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NHL Game Night: 11-16-13 Lightning at CoyotesSubmitted by pete on November 16, 2013 - 23:11
Unlucky start to the road trip.
Ben Bishop allowed 3 goals on 14 shots before leaving the game after taking a shot off the collarbone. Anders Lindback allowed 2 on 15 shots the rest of the way, taking the old backdoor loss. Clearly this was Bishop's worst start of the season. Phoenix's first goal was a little soft on a long point shot that Bishop looked like he got a good look at, and the second goal was obviously a terrible one banked off his skate from the corner. Hard to fault him on Phoenix's third goal when he was stunned by the slapper off his collarbone. The silver linings are that Lindback looked above average in his relief stint and Bishop came back out to sit on the bench after going to the locker room, which hopefully means nothing is broken.
First Period
15:58 PHX Stone (6), (Ribeiro, Rundblad)(PP)
16:55 PHX Hanzal (6), (Korpikoski)
Second Period
1:48 Ribeiro (6), (Hanzal, Vrbata)(PP)
16:19 TB Panik (1), (Johnson, Killorn)
17:05 PHX Murphy (1), (Vrbata, Korpikoski)
17:55 TB Brown (1), (Purcell, Sustr)
Third Period
1:37 PHX Doan (10), (Hanzal, Vrbata)
18:58 TB Killorn (6), (St. Louis, Sustr)
19:41 PHX Korpikoski (4), (Hanzal)(EN)
Reasons for concern? Yes. Silver linings? A few. The team was a little flat, which maybe is to be expected when you make the long flight out west. And, this game was a clunker for Bishop with injury piled onto insult. I expect them to respond the next time out and not take so long to get their legs under them, and they do deserve credit for the way they kept pushing in the Third Period despite being 3 down on the scoreboard. I'm also not terribly concerned about Bishop's play (more worried about his health). He wasn't going to go the entire year without giving up a soft goal. The key is to just make sure he compartmentalizes that bad effort to a single game, 1 of 82, and moves on.
Radko Gudas was -3 with 4 shots and 4 hits in 20:17. He was uncharacteristically weak on the puck behind his net leading to Phoenix's 5th goal, which was the kill shot on the scoreboard. He really worked hard the rest of the Third Period to atone, though, and I appreciated the effort to make up for his mistake.
The Lightning finish their second 10 game segment of the season with the same result as the first, 14 points. That's 2 more than the minimum you hope for, which is great, and helps build up some extra insurance points. But, those two segments are over. Time to start chasing the next 12+ points. Two is a fluke, three is a streak.
Tyler Johnson had a helper and was +1 with 1 hit and 1 blocked shot in 16:38. He was also 39% on draws. He worked himself into a breakaway in the First Period that he failed to convert, eventually spilling into the net. His speed seems to buy him a breakaway every game or two. You'd love to see him start converting.
Alex Killorn had 1 goal and 1 assist and 2 penalty minutes in 16:25. He ended up with 3 shots and 1 hit. He took a bad penalty at the end of the First Period that eventually contributed to a key 5-on-3 goal for Phoenix. That said, from that point on, he was one of Tampa Bay's best forwards as reflected by the scoresheet.
Ondrej Palat had 1 shot and 1 hit in 14:05. Honestly, I'd like to see the guy get more touches with some space in the neutral zone because that's where he does his best work directing the attack. When he doesn't get those touches, he's less of a contributor.
J.T. Brown had his first NHL goal and was -1 with 2 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 16:07. He looks good out there with his speed and his goal was a quick release laser beam.
Andrej Sustr had a pair of assists and was +1 with 2 penalty minutes, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 17:07. I don't know that his game was as good as his stat line indicates. I thought Sustr, like the Lightning in general, had more trouble than usual getting out of his own end. A few unforced errors were present.
Richard Panik scored his first goal of the season and had 2 shots, 2 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 13:48. His shot was another x-ray death beam and you just hope, as snake bitten as Richard has been, this opens the flood gates for him from a goal scoring perspective.
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NHL Game Night: 11-14-13 Ducks at LightningSubmitted by pete on November 14, 2013 - 22:39
Lightning dominate the Western Conference's leading team.
Ben Bishop allowed 1 goal on 25 shots for the victory.
First Period
11:52 TB Filppula (7), (Purcell, Carle)
16:25 TB St. Louis, (Brown, Filppula)(PP)
Second Period
03:16 TB Filppula (8), (Hedman, St. Louis)(PP)
10:51 TB Killorn (5), (St. Louis, Barberio)
16:07 ANH Etem (5), (Fowler, Beauchemin)
Third Period
2:05 TB Hedman (3), (Panik, Johnson)
Valtteri Filppula, Martin St. Louis, and Victor Hedman were the game's three stars.
Anaheim actually outshot Tampa Bay 25-20 in the game, but the scoreboard, in this case, was a far better indicator of the balance of play. The Lightning had a lot of zone time and puck possession. That didn't necessarily lead to a ton of shots and chances, but they buried the ones that they got, which allowed them to cruise after scoring their 5th goal early in the Third Period. True, some of the luster was off this game with Stamkos and Getzlaf hurt and Perry limited due to illness, but to crush the Western Conference's top team in the standings by a 5-1 margin was still impressive. The Lightning improve to 2-0-0 post-Stamkos injury, and match the 14 points they put up in the first 10-game set of the season with 1 more to go in the second set.
Radko Gudas was +1 with 4 penalty minutes, 5 hits, and 2 blocked shots in 19:34. I'd love someone to ask Selanne how many times in his career he's been hit as hard as on the hit where Gudas trucked him tonight. My guess is not often.
Mark Barberio had a helper and 1 blocked shot in 16:12. With the balance of the game in Anaheim's end of the rink, you'd be correct in guessing Barberio's game went well. That side of the game is obviously Barberio's forte.
Tyler Johnson had a helper and was +1 with 2 penalty minutes, 1 shot, and he was 59% on draws.
Alex Killorn got a goal and was +1 with 2 shots in 15:43. North-south. He made a nifty little play on a toe drag to get a shot on goal and then chipped in his own rebound on his goal. A little bit of skill, but ultimately it's a simple north-south play where he got the result.
Ondrej Palat was +1 with 2 penalty minutes in 15:33. Took a charging call that was far too ticky tack as the referees were calling everything to try to stop a riot from starting in a game where Anaheim was getting embarrassed.
J.T. Brown had a helper and was +1 with 4 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 14:25. He's fit into the lineup pretty seamlessly, and he went to the net on the PP goal where he got his helper.
Andrej Sustr was +1 with 2 shots and 1 blocked shot in 18:53.
Richard Panik had a helper and was +1 with 2 penalty minutes and 1 shot in 12:05. He took his call on a mean spirited hit on Ben Lovejoy where he just about sawed the Ducks defender in half. There were times this was a very chippy game where the Ducks were taking runs at the Lightning and the Lightning responded by taking runs back. The difference is that when the Ducks did it, they didn't do damage. The Lightning were hitting to hurt and achieving their objectives.
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NHL Game Night: 11-12-13 Lightning at CanadiensSubmitted by pete on November 12, 2013 - 23:19
Lightning 1-0-0 in the post-Stamkos injury era.
