports radio theme of 2006. We've seen it with Johnny Damon and Pedro, and to a lesser extent, Antoine Walker. If you think we're past the worst of it, just wait until Adam Vinatieri and the Indianapolis Colts come into town this fall. Sure, it might be interesting for a moment to consider the reception that each athlete is going to receive. But as with most things, sports radio and the sports media in general here make it a theme that permeates everything for days and weeks on end. I can understand talking about it for a few minutes, but please, move on and give us some talk about the actual games and teams. What's worse is when media members and quasi-media members take it upon themselves to tell the fans how they should react.
Here's a look at the local media columns, plus a few other other items of interest:
Andrew Neff has a look at NESN's new "What If" program series, which looks at how Boston sports would be different if some big moments had just happened a little bit differently.
Jim Baker has a look at the weekend ahead, with the red hot Red Sox, World Cup soccer and Wimbledon tennis all on the docket.
Susan Bickelhaupt reports on Wendi Nix leaving channel 7 for ESPN, news first reported by John Molori earlier this week.
Get your Red Sox/Marlins news this weekend on the Red Sox Daily Links page and from the Miami Herald.
Kevin Baxter of the Miami Herald has a piece on Mike Lowell, a Miami native, looking at his turnaround this season in Boston after being traded from the Marlins with Josh Beckett last winter.
A Boston College sports blog did an email interview with Bob Ryan this week, in which the Globe columnist gave his thoughts on not only BC Sports, but also on sports coverage and the impact that the Internet has had on it. His comments regarding Boston.com are particularly interesting. Part One – Part Two.
Sports Media Columns From Around the Country
George Solomon, ESPN Ombudsman – Despite complaints, ESPN's Cup coverage on the ball.
Phil Mushnick, New York Post – Dolan Insists Media Play His Shill Game.
Andrew Marchand, New York Post – Care You Spare A (Joe) Buck?
Richard Sandomir, New York Times – ESPN Rises Above the Rim.
Bob Raissman, New York Daily News – Yanks do A-Rod an in-Justice.
(Reports that YES studio host was ordered by higher-ups to be critical of Alex Rodriguez.)
Michael Hiestand, USA Today – Visser liked football early.
Chris Zelkovich, Toronto Star – Cup ratings continue to soar.
Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune – Longtime Sox fan describes story of a lifetime.
Dave Darling, Orlando Sentinel – ESPN2 is keeping it wild.
Barry Jackson, Miami Herald – Broadcasting moves coming.
David Barron, Houston Chronicle – Houston soccer fans are tuning in to World Cup.
Judd Zilgad, Minneapolis Star-Tribune – After 46 years, it could be splitsville for Twins, WCCO.
Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – NBA draft provides eclectic show.
Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News – Lance-less France OK for OLN.
Jay Posner, San Diego Union Tribune – O'Brien taking soccer hits, but fans watching.
John Maffei, North County Times – Padres play two; only one is on TV.
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Attempted robbery case ends with prison timeBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
May 03. 2013 12:40AM
BRENTWOOD - A Derry man and his girlfriend are headed to state prison for trying to lure a man to an apartment in June to rob him of his car.
Zachary Jabour, 23, has struck a plea deal on attempted robbery charges for allegedly attempting to take the man's 2006 Honda Accord on June 16 then later threatening him with a pair of wire cutters during a second encounter on the same day.
He is expected to be sentenced to two to six years in state prison if a judge accepts the terms of the plea agreement on May 20.
His girlfriend, Kristin Gile, 22, of Derry was sentenced on Wednesday to two to six years in state prison for being Jabour's accomplice.
Her lawyers argued for a 12-month jail term. Derry police began investigating the robbery on June 16 after meeting with the victim, David Goldberg.
He told police that he went to a Sawyer Court residence to meet up with Gile.
"When he parked his car at Sawyer Court, a male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a red bandana over his face knocked on his window," Derry police Detective Scott Tompkins said in a sworn affidavit. "The male told him to get out of his car and that he was going to take his car."
Goldberg drove off in his 2006 Honda Accord, according to police.
Gile then called Goldberg and told him "she still wanted to go out but wanted him to go to her house to pick her up," according to a police affidavit.
Goldberg returned to the residence and was confronted by Jabour again once he entered a doorway. Jabour was allegedly armed with wire cutters. Goldberg struggled with Jabour and got the wire cutters away from him, prompting Jabour to flee, police said.
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As a child actress, Shirley Temple was noted for being able to cry on cue for a movie scene. In a 1999 interview, she explained how she did it:
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The talent came in handy when she was 21 and driving up Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu in her new red convertible with leather upholstery. The Highway Patrol stopped her for speeding.
