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Spring Breakers (US - BD RA)
Gabe has that Skrillex song stuck in his head and he blames Harmony Korine...
Brit (Ashley Benson), Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are best friends anxious to cut loose for spring break, but they don't have the money. After holding up a restaurant for quick cash, the girls head to the beach in a stolen car for what they think will be the party of a lifetime...until they're thrown in jail. But they are bailed out by Alien (James Franco), a local rapper, drug pusher and arms dealer, who lures them into a criminal underbelly that's as lurid as it is liberating for a close-knit gang of girlfriends who are still figuring out their paths in life. (From Lionsgate's official synopsis)
When Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was released, I had no idea what to make of it and skipped watching it during its rather brief theatrical release. Then, something weird happened – everyone started talking about it. And their opinions were fiery. There was, apparently, very little middle ground when it came to Spring Breakers, which makes sense to anyone familiar with Korine's film career. Influenced by neo-realists, Neuer Deutscher Film practitioners, and Nouvelle Vague star filmmakers, like John Cassavetes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Jean-Luc Godard, Korine's career began when he wrote the screenplay for Larry Clark's nihilistic cult favourite, Kids. He moved on to directing with a nearly impenetrably avant-garde film called Gummo, the slightly more conventional Julien Donkey-Boy, and a series of short films. Korine's work is often non-linear (or at the very least episodic), hyper-minimalist, and post-postmodern, verging on Dadaist. He's also one of only a couple of American filmmakers to have made a film that followed the rules of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg's Dogme 95 movement. To call him 'experimental' is an understatement akin to referring to water as 'wet.'
I'm assuming that most of the Spring Breakers controversy/backlash has more to do with Lionsgate's marketing strategies than any of the shocking on-screen elements. I don't think the trailers were necessarily misleading, but their target audience doesn't really overlap with Korine's usual audience. The casting of teen idols like Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson, is the borderline brilliant element that really pulls the rug out from underneath mainstream audiences. I'm not sure if these ladies knew exactly what they were getting into (the dialogue appears largely improvised, so I'm assuming they had some idea as to what was going on), but their participation certainly marks them as more interesting people than I had assumed. On the other hand, Korine's established fanbase had to have also been alienated by Spring Breakers' high-energy vulgarity. He's not really exploring the malaise or melancholy of abusive behavior as much as he's capturing bawdy, lawless behavior, seemingly for the sake of doing it.
My problem with the film isn't its wanton profanity, but with the heavy-handed way Korine is approaching it. He shoehorns behavior into his main characters without infusing them with any other defining qualities. They simply crave irreverent activity because the college world is otherwise too boring ('Just pretend it's a video game. Act like you're in a movie or something'). It all reeks of an older filmmaker standing atop a high horse and wagging his finger at his age-appropriate audience. This seems odd, based on my admittedly limited understanding of Korine's other work. Perhaps this is the point, though. Many critics have surmised that the director is subversively teasing or 'trolling' the people most likely to see his film in theaters. There's just no way this particular filmmaker isn't un-ironically or accidentally presenting Gomez' good Christian girl as too 'pure' to partake in the criminal chaos. Possibly intentional tone-deafness aside, I found it nearly impossible to feel anything while watching the film because I was so emotionally blocked off from every major character (I only knew their names because I copied them from Lionsgate's press release). Korine is still able to capture a palpable sense of unpredictability and danger in the film's latter half with the help of a positively manic performance from James Franco. Assuming emotional detachment was the intended effect (and I really not sure it was, based on all the time devoted to characters mournfully staring out of bus windows), the second half is an amusing detour into low-life criminal activity, but the lack of narrative anchoring leaves the director with a lot of room to meander aimlessly.
Spring Breakers was shot 35mm using various camera rigs and is presented here in full 1080p, 2,40:1 video. The film-based qualities of the image show in a sheen of light, consistent grain, but the sharpening effects sometimes inherent in the format are mostly missing, largely due to the especially pointed focal practices – cinematographer Benoît Debie (who, by the way, shot Gasper Noe's last two movies) is constantly pulling focus to capture the chaotic behavior in frame. Details are, for the most part, not particularly sharp, but not at the risk of basic texture and some very complex clothing/set dressing patterns. This transfer looks best in terms of the garish colour schemes, which appear to have been mostly captured in-camera, not created via digital grading practices. The colours are eyeball-boiling ultra-vibrant without any notable blocking effects or jagged edges. The most vividly neon images feature blooming edges and quite a bit of hue bleeding, which creates black & white level impurities, but these all seem to be intentional artefacts. The cinéma vérité appearance doesn't really damage the finer qualities of the gradations, however. There are 'multi media' moments throughout the film that include grainy and fuzzy digital photography.
This Spring Breakers Blu-ray comes fitted with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack that fluctuates between stark realism, dreamy stylization, and super-aggressive musical interludes. The bulk of the sound is of the natural variety and does a nice job recreating the aural chaos of a busy, noisy party. The sound is partitioned throughout the speakers without any specific directional additions, making for a successfully immersive and appropriately frightening aural environment. The dreamy stylization often bridges the more organic scenes and is defined by ambient electronic music whirling around the room, spiked by distinctly centered, narrative dialogue (all of which is very clear, but also obviously captured on-set, not ADR'd) and hyperreal sound effects. There are a couple of sequences involving gunfire and these give the LFE an extra chance to be punchy, but the bulk of heavy bass is found in the electronic music, which is provided by Drive composer Cliff Martinez and dubstep favourite Skrillex, whose obnoxious brand of techno fits the film's scenes of spring break excess to a T.
The extras begin with Korine's solo commentary track. This is one of those cases where I'd prefer to not listen to the filmmaker's specific intent, because I was having fun drawing my own conclusions from the material. Regardless, I suppose this is my job, so I dove in with the intent of skipping around to capture the feel of the track without spoiling myself entirely. Fortunately, Korine isn't really very good at this whole commentary thing. A lot of the track is devoted to the technical aspects of filmmaking, including descriptions of photography techniques, locations, and, at worst, of the exact on-screen action (like a descriptive track for the blind). He doesn't leave an excess of blank space here and is at his best when admitting that so much of the film is based around imagery alone. He repeatedly compares the film's images to one of his art instillations and explains the more subversive elements as visual mutations more than social statements – 'an impressionistic representation.' I also appreciated some of the behind-the-scenes tales of the party sequences getting away from him as a director.
Up next is another three part making-of featurette entitled Breaking it Down: Behind Spring Breakers (22:00. HD). Part one, Film Makers: Spring Breakers covers Korine's concept and writing, James Franco's contributions, cinematography, storyboards, casting, and editing. Part two, Breaking Convention, features more raw footage of Korine working with his actors on set and covers more of the film's conceptual/tonal issues. Part three, Spring Breakers Forever, generally covers everyone's hopes for the film's reception. Harmony's Ear Candy (7:20, HD) is an occasionally screen-specific look at the film's heavy musical content. Up next are three tongue-in-cheek, maybe real (?) Vice Magazine featurettes (41:10, HD), covering the seedy worlds of The ATL Twins Zone, The Redneck Riviera, and Dirtona Beach with Vice writer Chris Nieratko. Interviews throughout the featurettes include Korine, cinematographer Dobie, composer Cliff Martinez, music supervisor Randal Poster, real life Panama City Beach/Daytona Beach spring breakers and the adults that worry about/support them, and cast members Franco, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, the ATL Twins (and friends), and Gucci Mane. The disc also features a deleted scene (1:00, HD), outtakes (7:40, HD), trailers, and TV spots.
I wasn't moved enough by Spring Breakers to love or hate it, but I can't possibly dismiss writer/director Harmony Korine's occasional brushes with genius, especially a wicked crime montage set to Britney Spears and the ridiculously serious Scarface-inspired climax. But it sure takes a lot of listless rambling to get to the good stuff. I liked it better when Alexandre Aja was punishing his spring breakers with giant, hungry, prehistoric piranhas. I'm assuming that fans of Korine's other films will find the meandering bits more tolerable. I also just happened to watch Girl Happy, a goofy Elvis beach-party movie, the same week I watched Spring Breakers and was struck by the number of similarities between the two films' plots. This led me to want to re-watch Spring Breakers as a spoof of the beach-party subgenre, which means I have to admit that there's probably more here than I noticed the first time around. This Bly-ray comes fitted with an appropriately grungy and garish A/V quality and a decent collection of special features.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
This one sort of stuck with me, though I'm not entirely sure why. Quite looking forward to a rewatch.
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
Saw this one at the theater. While I liked it; I felt something was missing. I re-watched it again online, thought it was AMAZING. I wanna own this one. I think it just needs to grow on you.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Came away with a bit of a 'WTF was that?' feeling, but I'd probably watch it again if only to see Franco singing Spears. Totally not for the swimming pool scene. No sir.
mlcm Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 930
It was frustrating for me because it wasn't smart enough to say anything about its character, and it wasn't exploitative/dumb enough to be entertaining. That being said, I'm quite finished with the whole "female empowerment" thing as a balm to soothe the guilt from what is clearly straight male masturbatory fantasies.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,718
In that regard I think Sucker Punch is the end of the line.
mlcm Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 930
Gabe Powers wrote: In that regard I think Sucker Punch is the end of the line.