Ben Bishop allowed 1 goal on 29 shots and stopped all 3 shooters he faced in the penalty shot session for the victory.
First Period
5:00 TB Malone (3), (Brewer, Crombeen)
Second Period
Third Period
15:22 MTL Briere (2), (Pacioretty)
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Bishop and Valtteri Filppula were the game's second and third stars.
You cannot help but feel pride in how the Lightning responded to adversity tonight, putting in a gem of a performance despite the rash of injuries that occurred in Boston. For the men who took the ice tonight, it was an opportunity to make a statement to the league that, Steven Stamkos or no Steven Stamkos, the Lightning aren't going to lay down this season and they're certainly not going quietly. They dominated the Habs in zone time and outshot them 45-29. Only Carey Price and a questionable call by a referee waiving off a Radko Gudas goal kept this game from being a 4-1 or so squash.
Let's backtrack to that goal call, shall we? The on-ice officials clearly blew a call where Gudas' slap shot entered the net and left quickly off the goal camera. Dead center. In the middle of the net. I suspect the referees were embarrassed. What I didn't expect was to see petulant officials tell the Toronto replay officials that none of that mattered because even if the puck was in, they were calling "incidental contact" on Tyler Johnson anyway. That would be Tyler Johnson with two feet outside the crease, being pushed slightly by a Habs defender, barely making contact with Price at all. Congratulations refs, you made the top-3 goal review hosings in Lightning history tonight, and that's not an easy list to make. It goes right beside Zdeno Chara of Boston (6'9") deflecting a goal in at his eye level and not having the goal disallowed and Brendan Shanahan of the New York Rangers saving a goal by placing his hand over it over the goal line (which at a minimum should have been a penalty shot). Honorable mention to Mike Smith's "stick throwing" on an acrobatic shootout save against Dallas. All of this miscarriage of justice came after the refs kept Montreal with several ticky tack first period penalty calls against the Lightning and several not so ticky tack non-calls of clear Habs infractions in the Second Period. It's hard enough to compete in the NHL when you have one of the youngest teams in the league and your superstar goal scorer just went out for 3 months with a broken leg. It's even worse when referees choose the stick their thumbs on the scales to make it even harder on visiting teams in places like Montreal and Toronto. If there is any justice, the league will mete out disciplinary action on the officials in tonight's game. As it is, the Lightning will probably have to settle for the fact they still managed to get 2 points out of the contest despite the deck being so stacked against them, which is a testament to the character of this team. Kudos also to Jon Cooper for projecting supreme calm in front of his young team as that farce was unfolding. If that had been John Tortorella behind the bench instead, I suspect someone would be getting together bail money for what would have happened.
With the victory, the Lightning got their 12th point in this second 10-game segment of the season. That meets the minimum quota you want with 2 more games to rack up some additional insurance points. Given the lifting just got heavier due to the injuries, by all means the Lightning should horde as many points as they can now while the hording is good.
Gudas was -1 with 1 shot, 3 hits, and 2 blocked shots in 21:32. Of course, in the parallel universe where Gudas is clean shaven and the refs called a fair game, Gudas had a goal and 2 blocked shots, and John Tortorella is a vegan pacifist.
Mark Barberio was +1 with 2 penalty minutes and 2 shots in 17:39. I'll learn to live with some of his softness along the wall if he can just avoid the big mistakes like he made in Detroit. He accomplished that tonight.
Johnson had 2 penalty minutes, 3 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 20:46. His mere aura made Carey Price tremble on the Gudas no-goal, at least according to the refs. That's impressive for a rookie.
Alex Killorn was -1 with 2 shots and 2 hits in 20:21 playing on a reformed line with Marty St. Louis centered by Brett Connolly. The line had moments. We'll look for further signs that they're continuing to gel.
Ondrej Palat had 2 penalty minutes, 3 shots, 1 hit, and 2 blocked shots in 15:55. He was absolutely robbed of a potential winning goal by Price, who robbed several Lightning skaters tonight.
J.T. Brown had 2 shots and 1 hit in 14:37. He looked solid and was also robbed on a point blank attempt by Price.
Andrej Sustr had 3 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 16:01. He had one classic Sustr doe-legged moment in his own end, but balanced that by looking quite poised in the offensive zone.
Richard Panik had 3 shots, 5 hits, and 2 blocked shots in 15:38. He's close to a breakthrough, but I'm still not seeing him, consistently, have good first touches on the forecheck. The guy just, too often, seems to have a hole in his stick, which is weird because that's the opposite of his M.O. coming into this season.
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NHL Game Day: 11-11-13 Lightning at BruinsSubmitted by pete on November 11, 2013 - 18:47
Unfortunately, some real Stammergeddon in Boston.
Anders Lindback allowed 2 goals on 23 shots for the loss. He actually played quite well, which sadly will be overshadowed by everything else that happened today. With that said, though, goaltending just became that much more important for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
First Period
Second Period
17:09 BOS Bergeron (6), (Eriksson, Krug)
17:29 BOS Paille (2), (Campbell, Bartkowski)
Third Period
19:01 BOS Iginla (4), (Lucic, Krejci)(EN)
For those who missed it, Steven Stamkos ran into one of the goalposts behind Anders Lindback in the Second Period and broke his right tibia. He is out indefinitely and early scuttlebutt ranges from Stamkos being out until as early as February or as long as 9 months. In addition, Sami Salo and Keith Aulie also left the game with injuries. Shortly after Steven Stamkos was stretchered off the ice, Boston struck for 2 goals while the Lightning were still in a state of shock. Really, the game wasn't even secondary at that point, given everything that had transpired. It's a shame, because after a rough First Period the Lightning looked poised to possibly steal a point or two, but Boston remains a house of horrors for the club.
What happens next? How do you replace Steven Stamkos?
You don't. You don't replace one of the three best forwards in the league and the NHL's most consistent goal scorer. You can't. You invariably have to take an even more disciplined team approach to defense and you have to rely even more on your goaltending to try to help win games. Unfortunately, if Sami Salo is also down for any period of time, that's an even more difficult task to pull off.
How do you score enough goals to win?
There are four players, on the immediate roster, that will be counted on to step up. One, in particular, should be looked to the most. It's time for Teddy Purcell to become a star. Whether he moves to the top line or not, whether he stays at wing or moves to center, Teddy Purcell will be asked to become one of the offensive leaders of this team. Supporting his efforts, the Lightning need more goals from three youngsters who are capable of ~20 goals a piece, talent-wise: Richard Panik, Brett Connolly, and Tyler Johnson.
Who gets called up? How do lines shuffle?