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Bookings for durable goods, those meant to least at least three years, make up just over half of total factory demand. In addition to planes and autos, demand improved for primary metals and electrical equipment including appliances.
Demand for commercial aircraft, which is often volatile, jumped 95.1% in February after dropping 23.8% a month earlier. Boeing Co., the Chicago-based aerospace company, said it received orders for 179 aircraft in February, up from two in January.
Orders for non-durable goods including petroleum, issued for the first time today, increased 0.8%. These bookings often reflect changes in commodity prices as the figures aren't adjusted for inflation.
Bookings for capital goods excluding aircraft and military equipment, a measure of future business investment, fell 3.2% after increasing 6.7% the prior month, the biggest gain since March 2010. They were initially estimated to have dropped 2.7% in February, according to data issued last week.
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Shipments of those goods, used in calculating gross domestic product, increased 1.9% after a drop of 0.7% the previous month.
The one weak spot in today's report were stockpiles. Factory inventories rose 0.2% in February after a 0.6% gain the prior month, today's report showed. Manufacturers had enough goods on hand to last 1.27 months at the current sales pace, down from 1.28 in January.
Demand for autos also contributed to the gains. Motor vehicles and parts orders increased 1.4% after a 1.3% drop, today's report showed.
Cars and light trucks sold at a 15.3 million annual rate in February after a 15.2 million pace the prior month, Ward's Automotive Group data showed. The sales rate may have risen in March to 15.4 million, the average of 15 analyst estimates, and if that pace keeps up, it will be the highest total since 2007.
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H.B. Fuller, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based maker of adhesives and coatings, reported a first-quarter revenue gain that exceeded analysts' estimates, and reiterated profits forecasts for 2013. Chief Executive Officer James Owens said on a March 28 conference call that 2013 is "off to a good start," as rising sales in its North American construction products business indicate "the end markets are gradually improving."
3M, the St. Paul, Minnesota-based maker of products ranging from Scotch tape to dental braces, is among companies saying growth in the U.S. will help cushion weakness in markets like Europe, especially in consumer electronics.
"We're operating pretty steady in the U.S. and Latin America," David Meline, chief financial officer, said at a March 21 conference. "In Asia, it's more mixed. Western Europe continues to have a number of challenges."
Manufacturing, which accounts for about 12% of the economy, is projected to keep contributing to growth this year. At the same time, the outlook may be clouded by the automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts that began on March 1 as lawmakers failed to reach a compromise on ways to reduce the debt.
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I picked up a souvenir gondola instead...
Friday, April 08, 2011
Caffe Florian
I picked up a souvenir gondola instead...
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Last time I went there they were so kind to tape our credit card which was splitting in twos. The service is really divine and the place is truly worth a visit.Lovely memories of Spritz, white sparkling wine with a hint of Select to add colour and flavour. I must go back. I'm glad you enjoied your Italian detour, RosannaReplyDelete
What a lovely spot in the world... how I wish I were at the bottom of a chocolaty tasse right now!ReplyDelete
I think that I went there! It's been so long.....ReplyDelete
One thing I remember fondly of Italy was the staggering variety of newspapers - it was quite a treat to see so many - no monopoly on the news there!
Your watercolors are beautiful as always, and the photos in the cafe capture the charm of the place perfectly.
12 dollars! That's what google says 9 Euros equal. For cocoa. well, chocolate. I am feeling faint of heart. Perhaps I was not cut out to be a European traveller after all.....ReplyDelete
Wow--you're so taking me back, Carol--looks beautiful. I love that place. Sweet watercolor--I'm sure some peoples' pets will be taking trips there!!ReplyDelete
Bonjour PB~ReplyDelete
Such wonderful memories of Venice...the chocolate is worth every last euro!!! And listening to the orchestra was the perfect ending to a day of shopping...we never made it inside (crowded as usual) so loved all your photos!
Bear is so lucky to have such a wonderful travel mate!
Did they charge you to sit drinking your chocolate to the music? We had a lovely tea there, but an additional charge for music. We were willing to pay the price for the experience of a lifetime and to say we had tea at Cafe Florian. It was just beautiful and the service was wonderful.ReplyDelete
I loved Venice! It was really one of my most favourite cities in Italy. I am soon to be posting about Venice on my new food&travel blog.ReplyDelete
I hope to go back next summer with my sister. I think it is definitely one place she should see. Our plan is to head to France after Venice, maybe a night in Milan before we do. So excited!
I love your blog and your book recommendations. I have never heard of Donna Leon's books. I will have to try the Venice cook book by her!
here's my blog link if you're interested. I am relatively new to the blog world but I love to write and travel and of course eat!
To answer a few questions:ReplyDelete
No Florian does not charge for the music when you sit inside, which I found preferable - more private, more of a trip back to the 17th century than sitting outside with the other tourists.