It should be no surprise that I absolutely loathe that film and dislike its defenders, no matter how cogent their arguments.
It should be no surprise that I absolutely loathe that film and dislike its defenders, no matter how cogent their arguments.
felipe-11 Member Join Date: July 2009 Location: United States Posts: 418
It's kinda funny how people react to trailers. Maybe it because I've watched so many, but I knew what to expect from the movie since the first trailer and just loved it. My friend on the other hand, saw the trailer and was clearly expecting some sort of "Project X" comedy type movie and hated it. Although even he couldn't resist the piano scene. I guess that's pretty much how everyone reacted.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 9th July 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director's Commentary, Breaking it Down: Behind Spring Breakers, Harmony's Ear Candy, Vice Magazine Featurettes, Trailers, TV Spots, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Harmony Korine
Cast: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Gucci Mane
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Film-Noir
Length: 94 minutes
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Three members of the 2014 Auburn baseball team were selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, which concluded Saturday.
Junior right-handed pitcher Trey Cochran-Gill and senior third baseman Damek Tomscha were taken with back-to-back picks in the 17th round. Cochran-Gill went to the Seattle Mariners with the 501st overall pick in the draft, and Tomscha was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies one pick later.
In the 31st round, junior right-handed pitcher Rocky McCord was picked by the Kansas City Royals with the 933rd overall selection.
Cochran-Gill, a native of Tallassee, led the Auburn pitching staff with 28 appearances on the season out of the bullpen, going 0-2 with a 3.41 ERA and one save. He struck out 20 batters and walked just nine in 34.1 innings pitched, giving up 16 total runs with 13 of them earned.
In his three-year Auburn career, Cochran-Gill is 6-5 with three saves in 57 appearances, striking out 65 and walking 31 in 110.1 innings pitched.
Tomscha led Auburn in several offensive categories, including home runs (5), slugging percentage (.443) and on-base percentage (.436). Playing in 54 of 56 games, the Sioux City, Iowa, native was second on the team with a .313 batting average and drove in 29 runs while scoring 37 times. Tomscha was also hit by a pitch 15 times during the season to lead the Tigers and amass the sixth-most hit-by-pitches in a single season in Auburn history.
Tomscha finished his two-year Auburn career with a .293 average, 12 home runs and 55 RBIs.
McCord, who came to Auburn from Spanish Fort, appeared in five games during the 2014 season, all in relief, and did not record a decision. In 2.2 innings of work, he gave up one earned run for a 3.38 ERA while walking four and striking out five. McCord also had one at-bat during the season, recording a pinch-hit single against Coppin State on March 19. In three years, McCord is 2-1 with a 4.17 ERA in 45.1 innings pitched across 22 appearances.
Auburn has had at least one player selected in the MLB draft for 40 consecutive seasons, which ties for the second-longest active streak in the Southeastern Conference.
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Wild Fire
What happens when the extreme becomes the norm, when something you thought you understood is now literally off the charts?
That's the question fire officials were asking themselves on August 20, 2007, as all conditions pointed to another monstrous fire season, similar to that of 1910.
As it was, the fires of 2007 scorched almost two million acres in Idaho alone, continuing the trend of bigger, hotter wildfires in the West.
This web site, including extended interviews with 11 fire experts and participants, and our half-hour Outdoor Idaho program, "Wild Fire," explore the changing face of wildfire in the West.


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A Shadowplay first — Behind the Scenes of an Intertitle.
The chaps at Pathe Freres are seen hard at work here, churning out the intertitles we know and love at Shadowplay. The image is from Pathe: First Empire of the Cinema, known as The Big Book because it's a primary source at the Screenworks office where we're assembling NATAN: The Documentary.
I decided I had to read the intertitle, becoming perhaps the first to do so in a hundred years. This involved blowing it up to David Hemmings proportions — my humble cottage is now a magnificent piece of origami, a single print-out folded so as to cover every wall of every room. Wandering through the resulting gallery I perceive the phrase ADMIRACAO DE SEU VENINO, which is Portuguese for ADMIRATION OF HIS VENINO, which doesn't help at all. But it's interesting to see that Pathe was producing intertitles in every European language (because if they're doing Portuguese, they must be doing everything else, right?) — truly, before the First World War, they were an empire.


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Now this is by no means the first time we've interviewed World of Warcraft's Lead Developer Tom Chilton (aka Kalgan) but we though with the recent release of Patch 3.1, this would be the perfect time to sit down with him and get the 411 on Blizzard's plans for their latest patch.
WoW Insider: Blizzard seem to be treating each major patch as more of a mini expansion, what are the reasons for this?
Tom Chilton: I would say the biggest reason is because we're always pushing ourselves to do as much as we can in every patch. We're never really satisfied with what we have in the patch versus what we didn't have. Maybe the developers get a little out of control - but in a good way as that's good for players. More than anything else we want to make sure that in a patch we have content for everyone.
We feel like one of the things we didn't do so well in the past was to deliver content for everyone, we would deliver content for different parts of the player base at any given time like a 25-person raid or a 10-person raid or here's a new battleground, back in the day of Arathi Basin. However we didn't really hit everyone at the same time so we're trying harder to do that while at the same time maintain our pace of Expansions ... our blindingly rapid pace of Expansions.
Why did you decide to implement the Argent Tournament?
The Argent Tournament we saw primarily as a more Azerothian style event. We've got a lot of world events, like in-game holidays, at this point but we're going to continue to improve those and refine them and we will add more of them over time. But we wanted to spend a little more time doing something which was a little more Azeroth.
So we built the Argent Tournament and we knew that with a lot of our world events, we wanted them to be very solo friendly, very casual player friendly but we didn't want it to feel like another set of daily quests that were the same as any other daily quests people where already doing. We wanted to make sure the activity felt a little bit different and kind of new and fresh so that was one of the reasons behind doing the Argent Tournament the way we did and it's part of how we came to the idea of doing jousting in-game.
Does the Tournament have a role to play in Wrath or it is just a bit of fun in Icecrown?
Well it's certainly going to be carried on in 3.2 as we continue to expand the Argent Tournament. How much farther it goes beyond that is hard to say at this point.
How do you maintain a balance between changing long-standing game play mechanics (for example reducing hearthstone cooldown to 30 minutes or adding dual specs) and not giving the players everything they want?
Well, we have this very thick skin, maintained over a very long period of time! I guess in some ways our design philosophies have become less hard core over time or at least we're finding ways to figure out what 'hard core' really means versus when it's just annoying. There are a lot of things about world travel and talents ... philosophies which we've decided are just not friendly enough to the player.
When we developed them, we were being more friendly to the player than any other game out there and we felt like, you know, it's probably even more restrictive than it needs to be. The hearthstone decision itself, part of that is because for a long time in the game there's been a bug called ghetto-hearthing where you can effectively hearthstone by going into an instance and leave the party.
Well. we were fixing that and as a side effect of our ability to queue for battlegrounds from anywhere, because it needs to return you to the place you where when you came out of the battleground, so the logic the instances use to decide where to put you when you come out is smarter than it used to be. It seemed like it was almost by virtue that we got that bug fixed but we felt like players were really used to being able to go to Dalaran or Stormwind or wherever their hearthstone is set a lot more often than we originally anticipated. We wanted to make sure that the game suddenly didn't feel a lot more cumbersome because of that bug fix.
What can you say about patch 3.2 and beyond?
Well, I guess I can tell you there's a battleground and some more stuff in the Argent Crusade! I would say the biggest thing would actually be the [additional content coming to the] Argent Tournament itself so that would be one of those things to look towards. Also, inevitably, there's going to be Icecrown Citadel and the confrontation with Arthas further down the line.
Why has it taken so long to implement something so simple as having mounts swim in water? Is this linked to some thing bigger or just a much-needed fix.
Yeah, that's another one of those evolving kind of philosophies, but we also got some extra time to animate those mounts so it looks like they're actually able to swim. We always found it really kind of annoying that you'd run through a puddle of water that was knee-deep and be dismounted. I think it's one of those polish things that probably would have been better if the game had always been like that, but now was the time for us to be able to do it.
Are you still working on the new dances and druid forms promised way back?
Yep, we still have animators working away on that.
Are you surprised by the success of Wrath and the popularity of new content, like the Death Knight class and Wintergrasp?
I guess yes and no. The expansion, as a whole, we all had a really good feeling about right from the start. We felt like, you know, it was a great package that it was going to be really feature rich. We had high expectations for ourselves and it would be unfair to say that we didn't expect it to do well.