There might be zero changes to the roster. There might be several. The Lightning have a high degree of flexibility, and also there are a lot of variables without knowing the degree to which Salo and Aulie are hurt. At forward, you could see the Lightning attempt to roll with what they have. Purcell and Alex Killorn have both played center in earlier lives and could conceivably slide back into that position. Expanded roles for Panik and Connolly could also be in the offing. If not, the two most obvious recalls would be Vladislav Namestnikov or Nikita Kucherov. Namestnikov, obviously, would be a 1-to-1 replacement at the center position. He's not a 1-to-1 replacement for Stamkos as a goal scorer though, as Namestnikov is more of a playmaker as a finisher. If a sniper is more desirable, Kucherov better fits the bill. Another, more improbable, option could be the emergency recall of Jonathan Drouin. Emergency recalls of junior players have been done in the past, such as when Calgary recalled Sven Baertschi a few seasons ago. The emergency recall rules are very narrowly defined in terms of when they can be used and very strict about when the recalled player must be returned to junior. An early read of the rules indicates it requires 2 players to already be up from the minors on emergency recall and that it requires the player to be returned to junior immediately once players get healthy again. With Pyatt already on IR, Stamkos about to go on IR, and Salo and/or Aulie possibly about to go on IR, there might be enough of a MASH unit developing to allow an emergency recall. However, the allowable duration of Drouin's recall would be questionable and the Lightning would also probably want to limit his emergency recall to under 9 games to avoid burning a year of his contract. So, recalling Drouin is probably a longshot at best, but in moments like this all options should be on the table.
On defense, with Matt Taormina currently injured, the outlook for recalls is bleak. The Lightning may well be stuck with increasing playing time for Andrej Sustr and/or Mark Barberio in the absence of any good alternatives. Were the injuries to be extreme enough, the Lightning could conceivably sign JP Cote to an NHL contract or consider cup-of-coffee auditions for the likes of Dmitry Korobov, but these scenarios seem less likely than the Lightning attempting to move forward with the defensemen they have.
How do the lines shake out? Again, there are a ton of options. My thought, upon further reflection, is Teddy Purcell almost has to go up to the top line to play with Martin St. Louis, whether that's with Filppula or Killorn at center or Purcell himself moving to center. From there, the second line almost has to become even more of a kid line, featuring Filppula, Johnson, or Killorn at center and likely featuring Connolly, Palat, or Panik on the wings. I don't foresee a return to the scoring line ranks of Ryan Malone, but we shall see.
Radko Gudas had 5 shots, 7 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 19:48.
Johnson had 3 shots, 2 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 20:12.
Killorn had 2 shots and 1 hit in 23:07.
Ondrej Palat had 2 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 18:02.
Sustr had 1 hit and 1 blocked shot in 13:43.
Panik was -1 with 1 shot and 1 hit in 18:22.
In closing, in an attempt to cheer up our readers, I'll leave you with the tale of another injured center, who went on to found a hockey franchise in Florida, who was abducted from a hospital room in Boston. It's one of the funniest hockey stories ever told, and involves plot line elements like Bobby Orr, a broken hospital bed, and a block of smelly provolone cheese. It seemed oddly appropriate to be retold today. Enjoy, and get well soon, Steven Stamkos.
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The blue 2013 Bentley Continental GTC was left parked on the 800 block of Stanford Avenue on May 28, according to police. It was gone when the owner, a Menlo Park resident, went to retrieve it just after 8 p.m. Friday.
The sticker price for the luxury convertible ranges from $195,125 to $212,800, according to www.edmunds.com.
Police do not have any suspect information. But officers are keeping an eye out for the Bentley, Palo Alto police Lt. Zach Perron told The Daily News.
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The license plate number of the Bentley is 6ZVP247.
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Eric Mathews sounded a little emotional in early February as he described what was about to happen to the organization he leads that's at the vanguard of spurring entrepreneurship and startup activity in Memphis.
LaunchLounge, a monthly gathering for professionals, startups and entrepreneurs sponsored by LaunchYourCity, was held recently at Local Gastropub in Overton Square. (Photo: Lance Murphey)
That same day, he'd had final discussions with other participants involved in the developments, which represented the next chapter in the LaunchYourCity story. It came at the end of a typically busy week for Mathews, the co-president of LaunchYourCity who keeps a frenetic schedule and has big ambitions to fill it with even more.
Besides moving fast, LaunchYourCity also is moving itself – its base of operations, to be more specific.
The organization is an umbrella entity that encompasses a family of related programs individually that are focused on different aspects of entrepreneurship and small business life – risk capital, mentorship and accelerators, for example.
And it's about to move out of the Downtown digs it's called home for several years, relocating into a freshly designed space in Midtown.
At press time, the goal was to be up and running in its new home inside Playhouse on the Square in a matter of days. So, from Mathews' perspective, there's a lot to be excited about.
He said his organization is poised to grow its capacity 50 to 100 percent in the next 12 months. It's been a Downtown fixture since 2008 or so. Since then, it's added multiple offshoots, seen a groundswell of interest in business-building, the blossoming of a startup community here and the completion of a major startup conference in Memphis last month.
As part of LaunchYourCity's evolution, Memphis marketing and advertising firm archer-malmo has been helping evaluate the brand structure and presentation of LaunchYourCity and all the entities related to it. On top of all that, almost as soon as the group moves into its new space, the LaunchYourCity team and representatives of some of its select startups will take a profile-raising trip West.
From March 19-22, they'll be in Silicon Valley building relationships with investors, accelerators, startup champions and other resources and partners. They're even hosting the first out-of-town Launchpad – an open, free-for-all work session – and the first out-of-town LaunchLounge – a kind of meet-and-greet session – at San Francisco's Taverna Aventine.
Along those lines, there's already a kind of Memphis startup community alumni network in the San Francisco Bay Area. Several of them already network together and meet once a quarter or so, according to Mathews, which is why one of the purposes of the LaunchYourCity trip is telling the Memphis story in the Valley.
2012 arguably was a tipping point for startup activity in Memphis, thanks to groups including LaunchYourCity. Given what all is on his plate, it's no wonder Mathews had a bittersweet tone to his voice as he talked about why his organization is leaving Downtown.
"This is really personal to me," he said. "I've dedicated a lot of time to this."
This is how Mathews put it in a blog post in January published by the Wall Street Journal:
"In 2006, I set out to build the Memphis startup ecosystem from scratch. Here, like many 'flyover' cities, high-growth entrepreneurship had not been emphasized or supported, especially at the riskiest, idea stage. … Undeterred, my team and I did it anyway. We built accelerators, organized angels and held various startup-oriented experiences to help entrepreneurs take actionable steps toward starting up."
Mathews' team includes LaunchYourCity co-president Andre Fowlkes, who has a broad portfolio of experience including working in wealth and money management, government, journalism, the nonprofit world and the small-business community. Among other things, he writes a weekly business column for The Commercial Appeal and he's managing partner with Wolf River Angels.
Mathews' team also includes Elizabeth Lemmonds. As chief brand officer, she is passionate about telling the story of LaunchYourCity and its related programs.
"We're now really on the brink of creating an entirely new era in entrepreneurship in Memphis based around tech, and in order to really put Memphis on the map, it's about shaping that piece of the city's narrative," she said.
After graduating from Rhodes College in 2002, Mathews worked briefly as associate director of corporate research and development at the FedEx Institute of Technology. There, he grew research programs and lead economic development activities including growing strategic business relationships with Fortune 500 companies.
In 2008, he founded LaunchMemphis, the starting point for what would blossom into a startup movement in Memphis. The family of related programs now includes things like Upstart Memphis, an initiative designed to spur more women startup CEOs; Memphis Venture Mentors, a still nascent pool of mentors for the city's startup talent; and Wolf River Angels, a local base of risk capital from here in Memphis that will be used to fund – and hopefully keep – entrepreneurs here in Memphis.