As for the cost of a cup of hot chocolate Jeanette, comparable to Angelina, the atmosphere at caffe Florian is so much more...what? Romantic?
Florian just reeks of gracious atmosphere.
And the service (compared to Angelina) is divine.
They treat everyone the same - with kindness and care.
There are no long lines or rushing about.
Simply serenity now.
Very well worth the mere 9 euros I paid, compared to a 60 euros gondola ride in my humble opinion.
There is no other place like it in Venice.
Or perhaps on the planet...
Tell me if you know of one please.
Hi Carol,ReplyDelete
I'm jumping up and down over your Venetian posts! Fantastic.
Next life, I'm coming back as your traveling bear! I so love Venice but have not been since 1975. So fabulous to see your photos. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Have a terrific new week Carol.
xx Deb
wonderful.... The small rooms have their own names and distinct decor styles .ReplyDelete
Had the best -- and priciest -- Campari Orange of my life at Caffè Florian! Blood-orange juice, mmm.ReplyDelete
And needless to say it's a veritable jewel-box of a café; the prettiest imaginable. Well-captured in your pix, Carol.


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Apparently 2012 and 2013 are pretty much the years of Selena Gomez movies — there's Spring Breakers, Aftershock, and Hotel Transylvania all coming out within months of each other. But the best one of the three, in our humble opinion, is Hotel Transylvania, where Sel voices the 118-year-old daughter of Dracula, Mavis! Check out this exclusive featurette from the movie where Sel talks about her character (and why she "has a little bit of an attitude"), shows us what it's like inside that voice booth and more. The film hits theaters Friday, September 28.


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Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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Pretty good review. Proably the best in a long while (At least in my opinon). I can understand the players dismay at the Single player, but I was kinda iffy about the Co-op. Good to know that it may actually be good.
Great video.
I would rather find a gun that makes a "pew pew" noise
That was by far one of Yahtzee's fastest readings yet. I had no idea something was going on with Russian terrorists in the game. After this review, i probably still will not buy it. BUT strangely enough, this review is motivating me to buy COD4 (after remembering Yahtzee's review of it).
Very funny YZ.
Yahtzee's face + a shovel = Happy fun times. Short and simple.
I completely agree about the SP campaign basically being shit, but luckily it's very short so the suffering doesn't last long. I did get rather annoyed with the game's tendency to kill you off as part of cut scenes, although I was more royally pissed when it did it the first time in the game because it felt like some sort of stupid punishment. The Special Ops mode does hold some promise, and I'll likely get my fill of it tomorrow at Thanksgiving with my cousin, but that alone doesn't make it worth $60. Currently I'm more than happy with my current gaming 3-way of GoW Collection, AC2, and Prototype.
Well done Yahtzee, great review as always.
I've already dedicated myself to not playing this one. While I did buy Modern Warfare 1, I thought it was kind of average as far as FPSes go.
Why is it that when I complain about the story being convoluted and dumb and the single missions being short I'm called a complete asshole who knows nothing about what he's talking about, but when yahtzee does it everyone agrees?
I honestly feel that MW2 may be a game that's better to wait for since the campaign is too short. Yahtzee also metioned the story's quality and even I'm now rethinking buying the game, even at a cheaper price.
You must be complaining to the wrong people. I was complaining that the story was short and shit as well and most people agreed with me, and then proceeded to keep sucking off the MP aspect.
I gotta say, the game is beautiful in terms of graphics, and I was only playing it on the 360, so I imagine a high-end pc is even better. But yeah, the story basically came across as every Tom Clancy/James Patterson etc thriller rolled together into one big completely insane package.
BANG! The noise made by the anti-fanboy cannon. Yeah, the one that Yahtzee just fired in the direction of this pathetic cash-in on Cod4MW with a cheap and undistinguished sequel. The first game was good because of its story. This one is not for the same reason. He's right about the gameplay being spot on as well. A very good review.
Not for storyline or exposition. That was really good. The shooting was competant, without ever being something special and the multiplayer was below average for PC shooters.
Marginally at best.
Yahtzee playing multiplayer? Preposterous! Actually, I quite expected it, and my suspicions were confirmed when he started talking about single player with a large '1.' on the screen.
Holding out on a Borderlands review though.
I really don't think Yahtzee did his best on this one, he just seemed to gripe about the controversy for the vast majority of the video, complain a little bit about the campaign and then video over.
Somewhat lackluster effort, chum.
Best one I've seen in a while, restored my faith in Yahtzee.
This actually reminds me how much I really don't want to play any form of Modern-esque warfare games. Thank you, Yahtzee, thank you for officially telling me that I'm not missing much.