At the same time, it's humbling how strong a response it's gotten from the fans. Also I'm very pleased to how the introduction to the new class has gone. There was a lot of concern, both internally and by the player base, that adding a new class could potentially mess up the game and we tried to make sure we were diligent about paying attention to things which could lead to problems for the game.
I guess my feelings about Wintergrasp is more mixed, I think that in some ways it is extremely cool and it has gotten us some of that feel that we wanted out of world PvP. On the downside, it's so difficult for us to design around an unknown number of players so part of the disappointment is that we're still struggling to support the number of players that participate.
At times, during prime time on the bigger servers, it can really slow down quite a bit and we don't feel like that's an acceptable play environment situation.
In the wake of the success of Death Knights, are you going consider introducing more Hero classes?
It's definitely very possible that we'll do that in the future. Certainly we view that Death Knights have been a success. We do feel that there's still a limited number of classes we can introduce to the game before the classes start becoming more of the same. We're being very careful not to go too far too quickly, we want to make sure we pace ourselves and that we make really smart choices about when and how we do that.
Why introduce dual specs? How do you think these will change one player's versatility?
Well, I guess never say never, I mean a couple of years ago, I couldn't imagine we'd ever do dual spec. We always wanted the talents to feel like very meaningful choices to players and that there wouldn't be infinite flexibility, at least not without a cost. At the same time, the way the game has involved and players participate in multiple area of the end-game and the way in which those end-games are totally different, we're talking about raiding versus PvP or solo daily quest farming and being the healer in your raid. All those different ways in which people play the game, it really just got to the point where we felt like it was a necessity. It wasn't something we could turn a blind eye toward anymore.
As far as tri-spec goes, I hope not! From a design perspective, just because I still want to maintain as much integrity as I can regarding how having a spec and choosing what you're going to do is important. Also the UI gets more and more cumbersome and the game gets more complex. Again, from a design standpoint, the game begins to feel like you have three specs, why not just have all the talents? Once you have everything, it stops being about character customization, which is what it was always intended to be.
Is there a feature in another MMO that you admire and would like to see in WoW?
Sure! Right now, for example, we don't have a housing system. Other MMOs have it and it's a system that we've talked about since before the launch of the original WoW. We've talked about housing and how we'd do it and how it might work for at least five years.
Is it something you're actively working on?
No, we're not working on right now, but it's incredibly complex to do right and we're not sure yet if it's going to be the right thing for WoW in the long run. It has major implications for the game itself and again I wouldn't go out of my way and say never but it's not on the immediately of things to do.
Well thanks for taking the time to chat to us.
My pleasure.


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I created an HTML Application (HTA) named Install_Printer that makes installing printers on a print server easy and consistent. This HTA uses the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit's PrinterAdmin (prnadmin.dll) tool to create the printer port, share the printer, publish it to Active Directory (AD), and record the printer information in the printer's properties page.
Here's how Install_Printer works. When you double-click the HTA, the Window_Onload subroutine runs. This subroutine checks to see whether prnadmin.dll is present in three locations: C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools, %SystemRoot%, and %SystemRoot%\System32.
When prnadmin.dll isn't present in any of these locations, the HTA calls the ShowFile subroutine. This subroutine performs two tasks. First, it prompts the HTA UI to open with the printer driver drop-down list and the Create Shared Printer button disabled, as Figure 1 shows. Second, it prompts the HTA UI to open with some elements designed to obtain the pathname to prnadmin.dll, as the bottom of Figure 1 shows. The user can provide a pathname to the DLL by entering it or by browsing to it. Note that the browse functionality is available only in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. After you provide a pathname and click the Continue button, the HTA copies prnadmin.dll to the System32 directory and uses the Regsvr32 command to register the DLL with the system. The HTA then prompts the user to close and reopen the HTA so that the printer driver drop-down list and the Create Shared Printer button are no longer disabled.
When prnadmin.dll is present, the HTA creates instances of three prnadmin.dll objects. The HTA then uses Windows Management Instrumentation's (WMI's) Win32_PrinterDriver class to enumerate all the installed print drivers on the local machine and populate the printer driver drop-down list. (Although you can use prnadmin.dll to enumerate printer drivers, I had some problems using it for this purpose.) The final result is that the HTA UI opens with the options you need to install a printer, as Figure 2 shows.
To install a printer, you simply need to specify the name you want to give the printer, provide the printer's IP address, and select the appropriate printer driver. (If the driver you need isn't in the list, you must install the driver and run the HTA again to have the driver appear.) Optionally, you can include a comment about the printer and specify the printer's location. This information will appear in the printer's property page. Although it isn't required to create the shared printer, it can be helpful, especially when you manage many printers. Note that the HTA automatically adds the printer's IP address and name to the beginning of the comment line in the printer's properties page, even if you don't enter anything in the HTA's comment text box.
When you click the Create Shared Printer button, the HTA uses the specified IP address to create a standard TCP/IP port. The HTA then creates the printer and sets several of its options, including disabling bidirectional communication, disabling SNMP, and setting the port to TCP raw and the port number to 9100. You can change these and other settings. Prnadmin.dll has numerous properties, which you can read about in the resource kit's Prnadmin.doc file.
The HTA creates a Web page to
show its progress. I often use this type
of progress reporting because an HTA
can't show its progress while executing
a script because it's in a busy state.
Having the HTA create a new window
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executing a script. You can download
the Install_Printer.hta from the Download the Code box at the top of the Web page.
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So it would be really easy to kill Vader with an EMP burst. So if Vader's star destroyer was hit with an ION cannon pulse, his ship would be disabled and Vader would be dead.
Quote from: Matt on May 24, 2010, 01:29 PMSimple: He dies because what in the world are you supposed to do with him if he lives?Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Simple: He dies because what in the world are you supposed to do with him if he lives?
Even though Vader saved his son and was redeemed, he would still have to stand trail for war crimes. The new republic would still hang him regardless of being a Clone Wars hero and saving the last Jedi from death. Alot of people after the Battle of Endor though the Jedi shouldn't be allowed to exist anyway.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jordan Zimmermann pitched eight innings to win his 10th game, Adam LaRoche had three hits including a two-run triple and the Nationals spoiled Roy Oswalt's return to the majors with a 5-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night.
Ian Desmond homered for the second straight game, and Denard Span and Steve Lombardozzi added a double and a single apiece for Washington.
Zimmermann (10-3) allowed an unearned run on six hits. He retired 16 straight in one stretch, throwing 112 pitches — 85 for strikes — while fanning nine and walking one.
Oswalt (0-1) went five innings in his Colorado debut, allowing four runs on nine hits. He struck out 11 and didn't walk a batter.
The Rockies have lost four straight and fell to .500 for the first time since April 2.
ATLANTA (AP) — David Wright hit two solo homers, New York's bullpen pitched five-plus scoreless innings to overcome an injury to starting pitcher Jonathon Niese in a victory over Atlanta.
Niese left the game in the fourth with left shoulder discomfort and the Mets trailing 3-2, but the Mets' bullpen shut down Atlanta for the next 5 2-3 innings.
Closer Bobby Parnell earned his 11th save in 14 chances by facing the minimum in the ninth.
LaTroy Hawkins (2-0) earned the victory after allowing two hits and striking out two in two innings.
The Mets have won four of six, thanks in part to a bullpen that's 1-0 with a 1.55 ERA over the last nine games.
Mike Minor (8-3) allowed nine hits, four runs and two walks in six-plus innings for Atlanta.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pedro Ciriaco tripled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and hit a two-run homer in the eighth to lead San Diego past Los Angeles in the Dodgers' 's first visit to Petco Park since the teams brawled on April 11.
The Padres, who had three terrific defensive plays, won for the eighth time in 10 games and popped above .500 for the second time this season.
Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig homered on his first swing at Petco Park, giving him six overall and three against the Padres since his big league debut on June 3.
Nick Vincent (2-0) pitched the seventh for the win.
The Dodgers, who've been in last place in the NL West since May 6, have lost eight of 11.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Marcell Ozuna's two-run single gave Tom Koehler his first victory in nine career starts, and Miami rallied past San Francisco.
Ozuna's line drive to right field in the eighth inning off reliever Jeremy Affeldt (1-3) ended Koehler's stretch of futility. After six appearances in the bullpen, Koehler (1-5) had been winless in seven starts this season — and took the loss in his lone start last year — for the worst team in the majors.
Giants starter Chad Gaudin tossed 4 1-3 scoreless innings but left the game after taking a hard line drive off his right throwing elbow. The team said he had a bruised elbow.
Joaquin Arias' RBI triple put San Francisco up 1-0 in the seventh.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lance Lynn earned his 10th victory to tie for the NL lead and Matt Holliday homered and drove in two runs in St. Louis' victory over Chicago.
Lynn (10-1) allowed a run on three hits in six innings with six strikeouts and has reached double digits in wins before the All-Star break both of his years in the rotation, going 11-4 last year and making the All-Star team. He joined teammate Adam Wainwright and Washington's Jordan Zimmermann for the league lead.