At the same time, Mathews had been working as the interim executive director of EmergeMemphis, a business incubator with its own facility Downtown and which houses companies that are a bit more established. Mathews stepped into the role after the departure of Gwin Scott in January 2012.
Andre Fowlkes, right, and Jessica Chamberlain look at the interior of the new LaunchYourCity office at Playhouse on the Square. The new space should be ready by the end of March. (Photo: Lance Murphey)
The LaunchYourCity entities also had until now been based out of the EmergeMemphis building.
"Over the past year, we'd gotten Emerge onto solid footing that it didn't have before," Mathews said last month, as news of the move became official. "Simultaneously, while making sure EmergeMemphis was firing on all cylinders, the LaunchYourCity platform really exploded in a big way. We needed to be honest with ourselves and diligent to focus on managing that growth."
The trip to California is an example of the big picture focus Mathews brings to his job.
"We're always looking at the amount of resources necessary to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem," Mathews said. "Our local community is not the sole source and can't be the sole source for that. What we've seen from other models in cities like Cleveland is getting money off the coast is a kind of strategic inflection point. So in the first go-round of this, we're looking at establishing relationships. Many of them may have started with the 'Everywhere Else' conference, and this could be our second exposure. Maybe we'll get some to come back for Investor Day for Seed Hatchery. This trip is about repeat exposure and relationship building.
"So our goals include trying to garner access to resources. We're also looking at best practices. We're going to visit with a couple of accelerators and women's initiatives and things like that so we can sharpen our saw and make sure we're doing everything we need to be doing right here locally. And the final thing is access for storytelling and really spreading the word about what's going on in Memphis."
These efforts all affect more than just a narrowly focused niche in the Memphis business community. In theory, when all the pieces of the puzzle are working perfectly in sync, companies would move through the various startup programs, attain funding and achieve success, then return as mentors to train the next batch of entrepreneurs.
"This is the kind of thing that's going to increase the amount of accelerated companies," Mathews said. "That's going to increase the need for risk capital. That'll serve to grow the deal flow pipeline. So our goals for 2013 include increasing the amount of risk capital and making sure the accelerator programs we've committed to operate in 2013 perform as designed."
That growth will manifest itself in a few big ways, including through the creation of a new biologistics/logistics accelerator thanks to funding from the state.
The Memphis Bioworks Foundation and LaunchYourCity are planning to jointly operate a new accelerator.
It would focus on biotechnology logistics and could target concepts in traditional logistics, as well as innovations in the emerging field of biologistics, which provides solutions related to the transportation of time- and temperature-sensitive bioscience materials. More information about that accelerator is being released later this year.
Meanwhile, Mathews and his team regard the true measure of the success of everything they're building as this – whether it's still creating value long after they're gone.
"For us, the question is how do we create the kind of vibrancy that'll last well beyond our lifetimes," Mathews said. "And entrepreneurship is one of the strongest if not most important ways to do so for our community.
"So if you want to have the jobs tomorrow, if you want to create jobs rapidly, if you want to create more wealth and more philanthropists, this is a solution that serves many needs in our community. This is the reason our team gets up every day, to make this happen."
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(LOS ANGELES) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding Megan's Law and California's Three Strikes law:
"I am pleased with the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings upholding California's Three Strikes Law and the ability of states to post sex offender information on the Internet.
"The court's Three Strikes ruling affirms California's authority to enact strong public safety laws to protect our residents from repeat offenders. Because state law allows district attorneys and judges to disregard prior convictions in the interest of justice, there are safeguards in place to that ensure lengthy sentences are given only to habitual criminals. I urge judges and prosecutors to use this discretion when appropriate. Under this ruling, it is clear that California can continue to ensure that those who have made a career out of crime are taken off the street for a long time.
"The Court also gave the California Legislature a green light to enact legislation that will put important information about sex offenders on the Internet. Because this information already is in the public domain through court records or by visiting a police or sheriff's office, it makes sense to put it on the Internet. I have long supported posting Megan's Law on the Internet so that families can conveniently access critical information about sex offenders from their home computer instead of having to visit their local police or sheriff's station during limited hours.
"Making the information available to more citizens will provide valuable assistance to local law enforcement agencies. Citizens will have better access to this information and be able to quickly notify their local police and sheriff when they learn of sex offenders who have not registered as required by law, or are no longer living in the community in which they were last registered. Working together, law enforcement and California citizens can better protect our children and our neighborhoods from sexual offenders."


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The Minnesota Wild could not manage much offense Tuesday night against the Dallas Stars in a 4-0 loss.
The Wild were outshot 36-18 in the loss.
Dallas held a 2-0 lead after a first period in which they outshot the Wild 12-3 thanks to goals by Vernon Fiddler and Erik Cole.
Ray Whitney scored the only goal of the second period on a power play to make the score 3-0, then Jordie Benn closed out the scoring for Dallas in the third period for the 4-0 win.
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Under a growing swell and with water temps resembling that of a jacuzzi, the international contingency of some of the world's best surfers congregated at Costa Rica's Playa Hermosa for the sixth day of the Billabong ISA World Games fueled by Monster Energy today.
Team USA, who has been trying since 1996 to regain the gold medal in the Overall Team Standings, made a huge step today by keeping all of their remaining surfers alive.
The partial Overall Team Standings show a strong USA lead. The current top five nations are:
1º - USA - 19080 points
2º - Hawaii – 16960 points
3º - Australia – 16720 points
4º - South Africa -15040 points
5º - France -14040 points
Note: The above points show the potential maximum that each team can achieve. The final scores will be always lower
The morning rounds of competition bore witness to a low tide and a growing swell that produced some very contestable conditions as Hawaii's Joel Centeio opened the day with a blistering performance, earning himself a win in his Open Men Round 4 heat against New Zealander Jay Quinn, Aussie Dayyan Neve and Brazil's Gabriel Medina.
Centeio, a seasoned competitor from the island of Oahu, has edged Team Hawaii closer to a solid standing. Going into day six, both Australia and the USA were tied for first while Hawaii held fast in third.
As the remainder of the Open Men's round progressed, American Ben Bourgeois put up the highest combined score of 15 points as the North Carolina native tore apart the peak at Playa Hermosa with surgical precision. Other standout performances in the Open Men's morning rounds went to Florida native Cory Lopez and Costa Rican Jason Torres.
At the completion of Round 4 of the Open Men division, the longboarders took to the lineup. Although the right and left-hand peaks at Playa Hermosa can be daunting for the 9-foot planks, the talent of the surfers in the water was testament to how diverse and sed the current crop of international longboarders has become by mixing in an array of high-speed nose walks and speed floaters on the inside dump.
Among those who stood out in their early morning heats was Great Britain´s Eliot Dudley who looked serenely confident in his opening surf today. At 24 years old, Dudley hails from Wales and although he'll be the first to tell you that his home break may not be world class, he's still managed to hone his craft and hold his best against the rest of the world.
"We don't get a lot of surf where I'm from in the UK, but when we get some waves, it gets pretty good. Sort of like the East Coast of the US," said Dudley, "but I also get to travel a lot so that's good. I've actually been to Costa Rica six times."