Now to try Dragon Origins, if nothing else but to see if it even get some drool outta me >.>
This one made me lol many times xD
Also, C. I give a shit about Russian civilians (not NPCs)!
I think this game was way better then the first one. The storyline was kindof all over the place, but it was really interesting. I mean the bad guy was an american general trying to make americans more patriotic; If that isnt really awsome then you need to rethink your Priorities.
Just because a game is short doesnt mean its bad. Or have you already forgotten the game with no criticism. (Portal)
He's right, those hats do rule
Been a long time since I've heard someone correctly use the word coprophage.
Did he have to spoil the whole story? I mean that really sucks.
This was the first review from Yahtzee that I did not think was hilarious, but not in a bad way but in a way in which I completely agreed with everything he said. There were no great exaggeration or hyperbole in this one just the Lord's truth.
The game is a 8/10 game with a rapid fan base. I picked it up first day ; not first midnight but first late morning so I was quite excited ; and after looking at how pretty things looked I thought about how I do not care about anyone... about how stupid it was to be in the states because there was no story during all the "We are under ATTACK" levels.
I loved the first Modern Warfare but this just felt like a bit more spit-shined rehash, story rehash, gameplay, plot twists, first person getting murdered, etc... REHASH!
I played through "co-op" with a friend following the stunningly lacking and plebeian single player, but "co-op" is too nice a phrase for chunks of level rehash (I sure am using that word a lot, eh, if the shoe fits...) it was mildly entertaining but felt like some kind of bot team versus mode, no story or anything to flesh like they made it sound like it would be.
Then I jumped into multiplayer... and after two hours and a few level up's jumped right back out. It looked a bit A BIT nice and kill cams were more detailed but it was still the same thing I spent nearly a hundred hours on the first time I played it... when it was called MODERN WARFARE!
This is a bit of a textzilla rant, but I was just so happy to hear someone felt the same about it as me, it is an okay evolutionary (not revolutionary) derivative sequel to an impressive (for its time) game.
GAAAAAA LOVE THAT GAME, apparently he got frustrated on the jungle part, too, though.
I agree that the single player campaign was much too short, but I don't think the story deserves all the hate it gets. Where else was it going to go after the end of the first one? I can see why all realism was jettisoned. Spec Ops mode was a really good idea, but more could have been done with it.
Well he did exactly what I expected; and I still do not want the game.
Good one Y.
When he said he tried the multiplayer I almost passed out. Then I came to again. Seems that Spec-Ops is really good. I so far like the campaign very much and I have not finished it yet. Y says it is short but I am savoring the moments. I mean, how often does it actually rain choppers? Genius.
A few episodes ago NOBODY was banned on the first page, I was amazed.
I also hated the downloading files from Makarov's computer mission when I died 70 million times and then when get to the end u die, sorry I just had to say that. Good review!
Awesome Review! I LOLed at "Solid Soap".
And you know what... I know what I want for Christmas...
Those hat's are awesome!!!!
Kuliani speaks the truth....
OT: ZP is gradually shaping up from the ranting raving youtube guttersnipe to the corporate sensible business fellow.Im not the 1st person to say it either he is definitely matured (slightly) maybe he isnt so.. hilarious but he does review the game a lot more these days..
I recall a friend saying that it didnt matter what ZP you watched as the game and its features were unnecessary Yahtzee didnt need them really for comedy.
And Yes Praise Be To The 'Ushanka' The Sacred Russian Hat Of Awesomeness
i really like yahtzee sense of humor on most of his videos, and that's why i made an account for the Escapist mag, i always seek his pt of view just in case so i know what generic things appears in those games... remember FUN factor is important!
Personally, I think this game is great in four player split-screen death match mode, but I get the feeling that very few people play games that way any more - preferring as they do multiplayer over the interwebs. Storyline was indeed poor, but then really I didn't much care. For me, good storylines in video games are at best a bonus, and far from the norm.
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"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and 3-D animated musical "Frozen" dished up box office records over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Lionsgate's sequel earned a prodigious $75 million in its second weekend, while Disney's frosty fete opened with $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Both films bested the previous Thanksgiving record holder, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," which earned $57.5 million in 2001 over a three-day period.
Snowballing its way to the top, "Frozen" became the biggest Thanksgiving opening ever and the largest opening for Walt Disney Animation Studios. It earned $110 million globally.
"For a company whose foundation was built on animation, to have this as the biggest opening ever is a pretty extraordinary thing," said Dave Hollis, executive vice president of distribution at Walt Disney Studios, adding that the box office draw of "Frozen" exceeded studio expectations.
"We came into the weekend feeling like anything that would exceed the result from 'Tangled' from a couple years back would be great," Hollis added. "Tangled" opened with $68.7 million in 2010. "We thought something in the $70-$80 million range is what might be possible with 'Frozen.' We are hoping it lends itself to a big, long payoff after this great start."