Welington Castillo homered leading off the third for the Cubs.
Castillo's second homer of the season and first since April 8 briefly tied it at 1 after David Freese's run-scoring groundout off Scott Feldman (6-6) had given the Cardinals the lead.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Pedro Alvarez hit a solo homer, bases-loaded double and single to drive in all of Pittsburgh's runs in a victory over Cincinnati and a split of their NL Central showdown.
The Pirates remain a half-game behind second-place Cincinnati after the four-game set.
Alvarez had an RBI single and his 16th homer off Homer Bailey. After Alfredo Simon (5-3) loaded the bases in the seventh, Alvarez doubled off left-hander Tony Cingrani to snap a 2-all tie.
The five RBIs were a season high for a Pirate and one shy of Alvarez's career high.
Bryan Morris (4-2) contributed to the go-ahead rally with his first career single. He also pitched two innings, allowing one run.


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Best and Worst Player
Best Player
Goal Choice
R. LewandowskiBorussia Dortmund Position: Attacker
Fan Choice
R. LewandowskiBorussia Dortmund Position: Attacker
Worst Player
Goal Choice
PepeReal Madrid Position: Defender
Fan Choice
PepeReal Madrid Position: Defender
Team Ratings
Borussia Dortmund
R. Weidenfeller
Left helpless as Madrid scored the equalising goal late in the first half from a slack defensive error. Was rarely troubled but did well to stifle a dangerous Khedira cross that might have brought Madrid back into the tie. Did well to deny Ronaldo late on.
S. Bender
Battled impressively in the centre of the field, where his strength and energy were to the fore. Overshadowed by the omnipresent Gundogan but his performance was still of a high standard.
M. Schmelzer
The left-back played a strong game in the Dortmund defence. Refused to let a white shirt run in behind him to take possession and was measured in his offensive approach in this encounter.
N. Subotić
Played a strong match defensively as he was not caught out of position and was extremely positive in his challenges. Competed particularly well in the air when challenged by Ronaldo from set pieces.
M. Hummels
A stray first-half pass opened the door for Madrid but the centre-back was lucky as the visitors failed to take full advantage. Was not let off a second time as his short back pass was responsible for the Madrid leveller. Did well not to let this error get to him and played a superb second half.
Ł. Piszczek
A very effective performance in the full-back role, where he closed down his opposite number quickly and effectively. Like his team-mates, he was phenomenally industrious when his side were not in possession. Went off in the closing stages.
I. Gündogan
It was his well-weighted pass to Gotze that was the real catalyst to the opening goal. Was extremely impressive as a pivot as he was ever available to receive possession, which was inevitably used in a sensible manner. Nearly scored a stunning fourth after beating two players. A truly indefatigable display.
J. Błaszczykowski
Made his first real contribution of the evening after half an hour when he broke past Coentrao to create a goalscoring opportunity. The least effective of Dortmund's front four, though the standards were exceptionally high. Withdrawn in the last 10 minutes.
M. Götze
His summer move to Bayern Munich may have been announced on Tuesday but his performance in this clash was not diminished in any way. Delivered a stunning cross for Lewandowski to score the opening goal. Was superb throughout.
R. Lewandowski
A truly outstanding display of goalscoring. Struck after only seven minutes to give Dortmund the perfect start to the game. He was a threat in the box throughout and grabbed his second with a terrific predatory finish soon after the restart. His third was the best of the evening as he controlled brilliantly before lashing into the net. Scoring his fourth from the penalty spot was inevitable.
M. Reus
Typified the start to the game the Germans made with a piercing run through the centre of the Madrid defence followed by a purposeful shot on target that needed some saving. Made several such bursts in an effervescent performance and won the penalty that put the game – and perhaps the tie – out of Madrid's reach.
Real Madrid
Diego López
Was rendered pointless by Lewandowki's incredible finishing as he had not chance for any of the goals. Made a terrific save from Gundogan in the second period and at least denied the Pole a fifth with a flying parry.
Guilty of being too busy grappling with Lewandowski to mark him properly as the Pole stretched to open the scoring early on. Completely failed to contain the threat of the striker, who found a yard against the Portuguese to smash home his third.
Fábio Coentrão
Made a key interception to prevent a dangerous ball picking a route to Blaszczykowski only to be comprehensively beaten by the Pole later in the game. He was also the more adventurous of the two Madrid full-backs, though his passing was occasionally rather fraught.
R. Varane
Perhaps lucky not to concede a penalty on Reus late in the first half and was caught ball watching just a shade as Dortmund added their second, spoiling what otherwise would have been a decent performance.
Sergio Ramos
Did not have a great start to the match as Gotze crossed from his flank to create the opening goal, though the Madrid captain recovered well until the break. At times he was prone to leaping to vigorously into challenges and was booked late on.
L. Modrić
Introduced into the side in place of Di Maria, the creative midfielder played some wonderful passes around the Dortmund box but struggled to find the room to have a consistently telling influence.
Xabi Alonso
After seemingly being overwhelmed in the opening minutes of the game, the experienced Spain international took a firm grip on the game and was a key figure as the visitors finally got a foothold in proceedings. Faded again in the second half and gave away a penalty with a clumsy foul.
S. Khedira
Played well during the second part of the first half but the German was up against a strong Dortmund midfield and although his effort could not be faulted, the BVB midfield pairing had the edge. Booked in the second half.
M. Özil
On his return to Germany he would have been eager to make a positive impression yet his influence on the game was peripheral in the extreme. Was nullified by the industry of the Dortmund midfield and was booked after the break.
G. Higuaín
Showed his teamwork by making a potentially goal-saving challenge on Blaszczykowski half an hour into the match. This ethic was more emphatically rewarded late in the first half as he pounced on a short pass before unselfishly setting up Ronaldo. For all his industry, though, he failed to get involved regularly enough.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Madrid's talisman was more subdued than usual by the energetic Dortmund defence, though he was still on hand to tap in the levelling goal at the end of the first half, allowing the Portuguese to score in a record-equalling six-successive Champions League match. Ronaldo was, however, cast into the shadows in this clash.


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NH health officials worry sequestration will mean hungry seniorsBy SARA YOUNG-KNOX
Special to the Union Leader
April 22. 2013 10:54PM
LITTLETON - New Hampshire airline passengers aren't the only ones likely to be inconvenienced by the sequestration that went into effect March 27. The nonprofit agencies that provide hot meals for home-bound seniors could find themselves scrambling for funding before the end of the fiscal year.
Speaking on Monday at the Gregg Safety Academy, Commissioner Nicholas Toumpas of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said he is deeply concerned about the impact the federal budget sequestration will have on his department and its partners. He has written to the state's congressional delegation requesting more information.
"There's only a small number of places to go," he noted.
Medicaid is exempt from the sequester cuts, but the $1.93 billion in the department's FY 2013 budget also provides funds for other health and human services - from elderly and adult services to child support services.
Toumpas said the department does not yet have the details on which programs face cuts.
"The longer we wait, the more reductions there will be," he said, because the cuts will be have to be put in place within a shorter time period.
He said the point is not to try to change the numbers, but "give us what we need for planning."
Toumpas was participating in the first remote meeting of the three district health councils in Executive Council District 1, which encompasses the northern two-thirds of the state. Hosted by Executive Councilor Ray Burton, the meeting drew participants - via video-conferencing at NH Employment Security Offices and UNH Cooperative Extension sites - from as far north as Berlin to as far south as Somersworth.
"It's like being in the same room," remarked Kathy Howard, director at Employment Security in Conway.
The state's largest department provides human services, much of those through contracts with nonprofit organizations. Those include senior congregate meals and meals on wheels, which in the state's northern three counties are administered by the Tri-County Community Action Program.
Toumpas also spoke at length about managed care; several of the questions he took related to the way Medicaid recipients will access and use health care services.
Among those asking questions was Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter and District Director Jackie Cilley. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, and U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster staffers also participated.
The district health councils represent the North Country, the Lakes Region and Route 16 corridor, and the Claremont/Lebanon areas.
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BBC news programme 'Points South West' dropped by St John's Church in Bath on Monday to speak to Hawk and Owl Trustee Mike Rogers and Peregrine Project team member Hamish Smith. The peregrine pair that have taken up residence in the nesting platform provided by the Hawk and Owl Trust have continued their successful run… Continue Reading
Female just fed the two chicks; big juicy breast section. She then left the box with the remnants to cache. Male followed her begging but gave up the chase and returned to the church. I haven't seen him bring any food in, and as she seems happy to leave the chicks unattended for 15 mins… Continue Reading
The 4th peregrine falcon egg at Norwich Cathedral has hatched! The peregrine falcons using the Norwich Cathedral nesting platform, installed by wild bird of prey conservation charity the Hawk and Owl Trust, have hatched their fourth and final egg of 2013! At 20:26 last night, 27 hours after the hatching of the third egg, the… Continue Reading
Children at St Cuthbert's Junior School were busy preparing for the nesting season with the help of Roger Moses from the Hawk and Owl Trust. He showed the pupils photos of various bird species they could see on the Somerset Levels where the Hawk and Owl Trust have a reserve. Roger also explained how to… Continue Reading


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Solar System
Our Solar System
A solar system refers to a star and all the objects that travel in orbit around it. Our solar system consists of the sun - our star - eight planets and their natural satellites (such as our moon); dwarf planets; asteroids and comets. Our solar system is located in an outward spiral of the Milky Way galaxy.