Also representing the longboarding contingency for Great Britain today was surfer Ben Skinner, who may have one of the most interesting stories in the comp. His father, owner of Skinner Ale, a popular British beer, helped fund the British team to make it to the Games.
In his heat today, Skinner advanced with some of the fastest cross-stepping in the business, coupled with some high speed, high-risk floaters across the inside dump section. Skinner will take on good pal and fellow Great Britain´s longboarder Eliot Dudley in the next round of competition.
In what proved to be a shocker for Bonga Perkins, the 2008 World Longboard Champion from Hawaii, fell victim to some sharp competition in his Round 3 heat, forcing him into the repercharge rounds where he competed against fellow Hawaiian Kekoa Uemura, Australian Dane Piolo, and Francisco Hernandez from Venezuela and won.
As the afternoon heat bore down on the competition, an armada of ominous, dark clouds plowed toward the contest site at Playa Hermosa. The ensuing wind and rain forced a two and a half hour hold to the contest as the event lost all power. Fortunately, the contest was able start again and the following heats bore witness to some of the best surfing of the event.
Jeremy Flores ped the score of the day, a 9.17, when he dismantled a right-hander in the closing minutes of his heat to take the win just as the remaining Open Mens heats took to the lineup.
"If you're not lucky and you don't get the good ones out there, then that makes it tough," said Flores. "I can't wait for the swell to come up and we can get some better surf for the rest of the contest."
Competition restarts tomorrow at 7:30am, local time (GMT: -06:00), the following rounds will be held:
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-Open Women Repercharge: 5, 6 and 7
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Des livres très accessibles pour un public de débutants, par exemple en langue anglaise.
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Kathy Schrock knows thinking and technology ....right on, as always!
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Kathy Schrock has been looking ahead with technology and a librarian's instinct for organization for years. She's still hitting it out of the park.
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The Reggio Emilia approach is about having children seen as competent, resourceful, curious, imaginative, inventive and to possess a desire to interact and communicate with others. The learning environment, the third educator, invites learners to explore and discover on their own as teachers and parents observe and document the process.
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The teaching/learning environment is a technology that is often overlooked.
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PBS Frontline documentary on children in poverty.
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This article is about the program called "The education we want: an advocacy toolkit." It featured real-life stories of youths who have successfully advocated for this program. YAG youth demonstrate remarkable passion, leadership skills, and eloquence when speaking about the barriers to quality education in their communities and in the world. They are able to understand what it mean to be a "global citizen."
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I found this article very empowering, specifically for youth. Youth from around the world are coming together to fight for education for all kids around the world. It is very easy to take education for granted in America because it is readily available to us. Those involved in this advocacy are true global citizens because regardless of their age, they are bettering not just their communities, but communities around the world. This article was very interesting to me as well, because I think it would be an amazing experience to teach abroad someday.
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This article addresses the need for "global citizenship" education past the 2015. The article addresses the need to move away from traditional testing methods as it is not a true measurement of global citizenship. Traditional measurements may stifle creativity and innovative thinking.


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This example in this tutorial have been tested on:
a.) Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx OS
b.) Oracle Database 10g Express Edition
The following is a list of string functions we will be discussing in this tutorial:
1.) substr
2.) instr
3.) replace
4.) trim
5.) lpad
6.) concat
7.) translate
8.) length
For the best learning experience, I recommended that you have Oracle Database 10g Express edition installed on your system so that you can test the examples illustrated in this tutorial.
Oracle substr() Function
One of the most commonly used Oracle string functions is substr. This function is used to extract specific characters from a string. It works similarly to substr in MS Excel. Supposing the given string is: Hello World and you want to extract the word "World", one method you could use would be the substr function. This is the syntax of this function:
substr(string, starting_position, length)
"Starting position" is always 1 if it starts on the 1st character of the string. "Length" is the number of characters you want to extract from the beginning of "starting_position". Illustrating the previous example of a given string "Hello World" and you want to extract the word "World", the following is the substr syntax you would use:
substr("Hello World", 1, 5)
Since starting from the "H" to "O"(the end of word "Hello") there are 5 characters to extract, so the length is 5. So how do you use this string function in your Oracle SQL queries? Follow the steps below:
1.) In Ubuntu, go to Applications – Oracle Database 10g Express edition – click "Go to Database Homepage"
2.) Login as database administrator.
3.) Click "SQL".
4.) Click "SQL" Commands.
5.) In the input text box area, you need to create a sample Oracle table. Copy and paste the query below:
CREATE TABLE "DoctorsList"
"FirstName" VARCHAR2(35),
"LastName" VARCHAR2(35),
CONSTRAINT "DoctorsList_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ID") ENABLE
6.) Click "Run".7.) You need to insert sample data; copy and paste the query below then click "Run":
INTO "DoctorsList" VALUES
( 1
, 'Dr. Meri'
, 'Keller'
INTO "DoctorsList" VALUES
( 2
, 'Dr. John'
, 'Know'
INTO "DoctorsList" VALUES
( 3
, 'Dr. Arturo'
, 'Ortiz'
INTO "DoctorsList" VALUES
( 4
, 'Dr. Samantha'
, 'Fox'
INTO "DoctorsList" VALUES
( 5
, 'Dr. Peter'
, 'East'
SELECT * FROM dual;
8.) Suppose your boss asks you to print the output of all doctor names from the database, but without the doctor initial "Dr." in the first name. For example if the name of the doctor is Dr. Meri Keller, the report output should only be "Meri Keller". This is a sample SQL query using substr you could use to achieve this:
SELECT substr("FirstName",5,20) FIRSTNAME,"LastName" LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
This is the output of this query:
Try to experiment with the above SQL query by changing some of its syntax and checking the output.
{mospagebreak title=Oracle instr() and replace() Function}
This function is used to search a specific character/string within the string and return the location. This is the syntax:
instr(givenstring, stringchartosearch,start_position,nth_appearance)
Suppose you are given this string: Hello World
If you want to find the location of the letter "o" and start searching from the first character you would use this code:
instr("Hello World",'o',1)
This will return 5 since the letter 0 is located in the fifth character. However if use the nth appearance and need to use the location of the second occurrence:
instr("Hello World",'o',2)
This will return 8 since the second occurrence of the letter 0 is in the 8th character of the string.
Let's have an actual Oracle SQL query that use this function. Supposing you will use the DoctorsList table in the previous section and you are asked to print the complete list of Doctors name with letter "e" anywhere in the FirstName, you could use this SQL query:
SELECT * FROM "DoctorsList" where INSTR("FirstName", 'e') > 0;
This is the output:
ID FirstName LastName
1 Dr. Meri Keller
5 Dr. Peter East
The condition > 0 will test if FirstName contains letter "e"; it will return 0 if it is not found. The first name "Meri" and "Peter" both contain letter e.
Note: This is a case-sensitive search. So if capital letter "E" is used in the above example instead of "e" then no data will be returned.
Oracle replace() Function
This function will replace a sequence of characters in the given string with another set of characters. This is the syntax:
replace(givenstring,stringtoreplace, replacementstring)
If replacementstring is omitted, the function will simply remove/filter the stringtoreplace from the given string. For example if this is the syntax:
replace("hello world",'world')
It will return only "hello".