The films topped records for the highest domestic box office grosses for the three-day and five-day holiday weekend. "Catching Fire" blazed the trail to No. 1 and "Frozen" slid in at No. 2.
"Catching Fire" earned the biggest-ever gross for a film from Wednesday to Sunday over the Thanksgiving holiday. It brought in $110.2 million, raising its domestic total to $297 million. "Frozen" scored $93 million over the five days, topping Disney's previous five-day champ, "Toy Story 2," which earned $80.1 million in 1999.
"All of these records being broken, it's like a true snowball effect," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. "Overall, this is the biggest Thanksgiving weekend for the industry ever. Last year was the Thanksgiving record holder, but this one-two punch with 'Catching Fire' and 'Frozen' was just amazing."
Internationally, "Catching Fire" continued to bring the heat, earning $276 million through Sunday. Opening No. 1 in France, Italy and Belgium, the sequel exceeded the opening weekend of "The Hunger Games" in all three markets. Overall, the sequel has grossed $573 million worldwide.
After dominating the box office during its first two weeks in theaters, Disney's "Thor: The Dark World" dropped to No. 2 last weekend and was knocked down one more spot to No. 3 this weekend, earning $11.1 million. Globally, it continues to keep Disney on the map with a total of $591.1 million.
Maintaining a healthy position at the box office, Universal's romantic comedy "The Best Man Holiday" held the fourth slot with $8.5 million, while thriller "Homefront," starring Jason Statham and James Franco, opened in the No. 5 slot with $7 million.
Also debuting over the holiday, Fox Searchlight's "Black Nativity" landed in the top 10 with $3.9 million, while the Weinstein Co.'s "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," starring Idris Elba, saw a solid launch, earning $100,306 despite playing in just four theaters.
Opening with $850,000, Spike Lee's "Oldboy" failed to make an impressive impact at the box office.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1."The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," $75 million.
2."Frozen," $67 million.
3."Thor: The Dark World," $11.1 million.
4."The Best Man Holiday," $8.5 million.
5."Homefront," $7 million.
6."Delivery Man," $6.9 million.
7."The Book Thief," $4.9 million.
8."Black Nativity," $3.9 million.
9."Philomena," $3.8 million.
10."Last Vegas," $2.8 million.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.


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Urine smelling like ammonia in babies
My 10 month old`s urine smells like ammonia for the last 2 days. What does this mean?
It may be that the urine is sitting in the diaper too long. Also, it is possible that there is a urinary tract infection, although usually babies are pretty sick with a UTI. The ammonia comes from nitrogenous wastes. I would take him or her to your pediatrician and ask them to obtain a urinalysis. Also, I would increase fluid intake of your baby.
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I think I may be allergic to my braces
Hello, I got my braces on 4 days ago and ever since I have had them on I have had these really really bad pains in my tummy and trouble breathing? What are in the metal braces? I think I could be allergic to them. I also have a Nance in the roof of my mouth and what is that for?
There have been reported cases of nickel allergy. Nickel is found in most brackets. Some manufacturers have nickel-free braces so you should discuss this with your doctor. A Nance is used to create anchorage and is an important part of the treatment. Again, ask your doctor about this.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand authorities on Thursday were searching for a Canadian couple who were believed to have died when their rental van went over a cliff on a rugged road.
Police said they were trying to recover the bodies of 25-year-old Connor Hayes and 24-year-old Joanna Lam off the Haast Pass road, which connects the west coast of the South Island to the rugged interior.
The couple were last seen Sept. 10 in stormy conditions. Parts of their wrecked rental van were found this week in the Haast River, about 80 meters (260 feet) below the road. Police believe they either drove over a cliff inadvertently or were swept off by a landslide.
Inspector John Canning said the chances they survived are "extremely remote."
The pair had been touring the country and Lam was due to start work Monday as an imaging specialist at Nelson Hospital.


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– Pure Risk is one of the risks that lead to two possibilities. First, if this risk occurs, it will cause loss. Second, if the risk does not occur, it will not pose any loss or gain (no loss, no gain). For example; fires, accidents etc.
– Speculative Risk is the risk resulting from betting luck. If this happens then the risk will lead to three possibilities. First, it would give rise to a profit. Second, it will cause loss. Third, do not cause any loss or benefit (Gain, loss or no loss, no gain). For example; gambling, invest a stock, etc.
– Particular Risk is a risk that if it happens, both the cause and consequence only cause a personal effect and do not include losses in quantity and quality. For example; housebreaking, robbing, unemployment, etc.
– Fundamental Risk is a risk that happens because of one particular party such as government policies, natural disasters, and led to a very wide impact.