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Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Winter Olympics
The other night I was watching... I don't even remember what event I was watching but I had a thought. You know what the Winter Olympics needs? A marathon. The marathon is the pinnacle of the Summer Olympics, you can argue that the 100m is watched by more people or that the swimming gets more coverage, but none of the other events have their medal ceremony incorporated into the closing ceremony. Only the marathon winners get to receive their medals during the closing ceremony of the Olympics. It's like a tip o' the hat to the marathon as the original Olympic event, so why not have a Winter Olympic Marathon too?
Now the Winter Olympics likes to have a bit of an X Games feel to it and we'd have to make some changes to the Winter Olympics Marathon course to keep with that theme. The race would be held in and around the host city so it would be a cold weather marathon. Perhaps the race would actually be an ultra marathon, what's more X-treme than that? The course could traverse deep snow fields and treacherous frozen lakes, maybe it would even have transition areas so the runners could change into snow shoes or spiked shoes for the different sections. The runners could run up one side of a mountain and down the other side, it would make Heartbreak Hill look like a pimple. I think it would be a great event, but unfortunately we will have to wait for the next Winter Olympics to incorporate this idea because the Canadians would have tried to make the down hill portion of the race faster and more dangerous, eh.
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Sounds good to me!! Would love to see them running in the cold and snow...better them then me. :)ReplyDelete
Ice dancing makes pairs figure skating look like a tough-man's sport.ReplyDelete
I think all the running events should have a cross-country skiing correlative. The sprints would be comical and the marathon would be brutal ... and probably deadly.
Horrible idea. The Winter Olympics already sucks throbbing animal appendages - we less events, not more!ReplyDelete
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I like everything about the Winter Olympics too! How can you not like an event that goes by the name of 'Skeleton' and is there anything more hilariously out of control than 4 persons flailing downhill on a ski cross race? As for a marathon by all means yes but of course it would have to be a full 26.2 cross-country skiing marathon.ReplyDelete
I think we need a running biathalon in the summer games. Running and shooting - that's teaching survival skills for after the apocalypse.ReplyDelete
As a daredevil Canadian we don't need a marathon in the Winter Olympics...we have our marquee event in the Men's Hockey Gold medal game. It's the last event and usually has so much excitement and is shared by a team, and nation not by just one individual.ReplyDelete
Go Canada :D
you Americans are just too pansy-assed to handle our downhills ;)ReplyDelete
- ChristinaFeb 25, 2010, 11:48:00 AM
I love this plan! My only request be that they wear some sort of wacky "uniform" since it seems that is the tie that binds the winter olympic sports together. What a crazy mix of outfits- both within and between events!ReplyDelete
They should make one of those cross country skiing events into a marathon-like event. That would be something!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFeb 25, 2010, 1:13:00 PM
The marathon wasn't the original Olympic event.ReplyDelete
Only for the Olympics in the modern era was the marathon an original event. I say we go back to the original Olympics and bring back chariot racing. There's so much more chance for bloodshed in that. Now that's entertainment!ReplyDelete
If we are gonna harken back to "original" events, should the athletes then be nude? THAT would make for some outstanding NBC coverage!ReplyDelete
A marathon might be too safe for the winter olympics. There has to be something life threatening involved. Maybe the marathoners could shoot guns in the middle (at each other?) and do some ariel flips down hills. I bet Ryan Hall would be great at that.ReplyDelete
Winter marathon. Genius. Marathons span the seasons, so it could fit in both. We runners are that good. We span seasons.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFeb 25, 2010, 9:00:00 PM
Sounds good to me!ReplyDelete
They do hold the 50km cross-country skiing event on the last day, so I think that counts as the marathon, no?ReplyDelete
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Concord City Council accepts grant for armored police vehicleBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 09. 2013 8:40PM
Concord Council Rollcall on BearCat GrantElizabeth Blanchard, Ward 1: Yes
Jennifer Kretovic, Ward 2: Yes
Jan McClure, Ward 3: Yes
Amanda Grady Sexton, Ward 4: Yes
Robert Werner, Ward 5: No
J. Allen Bennett, Ward 6: No
Keith Nyhan, Ward 7: Yes
Dick Patten, Ward 8: No
Candace C.W. Bouchard, Ward 9: No
Fred Keach, Ward 10: Yes
Mark Coen: Yes
Michael DelloIacono: Yes
Stephen Shurtleff: Yes
Dan St. Hilaire: Yes
Mayor Jim Bouley: Yes


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Hexic should be a familiar game to many people since it comes pre-installed on many Xbox 360 systems. The classic puzzle game from Carbonated Games and Microsoft Games Studio, called Hexic Rush on the Windows Phone 7 platform, lets you rotate trios of hexagonal pieces in order to make a match of three pieces.
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Greg Stohr
Friday, 02 November 2012 07:02 AM
Highly unlikely though that outcome may be, it's possible under the complex U.S. system for selecting presidents. A 269- 269 tie between Romney and Barack Obama in the Electoral College, the body set up to formally choose the president, would trigger fallback mechanisms that might leave the country in a constitutional and political tempest.
Under the Constitution's 12th Amendment, a tie would bump the choice to the newly elected Congress. The House of Representatives, which probably will remain in Republican hands, would choose the president, and the Senate, likely to remain controlled by Democrats, would select the vice president.
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"If you stipulate that they act according to partisan interests, they would pick Biden even if the House has picked Romney," said Edward Foley, director of the election law program at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law in Columbus.
A Romney-Biden administration is perhaps the oddest potential outcome to what could be a complicated finish to the presidential election.
The U.S. system is a maze under the best of circumstances. Even as voters express a preference for a candidate when they submit their ballots, they are actually selecting 538 electors, who are allocated in most jurisdictions, though not all, on a statewide basis.
Majority Needed
Those 538 electors then cast ballots in the Electoral College, with the top vote-getter becoming president — unless the leader fails to get a majority.
In that case, the fallback mechanisms kick in. The new House would choose the president, voting by state delegations, with a candidate needing 26 states to win. Right now, Republicans control 33 House delegations and Democrats 14, with three states split evenly.
The Senate, voting as individuals, would select the vice president. Counting the two independents who caucus with them, Democrats now hold a 53-47 edge in that body.
The constitutional framers set up the system, which the 12th Amendment modified in 1804, in anticipation that the House would frequently, perhaps even usually, make the final selection for president.
Not Since 1824
Instead, the fallback system hasn't kicked in since 1824, when Andrew Jackson was the top vote-getter among four candidates in the Electoral College, leading John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William Crawford.
In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, securing his election as the country's sixth president. Soon thereafter, Adams named Clay to be his secretary of state, an arrangement Jackson condemned as a "corrupt bargain." Four years later, Jackson won a rematch, ousting Adams.
The potential exists for similar intrigue in 2012.
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Obama and Romney could reach a 269-269 deadlock in any of several ways. One possibility is that Obama could win Nevada, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Colorado, with Romney taking Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
A second scenario would require Romney to win Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, and Virginia, and Obama to capture Ohio, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire.
'Awfully Close'
The possibilities would multiply should either Nebraska or Maine produce a mixed result. Both states award some of their electoral votes by congressional district, eschewing the winner-take-all format used in the other 48 states and the District of Columbia.
"This is going to be an awfully close outcome, so a 269- 269 tie is certainly possible but very unlikely," said Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Complicating matters is that the allocation of electors may not be clear for days. A race close enough to produce an Electoral College deadlock would probably mean that the results in at least one state will be close enough for the losing side to contest, Foley says.
That could involve a delay until provisional and absentee ballots are counted, or it could mean a recount, Foley said. A candidate who must win a recount to achieve a tie might face pressure to concede, particularly if he lost the nationwide popular vote, he said.
"The popular vote would really weigh heavily, especially in the context in which one of the candidates hasn't gotten to 269 and needs to win a recount," Foley said.
Urgent Poll: Cast Your Vote for Romney, Obama Early!
Going Rogue
And then there are the electors, the little-known figures who will meet in their respective states on Dec. 17 and cast their votes in the Electoral College. The vast majority, and perhaps all, will be party loyalists who will vote for the candidate selected by their state's voters.
Still, electors sometimes go rogue — as they have nine times over the past 16 elections, according to Robert Alexander, a political science professor at Ohio Northern University.