Another example is that if the given string is: "Hello World" and you need to change it to "Hello Codex", then you now need to include the stringtoreplace:
replace("Hello World",'World','Codex')
A simple way of removing the "Dr." initial from the DoctorsList example is by using the replace function. For example:
SELECT replace("FirstName",'Dr.') FIRSTNAME,"LastName" LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
This will give you the same result as the substr example illustrated previously.
{mospagebreak title=Oracle trim() and lpad() Function}
trim() will remove specified characters either from the start or the end of the string. Syntax:
trim([leading|trailing|both trim_character FROM string)
If the trim character is omitted there will be no options for leading and trailing parameters – it will simply remove the trailing and leading spaces. It will then behave like the MS Excel trim function.
trim(leading 'H' from 'Hello World') returns 'ello World'
trim(trailing 'd' from 'Hello World') returns 'Hello Worl'
trim(both 'X' from 'XCodexX') returns 'Codex'
Note: This cannot be used to remove more than one character, for example as in this SQL query:
SELECT trim(leading 'Dr.' from "FirstName") FIRSTNAME,"LastName" LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
This will return an error:
ORA-30001: trim set should have only one character
Oracle lpad() Function
This function is useful when adding/padding the left side of the string with specific characters. For example, if you have the string, "hello world" and would like to add this set of characters – "xyz", making it "xyzhello world" – you need to use the lpad function. Syntax:
lpad(givenstring,paddinglength, paddedstring)
If the paddinglength is less than the length of the given string, it will truncate the string.
lpad('hello world',2, 'xyz')
will not pad anything, since padding length is less than the length of the "hello world" string. Instead, it will truncate and return only "he"
lpad('hello world',14, 'xyz')
will return:
xyzhello world
since the length of "hello world" is 11 characters and xyz is 3 characters. So the entire padded string is added (by defining 14 as the padding length).
{mospagebreak title=Oracle concat(), length(), translate() Functions}
This is a simple string function that will combine two strings. Syntax:
concat(string1, string2)
Supposing you are asked to print the Doctors first and last name in the DoctorsList table and you need to add "MD" at the end of the lastname to signify Doctor of Medicine, this is the SQL query you would use:
SELECT "FirstName" FIRSTNAME,concat("LastName",', MD') LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
This is the output:
Dr. Meri Keller, MD
Dr. John Know, MD
Dr. Arturo Ortiz, MD
Dr. Samantha Fox, MD
Dr. Peter East, MD
Oracle translate() Function
A simple way of replacing any sequence of characters is using the translate function. You do not need to deal with the number of characters in your given string. All you need to define is string to replace and your replacement string. Syntax:
For example, supposing you are asked to print an output of Doctors First and Last name but you are asked to remove the Doctors initial and replace it with "Mr."
This is the SQL query:
SELECT translate("FirstName",'Dr.','Mr.') FIRSTNAME,"LastName" LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
This is output of this query:
Mr. Meri Keller
Mr. John Know
Mr. Arturo Ortiz
Oracle length() Function
This is a very simple function to return the number of characters of a given string. Syntax:
You can use this function along with other Oracle string functions that needs the string length data such as the substr and lpad function.
For example in the substr example to remove the "Dr." initial from the first name:
SELECT substr("FirstName",5,20) FIRSTNAME,"LastName" LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
The length of the substr which is 20 is estimated only and does not depend on the FirstName character length. The downside of the above query is that if the first name is more than 20 characters, then it won't be properly displayed on the report because it will be truncated.
The solution is to use the length string function that count the number of characters for the string. The appropriate query would be:
SELECT substr("FirstName",5,length("FirstName")-3) FIRSTNAME,"LastName" LASTNAME from "DoctorsList";
This is the output:
Meri Keller
John Know
Arturo Ortiz
Samantha Fox
Peter East
Using the above technique, regardless of the FirstName number of characters it would still display correctly since substr length does not depend on single figure but varies depending on the FirstName length.


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When magazines are done well I tend to treat them like art and horde them in stacks, much to my roommate's dismay. There is something about cracking open a fresh, new magazine that's sort of amazing.
Anyways, I was thrilled when we were recently sent this great multi-national art/cultrure magazine. Developed and published by a trio of great artists and designers, issue 2 features the art of DOZE GREEN, KAZUKO NOMOTO, ZOLTRON, BROOKE BOBRIDGE, REKA, SFAUSTINA AND MORE.
We usually don't feature reviews on magazines for obvious reasons, but this one is sort of a stand-out. Great production value, great content and sweet add-ons (stickers and such).
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When Harry Truman was president, Nancy Williams Baker came to Las Vegas to dance in a two-week show at the El Rancho, which was at the corner of Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard. It was surrounded by open desert. They had stables in the back and a place to tie up your horse in the front.
"I thought I would be here two weeks, and here I am, still here," Baker says.
The shows were simple but always changing, usually featuring a star such as Lena Horne or Carmen Miranda, a couple Vaudeville comedy acts and a line of eight dancing girls—they were young women but surely called "girls" back then. They were paid $75 per week; $12.50 covered room and board at the hotel.
Today, Baker shares this history at her legendary Downtown shop, Williams Costume Co., on 3rd and Colorado. On the wall outside, a mural depicts the "Dice Girls" dancers of 1949. She would go on to dance at the Thunderbird, the Last Frontier and the survivor hotel, the Flamingo.
It was a different town.
"It was like a big family," Baker says of the old casinos. "If you needed anything, they helped you take care of it. It was a very friendly, small town, which is now a monster." She added, though, that it's not all good or all bad, but some of both.
Baker, who has flawless, nearly unlined skin and is wearing subtle gold lipstick the day I meet her, would go on to open a dance studio, first at 707 N. Main St., then 214 N. Main (where the California Hotel is now) and then at 226 N. 3rd, across from the old Post Office, which now houses the Mob Museum.
"The town was all mobbed up, and I taught their kids how to dance," she quips.
She turned to costuming full time around 1970. Her husband, Newton Baker, now deceased, quit his career in the casinos—he had come to Vegas to be a dealer for Benjamin Siegel at the Flamingo—and joined her full time in the shop.
Baker and her staff—she employs six—led me through her shop, which can seem like an endless maze of fantasy. Crowns and hats and flappers and pirates and cowboys and showgirls. Masks of silver and green and gold, sequins for dresses, rhinestones for shoes. Heads of lions and tigers and bunnies and bears. English guards, monks, Robin Hoods, Swedish girls, kilts, gypsies, gorillas, mummies, astronauts. Baker's favorite area is upstairs, in a room called "Rome" with mostly garb of the ancients: Greek, Roman and Egyptian; popes, sheiks, shepherds, harem girls and endless Cleopatras. ("Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.")
There are 10,000 costumes in all, mostly sewn by Baker herself, and there's enough variety that if you show up at a party as a Baker Cleopatra, you won't look like the other Cleopatras.
Masqueraders are sized in a fitting room and rent their costumes, with most running $50 to $100 for a weekend. The costumes often have delicate parts and fabrics that need to be cleaned, pressed and mended by hand afterward. The casinos don't costume their cocktail waitresses like they used to, but business has picked up in other areas. They do an Elvis and Marilyn wedding at least once a week, Baker says.