Hopefully, you have understood the meaning of risk in insurance so you will understand more about how the insurance companies define a risk. This definition is crucial since you can also say that "risk" is the object of "selling" by insurance company.


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Deal with Citgo could leave ExxonMobil as only defendant left in the MTBE suitBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 16. 2013 11:05PM
CONCORD - Lawyers for New Hampshire and Citgo Petroleum Corp. are close to a deal that would leave ExxonMobil as the only oil company left in an $800 million lawsuit that started with 22 defendants in 2003 over water contamination caused by the gasoline additive MTBE.
On Tuesday, while Citgo attorney Nate Eimer was making his opening argument in a Superior Court trial expected to last four to six months, the company and the state were preparing a joint motion to sever Citgo from the case.
The motion, filed on Wednesday, indicates that the parties are working on a consent agreement with a Feb. 15 deadline. If no out-of-court settlement is reached by then, they could agree to continue negotiations or return to court.
The state has received an estimated $120 million in settlements from other defendants in the case, which has wound its way through state and federal courts for the past decade. Only Citgo and ExxonMobil refused to settle as the trial date approached.
The possibility of a settlement with Citgo does not appear to have influenced ExxonMobil's position, at least not for now.
"We're pleased with the start of the trial, and nothing has happened that would change our approach to this litigation," said ExxonMobil spokeswoman Claire Hassett. "We added MTBE in response to a federal mandate. There were no other feasible alternatives available at that time; the characteristics of MTBE were known and the benefits substantially outweighed the risks."
The state argues the oil companies did have other options, like ethanol, but continued to manufacture and distribute MTBE without warnings as to its potential dangers.
The Attorney General's Office declined to comment on the motion to sever, and attorneys for Citgo were unavailable for comment.
ExxonMobil faces the largest liability in the case due to its substantial share of the gasoline market in New Hampshire. The state is seeking to apportion liability on the basis of market share.
Since ExxonMobil controlled 30 percent of the market, the state is seeking 30 percent of $800 million, the estimated cost of testing, treating and monitoring all public and private water supplies in the state.
That would put ExxonMobil's potential liability at about $245 million, according to opening arguments by the state's lead attorney in the case.
Citgo had only 3 to 9 percent of the market, depending on the year, so would be liable for somewhere between $24 million and $72 million. Irving Oil settled for $57 million on Nov. 19.
ExxonMobil has appealed a 2009 federal jury order to pay New York City $104.7 million after finding it liable for polluting wells in the city.


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Frequently cited and just as often disputed, Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958) and "The First Person" (1975) are touchstones of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Though the arguments Anscombe advances in these papers are familiar to philosophers, their significance remains widely misunderstood, says ...
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Real estate appraisals raise Northern Pass temperatureBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 11. 2012 9:52PM
CONCORD - A settlement between a Franconia appraiser and the state Real Estate Appraiser Board has become the latest lightning rod in the ongoing feud between the developers of the Northern Pass project and property owners leading the opposition to the proposed high voltage lines.
James C. Walker, owner of White Mountains Appraisal, has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine as part of an agreement with the state Real Estate Appraiser Board to settle an investigation into his conclusion that the construction of electricity towers on a Dalton property could reduce its value significantly.
But Walker and the couple who hired him, Jim and Sandy Dannis, said they stand behind the appraisal.
"This was nothing more than a pragmatic business decision," Walker said of the settlement. Had he fought the charges of misconduct, he said, he likely would have spent much more and risked losing his appraiser license after nearly three decades of being an appraiser.
"I am a serious and ethical appraiser," he said.
The events leading up to the settlement have Northern Pass officials say they are defending the project from misleading public attacks that are coming even though the Dannis property is no longer on any proposed route for the transmission lines.
"The findings of this report, now determined to be flawed and misleading, were used in the media and in front of the (state) Legislature to distort the truth about the potential impact of the project across the state," Northern Pass spokesman Michael Skelton said in an email to the New Hampshire Union Leader. "The public deserves accurate information, and hopefully Mr. Dannis now understands that violations of any kind are unacceptable, even if they conveniently support his opinion."
Meanwhile, Dannis said the charges against Walker were part of a strategy by a large company with deep pockets to intimidate appraisers who find that the proposed high-voltage lines would decrease property value.
"We have 100 percent confidence in Mister Walker's assessment of our property," said Dannis, who with his wife owns 135 acres in Dalton that have become a focal point in the controversy surrounding the Northern Pass project. "This entire affair shows the extent to which Northern Pass is willing to attack messengers who deliver news they don't like."