Even when the vote is a relative landslide, electors are regularly subjected to heavy lobbying to use their vote to make a statement, said Alexander, who has written a book on the Electoral College based on surveys of electors since 2000. More than 80 percent of electors were lobbied in 2008, he said.
"They were lobbied in an election that wasn't close," Alexander said.
'Intense Lobbying'
Should the 2012 vote produce a 269-269 split, the electors would face "an intense lobbying campaign," he said. "Can't you imagine the amount of pressure that would be placed on these human beings to try to resolve the potential Romney-Biden administration before it came to that?"
Only about 30 states bind electors, either through state law or party-enforced pledges, Alexander said. In 2000, Barbara Lett-Simmons, a District of Columbia elector expected to vote for Democrat Al Gore, abstained to protest her city's lack of voting representation in Congress.
Even though the nation's capital has no voting representative in Congress, it has three Electoral College votes.
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Ultimately, it may fall to the nation's political leaders to prevent a Romney-Biden administration. Just as past presidential election disputes have been resolved with an act of statesmanship, Democrats may concede on the vice presidency if they conclude they can't stop Romney from becoming president.
"Some of them might want to go down in history as saying the vice presidency isn't worth fighting for, for party reasons," Foley said, "and we really ought to do the right thing for the sake of the country."
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Credit card transaction – use of details from a previous transaction without consent – fair obtaining – transparency - retention period
A customer of a car rental company alleged that the company had used his credit card data – obtained in a previous transaction – to process a disputed charge without his consent, and in spite of his objections to the charge.
The facts were that a motor car, purchased by the complainant, had given trouble and the garage had arranged a courtesy car with a car rental firm while his own car was being repaired. Prior to taking the car, he inspected it and agreed that it was not in any way damaged. One week after returning the car, the complainant was asked by the rental firm to sign a damage report on the car, and he was informed that he was liable for payment of a ?250 charge. He denied all knowledge of damage to the rental car. The rental firm informed the complainant that they would collect the charge of ?250 via his credit card. He maintained that he had not given his account details to the rental firm on this occasion, although he had in the past hired numerous vehicles from them which he had paid for by credit card.
The specific data protection issue in this case was whether the rental firm obtained and processed the complainant's credit card details fairly, with the appropriate level of consent from the individual.
When I raised the matter with the car rental firm, they maintained that the complainant was liable for the cost of repair of the vehicle under the terms of the agreement which he had signed. They also stated that the complainant's credit card details had been obtained and processed fairly; were kept for a specified and lawful purpose; and were not used in any manner incompatible with that purpose. Furthermore, the use of the credit card details in this instance was specifically for the purpose envisaged in the rental agreement.
I asked the firm to provide evidence of the circumstances in which the complainant had given them his credit card details. They replied that staff did not recall whether the complainant had provided his credit card details specifically for the purpose of the rental in question, or whether the complainant had consented to the use of his credit card details, which he provided on a previous occasion. However, they also stated that the clearing bank had confirmed that the complainant's credit card details had been manually keyed into the credit card machine when the car was being rented. On further investigation I found that there was no record of any credit card details on the copy of the rental agreement supplied for that date by the rental firm. Taken together, these facts strongly suggested to me that the rental firm's sales staff had used details provided and noted on a previous rental agreement. If it was standard practice to use the data previously obtained, as the firm claimed, this should have been made known to the data subject at the time of first obtaining the data, and consent obtained for this practice. It should also have been noted on the rental agreement in this instance that the customer had consented to the use of details provided on a previous occasion.
As regards the retention period of credit card details that had been obtained in the past, the rental firm argued that retention was necessary for audit and legal purposes. While I was prepared to accept this line of argument to a certain extent, I observed that – in general –details of a contract, which is no longer in dispute, should be deleted once the contractual relationship has ceased. In addition, there is no need to retain such data beyond the end of a particular audit period. Furthermore, in the interim – i.e. while the data are being retained for necessary legal or audit purposes – the data should not be used for any other purposes without the express consent of the data subject.
I was satisfied that in the present case, given the manner in which the credit card details were obtained, the data controller had failed to achieve transparency and informed consent and that the necessary prerequisites for fair obtaining had therefore not been met. Accordingly, I found that the rental firm had contravened the Act and I upheld the complaint against them. In response to my decision, the rental firm stated that, in order to avoid a recurrence of the situation leading to this dispute, they were ceasing the practice of using previously-obtained credit card details, and that customers would in future be required to provide their details whenever they entered into a new rental agreement. This is an outcome which I welcome, and which is likely to avert similar data protection complaints in future.
More generally, I consider it to be a sound and proper principle that credit card data obtained for a particular transaction cannot be used subsequently for other transactions without express consent, without violating the 'fair obtaining' rule. The principle of transparency and fairness, which are key tenets of data protection law and practice, apply in this area just as in any other.


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Children and youth advisory council
There are different ways of getting your ideas across, such as voting or Structured Dialogue. But if it's not election time or if your issue is not exactly related to politics, there are other ways you can be heard.
Old enough to vote yet? What do you know about elections? Voting is the highest form of participation available for citizens of democratic societies and a right that should be used to the fullest.


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CHATHAM, Mass. — Chatham owes just about everything it has to the fact it's located on the ocean. From its architecture — which, in many cases was based on buildings sea captains would find in other areas of the world — to its culture and tourism, the sea has helped keep the community fiscally strong, including during this recent financial trouble.
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Tourism has grown to be the primary industry since people first began vacationing in Chatham in the late 1800s. But what's somewhat remarkable is here's a community that's just one year shy of its 300th birthday, and for all of that time it's remained a fishing village.
Today, the population goes from just more than 6,000 over the winter to about 24,000 in the summer, with tourists and second-home owners. But fishing has never gone away, and there are fishing families in town that go back six generations or more.
How has fishing survived in Chatham while fading away in so many other communities? People in Chatham point to things such as its location near some of the world's most productive fishing grounds. It's a small-boat port with lots of types of fish coming and going from the pier. And fishermen say Chatham puts a premium on preserving the industry, so it maintains the working waterfront and it puts the fishermen in the forefront.
Historian Mark Wilkins, executive director of the Atwood House, a town landmark where the historical society is located, talked about the relationship between tourism, Chatham's location, and its reputation as a home to fishermen.
"It's a national hot spot," Wilkins said, "especially among summer people. It's a beautiful place. Beautiful bodies of water, dynamic landscape, and its sort of retained that very small town fishing village character. A lot of towns have not, but preservation is very active and enforced here of architecture, residential zones and this sort of thing. They've tried very hard to preserve the character of this town."
One of the reasons Chatham has remained largely financially stable has to do with the benefits it derives from fees: Beach fees, shellfishing fees and mooring fees, for example. With the help of these fees, for more than a decade the community has managed to avoid increasing the town's budget by more than 2.5 percent each year.
Its bond rating recently was raised to the highest available, making it less costly to borrow money. And its reserve fund remains healthy.
There have been financial issues to work through, as well as some layoffs since the financial crises began, but even those were mostly through attrition — not filling job vacancies. And through the turmoil of the past three years, the town has managed to keep the tax rate extremely low — one of the five lowest tax rates in the
Despite the low tax rate and the high-end properties, residents here say it's important to remember that when the winter comes and the population drops, this is a real community, with retired folks, fishing families and people who make their living in the service industry. Taxes may be low, but the cost of living is high. So certainly in the winter the idea that Chatham is only home to the rich is just not the case.
But because of the town's strong financial standing, as other communities have moved to raise taxes, cut services and put off building projects during the financial crises. That mostly has not happened in Chatham.
Gerry Panuczak, the town's personnel director, says that, for the most part, Chatham has stuck to its capital plans, replacing or refurbishing almost all of its facilities in the past 10 years.
"So they redid town hall," Panuczak said. "They reconstructed the community center. We've got a new police station that will come online in June. We have a new annex facility, which is all the people who don't work in town hall, they work at the annes, and that is going to come online in June. We're planning for a new fire house."
Last week, the 2010 US census reported a loss of about 500 people in Chatham since the year 2000, bringing the population down to just over 6,100 year-rounders.
And what's notable is the loss among families with children. Chatham saw a 15-percent drop among people under 18 years old. And that speaks to perhaps the biggest problem Chatham faces — having enough kids for its school system.
In the 1990s, Chatham was the first school district on Cape Cod to implement the state's School Choice program, which allows students to attend school in other towns if there's room. And that's been good for Chatham.
Schools Superintendent Mary Ann Lanzo said the district has just under 700 students in total. And about 170 of them are School Choice. They come from as far away as Sandwich for a whole variety of reasons. And in return, Chatham gets $5,000 per student they from their hometown.
"Chatham is one of the few places over time that has really benefited from school choice economically," Lanzo said. "It has funded probably 10 to 12 percent of entire operating budget at this point. We have been in the first five in terms of standing in the state of funds for school choice."
But even with School Choice, Lanzo says the biggest threat to the quality of Chatham schools comes from having classes with not enough students.