We step into an elevator, and when we step off, like magic, we're in Baker's three-bedroom apartment above the store. "Now I call it my condo," she says, showing me a gorgeous rooftop deck featuring desert plants and golden lions from the old Tally-Ho.
For years, she fought the city to allow her to live where she worked. Back then, in the 1970s, we were all going to drive on superhighways to the fresh air of the suburbs, or so the thinking went. It contributed to massive urban decay.
Now, of course, much of Downtown's revitalization rests on the principle that people should be able to live, work and play in the same place. Baker, a Downtown survivor, is seeing the new Downtown take shape. She applauds it, even as she scoffs at offers to buy her property.
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Another slice of gold from Brothers Brick, it would seem that a Builder out there has figured into making a play-worthy, non fragile transforming starfighter/necha that we could all reverse engineer for our factions if we so wanted.
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The problem is as of this moment flickr seems to be having a tizz-fit, but the moment it re-emerges from the depths I am thinking of building a Scythian fighter along these lines just for sheer shits and giggles - I've been a massive Macross fan for years, original series, 7, Dynamite 7, Zero and Frontier - and I have always wanted to build a vertiech of some type, but they where always too damn flimsy to play with . . . hopefully this design has solved the damn problem.


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Biggest News Story of the Week? – Readers Poll
Three country legends provided poignant headlines this week. George Strait made a stunning announcement on Wednesday, while Reba McEntire revealed on Thursday that she too is giving up a major part of her career up for good. Meanwhile, Loretta Lynn was honored for 50 years of service at the Grand Ole Opry, and the stars came out to celebrate.
Carrie Underwood began the week by giving a 12-year-old boy a moment he'll never forget, while Taylor Swift released the next hit song from her 'Red' album. 'Begin Again' has been embraced by country music fans, especially those who didn't care for 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.'
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Last week Germantown Friends School held a ceremony to honor five senior athletes who will playing their chosen sports at the Division I level in college. Pictured are (from left) GFS Athletic Director Katie Bergstrom Mark, Iris Williamson (Penn/lacrosse), Carey Celata (Penn/squash), Tess Doggett (St. Joseph's/cross country and track), Annie Morrissey (Dartmouth/lacrosse) and Lydie McKenzie (Dartmouth/squash).
Morrissey and Williamson have been mainstays of every GFS lacrosse team they've been on since middle school, and during their three varsity seasons so far the Tigers have claimed one Friends Schools League championship and were runner-up the other two years. They are also key performers in the fall sports season, Williamson for the soccer team, and Morrissey in field hockey.
Doggett has been a dedicated distance runner for many seasons. She has been a consistent scorer in cross country, and she's been a versatile performer on the track squad, running everything from the 3200 meters to the 4 x 400 relay.
Celata played the number two spot and McKenzie was number three for Germantown's squash team this winter, as the Tigers made their best showing ever at the U.S. Squash high school team championships, finishing fifth. A three-sport athlete, Celata ran cross country for the FSL champion Tigers in the fall, and she's a member of the track team in the spring. McKenzie keeps her hand-eye reflexes in tune during the spring season by joining Morrissey and Williamson on the lacrosse squad. –Tom Utescher


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By Andria Cheng
Does Barbie have a future?
That's the question investors must be pondering Thursday as shares of Mattel Inc., which makes Barbie, plunged in the wake of some very ugly earnings.
Mattel /quotes/zigman/75129/delayed /quotes/nls/mat MAT shares closed down 6.6% and were the fourth-worst performer in the S&P 500, after the company reported weaker-than-expected profit and revenue, weighed down by a 15% drop in worldwide Barbie sales. The sharp decline was especially disappointing as Barbie is still Mattel's biggest single brand, generating $1.15 billion in 2013 sales, according to Needham & Co. analyst Sean McGowan.
Barbie's North American sales have now fallen for eight straight quarters, and worldwide sales have dropped in eight of the past 10 quarters, according to McGowan.
Barbie's popularity slide has come at a time of shifting demographics.
"Barbie is sort of stuck with its own fame as a blond girl, which just doesn't resonate with girls anymore," said Matthew Hudak, an analyst in toys and games at research firm Euromonitor.
Mattel has tried to address the issue with Barbies from different ethnic backgrounds, but it's difficult to change consumer perception of the doll, he said.
"Barbie is just going to continue to be hard to relate to. It doesn't look like it's in for a fun ride the next few years," Hudak said.
Barbie also has been hurt by the marketing to girls of toys that were once geared only toward boys, such as Hasbro's /quotes/zigman/2380080/delayed /quotes/nls/has HAS Nerf Rebelle, a feminine spin on the classic Nerf foam-dart shooter.
"Maybe Mattel should be more conscious of gender neutrality?" said Jamie Gutfreund, chief marketing officer at Noise and The Intelligence Group, adding the majority of young parents it surveyed are okay with boys playing with dolls.
Barbie's share of the U.S. doll market has declined to 19.6% in 2013 from about 25% in 2010, according to Euromonitor data, which also showed a decline in Barbie's global share. While Barbie is still No. 1 in dolls, it looks to have lost share to its own sibling brands, including Monster High and American Girl, as well as Hasbro's My Little Pony.
In the most recent quarter, it likely lost out to the Disney Frozen dolls, which Mattel is licensed to manufacture, analysts said.
"If Mattel didn't have (the other doll brands,) they'd be even more challenged," said McGowan.
Still, Barbie has survived past stumbles and has fallen out of favor only to return again, he said.
In the mid-2000s, for example,worldwide sales declined for 10 straight quarters and North American sales were down for 18 out of 21 quarters before returning to growth again, he said.
In May, Mattel rehired Richard Dickson, who was most recently with Nine West parent Jones Group. Dickson was credited with "revitalizing" Barbie in the period from 2008 to 2010, with designer collaborations, digital initiatives and product extensions. Barbie resumed sales growth in 2010.
Mattel is planning to increase its marketing spend in the second half, according to spokesman Alex Clark, who said spending cuts contributed to the weakness in the most recent quarter.
The company will further ramp up spending in the fourth quarter, when the bulk of its sales are recorded. To adapt Barbie to the tastes of today's digitally-savvy youth, the company is pushing Barbie Fashion Design Maker, which allows girls to design outfits on their tablets and print them out to dress their dolls.
Barbie has also built a presence on social media with her own LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook accounts. Barbie also has been cast in roles from presidential candidate to astronaut. This year she even appeared in Sports Illustrated.
"The end of Barbie will be very far out," Hudak said. "It's still iconic. Some of the products have a retro style. The brand basically has to both metaphorically and physically speaking talk to people on a deeper cultural level."
It's easy to blame an increased focus on digital devices and tablets for the decline in sales of more traditional toys, analysts said. But there's still a solid market for retro toys, they said, noting the success of Mattel's American Girl dolls and products made by Danish toymaker Lego.
U.S. traditional toy sales have remained flat at about $22 billion a year, with fashion dolls representing a little over 10% of the total, Toy Industry Association data shows.