Northern Pass, a collaboration between Public Service of New Hampshire's parent company, Northeast Utilities, NStar and Hydro-Quebec, has filed an application for a presidential permit with the Department of Energy to build a 180-mile-long transmission line from the Quebec border at Pittsburg to Deerfield. The project would bring 1,200 megawatts of power to the New England market.
The project seeks to use 140 miles of existing Public Service Company of New Hampshire right-of-way, but must still find 40 miles of line north of Groveton. The towers would range in height from 80 to 135 feet, which opponents of the project, including the Dannises, say would destroy scenic views and hurt tourism.
Disputed appraisal
In the spring of 2011, Walker conducted an appraisal of the Dannis property that showed a 63 to 91 percent reduction in value due to the proposed power line, depending on the size of the lot. Walker said the reduction was because the transmission lines would shift the property's "highest and best use" from residential to ancillary, essentially keeping it an open field, because the lines would make the land difficult to sell for residential purposes.
At the time, one of the proposed transmission line routes would have run through his property.
When the Dannises made the report public and filed it with the state Legislature and U.S. Department of Energy, which generated significant media coverage, Northern Pass filed a grievance and asked the Real Estate Appraiser Board to review a Northern-Pass-commissioned analysis of Walker's appraisal.
"Given the fact that Mr. Walker's information was used by some opponents to create media stories and was actually presented to the New Hampshire Legislature in an effort to change state law, the project is pleased to see that the significant concerns expressed by our experts were valid and the (state) Real Estate (Appraiser) Board felt it was appropriate to take action on the matter to protect the public," Skelton said.
Walker said he agreed with one of the charges, that he didn't explain well enough why the land's highest and best use would shift from residential to ancillary.
"There should have been more verbage," Walker said. However, he said, "I stand by the appraisal 100 percent and my conclusions 100 percent."
Walker must complete seven hours of additional training, provide the settlement agreement to any potential employer of his appraisal firm and pay a $2,000 fine to the state, according to the agreement.
Reports prepared by Northern Pass on potential impacts on property values have estimated the impact at 10 percent or less.
"In each case, these studies have arrived at the same general conclusions: the presence of high voltage transmission lines statistically has little to no effect on the value of neighboring properties," according to Northern Pass's website.
But Walker's appraisal seems to mesh with the opinions of at least two North Country real estate agents, Andrew Smith and Peter Powell, who have reported that the possibility of the transmission lines has decreased values by 25 percent to 50 percent.
In a letter to the legislative committee now studying the feasibility of burying future transmission lines, Smith gave an example of a property that he said should be worth almost $400,000 in a normal market. It received an offer of $190,000, with a letter from the prospective buyer explaining that the low offer was because of Northern Pass.
Skelton said Northern Pass has no plans to take any kind of action against Smith or Powell.
"The opinions of two real estate agents who are openly opposed to Northern Pass is entirely different than an official appraisal that was submitted to the Legislature and Department of Energy," he said.
Conflict of interest claimed
But Dannis said he questioned the impartiality of the expert Northern Pass hired to independently review Walker's work, Rye appraiser Brian Underwood. Underwood is also the chairman of the state Real Estate Appraiser Board and has performed appraisals and reports on property value for Northern Pass in the past - his report on impacts in Deerfield and Littleton concluded there is no market evidence "that would indicate diminution of property value due to high voltage transmission lines."
Underwood, who could not be reached for comment, recused himself from the proceedings in the Walker case, according to the settlement agreement, but Dannis said his hiring still constituted "an obvious conflict of interest."
Executive Councilor Ray Burton told New Hampshire Public Radio that he likewise was concerned about a conflict of interest. The Executive Council approves appointments to the board.
"I certainly am not leaning towards reappointing Mr. Underwood," Burton said to NHPR.
Underwood's methods were criticized by Danny Wiley, a former chairman of the national Appraisal Standards Board. Walker said he asked Wiley to review Underwood's report and he provided a copy of Wiley's report to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Wiley's report said Underwood failed to meet several reporting requirements when conducting an appraisal review, including failing to state the scope the work he did to review the appraisal and not addressing "many aspects of the report under review."
"Failure to meet report content requirements can be an issue of education (competency) or intent (ethics)," the Wiley report said. Given Underwood's position as chair of the appraiser board, "it appears that failure to comply with the applicable report content requirements was a matter of choice/intent rather than a matter of competency."
As part of the settlement agreement, Walker, who said he has been disciplined by the board in the past, agreed to drop an ethics complaint against Underwood.
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EXCLUSIVE by Narelle McGowan & Gemma Haigh
Staff at eight Edinburgh First Quench off-licences face redundancy without pay, leaving them with the prospect of a long fight to claim their money.
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One worker said that many staff are devastated by the news and feel it is unfair they are not getting a redundancy package.
Administrators KPMG were brought in to try to save the business, but now they are planning to close dozens of branches across the country.