"I'd say we weren't talking 10 years out it would have a major impact on students," she said. "I would say we're talking five years or four years. Because we wouldn't be able to have the advanced placement classes. We wouldn't be able to offer the array of remedial classes for students and programs."
To combat the declining enrollments Chatham and the neighboring town of Harwich have agreed to create a regional school system. But some people have questioned how that will work, considering that Chatham and Harwich have a history of being strong rivals.
Chatham has voted against regionalizing several times over the years. Back in the 1950s, the debates often came down to class and race issues. We haven't heard any of that this time. Instead, there has been lots of census talk, as well as the promise of saving Chatham taxpayers between $3 and $4 million annually by combining systems.
The district officially begins in 2012, and a new high school should open two years later. Already they're planning for a football team, thinking about a mascot — there's a real push to energize people.
Part of that effort came about last week when the kids went to the polls to vote on a name for their new school district.
What did they choose? Monomoy, after the Monomoy Regional School District, a Native American name, and a tribute to the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge down there.
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Petitions have been a common form of protest throughout modern history, at times bringing attention to causes through little more than handwritten letters and word of mouth.
But like a lot of other things, petitions are going viral. And one website in particular has contributed to the phenomenon.
Change.org offers tools to let individuals start their own online campaigns, a way to bring instant awareness to issues that range from the environment to human rights.
Just this week, the group was credited with getting the high-profile virtual signatures of Ellen DeGeneres and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees on a petition to lower the R rating on an anti-bullying movie as a way to give more teens access to the film.
Change.org has a simple three-question, fill-in-the-blank form to let anyone start an online petition: Who do you want to petition? What do you want them to do? Why is this important?
Anyone on the site can read a petition, and — if they choose to — offer their electronic signature of support.
"I think it's part of an ecosystem," said Alan Webber, an industry analyst from the Altimeter Group who has been monitoring Change.org for the past few years. "You know, people are going to share petitions, but they're going to share those petitions via Facebook or via Twitter."
Ben Rattray, 31, founder and CEO of Change.org, said he came up with the idea while in college.
"When I was at Stanford, there was this combined interest both in entrepreneurship and in political-social change, and it was the one way I could identify combining the two and mobilizing people to advance the causes they care about," said Rattray.
Now, large organizations like the Sierra Club and Oxfam International pay to have their petitions promoted on the site, while individuals can post petitions for free.
More than 10 million people are using the site, and more than 15,000 new campaigns are launched every month, Rattray said.
One of Change.org's most famous online petitions targeted Bank of America's plan to charge a $5 monthly debit card fee. A 22-year-old woman filed a petition late last year, and within a month, 300,000 people had electronically signed the petition against the charges. The bank decided to drop its proposed new fee.
More recently, a class of fourth-graders petitioned Universal Studios to strengthen the environmental message in the Dr. Seuss story-turned-film, The Lorax.
More than 50,000 people signed the petition. "Universal Studios changed The Lorax webpage almost exactly as my class requested!" wrote teacher Ted Wells on Change.org.
Last fall, Emily Holcomb, a 15-year-old nonverbal autistic girl from Hamilton, Ala., was charged with a felony assault after she slapped her teacher.
"The sheriff's department was standing there, served me papers and wanted to serve Emily papers until I told them that, you know, she was a child with autism that was nonverbal with a mental capacity of about a 2- to 3-year-old," said Emily's mother, Jenny Holcomb.
When Holcomb's friend found out about the incident, she posted it on Facebook.
"And from Facebook it spread," said Holcomb. "That's when Lydia Brown contacted me and asked me, you know, if she could do a petition to have charges and stuff dropped."
Brown, 18, a student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., blogs about her own autism but had never written a petition.
At first, Brown said, "I was kind of like, I don't know how I should do this. I don't know if there's a template anywhere."
Then, some of Brown's friends suggested she use Change.org.
"I wrote this petition that came across in this very legalese, very formal kind of, 'We affirm that. We demand that,' kind of format," she said.
Later, she realized most petitions on the site are not written so formally. But it worked. Within days, around 1,200 people signed it online, and the felony assault charges against Emily Holcomb were dropped.
"I think eventually we would have got what we wanted" and had the charges dropped, said Holcomb's mother, Jenny. "But I don't think it would have been as soon" without the online petition.
Brown said she has since written two more petitions on Change.org related to autism.
Petitions have been a common form of protest throughout history, but gone are the days of having to use handwritten letters to bring attention to a cause. Now, petitions are online. One company, called Change.org, has contributed to the phenomenon. NPR's Teresa Tomassoni reports how the company's website allows people to start change in their communities with a few clicks of a mouse.
TERESA TOMASSONI, BYLINE: When Jenny Holcomb's 15-year-old daughter Emily was charged with felony assault in Hamilton, Alabama for slapping a teacher, she was shocked.
JENNY HOLCOMB: The sheriff's department was standing there, served me papers and wanted to serve Emily papers until I told them that, you know, she was a child with autism that was nonverbal.
TOMASSONI: Afterwards, Holcomb says a friend wrote about the incident on Facebook.
HOLCOMB: And from Facebook it spreaded. And that's when Lydia Brown contacted me and asked me, you know, if she could do a petition to have the charges and stuff dropped on Emily.
TOMASSONI: The woman who wrote the petition, Lydia Brown, is autistic herself. She's been an advocate for people with the disorder since high school. But the 18-year-old Georgetown University student had never written a petition before.
LYDIA BROWN: So I was just kind of like, I don't know how I should do this. I don't know if there's a template anywhere.
TOMASSONI: Some friends suggested she use Change.org., a website which lets people write petitions and collect electronic signatures online to protest or support causes that interest them.
BROWN: And I wrote this petition that came across in this very legalese, very formal kind of - We affirm that, therefore, we demand that - kind of format.
TOMASSONI: Brown later realized most petitions on the site are not written so formally. Most are written as first person letters that answer three basic questions.
BEN RATTRAY: What you want to change, who has the power to change that and why others should join you.
TOMASSONI: Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org. The 31-year-old came up with the idea as a senior in college.
RATTRAY: When I was at Stanford, there was this combined interest, both in entrepreneurship and in political-social change.
TOMASSONI: So in 2007, he decided to make Change.org into a profitable business. Large organizations like the Sierra Club and Oxfam pay to have their petitions promoted on the site, and the revenues from those petitions allow everyone else to use the site for free.
Alan Webber is an industry analyst. He sees Change.org as a leading example of what digital social action should look like. But, he says, it's important to realize its success is wrapped up in the rise of other social media.
ALAN WEBBER: I think it's part of an ecosystem. People are going to share petitions, but they're going to share those petitions via Facebook or via Twitter.
TOMASSONI: There have been at least a thousand successful petitions, according to Change.org. The one that got the most attention was the petition against Bank of America's plan to charge debit card fees.
Rattray acknowledges that many of the campaigns launched on his site are supported by other organizations and people outside of his company. For instance, Jenny Holcomb had already hired a lawyer to help her fight the charges against her daughter before Lydia Brown started the petition drive.
HOLCOMB: I think eventually we would've got, you know, what we wanted to, but I don't think it would've been as soon.
TOMASSONI: Within a few days of the petition launch, the felony assault charges were dropped against her daughter. Lydia Brown has since written two more petitions on Change.org related to autism.
Teresa Tomassoni, NPR News.
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I'd like to announce the release of my paranormal suspense novel, EMBRACED BY THE SHADOWS, now available on Kindle for $2.99.
Here's a blurb:
In a bazaar in Istanbul one evening, ten-year-old Alana Piovanetti sees a man standing in the shadows. He smiles, and over time she convinces herself that it was just her imagination that placed sharp fangs amongst those flashing teeth.
Twelve years later, Alana is surprised when she is chosen to manage a new restaurant opening in her home city of San Juan. She has neither training nor experience to justify her success. But La Cueva del Vampiro has the kind of ambience she adores, for Alana has always had a penchant for horror and the dark side of life. Yet she is also plagued with dreams of dark sensuality, dreams that take on shattering reality when she meets the stunningly handsome, charismatic Sadash.
For Sadash is the man she saw in the shadows so many years before…and Sadash isn't human….
You may read the prologue and first chapter here: http://twilighttimesbooks.com/EmbracedbyShadows_ch1.html
The link to Kindle is:
The story features a Latina protagonist and a Turkish vampire. I hope you'll give it a try!
To celebrate the release of my novel, I'm giving away two of my other books for free. This offer will run until Halloween night only. Of course, I hope you'll consider supporting my work by purchasing a copy of Embraced by the Shadows, but if for whatever reason you decide not to, the two free ebooks are still yours to download. This is my Halloween gift to you! 🙂
The FREE ebooks I'm giving away are: Dark Lullaby and Cat Cellar and Other Stories and they're available in various formats on Smashwords:
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Enjoy! Happy reading and happy Halloween!
I want to thank all the wonderful bloggers who will be hosting me on their blogs and/or reviewing my novel this October. THANK YOU!
Here's my blog tour schedule, put together by my fabulous publicist, Donna McDine:
10/10 – Anna's Book Blog – http://annavivian.blogspot.com/2011/10/guest-blog-with-mayra-calvani-offer-of.html – Guest post.
10/14 – Books, Products and More! – http://booktoursandmore.blogspot.com – Spotlight.
10/13 – Readinista – www.readinista.com – Interview.
10/17 – The Kindle Fever – www.thekindlefever.blogspot.com – Guest post.
10/20 – Colette, Buckeye Girl Reads – www.lovesromances.blogspot.com – Guest post.
10/21 – Vamp Chix – www.vampchix.blogspot.com – Guest post and giveaway.
10/24 – Book Lovers Inc – www.bookloversinc.com – Guest post.
10/25 – Vamp Chix Read Books – www.vampchixreadbooks.blogspot.com – Excerpt and giveaway.
10/26 – A Book Lover's Dream – www.abooklovesdream.com – Guest post.
10/28 – Itzel Library – www.the-itzel-library.blogspot.com – Interview.
10/30 – Read All Over – www.read-all-over.net – Guest post, excerpt and giveaway.


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I just bought this book (revised version, the third edition) on Amazon.com and while flipping through it, noticed that it skips from lesson 55 to lesson 75. It is missing a little under 50 pages, and they are not torn out, its as if they were never printed to begin with.
Anybody who has this book, please check and make sure you have these pages. If so, if you would kindly respond to this and let me know that its just my copy. Amazon is sending me another one and I would hate for it to have the same problem.
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Nashua commuters affected by ongoing Boston manhuntBy Benjamin C. Klein
Union Leader Correspondent
April 19. 2013 3:11PM
NASHUA - With much of Boston on lockdown as thousands of police officers search door-to-door for the sole-surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect many commuters are either stranded or have had to at least alter their travel plans.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) was in Nashua today to tour a local business, and originally had plans to travel back home by flying out of Logan Airport. With one of the largest manhunts in Boston's history under way Logan has been closed, forcing Hoyer to fly out of Maine.
"Very frankly I was going to do a fundraiser in Boston for my good friend John Tierney (D-Mass.), but we both decided that with what is going on it would be a good idea to call it off," Hoyer said.
George Prevost is a driver for the Boston Express, which travels between Boston and Nashua, and said that he has never seen Boston like it is today.
"The streets are empty, it's like a ghost town. The only people on the streets are the thousands of police, there are police on every corner and many are carrying assault rifles. I have never seen Boston like that before in my life," Prevost said.
Prevost added that while flights out of Logan Airport are grounded, bus service to the airport is still in service.
Fellow bus driver Lance Ouellette said his trip to Boston was suspended, but that the bombings have already changed how he thinks. Both Prevost and Ouellette said that when they load luggage into the bus now, they have second thoughts in the back of their mind as to what those suitcases contain.
"I hope bombings like this don't become normal," Prevost said.
Roxanne Leming of Indiana is in Nashua for business, but with train service out of Boston suspended she said she is nervous she will be stranded in New Hampshire.
"And I only have enough money for the train, I didn't bring any extra for a hotel or anything," Leming said.
Despite the bombings, Kim and Tony Carrozza of Nashua said they are undaunted by traveling to Logan Airport while the manhunt is still active.
"We've been, for some strange reason, in places traveling where these kind of things have happened before. We were in London during the subway bombings, and we flew on a replacement flight out of Newark right after 9/11," Kim said.
After being so close to terrorism so many times, Tony said, "We are used to this."


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Yesterday, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) falsely charged that his office was "directly threatened" in a gun attack. Cantor used the incident to provide partisan cover to his unruly GOP colleagues, who have been pandering to tea party activists with increasingly unhinged and extreme rhetoric.
Last weekend, as the House vote on health reform legislation neared, Republican lawmakers whipped tea party crowds into an angry mob. For instance, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) spoke to the crowd with a megaphone, conjuring up debunked conspiracy theories about government spying into medical records and decrying what he called "tyranny." Rep. Steve King (R-IA) held up a picture of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for the crowd, mocking it and "slapping" it. Throughout the day, the tea party protesters accosted Democratic members of Congress with racial and homophobic slurs, and one protester even spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO).
Cantor asserted that no lawmaker "would incite threats." However, ThinkProgress has compiled a short snapshot of Republican lawmakers speeches to angry tea party crowds throughout the year, using extremely violent rhetoric. The compilation below features Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and King:
MCCAUL: They fought against tyranny and oppressive taxes, do that sound familiar? We're continuing that revolution right here in Austin, Texas today. Thomas Jefferson said the Tree of Liberty will be fed by the blood of tyrants and patriots. You are the modern day patriots. […]* * * * *
BARTON: What are the homeland security people calling us now? AUDIENCE: Domestic terrorists! Terrorists! BARTON: Welcome right-wing activists — is that what we are? AUDIENCE: Extremists! BARTON: Yeah extreme, well I'm going to get me a button.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm a proud right-wing terrorist. … HERGER: Amen god bless you, there's a great American.
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BACHMANN: I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.
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KING: If I could start a country with a bunch of people it would be the folks standing out here the last few days. Let's hope we don't have to do that. Let's beat that other side to a pulp. Let's take them out, let's chase them down.
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Bruins forward Daniel Paille scored a goal against Carolina on Saturday.
And then he didn't.
Bruins forward Daniel Paille scored a goal against Carolina on Saturday.
And then he didn't.
It was an emotional night at TD Garden Wednesday.
Things didn't finish as planned or hoped, but the Bruins still did all they could do to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and help people heal and move on.
Although the Bruins' search for production from their third line led coach Claude Julien to increase Daniel Paille's ice time in a handful of Boston's first 29 games, the veteran winger is still averaging just 21 more seconds of ice time than last season.
That's unfortunate considering that in just 11:51 of ice time per night, Paille has managed to pot six goals, which is just three shy of his total for an entire 82-game schedule (he skated in 69 games) from 2011-12.
A Steve Staios slap shot to the face in early November didn't make Daniel Paille rethink his career choice.
Instead he underwent surgery, sported one of the ugliest shiner/broken nose combinations in recent memory around the Bruins' dressing room and then, 10 days later, got right back into the Bruins' lineup in his role as Boston's fourth-line left winger.
Bottom-six forwards have played almost as big a role as all-world goaltending in the runs of the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils to the 2012 Stanley Cup Final.
The Bruins have boasted one of the better fourth lines over the last couple seasons, and today general manager Peter Chiarelli moved to keep his energy line intact and also bolster the depth of his bottom six with a pair of re-signings.
WILMINGTON, Mass. — Bruins head coach Claude Julien doesn't consider Monday's travel day back from California an off day, so today he allowed his players to have an optional skate.
A handful of players took the Ristuccia Arena ice, led by the healthy scratches Daniel Paille, Joe Corvo and Mike Mottau, and back-up goaltender Marty Turco.
BOSTON — The Bruins will face the New York Rangers Sunday at Madison Square Garden as a shorthanded club.
Not only did the Bruins lose a game today to the New York Islanders, they also lost a couple players who they can now add to their lengthening list of injured performers.
Any accolades that flow the way of the Bruins' fourth line players are always rare and well-deserved.
So it's with great pride that I reveal that readers of TheBruinsBlog.net this weekend voted Daniel Paille as the Bruin of the Week.
BOSTON — Regardless of whether Daniel Paille is cleared to play tonight, Bruins head coach Claude Julien is leaning toward using Zach Hamill to fill in for Gregory Campbell as the team's fourth center tonight against Los Angeles as the TD Garden.
So the team's energy line will have a different look either way.
WILMINGTON, Mass. — It's a trade that no general manager would make, but for now the Bruins have to deal with it.
Daniel Paille returned to practice today, while, as expected Zdeno Chara did not take the ice during practice at Ristuccia Arena. Gregory Campbell also did not skate, so expect an update on him later.
WILMINGTON, Mass. — Bruins head coach Claude Julien confirmed today after practice at Ristuccia Arena that forward Daniel Paille was diagnosed with a mild concussion.
WILMINGTON, Mass. — To no one's surprise, Bruins forward Daniel Paille did not skate with the team today during practice at Ristuccia Arena.
Paille suffered a head injury in the loss to Florida Thursday night when he was hit by Krys Barch.
I'm sure the Bruins will provide some sort of an update on Paille's condition after practice. The rest of their 12 forwards and seven defensemen were on the ice, along with the two goaltenders.
BOSTON — The Bruins returned to practice today at TD Garden after taking a day off Tuesday.
Everyone was on the ice except Daniel Paille, who had morning surgery to fix his fractured nose according to head coach Claude Julien.
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli offered the following update on forward Daniel Paille on the team's media Web site this afternoon:
There have been numerous great stories involving Bruins personnel and the Stanley Cup so far this summer. And there promises to be even more as the offseason unfolds.