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Zero Motorcycles has announced the full-commencement of production for its 2012 model line, which is expected to hit dealers in February & March of this year. First off the line was the 2012 Zero DS back in December, though the electric motorcycle company has recently started building the Zero S, Zero XU, Zero X, and Zero MX at its Scotts Valley facility as well. A story we broke back in November, Zero Motorcycles debuted its important 2012 electric motorcycle line up at the 2011 EICMA show in Milan, with the 2012 range being a substantial improvement upon the company's previous offerings.
Boasting 6kWh & 9kWh battery packs, the 2012 Zeros have nearly double the available energy on board, with the styling and performance aspects of the bikes have been improved upon as well. Zero claims that the street-focused Zero S can hit up to 114 miles on that 9kWh pack (and also does a top speed of 88 mph on its new motor), making it more practical for the urban commuter. For 2012, all of Zero's street models feature new brushless motors, and include regenerative braking, which charges the motorcycle's batteries during deceleration.


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The road from Hwy 389 to the Toroweap overlook leads through the western side of the Tuweep valley. The Tuweep valley is very beautiful and different from most other valleys around. A long time ago, this was a steep side canyon leading into the colorado river canyon, but a volcanic eruption filled the side-canyon with lava creating the broad and shallow valley we see today.
This pano was taken a few feet below the road looking mostly towards the west into the broad valley. The dirt road is very well maintained up to the national park boundary a few miles south of this spot. Inside the national park, it becomes a bumpy high-clearance roaller coaster road.


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In the $58 million worth of TV ads with which he's been blanketing the airwaves in recent months, 80-year-old Texas oilman/entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens comes across as the folksy, worldly-wise, very rich guy that everyone would like to have as a grandfather.
Pickens, whose net worth is variously estimated from $2.5 billion to $4 billion, depending on the vagaries of the energy market in which he's heavily invested, solemnly intones in his commercials, "I've never been as worried about our energy security as I am right now — (it's) the most serious situation since World War II. Our growing dependence on foreign oil is extreme, dangerous, and threatens the future of our nation."
Unless the U.S. takes positive steps to stanch the tsunami of imported oil (something it hasn't managed in the 35 years since the Arab oil embargo), he says, it stands to spend $10 trillion on foreign oil in the next 10 years.
"That's $10 trillion leaving the U.S. and going to foreign nations, making … what I believe will be the single largest transfer of wealth in human history."
While he made a large chunk of his vast fortune in oil, Pickens now wants the U.S. to commit to large scale alternate energy programs that center on wind-generated electricity, which would replace a lot of the natural gas now being used by generating plants, in turn freeing up that natural gas to be used to power vehicles.
Natural gas "is abundant, cheap, and clean," he says, and the technology already exists to rapidly build fleets of trucks and buses primarily, but cars and other vehicles, too, that would be powered by the fuel.
It would, he says, be "a perfect bridge to the future, affording us time to develop new technologies and a new perspective on our energy use."
The Pickens plan has been widely embraced and also widely criticized. He has a vested interest, the critics contend, because he's a major player in the natural gas business and owns thousands of acres of land where he wants to erect wind turbines. Thus, a major beneficiary of the T. Boone Pickens U.S. Energy Salvation Plan would be T. Boone Pickens. Further, the naysayers say, he wants the government, i.e., taxpayers, to help pay for transmission lines to get the electricity from those remote area turbines to the national power grid.
To which one can only wonder: Who cares?
If the Pickens plan has merit in substantially reducing our purchases of foreign oil, wouldn't we a helluva lot rather have a large chunk of that $10 trillion going to a U.S. company than to Mideast oil sheiks?
It's a lot easier to construct electric transmission lines and to build on a widespread natural gas infrastructure already in place than to drill for ever more elusive new oil supplies or to try and create a new, tremendously expensive infrastructure for ethanol.
Pickens isn't claiming that his plan for wind power/solar power/natural gas-powered vehicles will be the solution to this nation's long-ignored need for alternate energy sources.
But it could be a significant part of the solution until something better comes along.
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O.J. Mayo scored 22 points and the Dallas Mavericks held on to beat the Detroit Pistons 102-99 on Friday night when Charlie Villanueva missed a 3-pointer in the final seconds.
Dallas began the night 4½ games behind eighth-place Utah in the race for the last playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Mavericks blew a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter, allowing Detroit to go ahead 97-96 on a 3-pointer by Khris Middleton.
Dirk Nowitzki made two straight shots to put Dallas ahead by three. It was 100-99 after Villanueva caught Jose Calderon's airball and made a layup with 6 seconds left.
Darren Collison made two free throws for the Mavericks, and Villanueva missed from the left corner.
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Get ready to take to the road with the M1 Test Simulator in Exam Mode! Prepare to blaze along the Grand Algoma and take the swift turns of Ontario's "tail of the dragon" on highway 129 or experience the Calabogie Road in the Highlands the way it was meant to be experienced. An M class driver's license will open the door to driving around Ontario on your motorcycle, motor tricycle, or moped and the first step is to pass your M1 knowledge test. Study up with the ON Motorcycle Handbook and our M1 Practice Test and then use this exam mode to simulate the actual test. Just like the real exam, our test simulator contains 24 motorcycle questions, 20 questions on road signs, and 20 general questions on G1 road rules. You'll need to answer correctly a total of 19, 16, and 16 questions, respectively to pass the test. Just like when you take the real M1 Test, there are no hints and explanations, and you can skip questions to which you're unsure of the answer. Exam Mode will automatically stop once you've passed or failed and need to study a little bit more. Once you've passed your official test, you'll enter Level One on your way to being a fully licensed motorcyclist. Good luck!


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Energy Department Announces up to $6 Million to Collect Performance Data on Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
March 2, 2012
As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to reduce America's reliance on foreign oil, the Energy Department on March 1 announced up to $6 million available this year to collect and analyze valuable performance and durability data for light-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). The projects selected for funding will collect data from next-generation FCEVs as they are operated in real-world conditions to identify ways to lower costs and improve fuel cell durability and overall vehicle performance. This funding is part of the Energy Department's commitment to U.S. leadership in advanced fuel cell research that aims to help industry bring more FCEVs into the mainstream market and provide American families with new choices for vehicles that do not rely on gasoline.
The Energy Department seeks applicants to design and implement projects to monitor the performance and durability of advanced FCEVs for up to five years. The 50% cost-shared projects will supply information on fuel cell system operation and other real-world vehicle data to the Hydrogen Secure Data Center at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for analysis and comparison. Data will be collected from various makes and models of FCEVs so that engineers and scientists can measure the performance and technical progress of a range of fuel cell systems. The conclusions drawn from the data by NREL will help identify and focus future research and development efforts and gauge progress toward fuel cell performance and cost targets. The data and resulting analyses from this initiative will also help FCEV manufacturers improve their vehicle designs to optimize fuel efficiency and vehicle performance.
For more information, including application requirements and instructions, please visit the Funding Opportunity Exchange website.
The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will
coordinate this effort with similar technology validation efforts in Germany, Japan,
Korea, and other countries to leverage international activities and to promote the
rapid advance of fuel cell electric vehicles. Overall, EERE's fuel cell R&D efforts
have been extremely successful, resulting in more than 300 patents and bringing 30
products to market. At the same time, fuel cell durability has doubled, expensive
platinum content has been reduced by a factor of five, and the cost of fuel cells
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