A First Quench spokeswoman refused to confirm that staff will be left without pay.
First Quench, who own Wine Rack, Thresher, Haddows, Bottoms Up, The Local and Victoria Wine have 219 stores across Scotland, 53 of which face closure and of the 1,300 stores in the UK they are closing 373.
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MONTGOMERY, Ohio (AP) — Here in Cincinnati's suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away.
If any Republican House members might be open to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Steve Chabot would seem near the top of the list. He comes from an area so politically competitive that he lost his seat in 2008 to a Democrat, then won a rematch two years later. His new, redrawn district is safer, but Mitt Romney's 5-point margin over Obama was hardly a landslide.
Moreover, Chabot readily acknowledges that political compromise is the only way to accomplish anything in a democratic society as divided as the United States.
Yet Chabot toes an unyielding conservative line on virtually every big issue before Congress. He opposes any new taxes, even if they might lead to Democratic concessions on spending for Medicare and Social Security. He sees no need for new gun laws, including broader background checks on buyers.
He wants to overturn Obamacare, despite the president's re-election and the Supreme Court's decision upholding the health care law. He'd like to balance the federal budget in four years without new taxes, an improbable feat that would require extraordinary spending cuts far beyond those now triggering complaints.
Chabot, a former teacher and lawyer who has spent most of his career in politics, fits comfortably and quietly in the House GOP caucus. Outwardly, he's one of its more accommodating, measured members, rejecting the notion that compromise is cowardly or foolish.
"We have divided government in our country," Chabot recently told 75 constituents at one of two town hall meetings he held on a snowy Monday. "Neither side can pass anything on its own. You have to work with the other side."
But Democrats say Chabot and his colleagues have strange notions of compromise, especially on the tax-and-spend issues that preoccupy Congress.
Obama repeatedly says he can't begin to rein in costly entitlement programs dear to liberals such as Medicare and Social Security without Republicans agreeing to new taxes, chiefly on the rich. That's a non-starter for Chabot.
"I think we're already overtaxed," he told the gathering here. If anything, taxes should be cut, he said.
Like most of his House GOP colleagues, Chabot says Obama extracted all the new tax revenue he'll get when he forced Republicans to swallow the year-end "fiscal cliff" deal. It will generate about $620 billion in new revenues over 10 years. That's well below the $1 trillion the Republican House speaker suggested in December as part of a deficit-reduction "grand bargain," which never came to fruition.
"It's pretty hard to get to my right," Chabot said in an interview. It's a boast often heard from House Republicans, many of whom live in fear of losing a primary election to GOP challengers who accuse them of being too cozy with Democrats.
Whether it's because of his strategy or not, Chabot, 60, says he has never had a Republican primary challenger in his congressional career, which began in 1994.
Some might argue that Chabot's popularity with GOP primary voters would free him to edge toward the political center, in search of independent voters who can prove crucial in November general elections. Indeed, his town hall meetings — in contrast to some that are dominated by flag-waving tea partyers — drew a smattering of political moderates urging bipartisan cooperation.
Chabot, unfailingly polite and soft-spoken, stuck to positions embraced by his fierier, take-no-prisoners colleagues.
One woman said she supports "responsible gun ownership" and "sensible gun laws." She said she supports background checks on all gun buyers, and restrictions on military-style weapons.
Chabot offered the same reply he gave later to a woman who said the only difference between a free person and a slave "is a gun." He's unlikely to support any new gun laws, Chabot said, because criminals would ignore them, and there are already enough laws on the books.
When a man asked Chabot why he called Obama's 2010 health care law "a takeover" instead of a Supreme Court-backed act of Congress, the congressman replied: "I consider it a government takeover." The only reason it hasn't been overturned, Chabot said, is because "we just don't have the votes."
At an evening town hall meeting in the North Bend suburb of Cincinnati, Bill Groll agreed with Chabot on just about everything. Groll, a retired engineering technician for General Electric, said both parties in Washington should work together to shrink the deficit.
"The Republicans are trying," he said in an interview, "but the Democrats won't let them."
Groll, 62, said there's no need to raise taxes, even if it's the price Democrats demand for slowing the growth of entitlement programs. "Social Security is not really an entitlement," Groll added. "You pay into it. It's like an insurance thing."
As Chabot's hour-long session continued, chances for bipartisan agreements seemed to dim.
"The food stamp program is replete with waste and fraud and abuse," Chabot said, citing programs he says can stand deeper spending cuts. Money spent on public housing, he said, should go toward reducing the deficit.
When a man asked, "is Obama working toward a socialist country?" Chabot replied, "He would say no."
But the United States is becoming more like Europe, the congressman added, so "we're getting pretty close."
Follow Charles Babington on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbabington